Don't you just love it when a bunch of pedantic nerds get hold of a subject like this? They all try to shoot each other down by finding ever smaller, ever more pathetic flaws in their predecessor's argument, when the truth is most of them have no more than a passing knowledge, probably gleaned from the Discovery Channel.
It's like the "5 scifi geeks clustered round a broken laptop" syndrome. None of them actually knows how to fix it, but they're damn well going to try, and tell everyone else how stupid their own approach is to boot. I just sit back and watch:)
BTW: Not trying to troll, although I realise this post kind of reads like one. I just get frustrated sometimes by the lack of perspective apparently suffered by some people in groups like this.
don't piss off you user base if you wish to have a user base.
I'm not pissed off by KDE, regardless of what Linus says or does. I still much prefer KDE3 over Gnome, and Gnome over the last release of KDE4 I tried. If KDE3 broke hugely (horrible security flaw or incompatibility with new software) and they didn't fix it, I would be pissed off and go to Gnome. As it is, I'm happy with KDE3, and will stay with it until I decide KDE4 is better.
And to the Gnome-aficionados: enjoy your new-found bragging rights while they last;) *dons flame-retardant jumpsuit*
So I'm not the only one seeing parallels here. Not only does KDE4 look superficially like Vista, it even shares the same first-couple-of-releases-are-a-bit-rubbish thing.
Except Microsoft is being sneaky and rebranding it, whereas of course KDE4.2/.3/.whatever won't be called KDE5.
The Zune is brown. It's like they hired product designers from Canonical.
I think this represents (or at least parodies) the epitome of current Slashdot doublethink: brown.
When a Microsoft product comes in brown, it's met with nothing but ridicule and scorn. When a Linux distro comes in brown, it's hailed as the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Now is it just me, or does that seem ludicrous to you too?
Oh, some lagers taste less of arse than others, indeed some I would actually pay for if there was no superior alternative. But give me a pint of Gem or Abbott any day;)
Oh come on, that's just juvenile. Of course Microsoft wants to make money; it's a business for Pete's sake. No need to point that out through deliberate misspellings. If you don't like the way they do things, don't use their software. I can assure you they care a lot more about their installed base than a couple of switched characters on some internet messageboard.
Foreigners are kept out of America due to Buggery. Within, overweight citizens line up for a (curiously legal) form of abuse perpetrated by the fast food industry. I call it Burgery.
Inside knowledge when playing the blame game can be useful for getting you out of hot water with your boss when something goes wrong, but the real question you have to ask yourself is whether your methods, your servers, are actually more reliable than those of XYZ cloud company. Better than escaping the hot water is reducing the chances of falling in to begin with.
Hah, I'm from Bristol but I'm at Swansea Uni, 80 miles down the road. The CS department here is still stuck in the Bad Old Days, despite the thousands that we pay them to teach us skills. But if you make something cool, they'll give you a whole 30% of the profits!
(Not that it affects me, I'm an engineering student =)
Assuming the rest of the system is functioning properly, I think it's a good idea. If we start to see events like the warrantless raiding of Damian Green's office becoming commonplace, I think irresponsibly designed "computer breathalysers" will be the least of our worries.
The summary suggested two things to me: either they have a problem with PCs (Police Constables) being drunk on the job, or they want to reimplement Google's "mail goggles" for some reason. Fortunately the summary clarified things somewhat.
I think it's a good idea, if executed responsibly: if they have a warrant to raid a property anyway, then a handy program on a USB key that automatically scans for things like kiddie porn or databases of credit card numbers seems like a pretty good idea. I'm for it as long as it doesn't try to install itself on the machine and keep watching the user even after the cops have gone away.
Heh, cool. I did make sure I didn't have anything important open first, but a simple Ctrl-C sufficed to get rid of it. I figured it was probably something like a fork bomb before running it, so I'm pleased to find that modern Linux kernels do indeed have protection against unprivileged users bringing down a system with this sort of thing.
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But one hell of a lot more moral.
No we didn't!
Not after they saw Goatse, at any rate.
Don't you just love it when a bunch of pedantic nerds get hold of a subject like this? They all try to shoot each other down by finding ever smaller, ever more pathetic flaws in their predecessor's argument, when the truth is most of them have no more than a passing knowledge, probably gleaned from the Discovery Channel.
It's like the "5 scifi geeks clustered round a broken laptop" syndrome. None of them actually knows how to fix it, but they're damn well going to try, and tell everyone else how stupid their own approach is to boot. I just sit back and watch :)
BTW: Not trying to troll, although I realise this post kind of reads like one. I just get frustrated sometimes by the lack of perspective apparently suffered by some people in groups like this.
> what exactly are you going to measure with that?
You could measure the panel's degradation over time, assuming it's linear. Although kW/year might be more useful for that...
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Scientists discover new principles.
Engineers apply old principles in new ways.
In that case, I content that it's twice as big as it needs to be.
I'm not pissed off by KDE, regardless of what Linus says or does. I still much prefer KDE3 over Gnome, and Gnome over the last release of KDE4 I tried. If KDE3 broke hugely (horrible security flaw or incompatibility with new software) and they didn't fix it, I would be pissed off and go to Gnome.
As it is, I'm happy with KDE3, and will stay with it until I decide KDE4 is better.
And to the Gnome-aficionados: enjoy your new-found bragging rights while they last ;)
*dons flame-retardant jumpsuit*
So I'm not the only one seeing parallels here. Not only does KDE4 look superficially like Vista, it even shares the same first-couple-of-releases-are-a-bit-rubbish thing.
Except Microsoft is being sneaky and rebranding it, whereas of course KDE4 .2/.3/.whatever won't be called KDE5.
I think this represents (or at least parodies) the epitome of current Slashdot doublethink: brown.
When a Microsoft product comes in brown, it's met with nothing but ridicule and scorn.
When a Linux distro comes in brown, it's hailed as the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Now is it just me, or does that seem ludicrous to you too?
No, Devizes. A small English town well-known for its high population of bioscientists :)
No, that can't happen until the year of the Linux desktop, which I believe is the year after the release of DNF...
*ducks hail of thrown Ubuntu disks*
Oh, some lagers taste less of arse than others, indeed some I would actually pay for if there was no superior alternative. ;)
But give me a pint of Gem or Abbott any day
This is why I prefer real ale. No bubbles.
Actually that's not true; I prefer it because lager tastes of arse.
Oh come on, that's just juvenile. Of course Microsoft wants to make money; it's a business for Pete's sake. No need to point that out through deliberate misspellings. If you don't like the way they do things, don't use their software. I can assure you they care a lot more about their installed base than a couple of switched characters on some internet messageboard.
Foreigners are kept out of America due to Buggery. Within, overweight citizens line up for a (curiously legal) form of abuse perpetrated by the fast food industry. I call it Burgery.
Meh, close enough. I for one am willing to gloss over such technicalities for the ego boost =)
By the GP's misquote, we should have them 6 years from now :)
Inside knowledge when playing the blame game can be useful for getting you out of hot water with your boss when something goes wrong, but the real question you have to ask yourself is whether your methods, your servers, are actually more reliable than those of XYZ cloud company.
Better than escaping the hot water is reducing the chances of falling in to begin with.
Hah, I'm from Bristol but I'm at Swansea Uni, 80 miles down the road. The CS department here is still stuck in the Bad Old Days, despite the thousands that we pay them to teach us skills. But if you make something cool, they'll give you a whole 30% of the profits!
(Not that it affects me, I'm an engineering student =)
Bless you.
Assuming the rest of the system is functioning properly, I think it's a good idea. If we start to see events like the warrantless raiding of Damian Green's office becoming commonplace, I think irresponsibly designed "computer breathalysers" will be the least of our worries.
The summary suggested two things to me: either they have a problem with PCs (Police Constables) being drunk on the job, or they want to reimplement Google's "mail goggles" for some reason. Fortunately the summary clarified things somewhat.
I think it's a good idea, if executed responsibly: if they have a warrant to raid a property anyway, then a handy program on a USB key that automatically scans for things like kiddie porn or databases of credit card numbers seems like a pretty good idea. I'm for it as long as it doesn't try to install itself on the machine and keep watching the user even after the cops have gone away.
Heh, cool. I did make sure I didn't have anything important open first, but a simple Ctrl-C sufficed to get rid of it. I figured it was probably something like a fork bomb before running it, so I'm pleased to find that modern Linux kernels do indeed have protection against unprivileged users bringing down a system with this sort of thing.