google - that's been around for just a wee bit of time and has seen both advertising, a whole *lot* of media attention and a lot of word of mouth (espeically on frequently traveld sites).
This sounds like what SpamVampire has been doing for ages (without the added Lycos popup adverts, of course). It doesn't work in Firefox yet but I'm pretty sure that it works in Konq.
Also, on a related note, this is a little java app that you can run as a background process thath injects false information into various spam/spyware related website forms.
I have friends and myself have computer science/math degrees and have programmed in c/c++ and prefer to be a system admin - but I have been turned down by positions because I have been told I am asking too much money. this is the reason why they want these people they will work for basically no salary - they just want to live over here because our country actually has running water and toilets. so basically this is a bunch of crap!!!
I completely agree. I came over here from the UK and boy was I surprised when I found out that I could pull a lever and get water out! The best thing - you can get it hot or cold!!! Just wait until mother and father hears about this when I send my next letter back home. They'll be so pleased I'm not wallowing around in the mud looking for bugs like my brothers and sisters.
No you didn't pay $50 for a game. 10 years ago you would have payed $50 for a game. Today, you paid $50 for a "license" to play a game. If Valve at any point decides they no longer want you to play said game then you have nothing. This is the important point: Your ability to play Half-Life 2 exists solely at the discretion of Valve Studios even after you have paid them $50 for a "copy".
Well said that man! It's times like this I wish I hadn't just wasted my mod points on pointless flamewars;)
Well, if you were Google, wouldn't you also help out everything that might decrease IE's userbase?
Like releasing an IE-only version of their toolbar, and having their desktop search tool refuse to search any browser cache that isn't IE.. is that how they're decreasing IE's userbase?
But there is a little truth in the old saying. "He who lives by the sword, Dies by the sword."
Indeed - likewise he who lives by the pen, he who lives by the word processor, he who who lives by the fax machine all shall die by the sword. Only he who lives by the tank shall remain immune.
Right! I had to get up in the morning, at ten o'clock at night, 'alf an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill and pay mill-owner for permission to come to work, and when we got 'ome, our dad would kill us and dance about on our graves, singing Hallelujah!
Oh, ay. And you try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you!
They've been all over mainland UK for the last decade or so too. I moved away years ago but 'm sure there's one still in Gloucester (one of the only shops there that isn't boarded up!).
Same here - "No Updates Found". It's a brilliant masterstroke by the firefox team. Get people to update manually so they don't have to worry about making sure the update feature works.
Third, it could only be ``spyware'' if it phoned home.
Interestingly (or not), when I attempted to install this on an XP box earlier this evening I was greeted with a "Yes/No" requester giving me the choice of carrying on with the installation and changing some IE settings or exiting the install. I wasn't sure what settings it wanted to change so clicked "No" and went to search for more information. Moments later a personal firewall alert popped up telling me the installation program wanted access outside of the LAN. Nothing to worry about, but I just add this info for completeness.
Funny, I had exactly the opposite problem trying to get my Radeon8500 working properly in Gentoo. After multiple installations following all manner of differing opinions and help on the official gentoo forums I gave up and put win2k back on it.
Uhmm, these guys did a job (fantastic though it was) that NASA had already pioneered. I dare say they'd have spent a hell of a lot more cash had they not been following in the footsteps...
I don't think it looks like "some crappy KDE theme" myself, but perhaps if you read the FAQ you mght understand why it looks like it does:
The GUI looks like an Amiga. Is Syllable an AmigaOS clone?
No. In the beginning, AtheOS was actualy meant to be one, but these days there is nothing resembling the AmigaOS in Syllable other than the default window borders. Syllable has over half a dozen different window decorators which are installed by default. For example, you may have noticed that many of the screenshots use the "Be" window decorator, which is designed to look a little like the windows in BeOS.
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I agree, very largely unrelated. Modems, free local calls had nothing to do with Ceefax type service not taking off. Perhaps its the way the BBC was setup that helped Ceefax becomewhat it was.
I'm sure that had a large effect on the take-up of ceefax among UK viewers although without knowing a great deal about how the US TV system works (or worked) I couldn't give a definite answer.
Non-free local calls in the UK could easily be argued to have stunted the growth and potential of the Internet in the UK though.
Yes, I agree somewhat with that argument. Although, to turn it on its head, could the success of services like BBC's Ceefax and ITV's Teletext have caused such a slow initial rise in the acceptance of the internet in the UK?
"Why should I go buy a computer and pay an ISP/telco to get the same information I can get for free sitting on my couch with the remote control in one hand and a cup of tea in t'other";-)
I'm British and was using ceefax to get sports results, news and tv schedules up until the time I moved to Oklahoma earlier this year. I know I can get the same information on the internet via my computer or even my mobile phone but, for the same reason I still jot notes down on paper, sometimes the simple/oldest option is the best.
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Does the above not also apply to Firefox?
It's different because with iChat the people are fully clothed....
Also, on a related note, this is a little java app that you can run as a background process thath injects false information into various spam/spyware related website forms.
I completely agree. I came over here from the UK and boy was I surprised when I found out that I could pull a lever and get water out! The best thing - you can get it hot or cold!!! Just wait until mother and father hears about this when I send my next letter back home. They'll be so pleased I'm not wallowing around in the mud looking for bugs like my brothers and sisters.
Well said that man! It's times like this I wish I hadn't just wasted my mod points on pointless flamewars ;)
Like releasing an IE-only version of their toolbar, and having their desktop search tool refuse to search any browser cache that isn't IE.. is that how they're decreasing IE's userbase?
Indeed - likewise he who lives by the pen, he who lives by the word processor, he who who lives by the fax machine all shall die by the sword. Only he who lives by the tank shall remain immune.
A slashversitment and pimp-my-site all rolled into one story! Way to go slashdot editors - you've excelled yourselves this time.
Hey! Keep IIS out of this!
are you on crack, mate?
Oh, ay. And you try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you!
Wow. Two examples of how someone has changed their mind on a subject a decade later. How insightful. Moron.
Slashdot ahead of the curve, as always.
Same here - "No Updates Found". It's a brilliant masterstroke by the firefox team. Get people to update manually so they don't have to worry about making sure the update feature works.
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Interestingly (or not), when I attempted to install this on an XP box earlier this evening I was greeted with a "Yes/No" requester giving me the choice of carrying on with the installation and changing some IE settings or exiting the install. I wasn't sure what settings it wanted to change so clicked "No" and went to search for more information. Moments later a personal firewall alert popped up telling me the installation program wanted access outside of the LAN. Nothing to worry about, but I just add this info for completeness.
How was this modded anything but -5 Nonsense?
Sounds like a pretty screwed up system to me. Why do you put up with it?
So why work extra hours if you're not getting paid for it and don't enjoy it?
I'm sorry, getting paid overtime is a bad thing now?
Funny, I had exactly the opposite problem trying to get my Radeon8500 working properly in Gentoo. After multiple installations following all manner of differing opinions and help on the official gentoo forums I gave up and put win2k back on it.
.. and when i say NASA I mean all the countries and agencies involved "way back when".
The GUI looks like an Amiga. Is Syllable an AmigaOS clone?
No. In the beginning, AtheOS was actualy meant to be one, but these days there is nothing resembling the AmigaOS in Syllable other than the default window borders. Syllable has over half a dozen different window decorators which are installed by default. For example, you may have noticed that many of the screenshots use the "Be" window decorator, which is designed to look a little like the windows in BeOS.
I'm sure that had a large effect on the take-up of ceefax among UK viewers although without knowing a great deal about how the US TV system works (or worked) I couldn't give a definite answer.
Non-free local calls in the UK could easily be argued to have stunted the growth and potential of the Internet in the UK though.
Yes, I agree somewhat with that argument. Although, to turn it on its head, could the success of services like BBC's Ceefax and ITV's Teletext have caused such a slow initial rise in the acceptance of the internet in the UK?
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"Why should I go buy a computer and pay an ISP/telco to get the same information I can get for free sitting on my couch with the remote control in one hand and a cup of tea in t'other"
I'm British and was using ceefax to get sports results, news and tv schedules up until the time I moved to Oklahoma earlier this year. I know I can get the same information on the internet via my computer or even my mobile phone but, for the same reason I still jot notes down on paper, sometimes the simple/oldest option is the best.