GPL is based on copyright which is automatic. Patents are not automatic, so you need to patent your invention, and worry about (free) licensing afterwards. If you wanted something more BSD-like, publish without patenting.
I'm curious why you don't just use IMAP with gmail?
Gmail has the dubious honor of being the least shit webmail in the whole history of shitty webmail. But if you're on your desktop machine anyway, why not use a local application which is already wired into the notification system? Seriously, "cloud stuff" seems to be about making solved problems more convoluted for no gain.
I like "close to how I set things up anyway", so that I don't have to fight against stupid defaults all the time. Purge evolution, purge empathy, install thunderbird, install pidgin. Done. That was the appeal of Ubuntu.
Though they've jumped the shark with unity, so... I'll switch to Debian now I guess.
OPs karma whoring, ad nauseum statement is no more insightful this time, than the last thousand times it's been posted.
Services are products. Facebook provides a social networking service to it's users (customers), at a zero price point. It also provides advertising space to advertisers (customers).
You don't need OPs warped definition to explain away why facebook treats its users so badly. Facebook is simply run by assholes.
Why does this SHITE always get posted? For a dating site, would you say the women are the product, and the men are the customers? No, they are both customers, just not equal due to the pricing structure.
Facebook is structured like any agency, with two products, facing two different sets of customers.
China's censorship is far from all powerful. It's as leaky as a sieve, and that's is good enough.
Most people WILL use their ISPs DNS, so when the censorship extends even further, and it will, your fellow electorate will be fully stupefied by it. Is this something to ignore?
In future, all screens will be touchscreen, even your main PC monitor. The major breakthrough was the self-lubricating touchscreen. It's naturally oily, and hypo-allergenic, requiring no cleaning.
Of course, the mouse driven paradigm needed to be scrapped completely, in favour of a adult finger-painting gesture system. Mod someone down on slashdot? There's a gesture for that. There's an intuitive gesture for absolutely everything. Just install the gesture localization pack.
True, I can't find any of my LOCAL applications any more, but that's fine because I can just google for them, and they'll turn up some place. It's going to be a good future.
Slashdot Mirror
By what criteria are you saying that Stack Overflow is the same tier as Yahoo answers, but eHow and ExpertSexchange are content farms?
Yahoo answers is borderline retarded. I've seen better quality questions and answers on 4chan.
Does blu ray really reach the definition of "accepted by the public" though?
GPL is based on copyright which is automatic.
Patents are not automatic, so you need to patent your invention, and worry about (free) licensing afterwards.
If you wanted something more BSD-like, publish without patenting.
I'm curious why you don't just use IMAP with gmail?
Gmail has the dubious honor of being the least shit webmail in the whole history of shitty webmail. But if you're on your desktop machine anyway, why not use a local application which is already wired into the notification system?
Seriously, "cloud stuff" seems to be about making solved problems more convoluted for no gain.
I like "close to how I set things up anyway", so that I don't have to fight against stupid defaults all the time. Purge evolution, purge empathy, install thunderbird, install pidgin. Done. That was the appeal of Ubuntu.
Though they've jumped the shark with unity, so ... I'll switch to Debian now I guess.
You just have to laugh when the "Apple is being monopolistic", or "Apple is being evil" stories roll.
They are the antithesis of FOSS, and geeks shouldn't give them the time of day.
Careful, you'll have the bitcoin cultists, and federal reserve conspiracy nuts after you. And they have mod points.
OPs karma whoring, ad nauseum statement is no more insightful this time, than the last thousand times it's been posted.
Services are products. Facebook provides a social networking service to it's users (customers), at a zero price point. It also provides advertising space to advertisers (customers).
You don't need OPs warped definition to explain away why facebook treats its users so badly. Facebook is simply run by assholes.
Why does this SHITE always get posted?
For a dating site, would you say the women are the product, and the men are the customers?
No, they are both customers, just not equal due to the pricing structure.
Facebook is structured like any agency, with two products, facing two different sets of customers.
That isn't going to happen. Didn't you notice that bitcoin has it's own slashdot icon?
These slashvertisments are here to stay.
Keep hyping that ponzi scheme.
Yeah illegal. ... in real life.
It's not a technical shortcoming of facebook's that you can't compartmentalize your presence, like we do
This is valid grammar 2.0
If your Content Management software requires A book to learn how to use it, it's an epic fail.
When my government asks me to 'like' it on facebook, then it's time for the revolution.
Just drop vanity sizing.
These are secret police
http://apple.slashdot.org/
China's censorship is far from all powerful. It's as leaky as a sieve, and that's is good enough.
Most people WILL use their ISPs DNS, so when the censorship extends even further, and it will, your fellow electorate will be fully stupefied by it.
Is this something to ignore?
No. The only fix is to wrap your entire Macbook in black electrical tape. You never know which holes, or indeed surfaces are spying on you.
In future, all screens will be touchscreen, even your main PC monitor. The major breakthrough was the self-lubricating touchscreen. It's naturally oily, and hypo-allergenic, requiring no cleaning.
Of course, the mouse driven paradigm needed to be scrapped completely, in favour of a adult finger-painting gesture system. Mod someone down on slashdot? There's a gesture for that. There's an intuitive gesture for absolutely everything. Just install the gesture localization pack.
True, I can't find any of my LOCAL applications any more, but that's fine because I can just google for them, and they'll turn up some place.
It's going to be a good future.
An unordained repairman tried to fix a mac?
It was the tying to the OS that was the problem.
Don't want to regularly update a browser? Don't HAVE a browser.
According to my research, 90% of the people listed in the phone directory are pirates, with a high degree of certainty.
The rest are ninjas.
I develop a clippy-like silverlight app for searching bing and ...