I was very excited to hear that the 2.0 release would contain a web browser. I and many other linux users are completely fed up with the current applications available to us. Is Konquerer going to be a full-fledged browser supporting all the technologies that make the web work (CSS, Java, Javascript, XML, etc)? In other words can I replace Netscape with this browser or will I still need to load it up for some sites? If it's not fully-featured now then will it be soon and is it uasable as-is? (unlike Mozilla... bah I know I'm going to get it for that one)
<SIG> I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu. </SIG>
I read an interview w/ Garry Kasparav where HE stated that he fears Irina more than any other chess player in the world when it comes to taking his title away. I was just regurgitating that...
<SIG> I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu. </SIG>
I envy you. I really do. I wish I could just go through my life with out a wife. But after 13 years of taking care of things myself (my built-in feedback system kicked in at a very young age) I have realized that I do not need a woman for sex. But I do need one for love, companionship, cuddling, caring, etc. I haven't found it yet because as a geek I'm terrible with women. But I know that the time is rapidly approaching where I will have to start seeking a mate. Sure the sex will be nice but it's not what it's about.
Sure I love the freedom of having tons of porn laying around, not bathing while in the grips of a 3-day coding binge, staying up all night writing code because I was on a roll and didn't want to forget what I was doing because I hadn't commented a single line of code (hehe), etc. But I would gladly give up those "freedoms" for the security of knowing that the woman laying next to me in bed every night loves me.
That's just me. I understand what I need in life and so do you. We're just different. Nevertheless, I envy you.
Best of luck.
<SIG> I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu. </SIG>
As was pointed out in the article. Garry's analysis led him to believe that even the move that Irina suggested would have been losing. Just not as fast as the route we ended up taking. I'm sure someone will do a thourough analysis to confirm it... but in all likelihood we had already lost at that point in the game.
<SIG> I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu. </SIG>
Thanks to Irina Krush. She will take away Garry's title someday. We need to commend her on her efforts she put a ton of work into the game! She contributed months and months of painstaking, in-depth analysis. Thanks, Irina!
<SIG> I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu. </SIG>
Please feel free to plagerize this since I borrowed some of it from the article above:-) -crispy
C U T A L O N G D O T T E D L I N E S -------------------------------------------------
Dear Friends,
Echelon is the near-mythical worldwide computer spy network that reportedly scans all email, packet traffic, telephone conversations -- and more -- around the world, in an effort to ferret out potential terrorist or enemy communications.
It is an invasion of our privacy and in an attempt to bring awareness of this issue to the general public the "gag Echelon day" event has been organized. I am merely helping in the effort.
If the hunch of a loose-knit group of cyber-activists is correct, the words below will trip the keyword recognition filter on a global spy system partly managed by the US National Security Agency. If everyone sends out email containing these words then we might be able to bring the system down or at least slow it for a while.
Please forward this email to as many people as you know FOR TODAY ONLY!!!! This is not a chain letter. Do not forward it unless today's date is 10-21-1999. For proof that I am not making this up please check out this URL:
Here are the words. I have tried to link them all together in a paragraph of some sort since their system is likely to filter out anything as obvious as a slew of these keywords chained together:
The FBI and CIA, together with the NSA, IRS, and ATF are government agencies; As are the BATF and the DOD. The MILITIA's are all convinced of the government's involvement in WACO and RUBY RIDGE and have done sick things like the TERRORIST bombing at OKLAHOMA CITY (OKC). If you have a GUN (or HANDGUN), ASSAULT RIFLE(AK47, M16, etc), or a BOMB or EXPLOSIVE (ie. C4) of any sort do not use it in any sort of TERRORISM or DRUG related crime. Note that I do not support DAVID KORESH, the BRANCH DAVIDIAN's, the MOSSAD, or any other group involved in MILITIA or TERRORIST activities. I am merely trying to bring the echelon situation to the attention of our contries leaders (HILLARY CLINTON, BILL CLINTON (lots of nuts are still worried about WHITEWATER), AL GORE, GEORGE BUSH, OLIVER NORTH (he was involved in that IRAN CONTRAS business), VINCE FOSTER (he's dead now), etc). I believe in our CONSTITUTION and the BILL OF RIGHTS, do not allow the government to spy on us. forward this email. There are other keywords but putting them all in seems a bit excesive. It's the number of emails that matter after all!
Please feel free to not forward this if you do not agree with it. Thanks, ------------------------------------------------- Christopher M. Eppstein Caltech :wq
<SIG> I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu. </SIG>
Yes! Finally someone anwers the way I wanted to. Windowmaker's dock and clip are ideal for what the poster is looking for. Plus the little dock apps are sweet and easy to use (though maybe a little too small for an older person... but with the resolution at 600x800 the apps could be large enough.) Plus Windowmaker is gnome-compliant which means you could put all kinds of cute icons on the desktop and give him a start menu for when his needs extend beyond the 5 or 6 apps that can be launched from the dock.
Best of luck.
PS. Just a matter of personal opinion but I don't think I would give Linux to my parents just yet. It's almost there. I think in less than a year I'll tell them to make the switch. I hear the mandrake distro is good for newbies. I should check it out.
<SIG> I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu. </SIG>
It's not what you said. It's how you said it. It is entirely possible to make good points without lots of sarcasm and insults. If you are worried about being moderated down then post responsibly.
Can't we all just get along?
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I figured as much since NT has a kernel... I think the statement holds for Win9x though. Which is why I'd run NT before Win9x anyday. But I haven't needed either one for over a year now.
<SIG> I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu. </SIG>
I'm not a kernel hacker or anything so please correct me if I'm wrong. But I was under the impression that Win & NT can never really be stable OS's because they don't distinguish kernel and user spaces like unix does. So any application is capable of brining down the whole system. It doesn't matter if it's running stable unix apps... Solitaire could bring the whole system down if it crashes. (I know this is true for Win9x but I'm not sure about NT) Plus you still have to re-boot every time you install new software or change your configurations... Not very stable or usable if you ask me...
<SIG> I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu. </SIG>
Near as I can tell the contract applies only to the band (They are the ones that signed the fscking contract). I don't see how it can apply to John Q. Random guy that makes a fan site. He never signed anything. If they use a bunch of trademarked symbols they could force them to remove them but they can't possibly make them take the site down (unless they crumple under the lawyer's pressure).
And yes, of course, I've heard of Tool. They led me to Bill Hicks! And they are one of the best bands around right now.
<SIG> I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu. </SIG>
I'm not 100% positive but I was always under the impression that the PIN(via one-way-encryption) was stored ON the card! Which seems horribly succeptible to fraud (I mean there's only 10,000 possible PINS)... However I am pretty sure that ATMs can still operate even if they are completely disconnected from the network (they just store the transactions and post them when the network comes back up...) which raises the level of confidence. I knew that 3 years as a Bank teller would come in handy some day.
<SIG> I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu. </SIG>
Sony is a business and they are out to make a buck. If the bands don't like it they can go to another label. There are lots of labels that don't try to fsck over the bands that they sign. (esp. the electronic music labels) You probably haven't heard about them because they make good music that just doesn't get radio play. Go to Sony Music and browse through the list of bands that they have signed. I think you will notice many of the worst bands in existance. You know the ones (Bill Hicks talks about them all the time. Who is Bill Hicks? Only the wisest man to ever live.) that really suck! They make trite soundbites and pass them off as music. Anyways, back to the point before I get moderated down... A lot of these bands suck. They know it so they take any contract they can get. The good artists go elsewhere. Most of them will be at coachella. (That concert will have the best bands ever! Buy your ticket quick.)
So my point is this: what do we care? Let them get screwed over. These bands will do anything for their 5 minutes of fame. I for one will keep the radio off and the CD player blaring lots of music that does not contain the word "sony" anywhere on the disk. (Except for all my Pink Floyd CD's but they signed with sony a long time ago.)
<SIG> I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu. </SIG>
Yes I am well aware of the distinction between OOD and an OO Language and I make that distinction in my post. However C lacks many of the features that are the most useful and that C++ adds. Mainly polymorphism. Inheritance and templates make so much sense when working with objects that not using a language that supports those OO ideas just seems silly. I understand the decision to go with C instead of C++. The designers wanted a library that C programmers could use w/o learning a new language. That was a DESIGN decision made by the GTK+ people. I happen to think it was a poor decision. By using OOD they force the C programmers to learn to think in terms of objects anyway. They might as well use a language better suited for the task.
<SIG> I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu. </SIG>
This topic has been covered over and over again. The result is the user preferences system. If you don't want to hear about something you can turn off that category. Of course this has one flaw. What if you want to hear about the "important" stuff but not the "less important" stuff within a certain category? I have an Idea for Slashdot:
Every story should be given a ranking (1-10 or something) that is a measure of how important the current story is w.r.t. that category. ie. Redhat announcing it's IPO or a new release would be 10's but Redhat IPO updates would be 5's or something. Then a user could set a threshold for each category (0 shows no posts, 10 only the most important, 1 shows all posts)
Of course this would be a purely subjective determination by the poster. If we wanted to get really hardcore into it then the importance could change due to moderator input/number of posts/number of positive moderator points given/etc.
I know Rob has his hands full with updating the site all the time but this system sounds like a great Idea to me. What do the rest of you think?
<SIG> I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu. </SIG>
GTK+ seemed a bit contrived when I tried to learn it. They are using OOP concepts in C. GTK-- (a C++ wrapper for GTK+) has the right idea, imho. As far as ease of use goes I have found that Qt is the best for getting a working app going with very little effort.
To be honest, I found that the primary barrier to learning GTK+ was a lack of a good source of documentation. Maybe this book will change all that. I guess I'll have to pick it up and see.
<SIG> I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu. </SIG>
Free in every sense of the word. BSD has it right. they are not promoting an agenda... they are just making good software and giving it away. Very noble of them, I think.
<SIG> I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu. </SIG>
Re:Congress is controlled by Republicans
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First off: Diane Fienstein(D) is one of the major proponents of the Drug Links Ban. So it's not just republicans taking away our freedom...
As Bill Hicks (a true visionary) says: "I'll show you politics in america, Here it is right here: `I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs'; `I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking'. Hey wait a minute! There's one guy holding up both puppets...'Go back to bed America, your government is in control!'"
Even If they are watching, do you have any Idea how much information they would be collecting? WAY more than could possibly be analyzed in real time. But they're not watching (The internet is self-ran and their software would have to be installed everywhere to be effective, wouldn't it?) and you, sir, are simply paranoid.
We (the slashdotter's) should not root for AOL just because they are giving M$ a taste of their own medicine. I thought that we were above that sort of thing. Why do we hate M$? because they are evil. They use and manipulate the markets and their consumers. They produce shoddy software... But do we cheer when they are losing a battle? Yes if the battle is being fought correctly. We can't justify the means just because the end (M$ loses) is good. AOL is clearly in the wrong here because they are inhibiting the open source/standard approach to software. They needn't worry about losing users if their's is a supperior product. And if it's not the best one then an open standard will pave the way for others to write software and servers that can do a better job. The end result is better software for the consumer. Now, isn't that what we all really are after?
That should be very cool. I have wanted to play around with servlets for some time now! The ASF is going to be a good thing for the advancement of apache. Always nice to have the big names like IBM contributing to the open source projects, too.
If your read my comments a little more carefully you will see that they were directed towards the iMac as well, which shares a similar design philosphy.
If my computer knowledge makes me a computer bad-ass that's just fine by me. It doesn't mean that it is my goal.
Your circular logic baffles the mind:
you asked for a consumer product that doesn't assume your an idiot; I gave one.
then you define a consumer product as something that your grandma (read: idiot) can use.
Obviously I can't argue with flawed logic like that. I do state two facts: 1. Linux is a product. 2. By downloading and installing it people consume it. Some even purchase CD's containing the product.
Linux is a consumer product. The fact that your grandma is an idiot doesn't change that fact. What you want for your grandma is a dumbed-down version of linux that any moron can use. This is also a consumer product. But not one I'm interested in.
I thought that strong EM fields had been linked to cancer... (You know all the power line stories) I guess you could die a slow agonizing death in peace with the knowledge that no one is watching you.
And since we're not dealing with reality: you should try making yourself invisible. Then you don't have to worry about any one spying on you and you can spy on all the girls lockerrooms that you want. -----
Slashdot Mirror
I was very excited to hear that the 2.0 release would contain a web browser. I and many other linux users are completely fed up with the current applications available to us. Is Konquerer going to be a full-fledged browser supporting all the technologies that make the web work (CSS, Java, Javascript, XML, etc)? In other words can I replace Netscape with this browser or will I still need to load it up for some sites? If it's not fully-featured now then will it be soon and is it uasable as-is? (unlike Mozilla... bah I know I'm going to get it for that one)
<SIG>
I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu.
</SIG>
I read an interview w/ Garry Kasparav where HE stated that he fears Irina more than any other chess player in the world when it comes to taking his title away. I was just regurgitating that...
<SIG>
I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu.
</SIG>
I envy you. I really do. I wish I could just go through my life with out a wife. But after 13 years of taking care of things myself (my built-in feedback system kicked in at a very young age) I have realized that I do not need a woman for sex. But I do need one for love, companionship, cuddling, caring, etc. I haven't found it yet because as a geek I'm terrible with women. But I know that the time is rapidly approaching where I will have to start seeking a mate. Sure the sex will be nice but it's not what it's about.
Sure I love the freedom of having tons of porn laying around, not bathing while in the grips of a 3-day coding binge, staying up all night writing code because I was on a roll and didn't want to forget what I was doing because I hadn't commented a single line of code (hehe), etc. But I would gladly give up those "freedoms" for the security of knowing that the woman laying next to me in bed every night loves me .
That's just me. I understand what I need in life and so do you. We're just different. Nevertheless, I envy you.
Best of luck.
<SIG>
I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu.
</SIG>
As was pointed out in the article. Garry's analysis led him to believe that even the move that Irina suggested would have been losing. Just not as fast as the route we ended up taking. I'm sure someone will do a thourough analysis to confirm it... but in all likelihood we had already lost at that point in the game.
<SIG>
I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu.
</SIG>
Thanks to Irina Krush. She will take away Garry's title someday. We need to commend her on her efforts she put a ton of work into the game! She contributed months and months of painstaking, in-depth analysis. Thanks, Irina!
<SIG>
I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu.
</SIG>
Please feel free to plagerize this since I borrowed some of it from the article above:-)
-crispy
C U T A L O N G D O T T E D L I N E S
-------------------------------------------------
Dear Friends,
Echelon is the near-mythical worldwide computer spy network that reportedly scans all email, packet traffic, telephone conversations -- and more -- around the world, in an effort to ferret out potential terrorist or enemy communications.
It is an invasion of our privacy and in an attempt to bring awareness of this issue to the general public the "gag Echelon day" event has been organized. I am merely helping in the effort.
If the hunch of a loose-knit group of cyber-activists is correct, the words below will trip the keyword recognition filter on a global spy system partly managed by the US National Security Agency. If everyone sends out email containing these words then we might be able to bring the system down or at least slow it for a while.
Please forward this email to as many people as you know FOR TODAY ONLY!!!! This is not a chain letter. Do not forward it unless today's date is 10-21-1999. For proof that I am not making this up please check out this URL:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,31726,00 .html
Here are the words. I have tried to link them all together in a paragraph of some sort since their system is likely to filter out anything as obvious as a slew of these keywords chained together:
The FBI and CIA, together with the NSA, IRS, and ATF are government agencies; As are the BATF and the DOD. The MILITIA's are all convinced of the government's involvement in WACO and RUBY RIDGE and have done sick things like the TERRORIST bombing at OKLAHOMA CITY (OKC). If you have a GUN (or HANDGUN), ASSAULT RIFLE(AK47, M16, etc), or a BOMB or EXPLOSIVE (ie. C4) of any sort do not use it in any sort of TERRORISM or DRUG related crime. Note that I do not support DAVID KORESH, the BRANCH DAVIDIAN's, the MOSSAD, or any other group involved in MILITIA or TERRORIST activities. I am merely trying to bring the echelon situation to the attention of our contries leaders (HILLARY CLINTON, BILL CLINTON (lots of nuts are still worried about WHITEWATER), AL GORE, GEORGE BUSH, OLIVER NORTH (he was involved in that IRAN CONTRAS business), VINCE FOSTER (he's dead now), etc). I believe in our CONSTITUTION and the BILL OF RIGHTS, do not allow the government to spy on us. forward this email. There are other keywords but putting them all in seems a bit excesive. It's the number of emails that matter after all!
Please feel free to not forward this if you do not agree with it. Thanks,
:wq
-------------------------------------------------
Christopher M. Eppstein
Caltech
<SIG>
I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu.
</SIG>
Yes! Finally someone anwers the way I wanted to. Windowmaker's dock and clip are ideal for what the poster is looking for. Plus the little dock apps are sweet and easy to use (though maybe a little too small for an older person... but with the resolution at 600x800 the apps could be large enough.) Plus Windowmaker is gnome-compliant which means you could put all kinds of cute icons on the desktop and give him a start menu for when his needs extend beyond the 5 or 6 apps that can be launched from the dock.
Best of luck.
PS. Just a matter of personal opinion but I don't think I would give Linux to my parents just yet. It's almost there. I think in less than a year I'll tell them to make the switch. I hear the mandrake distro is good for newbies. I should check it out.
<SIG>
I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu.
</SIG>
It's not what you said. It's how you said it. It is entirely possible to make good points without lots of sarcasm and insults. If you are worried about being moderated down then post responsibly.
Can't we all just get along?
<SIG>
I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu.
</SIG>
You're wrong, at least for NT
I figured as much since NT has a kernel... I think the statement holds for Win9x though. Which is why I'd run NT before Win9x anyday. But I haven't needed either one for over a year now.
<SIG>
I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu.
</SIG>
I'm not a kernel hacker or anything so please correct me if I'm wrong. But I was under the impression that Win & NT can never really be stable OS's because they don't distinguish kernel and user spaces like unix does. So any application is capable of brining down the whole system. It doesn't matter if it's running stable unix apps... Solitaire could bring the whole system down if it crashes. (I know this is true for Win9x but I'm not sure about NT) Plus you still have to re-boot every time you install new software or change your configurations... Not very stable or usable if you ask me...
<SIG>
I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu.
</SIG>
Near as I can tell the contract applies only to the band (They are the ones that signed the fscking contract). I don't see how it can apply to John Q. Random guy that makes a fan site. He never signed anything. If they use a bunch of trademarked symbols they could force them to remove them but they can't possibly make them take the site down (unless they crumple under the lawyer's pressure).
And yes, of course, I've heard of Tool. They led me to Bill Hicks! And they are one of the best bands around right now.
<SIG>
I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu.
</SIG>
I'm not 100% positive but I was always under the impression that the PIN(via one-way-encryption) was stored ON the card! Which seems horribly succeptible to fraud (I mean there's only 10,000 possible PINS)... However I am pretty sure that ATMs can still operate even if they are completely disconnected from the network (they just store the transactions and post them when the network comes back up...) which raises the level of confidence. I knew that 3 years as a Bank teller would come in handy some day.
<SIG>
I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu.
</SIG>
Sony is a business and they are out to make a buck. If the bands don't like it they can go to another label. There are lots of labels that don't try to fsck over the bands that they sign. (esp. the electronic music labels) You probably haven't heard about them because they make good music that just doesn't get radio play. Go to Sony Music and browse through the list of bands that they have signed. I think you will notice many of the worst bands in existance. You know the ones (Bill Hicks talks about them all the time. Who is Bill Hicks? Only the wisest man to ever live.) that really suck! They make trite soundbites and pass them off as music. Anyways, back to the point before I get moderated down... A lot of these bands suck. They know it so they take any contract they can get. The good artists go elsewhere. Most of them will be at coachella. (That concert will have the best bands ever! Buy your ticket quick.)
So my point is this: what do we care? Let them get screwed over. These bands will do anything for their 5 minutes of fame. I for one will keep the radio off and the CD player blaring lots of music that does not contain the word "sony" anywhere on the disk. (Except for all my Pink Floyd CD's but they signed with sony a long time ago.)
<SIG>
I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu.
</SIG>
He knows not what he says.
You are obviously ignorant on this matter.
When it comes to OOP Java is better than C++, and C++ is better than C. Not my opinion. Just plain fact.
<SIG>
I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu.
</SIG>
I emailed rob and he told me it's in the .plan to add article rating. I guess great minds think alike, eh?
<SIG>
I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu.
</SIG>
Yes I am well aware of the distinction between OOD and an OO Language and I make that distinction in my post. However C lacks many of the features that are the most useful and that C++ adds. Mainly polymorphism. Inheritance and templates make so much sense when working with objects that not using a language that supports those OO ideas just seems silly. I understand the decision to go with C instead of C++. The designers wanted a library that C programmers could use w/o learning a new language. That was a DESIGN decision made by the GTK+ people. I happen to think it was a poor decision. By using OOD they force the C programmers to learn to think in terms of objects anyway. They might as well use a language better suited for the task.
<SIG>
I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu.
</SIG>
This topic has been covered over and over again. The result is the user preferences system. If you don't want to hear about something you can turn off that category. Of course this has one flaw. What if you want to hear about the "important" stuff but not the "less important" stuff within a certain category? I have an Idea for Slashdot:
Every story should be given a ranking (1-10 or something) that is a measure of how important the current story is w.r.t. that category. ie. Redhat announcing it's IPO or a new release would be 10's but Redhat IPO updates would be 5's or something. Then a user could set a threshold for each category (0 shows no posts, 10 only the most important, 1 shows all posts)
Of course this would be a purely subjective determination by the poster. If we wanted to get really hardcore into it then the importance could change due to moderator input/number of posts/number of positive moderator points given/etc.
I know Rob has his hands full with updating the site all the time but this system sounds like a great Idea to me. What do the rest of you think?
<SIG>
I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu.
</SIG>
GTK+ seemed a bit contrived when I tried to learn it. They are using OOP concepts in C. GTK-- (a C++ wrapper for GTK+) has the right idea, imho. As far as ease of use goes I have found that Qt is the best for getting a working app going with very little effort.
To be honest, I found that the primary barrier to learning GTK+ was a lack of a good source of documentation. Maybe this book will change all that. I guess I'll have to pick it up and see.
<SIG>
I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu.
</SIG>
Free in every sense of the word. BSD has it right. they are not promoting an agenda... they are just making good software and giving it away. Very noble of them, I think.
<SIG>
I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu.
</SIG>
First off: Diane Fienstein(D) is one of the major proponents of the Drug Links Ban. So it's not just republicans taking away our freedom...
As Bill Hicks (a true visionary) says:
"I'll show you politics in america, Here it is right here:
`I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs'; `I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking'.
Hey wait a minute! There's one guy holding up both puppets...'Go back to bed America, your government is in control!'"
Even If they are watching, do you have any Idea how much information they would be collecting? WAY more than could possibly be analyzed in real time. But they're not watching (The internet is self-ran and their software would have to be installed everywhere to be effective, wouldn't it?) and you, sir, are simply paranoid.
We (the slashdotter's) should not root for AOL just because they are giving M$ a taste of their own medicine. I thought that we were above that sort of thing. Why do we hate M$? because they are evil. They use and manipulate the markets and their consumers. They produce shoddy software... But do we cheer when they are losing a battle? Yes if the battle is being fought correctly. We can't justify the means just because the end (M$ loses) is good. AOL is clearly in the wrong here because they are inhibiting the open source/standard approach to software. They needn't worry about losing users if their's is a supperior product. And if it's not the best one then an open standard will pave the way for others to write software and servers that can do a better job. The end result is better software for the consumer. Now, isn't that what we all really are after?
That should be very cool. I have wanted to play around with servlets for some time now!
The ASF is going to be a good thing for the advancement of apache. Always nice to have the big names like IBM contributing to the open source projects, too.
If your read my comments a little more carefully you will see that they were directed towards the iMac as well, which shares a similar design philosphy.
If my computer knowledge makes me a computer bad-ass that's just fine by me. It doesn't mean that it is my goal.
Your circular logic baffles the mind:
you asked for a consumer product that doesn't assume your an idiot; I gave one.
then you define a consumer product as something that your grandma (read: idiot) can use.
Obviously I can't argue with flawed logic like that. I do state two facts:
1. Linux is a product.
2. By downloading and installing it people consume it. Some even purchase CD's containing the product.
Linux is a consumer product. The fact that your grandma is an idiot doesn't change that fact. What you want for your grandma is a dumbed-down version of linux that any moron can use. This is also a consumer product. But not one I'm interested in.
I thought that strong EM fields had been linked to cancer... (You know all the power line stories) I guess you could die a slow agonizing death in peace with the knowledge that no one is watching you.
And since we're not dealing with reality: you should try making yourself invisible. Then you don't have to worry about any one spying on you and you can spy on all the girls lockerrooms that you want.
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