smithzvk

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by smithzvk 11y ago
They should put a blur on the nose. Having it in focus just seems wrong and perhaps distracting from their goal of giving the brain what it expects. Heck, I just tried right now and I'm now old enough that I can't even get my no
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by smithzvk 12y ago
Missed your reply. Actually it is pretty irrelevant how many non-programmers are capable of compiling or meaningfully editing the C program. The point is that a programmer cannot (reasonably) edit to restrict you freedom. However, after re
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by smithzvk 12y ago
Yes, because non-copyleft Free licenses precisely grant this right. By contributing to that project (and licensing those changes under that license) you are saying that this is allowed.
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by smithzvk 12y ago
The other reply says as much, but it bears repeating as what you said is so extremely incorrect. The GPL is and always has been a license that limits the rights of programmers in order to ensure the rights of users. This is one of those, f
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by smithzvk 12y ago
Yeah, happens for me too but I never noticed until now. I guess I just always thought that this was the way it was designed to look. The UI is more than a little bit jumbled/ugly.
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by smithzvk 12y ago
Hey, that is an interesting idea that I have often thought about before, but have not been able to wrap my head around how this could be done. Are there any links/literature you can point to for techniques that sort of fit this bill?
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by smithzvk 12y ago
To me Unity just made sense and if not for it crashing entirely too often and incurring a performance hit due to all the eye candy, I wouldn't look further. To me the nice thing about GNU/Linux on the desktop is that each person c
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by smithzvk 12y ago
Typically via holding alt and pressing short cut keys. That is the old way to do it. Unity introduced a new way to do it where you use the alt key and a text box comes up which allows you to search the options by keyword. It could be don
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by smithzvk 12y ago
I guess my question is, does using Firefox mean that you support Mozilla, much less the opinions of Mozilla's CEO? If I switch to IceWeasel, do I still support it? Is using Gecko the sin here? When did I sign on for supporting these
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by smithzvk 12y ago
I think this is a reminder that different interfaces work for different people. I think that the Unity interface, with its hidden menu bars, application menus, scroll bars, etc. is almost perfect and a clear step in the right direction (wi
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by smithzvk 12y ago
I just watched a video overview of the changes. It seems like you must still mouse over to reveal the menus, even with the new option to put menus in the title bar of the window instead of at the top.
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by smithzvk 12y ago
This makes me hopeful for my future. I have 4GB and am in the constant cycle of "close firefox so I can start my VM, close the VM so I can start Inkscape (with a big file), close inkscape so I can start firefox, and if you want to pla
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by smithzvk 12y ago
I decided to go the LTS route as well. I actually don't know when they will actually release the new version, but I assume it will be before the end of April (do they always hit their target release month?). I will be upgrading fairly
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by smithzvk 13y ago
I know that many "Linux gamers" scoff at the prospect of official support for running games under Wine... I don't. I think GOG in particular should jump at the chance to partner with the PlayOnLinux project and some the nume
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by smithzvk 13y ago
I have never thought of that as the meaning. In fact, how does this wording apply at all to bug discovery when it seems to me discussing bug resolution, which feels like a very different thing? However, I have never read The Cathedral an
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by smithzvk 13y ago
Oh, I'm still on 12.04. Guess I have that to look forward to.
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by smithzvk 13y ago
That is really weird. For me evince has no gear icon and has its menus in the global menu like every other GTK application.
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by smithzvk 13y ago
Ubuntu is a Free Software project and there is a small group of volunteer testers before every release. In fact you can be one of them, right now, for the upcoming 14.04 release: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/cu
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by smithzvk 13y ago
Well, I assume this is true of video games the same way it is true of other art, but because people keep extending copyright terms faster than they expire, it's not clear if anything will every make it to the public domain again. We a
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by smithzvk 13y ago
Every one in "the public" has skin in the game, cuz, you know, it's their "domain" we are talking about. The very fact that people think that pushing stuff into the public domain is some sort of gift, or that the p
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by smithzvk 13y ago
I guess this is kind of nice because I won't have to worry about people connecting to my <insert non-technologically adept person>'s open or poorly secured WiFi and start playing porn as a joke. But you can still stream a Ch
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by smithzvk 13y ago
Yes, when Chris Hayes hosted "Up" it was a must watch each weekend for me. I watched about two episodes of his nightly show and couldn't stand it. Maybe we should try watching the new guy who took it over? I guess it isn&#x
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by smithzvk 13y ago
> But it strikes me as ironic that RMS talks about "freedom" when really he's advocating restricting your freedom to use the software. It is ironic in a way, but it is only a valid criticism if you consider that you should
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by smithzvk 13y ago
To RMS and the FSF, what users need/deserve is Free Software.
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by smithzvk 13y ago
This is an off-contract pre-paid plan. I believe that you must buy these as SIM kits from Walmart. When I got it, you had to buy it from a physical store, but it looks like you can do it online now though it may take some time for your SI
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by smithzvk 13y ago
I use/abuse my T-Mobile plan at times and at others barely use it at all. It all averages out to a pretty light to moderate usage, I figure. One of the reasons I really like T-Mobile is that they have never really bothered me about i
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by smithzvk 13y ago
I use T-Mobile and am quite happy with it; I pay $30 a month for basically everything I need and no contract. It is worth noting, however, that T-Mobile has some serious problems. There are large swaths of this country where T-Mobile simpl
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by smithzvk 13y ago
> If it's such a shitty idea, let consumers decide. If you leave it up to the prisoners, they will both rat each other out resulting in the worst possible outcome ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dile
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by smithzvk 13y ago
There is also MegaGlest, which is under active development and already pretty good. One cool feature that I don't see elsewhere is the fully 3D positionable camera.
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by smithzvk 13y ago
Does anybody else see really weird vertical kerning on this page. It seems like the line drops by a few pixels every few words... interesting, since this is a page about how we should switch to something more like HTML for typesetting...

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