If IBM wants to give Linux (and other Free/Open Software) a real kick in the pants they can do one thing: Get Mozilla out there Do whatever it takes--lend some programmers, delete all Bugzilla entries labelled "enhancement", hire some hit-men to kill the current managers, whatever.
If IBM were to throw developers at Mozilla would it really speed things up? It might just make things chaotic and unorganized, thus slowing development. To tell you the truth I would really like to see Mozilla without the email reader, or news reader or any of that other crap that I don't use and be a pure web browser. Molog
KDE 2.0 (still in beta) has features TODAY that the Gnome guys are TALKING ABOUT ADDING AT SOME UNSPECIFIED TIME IN THE FUTURE.
Not to be too pissy, but what features are you talking about? Could you please give some examples of what you mean and maybe some links to both projects to confirm this? Molog
Wow, that would be sinking to a new level of self-interest. Would you even feel an iota of guilt in using the legitimate interests of handicapped people to further your own bogus "anonymous shopping" goal? What's next, maybe a set of handicapped tags so you can park for free, which will further your vague notion of sticking it to the parking people? You make me sick.
It might be to further his interests but it could still benefit those with disabilities all the same. He wasn't asking for special privileges. He just didn't want to give out as much info. You make it sound like he is trying shaft everyone when that isn't how I took it. If his actions would help those with sight problems then good for him. This is not at all the same as getting handicapped tags as that is a privilege that is reserved for those who have a handicap. And to quote "Real Genius," there are plenty of decaffeinated brands on the market that taste just as good as regular. Molog
He was some guy who came on here using the name of some programmer in Australia to make him look bad, I forgot the name, and said he was the lead programmer of some game company called J-J-J-Julius. Basically he said a lot of crap that didn't mean anything and any time anyone questioned him or anything he said, his response would be along the lines of "When you make as much money as I do I will then dignify you with an answer!" I remember one time I wanted to know what games he had worked on and told me if I wanted to find out I could pay him his normally contracting rate because he charged people for interviews. Just answering you question, not comparing you to a stupid troll. Molog
As noted in another post there is prior art as early as 1993 in the Next community that uses tabbed widgets. It looks like these designers didn't design jack shit. Shit is obvious. Brains are obvious. Shit for Brains is not obvious. Molog
SCO does cost an arm and a leg. So does Solaris. OSX is cheaper than both of those
Hmm, I was able to get a CD with SCO on it for $15 and I was also able to get a CD with Solaris for Intel for $20. My cost for SCO + Solaris is $35. OSX is $99 which I can't get yet. So much for your cost compairison... Wait you said that it costs an arm and a leg and I still have both arms and both legs so your estimate must be way off. Of course I was able to get Solaris for non commercial use and you might be comparing to the full price. Molog
What about the fact that artists have to pay back their promotion fees and production fees? Some bands are in deep debt becuase they didn't hit it big and so had to pay all that money back. Can you explain that? Molog
If I produce something that people find valuable, then I WILL be compensated fairly and I WILL make a living, better or worse based on the "value" of the product, be it a technique, a chemical, or whatever.
Chances are you will be working for some company when you work on this. Chances are you signed an agreement with them that if you come up with anything, anything at all and they own it. Chances are they will be compensated unfairly and you will see a raise that is just enough to buy an extra cup of coffee in the morning. It won't be your product, it will be theirs. Molog
Well I use it to decode the DVD vob to my hard drive, then run a converter to mpeg format, and then I watch the movie. I am well within my rights as I own the DVD that I'm decoding and watching.
If the DeCSS people had never published it, these people probably wouldn't have found the decryption algorithm, correct? So they're all essentially DeCSS offshoots.
For your info, speed ripper was out long before DeCSS was. In fact the code for DeCSS was not originally available but then the css-auth code came out. I do not think that they are all DeCSS offshoots and I would love to see you prove it. If DeCSS and css-auth have no practical purpose, what about its role in LiViD? Molog
As another person noted, your day is spent waiting for an enemy to spawn so that you can raise your level just one more time. Or you can do a frivolous quest, in which you are given little or no information on what to do or a hint of what to do and then if you do complete it, there is no pay off. Maybe some xp, or some items but it is really done just to hear the noise after completing the quest. No story line, nothing to do. Then if a game bug does show up, like for example I was playing one time when the zone crashed and when I came back my inventory was empty and I had some great items like a ghoulsbane. The GMs told me that they couldn't do anything even if it was a game bug. They also treat you with contempt. I was attacked through a stone wall by a frog one time and reported it as a bug. They told me that it wasn't a bug. I asked them if this was expected behavior for the game and the designers wanted it that way and they said no so I told them it was a bug. Ok now I'm just angry and in rant mode. Either way Verant has lost me for ever and ever. Episode I was not too bad in my opinion. It could have been aimed at a more mature audience but I didn't hate it either. Molog
Warning to those who don't want to read about Christian theology.
What is the matter with On the Origin of Species? Darwin was actually a Christian man. I assume that you are speaking from the stand point of a Christian person. There seems to be two factions of Christians these days. Those like me who say that evolution might have happened (in fact I believe that it did) and that it doesn't matter anyway as long as you believe that it was God's hand that directed the creation. And then there are those who stick to a strict adherence to the Genesis account of creation even though many of the leading Christian scholars feel that it is not historically accurate(I suggest getting a hold of some of Dr. Tasjian's work). In fact Darwin only proposed micro evolution not mega. Do you even know anything about evolution? That is one thing that really concerns me is that if more Christians actually learned about what they were criticizing that they would be less likely to do so. I suggest that you study some of the current theologians out there today and see what their thoughts are on this. By the way, don't read anything by Dobson. He is a moron and many in the more learned of the Christian community feel that his teachings are not based on the Bible but his own opinions.
Again sorry to everyone else for the religious discussion here but I wanted to clear something up. Molog
Excuse me but what do you mean by moral families? I think I know where you are coming from but you write this as if to say "I am moral and all of you are not!" I know this is a troll and I shouldn't respond but really now. Let me guess. Tolkien's books were filled with magic so they were bad. How about C. S. Lewis? Copious nudity? Where? I guess I need to watch that again. Impudence of a boy refusing to go to bed? Gee, that never happens in real life. First of all I think your kids are a little bit more exposed to the dark side of humanity then you give them credit for if they are in the public school system. The most dark days of my life where when I was in school. You can only protect your children for so long before they have to make their own choices. Protecting them too much now can actually harm them later down the line. In the end they will be the person they choose to be not you. Molog
Lukas probably played Everquest, saw how boring it was, how bad the administration treats the players and came to the conclusion that going with Verant would ruin his good name. Kudos for George. Yes I am biased. I played EQ for a while and I got so fed up with everything that I moved on. Molog
Just read that. Basically the Judge has already found the defendants guilty. He doesn't give a rat's ass about constitutionality. This case has already been lost. Anyone who doesn't believe this need only check out the above link. Hopefully the appeals will go to the Supreme Court and they might over turn this but I am very afraid that the MPAA with all the money it commands owns them too. Molog
What can be done now? Wait for a loss and then appeal? Kaplan has had it in for 2600 since the beginning. Just look at the transcripts of what has taken place so far. Molog
But the version of Star Office that Sun puts under the GPL initially will always be under the GPL and a fork can take place correct? In this case if Sun closes it off, then the last version that was GPL'd can continue under new revisions and Sun would have no control of this fork. Molog
The article did bring up a good point that not much ground breaking stuff is made by the Open Source/Free Software community. What there needs to be more of is pure R&D done. I know RedHat has their "lab" but they seem to do more work on GTK and GNOME then actual work into new stuff. Can this be done in the university or do companies like RedHat, Mandrake or Corel need to be involved. Unless we make some cool cutting edge stuff we will always be playing catch up. If there are new things coming out by OSS authors then I would love to see links as it would be very exciting to get involved with =) Molog
My total cholestrol was 110 last time I had it taken. I also run in excess of 80 miles a week with a few months where I go up to 100. My biggest problem is not getting enough calories sometimes so I have to stuff myself. Molog
I bet that he has to really pay attention to what he eats to make sure that he gets the right amounts of nutrients so that he can continue to perform at a high level. I never said you couldn't eat well as a vegetarian, it is just that it is harder then being an omnivore. There are high school student athletes who, after trying anyway, eat a vegetarian diet only to get anemia or develop severe health problems because they didn't get the proper nutrients their diet needed. If people are going to be vegetarians they definitely need to consult a book or nutritionist first, and I think that the vegetarians here would agree with me on that. Molog
Hmm, I was coming from a different point of view and I probably should have made that clear. I am a distance runner and ran on scholarship for the University I attended so most of my nutritional knowledge comes from eating a diet geared for an extremely active individual probably very similar to the Carl Lewis example. For someone who requires that amount of extra nutrition to perform at high levels of athleticism my original point stands, but maybe not for the average Joe Blow. When you run 100 miles a week you need to get a hell of a lot of calories and also make sure you are getting other nutrients. Molog
You can be a vegetarian, or vegan, and eat a healthy diet, but it is a royal pain in the ass. In order to get the correct protein, iron, zinc, and everything else that we normally get in meat products you need to consume many different types of vegetables or you need to take vitamin supplements, but that isn't as healthy as getting the proper sustenance from eating food. The simple fact is, it is easier to have a proper diet eating meat because you don't have to look far and wide for the non animal alternatives that will have what you need, and it is cheaper then some of the foods you would need. Do I eat meat even though animals suffer to bring it to me? Yes. Suffering is life and animals and humans will always suffer in some way. I'm going to go have a steak now. Molog
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If IBM were to throw developers at Mozilla would it really speed things up? It might just make things chaotic and unorganized, thus slowing development. To tell you the truth I would really like to see Mozilla without the email reader, or news reader or any of that other crap that I don't use and be a pure web browser.
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
Not to be too pissy, but what features are you talking about? Could you please give some examples of what you mean and maybe some links to both projects to confirm this?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
It might be to further his interests but it could still benefit those with disabilities all the same. He wasn't asking for special privileges. He just didn't want to give out as much info. You make it sound like he is trying shaft everyone when that isn't how I took it. If his actions would help those with sight problems then good for him. This is not at all the same as getting handicapped tags as that is a privilege that is reserved for those who have a handicap. And to quote "Real Genius," there are plenty of decaffeinated brands on the market that taste just as good as regular.
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
SCO does cost an arm and a leg. So does Solaris. OSX is cheaper than both of those
Hmm, I was able to get a CD with SCO on it for $15 and I was also able to get a CD with Solaris for Intel for $20. My cost for SCO + Solaris is $35. OSX is $99 which I can't get yet. So much for your cost compairison... Wait you said that it costs an arm and a leg and I still have both arms and both legs so your estimate must be way off. Of course I was able to get Solaris for non commercial use and you might be comparing to the full price.
Molog
So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
Chances are you will be working for some company when you work on this. Chances are you signed an agreement with them that if you come up with anything, anything at all and they own it. Chances are they will be compensated unfairly and you will see a raise that is just enough to buy an extra cup of coffee in the morning. It won't be your product, it will be theirs.
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
Well then, what is it used for?
Well I use it to decode the DVD vob to my hard drive, then run a converter to mpeg format, and then I watch the movie. I am well within my rights as I own the DVD that I'm decoding and watching.
If the DeCSS people had never published it, these people probably wouldn't have found the decryption algorithm, correct? So they're all essentially DeCSS offshoots.
For your info, speed ripper was out long before DeCSS was. In fact the code for DeCSS was not originally available but then the css-auth code came out. I do not think that they are all DeCSS offshoots and I would love to see you prove it. If DeCSS and css-auth have no practical purpose, what about its role in LiViD?
Molog
So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
What is the matter with On the Origin of Species? Darwin was actually a Christian man. I assume that you are speaking from the stand point of a Christian person. There seems to be two factions of Christians these days. Those like me who say that evolution might have happened (in fact I believe that it did) and that it doesn't matter anyway as long as you believe that it was God's hand that directed the creation. And then there are those who stick to a strict adherence to the Genesis account of creation even though many of the leading Christian scholars feel that it is not historically accurate(I suggest getting a hold of some of Dr. Tasjian's work). In fact Darwin only proposed micro evolution not mega. Do you even know anything about evolution? That is one thing that really concerns me is that if more Christians actually learned about what they were criticizing that they would be less likely to do so. I suggest that you study some of the current theologians out there today and see what their thoughts are on this. By the way, don't read anything by Dobson. He is a moron and many in the more learned of the Christian community feel that his teachings are not based on the Bible but his own opinions.
Again sorry to everyone else for the religious discussion here but I wanted to clear something up.
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?