I thought Hayden C acted decently in Shattered Glass, a film about the New Republic's Stephen Glass. He played a wuss with various emotional problem in it, but IMHO, he did a pretty good job of it. It wasn't like when I saw Garden State, when I said to myself "huh, who knew she could act?" at the end, but it was pretty good.
Can shareholders call for a vote of no confidence in the leadership of the company? Let's say, in some fantasy universe, everyone on/. and many other places bought 10 shares, let's say some how magically that makes a majority. I'll leave the rest up to your imagination.
Though, even if a vote of no confidence was possible, if the CEO or other execs have a lot of stock options and own a majority of the company, naturally that wouldn't fly.
What is their target audience? College-age kids? It would seem to me that Napster's target audience- as well as iTMS's, Real Rhapsody's, etc- is people who like music. As shocking as it may be to many teenagers and those in their 20s, but old people like music too.
I second that, for this application. But if it's between some really good deal on a few old iPAQs and something a lot more spendy on the old Palm side, then I wouldn't have any problems doing the iPAQs. If someone had some free ones to let you use, etc. But the old iPAQs were especially bad- 2-3 hours of life in them. Stray away from newer Palm OS devices too, which are no better than a Pocket PC, with the exception of the Zire 21, but it's still not as good as the Palm III, V, etc.
While I'm with the other dude who says he should just bring a few harmonicas with him, you can just use a PDA and skip the sheetmusic insanity. There are programs like Ewok Tracker which is OSS as well as commercial tools like Griff. Both are probably adequate...
No joke. You can buy Palm IIIs for pretty cheap. I've seen iPAQ 3100s and 3600s for $40-60. I guess I'd say go for something like that- cheap- and with 8 MB or more RAM if you can, 16-32 MB if possible. Most ebooks are 400-700 KB, and you can fit a lot on an iPAQ 3650 with nothing else installed but uBook from gowerpoint.com.
thus spake ACthustra: Or Kim Jong Il could be bluffing, hoping to embarass the USA even more than the Iraq fiasco.
"Hey, we have Nukes!"... Eleventy Trillion Dollars later "oops, we didn't find any weapons"
Perhaps, but there are more sources than just Kim and his Ministers' claims. Other "intelligence," as they say. Regardless, even without the claims of the DPRK's government, the case is pretty strong.
My bad, in OS that is true. On my black hardware, I only used up to NS 3.3, OS4.2 on white hardware. But is still following a Mac-like design- nothing is hidden in a right-click menu, it's only giving you the app's menu...
Except, unlike Iraq, we've known that the DPRK has had some nuclear capability for a long time. So, while some of us would have said "No! don't go to war over a madman with nukes!" at least there would have been some truth behind the reason for invasion.
AC sez: And trollers should note the NeXT mouse has two buttons...
Though trollers and counter trollers should also note that whilst the NeXT mouse had two buttons, they weren't used like they are on a PC or under Unix/X. By default, the right mouse button did the same thing as the left. Though, with a 3rd party app, you could use the right mouse button to bring up the app's menu, as well as a couple of other things (global menu). I think they included it mostly for compatibility with the X10 apps they figured a lot of people would be running using CubX and the other X servers for NeXTSTEP.
Just so folks know- that isn't a NeXT cube. It's kind of the shape of one, and hell, maybe it even ran NeXTSTEP, but that's not a NeXT cube. Here is a good photo of a NeXT cube and the 17" megapixel monitor (black white!).
What's "comparing to unix"? I mean, what Unices have you used? There certainly isn't a consistent standard. Sure, you can have some when you're working within nothing but SysV- or BSD-derived systems only, but even then they can differ quite a bit. For the basics, the kinds of things that most Unices share, as displaced80 points out it's all the same.
GNUmail.app is one app that runs on both OS X and GNUstep. I've seen a small handful of others. However, there are some hurdles in porting an OS X app to GNUstep- if you use any Quartz compositing, it just won't work, for one. Or if you use any Carbon convenience functions, or any number of other non-OpenStep APIs that exist within OS X.
But you are quite right in the last part. No way will your average Linux h4ck3r drop C/C++ and go to ObjC. A shame, as ObjC is a lot nicer, but it just won't happen.
Umm... OS X and Linux both are about the same number of viruses and worms. To say that Linux has none is as wrong as some Apple fan-boy saying that OS X hasnone. While it's not some comprehensive list, I don't believe I have a burden to provide one; but there was that bliss virus/trojan, and others. That was simply one of the first hits provided by Google. Finding more is left as an exercise for the reader.
Are you saying it's fucked up compared to *STEP or Linux? Solaris? HP-UX? Xenix? AIX? Hell, A/UX?
Don't get me wrong, I love NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. Ran em both for a long time. I'd rather be using them than OS X. But if the complaint is that OS X's fs hierarchy is screwed up compared to *STEP... Seems a bit much. I mean, how much harder is/Applications than/NextApps?
Is there a lot of warez and porn on Freenode? I've never noticed. Mind you, I only sit in one social and a few project channels (go #squeak !)... Unlike other networks, I've never had problems with spambots coming into channel and posting message about porn sites, and I've never had those random msgs with the same content.
"Please tell me, how was invading Iraq "protecting ourselves"?" --- Hmm. Good Question. Lets ask some leading democrats:
Ugh, I hate this shit.
Why is it that warmonger/neocon-type folks think that quoting Clinton, Kerry, Gore, etc is some sort of magic bullet when someone disagrees with Bush, be it on the war or some other topic?
A couple things: 1. Not everyone who thinks that going to war was unjustified is a democrat. Not everyone who thinks that going to war did not make America safer is a democrat.
2. Even if you were dealing with a democrat, a few quotes from famous democrats won't make them do a 180. I know it may be really hard for some conservatives to wrap their brains around the idea, but a lot of democrats and progressives in general don't usually believe Führerprinzip. They can disagree with leading democrats without becoming not-democrats. In the case of DFL members, you don't get kicked out of the party for having a minority opinion.
3. Being a famous democrat- or a famous republican- doesn't make you right.
Umm... What is he supposed to do? Put a link to "the rest of my page!" that has anything that isn't related to FOSS? I mean, gun nuts creep me out as much as the next guy, but it's not like he tricked you into it, posting a link to l33t k3rnel hakcs!! and having the page be all about Bushjunge and guns, etc.
No shit. But this isn't anything new. Slashdot is pretty much always behind on stuff like this, be it a few days or a week.
It works out well- if/. is your only source of news like this, you never know you're behind. Or, if you a wee bit smarter and read engadget, hackaday, osnews, etc you usually get the news when it comes out. And you thusly get to actually go to the site before it gets slashdotted.
It's complex ecology, but it works. Slashdot it always behind, and I hope it stays that way. Otherwise, I won't be able to download the source, see the specs, etc etc without waiting another week.
I gotta say it- I'm surprised as hell no one is complaining about BitC, the Lisp-like language behind Coyotos. Don't get me wrong, I love Lisp, whether it's CL, ISLISP (kind of my favorite), Scheme or something else... But it seems to me, basing a project in some Lisp-like language is a recipe for an early death. The current FOSS community is pretty harsh towards languages outside of the accepted mainstream as far as how much support it gets. It seems that the language choice of E, something based on Java, would have had a much better chance to draw users.
Not that I'm into selecting a language for those reasons... My projects are almost all in Squeak Smalltalk and will continue to be so until Slate or something better than Squeak comes along.;)
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I thought Hayden C acted decently in Shattered Glass, a film about the New Republic's Stephen Glass. He played a wuss with various emotional problem in it, but IMHO, he did a pretty good job of it. It wasn't like when I saw Garden State, when I said to myself "huh, who knew she could act?" at the end, but it was pretty good.
Hack teh system!!1
Can shareholders call for a vote of no confidence in the leadership of the company? Let's say, in some fantasy universe, everyone on /. and many other places bought 10 shares, let's say some how magically that makes a majority. I'll leave the rest up to your imagination.
Though, even if a vote of no confidence was possible, if the CEO or other execs have a lot of stock options and own a majority of the company, naturally that wouldn't fly.
What is their target audience? College-age kids? It would seem to me that Napster's target audience- as well as iTMS's, Real Rhapsody's, etc- is people who like music. As shocking as it may be to many teenagers and those in their 20s, but old people like music too.
I second that, for this application. But if it's between some really good deal on a few old iPAQs and something a lot more spendy on the old Palm side, then I wouldn't have any problems doing the iPAQs. If someone had some free ones to let you use, etc. But the old iPAQs were especially bad- 2-3 hours of life in them. Stray away from newer Palm OS devices too, which are no better than a Pocket PC, with the exception of the Zire 21, but it's still not as good as the Palm III, V, etc.
While I'm with the other dude who says he should just bring a few harmonicas with him, you can just use a PDA and skip the sheetmusic insanity. There are programs like Ewok Tracker which is OSS as well as commercial tools like Griff. Both are probably adequate...
Holy shit, I hope you're kidding, because that is hillarious.
No joke. You can buy Palm IIIs for pretty cheap. I've seen iPAQ 3100s and 3600s for $40-60. I guess I'd say go for something like that- cheap- and with 8 MB or more RAM if you can, 16-32 MB if possible. Most ebooks are 400-700 KB, and you can fit a lot on an iPAQ 3650 with nothing else installed but uBook from gowerpoint.com.
thus spake ACthustra:
Or Kim Jong Il could be bluffing, hoping to embarass the USA even more than the Iraq fiasco.
"Hey, we have Nukes!"... Eleventy Trillion Dollars later "oops, we didn't find any weapons"
Perhaps, but there are more sources than just Kim and his Ministers' claims. Other "intelligence," as they say. Regardless, even without the claims of the DPRK's government, the case is pretty strong.
My bad, in OS that is true. On my black hardware, I only used up to NS 3.3, OS4.2 on white hardware. But is still following a Mac-like design- nothing is hidden in a right-click menu, it's only giving you the app's menu...
Except, unlike Iraq, we've known that the DPRK has had some nuclear capability for a long time. So, while some of us would have said "No! don't go to war over a madman with nukes!" at least there would have been some truth behind the reason for invasion.
AC sez: And trollers should note the NeXT mouse has two buttons...
Though trollers and counter trollers should also note that whilst the NeXT mouse had two buttons, they weren't used like they are on a PC or under Unix/X. By default, the right mouse button did the same thing as the left. Though, with a 3rd party app, you could use the right mouse button to bring up the app's menu, as well as a couple of other things (global menu). I think they included it mostly for compatibility with the X10 apps they figured a lot of people would be running using CubX and the other X servers for NeXTSTEP.
Just so folks know- that isn't a NeXT cube. It's kind of the shape of one, and hell, maybe it even ran NeXTSTEP, but that's not a NeXT cube. Here is a good photo of a NeXT cube and the 17" megapixel monitor (black white!).
What's "comparing to unix"? I mean, what Unices have you used? There certainly isn't a consistent standard. Sure, you can have some when you're working within nothing but SysV- or BSD-derived systems only, but even then they can differ quite a bit. For the basics, the kinds of things that most Unices share, as displaced80 points out it's all the same.
GNUmail.app is one app that runs on both OS X and GNUstep. I've seen a small handful of others. However, there are some hurdles in porting an OS X app to GNUstep- if you use any Quartz compositing, it just won't work, for one. Or if you use any Carbon convenience functions, or any number of other non-OpenStep APIs that exist within OS X.
But you are quite right in the last part. No way will your average Linux h4ck3r drop C/C++ and go to ObjC. A shame, as ObjC is a lot nicer, but it just won't happen.
Umm... OS X and Linux both are about the same number of viruses and worms. To say that Linux has none is as wrong as some Apple fan-boy saying that OS X hasnone. While it's not some comprehensive list, I don't believe I have a burden to provide one; but there was that bliss virus/trojan, and others. That was simply one of the first hits provided by Google. Finding more is left as an exercise for the reader.
And it got a fucked up filesystem hiarchy.
/Applications than /NextApps?
Are you saying it's fucked up compared to *STEP or Linux? Solaris? HP-UX? Xenix? AIX? Hell, A/UX?
Don't get me wrong, I love NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. Ran em both for a long time. I'd rather be using them than OS X. But if the complaint is that OS X's fs hierarchy is screwed up compared to *STEP... Seems a bit much. I mean, how much harder is
Is there a lot of warez and porn on Freenode? I've never noticed. Mind you, I only sit in one social and a few project channels (go #squeak !)... Unlike other networks, I've never had problems with spambots coming into channel and posting message about porn sites, and I've never had those random msgs with the same content.
So, in short- why not just use freenode?
Well, there are times when encrypting something might be illegal- child porn, for instance.
"Please tell me, how was invading Iraq "protecting ourselves"?"
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Hmm. Good Question. Lets ask some leading democrats:
Ugh, I hate this shit.
Why is it that warmonger/neocon-type folks think that quoting Clinton, Kerry, Gore, etc is some sort of magic bullet when someone disagrees with Bush, be it on the war or some other topic?
A couple things:
1. Not everyone who thinks that going to war was unjustified is a democrat. Not everyone who thinks that going to war did not make America safer is a democrat.
2. Even if you were dealing with a democrat, a few quotes from famous democrats won't make them do a 180. I know it may be really hard for some conservatives to wrap their brains around the idea, but a lot of democrats and progressives in general don't usually believe Führerprinzip. They can disagree with leading democrats without becoming not-democrats. In the case of DFL members, you don't get kicked out of the party for having a minority opinion.
3. Being a famous democrat- or a famous republican- doesn't make you right.
You sir get the highly coveted, rarely given but oft-applauded RevAaron Award for Excellence in Slashdottery!
.sig has gotta win *some* kind of price.
Exhibit A:
"OH SHIT, THERE'S A HORSE IN THE HOSPITAL!"
Anyone with Dr. Octogon in their
And also, your comment was spot on.
Umm... What is he supposed to do? Put a link to "the rest of my page!" that has anything that isn't related to FOSS? I mean, gun nuts creep me out as much as the next guy, but it's not like he tricked you into it, posting a link to l33t k3rnel hakcs!! and having the page be all about Bushjunge and guns, etc.
No shit. But this isn't anything new. Slashdot is pretty much always behind on stuff like this, be it a few days or a week.
/. is your only source of news like this, you never know you're behind. Or, if you a wee bit smarter and read engadget, hackaday, osnews, etc you usually get the news when it comes out. And you thusly get to actually go to the site before it gets slashdotted.
It works out well- if
It's complex ecology, but it works. Slashdot it always behind, and I hope it stays that way. Otherwise, I won't be able to download the source, see the specs, etc etc without waiting another week.
I imagine the same thing happens to a BBC, am I correct?
I gotta say it- I'm surprised as hell no one is complaining about BitC, the Lisp-like language behind Coyotos. Don't get me wrong, I love Lisp, whether it's CL, ISLISP (kind of my favorite), Scheme or something else... But it seems to me, basing a project in some Lisp-like language is a recipe for an early death. The current FOSS community is pretty harsh towards languages outside of the accepted mainstream as far as how much support it gets. It seems that the language choice of E, something based on Java, would have had a much better chance to draw users.
;)
Not that I'm into selecting a language for those reasons... My projects are almost all in Squeak Smalltalk and will continue to be so until Slate or something better than Squeak comes along.