It's worth noting that Google Base, among other things, duplicates core ebay functionality (listings for sale of goods and services), free of charge, as is the Google way.
Kubuntu is fully free (supported by a non-profit foundation, and not tied to a commercial distro or the whims of random flailing companies), and will always use KDE, becuase it's userbase/community driven.
I've laughed at a lot of funny hoaxes before, but this one is the first that's had me pointing and hooting embarrassingly while uncontrollably choking saliva out my nose!
Okay, you monster-modding idiots, the post above is supposed to be *funny*! Flamebait!? Just how uptight and insecure can you get? The baby jebus wept, already.
As an American living in Sydney, I just don't understand the download thing, because we get plenty of sh*t American TV free-to-air, and even more on the 20 bazillion channels on Foxtel Digital Cable (the most advanced digital TV network in the world, BTW, used to deliver mostly sh*t American TV downunder!)
And *what* are they downloading, the Brits and the Aussies? Sh*t American TV, mostly. It's sad, really sad.
A mate of mine is a doctor, and he spends half of his spar time downloading sh*t American TV (24 hours, ugh! 24hrs of pain!), then burning off VCDs or DVDs and handing them out. Although, I must admit, I wouldn't have seen Penn & Teller's BULLSHIT otherwise!
The same can be said for most regular Software Engineers.
While 80% of them would be okay admining their own boxes (generally just leaving things alone, as the smart ones recognize that they should spend their time working rather than tinkering), the remaining 20% who are overly stupid or stubborn would wreak havoc for the rest. Yes, I've seen it happen!
I know your type -- you've found a nice little money-maker with SciFinder, and you don't want to lose it, even at the expense of stifling the free and unencumbered flow of scientific information.
I think you should know, you'll anger many of your intended 'grassroots' with this move, which is, in my opinion, unethical.
I'm a chemist, and I sincerely hope that the ACS either mends its ways, or is squarely put in its place by Google and tide of changing times!
I believe that organizations like DMOZ should have the ability to quickly react, perhaps in protest, to situations like this one.
For example, rigorous semantic information attached to every DMOZ record would allow the DMOZ community to suspend or flag all information related to the Turkish government, in protest of the current situation. Such a capability could easily be abused or taken too far, which is why it should be reserved only for situations which have direct effect on the organization (and/or its editors, in the case of DMOZ).
With enough open (as in speech) organizations touching enough people in the world, both major and minor misbehavior by governments around the would could be brought to light in this way.
I'm utterly stunned that these changes are even under consideration, and at taxpayer expense!
I live currently in Sydney, Australia. I have a US VoIP phone number on NDNCL, with extra anti-marketing features, and *still* manage to receive unsolicited calls from businesses that I never authorized to make such calls. I sometimes enjoy joking with the callers, "Yes, New South Wales is really a state. I don't know why it doesn't show up on your computer. Didn't you know, Australia is part of America now?"
I believe that telephone number disclosure (some outfits demand a telephone number to conduct business) should include written opt-in consent for use of that telephone number beyond the scope of the immediate transaction.
I've often remarked how much I like 'free' local calls within the USA, as opposed to most other places in the world where each call receives a flagfall. I'm beginning now to see the benefit of a caller-pays system, at least in the case of 'business-to-consumer' calls!
Yes, a stripped down windows would be useless to Joe Average, but probably the only fair & legal practice given MS's monopoly in desktop operating systems.
All of the extra stuff in Windows should go into the Plus pack, something which Joe Average wouldn't want to live without.
However, I expect MS would do other hardball things like allowing IE to be distributed only in the plus pack, thus forcing the installation of the plus pack for any software that requires IE (MS Office, Quicken, etc.).
Try a Palm Tungsten + Power48, an HP48 emulator for PalmOS 5.
Since you already have a dying HP48, you can probably claim fair use of the HP48 ROM image, although IANAL.
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IIRC, a few years back Sun improved Solaris boot times by combining many of the common commands found in boot scripts into one fat binary.
Although this approach appears very un-unix-like (it flies in the face of the one small tool for each task philosophy), it is possible because of a specific unixism: a program may be invoked by from a filesystem link with a different name; the program being run can find out what name was used to invoke it and behave accordingly.
Perhaps Mono has been overlooked as a large factor in Novell's purchase of Ximian and general alliance with Linux.
Becoming a leader in Mono development would allow Novell to be seen as going head-to-head with Microsoft's flagship,.NET, in the ultimate "embrace and extend" (Open Source Software).
I browse slashdot with lynx from my 14.4 dialup (yes, other than the odd email, slashdot is all I do online) and pride myself that my monthly average is always UNDER 8 MB. This media maddness on the Internet must stop!
I'm using Mozilla with Debian Linux, XFree86 4.1, FreeType, gdkxft, and a 1024x768 digital LCD (laptop).
Font smoothing is done at a resolution of 3072x768 making The X Windows System a better platform than most Macs for web browsing. Granted the font smoothing algorithm in OSX is better, but FreeType+gdkxft provides 3x the number of pixels to work with!
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It's worth noting that Google Base, among other things, duplicates core ebay functionality (listings for sale of goods and services), free of charge, as is the Google way.
Go Google!
Kubuntu, anyone?
Kubuntu is fully free (supported by a non-profit foundation, and not tied to a commercial distro or the whims of random flailing companies), and will always use KDE, becuase it's userbase/community driven.
I've laughed at a lot of funny hoaxes before, but this one is the first that's had me pointing and hooting embarrassingly while uncontrollably choking saliva out my nose!
Ever consider a Google Search Appliance (like the Google Mini) at your workplace?
Okay, the Executive Pong is pretty cool, but I'd rather have a PONGMECHANIK!
Okay, you monster-modding idiots, the post above is supposed to be *funny*! Flamebait!? Just how uptight and insecure can you get? The baby jebus wept, already.
As an American living in Sydney, I just don't understand the download thing, because we get plenty of sh*t American TV free-to-air, and even more on the 20 bazillion channels on Foxtel Digital Cable (the most advanced digital TV network in the world, BTW, used to deliver mostly sh*t American TV downunder!)
And *what* are they downloading, the Brits and the Aussies? Sh*t American TV, mostly. It's sad, really sad.
A mate of mine is a doctor, and he spends half of his spar time downloading sh*t American TV (24 hours, ugh! 24hrs of pain!), then burning off VCDs or DVDs and handing them out. Although, I must admit, I wouldn't have seen Penn & Teller's BULLSHIT otherwise!
The same can be said for most regular Software Engineers.
While 80% of them would be okay admining their own boxes (generally just leaving things alone, as the smart ones recognize that they should spend their time working rather than tinkering), the remaining 20% who are overly stupid or stubborn would wreak havoc for the rest. Yes, I've seen it happen!
Dear ACS,
Shame on you and your lawsuit against Google!
I know your type -- you've found a nice little money-maker with SciFinder, and you don't want to lose it, even at the expense of stifling the free and unencumbered flow of scientific information.
I think you should know, you'll anger many of your intended 'grassroots' with this move, which is, in my opinion, unethical.
I'm a chemist, and I sincerely hope that the ACS either mends its ways, or is squarely put in its place by Google and tide of changing times!
Sincerely,
David Hart
Skr1pt K1dd13: What, no Windows??
IBM+Sony+World+Dog: Windows is irrelevant.
I believe that organizations like DMOZ should have the ability to quickly react, perhaps in protest, to situations like this one.
For example, rigorous semantic information attached to every DMOZ record would allow the DMOZ community to suspend or flag all information related to the Turkish government, in protest of the current situation. Such a capability could easily be abused or taken too far, which is why it should be reserved only for situations which have direct effect on the organization (and/or its editors, in the case of DMOZ).
With enough open (as in speech) organizations touching enough people in the world, both major and minor misbehavior by governments around the would could be brought to light in this way.
I'm utterly stunned that these changes are even under consideration, and at taxpayer expense!
I live currently in Sydney, Australia. I have a US VoIP phone number on NDNCL, with extra anti-marketing features, and *still* manage to receive unsolicited calls from businesses that I never authorized to make such calls. I sometimes enjoy joking with the callers, "Yes, New South Wales is really a state. I don't know why it doesn't show up on your computer. Didn't you know, Australia is part of America now?"
I believe that telephone number disclosure (some outfits demand a telephone number to conduct business) should include written opt-in consent for use of that telephone number beyond the scope of the immediate transaction.
I've often remarked how much I like 'free' local calls within the USA, as opposed to most other places in the world where each call receives a flagfall. I'm beginning now to see the benefit of a caller-pays system, at least in the case of 'business-to-consumer' calls!
An interesting deeper analysis of why hard-coded rules are unsafe in any thinking machine can be found at 3 Laws Unsafe.
I can't believe that guy is a top executive of a major corporation.
Really? Just wait until you see the monkey boy dance (mirrors).
Open Source Speech Recognition - With Source
Does it come "with au jus sauce" ?
Would that make it "with with source source" ?
The thing is, Apple is a fashionable company.
The thing is, Apple is a fashion company.
Yes, a stripped down windows would be useless to Joe Average, but probably the only fair & legal practice given MS's monopoly in desktop operating systems.
All of the extra stuff in Windows should go into the Plus pack, something which Joe Average wouldn't want to live without.
However, I expect MS would do other hardball things like allowing IE to be distributed only in the plus pack, thus forcing the installation of the plus pack for any software that requires IE (MS Office, Quicken, etc.).
Try a Palm Tungsten + Power48, an HP48 emulator for PalmOS 5.
Since you already have a dying HP48, you can probably claim fair use of the HP48 ROM image, although IANAL.
IIRC, a few years back Sun improved Solaris boot times by combining many of the common commands found in boot scripts into one fat binary.
Although this approach appears very un-unix-like (it flies in the face of the one small tool for each task philosophy), it is possible because of a specific unixism: a program may be invoked by from a filesystem link with a different name; the program being run can find out what name was used to invoke it and behave accordingly.
Perhaps Mono has been overlooked as a large factor in Novell's purchase of Ximian and general alliance with Linux. Becoming a leader in Mono development would allow Novell to be seen as going head-to-head with Microsoft's flagship, .NET, in the ultimate "embrace and extend" (Open Source Software).
The scary thing is, when I read this post, the voice in my head was that of Christian Bale (Patrick Bateman from American Psycho ).
Here's an interesting product, Timbercrete made onsite from sawdust and cement.
It's cheaper and a better insulator than stone (and just about anything else for that matter).
I'd guess that, if sealed properly, it could last for hundreds of years.
Mozilla components are installed separately on Debian systems. Package names include:
mozilla-browser
mozilla-psm
mozilla-mailnews
mozilla-dom-inspector
mozilla-chat
8 MB! Are you insane ?
I browse slashdot with lynx from my 14.4 dialup (yes, other than the odd email, slashdot is all I do online) and pride myself that my monthly average is always UNDER 8 MB. This media maddness on the Internet must stop!
I'm using Mozilla with Debian Linux, XFree86 4.1, FreeType, gdkxft, and a 1024x768 digital LCD (laptop).
Font smoothing is done at a resolution of 3072x768 making The X Windows System a better platform than most Macs for web browsing. Granted the font smoothing algorithm in OSX is better, but FreeType+gdkxft provides 3x the number of pixels to work with!