I love WindowMaker but I just wish it would get with the times. It seriously need to add some (optional) eye candy. Would it be too hard to either add a compositor or at the very least add support for one of the many XWindow compositors out there (e.g. xcompmgr and compton). Real transparency, that is really all I want.

Seriously, I love WindowMaker but 1997 was 17 years ago. It would be nice if it didn't look like it was still stuck in 1997.

Um, the Gamecube was the smallest console on the market, cheaper, and was more powerful then the PS2. It also had a great controller (A matter of opinion, I guess) It's problem was the lack of a DVD drive (both for space and DVD playing was a killer feature for the time).

That depends, will it drive the price of programmers to about the price per hour of say a Janitor? If it will allow them to pay programmers minimum wage (or less) than yes. If not, then H1Bs are here to stay.

Please, you could take that post and put pretty much put the name of any major engineering firm in the US and it would be true.

This is a widespread phenomenon that won't go away until all business is finally gone from the US or every CXX in America happens to disappear overnight.

I was kind of thinking the same thing. Unless this database is accessible via a webpage, it isn't WWW. It is an internet protocol that has nothing to do with the web.

Unless you are transcoding DVDs or pirating videos from the internet, h.264 / MP4 is more or less the current standard for internet videos. If you are ripping DVD / Blu-Rays, unless you are planning on watching them very soon, you're going to need to transcode them anyway if only to bring them down to a manageable size (besides, Handbrake uses h.264)

What the hell are you doing? Once the video is ripped, it's done. Copy it to an external drive or burn it to a DVD. Just give it a name like "001 - Episode Name" and be done with it. Most media players will read the filename as the video name. No fucking around with metadata required. If you really need to get specific try naming it like "Show Name 001 - Episode Name"

Miro is a free Cross Platform media manager and has built-in library streaming and video converter. Just put in RSS feeds or have it monitor folders.

http://www.getmiro.com/

I'd wake up my neighbors pounding out a rhythm all about you.

Like a post-post-modern man!

For gaming, yes. If you spend your life in a text editor or a web browser, I doubt you'd notice.

KDE 4 has a nice take on the Windows 7 snap feature. Drag a window to a corner and it will take up that quarter of the screen. Drag to a side and it will take up that half. and drag to top to full screen.

I primarily use the half-screen option but with 4k I could easily see myself doing 1/4 window apps.

Considering that a developer license for Visual Studio starts at ~$500 (without MSDN) and can go upwards of $6000 per seat, the price of the monitor which can be used for a few years is pretty small. Especially considering that MSDN (the biggest reason to use Visual Studio) is a yearly-renewed membership.

I don't know where you live, but where I live all arrests are placed in the local newspaper. Some of them are even placed on the local TV news if it is a felony offense or just a slow news day.

I don't trust this whole "theory of gravity." Obviously, this "theory" is just an unknowable guess and therefore doesn't have the full consensus of "science". I say we need to teach the controversy that the reason we stay on the earth is because some supreme being wants us there. Birds and planes only work because when their wings are outstretched they make a holy cross.

Teach the controversy. Don't believe "theories".

Only in slashdot could adding a graphics library to the c++ standard be derided as one of the greatest tragedies to befall mankind.

Just like the good ol' days, eh?

He has Amazon Prime! I'm sure a drone has already been dispatched with his new kidney and a qualified surgeon.