...because they are giving away something which is not theirs to give.
They give Time.
Movies need to be ripped and transcoded. Books need to be scanned for OCR (and proofread afterwards). TV episodes need to be DVR'd, and later gathered together into seasons. Sheet music needs to be played and recorded. Games need NoCD cracks.
I mean, who would commit murder to be allowed to buy a book for cheaper (as once the person was dead everyone would be able to publish at just over printing cost, taking the profit away).
Especially when killing them would mean no more good books from that author.
They did learn a lesson: make any problems sound like they were caused by the federal government! They put that expertise to use in the recent oil spill crisis, it worked GREAT.
You forget that Obama is president. I'm not sure I've convinced my family that it wasn't.
The difference is, Facebook came out before the majority of the public had jumped on the social networking bandwagon. Now all their friends are on Facebook, and they won't want to switch out.
But I've had all three installed (if "unpacked into it's own subdirectory" counts) at the same time. Switching was just a matter of closing the version I had running and opening another. They even shared my FF profile.
Ubuntu App Center is repo-dependent. It works because Canonical gets to make sure all the apps play nice with one another.
This is for third parties; letting them distribute a single build that will work on nearly every version of nearly every distro released in the past 6 years.
And in the traditional unix world there were no 'settings in random files all over your disk'; system-wide files went in/etc and user-specific config in $HOME, all in nice text files that could easily be read, modified and backed up. The registry is an utter abomination in comparison (and the Gnome's registry turds are little better).
I assume most current third-party *nix developers are aware of the filesystem etiquette, but what if every two-bit company started developing for it? How many of them would bother to learn doing it the "right" way?
ASIDE: Yes, you think it was clever calling it "see-sharp", but these are the same people who named their mobile operating system "wince", they are not that smart when it comes to basic language... 8-)
We'll need to rename GIMP before we can point and laugh.
I've wondered if giving programmers very low-end workstations for development (with a powerful machine somewhere on the network for compiling) would result in more efficient applications.
If the latter, and given that Firefox will only play Theora today...
It supports WebM too. At least it does in the Betas and Minefield; I haven't used the "stable" release in quite some time so I'm not sure what's there.
Can you just push sync without a password and it work?
Dunno. Like I said, I haven't used it. It does seem to require a Gmail account, but that's all I know.
As for the ABP and NS replacements: do you know whether they block BEFORE the data is downloaded, or after?
There's an option in the AdBlock preferences that says:
Block most ads from even being downloaded, instead of just hiding them. (Beta)
Note that Chrome doesn't fully support this, so a few resources might still be downloaded and hidden if you're on a fast computer.
The only other I'd say I can't live without if needed to is ForecastFox, because as I said weather here can get dangerous REAL fast and when I'm busy working I REALLY don't want my only warning of an approaching tornado to be the warning klaxon.
Here is a ForcastFox for Chrome, though I don't know how it stacks up against the original.
Well, here are the extensions that I know have replacements (the rest I've never used, so I never bothered digging for replacements):
Firefox Sync (multiple PCs in multiple places ALL with the same bookmarks and prefs, nice)
Chrome/Chromium has a sync tool of some sort (Options>>Personal Stuff>>Sync). Don't know how it compares to Firefox Sync, I've used neither.
ABP
AdBlock Supports EasyList. Download blocking is in the options, but it warns that the feature is still in beta.
NoScript
NotScripts
The only real usability difference for me is that you use a pyramid icon in the address bar instead of an S logo in the status bar. And something about having to create a password in a certain config file for security reasons (limitations in Chrome prevent the extension from editing it directly.)
Slashdot Mirror
...because they are giving away something which is not theirs to give.
They give Time.
Movies need to be ripped and transcoded. Books need to be scanned for OCR (and proofread afterwards). TV episodes need to be DVR'd, and later gathered together into seasons. Sheet music needs to be played and recorded. Games need NoCD cracks.
The replication is implemented by a rsync+ssh based push...
Can we make our own private backup via rsync pull?
A d20 would be even better.
I mean, who would commit murder to be allowed to buy a book for cheaper (as once the person was dead everyone would be able to publish at just over printing cost, taking the profit away).
Especially when killing them would mean no more good books from that author.
Any justification for that Rudolf movie?
There are many IPv6 users on bittorrent ;-)
Are we only allowed to hate one company at a time?
Don't Explain The Joke
Here you go.
"Enable javascript to use LMGTFY."
Not even the first one this week.
That page claims the Groundhog idea was posted (by Shuttleworth) in 2005. I'm not holding my breath.
They did learn a lesson: make any problems sound like they were caused by the federal government! They put that expertise to use in the recent oil spill crisis, it worked GREAT.
You forget that Obama is president. I'm not sure I've convinced my family that it wasn't.
I switched to Chromium because my PIII laptop doesn't choke on it.
The difference is, Facebook came out before the majority of the public had jumped on the social networking bandwagon. Now all their friends are on Facebook, and they won't want to switch out.
...the interest rate a saver would get would rise as demand rose for money...
Why? If the banks can't touch the money in savings accounts, they have no reason to have them at all, much less give interest on them.
Running simultaneously? No.
But I've had all three installed (if "unpacked into it's own subdirectory" counts) at the same time. Switching was just a matter of closing the version I had running and opening another. They even shared my FF profile.
For muscle memory, menus just can't compete with a guake, yakuake, or tilda terminal.
Ubuntu App Center is repo-dependent. It works because Canonical gets to make sure all the apps play nice with one another.
This is for third parties; letting them distribute a single build that will work on nearly every version of nearly every distro released in the past 6 years.
And in the traditional unix world there were no 'settings in random files all over your disk'; system-wide files went in /etc and user-specific config in $HOME, all in nice text files that could easily be read, modified and backed up. The registry is an utter abomination in comparison (and the Gnome's registry turds are little better).
I assume most current third-party *nix developers are aware of the filesystem etiquette, but what if every two-bit company started developing for it? How many of them would bother to learn doing it the "right" way?
ASIDE: Yes, you think it was clever calling it "see-sharp", but these are the same people who named their mobile operating system "wince", they are not that smart when it comes to basic language... 8-)
We'll need to rename GIMP before we can point and laugh.
I've wondered if giving programmers very low-end workstations for development (with a powerful machine somewhere on the network for compiling) would result in more efficient applications.
There's a 64-bit Windows version now.
If the latter, and given that Firefox will only play Theora today...
It supports WebM too. At least it does in the Betas and Minefield; I haven't used the "stable" release in quite some time so I'm not sure what's there.
Can you just push sync without a password and it work?
Dunno. Like I said, I haven't used it. It does seem to require a Gmail account, but that's all I know.
As for the ABP and NS replacements: do you know whether they block BEFORE the data is downloaded, or after?
There's an option in the AdBlock preferences that says:
Block most ads from even being downloaded, instead of just hiding them. (Beta)
Note that Chrome doesn't fully support this, so a few resources might still be downloaded and hidden if you're on a fast computer.
The only other I'd say I can't live without if needed to is ForecastFox, because as I said weather here can get dangerous REAL fast and when I'm busy working I REALLY don't want my only warning of an approaching tornado to be the warning klaxon.
Here is a ForcastFox for Chrome, though I don't know how it stacks up against the original.
Firefox Sync (multiple PCs in multiple places ALL with the same bookmarks and prefs, nice)
Chrome/Chromium has a sync tool of some sort (Options>>Personal Stuff>>Sync). Don't know how it compares to Firefox Sync, I've used neither.
ABP
AdBlock
Supports EasyList. Download blocking is in the options, but it warns that the feature is still in beta.
NoScript
NotScripts
The only real usability difference for me is that you use a pyramid icon in the address bar instead of an S logo in the status bar. And something about having to create a password in a certain config file for security reasons (limitations in Chrome prevent the extension from editing it directly.)