A lot more stores used to be more lenient about this kind of thing, until people started abusing it. Want a good laptop to write your term paper on? No problem, just go buy one, then return it after finals week, saying you weren't happy with it. After being victimized by things like this one too many times (kinda like when Slashdot was encouraging people to sign up for MSN and immediately drop it, pocketing whatever was bought with the $400 voucher), stores these days are a lot less enthusiastic about giving their customers the benefit of the doubt. Thanks to people like the above, most stores have big restocking fees if you decide to return something. Go see how much fun it is to return something to ChumpUSA these days.
Rational is not taking over J++, they're just producing a Java compiler that will run inside the next Visual Studio, along with, as their press release even mentioned, "Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Visual J++." (Yet another reason not to rely on Slashdot headlines for your information, although at least they didn't claim that Rational was also taking over VB and VC++.) You should know that ActiveSt ate is doing the same thing, joining the VS Integration Program so that Perl and Python will be integrated with the next version of Visual Studio. (Oh, and it's kinda silly to say that J++ isn't in widespread use.)
Yeah, down with the man, dude. Gotta love that special brand of "progressivism" that would do Karl Marx himself proud. He sure hated hearing his critics, too -- you two aren't related, are ya?
If someone in the slightest looks like they might have, mistakenly or not, violated the GPL, quickly inform Slashdot, mailbomb them to Hell, and generally enter high-pitched hysteria mode. If your name happens to be Bruce Perens, sue.
However, if the technology violation occurs to non-GPL software and they dare complain about it, assume a slightly different tack. Quickly write to Slashdot, ranting about the evil Man, mailbomb them to Hell, and generally enter high-pitched hysteria mode, telling everyone how you intend to continue on with said violation.
If you're going to use Napster illegally to collect songs that you have no right to, why would you complain that someone might collect your information to use against you? At least what they're doing is legal.
I guess information wants to be free only when it helps you "get some free kewl stuff."
I'm curious what Emmett's idea of a "cool" way of running a business is. Seeing as Slashdot/VA_Linux is losing money hand-over-fist, I really don't think he's qualified. I'm sure people like him and Jon Katz think that it's "cool," in that trite I-wanna-be-a-rebel way, when a subordinate makes ultimata to the people running the show, but it's really not amusing in the least. Oh well, maybe his pals in the unemployment line will enjoy the tales of his tough-guy antics.
Stallman: 'programmers tend to favor polyamorous or non-monogamous relationships'
Umm, men period tend to favor polyamorous or non-monogamous relationships. The fact that programmers are overwhelmingly male skews his viewpoint -- the majority of female programmers that I know don't jibe with his statement.
Well, it's been nice knowin' y'all, even the ones who've flamed me, but after contemplating Richard Stallman having sex, I think I'm going to go kill myself now.
Do you really post as AC, or are you just posting this anonymously because you're afraid that you might actually lose one whole karma point because of the offtopicness? If the latter, please seek professional help.
If you really feel that strongly about it, isn't it worth losing a karma point or two, rather than having it buried with a score of 0, where few people will ever see it (assuming it doesn't get moderated up)?
Have you considered that some of us moderators often view moderation as a service for the reader rather than a punishment/reward system for the poster? Sure, it's tough luck that the guy posted his remark so soon after an identical one that he probably never even saw the original, but why should the reader have to suffer for his bad luck by having to read the same thing twice? Especially when it's such an obvious post that 75% of the people are already thinking the same quip, with them all scrambling to be the first to actually post it. I say, to the victor go the spoils and "+2, Funny"s, and to the slowpoke go the collective ridicule of the community and "-1, Redundant"s.
I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't read them at all, much less auto-mount them. For the 3 Mac users who might actually be interested in such a feature, I'd suggest they just use FAT-formatted disks when copying the files off their Linux box.:)
Specifically, Corel's April 19 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. They write:
If the proposed merger with Inprise Corporation does not occur, other sources of financing are not secured and/or Corel's operating results do not improve, a cash deficiency may occur within the next three months. Corel is currently examining its cost structure and exploring other sources of financing, but it is not clear whether changes to the cost structure or obtaining other sources of financing are feasible or would be sufficient to avoid the cash deficiency.
Corrections welcome, but I'm taking this straight from the horse's mouth, not from any newspapers. (Note that they say they may go bankrupt, not that they definitely will.)
Yeah, but how easy does CorelLinux make it for a user to read floppies with other filesystems? Does it do it on the fly, like the Mac, or is he expected to bust out the mount command? If the latter, then for the target audience of the article, I'd definitely give the nod to Mac.
However, I thought that Apple was been telling us since the debut of the iMac that nobody uses floppies anymore. Does the machine they reviewed MacOS on even have a floppy drive? It's a bit odd to hype up its floppy-reading abilities if it doesn't even have a drive.
As far as a telnet client goes, most users don't even use them, especially not the ones that would be targetted in any MacOS vs. CorelLinux review. For most internet users, having Internet Explorer trumps every single internet app available for Linux.
I was pretty disappointed myself when I finally tried it out (I've even got a shrinkwrap version with the little foam penguin). It's as if they couldn't decide what they wanted it to be. It's obviously aimed at the desktop user, so why do they have so many daemons turned on by default? It's not like your average business user needs (or even expects) to have web and ftp servers running right out of the box. That's just asking for security problems -- just as bad was for them to release a distribution in this day and age without shadow passwords.
Anyone know how many more months before Corel, touted here many times as the Linux distribution juggernaut to destroy Microsoft on the desktop, has until they either go bankrupt or have to start selling off pieces of their business? Less than 90 days now, isn't it?
of course you "know". it's written in your e-mail address, even!
Hey, sue me -- when there are tens of millions of people with Hotmail accounts, "Zico" is a little hard to come by, and "ZicoKnows" is a lot catchier than the AOLesque "Zico2398.":) Seriously, I think half of my flames come from people just annoyed at my choice of email address. If you notice, though, my account here isn't "ZicoKnows," it's just "Zico." C'mon folks, it's just an email address.
does it ever occur to *you* that you might not be the ultimate holder of truth, knowledge and common sense?
Well, yeah -- if I thought I knew everything, then I wouldn't qualify my remarks with things like "I think" or "I've heard from others" or "this isn't coming from experience," which I did earlier today, or "if there's someone out there who can field these questions, please do," which I did just yesterday. See? If I don't know what I'm talking about, I don't flame on and pretend that I do. I'm definitely no role model, but if more people followed that one little example, the overall quality of posts in this forum would be greatly improved.
your points of view might get a warmer welcome, and less down moderation, if you were just a little bit less cocky with them.
Hey, I'd love to believe you, really, but it seems like a lot of posts around here get knocked down as flamebait or trolls when they don't conform to the politically correct view around here, no matter what the tone is. This and this are just two recent examples of that -- or do you think I sounded too cocky in them?
Okay, I'll see your touché and raise you a c'est bon. I don't disagree with you about why some people are perturbed, it's just tiring to see so many people continue to misunderstand the fact that their Kerberos implementation is compliant. As to the current article, it surprises me that when writing a vendor-specific field, MIT wouldn't expect some companies to use that field to create implementations that were only operable between that single vendor's products. To me, the current complaints sound like a knee-jerk anti-Microsoft reaction.
Well, after downloading and still using both their Interix and Services for Unix 2.0 packages, I don't feel that Microsoft is ignoring their Unix-using customers.
Slashdot, praising a WinCE device? <Zipping over to http://netcraft.co.uk/whats to make sure that Slashdot isn't running off of IIS 5.0>:)
As for the 12-bit color thing, I think HP's been noting this for a while now. I've heard from others that the graphics look just fine regardless, although the one time I checked out one of the new HPs, I forgot to check out an image file to see for myself, so this isn't coming from experience.
I liked everything about the HPs (I didn't even mind the flat stylus -- well, the feel anyway -- it was an annoyance getting it out and putting it back in the holder), but I was pretty disappointed that their new PocketPCs didn't adopt anything like Casio's great cursor controller. So, looks like I'll hold off on those and wait for my Cassiopeia upgrade to an E-115 PocketPC in June.
I can't speak to the Israeli Team OS/2 branch, but in general, Team OS/2 started out as you describe. Later on, though, things got really ugly, and the group eventually became a negative drag on OS/2, both with the non-OS/2 users, and eventually even with the OS/2 userbase itself.
It's pretty ironic that in this article dealing with Microsoft's Kerberos implementation, you're blaming Microsoft for their browser correctly interpreting the W3C's HTML 4.01 spec, by which </ a> isn't valid HTML. Now why do I get the feeling that if IE5 worked with this invalid HTML, you'd be moaning and crying about Microsoft embracing and extending the HTML standard? Hmmm?
Just like Microsoft's Kerberos implementation adheres to the IETF Kerberos standard, so does IE5 adhere to the HTML standard in the example you mentioned above. What part of "standards" do you guys not understand? Looks like they're always a good thing except when Microsoft follows them.
You're exactly right about the Microsoft hatred being about the only thing in common between the OS/2 and Linux crowds. For someone truly intrested in OS/2 and not into all the politics, one of the most depressing places on the internet has to be comp.os.os2.advocacy.
Excluding the never-ending Tholen threads, which don't have much to do with anything at all, most posts these days are about Microsoft -- sometimes in relationship to OS/2, but a lot of times OS/2 isn't even mentioned at all. Not exactly the best advocacy in the world, especially when any OS/2 developer who decides to also port their software to Win32 has to run the gauntlet of bitter OS/2 users branding them traitors and telling them to go to Hell. You'd think that they'd be pleased that someone is still writing software for OS/2, especially given IBM's own lackluster support, but I guess the hatred is more important. Sad, really.
Cool, I hadn't really thought much about it, I just figured that Apple was the one in charge of the ads, since the one in the screenshot just happened to be an iMac ad.
Checking out the Sherlock picture, I was surprised to see the advertisement built into it. So, if there's someone out there who can field these questions, please do:
Is the ad really part of Sherlock, or did someone just add it to the screenshot?
If so, have ads always been a part of Sherlock, or is a new development?
Is Sherlock the standard search/find utility for it, or is there just a simple local search, with Sherlock being like the advanced option?
If you have to go through Sherlock to perform any system searches, I'd find the presence of ads to be fairly troubling, but if it's not the OS's standard search utility, I don't think that it's too big a deal.
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A lot more stores used to be more lenient about this kind of thing, until people started abusing it. Want a good laptop to write your term paper on? No problem, just go buy one, then return it after finals week, saying you weren't happy with it. After being victimized by things like this one too many times (kinda like when Slashdot was encouraging people to sign up for MSN and immediately drop it, pocketing whatever was bought with the $400 voucher), stores these days are a lot less enthusiastic about giving their customers the benefit of the doubt. Thanks to people like the above, most stores have big restocking fees if you decide to return something. Go see how much fun it is to return something to ChumpUSA these days.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Rational is not taking over J++, they're just producing a Java compiler that will run inside the next Visual Studio, along with, as their press release even mentioned, "Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Visual J++." (Yet another reason not to rely on Slashdot headlines for your information, although at least they didn't claim that Rational was also taking over VB and VC++.) You should know that ActiveSt ate is doing the same thing, joining the VS Integration Program so that Perl and Python will be integrated with the next version of Visual Studio. (Oh, and it's kinda silly to say that J++ isn't in widespread use.)
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Yeah, down with the man, dude. Gotta love that special brand of "progressivism" that would do Karl Marx himself proud. He sure hated hearing his critics, too -- you two aren't related, are ya?
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
If someone in the slightest looks like they might have, mistakenly or not, violated the GPL, quickly inform Slashdot, mailbomb them to Hell, and generally enter high-pitched hysteria mode. If your name happens to be Bruce Perens, sue.
However, if the technology violation occurs to non-GPL software and they dare complain about it, assume a slightly different tack. Quickly write to Slashdot, ranting about the evil Man, mailbomb them to Hell, and generally enter high-pitched hysteria mode, telling everyone how you intend to continue on with said violation.
What a surprise.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
And how much money are you contributing to Napster? It's so easy for you nerds to talk tough with someone else's money.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
If you're going to use Napster illegally to collect songs that you have no right to, why would you complain that someone might collect your information to use against you? At least what they're doing is legal.
I guess information wants to be free only when it helps you "get some free kewl stuff."
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
I'm curious what Emmett's idea of a "cool" way of running a business is. Seeing as Slashdot/VA_Linux is losing money hand-over-fist, I really don't think he's qualified. I'm sure people like him and Jon Katz think that it's "cool," in that trite I-wanna-be-a-rebel way, when a subordinate makes ultimata to the people running the show, but it's really not amusing in the least. Oh well, maybe his pals in the unemployment line will enjoy the tales of his tough-guy antics.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
You make it sound like we'd be in the information dark ages if it weren't for this single fellow. You don't honestly believe that, do you?
I'm not taking away any of the guy's contributions, but your rant accomplishes the very thing you're complaining about.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Stallman: 'programmers tend to favor polyamorous or non-monogamous relationships'
Umm, men period tend to favor polyamorous or non-monogamous relationships. The fact that programmers are overwhelmingly male skews his viewpoint -- the majority of female programmers that I know don't jibe with his statement.
Well, it's been nice knowin' y'all, even the ones who've flamed me, but after contemplating Richard Stallman having sex, I think I'm going to go kill myself now.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't read them at all, much less auto-mount them. For the 3 Mac users who might actually be interested in such a feature, I'd suggest they just use FAT-formatted disks when copying the files off their Linux box. :)
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Specifically, Corel's April 19 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. They write:
Corrections welcome, but I'm taking this straight from the horse's mouth, not from any newspapers. (Note that they say they may go bankrupt, not that they definitely will.)
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Yeah, but how easy does CorelLinux make it for a user to read floppies with other filesystems? Does it do it on the fly, like the Mac, or is he expected to bust out the mount command? If the latter, then for the target audience of the article, I'd definitely give the nod to Mac.
However, I thought that Apple was been telling us since the debut of the iMac that nobody uses floppies anymore. Does the machine they reviewed MacOS on even have a floppy drive? It's a bit odd to hype up its floppy-reading abilities if it doesn't even have a drive.
As far as a telnet client goes, most users don't even use them, especially not the ones that would be targetted in any MacOS vs. CorelLinux review. For most internet users, having Internet Explorer trumps every single internet app available for Linux.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
I was pretty disappointed myself when I finally tried it out (I've even got a shrinkwrap version with the little foam penguin). It's as if they couldn't decide what they wanted it to be. It's obviously aimed at the desktop user, so why do they have so many daemons turned on by default? It's not like your average business user needs (or even expects) to have web and ftp servers running right out of the box. That's just asking for security problems -- just as bad was for them to release a distribution in this day and age without shadow passwords.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com,/p>
Anyone know how many more months before Corel, touted here many times as the Linux distribution juggernaut to destroy Microsoft on the desktop, has until they either go bankrupt or have to start selling off pieces of their business? Less than 90 days now, isn't it?
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Hey, sue me -- when there are tens of millions of people with Hotmail accounts, "Zico" is a little hard to come by, and "ZicoKnows" is a lot catchier than the AOLesque "Zico2398." :) Seriously, I think half of my flames come from people just annoyed at my choice of email address. If you notice, though, my account here isn't "ZicoKnows," it's just "Zico." C'mon folks, it's just an email address.
Well, yeah -- if I thought I knew everything, then I wouldn't qualify my remarks with things like "I think" or "I've heard from others" or "this isn't coming from experience," which I did earlier today, or "if there's someone out there who can field these questions, please do," which I did just yesterday. See? If I don't know what I'm talking about, I don't flame on and pretend that I do. I'm definitely no role model, but if more people followed that one little example, the overall quality of posts in this forum would be greatly improved.
Hey, I'd love to believe you, really, but it seems like a lot of posts around here get knocked down as flamebait or trolls when they don't conform to the politically correct view around here, no matter what the tone is. This and this are just two recent examples of that -- or do you think I sounded too cocky in them?
Cheers,m ail.com :)
ZicoHopesThisReplyDidn'tSoundCocky@hot
Trust me, I know. :) Meyer's sixth recommendation:
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Okay, I'll see your touché and raise you a c'est bon. I don't disagree with you about why some people are perturbed, it's just tiring to see so many people continue to misunderstand the fact that their Kerberos implementation is compliant. As to the current article, it surprises me that when writing a vendor-specific field, MIT wouldn't expect some companies to use that field to create implementations that were only operable between that single vendor's products. To me, the current complaints sound like a knee-jerk anti-Microsoft reaction.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Well, after downloading and still using both their Interix and Services for Unix 2.0 packages, I don't feel that Microsoft is ignoring their Unix-using customers.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Slashdot, praising a WinCE device? <Zipping over to http://netcraft.co.uk/whats to make sure that Slashdot isn't running off of IIS 5.0> :)
As for the 12-bit color thing, I think HP's been noting this for a while now. I've heard from others that the graphics look just fine regardless, although the one time I checked out one of the new HPs, I forgot to check out an image file to see for myself, so this isn't coming from experience.
I liked everything about the HPs (I didn't even mind the flat stylus -- well, the feel anyway -- it was an annoyance getting it out and putting it back in the holder), but I was pretty disappointed that their new PocketPCs didn't adopt anything like Casio's great cursor controller. So, looks like I'll hold off on those and wait for my Cassiopeia upgrade to an E-115 PocketPC in June.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
I can't speak to the Israeli Team OS/2 branch, but in general, Team OS/2 started out as you describe. Later on, though, things got really ugly, and the group eventually became a negative drag on OS/2, both with the non-OS/2 users, and eventually even with the OS/2 userbase itself.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
It's pretty ironic that in this article dealing with Microsoft's Kerberos implementation, you're blaming Microsoft for their browser correctly interpreting the W3C's HTML 4.01 spec, by which </ a> isn't valid HTML. Now why do I get the feeling that if IE5 worked with this invalid HTML, you'd be moaning and crying about Microsoft embracing and extending the HTML standard? Hmmm?
Just like Microsoft's Kerberos implementation adheres to the IETF Kerberos standard, so does IE5 adhere to the HTML standard in the example you mentioned above. What part of "standards" do you guys not understand? Looks like they're always a good thing except when Microsoft follows them.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
You're exactly right about the Microsoft hatred being about the only thing in common between the OS/2 and Linux crowds. For someone truly intrested in OS/2 and not into all the politics, one of the most depressing places on the internet has to be comp.os.os2.advocacy.
Excluding the never-ending Tholen threads, which don't have much to do with anything at all, most posts these days are about Microsoft -- sometimes in relationship to OS/2, but a lot of times OS/2 isn't even mentioned at all. Not exactly the best advocacy in the world, especially when any OS/2 developer who decides to also port their software to Win32 has to run the gauntlet of bitter OS/2 users branding them traitors and telling them to go to Hell. You'd think that they'd be pleased that someone is still writing software for OS/2, especially given IBM's own lackluster support, but I guess the hatred is more important. Sad, really.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Cool, I hadn't really thought much about it, I just figured that Apple was the one in charge of the ads, since the one in the screenshot just happened to be an iMac ad.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Checking out the Sherlock picture, I was surprised to see the advertisement built into it. So, if there's someone out there who can field these questions, please do:
If you have to go through Sherlock to perform any system searches, I'd find the presence of ads to be fairly troubling, but if it's not the OS's standard search utility, I don't think that it's too big a deal.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com