"How can any judge in the EU or anywhere else look at this as anything but a bribe?"
Well, the judge [of antirtust case X] will simply roll over on his sunbed on a large yacht and ask the guy lying down next to him whether it was a bribe. The guy next to him being Bill Gates. And when Bill says no, the judge has no reason not to believe Bill. Why would Bill lie? He's a man of generosity and integrity.
In an ideal world, the patent application system would leverage some of the concepts of the open source development world.
For instance, the public should be able to comment on each pending patent, especially to debunk frivelous patent applications and to discuss prior art which exists for a great deal of the patents already granted. Whilst this would be a system open to abuse, it would simply make it harder to get patents and therefore make granted patents are stronger platform from which to defend your inventions and basically solid gold in the courtroom.
But I don't see such radical changes coming any time soon to the patent system.
Oh come on, you can't be so ficnukg serious. You honestly think they would transfer 2.5 mill based on an email that basically mirrors and mocks their own send-out? These people aren't that stupid. They might not be Yale or Harvard types, but they gotta have some wits about them.
They failed to learn thus far. What makes you think another 4 years of FUD, biased media coverage, and Whitehouse lies^H^H^H^H propaganda won't work the second time around?
Yup, it'll be the same thing in 4 years time. Half-half down the middle. Those awake and those asleep at the wheel with their idiosyncratic reasoning (religion, whatever). The only difference being that FORTUNATELY Bush can't be up for election for a 3rd term. Small but significant consolation. I wonder if Jed will be stepping up to keep the family monopoly alive?
"I can see why people are unhappy - Gnome is constantly changing: They had balsa and gmc, they changed to evolution and nautilus. Abiword was dropped for openoffice. Even the configuration changes all the time... This is a pain if you are a distro that tries to actually support it."
Whilst there are many valid complaints you could have about Gnome, these are complete rubbish.
Balsa and GMC were never part of Gnome. They were, and still are, simply Gtk apps that run well in Gnome. As is AbiWord, which was also never a part of the official Gnome tree, and did not stop developing simply because OpenOffice.org came along.
Get your facts straight. An application being Gtk does not make it part of Gnome. And a competitor application does not deprecate or prevent development of the application it competes against. All the applications you mentioned are in active development and, if anything, the competition has inspired the development teams to work harder and produce better applications.
"They have to get it together and stop this "let's start over","let's start over again" nonsense, *soon*."
You're 3 years too late. They already did start over, just the once. And Gnome 2.8 is a damn sight better than Gnome 1.4 - and you're dillusional if you think otherwise. They started over to address some issues in the Gnome1/Gtk1 codebase that simply could not have been resolved by evolving it.
Yes, mistakes were made along the way, people are imperfect and that happens. But the end result is a fluid, intuitive, and (getting) fast desktop that facilitates working with your computer whether you are a novice or an expert. I regard that as somewhat of an achievement. And given the technologies to come, Gnome 2.10 is looking very juicy indeed.
Of course, if you don't like things, go to project GoneME. The fact that they probably won't ever have a release is a testament to the fact that the majority of Gnome users are incredibly satisfied with Gnome2 of late.
The FCC is not prohibiting the dissemination of this information, they are not going to provide it themselves, though.... Telco's are still free to provide the information"
But will they provide the correct information, or will they do what any corp seems to do and provide the information twisted legally (or illegally) to make their look as good as possible?
Why would you blame yourself? That's fairly absurd, it's not like you would have desired the accident to occur. It could happen to anyone at any time. If we do not do anything just because something could happen on some trip that was on our behalf, we'd all be hermits.
I do see what you are saying, people do feel guilty when they are part of a circumstance that surrounds a sad event. But, at the same time, it's nonsensical. Richard didn't drive the truck that crossed the road. It was just one of those horrible things in life that happens day in, day out.
In retrospect, this letter will be of complete surprise to you. For years I have stood by you, no matter how needy you have been. The time required has destroyed my once happy, fun filled life. I used to have friends, but you took them all away. You're just too high maintainence.
We tried many different fashions to see if you'd change... from hats to french laungerie. But you were always the same, time consuming woman who wouldn't let me live my life. And boy are you fucking ugly. I've had to learn the magical mysterious of Hollywood make-up to make you look good in the past, although recently you've gotten a bit better at looking sexy without days of my undivided attention.
There were good times. You were reliable, always around, always available. You were open and honest, and I could see into the very depths of your soul. But you were antisocial, getting anything to work with you was a chore and I've just about had enough of fighting with configuration files to get the most basic peripherals to work with you.
Perhaps, when you've become more friendly, and you work just as well in your various styles, we can be one again.
For now I'm off to that flashy babe Windows. She might be an expensive, unreliable whore, but she looks stunning and good in bed. (Can you go to bed with a computer?) Though I'll be back when she breaks my heart.
(I would go with that super model MacOS X but she's out of my league - my wallet is only 'so' fat.)
Fuck it. All the effort has to be worth something. I'll stick it out to see if, as they say year on year, this will be the year of the Linux desktop... the year it becomes easy. They have been saying it since 1997 but they can't be eternally wrong... can they?
You: "[Gaim] displays a big, mandatory connect window whenever it tries to reconnect."
Me: "Only for people that are too fucking stupid to explore the preferences."
You: "Yuh huh. And that preference would be where?"
Well, it took me all of 2s to enable the "auto reconnect" plugin that came with my installation of Gaim. Then it's just a case of checking all the options in the preferences of that plugin.
Well done for being an idiot. *claps*
The rest of your comment is not worth replying to. Calling me a simpleton and you can't even sort something that simple out? And resorting to attempting to insult me for your own lack of intelligence. Really, you should know better than to argue with a "baseless intolerant elitist who badmouths others to make himself feel better about being a hermit". The fact that you were "baselessly" "badmouthing" gaim because you are an impatient intellectually challenged twat who is "elitist" about his right to bitch about the work of volunteers (talk about "intolerance") kinda pissed me off. So, yeah, I was a little rude.
This was a problem a few versions ago. 1.0.0 (and indeed the few releases prior to it) have worked excellently for moi.
"[Gaim] displays a big, mandatory connect window whenever it tries to reconnect."
Only for people that are too fucking stupid to explore the preferences.
"I had to terminate the client while watching a movie during an internet outage because it kept superimposing messages over BSplayer every 5 minutes."
Another case of the previous issue. This can all be disabled if you have a little bit of IT nouse and a few grey cells. It's just a checkbox or two, nothing too difficult, y'know.
"The file manager is absolute garbage"
I have to say I never tried using Gaim as a file manager. I always mistook it for a multi-protocol IM/chat client. *shrugs*
(Of course, if you refer to the open/save dialogs, they're Gtk2.4 related and you can't really blame the Gaim guys for that.)
"the directory shortcut buttons point to ridiculous places"
Erm, change them. ?
"GAIM is nowhere near ready for 1.0."
People have said the same about, oh, I dunno, Windows. But that reached version 2-frickin-thousand a few years back.
"Maybe [gaim] is tolerable... if you have low standards"
Or if you managed to find the preferences under the Tools menu. It's not like Gaim has loads of menus, so that's not even an excuse.
What a pathetic rant by a loser user, the ones who bitch before thinking, whine before looking, cry before trying. I thought those kinda people were only a subset of non-tech-savvy people... y'know... people out in the normal world. It's kinda scary that they have inflitrated/. - where will we be driven to next to escape the horror of their ignorant-and-lazy-ass kind.
Girlfriend? Fast sports car(s)? Only 24? Social life on the beach? Maintainer on Gaim? What the bloody hell is going on?!? Sure makes me feel like a real achiever, yeah... If you want me, I'll be over there in the corner, hiding under a blanket and sobbing."
Yeah, I felt real sorry for the guy too. It's a real heart wrencher. Reminds me of buddy the puppy... *sobs* the... the... the heart of a champion!
Well, I thought that Kerry's answers were generally a stark contrast to Bush's. Where as the Bush answers tended to be the standard ambiguous crap that usually comes out of his Whitehouse, the Kerry answers offered some firm decisions on some matters and ones that will make some officials sweat profusely if he wins.
For instance, on further Nuclear weapons, he was straight to the point. I paraphrase, "We will discontinue research for next-generation Nuclear weapons, they are not needed."
Also, he was very firm on all questions regarding international matters that America needs to work as part of the international community and not alone (read: not invading countries without the support of the UN or abandoning important treaties like Kyoto). It was good to see such positive assertions.
I also wonder why he's so consistent in referring to 'John Edwards and I'. Perhaps he wants to underline that he won't be a lone ranger?
This guy might actually be a reasonable dude. Of course, we all know that power corrupts, so it will be interesting to see if he (and John Edwards) stick to his (their) guns if Kerry does become the next president.
But whether Kerry can beat Bush probably comes down to whether people believe that Kerry will "kill those darned terrorisms that perpopulate the global world order and need exterminating by sending Arnie to war". Which is quite a sad indigtment of American politics. I don't know why I complain, British elections seem to pivot on who the Sun, Mirror, and Star (ie. the 'gutter' tabloids) tend to support. That and Blair is better than any current alternative.
Which makes me wonder... I wonder how Bush would do in a Prime Minister's Question time that Blair blazes through every Wednesday. (If you don't like Blair, you should watch PMQs, he's really rather good at verbally destroying anybody who attempts to attack him.)
Just because of this comment, I am posting this message using Lynx in a Gnome Terminal.
Actually, no, I'm not. But I can shed light on the problem; I believe Gnome Terminal makes use of the XRender extension (that or another recent X gadget) which is currently not yet hardware accelerated. They're just a bit too far ahead of the game, and are waiting for play to catch up.
"PS is the standard for image manipulation programs, so I don't understand the reluctance of gimp developers to provide a 'ps emulator' mode for Gimp so people familiar with PS could feel more at home. Heck, even emacs has vi modes for crying out loud! It's not like actually getting more users for Gimp would be a bad thing, right?"
Right? Wrong. I think it would be a bad thing - one more item for somebody to maintain, more developer resources consumed. As a user, I would much rather see developer efforts continue to be concentrated on improving the GIMP in terms of both features and improving the existing UI.
Also, as a user, I like seeing them stick to their guns on the UI. I even prefer it to the PS interface. The irony is that if they cloned the PS interface, people like you would be lambasting them for being unoriginal, as happens with all copycat open source software. They are being innovative and making their own design choices, and they get it in the neck for not copying. It's a catch 22 situation.
The GIMP UI is good. It's not a barrier to productivity with the GIMP - the only barrier is people's refusal to let go of something familiar in PS. The GIMP is not PS, thankfully.
"As a Photoshop Tutorial author, if I ever subjected my audience to that kind of bullshit, I wouldn't have a God damned audience! (intended)"
I presume your hell-destined audience (God damned... get it? *sigh*) shares the same lack of a sense of humour then!
I actually find it quite amusing. And I didn't know how to do that, either, so I learnt something at the same time. Entertained and educated. I don't think I could ask for any more from a tutorial.
Slashdot Mirror
"How can any judge in the EU or anywhere else look at this as anything but a bribe?"
Well, the judge [of antirtust case X] will simply roll over on his sunbed on a large yacht and ask the guy lying down next to him whether it was a bribe. The guy next to him being Bill Gates. And when Bill says no, the judge has no reason not to believe Bill. Why would Bill lie? He's a man of generosity and integrity.
In an ideal world, the patent application system would leverage some of the concepts of the open source development world.
For instance, the public should be able to comment on each pending patent, especially to debunk frivelous patent applications and to discuss prior art which exists for a great deal of the patents already granted. Whilst this would be a system open to abuse, it would simply make it harder to get patents and therefore make granted patents are stronger platform from which to defend your inventions and basically solid gold in the courtroom.
But I don't see such radical changes coming any time soon to the patent system.
Oh come on, you can't be so ficnukg serious. You honestly think they would transfer 2.5 mill based on an email that basically mirrors and mocks their own send-out? These people aren't that stupid. They might not be Yale or Harvard types, but they gotta have some wits about them.
The other 52% will learn
They failed to learn thus far. What makes you think another 4 years of FUD, biased media coverage, and Whitehouse lies^H^H^H^H propaganda won't work the second time around?
Yup, it'll be the same thing in 4 years time. Half-half down the middle. Those awake and those asleep at the wheel with their idiosyncratic reasoning (religion, whatever). The only difference being that FORTUNATELY Bush can't be up for election for a 3rd term. Small but significant consolation. I wonder if Jed will be stepping up to keep the family monopoly alive?
If you voted for bush, you deserve to be shot in the head
If only they had a syrum containing knowledge, then this would be a viable stance.
(Shot... get it?)
I mean, really, what is the point of all this? What can the plaintiff hope to gain from this frivelous legal fracas?
The poor man's Vin Diesel.
Oh really. And can you name a good Vim Diesel movie except for Pitch Black?
Thought not, next quip please.
You have to be a US-born citizen to run for president.
You mean Arnold will never be president!?
Nooooooooooooooooooo! TRAGEDY!
"I've spent a few years listening to crap about GNOME. I wish I'd tried it earlier."
The irony being that if you'd tried it earlier (2.0 or 2.2) you'd probably have been one of those people spewing said 'crap'.
2.4 was the first acceptable 2.x release, 2.6 the first decent one. 2.8... well... I'm a gentoo user, so still a while to go on that one.
"I might get mod down for this..."
Didn't you know it's physically impossible to get modded down when flaming spatial nautilus, especially when comparing it to Win95.
"I can see why people are unhappy - Gnome is constantly changing:
They had balsa and gmc, they changed to evolution and nautilus. Abiword was dropped for openoffice.
Even the configuration changes all the time...
This is a pain if you are a distro that tries to actually support it."
Whilst there are many valid complaints you could have about Gnome, these are complete rubbish.
Balsa and GMC were never part of Gnome. They were, and still are, simply Gtk apps that run well in Gnome. As is AbiWord, which was also never a part of the official Gnome tree, and did not stop developing simply because OpenOffice.org came along.
Get your facts straight. An application being Gtk does not make it part of Gnome. And a competitor application does not deprecate or prevent development of the application it competes against. All the applications you mentioned are in active development and, if anything, the competition has inspired the development teams to work harder and produce better applications.
"They have to get it together and stop this "let's start over","let's start over again" nonsense, *soon*."
You're 3 years too late. They already did start over, just the once. And Gnome 2.8 is a damn sight better than Gnome 1.4 - and you're dillusional if you think otherwise. They started over to address some issues in the Gnome1/Gtk1 codebase that simply could not have been resolved by evolving it.
Yes, mistakes were made along the way, people are imperfect and that happens. But the end result is a fluid, intuitive, and (getting) fast desktop that facilitates working with your computer whether you are a novice or an expert. I regard that as somewhat of an achievement. And given the technologies to come, Gnome 2.10 is looking very juicy indeed.
Of course, if you don't like things, go to project GoneME. The fact that they probably won't ever have a release is a testament to the fact that the majority of Gnome users are incredibly satisfied with Gnome2 of late.
"Who would have thought that the shitty nature of their software might actually end up being Microsoft's saving grace?" ...or a good excuse.
BG: "Hrm, those emails are bad, delete them."
EU: "Let me see those emails!"
MS: "Er, we lost them. Happens with Exchange all the time" *points to millions of customer problems with Exchange*
The FCC is not prohibiting the dissemination of this information, they are not going to provide it themselves, though.... Telco's are still free to provide the information"
But will they provide the correct information, or will they do what any corp seems to do and provide the information twisted legally (or illegally) to make their look as good as possible?
Why would you blame yourself? That's fairly absurd, it's not like you would have desired the accident to occur. It could happen to anyone at any time. If we do not do anything just because something could happen on some trip that was on our behalf, we'd all be hermits.
I do see what you are saying, people do feel guilty when they are part of a circumstance that surrounds a sad event. But, at the same time, it's nonsensical. Richard didn't drive the truck that crossed the road. It was just one of those horrible things in life that happens day in, day out.
Dear Linux,
In retrospect, this letter will be of complete surprise to you. For years I have stood by you, no matter how needy you have been. The time required has destroyed my once happy, fun filled life. I used to have friends, but you took them all away. You're just too high maintainence.
We tried many different fashions to see if you'd change... from hats to french laungerie. But you were always the same, time consuming woman who wouldn't let me live my life. And boy are you fucking ugly. I've had to learn the magical mysterious of Hollywood make-up to make you look good in the past, although recently you've gotten a bit better at looking sexy without days of my undivided attention.
There were good times. You were reliable, always around, always available. You were open and honest, and I could see into the very depths of your soul. But you were antisocial, getting anything to work with you was a chore and I've just about had enough of fighting with configuration files to get the most basic peripherals to work with you.
Perhaps, when you've become more friendly, and you work just as well in your various styles, we can be one again.
For now I'm off to that flashy babe Windows. She might be an expensive, unreliable whore, but she looks stunning and good in bed. (Can you go to bed with a computer?) Though I'll be back when she breaks my heart.
(I would go with that super model MacOS X but she's out of my league - my wallet is only 'so' fat.)
Fuck it. All the effort has to be worth something. I'll stick it out to see if, as they say year on year, this will be the year of the Linux desktop... the year it becomes easy. They have been saying it since 1997 but they can't be eternally wrong... can they?
Yours probably forever due to cash shortage,
C.
What don't you understand about the words "came with my installation of Gaim"? I suspect it came with yours too, you "braying edonkey".
No.. there is no formal connection between Mono and Evolution, although both are products of Ximian.
The fact they are both products of the same company IS a formal connection.
You: "[Gaim] displays a big, mandatory connect window whenever it tries to reconnect."
:)
Me: "Only for people that are too fucking stupid to explore the preferences."
You: "Yuh huh. And that preference would be where?"
Well, it took me all of 2s to enable the "auto reconnect" plugin that came with my installation of Gaim. Then it's just a case of checking all the options in the preferences of that plugin.
Well done for being an idiot. *claps*
The rest of your comment is not worth replying to. Calling me a simpleton and you can't even sort something that simple out? And resorting to attempting to insult me for your own lack of intelligence. Really, you should know better than to argue with a "baseless intolerant elitist who badmouths others to make himself feel better about being a hermit". The fact that you were "baselessly" "badmouthing" gaim because you are an impatient intellectually challenged twat who is "elitist" about his right to bitch about the work of volunteers (talk about "intolerance") kinda pissed me off. So, yeah, I was a little rude.
Dickhead.
Sticks 'n' stones.
Woah Noah. Let's put this into perspective.
... if you have low standards"
/. - where will we be driven to next to escape the horror of their ignorant-and-lazy-ass kind.
"It drops [MSN] connections all the time"
This was a problem a few versions ago. 1.0.0 (and indeed the few releases prior to it) have worked excellently for moi.
"[Gaim] displays a big, mandatory connect window whenever it tries to reconnect."
Only for people that are too fucking stupid to explore the preferences.
"I had to terminate the client while watching a movie during an internet outage because it kept superimposing messages over BSplayer every 5 minutes."
Another case of the previous issue. This can all be disabled if you have a little bit of IT nouse and a few grey cells. It's just a checkbox or two, nothing too difficult, y'know.
"The file manager is absolute garbage"
I have to say I never tried using Gaim as a file manager. I always mistook it for a multi-protocol IM/chat client. *shrugs*
(Of course, if you refer to the open/save dialogs, they're Gtk2.4 related and you can't really blame the Gaim guys for that.)
"the directory shortcut buttons point to ridiculous places"
Erm, change them. ?
"GAIM is nowhere near ready for 1.0."
People have said the same about, oh, I dunno, Windows. But that reached version 2-frickin-thousand a few years back.
"Maybe [gaim] is tolerable
Or if you managed to find the preferences under the Tools menu. It's not like Gaim has loads of menus, so that's not even an excuse.
What a pathetic rant by a loser user, the ones who bitch before thinking, whine before looking, cry before trying. I thought those kinda people were only a subset of non-tech-savvy people... y'know... people out in the normal world. It's kinda scary that they have inflitrated
Girlfriend? Fast sports car(s)? Only 24? Social life on the beach? Maintainer on Gaim? What the bloody hell is going on?!? Sure makes me feel like a real achiever, yeah... If you want me, I'll be over there in the corner, hiding under a blanket and sobbing."
Yeah, I felt real sorry for the guy too. It's a real heart wrencher. Reminds me of buddy the puppy... *sobs* the... the... the heart of a champion!
Well, I thought that Kerry's answers were generally a stark contrast to Bush's. Where as the Bush answers tended to be the standard ambiguous crap that usually comes out of his Whitehouse, the Kerry answers offered some firm decisions on some matters and ones that will make some officials sweat profusely if he wins.
For instance, on further Nuclear weapons, he was straight to the point. I paraphrase, "We will discontinue research for next-generation Nuclear weapons, they are not needed."
Also, he was very firm on all questions regarding international matters that America needs to work as part of the international community and not alone (read: not invading countries without the support of the UN or abandoning important treaties like Kyoto). It was good to see such positive assertions.
I also wonder why he's so consistent in referring to 'John Edwards and I'. Perhaps he wants to underline that he won't be a lone ranger?
This guy might actually be a reasonable dude. Of course, we all know that power corrupts, so it will be interesting to see if he (and John Edwards) stick to his (their) guns if Kerry does become the next president.
But whether Kerry can beat Bush probably comes down to whether people believe that Kerry will "kill those darned terrorisms that perpopulate the global world order and need exterminating by sending Arnie to war". Which is quite a sad indigtment of American politics. I don't know why I complain, British elections seem to pivot on who the Sun, Mirror, and Star (ie. the 'gutter' tabloids) tend to support. That and Blair is better than any current alternative.
Which makes me wonder... I wonder how Bush would do in a Prime Minister's Question time that Blair blazes through every Wednesday. (If you don't like Blair, you should watch PMQs, he's really rather good at verbally destroying anybody who attempts to attack him.)
Have they fixed Gnome-terminal yet?
It was, as of 2.6, absolutely unusable.
Just because of this comment, I am posting this message using Lynx in a Gnome Terminal.
Actually, no, I'm not. But I can shed light on the problem; I believe Gnome Terminal makes use of the XRender extension (that or another recent X gadget) which is currently not yet hardware accelerated. They're just a bit too far ahead of the game, and are waiting for play to catch up.
>> Can OpenGL ever match DX in popularity among developers?
> One word: portability
One word: monopoly
"PS is the standard for image manipulation programs, so I don't understand the reluctance of gimp developers to provide a 'ps emulator' mode for Gimp so people familiar with PS could feel more at home. Heck, even emacs has vi modes for crying out loud! It's not like actually getting more users for Gimp would be a bad thing, right?"
Right? Wrong. I think it would be a bad thing - one more item for somebody to maintain, more developer resources consumed. As a user, I would much rather see developer efforts continue to be concentrated on improving the GIMP in terms of both features and improving the existing UI.
Also, as a user, I like seeing them stick to their guns on the UI. I even prefer it to the PS interface. The irony is that if they cloned the PS interface, people like you would be lambasting them for being unoriginal, as happens with all copycat open source software. They are being innovative and making their own design choices, and they get it in the neck for not copying. It's a catch 22 situation.
The GIMP UI is good. It's not a barrier to productivity with the GIMP - the only barrier is people's refusal to let go of something familiar in PS. The GIMP is not PS, thankfully.
"As a Photoshop Tutorial author, if I ever subjected my audience to that kind of bullshit, I wouldn't have a God damned audience! (intended)"
I presume your hell-destined audience (God damned... get it? *sigh*) shares the same lack of a sense of humour then!
I actually find it quite amusing. And I didn't know how to do that, either, so I learnt something at the same time. Entertained and educated. I don't think I could ask for any more from a tutorial.