Oh, come on.. Do we write paddy-o (patio)? How about shays (chaise) lounge? It's in the English dictionary, it's not like you're using a foreign word. It's spelled 'Voila', and it's so easy to remember. It's like the strings instrument, but with the vowels reversed. (No, it's not 'voilin'...)
Sorry to be pedantic, but such butchering of the English language is really frustrating. And yes, it is now part of the English language. Though, to be truthful, if you typed moochas grassy-ass, It would probably be just as annoying.
...would it be legal to make backups of the software BEFORE agreeing to the EULA?
Bravo! Thanks, Anonymous Coward. This is exactly why the whole idea of a EULA is ridiculous. If it's the click that generates the acceptance, than people will just start making tools to extract the software without running any install code. (I've actually seen tools that do this already in limited circumstances.)
And if they're binding before we've actually clicked, then we've got a precedent whereby you can be party to a contract without having ever actually seen it.
EULA's have got to stop. They just make no sense, and could possibly be damaging for so many reasons.
First we had shareware, then we had freeware, now we have ransomware...
I'm not sure that I'm so happy with the recent trend in software development. The whole idea of ransomware is a bit, shall we say, reprehensible. I'm happy for all of the projects that have finally made it to open source, but there are many more that were abandoned, and could have become something if people hadn't just gotten tired and gave up.
We all know (or should know), that the GPL isn't a philosophy, it's a contract. But it comes from an idea. That which says that pooling our work in software development is better for all of us, including myself when I write something to release, or you when I use something of yours.
There are many companies who are trying to find the "loopholes" in the GPL. It's companies who try to find ways to hamper the use of their code to make it more worthwhile to purchase their product. Some companies to it to greater or lesser degrees. Like the guys who publish the WineX CVS sources, but threaten to shut it down if anyone tries to make it easy to build from there. (Shut down Gentoo project, anyone?)
But the ransomware idea is step below even them, as they won't even go that far, instead demanding payment before giving back. If you're going to do that, you might as well go closed source, because trying to cash in on our good will is just that, trying to cash in.
If you really believe what you say, and want to put it out, and want the good will of the open source community, put the code up in escrow, such that if you stop updating frequently, it will go open source as well, then I will gladly help you along with the ransomware thing. (And this is meant directly for the Devil Whiskey developer. If you escrow your code, I'll put up and pay the $25 for your software, even though I have no intention of actually playing.) Until then, it's just extortion...
And for those who wonder how I can be self righteous, I'm a software developer, and yes, I've released the source to one software project so far, and it was TPOP, a Tivo email client, which I had to drop development of when I sold my Tivo to move to France. I'm constantly starting little projects at home, and the next one that I code to more than just a skeleton phase will get open sourced as well..
(I'm currently working on a webmail system inspired by both GMail and CSS ZenGarden, I'm really hoping this one gets off the ground).
I'm posting here on Slashdot, so obviously my sources of credibility are a little bit shot from the beginning, but hang with me on this, because not only is this good advice, but when you listen to it, you'll realize that it's good advice.
Back when I was 12, I had a crush on a girl in my class, but, like many of you here, I was shy, and embarrassed. Also, at the time, I was a little overweight. (Okay, more than a little;) ) I had a friend who was cool, and definitely more on the 'in' side of things, and I told him about liking her.
At that point, he told me the most useful dating advice I've ever heard, from then, and up till now. He said, "Ask her out. What's the worse she could say? 'No.'" I've found this to be the key to successful dating, and I'll explain why.
All of the guys who are having trouble dating are like school kids who can't ride a bike, but see other people riding bikes and really want to. The problem is, they're all so afraid of getting skinned knees, that they never even bother to give it a chance. Just like any difficult undertaking, there will always be a chance of getting a little hurt, but, when it comes right down to it, skinned knees aren't the end of the world, and neither is the word 'No'.
So, next time you're out on the street, or at a bar, pool hall, etc., and you see someone you find attractive, walk over to them and ask for their phone number. You know what they'll say? 'No.' But keep doing it for awhile, and you'll soon find that you're a little more comfortable with it, and it doesn't hurt so much. Keep doing it, and you'll learn how to present yourself so she/he is interested, which opens up the dating possibilities.
Doing well with regards to dating doesn't mean you never get hurt, and it doesn't mean you're always successful, but if you get out there and keep trying, you'll meet some really cool people (and some not so cool ones), and you'll end up meeting the woman/man of your dreams. (And sometimes just the woman/man of your dreams for that night;) ) Good luck!
You know, Slashdot has been a lot more fun since they added this new humour section. I don't always find all of the jokes to be great, and I still don't get why there's an American flag for a logo, but it's still mostly amusing, nonetheless...
It wasn't in the new feature list, but Evolution 2.0 is the one that's supposed to include the GPL'ed Exchange connector, as well as support for Novell's mail server (I forget the name.)
Sorry to be pedantic, but it would be a disk (or a cartridge). Current optical media are labelled discs because of the physical format. (For example, 3 1/2 inch floppies disks contain a magnetic disc inside their sleeve.) Hard disks use disc-shaped platters on a spindle.
Does this format offer anything that couldn't be done with PNG?
They key to this format is that it's in a format that's given off by the CCD and CMOS sensors, not in a processed colorspace of any kind (like RGB)
What really concerns me, however, is this:
which Adobe is making available for free
Is this a free-to-all? Or just free-to-camera-developers so we can force user to use photoshop or license from Adobe?
Re:low unemployment compared to europe
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The Jobs Crunch
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Yeah, let's take a moment to look at those numbers. In the U.S., unemployment numbers are doctored so that they don't represent the actual cases. If you've been unemployed for more than 6 months, you drop off the charts because you're considered a lost cause.
In the (mostly socialist) European nations, the government has a responsibility towards you. Many of those unemployed are on state-sponsored education and self-improvements tracks so that they'll be ready to re-enter the job market better prepared for the future.
So, yeah, while other nations are experiencing the same job crunch that we are, most of them are actually doing something about it...
The funny thing is, I'm pretty sure the interesting mod is about working for a porn site, and has nothing to do with the hardware or software (for those who even read that far...;)
There doesn't seem to be any way to run Wine on 64 bit chips
Pure, misinformed mistakes
I use Gentoo primarily on my Athlon 64 3000+ SFF, and I use wine to run Forte Agent and Microsoft Photo Editor. I haven't yet found an Open Source program (or pair of programs) that performs as well as these two for looking at... pictures of sailboats. Yeah... pictures of sailboats
Wine works just fine on amd64, it just needs to be compiled to 32-bit code.
You may be jesting here, but maybe it's a necessity. I had to switch to an analog watch to even be able to read analog clocks. After using a digital watch for so long, I used to have to stop, and figure out both hands individually to get the time. With the analog watch on the hand, I'm so used to it that the conversion is automatic.
You know what? I ran into FADE once. I bought XIII because it sounded like a neat game. I really enjoyed it, but requiring the CD was really annoying, in my opinion, so I downloaded a CD image tool and imaged my CD and played.
About 30 seconds into the game, it became unplayable, pissed me off, and I had to revert to the originals. I finished playing the game, and, to vent my frustration, I found someone who was about to purchase the game, and gave it to them instead.
I just received Doom 3 for my birthday, and it's a great game, but I read on the support forums (when I was researching an issue about a failing flashlight) that it also flakes out just by having CD imaging software installed.
You know what? After I'm finished with it, I'm going to do the same. I'll give it away to someone who would have otherwise bought it. (And I'll send id a ltter explaining this).
This sort of crap only anoys paying customers. The people who downloaded a warezed copy aren't going to have any problems, because someone already cracked it. Let me tell you, as a software developer, the paying customers are not the ones you want to be driving towards warez...
Not just to complain..., but has the Slashdot reflow bug been fixed in 1.0? It's been known for ages, but it's recently gotten much worse in 0.9.x (In 0.8 I rarely had the problem, under 0.9.3 under three different operating systems, (and three different microarchitectures) I get it more times than not on Slashdot articles and comments.)
Granted, I won't give up the best browser I've ever used, but it's getting to be really annoying.
And come on, we all know that the Mozilla devs spend more time reading Slashdot than anything else, so why hasn't it been fixed yet?
You fail to recognize what the implication of the standard including a codec is. If You have a choice of codecs as a content supllier, that means you can put content on it in any of the formats you choose.
As an end user of this tech, my player has to support ALL of the codecs in order to watch media, because the dics will likely come in one format only. So, YES, the content provider will have plenty of choice, but the end users will have none, especially if the content providers end up rallying around the Microsoft codec.
I must admit, I'm pretty excited about KDE at this point. I've been a longtime Gnome user, and, after trying out Qingy (a GUI replacement for getty that let's you run different sessions on different virtual teminals, like Gnome on VT1, KDE on VT2, text console on VT3, all chosen at login time.), I decided to give some of the other desktop environments a shot, since it was so easy. I've always had KDE installed, just because I wanted the flexibility (slightly longer compile times, but I just left it running overnight on my Gentoo system.), so it made it simple to try.
I must say, I'm pretty impressed. The straight out of the box configuration sucks balls. (I had to add a bunch of keyboard shortcuts to Konsole before it was usable, but it was all centrally located and easy to do. In addition, I can't stand the default menu configuration.) The only thing I'm missing at this point is the lovely font unification that Gnome has. (At least under 2.6.0-2 and XOrg, I didn't have to do any configuration to get pretty, aliased, unified fonts.) At this point, I'm not sure if that's a deal breaker, so I'm giving it a shot.
The real test will be when I want to make sure that Firefox is the default URL handler so I don't have to deal with that damn Konqueror opening if I don't want to (Because doing the same in Gnome was a bitch.)
Anyway, sorry to rant, but I guess I just wanted to let all you Gnome diehards know that KDE can work. And it can be snappy, too... (Though I just started using it with 2.4.26 and low-latency scheduling, so Gnome might be snappier on this machine as well, a PIII 500 with 384MB RAM.)
Slashdot Mirror
Merriam webster, online:
Voila
Either get a better dictionary, or get an unabridged one. You're information is what's lacking...Whala
Oh, come on.. Do we write paddy-o (patio)? How about shays (chaise) lounge? It's in the English dictionary, it's not like you're using a foreign word. It's spelled 'Voila', and it's so easy to remember. It's like the strings instrument, but with the vowels reversed. (No, it's not 'voilin'...)
Sorry to be pedantic, but such butchering of the English language is really frustrating. And yes, it is now part of the English language. Though, to be truthful, if you typed moochas grassy-ass, It would probably be just as annoying.
Bravo! Thanks, Anonymous Coward. This is exactly why the whole idea of a EULA is ridiculous. If it's the click that generates the acceptance, than people will just start making tools to extract the software without running any install code. (I've actually seen tools that do this already in limited circumstances.)
And if they're binding before we've actually clicked, then we've got a precedent whereby you can be party to a contract without having ever actually seen it.
EULA's have got to stop. They just make no sense, and could possibly be damaging for so many reasons.
First we had shareware, then we had freeware, now we have ransomware...
I'm not sure that I'm so happy with the recent trend in software development. The whole idea of ransomware is a bit, shall we say, reprehensible. I'm happy for all of the projects that have finally made it to open source, but there are many more that were abandoned, and could have become something if people hadn't just gotten tired and gave up.
We all know (or should know), that the GPL isn't a philosophy, it's a contract. But it comes from an idea. That which says that pooling our work in software development is better for all of us, including myself when I write something to release, or you when I use something of yours.
There are many companies who are trying to find the "loopholes" in the GPL. It's companies who try to find ways to hamper the use of their code to make it more worthwhile to purchase their product. Some companies to it to greater or lesser degrees. Like the guys who publish the WineX CVS sources, but threaten to shut it down if anyone tries to make it easy to build from there. (Shut down Gentoo project, anyone?)
But the ransomware idea is step below even them, as they won't even go that far, instead demanding payment before giving back. If you're going to do that, you might as well go closed source, because trying to cash in on our good will is just that, trying to cash in.
If you really believe what you say, and want to put it out, and want the good will of the open source community, put the code up in escrow, such that if you stop updating frequently, it will go open source as well, then I will gladly help you along with the ransomware thing. (And this is meant directly for the Devil Whiskey developer. If you escrow your code, I'll put up and pay the $25 for your software, even though I have no intention of actually playing.) Until then, it's just extortion...
And for those who wonder how I can be self righteous, I'm a software developer, and yes, I've released the source to one software project so far, and it was TPOP, a Tivo email client, which I had to drop development of when I sold my Tivo to move to France. I'm constantly starting little projects at home, and the next one that I code to more than just a skeleton phase will get open sourced as well..
(I'm currently working on a webmail system inspired by both GMail and CSS ZenGarden, I'm really hoping this one gets off the ground).
I'm posting here on Slashdot, so obviously my sources of credibility are a little bit shot from the beginning, but hang with me on this, because not only is this good advice, but when you listen to it, you'll realize that it's good advice.
Back when I was 12, I had a crush on a girl in my class, but, like many of you here, I was shy, and embarrassed. Also, at the time, I was a little overweight. (Okay, more than a little ;) ) I had a friend who was cool, and definitely more on the 'in' side of things, and I told him about liking her.
At that point, he told me the most useful dating advice I've ever heard, from then, and up till now. He said, "Ask her out. What's the worse she could say? 'No.'" I've found this to be the key to successful dating, and I'll explain why.
All of the guys who are having trouble dating are like school kids who can't ride a bike, but see other people riding bikes and really want to. The problem is, they're all so afraid of getting skinned knees, that they never even bother to give it a chance. Just like any difficult undertaking, there will always be a chance of getting a little hurt, but, when it comes right down to it, skinned knees aren't the end of the world, and neither is the word 'No'.
So, next time you're out on the street, or at a bar, pool hall, etc., and you see someone you find attractive, walk over to them and ask for their phone number. You know what they'll say? 'No.' But keep doing it for awhile, and you'll soon find that you're a little more comfortable with it, and it doesn't hurt so much. Keep doing it, and you'll learn how to present yourself so she/he is interested, which opens up the dating possibilities.
Doing well with regards to dating doesn't mean you never get hurt, and it doesn't mean you're always successful, but if you get out there and keep trying, you'll meet some really cool people (and some not so cool ones), and you'll end up meeting the woman/man of your dreams. (And sometimes just the woman/man of your dreams for that night ;) ) Good luck!
Oh my, I finally get it! Roland Piquepaille is playing Outwar! ;)
You know, Slashdot has been a lot more fun since they added this new humour section. I don't always find all of the jokes to be great, and I still don't get why there's an American flag for a logo, but it's still mostly amusing, nonetheless...
Gosh, I can't wait for AllOfXP.com to start up so I can get me some cheap copies of XP, the way I want, without DRM and at a good price... ;-) </Ducks>
It wasn't in the new feature list, but Evolution 2.0 is the one that's supposed to include the GPL'ed Exchange connector, as well as support for Novell's mail server (I forget the name.)
Now, what about magneto-optical?
Sorry to be pedantic, but it would be a disk (or a cartridge). Current optical media are labelled discs because of the physical format. (For example, 3 1/2 inch floppies disks contain a magnetic disc inside their sleeve.) Hard disks use disc-shaped platters on a spindle.
Does this format offer anything that couldn't be done with PNG?
They key to this format is that it's in a format that's given off by the CCD and CMOS sensors, not in a processed colorspace of any kind (like RGB)
What really concerns me, however, is this:
which Adobe is making available for free
Is this a free-to-all? Or just free-to-camera-developers so we can force user to use photoshop or license from Adobe?
Yeah, let's take a moment to look at those numbers. In the U.S., unemployment numbers are doctored so that they don't represent the actual cases. If you've been unemployed for more than 6 months, you drop off the charts because you're considered a lost cause.
In the (mostly socialist) European nations, the government has a responsibility towards you. Many of those unemployed are on state-sponsored education and self-improvements tracks so that they'll be ready to re-enter the job market better prepared for the future.
So, yeah, while other nations are experiencing the same job crunch that we are, most of them are actually doing something about it...
Porn (Score:4, Interesting)
I worked at a huge (now defunct) porn site.
The funny thing is, I'm pretty sure the interesting mod is about working for a porn site, and has nothing to do with the hardware or software (for those who even read that far... ;)
There doesn't seem to be any way to run Wine on 64 bit chips
Pure, misinformed mistakes
I use Gentoo primarily on my Athlon 64 3000+ SFF, and I use wine to run Forte Agent and Microsoft Photo Editor. I haven't yet found an Open Source program (or pair of programs) that performs as well as these two for looking at... pictures of sailboats. Yeah... pictures of sailboats
Wine works just fine on amd64, it just needs to be compiled to 32-bit code.
You may be jesting here, but maybe it's a necessity. I had to switch to an analog watch to even be able to read analog clocks. After using a digital watch for so long, I used to have to stop, and figure out both hands individually to get the time. With the analog watch on the hand, I'm so used to it that the conversion is automatic.
You can always increase your karma by re-posting all the comments modded +5
Hey!
I posted this same comment in a previous dupe story! (And it was modded +5)
You know what? I ran into FADE once. I bought XIII because it sounded like a neat game. I really enjoyed it, but requiring the CD was really annoying, in my opinion, so I downloaded a CD image tool and imaged my CD and played.
About 30 seconds into the game, it became unplayable, pissed me off, and I had to revert to the originals. I finished playing the game, and, to vent my frustration, I found someone who was about to purchase the game, and gave it to them instead.
I just received Doom 3 for my birthday, and it's a great game, but I read on the support forums (when I was researching an issue about a failing flashlight) that it also flakes out just by having CD imaging software installed.
You know what? After I'm finished with it, I'm going to do the same. I'll give it away to someone who would have otherwise bought it. (And I'll send id a ltter explaining this).
This sort of crap only anoys paying customers. The people who downloaded a warezed copy aren't going to have any problems, because someone already cracked it. Let me tell you, as a software developer, the paying customers are not the ones you want to be driving towards warez...
Not just to complain..., but has the Slashdot reflow bug been fixed in 1.0? It's been known for ages, but it's recently gotten much worse in 0.9.x (In 0.8 I rarely had the problem, under 0.9.3 under three different operating systems, (and three different microarchitectures) I get it more times than not on Slashdot articles and comments.)
Granted, I won't give up the best browser I've ever used, but it's getting to be really annoying.
And come on, we all know that the Mozilla devs spend more time reading Slashdot than anything else, so why hasn't it been fixed yet?
Who said Linux could not make it in the print world ?
Joe.
Joe did...
Bad Joe... ;)
You fail to recognize what the implication of the standard including a codec is. If You have a choice of codecs as a content supllier, that means you can put content on it in any of the formats you choose.
As an end user of this tech, my player has to support ALL of the codecs in order to watch media, because the dics will likely come in one format only. So, YES, the content provider will have plenty of choice, but the end users will have none, especially if the content providers end up rallying around the Microsoft codec.
Don't forget, don't post here, or you'll be hassled too...
...Doh!
New lubricant leads to faster pr0n on hard drives...
</ducks>
that will hopefully allow homes to receve 10 gigabit internet
Okay, already, I'll learn Japanese. See you guys in six years... ;)
Yeah, so I can keep time 5 minutes early more precisely than ever before...
I must admit, I'm pretty excited about KDE at this point. I've been a longtime Gnome user, and, after trying out Qingy (a GUI replacement for getty that let's you run different sessions on different virtual teminals, like Gnome on VT1, KDE on VT2, text console on VT3, all chosen at login time.), I decided to give some of the other desktop environments a shot, since it was so easy. I've always had KDE installed, just because I wanted the flexibility (slightly longer compile times, but I just left it running overnight on my Gentoo system.), so it made it simple to try.
I must say, I'm pretty impressed. The straight out of the box configuration sucks balls. (I had to add a bunch of keyboard shortcuts to Konsole before it was usable, but it was all centrally located and easy to do. In addition, I can't stand the default menu configuration.) The only thing I'm missing at this point is the lovely font unification that Gnome has. (At least under 2.6.0-2 and XOrg, I didn't have to do any configuration to get pretty, aliased, unified fonts.) At this point, I'm not sure if that's a deal breaker, so I'm giving it a shot.
The real test will be when I want to make sure that Firefox is the default URL handler so I don't have to deal with that damn Konqueror opening if I don't want to (Because doing the same in Gnome was a bitch.)
Anyway, sorry to rant, but I guess I just wanted to let all you Gnome diehards know that KDE can work. And it can be snappy, too... (Though I just started using it with 2.4.26 and low-latency scheduling, so Gnome might be snappier on this machine as well, a PIII 500 with 384MB RAM.)