#1 its already pretty much out in the open so I like I said the cat isn't "out of the bag". #2 its a wedding, people drink etc. Like I said Take it FWIW. #3 keep sharing those kazaa files and find out for yourself I guess.
Wouldn't it be funny if all the file were fake? Ie they either used that Kazaa cheating program which makes it seem like you have more files then you do, or they just renamed some text files Brittney_Spear_mp3.
Also true story. My girlfriend was at a wedding recently in Washington(I couldn't make it). On both sides of her were two lawyers. One worked for MS the other for the RIAA. She said they were lucky I wasn't there:-). Actually she said they were both very nice, and she mentioned to the RIAA guy about downloading music. The one thing he said besides explaining about some madeup revenue losses is that in the coming year aka now, the RIAA was going to go full tilt against private citizens who share their files on peer2peer programs. Now I know this is a big "no shit", but this was from someone in the thick of it and he said suits against individuals was going to become VERY common as opposed to suits against just the networks. So take it FWIW, but if your still sharing mp3's on Kazaa etc you may be in for more than you bargined for.
Well how many stories on Windows do you see in the news? Besides TechTV I can't remember the last time I saw something on Windows on mainstream news. The only time in the past several years MS has been mentioned is at major product launches and during the antitrust trial. So considering how sparsely windows is mentioned is it surprising that Linux doesn't get mentioned? In general mainstream news sources could care less about technology unless its biotech.
First development on Phoenix comes to halt http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5126 6&thre shold=-1&commentsort=3&tid=154&mode=thread&cid=511 5764 , next Chimera Development may by stopping, and on top of this AOL has recently pulled devs off of Mozilla itself. WTF is going on? It look like Mozilla and its subprojects are slowly dying off. This is not good!
"I immediately think of annoying, overzealous, stuck-up bitches like Ms. Clinton "
Wow...let the anger go. Repeat after me. Strong women are NOT a threat to my manhood. Hillary's only fault in life was no being born a man. That way instead of being seen as an agresssive "bitch", she would have been seen as a man who "speaks his mind". Of course after all those years of conservitives bashing her relentlessly on the radio and T.V., I guess I'm not surprised the brainwashing still influences people.
Isn't that the truth though? How can anyone in this day and age with the transparent "money for favors" transactions have any faith in government at all? Our founder would be disgusted with the way our government panders to businesses at the expense of our citizens.
I hope your right, because I think its exciting. Especially when the find out what that big black monolith is. Maybe they'll even make a movie about it.
Fat Chance. Not that i don't think we should be going there, I just don't think it will happen by then. America lost its interest in Space Travel long ago and they will have no interest in funding this. It's going to take another country doing it first to provoke America to get on the ball. Even then we'll only be doing it out of spite. Of course if this proposal is based on one of Bush's magical projected revenue formulas they won't have enough money to even buy spacesuits by then.
"n my personal opinion (put on flame suit) GNOME has always been infinately better than KDE. I find KDE ugly, and irritating to use"
What an odd thing to say. Most people who have been using Gnome and KDE since they started would say only now has Gnome about caught up with KDE in quality. After all KDE had a huge head start. Also ugly? In what way? They both look pretty much the same to me. Either desktop can also be made to look like anything from Windows XP to OS X to Next etc etc.
The only people i have ever heard say one is "easier" to use then the other are the completely biased ones. They are both easy to use and have been for quite some time.
Your post reminds me of the early days when all the KDE bashers used to say "but KDE isn't themeable like GNOME!".
"GNOME has hits flaws and quirks, but I just get up and going on GNOME, and can customize it to my needs a hell of a lot faster than I can with KDE."
Again good for you, but customize it? Ever hear of KDE's control panel? It doesn't get any easier than that. It just sounds like you made up your mind a long time ago that Gnome was somehow "better" than KDE and your either unwilling to learn more about KDE or are just hopeless biased.
Today they both about equal and anyone newbie could get their work done easily with either desktop.
Actually they are serial as well. When you buy one you have the option to send in for a free serial cord. At least they did a year ago when I bought my CS350. There is no advantage though so I use USB even though I still did send out for the serial cord just so I could have it.
Hmm never thought of that. I guess that's something to keep in mind. It's actualy been running for a few years(not in total uptime) constantly. Both my work station and server never get turned off. I just hope the powersupply holds up.;)
"I feel like if they just went not even an extra mile, but an extra 100 yards they'd have a fabulous distro"
That's the way its always been with Mandrake. In fact people have been saying that for years. Mandrake equals mostly good ease of use and buggy releases. If your waiting for the Mandrake release that doesn't ship with showstopper bugs, you'll be waiting forever. I always have a box around running Mandrake in addition to my main Redhat Box, but I've come to accept that their they will never get their QA down.
Regarding eliminating free ISO's, I'd say that would just push more people towards Redhat. Consider the way they have mismanaged their money it will be several years before anyone with any smarts considers dumping more money into Mandrake. After all why would you invest in a company that might be going out business again leaving you without support and updates?
"1) Use this extremely bloated, unoptimized browser or
Compared to Opera I guess Mozilla seems a little fat, but compared to IE it stacks up very well. Using any hardware from the last few years Mozilla may take a few seconds longer to load when you launch it, but it also renders pages quicker than IE and about the same as Opera. Sorry but that's just not slow by any means.
Of course you could always do what MS does with its IE engine and preload Mozilla. As I type this the IE process is taking up 25MB. There is also undoubtably more memory being eaten as well via explorer.exe and other processes as well. Compared to IE when your actually measuring apples to apples suddenly Mozilla isn't so bloated anymore.
The Mozilla is bloated/unoptimized arguements are just old and have been for the past several months when compared to its chief rival Internet Explorer. If you think Mozilla is ever going to be a 3MB download and only take up 5MB ram, think again. That was NEVER the plan in the first place.
"maybe this will get those Mozilla monks in gear and start making their browser SMALLER instead of adding X more features that I don't need"
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/ Even though it doesn't have IE's and Mozilla's preload feature its still quite good.
"COMPETITION IS GOOD" Standards are good. If websites actually stop pandering to IE we will all benefit. That is the main benefit of Apple using KHTML.
Why not use BSD from the start then? I don't really see the point of GPL and then another version that can be closed source and charged for. I guess though I do see the point of being able to offer licensees a "closed" version to redistribute, but still you can do the same with BSD. All having another license available does is point out the flaws in the GPL license. At that point why not just use BSD and ignore GPL completely?
BTW I say this as someone who is for GPL and don't even use any of the BSD's.
If you could use that new Linksys(I think it was them but can't find it on their website) ethernet to wireless thingy with this. That would make this thing truly portable around the house which would completely kick ass.
"Jobs also introduced Safari, a new Mac OS X browser based on the KHTML rendering engine from KDE "
I can't believe they would not adopt Chimera, especially with David Hyatt now working at Apple. No offense to KDE which I hold oh so dear over any other WM system, but Gecko is just a better engine. Its truly cross platform, has a huge amount of momentum behind it, and AOL would essentially be doing R&D for free for Apple. Not to even mention the fact the Netscape/Moz has much much better industry suport,a ton of addons and a much larger user base. If this is true I'd just call the move foolish.
You know the deal Mr. Through pay or go to jail. That or you can just leave the country, this is not a FREE country. So like Jesse James would say "Pay up Sucker!".;)
Talk to people who bought a ATI 8500 when it first came out if there is such a thing as optimizing. The drivers available when the 8500 came out only gave sub GF3 performance, now they give give close to GF4 level performance. Think of how much of a impovement that is, especially since the hardware hasn't changed a bit. So yes these drivers are not optimized yet, and there will be significant speed improvments 6 months from now as compared to the Beta drivers they are using now.
"Therefore, people buying the X-box then not buying any games is pretty devestating."
Wealthy idiots who hate Microsoft? I'd venture the amount of people who 1) really want to run linux on Xbox and 2) Are never going to buy game for it, is on the order of.001 percent. Somehow I don't think MS will be hurt by the 10-20 people who buy Xbox's but never buy any games for them. Let's not be silly in estimating how many people would actually consider doing this, its just not realistic. Although I guess its possible Larry Ellison has a stack of them in his closet out of spite.
The thing about Mozilla is between its popup blocking, control of javascript, and user css I really really don't understand why anyone would surf without it. Its just liberating not to have to deal with crappy banners and not to have to deal with a proxy.
I just wanted to point this out to the 90% of visitors to Slashdot that use IE. There are good alternatives out there.(No I'm not joking the vast majority of vistors here use IE)
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#1 its already pretty much out in the open so I like I said the cat isn't "out of the bag". #2 its a wedding, people drink etc. Like I said Take it FWIW. #3 keep sharing those kazaa files and find out for yourself I guess.
Putting DIC, ASS, or FUK when you got the high score....
Wouldn't it be funny if all the file were fake? Ie they either used that Kazaa cheating program which makes it seem like you have more files then you do, or they just renamed some text files Brittney_Spear_mp3.
:-). Actually she said they were both very nice, and she mentioned to the RIAA guy about downloading music. The one thing he said besides explaining about some madeup revenue losses is that in the coming year aka now, the RIAA was going to go full tilt against private citizens who share their files on peer2peer programs. Now I know this is a big "no shit", but this was from someone in the thick of it and he said suits against individuals was going to become VERY common as opposed to suits against just the networks. So take it FWIW, but if your still sharing mp3's on Kazaa etc you may be in for more than you bargined for.
Also true story. My girlfriend was at a wedding recently in Washington(I couldn't make it). On both sides of her were two lawyers. One worked for MS the other for the RIAA. She said they were lucky I wasn't there
Well how many stories on Windows do you see in the news? Besides TechTV I can't remember the last time I saw something on Windows on mainstream news. The only time in the past several years MS has been mentioned is at major product launches and during the antitrust trial. So considering how sparsely windows is mentioned is it surprising that Linux doesn't get mentioned? In general mainstream news sources could care less about technology unless its biotech.
First development on Phoenix comes to halt6 6&thre shold=-1&commentsort=3&tid=154&mode=thread&cid=511 5764
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=512
, next Chimera Development may by stopping, and on top of this AOL has recently pulled devs off of Mozilla itself. WTF is going on? It look like Mozilla and its subprojects are slowly dying off. This is not good!
"I immediately think of annoying, overzealous, stuck-up bitches like Ms. Clinton "
Wow...let the anger go. Repeat after me. Strong women are NOT a threat to my manhood. Hillary's only fault in life was no being born a man. That way instead of being seen as an agresssive "bitch", she would have been seen as a man who "speaks his mind". Of course after all those years of conservitives bashing her relentlessly on the radio and T.V., I guess I'm not surprised the brainwashing still influences people.
Isn't that the truth though? How can anyone in this day and age with the transparent "money for favors" transactions have any faith in government at all? Our founder would be disgusted with the way our government panders to businesses at the expense of our citizens.
I hope your right, because I think its exciting. Especially when the find out what that big black monolith is. Maybe they'll even make a movie about it.
Fat Chance.
Not that i don't think we should be going there, I just don't think it will happen by then. America lost its interest in Space Travel long ago and they will have no interest in funding this. It's going to take another country doing it first to provoke America to get on the ball. Even then we'll only be doing it out of spite. Of course if this proposal is based on one of Bush's magical projected revenue formulas they won't have enough money to even buy spacesuits by then.
Thanks for the info. :)
"n my personal opinion (put on flame suit) GNOME has always been infinately better than KDE. I find KDE ugly, and irritating to use"
What an odd thing to say. Most people who have been using Gnome and KDE since they started would say only now has Gnome about caught up with KDE in quality. After all KDE had a huge head start. Also ugly? In what way? They both look pretty much the same to me. Either desktop can also be made to look like anything from Windows XP to OS X to Next etc etc.
The only people i have ever heard say one is "easier" to use then the other are the completely biased ones. They are both easy to use and have been for quite some time.
Your post reminds me of the early days when all the KDE bashers used to say "but KDE isn't themeable like GNOME!".
"GNOME has hits flaws and quirks, but I just get up and going on GNOME, and can customize it to my needs a hell of a lot faster than I can with KDE."
Again good for you, but customize it? Ever hear of KDE's control panel? It doesn't get any easier than that. It just sounds like you made up your mind a long time ago that Gnome was somehow "better" than KDE and your either unwilling to learn more about KDE or are just hopeless biased.
Today they both about equal and anyone newbie could get their work done easily with either desktop.
"are USB only connectivity models."
Actually they are serial as well. When you buy one you have the option to send in for a free serial cord. At least they did a year ago when I bought my CS350. There is no advantage though so I use USB even though I still did send out for the serial cord just so I could have it.
Hmm never thought of that. I guess that's something to keep in mind. It's actualy been running for a few years(not in total uptime) constantly. Both my work station and server never get turned off. I just hope the powersupply holds up. ;)
I have a CS350 on my server that's been running constantly for about a year now. Hopefully the recall is painless....
Wow this gets modded interesting? Trolling if you ask me.
"I feel like if they just went not even an extra mile, but an extra 100 yards they'd have a fabulous distro"
That's the way its always been with Mandrake. In fact people have been saying that for years. Mandrake equals mostly good ease of use and buggy releases. If your waiting for the Mandrake release that doesn't ship with showstopper bugs, you'll be waiting forever. I always have a box around running Mandrake in addition to my main Redhat Box, but I've come to accept that their they will never get their QA down.
Regarding eliminating free ISO's, I'd say that would just push more people towards Redhat. Consider the way they have mismanaged their money it will be several years before anyone with any smarts considers dumping more money into Mandrake. After all why would you invest in a company that might be going out business again leaving you without support and updates?
"1) Use this extremely bloated, unoptimized browser or
Compared to Opera I guess Mozilla seems a little fat, but compared to IE it stacks up very well. Using any hardware from the last few years Mozilla may take a few seconds longer to load when you launch it, but it also renders pages quicker than IE and about the same as Opera. Sorry but that's just not slow by any means.
Of course you could always do what MS does with its IE engine and preload Mozilla. As I type this the IE process is taking up 25MB. There is also undoubtably more memory being eaten as well via explorer.exe and other processes as well. Compared to IE when your actually measuring apples to apples suddenly Mozilla isn't so bloated anymore.
The Mozilla is bloated/unoptimized arguements are just old and have been for the past several months when compared to its chief rival Internet Explorer. If you think Mozilla is ever going to be a 3MB download and only take up 5MB ram, think again. That was NEVER the plan in the first place.
"maybe this will get those Mozilla monks in gear and start making their browser SMALLER instead of adding X more features that I don't need"
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/ Even though it doesn't have IE's and Mozilla's preload feature its still quite good.
"COMPETITION IS GOOD"
Standards are good. If websites actually stop pandering to IE we will all benefit. That is the main benefit of Apple using KHTML.
Cool site. Too bad the stuff there is ridiculously expensive. There must be better values out there.
Why not use BSD from the start then? I don't really see the point of GPL and then another version that can be closed source and charged for. I guess though I do see the point of being able to offer licensees a "closed" version to redistribute, but still you can do the same with BSD. All having another license available does is point out the flaws in the GPL license. At that point why not just use BSD and ignore GPL completely?
BTW I say this as someone who is for GPL and don't even use any of the BSD's.
If you could use that new Linksys(I think it was them but can't find it on their website) ethernet to wireless thingy with this. That would make this thing truly portable around the house which would completely kick ass.
"Jobs also introduced Safari, a new Mac OS X browser based on the KHTML rendering engine from KDE "
I can't believe they would not adopt Chimera, especially with David Hyatt now working at Apple. No offense to KDE which I hold oh so dear over any other WM system, but Gecko is just a better engine. Its truly cross platform, has a huge amount of momentum behind it, and AOL would essentially be doing R&D for free for Apple. Not to even mention the fact the Netscape/Moz has much much better industry suport,a ton of addons and a much larger user base. If this is true I'd just call the move foolish.
You know the deal Mr. Through pay or go to jail. That or you can just leave the country, this is not a FREE country. So like Jesse James would say "Pay up Sucker!". ;)
Talk to people who bought a ATI 8500 when it first came out if there is such a thing as optimizing. The drivers available when the 8500 came out only gave sub GF3 performance, now they give give close to GF4 level performance. Think of how much of a impovement that is, especially since the hardware hasn't changed a bit. So yes these drivers are not optimized yet, and there will be significant speed improvments 6 months from now as compared to the Beta drivers they are using now.
"Therefore, people buying the X-box then not buying any games is pretty devestating."
.001 percent. Somehow I don't think MS will be hurt by the 10-20 people who buy Xbox's but never buy any games for them. Let's not be silly in estimating how many people would actually consider doing this, its just not realistic. Although I guess its possible Larry Ellison has a stack of them in his closet out of spite.
Wealthy idiots who hate Microsoft? I'd venture the amount of people who 1) really want to run linux on Xbox and 2) Are never going to buy game for it, is on the order of
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The thing about Mozilla is between its popup blocking, control of javascript, and user css I really really don't understand why anyone would surf without it. Its just liberating not to have to deal with crappy banners and not to have to deal with a proxy.
I just wanted to point this out to the 90% of visitors to Slashdot that use IE. There are good alternatives out there.(No I'm not joking the vast majority of vistors here use IE)
BTW Go 49ers!