Yup... notice the extreme measures they took when they were found guilty of being a monopoly... oh yea, nothing, they released windows XP right after. If the trail, judgement, etc takes another year, that'll be fine with them, because it means they get another year or two with the appeal, or whatever they do next. The longer they have things tied up in the courts, the longer they can continue to do whatever they want, and be more and more entrenched.
Noticed that the last while has produced a lot of MS programs that seem to just scream out that they are a monopoly? Hardware activation,.net, all that is almost throwing it in the face of the court that "we'll keep on doing what we've been found guilty of!"
Well yes and no. See, if they bundle windows they are being sucked into the evil monopolistic empire that is the hell hole of microsoft. If they bundle linux they are champions of free source and deserving of big hugs and wet kisses.
This may be rated as +5 funny, but it's exactly true. The userfriendly.org fansite I run is colo'd at the same host that hosts userfriendly.org, due to becoming friends with the creator, hanging out, drinking guiness, and then asking politely "so, do you think you could host my box, if it doesn't get too popular?"
And they did. Don't underestimate the power of "networking":)
I've been waiting until s/mime support is in and non-sucky as that's what my work uses. I noted that the release notes have "improved UI for s/mime" so I'm hoping that the glitches that they have (not able to send to a list of recipients that you have certs for some and not others) have been fixed. I'd like pgp/gpg support, but I'm happy with mutt and (hopefully its interface will improve) evolution.
It drops into debian unstable very nicely, but what then? I tried enabling the libgdkxft library using the GNOME-AA session via GDM, and the AA fonts looked nicer (I think). Is this what is needed? It doesn't make any change in the non-AA session...
The problem is that I think my XftConfig is messed up as the fonts displayed in the console (powershell) are ugly, leave remenants, etc.
Took at look at the Perry book and it looked pretty good... complete and (from the exerpts at amazon.com) well written. I ordered it this morning, hope it's as good as it looks:)
Thanks for the pointers, now I have something to keep my K&R upright on the shelf (other than Unix Network Programming by Stevens of course:)
Well, being an exec he probably didn't realize that their hardware could do much more than run solitare and make pretty excel spreadsheets (oh, and run word of course, for those memos and emails and stuff).:)
Now if you told me that a geek working at IBM said that, then I'd be impressed:)
As the poster below mentions, this is all nice and good, but what if I don't use IE, active X, or heaven forbid, Windows? I know it's a hard concept to use, but not all disabled users flock to windows, as (from what I understand) windows "accessability" support sucks sweaty donkey balls. Mac is said to be better, but hey, I can see and use my arms and hands, so what do I know.
This is IMHO a big issue though. If MM is going to start trying to convince everyone to go flash, then the way the web is used and/can/ be used is going to change. I just hope that there are still ways to screen scrape information for people are actually interested in information and not "enjoying a multimedia experience".
Exactly. They are "rude":) It's much easier to do something shotgun fashion then properly, as anyone browsing the web (or driving down the road, or watching TV, or....) can see these days.
I realize that this is most likely just going to get lost in the noise, but....
I don't have a problem with ads (much). They are a PITA, but a needed evil for the sites on the net to stay around until "free" bandwidth becomes a reality. My problem is not that/. is going along with the ad companies and their new methods, but with the methods themselves. Is it just me or does "new advertising technology" seem synonymous with "more annoying to the consumer"?
I'm not going to pay, just out of principle (yea, I'm a bastard), but I'm not going to block either... yet. When ads start becoming flash animations, or javascript images that float over top of the web page, well, that's the point where I'll either stop reading or start turning on junkbuster, turning off javascript, and disabling plugins. I'm not really going to loose a whole lot am I?
Why don't advertising companies realize that they are just annoying people more and more. I don't like ads and don't click on them simply out of principle, the exception being the thinkgeek ads that get served on/. Every once and a while there will be something that looks interesting, and it's targetted right at me. And I much prefer *effective* ads than the "lets make it more annoying and in their face to annoy them until the love us and buy shit" ads that are becoming more and more popular. I guess when you can get the 1% return via spam or banner or flash ads, you don't give a fuck right?
So in conclusion,/., Rob, Jeff... please try to make sure that as you fill up your page(s) with more and more ads, that you are doing something good, not just bending over and spreading your cheeks for the brainless suits at the ad companies.
.... or Stephen King's The Stand (an excellent read, and possibly the first SK book-to-movie that didn't completely suck, or change the story a huge amount). Of course, the TV mini-series was hefty, 3 or 4 2 hour episodes IIRC, but it pretty much stayed with the book. I was very impressed with it. This show sounds different of course, as The Stand was about 99.9% of the population being wiped out by a super-virus as well, but there was also a bunch of stuff about magic and monsters (as no SK book would be complete without), and a visit from Flaag:)
Either way I'm still going to mark this in my Pilot so I don't forget:)
Hopefully if/when it does fail, they won't take the stance of other companies and say "shit, that didn't work, lets make the ads MORE ANNOYING to make more people subscribe." The number of ads that are in the middle of pages, with text wrapped awkwardly around it is starting to annoy me. Not to the point of giving money to anyone, but to the point that now I only read the text that is not by the ad, so instead of scrolling my window by an inch or two to block out the banner ads on top, I'm hitting pagedown to block the fucking annoying flash ads in the middle of the article.
I'd happily give money to sites that need it I think, but the sites that are following the "lets make the ads more annoying" route don't, IMHO deserve it.
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Yup, exactly. It's all there, but the apps don't support it without some (I assume) major diddling). And when some do, you still have the problem that you can't do anything with older or non-gnome non-kde apps.
I guess part of the blessing and the curse of free software is that you can use whatever you want. You can use bobstoolkit for your gfx routines if you'd like, regardless of the fact that it doesn't support functions x,y,z.
Windows never has this problem because they use one toolkit, and one API, and it's all built into that api. Maybe the cut/paste functions that are in the gnome/kde API need to support more than just text (or they should enforce cut/paste ability to applicable widgets, instead of leaving it up to the programmer to remember to write the code to make it happen).
I'm sure part of the problem is programmer laziness. If the toolkit(s) that people programmed in had all this done for them already, in such a brain dead way that they didn't have to worry about it, there would be far less bitching (IMHO). Of course, it might already be in there and easy to do, but is it so easy that the program doesn't have to do anything to it? If so then great, now make it work for pictures, and other data types:)
#include /* yes, I am a programmer, no I'm not a gtk/kde programmer, yes I know I shouldn't bitch and I should just do it myself. */
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Except for the swing apps:) Might be the same thing, who knows?
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Yup... notice the extreme measures they took when they were found guilty of being a monopoly... oh yea, nothing, they released windows XP right after. If the trail, judgement, etc takes another year, that'll be fine with them, because it means they get another year or two with the appeal, or whatever they do next. The longer they have things tied up in the courts, the longer they can continue to do whatever they want, and be more and more entrenched.
.net, all that is almost throwing it in the face of the court that "we'll keep on doing what we've been found guilty of!"
Noticed that the last while has produced a lot of MS programs that seem to just scream out that they are a monopoly? Hardware activation,
Well yes and no. See, if they bundle windows they are being sucked into the evil monopolistic empire that is the hell hole of microsoft. If they bundle linux they are champions of free source and deserving of big hugs and wet kisses.
:)
See how it works?
Tech: You really thought she loved you and was going to let you party with her and her hotteenlesbianbisexualhornywetetc friends?
CEO: Well.....
Tech: <takes out a gun and shoots CEO>
Yup, and he thought that cartoon (as well as the "uf - pimps" one) were absolutely hilarious :)
This may be rated as +5 funny, but it's exactly true. The userfriendly.org fansite I run is colo'd at the same host that hosts userfriendly.org, due to becoming friends with the creator, hanging out, drinking guiness, and then asking politely "so, do you think you could host my box, if it doesn't get too popular?"
:)
And they did. Don't underestimate the power of "networking"
It is hard to tell britany spears music from the grunting you make while beating off....
I've been waiting until s/mime support is in and non-sucky as that's what my work uses. I noted that the release notes have "improved UI for s/mime" so I'm hoping that the glitches that they have (not able to send to a list of recipients that you have certs for some and not others) have been fixed. I'd like pgp/gpg support, but I'm happy with mutt and (hopefully its interface will improve) evolution.
fingers crossed...
Erhmm... minor correction... every file but this one. Fsck.
Grab 'avifile'. Nice little app that uses windows libraries to do the decoding. Works perfectly on every avi I've found. Check it out here.
It drops into debian unstable very nicely, but what then? I tried enabling the libgdkxft library using the GNOME-AA session via GDM, and the AA fonts looked nicer (I think). Is this what is needed? It doesn't make any change in the non-AA session...
The problem is that I think my XftConfig is messed up as the fonts displayed in the console (powershell) are ugly, leave remenants, etc.
Can anyone give a geek a hand?
Took at look at the Perry book and it looked pretty good... complete and (from the exerpts at amazon.com) well written. I ordered it this morning, hope it's as good as it looks :)
:)
Thanks for the pointers, now I have something to keep my K&R upright on the shelf (other than Unix Network Programming by Stevens of course
Well, being an exec he probably didn't realize that their hardware could do much more than run solitare and make pretty excel spreadsheets (oh, and run word of course, for those memos and emails and stuff). :)
:)
Now if you told me that a geek working at IBM said that, then I'd be impressed
As the poster below mentions, this is all nice and good, but what if I don't use IE, active X, or heaven forbid, Windows? I know it's a hard concept to use, but not all disabled users flock to windows, as (from what I understand) windows "accessability" support sucks sweaty donkey balls. Mac is said to be better, but hey, I can see and use my arms and hands, so what do I know.
/can/ be used is going to change. I just hope that there are still ways to screen scrape information for people are actually interested in information and not "enjoying a multimedia experience".
:)
This is IMHO a big issue though. If MM is going to start trying to convince everyone to go flash, then the way the web is used and
That's my morning rant. Happy Monday
Exactly. They are "rude" :) It's much easier to do something shotgun fashion then properly, as anyone browsing the web (or driving down the road, or watching TV, or....) can see these days.
Well, a nice site that filters out not only the ads but also the cruft from the comments is http://alterslash.org
I realize that this is most likely just going to get lost in the noise, but....
/. is going along with the ad companies and their new methods, but with the methods themselves. Is it just me or does "new advertising technology" seem synonymous with "more annoying to the consumer"?
/. Every once and a while there will be something that looks interesting, and it's targetted right at me. And I much prefer *effective* ads than the "lets make it more annoying and in their face to annoy them until the love us and buy shit" ads that are becoming more and more popular. I guess when you can get the 1% return via spam or banner or flash ads, you don't give a fuck right?
/., Rob, Jeff... please try to make sure that as you fill up your page(s) with more and more ads, that you are doing something good, not just bending over and spreading your cheeks for the brainless suits at the ad companies.
I don't have a problem with ads (much). They are a PITA, but a needed evil for the sites on the net to stay around until "free" bandwidth becomes a reality. My problem is not that
I'm not going to pay, just out of principle (yea, I'm a bastard), but I'm not going to block either... yet. When ads start becoming flash animations, or javascript images that float over top of the web page, well, that's the point where I'll either stop reading or start turning on junkbuster, turning off javascript, and disabling plugins. I'm not really going to loose a whole lot am I?
Why don't advertising companies realize that they are just annoying people more and more. I don't like ads and don't click on them simply out of principle, the exception being the thinkgeek ads that get served on
So in conclusion,
Oh I wasn't suggesting it was, just that it was a similar idea.
.... or Stephen King's The Stand (an excellent read, and possibly the first SK book-to-movie that didn't completely suck, or change the story a huge amount). Of course, the TV mini-series was hefty, 3 or 4 2 hour episodes IIRC, but it pretty much stayed with the book. I was very impressed with it. This show sounds different of course, as The Stand was about 99.9% of the population being wiped out by a super-virus as well, but there was also a bunch of stuff about magic and monsters (as no SK book would be complete without), and a visit from Flaag :)
:)
Either way I'm still going to mark this in my Pilot so I don't forget
What if I have a "validly licensed copy" of windows, but it's not installed?
Normally my #defines start with my fav #.... 42. So I'd use something like
#define USEPAYPAL 4201
#define USEFOOBAR 4202
...
:) Hit the cap long ago, no need for more karma!
:)
Hmm.... maybe I should start trolling instead
Also, OSDN will probably loose readership to /. due to it, as some people will say screw it and go elsewhere. Sadly I doubt the trolls will go.
Hopefully if/when it does fail, they won't take the stance of other companies and say "shit, that didn't work, lets make the ads MORE ANNOYING to make more people subscribe." The number of ads that are in the middle of pages, with text wrapped awkwardly around it is starting to annoy me. Not to the point of giving money to anyone, but to the point that now I only read the text that is not by the ad, so instead of scrolling my window by an inch or two to block out the banner ads on top, I'm hitting pagedown to block the fucking annoying flash ads in the middle of the article.
I'd happily give money to sites that need it I think, but the sites that are following the "lets make the ads more annoying" route don't, IMHO deserve it.
Yup, exactly. It's all there, but the apps don't support it without some (I assume) major diddling). And when some do, you still have the problem that you can't do anything with older or non-gnome non-kde apps.
:)
I guess part of the blessing and the curse of free software is that you can use whatever you want. You can use bobstoolkit for your gfx routines if you'd like, regardless of the fact that it doesn't support functions x,y,z.
Windows never has this problem because they use one toolkit, and one API, and it's all built into that api. Maybe the cut/paste functions that are in the gnome/kde API need to support more than just text (or they should enforce cut/paste ability to applicable widgets, instead of leaving it up to the programmer to remember to write the code to make it happen).
I'm sure part of the problem is programmer laziness. If the toolkit(s) that people programmed in had all this done for them already, in such a brain dead way that they didn't have to worry about it, there would be far less bitching (IMHO). Of course, it might already be in there and easy to do, but is it so easy that the program doesn't have to do anything to it? If so then great, now make it work for pictures, and other data types
#include
/* yes, I am a programmer, no I'm not a gtk/kde programmer, yes I know I shouldn't bitch and I should just do it myself. */
Except for the swing apps :) Might be the same thing, who knows?