This is a little offtopic, but since its written in C#, for those of you what don't have Visual Studio and don't want to mess with the command line tools (or don't have Mono on Linux) SharpDevelop is a great C# development product. Its GPL. Again a little of topic, but its always good to pimp your favorite software.
I have seen every episode and they were very entertaining. I would have considering myself a Star Wars fanatic until the last two movies have kind of let me down.
However these cartoons really got me excited again. If the third movie turns out to be as good as the Clone Wars series, I may camp out again...
You would think that a little research or a little knowledge would tell someone who seems to be a reporter in the financial market would be able to see that iTMS is still in development. Of course Apple doesn't get much money YET from each sale, but if they get a large share of the market (which they have right now) then when contract times comes up again, they can get a better piece of the pie.
Its alot like what another one of Steve Jobs' companies called Pixar did with Disney.
You have a good point, but THIS combined with other solutions could make a difference. Yes most of the PCs sending Spam won't be stopped by this, except that they don't have proper MX/PTR records. So if we use this with some DNS filtering to only accept mail from "real" mail servers, this could take out a large chunk of spam.
Come on its gotta be Fedora, I remember just a few versions ago it all fit on 1 CD, but this weekend I had to download 4 DAMN discs to make the new version run.
Its funny every time something about Disney/Pixar comes up on Slashdot every says "What's Disney without Pixar?"
Its funny because Disney is ALOT without Pixar. They question these people pose (rhetorically?) is only true for ADULTS. Yes adults enjoy the Pixar films, but Disney's goal is not to entertain adults. They produce content for children. So Disney without Pixar will probably be just fine. They have many, many, many other assets that they can keep. Yes Disney without Pixar won't be interesting to YOU, but I bet people are still buying Baby Einstein tapes for their kids or Winnie the Pooh toys for their nieces and nephews.
Now don't get me wrong I'm not a Disney Fanboy, and the Pixar films are probably the only ones I've seen in the past few years (except Brother Bear that vile turd of a film) but I think Disney does enough other things that losing Pixar probably won't bring them to thier knees.
I have also used the car anology, but in a different way. I think seriously that people should have to take a test before owning a computer.
I mean if you wreck a car you can cause serious damage. If you don't use a computer correctly you can cause serious damage. If your computer has a worm on it that's causing damage to other companies (sco.com?) because a) you didn't install patches like you should have or b) you opened email you shouldn't have thinking "Man this email is full of garbage characters that don't mean anything, I better open the attachment to see what it is" then you should be liable.
If you had taken classes and a test before operating this machinery, just like cars, trucks, forklifts, etc. require, then we could have *ALL* avoided these problems.
Yeah this is really annoying to me. I mean I can remember sometime back when Steve Jobs said "We love open source". However now that its time to show it, where is Apple. They wouldn't even have to write a client, if they would just release a (closed source is fine) quicktime/iTunes ACC lib.
I would run to a Windows box or Mac to buy songs as long as I could just play them on my Linux box, that's all I'm askin for.
Don't get pissed off at me, but I just wanted to say something about this:
Translation : GPL is freerer than LGPL. LGPL allows corporations like Novell and Sun to have propeitry forks and lock away their changes from the user. Now that Novell has taken over Ximian you can expect Gnome to get put under corpirate lock. With KDE you have the choice, you either PAY UP or pay with your source code.
I think this is THE one issue that will end up screwing KDE. I think its sad, but its too late to change it. Here's the deal, you can write closed code for both Gnome and KDE, however you can't write free (as in it doesn't cost a company any money to do so) code for KDE. I'm not saying this is good, but just think about it. If you were a big corporation and you could port your code to Linux and pay "not very much" to use QT, or nothing to use GTK, which are you going to pick?
I wish just as much as you do that companies would say, "Hey its not that much money and its a better development environment for our coders, let's spend the extra cash". But that's a dream world. They'll say "Use the free GK++T thingy...its free right?..yeah use that".
I'm not trying to stir up a flamewar, just think its sad that in the long run thats what will probalby make the most difference.
I think what we really need to do is get corporations in the mood to donate. Every open source project in the world has a "Click here to Donate" button their page.
IT personel (/. types) need to convince their bosses that they are saving thousands of dollars by not having to buy licenses, but it would still be nice to donate some money to the projects to help them grow. When an Open Source solution is proposed instead of saying we get it for free, say we get it with only a small donation. The boss still sees thousands in savings and the projects get something back in return.
Of course in the long run it would be nice if we could eventually talk corporations into giving people jobs to work on OSS projects that they run, but I think that won't happen for a LONG time.
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This is a little offtopic, but since its written in C#, for those of you what don't have Visual Studio and don't want to mess with the command line tools (or don't have Mono on Linux) SharpDevelop is a great C# development product. Its GPL. Again a little of topic, but its always good to pimp your favorite software.
Yes, there's also a Linux version.
I have seen every episode and they were very entertaining. I would have considering myself a Star Wars fanatic until the last two movies have kind of let me down.
However these cartoons really got me excited again. If the third movie turns out to be as good as the Clone Wars series, I may camp out again...
You can get them from Bittorrent, I would have posted a link for you, but search.suprnova.org is so slow i got tired of waiting. Sorry.
However since there is currently no legitimate (meaning legal) way to get Clone Wars, then P2P is probably your best bet.
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You would think that a little research or a little knowledge would tell someone who seems to be a reporter in the financial market would be able to see that iTMS is still in development. Of course Apple doesn't get much money YET from each sale, but if they get a large share of the market (which they have right now) then when contract times comes up again, they can get a better piece of the pie.
Its alot like what another one of Steve Jobs' companies called Pixar did with Disney.
Ha ha, yeah, right. Just like how IE was going to be "the Netscape Killer"... feh...
Actually if Microsoft used the IE strategy and gave these things away for FREE then I might take one.
You have a good point, but THIS combined with other solutions could make a difference. Yes most of the PCs sending Spam won't be stopped by this, except that they don't have proper MX/PTR records. So if we use this with some DNS filtering to only accept mail from "real" mail servers, this could take out a large chunk of spam.
If only I had mod points, I'd give them all to you.
Come on its gotta be Fedora, I remember just a few versions ago it all fit on 1 CD, but this weekend I had to download 4 DAMN discs to make the new version run.
Letter?!?
You're telling me the head of Comcast doesn't have email?!? Man what kind of an ISP are they?
What good is Disney without Pixar?
Its funny every time something about Disney/Pixar comes up on Slashdot every says
"What's Disney without Pixar?"
Its funny because Disney is ALOT without Pixar. They question these people pose (rhetorically?) is only true for ADULTS. Yes adults enjoy the Pixar films, but Disney's goal is not to entertain adults. They produce content for children. So Disney without Pixar will probably be just fine. They have many, many, many other assets that they can keep. Yes Disney without Pixar won't be interesting to YOU, but I bet people are still buying Baby Einstein tapes for their kids or Winnie the Pooh toys for their nieces and nephews.
Now don't get me wrong I'm not a Disney Fanboy, and the Pixar films are probably the only ones I've seen in the past few years (except Brother Bear that vile turd of a film) but I think Disney does enough other things that losing Pixar probably won't bring them to thier knees.
I have also used the car anology, but in a different way. I think seriously that people should have to take a test before owning a computer.
I mean if you wreck a car you can cause serious damage. If you don't use a computer correctly you can cause serious damage. If your computer has a worm on it that's causing damage to other companies (sco.com?) because a) you didn't install patches like you should have or b) you opened email you shouldn't have thinking "Man this email is full of garbage characters that don't mean anything, I better open the attachment to see what it is" then you should be liable.
If you had taken classes and a test before operating this machinery, just like cars, trucks, forklifts, etc. require, then we could have *ALL* avoided these problems.
Just a thought...
Yeah this is really annoying to me. I mean I can remember sometime back when Steve Jobs said "We love open source". However now that its time to show it, where is Apple. They wouldn't even have to write a client, if they would just release a (closed source is fine) quicktime/iTunes ACC lib.
I would run to a Windows box or Mac to buy songs as long as I could just play them on my Linux box, that's all I'm askin for.
Don't get pissed off at me, but I just wanted to say something about this:
Translation : GPL is freerer than LGPL. LGPL allows corporations like Novell
and Sun to have propeitry forks and lock away their changes from the user. Now
that Novell has taken over Ximian you can expect Gnome to get put under
corpirate lock. With KDE you have the choice, you either PAY UP or pay with
your source code.
I think this is THE one issue that will end up screwing KDE. I think its sad, but its too late to change it. Here's the deal, you can write closed code for both Gnome and KDE, however you can't write free (as in it doesn't cost a company any money to do so) code for KDE. I'm not saying this is good, but just think about it. If you were a big corporation and you could port your code to Linux and pay "not very much" to use QT, or nothing to use GTK, which are you going to pick?
I wish just as much as you do that companies would say, "Hey its not that much money and its a better development environment for our coders, let's spend the extra cash". But that's a dream world. They'll say "Use the free GK++T thingy...its free right?..yeah use that".
I'm not trying to stir up a flamewar, just think its sad that in the long run thats what will probalby make the most difference.
Hey I finally get to complain because some is NOT avalaible in the US.
DAMN IT! Its not fair, we always get left out with stupid UK only stuff!
I think what we really need to do is get corporations in the mood to donate. Every open source project in the world has a "Click here to Donate" button their page.
IT personel (/. types) need to convince their bosses that they are saving thousands of dollars by not having to buy licenses, but it would still be nice to donate some money to the projects to help them grow. When an Open Source solution is proposed instead of saying we get it for free, say we get it with only a small donation. The boss still sees thousands in savings and the projects get something back in return.
Of course in the long run it would be nice if we could eventually talk corporations into giving people jobs to work on OSS projects that they run, but I think that won't happen for a LONG time.