User: no parity

Macromedia Director

On: The Little Coder's Predicament

It's so f*cking obvious, yet I see no mention of it among the 800 comments.
Yes, it's evil, it costs money, but see the advantages:

• Lingo is an easy-to-learn language.
• You can easily create pretty, colorful stuff.
• You can even put your results on the web, for everyone to see.
• Once you add buttons and stuff, there's a natural tendency towards event-driven GUI programming, which most Slashdotters don't seem to understand even today.

Put up your resume in HTML and *Word* format?

On: How To Get Hired As An Open Source Developer

This guy isn't real, is he?

OpenOffice?

On: Flash and Open Source

Apparently, a Flash export for OpenOffice is planned.

He wants to hear *your* reasons, not Slashdot's

On: Seeking Arguments Against the CBDTPA?

And believe me, he will notice if you start reciting prepared wisdoms that you picked up on Slashdot or elsewhere.

Re:A wish for screen shots

On: OpenOffice 641d Released, Next Stop: 1.0

Try http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/screenshots/index .html. A bit outdated, though.

Linux only?

On: OpenOffice 641d Released, Next Stop: 1.0

Well, there's still that other platform that most open source projects tend to neglect.

Well, obviously

On: Pay Dirt in Scanned Driver's Licenses

That's why it's called a bar code, isn't it?

Obligatory no-reg link

On: Microfluidics: Miniature Chemistry Labs

http://college.nytimes.com/2002/01/01/science/phys ical/01MICR.html

Spaces to disguise the full file name?

On: Clever New Windows Worm

Looks like one of Slashdot's goatse.cx posters got a new hobby.

Gotta love the irony of it

On: UNIX hits the Big Three-Oh

Everyone of us hates patents, yet loves a system that was born out of the needs of processing patent applications.

Not uncommon

On: Rambus Losing In Court

Very many patents (and especially the dreaded software patents) work well as threats against competitors, but won't last in a lawsuit. The uncertainty that comes from not knowing in advance which ones will be dismissed is what makes the threats so effective. It seems like the Rambus tactics of actually suing over their patents was a bad move, because it removed the uncertainty that could have worked in their favor.

Other sites

On: DailyRadar.com Closes

Well, for RPGs there's still www.rpgamer.com.

Re:RMS's "The Right To Read"

On: The Read-Once, Write-Never Web

The scariest part is how people still believe they're safe from this because they can always use a digital camera to take screenshots.

Re:Take a look at what's in use today

On: The Read-Once, Write-Never Web

No, really? That's what I'm saying. JavaSrcipt tricks offer minimal protection (or less than that), and they're being used. Lots of potential uses for that NetRecall thingy, even if it's far from unbreakable.

Take a look at what's in use today

On: The Read-Once, Write-Never Web

People are using JavaScript to prevent viewers from using the right mouse button to save a picture (this is used a lot on some "entertainment" sites). I'm sure that new plugin will at least work better than that.