"there's nothing done that's wrong" said he, which is an interesting way of phrasing it. Not "I didn't do it" but "it wasn't wrong." so this is probably going to be a letter-of-the-law defense. Whether that's good or bad is for people more qualified than I to say.
Oh, yeah: one thing. This wife is "[k]nown for her dyed blonde locks and revealing outfits". How many people out there are/know a female who's known for her hair colour?
It's not so much a piece on balkanisation as it is one on fears of same. To this end it's a pretty good piece, but one I felt was written purely because the author knew it was an issue with some people. The main quote that some vendors "are more inclined to chase money and less inclined to share all their toys with their friends" isn't substantiated, and as the author pointed out, the Linux Standard Base should head problems off at the pass. I don't think the article was aimed low, btw; it's another example of a mainstream paper covering a topic with which a lot of -- but by no means all -- readers are familiar. It makes sense to include background, and it's a further example of Linux being brought to the masses.
Hands up all you mozilla bashers out there... slashdot must have the lowest ratio of feeding hands to biters in the quadrant. Will Opera be better than Mozilla? Possibly. Is that a reason for abandoning Mozilla as doomed from the start? Absolutely not. I've been using M10 for a while now, and I've got to say I'm impressed with the progress that's been made.
Shame on Netscape. They were supposed to build a web browser to meet the growing needs of today's users and instead they went and built a web browsing architecture to meet the growing needs of tomorrow's users and businesses. But I wanted it now, damnit!
Well said, that man. You've stirred at least one soul into resolving to finally getting around to submitting bug reports.
Remember: Mozilla may be bug-ridden, but that's mainly because of the large number of unreasonable assholes who look on it as a finished product, and give up as soon as there's a dodgy refresh. It's not even beta, for fuck's sake.
I can't believe good old Mike Cassidy gets paid for this drivel. On the plus side he does kinda look like the Norton Utilities Guy I, too, was disappointed. But I don't think he looks anything like Peter Utilities.
it's a moral imperative to not support proprietary software.. and a waste of one's effort to do so anyway Whatever about your feelings about proprietary software -- and in general I agree -- the claim that sitting down with the source for a game like CTP for a day is fallacious in the extreme. Hac gratia hactis is the rationale for many; but this is far from the only reason. Activision may have gone into this for the publicity, but if they see how a game can be improved so dramatically in one day by a [collective term for] open sourcers, then they may reconsider their position, however slightly. If you're going to win the hearts and minds of proprietary software CFOs, you've got to do it by example, not by pious posturing. And however much you point at software like Apache, the message won't be driven home until they see a demonstrable effect on their own products. That's what they saw here.
This elegant essay may well ended up being cited widely as one of the primary reasons for open source code; you get better code. This is a fact everyone reading this is aware of, but there's a much, much wider audience out there that equates open source with free beer. What's needed to convice these people is, well, this. There've probably been a whole bunch of projects that benefitted significantly from opening their source, but this is an excellent real-world example that should be enshrined in history. Here's hoping, though, that no Activision PHBs look at this as evidence that opening the source -- even temporarily -- invites pillory as well as improvement.
Well, of course it referred to GNU/Linux. The proper name for Debian is "Debian GNU/Linux" (their page at http://www.debian.org makes this very clear). My surprise wasn't the fact that it was called GNU/Linux, but that it was called GNU/Linux by CNN. News agencies tend to have a remarkable reluctance to specify in such situations, preferring a generic term such as 'Linux' that's easily recognised by the great unwashed. Of course, it was someone else's report quoted by CNN, so that may have something to do with it.
We may not all live forever, but by golly if things keep up this way, there's a distinct chance that we will.
One thing that grated about the article; speaking about four-colour nanolithography. When you're dealing with molecules, colour loses its meaning, as the wavelength of visible light is up to twenty-five times the width of the line being drawn. Of course, you could draw lots of lines, but that'd take a hell of a long time.
Is this nitpicking? I don't mean it to be; I'm just wondering why chemists would mention something that's patently irrelevent. I do think it's cool. Honest.
He adds: "Someone who owns a newspaper can pick up the phone to editor and say 'run headlines I like'. What we do is create tools like a word processor that lets people express their ideas" Yeah. Bill doesn't ring me up and tell me to replace MHz with Mhz. Word goes ahead and does it for him.
[Billy]claims never to have heard a Bill Gates joke. No! Really? "Say, Bill, I heard a good one the other day." Fifteen minutes later your dog's head is in your bed and someone's installed W98 on all your machines.
which pleases no-one Speaking as someone who just got a widescreen TV last week, I've no complaints. Most widescreens available have an 'auto' feature that'll allow the picture to expand; there are several native formats and a 'stretch it yourself' option. Interpolation is quite groovy in most cases when it needs to do so; there are problems going from 'natural wide' to 16x9, but it's easy to switch modes. Gosh, they're great. I love mine; it's so much better than an lcd projector, even if the picture is a tad smaller.
Working with Linux doesn't automatically confer sainthood on one. There are mud-slingers the world over; OSS is no exception. However, it helps no-one; least of all the makers of this fine ad. In OSS user goodwill is more important than other branches of software. If MS piss off the user base (and when haven't they?) the users grumble but continue use. With Linux, they're outta there like a rat out of an aqueduct.
This isn't intended as flamebait, but I didn't look out for the programme because (foolish naif that I am) I'd like MTV to be a music station and there's no point in watching it if that's what you want. Last night I turned it on, and what did I get? Jerry fucking Springer. Ah well. Anyone know if it's on MTV europe? I suppose if I can't expect music I might as well use the station for something
Say I create a site called tinylimp.com You're obviously not the first person to worry about synonyms and microsoft; if you look at the page www.crash.com you'll see a link to the EFF. Now that's insurance.
I think rde means that they make the plants resistant to RoundUp Not just Roundup. When new genes are spliced into plants, the most effective way to do so is to make the new genes antibiotic resistant, and then use antibiotics to filter out stuff that isn't wanted. They're also used to trace the genes once they've been inserted. For an example of some of the problems that can ensue, check out this article from New Scientist.
11. installing NT 12. Forgetting to click on the 'Vegas' option on solitaire. 13. (My own one) typing 'ls' five times in a row trying to get a directory listing in the command shell 14. Signing up for a hotmail account 15. Paying $x for MS technical support, and believing them when they tell you reinstalling NT will fix your problem.
And once everyone has Monsanto seeds, Monsanto has no more buisness, and they lose out. Doesn't seem very fair for them. That'd be true if Monsanto designed one seed and sat back waiting for the money to come in. Competition from Novartis et al, though, means that they're constantly looking for new stuff to sell. Think of the next generation as BugAway 2.0 or something.
The problem is that the seeds don't just contain the terminator gene; the original plan was to incorporate that gene into all seeds sold by Monsanto. If you wanted to remain competitive, you'd have to use GM seeds, which would have the terminator gene.
When I first read this (a couple of weeks ago. d'oh!), I gave a little dance. Fortunately, no-one saw me. I've a few problems with GM food, and terminator was the main one. Now all we've got to worry about is the ridiculous amount of antibiotics that goes into making the seeds. Once that's dealt with, as far as I'm concerned most of the problems with the production will be over. Legal problems, however...
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"there's nothing done that's wrong" said he, which is an interesting way of phrasing it. Not "I didn't do it" but "it wasn't wrong." so this is probably going to be a letter-of-the-law defense.
Whether that's good or bad is for people more qualified than I to say.
Oh, yeah: one thing. This wife is "[k]nown for her dyed blonde locks and revealing outfits". How many people out there are/know a female who's known for her hair colour?
There was definitely cheating going on. I saw the world kicking Kasparov under the table.
It's not so much a piece on balkanisation as it is one on fears of same. To this end it's a pretty good piece, but one I felt was written purely because the author knew it was an issue with some people. The main quote that some vendors "are more inclined to chase money and less inclined to share all their toys with their friends" isn't substantiated, and as the author pointed out, the Linux Standard Base should head problems off at the pass.
I don't think the article was aimed low, btw; it's another example of a mainstream paper covering a topic with which a lot of -- but by no means all -- readers are familiar. It makes sense to include background, and it's a further example of Linux being brought to the masses.
Hands up all you mozilla bashers out there... slashdot must have the lowest ratio of feeding hands to biters in the quadrant.
Will Opera be better than Mozilla? Possibly. Is that a reason for abandoning Mozilla as doomed from the start? Absolutely not.
I've been using M10 for a while now, and I've got to say I'm impressed with the progress that's been made.
Shame on Netscape. They were supposed to build a web browser to meet the growing needs of today's users and instead they went and built a web browsing architecture to meet the growing needs of tomorrow's users and businesses. But I wanted it now, damnit!
Well said, that man. You've stirred at least one soul into resolving to finally getting around to submitting bug reports.
Remember: Mozilla may be bug-ridden, but that's mainly because of the large number of unreasonable assholes who look on it as a finished product, and give up as soon as there's a dodgy refresh.
It's not even beta, for fuck's sake.
I can't believe good old Mike Cassidy gets paid for this drivel. On the plus side he does kinda look like the Norton Utilities Guy
I, too, was disappointed. But I don't think he looks anything like Peter Utilities.
it's a moral imperative to not support proprietary software.. and a waste of one's effort to do so anyway
Whatever about your feelings about proprietary software -- and in general I agree -- the claim that sitting down with the source for a game like CTP for a day is fallacious in the extreme. Hac gratia hactis is the rationale for many; but this is far from the only reason.
Activision may have gone into this for the publicity, but if they see how a game can be improved so dramatically in one day by a [collective term for] open sourcers, then they may reconsider their position, however slightly.
If you're going to win the hearts and minds of proprietary software CFOs, you've got to do it by example, not by pious posturing. And however much you point at software like Apache, the message won't be driven home until they see a demonstrable effect on their own products. That's what they saw here.
Another reason to think in terms of four 'colours' is the famous topological theorem.
Oh, yeah. Should have thought of that. Sorry.
This elegant essay may well ended up being cited widely as one of the primary reasons for open source code; you get better code. This is a fact everyone reading this is aware of, but there's a much, much wider audience out there that equates open source with free beer. What's needed to convice these people is, well, this.
There've probably been a whole bunch of projects that benefitted significantly from opening their source, but this is an excellent real-world example that should be enshrined in history.
Here's hoping, though, that no Activision PHBs look at this as evidence that opening the source -- even temporarily -- invites pillory as well as improvement.
Well, of course it referred to GNU/Linux. The proper name for Debian is "Debian GNU/Linux" (their page at http://www.debian.org makes this very clear).
My surprise wasn't the fact that it was called GNU/Linux, but that it was called GNU/Linux by CNN. News agencies tend to have a remarkable reluctance to specify in such situations, preferring a generic term such as 'Linux' that's easily recognised by the great unwashed.
Of course, it was someone else's report quoted by CNN, so that may have something to do with it.
Is Suse not available in a box in the US?
And hands up who gnoticed that the article referred to GNU/Linux?
We may not all live forever, but by golly if things keep up this way, there's a distinct chance that we will.
One thing that grated about the article; speaking about four-colour nanolithography. When you're dealing with molecules, colour loses its meaning, as the wavelength of visible light is up to twenty-five times the width of the line being drawn. Of course, you could draw lots of lines, but that'd take a hell of a long time.
Is this nitpicking? I don't mean it to be; I'm just wondering why chemists would mention something that's patently irrelevent. I do think it's cool. Honest.
He adds: "Someone who owns a newspaper can pick up the phone to editor and say 'run headlines I like'. What we do is create tools like a word processor that lets people express their ideas"
Yeah. Bill doesn't ring me up and tell me to replace MHz with Mhz. Word goes ahead and does it for him.
[Billy]claims never to have heard a Bill Gates joke.
No! Really? "Say, Bill, I heard a good one the other day."
Fifteen minutes later your dog's head is in your bed and someone's installed W98 on all your machines.
Free admission, not free beer.
which pleases no-one
Speaking as someone who just got a widescreen TV last week, I've no complaints. Most widescreens available have an 'auto' feature that'll allow the picture to expand; there are several native formats and a 'stretch it yourself' option. Interpolation is quite groovy in most cases when it needs to do so; there are problems going from 'natural wide' to 16x9, but it's easy to switch modes.
Gosh, they're great. I love mine; it's so much better than an lcd projector, even if the picture is a tad smaller.
Working with Linux doesn't automatically confer sainthood on one. There are mud-slingers the world over; OSS is no exception.
However, it helps no-one; least of all the makers of this fine ad. In OSS user goodwill is more important than other branches of software. If MS piss off the user base (and when haven't they?) the users grumble but continue use. With Linux, they're outta there like a rat out of an aqueduct.
This isn't intended as flamebait, but I didn't look out for the programme because (foolish naif that I am) I'd like MTV to be a music station and there's no point in watching it if that's what you want. Last night I turned it on, and what did I get? Jerry fucking Springer.
Ah well. Anyone know if it's on MTV europe? I suppose if I can't expect music I might as well use the station for something
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Realise you've no idea what you're commenting on
Decide it's easier to say "It's rubbish" than to read the story
Admire your devasting wit and click preview
Realise 'Linux' is in the story; better not say it's rubbish
Read comments. It's been up for ten minutes and it's still only got three posts. Obviously only lusers are posting to this one.
Back to the main page and look for something worthy of your talent.
Find a story slagging off microsoft and post a 'bill sux' comment instead.
Instant peer approval!
Say I create a site called tinylimp.com
You're obviously not the first person to worry about synonyms and microsoft; if you look at the page www.crash.com you'll see a link to the EFF. Now that's insurance.
"There's a clear advantage to being first to market"
Yeah. And as Gnome 1.0 users found out, there's a clear disadvantage in rushing products out.
I think rde means that they make the plants resistant to RoundUp
Not just Roundup. When new genes are spliced into plants, the most effective way to do so is to make the new genes antibiotic resistant, and then use antibiotics to filter out stuff that isn't wanted. They're also used to trace the genes once they've been inserted.
For an example of some of the problems that can ensue, check out this article from New Scientist.
11. installing NT
12. Forgetting to click on the 'Vegas' option on solitaire.
13. (My own one) typing 'ls' five times in a row trying to get a directory listing in the command shell
14. Signing up for a hotmail account
15. Paying $x for MS technical support, and believing them when they tell you reinstalling NT will fix your problem.
Obvious, I know. Sue me.
you can transfer a cow in about 5 seconds.
You know, if Zd would adopt this style of reporting, I'd probably get to the end of one of their articles.
And once everyone has Monsanto seeds, Monsanto has no more buisness, and they lose out. Doesn't seem very fair for them.
That'd be true if Monsanto designed one seed and sat back waiting for the money to come in. Competition from Novartis et al, though, means that they're constantly looking for new stuff to sell. Think of the next generation as BugAway 2.0 or something.
The problem is that the seeds don't just contain the terminator gene; the original plan was to incorporate that gene into all seeds sold by Monsanto. If you wanted to remain competitive, you'd have to use GM seeds, which would have the terminator gene.
When I first read this (a couple of weeks ago. d'oh!), I gave a little dance. Fortunately, no-one saw me.
I've a few problems with GM food, and terminator was the main one. Now all we've got to worry about is the ridiculous amount of antibiotics that goes into making the seeds. Once that's dealt with, as far as I'm concerned most of the problems with the production will be over. Legal problems, however...