As he said already, "Doesn't matter how you call it, it is still a text file."
There's even a project out there to run C code as a script. In that case, it would be a script written in C. A script is a text file, a program is a compiled file, that's all there is to it.
That's not the point. The point is, when Gnome makes an improvement, KDE gets to use it too. When Apple updates Safari, guess what? Konqueror gets the same update. If it's a nice solution, the Mozilla guys just might look at it and code up their own version.
With free/open soure software, competition isnt' exclusionary. Look at Debian, it can run on the Linux kernel or the Hurd kernel. Look at all of the Linux drivers that have been ported to FreeBSD or the BSD innovations that Linux uses.
We might compete to be the first to develop some whiz bang feature, but we're just as quick to share it too.
And it doesn't matter how "proprietary" you think that Linux is. Grab a distro, any distro. If you like it use it, if not, try another. It doesn't matter. When I submit a patch to to a package I use, your distro will get it too.
Look dumbass. A restocking fee is not a late fee, never has been and never will be. Once you've kept a rental long enough that they can reasonably assume you plan to keep it (over a WEEK), then your rental is converted to a purchase. Once you've purchased the movie or dvd, then you have the standard 30 day return policy with a restocking fee. Plain and simple.
It's about as fair as you can get. Rent a movie and if you like it, keep it. You end up paying the same as if you'd just purchased it to begin with. Prior to this you'd either purchase it with the risk of not liking it or rent it and then purchase it with the cost of both.
And once again, this was all explained in great detail at the store.
A restocking fee pays to cover shipping the DVD that they ordered to replace the one that your selfish ass kept for over a week past its due date. What the fuck do you expect them to do?
A restocking fee is not a late fee, but maybe they should call the fee the "cost of shipping back the DVD that we ordered to replace the one that your selfish ass kept for over a week past its due date fee." Maybe then you'd quit pissing your pants for a lousy buck twenty five (which I might remind you is a hell of a lot less than a week of late fees.)
Why is it that common sense flies right out of your fucking head as soon as the word corporate gets involved?
Interesting, the legal definition of 'burglary' is to enter the dwelling of another at night with the intent to commit a felony[1]. I wonder why 'burglarize' would be defined differently, even though it's the same root word, unless the dictionary has it wrong.
[1] Yes, the definition is this specific, we just went over it in Business Law.
A restocking charge is not a late fee. They will never charge a late fee any more, just a restocking charge, or the purchase price of the movie/game (minus whatever you've already paid) if you keep the thing long enough.
A $1.25 restocking fee for a 7 day late rental is way the fuck less than 7 lates fees of $4.
They call and remind you if you have a late rental.
No matter what, you'll never pay more than purchase price for the movie, and that's only if you keep in for a MONTH, meaning that they've already reordered a replacement copy. What the fuck do expect them to do?
All of this was cheerfully explained in detail at the store.
So what's the problem again? Did you forget that Blockbuster is in business to make money and not to follow you around and lick your balls?
Lemme remind you again. They are absolutely 100% correct to say NO LATE FEES. If you get charged, it's a RESTOCKING FEE to cover the price of shipping back the movie that they ordered to replace the one that your selfish ass kept for over a week past it's due date. This lawsuit is fucking retarded and just goes to show that some people can't ever be satisfied.
I'm pretty sure that strider44 was using terrible English to say that Sherman Networks futzed up the fast-track network, not the developer. Because of that Skype should be clean.
So go fuck yourself and your zealot distro already.;-)
Typical Gentoo user.
(Yes, I know that's hypocritical of me, since I use Gentoo myself, but damn, people. Believe it or not, Gentoo is *NOT* the solution to all of the world's problems!)
We need to add an xml language to invoke java inside browsers to balance the XAML features IE will provide. We need more innovation in the xml language the browser renders. It needs to render more complex things. The form elements need to be updated to match (or surpass) Macromedia Flex's UI library (menus, toolbars, tab pages, datagrid, tree control, editable combo box, etc).
Linux kernel 2.0 (released in 1996) is still actively maintained. Most current apps will still run on it.
You can install a Debian distro from 1995 and with a couple quick commands be current with all security fixes, or update it to current Debian.
Sure you won't find Redhat claiming to support RH4.0, but that's because the Linux world operates differently. If all those companies running NT4.0 had the opportunity to upgrade all their servers to winxp for no cost and no upgrade hassle and were guaranteed that their applications would continue to work and work just as well, I'm fairly certain that most would take advantage of the offer.
That's the kind of support Linux offers.
There are exceptions to the rule, but by far, most companies and individuals running Linux have a fairly current distribution installed, and many of those that don't are merely running the old version because they simply haven't bothered to upgrade, not because anything is compelling them to stay with the older versions.
No, you're missing the point. If all these articles on the Wikipedia require a Britannica editor to fix them, then how is that different than www.britannica.com?
His point was that with the masses having write access to the article, the quality of the article had *fallen* to merely average quality.
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So . . you don't have a modem, do you?
#include
int main () {
printf("Hello World\n");
}
What's that about 50 lines again?
As he said already, "Doesn't matter how you call it, it is still a text file."
There's even a project out there to run C code as a script. In that case, it would be a script written in C. A script is a text file, a program is a compiled file, that's all there is to it.
That's not the point. The point is, when Gnome makes an improvement, KDE gets to use it too. When Apple updates Safari, guess what? Konqueror gets the same update. If it's a nice solution, the Mozilla guys just might look at it and code up their own version.
With free/open soure software, competition isnt' exclusionary. Look at Debian, it can run on the Linux kernel or the Hurd kernel. Look at all of the Linux drivers that have been ported to FreeBSD or the BSD innovations that Linux uses.
We might compete to be the first to develop some whiz bang feature, but we're just as quick to share it too.
And it doesn't matter how "proprietary" you think that Linux is. Grab a distro, any distro. If you like it use it, if not, try another. It doesn't matter. When I submit a patch to to a package I use, your distro will get it too.
You're welcome.
You realize that you are arguing with a firefox developer about how firefox is built, do you not?
Look dumbass. A restocking fee is not a late fee, never has been and never will be. Once you've kept a rental long enough that they can reasonably assume you plan to keep it (over a WEEK), then your rental is converted to a purchase. Once you've purchased the movie or dvd, then you have the standard 30 day return policy with a restocking fee. Plain and simple.
It's about as fair as you can get. Rent a movie and if you like it, keep it. You end up paying the same as if you'd just purchased it to begin with. Prior to this you'd either purchase it with the risk of not liking it or rent it and then purchase it with the cost of both.
And once again, this was all explained in great detail at the store.
A restocking fee pays to cover shipping the DVD that they ordered to replace the one that your selfish ass kept for over a week past its due date. What the fuck do you expect them to do?
A restocking fee is not a late fee, but maybe they should call the fee the "cost of shipping back the DVD that we ordered to replace the one that your selfish ass kept for over a week past its due date fee." Maybe then you'd quit pissing your pants for a lousy buck twenty five (which I might remind you is a hell of a lot less than a week of late fees.)
Why is it that common sense flies right out of your fucking head as soon as the word corporate gets involved?
They offered me your mother, but I sent the ugly bitch packing.
FYI, Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus too. Why don't you have a problem with that?
Interesting, the legal definition of 'burglary' is to enter the dwelling of another at night with the intent to commit a felony[1]. I wonder why 'burglarize' would be defined differently, even though it's the same root word, unless the dictionary has it wrong.
[1] Yes, the definition is this specific, we just went over it in Business Law.
A restocking charge is not a late fee. They will never charge a late fee any more, just a restocking charge, or the purchase price of the movie/game (minus whatever you've already paid) if you keep the thing long enough.
A $1.25 restocking fee for a 7 day late rental is way the fuck less than 7 lates fees of $4.
They call and remind you if you have a late rental.
No matter what, you'll never pay more than purchase price for the movie, and that's only if you keep in for a MONTH, meaning that they've already reordered a replacement copy. What the fuck do expect them to do?
All of this was cheerfully explained in detail at the store.
So what's the problem again? Did you forget that Blockbuster is in business to make money and not to follow you around and lick your balls?
Lemme remind you again. They are absolutely 100% correct to say NO LATE FEES. If you get charged, it's a RESTOCKING FEE to cover the price of shipping back the movie that they ordered to replace the one that your selfish ass kept for over a week past it's due date. This lawsuit is fucking retarded and just goes to show that some people can't ever be satisfied.
Or do you honestly pour through every line of code . . .
.. .
Yup. I have this special jar with a filter top that I put all the code in, then I pour it out, and the bad code gets left behind on the filter
Oh! Wait! You meant pore didn't you . . .
I'm pretty sure that strider44 was using terrible English to say that Sherman Networks futzed up the fast-track network, not the developer. Because of that Skype should be clean.
(Paint.NET is Windows .NET only and "not there yet")
Microsoft "helped" them develop it, what do you expect?
(yes, I go to school with the developers)
So go fuck yourself and your zealot distro already. ;-)
Typical Gentoo user.
(Yes, I know that's hypocritical of me, since I use Gentoo myself, but damn, people. Believe it or not, Gentoo is *NOT* the solution to all of the world's problems!)
Why Java?
http://www.faser.net/mab/chrome/content/mab.xul
OK then be pedantic ;)
Linux kernel 2.0 (released in 1996) is still actively maintained. Most current apps will still run on it.
You can install a Debian distro from 1995 and with a couple quick commands be current with all security fixes, or update it to current Debian.
Sure you won't find Redhat claiming to support RH4.0, but that's because the Linux world operates differently. If all those companies running NT4.0 had the opportunity to upgrade all their servers to winxp for no cost and no upgrade hassle and were guaranteed that their applications would continue to work and work just as well, I'm fairly certain that most would take advantage of the offer.
That's the kind of support Linux offers.
There are exceptions to the rule, but by far, most companies and individuals running Linux have a fairly current distribution installed, and many of those that don't are merely running the old version because they simply haven't bothered to upgrade, not because anything is compelling them to stay with the older versions.
Also, don't forget the newer versions of Outlook try to default to Word as the editor for emails.
.doc attachments.
This is a joke right? Please don't tell me that they'd be this stupid. Time to configure the mail servers to summarily reject
It's called free upgrades.
Heh. Yeah, and that bong that I sold? It's for educational purposes. Yep.
If UPS knowingly shipped bootlegs, you can bet your ass they would be sued!
No, you're missing the point. If all these articles on the Wikipedia require a Britannica editor to fix them, then how is that different than www.britannica.com?
His point was that with the masses having write access to the article, the quality of the article had *fallen* to merely average quality.
sorry. No.
It's not his real name! The guy's name is Mark Stephens.
I do believe you are right! Thanks for catching my thinko.