the fact is that most of the uses are not legitimate.
According to who? You? Do you have a guilty conscience, or something? Are you not aware of your own rights? Are you too scared to exercise them?
Why the hell shouldn't companies be allowed to protect their property?
But it's not their property. You paid money for it. It's yours. Keep it, treasure it. Imagine you BUY somethign from a company, but at the end of the day they still own and control it? Can you spell 'sucker'?
copyrighted - like 'owned by'.... piracy makes companies go bust. Piracy... Piracy... free software guys will be trying to tell me that I can't put a chain on my bike!... Communist... theft...
Trolltrolltrolltroll. YHL. HAND.
Both formats have problems. While I love the direct response system of the unix style, it doesn't fit so well in this age of variable size windows for reading e-mail. It doesn't word-wrap.
Actually, it does. More advanced email clients work out what the indent characters are for each particular segment of text. Bingo! They now know each paragraph for individual word-wrapping, _and_ they know what to indent that paragraph with. Doesn't work very well on single-line replies, though.
Yeah, it's interesting to be in a world where the majority of generalist programmers rely on the improvements in hardware, there are a true 37117 of coders who are willing to take something small and focus on it as deeply as possible.
Personally, I preferred contests that said "You've got 256 bytes. Fit what you can into that. Coolest thing wins.", and people would write phong-shaded toruses and floormappers and stuff.
Sends emails to your friends in a totally proprietary format, also encoded with CSS to protect it from the evil hackers who broke TNEF.
In an email reply, it takes all your new text from where it should be (directly under the part replied to) and automatically moves it above the original message. This is to deliberately make you look like a newbie and thus make you more attractive to your preferred soulmate gender.
Posts to newsgroups in Microsoft's extended RTF format. That'll teach them to complain about HTML.
Automatically opens any executable attachments and runs them. You obviously wanted to do that, so this saves your valuable time.
Includes a built in copy of Solitaire and Minesweeper for you to play while it sends and retrieves your mail.
Sends me, err, 'performance data' of any *.jpg or *.mpg attachments you recieve.
Yes, just turn off the worthless and lame JavaScript. Only *real* Java is a powerful enough client side system to be worth enabling. All JS does is add unnecessary bloat to a web client, and everything it can do (OK, not including DHTML) can be done far more simply on the server side.
Coincidentally, turn off JavaScript, and viewing that site no longer leads to the anti NS rant.
Well, in my opinion, the idea of competition neing good for software development id also outdated.
Competition is nice, but the most important thing is not competition, but having a choice.
Nothing would make me happier if, instead of halving a choice between half a dozen different poorly implemented solutions, there was just one excellent solution.
But the problem isn't that there are half a dozen different solution in your example, it's that they're all poor. It's not always the case that multiplicity correlates with quality.
The best open source projects have a monopoly, and suck all the development effort for that field - The Kernel and Apache for example.
So, by your definition, nobody is working on BSD. The researchers who come up with new networking protocols traditionally prefer BSD. Do they not count? Do the BSD security nuts not count? The reason why there is a lot of effort in Linux and Apache is because they are very open-ended and have a wide scope for extensibility. Most of the developers are working on the extensible parts, not the core.
Why do we need several different versions of SQL to be on the go? It would be far better if there were just one, and the quality of the product would improve also.
That's the beauty of standards. There *is* only one SQL available. All the implementations of SQL have different redeeming factors. Do you need Oracle 8 just to power your weblog?
You obviously have an amazing literary and technical background in making your definitive statement. However, having been around since before optical media was even a thought in
someone's mind, the terms 'disc' and 'disk' were used interchangeably. (And at this point, it sounds like that's longer than you've been around as well.) I am guessing many will continue
to use either 'disc' or 'disk' in various situations. Your doctoral dissertation obviously did not get into enough depth to make that discovery.
You just don't get it, do you?
disk is short for diskette, which is the traditional name for what are now called floppy disks.
Phillips own the trademark for "Compact Disc"s, and that's how they choose to spell it.
What surprises me is how the geek community has embraced this film, even though most reviewers (as did I) didn't think it was a good film at all. Was it just because of the high-tech content?
I think the essense of it was that it made being a geek doing geek things seem cool. It appealed to the "hack-ethic" of geeks, essentially telling them that Planet Earth is a computer program they can just hack to become superheroes, and they can win against The Man(TM). The fighting and action went towards the excitement too, but I think geeks connect better with Keanu than Bruce Willis or Arnie.
Ghost in the Shell did a better job of selling virtuality over reality, IMHO, but that's another story.
It was actually the Iraqis, you know (previously known as Babylonians). One in the eye for you Yanks, they've got brains *and* oil. No wonder you want to leech off them.
The problem with VBR mode is that it isnt supported within the Linux kernel.
VBR mode used to be supported in the Linux kernel, but I replaced it with the meaning of life. It got into the 2.4 release along with support for Water Faeries.
I really want to take that guy and slap him about the face, while explaining that "GUI's" means "GUI is" or "belonging to the [single] GUI". It is not the plural of "GUI". Fool!
But they're not an analogue/digital hybrid! You need custom silicon for that.
Of course, you can emulate the entire C64 in software now anyway, wo why not just build a small PC into a C64 style case?
Because you can't perfectly emulate the C64! You can only approximate it in a digital-only system!
In fact, all current emulators are flawed - C64 coders can tell, in software, whether you are using a real C64 or an emulated one.
This is precious. Looking at your User Info, I see you're from the British Isles. This is the same place where you have people blowing up buses and launching rockets at police stations and
things like that on a regular basis. "Gee, the Protestants are going to march through our neighborhood today! Hey, I know! A little bit of plastique will take care of that!" Yet you have the
unmitigated gall to push your way into our country and lecture us on violence?
You crack me up. You probably know fine well that these are Irish Republic terrorist actions.
Last time I checked the map, Ireland was a different country from the UK.
Secondly, where do you think the Irish get their guns from? That's right! Land of the free!
The only workable soulution (unpalatable though it is to many) would be a scheme like the blank casette tax levy they have in California. A tax on all kinds of computer media, hard-drives, zip drives, cd-rw etc, with a percentage going to the content producers.
I've always wondered, why do "content producers" get to charge computer owners money? Surely, the fine authors of computer software should get the money instead, not these Hollywood bozos.
I'm all in favour of a "GNU tax" instead.
And another thing. When the BBC showed Akira, they did their own well-written subtitles. But when I got the subtitled video version several years later (not from the BBC), it was pandering to the US market with Big Dumb Words For Big Dumb People and completely ruined the film.
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the fact is that most of the uses are not legitimate.
... piracy makes companies go bust. Piracy ... Piracy ... free software guys will be trying to tell me that I can't put a chain on my bike! ... Communist ... theft ...
Trolltrolltrolltroll. YHL. HAND.
According to who? You? Do you have a guilty conscience, or something? Are you not aware of your own rights? Are you too scared to exercise them?
Why the hell shouldn't companies be allowed to protect their property?
But it's not their property. You paid money for it. It's yours. Keep it, treasure it. Imagine you BUY somethign from a company, but at the end of the day they still own and control it? Can you spell 'sucker'?
copyrighted - like 'owned by'.
Both formats have problems. While I love the direct response system of the unix style, it doesn't fit so well in this age of variable size windows for reading e-mail. It doesn't word-wrap.
Actually, it does. More advanced email clients work out what the indent characters are for each particular segment of text. Bingo! They now know each paragraph for individual word-wrapping, _and_ they know what to indent that paragraph with. Doesn't work very well on single-line replies, though.
Yeah, it's interesting to be in a world where the majority of generalist programmers rely on the improvements in hardware, there are a true 37117 of coders who are willing to take something small and focus on it as deeply as possible.
Personally, I preferred contests that said "You've got 256 bytes. Fit what you can into that. Coolest thing wins.", and people would write phong-shaded toruses and floormappers and stuff.
elm is solid and lightweight. mutt is solid and featureful. Quit whinin'.
- Sends emails to your friends in a totally proprietary format, also encoded with CSS to protect it from the evil hackers who broke TNEF.
- In an email reply, it takes all your new text from where it should be (directly under the part replied to) and automatically moves it above the original message. This is to deliberately make you look like a newbie and thus make you more attractive to your preferred soulmate gender.
- Posts to newsgroups in Microsoft's extended RTF format. That'll teach them to complain about HTML.
- Automatically opens any executable attachments and runs them. You obviously wanted to do that, so this saves your valuable time.
- Includes a built in copy of Solitaire and Minesweeper for you to play while it sends and retrieves your mail.
- Sends me, err, 'performance data' of any *.jpg or *.mpg attachments you recieve.
What do you think? Am I on to a winner?Can this be prevented?
Yes, just turn off the worthless and lame JavaScript. Only *real* Java is a powerful enough client side system to be worth enabling. All JS does is add unnecessary bloat to a web client, and everything it can do (OK, not including DHTML) can be done far more simply on the server side.
Coincidentally, turn off JavaScript, and viewing that site no longer leads to the anti NS rant.
Well, in my opinion, the idea of competition neing good for software development id also outdated.
Competition is nice, but the most important thing is not competition, but having a choice.
Nothing would make me happier if, instead of halving a choice between half a dozen different poorly implemented solutions, there was just one excellent solution.
But the problem isn't that there are half a dozen different solution in your example, it's that they're all poor. It's not always the case that multiplicity correlates with quality.
The best open source projects have a monopoly, and suck all the development effort for that field - The Kernel and Apache for example.
So, by your definition, nobody is working on BSD. The researchers who come up with new networking protocols traditionally prefer BSD. Do they not count? Do the BSD security nuts not count? The reason why there is a lot of effort in Linux and Apache is because they are very open-ended and have a wide scope for extensibility. Most of the developers are working on the extensible parts, not the core.
Why do we need several different versions of SQL to be on the go? It would be far better if there were just one, and the quality of the product would improve also.
That's the beauty of standards. There *is* only one SQL available. All the implementations of SQL have different redeeming factors. Do you need Oracle 8 just to power your weblog?
You just don't get it, do you?
What surprises me is how the geek community has embraced this film, even though most reviewers (as did I) didn't think it was a good film at all. Was it just because of the high-tech content?
I think the essense of it was that it made being a geek doing geek things seem cool. It appealed to the "hack-ethic" of geeks, essentially telling them that Planet Earth is a computer program they can just hack to become superheroes, and they can win against The Man(TM). The fighting and action went towards the excitement too, but I think geeks connect better with Keanu than Bruce Willis or Arnie.
Ghost in the Shell did a better job of selling virtuality over reality, IMHO, but that's another story.
It was Americans who invented counting you know.
It was actually the Iraqis, you know (previously known as Babylonians). One in the eye for you Yanks, they've got brains *and* oil. No wonder you want to leech off them.
I think the most offensive thing to call an American would be "Frenchman".
Well, I think it would be "socialist". After all, thats almost the same word as "communist", isn't it?
Oh no, my karma might drop to only 44! Tragedy!
The problem with VBR mode is that it isnt supported within the Linux kernel.
VBR mode used to be supported in the Linux kernel, but I replaced it with the meaning of life. It got into the 2.4 release along with support for Water Faeries.
I really want to take that guy and slap him about the face, while explaining that "GUI's" means "GUI is" or "belonging to the [single] GUI". It is not the plural of "GUI". Fool!
PICs are pretty powerful these days.
But they're not an analogue/digital hybrid! You need custom silicon for that.
Of course, you can emulate the entire C64 in software now anyway, wo why not just build a small PC into a C64 style case?
Because you can't perfectly emulate the C64! You can only approximate it in a digital-only system! In fact, all current emulators are flawed - C64 coders can tell, in software, whether you are using a real C64 or an emulated one.
build more SID chips!
This is precious. Looking at your User Info, I see you're from the British Isles. This is the same place where you have people blowing up buses and launching rockets at police stations and things like that on a regular basis. "Gee, the Protestants are going to march through our neighborhood today! Hey, I know! A little bit of plastique will take care of that!" Yet you have the unmitigated gall to push your way into our country and lecture us on violence?
You crack me up. You probably know fine well that these are Irish Republic terrorist actions. Last time I checked the map, Ireland was a different country from the UK.
Secondly, where do you think the Irish get their guns from? That's right! Land of the free!
Oh, and read this too.
The only workable soulution (unpalatable though it is to many) would be a scheme like the blank casette tax levy they have in California. A tax on all kinds of computer media, hard-drives, zip drives, cd-rw etc, with a percentage going to the content producers.
I've always wondered, why do "content producers" get to charge computer owners money? Surely, the fine authors of computer software should get the money instead, not these Hollywood bozos. I'm all in favour of a "GNU tax" instead.
And another thing. When the BBC showed Akira, they did their own well-written subtitles. But when I got the subtitled video version several years later (not from the BBC), it was pandering to the US market with Big Dumb Words For Big Dumb People and completely ruined the film.
Perhaps the linux community can bridge this gap and push towards a standardized 3-d engine and even reinvigorate the gaming potential of linux.
It's called CrystalSpace
well by then Lara Croft will be old and ugly, :-)
Or dead, like Lola Ferrari.
dear slashdot,
is this sole joke of mine now dull and tiring?
thanks
j0sh
50 is too many. suck my points, moderators
Dave Lebling
The Dave Lebling? Wow! What do you think of Anchorhead?
Actually, no, Infocom's market dominance was based on the fact their parser was flexible and powerful, and you didn't need to play 'hunt the verb'.
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