"The guy had an itch and he scratched it, there is nothing wrong in that. Not everything that is made has to be useful."
That's true, and so is the fact that Uzbl is about as attractive and useful as a dirty stranger scratching an itch.
A www browser controlled by vim-like key bindings? Well that isn't unique, there are other browsers which do that already, in fact you can do that even with Firefox or Opera, as well as some of the console based browsers. It's the kind of throwback 'feature' that excites impressionable students, idiots, and people who write desperately bad distro/free software reviews where they claim they "fall in love" with "wonderful" "awesome" "elegant" "smooth" "integrated" applications and distros (visit LXer.com for acres of that kind of inane verbiage).
The point was not to have vim-like keybindings. They can be changed easily. That is the point. Change is easy.
And the UNIX philosophy is "do one thing and do it well", not "duplicate something badly for no useful purpose" (c'mon, everyone knows that's the Arch philosophy).
You, sir, are the biggest fucking idiot I have met all day.
It doesn't dupe FF, IE, or Chrome. It displays web pages. That is ALL. Firefox displays them in tabs, along with having bookmarks, skins, downloads, and addons. All internally! IE has nearly as extensive a list (no skins) While Chrome does it with just tabs, downloads, and bookmarks. None of those things are necessary. I like slim. Slim is good. Uzbl is slim. Firefox is not. IE is not. Chrome is not. If you disagree, keep using IE/FF/Chrome. I don't want to.
It, actually is very attractive. Very, very attractive.
*runs off to play with Uzbl wmii scripts*
You sir, are an idiot.
All a web browser should do is render a web page. The things you mentioned are things you do on the web page. The browser does not control those. You can do all of those in Uzbl. But all Uzbl does is render the page.
The PSN and XBL are exclusive, you can only connect to other PSN and XBL users, respectively. It doesn't even have to do with the Floating Point stuff mentioned above. It is quite simply vendor lockin.
The rest of your examples are equally invasive. You seem to want people to be responsible for things they can't possibly be responsible for without violating your rights and spending a lot to do it (which will increase your costs by a lot), lowering service, and treating every customer like a criminal. And in this case, for something that is difficult to put a value on, or know if it's even harmful to anyone.
Truth. Most people are not criminals. By treating everyone like they are, you alienate them and drive prices up at the same time.
Either you:
a) forgot your [/sarcasm] tags,
b) work for the RIAA, or
c) are a complete idiot.
The truth is, no matter how they are branded, most people don't see them as criminals. Since music was created people have been reproducing it. First by playing the song as heard from memory, then by copying tapes (not sure about records, they were before my time), and then CDs, and now by stripping DRM and creating torrents. It will not stop. Ever. Get over it, you lost.
That's because patents are inherently anti-competitive. A patent is a limited-term monopoly expressly granted by the government. That's the whole idea.
And your naive and simplified free market solution is unrealistic. Don't get me wrong. I'm a fan of free markets too. But they're not flawless and universally efficient. If i4i were to compete head-to-head against Microsoft, they would get crushed regardless of the quality of their product.
Fortunately for them, the USPTO has, pursuant to its statutory authority (which is well-grounded in the constitution, unlike about 90% of what the federal government does), granted them a limited monopoly. They now have the right to enforce that monopoly in the courts, which means they get a chance to compete.
The alternative is that MegaCorps get to decide every single product and service that is available to you. There would be no way for disruptive technologies to get a footing. All startups could be crushed at inception, because their ideas (the only asset where they may possibly have an edge on the MegaCorp) would be free for the taking. MegaCorp gets to decide what you can buy and what you can't (and in what form). Sounds like Utopia, huh?
You are quite possibly the smartest person on/. atm. Besides meh.
Took them long enough to debunk this. I have non-computer guru friends who (unknowningly) got DELL netbooks with linux on them, and never noticed a thing.
1) It's SUSE, so yes, RPM
2) Just Xen images right now, but VBox/HyperVM can use the VirtualDisk export option on SUSE Studio
3) It lets you pick a kernel, and lets you add repos, so you could rollyourown and add it to a custom repo, then install on it.
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But doing things in UltraEdit is soooo slow. You have to click through at least 3 menus! I like my d6djjpi.
An unusual reversal of the normal "Does it run on Linux?" posts.
And yes, it does, If you have python
It's not being marketed. At all. STFU and go back to Firefox. This isnt for the masses. It's for us geeks who like slender forms.
"The guy had an itch and he scratched it, there is nothing wrong in that. Not everything that is made has to be useful."
That's true, and so is the fact that Uzbl is about as attractive and useful as a dirty stranger scratching an itch.
A www browser controlled by vim-like key bindings? Well that isn't unique, there are other browsers which do that already, in fact you can do that even with Firefox or Opera, as well as some of the console based browsers. It's the kind of throwback 'feature' that excites impressionable students, idiots, and people who write desperately bad distro/free software reviews where they claim they "fall in love" with "wonderful" "awesome" "elegant" "smooth" "integrated" applications and distros (visit LXer.com for acres of that kind of inane verbiage).
The point was not to have vim-like keybindings. They can be changed easily. That is the point. Change is easy.
And the UNIX philosophy is "do one thing and do it well", not "duplicate something badly for no useful purpose" (c'mon, everyone knows that's the Arch philosophy).
You, sir, are the biggest fucking idiot I have met all day.
It doesn't dupe FF, IE, or Chrome. It displays web pages. That is ALL. Firefox displays them in tabs, along with having bookmarks, skins, downloads, and addons. All internally! IE has nearly as extensive a list (no skins) While Chrome does it with just tabs, downloads, and bookmarks. None of those things are necessary. I like slim. Slim is good. Uzbl is slim. Firefox is not. IE is not. Chrome is not. If you disagree, keep using IE/FF/Chrome. I don't want to.
It, actually is very attractive. Very, very attractive.
*runs off to play with Uzbl wmii scripts*
They have more sense than Microsoft when they (MS) decided to make IE8 based on Trident. Look it up!
You sir, are an idiot. All a web browser should do is render a web page. The things you mentioned are things you do on the web page. The browser does not control those. You can do all of those in Uzbl. But all Uzbl does is render the page.
Get over it, you lost.
That wasn't directed at you. More of the general RIAA-prop direction.
If I pinch myself, will I wake up? *OUCH!!!* Nope, still a nightmare.
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Here's one! It was a small patch, but yeah...
The PSN and XBL are exclusive, you can only connect to other PSN and XBL users, respectively. It doesn't even have to do with the Floating Point stuff mentioned above. It is quite simply vendor lockin.
The rest of your examples are equally invasive. You seem to want people to be responsible for things they can't possibly be responsible for without violating your rights and spending a lot to do it (which will increase your costs by a lot), lowering service, and treating every customer like a criminal. And in this case, for something that is difficult to put a value on, or know if it's even harmful to anyone.
Truth. Most people are not criminals. By treating everyone like they are, you alienate them and drive prices up at the same time.
That, my good friend, is the pathway to hell.
Good thing you're joking!
I love your sense of humor/sarcasm!
You wouldn't believe the number of idiots on /. these days! Oh wait, you would.
You sir, are not one of them, thank God!
And here I forgot my/> tags
Either you: a) forgot your [/sarcasm] tags, b) work for the RIAA, or c) are a complete idiot. The truth is, no matter how they are branded, most people don't see them as criminals. Since music was created people have been reproducing it. First by playing the song as heard from memory, then by copying tapes (not sure about records, they were before my time), and then CDs, and now by stripping DRM and creating torrents. It will not stop. Ever. Get over it, you lost.
Just STFU and let us have our way already. Remember who pays your paycheck!
Wow. Just wow. Do yourself a favor next time, and look up the meaning of sarcasm.
That's because patents are inherently anti-competitive. A patent is a limited-term monopoly expressly granted by the government. That's the whole idea.
And your naive and simplified free market solution is unrealistic. Don't get me wrong. I'm a fan of free markets too. But they're not flawless and universally efficient. If i4i were to compete head-to-head against Microsoft, they would get crushed regardless of the quality of their product.
Fortunately for them, the USPTO has, pursuant to its statutory authority (which is well-grounded in the constitution, unlike about 90% of what the federal government does), granted them a limited monopoly. They now have the right to enforce that monopoly in the courts, which means they get a chance to compete.
The alternative is that MegaCorps get to decide every single product and service that is available to you. There would be no way for disruptive technologies to get a footing. All startups could be crushed at inception, because their ideas (the only asset where they may possibly have an edge on the MegaCorp) would be free for the taking. MegaCorp gets to decide what you can buy and what you can't (and in what form). Sounds like Utopia, huh?
You are quite possibly the smartest person on /. atm. Besides meh.
(there was a time WMV files were not supported, now you can play them out of the box).
There, fixed that for you. For once this isn't a joke...
Took them long enough to debunk this. I have non-computer guru friends who (unknowningly) got DELL netbooks with linux on them, and never noticed a thing.
He forgot his tags. The [/sarcasm] ones.
1) It's SUSE, so yes, RPM
2) Just Xen images right now, but VBox/HyperVM can use the VirtualDisk export option on SUSE Studio
3) It lets you pick a kernel, and lets you add repos, so you could rollyourown and add it to a custom repo, then install on it.
right-wing (or just moronic) redtops, and echoed mindlessly by the BBC
I would hardly call the BBC right wing. Maybe center, but definately not right. More to the middling left.