As everyone knows, all actual programming work at Google is done by interns. Now that Facebook has better snacks, Google's intern supply is drying up and that explains why some products must be thrown out.
While they would *love* for it to be outright impossible to copy, their goal is to make it as much a pain in the ass to copy as possible.
They succeed in making it a pain in the ass, period. There is a lot of competition for scarce free time these days, and if the modern audience needs any more encouragement that they should spend their scant entertainment hours consuming big media content, these boneheads will be happy to provide it. Ranks right up there with FBI warnings on video disks, which surely never stopped any illegal copying but certainly did make home theatre a less comfortable experience. I mean, invite friends over to watch FBI warnings. Curl up with your significant other for a romantic evening of FBI warnings. Gather your kids around for popcorn and FBI warnings. Sure.
Incidentally, I also run Thunderbird. Yes, you really can run two imap clients on the same machine, accessing the same account, at the same time. That's the way it should be. When Trojita's composer won't cut it I fire up the tbird.
Trojita shows a lot of promise. An imap-only client. I've been compiling from source and running it for a year or so. Very reliable and fast. Needs to be fleshed out in many ways, for example the composer is very basic. However, the basics are there in a form that just feels good and solid. I appreciate the obvious attention to performance, standards compliance and code quality, it's really a refreshing change.
That's funny -- I only know a single person who uses gmail.
I know many, however it is not clear to me why any of them should feel comfortable sharing their most private information with Google, a company that has gone on record as having no respect for privacy..
I use Gmail, but sparingly, and only as a last resort. I simply do not trust Google. Or Facebook or Microsoft or Yahoo for that matter. Not that I totally trust my ISP either, but I do regard them as not at all in the same league of evil as Google and friends.
It's about money. If there's no kickback from Google or Yahoo, Mozilla foundation doesn't want to be bothered with it. It's no longer about being useful, you see.
This drone design is a pathetic pretense from end to end. For starters, consider the wing loading, it will be off the end of the scale. Look at the eensy weensy props. You can get anything to fly if you put a big enough engine on it, so... gigantic engines, right? Not. And whacking big battery to slide that aerodynamic turd through 15 miles of atmosphere... nowhere to be seen. To cap it off, feast your eyes on the excess of vertical stabilizer and the table-saw grade longitudinal struts. Oh, how about the bomb bay doors? Right at home on a B-52 I'd say.
Microsoft would sell more if they came with Android, market it as the "Microsoft HumblePhone". Surefire way to hold off irrelevance just that little bit longer.
The Kurds want to break away, ISIS wants to take over and bring Turkey under the Caliphate.
That's not quite it. The Turkish regime knows that the world will eventually get around to squashing ISIS, so from their perspective a sovereign Kurdistan is the more pressing problem. Not by any means justifying that point of view, just drawing attention to the twisted dynamic.
Lucas ruined the first three movies when made the last three.
The first three are actually pretty bad in retrospect, a cut above old episodes of Lost in Space, but not by very much. Bailed out by a ripsnorting John Williams score, but even the music deteriorated as the series wore on.
No. LibreOffice had the upper hand because it had nearly all the devs, who had gotten good and tired of Sun/Oracle. Losing the bogus Java tie was just a nice bonus.
Those who wanted a solid, reliable, usable desktop environment backed Qt and KDE. Those who were ideologically driven went with GTK+, although inferior to Qt, and GNOME, although inferior to KDE. This is true even today, so many years later...
Succinct analysis, but it's not about ideology any more, it's strictly commercial. It's about Redhat controlling freedesktop.org, which control would be materially loosened by sharing power with the QT Foundation. Community be damned.
There are some alloys and specific metal grain configurations used in the RD-180 that simply no one else knows how to do but the Russian shops that build the RD-180 engine
Actually, they're using metaphysically strong ceramics baked from the the bones of political dissenters.
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So you want an unmaintained project. Good luck with that.
OK, go ahead Einstein. Please give us the benefit of your genius, and perhaps you could include some content in your post this time.
As everyone knows, all actual programming work at Google is done by interns. Now that Facebook has better snacks, Google's intern supply is drying up and that explains why some products must be thrown out.
While they would *love* for it to be outright impossible to copy, their goal is to make it as much a pain in the ass to copy as possible.
They succeed in making it a pain in the ass, period. There is a lot of competition for scarce free time these days, and if the modern audience needs any more encouragement that they should spend their scant entertainment hours consuming big media content, these boneheads will be happy to provide it. Ranks right up there with FBI warnings on video disks, which surely never stopped any illegal copying but certainly did make home theatre a less comfortable experience. I mean, invite friends over to watch FBI warnings. Curl up with your significant other for a romantic evening of FBI warnings. Gather your kids around for popcorn and FBI warnings. Sure.
Clear demonstration of why Community > Proprietary.
Incidentally, I also run Thunderbird. Yes, you really can run two imap clients on the same machine, accessing the same account, at the same time. That's the way it should be. When Trojita's composer won't cut it I fire up the tbird.
Recommendations welcome.
Trojita shows a lot of promise. An imap-only client. I've been compiling from source and running it for a year or so. Very reliable and fast. Needs to be fleshed out in many ways, for example the composer is very basic. However, the basics are there in a form that just feels good and solid. I appreciate the obvious attention to performance, standards compliance and code quality, it's really a refreshing change.
That's funny -- I only know a single person who uses gmail.
I know many, however it is not clear to me why any of them should feel comfortable sharing their most private information with Google, a company that has gone on record as having no respect for privacy..
I use Gmail, but sparingly, and only as a last resort. I simply do not trust Google. Or Facebook or Microsoft or Yahoo for that matter. Not that I totally trust my ISP either, but I do regard them as not at all in the same league of evil as Google and friends.
By the way, be careful what you search for.
The damn thing works, so leave it alone.
So, according to you: 1) there are no bugs 2) functionality cannot possibly be enhanced and 3) requirements will never change.
It's about money. If there's no kickback from Google or Yahoo, Mozilla foundation doesn't want to be bothered with it. It's no longer about being useful, you see.
Aerodynamically, a bit worse than this I think.
This drone design is a pathetic pretense from end to end. For starters, consider the wing loading, it will be off the end of the scale. Look at the eensy weensy props. You can get anything to fly if you put a big enough engine on it, so... gigantic engines, right? Not. And whacking big battery to slide that aerodynamic turd through 15 miles of atmosphere... nowhere to be seen. To cap it off, feast your eyes on the excess of vertical stabilizer and the table-saw grade longitudinal struts. Oh, how about the bomb bay doors? Right at home on a B-52 I'd say.
Nice comic relief Amazon.
Good Android phones under $100 are everywhere now, check out Huawei.
Microsoft would sell more if they came with Android, market it as the "Microsoft HumblePhone". Surefire way to hold off irrelevance just that little bit longer.
So, I remember when a fairly sizable tower was considered a "mini computer" ... hell, I think it was a friggin' VAX.
A VAX-11/780 at 5 MHz and up to 8 MB? This ARM SoC is more than competitive at 700 MHz, 512 MB.
The Kurds want to break away, ISIS wants to take over and bring Turkey under the Caliphate.
That's not quite it. The Turkish regime knows that the world will eventually get around to squashing ISIS, so from their perspective a sovereign Kurdistan is the more pressing problem. Not by any means justifying that point of view, just drawing attention to the twisted dynamic.
...One can act accordingly
Good luck with that.
And it couldn't be the same without gas attacks
The point (and it was clear even in the summary) is that the rocket landed back down.
That, and they used a LH/LOX engine.
Lucas ruined the first three movies when made the last three.
The first three are actually pretty bad in retrospect, a cut above old episodes of Lost in Space, but not by very much. Bailed out by a ripsnorting John Williams score, but even the music deteriorated as the series wore on.
No. LibreOffice had the upper hand because it had nearly all the devs, who had gotten good and tired of Sun/Oracle. Losing the bogus Java tie was just a nice bonus.
Those who wanted a solid, reliable, usable desktop environment backed Qt and KDE. Those who were ideologically driven went with GTK+, although inferior to Qt, and GNOME, although inferior to KDE. This is true even today, so many years later...
Succinct analysis, but it's not about ideology any more, it's strictly commercial. It's about Redhat controlling freedesktop.org, which control would be materially loosened by sharing power with the QT Foundation. Community be damned.
Thank goodness for your post. Before it, we didn't know we don't know there are things we don't know.
It's always news when M$ opensources something.
There are some alloys and specific metal grain configurations used in the RD-180 that simply no one else knows how to do but the Russian shops that build the RD-180 engine
Actually, they're using metaphysically strong ceramics baked from the the bones of political dissenters.