This is a pile stinking fetid dingoes kidneys. I installed a linux nightly build about a week ago, installed the java plugin and others which I keep locally on my harddisk as I am a compulisive nightly builder. I can say it runs better than ever, especially if you don't install the java. The reason loading times are so long with java are the same reasons why it took forever with netscape 4. Once that damn java is loaded though, no wait times on any web page with it, unlike IE which starts crunching away. But linux users don't shut things down, now do they?
As to flash, runs fine, don't know what your talking about.
and the last part of your argument, well thats just mean man! If you find this sort of stuff irking you, don't run it! or if you care, which its obvoius you do, then try to help in some way, either by downloading nightly builds and submitting bug reports, or actually changing the code to your liking (i don't, but i don't whine about useless things and complain when they don't get fixed when all the tools are laid out before me either)
At times like these it makes you wonder. For all accounts it sounds like the system works great, right? So why change it? I've heard a lot of EE's make jokes about the CS field being about "if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features."
What we have here is a converse, a return to the old "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." If users are able to use Outlook if they want, then who the hell cares what it runs on? The only thing that matters is that it stays up, which from what I've *NIX is the way to go;-).
Acutally, the really clever thing you could do with that would be launch msword as your shell for windows if thats all you wanted to do with it, and cut down on overhead even more (as well as space). Sorry just my brain in overload mode in the middle of the night, need cigarette.
Know if it runs OS2, or BeOS? I'm saying this simply as an exercise, its funny that we immediately attempt to get windows on this thingy before anything else. Well, Microsoft did write OS2, but that's beside the point, alright!!??
Anyways, its wicked cool, and I hope to see more. It'd be cool to see something like BeOS run in there, in fact that would make my day.
I know what you are talking about, I saw a very similar article a couple of years ago in a computer rag. Couldn't find that much on details either, but it was fastenating if it (fingers crossed) wasn't vapor ware. It seems plausible enough. Stick electrodes in brain, describe movement to patient, patient attempts (fails) but synapses go off, triggering little impulses to allow the movement of stuff. No controlling that would be hard (but oh so user friendly).
A little more detail:
The goal of the project is to create a small footprint web browser that uses the gecko core. So tada! I think thats what you are looking for!
Netscape employees, as mentioned by a few posts here already, are the major contributors to the mozilla project. Just look over the bug reports, most of them say "submitted by XXXXX@netscape.com."
In the RMS sense of this, it's wrong, but most people don't fully agree with his philosophy so that wrong can be ruled out. Plus, if you really want to stay on top of things, the Netscape release is simply a commercial version of web browser that you can grab for free minus commercials at that well known site
So what's the fuss? You don't have to use NS6, you can simply use mozilla. Plus that claim that IE doesn't pat itself on the back and feed itself by providing links to other sites for doe is bullshit, try a default install of IE sometime. It has the nerve of asking you if you want a free hotmail account before you can load it, plus making it nigh impossible to delete the Links section out of the favorites menu bar. At least netscape allowed me to completely wipe my bookmarks with relative ease [i hate any bookmarks, especially ones that aren't mine].
Now I can see koalas and kangoroos go about their daily lives eating the euycaliptis trees and bouncing around carelessly. A whole new avenue of NET entertainment has come my way!!!!
happy happy joy joy:-)
Maybe I'll sound like a luddite saying this, but believe, that's wicked far from the truth. You should ask yourself how much you really need a cellphone if money is a problem. I've made into some interesting places in this world, but have never been far from a good ol' pay phone (even the highways have them these days), so the pain of having an additional phone should be looked at very carefully.
When I finally get out from the shadow of sharing an apartment and making some real green, I am considering getting a cellphone, but sans normal phone. The purpose of having a cellphone is conveinence, but many people I've seen with them either:
A)Leave them at home half the time
B)take them with them and then wonder why they get called at the wrong times...
I dunno, just seems like a waste if it isn't used right...
They're gonna have a lot of fun with our firewall/router/nat. Its right in front of me, located in Worcester, MA (yes, near boston) but our dumbass dsl company likes to route all of its traffic through san jose, CA. So as far as they're concerened, I'm in CA.
Oh well, they aren't the first to presume this [mapquest, lycos, excite, myav are all culprits too]. It's kind of funny when you think about it.
Browsing at three right now I see at least one post stating "Why do I have to pay for this?". Well, it seems that in terms of a long term goal the governement can actually make a profit from providing cheap high speed internet access to the masses. The other reason they chose to do this is to give their province a head start into the communications market, which means big bucks for everyone, you can't knock a gov't for trying man.
This post made while intoxicated so no spell cheakers please:-)
Imagine your Rob in college and making this website in your spare time. Slowly it grows, and before you know its the end all be all for Open Source groupies and trolls. You choose MySQL because its easy, and readily available.
How the hell do you port that to another DB program easily, think about the sheer size of slashdot, or any other website stuck on one type of DB. That's why he's excited and not changing. Myself, I'm working on making a dynamic website and im using mysql right too, because its there, no other real reason.
So for all of you who want slashdot to use a _real_ DB, download slashcode and change it, its there, I bet Rob (and I) have bigger problems to worry about.
No I don't know him personally, but neither do you
How about projects to detect the types of errors a failing (typically, overheated) cpu produces, and adjust the scheduler accordingly to insert idle time and cool down the cpu?
Now I am kinda "new" here [coming up to a year]. Now if I look at my user id number its 131444. If you look at his its 1219. Any idiot can do the math and realize that 130225 users registered in between me and him. What this means, even to someone "new" like me is that he has got respect, repect that an AC does not have. He also has corrabarating evidence. You have none, NONE!!! Do you understand that?
But really, leave reasoning to people who are capable of it. For now, just repeat after me: If somebody with a nick says the sky is green, and an AC says it's blue, the guy with the nick is still a moron and the AC is still right, regardless of which statement is associated with which name.
He can reason better than you can. Your empirical anylsis has one major flaw which cannot be said enough, because you don't seem to listen: NO EVIDENCE, nothing, in fact all evidence suggests the opposite. I am in no way saying malda, roblimo, or anyone is god/deserves more respect than another human. But when everything points towards/. and kuro5hin getting along like friends, especially with kuro5hin current page providing links to discuss on/., claiming a viewpoint like this is just dumb.
Not done yet...
You also claimed in your original post that/. and kuro5hin were "competitors" of somekind. How so?/. is up there with sites like arstechnica ZDnet and C|net. Kuro5hin is a hobbiest site done in its spare time for chrissake. They've even said on the blackout page that they are considering moving the focus to nicks only to avoid DOS attacks, and you are posting as an AC here. Ha! That's just funny.
Napster Inc has just released the following news: In order to resolve the problems and issues of mp3 file sharing and copyright violation, napster has decided that the best move is.. to move to Sealand! Said the spokesman of the soon to be founded Data Haven, "It's good to see such a high profile company taking advantage of our no holds barred data network that we will be providing on [insert date here]." Napster founder Fanning has been heard to say, "Heheheh, just gotta keep us out of jail until this baby flys, and were outa here, so long suckers!" Napster is also rumored to be considering supplying its own "official" merchandise at the same time with the logo imblazoned on the front and the words "Fuck metallica, fuck The Offspring, and Fuck You!" on the back. Projected sales figures are not yet currently available. Why do they say road works when it doesn't?
Napster Inc has just released the following news: In order to resolve the problems and issues of mp3 file sharing and copyright violation, napster has decided that the best move is.. to move to Sealand! Said the spokesman of the soon to be founded Data Haven, "It's good to see such a high profile company taking advantage of our no holds barred data network that we will be providing on [insert date here]."
Napster founder Fanning has been heard to say, "Heheheh, just gotta keep us out of jail until this baby flys, and were outa here, so long suckers!" Napster is also rumored to be considering supplying its own "official" merchandise at the same time with the logo imblazoned on the front and the words "Fuck metallica, fuck The Offspring, and Fuck You!" on the back. Projected sales figures are not yet currently available.
My friends, we have a chance to become Big Publishing's worst nightmare. Not only are we going glueless, look Ma, no e-Book! No tiresome encryption! Want to print it and show it to a friend? Go ahead! There's only one catch: all this is on the honor system. Has to be. I'm counting on two things. The first is plain old honesty. "Take what you want and pay for it," as the old saying goes. The second is that you'll like the story enough to want to read more. If you do want more, you have to pay. Remember: Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy!
It seems king might be on the same side of the fence as us. Maybe get a slashdot interview? [or maybe there already has been one, i dunno] Anyways, it seems King is angry at the publishers just as much as we are against the notion of being told what music or movies to listen/watch. Throw books into the mix along with software, and we got our new "free" economy. Yeah baby!
Seriously. I mean, right now im in Uni. in the states, but England seems to have to right idea about a lot of stuff, especially the net. For some reason you yanks despise pr0n and view it as evil, wrong, and stuff. I view it as b00bs, but that's beyond the point.
Then in france, yahoo's got the great job of trying to explain to some crufy frog judge how it can't really prevent frenchies from viewing all of their auctions without seriously crippling, or outright stopping, french access to yahoo. [but then you have Ebay, lycos, anyother portal you choose].
So, what does England do with this whole internet thingy? They allow one of their princeipalities to go ahead and create a data haven, just like how we already have offshore banking. Yeah! Expect that place to be blackholed by a few providers in this facist, Anti-DeCSS country.... [just you try dealing with regionalization and paying 45 bucks for a DVD!]
We might finally have another decent LucasArts game. Has anyone else noticed that after [i think it was] jedi knight that it went down the evil, insidious path of console gaming. Once upon a time LucasArts made quality stuff, and while there are Pod racer fans, I miss the in depth games of X-wing [and clones], as well as Jedi Knight and a few others. They were quality man.
So now we have this to look forward to. Please don't fsck this one up LA! Please, I'm begging you. Use the force, take id's stance of "ready when it's ready," just please please give me another star wars game I can play until I fail out of school again [now college - hehe higher stakes].
A little information for the clueless: J.P. Barlow (or that dude in the letter) is one of the founding members of the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). What does that mean? He's standing by the side of the guy who created DeCSS. His experience as a musician was as a band member for the Grateful Dead, and around the early nineties he became a spokesperson for this beautiful new medium, otherwise known as the Internet. Barlow's point in the letter is not that IP is bad, or obselete, but that the MPAA/RIAA/etc is trying to wave the flag of protecting the artist while actually ripping them off and preventing them from choosing their own means of distribution. Barlow far from believes that the sole reason for an artist to create is for monetary gain, but also acknowledges the fact that in order to create you need some means of sustaining yourself. In other words, we need to make the MPAA/RIAA remember what they are there for: US. How do we do this? Well conventional means are not getting anywhere, and this is the point of his letter: We need to make them our bitches. Need to make them realize that if they don't start dealing with the new way things are dealt with, the good will go down with the bad. The reason they don't want to do this, is as you so eloquently put it, "stupid greedy people." They are perfectly happy to try to max out their profits or die trying instead of losing a bit for everyone's gain. Imagine an archive full of material of artist's work freely accessible, where you could never listen to same song ever, or else listen to the same one just as long. Everyone would be enriched, but it ain't profitable guv'. Ah, it's a Catch-22.
Exactly why I always keep my status bar displayed. Hate sites that turn it off for me, it's that whole shite happening behind your back stuff that really gets me.... Oh well, at least privacy statements at least try be honest ("we will only provide your email address and account information to people that we are affiliated with, but will never sell it...")
Slashdot Mirror
As to flash, runs fine, don't know what your talking about.
and the last part of your argument, well thats just mean man! If you find this sort of stuff irking you, don't run it! or if you care, which its obvoius you do, then try to help in some way, either by downloading nightly builds and submitting bug reports, or actually changing the code to your liking (i don't, but i don't whine about useless things and complain when they don't get fixed when all the tools are laid out before me either)
At times like these it makes you wonder. For all accounts it sounds like the system works great, right? So why change it? I've heard a lot of EE's make jokes about the CS field being about "if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features."
;-).
What we have here is a converse, a return to the old "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." If users are able to use Outlook if they want, then who the hell cares what it runs on? The only thing that matters is that it stays up, which from what I've *NIX is the way to go
Acutally, the really clever thing you could do with that would be launch msword as your shell for windows if thats all you wanted to do with it, and cut down on overhead even more (as well as space). Sorry just my brain in overload mode in the middle of the night, need cigarette.
Know if it runs OS2, or BeOS? I'm saying this simply as an exercise, its funny that we immediately attempt to get windows on this thingy before anything else. Well, Microsoft did write OS2, but that's beside the point, alright!!??
Anyways, its wicked cool, and I hope to see more. It'd be cool to see something like BeOS run in there, in fact that would make my day.
I know what you are talking about, I saw a very similar article a couple of years ago in a computer rag. Couldn't find that much on details either, but it was fastenating if it (fingers crossed) wasn't vapor ware. It seems plausible enough. Stick electrodes in brain, describe movement to patient, patient attempts (fails) but synapses go off, triggering little impulses to allow the movement of stuff. No controlling that would be hard (but oh so user friendly).
A little more detail:
The goal of the project is to create a small footprint web browser that uses the gecko core. So tada! I think thats what you are looking for!
In the RMS sense of this, it's wrong, but most people don't fully agree with his philosophy so that wrong can be ruled out. Plus, if you really want to stay on top of things, the Netscape release is simply a commercial version of web browser that you can grab for free minus commercials at that well known site
So what's the fuss? You don't have to use NS6, you can simply use mozilla. Plus that claim that IE doesn't pat itself on the back and feed itself by providing links to other sites for doe is bullshit, try a default install of IE sometime. It has the nerve of asking you if you want a free hotmail account before you can load it, plus making it nigh impossible to delete the Links section out of the favorites menu bar. At least netscape allowed me to completely wipe my bookmarks with relative ease [i hate any bookmarks, especially ones that aren't mine].
No more crappy coffee pot cams for me!
:-)
Now I can see koalas and kangoroos go about their daily lives eating the euycaliptis trees and bouncing around carelessly. A whole new avenue of NET entertainment has come my way!!!!
happy happy joy joy
Maybe I'll sound like a luddite saying this, but believe, that's wicked far from the truth. You should ask yourself how much you really need a cellphone if money is a problem. I've made into some interesting places in this world, but have never been far from a good ol' pay phone (even the highways have them these days), so the pain of having an additional phone should be looked at very carefully.
When I finally get out from the shadow of sharing an apartment and making some real green, I am considering getting a cellphone, but sans normal phone. The purpose of having a cellphone is conveinence, but many people I've seen with them either:
A)Leave them at home half the time
B)take them with them and then wonder why they get called at the wrong times...
I dunno, just seems like a waste if it isn't used right...
I liked waterworld!
Am i wrong? Oh no, I'm going against groupthink, arrrgggghhhh!
They're gonna have a lot of fun with our firewall/router/nat. Its right in front of me, located in Worcester, MA (yes, near boston) but our dumbass dsl company likes to route all of its traffic through san jose, CA. So as far as they're concerened, I'm in CA.
Oh well, they aren't the first to presume this [mapquest, lycos, excite, myav are all culprits too]. It's kind of funny when you think about it.
Browsing at three right now I see at least one post stating "Why do I have to pay for this?". Well, it seems that in terms of a long term goal the governement can actually make a profit from providing cheap high speed internet access to the masses. The other reason they chose to do this is to give their province a head start into the communications market, which means big bucks for everyone, you can't knock a gov't for trying man. :-)
This post made while intoxicated so no spell cheakers please
How the hell do you port that to another DB program easily, think about the sheer size of slashdot, or any other website stuck on one type of DB. That's why he's excited and not changing. Myself, I'm working on making a dynamic website and im using mysql right too, because its there, no other real reason.
So for all of you who want slashdot to use a _real_ DB, download slashcode and change it, its there, I bet Rob (and I) have bigger problems to worry about.
No I don't know him personally, but neither do you
Don't worry, transmeta has got this covered ;)
I'll take it off you if you are serious.....
how much?
But really, leave reasoning to people who are capable of it. For now, just repeat after me: If somebody with a nick says the sky is green, and an AC says it's blue, the guy with the nick is still a moron and the AC is still right, regardless of which statement is associated with which name.
He can reason better than you can. Your empirical anylsis has one major flaw which cannot be said enough, because you don't seem to listen: NO EVIDENCE, nothing, in fact all evidence suggests the opposite. I am in no way saying malda, roblimo, or anyone is god/deserves more respect than another human. But when everything points towards /. and kuro5hin getting along like friends, especially with kuro5hin current page providing links to discuss on /., claiming a viewpoint like this is just dumb.
Not done yet...
You also claimed in your original post that /. and kuro5hin were "competitors" of somekind. How so? /. is up there with sites like arstechnica ZDnet and C|net. Kuro5hin is a hobbiest site done in its spare time for chrissake. They've even said on the blackout page that they are considering moving the focus to nicks only to avoid DOS attacks, and you are posting as an AC here. Ha! That's just funny.
I'll go now
Napster Inc has just released the following news: In order to resolve the problems and issues of mp3 file sharing and copyright violation, napster has decided that the best move is.. to move to Sealand! Said the spokesman of the soon to be founded Data Haven, "It's good to see such a high profile company taking advantage of our no holds barred data network that we will be providing on [insert date here]." Napster founder Fanning has been heard to say, "Heheheh, just gotta keep us out of jail until this baby flys, and were outa here, so long suckers!" Napster is also rumored to be considering supplying its own "official" merchandise at the same time with the logo imblazoned on the front and the words "Fuck metallica, fuck The Offspring, and Fuck You!" on the back. Projected sales figures are not yet currently available. Why do they say road works when it doesn't?
Napster founder Fanning has been heard to say, "Heheheh, just gotta keep us out of jail until this baby flys, and were outa here, so long suckers!" Napster is also rumored to be considering supplying its own "official" merchandise at the same time with the logo imblazoned on the front and the words "Fuck metallica, fuck The Offspring, and Fuck You!" on the back. Projected sales figures are not yet currently available.
It seems king might be on the same side of the fence as us. Maybe get a slashdot interview? [or maybe there already has been one, i dunno] Anyways, it seems King is angry at the publishers just as much as we are against the notion of being told what music or movies to listen/watch. Throw books into the mix along with software, and we got our new "free" economy. Yeah baby!
Then in france, yahoo's got the great job of trying to explain to some crufy frog judge how it can't really prevent frenchies from viewing all of their auctions without seriously crippling, or outright stopping, french access to yahoo. [but then you have Ebay, lycos, anyother portal you choose].
So, what does England do with this whole internet thingy? They allow one of their princeipalities to go ahead and create a data haven, just like how we already have offshore banking. Yeah! Expect that place to be blackholed by a few providers in this facist, Anti-DeCSS country.... [just you try dealing with regionalization and paying 45 bucks for a DVD!]
Ahhh, if only the opposite were true. No more nagging uncle sam...
So now we have this to look forward to. Please don't fsck this one up LA! Please, I'm begging you. Use the force, take id's stance of "ready when it's ready," just please please give me another star wars game I can play until I fail out of school again [now college - hehe higher stakes].
A little information for the clueless:
J.P. Barlow (or that dude in the letter) is one of the founding members of the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). What does that mean? He's standing by the side of the guy who created DeCSS. His experience as a musician was as a band member for the Grateful Dead, and around the early nineties he became a spokesperson for this beautiful new medium, otherwise known as the Internet. Barlow's point in the letter is not that IP is bad, or obselete, but that the MPAA/RIAA/etc is trying to wave the flag of protecting the artist while actually ripping them off and preventing them from choosing their own means of distribution. Barlow far from believes that the sole reason for an artist to create is for monetary gain, but also acknowledges the fact that in order to create you need some means of sustaining yourself. In other words, we need to make the MPAA/RIAA remember what they are there for: US. How do we do this? Well conventional means are not getting anywhere, and this is the point of his letter: We need to make them our bitches. Need to make them realize that if they don't start dealing with the new way things are dealt with, the good will go down with the bad. The reason they don't want to do this, is as you so eloquently put it, "stupid greedy people." They are perfectly happy to try to max out their profits or die trying instead of losing a bit for everyone's gain. Imagine an archive full of material of artist's work freely accessible, where you could never listen to same song ever, or else listen to the same one just as long. Everyone would be enriched, but it ain't profitable guv'. Ah, it's a Catch-22.
This has gotta be jon katz, but where is the post-columbine reference?
Exactly why I always keep my status bar displayed. Hate sites that turn it off for me, it's that whole shite happening behind your back stuff that really gets me....
Oh well, at least privacy statements at least try be honest ("we will only provide your email address and account information to people that we are affiliated with, but will never sell it...")