You can Launder $3.89 billion dollars; or Cook your company's books, run the ship into the ground and fuck everyone not already making $1million+/yr when the show's over; or simply fucking murder people and see little or no jail time, but reading someone's email's going to net you life in prison? Sound fair to me.
I find it funny that the reviewer's site uses one of those annoying and browser-crushing floating backgrounds that doesn't scroll when you go through the page....
I love linux, and we run, sans two irix boxes, all linux machines in our department and it's wonderful. I've been a proponent for years, but maybe.. maybe.. just maybe.. we should worry about a stable virtual memory system before we worry about hotswapable processors?
How is it "doomed"? Is the mighty fist of corporate America going to come smashing down on them and say, "hahah! you're so far behind us! you can no longer make your hobby word processor!" at which the developers will turn their tails and leave? So what if StarOffice is further along; big deal. Not as many people use the product. Big deal. They're not generating revenue. A large user base, outside of debugging and commentry, is NOT an integral part of the development process.
I wonder if any Krispy Kreme donut shops, or Chipolte grills have opened up next to theaters for this specifically this reason. I would, if I owned Krispy Kreme.
You could tell him that all of the quick-hack programming will probably come back to bite him in the butt, and unless he gives the programmers more time, your company's reputation will probably suffer in the long-run.
Slashdot uses a lot of tables on the pages which can take a while to render, so what better test for a browser. Obviously this is a pretty extreme test as most pages are nowhere near as big.
These load times are absurd. Is this guy connected to the internet via a 300-baud phone-coupler attached to a telephone line spliced together with paper clips? I'm on a cablemodem, and it takes less than two-seconds to fully load slashdot. I think it took about 9 or 10 when I was on a dialup. Anyone else think these figures look a little inflated?
This is a really interesting service, and I hope that it can continue to operate, unmolested, despite abusive users. Anonymously retrieved child-porn is a term that comes to mind.
A closer route, geographically, does't necessarily mean a faster one. If my packets go to Zaire, but get to my next-door neighbor's place faster than the phone-coupled 300bps ppp connection we have, I'll take the route through Zaire.
Sierra merged with Columbia, huh? Well, maybe Dyanmix can offer to make a sequel to the Aces Over [campaign] series starring Mat Daemon and Ben Afflick.
I wonder how much longer it will be before NASA gets contracted by the larger porn sites to start lugging cameras around the orbits of the world's nude beaches. ---------------------------------------- ---------- -------
Is this a surprise to anyone? I don't mean to be an ass, because there seemed to be good minds over at Eazel, and they seemed to have made a nice product, but.. I don't see how they thought that they'd make any money off of the idea. When you have things likes KDE/Gnome already fairly well entrenched for newbies, and things like blackbox for people who're a little more technically adept, how did they expect to turn a profit? Honestly, I don't know of anyone that would pay for a product that was comperable to already established items which were freely available. It seems like the whole Gnu/Linux vs. Windows thing in reverse. ------------------------------------------------ -- -------
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Get your facts straight. That's Euler's identity, not Gauss'.
-5 points for getting that wrong.
-10 points for being an idiot.
Couldn't you just make a directory--say /opt/trash--and write something along the lines of..
/opt/trash?
mv $ARGV[0]
then let the user clean out their "trash" when they've confirmed that they don't want something?
So...
You can Launder $3.89 billion dollars; or Cook your company's books, run the ship into the ground and fuck everyone not already making $1million+/yr when the show's over; or simply fucking murder people and see little or no jail time, but reading someone's email's going to net you life in prison? Sound fair to me.
Uh, I thought newton's laws broke down when dealing with extreamly high velocities and/or tiny distances.
I find it funny that the reviewer's site uses one of those annoying and browser-crushing floating backgrounds that doesn't scroll when you go through the page....
try bb.themes.org :)
I love linux, and we run, sans two irix boxes, all linux machines in our department and it's wonderful. I've been a proponent for years, but maybe.. maybe.. just maybe.. we should worry about a stable virtual memory system before we worry about hotswapable processors?
How is it "doomed"? Is the mighty fist of corporate America going to come smashing down on them and say, "hahah! you're so far behind us! you can no longer make your hobby word processor!" at which the developers will turn their tails and leave? So what if StarOffice is further along; big deal. Not as many people use the product. Big deal. They're not generating revenue. A large user base, outside of debugging and commentry, is NOT an integral part of the development process.
New halitosis worm reported to affect people who haven't installed the new toothpaste module.
geeks goes to Enrish classes..
I wonder if any Krispy Kreme donut shops, or Chipolte grills have opened up next to theaters for this specifically this reason. I would, if I owned Krispy Kreme.
You could tell him that all of the quick-hack programming will probably come back to bite him in the butt, and unless he gives the programmers more time, your company's reputation will probably suffer in the long-run.
I can run counter-strike at 178fps in wine. I think that's pretty fucking amazing.
I have a p200 here, with 32MB of old EDO ram. Loading slashdot, from the remote server, takes 8 seconds. 7 with mozilla 0.9.3.
Slashdot uses a lot of tables on the pages which can take a while to render, so what better test for a browser. Obviously this is a pretty extreme test as most pages are nowhere near as big.
Opera: 127 seconds
Konqueror: 57 seconds
Mozilla: 71 seconds
Galeon: 64 seconds
Skipstone: 57 seconds (Note: Browser crashed on first attempt.)
Netscape: 34 seconds
Winner: Netscape Navigator
These load times are absurd. Is this guy connected to the internet via a 300-baud phone-coupler attached to a telephone line spliced together with paper clips? I'm on a cablemodem, and it takes less than two-seconds to fully load slashdot. I think it took about 9 or 10 when I was on a dialup. Anyone else think these figures look a little inflated?
This is a really interesting service, and I hope that it can continue to operate, unmolested, despite abusive users. Anonymously retrieved child-porn is a term that comes to mind.
A closer route, geographically, does't necessarily mean a faster one. If my packets go to Zaire, but get to my next-door neighbor's place faster than the phone-coupled 300bps ppp connection we have, I'll take the route through Zaire.
Sierra merged with Columbia, huh? Well, maybe Dyanmix can offer to make a sequel to the Aces Over [campaign] series starring Mat Daemon and Ben Afflick.
I wonder how much longer it will be before NASA gets contracted by the larger porn sites to start lugging cameras around the orbits of the world's nude beaches.- ---------- -------
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Is this a surprise to anyone? I don't mean to be an ass, because there seemed to be good minds over at Eazel, and they seemed to have made a nice product, but.. I don't see how they thought that they'd make any money off of the idea. When you have things likes KDE/Gnome already fairly well entrenched for newbies, and things like blackbox for people who're a little more technically adept, how did they expect to turn a profit? Honestly, I don't know of anyone that would pay for a product that was comperable to already established items which were freely available. It seems like the whole Gnu/Linux vs. Windows thing in reverse.- -- -------
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