Thank you. I actually stopped dual booting almost a year ago and do not have any windows boxes at home or office. But I did say "folder" and not directory, perhaps because I first turned on a computer in 1997.
And don't start saying "hey, I don't need Netscape, I want plain Mozilla!". You're right, but Netscape is for (l)users. If Netscape 7 has success, you'll also have more luck surfing the internet with your Mozilla browser.
Well, I need netscape anyway because some sites won't let you install a plugin for mozilla but only netscape or explorer. The installer gives you a choice of one or the other and if you pick netscape it says it couldn't find it. So I install netscape, install the plugin, then copy the files to my mozilla folder.
No, it wasn't released in stores two weeks after Windows. In fact, I've never seen a Linux game on a store shelf. But I can imagine most everyone "ROFL" at the idea.
I can think of about 50 people who would buy this game if it were on a store shelf here in Tacoma. I can only think 15 or 20 that would buy it online.
Just once I'd like to see a game like this (hyped, long time waiting, awsome graphics) get released for Linux at the same time as the Windows version and not online only either, but actually on the shelf.
Then we'll see if Linux games can sell or not. Put it on the shelf at CompUSA watch it go.
Do those big stores in CA sell linux games on the shelf? (ie Fry's).
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If China's gonna do it, we have to, and before they do. What if they get the best spot? Good news, I say.
They don't want to cut their losses. Still holding on to the notion that they might turn it around and get their money back. They'll probably just lose what money they have left.
If the software is popular/useful enough to be adopted by open source volunteers the company will have the benefit of ongoing development of the product that they paid for once.
Also, depending on the program, it may make sense to hold some key (but not critical) object back as closed source they way Sun does with Star/Open Office.
LOL! (slaps knee). I love it when somebody gets their lunch packed after showing off they're superior education. Ha, looks like the real reason he's pissed off is cause some kid 6 years younger than him and zero college education is getting the same pay.
I know you were joking but still, there are games with "something to say". Unfortunately I can only think of 1 right now but maybe someone can reply with more.
Deus ex - remember the part where the Chinese guy is comparing the Chinese political system to the American one? The whole game is actually very political and anti-government. I could see a game like that being censored for it's politcal message.
Biometric encoding would eliminate this because you could easily match a peron to an id card.
And how is this different from a photo i.d? If you had a picture of everyone on your guestlist it would be more secure than this. The proposed system is like coming to the party with a picture of yourself and saying "See here, it's me!". My prediction is that somewhere during the implementation of this latest scheme, the federal database will be built/linked.
Presently: The identity thief (after discovering your name, address, etc.) makes a driver's license but places his/her photo instead of yours on it.
Biometrics: The identity thief does the same as above but places his/her biometric information on/in the card.
Results are the same either way. The solution to the above problem is to distribute your biometric information to everyone on the planet who may need to identify you. That's a great idea - not. This biometric solves no old problems but does create many new ones.
This is either political pork, or a clumsy attempt at doing an "endrun" around the national id issue. I wish I could bitchslap congressmen and senators when they come up with dumb shit like this.
I know an 11 year old girl who can produce web pages in a text editor and is equally comfortable using linux as she is using windows. Her parents think she's a brainiac, but the truth is she just didn't know in advance that linux would be harder. Just as she thinks that using Front Page or GoLive is harder than using NotePad. I quote, "I don't know what all those buttons do, it's easier to just type it." She's learning javascripting from one of the Bible books now, although I am available to "translate" the lessons from the book.
The point is it's just as easy to tell a friend in need to type "rpm -Uvh" as it is to say "doubleclick this file".
Linux is not so difficult it's just different and some people are too timid to attempt the adjustment. Think of how AOL spends a billion dollars a year convincing people that they're "easy" to use when in fact all they did was make they're user interface deliberately different from the "generic" IE/NS set. When an AOL user see's me open up Mozilla to a "blank" page they go "What do I do now?" because all the banner ads and popups are missing.
2. Fix their pricing so that it is uniform to all OEMs (so that OEMs will not be persecuted individually for carrying a competing product, like Linux or Netscape)
I too don't see any point in breaking up microsoft. It's not like the resulting two companies won't cooperate on things like policy, price fixing, blacklisting uncooperative companies etc. In short breaking them up won't do anything buy make a lot of paperwork for some people. But if MS were not allowed to penalize stores that sell dual boot systems, that would change everything real fast.
I'm so glad this was posted on Slashdot. I waited so long for farscape to pick up again that I forgot about it. If not for this mornings post I would've missed it.
I can't afford to miss any episode that Chiana is in.
"While EarthLink had resisted Carnivore deployment on its network prior to the attacks, an EarthLink spokesperson told NewsFactor shortly afterward that he assumed every large ISP in the country had been contacted by the FBI and that all of them were cooperating."
"Carnivore is not deployed on our network," Shaw said. "We certainly do comply with law enforcement, but we do so in a way that does not compromise our users' privacy."
I have to wonder if "cooperating" with law enforcement means not only allowing access to the FBI and Carnivore but also making the public statement "Carnivore is not deployed on our network".
I wouldn't make any assumptions of privacy no matter what ISP you use.
I agree that Writing a DoS tool is not a crime. Using it on someone else is.
The above replies which make comparisons to nuclear weapons etc. are also difficult to disagree with, but I think we can reconcile them.
If we take a step back from the problem we'll see it more clearly. Most laws are passed with the intention of improving the society we live in (insert your favorite sarcastic comment here), or at least they are presented that way. Just like any other problem solving excersize we need an endgoal, and here is mine:
In an ideal society most kids will learn how to build nuclear weapons in school, and this will not frighten anyone. Governments will be completely transparent, national secrets have no reason to be kept, and terrorist will only be read about in history books.
Figure the odds right? But the point I'd like to make here is that weapons control laws, national secrets acts, hell even the military, should be seens as temporary measures, hacks, work arounds and not as solutions. The solution is the perfect society where we all get along just fine without these laws. This is what's missing, a vision of the perfect society that we're all working towards. That this perfection is impossible is not the point, the point is we need something to work towards.
I prefer OpenOffice over MS Office because the filter/sort functions work better for me. I recently started showing OpenOffice to my AA and it occurred to me that (probably anyway) no one I know has ever heard of OpenOffice.
If Sun's return from OpenOffice is a)breaking MS's monopoly hold on office productivity software, and b)endearing Sun to the Open Source community, then a major goal for the OpenOffice team should be attracting more users.
Do you see Sun paying for airtime to boost the "nongeek" userbase of OpenOffice?
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Thank you. I actually stopped dual booting almost a year ago and do not have any windows boxes at home or office. But I did say "folder" and not directory, perhaps because I first turned on a computer in 1997.
And don't start saying "hey, I don't need Netscape, I want plain Mozilla!". You're right, but Netscape is for (l)users. If Netscape 7 has success, you'll also have more luck surfing the internet with your Mozilla browser.
Well, I need netscape anyway because some sites won't let you install a plugin for mozilla but only netscape or explorer. The installer gives you a choice of one or the other and if you pick netscape it says it couldn't find it. So I install netscape, install the plugin, then copy the files to my mozilla folder.
No, it wasn't released in stores two weeks after Windows. In fact, I've never seen a Linux game on a store shelf. But I can imagine most everyone "ROFL" at the idea.
I can think of about 50 people who would buy this game if it were on a store shelf here in Tacoma. I can only think 15 or 20 that would buy it online.
Just once I'd like to see a game like this (hyped, long time waiting, awsome graphics) get released for Linux at the same time as the Windows version and not online only either, but actually on the shelf.
Then we'll see if Linux games can sell or not. Put it on the shelf at CompUSA watch it go.
Do those big stores in CA sell linux games on the shelf? (ie Fry's).
If China's gonna do it, we have to, and before they do. What if they get the best spot? Good news, I say.
My Idea:
They don't want to cut their losses. Still holding on to the notion that they might turn it around and get their money back. They'll probably just lose what money they have left.
She has cat dna mixed in with her human. She goes into heat. She's too sexy. She has a barcode on the back of her neck.
Support.
If the software is popular/useful enough to be adopted by open source volunteers the company will have the benefit of ongoing development of the product that they paid for once.
Also, depending on the program, it may make sense to hold some key (but not critical) object back as closed source they way Sun does with Star/Open Office.
LOL! (slaps knee). I love it when somebody gets their lunch packed after showing off they're superior education. Ha, looks like the real reason he's pissed off is cause some kid 6 years younger than him and zero college education is getting the same pay.
I know you were joking but still, there are games with "something to say". Unfortunately I can only think of 1 right now but maybe someone can reply with more.
Deus ex - remember the part where the Chinese guy is comparing the Chinese political system to the American one? The whole game is actually very political and anti-government. I could see a game like that being censored for it's politcal message.
Biometric encoding would eliminate this because you could easily match a peron to an id card.
And how is this different from a photo i.d? If you had a picture of everyone on your guestlist it would be more secure than this. The proposed system is like coming to the party with a picture of yourself and saying "See here, it's me!". My prediction is that somewhere during the implementation of this latest scheme, the federal database will be built/linked.
This is a bad idea
Presently: The identity thief (after discovering your name, address, etc.) makes a driver's license but places his/her photo instead of yours on it.
Biometrics: The identity thief does the same as above but places his/her biometric information on/in the card.
Results are the same either way. The solution to the above problem is to distribute your biometric information to everyone on the planet who may need to identify you. That's a great idea - not. This biometric solves no old problems but does create many new ones.
This is either political pork, or a clumsy attempt at doing an "endrun" around the national id issue. I wish I could bitchslap congressmen and senators when they come up with dumb shit like this.
I know an 11 year old girl who can produce web pages in a text editor and is equally comfortable using linux as she is using windows. Her parents think she's a brainiac, but the truth is she just didn't know in advance that linux would be harder. Just as she thinks that using Front Page or GoLive is harder than using NotePad. I quote, "I don't know what all those buttons do, it's easier to just type it." She's learning javascripting from one of the Bible books now, although I am available to "translate" the lessons from the book.
The point is it's just as easy to tell a friend in need to type "rpm -Uvh" as it is to say "doubleclick this file".
Linux is not so difficult it's just different and some people are too timid to attempt the adjustment. Think of how AOL spends a billion dollars a year convincing people that they're "easy" to use when in fact all they did was make they're user interface deliberately different from the "generic" IE/NS set. When an AOL user see's me open up Mozilla to a "blank" page they go "What do I do now?" because all the banner ads and popups are missing.
wtf?
Really the only one that matters is item (2)...
2. Fix their pricing so that it is uniform to all OEMs (so that OEMs will not be persecuted individually for carrying a competing product, like Linux or Netscape)
I too don't see any point in breaking up microsoft. It's not like the resulting two companies won't cooperate on things like policy, price fixing, blacklisting uncooperative companies etc. In short breaking them up won't do anything buy make a lot of paperwork for some people. But if MS were not allowed to penalize stores that sell dual boot systems, that would change everything real fast.
Take, for example, Lehman's "Second Law" of software evolution, a software reworking of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
"The entropy of a system increases with time unless specific work is executed to maintain or reduce it."
As evidenced by the back of my Subaru.
Well, maybe it's because everytime they go back in time the Earth isn't there anymore and they die a horrible death in space.
I'm so glad this was posted on Slashdot. I waited so long for farscape to pick up again that I forgot about it. If not for this mornings post I would've missed it.
I can't afford to miss any episode that Chiana is in.
BEE
dammit
I think that should "wraiths" of enough people.
Emails that are sent to me from or sent by me thru MSN Hotmail also sometimes take a day to arrive.
"While EarthLink had resisted Carnivore deployment on its network prior to the attacks, an EarthLink spokesperson told NewsFactor shortly afterward that he assumed every large ISP in the country had been contacted by the FBI and that all of them were cooperating."
"Carnivore is not deployed on our network," Shaw said. "We certainly do comply with law enforcement, but we do so in a way that does not compromise our users' privacy."
I have to wonder if "cooperating" with law enforcement means not only allowing access to the FBI and Carnivore but also making the public statement "Carnivore is not deployed on our network".
I wouldn't make any assumptions of privacy no matter what ISP you use.
China, the worlds, last bastion of freedom.
I agree that Writing a DoS tool is not a crime. Using it on someone else is.
The above replies which make comparisons to nuclear weapons etc. are also difficult to disagree with, but I think we can reconcile them.
If we take a step back from the problem we'll see it more clearly. Most laws are passed with the intention of improving the society we live in (insert your favorite sarcastic comment here), or at least they are presented that way. Just like any other problem solving excersize we need an endgoal, and here is mine:
In an ideal society most kids will learn how to build nuclear weapons in school, and this will not frighten anyone. Governments will be completely transparent, national secrets have no reason to be kept, and terrorist will only be read about in history books.
Figure the odds right? But the point I'd like to make here is that weapons control laws, national secrets acts, hell even the military, should be seens as temporary measures, hacks, work arounds and not as solutions. The solution is the perfect society where we all get along just fine without these laws. This is what's missing, a vision of the perfect society that we're all working towards. That this perfection is impossible is not the point, the point is we need something to work towards.
I prefer OpenOffice over MS Office because the filter/sort functions work better for me. I recently started showing OpenOffice to my AA and it occurred to me that (probably anyway) no one I know has ever heard of OpenOffice.
If Sun's return from OpenOffice is a)breaking MS's monopoly hold on office productivity software, and b)endearing Sun to the Open Source community, then a major goal for the OpenOffice team should be attracting more users.
Do you see Sun paying for airtime to boost the "nongeek" userbase of OpenOffice?