Let me get this straight? You think Mozilla should use this as an opportunity to educate users in planned obsolescence? Hell, maybe they can learn something from Microsoft's Office marketing team...
Think of it this way. If Apple came out with a new iHeart would you have surgery to replace your perfectly functioning heart with an artificial one just so you can play mp3s?
Apple's marketing department thought about that long and hard. Then they shrugged and acknowledged that the risk was too great. If they killed off their nosiest fanboys in a mishap, where would they be then? There's not much of a future selling iTunes off bottlecaps from Pepsi bottles.
Copper theft is NOT at record highs. The price of copper has plummeted. I have a bunch of copper scrap that I didn't sell when I should have. Now I am going to wait for the 'long haul' though and sell it years from now.
Regulation and Central Planning work, as long as you ignore the 20th century's history of Central Planning and Regulation. Witness the USSR. A paragon of Central Planning and Regulation.
It probably makes me anti-social, but I really could care less what the other students think of me when I take a class. I'm going to ask the question in the lecture, whether or not it will be on Friday's test.
You see, I'm a nerd, and into what's being taught. You're one of those people who spends his time worrying about what other people think of you.
It's important for people like to to be pissed off. Think of it as your fate.
Assigning IRQs is essentially obsolete now, though. And using a laplink parallel cable is cool, and I made my own back in the day and used it heavily, but it's also generally obsolete now. I collect vintage hardware and software so I find it interesting, but in the professional world it's not in high demand. Computers are just information appliances now for the most part.
I'm planning on building an embedded controller to ISA interface before too long, to be able to program PIC controllers and attach old sound cards to them. So IRQs, port address ranges, etc, will again become relevant to me (I have a big box of old sound cards, and the jumperless variety are pretty useless)
Copyright doesn't cover story or character ideas anyway.
That's true. But this issue concerns an explicitly worded contract regarding derivative works based on Ellison's characters. Not generic copyright law.
You're probably right. I should be able to come up with a new chemical formulation for paper and for ink. Then I'll strike it rich, since I can republish everything in print, and sell it in my special bookstores. And roll in the gold coins in my vault. In my hideaway beneath the inactive volcano.
The red uniforms were landing party security. It wasn't color coded for 'those who will die' so much as the fact that security on landing parties often were the ones taken out by the aliens.
It's exciting to see someone like you leveling criticism on Harlan. What makes it the most exciting is that you're apparently an undiscovered great writer. So tell us, since you're qualified to lay that heavy prounouncement down on Ellison: where do we buy your book?
It's a short story, not a book. Ellison is a master of the short story. He's written some longer fiction, but his genius is in the format of the short story.
I use an RCA player. It was $20 at Frys (but not in the same section of the store as the iPods) and has provision to plug in SD cards.
I figure the faddish fools should buy the Apple product, and I'll stick to what works as well or better for my purposes. Some people need flash and bling in their lives. It is a bit disappointing that they've joined us here at Slashdot.
In my personal experience, the place was full of sharpie sales clerks with an attitude. I was treated like a freak when I went in there wanting a USB to RS-232 adapter. It was like 'who would want something like that?'
I've detested Stereo Store Salesmen since I was a young teen, wanting connectors and what-not. Particularly because I always know more than them. And that's basically what Circuit City was packed with. Hucksters with an attitude.
Maybe he's talking about MacOS 7.5.3 and the command prompt you can get in classic MacOS if you install Gnu Emacs and do a ' X shell' to get the command prompt.
(yes- a command prompt reachable on MacOS 7)
I have a mind the flips to the opposite automatically. I hear 'finder' and automatically think 'loser' for some reason....
I want one with 'Godwin's Law only applies to USENET' printed on it. All of the threads Godwin's law apply to are at least 2 or 3 weeks long. More likely months long.
Are you even old enough to remember the USENET flame culture?
What makes Seamonkey so powerful, that you can't do with Eclipse/Visual Studio/EMACS/vi/notepad++?
You apparently just scanned a little bit of what I typed.
With Seamonkey, you can be browsing along on a site. You find some formatted content that you decide you want to grab a section of and save.
Highlight the table/picture/whatever section that you want. Open up a composer window. Drag the highlighted content into the composer window. Do whatever fine touchup you want. Save the html file.
Now, I suppose you can use 'view source' to pull up the HTML and copy it into Emacs if that's your thing. But you missed my point apparently.
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Let me get this straight? You think Mozilla should use this as an opportunity to educate users in planned obsolescence? Hell, maybe they can learn something from Microsoft's Office marketing team...
Maybe they can talk to Ballmer and move the whole Mozilla team right onto the Redmond campus.
Why the h*ll would an Aero theme be a priority???
Meh. The only place you'll run FORTRAN is on Super Computers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
How is that relevant to grandparent's job writing hot new web apps at Pizza Hut?
It says something about your limited experience regarding this COBOL Way you speak of.
Think of it this way. If Apple came out with a new iHeart would you have surgery to replace your perfectly functioning heart with an artificial one just so you can play mp3s?
Apple's marketing department thought about that long and hard. Then they shrugged and acknowledged that the risk was too great. If they killed off their nosiest fanboys in a mishap, where would they be then? There's not much of a future selling iTunes off bottlecaps from Pepsi bottles.
Copper theft is NOT at record highs. The price of copper has plummeted. I have a bunch of copper scrap that I didn't sell when I should have. Now I am going to wait for the 'long haul' though and sell it years from now.
The government backed service will eliminate the market for non-government-backed competitors.
In markets where, presumably, there isn't a competitor today.
Sounds like the worst kind of monopoly. A government-backed one that will own entire regions of the US.
Regulation and Central Planning work, as long as you ignore the 20th century's history of Central Planning and Regulation. Witness the USSR. A paragon of Central Planning and Regulation.
It probably makes me anti-social, but I really could care less what the other students think of me when I take a class. I'm going to ask the question in the lecture, whether or not it will be on Friday's test.
You see, I'm a nerd, and into what's being taught. You're one of those people who spends his time worrying about what other people think of you.
It's important for people like to to be pissed off. Think of it as your fate.
Assigning IRQs is essentially obsolete now, though. And using a laplink parallel cable is cool, and I made my own back in the day and used it heavily, but it's also generally obsolete now. I collect vintage hardware and software so I find it interesting, but in the professional world it's not in high demand. Computers are just information appliances now for the most part.
I'm planning on building an embedded controller to ISA interface before too long, to be able to program PIC controllers and attach old sound cards to them. So IRQs, port address ranges, etc, will again become relevant to me (I have a big box of old sound cards, and the jumperless variety are pretty useless)
We'd all be richer, if he'd do some more writing.
That's kind of the point, in a way.
Not that a bunch of nerds typing on a blog would be able to figure it out.
Copyright doesn't cover story or character ideas anyway.
That's true. But this issue concerns an explicitly worded contract regarding derivative works based on Ellison's characters. Not generic copyright law.
You're probably right. I should be able to come up with a new chemical formulation for paper and for ink. Then I'll strike it rich, since I can republish everything in print, and sell it in my special bookstores. And roll in the gold coins in my vault. In my hideaway beneath the inactive volcano.
Without copyrights the GPL would be unenforceable.
I can't be sure that you're not somebody who opposes the GPL, though....
But in your world, welcome to trade secrets and obfuscation. DRM with actual teeth, I would predict.
The red uniforms were landing party security. It wasn't color coded for 'those who will die' so much as the fact that security on landing parties often were the ones taken out by the aliens.
It's exciting to see someone like you leveling criticism on Harlan. What makes it the most exciting is that you're apparently an undiscovered great writer. So tell us, since you're qualified to lay that heavy prounouncement down on Ellison: where do we buy your book?
It's a short story, not a book. Ellison is a master of the short story. He's written some longer fiction, but his genius is in the format of the short story.
I use an RCA player. It was $20 at Frys (but not in the same section of the store as the iPods) and has provision to plug in SD cards.
I figure the faddish fools should buy the Apple product, and I'll stick to what works as well or better for my purposes. Some people need flash and bling in their lives. It is a bit disappointing that they've joined us here at Slashdot.
Apple is just doing the same sort of stuff that Microsoft has always done, too.
I'm pretty sure that Beethoven, Mozart, et. al. conceived some of their music in dark rooms.
Beethoven conceived some of his best music after he had gone deaf.
In my personal experience, the place was full of sharpie sales clerks with an attitude. I was treated like a freak when I went in there wanting a USB to RS-232 adapter. It was like 'who would want something like that?'
I've detested Stereo Store Salesmen since I was a young teen, wanting connectors and what-not. Particularly because I always know more than them. And that's basically what Circuit City was packed with. Hucksters with an attitude.
Maybe he's talking about MacOS 7.5.3 and the command prompt you can get in classic MacOS if you install Gnu Emacs and do a ' X shell' to get the command prompt.
(yes- a command prompt reachable on MacOS 7)
I have a mind the flips to the opposite automatically. I hear 'finder' and automatically think 'loser' for some reason....
I want one with 'Godwin's Law only applies to USENET' printed on it. All of the threads Godwin's law apply to are at least 2 or 3 weeks long. More likely months long.
Are you even old enough to remember the USENET flame culture?
So what should Microsoft be doing?
They should shut down all further OS development, and throw all their effort at futher and better service packs for W2K and XP.
Really, they've done enough, and just need to focus for the rest of their existence on cleaning up the mess and maintenance.
What makes Seamonkey so powerful, that you can't do with Eclipse/Visual Studio/EMACS/vi/notepad++?
You apparently just scanned a little bit of what I typed.
With Seamonkey, you can be browsing along on a site. You find some formatted content that you decide you want to grab a section of and save.
Highlight the table/picture/whatever section that you want. Open up a composer window. Drag the highlighted content into the composer window. Do whatever fine touchup you want. Save the html file.
Now, I suppose you can use 'view source' to pull up the HTML and copy it into Emacs if that's your thing. But you missed my point apparently.