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Mozilla Rising ... As A Platform
ceswiedler writes "Salon is running a story about Mozilla's potential dominance as a platform for application development. They discuss the community development centering around Mozilla, and point out that its cross-plaform GUI environment is 'exactly the kind of thing Microsoft was trying to prevent when it launched its war against Netscape. It didn't want Netscape around, because Netscape was becoming a platform.' In what might be a Salon first, they even include a reference to a Slashdot comment by SkyShadow."
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Your article sounded like nothing but Nazi anti-Intel, Microsoft (Wintel) propaganda to me. I can see in a few years time when still nobody listens to you about upgrading their computers you start spouting stuff like 'Intel and Microsoft use mind control on your children' or 'Buying Intel and Microsoft Products will give you cancer'. Why do you hate these companies so much, is it that they posses powers you don't? Is it that they have such awe-inspiring control over our industry, is it that their products are significantly more expensive than their competitors, or is it you wish you were in their position and you had the ability to do what they do?
I am a person who wants freedom of speech, I want to be able to do whatever I like with my machine and my software.. But one thing I don't mind doing (which seems to be your major complaint) is paying for my software. The content should be provided on copy proof media, digitally signed and linked directly to your pc.. And what do you care if you've paid for the software? You shouldn't give a damn that's what. Basically you can't stand the fact they'll stop you from copy media and distributing it amongst your friends, or buying or borrowing from some scabby little shop or from another source. They employed the people that make these products, they pay all the R&D and other related costs, they pay their employees salaries so why shouldn't they charge you for the privilege of using it? And why shouldn't they protect their software from being copied and distributed..
And if you bother with the argument 'Linux is free' then you're worse than I originally thought. Have you ever tried installing any of the versions of Linux? It's complete shit and it looks fuck1ng awful. My brother can setup our family pc with new hardware and drivers, he can install and configure networking and dialup properties and he can do all this without speaking to anyone in technical support. This is all thanks to Microsoft. Put even myself in front of a Linux machine for just five minutes and I want to clobber the crap out of it with the 700 page 'SPAKKERS GUIDE TO LINUX' book. It is very 'normal user' unfriendly, and unless you have sandals, a beard and a degree in Kernel compiling you can't get any of the fucking hardware to work.. Oh and did I mention the GUI's in Linux look like something I crapped out after a curry and 7 beers last weekend.
XP is just great, I have it on my Dell Inspiron 8200 and it hasn't crashed or performed any weird operations ever. I play games, video edit, surf, and more or less anything else you can imagine.. I like the extra features in XP (Office and Windows) and I think it looks better than that 80's throwback Windows 98. Microsoft have got it right with this one and you've got it wrong. Instead of Wintel bashing why don't you get into Seal clubbing? At least the effects of your job would be more noticeable.
I wonder if slashdot linking to itself will cause slashdot to slashdot itself. So has slashdot slashdotted itself into slashdot oblivion? Only time will tell...
I'm not sure that the average Salon reader (not myself, of course!) will get this reference. After all, "5" seems pretty low in the expected 1-to-10 or 1-to-100 rating system, even for "funny" ratings.
And I wonder if Slashdot picks up more readers after such a reference?
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In what might be a Slashdot first, a Slashdot submission includes a link to a Slashdot comment, causing Slashdot itself to suffer the Slashdot effect.
why can't Yuropeens create something like Mozilla?
why are Yuropeens such leeches?
thanks.
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my head just exploded.
This is my sig. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
omg that be 2 funE dawg. how long dat shit takE u to do ???
Salon's attempt to /. Slashdot
Which site has the largest number of zombies reading the articles and clicking on all the links?
Do you care about the security of your wireless mouse?
Hello! Hello! Moderators? Moderators? Why is this post marked TROLL?
Enjoy,
It's just the normal noises in here.
It's called "Flash." Look into it.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can
:) I think the ultimate stopping point of development on emacs is going to be when the emacs hackers sit down to make improvements in the program, and the program ends up responding, "I wouldn't do that if I were you, Dave"
Yep, that's one of those quasi-funny computer "laws" that actually has a very disheartening core of truth to it. Of course some programs such as emacs expanded until they could read mail and then kept going
Here's another one of those informal computer laws that's ha-ha funny...but serious:
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming:
"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."
-- Truth goes out the door when rumor comes innuendo. -- Groucho Marx
Rockford Files, been a long time since I seen that.