Every other post so far is "ooh, why is Windows so ugly, they're trying to make it look better, gnome/X looks so much better, they're copying gnome, oss whine & bitch &c &c".
Frankly given the far superior video drivers' performance under Windows, the display in Windows specifically does NOT make we want to vomit as I may be induced to do so by bad refresh & redraw under X. Don't get me wrong, I love linux, I just can't stand X. Linux was not meant to run graphical applications. Plus, there is nothing inherently wrong with the Windows UI graphics. They are reasonably customizable if they aren't to your liking, yet fixed enough to provide a consistent interface across applications and machine configurations.
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You can't do anything serious on e-bay. E-bay is for selling trash to fools, and silly publicitly stunts. Ooh and scamming people's paypal. Did I miss anything? ---
Me too. This is really fucking sad that all these big Universities are using this shit because they can't do it themselves. Someone even mentioned Virginia Tech. That is AWFUL. We even have kiosks around campus that let you do all those things, they even have a scanner to read cc/atm cards. ---
Ever count the number of $30,000+ cars and SUVs in dorm parking lots? I think the credit card companies are trying to give these kids a license to spend their rich parents' money as fast as they can.
The problem is that these kids have about the same credit history (no credit history) as the ones with no money, so they give the cards to everyone, and eat the poor/irresponsible kids' debt with the profit from the rich parents/irresponsible kids' spending. ---
'The most dangerous, well-concealed, complex, and noteworthy security flaws in the future will be of this sort,'
Only from incompetent non-college educated programmers who don't properly take into account the emergent properties of a system. Seriously, this is inexcusable and clearly the result of blatant incompetence and a hacked-together system with little, if any, formal design other than AOL insisting on icons to go to their shopping site, instant messenger, and a well-planned feature to report to AOL all the websites you visit. They'll get no sympathy from me.
Yes, I'd have to agree, if the Mozilla team can stop hacking in worthless features instead of concentrating on meeting the basic requirements of a functional web browser, they could save netscape from itself. But my bet is that Microsoft, using its unfair trade practice of producing a superior product, will end up dominating the free browser 'market'. ---
Ideally, they should take casual copying into account in the license fee structure for rebroadcasting shows. I'm sure they already do, though, and they'd have a hard time justifying this to the broadcast/cable companies that are already paying for this.
And what about digital satellite? That's been out a long time, rebroadcasting DVD-quality signals. You can already copy DVDs and digital satellite. Why is cable any different?
I think we'll be seeing a lot of this crap in the next few years as last desperate gasps of a dying industry. ---
Your credit card company already has and has sold the information of everything you buy over the internet anyways. Why would companies even want Amazon's records if they already have the much better credit card records? ---
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It begs the question. I don't know. It's one of those things, like the end to Total Recall.
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Frankly given the far superior video drivers' performance under Windows, the display in Windows specifically does NOT make we want to vomit as I may be induced to do so by bad refresh & redraw under X. Don't get me wrong, I love linux, I just can't stand X. Linux was not meant to run graphical applications. Plus, there is nothing inherently wrong with the Windows UI graphics. They are reasonably customizable if they aren't to your liking, yet fixed enough to provide a consistent interface across applications and machine configurations.
Now, as to the relevance of this article to anything....
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...is it available for linux?
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He's talking about people who are deaf, dumb, and blind. BTW It looks like I've finally found someone with a more annoying login than mine.
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2 people modded it as "troll". Whatever. I appluad the one intelligent individual who modded it "underrated".
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You can't do anything serious on e-bay. E-bay is for selling trash to fools, and silly publicitly stunts. Ooh and scamming people's paypal. Did I miss anything?
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I block doubleclick. For that matter, I block images.slashdot.org. Oh no, now I can't see the "Censored" guy that looks suspiciously like my boss.
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Linux "Market" Share
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See, Apple probably does these little thing called testing and bug-fixing before the release.
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Or what if the world spins the wrong way?
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Damn you! I was going to post that!
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Haven't we all, haven't we all. Sigh.
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Me too. This is really fucking sad that all these big Universities are using this shit because they can't do it themselves. Someone even mentioned Virginia Tech. That is AWFUL. We even have kiosks around campus that let you do all those things, they even have a scanner to read cc/atm cards.
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Let us bow our heads in silence and pray that this is the first and last time we ever hear this unholy utterance.
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The problem is that these kids have about the same credit history (no credit history) as the ones with no money, so they give the cards to everyone, and eat the poor/irresponsible kids' debt with the profit from the rich parents/irresponsible kids' spending.
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But after they knew about it, they covered it up, figuring $(lawsuits) $(recalls). Those people should be jailed for murder.
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Only from incompetent non-college educated programmers who don't properly take into account the emergent properties of a system. Seriously, this is inexcusable and clearly the result of blatant incompetence and a hacked-together system with little, if any, formal design other than AOL insisting on icons to go to their shopping site, instant messenger, and a well-planned feature to report to AOL all the websites you visit. They'll get no sympathy from me.
Yes, I'd have to agree, if the Mozilla team can stop hacking in worthless features instead of concentrating on meeting the basic requirements of a functional web browser, they could save netscape from itself. But my bet is that Microsoft, using its unfair trade practice of producing a superior product, will end up dominating the free browser 'market'.
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Ideally, they should take casual copying into account in the license fee structure for rebroadcasting shows. I'm sure they already do, though, and they'd have a hard time justifying this to the broadcast/cable companies that are already paying for this. And what about digital satellite? That's been out a long time, rebroadcasting DVD-quality signals. You can already copy DVDs and digital satellite. Why is cable any different?
I think we'll be seeing a lot of this crap in the next few years as last desperate gasps of a dying industry.
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Will the GPLing of Qt have any effect on the development of Kylix, which uses Qt, but is itself closed source?
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Your credit card company already has and has sold the information of everything you buy over the internet anyways. Why would companies even want Amazon's records if they already have the much better credit card records?
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Yes.
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Looking at the files on that site, it looks like the freedb database is bigger, and has likely assimilated the old cddb.
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All NASA failures are successes in some ways. Where did the money go that was spent on the failed mars lander? Is it sitting on mars? No.
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Garbage pail kids rock! Check this out!!
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I disagree. It will be people complaining about the article. A close second will be the combined category of spam, trolls, and offtopic.
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