War is Peace, brother.
You sir, are a politically correct, commie pinko, marxist cant spouting anticapitalist lacky!
The issue isn't the Bush administration.
You sir, are a flag waving, right wing, conservative neonazi, capitalist pig!
i would view it as contaminating the linux operating system with MS's foreign programming techniques and bugs
And this, my friends, is the attitude that keeps Linux off the desktop.
There's a word for it: elitism.
You must REALLY hate WINE.
Having said that, it would be nice if a huge company like IBM would get behind a project like OO or KOffice, but the economics of the situation make that look like a very remote possibility. Unforrunately, we have to live in corporate reality when dealing with corporations, no matter how angelic they may seem (this year, anyway).
Because "pre-compiled" is not the same as "precompiled." One means "before being compiled," the other means "compiled before being needed," as in "precompiled headers."
Perhaps, perhaps not. I think a lot of software companies out there are failing to follow the old adage: "don't sell shoes to shoemakers." Meaning? There are WAY too many software companies trying to sell software and services to...other software companies!
This can only go so far, eventually some of those software companies have to sell to someone else, or we're in a big circle and going down fast. Software companies that hire REAL coders (who, for example, know what a "stack frame" is, I'm not talking about code monkeys) and do software projects for people in other markets still have the potential for success.
Are V.C.s likely to fund your new company which aims to sell yet ANOTHER content management system or source code revision system or.NET component? No. Might they fund a business who writes software that analyzes biotech data in real time, or even controls sophisticated steel factory machines? Probably.
And Fark too! The poor guy; I bet he thought having Microsoft's blood-sucking lawyers after him was bad enough, but being Farked and Slashdotted on the same day?
I hope the server's not in his room, because he'd probably be getting a nice tan by now;-)
I was thinking, duplicate stories often have the same links to websites, quotes from people, etc..., so couldn't someone write a patch to slashcode that searches the previous N articles for similar links or strings of words (much like is done with plagiarism catchers)?
It seems that that would at least pull up a list of similar stories and the admin could look at them and say "Yeah, this is a dupe, I see the other story right here, from 2 days ago," and hit "cancel".
Just a thought.
Oh, and a note for people who ask "why do we care?" Well, dupe's wouldn't be a big deal if it weren't for the comments. For those that enjoy reading or making comments, duplicates mean that the discussion is spread accross two (or more) different stories. That's not cool.
I concur, I watched the Keynote, and Jobs made it clear that they were targeting the $100-$200+ flash market with the iPod mini. They aren't targeting the Dell DJ et al (that's what the regular iPod is supposed to be doing).
In a nutshell, Apple isn't targeting the market that asks "why spend $249 for x when I can spend $50 more for y," they are targetting the one that asks "why spend $199 for x when I can spend $50 more for y," and I think it will work if the marketing is targeted correctly.
And don't forget, these smaller drives are very new, don't be surprised to see a 2Gb for $199 around christmas, why not?
Ya know, at one point I might have cared, but we need to end our reliance on petroleum Real Soon Now(TM), mostly for environmental consequences far greater than 22,000 birds over 20 years, not to mention the socio-political impact of foreign oil dependance.
Anything we can do to remove ourselves from our current situation is beneficial, so with that I say......fuck the birds.
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That would be appropriate, considering that most cube walls are padded
Hmmmm, no need to get antagonistic with the title of your post there man, I was just reporting my experience. On Mandrake 9.1, KDE 3.1 does not exhibit the behavior you speak of.
Perhaps I should check my defaults, that doesn't mean I'm "lying."
OK I've gotten a lot of comments that say this has been fixed, I need to set some options, etc... That's fine (and thanks for letting me know what I can do to fix it) but my point still stands I think.
And my point was that I think it's the little things that make people's experience with alternative software less than positive. It's like going in your house and someone has changed the furniture. Sure, you can still find the couch, but it's just a little unsettling. Or maybe a better anology is that of a table with one shorter leg. You can do your homework on it, but it's distracting.
Of course, this is just the GUI part of things, I think we've progressed wonderfully with hardware support and detection, speed, and ease of installation. And I absolutely wouldn't trade UN*X for anything when it comes to the command line.
So, in both Gnome and KDE 3.1 I can click on an icon and.... nothing. The cursor doesn't change to an hourglass or anything, so I click again thinking I just didn't doubleclick fast enough. Of course, this opens two instances of the program.
See, it's just little things like this, but boy are there a LOT of these little things. Fix them, and maybe we'll see people treat Linux and OSS as a serious alternative.
Since they know they can't stop downloaders, they figure if they make it a point to go after the biggest file sharers people will become paranoid and turn file sharing off. They'll become leachers.
Of course we know what happens to a P2P system with all leachers and no sharers...
Does this help RedHat's customers? I mean, SCO can't really do anything to RedHat's customers while they are involved in a lawsuit with RedHat themselves?
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War is Peace, brother. You sir, are a politically correct, commie pinko, marxist cant spouting anticapitalist lacky! The issue isn't the Bush administration. You sir, are a flag waving, right wing, conservative neonazi, capitalist pig!
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What's a "pound bar"?
i would view it as contaminating the linux operating system with MS's foreign programming techniques and bugs
And this, my friends, is the attitude that keeps Linux off the desktop.
There's a word for it: elitism.
You must REALLY hate WINE.
Having said that, it would be nice if a huge company like IBM would get behind a project like OO or KOffice, but the economics of the situation make that look like a very remote possibility. Unforrunately, we have to live in corporate reality when dealing with corporations, no matter how angelic they may seem (this year, anyway).
Because "pre-compiled" is not the same as "precompiled." One means "before being compiled," the other means "compiled before being needed," as in "precompiled headers."
Are you suggesting that real programmers use DOS? I see......
Perhaps, perhaps not. I think a lot of software companies out there are failing to follow the old adage: "don't sell shoes to shoemakers." Meaning? There are WAY too many software companies trying to sell software and services to...other software companies!
.NET component? No. Might they fund a business who writes software that analyzes biotech data in real time, or even controls sophisticated steel factory machines? Probably.
This can only go so far, eventually some of those software companies have to sell to someone else, or we're in a big circle and going down fast. Software companies that hire REAL coders (who, for example, know what a "stack frame" is, I'm not talking about code monkeys) and do software projects for people in other markets still have the potential for success.
Are V.C.s likely to fund your new company which aims to sell yet ANOTHER content management system or source code revision system or
I think he would be able to respond to that, but he'd probably have to get the answer from his lawyers first.
How might one "suff" /., might I ask? It sounds interesting, and I'd like to try.
And Fark too! The poor guy; I bet he thought having Microsoft's blood-sucking lawyers after him was bad enough, but being Farked and Slashdotted on the same day?
;-)
I hope the server's not in his room, because he'd probably be getting a nice tan by now
Ummm, because Bush needs to get reelected?
:)
Just a guess
I was thinking, duplicate stories often have the same links to websites, quotes from people, etc..., so couldn't someone write a patch to slashcode that searches the previous N articles for similar links or strings of words (much like is done with plagiarism catchers)?
It seems that that would at least pull up a list of similar stories and the admin could look at them and say "Yeah, this is a dupe, I see the other story right here, from 2 days ago," and hit "cancel".
Just a thought.
Oh, and a note for people who ask "why do we care?" Well, dupe's wouldn't be a big deal if it weren't for the comments. For those that enjoy reading or making comments, duplicates mean that the discussion is spread accross two (or more) different stories. That's not cool.
I know this is obvious, but I just wanted to point out that
Mayhew's contract contains a stipulation that he must also appear in Episodes 7, 8, and 9
Only says that if there is a 7, 8, or 9, then Mayhew must appear in them. It does not mean that there must be an episode 7, 8, and/or 9.
This looks, as another poster pointed out, like a case of hedging one's bets. Nothing to see here, move along...
...what would happen if he decided to become a Creationist? Wouldn't that be embarrassing! ;-)
If I had to pick between God and the dock, I'd choose the lesser of the two evils (I leave it as an exercise to the reader to pick which one that is).
And don't forget, these smaller drives are very new, don't be surprised to see a 2Gb for $199 around christmas, why not?
Ya know, at one point I might have cared, but we need to end our reliance on petroleum Real Soon Now(TM), mostly for environmental consequences far greater than 22,000 birds over 20 years, not to mention the socio-political impact of foreign oil dependance.
...fuck the birds.
Anything we can do to remove ourselves from our current situation is beneficial, so with that I say...
That would be appropriate, considering that most cube walls are padded
Apology accepted, sometimes humor escapes me :)
:)
I also don't really like Mandrake. I've got it on my system, but I think it's time to go. Debian here I come
Hmmmm, no need to get antagonistic with the title of your post there man, I was just reporting my experience. On Mandrake 9.1, KDE 3.1 does not exhibit the behavior you speak of.
Perhaps I should check my defaults, that doesn't mean I'm "lying."
OK I've gotten a lot of comments that say this has been fixed, I need to set some options, etc... That's fine (and thanks for letting me know what I can do to fix it) but my point still stands I think.
And my point was that I think it's the little things that make people's experience with alternative software less than positive. It's like going in your house and someone has changed the furniture. Sure, you can still find the couch, but it's just a little unsettling. Or maybe a better anology is that of a table with one shorter leg. You can do your homework on it, but it's distracting.
Of course, this is just the GUI part of things, I think we've progressed wonderfully with hardware support and detection, speed, and ease of installation. And I absolutely wouldn't trade UN*X for anything when it comes to the command line.
So, in both Gnome and KDE 3.1 I can click on an icon and.... nothing. The cursor doesn't change to an hourglass or anything, so I click again thinking I just didn't doubleclick fast enough. Of course, this opens two instances of the program.
See, it's just little things like this, but boy are there a LOT of these little things. Fix them, and maybe we'll see people treat Linux and OSS as a serious alternative.
Since they know they can't stop downloaders, they figure if they make it a point to go after the biggest file sharers people will become paranoid and turn file sharing off. They'll become leachers.
Of course we know what happens to a P2P system with all leachers and no sharers...
"Prepare to fast forward..."
"Fast forward!"
"Fast forwarding sir!"
"Preparing to comb the desert"
"Why are you preparing, you're always preparing, just go!"
"Just go..."
We appear to have disassembled their webserver :)
Does this help RedHat's customers? I mean, SCO can't really do anything to RedHat's customers while they are involved in a lawsuit with RedHat themselves?
Or can they? I honestly don't know...