This bug has been around for ages. Whoever moderated him down as a troll posted to the thread. His -1 score was revoked but the Troll tag remained there. This has nothing to do with Slashcode 2.
Aww, how sweet that IBM would take the time to set up a tribute page to their very own system that started a revolution.
Maybe Malda can set up a "3 years of CmdrTaco - A Tribute To Myself" page on Slashdot to honor the anniversary of Slashdot and everything great that has became of it.;)
That hand is where you are supposed to rest your hand when you type, if I am looking at it correctly. It seems a bit akward, yes. I'll stick with my keyboard for now:)
In sixth grade, our school had old Apple IIe's which had a program called Microtype installed that taught us typing skills. Microtype was made in BASIC, and during a day when the teacher was out, I modified my version of the program to give me a 100% every time (we'd test our accuracy rates while someone held paper over our hands). Needless to say, the teacher found out, and called me into his office. He couldn't understand how I modified it. He knew no BASIC, so I told him about the LIST command. He tried it, told me that he got thousands of lines across his screen, and I told him how to list groups of lines. It was a great learning experience for him, I suppose. I didn't get any suspension, however, which baffles me many years later, as I'd advocate for a punishment for a kid doing the same situation now. Anyways, the school got brand new Macintosh PowerPCs the next year:)
I don't mind that most Linux distros come with CD-burning software, IRC clients, a great paint program, etc. -- but then, they're independently written and optional.
I hear that a lot. It's okay when Linux does it, but not when Microsoft does it. KDE integrates its browser into the file manager, but that's okay. Microsoft does it, and they become the root of all evil. As for the independently written aspect, with the exception of IE, most of Microsoft's bundles (media player, MSN messenger) aren't integrated and non-removable. They're just as "optional" as your Linux components, except installed by default.
I guess what I'm asking is this: If it's okay for Linux to do it, stop bitching at Microsoft because they do it.
And you pretty much get the same experience with no real innovation. Or maybe more time to do nothing but innovate. No one really knows, but we can all speculate.
I'll just go by what happened with Half Life. Half Life is a great game, and so is Team Fortress Classic, as is Counter-Strike, but is either a really different experience than the others? The objectives are different, some may be more fun, but all in all - it's the same engine, it's the same gameplay. I would like to have many different game engines, not just a few game engines powering 20 or so "mods". But that's just my opinion.
You are at part two of the "Elitism" phase, if you read the article:
Elitism
There seems to be sort of an elitist view among people who havehigh-speed Internet access. Before they get a cable or DSL connection, they're quick to speak about the evils of "LPBs." I also don't know of a single dialup user who has once complained: "Gee, you know, this game is really fun to play? but maybe it should have been designed for people with access to something I cannot have, just so those people can have less than 0.5 ms of lag!"
Nevertheless, once that same dialup user gets high-speed access, he or she just forgets about the modem gamers and is quick to jump on the "progress" bandwagon and begins to wonder why game developers still bother optimizing online games for modems.
Wasted almost three years of potential market share on their rewrite. Sure, maybe Mozilla's a better product now, after almost three years, but was 4.0 in such bad shape that they had to rewrite the entire thing? That's where I feel you should ask yourself in rewriting your product. Would it be faster to rewrite a particular function of the application? I'd be much happier with Netscape 5.0 or 6.0 with a rewritten rendering engine than a whole new interface that is arguably slower. So, to get back on topic, see if there is a particular function that can be rewritten that wouldn't take as much time as a full rewrite.
And don't call me anti-Mozilla, I'm using Mozilla 0.7 to post this.:)
While I appreciate the criticism of Mattel (I do indeed, actually), this software appears to be nothing more than the auto-updater software that computer users have grown used to over the years. It didn't look like Broderbund had any evil intentions in this (except for the mysterious coding), it's nothing much more than a simple promotional program forced upon us. It's not spyware and isn't apparent that it was indended as such. Although I appreciate the investigation of a 'feature' that should indeed be investigated, I believe this article provides a lot more FUD than new information.
I'm not sure about.mil TLDs, but the.gov TLD is used much in the same way that.com is: there are the two-character country codes that may apply, as well. The only example I managed to find so far is Fiji's Law Reform Commission (and with the recent coup, who knows if it still exists):
However, no need for Linux, either. It's quite simple why AOL used Linux. Their browser, Netscape 6, is already compatible on Linux with no tweaking necessary. They don't need to recompile it as they would with QNX, AmigaOS, etc. As it looks now, Netscape 6 will be coming out the door pretty close to Christmas time (AFAIK, the current non-beta release is planned for October). Taking more time to modify it, even as little as Mozilla promised to deliver in cross-platformability, would be cutting at Christmas profits.
I'm going to make a fake eBay auction selling a "MICROSOFT / 2" t-shirt with an Office logo and a Windows logo on each side to see if that "infringes on their copyright";)
I haven't seen this anywhere, but why not keep it in line with printed material, in regards to formatting? As for quoting the person, the order I would provide one source for the indentification, in order of whichever is provided:
Real Name Nickname Email Address
and in the format,
([Realname, Nickname or Email Address]) wrote "(quote in italics)", much the same way as you would reference a quote by an author in a book.
I am using Worldspy right now, and it works in Linux. They won't tell you this, but I will.;)
As long as you can connect with Windows, you're in luck. I still use WorldSpy 1.0 and I won't upgrade as it's perfect the way it is now. Connect to the internet with it, then disconnect, then open up your Dial-Up Networking properties. Somewhere in the mangled world of Windows menus is an option to prompt you for information before dialing out. Find it and make sure it's checked. Next, start up the Worldspy software and when it loads, it should list your encrypted username. Oddly enough, your password isn't encrypted. Write down that username and you've got a fully functional PPP internet account which works with Windows and Linux! It may not be fast (I get connected around 31.2kbps), but heck, it's free! Hope this helps.
I can understand why more companies don't see themselves donating amounts of money to free speech organizations such as the EFF, etc. As a company, it wouldn't be out of the ordinary to think that maybe one day they could be on the opposite side of the EFF, fighting for copyrig reasons while their money fights against them. Copyright laws in this day in age, like the DMCA, can infringe on our free speech rights that we've cherished for so long, leaving a company in an akward position, to protect their copyright and go against the EFF or to risk a lawsuit by shareholders. Kudos to RedHat, and I hope more companies step forward in the near future.
I used RegisterFree for my website during their free promotion. They're great, $19.95/year with a web based DNS management system. 4 stars (and only 4 because it took me a month to get the 'key' for the domain name for use at the DNS management page - apparently, they forgot to request it during the free signup, so they had to do it manually.)
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I like AltaVista's new Raging Search, but it still uses their same old algorithm. I still made an additional javascript bookmarklet in Navigator 4.73 for javascript query entries to raging.com, but I'll continue to use Google, as their results are always much better than anything else I've tried. I'll use raging search for those unique times when I'm searching for something along the lines of "feet to meter conversion" and Google filters out the 'to', though;)
I was moderately surprised at all the complimentary comments about AOL in this thread, I was expecting more "AOHELL MUST DIEEEEE!!!!!!!" 12 year olds.
There are a few points of this article that I'd like to address. AOL controls a vast number of online subscribers. More than any other online service. However, this is a far cry from what CNet describes as an "empire of near-Microsoftian proportions". Why? Simple, AOL does not have a monopoly. AOL couldn't start unfairly charging $30 per month for online access without a large defaction of users. There is simply too much competition in the ISP market.
"AOL isn't just an ISP..." true. Every venue AOL is now entering, however, there is fierce competition as well. AOLTV with WebTV, new AOL Internet modules with older i-Pliances, Cable access against @Home, much more.
"The company has censored chat rooms and user home pages." Sure. It's their service. Don't they have a right to control what users can say and do on it? Especially with more lawsuits like the one recently in Germany, I can't blame them. AOL is a family oriented online service. If you don't like censorship, go to Yahoo! chat or sign up for a Geocities homepage or something.
"AOL's proprietary browsers and email clients can keep users from venturing off the service." That'll change, as we know now, Netscape 6 now supports the proprietary AOL email service (although Netscape is indeed owned by AOL, this will be a desired feature by many AOL subscribers). And proprietary browser? Sure, they use Internet Explorer, which is a bit proprietary, but they don't stop you from using Netscape or other browsers.
ALthough I can't possibly see why AOL would want to merger with Time Warner, this is hardly a monopoly. Time Warner/AOL does not 'control' the media in any way. CNN is a trusted news source, I highly doubt they'd report on anything with a bias. (doesn't matter to me, I've already defacted to Fox News.)
And as for making their software available only on certain platforms... so? AOL's software is targetted at beginners. AOL realized that there is no market for a simplicity ISP for Linux.
Looking ahead, I just can't forsee AOL abusing their subscriber base.
I'm not saying I agree with Mr. McCartney nor his record studio, but this seems like a case where the record studio may have a chance. MP3.com made a bad move, without even consulting the studios. Sure, the users may have to prove they own the music, but does MP3.com have a CD for every MP3 in their database? MP3.com has been toying with the RIAA, too, adding a mad-lib to the letter that the RIAA sent them (which I must say was hilarious). If this doesn't work for McCartney, I forsee many more lawsuits after MP3.com...
Why thank you very much, sir. You may be correct in the way that I, myself, lack interest in music, but I hardly believe this is the case throughout the Linux community. As the userbase grows, the culture of the Linux community grows as well. I know I am able to picture a hardcore Linux user with a garage band. Sure, we can always use Wine to run sndrec32.exe and record up to 60 seconds of sound in the revolutionary WAV format, however, I have the faith that a useful recording suite may one day make it to Linux. And if we can't bring recording studios to Linux, we can always bring Linux to the mixers in the recording studios.
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This bug has been around for ages. Whoever moderated him down as a troll posted to the thread. His -1 score was revoked but the Troll tag remained there. This has nothing to do with Slashcode 2.
Aww, how sweet that IBM would take the time to set up a tribute page to their very own system that started a revolution.
;)
Maybe Malda can set up a "3 years of CmdrTaco - A Tribute To Myself" page on Slashdot to honor the anniversary of Slashdot and everything great that has became of it.
That hand is where you are supposed to rest your hand when you type, if I am looking at it correctly. It seems a bit akward, yes. I'll stick with my keyboard for now :)
In sixth grade, our school had old Apple IIe's which had a program called Microtype installed that taught us typing skills. Microtype was made in BASIC, and during a day when the teacher was out, I modified my version of the program to give me a 100% every time (we'd test our accuracy rates while someone held paper over our hands). Needless to say, the teacher found out, and called me into his office. He couldn't understand how I modified it. He knew no BASIC, so I told him about the LIST command. He tried it, told me that he got thousands of lines across his screen, and I told him how to list groups of lines. It was a great learning experience for him, I suppose. I didn't get any suspension, however, which baffles me many years later, as I'd advocate for a punishment for a kid doing the same situation now. Anyways, the school got brand new Macintosh PowerPCs the next year :)
I hear that a lot. It's okay when Linux does it, but not when Microsoft does it. KDE integrates its browser into the file manager, but that's okay. Microsoft does it, and they become the root of all evil. As for the independently written aspect, with the exception of IE, most of Microsoft's bundles (media player, MSN messenger) aren't integrated and non-removable. They're just as "optional" as your Linux components, except installed by default.
I guess what I'm asking is this: If it's okay for Linux to do it, stop bitching at Microsoft because they do it.
I'll just go by what happened with Half Life. Half Life is a great game, and so is Team Fortress Classic, as is Counter-Strike, but is either a really different experience than the others? The objectives are different, some may be more fun, but all in all - it's the same engine, it's the same gameplay. I would like to have many different game engines, not just a few game engines powering 20 or so "mods". But that's just my opinion.
Well, try as I might, I have yet to find an mp3 of the complete theme to Special Report with Brit Hume from Fox News Channel. It's not on Napster! :)
Elitism
There seems to be sort of an elitist view among people who havehigh-speed Internet access. Before they get a cable or DSL connection, they're quick to speak about the evils of "LPBs." I also don't know of a single dialup user who has once complained: "Gee, you know, this game is really fun to play? but maybe it should have been designed for people with access to something I cannot have, just so those people can have less than 0.5 ms of lag!"
Nevertheless, once that same dialup user gets high-speed access, he or she just forgets about the modem gamers and is quick to jump on the "progress" bandwagon and begins to wonder why game developers still bother optimizing online games for modems.
Do a search on akamaitech.
Copy the URL of the first search result and change the last part to your website that you want to visit.
viola, you've bypassed Bess!
Reminder: Include the trailing slash on domain-only sites.
Wasted almost three years of potential market share on their rewrite. Sure, maybe Mozilla's a better product now, after almost three years, but was 4.0 in such bad shape that they had to rewrite the entire thing? That's where I feel you should ask yourself in rewriting your product. Would it be faster to rewrite a particular function of the application? I'd be much happier with Netscape 5.0 or 6.0 with a rewritten rendering engine than a whole new interface that is arguably slower. So, to get back on topic, see if there is a particular function that can be rewritten that wouldn't take as much time as a full rewrite.
And don't call me anti-Mozilla, I'm using Mozilla 0.7 to post this. :)
Just remember, when you're thinking about whether or not to do a rewrite: don't do what Netscape did ;)
While I appreciate the criticism of Mattel (I do indeed, actually), this software appears to be nothing more than the auto-updater software that computer users have grown used to over the years. It didn't look like Broderbund had any evil intentions in this (except for the mysterious coding), it's nothing much more than a simple promotional program forced upon us. It's not spyware and isn't apparent that it was indended as such. Although I appreciate the investigation of a 'feature' that should indeed be investigated, I believe this article provides a lot more FUD than new information.
Who thinks Slashdot needs a Napster topic icon? There seems to be a new Napster story each day ;)
The only example I managed to find so far is Fiji's Law Reform Commission (and with the recent coup, who knows if it still exists):
http://www.flrc.gov.fj
http://www.pbs.org/internet/timeline /ant/history
http://www.geocities.com/~anderberg
However, no need for Linux, either. It's quite simple why AOL used Linux. Their browser, Netscape 6, is already compatible on Linux with no tweaking necessary. They don't need to recompile it as they would with QNX, AmigaOS, etc. As it looks now, Netscape 6 will be coming out the door pretty close to Christmas time (AFAIK, the current non-beta release is planned for October). Taking more time to modify it, even as little as Mozilla promised to deliver in cross-platformability, would be cutting at Christmas profits.
I'm going to make a fake eBay auction selling a "MICROSOFT / 2" t-shirt with an Office logo and a Windows logo on each side to see if that "infringes on their copyright" ;)
I haven't seen this anywhere, but why not keep it in line with printed material, in regards to formatting? As for quoting the person, the order I would provide one source for the indentification, in order of whichever is provided:
Real Name
Nickname
Email Address
and in the format,
([Realname, Nickname or Email Address]) wrote "(quote in italics)", much the same way as you would reference a quote by an author in a book.
Any other thoughts on this?
I am using Worldspy right now, and it works in Linux. They won't tell you this, but I will. ;)
As long as you can connect with Windows, you're in luck. I still use WorldSpy 1.0 and I won't upgrade as it's perfect the way it is now. Connect to the internet with it, then disconnect, then open up your Dial-Up Networking properties. Somewhere in the mangled world of Windows menus is an option to prompt you for information before dialing out. Find it and make sure it's checked. Next, start up the Worldspy software and when it loads, it should list your encrypted username. Oddly enough, your password isn't encrypted. Write down that username and you've got a fully functional PPP internet account which works with Windows and Linux! It may not be fast (I get connected around 31.2kbps), but heck, it's free! Hope this helps.
I can understand why more companies don't see themselves donating amounts of money to free speech organizations such as the EFF, etc. As a company, it wouldn't be out of the ordinary to think that maybe one day they could be on the opposite side of the EFF, fighting for copyrig reasons while their money fights against them. Copyright laws in this day in age, like the DMCA, can infringe on our free speech rights that we've cherished for so long, leaving a company in an akward position, to protect their copyright and go against the EFF or to risk a lawsuit by shareholders. Kudos to RedHat, and I hope more companies step forward in the near future.
I used RegisterFree for my website during their free promotion. They're great, $19.95/year with a web based DNS management system. 4 stars (and only 4 because it took me a month to get the 'key' for the domain name for use at the DNS management page - apparently, they forgot to request it during the free signup, so they had to do it manually.)
I like AltaVista's new Raging Search, but it still uses their same old algorithm. I still made an additional javascript bookmarklet in Navigator 4.73 for javascript query entries to raging.com, but I'll continue to use Google, as their results are always much better than anything else I've tried. I'll use raging search for those unique times when I'm searching for something along the lines of "feet to meter conversion" and Google filters out the 'to', though ;)
I was moderately surprised at all the complimentary comments about AOL in this thread, I was expecting more "AOHELL MUST DIEEEEE!!!!!!!" 12 year olds.
There are a few points of this article that I'd like to address.
AOL controls a vast number of online subscribers. More than any other online service. However, this is a far cry from what CNet describes as an "empire of near-Microsoftian proportions". Why? Simple, AOL does not have a monopoly. AOL couldn't start unfairly charging $30 per month for online access without a large defaction of users. There is simply too much competition in the ISP market.
"AOL isn't just an ISP..."
true. Every venue AOL is now entering, however, there is fierce competition as well. AOLTV with WebTV, new AOL Internet modules with older i-Pliances, Cable access against @Home, much more.
"The company has censored chat rooms and user home pages."
Sure. It's their service. Don't they have a right to control what users can say and do on it? Especially with more lawsuits like the one recently in Germany, I can't blame them. AOL is a family oriented online service. If you don't like censorship, go to Yahoo! chat or sign up for a Geocities homepage or something.
"AOL's proprietary browsers and email clients can keep users from venturing off the service."
That'll change, as we know now, Netscape 6 now supports the proprietary AOL email service (although Netscape is indeed owned by AOL, this will be a desired feature by many AOL subscribers).
And proprietary browser? Sure, they use Internet Explorer, which is a bit proprietary, but they don't stop you from using Netscape or other browsers.
ALthough I can't possibly see why AOL would want to merger with Time Warner, this is hardly a monopoly. Time Warner/AOL does not 'control' the media in any way. CNN is a trusted news source, I highly doubt they'd report on anything with a bias. (doesn't matter to me, I've already defacted to Fox News.)
And as for making their software available only on certain platforms... so?
AOL's software is targetted at beginners. AOL realized that there is no market for a simplicity ISP for Linux.
Looking ahead, I just can't forsee AOL abusing their subscriber base.
I'm not saying I agree with Mr. McCartney nor his record studio, but this seems like a case where the record studio may have a chance. MP3.com made a bad move, without even consulting the studios. Sure, the users may have to prove they own the music, but does MP3.com have a CD for every MP3 in their database? MP3.com has been toying with the RIAA, too, adding a mad-lib to the letter that the RIAA sent them (which I must say was hilarious). If this doesn't work for McCartney, I forsee many more lawsuits after MP3.com...
Why thank you very much, sir. You may be correct in the way that I, myself, lack interest in music, but I hardly believe this is the case throughout the Linux community. As the userbase grows, the culture of the Linux community grows as well. I know I am able to picture a hardcore Linux user with a garage band. Sure, we can always use Wine to run sndrec32.exe and record up to 60 seconds of sound in the revolutionary WAV format, however, I have the faith that a useful recording suite may one day make it to Linux. And if we can't bring recording studios to Linux, we can always bring Linux to the mixers in the recording studios.