You can't blame them for trying. After all, if you're using a browser that lets them take control that's a kind of implicit permission.
If it bothers you then maybe you'd be better off with a different browser; there are many to choose from. For example, use Mozilla and disable pop-ups. Take a look at the Advanced->Scripts&Plugins preferences and use them to stop sites messing with window size and placement.
I didn't find it difficult to set up at all, but then again I'm running a Linux box so a web server is easy. As for running it, just throw the thing in background and use 'disown'. I think my copy's been running for about 3 months now with no attention needed.
Still, maybe they'll see your comment and improve it.
I've found it a great way to keep track of all the RSS feeds out there. It's been stable for a while, but a good/.ing might spur them to add some new features;)
Their business model is based abusing people's inclination to trust strangers. As is that of the entire advertising industry.
In evolutionary terms that trust is a survival trait, but the downside is that it opens a niche for parasites to exploit. This class action suit is society's way of scratching to get rid of a particularly irritating flea.
I think you missed my point. There's no need for an overloaded ctor *or* a default parameter. And objects are just glorified structs with function pointers bloating them up.
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You can't blame them for trying. After all, if you're using a browser that lets them take control that's a kind of implicit permission.
If it bothers you then maybe you'd be better off with a different browser; there are many to choose from. For example, use Mozilla and disable pop-ups. Take a look at the Advanced->Scripts&Plugins preferences and use them to stop sites messing with window size and placement.
Dead right. It makes a nice change from the usual "lets's be outraged at a new patent" artcles.
There is a cardinal rule of society which has withstood the test of time:
If you think small you will always be small.
And just what's wrong with being small? Get that beam out of your eye bucko.
Keep watching. Sometime soon, and purely coincidentally, Microsoft will do something which benefits the Royal Bank of Canada.
Now where *did* I put that tinfoil hat.
Or they could go into a different business. One with some socially redeeming qualities, maybe.
Hey, the Amiga might suck, but it does it with style!
BTW, 6809? Oops, what a giveaway. Dragon?
Thanks, but I'm pretty much Linux only at work, which is where I run AmphetaDesk. Do they plan a Linux port?
I didn't find it difficult to set up at all, but then again I'm running a Linux box so a web server is easy. As for running it, just throw the thing in background and use 'disown'. I think my copy's been running for about 3 months now with no attention needed.
Still, maybe they'll see your comment and improve it.
I've found it a great way to keep track of all the RSS feeds out there. It's been stable for a while, but a good /.ing might spur them to add some new features ;)
Here's the home page : amphetadesk
Yes, just like program (run by a computer) vs. programme (something you watch on TV).
Ye gods, that's a face you'd never get tired of kicking.
Does that mean I owe them $699 or $32 or $731? Guess I'll keep my money while I wait for clarification.
reading books isn't hip anymore i guess
Hah! Tell that to the millions of people who recently bought a certain 800+ page children's book.
Their business model is based abusing people's inclination to trust strangers. As is that of the entire advertising industry.
In evolutionary terms that trust is a survival trait, but the downside is that it opens a niche for parasites to exploit. This class action suit is society's way of scratching to get rid of a particularly irritating flea.
I code C++ for a living. Be very afraid.
Only on Fridays ;)
And while I'm at it I'd like a word with the people who designed html and mangled up the "<<" in my previous post...
These features allow a way to add parameters to an oft-used without breaking existing code.
Exactly - if you're too lazy to modify the code then C++ lets you get away with it. Ugh.
If anything in C++ is syntactic sugar that hides bugs, it is operator overloading
Good point, let's add them to the list. For example, overloading "" was a truly, mindbogglingly stupid idea.
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I think you missed my point. There's no need for an overloaded ctor *or* a default parameter. And objects are just glorified structs with function pointers bloating them up.
Sodit, I'm going back to C. Or maybe assembler.
Let's hear your suggestions on which stuff should be removed.
Default parameters and function overloading. Both encourage lazy programming and, more importantly, hide bugs.
I cannot imagine having NO control over something in my own home
A take it you've never "owned" a cat then?
Another way to look at it is that this installation's been running for several years with no problems therefore no need for support...
Maybe he wanted it for itself and not just its resale value. It isn't *all* about money you know.
Yeah, I know: IHBT
Wrong is wrong - it's not the amount, it's the principle.
read the website
I did. I don't believe them - wanna bet the operating expenses include a Mercedez-Benz (STR).