I am fixing to send off my donation to peacefire. I hope everyone else does to. If.. 1000 people donated 10 dollars its not a lot but it matters.
Here's a scary idea... we donate the money, then Symantec sues, and because peacefire is "obviously" in the wrong ("stealing" Symantec's trade secrets, oh my!), Symantec gets our money (what the lawyers don't get, that is).
No thanks.
Of course, if you ask me what I really think, is that we should start calling the guys that run Symantec names. Clearly, if they had a quality product this wouldn't happen, so that must mean that their penii are small (or whatever).
He said "It's going to be" a coup, by which, I take it, all indications are that the finished product will be good. But this doesn't mean that you shouldn't contribute where you can (if in fact having an open source browser matters to you), because the more people contribute not only coding but bug reports, the better Mozilla will be.
Admittedly you *will* have to put up with more if you use mozilla as your main browser. As crappy as Netscape on *nix is, it's got more working features than Mozilla -- at the moment.
Everything else ever done in the Star Trek series was just a rehash of this same film, including yesterday's horrid X-Files episode.
A valid point, which reminds me that in a way ST did a bit of a "WestWorld" homage in one of their episodes (Worf and his son end up having to deal with evil Data holograms, IIRC)
William Gibson... caught the opening credits and the first 10 minutes or so.
So they crammed the well-formed babe into the tiny patent-leather outfit. Scully said it all in the first 10 minutes, and it was true of the show -- they were pandering to "lonely male" fantasies in the show too.
Was it just me, or did the whole thing come off as a direct ripoff of the "Holodeck gone wrong" episodes from ST:TNG?
Although Linux already has a pair of evolving GUIs -- KDE and Gnome -- neither has a graphical file manager. Instead of clicking on icons or menus to open and save documents, users must type file names into a command-line interface.
I'm not sure I understand the question... I mean, isn't it obvious that RH doesn't make communicator and that they have to put the RPMS together themselves from the tarballs Netscape makes available?
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sure, an outfit by the name of Applause in the US has been selling at least Kermit puppets for a number of years.
All [people polled] said they vote regularly in general elections.
Since the voting rate in *national* elections (which tends to get the highest percentage of eligible voters voting of any level of government) is around 60% (IIRC), we can conclude either that:
The polled are prone to exaggerating or lying on surveys
The polled do not constitute a representative sample (or a random sample) of Americans
Well, there's massaging the data and massaging the questions. Not that MS would have been able to get "Do you think the government should impose extreme penalties to break Microsoft's "supposed" monopoly?" on the quiz, but no doubt they could slant the questions so as to make people view the proposed governmental action in a negative light. Add to that the fact that 90% of people don't really know or care about "scary computer stuff," and you get that people aren't likely, on the whole, to want to break MS up. Add to that that many people own stock (or know and care for someone who owns stock) in MS and thus have self-interested reasons not to want to see MS broken up (not, of course, that a breakup of MS entails their stock would devalue, but as long as they believe it's likely, they'll have the motivation).
Moreover: since when do we take polls on technical questions anyhow? ("63% of people say the sun is five million miles from earth") The degree of harm caused by MS is a matter to be decided by looking at evidence most people (including, I bet, you and me) don't really know that much about. So the poll results don't seem all that meaningful anyhow.
One nasty side-effect from disabling JS in Netscape (on Linux at least, and I think since 4.5, but I bet it goes back earlier) is that it disables Cascading style sheets too. This is the result of a stupid implementation on Netscape's part, and has (I believe) been fixed in Mozilla, but CSS is something I don't want to have to give up, even though I don't really care so much if I don't have rollovers.
A person will drive to your house, pick up the letter, take it to the airport, fly it to anywhere in north america, and drive it to the recipients house. For 33 cents.
Wow, the US is expanding its borders... "anywhere in the 50 US states"... those retrograde louts at the USPS still recognize Canada (and, depending on your view of what constitutes "North" America, Mexico) as international destinations and charges higher postage accordingly =)
Hadda mention this, though your basic point is, of course, quite sound. The Post Office does an amazing job most of the time.
I don't see an incompatibility here. Geeks attacking "lesser" geeks or non-geeks online is just a case of sh*t flowing downhill. Doesn't mean that geeks aren't oppressed outside of this specific domain.
Entry #72 in "Why Europe seems ever-more attractive as a place to live": some of the governments seem actually interested in protecting their citizens' rights.
so you could probably actually get that through your school:).
You'll have to be careful with that... here at UNC, my understanding is that the legal aid lawyers available to students are employees of the University and hence can't initiate legal actions or, I would surmise, even give you legal advice if you're involved in legal proceedings with the university. It wouldn't be at all surprising to me if the same turned out to be true at Purdue.
Does "Fair Use" also mean that you have to "maintain" the original meaning of the information which you extracted?
This might be orthogonal, but misrepresenting what someone says might be actionable if it harms that person. Taking you out of context and then suggesting you're a dork and shouldnt' be listened to is one thing though, and not being fully scrupulous is another. I doubt in this case you'd get much out of them.
I think my favorite part comes where they mention all those nifty apps you get, but when you click on "product information" you are told that you can download WP8 or StarOffice for free.
I see nothing in any of the information they provide to suggest they've done anything other than repackage Debian disks and write up some kind of install manual.
I use mod_perl on my website to get twice the power at half the price.
Since both are "free" in both senses, I take it that by "price" you mean something very specific. I switched some scripts over from mod_perl to PHP since they were doing some pretty simple things, and my performance is *much* better now. Maybe on larger and more complex tasks, mod_perl might catch up and surpass PHP, but for lots of things PHP beats the pants off of it.
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Here's a scary idea ... we donate the money, then Symantec sues, and because peacefire is "obviously" in the wrong ("stealing" Symantec's trade secrets, oh my!), Symantec gets our money (what the lawyers don't get, that is).
No thanks.
Of course, if you ask me what I really think, is that we should start calling the guys that run Symantec names. Clearly, if they had a quality product this wouldn't happen, so that must mean that their penii are small (or whatever).
Ok, rant's over.
T. Herman Zweibel has started reading /. !!!
What's idiomatic German for "geek" (in the "tech-loving" sense, not the "circus" sense) ?
He said "It's going to be" a coup, by which, I take it, all indications are that the finished product will be good. But this doesn't mean that you shouldn't contribute where you can (if in fact having an open source browser matters to you), because the more people contribute not only coding but bug reports, the better Mozilla will be.
Admittedly you *will* have to put up with more if you use mozilla as your main browser. As crappy as Netscape on *nix is, it's got more working features than Mozilla -- at the moment.
A valid point, which reminds me that in a way ST did a bit of a "WestWorld" homage in one of their episodes (Worf and his son end up having to deal with evil Data holograms, IIRC)
William Gibson ... caught the opening credits and the first 10 minutes or so.
So they crammed the well-formed babe into the tiny patent-leather outfit. Scully said it all in the first 10 minutes, and it was true of the show -- they were pandering to "lonely male" fantasies in the show too.
Was it just me, or did the whole thing come off as a direct ripoff of the "Holodeck gone wrong" episodes from ST:TNG?
You know, I think so too.
I feel dirty
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I'm not sure I understand the question ... I mean, isn't it obvious that RH doesn't make communicator and that they have to put the RPMS together themselves from the tarballs Netscape makes available?
sure, an outfit by the name of Applause in the US has been selling at least Kermit puppets for a number of years.
Note to self ... if ever you see Kaa complaining about the way the government works, reference this comment.
Since the voting rate in *national* elections (which tends to get the highest percentage of eligible voters voting of any level of government) is around 60% (IIRC), we can conclude either that:
Just a thought =)
Well, there's massaging the data and massaging the questions. Not that MS would have been able to get "Do you think the government should impose extreme penalties to break Microsoft's "supposed" monopoly?" on the quiz, but no doubt they could slant the questions so as to make people view the proposed governmental action in a negative light. Add to that the fact that 90% of people don't really know or care about "scary computer stuff," and you get that people aren't likely, on the whole, to want to break MS up. Add to that that many people own stock (or know and care for someone who owns stock) in MS and thus have self-interested reasons not to want to see MS broken up (not, of course, that a breakup of MS entails their stock would devalue, but as long as they believe it's likely, they'll have the motivation).
Moreover: since when do we take polls on technical questions anyhow? ("63% of people say the sun is five million miles from earth") The degree of harm caused by MS is a matter to be decided by looking at evidence most people (including, I bet, you and me) don't really know that much about. So the poll results don't seem all that meaningful anyhow.
Not over here. This might be a platform-specific thing, but if I turn of JS, CSS go bye-bye, and I'm using 4.7 on Linux.
One nasty side-effect from disabling JS in Netscape (on Linux at least, and I think since 4.5, but I bet it goes back earlier) is that it disables Cascading style sheets too. This is the result of a stupid implementation on Netscape's part, and has (I believe) been fixed in Mozilla, but CSS is something I don't want to have to give up, even though I don't really care so much if I don't have rollovers.
Wow, the US is expanding its borders ... "anywhere in the 50 US states" ... those retrograde louts at the USPS still recognize Canada (and, depending on your view of what constitutes "North" America, Mexico) as international destinations and charges higher postage accordingly =)
Hadda mention this, though your basic point is, of course, quite sound. The Post Office does an amazing job most of the time.
I don't see an incompatibility here. Geeks attacking "lesser" geeks or non-geeks online is just a case of sh*t flowing downhill. Doesn't mean that geeks aren't oppressed outside of this specific domain.
That's OK, you don't need a sense of humour once the Canadians take over [aside] Q: How many Canadians does it take to change a light bulb? A: One.
Entry #72 in "Why Europe seems ever-more attractive as a place to live": some of the governments seem actually interested in protecting their citizens' rights.
You'll have to be careful with that ... here at UNC, my understanding is that the legal aid lawyers available to students are employees of the University and hence can't initiate legal actions or, I would surmise, even give you legal advice if you're involved in legal proceedings with the university. It wouldn't be at all surprising to me if the same turned out to be true at Purdue.
This might be orthogonal, but misrepresenting what someone says might be actionable if it harms that person. Taking you out of context and then suggesting you're a dork and shouldnt' be listened to is one thing though, and not being fully scrupulous is another. I doubt in this case you'd get much out of them.
I think my favorite part comes where they mention all those nifty apps you get, but when you click on "product information" you are told that you can download WP8 or StarOffice for free.
I see nothing in any of the information they provide to suggest they've done anything other than repackage Debian disks and write up some kind of install manual.
Since both are "free" in both senses, I take it that by "price" you mean something very specific. I switched some scripts over from mod_perl to PHP since they were doing some pretty simple things, and my performance is *much* better now. Maybe on larger and more complex tasks, mod_perl might catch up and surpass PHP, but for lots of things PHP beats the pants off of it.
No argument about power, but give PHP time =)