All Demon and their ilk have to do is not IGNORE the rampant abuse committed by some of their users. Punish those who perpetrate such abuses. Send warnings, inform them of the AUP, cancel their articles, withdrawn their usenet & email access and ban them if necessary.
There'll always be borderline cases, but I have seen spiteful, deliberate racism, slander, death threats and other crap coming from Demon (and other UK ISPs) with nary a warning in sight. The Free ISPs are particularly bad and it should be stamped out right now.
This doesn't settlement doesn't buy Mattel much. The essay demonstrating why their product is so shitty is still out there and is there is enough technical information in it for a proficient programmer to produce a clean room implementation of cphack. Mattel won't own the copyright of that program until they go through the same court rigmarole once more.
I suggest whoever takes up the challenge should hold out for a $2 settlement if it ever gets to court.
Sun is hardly at the leading edge of user interface design. Whoever was resposible for the abominations called NeWS and OpenLook should be taken out and shot.
You can use a proxy, just modify the default prefs file "all.js" to contain your proxy settings. Details are somewhere in the Bugzilla system and numerous Deja articles.
I like that. To see the "shortcut" menu, you have to have two hands free instead of one. Great usability feature that.
Presumably the problem could be solved by plugging in a two or three button mouse but it's dumb that in this day and age Apple computers still ship with single button mouse.
Heh, I like the link to modern window managers pointing to Enlightenment.
Sure it's skinnable but it sucks to use it with Gnome compared to other window managers such as Sawmill. In fact Sawmill runs rings around E and is more modern yet.
No it isn't free, it's "Alphaworks" which means IBM can pull the rug from it at any point (or charge money for it) and you're supposed to delete it from your machine. I believe you're supposed to delete it after 90 days also.
It irks me that Red Hat seem so keen to licence this into their product. What happened to the commitment to keep their stuff GPL'd? I suppose they'll weasel around this by putting it on a supplemental CD or somesuch.
Believe me I don't care too much when Star Wars comes out on DVD since I don't intend to rush to buy them.
The reason? Because the DVDs that will almost certainly appear to drum up interest in Episode 2 and will reappear at regular intervals for years afterwards. There's no hurry to snap them up because they'll be issued ad nauseum for as long as Fox can screw the money from the unwashed masses. Previous campaigns suggest that Fox may play on consumer fears (in a Disneyesque sort of way) that they should be bought now or "they'll be gone forever". It's hogwash of course designed to drum up hysterical panic purchasing.
Besides, I question what the quality of the first DVD releases will be like. Remember Titanic? Rumours abounded that James Cameron was crafting an 18Mb work of love, director's commentary special edition and so on but in the end it turned out to be a non-anamorphic featureless piece of trash (nice sound though). So Fox knows that they can release any old crap at inflated prices and people will buy it.
I would be surprised if the Star Wars DVDs were any different.
So I can happily wait. Maybe things won't happen anything like this, but I don't hold out much hope.
For those who don't know, WAP is the technology to that ties handheld devices to the Internet. Each device receives WML (a XML-compliant display language) that is served via a radio/internet from a normal Internet webserver. The handheld device turns the WML into displayable content depending on it's capabilities (number of lines, input device etc).
Geoworks claim that they thought up the idea to map a device-independent application specification onto a specific user interface in a toolkit they produced a few years back and that WML is infringing on their patent because it is a device (and UI) independent application language.
Yeah right. I suppose that in the whole history of computing, no one has designed a kit whose output is adapted to the limitations of the device it is running on.
Fortunately if I ever go into the business of producing WAP software, I can tell these sharks where they can stick their patent since I happen to live in Europe, a place with reasonably sane patent laws.
Asshole. I hope you wallow in your problems. You're obviously too lazy to investigate the reasons for the problem and too rude to take advice from others.
Apple used to spend their time producing user interfaces designed to make a task easier without compromising on functionality.
How times have changed!
Recent Apple efforts including the derisory Quicktime 4.0 seem more interested in kewl than usable, often at the expense of slashing "expert" features, overriding user preferences and general dumbing down. Perhaps they think advanced features might confuse those addle-brained - and let's face it, stupid - newbies.
So is Aqua any different? Not at all judging by the screenshots. Apple seem more interested in silliness such as transparent menus, aquatic buttons, huge taskbar icons etc. than making efficient use of screen space, adding functionality and making MacOS a true multitasking OS both in spirit and design. You'd think MacOS was a single tasking system by the efforts Apple seem intent on expending to hide windows from the user. Perhaps it will be kewl and usable but I'm not holding my breath.
Star Wars episodes 1, 2, & 3 were released REPEATEDLY in various formats, about once a year or so going back as far back as I can recall. They sold by the bucketload each time because of Fox FUD that they were never going to appear again and other nonsense such as special editions, digital remastering etc.
Are you saying that Fox are going to miss out on potentially 3 or 4 reissues of Star Wars between now and episode 3 and that they'll make more money this way? Of course they won't.
This is why it is highly implausible that Star Wars won't be on DVD until then. More likely, the story is bullshit from Fox and Lucasarts to build up demand for when it does appear, probably somewhere near episode 2.
Go to Bangkok, Thailand and you'll find a building (forgotten the name) that has SIX floors of shops ALL selling pirate VCDs including all of the Star Wars episodes. They sell for about 4-8 bucks a piece.
Frankly the piracy issue is a joke. Most people in the Thailand and other poor Asian countries couldn't afford the originals in the first place since they are ripoff expensive. Therefore for Fox or anyone else to bitch about piracy causing lost revenue is non sequitor since even without piracy they wouldn't be selling anymore discs.
IHMO, the chances that any Star Wars episode will be delayed on DVD for five or so years are so slim as to be ludicrous. IT WON'T HAPPEN!
Fox has and always had a long term plan to drip feed Star Wars releases and DVD is no different. Fans don't come into this except as the saps who are regularly milked to boost the revenues by the latest release.
They have no intention of sitting on a gold mine. No, they will to build up demand by denying that the DVDs will appear anytime soon and then suddenly release them for a limited time so that purchasers frantically snap them up for fear "they'll be gone forever", to quote from a previous marketing campaign. Probably this will be tied in with Episode 2 in some way, such as appearing a few months beforehand to drum up interest in the new movie. Of course, they won't admit this was their original intention - when it happens they'll pretend they caved-in to demand from "the fans".
Expect to see DVD releases in standard, collectors and special edition formats ad nauseum. The "standard" edition will the first - be a pricey DVD with near-zero extras followed by collector's editions with an even bigger pricetag later.
Lucas might try to worm out from his earlier lies by saying the DVD format is now too mainstream to ignore, or that he's listened to the fans and has changed his mind. This is all bollocks of course.
I might be completely wrong in all this, but if no DVD appears in five years, then I'll be happy to retract my opinions.
Too big to download? Yes, the source code might be large but the end executable is small compared to most other browsers. The current binary tarball is about 5-6mb or so on Linux and maybe 30% of that is debugging junk that will go from the final distro. Opera might be smaller but then Mozilla is so much more complete and more standards compliant. Just run some CSS compliance tests to see how dismal Opera is at following modern standards.
Even Mozilla's source code doesn't stand out as being any larger than say, XFree86 or Gnome - and yes Mozilla is a project easily as complex as either of them. You say it's no use but you've obviously never examined the enormous wealth of code it contains. Want a PNG/JPG/GIF reader? It's there. Want a Javascript engine? Want an HTML/XML/CSS parser? Want a cross-platform set of Internet libraries? It's all there plus much, much more.
In other words, Mozilla not just a browser but an extremely rich source of code. Speedwise, perhaps it's slow, but then it's in alpha at the moment. It's better to get the layout and functionality correct in the first place before worrying about ways to optimise it.
On the other hand, Opera is just a closed-source commercial browser, lacking badly in standards compliance. You'll be lucky to get any source code at all, let alone be able to freely modify and distribute it too.
If Amino doesn't even have an operating system then they are a long away from releasing anything.
Besides, QNX is not suitable for desktop PCs. Yes, you can use it (and program it like I have), but its mico-kernel design is meant for embedded and small scale applications. The OS doesn't have even a fraction of the desktop-level software available to Linux. It's always very expensive, especially compared to the licence-free Linux.
Anyway the Amiga is dead so it doesn't matter what OS this new "Amiga" has. It's not an Amiga, it's nothing more than a PowerPC in a fancy box. In fact it's probably not even that if Gateway have retained all the hardware patents made in the last few years.
I have the misfortune of catching this show occasionally while channel hopping and why this thing became a hit is beyond me. The story every week is practically identical with lousy animation and 30% stock footage to boot. What the hell is the point of this show?
I could understand if there was even a glimmer of quality in it all but there isn't. It's garbage pure and simple. I pity the kids who buy into the hype and feel very sorry for the parents too.
No, the proper terminology for Mr Geller is that he is MAGICIAN, a SLIGHT OF HAND ARTIST or a FLIM FLAM. Much like anyone else claiming to be a PSYCHIC or a MYSTIC in fact, though that group also includes the GULLIBLE, the MENTALLY ILL, the DELUDED and CROOKS EXPLOITING THE FORMER.
Spoon bending and all the other clap trap he's famous for have been debunked time and again by magicians who show you exactly how such tricks are performed. The only powers he has are the powers of deception.
8. His amazing trick he does with stupid TV interviewers where he gets them to draw a picture onto a sheet of paper and with "psychic" powers guesses what it is. Invariably it's a house or some other obvious shape that someone peeking could guess easily.
1. Because diffs are a pain in the ass for a product in continuous development. Perhaps if you volunteer to write a script they can stick in their automated build, they'll support it, otherwise use CVS to get updates.
2. Crypto is regulated by the stupid US export control laws. It's highly likely that someone familiar with SSLeay or another free crypto library will retrofit it to Mozilla when it's sufficiently stable to do so.
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There'll always be borderline cases, but I have seen spiteful, deliberate racism, slander, death threats and other crap coming from Demon (and other UK ISPs) with nary a warning in sight. The Free ISPs are particularly bad and it should be stamped out right now.
I suggest whoever takes up the challenge should hold out for a $2 settlement if it ever gets to court.
It's extremely hypocritical for France to accuse anyone of spying since it spies on and monitors it's neighbouring and competing nations too.
Sun is hardly at the leading edge of user interface design. Whoever was resposible for the abominations called NeWS and OpenLook should be taken out and shot.
You can use a proxy, just modify the default prefs file "all.js" to contain your proxy settings. Details are somewhere in the Bugzilla system and numerous Deja articles.
Presumably the problem could be solved by plugging in a two or three button mouse but it's dumb that in this day and age Apple computers still ship with single button mouse.
Sure it's skinnable but it sucks to use it with Gnome compared to other window managers such as Sawmill. In fact Sawmill runs rings around E and is more modern yet.
It irks me that Red Hat seem so keen to licence this into their product. What happened to the commitment to keep their stuff GPL'd? I suppose they'll weasel around this by putting it on a supplemental CD or somesuch.
The reason? Because the DVDs that will almost certainly appear to drum up interest in Episode 2 and will reappear at regular intervals for years afterwards. There's no hurry to snap them up because they'll be issued ad nauseum for as long as Fox can screw the money from the unwashed masses. Previous campaigns suggest that Fox may play on consumer fears (in a Disneyesque sort of way) that they should be bought now or "they'll be gone forever". It's hogwash of course designed to drum up hysterical panic purchasing.
Besides, I question what the quality of the first DVD releases will be like. Remember Titanic? Rumours abounded that James Cameron was crafting an 18Mb work of love, director's commentary special edition and so on but in the end it turned out to be a non-anamorphic featureless piece of trash (nice sound though). So Fox knows that they can release any old crap at inflated prices and people will buy it.
I would be surprised if the Star Wars DVDs were any different.
So I can happily wait. Maybe things won't happen anything like this, but I don't hold out much hope.
Geoworks claim that they thought up the idea to map a device-independent application specification onto a specific user interface in a toolkit they produced a few years back and that WML is infringing on their patent because it is a device (and UI) independent application language.
Yeah right. I suppose that in the whole history of computing, no one has designed a kit whose output is adapted to the limitations of the device it is running on.
Fortunately if I ever go into the business of producing WAP software, I can tell these sharks where they can stick their patent since I happen to live in Europe, a place with reasonably sane patent laws.
Why? For today a new microchip was released! How can I possibly contain myself?
If it weren't for Linus, this processor wouldn't even have garnered 1/50th the interest that it has now.
Go away you sad child.
Twofish might have weaknesses yet to be discovered, but it also has one great strength - it is GPL'd and patent free.
Asshole. I hope you wallow in your problems. You're obviously too lazy to investigate the reasons for the problem and too rude to take advice from others.
How times have changed!
Recent Apple efforts including the derisory Quicktime 4.0 seem more interested in kewl than usable, often at the expense of slashing "expert" features, overriding user preferences and general dumbing down. Perhaps they think advanced features might confuse those addle-brained - and let's face it, stupid - newbies.
So is Aqua any different? Not at all judging by the screenshots. Apple seem more interested in silliness such as transparent menus, aquatic buttons, huge taskbar icons etc. than making efficient use of screen space, adding functionality and making MacOS a true multitasking OS both in spirit and design. You'd think MacOS was a single tasking system by the efforts Apple seem intent on expending to hide windows from the user. Perhaps it will be kewl and usable but I'm not holding my breath.
Star Wars episodes 1, 2, & 3 were released REPEATEDLY in various formats, about once a year or so going back as far back as I can recall. They sold by the bucketload each time because of Fox FUD that they were never going to appear again and other nonsense such as special editions, digital remastering etc.
Are you saying that Fox are going to miss out on potentially 3 or 4 reissues of Star Wars between now and episode 3 and that they'll make more money this way? Of course they won't.
This is why it is highly implausible that Star Wars won't be on DVD until then. More likely, the story is bullshit from Fox and Lucasarts to build up demand for when it does appear, probably somewhere near episode 2.
Frankly the piracy issue is a joke. Most people in the Thailand and other poor Asian countries couldn't afford the originals in the first place since they are ripoff expensive. Therefore for Fox or anyone else to bitch about piracy causing lost revenue is non sequitor since even without piracy they wouldn't be selling anymore discs.
Fox has and always had a long term plan to drip feed Star Wars releases and DVD is no different. Fans don't come into this except as the saps who are regularly milked to boost the revenues by the latest release.
They have no intention of sitting on a gold mine. No, they will to build up demand by denying that the DVDs will appear anytime soon and then suddenly release them for a limited time so that purchasers frantically snap them up for fear "they'll be gone forever", to quote from a previous marketing campaign. Probably this will be tied in with Episode 2 in some way, such as appearing a few months beforehand to drum up interest in the new movie. Of course, they won't admit this was their original intention - when it happens they'll pretend they caved-in to demand from "the fans".
Expect to see DVD releases in standard, collectors and special edition formats ad nauseum. The "standard" edition will the first - be a pricey DVD with near-zero extras followed by collector's editions with an even bigger pricetag later.
Lucas might try to worm out from his earlier lies by saying the DVD format is now too mainstream to ignore, or that he's listened to the fans and has changed his mind. This is all bollocks of course.
I might be completely wrong in all this, but if no DVD appears in five years, then I'll be happy to retract my opinions.
Even Mozilla's source code doesn't stand out as being any larger than say, XFree86 or Gnome - and yes Mozilla is a project easily as complex as either of them. You say it's no use but you've obviously never examined the enormous wealth of code it contains. Want a PNG/JPG/GIF reader? It's there. Want a Javascript engine? Want an HTML/XML/CSS parser? Want a cross-platform set of Internet libraries? It's all there plus much, much more.
In other words, Mozilla not just a browser but an extremely rich source of code. Speedwise, perhaps it's slow, but then it's in alpha at the moment. It's better to get the layout and functionality correct in the first place before worrying about ways to optimise it.
On the other hand, Opera is just a closed-source commercial browser, lacking badly in standards compliance. You'll be lucky to get any source code at all, let alone be able to freely modify and distribute it too.
Besides, QNX is not suitable for desktop PCs. Yes, you can use it (and program it like I have), but its mico-kernel design is meant for embedded and small scale applications. The OS doesn't have even a fraction of the desktop-level software available to Linux. It's always very expensive, especially compared to the licence-free Linux.
Anyway the Amiga is dead so it doesn't matter what OS this new "Amiga" has. It's not an Amiga, it's nothing more than a PowerPC in a fancy box. In fact it's probably not even that if Gateway have retained all the hardware patents made in the last few years.
I could understand if there was even a glimmer of quality in it all but there isn't. It's garbage pure and simple. I pity the kids who buy into the hype and feel very sorry for the parents too.
No, the proper terminology for Mr Geller is that he is MAGICIAN, a SLIGHT OF HAND ARTIST or a FLIM FLAM. Much like anyone else claiming to be a PSYCHIC or a MYSTIC in fact, though that group also includes the GULLIBLE, the MENTALLY ILL, the DELUDED and CROOKS EXPLOITING THE FORMER.
Spoon bending and all the other clap trap he's famous for have been debunked time and again by magicians who show you exactly how such tricks are performed. The only powers he has are the powers of deception.
8. His amazing trick he does with stupid TV interviewers where he gets them to draw a picture onto a sheet of paper and with "psychic" powers guesses what it is. Invariably it's a house or some other obvious shape that someone peeking could guess easily.
Answers:
1. Because diffs are a pain in the ass for a product in continuous development. Perhaps if you volunteer to write a script they can stick in their automated build, they'll support it, otherwise use CVS to get updates.
2. Crypto is regulated by the stupid US export control laws. It's highly likely that someone familiar with SSLeay or another free crypto library will retrofit it to Mozilla when it's sufficiently stable to do so.