...the ability to use the "View Source" command and edit, copy, paste, etc. the source which is being viewed? I never have like this particular lack of functionality in the previous Netscape browsers. Otherwise it sounds like the guys are doing a great job so far. Keep up the good work!
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
...they could donate more than "...at least one dollar to the FSF." of the $29.95 total price. Don't get me wrong. I think it is cool they are doing this, but it seems they could give a little more to an organization that has contributed so much to the Linux community, not to mention Red Hat's bottom line. (Just MHO of course.)
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
...on all accounts as far as I am concerned. I am not rich for personal reasons. Not the least of which is because I don't want to be. Also, just because. I don't see what's so great about money. It's hard to get, hard to keep, hard to keep up with, hard to save, there are too many things I want and never have enough of it for. I could go on, but I won't.
If there are others of you that feel as I do, stand together and boycott money. If you want to get rid of yours, you can even send it to me and I will go so far as to dispose of it for you. I do a very efficient job of it. Trust me on this.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I've thought about this as well and I'm not debating your position so much as simply posing some questions. Are you concerned that what is now considered to be "illegal" will eventually be considered "bad" as well? I am not religious either and I am concerned that what the so-called "moral majority" says is "wrong", "bad", or "dirty" has laws enacted against it. Frankly, this scares me. Obviously, this blurs the lines between church and state (which are already too blurred for me personally.) With all the recent brouhaha concerning whether we teach creationism or evolution in schools, I think this is a very valid topic for discussion. What do you think?
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Another "Mindcraft fiasco"? Microsoft is said to be excellent at marketing, but with the increasing popularity of the Internet as an information source, I think it's tactics are finally being exposed for what they are. Disinformation. Maybe since the Cold War with the Russia is over and the CIA has downsized, Microsoft has hired some of their ex-agents into their "marketing" department. Microsoft is trying to play these games that may have worked against Apple and IBM in the past, but just don't cut it in the Internet age.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Classical, Enya, Enigma, etc. If it is harder and/or faster (especially with words), I can't concentrate. I believe I'm correct when I say that studies have been done relating the listening of classical music while working to enhanced creativity. Makes sense. It always helped me while studying in school.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Sun is merely jumping on a popular bandwagon. True, they could have used a different "term" for their "open-sourcing" of their code. (IMHO) they are looking for a few things: 1.) More money/marketshare. (Open Source is the buzz right now. Their jumping on the bandwagon should not surprise.) 2.) Publicity. (The old addage, "any publicity is good publicity" certainly applies here.) 3.) More eyeballs debugging and creating better code. (Of course the big downside is, Sun mostly benefits from this. However, their consumers will benefit from better code with fewer bugs in the long run.)
It should not be surprising that Sun has done this. They are, in fact, a business. They have bills to pay and families to feed. We may not be happy with Sun's tactics, but it only lends creedance to the fact that Open Source is a better development model. Also, we cannot expect everyone to have the same attitude when it comes to the "gift culture." Some people and/or companies are bound to take advantage of a good thing when they see it.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I once read in Wired, an article, that said you have an incredible headstart on everyone else for making "virtual worlds" on the Internet using your engine from the Quake games. Do you have any intention of doing this? Has anyone approached you about it? It would seem like a fantastic use of the technology with online gaming being so popular. Entire worlds online could be created virtually and very life-like with many different purposes.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
...I've gained much respect for the BSD's by reading the various sites around the net. I'm glad they are getting more publicity and recognition. It's great they're getting a section on Slashdot. There's no reason we all can't coexist peacefully.
I'm getting DSL soon with a static IP and I'm going to use OpenBSD for the main server because of the outstanding security. I'll keep using Linux for most stuff however.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
...in the least. It's all about accessability. It is just now becoming common that you can buy other distros in stores like Best Buy, CompUSA, Barnes and Noble, etc. The book stores like Barnes and Noble, Borders, and Books-a-Million have always carried books by MacMillan (amongst others.) That have had Linux distros in them. This form of retail is much more accessible to the general public.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
The U.S. better take note. They could easily be left behind on this one. Just as UPS and FedEX have taken a sizable chunk of the USPS's business, they could lose even more to email. Especially when companies like the aforementioned do a more efficient job than the USPS. Isn't privatization wonderful?
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
... I'm not so excited about faster clock speeds of the processor either, especially when the rest of the system generally lags behind, if not far behind. I want more improvements like the Alpha bus. Also RAM, hard drive, motherboards could all stand improvements. These just don't have the "sexiness" of the higher clockspeed numbers that so enrapture society and the media.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I read a book concerning Netscape's origin and it seems from the book he was the primary person behind the move to put a graphical interface on the Internet. He may not have been the "first" with the idea, but he pushed the hardest to make it happen and happen first.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
The following was on their status page. Looks like they have been having a few "problems". I guess they could pass off any delays/problems/cracks/etc. to "problems" like these. You think?
Status
Current Status: UP
8/3/99 Events
3:22pm - Network connections down due to router failure, possibly related to thunderstorms and power failures in the area
2:59pm - Network connections intermittently up
12:40pm - Network connections down due to router failure
11:02am - Services restarted
10:47am - Some services failed after reboot
10:45am - Reboot because the System log was full
10:30am - Network connections down due to router failure
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
...ZDNet has gotten a bad reputation for their past and present support of Microsoft. A couple of times in the past I've posted a link to the Linux Superguide, as a story for Slashdot (odd how it never made it to the main board when it is a great resource. Some bias perhaps?;-) It's an excellent resource for newbies and maybe some of us who aren't. It has Real Player interviews with Linus, Bob Young, of Redhat, and John "Maddog" Hall. The hosts of the show, "The Screensavers" on ZDTV, really tout Linux quite often and occasionally talk negatively about Microsoft. Ooooooo, imagine that! I think that the Ziff Davis properties are just doing a typical job of reporting. Of course certain writers are biased in certain ways and may slant their articles. Who doesn't do this when it comes to something they like? (Even if it may be something the rest of us don't like.) From what I've seen watching a bit of ZDTV, the indivduals are given quite a bit of latitude concerning what they say and/or report. I applaud that.
Flame On!!
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Slashdot Mirror
heh heh...not quite there in my coding ability yet. I'm working on it though ;-)
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
...the ability to use the "View Source" command and edit, copy, paste, etc. the source which is being viewed? I never have like this particular lack of functionality in the previous Netscape browsers. Otherwise it sounds like the guys are doing a great job so far. Keep up the good work!
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
...they could donate more than "...at least one dollar to the FSF." of the $29.95 total price. Don't get me wrong. I think it is cool they are doing this, but it seems they could give a little more to an organization that has contributed so much to the Linux community, not to mention Red Hat's bottom line. (Just MHO of course.)
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
...because he didn't get to post this one. You're gonna be in trouble Roblimo. I'm tellin'.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
...on all accounts as far as I am concerned. I am not rich for personal reasons. Not the least of which is because I don't want to be. Also, just because. I don't see what's so great about money. It's hard to get, hard to keep, hard to keep up with, hard to save, there are too many things I want and never have enough of it for. I could go on, but I won't.
If there are others of you that feel as I do, stand together and boycott money. If you want to get rid of yours, you can even send it to me and I will go so far as to dispose of it for you. I do a very efficient job of it. Trust me on this.
----------------
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I've thought about this as well and I'm not debating your position so much as simply posing some questions. Are you concerned that what is now considered to be "illegal" will eventually be considered "bad" as well? I am not religious either and I am concerned that what the so-called "moral majority" says is "wrong", "bad", or "dirty" has laws enacted against it. Frankly, this scares me. Obviously, this blurs the lines between church and state (which are already too blurred for me personally.) With all the recent brouhaha concerning whether we teach creationism or evolution in schools, I think this is a very valid topic for discussion. What do you think?
----------------
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Another "Mindcraft fiasco"? Microsoft is said to be excellent at marketing, but with the increasing popularity of the Internet as an information source, I think it's tactics are finally being exposed for what they are. Disinformation. Maybe since the Cold War with the Russia is over and the CIA has downsized, Microsoft has hired some of their ex-agents into their "marketing" department. Microsoft is trying to play these games that may have worked against Apple and IBM in the past, but just don't cut it in the Internet age.
----------------
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Classical, Enya, Enigma, etc. If it is harder and/or faster (especially with words), I can't concentrate. I believe I'm correct when I say that studies have been done relating the listening of classical music while working to enhanced creativity. Makes sense. It always helped me while studying in school.
----------------
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Sun is merely jumping on a popular bandwagon. True, they could have used a different "term" for their "open-sourcing" of their code. (IMHO) they are looking for a few things:
1.) More money/marketshare. (Open Source is the buzz right now. Their jumping on the bandwagon should not surprise.)
2.) Publicity. (The old addage, "any publicity is good publicity" certainly applies here.)
3.) More eyeballs debugging and creating better code. (Of course the big downside is, Sun mostly benefits from this. However, their consumers will benefit from better code with fewer bugs in the long run.)
It should not be surprising that Sun has done this. They are, in fact, a business. They have bills to pay and families to feed. We may not be happy with Sun's tactics, but it only lends creedance to the fact that Open Source is a better development model. Also, we cannot expect everyone to have the same attitude when it comes to the "gift culture." Some people and/or companies are bound to take advantage of a good thing when they see it.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
...thanks for the memory augmentation. I read Wired more and thought I remembered it from there. You have a great memory, by the way. Thanks.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I once read in Wired, an article, that said you have an incredible headstart on everyone else for making "virtual worlds" on the Internet using your engine from the Quake games. Do you have any intention of doing this? Has anyone approached you about it? It would seem like a fantastic use of the technology with online gaming being so popular. Entire worlds online could be created virtually and very life-like with many different purposes.
----------------
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
...I've gained much respect for the BSD's by reading the various sites around the net. I'm glad they are getting more publicity and recognition. It's great they're getting a section on Slashdot. There's no reason we all can't coexist peacefully.
I'm getting DSL soon with a static IP and I'm going to use OpenBSD for the main server because of the outstanding security. I'll keep using Linux for most stuff however.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
"CT: This is the first article in our new BSD Section maintained by Nik. Enjoy."
What's this mean?
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Shaped like a "G".
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I don't have this kind of juice in my PC!
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
...in the least. It's all about accessability. It is just now becoming common that you can buy other distros in stores like Best Buy, CompUSA, Barnes and Noble, etc. The book stores like Barnes and Noble, Borders, and Books-a-Million have always carried books by MacMillan (amongst others.) That have had Linux distros in them. This form of retail is much more accessible to the general public.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
The U.S. better take note. They could easily be left behind on this one. Just as UPS and FedEX have taken a sizable chunk of the USPS's business, they could lose even more to email. Especially when companies like the aforementioned do a more efficient job than the USPS. Isn't privatization wonderful?
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
... I'm not so excited about faster clock speeds of the processor either, especially when the rest of the system generally lags behind, if not far behind. I want more improvements like the Alpha bus. Also RAM, hard drive, motherboards could all stand improvements. These just don't have the "sexiness" of the higher clockspeed numbers that so enrapture society and the media.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
...Miguel de Icaza. He seems to be a great leader, coder, and not to mention a really nice person.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Thanks whoever you are. Who was that masked man? ;-)
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Is Gnome included?
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
...for all of us not quite yet, but wanna-be-gurus.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I read a book concerning Netscape's origin and it seems from the book he was the primary person behind the move to put a graphical interface on the Internet. He may not have been the "first" with the idea, but he pushed the hardest to make it happen and happen first.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
The following was on their status page. Looks like they have been having a few "problems". I guess they could pass off any delays/problems/cracks/etc. to "problems" like these. You think?
Status
Current Status: UP
8/3/99 Events
3:22pm - Network connections down due to router failure, possibly related to thunderstorms and power failures in the area
2:59pm - Network connections intermittently up
12:40pm - Network connections down due to router failure
11:02am - Services restarted
10:47am - Some services failed after reboot
10:45am - Reboot because the System log was full
10:30am - Network connections down due to router failure
----------------
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
...ZDNet has gotten a bad reputation for their past and present support of Microsoft. A couple of times in the past I've posted a link to the Linux Superguide , as a story for Slashdot (odd how it never made it to the main board when it is a great resource. Some bias perhaps? ;-) It's an excellent resource for newbies and maybe some of us who aren't. It has Real Player interviews with Linus, Bob Young, of Redhat, and John "Maddog" Hall. The hosts of the show, "The Screensavers" on ZDTV, really tout Linux quite often and occasionally talk negatively about Microsoft. Ooooooo, imagine that! I think that the Ziff Davis properties are just doing a typical job of reporting. Of course certain writers are biased in certain ways and may slant their articles. Who doesn't do this when it comes to something they like? (Even if it may be something the rest of us don't like.) From what I've seen watching a bit of ZDTV, the indivduals are given quite a bit of latitude concerning what they say and/or report. I applaud that.
Flame On!!
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein