If people care so much about freedom, why don't they stop using it?
By keeping Apple's shitty attitude toward developers constantly on display, at least/. might save a few people from accidentally buying an iPhone in the first place.
I'm sure from all the rave reviews it's technically superior and all, but right now it's controlled by a paranoid schizo who hasn't got a clue how open source works: after GPLing it and whining that he hasn't suddenly started making money, he now thinks he can dictate what license apps using his API have to be released under.
I once tried to get a 2-PC PulseAudio setup working so I could have my headphones on my laptop permanently instead of going spelunking behind my desk every time I wanted to use them outside. After following their instructions to the letter, then again a year later, the best I could get out of it was crackly, constantly-skipping unusable sound and then only when using a raw PCM stream because the "native" transport didn't work at all.
Since it seems to work in big distros, and the PA dev works for one of them apparently, I guess there must be some secret handshake involved in getting it to work. I ended up rsyncing my audio files to the laptop instead. That worked first time (and only cost me £60 for the extra storage).
What's worse than that are the ones who think "mIRC" is just another warez kiddie download client. IRC doesn't have anything like alt.binaries that draw thems away from normal channels, so sometimes you get conversations flooded by retards joining, spamming "!list" and foreign-language insults and running away five seconds later.
On the one hand we have a free desktop environment with 3D effects that run well on an Intel GPU. On the other hand, Vista is somehow "ahead". By what measure? It isn't performance, price or familiarity.
If it's going to be the new flash I just hope I can block it.
The annoying bits of HTML 5 are just plain Javascript, and there's already a million and one tools to do that. I haven't seen a good whitelist one unfortunately.
I'd call myself anti-Mono, but only because I've actually tried to use it. Trying to load a folder of 100 camera JPEGs into F-Spot (on a Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM), and then seeing the entire GUI lock up for 3-4 minutes isn't my idea of a user friendly experience. For the GNOME Project, evidently it is.
You could set up a mesh network like the OLPC uses, using OpenWRT or whatever. It won't be fast, and it'll be snowing in hell before Windows supports 802.11s, but it's possible.
A lot of scripting languages don't have an "unsigned" modifier. PHP and Perl do something stupid at 2^31, Python is smart enough to typecast the number to arbitrary-precision. This isn't just scripting languages being lazy; PostgreSQL doesn't do unsigned types either.
Translation: I'm better than them, even though I lack the skills or intelligence to express my point without profanity, rants, insults, and belittlement. Really, I'm better than them! I'll even explain why. Someday. Somehow.
Translation: I'm better than them, even though I have nothing interesting to say, so I'll go insult and belittle someone for their choice of language.
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Debian and Gentoo.
Oh hey look, I can copy and paste from Adobe sites too!
In addition, the new Clipboard.generalClipboard object in Flash Player 10 can read and write the system Clipboard.
Just for the slow people among us (you, AC):
Flash Player 10 can read and write the system Clipboard.
If people care so much about freedom, why don't they stop using it?
By keeping Apple's shitty attitude toward developers constantly on display, at least /. might save a few people from accidentally buying an iPhone in the first place.
Using the ordinary GPL for a library means YOU DISTRIBUTE THE SOURCE.
Learn to read.
I say people that ignorant deserve to lose their money to scammers. They're only in it for freeloading, after all.
My Radeon 9250 is at least 5 years old and it's 100% supported, and getting new features even in the latest drivers.
I guess that's the price you pay for choosing to run Windows.
I'm sure from all the rave reviews it's technically superior and all, but right now it's controlled by a paranoid schizo who hasn't got a clue how open source works: after GPLing it and whining that he hasn't suddenly started making money, he now thinks he can dictate what license apps using his API have to be released under.
I once tried to get a 2-PC PulseAudio setup working so I could have my headphones on my laptop permanently instead of going spelunking behind my desk every time I wanted to use them outside. After following their instructions to the letter, then again a year later, the best I could get out of it was crackly, constantly-skipping unusable sound and then only when using a raw PCM stream because the "native" transport didn't work at all.
Since it seems to work in big distros, and the PA dev works for one of them apparently, I guess there must be some secret handshake involved in getting it to work. I ended up rsyncing my audio files to the laptop instead. That worked first time (and only cost me £60 for the extra storage).
What's worse than that are the ones who think "mIRC" is just another warez kiddie download client. IRC doesn't have anything like alt.binaries that draw thems away from normal channels, so sometimes you get conversations flooded by retards joining, spamming "!list" and foreign-language insults and running away five seconds later.
Just for the record, the name of the journalist at fault is at the top of TFA: "Patrick Foster, Media Correspondent".
After reading it I was surprised to see only two comments at the bottom, though they're both on the right side of things.
Why the double standard, indeed.
On the one hand we have a free desktop environment with 3D effects that run well on an Intel GPU. On the other hand, Vista is somehow "ahead". By what measure? It isn't performance, price or familiarity.
If it's going to be the new flash I just hope I can block it.
The annoying bits of HTML 5 are just plain Javascript, and there's already a million and one tools to do that. I haven't seen a good whitelist one unfortunately.
If I could pay an extra $15 a month to get internet access with no ads, spam or slashvertisements, I probably would.
At the time, Apple was bullish on Java, and invested some considerable resources making OS X's JVM integrated into the rest of the OS.
Unfortunately, Apple no longer gives a shit about Java, and it shows.
Now I understand what that "OS X now is where windows was in 1998" comment from earlier meant...
I got a letter back from the FTC telling me that they couldn't do anything because "I didn't provide them enough information".
Clearly from the story here, the missing information was telling them you're a US senator or someone important enough to get their asses fired.
I'd call myself anti-Mono, but only because I've actually tried to use it. Trying to load a folder of 100 camera JPEGs into F-Spot (on a Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM), and then seeing the entire GUI lock up for 3-4 minutes isn't my idea of a user friendly experience. For the GNOME Project, evidently it is.
The only thing worse than blue LEDs is blue LEDs that blink on and off. I've got a wireless keyboard that does exactly that.
You could set up a mesh network like the OLPC uses, using OpenWRT or whatever. It won't be fast, and it'll be snowing in hell before Windows supports 802.11s, but it's possible.
Iran lacks the technology to deliver nuclear payloads to the US.
Why would they bother trying to nuke the US when they could wipe out the huge chunk of its military sitting next door instead?
Is there enough of an advantage to Theora to warrant dumping all of those for new ones?
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A lot of scripting languages don't have an "unsigned" modifier. PHP and Perl do something stupid at 2^31, Python is smart enough to typecast the number to arbitrary-precision. This isn't just scripting languages being lazy; PostgreSQL doesn't do unsigned types either.
Great, now do that for all other combinations of child/adjacent/pseudoelement selectors too.
So what if Microsoft fixed Windows Media Player because of a billion dollar fine from the EU? They fixed it, right?
Are you aware of a lot of crapware that comes with a freshly installed Ubuntu system?
I am. The first thing I do on a new Ubuntu install is remove Mono.
Translation: I'm better than them, even though I lack the skills or intelligence to express my point without profanity, rants, insults, and belittlement. Really, I'm better than them! I'll even explain why. Someday. Somehow.
Translation: I'm better than them, even though I have nothing interesting to say, so I'll go insult and belittle someone for their choice of language.