They'll port Office to Linux. Then, when it doesn't sell well (I mean, c'mon, how many Linux users do you know will *really* want Office on Linux enough to pay for it?) they'll say, "see, all of this 'Linux on the Desktop' talk was a bunch of hooey" (yes, in fact they will use the word "hooey").
At that point all of the ZDNet authors will have articles like "Linux is Dead!" and "If open source is so good, how come Microsoft couldn't get Office to sell?" and "Capitalism Beats Communism!".
Yeah, that seems like an incredibly long boot time for an embedded system.:)
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You could always SUID it... or just give the user program enough hooks to do the job.
sudo./make_coffee -strength 10 -cups 3
Problem solved.:) Of course, then there's the maintenance headaches of making sure all of your family has sudoers privilege on all of your household appliances. Hrm... perhapse an NFS share (CODA?) with central configurations...
I thought the same thing until I saw the KDE2 beta. That thing is *slick*. I was a Gnome user if I was anything at all (not really die-hard, just liked the eye-candy, most of the time I don't bother with X at all). Not anymore.
People running streaming radio stations care about licensing. ASCAP and BMI and such want upwards of $500 for a tiny MP3 streaming radio station. Right now it's not really enforced, but as soon as you get big (a couple hundred listeners) you get a nice little letter from ASCAP.
What happens when Fraunhoffer starts agressively making claims on the MP3 format and starts going after all of the online radio stations? Most of us just do it for kicks as a hobby, it's not like I'm making any money from it. I've spent 3- or 400 dollars in the last few months on new CDs for the station. If I have to add onto that another minimum $500 a year to have the "privilege" of serving from my own machine, I'll not exactly be a happy camper.
That's why I want to see Vorbis streaming. One less thing to worry about, and better performance to boot!
Yeah, I haven't even *told* my TiVo a specific channel to go to for at least a month. And after the initial week or two of programming and giving "Thumbs Up" and "Thumbs Down" to stuff I watch, I rarely even have to specifically tell it to do anything.
The stuff I don't have set up for a season ticket pretty much gets recorded anyways when it's idle.
It's no longer a point of "time displacement", it's complete time apathy.:)
If you know people that encourage that, you're hanging out with a bunch of idiots. I don't know any perl coders that would recommend any of that.
Good programming habits are the same across most languages. I think there are just more bad perl programmers because they all came from doing web design.:) Some grow out of it, most don't.
That's not the point. Sure, only one in 5,000 people will respond to an ad like that, but it costs so little to send out 1,000,000,000 messages that they'll do it anyways.
If it wasn't profitable for *someone*, there wouldn't be add banners and spammers.
HP-UX Watch: Rock solid and fast, but uses the incompatible base 8 time system. (ever tried compiling network apps on HP-UX?)
New Amiga Watch: Holographic time display, weighs less than a nickel, does your laundry, and speaks 193 languages, but no one's ever actually seen one.
BeOS Watch: Same as the New Amiga watch but it actually exists.
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My friends and I used to say "fagabefe" any time we ended up doing something stupid.
C'mon! Everyone likes the tricked out van!
Personally, I find pretty much every FPS I've played to be rather boring. I sure hope that everything else doesn't die off..
I just bought an iPAQ, I was reading through all the old slashdot stories on them, and thought that's what I was posting to.
I didn't buy an Agenda. I'm hopelessly confused. I have too many browser windows open. Help me!
When you go to their website they say they don't have any in stock in my ZIP code, but they lied.
Looking forward to getting Linux on this thing.
They'll port Office to Linux. Then, when it doesn't sell well (I mean, c'mon, how many Linux users do you know will *really* want Office on Linux enough to pay for it?) they'll say, "see, all of this 'Linux on the Desktop' talk was a bunch of hooey" (yes, in fact they will use the word "hooey").
At that point all of the ZDNet authors will have articles like "Linux is Dead!" and "If open source is so good, how come Microsoft couldn't get Office to sell?" and "Capitalism Beats Communism!".
Or, maybe I'm just making all this up.
Um. Sorry.
sudo ./make_coffee -strength 10 -cups 3
Problem solved. :) Of course, then there's the maintenance headaches of making sure all of your family has sudoers privilege on all of your household appliances. Hrm... perhapse an NFS share (CODA?) with central configurations...
OK, I'll stop now. :)
What happens when Fraunhoffer starts agressively making claims on the MP3 format and starts going after all of the online radio stations? Most of us just do it for kicks as a hobby, it's not like I'm making any money from it. I've spent 3- or 400 dollars in the last few months on new CDs for the station. If I have to add onto that another minimum $500 a year to have the "privilege" of serving from my own machine, I'll not exactly be a happy camper.
That's why I want to see Vorbis streaming. One less thing to worry about, and better performance to boot!
The stuff I don't have set up for a season ticket pretty much gets recorded anyways when it's idle.
It's no longer a point of "time displacement", it's complete time apathy.
I think our culture could use a little dismissing.
tar -xvf perl-5.6.0.tar.gz
cd perl-5.6.0
make
make install
Good programming habits are the same across most languages. I think there are just more bad perl programmers because they all came from doing web design.
If it wasn't profitable for *someone*, there wouldn't be add banners and spammers.
Yeah, they've never done *that* before.
Why do you think I use computers in the first place? I type well, but my handwriting is horrid. :)
HP-UX Watch: Rock solid and fast, but uses the incompatible base 8 time system. (ever tried compiling network apps on HP-UX?)
New Amiga Watch: Holographic time display, weighs less than a nickel, does your laundry, and speaks 193 languages, but no one's ever actually seen one.
BeOS Watch: Same as the New Amiga watch but it actually exists.