At first I also just blocked ads because they constantly flashed in my face (and still do when running netscape on linux) but for IE I have a simpler method. I go into tools->internet options->advanced and click off play animations and play videos. Some regular pictures on the internet don't look right but hey- I get most stuff, and I am really just looking to read content.
Now the new thing where windows pop up out of nowhere pisses me off to no end. I have disabled java script due to that one. I consider it an invasion of privacy when a website starts opening up stuff on my desktop that I did not ask for or give permission to do so.
If someone knows a way to kill the pop up window without killing java script, I am all ears!
It is truly sad when things I would have thought were absolutly absurd that it must be a joke turns out that no one is laughing. Libraries- the highest institution of enlightenment; the place for a curious mind to be fed, is under attack because publishers want higher profit margins!
I am really depressed.
>>Yet again, a pointless story about Sun and Microsoft making bitchy remarks and putdowns at each other. I mean come on folks, surely by now we've got to the point where every tit-for-tat exchange to come out of the PR departments of large companies isn't anything new.
When you clicked on this article you must have known what was coming. So why did you read it? And now why are you complaining!
Come on... deep down you know you want to pick up that big tub of popcorn and Goober's candy and Chant Fud Fight!
FUD FUD FUD FUD!
I may think AOL and Time-Warner is but them being merged might not be so bad. The plot about them has to be rediculous and the idea that they can get away with is way off base; the U.S. government would never allow that. I think that all this stuff about AOL Time-Warner merger is way over-hyped.
If something was observed/discovered/"found in nature" then it was not "invented" AND SHOULD NOT BE PATENTABLE.
"Cave man" looks up moon and gives it a name.
"Modern man" looks up at moon and patents it with patent registration number 123635343450489.
Imagine if Christopher Columbus was allowed to patent "Discovering America" or Einstien his work on splitting the atom or some stupid company could patent the human genome... oh wait: SHIT!:)
I think perhaps the answer is that patent registration cost 10,000+ dollars for company's
and have to be paid to patent office even if the patent gets rejected. For individuals citizens [with no corporate affiliation in patent] would not have to pay that much.
1) This would give the private inventor a chance against big companies
2) while detering those same big companies from making stupid patent claims
3) And give the patent office less incentive to accept any patents.
Right now I believe the patent office ONLY gets paid if they accept a patent. This just gives the PO every reason to just screw it and have everything be patented.
I think this is great! I hope your company impliments recognition on website, and maybe in the future, give complimentory hardware to the top opensource performers (in regards to your stuff). Maybe provide an opensource mailing list where these people can ask your engineers questions/find specs for stuff they are working on. If your hardware is worth purchasing, I am confident that this "good will" would provide you with valuable input AND improve sales.
1) Vaporware USED to mean that it does not exist except as a pipe dream and Linux 2.4 is WAY beyond just a pipe dream... it really _will_ come out soon (and how many times has that been said!).
2) But if you are using their definition of vaporware as just software that was expected out by now, then the 2.4 kernel does earn a spot.
It is easy to second guess the actions of great men (Linus Torvalds and company) but far harder to be worthy of their respect. And yet I critisize anyway:)...
When Linus Torvalds blessed the beginning of the 2.3 developement cycle, he said he wanted MUCH SHORTER developement cycles with "9 months being about right". Nine months came and went and he started saying he expected to see it done by xx/xx/xxxx date while in the mean time, he kept accepting neat new features/rewrites to the kernel causing more delays.
Now if Linus had not talked publicly about "shorter developement cycles" and "hope to get it out before... January... spring... summer... fall... december", then people would not be so hyped/disappointed.
If Linus had just said something to the press like this:
"I really don't know when to expect the next kernel out. We are perfectionist and when a new kernel is released, we want to be proud to have our names attached to it... We think that the 2.2 kernel is a very good kernel and we hope that for those few who could really use the new features in 2.3, that we can provide them as soon as we know how."
With variations of a response like that, people would never be able to claim 2.4 is late. Now on the mailing list, Linus's speaches about getting 2.3 ready ASAP, was/is resonable and any reporter who writes about stuff from the kernel mailing list should be lynched.
BTW: From reading LKML, I think the kernel developers have done an exceptional job with the 2.4 kernel and it is really something to look forward to.
My biggest pet peeve these days is that many fashionable games today need the CD in the CD ROM in order for the game to even start. If there is no option to install the game in its entirety- I don't want it [I hate flipping through CD's on my desk, looking for the game I want to play and find it is the one that was recently used as a hot plate or lost or something]! However, it is impossible to find out if CD in CD-ROM is a requirement until you install and try playing... Could people point me to Linux games with (or without) this requirement so that I can know which games to avoid. I know that the windows version of Sim City 3000 needs the cd but is it the same way with the linux version?
What about Heavy Gear 2 or the upcoming Alpha Centauri?
I don't know about them being THE MOST addictive but I know that I spent months of my life wasted over those games. It has no graphics and you are represented by the "@" symbol but for a one player fantasy game based on tolkien/D&D, I have not known any better (and it is open source FWIW).
My motto has always been (if I am interested in helping) 'If I can't compile it then forget it.'.
Now for non-developers who might be interested in using the software... snapshots are nice (mozilla nightly builds come to mind).
Actually I would LOVE it if BT WON. Then maybe the five guys you metioned might pour money into congress to pass a law saying patenting a process or software is illegal.
Lanier say software sucks but does not explain how or why it sucks and never gives any sugestions on how to fix the situation. Instead, he avoids justifying his opinion, by making a new observation that "Maybe we have a language problem," which starts his premise that "software" is too vague a description of what programmers do [I would argue that all doctors practice "medicine" and why is that different from the vagueness of "software"? But I digress]. I must admit this is an interesting premise but he provides no sugestions for improvement. This article has a lot of talk but little substance. It reminds me of talk/complaints around the water cooler/coffee-maker where people get together and talk about how the world should be "fixed" but give little insight to real solutions.
I think Linux has not "really" forked (yet) because of the strong leadership in the main linux tree (Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox being the two most prominent). When I read the linux kernel mailing list, Torvalds gets a lot of respect and deference whith regard to design decisions (which thwarts a lot of branch spliting).
The kernel's job is to be a manager. It is supposed to delegate time, memory, and hardware sharing to all programs that need/request stuff. The more stuff that is not essential to the delagation of those responsibilties, slows down the kernel to HANDLE those responsibilities. A word processor that was built into the kernel may be the best damn word processor in the world but it would slow down the kernel from doing its real responsibilities. YOU might not even LIKE the word processor (though it be the best in the world). You might like EMACS better and then you have a kernel that is running something you will never use but is slowing down the performance of what you ARE using. Almost any program in "userland" can be replaced with something else but a kernel can not be replaced. So we only want "essential/important" things in the kernel.
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They are not losing touch- just incentive. They think "Why bother with this sh*t" when they are not certain it will make a profit. With Windows they know why: It was (is?) the only game in town and leads (hopefully) to $$$$. I am not saying I am happy with this but game companies think with thier wallets.
I wish Paul was more SERIOUS and disciplined. Oh its good that he acts like a human but I always thought of Paul as a 40 year old in a teenage body- never having a childhood. The movie losses all that and it is missing the meat of the political intrigue. As has been noted by some, he acts like a young skywalker when he SHOULD act (to stay with the starwars theme) more like the young Obi One Canobi[sic?] (in The Phantom Menace).
I think that it will be tough to crack into the N64/Sega market (due to thier far vaster game selection) or have the money to force thier way in like Microsoft (BTW has a ton of games for windows and SHOULD be a quick recompile to run on X-Box). I still hope Indrema manages to survive long enough to produce a few killer games and thus give linux a real hope of getting mass user appeal. If a few really cool games come out on linux (and only linux), Joe gamer might go over to dual boot and if enough games go over to linux, the game industry just might say they don't need Microsoft anymore. Of course this is a really LONG shot with really LONG odds. I am also assuming that Indrema developers will do a quick recompile of thier games so that they will run under the most popular linux pc distributions in hopes of a larger market share.
"Warning: you are about to install potentially dangerous software on your computer 'Ok':'Cancel'."...
Now if you are a company who is trying to sell software on the windows platform and this showed up in peoples faces when they tried installing your product, how do you think your bussiness will do? How much will your company pay Microsoft to get certified? What if Microsoft did not want your company to develope certain products/features? Would your company try to negotiate for a certificate?
Ok this may be a _little_ paranoid but "that doesn't mean they aren't out to get us".
As a security feature it is SO weak but as a money maker it is SO usefull. It just about begs to be used to strongarm software vendors into paying for certificates and Micro$oft can now hold tabs on what other software companies are developing/doing (and I am not even going into hardware/device driver issues/vendors).
I would have thought this one was a no-brainer... send boss a printed copy of the GPL and say "This is our site license". You could even touch it up with some pretty paper and a border:) if that is what will make the boss happy.
It costs money to build SMP stuff into chips and if your market is "no-name" chips then you don't spend the money on something you won't get any return on. It is only in the last year or so that people have gotten a clue and realized AMD makes a quality CPU. Now that they are percieved to have a good company, they can afford to make more expensive chips that will go into high-end servers and company's might buy them in mass.
What I would really like to see is the megahertz to STOP going up [everybody now looks at me as an idiot]. Ok- SOME people MAY _want_ more number crunching power but I have no idea why. I would like to see Intel start ramping up the specs for more bandwidth on motherboards (like AMD did but more so) and CPU's without cooling fans (like Transmeta but not caring about translation stuff), BIOS redesign/architecture improvements so that the BIOS could be used for more than startup. At one time a faster CPU meant a REAL performance difference. Now the CPU is no longer the bottleneck on a computer; it is bus speeds, hardrives, CD-ROM speeds, etc... What I would like is for the over_all performace of a computer to improve. If you think your system is a little "sluggish", the best way to see a performance boost is to add more RAM. A CPU upgrade (assuming computer > ~350 mhz) will probably not be too noticable to user. And if raw CPU power is still important for some reason, then SMP is a better sollution (oh right now I remember what intel was forgetting):)
Maybe it was me but I wanted netscape to install on D drive but it insisted on trying to install on E drive and no matter if I changed the drive and path it just stayed stuborn. My E drive did not have enouph space and I kept getting this stupid message about how I can't install on E. I KNOW THAT which is why I CHOSE a different path to install on! If it still has stupid bugs like this- it really should have spent much more time in testing. Also btw, when I want to download a program, I don't just want the installer that will download the program: I want the whole thing! So I am just going to ignore netscape for awhile. Just as a note I use windows NT only at work and linux at home. Which means that yes I could mess things around to get it to work but since I am at work I am definately not going to bother.
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At first I also just blocked ads because they constantly flashed in my face (and still do when running netscape on linux) but for IE I have a simpler method. I go into tools->internet options->advanced and click off play animations and play videos. Some regular pictures on the internet don't look right but hey- I get most stuff, and I am really just looking to read content.
Now the new thing where windows pop up out of nowhere pisses me off to no end. I have disabled java script due to that one. I consider it an invasion of privacy when a website starts opening up stuff on my desktop that I did not ask for or give permission to do so.
If someone knows a way to kill the pop up window without killing java script, I am all ears!
It is truly sad when things I would have thought were absolutly absurd that it must be a joke turns out that no one is laughing. Libraries- the highest institution of enlightenment; the place for a curious mind to be fed, is under attack because publishers want higher profit margins!
I am really depressed.
>>Yet again, a pointless story about Sun and Microsoft making bitchy remarks and putdowns at each other. I mean come on folks, surely by now we've got to the point where every tit-for-tat exchange to come out of the PR departments of large companies isn't anything new.
... deep down you know you want to pick up that big tub of popcorn and Goober's candy and Chant Fud Fight!
.com"
When you clicked on this article you must have known what was coming. So why did you read it? And now why are you complaining!
Come on
FUD FUD FUD FUD!
".NET" vs. "the Dot in
Popcorn anyone?
:)
>>I kind of wish education could solve this problem, but I'm cynical, so I place more faith in systems which prevent it happening.
Not me! I don't want to LEARN to write secure code. I want my compiler to just do it for me.
Yeah- they WERE the bad guys but...
1. Microsoft made Netscapes indiscretions look small (can't have more than one big bad guy).
2. Netscape changed thier ways and now want to be completely standards compliant (can't hold a grudge forever).
3. Netscape open sourced thier browser and is partly funding the developement of mozilla (Major Good Karma).
4. Netscape, the company, is dead (They are just a registered trademark now). One should not speak badly of the dead.
Netscape made mistakes (anybody try NS6?) just like everybody does, but they have have good intentions.
I may think AOL and Time-Warner is but them being merged might not be so bad. The plot about them has to be rediculous and the idea that they can get away with is way off base; the U.S. government would never allow that. I think that all this stuff about AOL Time-Warner merger is way over-hyped.
:^)
If something was observed/discovered/"found in nature" then it was not "invented" AND SHOULD NOT BE PATENTABLE.
:)
"Cave man" looks up moon and gives it a name.
"Modern man" looks up at moon and patents it with patent registration number 123635343450489.
Imagine if Christopher Columbus was allowed to patent "Discovering America" or Einstien his work on splitting the atom or some stupid company could patent the human genome... oh wait: SHIT!
I think perhaps the answer is that patent registration cost 10,000+ dollars for company's
and have to be paid to patent office even if the patent gets rejected. For individuals citizens [with no corporate affiliation in patent] would not have to pay that much.
1) This would give the private inventor a chance against big companies
2) while detering those same big companies from making stupid patent claims
3) And give the patent office less incentive to accept any patents.
Right now I believe the patent office ONLY gets paid if they accept a patent. This just gives the PO every reason to just screw it and have everything be patented.
DO NOT GIVE THEM IDEAS.
:)
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Publisher: Cool! [print]
I think this is great! I hope your company impliments recognition on website, and maybe in the future, give complimentory hardware to the top opensource performers (in regards to your stuff). Maybe provide an opensource mailing list where these people can ask your engineers questions/find specs for stuff they are working on. If your hardware is worth purchasing, I am confident that this "good will" would provide you with valuable input AND improve sales.
1) Vaporware USED to mean that it does not exist except as a pipe dream and Linux 2.4 is WAY beyond just a pipe dream... it really _will_ come out soon (and how many times has that been said!).
:)...
... January... spring... summer... fall... december", then people would not be so hyped/disappointed.
2) But if you are using their definition of vaporware as just software that was expected out by now, then the 2.4 kernel does earn a spot.
It is easy to second guess the actions of great men (Linus Torvalds and company) but far harder to be worthy of their respect. And yet I critisize anyway
When Linus Torvalds blessed the beginning of the 2.3 developement cycle, he said he wanted MUCH SHORTER developement cycles with "9 months being about right". Nine months came and went and he started saying he expected to see it done by xx/xx/xxxx date while in the mean time, he kept accepting neat new features/rewrites to the kernel causing more delays.
Now if Linus had not talked publicly about "shorter developement cycles" and "hope to get it out before
If Linus had just said something to the press like this:
"I really don't know when to expect the next kernel out. We are perfectionist and when a new kernel is released, we want to be proud to have our names attached to it... We think that the 2.2 kernel is a very good kernel and we hope that for those few who could really use the new features in 2.3, that we can provide them as soon as we know how."
With variations of a response like that, people would never be able to claim 2.4 is late. Now on the mailing list, Linus's speaches about getting 2.3 ready ASAP, was/is resonable and any reporter who writes about stuff from the kernel mailing list should be lynched.
BTW: From reading LKML, I think the kernel developers have done an exceptional job with the 2.4 kernel and it is really something to look forward to.
My biggest pet peeve these days is that many fashionable games today need the CD in the CD ROM in order for the game to even start. If there is no option to install the game in its entirety- I don't want it [I hate flipping through CD's on my desk, looking for the game I want to play and find it is the one that was recently used as a hot plate or lost or something]! However, it is impossible to find out if CD in CD-ROM is a requirement until you install and try playing... Could people point me to Linux games with (or without) this requirement so that I can know which games to avoid. I know that the windows version of Sim City 3000 needs the cd but is it the same way with the linux version?
What about Heavy Gear 2 or the upcoming Alpha Centauri?
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I don't know about them being THE MOST addictive but I know that I spent months of my life wasted over those games. It has no graphics and you are represented by the "@" symbol but for a one player fantasy game based on tolkien/D&D, I have not known any better (and it is open source FWIW).
My motto has always been (if I am interested in helping) 'If I can't compile it then forget it.'.
Now for non-developers who might be interested in using the software... snapshots are nice (mozilla nightly builds come to mind).
Actually I would LOVE it if BT WON. Then maybe the five guys you metioned might pour money into congress to pass a law saying patenting a process or software is illegal.
Lanier say software sucks but does not explain how or why it sucks and never gives any sugestions on how to fix the situation. Instead, he avoids justifying his opinion, by making a new observation that "Maybe we have a language problem," which starts his premise that "software" is too vague a description of what programmers do [I would argue that all doctors practice "medicine" and why is that different from the vagueness of "software"? But I digress]. I must admit this is an interesting premise but he provides no sugestions for improvement. This article has a lot of talk but little substance. It reminds me of talk/complaints around the water cooler/coffee-maker where people get together and talk about how the world should be "fixed" but give little insight to real solutions.
I think Linux has not "really" forked (yet) because of the strong leadership in the main linux tree (Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox being the two most prominent). When I read the linux kernel mailing list, Torvalds gets a lot of respect and deference whith regard to design decisions (which thwarts a lot of branch spliting).
The kernel's job is to be a manager. It is supposed to delegate time, memory, and hardware sharing to all programs that need/request stuff. The more stuff that is not essential to the delagation of those responsibilties, slows down the kernel to HANDLE those responsibilities. A word processor that was built into the kernel may be the best damn word processor in the world but it would slow down the kernel from doing its real responsibilities. YOU might not even LIKE the word processor (though it be the best in the world). You might like EMACS better and then you have a kernel that is running something you will never use but is slowing down the performance of what you ARE using. Almost any program in "userland" can be replaced with something else but a kernel can not be replaced. So we only want "essential/important" things in the kernel.
They are not losing touch- just incentive. They think "Why bother with this sh*t" when they are not certain it will make a profit. With Windows they know why: It was (is?) the only game in town and leads (hopefully) to $$$$. I am not saying I am happy with this but game companies think with thier wallets.
I wish Paul was more SERIOUS and disciplined. Oh its good that he acts like a human but I always thought of Paul as a 40 year old in a teenage body- never having a childhood. The movie losses all that and it is missing the meat of the political intrigue. As has been noted by some, he acts like a young skywalker when he SHOULD act (to stay with the starwars theme) more like the young Obi One Canobi[sic?] (in The Phantom Menace).
I think that it will be tough to crack into the N64/Sega market (due to thier far vaster game selection) or have the money to force thier way in like Microsoft (BTW has a ton of games for windows and SHOULD be a quick recompile to run on X-Box). I still hope Indrema manages to survive long enough to produce a few killer games and thus give linux a real hope of getting mass user appeal. If a few really cool games come out on linux (and only linux), Joe gamer might go over to dual boot and if enough games go over to linux, the game industry just might say they don't need Microsoft anymore. Of course this is a really LONG shot with really LONG odds. I am also assuming that Indrema developers will do a quick recompile of thier games so that they will run under the most popular linux pc distributions in hopes of a larger market share.
"Warning: you are about to install potentially dangerous software on your computer 'Ok':'Cancel'."... Now if you are a company who is trying to sell software on the windows platform and this showed up in peoples faces when they tried installing your product, how do you think your bussiness will do? How much will your company pay Microsoft to get certified? What if Microsoft did not want your company to develope certain products/features? Would your company try to negotiate for a certificate? Ok this may be a _little_ paranoid but "that doesn't mean they aren't out to get us". As a security feature it is SO weak but as a money maker it is SO usefull. It just about begs to be used to strongarm software vendors into paying for certificates and Micro$oft can now hold tabs on what other software companies are developing/doing (and I am not even going into hardware/device driver issues/vendors).
I would have thought this one was a no-brainer... send boss a printed copy of the GPL and say "This is our site license". You could even touch it up with some pretty paper and a border :) if that is what will make the boss happy.
It costs money to build SMP stuff into chips and if your market is "no-name" chips then you don't spend the money on something you won't get any return on. It is only in the last year or so that people have gotten a clue and realized AMD makes a quality CPU. Now that they are percieved to have a good company, they can afford to make more expensive chips that will go into high-end servers and company's might buy them in mass.
What I would really like to see is the megahertz to STOP going up [everybody now looks at me as an idiot]. Ok- SOME people MAY _want_ more number crunching power but I have no idea why. I would like to see Intel start ramping up the specs for more bandwidth on motherboards (like AMD did but more so) and CPU's without cooling fans (like Transmeta but not caring about translation stuff), BIOS redesign/architecture improvements so that the BIOS could be used for more than startup. At one time a faster CPU meant a REAL performance difference. Now the CPU is no longer the bottleneck on a computer; it is bus speeds, hardrives, CD-ROM speeds, etc... What I would like is for the over_all performace of a computer to improve. If you think your system is a little "sluggish", the best way to see a performance boost is to add more RAM. A CPU upgrade (assuming computer > ~350 mhz) will probably not be too noticable to user. And if raw CPU power is still important for some reason, then SMP is a better sollution (oh right now I remember what intel was forgetting) :)
Maybe it was me but I wanted netscape to install on D drive but it insisted on trying to install on E drive and no matter if I changed the drive and path it just stayed stuborn. My E drive did not have enouph space and I kept getting this stupid message about how I can't install on E. I KNOW THAT which is why I CHOSE a different path to install on! If it still has stupid bugs like this- it really should have spent much more time in testing. Also btw, when I want to download a program, I don't just want the installer that will download the program: I want the whole thing! So I am just going to ignore netscape for awhile. Just as a note I use windows NT only at work and linux at home. Which means that yes I could mess things around to get it to work but since I am at work I am definately not going to bother.