Novell has developed Connector which is supposed to pull this off, the open source client currently using it is Evolution, but maybe the code can be re-used for this project as well...?
Yes, it's a great job on his part, few of us here would be able to pull it off, but why should we get excited? What does it offer? Just because someone doesn't get excited about it doesn't mean he dimisses his work. Heck, it might be a very powerful OS. But it's commercial. And it has basically no software developed for it, with little reason to believe it should increase in popularity, considering the already well established competition. To me it needs to offer something unique to be something else than a hobby project. And as long as it's that, why should the general public be excited? Please correct me if I'm wrong though.
Make sure you thank them for last time too.:-) Yes, this is the second time Poland stalls this directive.
Let's see if we have others getting this through their thick skulls so we don't always have to rely on Poland.:-) Not that they seem unreliable in this matter, but you never know, and I'd rather have a sizable group of countries against this so the companies interested in this directive will give up.
He made a special journey to Brussels to withdraw the proposal, basically in protest at the way the patents were being pushed through by the back door
Cool, someone got it.
Here's hoping this action by Poland will make MORE clueless ministers go "huh? why did he feel it so necessary to stop that" and actually start reading up on the subject.
I fear the software giants will bring up this over and over again as long as EU says "no" though.:-/
That's funny, since the news page on Douglas Adams Continuum where the picture link goes to, has this to say:
THE NATURE OF ZAPHODS SECOND HEAD REVEALED?
"In an additon to his test screen review on Ainitcool.com news earlier this week, "Cracker Thompson" makes an effort to set the reckord straight within the confusion his report caused, and to which a spoof news site added with stating that Zaphods head was located in his nostril:
"1) I was worried about Mos Def because the only thing I had ever see him do was General Cornrow Wallace on the Chappelle Show. Not because I didn't think he would screw up the character seeing as I haven't read the books.
2) Mos Def DOES NOT do a British accent in the movie.
3) Zaphod does have his third arm, and his second head DOES NOT come out of his nose, rather it comes from underneath his already existing head."
If this person has really seen the test screening, then this is the shit. Further speculation would in that case be rendered obsolete."
Hmm, not sure what you're trying to say, but I was taking no particular stance for/against P2P when I wrote that, just telling what I think will happen, looking at history.
I wouldn't say they end up in the same pockets for the most part.
Consider all FPS games where Doom is an exception when the movie will be released, such as Half-Life, Halo, Counterstrike, Battlefield 1942, Far Cry, Vampire Bloodlines,...
Consider all RTS games -- Starcraft, the Warcraft series, the Age of Empires series, the Command & Conquer series, Heroes of Might & Magic,...
The MMORPG's -- EQ, WoW, DAoC, Horizons, Eve,..
Heck, just think of the flight simulators alone, IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles, the Flight Simulator series, Pacific Fighters, Combat Flight Simulator,...
There's still a fantastic variety in the computer game market and I hope it won't change anytime soon. Yes, there are movie licenses scattered among the genres above, but I wouldn't say they're dominating to a point the money mostly end up in the same pockets.
A point that comes up on slashdot here and there, is where do you draw the line with linux?
I personally draw it at 1 CD.:-)
I have a broadband connection so I don't need massive amounts of software bundled. I don't care much about exactly what software it is, although I prefer if what they choose is fairly popular software. If we have special demands, I'm fine with downloading (gasp! what's that!?) it from the Internet.
They ask themselves who you can trust Firefox when they haven't answered: How can I trust ActiveX?
In order to help protect customers, the default install of Internet Explorer will completely block the installation of ActiveX controls that are not signed, and it will suggest that you do not install any unsigned programs that you might try to download.
An ActiveX control with no signature can also be harmless and useful. Most are actually unsigned and most aren't spyware-related. And I'm sure companies like Gator, or whatever they're called today, have already made the money to be able to sign their ActiveX controls. I can't see how these are related to security at all. It's more related to money than anything else.
How are you supposed to tell which are harmful or not until after they're installed? Wouldn't it be best to make them able to do less? You don't *have* to use ActiveX for stuff like Windows Update hardware identification. Why not replace it with a standalone installer app?
Hmm, but don't underestimate the influence of a product already gaining a fair marketshare before consumers can even purchase cheap Blu-ray drives. I can imagine numerous customers (too many?) going, what, just another year / half a year and we're switching again?! No way.
But we'll see how it turns out. Right now I think both formats has been gaining pretty similar attention. Yes, Sony is a media giant, but I can assure you there are numerous giants prepared to back up HD-DVD as well, especially in the media business. Universal, Paramount, Waner Bros, New Line Cinema...
I wonder if Blu-ray will be killed before the battle can even begin? I suspect that might be the case at least for HD movies since the bandwagon will start as HD DVD players are out for consumers, which will probably be a while before Blu-ray enters the market.
Maybe the cost for Blu-ray drives due to higher complexity, combined with the later availability will make it so we don't even see much of a trace of commercial Blu-ray drives at all.
I think those organizations shutting down these sites just started to initiate the next generation of decentralized P2P clients... That's usually the only thing they do, help speed up the next generation of file sharing software, more clever than the last time. It usually doesn't happen if not a great deal of sites are taken down, since then there's not as much need to advance technology.
Yeah, performance problems should be fixed, but fix the name too. Name the next generation P2P client something like FuckTheRIAADickheadCunts. It would be interesting to see it get mentioned in the news each time RIAA sues something related to that P2P network. Call the "servers" instead "ejaculators" or something worse, and go on like that to introduce terms that violate various taboos. Soon enough, it can't get mentioned in the news anymore and (...now I get to my point, and now you will understand I'm not crazy, now you will see how this idea will triumph and free information once and for all...) RIAA's plans to scare customers by getting sue news in the newspapers won't work anymore!
HA HA HA!
Are you listening RIAA!?
We have you now!!!
THE NERDS HAVE YOU!
Re:Trillian competes poorly with free (beer) apps
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Once again -- the free version.
Directly from their home page about Trillian 3:
Does Trillian Basic support activity history?
Trillian Basic continues to support message history as it always has, by logging all messages to a text file on your hard drive. You can view the history with your favorite text viewer.
I assume they mean "present itself as a CD-ROM to Windows Explorer", but then you just need to write a low level CD reader right? I mean, if they're just trying to fool Explorer. If it can be read properly by existing several years old brain dead Audio CD players without having those requiring an upgrade to do so, surely you'll be able to develop software to do it on Windows, Linux or whatever as well?
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Novell has developed Connector which is supposed to pull this off, the open source client currently using it is Evolution, but maybe the code can be re-used for this project as well...?
Why bother, Symbian already has the best browser, Opera.
:-)
The best browser according to you, yeah.
So they shouldn't bother porting because of your opinion.
Ahhh, logic falls apart!
But why would it be exciting?
Yes, it's a great job on his part, few of us here would be able to pull it off, but why should we get excited? What does it offer? Just because someone doesn't get excited about it doesn't mean he dimisses his work. Heck, it might be a very powerful OS. But it's commercial. And it has basically no software developed for it, with little reason to believe it should increase in popularity, considering the already well established competition. To me it needs to offer something unique to be something else than a hobby project. And as long as it's that, why should the general public be excited? Please correct me if I'm wrong though.
Someone wants us dead.
Today, we were told MS can't have their media player included in Europe.
I think I even know who the asteroid was directed for.
And this is also proof that we, or at least some companies, have contact with aliens.
How is this program different from the 100 other free paint programs for windows?
:-)
???
I could actually find very few that were more than trash.
Any suggestions... anyone?
I'm looking for something decent with layer support, with not an all too unusual GUI (I didn't really like GIMP's).
Why is this on slashdot and why are they saying this is the anti-gimp?
Because it's not open source and it's Windows only?
(should answer your first two questions too)
Make sure you thank them for last time too. :-)
:-) Not that they seem unreliable in this matter, but you never know, and I'd rather have a sizable group of countries against this so the companies interested in this directive will give up.
Yes, this is the second time Poland stalls this directive.
Let's see if we have others getting this through their thick skulls so we don't always have to rely on Poland.
He made a special journey to Brussels to withdraw the proposal, basically in protest at the way the patents were being pushed through by the back door
:-/
Cool, someone got it.
Here's hoping this action by Poland will make MORE clueless ministers go "huh? why did he feel it so necessary to stop that" and actually start reading up on the subject.
I fear the software giants will bring up this over and over again as long as EU says "no" though.
They sure showed the dirty, nasty US though.
Wow, Microsoft must have grown big!
That's funny, since the news page on Douglas Adams Continuum where the picture link goes to, has this to say:
THE NATURE OF ZAPHODS SECOND HEAD REVEALED?
"In an additon to his test screen review on Ainitcool.com news earlier this week, "Cracker Thompson" makes an effort to set the reckord straight within the confusion his report caused, and to which a spoof news site added with stating that Zaphods head was located in his nostril:
"1) I was worried about Mos Def because the only thing I had ever see him do was General Cornrow Wallace on the Chappelle Show. Not because I didn't think he would screw up the character seeing as I haven't read the books.
2) Mos Def DOES NOT do a British accent in the movie.
3) Zaphod does have his third arm, and his second head DOES NOT come out of his nose, rather it comes from underneath his already existing head."
If this person has really seen the test screening, then this is the shit. Further speculation would in that case be rendered obsolete."
That's yesterday news, posted 21 dec.
Good for you , not everyone does and 60% of the people using the internet dont ...
Choose another distro then!
This is what's so great with Linux, did you miss it completely?
YOU need a bundled DVD distro maybe, but not ME.
Hmm, not sure what you're trying to say, but I was taking no particular stance for/against P2P when I wrote that, just telling what I think will happen, looking at history.
I wouldn't say they end up in the same pockets for the most part.
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Consider all FPS games where Doom is an exception when the movie will be released, such as Half-Life, Halo, Counterstrike, Battlefield 1942, Far Cry, Vampire Bloodlines,
Consider all RTS games -- Starcraft, the Warcraft series, the Age of Empires series, the Command & Conquer series, Heroes of Might & Magic,
The MMORPG's -- EQ, WoW, DAoC, Horizons, Eve,
Heck, just think of the flight simulators alone, IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles, the Flight Simulator series, Pacific Fighters, Combat Flight Simulator,
There's still a fantastic variety in the computer game market and I hope it won't change anytime soon. Yes, there are movie licenses scattered among the genres above, but I wouldn't say they're dominating to a point the money mostly end up in the same pockets.
What about apg -M L -l ? :-)
m , here I come! :-p
tango-yankee-zulu-echo-romeo-kilo-alfa@gmail.co
A point that comes up on slashdot here and there, is where do you draw the line with linux?
:-)
I personally draw it at 1 CD.
I have a broadband connection so I don't need massive amounts of software bundled. I don't care much about exactly what software it is, although I prefer if what they choose is fairly popular software. If we have special demands, I'm fine with downloading (gasp! what's that!?) it from the Internet.
They ask themselves who you can trust Firefox when they haven't answered: How can I trust ActiveX?
In order to help protect customers, the default install of Internet Explorer will completely block the installation of ActiveX controls that are not signed, and it will suggest that you do not install any unsigned programs that you might try to download.
An ActiveX control with no signature can also be harmless and useful. Most are actually unsigned and most aren't spyware-related. And I'm sure companies like Gator, or whatever they're called today, have already made the money to be able to sign their ActiveX controls. I can't see how these are related to security at all. It's more related to money than anything else.
How are you supposed to tell which are harmful or not until after they're installed? Wouldn't it be best to make them able to do less? You don't *have* to use ActiveX for stuff like Windows Update hardware identification. Why not replace it with a standalone installer app?
Hmm, but don't underestimate the influence of a product already gaining a fair marketshare before consumers can even purchase cheap Blu-ray drives. I can imagine numerous customers (too many?) going, what, just another year / half a year and we're switching again?! No way.
But we'll see how it turns out. Right now I think both formats has been gaining pretty similar attention. Yes, Sony is a media giant, but I can assure you there are numerous giants prepared to back up HD-DVD as well, especially in the media business. Universal, Paramount, Waner Bros, New Line Cinema...
I wonder if Blu-ray will be killed before the battle can even begin? I suspect that might be the case at least for HD movies since the bandwagon will start as HD DVD players are out for consumers, which will probably be a while before Blu-ray enters the market.
Maybe the cost for Blu-ray drives due to higher complexity, combined with the later availability will make it so we don't even see much of a trace of commercial Blu-ray drives at all.
I think those organizations shutting down these sites just started to initiate the next generation of decentralized P2P clients... That's usually the only thing they do, help speed up the next generation of file sharing software, more clever than the last time. It usually doesn't happen if not a great deal of sites are taken down, since then there's not as much need to advance technology.
Hey, thanks for the news that there's no news yet. :-p
Exeem still sucks, and it doesn't appear to be replacing Suprnova.org, as there are still hardly any files on it.
And Suprnova.org did, when it was barely in testing stages?
I have the complete statistics:
35% = BitTorrent
40% = Spam
15% = Slashdottings
10% = Porn Browsing
A few performance problems are revealed
Yeah, performance problems should be fixed, but fix the name too. Name the next generation P2P client something like FuckTheRIAADickheadCunts. It would be interesting to see it get mentioned in the news each time RIAA sues something related to that P2P network. Call the "servers" instead "ejaculators" or something worse, and go on like that to introduce terms that violate various taboos. Soon enough, it can't get mentioned in the news anymore and (...now I get to my point, and now you will understand I'm not crazy, now you will see how this idea will triumph and free information once and for all...) RIAA's plans to scare customers by getting sue news in the newspapers won't work anymore!
HA HA HA!
Are you listening RIAA!?
We have you now!!!
THE NERDS HAVE YOU!
Once again -- the free version.
Directly from their home page about Trillian 3:
Does Trillian Basic support activity history?
Trillian Basic continues to support message history as it always has, by logging all messages to a text file on your hard drive. You can view the history with your favorite text viewer.
And that sucks pretty hard.
It's only going to work at 1x speed
That's not very slow when comparing to listening to the original once.
Actually it's exactly the same speed.
It might be slow compared to how easily it's done now, but I don't think it's slow in general.
You don't even need to wait for the 74 minutes to pass because of operating system multi tasking.
The disc will present itself as a CD-ROM to PCs
Uhh... To Windows or to PC's?
I assume they mean "present itself as a CD-ROM to Windows Explorer", but then you just need to write a low level CD reader right? I mean, if they're just trying to fool Explorer. If it can be read properly by existing several years old brain dead Audio CD players without having those requiring an upgrade to do so, surely you'll be able to develop software to do it on Windows, Linux or whatever as well?