OK, that's cool, I'll try it. But it would still be nice to have a step-by-step demo with pictures and everything, showing how to create a sample image. Perhaps I'll do one myself once I've figured out how it works. Thanks:-)
The thing I find most annoying about AIX is the lack of filename completion, and the inability to scroll up and down thru command history with the cursor keys. Why the hell don't IBM just implement something like readlin on Linux ?
(Yes I know readlin is GPL'd, but surely that doesn't stop them writing their own version ?)
For those that haven't seen it, there's also an X version of SMIT. It's pretty cool, when a command is running there's a little animation of a guy running along, and if the command fails he falls flat on his face:-)
This actually makes more sense than you think. It allows the developers to get on with tweaking the browser, whilst the people at Netscape and other places can get on with 'Beautifying' and generally looking after the interface.
Also it's important as it will allow companies to 'brand' Mozilla, something which will be very important for PDA's and embedded systems (as opposed to Microsoft who will make sure that IE always promotes Microsoft).
Probably the best one I ever played, if not the best game ever, was 'Gabriel Knight III'. The first week I played it I don't think I slept at all I was so hooked on it. It's got everything, graphics, a great storyline, truly realistic characters, humour and horror all rolled up in one.
Well it's not really paying for it twice. The first time you are buying the music, true. The second time you are paying for somebody to 'bank' that music for you, so that you don't have to carry anything physical around with you to play it. True, as you said, it would be better to not be charged for this - after all, it's really the wrong way round (i.e you should buy the non-physical music first, and then pay a little extra to get a CD, if you want it).
And you are right, a little of the money made should go to mp3.com for supplying the service, with the majority going to the artists themselves. The artists could then pay the RIAA for advertising, arranging tours, or anything else they do which is actually *useful* to the artists.
Perhaps they (mp3.com) will start charging for this service ? I wouldn't mind paying a dollar or two a month to be able to access my CD's, legitimately, from anywhere in the world. Of course if they can keep the service free and recoup the money in some other way, so much the better.
I keep getting *Invalid form key*, is anyone at Slashdot aware of the problem ?
Linux has also been deemed to be a monopoly OS. Linus Torvalds is no longer allowed to have any communication with Alan Cox. Mozilla must be developed by another company other than Redhat. Enlightenment must not interoperate with KDE.
I don't agree with this at all. Look at the staggering amount Linux has achieved in a very short space of time.
M$ released the first version of DOS when ? About 1980 ? The first version of Linux was what, 1993 ? In terms of usability (for your average user), Linux is almost at the stage of being able to compete with Windows.
That is an amazing achievement.
Linux has done in seven years what it took M$ twenty to do, and at a fraction of the cost !
And you are complaining, because Linux doesn't do much more (yet) than other proprietry Unixes. OK so show me another unix that has a window manager as good as say, Enlightenment.
Even as short ago as three years, Gnome and KDE didn't exist - Linux had some really basic, dull window managers.
Linux development has been frankly, staggering, and I'm pretty sure it hasn't and won't, suddenly stop and stagnate.
In both cases it seems like the slightly more well thought out European standards are trying to be dragged down to US level, most probably by corporate interests.
Fortunately it seems like there is some resistance building both in Europe and in America. One can only hope that common sense will prevail.
1. Programs which sift the Internet for e-mail addresses...
Agreed. I don't give permission for spammers to grab my email address and spam me. 2. Deep linking has been okayed by the courts.
Ther is a subtle difference here. A deep link is just information as to where to find something. It's up to individuals what they _do_ with that information. I don't mind how many spammers grab my email, provided they don't spam me.
3. Search engines which use web spiders are now feasibly verboten.
Some sites _want_ to be visited by spiders, it gets them into search engines and they get more hits.
The point here as I understand it is that e-bay were complaining about *misuse of their servers*. I would say in relation to the points above: sites should be allowed to point to information on e-bay (providing links). However if e-bay feels that the _obtaining_ of that information is damaging to them (i.e by using their bandwidth, slowing down their servers etc) then they have every right to demand that it stop. If they demand that other sites stop linking to them, then that is infringing on the rights of others and would be wrong.
Can I sue, then, if you index my site and I don't want you to, because indexing my site uses up some portion of my bandwidth that I didn't want to give?
If you warned me that you didn't want me persistently indexing your site, and I ignored those warnings, and you could prove that my indexing was damaging to you, then yes, I would expect a letter from your lawyers.
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Now that Moz supports this, it would be nice to see some tutorials on using alpha transparency layers in the Gimp.
Unless they are like us of course, and they have kept those frequencies clear for radio astronomy.
Perhaps we're all listening on the same channels, and nobody's transmitting !!!
(Yes I know readlin is GPL'd, but surely that doesn't stop them writing their own version ?)
Also it's important as it will allow companies to 'brand' Mozilla, something which will be very important for PDA's and embedded systems (as opposed to Microsoft who will make sure that IE always promotes Microsoft).
Oh, and Grace has a great butt as well !
15 which Frank Stevenson published DeCSS?
16 A. Do you have a name for that?
17 Q. http/crypto.GQNU/
18 A. I don't believe I know that website.
And you are right, a little of the money made should go to mp3.com for supplying the service, with the majority going to the artists themselves. The artists could then pay the RIAA for advertising, arranging tours, or anything else they do which is actually *useful* to the artists.
Radical, I know ;-)
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Linux has also been deemed to be a monopoly OS. Linus Torvalds is no longer allowed to have any communication with Alan Cox. Mozilla must be developed by another company other than Redhat. Enlightenment must not interoperate with KDE.
Only if you are Micro$oft...
M$ released the first version of DOS when ? About 1980 ? The first version of Linux was what, 1993 ? In terms of usability (for your average user), Linux is almost at the stage of being able to compete with Windows.
That is an amazing achievement.
Linux has done in seven years what it took M$ twenty to do, and at a fraction of the cost !
And you are complaining, because Linux doesn't do much more (yet) than other proprietry Unixes. OK so show me another unix that has a window manager as good as say, Enlightenment.
Even as short ago as three years, Gnome and KDE didn't exist - Linux had some really basic, dull window managers.
Linux development has been frankly, staggering, and I'm pretty sure it hasn't and won't, suddenly stop and stagnate.
It is open source, with an open development model.
It runs (or will run) on just about any platform.
It's highly modular in design, built to be highly customizable and extendible.
It follows open standards to the letter.
In both cases it seems like the slightly more well thought out European standards are trying to be dragged down to US level, most probably by corporate interests.
Fortunately it seems like there is some resistance building both in Europe and in America. One can only hope that common sense will prevail.
Yes, and at £10,000 a shot, this guy must be raking it in.
Agreed. I don't give permission for spammers to grab my email address and spam me. 2. Deep linking has been okayed by the courts.
Ther is a subtle difference here. A deep link is just information as to where to find something. It's up to individuals what they _do_ with that information. I don't mind how many spammers grab my email, provided they don't spam me.
3. Search engines which use web spiders are now feasibly verboten.
Some sites _want_ to be visited by spiders, it gets them into search engines and they get more hits.
The point here as I understand it is that e-bay were complaining about *misuse of their servers*. I would say in relation to the points above: sites should be allowed to point to information on e-bay (providing links). However if e-bay feels that the _obtaining_ of that information is damaging to them (i.e by using their bandwidth, slowing down their servers etc) then they have every right to demand that it stop. If they demand that other sites stop linking to them, then that is infringing on the rights of others and would be wrong.
Can I sue, then, if you index my site and I don't want you to, because indexing my site uses up some portion of my bandwidth that I didn't want to give?
If you warned me that you didn't want me persistently indexing your site, and I ignored those warnings, and you could prove that my indexing was damaging to you, then yes, I would expect a letter from your lawyers.
You mean like a meta-proof :-) ?
;-)