This article is vaguely reminiscent of articles published by hippies in the 60s about the wonders of the perfection of simplistic primitive cultures. Probably, ironically enough, in Brazil. And how all of our problems as a society would be erased if we'd just follow the simple principles of the __insert name of tribe here__ people.
And, of course, we merely giggle at them 4 decades later.
I suspect the same will be said 40 years from now. =P
However, the benefit is that OpenOffice runs faster and has fewer bugs. The "fewer bugs" part is due to the fact that more people use it, since it is free. More eyeballs means that more bugs are caught, and the volunteer developers can then fix the bugs.
I call BS. Openoffice.org is even worse than MSO at getting things to render correctly, and I've definitely have OO.o crash more times on me than word has. Not to mention..."more people use it"? Far more people use microsoft office than use OO.o.
Why can't they just hook their software up to the airline traffic and filter out things coming from airplanes. It's not like they're going to miss that much of the sky because of that.
iirc, there's a quake mod that renders html as textures, although it's not browsable. I couldn't access the site, though. It got slashdotted already. Does it just display the html as a texture, or is it browsable?
The article doesn't make any sense; it's obvious that the author just knew that it would get posted on slashdot. The kind of power he's talking about "Linux" wielding is only possible if the entity is not legitimate as a legal entity. As soon as it became a legal entity, like a union, it wouldn't be able to wield the power that was being talked about (DOS attacks, etc.). So forming a union would, in a sense, degrade their power.
Although, I suppose in some cases, having legitimate fronts with loose couplings to illegitimate terrorist organizations is possible. The PLO, for example. =P
If they're anything like bose headphones...
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They won't help at all. I've never really been able to tell much of a difference between the headphones being on and off. It just sounds like there's an extra humming sound when they're on.
I'm pretty sure altavista had this feature several years ago, but removed it. I remember that it worked fairly well. Does anyone know what happened to it?
I had a car that couldn't crash last year. I sold it for $50, though, to a guy with a tow truck.
Most cars actually come equipped with a "don't crash" lever...usually next to the driver's right hand. It has to be activated before the car starts, though.
Their idea is to award bonus points for each answered message. Each piece of junk e-mail would contain an offer of bonus points, and when the recipient replied to the pitch, a database system would transfer points to their name. The bonus points accumulate, and eventually the junk e-mail recipient can redeem them for gifts.
There's a patent for that? How retarded. This makes the guy who applied for a patent for the wheel look sane.
There's a difference here that's important. Watching the films is what Lucas makes his money off of. No one in their right mind will pay to watch a boring cube.
"The medical uses could be more important in the long run than the security application. Any medical condition that produces a chemical signal could be a candidate"
Man walks into doctor's office sneezing and coughing:
"Doctor, I have a flu. Can you give me something?"
"I don't know, let me check your aura." [takes a vacuum hose and sticks it next to the man, sucking air into a machine]
"Just be patient....it's working."
"Ah-ha! You've got the flu. Here's a prescription. That'll be $350"
I really like IE5. It's easy to develop for, it's easy to use, it's fast, usually not very buggy...
And up until this release, I thought that seamonkey sucked. However, this is a very stable release. It's much easier than IE to install. It was a mere 6 meg download, and installed in about 2 minutes. The load time is also about 3 times as quick as the last release (which, if I remember correctly, took 17 seconds to load on my computer). It's also far less buggy. I've managed to post this, haven't I?:-) The biggest relief is the lack of memory leaks. M15 bled my system resources to death. This isn't even making my computer break a sweat. Another thing that impressed me was the time it takes to parse a web page. M17 kicks IE's tail (and, quite obviously, NN4.x). The slashdot home page takes 6 seconds to parse on IE, and only 1.5 on M17.
Before this becomes widely used, however, I think that the following things need to change:
The remaining bugs need to be worked out. I've already encountered one bug that froze a window. No sweat, though, I just closed the window and opened another one. It's fine now. Of course, this isn't anywhere close to a production release, so bugs are expected.
It needs to have the freakin' JRE automatically installed. Most everyone who uses this browser will want it. At the very least it should come with it, and you should have the option of installing it.
I really have no other complaints about it, though. From installation to using it, this is a great program. Now the only battle that is faced (and an uphill one, at that) is to have web developers start writing their DHTML code for Mozilla. I have yet to see a site that works with it.
I applaud the Mozilla team. They've taken what I thought was an unreal fantasy, and turned it into a reality. Minus some minor bugs, this browser is already on par with IE. Now the real battle will be to get it into widespread usage.
So in the midst of all the bad (tasteless?) "force be with you" and "stronger than you can ever imagine" jokes, remember that Sir Alec Guiness was not just Obi-Wan Kenobi.
The actor who played Obi-Wan Kenobi, reguardless of whether or not he liked his role, embodies a character that (IMHO) was the most noble, selfless character in the starwars series. We are sad at his passing, not only because of his 'higher works', but because of the character that he played in Star Wars. For most of us, the two are intertwined. If we are not to tie him with Obi-Wan Kenobi, then he is just another faceless actor to us.
Like it or not, he will be remembered (fondly) as Ben Kenobi.
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This article is vaguely reminiscent of articles published by hippies in the 60s about the wonders of the perfection of simplistic primitive cultures. Probably, ironically enough, in Brazil. And how all of our problems as a society would be erased if we'd just follow the simple principles of the __insert name of tribe here__ people.
And, of course, we merely giggle at them 4 decades later.
I suspect the same will be said 40 years from now. =P
However, the benefit is that OpenOffice runs faster and has fewer bugs. The "fewer bugs" part is due to the fact that more people use it, since it is free. More eyeballs means that more bugs are caught, and the volunteer developers can then fix the bugs.
I call BS. Openoffice.org is even worse than MSO at getting things to render correctly, and I've definitely have OO.o crash more times on me than word has. Not to mention..."more people use it"? Far more people use microsoft office than use OO.o.
int the_slaves;
free(the_slaves);
It would seem that quite a few techie types have a thing for yellow women, so I think you're a minority. ;-)
Well, minus the blue hair.
yes, it's a dupe, I know. I had to.
if you repeat them!
WHAT?
Jokes are funnier if you repeat them!
What?
Why can't they just hook their software up to the airline traffic and filter out things coming from airplanes. It's not like they're going to miss that much of the sky because of that.
iirc, there's a quake mod that renders html as textures, although it's not browsable. I couldn't access the site, though. It got slashdotted already. Does it just display the html as a texture, or is it browsable?
The project was first released as OpenSSH 5 years ago today. The project was started, however, much earlier than that.
The article doesn't make any sense; it's obvious that the author just knew that it would get posted on slashdot. The kind of power he's talking about "Linux" wielding is only possible if the entity is not legitimate as a legal entity. As soon as it became a legal entity, like a union, it wouldn't be able to wield the power that was being talked about (DOS attacks, etc.). So forming a union would, in a sense, degrade their power.
Although, I suppose in some cases, having legitimate fronts with loose couplings to illegitimate terrorist organizations is possible. The PLO, for example. =P
They won't help at all. I've never really been able to tell much of a difference between the headphones being on and off. It just sounds like there's an extra humming sound when they're on.
I'm pretty sure altavista had this feature several years ago, but removed it. I remember that it worked fairly well. Does anyone know what happened to it?
I had a car that couldn't crash last year. I sold it for $50, though, to a guy with a tow truck.
Most cars actually come equipped with a "don't crash" lever...usually next to the driver's right hand. It has to be activated before the car starts, though.
Maybe they decided to do this because of the runaway success of PayLars.com... :-)
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Their idea is to award bonus points for each answered message. Each piece of junk e-mail would contain an offer of bonus points, and when the recipient replied to the pitch, a database system would transfer points to their name. The bonus points accumulate, and eventually the junk e-mail recipient can redeem them for gifts.
There's a patent for that? How retarded. This makes the guy who applied for a patent for the wheel look sane.
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There's a difference here that's important. Watching the films is what Lucas makes his money off of. No one in their right mind will pay to watch a boring cube.
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The unit is almost self contained, running on just a few buscuts a day.
...unless you don't let him outside to go to the bathroom twice a day...
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"The medical uses could be more important in the long run than the security application. Any medical condition that produces a chemical signal could be a candidate"
Man walks into doctor's office sneezing and coughing:
"Doctor, I have a flu. Can you give me something?"
"I don't know, let me check your aura." [takes a vacuum hose and sticks it next to the man, sucking air into a machine]
"Just be patient....it's working."
"Ah-ha! You've got the flu. Here's a prescription. That'll be $350"
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And up until this release, I thought that seamonkey sucked. However, this is a very stable release. It's much easier than IE to install. It was a mere 6 meg download, and installed in about 2 minutes. The load time is also about 3 times as quick as the last release (which, if I remember correctly, took 17 seconds to load on my computer). It's also far less buggy. I've managed to post this, haven't I?
Another thing that impressed me was the time it takes to parse a web page. M17 kicks IE's tail (and, quite obviously, NN4.x). The slashdot home page takes 6 seconds to parse on IE, and only 1.5 on M17.
Before this becomes widely used, however, I think that the following things need to change:
I applaud the Mozilla team. They've taken what I thought was an unreal fantasy, and turned it into a reality. Minus some minor bugs, this browser is already on par with IE. Now the real battle will be to get it into widespread usage.
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Hey! It wasn't redundant when I clicked 'reply'... *sheesh*...those moderators... ;-)
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add this to my pocket protectors and HP SuperCalculator, and....
dang it, I don't want to be a chick repellant.
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but seriously...
However, IBM does not have plans to commercialize the Linux watch itself, a spokeswoman said.
that sucks. so, basically, I'll never get one unless I steal it. *sniff*
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Aw yeah. That'll be one sweet calculator. If I combine this and my fashionable pocket protectors, I'll be the perfect chick repellant.
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(GUI pronounced gooey)
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I'm not sure that you had to tell the slashdot community that.
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So in the midst of all the bad (tasteless?) "force be with you" and "stronger than you can ever imagine" jokes, remember that Sir Alec Guiness was not just Obi-Wan Kenobi.
The actor who played Obi-Wan Kenobi, reguardless of whether or not he liked his role, embodies a character that (IMHO) was the most noble, selfless character in the starwars series. We are sad at his passing, not only because of his 'higher works', but because of the character that he played in Star Wars. For most of us, the two are intertwined. If we are not to tie him with Obi-Wan Kenobi, then he is just another faceless actor to us.
Like it or not, he will be remembered (fondly) as Ben Kenobi.
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