Who installed all that "free" software? How long did it take?
Any monkey can install some of the newer distros.
Who retrained all the users to use a new O/S they aren't familiar with?
Nobody, because KDE is enough of a Windows clone that most users don't care.
How long did that take and how much did that lost productivity cost?
Very little.
Who handles the support questions when the software doesn't work (it sure isn't the "manufacturer" now, is it?)
<disclaimer content="they're not paying me for this plug"> VA Linux Systems or Penguin Computing. They sold you the workstations; they support the workstations. </disclaimer>
Or Raymond, a pansy nutcase who couldn't code a VB virus
Half-wrong. Eric S. Raymond maintains all this open-source software. But he "couldn't code a VB virus" because his OS of choice, Linux, doesn't have a working VB implementation, and the VB-compatible scripting language in development at the GNOME project is sandboxed, which means it can't modify files outside a safe area.
Looked like NyQuil LiquiCaps to me. In fact, the capsule-like appearance of the buttons inspired me to write a Dr. Mario clone that works on everything but Mac (it'll work on OS 10 as soon as it gets a stable x11 server).
They've had websites using the look taken down. They've had themes removed from themes.org
Played Vitamins lately? It's a clone of Nintendo's Dr. Mario(TM) with an Aqua-like theme. Works on DOS, Windows 9x, and X11; includes Windows binaries. And it comes with a default theme "Aqua" that looks like Mac OS 10's default theme by the same name.
Any open-source implementation of any algorithm (MPEG 2, Dolby Digital, etc.) whose patent has not expired is a patent infringement, and everyone in possession of the code can potentially be sued for statutory and treble damages.
Please, please not.Z. The.Z format is the GIF of file compression: it's encumbered by U.S. Patent 4,558,302 and foreign counterparts.
or some sort of standardized compression format
Ahhh, that's better. Use.gz, which is the format that XML systems are beginning to output anyway (Gnumeric spreadsheets are gzipped XML files). Did you know that some FTP servers support dynamic gzipping and un-gzipping?
In a few more months, the alleged infringing post will "fall off" Slashdot's servers
You mean "this story has been archived"? After two weeks, an article is placed into the archive, where it becomes a static page, and all the comments (including the bootleg complete spec) are stored along with it. It's not like user-created sid's, where the comments are actually deleted after 14 days.
The beautty is that if anyone makes modifications to your library and distributes them they will still be required to share the source code.
LGPL (in full, GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1) is a "lesser copyleft" license like NPL, which means that you can add closed-source modules to the code by simply writing them as separate.c files. But I still believe that Winamp is the operating system to which Winamp plugins are written; an operating system doesn't always mean "kernel and filesystem right on top of the bare hardware." It's anything that exposes a full set of APIs.
To make GIMP easier to use, right-click a document window and left-click the dotted line at the top of the main menu. You now have a reasonably standard menubar-in-a-box.
SimpleText: What, Emacs isn't simple enough for you? Its interface (under graphical systems such as X and Windows) is a knockoff of Windows's, which in turn is a knockoff of Mac OS's.
Kid Pix: Now that xfree runs on Darwin, GTK+/Glib, GNOME, and GIMP are coming very soon. GIMP is a near-Photoshop paint package (all it lacks is CMYK), yet kids love it.
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Who installed all that "free" software? How long did it take?
Any monkey can install some of the newer distros.
Who retrained all the users to use a new O/S they aren't familiar with?
Nobody, because KDE is enough of a Windows clone that most users don't care.
How long did that take and how much did that lost productivity cost?
Very little.
Who handles the support questions when the software doesn't work (it sure isn't the "manufacturer" now, is it?)
<disclaimer content="they're not paying me for this plug"> VA Linux Systems or Penguin Computing. They sold you the workstations; they support the workstations. </disclaimer>
Or Raymond, a pansy nutcase who couldn't code a VB virus
Half-wrong. Eric S. Raymond maintains all this open-source software. But he "couldn't code a VB virus" because his OS of choice, Linux, doesn't have a working VB implementation, and the VB-compatible scripting language in development at the GNOME project is sandboxed, which means it can't modify files outside a safe area.
displaying the left half of your browser on top of the right half, tricking your system into thinking you were running at 1600x600
Better yet, run a lot of adbars on the back screen plane. That way, you can surf the web on the front screen and still get paid to use Windows.
i can't resist those jolly candylike buttons
Looked like NyQuil LiquiCaps to me. In fact, the capsule-like appearance of the buttons inspired me to write a Dr. Mario clone that works on everything but Mac (it'll work on OS 10 as soon as it gets a stable x11 server).
They've had websites using the look taken down. They've had themes removed from themes.org
Played Vitamins lately? It's a clone of Nintendo's Dr. Mario(TM) with an Aqua-like theme. Works on DOS, Windows 9x, and X11; includes Windows binaries. And it comes with a default theme "Aqua" that looks like Mac OS 10's default theme by the same name.
"I'm a Barbie girl in a Barbie world."Darwin, the kernel of Mac OS X, is open-source software, but RMS doesn't think it's free enough.
Any open-source implementation of any algorithm (MPEG 2, Dolby Digital, etc.) whose patent has not expired is a patent infringement, and everyone in possession of the code can potentially be sued for statutory and treble damages.
Q: So how much did you say it was going to cost?
A: I didn't say. How much are you willing to give us?
They can't charge more than the market price of a real DVD player plus a video capture card.
Well, we could always just do it for FreeBSD instead...
Or NetBSD (a program labeled "for NetBSD" must be free software because NetBSD is available on so many architectures).
Simply use percentages (of display width) in your tags. For example: cell content makes a cell that spans 1/4 of the window width.
Perhaps browsers should allow for html.Z
Please, please not .Z. The .Z format is the GIF of file compression: it's encumbered by U.S. Patent 4,558,302 and foreign counterparts.
or some sort of standardized compression format
Ahhh, that's better. Use .gz, which is the format that XML systems are beginning to output anyway (Gnumeric spreadsheets are gzipped XML files). Did you know that some FTP servers support dynamic gzipping and un-gzipping?
In a few more months, the alleged infringing post will "fall off" Slashdot's servers
You mean "this story has been archived"? After two weeks, an article is placed into the archive, where it becomes a static page, and all the comments (including the bootleg complete spec) are stored along with it. It's not like user-created sid's, where the comments are actually deleted after 14 days.
- sporange - another word for sporangium, a part of the fungal reproductive system
- doorhinge
What else rhymes with orange?emacs doesn't count because it has a "buffers" model, not a "documents" model.
They're equivalent models. Rename the "buffers" menu to "documents". For Emacs to truly fit in, however, its menubar will need to be reordered:
Eunuchs/NT Emacs: Buffers Files Tools Edit Search Help
Mac Emacs: File Edit Search Tools Documents Help
The difference is that CSS is an access control
And PSX's protection isn't?
The beautty is that if anyone makes modifications to your library and distributes them they will still be required to share the source code.
LGPL (in full, GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1) is a "lesser copyleft" license like NPL, which means that you can add closed-source modules to the code by simply writing them as separate .c files. But I still believe that Winamp is the operating system to which Winamp plugins are written; an operating system doesn't always mean "kernel and filesystem right on top of the bare hardware." It's anything that exposes a full set of APIs.
Uncompressed, unencumbered gifs will do just fine
But you also wrote: the tifs take an age to download
If the GIF files were uncompressed, they would take just as long as (or longer than) the TIFF files.
Switch to PNG.Have them go to bash when they exit. That way the user can read any output they leave behind, and the close button still works.
To make GIMP easier to use, right-click a document window and left-click the dotted line at the top of the main menu. You now have a reasonably standard menubar-in-a-box.
[all OS 9 apps run in one virtual machine and] if one "Classic" app crashes, well, the rest can go with them
This is exactly how Windows 95 and NT run 3.1 apps, or how Wine runs Windows apps. Anything new about opening a VM for maximum compatibility?
Yeah, after a long gaming session, a fella's voice would tend to get hoarse.
"Shell, start Netscape. Netscape, go to site slashdot dahdorg." How difficult is that?
SimpleText: What, Emacs isn't simple enough for you? Its interface (under graphical systems such as X and Windows) is a knockoff of Windows's, which in turn is a knockoff of Mac OS's.
Kid Pix: Now that xfree runs on Darwin, GTK+/Glib, GNOME, and GIMP are coming very soon. GIMP is a near-Photoshop paint package (all it lacks is CMYK), yet kids love it.
DNS generally takes about 24 hours to propagate. Or at least that's what the guys at SourceForge told me.
This is currently being discussed at Kuro5hin (pronounced "corrosion").