That's nonsense, how do you know he does not have SUV? And if you are whining because your car is not efficient that's a different story. This is about gas prices. I thought you would tell him off by saying that given that the dollar is so low with respect to the euro, $5.6 shouldn't feel that bad to him. But imagine my case, I live in Costa Rica and we are paying $3.5 per gallon, we have a mix of european and US cars, and our average monthly income is probably half of what people make in your town and less than half than in Europe. So yes we really are paying twice or more than you. Well not me... I work at home and don't go out much, I make more than average and I have an italian car, but you get the point.
Another reason you are not one to be whining is that one reason why oil prices are high is because demand from the U.S. has continued to rise no matter how high the prices go. So while you whine you keep using gas, but people down here now just whine but can't keep using their cars as much as before.
I have had the flash player installed for a long time and I have not been annoyed by it ever. I don't have a webcam or microphone that would spy on me and I guess my PC is decent enough that the sucking of resouces is not noticeable. I enjoy animations embedded in webpages now and then and would not find it confortable to have to look for, install and run a separate player. So people go ahead and install it if you want and if you are annoyed by it you can always remove it.
I always buy AMD chips when I can just because I think they are cheap and good. In some cases I have compared performance but it hasn't ever affected my final decision on which one to buy.
Has anyone ever not bought an AMD CPU because they compared performance of a program compiled with intel's CPU and the intel CPU was faster, and that alone was the key factor in taking that decision?
Currently, windows that have been customized, such as hiding a toolbar or making the window non-resizable, will default to opening in their own standalone frame, whereas ordinary pop-up windows will open in a new foreground tab.
is there any way to do this in Firefox? I have it configured so that popups will open as tabs but it somtimes messes up the entire window, sometimes it should be smarter and open a new window.
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What is wrong with hiring open source developers from other countries?
Why, it'll become impossible to cheat on your spouse, as she'll only need to go to an online tracking system with her mouse, type in your National ID number, and see who you are boinking.
I was traveling for the past few weeks and wasn't able to read slashdot daily. If it wasn't for the dupes I would have missed some stuff. This is a great site.
However I find that the OSS community in general is way to fast to say "It's open, if you want the feature, write it yourself!" Rather the merit of the request should be weighed, it may be worth your while to work on. If it's not, then you should give reasoning as to why not, and not just say "Do it yourself."
Well they probably say that after they have determined that it is not worth their while to work on it. One would think that if they thought it was a good feature and were motivated to do it and had the time then they would have done it.
Right, and the correct link to the new features is here. As you can see there is not much new in there. Except for the security fixes which do seem important.
A lot of businesses make their money by hiring developers and selling software. This is a business model many of us would like to see die.
I don't agree with that. If there were no software companies where would people go when they need something that is not available as open source? The model will never die because there will always be people willing to pay for software because they have no way of getting if for free. And I don't see what is wrong with hiring some guys to create some new software and then selling the software to cover costs and make some profit.
95% of all software I use is free but now and then I pay for some stuff that I need and that has a fair price or will make me save money in the end.
That's not the point, the issue is that for some people like me, I have about 50 msn contacts including friends, family, employees and business contacts, I have a couple yahoo contacts and that's it. I need to use MSN because everybody uses it.
Just maybe the RIAA will see how pointless the "protection" is and forget about it and focus on music quality and better prices for consumers....Yeah right...
RTFA.... "Later, by fall of this year, the new boxed "2006" release will fully integrate Conectiva technology and Mandrakesoft online services into a new product." Not fall of '06, but fall of '05 will see the "2006" release.
I wanted to comment on how idiotic the naming scheme is, but you summed it up pretty well.
I don't know what exactly is your problem but I have been using 2.6 kernels for a while in my 2 home PC's and on 6 PCs in my company, some 2.6.8 and 2.6.10 and they all work fine.
There was strong opposition to the idea since the beginning. BTW this was news about 2 or 3 weeks ago. The more educated people understand that ICE (the local telco) is just trying to make more money and charge for something that many of us are already doing for free. It would be ridiculous to pass a law like this.
ICE has been the focus of several corruption scandals recently and people jus don't trust them anymore and it would be difficult to get the general population to stand behind them on something like this that doesn't seem to benefit anyone but ICE itself.
Last time there was a popular uplift because ICE convinced many (less educated people) that ICE was going to be sold to multinational companies and that the poor people would have to pay more for services, which was not true but people fell for it. I don't see how ICE can get popular support now.
I used Readhat since 5.2 until 7.3. 8.0 was crap, 9.0 I never even saw. Then they wanted me to switch to Fedora but I didn't. I discovered Mandrake 9.2 which was OK and then Mandrake 10 really surprised me on the desktop. I have now shelled out some cash to the MandrakeClub and I have 2 instalations at home, and 7 in the office, all desktops. I still keep a Redhat 6.2 at home as firewall, amazing it has lasted so long. But I doubt I will go back to RedHat any time soon.
It has been left out of the discussion the point that for introverted people it is not easy to just regurgitate something. Most of the time they listen to the question and think about it for a bit and then come back with an answer. Extroverts are quicker to bloat out the first thing that comes to their mind without much internal process.
Why not? I use it on Linux, I had some trouble with the sound but it works ok now. You can use it for free. I even payed for the skype out service to call regular phones and have saved a ton of money this month. I'm quite happy.
I don't think this should be illegal. It's just the same as if someone went to a pay phone and then said they were someone else. Are you going to beleive everything they say? Would you beleive them just because they have a seemingly real CID?
If someone uses this to do illegal things it's another story. But I feel I should have the right to send whatever text I want instead of the my real number. Just as I can say whatever I want on the phone. It's the other persons problem if they beleive me or not.
On the other hand taking down sites is clearly illegal and a seroius problem globally, but you don't seem to care.
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That's nonsense, how do you know he does not have SUV? And if you are whining because your car is not efficient that's a different story. This is about gas prices. I thought you would tell him off by saying that given that the dollar is so low with respect to the euro, $5.6 shouldn't feel that bad to him. But imagine my case, I live in Costa Rica and we are paying $3.5 per gallon, we have a mix of european and US cars, and our average monthly income is probably half of what people make in your town and less than half than in Europe. So yes we really are paying twice or more than you.
Well not me... I work at home and don't go out much, I make more than average and I have an italian car, but you get the point.
Another reason you are not one to be whining is that one reason why oil prices are high is because demand from the U.S. has continued to rise no matter how high the prices go. So while you whine you keep using gas, but people down here now just whine but can't keep using their cars as much as before.
So go drive somewhere and stop whining.
I have had the flash player installed for a long time and I have not been annoyed by it ever. I don't have a webcam or microphone that would spy on me and I guess my PC is decent enough that the sucking of resouces is not noticeable. I enjoy animations embedded in webpages now and then and would not find it confortable to have to look for, install and run a separate player.
So people go ahead and install it if you want and if you are annoyed by it you can always remove it.
I read the PDF and did not see anything about software patents, I could have missed it I guess. Can someone point me to that part please?
for writing death letters, with one's own blood, can also be traced by using DNA tests, so what's the news?
I always buy AMD chips when I can just because I think they are cheap and good. In some cases I have compared performance but it hasn't ever affected my final decision on which one to buy.
Has anyone ever not bought an AMD CPU because they compared performance of a program compiled with intel's CPU and the intel CPU was faster, and that alone was the key factor in taking that decision?
http://www.prgooglebar.org/
it has everything I need, I don't see why google would even bother when things like that exist.
prGooglebar is based on another one:
http://googlebar.mozdev.org/
Currently, windows that have been customized, such as hiding a toolbar or making the window non-resizable, will default to opening in their own standalone frame, whereas ordinary pop-up windows will open in a new foreground tab.
is there any way to do this in Firefox? I have it configured so that popups will open as tabs but it somtimes messes up the entire window, sometimes it should be smarter and open a new window.
What is wrong with hiring open source developers from other countries?
Why, it'll become impossible to cheat on your spouse, as she'll only need to go to an online tracking system with her mouse, type in your National ID number, and see who you are boinking.
Will this include a live video feed?
I was traveling for the past few weeks and wasn't able to read slashdot daily. If it wasn't for the dupes I would have missed some stuff. This is a great site.
However I find that the OSS community in general is way to fast to say "It's open, if you want the feature, write it yourself!" Rather the merit of the request should be weighed, it may be worth your while to work on. If it's not, then you should give reasoning as to why not, and not just say "Do it yourself."
Well they probably say that after they have determined that it is not worth their while to work on it. One would think that if they thought it was a good feature and were motivated to do it and had the time then they would have done it.
Right, and the correct link to the new features is here. As you can see there is not much new in there. Except for the security fixes which do seem important.
A lot of businesses make their money by hiring developers and selling software. This is a business model many of us would like to see die.
I don't agree with that. If there were no software companies where would people go when they need something that is not available as open source? The model will never die because there will always be people willing to pay for software because they have no way of getting if for free. And I don't see what is wrong with hiring some guys to create some new software and then selling the software to cover costs and make some profit.
95% of all software I use is free but now and then I pay for some stuff that I need and that has a fair price or will make me save money in the end.
That's not the point, the issue is that for some people like me, I have about 50 msn contacts including friends, family, employees and business contacts, I have a couple yahoo contacts and that's it. I need to use MSN because everybody uses it.
Just maybe the RIAA will see how pointless the "protection" is and forget about it and focus on music quality and better prices for consumers. ...Yeah right...
RTFA.... "Later, by fall of this year, the new boxed "2006" release will fully integrate Conectiva technology and Mandrakesoft online services into a new product." Not fall of '06, but fall of '05 will see the "2006" release.
I wanted to comment on how idiotic the naming scheme is, but you summed it up pretty well.
I don't know what exactly is your problem but I have been using 2.6 kernels for a while in my 2 home PC's and on 6 PCs in my company, some 2.6.8 and 2.6.10 and they all work fine.
There was strong opposition to the idea since the beginning. BTW this was news about 2 or 3 weeks ago.
The more educated people understand that ICE (the local telco) is just trying to make more money and charge for something that many of us are already doing for free. It would be ridiculous to pass a law like this.
ICE has been the focus of several corruption scandals recently and people jus don't trust them anymore and it would be difficult to get the general population to stand behind them on something like this that doesn't seem to benefit anyone but ICE itself.
Last time there was a popular uplift because ICE convinced many (less educated people) that ICE was going to be sold to multinational companies and that the poor people would have to pay more for services, which was not true but people fell for it. I don't see how ICE can get popular support now.
Alonso
Owner of Discover Costa Rica travel agency.
I used Readhat since 5.2 until 7.3. 8.0 was crap, 9.0 I never even saw. Then they wanted me to switch to Fedora but I didn't. I discovered Mandrake 9.2 which was OK and then Mandrake 10 really surprised me on the desktop. I have now shelled out some cash to the MandrakeClub and I have 2 instalations at home, and 7 in the office, all desktops. I still keep a Redhat 6.2 at home as firewall, amazing it has lasted so long. But I doubt I will go back to RedHat any time soon.
You can lock the domain, then it can't be transferred and in theory on you can unlock it. Or at least that's what we're told by Godaddy.
what are the odds?
It has been left out of the discussion the point that for introverted people it is not easy to just regurgitate something. Most of the time they listen to the question and think about it for a bit and then come back with an answer. Extroverts are quicker to bloat out the first thing that comes to their mind without much internal process.
Why not? I use it on Linux, I had some trouble with the sound but it works ok now. You can use it for free. I even payed for the skype out service to call regular phones and have saved a ton of money this month. I'm quite happy.
Its great how one can write an honestly serious comment and then someone else will honestly mod it as funny.
Oops... look, it is also "Insightful" now!
I don't think this should be illegal. It's just the same as if someone went to a pay phone and then said they were someone else. Are you going to beleive everything they say? Would you beleive them just because they have a seemingly real CID?
If someone uses this to do illegal things it's another story. But I feel I should have the right to send whatever text I want instead of the my real number. Just as I can say whatever I want on the phone. It's the other persons problem if they beleive me or not.
On the other hand taking down sites is clearly illegal and a seroius problem globally, but you don't seem to care.