But MS promised its customers that it would support NT until either this summer or early next year (I think there was some confusion about that). Its not about age its about what MS says they are going to do. Its nothing new that MS breaks promises but it is amazing to me that so many companies and individuals blatently pander to them even after this kind of crap.
While I agree that it is probably pointless I would at least like to try it. However according the their specs not even Win 2000 is supported. XP or nothing. IE or nothing. Maybe Mac in 2004. Come on people! Okay I can understand only supporting windows. But only one version? And how about supporting standards complient browsers? Even IE 6 almost falls into that category.
Oh well I guess they didn't read the numbers of people using XP I doubt There will here too long.
Yes nothing more innovative than that 1337 Paperclip. Oh I forgot Office is so easy to use that he's out of a job. Like how easy it is to get it to stop putting in numbered lists after you've started one.. and how easy it is to get it to start a new one at "1" if you have another one in the document (even if its 30 pages up). How innovative and awesome the power of Office which always presumes to know what I'm doing and writting. Yes Office is so cool.
Thanks but I'll use OO even on Windows where Office is availiable. I can't stand Office's autocorrect "features" I like thinking for myself. Finally an office program that stays out of the way.
Unfortunatly I'm going to have to take a far more cynical view. To most people all there is is MS products. The few people that do remember other web browsers remember that Netscape can't do what IE can do so it sucks. Most people don't realize that something else exists.
People buy what the CompUSA, BestBuy, insert-electronic-store-here salesperson tells them to buy, that will be Windows until the hardware manufacturers realize it would be in their best interests to stop supporting MS and the electronic stores decided they want to sell something besides windows.
While I agree with most of your post the idea that we shouldn't care about people who don't use KDE or GNOME because they are a small minority is a very dangerous attitude to hold. Linux and XFree for that matter have always been about configurability, even if there aren't that many people who choose to use something else these days they should still have that choice. I mean by that logic we should all be running Windows because that's what the majority runs, right?
I guess my opinion comes from the fact that I'm very happy with BlackBox, run it at home because I have an old machine and KDE or GNOME is just too much bloat for it. But I like it so much that I run it at work even though I have a decent machine. I do want a unified desktop but I will really rejoice the day that my apps look and act the same no matter what window manager I use!
Just like the US is far from a "Christian" nation Iraq is far from being a "Muslim" nation.
Not that I think that war is a good idea, just thought I'd point out that its not a religious conflict. In fact I think now its mostly about re-electing Bush, and power hungry military officials trying not to look like idiots. Sort of the "We couldn't find illegal weapons but they're still there because we're never wrong!"
Your rant doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I don't think the problem is that people think that SPAM shouldn't be regulated, (okay maybe a tiny minority), its not regulated because there is no way to do so. I see very little SPAM that doesn't have forged headers or that didn't come through an open relay.
We don't need new laws. The SPAM is already illegal. You can't enforce a NO SPAM list because a) spammers are difficult to track anyway and b) even if they weren't there is nothing finacially or otherwise preventing them from re-routing their SPAM through international servers.
That said I think a lot of the filtering software misses the point. Its not as difficult to find the owners of open relays. I really think that we should go after ISPs that knowingly or not have open relays. Easier to track than the spammer himself and if you get the open relays you stop a whole lot of spam right away.
As for overseas sites, maybe thats where we need treaties and insentives for foriegn governments to crack down on said open relays (I know it will never happen). In the meantime that's where filtering is a good idea.
I seriously hope you are kidding. Perl provides documentation right at my finger tips on the command line (and other help files espeically on windows). Try typing 'man perl' to see how many different man pages will show up directing you to the correct man page for your specific need.
Also if you want information on a specific function perldoc -f . (I believe a previous poster mentioned that).
Plus if you are on the web there are tons of resources all over the place. My favorite is http://perlmonks.org/ and if you want something like PHP.net there is http://perldoc.com/
Contrast that to PHP.net. I'm a programmer, and my job required me to learn PHP. No resources are availiable except for PHP.net. Finding specific info on PHP.net is a nightmare unless you know the name of the function you're looking for. There is no 'man php' that will give a good list and a description. Couple that with the fact that PHP has so many useless functions for such specific tags (come on haven't you people heard of regexes) it makes it very difficult to learn quickly.
Its really too bad because Perl5's @_ is really a great thing once you get used to it. You don't have to explicitly define what you're going to pass, you can pass as many arguments as you want.
I haven't read the whole thing yet but I certainly will be upset if @_ goes away.
I agree on one level but not on another. I use both KDE and GNOME apps under Blackbox I would *really* like to have a common theme system so that no matter what the underlying widget system, it all looks the same. Sure I can go change the GTK theme and then go change the QT theme and then change my bbstyle so that they all look the same, but its a pain. I have to go three places to make what should be a simple change.
I'd like to see a convergence where you have 'Linux Desktop' and you have a nice little area where you can pick the menu-style, window-style, theme-style, widget-style. Maybe in the background it runs KDE or Gnome, whatever, I want my choices I just want them seemlessly integrated into an overall system. And I want to stop having 3 different looks and feels to my apps.
Not that I think there are a bunch of Linux weilding grandma's out there, but I personally am glad that Linux has reached a point where we don't feel like we have to upgrade every other week. I mean isn't that the complaint most of us have about MS?
Its great that we can upgrade, and compile from source if we want to. But not everyone has the time to do it for every minor release of the kernel. For us we trust the distros to provide what's needed.
Child porn is not free speech. The child cannot make 'adult' descisions about sexual acts (at least they shouldn't have to). And before someone argues that photoshopping images to make it is okay. I argue that its not, what if that image with that person's face on it gets out. That person's rights were still violated if he or she is stigmatised for the image even though it wasn't really them.
Child porn is not free speech because it violates the rights of the child.
I have points and its so very tempting to simply mod you down into oblivion. However I'd just like to make a point very clear:
Christians (even conservative ones) are not ashamed of sexuality.
Let me repeat that for those of you who didn't understand
Christians are not ashamed of sexuality.
We do however have beliefs regarding it (sanctity of marriage, etc) Some believe that it is a private matter that shouldn't be discussed publicly.. this is their right, that doesn't mean they are ashamed of it.
And for the record I who is probably considered a "conservative Christian" find the snow penis to be quite funny.
Who modded this interesting? That article was nothing but FUD and FUD that's nearly a year and a half old at that. From the article "Its okay that Linux doesn't make it easier to change hardware because Linux is only used in cheap consumer devices that people throw away." Give me a break! Hardware detection has been around in serveral distros long before 2001. The article assumes that Linux development has just stagnated and MS are the only company to innovate and that the only reason that the world uses Windows is Bill Gates glorious vision of a computer on every desktop. FUD FUD FUD
I have a friend who had a program called 'decss' which removed CSS tags from a webpage, hosted on a University computer. The MPAA emailed the University with a threat of legal action if the program wasn't removed. Really quite humorous.
I disagree, these bots are made to parse language and make sense out of it. They can be (if people think outside the realm of IRC bots) important research in developing a conversational interface to a computer or robot.
Not true. The GPL spits in the face of tradition software licenses such as those by Microsoft that seek to take away more rights than would traditional copyright.
Copyright law is pretty straight forward, you can make legitimate copies for your own personal use, you just can't distribute those copies. Most software companies want laws that force you to buy a copy for every person and every computer you use it on. (Same thing with music and movie industrys)
GPL gives you the right to distribute so long as you give away the source and the source to any modifications made. If you don't agree with the GPL then you can still use the software under traditional copyright law. You just wouldn't be able to distribute it.
Humans are far from perfect, why should we try to put God in a box and say he can only work one way? Or say that evolution isn't perfect when we don't know his master plan?
Not meant as a flame to you either. Number one problem with people in church: putting God in a box.
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But MS promised its customers that it would support NT until either this summer or early next year (I think there was some confusion about that). Its not about age its about what MS says they are going to do. Its nothing new that MS breaks promises but it is amazing to me that so many companies and individuals blatently pander to them even after this kind of crap.
Sweet! I thought my former roomate and I were the only two people in the world to actually see that. Now there are three!
Great flick by the way.
While I agree that it is probably pointless I would at least like to try it. However according the their specs not even Win 2000 is supported. XP or nothing. IE or nothing. Maybe Mac in 2004. Come on people! Okay I can understand only supporting windows. But only one version? And how about supporting standards complient browsers? Even IE 6 almost falls into that category.
Oh well I guess they didn't read the numbers of people using XP I doubt There will here too long.
Yes nothing more innovative than that 1337 Paperclip. Oh I forgot Office is so easy to use that he's out of a job. Like how easy it is to get it to stop putting in numbered lists after you've started one.. and how easy it is to get it to start a new one at "1" if you have another one in the document (even if its 30 pages up). How innovative and awesome the power of Office which always presumes to know what I'm doing and writting. Yes Office is so cool.
Thanks but I'll use OO even on Windows where Office is availiable. I can't stand Office's autocorrect "features" I like thinking for myself. Finally an office program that stays out of the way.
Unfortunatly I'm going to have to take a far more cynical view. To most people all there is is MS products. The few people that do remember other web browsers remember that Netscape can't do what IE can do so it sucks. Most people don't realize that something else exists.
People buy what the CompUSA, BestBuy, insert-electronic-store-here salesperson tells them to buy, that will be Windows until the hardware manufacturers realize it would be in their best interests to stop supporting MS and the electronic stores decided they want to sell something besides windows.
While I agree with most of your post the idea that we shouldn't care about people who don't use KDE or GNOME because they are a small minority is a very dangerous attitude to hold. Linux and XFree for that matter have always been about configurability, even if there aren't that many people who choose to use something else these days they should still have that choice. I mean by that logic we should all be running Windows because that's what the majority runs, right?
I guess my opinion comes from the fact that I'm very happy with BlackBox, run it at home because I have an old machine and KDE or GNOME is just too much bloat for it. But I like it so much that I run it at work even though I have a decent machine. I do want a unified desktop but I will really rejoice the day that my apps look and act the same no matter what window manager I use!
Don't feel bad, I often hit ESC :w while typing in word :)
There already is a Linux Port you can buy it here
Just like the US is far from a "Christian" nation Iraq is far from being a "Muslim" nation.
Not that I think that war is a good idea, just thought I'd point out that its not a religious conflict. In fact I think now its mostly about re-electing Bush, and power hungry military officials trying not to look like idiots. Sort of the "We couldn't find illegal weapons but they're still there because we're never wrong!"
No, people who twist religion into their own agenda fund terrorism and promote it.
Funny your statement sort of does that. Are you promoting terrorism against people who have faith?
Your rant doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I don't think the problem is that people think that SPAM shouldn't be regulated, (okay maybe a tiny minority), its not regulated because there is no way to do so. I see very little SPAM that doesn't have forged headers or that didn't come through an open relay.
We don't need new laws. The SPAM is already illegal. You can't enforce a NO SPAM list because a) spammers are difficult to track anyway and b) even if they weren't there is nothing finacially or otherwise preventing them from re-routing their SPAM through international servers.
That said I think a lot of the filtering software misses the point. Its not as difficult to find the owners of open relays. I really think that we should go after ISPs that knowingly or not have open relays. Easier to track than the spammer himself and if you get the open relays you stop a whole lot of spam right away.
As for overseas sites, maybe thats where we need treaties and insentives for foriegn governments to crack down on said open relays (I know it will never happen). In the meantime that's where filtering is a good idea.
Actually its 37.4
Okay sorry, shameless plug mode off.
I seriously hope you are kidding. Perl provides documentation right at my finger tips on the command line (and other help files espeically on windows). Try typing 'man perl' to see how many different man pages will show up directing you to the correct man page for your specific need.
Also if you want information on a specific function perldoc -f . (I believe a previous poster mentioned that).
Plus if you are on the web there are tons of resources all over the place. My favorite is http://perlmonks.org/ and if you want something like PHP.net there is http://perldoc.com/
Contrast that to PHP.net. I'm a programmer, and my job required me to learn PHP. No resources are availiable except for PHP.net. Finding specific info on PHP.net is a nightmare unless you know the name of the function you're looking for. There is no 'man php' that will give a good list and a description. Couple that with the fact that PHP has so many useless functions for such specific tags (come on haven't you people heard of regexes) it makes it very difficult to learn quickly.
IMHO of course.
Its really too bad because Perl5's @_ is really a great thing once you get used to it. You don't have to explicitly define what you're going to pass, you can pass as many arguments as you want.
I haven't read the whole thing yet but I certainly will be upset if @_ goes away.
I agree on one level but not on another. I use both KDE and GNOME apps under Blackbox I would *really* like to have a common theme system so that no matter what the underlying widget system, it all looks the same. Sure I can go change the GTK theme and then go change the QT theme and then change my bbstyle so that they all look the same, but its a pain. I have to go three places to make what should be a simple change.
I'd like to see a convergence where you have 'Linux Desktop' and you have a nice little area where you can pick the menu-style, window-style, theme-style, widget-style. Maybe in the background it runs KDE or Gnome, whatever, I want my choices I just want them seemlessly integrated into an overall system. And I want to stop having 3 different looks and feels to my apps.
Not that I think there are a bunch of Linux weilding grandma's out there, but I personally am glad that Linux has reached a point where we don't feel like we have to upgrade every other week. I mean isn't that the complaint most of us have about MS?
Its great that we can upgrade, and compile from source if we want to. But not everyone has the time to do it for every minor release of the kernel. For us we trust the distros to provide what's needed.
If 2.2 works for some people, why not keep it?
Child porn is not free speech. The child cannot make 'adult' descisions about sexual acts (at least they shouldn't have to). And before someone argues that photoshopping images to make it is okay. I argue that its not, what if that image with that person's face on it gets out. That person's rights were still violated if he or she is stigmatised for the image even though it wasn't really them.
Child porn is not free speech because it violates the rights of the child.
I have points and its so very tempting to simply mod you down into oblivion. However I'd just like to make a point very clear:
.. this is their right, that doesn't mean they are ashamed of it.
Christians (even conservative ones) are not ashamed of sexuality.
Let me repeat that for those of you who didn't understand
Christians are not ashamed of sexuality.
We do however have beliefs regarding it (sanctity of marriage, etc) Some believe that it is a private matter that shouldn't be discussed publicly
And for the record I who is probably considered a "conservative Christian" find the snow penis to be quite funny.
Who modded this interesting? That article was nothing but FUD and FUD that's nearly a year and a half old at that. From the article "Its okay that Linux doesn't make it easier to change hardware because Linux is only used in cheap consumer devices that people throw away." Give me a break! Hardware detection has been around in serveral distros long before 2001. The article assumes that Linux development has just stagnated and MS are the only company to innovate and that the only reason that the world uses Windows is Bill Gates glorious vision of a computer on every desktop. FUD FUD FUD
Why?
Gimp and CinePaint will work just fine with KDE.
I have a friend who had a program called 'decss' which removed CSS tags from a webpage, hosted on a University computer. The MPAA emailed the University with a threat of legal action if the program wasn't removed. Really quite humorous.
I disagree, these bots are made to parse language and make sense out of it. They can be (if people think outside the realm of IRC bots) important research in developing a conversational interface to a computer or robot.
Not true. The GPL spits in the face of tradition software licenses such as those by Microsoft that seek to take away more rights than would traditional copyright.
Copyright law is pretty straight forward, you can make legitimate copies for your own personal use, you just can't distribute those copies. Most software companies want laws that force you to buy a copy for every person and every computer you use it on. (Same thing with music and movie industrys)
GPL gives you the right to distribute so long as you give away the source and the source to any modifications made. If you don't agree with the GPL then you can still use the software under traditional copyright law. You just wouldn't be able to distribute it.
Very nicely said, Most (claiming to be Christian) adults need to hear number 3.
Humans are far from perfect, why should we try to put God in a box and say he can only work one way? Or say that evolution isn't perfect when we don't know his master plan?
Not meant as a flame to you either. Number one problem with people in church: putting God in a box.