Google Chrome (the browser) actually does run on Linux. It even has flash and java support now.
I added the chromium-daily repository, and everything is stable and works fine.
https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa
By the way, I still use firefox for the most part. Adblock plus is nice.
In gnome, it's possible to bind the keys to the previous/next/play/pause commands in gnome. Then, any media player that supports those bindings in gnome can be controlled with those keys no matter what application has focus. I have no idea how you would do this in Windows, though.
Ah, but you see...this is why you limit your presentation to 12 minutes (20 minutes in certain cases). Then you have an interactive question/answer session for 5-10 minutes (depending on the interest of the audience).
Oh, tor, of course. You could use tor to download it. That would still cause suspicion, though, because most people don't have tor installed. I know I don't. I have had it for brief periods, but only a couple of times before finding that I didn't actually need it and that it was wasting my time.
Another possible solution would be to download the executable every time you needed to use it, then shred and delete it afterwards. You'd have to use a discrete way of downloading it, though -- I'm not sure if there is a way of doing that if your internet connection is being tapped.
Is this unexpected for microsoft? Every single release of windows I've used has been the exact same features, but presented in a different way. Every single one has a learning curve, and no (or well-concealed) option for going back to the previous UI. The worst was probably either when they decided to make menus smaller by hiding the lesser used entries, or how they keep changing the freaking start menu.
So, no. None of the changes they've made are particularly *bad*; they just don't add any value. Personally, though, I think that the ribbon interface is misplaced, as it would better be used for an application related to photo or video editing, which have a lot of features that fall into groups in an easily defined way. An office application does not have enough features to warrant a ribbon-style interface, and its functions can not necessarily be sorted into groups easily.
YES! A ribbon interface would do wonders for the GIMP!
I have to agree with you. The purpose of productivity software is to provide the use with features that are useful to them, and then get out of the way.
One of the worst things about the ribbon is probably that all the people who want to create eye-catching and time-wasting presentations will now be able to make them twice as much of each. The people who actually wanted to be productive with powerpoint will have to relearn where everything is.
The problem seems to be that Microsoft is treating powerpoint as a toy or a game. They are adding lots of fluff to it and making it look nice. If I had plenty of time on my hands and wanted to make something look pretty (*not* useful, but pretty), I would use powerpoint with the ribbon interface. However, that is not what I want to do, and it is not what I will ever conceivably want to do. I don't use multiple backgrounds -- I use one single background. I don't use slide transitions. I generally write my presentations entirely using the outline interface of Impress, except when I have to add pictures to help convey my point. Does powerpoint even have an outline view? That's probably the killer feature in Impress for me, at least.
So... Webkit renders html as far as I know. So the proposal seems to be to render the entire Gnome gui by feeding html at it. I hope I'm wrong, because if that is correct then it would be a really goofy way of going about things.
You're wrong, don't worry.
A window manager pretty much manages the window decorations (title bar, borders, et cetera) and window actions (close, maximize, resize, move, roll-up, sticky, always on top, always on bottom, et cetera).
Metacity is a window manager and nothing else. It doesn't handle what is in the windows themselves.
Oh, and their only proposing to use CSS. No HTML.
To an extent, this was what he was warning against (though he set no time constraints) -- that eventually people would complain about the existence of copyright regardless of length of time. He argued that making the law too broad and absurd (arguable - I'm not debating whether he was right on this issue) would cause people to view the entire thing as an unnecessary evil.
What we see in the past is copyright being extended and broadened continually over time, and people eventually arguing against it as a whole once they have a means to violate it easily.
Of course it is not perfectly what he predicted (and it is extremely late), but it does kind of fit some of the points.
Perhaps.
No, by the fact that there is a rising Pirate Party in a few countries. I don't dispute that it is currently very disorganized and ill-defined, but it exists.
It is by the fact that more and more people are obtaining copyrighted content from the internet illegally.
It is by the fact that more and more people think that this is okay.
Right now, many governments of the world and the recording industry are trying to fight it. Whether they are winning or not, only time will tell. In that respect, not everything he said has come true, but what hasn't come true still has the potential to.
The main point the GP was trying to make is that he predicted that in the future it would become extremely easy to copy something; so easy, in fact, that anybody could do it. That did come true, and that did take 160 years.
You could probably pretty easily write an extension for mediawiki that attaches to the 'ArticleAfterFetchContent' hook and augments the page with content fetched on the fly from Wikipedia. That would be easy enough to do. Just make sure that when the user is editing the page, the function you attach to the hook does not activate (otherwise you will end up saving the wikipedia content into your page, and it will be there twice when a user visits the page).
Were you on your rollerblades while you were playing with your legos?
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