Here's the big thing: only use open tools... What happens when IntelliJ stops supporting your version of IDEA and you have to upgrade with money you don't have? Etc.
Ouch.
I'd prefer you not use that as the argument for OpenSource tools. If 3-5 years away a vendor "stops supporting" a tool, that's ok! Panicing because a tool isn't supported anymore isn't any reason to throw it away or stop using it. Right now, I'm on an $850,000 project to replace a peice of software inside a company, that the users are perfectly happy with and want no feature upgrades. The end users get absolutely no benefit to rewriting the app at all. The *only* justification for re-writing it, is that the tool/language that it was written is not supported by the manufacturer any longer. Never mind that the application source code hasn't had to be modified in over 4 years, or that nobody complains about it...*sigh*.
Frankly, I'm appalled at people's (phb's) insistance on using supported tools. How many times have you actually used the support? 99% of the time, Google and the community give me better support and with faster results.
I'd hope that the best reasons for using OpenSource, were: 1- PRICE, 2-QUALITY, and 3-It's Open.
I love OpenSource tools, but I use them where they meet the needs best. I won't use a peice of crap over a commercial product, just because it's opensource.
Other than that, I figure your list is right on. With the exception of jedit.(it's a pig on Aix -> Exceed)
You know, I'm not sure that this is a plan to force all pirated-key windows users to do anything.
You are very correct that Piracy has made microsoft what it is today--That being said, one can never allow piracy to continue unchecked and rampant. It needs to be chased down everywhere it can be. By making it as difficult as they can, casual pirates will be forced to either a) cough up the dough, or b) move to a platform that copying is not piracy (linux/bsd/etc...)
I think that it is in everyone's best interests to really evaluate their dependance on unlicensed software. The slashdot crowd goes bloody balistic any time any one violates the GPL by shipping a GPL derrived product without access to the source. They however seem to have a soft spot for violations of Microsoft's (et al) copyrights.. Odd bunch.
Back to your point tho'... while the casual home pirates are not actually activly pirating MS's software, they strengthen MS--by making Windows the defacto standard... The Far-east street vendors of pirated software are not building microsoft's empire, they actually shrink it by removing people who would actually pay for their software from the pool.
So, if we didn't already have SP2 - we're getting it, like it or not - ready or not. Way to chicken-choke your customers there, Bill.
Only if you have automatic updates on.
This reasoning leads to one of two things:
1. You have auto-updates on, and don't know what the fuck you are doing anyway, in which case it's in the best interests of everyone that you are upgraded and at least become a smaller target to worms/viruses/other ilk. Breaking shitty software that has no reason not to have shipped an upgrade by now is no reason to contunually allow machines of this class to be availible as targets.
2. You do not have auto-updates on, and actually understand the risks/benefits to the system you are on. In this case it still is in your hands as to what gets installed. Problem solved.
In either case (1) The big bad microsoft needs to protect you from your own ignorance, or (2) you have the capability to protect yourself, the needs of the many get met.:p
I'd threaten submitting a claim to the Better Business Bureau http://www.bbb.org/
Tee Hee.
The BBB isn't going to be at all useful, especially if they aren't a member.
The BBB is just a boys club to make people beleive that they can get fair redress from the big bad companies.
The best you can do is to probably ask for the operator's name, and ask them to spell that please, and ask to speak to their legal department.
You may also want to ask them if it is better for the subpoena to be sent to their home or their work. You would be suprised how much more flexible phone drones will be if you make them think that their name will end up on a lawsuit.:P
1) Oooh, that's awful close to a Godwin's Law violation. Passed, but barely.
2) Mr. Burns:Listen, Spielbergo. Schindler and I are like peas in a pod! We're both factory owners. We both made shells for the Nazis, but mine worked, damn it! Now, go out there and win me that festival:P
I have no idea what you mean by "we've got 10 to 15 million years of fossil fuel to burn".
I was, of course, being sarcastic.
My intention is to draw a line between the "Massive extinction" over 15 million years, and the foolhardy notion that burning of fossil fuels is causing "Global Warming" (or someother climate-change-religon).
It bothers me when so-called scientists are trying to tie the need for clean air to a idiotic idea that we are drastically changing the earth's climate.
I would much rather have air quality and health being the driving reasons behind reforms around air pollution.
A study such as this, which describes climate change as killing off species over such a long period of time doesn't really get us anywhere. Especially when that was caused by a natural event/process.
If the primary reason to avoid excessive fossil fuel consumption is simply "global warming" then I couldn't give a rats ass. Give me a hummer and filler up.
If the primary reason to avoid excessive fossil fuel consumption is "fuck, I wanna BREATHE", then by all means. Solar, Geothermal, Fusion all sound like a viable way to acheive these goals.
As an aside, I'm absolutely dumbfounded by the U.S.'s lack of pioneering in alternative energies as it is. While I realize that there is good profit to be made in beating the shit out of people aroun the globe to monopolize their oil supply, it simply isn't sustainable.
From the article: Studying a 1,000-foot thick section of exposed sediment, Ward's team found evidence of a gradual extinction over about 10 million years followed by a sharp increase in extinction rate that lasted another 5 million years.
Huh?
A Gradual extinction over 10 million years? Yeah, That's gradual all right.
The best part is the "sharp" increase over five million more years. So what he's saying is that a hell of lot of stuff died over 15 million years? Wowfuck.
If we've got 10 to 15 million years of fossil fuel to burn, I say screw it.
Actually, netbeans tends to do things the way they are supposed to be done, not the way you think they should be.
Holy Crap!
I laughed so hard at that, Milk came out of my nose!--- and I wasn't drinking any milk!
That whole statement, is precisely what is wrong with NetBeans (note: those are not beans... -- just like a rabbit)
IDEs are like assholes. Everyone needs one, but they all spew shit like yesterday's lunch. The horror here is that everone tends to pick a favorite IDE, and then attempts to convince the world that their's is the best.
Let me introduce you to Rule #1 : ALL SOFTWARE SUCKS.
IDE shouldn't force fuck-all. At *BEST*, an IDE should free you from having to worry about *how* it's done, letting you simply free to do what *needs* to be done. For some, that would be NetBeans. (shudder)... for Others, it could be JBuilder (cringe), or Eclipse(whimper) or IntelliJ (*cough*), or even fucking Emacs (AAAAHHHH!!)
I'm not even going to suggest that I prefer an IDE over the next, cause they *all* have feature missing that others have, and they all behave a little oddly when you compare them to the next one.
Primarily, I personally cannot take an Editor written with Swing. Font Rendering is never quite perfect, and the editor window never is fast enough.
And, finally I would like to declare This 2004 edition of the battle of the Java IDEs... OPEN!:p
He said it was an ok gig, except for the twice every year that he made someone cry.
One account:
He was doing the taxes (Canadian) of this landed immigrant who was working three minimum-wage jobs. She earned about 18K in a year, but because each job was so low, they never deducted taxes. She ended up with a 2500$ tax bill. Woman started bawling LOUDLY right there. He said that sucked REALLY BAD.:(
I really don't see where the poster got the idea that the release would be free as in speech. Except maybe free speech in America.
Sun has made no indication that this would be released under a real Free/Open source license. Sun's past history with this sort of thing has been, shall we say... dismal.
Oh, they'll let us see the source. Sure as shit. Probably a clause that makes you "dirty" if you compile it, and sure as all hell it won't allow you to redistribute it, or patches to it. (like Sun's other "child" -- Java)
Heck according to the article I don't see any evidence that the license will be even "open".
Good Job Sun. Your work in promoting linux is amazing.
"On the blocks" sounds like a misquote of having something "up on blocks" which refers to having a vehicle being serviced (Ie, up off its tires, on blocks).
"On the block" (No plural) would indicate that that it is on the auction block (ie, up for sale).
This message brought to you by your friendly neighborhood grammar nazi.
Really? Seriously, I've always heard/said "Shit outta luck" , which really doesn't make any more sense, except that there is a reason to abbreviate it. Once you say it a million times tho' it doesn't seem to be anything odd.
Not that I'd claim my version is the authority however.
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Here's the big thing: only use open tools ...
What happens when IntelliJ stops supporting your version of IDEA and you have to upgrade with money you don't have? Etc.
Ouch.
I'd prefer you not use that as the argument for OpenSource tools. If 3-5 years away a vendor "stops supporting" a tool, that's ok! Panicing because a tool isn't supported anymore isn't any reason to throw it away or stop using it. Right now, I'm on an $850,000 project to replace a peice of software inside a company, that the users are perfectly happy with and want no feature upgrades. The end users get absolutely no benefit to rewriting the app at all. The *only* justification for re-writing it, is that the tool/language that it was written is not supported by the manufacturer any longer. Never mind that the application source code hasn't had to be modified in over 4 years, or that nobody complains about it...*sigh*.
Frankly, I'm appalled at people's (phb's) insistance on using supported tools. How many times have you actually used the support? 99% of the time, Google and the community give me better support and with faster results.
I'd hope that the best reasons for using OpenSource, were: 1- PRICE, 2-QUALITY, and 3-It's Open.
I love OpenSource tools, but I use them where they meet the needs best. I won't use a peice of crap over a commercial product, just because it's opensource.
Other than that, I figure your list is right on. With the exception of jedit.(it's a pig on Aix -> Exceed)
feh;
Needless to say, this is pi**ing me off!
...
.. wait aminnit.. hrm...
:)
Pinging? I don't understand.
OH! pimping!
I'm just pissed off that I can't see those two letters
.dvr-ms files support the use of a broadcast flag.
:()
It's Microsoft's MCE file format, which in itself is an ASF container with some more metadata.
Heh-heh. Good point. Marked you as a friend for that. (Well, that and your signature)...
I suppose that makes the most sense... Still funny, as the legal argument is in reality less motivating than the "please share" part. *smirk*
You know, I'm not sure that this is a plan to force all pirated-key windows users to do anything.
... while the casual home pirates are not actually activly pirating MS's software, they strengthen MS--by making Windows the defacto standard... The Far-east street vendors of pirated software are not building microsoft's empire, they actually shrink it by removing people who would actually pay for their software from the pool.
You are very correct that Piracy has made microsoft what it is today--That being said, one can never allow piracy to continue unchecked and rampant. It needs to be chased down everywhere it can be. By making it as difficult as they can, casual pirates will be forced to either a) cough up the dough, or b) move to a platform that copying is not piracy (linux/bsd/etc...)
I think that it is in everyone's best interests to really evaluate their dependance on unlicensed software. The slashdot crowd goes bloody balistic any time any one violates the GPL by shipping a GPL derrived product without access to the source. They however seem to have a soft spot for violations of Microsoft's (et al) copyrights.. Odd bunch.
Back to your point tho'
So, if we didn't already have SP2 - we're getting it, like it or not - ready or not. Way to chicken-choke your customers there, Bill.
:p
Only if you have automatic updates on.
This reasoning leads to one of two things:
1. You have auto-updates on, and don't know what the fuck you are doing anyway, in which case it's in the best interests of everyone that you are upgraded and at least become a smaller target to worms/viruses/other ilk. Breaking shitty software that has no reason not to have shipped an upgrade by now is no reason to contunually allow machines of this class to be availible as targets.
2. You do not have auto-updates on, and actually understand the risks/benefits to the system you are on. In this case it still is in your hands as to what gets installed. Problem solved.
In either case (1) The big bad microsoft needs to protect you from your own ignorance, or (2) you have the capability to protect yourself, the needs of the many get met.
I'd threaten submitting a claim to the Better Business Bureau http://www.bbb.org/
Tee Hee.
The BBB isn't going to be at all useful, especially if they aren't a member.
The BBB is just a boys club to make people beleive that they can get fair redress from the big bad companies.
The best you can do is to probably ask for the operator's name, and ask them to spell that please, and ask to speak to their legal department.
You may also want to ask them if it is better for the subpoena to be sent to their home or their work. You would be suprised how much more flexible phone drones will be if you make them think that their name will end up on a lawsuit.
hmmm.
:P
"something like in Schindler's List."
I had two responses to that:
1) Oooh, that's awful close to a Godwin's Law violation. Passed, but barely.
2) Mr. Burns: Listen, Spielbergo. Schindler and I are like peas in a pod! We're both factory owners. We both made shells for the Nazis, but mine worked, damn it! Now, go out there and win me that festival
Actually, there is a Gentoo Based LiveCD that absolutely rocks:
:)
http://lxnay.dnsalias.org/
I use this a basic install now, rather than going through all the steps
Once I've got in installed, I can do an emerge sync, and I'm running.
1. The last good baseball game I played was on the colecovision.
:p
2. Thank god for modchips.
I have no idea what you mean by "we've got 10 to 15 million years of fossil fuel to burn".
I was, of course, being sarcastic.
My intention is to draw a line between the "Massive extinction" over 15 million years, and the foolhardy notion that burning of fossil fuels is causing "Global Warming" (or someother climate-change-religon).
It bothers me when so-called scientists are trying to tie the need for clean air to a idiotic idea that we are drastically changing the earth's climate.
I would much rather have air quality and health being the driving reasons behind reforms around air pollution.
A study such as this, which describes climate change as killing off species over such a long period of time doesn't really get us anywhere. Especially when that was caused by a natural event/process.
If the primary reason to avoid excessive fossil fuel consumption is simply "global warming" then I couldn't give a rats ass. Give me a hummer and filler up.
If the primary reason to avoid excessive fossil fuel consumption is "fuck, I wanna BREATHE", then by all means. Solar, Geothermal, Fusion all sound like a viable way to acheive these goals.
As an aside, I'm absolutely dumbfounded by the U.S.'s lack of pioneering in alternative energies as it is. While I realize that there is good profit to be made in beating the shit out of people aroun the globe to monopolize their oil supply, it simply isn't sustainable.
From the article:
Studying a 1,000-foot thick section of exposed sediment, Ward's team found evidence of a gradual extinction over about 10 million years followed by a sharp increase in extinction rate that lasted another 5 million years.
Huh?
A Gradual extinction over 10 million years? Yeah, That's gradual all right.
The best part is the "sharp" increase over five million more years. So what he's saying is that a hell of lot of stuff died over 15 million years? Wowfuck.
If we've got 10 to 15 million years of fossil fuel to burn, I say screw it.
"Dear? you can turn up the heat now"
feh.
as for all those \. ass-monkeys telling you to use Subversion
heh-heh. Ass monkeys. You're funny.
Pity you don't know about subclipse
Eclipse has had subversion support for quite a while.
If you couldn't be bothered to translate the error codes from hex and look them up in the manual, who needed ya?
/. sure is getting overrun by kids these days...
/. guys, we need a filter option to weed out 6 digit /. IDs :)
Hex?!???
Octal, fool! The only true representation of value is Octal!
Sheesh.
Hex, indeed.
Hey
----
This post was written with tounge in cheek. Not my cheek, but she'll get over it...
Sex.
Mmmm. Good old Sex.
Free. Fun. Oh, wait, this is slashdot. Nerds don't know what *girls are.
*sigh*
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*More appropriately, a sexual partner. Chicks, dudes, whatever makes you go.
Perhaps in PDF?
:)
:)
I'd love to print this out and hang it on a wall around here
Or, better yet, maybe the Firefox Folks coule sell posters
Actually, netbeans tends to do things the way they are supposed to be done, not the way you think they should be.
... OPEN! :p
Holy Crap!
I laughed so hard at that, Milk came out of my nose!--- and I wasn't drinking any milk!
That whole statement, is precisely what is wrong with NetBeans (note: those are not beans... -- just like a rabbit)
IDEs are like assholes. Everyone needs one, but they all spew shit like yesterday's lunch. The horror here is that everone tends to pick a favorite IDE, and then attempts to convince the world that their's is the best.
Let me introduce you to Rule #1 : ALL SOFTWARE SUCKS.
IDE shouldn't force fuck-all. At *BEST*, an IDE should free you from having to worry about *how* it's done, letting you simply free to do what *needs* to be done. For some, that would be NetBeans. (shudder)... for Others, it could be JBuilder (cringe), or Eclipse(whimper) or IntelliJ (*cough*), or even fucking Emacs (AAAAHHHH!!)
I'm not even going to suggest that I prefer an IDE over the next, cause they *all* have feature missing that others have, and they all behave a little oddly when you compare them to the next one.
Primarily, I personally cannot take an Editor written with Swing. Font Rendering is never quite perfect, and the editor window never is fast enough.
And, finally I would like to declare This 2004 edition of the battle of the Java IDEs
No.
You missed it.
ReactOS is an open source re-implementation of Windows. 98lite used the original Windows 98 files, and built a stripped down OS.
ReactOS does not contain any MS code.
I had a Roommate who did that during university.
:(
He said it was an ok gig, except for the twice every year that he made someone cry.
One account:
He was doing the taxes (Canadian) of this landed immigrant who was working three minimum-wage jobs. She earned about 18K in a year, but because each job was so low, they never deducted taxes. She ended up with a 2500$ tax bill. Woman started bawling LOUDLY right there. He said that sucked REALLY BAD.
My question, good sir comes in three parts (well, four):
:
:)
Knowing what you know about the inside of the Star Trek Mega Juggernaught that is Paramount
Do you think that Paramount will/would do another Star Trek:TNG Movie?
If so, what are the chances that a good script would be picked?
and finally, would you like to be in it ? How big of part do you think they'd let you play?
I really don't see where the poster got the idea that the release would be free as in speech. Except maybe free speech in America.
Sun has made no indication that this would be released under a real Free/Open source license. Sun's past history with this sort of thing has been, shall we say... dismal.
Oh, they'll let us see the source. Sure as shit. Probably a clause that makes you "dirty" if you compile it, and sure as all hell it won't allow you to redistribute it, or patches to it. (like Sun's other "child" -- Java)
Heck according to the article I don't see any evidence that the license will be even "open".
Good Job Sun. Your work in promoting linux is amazing.
feh: To damn dull for a Monday.
True, not everybody speaks english.
Which would have been why I wouldn't have used the word referendum to describe the minutes of a meeting.
I can't imagine what usage of referendum you were referring to so I'll present you with the choices, and you pick:
1. a) The submission of a proposed public measure or actual statute to a direct popular vote.
b) Such a vote.
2. A note from a diplomat to the diplomat's government requesting instructions
Given that minutes are "the official record of the proceedings of a meeting" it sure seems that you have your english words crossed somewhere.
"On the blocks" sounds like a misquote of having something "up on blocks" which refers to having a vehicle being serviced (Ie, up off its tires, on blocks).
"On the block" (No plural) would indicate that that it is on the auction block (ie, up for sale).
This message brought to you by your friendly neighborhood grammar nazi.
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Ps: Is "grammar nazi" a godwins' rule violation?
That's no moon, that's a spacestation!!!! :)
Had to be said!
> Sadly Outta Luck
Really? Seriously, I've always heard/said "Shit outta luck" , which really doesn't make any more sense, except that there is a reason to abbreviate it. Once you say it a million times tho' it doesn't seem to be anything odd.
Not that I'd claim my version is the authority however.