This article is completely worthless. If you have yet to read it, don't waste your time. Here is the "conclusion":
There is no clear winner or loser. Each interface has its advantages and disadvantages. Windows doesn't have a bad interface -- and it shouldn't, because Microsoft has put millions upon millions of dollars into making sure Whistler isn't the next "Bob." Gnome and KDE, on the other hand, have managed to put together very useable interfaces without millions of dollars behind them. All three interfaces need work to become as user friendly as possible, and all three can learn from each other.
What a worthless pile of mugwumping shit. It reads like a 15 year old's paper for English class. There rest of the article contains equally factual and substantiated information. Screenshot links are sprinkled liberally. ---
This is not the problem. The problem is that, with Microsoft in control of the certification process, that process might be a bit... biased. *IF* there were an open source Office competitor that was better than Office, how easily do you think it would get certified? Plus the fact that any good O/S product gets re-released at least every week anyways, or people compile them for themselves, may make certification by MS "difficult." ---
Couldn't something similar be done (within statement lists) with an iterative parse tree evaluator, to jump between parse nodes?
I understand he didn't want to rewrite the core, and was working off an existing codebase, but if one were to start from scratch, it seems like that might be the simplest way to do this. ---
Just a general response to everyone complaining about duplicates:
Who cares. It is like 5 lines of text. If you've seen it before, ignore it. It took way more effort to bitch about than to wade through the 5 lines of text that make it up (unless you read at a first grade level).
Now, on the other hand, wading through all this bitching, was a pain in the ass. ---
This is just like that "fleshtones" censorware product.
Of course, who the hell is going to use this? Search engines certainly do not have the CPU cycles or bandwidth to waste downloading and analyzing mp3s. What a fucking stupid idea. ---
What is that from? It's been driving me nuts for like 6 months now. I'd begun to think I had just imagined it. Now I see it show up in slashdot comments. I am going insane. ---
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Really? Excellent. I'll give that a shot now.
The only thing I was ever able to find before was the ISO MPEG specs in PDF format. ---
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What the f**k kind of books do you read and how much?? are you some looser sitting in your mom's basement playing on your tandy spending all your money on porno 'cause you coulden't get a girlfreind due to your 5 year plan that starts with getting a job in a PORNO STORE so you can buy cheeper porno? If you can't afford BOOKS, I'm suprised you could afford the electricity to post your innane and offtopic reply to this story. we are all stupider for having read this.
First, you should read my response to thread below.
Second, you are probably replying to a kid. Good books are expensive. And I don't mean fucking hairy porter or whatever. How many high school students do you think can afford to spend $100 a month on books?
Frankly, I think exactly this sort of ridiculous price fixing is an excellent motivation for a "bookster" like program. Unlike lame-ass fucking music which does nobody any good, there is no question that the pricefixing on educational materials is definitely creating an economic/ divide. Sure, computers cost money, but you can access computers at a lot of different places. Many people have cheap computers and internet access. Being able to access current educational materials over the internet I think could do a lot of good. ---
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Bwahahaha! The last time I went to the public library for computer books, the best books I could find were things like Peter Norton's Hacking MS-DOS 3 and The Complete Guide to Apple II Machine Code Programming.
You can't even buy a good book at a book store! All I can find around here in the book stores are things like Visual Basic for Dummies (an apt title) or Photoshop Made Easy.
The only way to get decent computer books is to order them. The last order of books I bought, 2 books, totalling over $100. Is there an economic barrier to education? You bet. ---
What if you were supposed to 'get' intelligence information from the enemy leader? Or use him as a hos.. err, bargaining tool. Hmm? ---
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Actually, we shouldn't have much to worry about for 2004, because whichever candidate for the opposite party of that which comes out "victorious" this time will easily win by a very wide margin. ---
Napster and the like are just using the same old.COM business model:
Collect MP3s
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Profit
The whole point of a.COM is to be bought out or IPO. After that, fuck it. I'm surprised the music companies didn't realize sooner that they could just buy out these companies for chump change and use them to prevent 'competitors' from becoming popular. It's not like they didn't want to be bought out. ---
IIS being used in school projects. I can't understand why this is becoming increasingly common. At least you're using MS SQL instead of Access, though, which people down here seem to like... ---
To be perfectly honest, I just through whatever I can find laying around that looks useful into my projects. If the university wants to try to deal with the likely very confusing maze of IP licenses and whatnots involved, more power to them. It would probably just come down to the fact that the entire mess is illegal under the DMCA. But then, pretty much everything is illegal under the DMCA anyways. ---
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If hitler ran linux, he wouldn't have been able to review these great games.
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There is no clear winner or loser. Each interface has its advantages and disadvantages. Windows doesn't have a bad interface -- and it shouldn't, because Microsoft has put millions upon millions of dollars into making sure Whistler isn't the next "Bob." Gnome and KDE, on the other hand, have managed to put together very useable interfaces without millions of dollars behind them. All three interfaces need work to become as user friendly as possible, and all three can learn from each other.
What a worthless pile of mugwumping shit. It reads like a 15 year old's paper for English class. There rest of the article contains equally factual and substantiated information. Screenshot links are sprinkled liberally.
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I'm guessing either 3D studio, or Word.
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So how do open source projects get signed?
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This is not the problem. The problem is that, with Microsoft in control of the certification process, that process might be a bit... biased. *IF* there were an open source Office competitor that was better than Office, how easily do you think it would get certified? Plus the fact that any good O/S product gets re-released at least every week anyways, or people compile them for themselves, may make certification by MS "difficult."
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Resubmit old articles and see if they get posted again.
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Dude.. movies popcorn is nasty. And it costs too damn much.
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I understand he didn't want to rewrite the core, and was working off an existing codebase, but if one were to start from scratch, it seems like that might be the simplest way to do this.
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Who cares. It is like 5 lines of text. If you've seen it before, ignore it. It took way more effort to bitch about than to wade through the 5 lines of text that make it up (unless you read at a first grade level).
Now, on the other hand, wading through all this bitching, was a pain in the ass.
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Of course, who the hell is going to use this? Search engines certainly do not have the CPU cycles or bandwidth to waste downloading and analyzing mp3s. What a fucking stupid idea.
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Last Post, yeah. .. bored
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What is that from? It's been driving me nuts for like 6 months now. I'd begun to think I had just imagined it. Now I see it show up in slashdot comments. I am going insane.
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Really? Excellent. I'll give that a shot now. The only thing I was ever able to find before was the ISO MPEG specs in PDF format.
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First, you should read my response to thread below.
Second, you are probably replying to a kid. Good books are expensive. And I don't mean fucking hairy porter or whatever. How many high school students do you think can afford to spend $100 a month on books?
Frankly, I think exactly this sort of ridiculous price fixing is an excellent motivation for a "bookster" like program. Unlike lame-ass fucking music which does nobody any good, there is no question that the pricefixing on educational materials is definitely creating an economic/ divide. Sure, computers cost money, but you can access computers at a lot of different places. Many people have cheap computers and internet access. Being able to access current educational materials over the internet I think could do a lot of good.
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Bwahahaha! The last time I went to the public library for computer books, the best books I could find were things like Peter Norton's Hacking MS-DOS 3 and The Complete Guide to Apple II Machine Code Programming. You can't even buy a good book at a book store! All I can find around here in the book stores are things like Visual Basic for Dummies (an apt title) or Photoshop Made Easy. The only way to get decent computer books is to order them. The last order of books I bought, 2 books, totalling over $100. Is there an economic barrier to education? You bet.
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I highly recommend you use this link to read the article instead of the one provided.
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What if you were supposed to 'get' intelligence information from the enemy leader? Or use him as a hos.. err, bargaining tool. Hmm?
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Actually, we shouldn't have much to worry about for 2004, because whichever candidate for the opposite party of that which comes out "victorious" this time will easily win by a very wide margin.
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The whole point of a .COM is to be bought out or IPO. After that, fuck it. I'm surprised the music companies didn't realize sooner that they could just buy out these companies for chump change and use them to prevent 'competitors' from becoming popular. It's not like they didn't want to be bought out.
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IIS being used in school projects. I can't understand why this is becoming increasingly common. At least you're using MS SQL instead of Access, though, which people down here seem to like...
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To be perfectly honest, I just through whatever I can find laying around that looks useful into my projects. If the university wants to try to deal with the likely very confusing maze of IP licenses and whatnots involved, more power to them. It would probably just come down to the fact that the entire mess is illegal under the DMCA. But then, pretty much everything is illegal under the DMCA anyways.
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Yeah, but then, the school probably has more money. So it's moot.
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