-1 for not backing up your statement on Pidgin's credibility.
And good for you that all your contacts reside on GMail, and that you prefer a GMail's web app to a desktop app that centralizes the many forms of communication on the Net. If that works for you, fine. It does not work for me. I want faster response time, a unified UI for all my communication, more flexible message notification, logging, etc. that keeps me in control of my settings and data locally.
cp -a/home/me/.purple//media/Backup/Pidgin/
I have friends on AIM, Facebook, GMail, and one or two with their own XMPP address. Fortunately, I do not need MSN to contact anyone I know.
This is not a failure of open source, it is a failure of redundancy. We've learned this lesson countless times: There should never be "only one" person with protected access to a project. It's like kusanagi374 said above.
As long as the Internet is maintained as a utility layer over which applications run, all will be well. If ISPs or companies are able to regulate what sites users go to, or give preference to some uses over others, we may be fucked.
I like that it isn't as customizable in layout like Myspace is, and that it maintains a somewhat consistent layout, font, and color scheme. That's pretty much the only think I think makes it 'better' than myspace, in terms of technology... more professional.
It's easy for people to pick on Texas (like Fark picks on Florida), but Texas is pretty kick ass. Very independent, "fuck you" attitude here. Also, it might as well be its own country in terms of economic, geographical and societal diversity.
If you like the coast, we have 370 miles of it. If you like desert, we have 14 million acres in the Chihuahuan Desert. We have hillcountry, flatland, and farmland. No state income tax (we do have property, 8.25% sales, and various others.)
I certainly enjoy it here. The economy is much freer here than in other parts of the US. Almost no unions (other than that bastard teachers' union), it's a right-to-work state, and less taxes than other places. Regularly our cities are ranked some of the best places in the US to live (Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth).
The point about Debian is worth modding up. It is the foundation of pure open source (sans the occasional binary blob of the kernel). The controversial Mono being put into Debian is a big deal.
Doesn't mean what Microsoft did was illegal, it was just shitty. They are perfectly in their bounds to be that way, and we are perfectly in bounds to say they fucking suck, and want nothing to do with them.
I'm really surprised that Debian has allowed Mono into their "main", given how pure they tend to be.
Exploitation of resources has been the fuel for all major geographical migrations in the history of man. Why stop with Earth?
What is important is to get space-faring technology to the masses, before governments or private interests gain a long term monopoly on the technology. Building a boat was easy, buying a car is easy. Airplanes are less accessible, but cars/boats take you anywhere you need to go. If space travel is held in the hands of a few (in the very long term, obviously) I would have concerns about the use of said technology.
I wish I could cite where I saw this, but I remember reading an article stating that the CDDL was intentionally designed to be GPL incompatible; they didn't want the Linux crowd mooching off their work.
I don't know if you're trolling or not, because I don't know what you're trying to say.
Sun isn't going to die, it will survive or get bought by someone whose interests are in making money off Java and Sun's other product offerings better than Sun could.
My beef is with the amount of code that has to be written, and the inflexibility of Java.
You just build a class on python, few includes, you're done. Not like Java. Also, no Expando in Java.
There's Expando in Groovy. And Groovy seeks to remove a lot of the syntactic clutter of Java. Read a Groovy book or intro and you'll see its benefits; it's got a lot (most) features of Python/Ruby, etc., while using and being completely compatible with Java.
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-1 for not backing up your statement on Pidgin's credibility.
And good for you that all your contacts reside on GMail, and that you prefer a GMail's web app to a desktop app that centralizes the many forms of communication on the Net. If that works for you, fine. It does not work for me. I want faster response time, a unified UI for all my communication, more flexible message notification, logging, etc. that keeps me in control of my settings and data locally.
cp -a /home/me/.purple/ /media/Backup/Pidgin/
I have friends on AIM, Facebook, GMail, and one or two with their own XMPP address. Fortunately, I do not need MSN to contact anyone I know.
$0.06/kWh, tons o' space, and it's in Texas, which is a much better place to have a business (or live) than California.
They see me trollin'...
BUT, I will respond anyway.
This is not a failure of open source, it is a failure of redundancy. We've learned this lesson countless times: There should never be "only one" person with protected access to a project. It's like kusanagi374 said above.
I don't like Songbird; it looks like the bastard child of Firefox and some Winamp clone. My music player shouldn't have the Firefox options screen.
After playing an RTS with full map zooming, I can't play new RTSs without it.
Whenever a story appears on both sites, I see it on the Fark headlines before I see it on /.
Mod parent up. At least, I hope he's right.
As long as the Internet is maintained as a utility layer over which applications run, all will be well. If ISPs or companies are able to regulate what sites users go to, or give preference to some uses over others, we may be fucked.
I like that it isn't as customizable in layout like Myspace is, and that it maintains a somewhat consistent layout, font, and color scheme. That's pretty much the only think I think makes it 'better' than myspace, in terms of technology... more professional.
The EPA is one of many federal organizations with too much power and not enough purpose.
It's easy for people to pick on Texas (like Fark picks on Florida), but Texas is pretty kick ass. Very independent, "fuck you" attitude here. Also, it might as well be its own country in terms of economic, geographical and societal diversity.
If you like the coast, we have 370 miles of it. If you like desert, we have 14 million acres in the Chihuahuan Desert. We have hillcountry, flatland, and farmland. No state income tax (we do have property, 8.25% sales, and various others.)
I certainly enjoy it here. The economy is much freer here than in other parts of the US. Almost no unions (other than that bastard teachers' union), it's a right-to-work state, and less taxes than other places. Regularly our cities are ranked some of the best places in the US to live (Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth).
Mono is required to RUN Mono programs, like openjdk or sun-java is required to run Java programs. gcc isn't required to run compiled programs.
The point about Debian is worth modding up. It is the foundation of pure open source (sans the occasional binary blob of the kernel). The controversial Mono being put into Debian is a big deal.
Doesn't mean what Microsoft did was illegal, it was just shitty. They are perfectly in their bounds to be that way, and we are perfectly in bounds to say they fucking suck, and want nothing to do with them.
I'm really surprised that Debian has allowed Mono into their "main", given how pure they tend to be.
17" tower? 3.8 GHz?
I'm sure the thinkers of 1941 would be shocked to know what we can do now, given they were running 10 Hz on this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_(computer)
Eh?
Exploitation of resources has been the fuel for all major geographical migrations in the history of man. Why stop with Earth?
What is important is to get space-faring technology to the masses, before governments or private interests gain a long term monopoly on the technology. Building a boat was easy, buying a car is easy. Airplanes are less accessible, but cars/boats take you anywhere you need to go. If space travel is held in the hands of a few (in the very long term, obviously) I would have concerns about the use of said technology.
It is simply amazing how many geeks think people actually read /. Their entire marketing budget is not down the drain, you clod.
BTW, the security at the store are very unlikely to step in, as they would rather stay out of a situation being handled by other security personnel.
I wish I could cite where I saw this, but I remember reading an article stating that the CDDL was intentionally designed to be GPL incompatible; they didn't want the Linux crowd mooching off their work.
Slimy thing? It's business. Fucking FSF hippies.
Mod AC up.
I'd just queue up my torrents to work at night :)
It's open source and not half-assed open spec in a thinly veiled excuse to call itself cross-platform.
It's dynamically typed, which C# doesn't have, though C# 4.0 will have the static type "dynamic".
Other than that, I don't know. P.S., I don't really hate C#.
I don't know if you're trolling or not, because I don't know what you're trying to say.
Sun isn't going to die, it will survive or get bought by someone whose interests are in making money off Java and Sun's other product offerings better than Sun could.
My beef is with the amount of code that has to be written, and the inflexibility of Java.
You just build a class on python, few includes, you're done. Not like Java. Also, no Expando in Java.
There's Expando in Groovy. And Groovy seeks to remove a lot of the syntactic clutter of Java. Read a Groovy book or intro and you'll see its benefits; it's got a lot (most) features of Python/Ruby, etc., while using and being completely compatible with Java.
I grasp the message of that sentence. Oh no.
... When you have someone offering you much more then your companies worth...
There's the catch: Sun thinks one of two things, or both:
1) They are worth more than they are valued at
2) The company is better off without being sold
Just because money-grubbing financiers think the company is worth $8.50 a share doesn't mean Sun thinks it is.