Then let them win that battle. It is obvious that they either don't know about the other unofficial servers, or they don't care. All they want is to stop Napster (official) from operating, and this is a perfect way to do it. It will drive everyone unto the unofficial servers, Napster goes byebye, the RIAA claims that internet distribution is doomed, blah blah blah, and everyone is happy. The users because there's no more RIAA breathing down peoples necks, and the RIAA because there's no more Napster operating.
In the past year, there hasn't even been a story a day on/. I'm all that interested in. The comments are usually shit, and after all, the stories are all found elsewhere, reported better, and reported earlier.
Now, Sluggy Freelance is a different matter.
But there is no way I would pay 120$ a year for/.
And as an aside, isn't this what everyone always wanted? "Don't sue Napster...go after the users who are just using the software for illegal purposes"?
Well, there's loading the icons from disk, including the image thumbnails, there's rendering them in antialiased and other shit I can't be bothered about...like I said, I'm content with it, and I'd expect it to be getting better, but it's not a slooooooooooooooow thing.
but yeah, maybe I do have low expectations, but I'm content with them.
I'm running it on a Celeron 466 with 196meg, and after the initial startup time of about 7 seconds (which you only need to do once...) it takes 5 seconds to open a window with my home dir that has 100 items and a nice image as a background. The AA text stuff and translucent selection indicator don't slow down very much either.
So, yes....bullshit it's too slooooooooooooooooow. It's running slightly slower than GMC, and does a hell of a lot more.
And as for RAM sucking...it's only using about 20meg, which I think is pretty acceptable.
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I think he was saying that all the extra shit that they have: The members area, the "features" etc... are all pointless. Freshmeat was just a place to find out about software, but like/., it's now trying to be a jack of all trades, master of none
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It's hideous. There's far too much text squeezed into a small space, and it's a lot harder on the new site to seperate different items.
And what the hell does
"also, what if the purpose can change to become a better one?" mean?
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Bit like Deja.com, which went from a amazing way to search Usenet, to a really shit portal about buying stuff with their unique service relegated to a small "search usenet" link at the bottom, and now, it's back to being the usenet search engine because EBay bought out the shit part.
Or possibly it's crap.
Craig David is only "big" in the garage scene because he did that re-e-wind song with artful dodger (which was a fairly dull song). All his other stuff is cheesy porn for 7year olds.
Was 2Step the band that did that shit song with Posh spice and that wanker from some boy band no-one cared about 6 years ago?
Now there was an unoriginal song if ever I heard one.
Quite frankly, if they sink, I'll not be at the funeral.
Oh, I was wondering where she got them from, but I'm glad you've got them treated. Any advice for how my mama can clear them up. Maybe that could be an ask/. "How can my mama clear up the genital warts that cyborg_monkey gave her?"
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erm, thats what I said
Then let them win that battle. It is obvious that they either don't know about the other unofficial servers, or they don't care. All they want is to stop Napster (official) from operating, and this is a perfect way to do it. It will drive everyone unto the unofficial servers, Napster goes byebye, the RIAA claims that internet distribution is doomed, blah blah blah, and everyone is happy. The users because there's no more RIAA breathing down peoples necks, and the RIAA because there's no more Napster operating.
In the past year, there hasn't even been a story a day on /. I'm all that interested in. The comments are usually shit, and after all, the stories are all found elsewhere, reported better, and reported earlier.
/.
Now, Sluggy Freelance is a different matter.
But there is no way I would pay 120$ a year for
120$ a year to read /.
Piss off. It's worth maybe 10$ a year if that.
So really, they just wanted to be left alone, and do what they wanted, fuck the law.
Weird, thats what I always thought...
And as an aside, isn't this what everyone always wanted? "Don't sue Napster...go after the users who are just using the software for illegal purposes"?
They're doing something illegal, they've had a caution and they ignored it, now they've been arrested...where's the problem again?
Well, there's loading the icons from disk, including the image thumbnails, there's rendering them in antialiased and other shit I can't be bothered about...like I said, I'm content with it, and I'd expect it to be getting better, but it's not a slooooooooooooooow thing.
but yeah, maybe I do have low expectations, but I'm content with them.
Gnome libs is up to 1.2.11
Gnome core is at 1.2.4
Dunno about the rest, that's pretty much all I have.
Bullshit.
I'm running it on a Celeron 466 with 196meg, and after the initial startup time of about 7 seconds (which you only need to do once...) it takes 5 seconds to open a window with my home dir that has 100 items and a nice image as a background. The AA text stuff and translucent selection indicator don't slow down very much either.
So, yes....bullshit it's too slooooooooooooooooow. It's running slightly slower than GMC, and does a hell of a lot more.
And as for RAM sucking...it's only using about 20meg, which I think is pretty acceptable.
I think he was saying that all the extra shit that they have: The members area, the "features" etc... are all pointless. Freshmeat was just a place to find out about software, but like /., it's now trying to be a jack of all trades, master of none
It's hideous. There's far too much text squeezed into a small space, and it's a lot harder on the new site to seperate different items.
And what the hell does
"also, what if the purpose can change to become a better one?" mean?
Bit like Deja.com, which went from a amazing way to search Usenet, to a really shit portal about buying stuff with their unique service relegated to a small "search usenet" link at the bottom, and now, it's back to being the usenet search engine because EBay bought out the shit part.
Yey Ebay
Or possibly it's crap.
Craig David is only "big" in the garage scene because he did that re-e-wind song with artful dodger (which was a fairly dull song). All his other stuff is cheesy porn for 7year olds.
Was 2Step the band that did that shit song with Posh spice and that wanker from some boy band no-one cared about 6 years ago?
Now there was an unoriginal song if ever I heard one.
Quite frankly, if they sink, I'll not be at the funeral.
yeah, it was never below -1 when I lived there, but I lived in fish town, so that might be why.
oh, but then there wouldn't have been the scandel, or the "!!!!" factor that /. requires for it's headlines.
Bullshit.
Bryce, anything from metacreations.
Well, I'm guessing it's "innovative" like IE.
That is (or, umm, ie.) not very much.
That's see, component models that also exist: COM, Bonobo, UNO, XPCOM, DCOM....now, how is doing what everyone else is doing innovative?
Unless it's the Microsoft version of innovation.
Well, if no-one pays the royalty, then no-one will be allowed to broadcast it, and we'll all be happy,
execpt maybe Puff Shitty.
I think you forgot the period.
"Tupuc is dead. Good."
http://www.thechristmasproject.co.uk
Very good organisation that gives the money to orphans in Brazil, africa and Serbia (I think)
I left last year...
I'm certain that spammers automatically spam random addresses at yahoo/hotmail anyway.
m and see if it gets any spam.
I have an address, no-one else knows it, and it wasn't published anywhere. It gets 3 spams a day from sexamp.com. It's also not an easy to guess one.
Either spammers spam random addresses, or hotmail is selling addresses to sex spammers.
Maybe one day I'll set up a uuidgen'd address like
29f03ca7-8f26-4675-b1a7-b61ebb13bb8f@hotmail.co
It's under a pile of books on the piano stool in the dining room. Why, do you want to borrow it?
Oh, I was wondering where she got them from, but I'm glad you've got them treated. Any advice for how my mama can clear them up. Maybe that could be an ask /. "How can my mama clear up the genital warts that cyborg_monkey gave her?"