>All software can't be free Of course it can. First, you don't have a right to make a living by developing software. If AI ever come through, all software, free or closed, may be written by other software. Second, it is perfectly possible to make money from Free Software
>That got screwed over by the mess that is html5. It got screwed over by sitting in committee and going nowhere (and the bit that did happen did not please the potential implementers), until finally the browser makers said "fuck it, we'll do it ourselves"
>capable of interfacing with the different types of hardware optimally
Absurd. They both use the same kernel sources, in that their hardware support is identical. Of course Debian as a whole, and as configured, supports far more archs than RH.
He could do well like that, I think, but why would he want to? After finishing WoT, his name will made, big time, and he will be able to do whatever he feels like.
>After so many books, there's just a mere hint of supernatural elements Except for, you know, dragon babies, early in the first book. Which is about where I quit reading; after all the boring descriptions of people standing on walls, that scene came as a disgusting shock. (partly because of the contrast, partly because that was before 4chan)
It's not Jordan's fault he got amyloidosis, and he certainly never had any intention of creating an "interminable, never ending cash cow". It is true he got a bit lost around 7-8, but he pulled out of it quite nicely before he died - before he was even diagnosed, I believe. It was a mistake, or a series of them, that lead to problems in those books, not intent.
Really? I don't read GRRM, but I love WoT, and my experience with it certainly wouldn't put me off reading unfinished series. Sure it sucks if you are left hanging for a long time, but that's just another good excuse to re-read the whole thing when that next part comes out. And if you get a permanent cliff-hanger, well, you should still enjoy what you have. "Eating ramen that tastes really bad can be kind of fun, too"
Being a USAian, I grew up with middle-endian, but the senselessness of it and frequent encounters with little-endian end up making me confused by both. Big-endian always makes sense, though.
Not to mention IE 6 was, well, version 6, while Netscape.6.1 was actually Mozilla 0.9.2.1, with almost a year to go before it would hit 1.0 (basis of Netscape 7). And honestly Moz wasn't really nice until more like 1.2 (didn't keep me from using it since it was 0.8, but I don't mine software that is rough around the edges)
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>Firefox is just worthless to me now (crashes, slow, etc).
Every time I see this, it seem to turn out to be a PEBKAC error
Anyway, I suggest you switch to links2
Sounds like someone is an MS Windows user with too many crap extensions in their profile
Funny, the browser I get from mozilla.org is 64 bit
>Tabs STILL are not in their own processes like Chrome
Thank goodness
CDMA is already dead. Any movement you see in it is just gas escaping from the corpse.
>All software can't be free
Of course it can.
First, you don't have a right to make a living by developing software. If AI ever come through, all software, free or closed, may be written by other software. Second, it is perfectly possible to make money from Free Software
>That got screwed over by the mess that is html5.
It got screwed over by sitting in committee and going nowhere (and the bit that did happen did not please the potential implementers), until finally the browser makers said "fuck it, we'll do it ourselves"
>Nepomuk
Nepomuk is good, and regardless of its good/bad status, it has nothing at all to do with configuration systems
And gconf and dconf are text files, and not databases except maybe under a definition loose enough to include any classic *nix text config file.
>CORBA
I'll give you this one
>XML
Not the greatest, but tolerable if used correctly
>GConf
You have to have some kind of config system, and gconf isn't bad
Dconf is looking really good now.
>C# and Mono
Gnome does not use them.
Many C#/Mono use GTK and/or Gnome, but not the other way around
>Umpteen window manager changes, none good enough
Sawfish -> MetaCity -> Mutter (part of a radical interface change)
Sounds like something you could do in Rio
>capable of interfacing with the different types of hardware optimally
Absurd. They both use the same kernel sources, in that their hardware support is identical.
Of course Debian as a whole, and as configured, supports far more archs than RH.
>Without Debian we are nothing. Debian is the most influential and important Linux,
100% true, and all that needs to be said. Story over, thread over.
He could do well like that, I think, but why would he want to? After finishing WoT, his name will made, big time, and he will be able to do whatever he feels like.
>After so many books, there's just a mere hint of supernatural elements
Except for, you know, dragon babies, early in the first book. Which is about where I quit reading; after all the boring descriptions of people standing on walls, that scene came as a disgusting shock. (partly because of the contrast, partly because that was before 4chan)
4-5-6 are awesome
Just got done re-reading six, so it is fresh in my mind. We'll see how seven goes, that's where I remember it slipping.
Agree that his last books, and Sanderson's, are excellent.
Piss off, ass. You try writing something as massive and epic as WoT and let me know how well you stick to that and only that.
And "statistical certainty"? He was only 58 when he died, there was no reason he shouldn't have lived to complete it.
It's not Jordan's fault he got amyloidosis, and he certainly never had any intention of creating an "interminable, never ending cash cow". It is true he got a bit lost around 7-8, but he pulled out of it quite nicely before he died - before he was even diagnosed, I believe. It was a mistake, or a series of them, that lead to problems in those books, not intent.
Really? I don't read GRRM, but I love WoT, and my experience with it certainly wouldn't put me off reading unfinished series. Sure it sucks if you are left hanging for a long time, but that's just another good excuse to re-read the whole thing when that next part comes out. And if you get a permanent cliff-hanger, well, you should still enjoy what you have. "Eating ramen that tastes really bad can be kind of fun, too"
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(not linking ietf.org, since it is so dang slow)
Being a USAian, I grew up with middle-endian, but the senselessness of it and frequent encounters with little-endian end up making me confused by both. Big-endian always makes sense, though.
My policy with mboxes is to never trust them farther than you can kick them. Horrible format.
Mplayer is absolute trash for playing music. I won't use anything else for video, but it just makes no sense to use it to play music
SeaMonkey is still the best browser out there, and by quite a bit.
Not to mention IE 6 was, well, version 6, while Netscape .6.1 was actually Mozilla 0.9.2.1, with almost a year to go before it would hit 1.0 (basis of Netscape 7). And honestly Moz wasn't really nice until more like 1.2 (didn't keep me from using it since it was 0.8, but I don't mine software that is rough around the edges)
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