I think you've misunderstood the issue. The problem is that the kilo, mega, giga etc. are base-10 orders of magnitude that were used incorrectly for base-2 numbers in computers. It should never have been 1 kilobyte means 1024 bytes. This is just the move to fix a long standing problem.
Come on Miguel, really. It's not the same thing. It's one thing to go ahead making technical progress and accidentally infringe an obscure patent in someone's portfolio. It's quite another to adopt and adapt someone's technology and hope they won't sue you. This is even more important a distinction when the technology in question belongs to your competitors and they've publicly sword to defeat your cause.
I know you're getting a hard time in this thread but it has to be taken for what it is.
That's a little rich for De Icaza to be coming out and saying this now. He's spent years shouting down anyone that warned him about the patent scenario with Microsoft's technologies and yet he continued to proselytise. He's worked away on Mono and Silverlight and made sure to get them included wherever he could.
I would guess that distributions such as Ubuntu/openSUSE/Fedora might end up packaging Gimp with this enabled by default. They would be likely targets for this behaviour and indeed much of the complainting comes from distro feedback.
Personally I would prefer if it was enabled by default but it may be simply because this new layout is not mature enough yet.
Or how about considering that it's clearly not a healthy state of mind and remedying it with counselling or therapy. Do you think that encouraging them through the use of robotic surrogates will cure them or allow them to move further into and become more comfortable in their sickness?
You think that's bad? Her single for Christmas is the Rolling Stone's Wild Horses. I mean come on...what a tragically beautiful song. She just went all Elaine Page on it and ended up robbing it of any sentiment at all. Sterile and lifeless.
I would have to say that you making a concerted effort to make sure one song was at number one while keeping...
something other than the bland, synthesised crap that we get as a christmas number 1 these last few years
...out of the charts. Though you may not care for the politics at the surface of it, you most certainly are contributing to the campaign in going beyond what anyone could consider a normal music purchase.
He himself advertised the concert as "Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens". I think we all know the story there, there's no need to be pedantic.
Let me assure that old Cat Stevens LP's are far better than trying to go see him live now. I was one of the victims of his recent musical outing at the O2 in Dublin...that was a bait and switch if I ever saw one.
I wondered the same thing. In fact my own doctor told me that it's a hydrogen peroxide in warm water solution that is used to syringe wax out of your ears.
I figured the same old Parrot Sketch jokes wouldn't be the best choice, so from one of my favourites...
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Riding through the land
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Without a merry band
He steals from the poor.
And gives to the rich
Stupid bitch.
It's a nice idea, it's a bit better than floating rpms or debs but I don't know if I'm entirely sold on it. It's been around for a few years and I haven't seen any of the other distros picking it up, so that might say something about it. There is apturl but I know I've never used it or even had the opportunity.
Amarok has had tabs down the side pretty much since it first launched and has suffered nothing but abuse and admonishment from a lot of users.So much in fact that the latest development builds have eliminated it completely. I don't think that most people like reading vertical text and as I understood from the feedback that having both horizontal and vertical UI elements made the application look cluttered.
I can't say I agree but there was a continuous whine about it in threads like this across all of the usual sites.
On a side note, from the screenshots provided does anyone else feel that we're being given the choice between IE7/8 and Chrome? I quite like Firefox the way it is now. And a little less of the Vista look please, I use Linux!
The US has an embargo on Iran and Nokia Siemens broke it.
Nokia Siemens is a joint venture with its headquarters in Finland. The two contributing companies are Nokia, who were founded and are headed in Finland and Siemens were founded and are headed in Germany. The United States of America set an embargo on the country and yet all others are expected to follow - this is what's wrong with the American outlook.
I'm just glad I've been able to buy Cuban cigars legally in my country all along.
No. This behaviour is anticompetitive. It deprives consumers of choice and the benefits of healthy competition such as lower prices. It is one thing to severely undercut your competitor...that's basic competition and part of free market trading.
However, preventing the competitor from even being considered at consumer level benefits no one but Intel. OEMs are strongarmed, consumers have less choice, competitors go out of business. This is the Monsanto of chip business.
The IE Domain Registry is not a governing or regulatory body, but provides a public service for the.ie namespace on behalf of the Internet community.
I am Irish and I'm more than a little bit outraged. For a start, neither of the words in question are taboo or offensive; they are english words of greek origin and are in daily usage. My main problem with this is that it claims to be on moral grounds but this body is in no position to determine what is or is not moral, nor are they under their own mandate a governing or regulatory body.
So that Linux can use it within kernel modules and so that the still-untrusted CCDL won't prevent its adoption. Heck, licence it under the BSD licence if you'd prefer but I think we can all agree that the main point of the CCDL was to keep Linux's hands off tasty stuff like this.
I actually liked the couple of episodes I watched but what put me off was that I thought it was going to be dragged. Cancellation was reported on io9.com but it seems I may have picked a bad example, as they are planning on ending the series properly within the remaining episodes.
That said, if it came to the choice between a very short but challenging and satisfying series versus one drawn out on promises for ratings (read:Lost, Heroes) I know what I'd pick...though like a sucker I'm still watching those two sinking ships!
People love a show with a clear and ending arc. What it really opens up for is a chance to make a new show to build off where that arc ended.
A strong example of this was the BBC series Life On Mars. It was two seasons, of eight episodes each. Every episode was practically a movie and could still be enjoyed standalone (though not as much as if you were following it regularly). What upset me about it being remade in America is that I knew that it would be dragged out as long as ratings were good but most likely cancelled before the story was finished.
As it is the American show has been cancelled but not before they completed more episodes than the BBC series. So, for roughly the same amount of screentime they rolled the dice and lost. They could have concentrated on something solid and memorable but instead it became a cheap franchise.
Speaking of Distrowatch, I'd have preferred it if TFA had been a direct link to the original interview there rather than this ad-laden site. Distrowatch put in the work, I don't see why PC-Pro should get the traffic.
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I think you've misunderstood the issue. The problem is that the kilo, mega, giga etc. are base-10 orders of magnitude that were used incorrectly for base-2 numbers in computers. It should never have been 1 kilobyte means 1024 bytes. This is just the move to fix a long standing problem.
Come on Miguel, really. It's not the same thing. It's one thing to go ahead making technical progress and accidentally infringe an obscure patent in someone's portfolio. It's quite another to adopt and adapt someone's technology and hope they won't sue you. This is even more important a distinction when the technology in question belongs to your competitors and they've publicly sword to defeat your cause.
I know you're getting a hard time in this thread but it has to be taken for what it is.
That's a little rich for De Icaza to be coming out and saying this now. He's spent years shouting down anyone that warned him about the patent scenario with Microsoft's technologies and yet he continued to proselytise. He's worked away on Mono and Silverlight and made sure to get them included wherever he could.
So is he allowed to be surprised or angry now?
I wish I had mod points today. This is the type of post I love to see.
I would guess that distributions such as Ubuntu/openSUSE/Fedora might end up packaging Gimp with this enabled by default. They would be likely targets for this behaviour and indeed much of the complainting comes from distro feedback.
Personally I would prefer if it was enabled by default but it may be simply because this new layout is not mature enough yet.
Same problem here. And to think I installed chromium just for this!
Or how about considering that it's clearly not a healthy state of mind and remedying it with counselling or therapy. Do you think that encouraging them through the use of robotic surrogates will cure them or allow them to move further into and become more comfortable in their sickness?
You think that's bad? Her single for Christmas is the Rolling Stone's Wild Horses. I mean come on...what a tragically beautiful song. She just went all Elaine Page on it and ended up robbing it of any sentiment at all. Sterile and lifeless.
something other than the bland, synthesised crap that we get as a christmas number 1 these last few years
...out of the charts. Though you may not care for the politics at the surface of it, you most certainly are contributing to the campaign in going beyond what anyone could consider a normal music purchase.
Also, unlike Italy and France, they don't have famous wines
Well there's Wolf Blass and Jacob's Creek for starters.
He himself advertised the concert as "Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens". I think we all know the story there, there's no need to be pedantic.
Let me assure that old Cat Stevens LP's are far better than trying to go see him live now. I was one of the victims of his recent musical outing at the O2 in Dublin...that was a bait and switch if I ever saw one.
I wondered the same thing. In fact my own doctor told me that it's a hydrogen peroxide in warm water solution that is used to syringe wax out of your ears.
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Riding through the land
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Without a merry band
He steals from the poor.
And gives to the rich
Stupid bitch.
That already exists and is centre-stage in a leading distribution:
YMP (Yast MetaPackage)
It's a nice idea, it's a bit better than floating rpms or debs but I don't know if I'm entirely sold on it. It's been around for a few years and I haven't seen any of the other distros picking it up, so that might say something about it. There is apturl but I know I've never used it or even had the opportunity.
Tabs should be down the side
Amarok has had tabs down the side pretty much since it first launched and has suffered nothing but abuse and admonishment from a lot of users.So much in fact that the latest development builds have eliminated it completely. I don't think that most people like reading vertical text and as I understood from the feedback that having both horizontal and vertical UI elements made the application look cluttered.
I can't say I agree but there was a continuous whine about it in threads like this across all of the usual sites.
On a side note, from the screenshots provided does anyone else feel that we're being given the choice between IE7/8 and Chrome? I quite like Firefox the way it is now. And a little less of the Vista look please, I use Linux!
Yeah, do any of these guys know what hardly means?
The US has an embargo on Iran and Nokia Siemens broke it.
Nokia Siemens is a joint venture with its headquarters in Finland. The two contributing companies are Nokia, who were founded and are headed in Finland and Siemens were founded and are headed in Germany. The United States of America set an embargo on the country and yet all others are expected to follow - this is what's wrong with the American outlook.
I'm just glad I've been able to buy Cuban cigars legally in my country all along.
Sounds like a necessary part of business?...
No. This behaviour is anticompetitive. It deprives consumers of choice and the benefits of healthy competition such as lower prices. It is one thing to severely undercut your competitor...that's basic competition and part of free market trading.
However, preventing the competitor from even being considered at consumer level benefits no one but Intel. OEMs are strongarmed, consumers have less choice, competitors go out of business. This is the Monsanto of chip business.
Screw the achievements, where are all the PONIES?!
The IE Domain Registry is not a governing or regulatory body, but provides a public service for the .ie namespace on behalf of the Internet community.
I am Irish and I'm more than a little bit outraged. For a start, neither of the words in question are taboo or offensive; they are english words of greek origin and are in daily usage. My main problem with this is that it claims to be on moral grounds but this body is in no position to determine what is or is not moral, nor are they under their own mandate a governing or regulatory body.
So that Linux can use it within kernel modules and so that the still-untrusted CCDL won't prevent its adoption. Heck, licence it under the BSD licence if you'd prefer but I think we can all agree that the main point of the CCDL was to keep Linux's hands off tasty stuff like this.
I actually liked the couple of episodes I watched but what put me off was that I thought it was going to be dragged. Cancellation was reported on io9.com but it seems I may have picked a bad example, as they are planning on ending the series properly within the remaining episodes.
That said, if it came to the choice between a very short but challenging and satisfying series versus one drawn out on promises for ratings (read:Lost, Heroes) I know what I'd pick...though like a sucker I'm still watching those two sinking ships!
People love a show with a clear and ending arc. What it really opens up for is a chance to make a new show to build off where that arc ended.
A strong example of this was the BBC series Life On Mars. It was two seasons, of eight episodes each. Every episode was practically a movie and could still be enjoyed standalone (though not as much as if you were following it regularly). What upset me about it being remade in America is that I knew that it would be dragged out as long as ratings were good but most likely cancelled before the story was finished.
As it is the American show has been cancelled but not before they completed more episodes than the BBC series. So, for roughly the same amount of screentime they rolled the dice and lost. They could have concentrated on something solid and memorable but instead it became a cheap franchise.
Speaking of Distrowatch, I'd have preferred it if TFA had been a direct link to the original interview there rather than this ad-laden site. Distrowatch put in the work, I don't see why PC-Pro should get the traffic.