maybe you missed it, but mechanics are striking and major airlines are going bankrupt left and right. i'd rather have a corporate jet or two that I pay mechanics well to make sure I dont fall out of the sky.
quite frankly, if I were novel, id give said investor the finger for trying to decimate R&D.
how much would we really miss looking at the latest bullshit movie website? i mean, really, what else uses flash so abhorently other than over-done web design professionals websites.
pwntcha is code for pwned you, its an entire troll article, the caption at the top thanks GNAA and 3/4ths of the way down the article is a goatse pic snuck in there
You hit it on the head, its all about greed and wanting to pocket some cash, be it for the Foundation or for investors. We shouldn't just roll over and let this happen. And yes, there IS something wrong with wanting to make money by the very essence of Mozilla Foundation being non-profit. This is all about direct profits going to Foundation and in turn the Foundation Board members making money off the deal. Its how many, many non-profits skirt the IRS, but its VERY expensive to run a corporation and quite frankly feels grossly irresponsible of the board members with as much cash as the foundation must have in the bank and as much interest they can accrue from that cash. Then again, maybe poor management has drained it and now its a no choice situation. Kinda like when Netscape drowned itself and got bought by AOL. Wash, rinse, repeat?
i didnt say they were worth a shit past 1999, i just said they worked their asses off for naught. next time, if you arent more than a troll, respond with your nick on and dont be such a dick.
To the arrogant assholes who spend time bashing freeloaders and determines everyone commenting is not an artist: God forbid an artist has to have a JOB to live on. And you simply HAVE to be a tradesman to live, whether you are living AND being creative, or not. Btw, Beethoven was a whacked out nutjob that happened to be very skilled in music, much like a large number of the successful music artists of today.
Maybe you're lost in the bullshit of an art marketplace, but don't assume the rest of us are. It takes a lot of hard work and insane self sacrifice to become a remotely successful artist (with a grain of salt set aside for the unusually lucky people) and even then it can all crumble in the end. Look at Big Sky Band from Gainesville, FL, those hardworking crazy fools, they spent years and years touring and doing live gigs trying to make it big, even came close a few times, even got signed, even had their song in rotation in certain cities, but in the end, they had to move on in life, despite pouring the blood and tears into it and giving it their all. Now they give away all their live shows for free. It takes insane luck to actually make a good living being an artist, and without a 'tradesman' ability, you don't exist beyond small gigs.
Jeb. and he may actually be the antichrist b/c everyone is suppose to think someone else is (ie GE), but who would think to peg the "smart one" of the Bush clan besides partially schitzophrenic people as myself?;)
HL2 rapes Q3 any day of the week. Q3Arena was a ripoff and its a shame such potential was utterly wasted on a crappy version of Unreal Trounament. What crack do you Q3 players smoke, anyway?;)
But thats just my opinion.
Disclaimer: I was a HUGE iD software fan from the original Wolfenstein-3d and on, Q3 was the WORST EVAR, imho. Doom 3 was interesting but, just like Q3 when it first hit shelves, it was made for the very tip top upper echelon of performance computing. Alas, after UT, TF, HL:TF, CS, Battlefield 1942 and BF Vietnam, anything that can't handle 32plyr multiplayr isnt worth playing as a multiplayer game. Even Q1 had 32+ maps.
Its a very dubious argument to make, since changes to a GPLed system that are strictly "in-house" and not distrubted (ie shared outside of the same org than changed it, i think the federal government as one blanket org would suffice) do not have to be shared and released to anyone. If you want to design a system based on GPLed software for the government, have the government get a copy of the software, then hire you as a contractor to make the changes 'in-house' for them, so technically its theirs already and you are acting as a representative of said government. Whats so hard about that? The inability to resell your work to private entities? That is simply the 'cost' of doing business. Instead of being able to get paid for making digital copies of software, you actually have to WORK for the money every time. Whats wrong with working?
yes, but my endpoint is that of government simply maintaining the wifi network, not 'controlling' the network with filters or an ability or legal right to limit access. its all about perspective, and a government-maintained communications infrastructure is not so bad when the government is specifically limited in its powers by the US Constitution.
Then again, seeing how Congress and Pres. Bush flat out ignored Constitutional rights and limits with the Patriot Act, maybe you're right. But then again, maybe we simply need to vote for some different representation (anyone but the existing republican politicians, and some dems as well).
so we let private companies with limited legal accountability and no moral/fairness accountability beyond their shareholders own the lines? wake up, people, we're fucked either way, at least with government owned wifi/etc our tax dollars do something useful that we can actually USE and have some form of representation in the decision process. People vote only on abortion, why not throw the 'wifi vote' in as well.
A government entity should never be allowed to patent its own tech, that tech was paid for by the people and should be available freely to all in every scenario I can possibly think of.
I just have minimal OS X interaction, but I witnessed it first hand. I restored their g5 and they said watch this, played with all of their apps for a few minutes, closed apps down, reopened safari, crash bam, son of a bitch went down again with the same problem. ended up using disk warrior 3 to restore the partition and reinstalling os x. realistically, it was probably a physical problem with the hard drive, but they were able to use photoshop, quark, and a whole host of apps just fine, opening safari may have been causing it to write to a damaged portion of the drive or pull something off a damaged portion of the cache, but it shouldnt have been the train wreck it turned out to be.
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maybe you missed it, but mechanics are striking and major airlines are going bankrupt left and right. i'd rather have a corporate jet or two that I pay mechanics well to make sure I dont fall out of the sky.
quite frankly, if I were novel, id give said investor the finger for trying to decimate R&D.
the governments of the world seems to foot most of that bill
how much would we really miss looking at the latest bullshit movie website? i mean, really, what else uses flash so abhorently other than over-done web design professionals websites.
cheers.
pwntcha is code for pwned you, its an entire troll article, the caption at the top thanks GNAA and 3/4ths of the way down the article is a goatse pic snuck in there
THIS IS ONE GIANT TROLL ARTICLE! LOL!
About 3/4ths down the page there is a goatse picture, and the caption at the top thanks the GNAA. Wake up slashdot.
You hit it on the head, its all about greed and wanting to pocket some cash, be it for the Foundation or for investors. We shouldn't just roll over and let this happen. And yes, there IS something wrong with wanting to make money by the very essence of Mozilla Foundation being non-profit. This is all about direct profits going to Foundation and in turn the Foundation Board members making money off the deal. Its how many, many non-profits skirt the IRS, but its VERY expensive to run a corporation and quite frankly feels grossly irresponsible of the board members with as much cash as the foundation must have in the bank and as much interest they can accrue from that cash. Then again, maybe poor management has drained it and now its a no choice situation. Kinda like when Netscape drowned itself and got bought by AOL. Wash, rinse, repeat?
There is a pizza joint in Gainesville where everyone ISN'T high? WTF? SHENNANIGANS!
Cheers.
Hell, Im late for work because I'm reading slashdot.
Cheers.
Tom Cruise? Are you as in desperate need of psychiatric help as him?
Jon Stewart would be Groklaw.
And Darl McBride would be played by Hayden Christiansen just so they could chop off his arms and legs at the end.
Cheers.
i didnt say they were worth a shit past 1999, i just said they worked their asses off for naught. next time, if you arent more than a troll, respond with your nick on and dont be such a dick.
Cheers.
To the arrogant assholes who spend time bashing freeloaders and determines everyone commenting is not an artist: God forbid an artist has to have a JOB to live on. And you simply HAVE to be a tradesman to live, whether you are living AND being creative, or not. Btw, Beethoven was a whacked out nutjob that happened to be very skilled in music, much like a large number of the successful music artists of today.
Maybe you're lost in the bullshit of an art marketplace, but don't assume the rest of us are. It takes a lot of hard work and insane self sacrifice to become a remotely successful artist (with a grain of salt set aside for the unusually lucky people) and even then it can all crumble in the end. Look at Big Sky Band from Gainesville, FL, those hardworking crazy fools, they spent years and years touring and doing live gigs trying to make it big, even came close a few times, even got signed, even had their song in rotation in certain cities, but in the end, they had to move on in life, despite pouring the blood and tears into it and giving it their all. Now they give away all their live shows for free. It takes insane luck to actually make a good living being an artist, and without a 'tradesman' ability, you don't exist beyond small gigs.
Cheers.
Jeb. and he may actually be the antichrist b/c everyone is suppose to think someone else is (ie GE), but who would think to peg the "smart one" of the Bush clan besides partially schitzophrenic people as myself? ;)
cheers.
This is in fact similar to situations we live in now.
Except when the "next Hitler" opened up everything to UN inspectors, the US still invades and utterly destroys the country's infrastructure anyway.
Cheers.
HL2 rapes Q3 any day of the week. Q3Arena was a ripoff and its a shame such potential was utterly wasted on a crappy version of Unreal Trounament. What crack do you Q3 players smoke, anyway? ;)
But thats just my opinion.
Disclaimer: I was a HUGE iD software fan from the original Wolfenstein-3d and on, Q3 was the WORST EVAR, imho. Doom 3 was interesting but, just like Q3 when it first hit shelves, it was made for the very tip top upper echelon of performance computing. Alas, after UT, TF, HL:TF, CS, Battlefield 1942 and BF Vietnam, anything that can't handle 32plyr multiplayr isnt worth playing as a multiplayer game. Even Q1 had 32+ maps.
Cheers.
OH! MY! GOD!
*runs out into the street screaming*
Cheers.
Its a very dubious argument to make, since changes to a GPLed system that are strictly "in-house" and not distrubted (ie shared outside of the same org than changed it, i think the federal government as one blanket org would suffice) do not have to be shared and released to anyone. If you want to design a system based on GPLed software for the government, have the government get a copy of the software, then hire you as a contractor to make the changes 'in-house' for them, so technically its theirs already and you are acting as a representative of said government. Whats so hard about that? The inability to resell your work to private entities? That is simply the 'cost' of doing business. Instead of being able to get paid for making digital copies of software, you actually have to WORK for the money every time. Whats wrong with working?
Cheers.
yes, but my endpoint is that of government simply maintaining the wifi network, not 'controlling' the network with filters or an ability or legal right to limit access. its all about perspective, and a government-maintained communications infrastructure is not so bad when the government is specifically limited in its powers by the US Constitution.
Then again, seeing how Congress and Pres. Bush flat out ignored Constitutional rights and limits with the Patriot Act, maybe you're right. But then again, maybe we simply need to vote for some different representation (anyone but the existing republican politicians, and some dems as well).
Cheers.
so we let private companies with limited legal accountability and no moral/fairness accountability beyond their shareholders own the lines? wake up, people, we're fucked either way, at least with government owned wifi/etc our tax dollars do something useful that we can actually USE and have some form of representation in the decision process. People vote only on abortion, why not throw the 'wifi vote' in as well.
you see partisan ranting, we see common sense.
IPv6 = everybody gets their own ip address, walk up to a computer, swipe your worldID card, it switches to your personal ip.
;)
then again, thats all end times prediction scary kinda stuff, so maybe we should stay with ipv4.
Cheers.
They didn't fail miserably, they just weren't implemented properly.
Actually its just a matter of someone putting the cash to their lawyer once this becomes law to hit MS, et al, hard.
A government entity should never be allowed to patent its own tech, that tech was paid for by the people and should be available freely to all in every scenario I can possibly think of.
I just have minimal OS X interaction, but I witnessed it first hand. I restored their g5 and they said watch this, played with all of their apps for a few minutes, closed apps down, reopened safari, crash bam, son of a bitch went down again with the same problem. ended up using disk warrior 3 to restore the partition and reinstalling os x. realistically, it was probably a physical problem with the hard drive, but they were able to use photoshop, quark, and a whole host of apps just fine, opening safari may have been causing it to write to a damaged portion of the drive or pull something off a damaged portion of the cache, but it shouldnt have been the train wreck it turned out to be.
Just wait till Safari causes your HFS+ partition to crash and burn... you'll be a Firefox on mac convert as well.