Yes, but that's less likely to happen because MS Office licenses are not quite free. Downloading OOo or FireFox, however, is (as long as you don't have a nasty ISP) free.
Just look at the number of reactions here from people who knew him. I've seen at least five. Although I myself was wondering too whether this story would make it to SlashDot (I've heard about it all day already), I now know that it's good that someone posted it...
Those two forks aren't really used on OS X anymore AFAIK, so it's a bit strange that they still want to waste so much bandwidth for just something from OS Classic.
But well, at least the.tif immediately had a little thumbnail in Finder.:-)
(But couldn't they use.sit to "compress" the file and get the other forks in?)
Why does a 1.0 release always have to have a bunch of new features?
It's much better to release 1.0 when the program reaches ultimate stability, usability and reliability. Gaim has been around for a while already, so it's about time that they start calling the program 1.0.
This has the big advantage of actually having a 1.0 release worth using, as opposed to many 1.0 releases with so many bugs (because of all those new features they tried to get in at the last moment) that you'd better wait for 1.0...
That's the point, "most geeks" aren't representative of the overall population.
Neither is startpagina.nl, because any person with a little bit more knowledge and experience on the Internet doesn't even want to get close to that page anymore.
I myself have never seen someone access that page at school (Computer Science).
Some distributions have been implementing package fragmentantion for this (package-core and package-images for this example)
Yep, but still, in almost all cases, you have to upgrade both packages when a new version of the game comes out. For Debian, this splitting helps in another way: Instead of having the images in the archive for every supported architecture (more than ten, these days), they're now in the archive only once for every architecture.
Don't know about other distro's, but usually such an images package is generated from the same package as the binaries, and both packages will get a higher version number on an upgrade. So the update tool will probably try to update them both.
Thanks for the explanation, even though I didn't even ask for it.;-)
I indeed noticed that analog-digital conversions don't improve the signal quality; my 56k modem was hardly able to make >28k8 connections when my parents switched to ISDN. (So obviously, it didn't take long before we bought a real ISDN adapter.:-)
By the way, I think you missed the most important factor: lossy/psycho-acoustic compressions.
When someone asks how to do something in Mozilla or Linux, the answer is often one of two things: "Why would you want to do that?", or it's something like what we have here: "hacking JavaScript and messing with lots of configs."
Well, had to do things like that once to get a FF extension written by some Windows user who hasn't heard of file permissions installed.
But can you name me just one feature available in IE (apart from rendering non-W3C compliant pages) that isn't available in Mozilla/FireFox without hacking a.js file?
IMHO, having to edit a.js file to activate a non-standard feature isn't any worse than having to edit some registry keys... (Which is, AFAIK, an almost daily activity for many Windows users.)
I will admit it had alot of function to it, but only useful to someone more technically inclined. The "average joes" you refer to would probably immediately shut it down in terror.
Yeah, but I think you could say exactly the same about the "average joe" switching to Mozilla...
Games are supose to be fun. Part of that fun is playing with people from around the world.
And part of playing/communicating with people from around the world is speaking a language which they're most likely to understand. And, surprise surprise, but that's English.
The funny thing about second and third languages is that they have a rather lower chance of being passed on to the next generation unless there is a real need for it.
Not as long as the kids go to a sane school with good English education. Which is quite a usual situation over here, at least.
Dus als ik jouw post in het Nederlands beantwoord vind jij dat niet erg?
(Translation: So if I reply to your post in Dutch, you don't mind?)
Also, those numbers mentioned in the article don't make any sense at all. (41.2% Brazilians vs. 23.5% Americans) They would make sense if the 23.5% Americans were the only people who don't understand Brazilian, and they clearly aren't.
If you measure the number of people on Orkut who can read English and the number of people who can read Portugese, you'll get something like 99% vs. 50%. Then I wonder why some people don't understand that it's obvious to speak in English in communities not specific to one language or country.
Ever thought that the non-English-speaking world (or non-Americans in general for that matter) get annoyed by the hundreds of English language, US-targetted spams they receive every day?
People who don't understand English shouldn't be using the Internet anyway. Not because I don't want them to, but because they would get annoyed very quickly. Not just because of spam... The Orkut user interface is English too, so you can't tell me the Brazilians talk Portugese because they don't know English.
Anyway, I can't say I really dislike the Brazilian communities a lot. However, messages to friends(-of-friends) in a non-English language are stupid. (yes, I also find them stupid when they're in my native language, Dutch) I disabled them for that reason, but that's another story.
More stupid is when I found a post written in Portugese right in the middle of a whole list of English posts in a community with only 15 people. I'm quite sure the person who posted it is the only Brazilian person in the community, so he quite wasted his time. Saw it happen at least one, and the person who posted it didn't seem to care at all...
Yep! Obviously they first give knighthood the person who destroyed the World Wide Web (or at least he does his very best to rename it to the Windows Wide Web), and now they finally give it to the person who created it. Seems logical to me.;-)
Running Gentoo on a webserver? Come on, webservers are meant to run Apache and serve as many users as possible, they're not meant to be compiling all day.
You never do upgrades? I thought Gentoo users were the ones who always want to be up-to-date with the least stable (but obviously most recent) software...
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Yes, but that's less likely to happen because MS Office licenses are not quite free. Downloading OOo or FireFox, however, is (as long as you don't have a nasty ISP) free.
1) Roughly what percent of your music collection is unauthorized files from P2P like Kazaa, FTP, etc.?
30%
2) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from sources like iTunes Music Store, eMusic, etc?
5%
3) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from shareable sources like Creative Commons-licensed music?
0%
4) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from rips of your own CDs?
40%
5) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from rips of friends' CDs?
25%
Just look at the number of reactions here from people who knew him. I've seen at least five. Although I myself was wondering too whether this story would make it to SlashDot (I've heard about it all day already), I now know that it's good that someone posted it...
AFAIK, the name "VA Linux" doesn't exist anymore...
(VA Software, anyone?)
Those two forks aren't really used on OS X anymore AFAIK, so it's a bit strange that they still want to waste so much bandwidth for just something from OS Classic.
.tif immediately had a little thumbnail in Finder. :-)
.sit to "compress" the file and get the other forks in?)
But well, at least the
(But couldn't they use
The only thing you should be clicking on, in a spam message, is the delete icon/key.
:-)
Or, if you got a training spamfilter, the "Mark as Spam" button.
that you'd better wait for 1.0
Err, obviously I meant 1.1 here.
Why does a 1.0 release always have to have a bunch of new features?
It's much better to release 1.0 when the program reaches ultimate stability, usability and reliability. Gaim has been around for a while already, so it's about time that they start calling the program 1.0.
This has the big advantage of actually having a 1.0 release worth using, as opposed to many 1.0 releases with so many bugs (because of all those new features they tried to get in at the last moment) that you'd better wait for 1.0...
At $99 It's cheaper than any enterprise Linux distro.
And for that money you're allowed to run it on an 8-CPU monster machine with thousands of users?
That's the point, "most geeks" aren't representative of the overall population.
Neither is startpagina.nl, because any person with a little bit more knowledge and experience on the Internet doesn't even want to get close to that page anymore.
I myself have never seen someone access that page at school (Computer Science).
Some distributions have been implementing package fragmentantion for this (package-core and package-images for this example)
Yep, but still, in almost all cases, you have to upgrade both packages when a new version of the game comes out. For Debian, this splitting helps in another way: Instead of having the images in the archive for every supported architecture (more than ten, these days), they're now in the archive only once for every architecture.
Don't know about other distro's, but usually such an images package is generated from the same package as the binaries, and both packages will get a higher version number on an upgrade. So the update tool will probably try to update them both.
I have a VAX 11/780 which I've been nursing along for the past 25 years.
:-)
And who pays your electricity bill?
Also good luck getting Linux to run right with the Intel Pro(tected source code) Wireless LAN and the Intel Extreme(ly proprietary) Graphics adapter.
Not that the AirPort Extreme (with Broadcom chip) works so well with Linux, especially on non-x86 machines...
Thanks for the explanation, even though I didn't even ask for it. ;-)
:-)
I indeed noticed that analog-digital conversions don't improve the signal quality; my 56k modem was hardly able to make >28k8 connections when my parents switched to ISDN. (So obviously, it didn't take long before we bought a real ISDN adapter.
By the way, I think you missed the most important factor: lossy/psycho-acoustic compressions.
If my Nortel phone can't tell that it is plugged into a Motorola VOIP modem rather than a plug in the wall, how does a TIVO know?
Possibly the VOIP codec would make the modem signals unusable?
When someone asks how to do something in Mozilla or Linux, the answer is often one of two things: "Why would you want to do that?", or it's something like what we have here: "hacking JavaScript and messing with lots of configs."
.js file?
.js file to activate a non-standard feature isn't any worse than having to edit some registry keys... (Which is, AFAIK, an almost daily activity for many Windows users.)
Well, had to do things like that once to get a FF extension written by some Windows user who hasn't heard of file permissions installed.
But can you name me just one feature available in IE (apart from rendering non-W3C compliant pages) that isn't available in Mozilla/FireFox without hacking a
IMHO, having to edit a
I will admit it had alot of function to it, but only useful to someone more technically inclined. The "average joes" you refer to would probably immediately shut it down in terror.
Yeah, but I think you could say exactly the same about the "average joe" switching to Mozilla...
Games are supose to be fun. Part of that fun is playing with people from around the world.
And part of playing/communicating with people from around the world is speaking a language which they're most likely to understand. And, surprise surprise, but that's English.
The funny thing about second and third languages is that they have a rather lower chance of being passed on to the next generation unless there is a real need for it.
Not as long as the kids go to a sane school with good English education. Which is quite a usual situation over here, at least.
Dus als ik jouw post in het Nederlands beantwoord vind jij dat niet erg?
(Translation: So if I reply to your post in Dutch, you don't mind?)
Also, those numbers mentioned in the article don't make any sense at all. (41.2% Brazilians vs. 23.5% Americans) They would make sense if the 23.5% Americans were the only people who don't understand Brazilian, and they clearly aren't.
If you measure the number of people on Orkut who can read English and the number of people who can read Portugese, you'll get something like 99% vs. 50%. Then I wonder why some people don't understand that it's obvious to speak in English in communities not specific to one language or country.
Ever thought that the non-English-speaking world (or non-Americans in general for that matter) get annoyed by the hundreds of English language, US-targetted spams they receive every day?
People who don't understand English shouldn't be using the Internet anyway. Not because I don't want them to, but because they would get annoyed very quickly. Not just because of spam... The Orkut user interface is English too, so you can't tell me the Brazilians talk Portugese because they don't know English.
Anyway, I can't say I really dislike the Brazilian communities a lot. However, messages to friends(-of-friends) in a non-English language are stupid. (yes, I also find them stupid when they're in my native language, Dutch) I disabled them for that reason, but that's another story.
More stupid is when I found a post written in Portugese right in the middle of a whole list of English posts in a community with only 15 people. I'm quite sure the person who posted it is the only Brazilian person in the community, so he quite wasted his time. Saw it happen at least one, and the person who posted it didn't seem to care at all...
Yep! Obviously they first give knighthood the person who destroyed the World Wide Web (or at least he does his very best to rename it to the Windows Wide Web), and now they finally give it to the person who created it. Seems logical to me. ;-)
By the way, is it just me, or are the anti-gentoo trolls getting to be quite annoying and abundant?
:-P
They're not half as annoying as the pro-Gentoo trolls.
Running Gentoo on a webserver? Come on, webservers are meant to run Apache and serve as many users as possible, they're not meant to be compiling all day.
But you only compile once.
You never do upgrades? I thought Gentoo users were the ones who always want to be up-to-date with the least stable (but obviously most recent) software...