(I know what you mean, it's just that the idea of the "Fresh Prince" doing Shakespeare would make me laugh out loud... and not in a good way.)
Anyone else remember Branagh's version of "Much Ado About Nothing" where Denzel Washington and Keanu Reeves absolutely butchered their parts? Will Smith and Mike Myers would've done better.
BTW, I think Smith does a decent job playing a basketball player (alias: Robert Horry) on the LA Lakers.
The church where I go pays an annual fee so that we can sing copyrighted praises to God. I tell the deacon we should sing open source music only (as I think the new stuff is mediocre anyway). Now ain't that a hoot?
When an idea is in my mind, I can easily process relatively complicated concepts. But when I try to commit them to the written word, I run into difficulties because I am 'out of sync' with the standardised influences and meanings which are socially attached to words, and therefore the ideas which are conveyed with them.
I have the exact problem: I can't seem to get my PhD thesis written.
has this always been true or is this new to 1.2... I don't remember my themes not working before but it may just be my memory that's not working
Is it just me, or does it seem that there are only a paltry number of themes available for Mozilla? Is it so hard to make them that hardly anyone's doing it? BTW, I do like the Orbit3+1 theme.
I remember in the run-up to the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. The Atlanta Olympic Committee (AOC) was going after people aggressively. You just about couldn't even say "Olympics" without a license. There was some old family-run Greek restaurant, called The Olympic Diner (or somesuch) and they had been around for years. Of course, they hadn't _trademarked_ their name and the AOC made them change it.
I'm no Luddite, I think all this innovation is fine and dandy (although, sorry, I do not salivate at the prospect of MS getting into my phone)... but can anyone promise that I'll still be able to buy plain, simple, boring phones and basically do telephone calls? And don't need an engineering degree to operate? Please?
Americans are getting more and more crazy with needing new things, it seems. I guess it's because we think "change == progress" is true, and since there's no real progress occurring, we just need to crank up the change, and "voila!" we'll all finally be happy. We just are slavish dogs of the marketers, and just drool when the "new feature" bell rings. That new feature will surely change my life!
I'm setting up a bot to monitor mozilla releases, and every time a new build is out, it will send a note to/. announcing a new version of Mozilla. Then the article will get at least 546 posts.
Since the Ben Franklin quote has been done to death, it's past time to introduce a new one...
Hope you wanted the mod points, coz I didn't need them. Don't you think Samuel Adams would be a scandal up in Boston these days? He'd shock those statists. But then again, today's Boston wouldn't produce anyone close to his stature.
As it is said, you have nothing to worry about if you are doing nothing "wrong". But, face it, we all do SOMETHING that the government wouldn't like us to do.
Remember, they had to get Al Capone on _tax evasion_. They wanted to get him, but had to find something, _anything_, that he was doing wrong. If they want to get you, they will get you one way or another. Even if they're not monitoring you.
The important thing for the Linux community is to prove to the IT managers that Linux has lower TCO
than Windows.
Sounds like you have your hypothesis, and now you need to generate the data. You should be in grad school!
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You know, I can't figure this out at all. Here we have the Linux community who, in large part, is not being compensated for their contributions. Therefore they are free to make whatever sort of contribution they want. And you know what sort of alternative to Microsoft platform they come up with? Something that attempts to look and feel identical to its Microsoft counterpart!
I think Microsoft is Moby Dick, and there sure are a lot of Captain Ahabs around here. The reason that there is so much anti-MS sentiment around here is that it energizes so many people, drives them on. It's not enough to build a good system, gotta beat MS.
The mayor was saddened by this reaction, but decided upon a compromise. The fence would not be built, but a sign would be erected saying "please support the local economy - jump off the cliff!"
When I worked in the war industry, I recall cheering for wars, because they were good for us. Now _that_ is warped.
Ah, here we go again. The Airbus consortium is a private company which received funding capital as a credit. Airbus is in no way subsidized nowadays as opposed to (e.g.) Boieng which relies heavily on defense contracts, which can be construed a subsidy in itself.
The Joint Strike Fighter program is a giant boondoggle, as is the F-22. I mean, what threats are there to US Air Superiority? Alien starships, maybe, or some Boeing jetliners.
But here we go, pumping billions of taxpayer money into the military-industrial complex (aka "taxeaters").
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Anyone else remember Branagh's version of "Much Ado About Nothing" where Denzel Washington and Keanu Reeves absolutely butchered their parts? Will Smith and Mike Myers would've done better.
BTW, I think Smith does a decent job playing a basketball player (alias: Robert Horry) on the LA Lakers.
The church where I go pays an annual fee so that we can sing copyrighted praises to God. I tell the deacon we should sing open source music only (as I think the new stuff is mediocre anyway). Now ain't that a hoot?
I have the exact problem: I can't seem to get my PhD thesis written.
Is it just me, or does it seem that there are only a paltry number of themes available for Mozilla? Is it so hard to make them that hardly anyone's doing it? BTW, I do like the Orbit3+1 theme.
That's funny. Your company thinks, "they can only use IE, things are under control" and you're off reading /., you loose cannon you.
I remember in the run-up to the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. The Atlanta Olympic Committee (AOC) was going after people aggressively. You just about couldn't even say "Olympics" without a license. There was some old family-run Greek restaurant, called The Olympic Diner (or somesuch) and they had been around for years. Of course, they hadn't _trademarked_ their name and the AOC made them change it.
Is that they name it "Trademark" and trademark it.
Americans are getting more and more crazy with needing new things, it seems. I guess it's because we think "change == progress" is true, and since there's no real progress occurring, we just need to crank up the change, and "voila!" we'll all finally be happy. We just are slavish dogs of the marketers, and just drool when the "new feature" bell rings. That new feature will surely change my life!
My rant is over.
Don't even _try_ to rub your stomach while doing all this.
I'm setting up a bot to monitor mozilla releases, and every time a new build is out, it will send a note to /. announcing a new version of Mozilla. Then the article will get at least 546 posts.
And in a few years, all those loud concerts will mean 96 Kbps will start sounding pretty good, too.
Hope you wanted the mod points, coz I didn't need them. Don't you think Samuel Adams would be a scandal up in Boston these days? He'd shock those statists. But then again, today's Boston wouldn't produce anyone close to his stature.
Who gets to decide what's wrong here? The State, of course. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, you slavish lapdog.
Yes. What's so great about Oracle is that it uses Magic (tm) to store its data somewhere in the Matrix.
Remember, they had to get Al Capone on _tax evasion_. They wanted to get him, but had to find something, _anything_, that he was doing wrong. If they want to get you, they will get you one way or another. Even if they're not monitoring you.
Sounds like you have your hypothesis, and now you need to generate the data. You should be in grad school!
I think Microsoft is Moby Dick, and there sure are a lot of Captain Ahabs around here. The reason that there is so much anti-MS sentiment around here is that it energizes so many people, drives them on. It's not enough to build a good system, gotta beat MS.
Only what I find on /. It's my primary source for hard technical news.
Mad Max, to deal with PanIP properly.
Why won't Hollywood make cool shows about _these_ lawyers?
and I pronounce "Microsoft" "Microsoft".
Word: Velcro.
Rebel Terrorist How-To Manuals.
When I worked in the war industry, I recall cheering for wars, because they were good for us. Now _that_ is warped.
The Joint Strike Fighter program is a giant boondoggle, as is the F-22. I mean, what threats are there to US Air Superiority? Alien starships, maybe, or some Boeing jetliners. But here we go, pumping billions of taxpayer money into the military-industrial complex (aka "taxeaters").