I don't get you. It's difficult to be simultaneously opposed to Hatch and Jackson, being as they're diametric opposites. I mean, there is more than one dimension to the political spectrum, but Jackson is not a dope, nor an extremist (you'll notice I didn't defend Hatch). So I think you're just trolling.
I don't get how Intel thinks they can still act like a monopoly. Granted, they still have a larger maket share, but they have inferior technology and have done for a generation and a half or so. Given that, do they really think that they can pull tricks like requiring an Intel mobo? They're gonna have problems if people a)can't overclock and b)have to buy Intel for everything, because it's going to cost more and not be as good. plus, the gubmint might have something to say about it at some point. In addition, if it doesn't work, that's a major problem (duh), since AMD is faster, better and cheaper (a la NASA).
How come they don't use PayPal? It's already got a pretty big user base, and it works. Micropayments are a real thing now. With their new payment method, they must be hoping to get a share from the payments to fund the project, instead of being free. Which is fine, but inconvenient.
Actually, you can make the Windows BSOD other colors. You can change the system.ini file thusly:
MessageBackColor=# MessageTextColor=#
where the #s can be replacd with values fropm the following table:
0 = black 1 = blue 2 = green 3 = cyan 4 = red 5 = magenta 6 = yellow/brown 7 = white 8 = gray 9 = bright blue A = bright green B = bright cyan C = bright red D = bright magenta E = bright yellow F = bright white
Yes, you're right. They are better described as artworks. There was a thing several years ago that I heard about and wanted, but never saw, called Gaia, which was just a fractal-based planet which you could explore. However, like I said, I never saw it. If you ask me, such a thing would be really cool, especially with modern 3D graphics.
Sam and Max was the shit! That and Quake 3 are my two favorite games ever, except maybe Tetris or thumb wrestling or something. There haven't been any games at all like it for years now. I want a sequel, dammit! Sorry, I just had to give it some recognition.
Now, Gadget, that was an awesome game. Myst-style graphics, except dark and Art Deco. It was very linear, which some would object to, but it looked so cool! It had a couple parts which were frustratingly picky about where you stuck your mouse, but it had beautiful graphics and an interesting plot. They made a book to go along with it, too, with more and better pictures.
A couple days ago, Netscape 4.74 came out. The continued flow of minor bugfix releases would seem to be the promotion of 4.x. While I'm all for bug-free software, I agree with the WSP that they should get their asses in gear and release a good browser.
When he was, like, 3 years old? You're just a lame troll. If we're still using Unix, which we are, and if it's changeable, which is is, then of course there's a point to criticism. It's only through criticism that anything changes.
You're wrong twice. They have, in fact, changed the content of the post. A hyperlink is like a parenthetical comment -- it refers to a tangential subject. Making, say, "blane.bramble" into "a href="http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=userinfo&nic k=blane.bramble">blane.bramble" changes it from a name to a description. What would the case be, in your opinion, if for some reason Deja made every reference to Amazon became a link to Barnes & Noble? Or every reference to Slashdot became a link to Microsoft? Clearly, such links would be completely irrelevant and misleading. They would be changing the implications, so to speak, of the message.
Second, "the whole concept of usenet" is not flawed if Deja's actions constitute copyright infringement. Deja is profiting from posters' works, without any compensation to the authors. Profit-making activities do not fall under the doctrine of fair use, and especially not if they involve the distortion of posters' words. "The whole concept of usenet," though, concerns documents freely given by the authors to others for their own use, not for republishing or distortion for commercial gain.
There's no need to be butt-ugly and hard to use just because yu need to be compact. There are several WMs that are both compact AND well-designed. Window Maker, Sawfish (née Sawmill) and Black Box are all compact, good-looking, themeable, and easy to use. fvwm and other archaic ones are, by contrast, horribly, repulsively ugly, as well as hard to use.
Perhaps you're right, but I've been there, and for all intents and purposes, it's legal. There are plants growing on the sidewalks outside of shops, there are cafes that have huge plants inside, there are menus, et cetera. The same with prostitution (well, they don't have whore plants growing on the street, but you know what I mean). And no, I did not partake. But if you ask me, their system is much more rational and huumane than ours (ours = America's).
It's at times like this I'm glad I joined the ACLU. It, and other similar groups, have consistently defended us against encroachments on the First Amendment like the CDA and COPA and others, with varied success. Somebody's got to fight the bad guys, eh? Other countries without any Bill of Rights, like Australia and England, have had even more serious problems with idiot lawmakers. Those of you who read NTK now will remember news about the law in Britain which required people to prove that they did not possess a cryptographic key, and the many prudish laws passed by the Australian government are famous. Us 'Murricans still have to be on our guard, however. We, too, have moron lawmakers, and we can't always count on the conservative Supreme Court to protect us. Also, if Dubya gets elected, the precarious political balance on the Court will slip even farther to the right, and we can expect more unfavorable rulings.
There are lots of redundant closed-source apps out there, too. Do a search for shareware windows Tetris clones. Also, there are several examples of free/open source programs that dominate their niche, as well: The Gimp, Emacs, X Window. Each one has competitors, but they have small numbers of users, because they're not as good or for other reasons.
I agree with everyone that namespace is polluted, but this is clearly not a good solution to the problem. The restrictiveness of.gnu would divide the FS/OSS community, and would not make anything easier. There don't seem to be any problems in this paarticular field right now: everything fits reasonably well in.org,.net, or.com. If people really think a new TLD is necessary, perhaps one for software in general is a better idea.
In Linux we call Winamp X11Amp, or, more recently, XMMS (X Multimedia System). He probably meant Winamp, I would guess. Sorry if that sounded sarcastic.
Where's Courtney Love? I thought that speech she made a while ago was pretty intelligent. She was lucid and convincing in her arguments, and she has street cred, since she's a name-brand rawk myoozishen. Why isn't she testifying? I bet she'd say some good stuff.
Yeah, but that's in the first year, and it's a new technology. Wait for it to catch on like phone wiretapping, and you'll see a lot of activity. Or, there'll be a lot of activity, but you won't hear much about it. To show you I'm not a paranoid, here's an example. In Los Angeles, the city where I live, the District Attorney, Gil Garcetti, who is well-known to periodically behave in completely improper ways, set up a phone wiretap. This was no ordinary wiretap, however. This was a wiretap which existed for over a month on the pay phone in the jail downtown, a block from Union Station. All calls made from that phone were monitored, without any evidence of wrongdoing or any specificity or discretion in who was being listened to. Also, on another occasion, an entire cell phone companyn was made the subject of a wiretap, because an employee was a suspect. So obviously it made sense to tap the customers of the company. Neither of these stories were covered much in the LA Times.
I already did this a few months ago when I got GTE DSL. They sent me a modem and a bunch of phone filters, and a couple instruction cards, and said, "Here. Do it yourself." So I did. It wasn't very hard. Then I plugged the modem into my router and it worked pretty quickly, in Win95, Win98, and Linux.
There's no reason a third party couldn't impartially certify people. They wouldn't have to have any official sanction; if they had stringent standards, people would recognize their certificees' (if that's a word) worth.
Well, I don't know, and I can't read the interview because it's slashdotted, but here's a guess. Based on my reading of this excerpt from the interview, I infer that the guy has an ego the size of Marlon Brando. Maybe it was hard to work with him. Just a guess.
I'm so glad iFilm lets Linux users in. Atom stopped me at the door and gave me some BS about how I needed such and such hw and sw, all of which I had (except QT, but you don't need that for everything). I sent an email to them, and some lady sent me a reply saying they were working on the problem. That's stupid, though, because it's *harder* to keep someone out than it is to let everyone in and let them see for themselves whether they can watch the movies or not.
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I don't get you. It's difficult to be simultaneously opposed to Hatch and Jackson, being as they're diametric opposites. I mean, there is more than one dimension to the political spectrum, but Jackson is not a dope, nor an extremist (you'll notice I didn't defend Hatch). So I think you're just trolling.
I don't get how Intel thinks they can still act like a monopoly. Granted, they still have a larger maket share, but they have inferior technology and have done for a generation and a half or so. Given that, do they really think that they can pull tricks like requiring an Intel mobo? They're gonna have problems if people a)can't overclock and b)have to buy Intel for everything, because it's going to cost more and not be as good. plus, the gubmint might have something to say about it at some point. In addition, if it doesn't work, that's a major problem (duh), since AMD is faster, better and cheaper (a la NASA).
How come they don't use PayPal? It's already got a pretty big user base, and it works. Micropayments are a real thing now. With their new payment method, they must be hoping to get a share from the payments to fund the project, instead of being free. Which is fine, but inconvenient.
Actually, you can make the Windows BSOD other colors. You can change the system.ini file thusly:
MessageBackColor=#
MessageTextColor=#
where the #s can be replacd with values fropm the following table:
0 = black
1 = blue
2 = green
3 = cyan
4 = red
5 = magenta
6 = yellow/brown
7 = white
8 = gray
9 = bright blue
A = bright green
B = bright cyan
C = bright red
D = bright magenta
E = bright yellow
F = bright white
Yes, you're right. They are better described as artworks. There was a thing several years ago that I heard about and wanted, but never saw, called Gaia, which was just a fractal-based planet which you could explore. However, like I said, I never saw it. If you ask me, such a thing would be really cool, especially with modern 3D graphics.
Sam and Max was the shit! That and Quake 3 are my two favorite games ever, except maybe Tetris or thumb wrestling or something. There haven't been any games at all like it for years now. I want a sequel, dammit! Sorry, I just had to give it some recognition.
Now, Gadget, that was an awesome game. Myst-style graphics, except dark and Art Deco. It was very linear, which some would object to, but it looked so cool! It had a couple parts which were frustratingly picky about where you stuck your mouse, but it had beautiful graphics and an interesting plot. They made a book to go along with it, too, with more and better pictures.
Actually, the Nazis were not atheists. They were Protestant Christians.
A couple days ago, Netscape 4.74 came out. The continued flow of minor bugfix releases would seem to be the promotion of 4.x. While I'm all for bug-free software, I agree with the WSP that they should get their asses in gear and release a good browser.
When he was, like, 3 years old? You're just a lame troll. If we're still using Unix, which we are, and if it's changeable, which is is, then of course there's a point to criticism. It's only through criticism that anything changes.
You're wrong twice. They have, in fact, changed the content of the post. A hyperlink is like a parenthetical comment -- it refers to a tangential subject. Making, say, "blane.bramble" into "a href="http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=userinfo&nic k=blane.bramble">blane.bramble" changes it from a name to a description. What would the case be, in your opinion, if for some reason Deja made every reference to Amazon became a link to Barnes & Noble? Or every reference to Slashdot became a link to Microsoft? Clearly, such links would be completely irrelevant and misleading. They would be changing the implications, so to speak, of the message.
Second, "the whole concept of usenet" is not flawed if Deja's actions constitute copyright infringement. Deja is profiting from posters' works, without any compensation to the authors. Profit-making activities do not fall under the doctrine of fair use, and especially not if they involve the distortion of posters' words. "The whole concept of usenet," though, concerns documents freely given by the authors to others for their own use, not for republishing or distortion for commercial gain.
There's no need to be butt-ugly and hard to use just because yu need to be compact. There are several WMs that are both compact AND well-designed. Window Maker, Sawfish (née Sawmill) and Black Box are all compact, good-looking, themeable, and easy to use. fvwm and other archaic ones are, by contrast, horribly, repulsively ugly, as well as hard to use.
That's all the more reason! Anything that gets him mad is fine by me.
Perhaps you're right, but I've been there, and for all intents and purposes, it's legal. There are plants growing on the sidewalks outside of shops, there are cafes that have huge plants inside, there are menus, et cetera. The same with prostitution (well, they don't have whore plants growing on the street, but you know what I mean). And no, I did not partake. But if you ask me, their system is much more rational and huumane than ours (ours = America's).
It's at times like this I'm glad I joined the ACLU. It, and other similar groups, have consistently defended us against encroachments on the First Amendment like the CDA and COPA and others, with varied success. Somebody's got to fight the bad guys, eh? Other countries without any Bill of Rights, like Australia and England, have had even more serious problems with idiot lawmakers. Those of you who read NTK now will remember news about the law in Britain which required people to prove that they did not possess a cryptographic key, and the many prudish laws passed by the Australian government are famous. Us 'Murricans still have to be on our guard, however. We, too, have moron lawmakers, and we can't always count on the conservative Supreme Court to protect us. Also, if Dubya gets elected, the precarious political balance on the Court will slip even farther to the right, and we can expect more unfavorable rulings.
Cry fowl? You mean call us chicken? Chickennn, brawk brawk? Like elementary school? Then we can't let this happen! I hated grade school!
There are lots of redundant closed-source apps out there, too. Do a search for shareware windows Tetris clones. Also, there are several examples of free/open source programs that dominate their niche, as well: The Gimp, Emacs, X Window. Each one has competitors, but they have small numbers of users, because they're not as good or for other reasons.
I agree with everyone that namespace is polluted, but this is clearly not a good solution to the problem. The restrictiveness of .gnu would divide the FS/OSS community, and would not make anything easier. There don't seem to be any problems in this paarticular field right now: everything fits reasonably well in .org, .net, or .com. If people really think a new TLD is necessary, perhaps one for software in general is a better idea.
In Linux we call Winamp X11Amp, or, more recently, XMMS (X Multimedia System). He probably meant Winamp, I would guess. Sorry if that sounded sarcastic.
Where's Courtney Love? I thought that speech she made a while ago was pretty intelligent. She was lucid and convincing in her arguments, and she has street cred, since she's a name-brand rawk myoozishen. Why isn't she testifying? I bet she'd say some good stuff.
Yeah, but that's in the first year, and it's a new technology. Wait for it to catch on like phone wiretapping, and you'll see a lot of activity. Or, there'll be a lot of activity, but you won't hear much about it. To show you I'm not a paranoid, here's an example. In Los Angeles, the city where I live, the District Attorney, Gil Garcetti, who is well-known to periodically behave in completely improper ways, set up a phone wiretap. This was no ordinary wiretap, however. This was a wiretap which existed for over a month on the pay phone in the jail downtown, a block from Union Station. All calls made from that phone were monitored, without any evidence of wrongdoing or any specificity or discretion in who was being listened to. Also, on another occasion, an entire cell phone companyn was made the subject of a wiretap, because an employee was a suspect. So obviously it made sense to tap the customers of the company. Neither of these stories were covered much in the LA Times.
I already did this a few months ago when I got GTE DSL. They sent me a modem and a bunch of phone filters, and a couple instruction cards, and said, "Here. Do it yourself." So I did. It wasn't very hard. Then I plugged the modem into my router and it worked pretty quickly, in Win95, Win98, and Linux.
There's no reason a third party couldn't impartially certify people. They wouldn't have to have any official sanction; if they had stringent standards, people would recognize their certificees' (if that's a word) worth.
Well, I don't know, and I can't read the interview because it's slashdotted, but here's a guess. Based on my reading of this excerpt from the interview, I infer that the guy has an ego the size of Marlon Brando. Maybe it was hard to work with him. Just a guess.
I'm so glad iFilm lets Linux users in. Atom stopped me at the door and gave me some BS about how I needed such and such hw and sw, all of which I had (except QT, but you don't need that for everything). I sent an email to them, and some lady sent me a reply saying they were working on the problem. That's stupid, though, because it's *harder* to keep someone out than it is to let everyone in and let them see for themselves whether they can watch the movies or not.