This really pisses me off... XHTML is a new standard, and Mozilla could start it off on the right foot perfectly. But they're fucking it up more than Netscape 1.0 did to HTML.
Please, I would like to know what parts of the Linux kernel you have written, so I can audit them by hand, and possibly replace them with something else.
Read your Strunk and White, boy! Singular possessives ALWAYS end in 's, even if they end in s, unless they are ancient names. If they are ancient names, it is preferable to avoid the apostrophe altogether, and instead write "Foo of Bas".
Well, in my opinion, the band should get something back because you enjoyed what they did. In most cases, it's money. It could also be, like in the case of TMBG, the knowledge that people like their music (and I'm sure money doesn't hurt). So no, you shouldn't be required to be part of the community. But you should give something back.
Of course I'm sure some will disagree with me.
Mostly I made that previous reply because I'm sick of the knee-jerk reaction "But I buy more CDs because of Napster!" whenver someone says its bad. If you're going to say something, at least make it relate to the point.
You missed John's point. They fully support the idea of free music, they're just annoyed it's not coming from them. They have a _huge_ online presence, dial-a-song, etc. The problem is, Napster lets people get the music without getting into the TMBG community.
So the question isn't whether or not you bought the CDs, but are you a regular on tmbg.org?
RMS is not opposed to game consoles, or even the PS2 inherently. What he's oppossed to is proprietary, non-free software. Should someone develop a free console (specs available, all code available, distribute and change whatever you want), I'm certain RMS would support it. In fact, I believe there are several projects trying to do this.
If the PS2 had a free (as in Free Software) SDK and documented hardware specifications, I'm also sure he would embrace it. Except it doesn't.
I see no reason RMS should give help on writing non-free software, for the same reason I won't help someone come up with more efficient ways to smuggle nuclear weapons. There's no reason to support something you are ideologically oppossed to.
I think that's rediculously high powered for a laptop, especially once that you'd use for what colleges would want you.
For 4 years I've been using a P120 with 16MB RAM as my only laptop. It does fine. I code on it. I read books and take notes on it. I even play NetHack and intfic games on occasion. It has no problems going online.
Colleges are very worried about games, wasting time in class, etc. Why not give them a "bad" laptop that basically can oly be used for notes? You don't have to worry about students playing Quake when they'd only get 2 FPS anyway.
Plus, this cuts down on cost _a lot_.
Hear that, colleges? Cut costs and and make kids learn more at the same time. Take note, that doesn't happen much these days. Oh wait. You won't get the kickbacks from whoever. Scratch that idea.
*sigh* OK, maybe for the last time, repeat after me: "The bottleneck is not the speed of transmission. The bottleneck is the speed of modulation."
Even if everyone in the world is using modems based on J.S. Bell's theorem (letting, in theory, communications to travel instantantously [and yes, I realize the theorem is still controversial, but that's not the pint]), we would still be limited by how fast we can interpret the data on the two ends. I think the max speed for fiber is something like 50-60GB/sec.
OK, go _read_ the article. It says that to purchase violent video games (for example, rated 'M'), you need to be over 18 or accompanied by an adult. This is nothing new. Game stores in my area have been doing this forever. All it means is that a parent needs to be there.
Most kids in the 13-16 range can't drive anyway, and that's the people they sell the most too. Parents are already there.
Actually, for some time, the Mozilla scrollbar was considered part of the page context:) I remember when my CSS decided to start rendering itself over the scrollbar, and stay there. That lasted a week or so.
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The page is entirely in JavaScript, and while I didn't spend too much time looking at it, I did see a function call
WriteBrowserSpecificJavaScript()
Now, it's just a hunch, but i bet it checks for NS3+, IE3+, and writes appropriate, compatible JavaScript. I bet it doesn't understand what to do when it sees "Netscape 6" or "M18". This really isn't the fault of Netscape or Mozilla, it looks to be the fault of the page designers.
Anyone with a "principle" of not using MS software because it's MS software needs to seriously reexamine their principles.
If Microsoft releases software for Linux, I'll treat it exactly like I will any othe software for Linux. If it's horrible software, I won't use it. If it's not Free, I won't use it unless I really really need the functionality and there's no free alternative.
If Microsoft puts out a high quality free product that I find useful, I will use it. I will be very surprised, but I'll use it.
I think you're thinking of LinuxOne. Turbo Linux isn't exactly a Slackware or SLS, but they're no "new kid"; I have a Turbo 2.0 CD that I got around the same time as my Red Hat 5.2 and Debian 2.0 CDs. Turbo is, iirc, the number one selling OS in Japan (not just distribution, OS).
Of course, I still disagree with what he said, and I didn't particularly like the distribution back then either:)
But doesn't Red Hat own Cygnus, ie, the single largest part of GCC development? Couldn't they just ask them?
I heard a while back the reason MS has problems was (partially) because they had no intercommunication between, say, the browser, the kernel, and the office suite teams. I always thought that free software development was better, you could just ask the next guy "Hey, does your Foo work with my Bar?" But if Red Hat can't manage to phone their other building and say "Hey, is your GCC ready for any kind of release with RH7?" it's kind of disconcerting.
Oh well. Time for me to start evangelizing Debian to all my friends again.
I know they disabled:hover in this release (and the latest nightlies) because no one can understand how to make it work with relation to DOM. Better to not support it at all than support it wrong (just look at Netscape 4)....
Lucas:LucasFilm::Jack Valenti:[CD label], roughly. Lucas didn't write all the storyboards. If he does own them all, then he's basically ripping off the real writers (that is, if you believe record labels bleed artists dry as well).
Metallica owns their own music. That's why they're suing, not some label. However, in generally, yes, someone else owns the music.
My dad (who is not a hacker in any way at all) gave me a copy of the book back in 1991, when I started writing trivial programs in AppleBASIC. It's why I'm still using computers (and free software, and coding, etc) today.
It's interesting that back then, even though it was only a few years after the book was published, all the people in it seemed rather distant - I mean, what effect was some old guy at MIT doing LISP hacking going to have on my life (at 8). Now it's 9 years later, and it seems like all that only happened yesterday.
The deal is, right now a lot of technologies are being finalized - X4.0, DRI, agpgart, the framebuffer, GLX, and probably some I'm forgetting. Unfortunately, they don't all finish at the same rate. Right now, the biggest "hold-out" is 2.4, although they shouldn't rush it. Once all that is in place, GL should be a snap (emphesis on should). It's just a matter of time (yes, that's been said before. But it's a matter of a forseeable amount of time now).
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Netscape 6 and XHTML? I think. not.
This really pisses me off... XHTML is a new standard, and Mozilla could start it off on the right foot perfectly. But they're fucking it up more than Netscape 1.0 did to HTML.
Oh yeah, by "audit" I mean "code audit" and not "drive to suicide".
Please, I would like to know what parts of the Linux kernel you have written, so I can audit them by hand, and possibly replace them with something else.
Read your Strunk and White, boy! Singular possessives ALWAYS end in 's, even if they end in s, unless they are ancient names. If they are ancient names, it is preferable to avoid the apostrophe altogether, and instead write "Foo of Bas".
Class's constructor.
I've personally had great luck with GtkTiLink, which supports all calculators, gray and black link cables, and has a nice interface.
Well, in my opinion, the band should get something back because you enjoyed what they did. In most cases, it's money. It could also be, like in the case of TMBG, the knowledge that people like their music (and I'm sure money doesn't hurt). So no, you shouldn't be required to be part of the community. But you should give something back.
Of course I'm sure some will disagree with me.
Mostly I made that previous reply because I'm sick of the knee-jerk reaction "But I buy more CDs because of Napster!" whenver someone says its bad. If you're going to say something, at least make it relate to the point.
You missed John's point. They fully support the idea of free music, they're just annoyed it's not coming from them. They have a _huge_ online presence, dial-a-song, etc. The problem is, Napster lets people get the music without getting into the TMBG community.
So the question isn't whether or not you bought the CDs, but are you a regular on tmbg.org?
RMS is not opposed to game consoles, or even the PS2 inherently. What he's oppossed to is proprietary, non-free software. Should someone develop a free console (specs available, all code available, distribute and change whatever you want), I'm certain RMS would support it. In fact, I believe there are several projects trying to do this.
If the PS2 had a free (as in Free Software) SDK and documented hardware specifications, I'm also sure he would embrace it. Except it doesn't.
I see no reason RMS should give help on writing non-free software, for the same reason I won't help someone come up with more efficient ways to smuggle nuclear weapons. There's no reason to support something you are ideologically oppossed to.
I think that's rediculously high powered for a laptop, especially once that you'd use for what colleges would want you.
For 4 years I've been using a P120 with 16MB RAM as my only laptop. It does fine. I code on it. I read books and take notes on it. I even play NetHack and intfic games on occasion. It has no problems going online.
Colleges are very worried about games, wasting time in class, etc. Why not give them a "bad" laptop that basically can oly be used for notes? You don't have to worry about students playing Quake when they'd only get 2 FPS anyway.
Plus, this cuts down on cost _a lot_.
Hear that, colleges? Cut costs and and make kids learn more at the same time. Take note, that doesn't happen much these days. Oh wait. You won't get the kickbacks from whoever. Scratch that idea.
*sigh* OK, maybe for the last time, repeat after me: "The bottleneck is not the speed of transmission. The bottleneck is the speed of modulation."
Even if everyone in the world is using modems based on J.S. Bell's theorem (letting, in theory, communications to travel instantantously [and yes, I realize the theorem is still controversial, but that's not the pint]), we would still be limited by how fast we can interpret the data on the two ends. I think the max speed for fiber is something like 50-60GB/sec.
OK, go _read_ the article. It says that to purchase violent video games (for example, rated 'M'), you need to be over 18 or accompanied by an adult. This is nothing new. Game stores in my area have been doing this forever. All it means is that a parent needs to be there.
Most kids in the 13-16 range can't drive anyway, and that's the people they sell the most too. Parents are already there.
Ban? Oh please....
Actually, for some time, the Mozilla scrollbar was considered part of the page context :) I remember when my CSS decided to start rendering itself over the scrollbar, and stay there. That lasted a week or so.
The page is entirely in JavaScript, and while I didn't spend too much time looking at it, I did see a function call
WriteBrowserSpecificJavaScript()
Now, it's just a hunch, but i bet it checks for NS3+, IE3+, and writes appropriate, compatible JavaScript. I bet it doesn't understand what to do when it sees "Netscape 6" or "M18". This really isn't the fault of Netscape or Mozilla, it looks to be the fault of the page designers.
I believe you want Ctrl+L, at least that's what it is in Classic.
I track the CVS a bit, and there's been a good deal of optimizations, at least in the XMMS arena, since beta1. CVS info is available at vorbis.com.
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However, if you're lazy like me,
deb http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~ingo/vorbis
deb-src http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~ingo/vorbis
is a set of sources.list lines for your Debian box that have compiled CVS versions updated daily.
Anyone with a "principle" of not using MS software because it's MS software needs to seriously reexamine their principles.
If Microsoft releases software for Linux, I'll treat it exactly like I will any othe software for Linux. If it's horrible software, I won't use it. If it's not Free, I won't use it unless I really really need the functionality and there's no free alternative.
If Microsoft puts out a high quality free product that I find useful, I will use it. I will be very surprised, but I'll use it.
XMMS hanging is not Red Hat's fault. I have the same issue on Debian, pisses me off to no end.
I think you're thinking of LinuxOne. Turbo Linux isn't exactly a Slackware or SLS, but they're no "new kid"; I have a Turbo 2.0 CD that I got around the same time as my Red Hat 5.2 and Debian 2.0 CDs. Turbo is, iirc, the number one selling OS in Japan (not just distribution, OS).
:)
Of course, I still disagree with what he said, and I didn't particularly like the distribution back then either
But doesn't Red Hat own Cygnus, ie, the single largest part of GCC development? Couldn't they just ask them?
I heard a while back the reason MS has problems was (partially) because they had no intercommunication between, say, the browser, the kernel, and the office suite teams. I always thought that free software development was better, you could just ask the next guy "Hey, does your Foo work with my Bar?" But if Red Hat can't manage to phone their other building and say "Hey, is your GCC ready for any kind of release with RH7?" it's kind of disconcerting.
Oh well. Time for me to start evangelizing Debian to all my friends again.
I know they disabled :hover in this release (and the latest nightlies) because no one can understand how to make it work with relation to DOM. Better to not support it at all than support it wrong (just look at Netscape 4)....
Lucas:LucasFilm::Jack Valenti:[CD label], roughly. Lucas didn't write all the storyboards. If he does own them all, then he's basically ripping off the real writers (that is, if you believe record labels bleed artists dry as well).
Metallica owns their own music. That's why they're suing, not some label. However, in generally, yes, someone else owns the music.
Try again. LucasFilm, the corporation, owns the storyboards. Lars Ulrich, and Metallica, own their songs.
Of course, I don't see why that changes how you should treat them.
My dad (who is not a hacker in any way at all) gave me a copy of the book back in 1991, when I started writing trivial programs in AppleBASIC. It's why I'm still using computers (and free software, and coding, etc) today.
It's interesting that back then, even though it was only a few years after the book was published, all the people in it seemed rather distant - I mean, what effect was some old guy at MIT doing LISP hacking going to have on my life (at 8). Now it's 9 years later, and it seems like all that only happened yesterday.
small apt? why not use the official debian archive, it's bigger, and free...
The deal is, right now a lot of technologies are being finalized - X4.0, DRI, agpgart, the framebuffer, GLX, and probably some I'm forgetting. Unfortunately, they don't all finish at the same rate. Right now, the biggest "hold-out" is 2.4, although they shouldn't rush it. Once all that is in place, GL should be a snap (emphesis on should). It's just a matter of time (yes, that's been said before. But it's a matter of a forseeable amount of time now).