I was a hardcore IE addict. Been using linux for years, but was so sucked into browsing with IE I was sickening myself. I attempted to use Mozilla over the span of the project and for sure it got better and better over time, but I do agree with folks who say: "why not just a browser?"
This is one of the strengths of IE if you ask me. IE is just a browser the other tools are moved into the mess, and IE (IMHO) has a feeling of transparancy in this way.
I never got that from Netscape, and Mozilla felt that was more and more, but it just has too many 'features' I can get elsewhere.
So anyway, I ended up getting really paranoid about IE and was searching. I realized that if I had complaints about moz then I should use it and use bugzilla. I was doing this under windows as well as linux. I found myself (like a junkie) slipping over to IE again and again.
But then I found Galeon, it has saved me from this terrible addiction. I have not missed IE in the least bit. In fact, I am completly in love with it as a browser. Mozilla is cool too, but Galeon is the one that people who complain that Mozilla should have just been a browser, galeon is this.
Gnome adopts the "open API" of.NET blah blah and becomes completely based on it (like in version 3.0)
Microsoft changes the legal status of these Open API's, thus miring the gnome project into legal limbo and DMCA type hell.
Hence no Gnome.
Technically MS has some cool ideas. I would venture to say, that if MS played ball like a nice company, MS could be beneificial to the entire computer world.
But MS does not played this way in the past. Why would they start now?
to make a long story short, I can understand yer thinking, but for me, moi, I am not entirely convinced that the story we are being told about the big bad brown people around the world happens to be true.
Bush and his little band of criminals have a long long history of being the biggest fans of war and hatred in the name of money and power the past century has seen. While I do know there are "terrorists", I do no think that while on one hand these twerps running the show right now say, well yeah you are gonna have to give up your freedoms so as to protect you from these "Freedom Hating" brown/yellow/red/different people (who incidently do not like US gov installations of dictators, and corporations, who are decidedly anti democracy) coming in and saying how they should act, what sugar water they should buy, etc etc..
So anyway, these rulers here are telling us to give up our freedoms and privacy a bit, yet are storming around the globe, right now as we 'speak' calling democratic countries (Iran) "Axis' of Evil", doing secret covert actions in 150 countries, where the people are obviously pissed at us already (assuming they are behind 9/11), telling the US army women its cool to shit on Islamic tradition by not having to go around covered in Saudi Arabia anymore, one fuckin week after Saudi hinted that we should finally leave their country.
I mean, besides kicking Afghanistans ass, and replacing a sicko gov with another sicko gov (but one who likes Oil plans), and capturing a bunch of people on the old CIA payroll and bringing them to Cuba to dispose of, what the hell have we done to make us more safe?
Not a thing, we are making the world more angry with us, and isolating ourselves furthur with a perpetual "us against them" stance.
So my point is, until these selfish bullshit artists put their money where their mouth is, stop lying to us perpetually, and pissing off people around the world by pissing on International Law, etc. i dont want them taking one fuckin shred of my freedom away.
I agree. I am a jabber advocate. I use it, promote it furiously, problem is I cannot get anyone to use it.
I have no idea why? Wait I do. Its not ICQ (how anyone can use that I am not sure), not AIM, not MSN, cos this is all where their friends are.
Well, I know, and jabber users know that u can use the other protocols, sometimes they work, sometimes they dont, and the people I have tried to have switch get pissed off at this and don't see the point. Despite the obvious point you brought up, which is "its open, and usuable".
When I bring that up I hear crap like "its not skinnable." etc.
So yeah, use Jabber, its great.. Move away, move your friends away, then we can have an open standard for IM.
everytime some scumbag has done something wrong and they are hauled into court for it, unless it is some show trial (John Walker, OJ.. etc..) People get barred when there are some real juicy bits.
Take for example, the barring of the media during the Iran/Contra hearings when the talks turned to drug issues, in the name of national security.
My website has two very curious events..STORIES that were released in the mainstream Media right after the SOTU adresss.
Both Cheny and Bush have told Dachle and the rest of the Senate not to head any (planned) investigation into the events of 9/11.
Interesting. More juicy bits. The same thing with Enron, the whitehouse just flat out says: we will not give you what you are asking for, even if you use the law to try and obtain it.
It scares me that this kind of behavior is being used more and more in this country, and that it is seen as expected "normal" behavior.
I think you have it all wrong. RMS is about *POT SMOKING* to the nth degree.
I have no issues with pot smoking, but ya gotta admit, only potheads ramble on about secret codes in the.doc format, and various other things along that line. I mean just look at the wording of that thing, you'd think he was some long haired bearded guy who has a pic of himself with robes on and a halo above his head. Prolly likes the Grateful Dead too.
In independent studies that I have conducted in my own life, I have concluded that *POT SMOKING* keeps you thinking like a socialist and creates a compelte rejection of authoritarian values.
"Making a Living with Free Software" and it seems to be a collection of one sentance paragraphs.
Ummm.. you will note that people who do not speak English as a first language have trouble using English as a language up to the (wow you have high standards dont cha?) standards you are expecting. So what?
I spent a year in Asia, and this looks typical as far as visual standards and as an attempt to write something using English. My take: nice go! Good work, glad to see your using OSS.
So as far as your falls short (xenophobic) remarks: Guess what? I am sure it does not fall short for the target audience, which is most likely Asians and others who like to see what Asians are up to with the open source world.
Wow, if the whole world would just abide by your standards, maybe everyone can think like you, dress like you, talk like you, have the same literary and visual ideas you have. hey! Wont the world be a better place like that?
Heres some more shit for you to make fun of: They write funny in Nepal too.
"blah blah blah and Who needs 144kbps to your phone? Streaming video? Who is going to watch video on their phone? You can't browser. E-mail is possible, but not all that interesting."
How bout heading on over to Japan to see what people do with wireless phones before you keep sqawkin like a person who basically has no clue what they are talking about.
In Japan it seems that cellphones are used for everything *but* talking so godamn loud about some breakup and what the hell is going on in your life so every freekin person within a mile radius can hear you. On the contrary, people in Japan (as far as I saw) use their phones for incredible functions: everyone is always typing emails or SMS on the trains in Tokyo, people send pictures and video to each other: we were watching some celeb on the backstreet getting filmed for a tv show, people whipped out their phones and started taking pics to send to their friends. etc..
The USA is godamn backwards as far as cell technology is concerned. I spent a year in Asia and the whole time I could not wait to get home and grab me a cellphone. Once I have been back, I could care less cos the cellphones here just dont have the features that make them cool and usable.
Sorry, I like wicked slim, with huge screen that has 65k colors and downloadable java apps for playing games or other things to do 'on the fly'.
Those fat nokias with LCD's just dont cut it.. Sorry.
Oh gosh, I can imagine what it is going to be like when my SO and I bring children into the world.
Ugh.
I like TV, I make fun of it to its face, I think also, you can't deny kids watching it, cos then in the face of peers they end up slightly retarded:(YOU DO NOT KNOW SUPER WACKO NINJA ROBOTS? what is wrong *with* you?)
Yeah. So we do agree. While in some moments I do think there would be some positive outcome of AOL/TW and linux (funding), I dont trust, like, or want to sell my soul to any of those companies, except when I am forced to.
So I a bummed at the prospect of all of our old "information revolution" ideals about the good old internet and OSS becoming yet another product, like Britney, Myself, You and all of the kids here in America.
No offense taken on the elitist joke;) I prefer 'opinionated'.
"Well, at least you're not one of those "elitists" the parent post mentioned."
whattya like better TV or computers? I am not being elite, I think that television addiction is this nations (US) greatest mental health issue. Microsoft & cable monopolies vs AOL/TW are racing full steam ahead to build the worlds smartest TV.
Linux or no linux, TV's of this caliber will not be smart
"Heaven forbid that a company with the clout to get Linux out to the masses get involved. Then Linux might not be just for the computer savvy anymore."
No, your right. Linux will be the transparently embeded operating system that runs the next generation in hi-tech stupidity boxes (super television). People will not know, nor care that its linux or any other operating system, they will just know that they can find out whats on 2 hours from now, and that they can stick a smart card/national ID card into a slot next to the couch and purchase some neat shit they saw on an infomerical.
Wow! What a coup for the linux crew. Linus must be proud that he has come so far. You can bet that this is the right direction to take to get linux to the masses, just as long as they don't thave to think about it.
I for one applaud Alan for his commitment to not playing ball when one of the top 5 media giants is considering buying the company he works for. Go Alan. Its good to see someone stick to their ideals and not become some pavlovian idiot at the first sniff of profit potential (ala VA whomever they are)
You gotta admit anyone who promotes open software over profit driven patents can been seen by the mainstream public as a little left leaning, even if that does not reflect your political views.
Zmag is in fact a left leaning magazine and online journal. One from Zmags.org sent out this to the AOL/Compuserve subscribers of Zmag supporter content.
I am aware this is a stretch, but I am relating it only to show where it *could* go.
http://www.zmag.org/ZNETTOPnoanimation.html
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But don't apply that to Apple, cos Apple uses figures like HH the Dalai Lama, Jack Keroac, and other like them to make people Think(different) that they are somehow not being a big Mega corp who expolit Asian workers, patent technology, profit greatly, use media players as virus's to wreak havoc on file typing of your system, use legal might against the small guy.
Nope, smug ol Apple pays some big ad agency to figure out things like "Ho Hum, Another day, another revolution". The zelots eat that shit up. And they should, cos its a real live revolution.
The software that is G4 optimized on the Mac platform is heaviliy optimized, and many are creative applications.
Umm.. Are you paying attention there? OPTIMZED. Yeah, and YAWN, we have all been through the Adobe optimizing for the processor due to the joined at the hip business relationship Apple and that company have.
Yawn...
The thing about mac folks is, like Resident Bush, you make it too easy..
The reason why people like you can never appreciate the G4, or apple hardware, or pretty much anything apple ever does for that matter, is that you never actually use your computer to *do* much of anything. Quake? Please. Quit playing your little games and grow up. Photoshop is a real world application used by untold legions of graphics designers in professional situations
Ok Ok OK. Obviously, us usual, a Mac lover knows not a godamn thing about computers and acts like a freeking expert. The collective idiocy of your subculture is astounding. The breath of fresh air has been MacOSX. I love going into Macintosh channels on irc and listening to people talk about compiling. It gives me hope. You my friend, do not.
Yes Photoshop is a 'real world' application used by real designers. And yes, it has effects that use the CPU quite nicely. BUT. Quake is a real world technological feat, and I would venture to say, that quake 3 would stress your hardware a hell of a lot more than your piddley little Photoshop. In fact, thats why certain demos are created (like massive for example) and are used universally as benchmark tests for hardware. Even by non-gamers.
Ok, I will agree that the new realtime effects in the video realm being advertised are quite impressive. Cool! That and the Unix inderpinnings of OSX may be enough to consider buying a Mac again, but not enough to consider jihad.
Your linux kernel compile comment again just make seem a moron. Yeah people who know nothing about a computer would think compilation of source code means nothing.
If I were a total ass I would venture to say, people like you should not be using computers,
due to your complete lack of expertise in the matter. You dont put people on racehorses that dont know what they are doing, why should we on computers? Oh right. Thats why we have Mac OS, for people like you.
goodbye.. goodluck. enjoy that stupid ass mouse and claims of supercomputerdom. You dont have a clue, and thats why you still by computers that cost 5000 bucks.
only idiots use computers made by a huge corporation that uses the age old technique of pretending to be a revolution in order to inspire religious convictions in usually non-intelligent follower types.
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I have absolutely no problems cutting and pasting between apps in Gnome. If anything, KDE's klipper caused me more problems then anything.
So, what you talking bout willis?
why is there a Microsoft Visual Studio .NET banner at the top of the page here?
I have seen a lot of strange things in my time. This is one of them.
Am I the only one who loves this browser?
I was a hardcore IE addict. Been using linux for years, but was so sucked into browsing with IE I was sickening myself. I attempted to use Mozilla over the span of the project and for sure it got better and better over time, but I do agree with folks who say: "why not just a browser?"
This is one of the strengths of IE if you ask me. IE is just a browser the other tools are moved into the mess, and IE (IMHO) has a feeling of transparancy in this way.
I never got that from Netscape, and Mozilla felt that was more and more, but it just has too many 'features' I can get elsewhere.
So anyway, I ended up getting really paranoid about IE and was searching. I realized that if I had complaints about moz then I should use it and use bugzilla. I was doing this under windows as well as linux. I found myself (like a junkie) slipping over to IE again and again.
But then I found Galeon, it has saved me from this terrible addiction. I have not missed IE in the least bit. In fact, I am completly in love with it as a browser. Mozilla is cool too, but Galeon is the one that people who complain that Mozilla should have just been a browser, galeon is this.
Galeon is what it is all about.
who else thinks Leela is sexy?
Why so many *pro* war movies since 9/11??? After years of anit-war movies, we are now being bludgeoned with propaganda peice after propaganda peice.
Can they make movies of this scale in just 4 months?
Is it a little odd the timing of all this?
Just asking.. Cos I think its *wacky*
Here is my paranoid conspiracy theory:
.NET blah blah and becomes completely based on it (like in version 3.0)
Gnome adopts the "open API" of
Microsoft changes the legal status of these Open API's, thus miring the gnome project into legal limbo and DMCA type hell.
Hence no Gnome.
Technically MS has some cool ideas. I would venture to say, that if MS played ball like a nice company, MS could be beneificial to the entire computer world.
But MS does not played this way in the past. Why would they start now?
Galeon is 1.1.2. Its very nice. Lite, based on gecko, has some nifty features, customizable, bookmakr editing is *fun*.
Its Galeon. And its my favorite browser.
http://galeon.sourceforge.net/
http://www.eve-online.com/
python.
A good majority of python coders are win32 platform based.
so what are you saying?
to make a long story short, I can understand yer thinking, but for me, moi, I am not entirely convinced that the story we are being told about the big bad brown people around the world happens to be true.
Bush and his little band of criminals have a long long history of being the biggest fans of war and hatred in the name of money and power the past century has seen. While I do know there are "terrorists", I do no think that while on one hand these twerps running the show right now say, well yeah you are gonna have to give up your freedoms so as to protect you from these "Freedom Hating" brown/yellow/red/different people (who incidently do not like US gov installations of dictators, and corporations, who are decidedly anti democracy) coming in and saying how they should act, what sugar water they should buy, etc etc..
So anyway, these rulers here are telling us to give up our freedoms and privacy a bit, yet are storming around the globe, right now as we 'speak' calling democratic countries (Iran) "Axis' of Evil", doing secret covert actions in 150 countries, where the people are obviously pissed at us already (assuming they are behind 9/11), telling the US army women its cool to shit on Islamic tradition by not having to go around covered in Saudi Arabia anymore, one fuckin week after Saudi hinted that we should finally leave their country.
I mean, besides kicking Afghanistans ass, and replacing a sicko gov with another sicko gov (but one who likes Oil plans), and capturing a bunch of people on the old CIA payroll and bringing them to Cuba to dispose of, what the hell have we done to make us more safe?
Not a thing, we are making the world more angry with us, and isolating ourselves furthur with a perpetual "us against them" stance.
So my point is, until these selfish bullshit artists put their money where their mouth is, stop lying to us perpetually, and pissing off people around the world by pissing on International Law, etc. i dont want them taking one fuckin shred of my freedom away.
Awesome.. Now i get to say the same exact crap people say to me when I say the USA has problems. Ok Here goes:
If you dont like it, move. I am sure you can find a country that would love to limit the privacy of its citizens.
I will only buy your arg when the powers that be stop LYING to the people and say that they are KILLING people in order to ensure out freedom.
Yes, its unfortunate that we end up protecting the crims as well, but guess what?
thats the proce we pay for freedom..
I agree. I am a jabber advocate. I use it, promote it furiously, problem is I cannot get anyone to use it.
I have no idea why? Wait I do. Its not ICQ (how anyone can use that I am not sure), not AIM, not MSN, cos this is all where their friends are.
Well, I know, and jabber users know that u can use the other protocols, sometimes they work, sometimes they dont, and the people I have tried to have switch get pissed off at this and don't see the point. Despite the obvious point you brought up, which is "its open, and usuable".
When I bring that up I hear crap like "its not skinnable." etc.
So yeah, use Jabber, its great.. Move away, move your friends away, then we can have an open standard for IM.
everytime some scumbag has done something wrong and they are hauled into court for it, unless it is some show trial (John Walker, OJ.. etc..) People get barred when there are some real juicy bits.
Take for example, the barring of the media during the Iran/Contra hearings when the talks turned to drug issues, in the name of national security.
My website has two very curious events..STORIES that were released in the mainstream Media right after the SOTU adresss.
Both Cheny and Bush have told Dachle and the rest of the Senate not to head any (planned) investigation into the events of 9/11.
Interesting. More juicy bits. The same thing with Enron, the whitehouse just flat out says: we will not give you what you are asking for, even if you use the law to try and obtain it.
It scares me that this kind of behavior is being used more and more in this country, and that it is seen as expected "normal" behavior.
propaganda arts
Ashcroft is afraid of TITS for christ sake.. Now I understand why
I think you have it all wrong. RMS is about *POT SMOKING* to the nth degree.
.doc format, and various other things along that line. I mean just look at the wording of that thing, you'd think he was some long haired bearded guy who has a pic of himself with robes on and a halo above his head. Prolly likes the Grateful Dead too.
I have no issues with pot smoking, but ya gotta admit, only potheads ramble on about secret codes in the
In independent studies that I have conducted in my own life, I have concluded that *POT SMOKING* keeps you thinking like a socialist and creates a compelte rejection of authoritarian values.
YMMV.
I looked you up in the dictionary and found a reference to asshole. Interesting huh?
fuckin facinating world we live in eh?
Ummm.. you will note that people who do not speak English as a first language have trouble using English as a language up to the (wow you have high standards dont cha?) standards you are expecting. So what?
I spent a year in Asia, and this looks typical as far as visual standards and as an attempt to write something using English. My take: nice go! Good work, glad to see your using OSS.
So as far as your falls short (xenophobic) remarks: Guess what? I am sure it does not fall short for the target audience, which is most likely Asians and others who like to see what Asians are up to with the open source world.
Wow, if the whole world would just abide by your standards, maybe everyone can think like you, dress like you, talk like you, have the same literary and visual ideas you have. hey! Wont the world be a better place like that?
Heres some more shit for you to make fun of: They write funny in Nepal too.
http://www.ganeshas-project.org/index_en.html
you said:
i nq -1.htm#
"blah blah blah and Who needs 144kbps to your phone? Streaming video? Who is going to watch video on their phone? You can't browser. E-mail is possible, but not all that interesting."
How bout heading on over to Japan to see what people do with wireless phones before you keep sqawkin like a person who basically has no clue what they are talking about.
In Japan it seems that cellphones are used for everything *but* talking so godamn loud about some breakup and what the hell is going on in your life so every freekin person within a mile radius can hear you. On the contrary, people in Japan (as far as I saw) use their phones for incredible functions: everyone is always typing emails or SMS on the trains in Tokyo, people send pictures and video to each other: we were watching some celeb on the backstreet getting filmed for a tv show, people whipped out their phones and started taking pics to send to their friends. etc..
The USA is godamn backwards as far as cell technology is concerned. I spent a year in Asia and the whole time I could not wait to get home and grab me a cellphone. Once I have been back, I could care less cos the cellphones here just dont have the features that make them cool and usable.
Sorry, I like wicked slim, with huge screen that has 65k colors and downloadable java apps for playing games or other things to do 'on the fly'.
Those fat nokias with LCD's just dont cut it.. Sorry.
http://www.nttdocomo.com/
http://www.3g.co.uk/Learn3G.htm
http://www.inq7.net/inf/2001/dec/07/inf_digital
etc.. etc..
Well I do not know the show/movie, yet I am a poser fan of japanese modern animated art.
As a linux user I went to the multimedia section to see some teasers. Hmmm... wonder if windows media works with linux? click...
Nope.. sorry, not using Solaris, whaddya stupid? Oh.. Hey.. MS, hows that VBScript treating ya?
Oh gosh, I can imagine what it is going to be like when my SO and I bring children into the world.
;) I prefer 'opinionated'.
Ugh.
I like TV, I make fun of it to its face, I think also, you can't deny kids watching it, cos then in the face of peers they end up slightly retarded:(YOU DO NOT KNOW SUPER WACKO NINJA ROBOTS? what is wrong *with* you?)
Yeah. So we do agree. While in some moments I do think there would be some positive outcome of AOL/TW and linux (funding), I dont trust, like, or want to sell my soul to any of those companies, except when I am forced to.
So I a bummed at the prospect of all of our old "information revolution" ideals about the good old internet and OSS becoming yet another product, like Britney, Myself, You and all of the kids here in America.
No offense taken on the elitist joke
"Well, at least you're not one of those "elitists" the parent post mentioned."
whattya like better TV or computers? I am not being elite, I think that television addiction is this nations (US) greatest mental health issue. Microsoft & cable monopolies vs AOL/TW are racing full steam ahead to build the worlds smartest TV.
Linux or no linux, TV's of this caliber will not be smart
No, your right. Linux will be the transparently embeded operating system that runs the next generation in hi-tech stupidity boxes (super television). People will not know, nor care that its linux or any other operating system, they will just know that they can find out whats on 2 hours from now, and that they can stick a smart card/national ID card into a slot next to the couch and purchase some neat shit they saw on an infomerical.
Wow! What a coup for the linux crew. Linus must be proud that he has come so far. You can bet that this is the right direction to take to get linux to the masses, just as long as they don't thave to think about it.
I for one applaud Alan for his commitment to not playing ball when one of the top 5 media giants is considering buying the company he works for. Go Alan. Its good to see someone stick to their ideals and not become some pavlovian idiot at the first sniff of profit potential (ala VA whomever they are)
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You gotta admit anyone who promotes open software over profit driven patents can been seen by the mainstream public as a little left leaning, even if that does not reflect your political views.
.org sent out this to the AOL/Compuserve subscribers of Zmag supporter content.
Zmag is in fact a left leaning magazine and online journal. One from Zmags
I am aware this is a stretch, but I am relating it only to show where it *could* go.
http://www.zmag.org/ZNETTOPnoanimation.html
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But don't apply that to Apple, cos Apple uses figures like HH the Dalai Lama, Jack Keroac, and other like them to make people Think(different) that they are somehow not being a big Mega corp who expolit Asian workers, patent technology, profit greatly, use media players as virus's to wreak havoc on file typing of your system, use legal might against the small guy.
Nope, smug ol Apple pays some big ad agency to figure out things like "Ho Hum, Another day, another revolution". The zelots eat that shit up. And they should, cos its a real live revolution.
Umm.. Are you paying attention there? OPTIMZED. Yeah, and YAWN, we have all been through the Adobe optimizing for the processor due to the joined at the hip business relationship Apple and that company have.
Yawn...
The thing about mac folks is, like Resident Bush, you make it too easy..
Ok Ok OK. Obviously, us usual, a Mac lover knows not a godamn thing about computers and acts like a freeking expert. The collective idiocy of your subculture is astounding. The breath of fresh air has been MacOSX. I love going into Macintosh channels on irc and listening to people talk about compiling. It gives me hope. You my friend, do not.
Yes Photoshop is a 'real world' application used by real designers. And yes, it has effects that use the CPU quite nicely. BUT. Quake is a real world technological feat, and I would venture to say, that quake 3 would stress your hardware a hell of a lot more than your piddley little Photoshop. In fact, thats why certain demos are created (like massive for example) and are used universally as benchmark tests for hardware. Even by non-gamers.
Ok, I will agree that the new realtime effects in the video realm being advertised are quite impressive. Cool! That and the Unix inderpinnings of OSX may be enough to consider buying a Mac again, but not enough to consider jihad.
Your linux kernel compile comment again just make seem a moron. Yeah people who know nothing about a computer would think compilation of source code means nothing.
If I were a total ass I would venture to say, people like you should not be using computers, due to your complete lack of expertise in the matter. You dont put people on racehorses that dont know what they are doing, why should we on computers? Oh right. Thats why we have Mac OS, for people like you.
goodbye.. goodluck. enjoy that stupid ass mouse and claims of supercomputerdom. You dont have a clue, and thats why you still by computers that cost 5000 bucks.
only idiots use computers made by a huge corporation that uses the age old technique of pretending to be a revolution in order to inspire religious convictions in usually non-intelligent follower types.