Odd, Cnet used the classic skin in its screenshot --- big buttons with big text. Cnet notes: "Mozilla comes with two skins, or interface designs. The default is the so-called Classic, which makes Mozilla look an awful lot like Netscape Navigator 4.x."
Perhaps I am mistaken, but I am really sure the default skin for Mozilla is modern, which is much prettier than Classic.
I know this is just a screenshot, but first impressions may be important for an IE user who is learning Mozilla for the first-time via Cnet reviews.
In other news, "Likening the practice to distributing peace, Slashdot user idonotexist has issued a brief statement supporting the deployment of the "UnitedLinux" core distribution. He calls upon developers to allow their work to be used by such a distribution."
I think you are missing the point. Sun creates servers and has a very large R&D budget for improving the performance and quality of such servers, unlike Dell and HP who, arguably, are merely Intel resellers.
From a layman's perspective, Sun sees a demand for Linux. With Sun making cool servers and looking to enter the low-cost server market, Linux is complementary. If you want to run Windows, do you consider a Mac? IMO, Sun is branching out to a new set customers and satifying their needs. I don't really see Sun's Linux as competition with Solaris. Certainly Sun's current customers are happy and not the ones buying a non-Sun server and adding Linux. Free Linux + kewl compatible Sun hardware + targeting the Intel + Linux market = $ for Sun + more Linux developers and users in the world.
Throughout the article, though he at times (mainly at the beginning of the article) uses GNU/Linux, RMS refers to GNU/Linux as Linux on numerous occassions.
How can we consider his argument if he, himself, does not actively practice what he preaches?
Gnu/Isn't Gnu/it Gnu/up Gnu/to Gnu/the Gnu/Package
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The Stallman Factor
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· Score: 4, Funny
This tax is simply unfair. With a mail or catalog sales, a tax is added if the retail company has a physical operation in the same state as the customer. However, my understanding of the European tax, and proposals for such a tax in the U.S., is that a with an Internet sale, a tax is added regardless of the retail company's physical location.
I truly do not see a substantial difference between these two methods of sales to provide for a different method of taxation: the provision of information for a product is provided to the customer in the same fashion:
1. With a catalog, the customer is sent and reads information concerning the product in his/her state, compared with the Internet, the customer receives and reads information concerning the product in his/her state; and 2. The transaction is conducted in the customer's state. With a catalog, the customer is typically at his/her state of residence and phones the retail operation to place an order --- with the Internet, the customer is typically at his/her state of residence and communicates with the retail operation, via a similar mode of transmission, to place an order.
If transactions via the Internet are to be taxed, it should be done fairly --- only taxation if the customer resides in a state where the retail operation has a physical operation: like mail-order sales.
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Well it is now May 5, 2002. Perhaps he purchased a new digital camera since his latest update? The text below is from his site. I think it is safe to assume this project is collecting dust.
July 2000 Update: Well, within a year of building this contraption, I bought a digital camera anyways. My first digital camera was an Olympus D340R, bought it in June 1999. Then, in June 2000, I bought a cannon PowerShot S100 (the Digital Elph). Awesome little camera. Haven't used my scanning contraption much, although it is still capable of producing images sharper than what comes out of a 3.3 megapixel digicam.
Where Does Honesty Get You?
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The Magic Box Hoax
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· Score: 5, Interesting
This article pisses me off, why? This scammer has an expensive home, a few cars such as a Jaguar (ok, Jaguar sucks but it is arguably better than his Eclipse), boats, and a couple of planes --- oh, and he still has a bundle of cash.
I, or any number of us, could pull an evil-scheme like this off. But, for some reason we don't. For some reason we have ethics and values. And, for some reason, a guy like that has more money than he needs to live on. Obviously, the world is not fair.
While I cannot present any proof, I am convinced what AOL acquires, AOL screws up. Netscape is a prime example. Certainly Netscape had value (server app, a browser...) prior to its acquisition by AOL and after acquisition, AOL left Netscape with a simple homepage. I guess I'll see if AOL brings Time Warner's assets to its knees. Certainly the Road Runner service is not improving since the merger.
After the Dmitry and DMCA flop by Adobe, I will never purchase an Adobe product and I swear to gawd I will save my friends and co-workers from thinking about purchasing an Adobe product. So, if Adobe is finally convinced it can make a few more bucks by porting its apps to Linux, perhaps Adobe needs to correct its public relations fiasco and not with a mere press release, but something more sublime; maybe a contribution to EFF? Until such an event, no way, no how, Adobe --- not on this Linux box. I will not just forget Adobe's mistake and I hope others will not.
"Either the Greeks having been concealed in this wood are hiding, or this has been made as a machine against our walls, about to look into our homes and about to come into our city. From above, or some trick is hiding; don't trust in the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is...
Some where, IBM must have truckloads of harddrives waiting at a shipping dock clearly labelled with the big blue logo. Certainly Hitachi wont touch them with such tarnishment --- they must be sold at discount close-out prices! So, where are these bad buys going up for auction?;)
Agree --- Need a Professional
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GeekPAC
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· Score: 2
I, too, have the same impression. Moreover, what real experience does someone with GeekPAC have with lobbying? I am sceptical of someone who has an extensive background/education in political scientist or someone who is alien to the process. What is necessary IMO is someone who is in the know: a current successful lobbyist, a popular member of a Congressional staff, or a former rep/senator.
[An advertisement airs on broadcast television during 2004....]
Narrator: Deep in the shadows and during late night hours, terrorists construct computers so they may prevent Americans the opportunity to enjoy music, film, and software.
(Display a family enjoying a movie and children listening to music)
Narrator: These terrorists are responsible for up to 30% of unemployment in our nation due to reductions in revenue for American businesses.
(Display an unemployment line and a line of Russians waiting to receive bread during the Soviet-era)
Narrator: Moreover, parts (primarily manufactured in the non-American and ugly capitalistic and piggish democractic nation of Russia) are purchased via the computer blackmarket and finance drug sales to children at schools.
(Display computers alongside dead children)
Narrator: Why would a person wish to build a computer?
(Display an individual covered by a black and dark shadow)
Narrator: Only an anti-societal and evil intention lurks in these terrorists to undermine our common courage: "one nation under god, indivisible, and united we stand."
(Display the flag of the United States of America)
Narrator: These terrorists must be reported to the Civilian Protection Team immediately! Now is the time to defend our nation! Do your part... today!
(Display a telephone and Citizen Protection Member (CPM) dressed in uniform and receiving a request from a female citizen in the foreground with the flag in the background)
Narrator 2: This message brought to you by the Council for an Evil Free America.
(Display Evil Buster Logo (TM) )
How To Respond to 'Touchy-Feely' Games @ work?
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Managing Einsteins
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· Score: 2
I am curious to hear how others respond to meetings or 'parts of meetings' requesting you to imagine things such as: "a circle, with the line colored in your favorite color, but not red because red is too negative. Now, think of the moment of your life you felt best where you felt like you were number one! You felt confident and ready to challenge anything in the world. Now, insert that moment in the circle. The circle with your favorite color, other than red or, I forgot to mention, black, is in front of you. Go ahead and take a step forward into the circle. Go ahead! Now, how do you feel!?!"
This is the type of shit I must confront in the work-place and entirely agree with parent: " I'm not at work to bond by force. If I need to get in touch with my deeper self, I'll do it on my own time." But, how do I respond to such requests, instead of taking a deep-breath and doing it, again? Any template responses to share?
We remember Storm Linux, right? While I do not use it today, I still find it the most user-friendly installer for Debian --- select usual preferences (keyboard, language, blah blah) and have the installed figure out the 'hardware stuff.'
With Storm long gone, would it not be legit to utilize the Storm installer for another product?
[sarcasm --- an advertisement displayed in a newspaper and aired on broadcast television during 2004] .... Deep in the shadows and during late night hours, terrorists construct computers so they may prevent Americans the opportunity to enjoy music, film, and software. These terrorists are responsible for 20% of unemployment due to reductions in revenue for American businesses. Moreover, parts (primarily manufactured in the non-American and ugly capitalistic and piggish democractic nation of Russia) are purchased via the computer blackmarket and finance drug sales to children at schools.
Why would a person wish to build a computer? Only an anti-societal and evil intention lurks in these terrorists to undermine our common courage: "one nation under god, indivisible, and united we stand."
These terrorists must be reported to the Civilian Protection Team immediately! Now is the time to defend our nation! Do your part... today!
This message brought to you by the Council for an Evil Free America. [/sarcasm]
you may want to consider ProPay. I have no association with the company, just have used it for transactions as an alternative to paypal and have not seen the same criticisms of ProPay which paypal receives.
It would be interesting to read the inner workings of the group. Is there a link? btw, perhaps the group could make some $$$ by using their messages to create a book of their adventure?
Slashdot Mirror
Although, the page has been removed from the Boeing site, this google cache provides good links to several video feeds of Boeing JSF flights and testing.
chat client doesn't work with the big commercial IM systems, including ICQ, Yahoo IM, AOL IM, and Windows Messenger
Three words for CNET: Apples and Oranges.
Odd, Cnet used the classic skin in its screenshot --- big buttons with big text. Cnet notes: "Mozilla comes with two skins, or interface designs. The default is the so-called Classic, which makes Mozilla look an awful lot like Netscape Navigator 4.x."
Perhaps I am mistaken, but I am really sure the default skin for Mozilla is modern, which is much prettier than Classic.
I know this is just a screenshot, but first impressions may be important for an IE user who is learning Mozilla for the first-time via Cnet reviews.
In other news, "Likening the practice to distributing peace, Slashdot user idonotexist has issued a brief statement supporting the deployment of the "UnitedLinux" core distribution. He calls upon developers to allow their work to be used by such a distribution."
In other words, wtf cares what his opinion is?
I think you are missing the point. Sun creates servers and has a very large R&D budget for improving the performance and quality of such servers, unlike Dell and HP who, arguably, are merely Intel resellers.
From a layman's perspective, Sun sees a demand for Linux. With Sun making cool servers and looking to enter the low-cost server market, Linux is complementary. If you want to run Windows, do you consider a Mac? IMO, Sun is branching out to a new set customers and satifying their needs. I don't really see Sun's Linux as competition with Solaris. Certainly Sun's current customers are happy and not the ones buying a non-Sun server and adding Linux. Free Linux + kewl compatible Sun hardware + targeting the Intel + Linux market = $ for Sun + more Linux developers and users in the world.
Throughout the article, though he at times (mainly at the beginning of the article) uses GNU/Linux, RMS refers to GNU/Linux as Linux on numerous occassions.
How can we consider his argument if he, himself, does not actively practice what he preaches?
Gnu/RMS Gnu/is Gnu/a Gnu/victim Gnu/of Gnu/his Gnu/own Gnu/success. Gnu/With Gnu/widespread Gnu/use Gnu/of Gnu/Linux, Gnu/there Gnu/is Gnu/less Gnu/likelihood Gnu/of Gnu/the Gnu/use Gnu/of Gnu/this Gnu/acronym. Gnu/Certainly Gnu/packages Gnu/must Gnu/utilize Gnu/unique Gnu/labelling Gnu/or Gnu/product Gnu/names Gnu/to Gnu/quickly Gnu/show Gnu/uniqueness Gnu/compared Gnu/with Gnu/other Gnu/products. Gnu/If Gnu/not, Gnu/a Gnu/consumer Gnu/or Gnu/user Gnu/may Gnu/be Gnu/easily Gnu/confused Gnu/and Gnu/cannot Gnu/readily Gnu/identify Gnu/product Gnu/differences.
Certainly it is annonying for all products to have a like name, isn't it?
This tax is simply unfair. With a mail or catalog sales, a tax is added if the retail company has a physical operation in the same state as the customer. However, my understanding of the European tax, and proposals for such a tax in the U.S., is that a with an Internet sale, a tax is added regardless of the retail company's physical location.
I truly do not see a substantial difference between these two methods of sales to provide for a different method of taxation: the provision of information for a product is provided to the customer in the same fashion:
1. With a catalog, the customer is sent and reads information concerning the product in his/her state, compared with the Internet, the customer receives and reads information concerning the product in his/her state; and
2. The transaction is conducted in the customer's state. With a catalog, the customer is typically at his/her state of residence and phones the retail operation to place an order --- with the Internet, the customer is typically at his/her state of residence and communicates with the retail operation, via a similar mode of transmission, to place an order.
If transactions via the Internet are to be taxed, it should be done fairly --- only taxation if the customer resides in a state where the retail operation has a physical operation: like mail-order sales.
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Well it is now May 5, 2002. Perhaps he purchased a new digital camera since his latest update? The text below is from his site. I think it is safe to assume this project is collecting dust.
July 2000 Update:
Well, within a year of building this contraption, I bought a digital camera anyways. My first digital camera was an Olympus D340R, bought it in June 1999. Then, in June 2000, I bought a cannon PowerShot S100 (the Digital Elph). Awesome little camera. Haven't used my scanning contraption much, although it is still capable of producing images sharper than what comes out of a 3.3 megapixel digicam.
This article pisses me off, why? This scammer has an expensive home, a few cars such as a Jaguar (ok, Jaguar sucks but it is arguably better than his Eclipse), boats, and a couple of planes --- oh, and he still has a bundle of cash.
I, or any number of us, could pull an evil-scheme like this off. But, for some reason we don't. For some reason we have ethics and values. And, for some reason, a guy like that has more money than he needs to live on. Obviously, the world is not fair.
While I cannot present any proof, I am convinced what AOL acquires, AOL screws up. Netscape is a prime example. Certainly Netscape had value (server app, a browser...) prior to its acquisition by AOL and after acquisition, AOL left Netscape with a simple homepage. I guess I'll see if AOL brings Time Warner's assets to its knees. Certainly the Road Runner service is not improving since the merger.
After the Dmitry and DMCA flop by Adobe, I will never purchase an Adobe product and I swear to gawd I will save my friends and co-workers from thinking about purchasing an Adobe product. So, if Adobe is finally convinced it can make a few more bucks by porting its apps to Linux, perhaps Adobe needs to correct its public relations fiasco and not with a mere press release, but something more sublime; maybe a contribution to EFF? Until such an event, no way, no how, Adobe --- not on this Linux box. I will not just forget Adobe's mistake and I hope others will not.
Out of curiousity, who does /. use for the accpetance of credit cards?
"Either the Greeks having been concealed in this wood are hiding, or this has been made as a machine against our walls, about to look into our homes and about to come into our city. From above, or some trick is hiding; don't trust in the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is...
Some where, IBM must have truckloads of harddrives waiting at a shipping dock clearly labelled with the big blue logo. Certainly Hitachi wont touch them with such tarnishment --- they must be sold at discount close-out prices! So, where are these bad buys going up for auction? ;)
I always wondered what happened with Sergeant Duffy after his roles in Infocom's Witness and Deadline...
I, too, have the same impression. Moreover, what real experience does someone with GeekPAC have with lobbying? I am sceptical of someone who has an extensive background/education in political scientist or someone who is alien to the process. What is necessary IMO is someone who is in the know: a current successful lobbyist, a popular member of a Congressional staff, or a former rep/senator.
Anyone else is a waste of time, money, and hope.
[An advertisement airs on broadcast television during 2004....]
Narrator: Deep in the shadows and during late night hours, terrorists construct computers so they may prevent Americans the opportunity to enjoy music, film, and software.
(Display a family enjoying a movie and children listening to music)
Narrator: These terrorists are responsible for up to 30% of unemployment in our nation due to reductions in revenue for American businesses.
(Display an unemployment line and a line of Russians waiting to receive bread during the Soviet-era)
Narrator: Moreover, parts (primarily manufactured in the non-American and ugly capitalistic and piggish democractic nation of Russia) are purchased via the computer blackmarket and finance drug sales to children at schools.
(Display computers alongside dead children)
Narrator: Why would a person wish to build a computer?
(Display an individual covered by a black and dark shadow)
Narrator: Only an anti-societal and evil intention lurks in these terrorists to undermine our common courage: "one nation under god, indivisible, and united we stand."
(Display the flag of the United States of America)
Narrator: These terrorists must be reported to the Civilian Protection Team immediately! Now is the time to defend our nation! Do your part... today!
(Display a telephone and Citizen Protection Member (CPM) dressed in uniform and receiving a request from a female citizen in the foreground with the flag in the background)
Narrator 2: This message brought to you by the Council for an Evil Free America.
(Display Evil Buster Logo (TM) )
I am curious to hear how others respond to meetings or 'parts of meetings' requesting you to imagine things such as: "a circle, with the line colored in your favorite color, but not red because red is too negative. Now, think of the moment of your life you felt best where you felt like you were number one! You felt confident and ready to challenge anything in the world. Now, insert that moment in the circle. The circle with your favorite color, other than red or, I forgot to mention, black, is in front of you. Go ahead and take a step forward into the circle. Go ahead! Now, how do you feel!?!"
This is the type of shit I must confront in the work-place and entirely agree with parent: " I'm not at work to bond by force. If I need to get in touch with my deeper self, I'll do it on my own time." But, how do I respond to such requests, instead of taking a deep-breath and doing it, again? Any template responses to share?
We remember Storm Linux, right? While I do not use it today, I still find it the most user-friendly installer for Debian --- select usual preferences (keyboard, language, blah blah) and have the installed figure out the 'hardware stuff.'
With Storm long gone, would it not be legit to utilize the Storm installer for another product?
[sarcasm --- an advertisement displayed in a newspaper and aired on broadcast television during 2004]
.... Deep in the shadows and during late night hours, terrorists construct computers so they may prevent Americans the opportunity to enjoy music, film, and software. These terrorists are responsible for 20% of unemployment due to reductions in revenue for American businesses. Moreover, parts (primarily manufactured in the non-American and ugly capitalistic and piggish democractic nation of Russia) are purchased via the computer blackmarket and finance drug sales to children at schools.
Why would a person wish to build a computer? Only an anti-societal and evil intention lurks in these terrorists to undermine our common courage: "one nation under god, indivisible, and united we stand."
These terrorists must be reported to the Civilian Protection Team immediately! Now is the time to defend our nation! Do your part... today!
This message brought to you by the Council for an Evil Free America.
[/sarcasm]
While /. provides that the article mentions Transmeta, I read and searched the entire and did not find Transmeta.
What is spoken of Transmeta?
you may want to consider ProPay. I have no association with the company, just have used it for transactions as an alternative to paypal and have not seen the same criticisms of ProPay which paypal receives.
While my experiences with ProPay have been limited, I have not had a problem yet.
Perhaps someone has some insight regarding the services ProPay, a competitor of PayPal?
It would be interesting to read the inner workings of the group. Is there a link? btw, perhaps the group could make some $$$ by using their messages to create a book of their adventure?