Try looking at Stardoc. Complete shell replacement for windows. 100% customization, beyond the level of anything I've seen for Linux. Far more "advanced" and "innovative" than KDE.
He's right. KDE is just a plain windows rip-off. Not that that's a bad thing. But anyone with eyes can see that it is... Just admit it. It's not that hard.
Uh... any competent network admin would be using the 98 administration kit to lock down all client machines on the network so that no software cannot be installed and run without the admins permission (The IEAK works the same way for IE).
I hear of "networks" having this problem and I'm flaberghasted. Whose running these things? This is a non issue if the IT department actually did their jobs!
Ok, yes they are showing it off as a portable keyboard for, well portables. As such it's pretty cool. But there are a lot of people talking her about using it on their regular computers and that's pretty rediculous...
Intelligence and insanity are kissing cousins. The excess of brain activity can lead to one or ther other or a combination of the two. Who knows what shapes the ratios?
And your ad hoc conclusion about video games I'll take as a joke, since, heh, if it were serious, I'd have to assume that you were more insane than ntelligent:)
Unfortunately along with the trash, plenty of qaulity posts get modded to -1 becuase prejudice doesn't care for the truth. The rating system is a collosal failure overall. Id rather wade through the crud than miss a great post becuase little johnny didn't like having his hacker buddy dissed.
Try looking up ANYTHING on global climate change and cringe in horrer as you discover that the earths climate has chaged monstrously hundreds of times in the last 50,000 years all without the benefit of human activity!
Which is becoming largely irrelivent. This is very much like OS/2 and it's "windows" subsystem. It came out, could run all win16 (Windows 3.x) apps. Only problem was, Windows 95 just came out and windows 3.1 emulation very quickly became totally irrelivent.
Yes but there is a lot of stuff MISSING from 95 (I.e. Color management). If your app depends on it, then 95 isn't going to work. I will also testify that a lot of software's base is now 98 instead of 95 because of the basic API functionality it reqires is not present in 95. Only apps that don't require color calibration (Among other things) can be speced for 95.
First sentece, completely wrong. In fact it's so wrong it points out that you do not at all understand what money is. It's a bit frightening. It must mean that you're oh, 15 yrs or younger? Or retarded? Living off of someone elses money?
In fact money IS food. Money IS shelter. Money IS entertainment. That is unless you think that eating out of the trash (And I mean that in every metaphoric way possible) is an acceptable way to live your life. Well, have fun! SO tell me how you get YOUR food! I really want to know...
And what makes you think that if AOL 8 becomes the dominant broswer that the coin won't just flip and people start using AOL 8 extensens that AOL is SURE to install? Steve Case doesn't care shit for the internet. AOL IS THE INTERNET as far as he's concerened. He will take mozilla and make it as proprietary as IE and more so. Extend the hell out of it and people will start ading those extensions to their websites. Then those of you using the vanilla Netscape or other browsers will be just as out of luck as the IE users...
It will happen. Anyone not blinded by the OSS glare can see that coming a mile off. Netscape and Mozilla will irreparably fork as soon as AOL 8 is fully in place.
I predict that when AOL controls the server AND client, they will take off into an AOL proprietary universe over the next few years. There wil then be the internet and there will be AOL. I mean it's practically that way now. But because they didn't own the browser in the past they had to stick with web standards and people could use other browsers to get to their network. As soon as AOL 8 is completely installed (Still a couple years at least for full conversion) there will be no reason to stick soley with standards any more. They will be a embracin' and a extendin' with the best of them...
Besides the fact that/. gets is news from other places and is always hours or days late with it. The worst thing you can do is get all your news from one source.
Every news site has some kind of slant to it. CNN, NPR,/. (And my favorite of your list "USA Today") Sometimes you get more information than contained in a story merely by seeing how different people report the story! Reading one paragraph summaries of the days news will tell you nothing at all. Maybe worse, mislead you due to there not being enough information.
I read news from about 10 sources a day and if I see multiple articles that I'm not interested in they're easy to skip. If I am intersted in them I read them on all sites. You get much much more information that way.
Though you do need to pick your sites. If you look at CNN, MSNBC and Salon and all three are merely parroting Reuters then you know your not doing yourself any good.
You just answered your own question didn't you? If they never touched the money, they wouldn' be a bank. But they DO hold the transaction in their own acounts for weeks and sometimes months before transferring to your account. That's banking (Or at least Escrow) and in either case, since they are dealing with money they do not own, they should be regulated. Or otherwise "shadey" stuff is perfectly ok as long as most people don't find out about it.
And we've used the names of islands off the west coast of north america. So? How'll that expand to 4000 machines in an 8 character namespace? The only suggestion so far that makes any sense at all is the one given by the article poster.:P
Course if insanely stupid tax laws did not exist, then that sort of thing would not be necessary or possible. These situations are caused by the very organizations that are crying foul...
All this BS can easily be avoided if people just realised that its OK to charge for a software product! It's OK to pay developers to develop software! Stop convincing people that they can have everything for free. A modest charge of $30 for the base OS and $10-$30 for modest software $50 for larger and people would WANT to pay for it! It's the $300 for an OS and $500 for software that's the problem. Make it cheap and valuable! I for one would LOVE to pay quality software. And I'd love even more to keep my fucking job! (thank you very much)
That as people grow older they want to put up with constantly changing technology less and less? And it doesn't matter if it's cell phones in this century or automobiles in the last. Eventually technology always passes by a persons WANT to keep up with it.
Comparing TVs to the internet is also completely meaningless. TVs require virtually NO internevtion to operate it's by it's nature a passive activity. The net by it's nature is an active activity. A person does not choose one BECAUSE of the other. They choose one because of what they WANT out of it. Even if you had a computer that was 100% functional without flaws all the time, getting anything out of the net reqires one to pay more attention. It's work. Hell even 100 channels of TV are too much for some people to want to wade through.
And I'm not talking about ignorance or stupidity. I'm talking about WANT. Some people don't WANT to deal with technology on any level no matter how flawless or "easy" you make it.
YOU'RE the one whos elitest. This entire article is one giant freudian slip! You actually think that everyone on the planet HAS to be completely up to date with the latest and greatest. That's bullshit and that's your elitism showing.
This article says loads more about yourself than any other point you tried to being up.
Actually, using gcc's built in C language extensions for dubius kernel hacks you should REALLY be able to show off some obfuscated C. Runtime dynamic "static" stack arrays anyone?
Unfortunately, when Steven wrote the first Tron, he was a young(ish) man writing about himself and his own fascination with computer graphics and their potentiol in the real world and in movie making. The characters were all about his age, young(ish) adults, but (as the other posts attest to) the movie was readily acessable to kids as well as adults (He made the movie FOR adults).
Now Steve is an old man and is helping to write the new one which stars young kids. I'm very afraid that it'll be nothing more than a typical kids disney film with virtually zero adult interest. and ironicly probably even less kid interest than the old one.
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Try looking at Stardoc. Complete shell replacement for windows. 100% customization, beyond the level of anything I've seen for Linux. Far more "advanced" and "innovative" than KDE.
He's right. KDE is just a plain windows rip-off. Not that that's a bad thing. But anyone with eyes can see that it is... Just admit it. It's not that hard.
Uh... any competent network admin would be using the 98 administration kit to lock down all client machines on the network so that no software cannot be installed and run without the admins permission (The IEAK works the same way for IE).
I hear of "networks" having this problem and I'm flaberghasted. Whose running these things? This is a non issue if the IT department actually did their jobs!
How can you possibly touch-type with this thing?
Ok, yes they are showing it off as a portable keyboard for, well portables. As such it's pretty cool. But there are a lot of people talking her about using it on their regular computers and that's pretty rediculous...
Intelligence and insanity are kissing cousins. The excess of brain activity can lead to one or ther other or a combination of the two. Who knows what shapes the ratios?
:)
And your ad hoc conclusion about video games I'll take as a joke, since, heh, if it were serious, I'd have to assume that you were more insane than ntelligent
Unfortunately along with the trash, plenty of qaulity posts get modded to -1 becuase prejudice doesn't care for the truth. The rating system is a collosal failure overall. Id rather wade through the crud than miss a great post becuase little johnny didn't like having his hacker buddy dissed.
Try looking up ANYTHING on global climate change and cringe in horrer as you discover that the earths climate has chaged monstrously hundreds of times in the last 50,000 years all without the benefit of human activity!
Color Management
Which is becoming largely irrelivent. This is very much like OS/2 and it's "windows" subsystem. It came out, could run all win16 (Windows 3.x) apps. Only problem was, Windows 95 just came out and windows 3.1 emulation very quickly became totally irrelivent.
Yes but there is a lot of stuff MISSING from 95 (I.e. Color management). If your app depends on it, then 95 isn't going to work. I will also testify that a lot of software's base is now 98 instead of 95 because of the basic API functionality it reqires is not present in 95. Only apps that don't require color calibration (Among other things) can be speced for 95.
Oh, uh. maybe y2k? or maybe 2028? or maybe > 5k employees? or any number of other things?
First sentece, completely wrong. In fact it's so wrong it points out that you do not at all understand what money is. It's a bit frightening. It must mean that you're oh, 15 yrs or younger? Or retarded? Living off of someone elses money?
In fact money IS food. Money IS shelter. Money IS entertainment. That is unless you think that eating out of the trash (And I mean that in every metaphoric way possible) is an acceptable way to live your life. Well, have fun! SO tell me how you get YOUR food! I really want to know...
This is one of the most insightful articles posted to /. ever! Mod parent appropriately!
And what makes you think that if AOL 8 becomes the dominant broswer that the coin won't just flip and people start using AOL 8 extensens that AOL is SURE to install? Steve Case doesn't care shit for the internet. AOL IS THE INTERNET as far as he's concerened. He will take mozilla and make it as proprietary as IE and more so. Extend the hell out of it and people will start ading those extensions to their websites. Then those of you using the vanilla Netscape or other browsers will be just as out of luck as the IE users...
It will happen. Anyone not blinded by the OSS glare can see that coming a mile off. Netscape and Mozilla will irreparably fork as soon as AOL 8 is fully in place.
I predict that when AOL controls the server AND client, they will take off into an AOL proprietary universe over the next few years. There wil then be the internet and there will be AOL. I mean it's practically that way now. But because they didn't own the browser in the past they had to stick with web standards and people could use other browsers to get to their network. As soon as AOL 8 is completely installed (Still a couple years at least for full conversion) there will be no reason to stick soley with standards any more. They will be a embracin' and a extendin' with the best of them...
Wrong on every count.
/. gets is news from other places and is always hours or days late with it. The worst thing you can do is get all your news from one source.
/. (And my favorite of your list "USA Today") Sometimes you get more information than contained in a story merely by seeing how different people report the story! Reading one paragraph summaries of the days news will tell you nothing at all. Maybe worse, mislead you due to there not being enough information.
Besides the fact that
Every news site has some kind of slant to it. CNN, NPR,
I read news from about 10 sources a day and if I see multiple articles that I'm not interested in they're easy to skip. If I am intersted in them I read them on all sites. You get much much more information that way.
Though you do need to pick your sites. If you look at CNN, MSNBC and Salon and all three are merely parroting Reuters then you know your not doing yourself any good.
You just answered your own question didn't you? If they never touched the money, they wouldn' be a bank. But they DO hold the transaction in their own acounts for weeks and sometimes months before transferring to your account. That's banking (Or at least Escrow) and in either case, since they are dealing with money they do not own, they should be regulated. Or otherwise "shadey" stuff is perfectly ok as long as most people don't find out about it.
So, just grab the source and we can build our own for $500! Then market ot for $800. Sounds like a plan.
And we've used the names of islands off the west coast of north america. So? How'll that expand to 4000 machines in an 8 character namespace? The only suggestion so far that makes any sense at all is the one given by the article poster. :P
Course if insanely stupid tax laws did not exist, then that sort of thing would not be necessary or possible. These situations are caused by the very organizations that are crying foul...
All this BS can easily be avoided if people just realised that its OK to charge for a software product! It's OK to pay developers to develop software! Stop convincing people that they can have everything for free. A modest charge of $30 for the base OS and $10-$30 for modest software $50 for larger and people would WANT to pay for it! It's the $300 for an OS and $500 for software that's the problem. Make it cheap and valuable! I for one would LOVE to pay quality software. And I'd love even more to keep my fucking job! (thank you very much)
That as people grow older they want to put up with constantly changing technology less and less? And it doesn't matter if it's cell phones in this century or automobiles in the last. Eventually technology always passes by a persons WANT to keep up with it.
Comparing TVs to the internet is also completely meaningless. TVs require virtually NO internevtion to operate it's by it's nature a passive activity. The net by it's nature is an active activity. A person does not choose one BECAUSE of the other. They choose one because of what they WANT out of it. Even if you had a computer that was 100% functional without flaws all the time, getting anything out of the net reqires one to pay more attention. It's work. Hell even 100 channels of TV are too much for some people to want to wade through.
And I'm not talking about ignorance or stupidity. I'm talking about WANT. Some people don't WANT to deal with technology on any level no matter how flawless or "easy" you make it.
YOU'RE the one whos elitest. This entire article is one giant freudian slip! You actually think that everyone on the planet HAS to be completely up to date with the latest and greatest. That's bullshit and that's your elitism showing.
This article says loads more about yourself than any other point you tried to being up.
From the article:
"Founded by California intellectual property lawyer..."
Actually, using gcc's built in C language extensions for dubius kernel hacks you should REALLY be able to show off some obfuscated C. Runtime dynamic "static" stack arrays anyone?
Heh, if there were an obfuscated liscence contest the GPL would be the all-time winner! :)
Unfortunately, when Steven wrote the first Tron, he was a young(ish) man writing about himself and his own fascination with computer graphics and their potentiol in the real world and in movie making. The characters were all about his age, young(ish) adults, but (as the other posts attest to) the movie was readily acessable to kids as well as adults (He made the movie FOR adults).
Now Steve is an old man and is helping to write the new one which stars young kids. I'm very afraid that it'll be nothing more than a typical kids disney film with virtually zero adult interest. and ironicly probably even less kid interest than the old one.