So what if they do buy it and turn it into a embedded OS.
What good does that do for us, the desktop user.
Seems like Be tried doing that and failed, and the desktop version suffered most.
It's things like this that make me shy away from even getting on a computer at school. I'm not sure what they want me to do or not. I've been accused of so many things I didn't do, I just stay away from it at school and get on at home.
Even when I'm fixing something a teacher requested, I'll get questioned by the board-wide administrator about things I've done at the computer.
So, the school goes on with their computer problems and I don't get accused of anything.
Speech synthesis is all well and good, but there will always still be some human writing what that character says.
I'm pretty sure there will always have to be some human element in anything like this. Sorry.
All the Windows users all start your pirated versions of Adobe software at midnight.
Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. all glowing in support of Sklyarov.
No legal versions, though... I think we can deal without those 5.
Ya got tons of cash, America Online... you might as well spread it around. Why give some to me too?
And let me take this time to thank you for supporting Winamp, thanks to you, AOL, I can enjoy my tunes for free.
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You could always not shoplift!
John Romero? And he was wrong.
Someone still has to write the program to churn out that crap :P
So what if they do buy it and turn it into a embedded OS. What good does that do for us, the desktop user. Seems like Be tried doing that and failed, and the desktop version suffered most.
It's things like this that make me shy away from even getting on a computer at school. I'm not sure what they want me to do or not. I've been accused of so many things I didn't do, I just stay away from it at school and get on at home.
Even when I'm fixing something a teacher requested, I'll get questioned by the board-wide administrator about things I've done at the computer.
So, the school goes on with their computer problems and I don't get accused of anything.
But, Microsoft employees are making an OS for a living... and they are not as fun to hang out with.
Stanford's servers can't handle a Sunday morning Slashdot crowd... that's really sad. What does all that tuition money pay for? :)
Speech synthesis is all well and good, but there will always still be some human writing what that character says. I'm pretty sure there will always have to be some human element in anything like this. Sorry.
All the Windows users all start your pirated versions of Adobe software at midnight. Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. all glowing in support of Sklyarov. No legal versions, though... I think we can deal without those 5.
Interesting, I stand corrected :)
Ya got tons of cash, America Online... you might as well spread it around. Why give some to me too? And let me take this time to thank you for supporting Winamp, thanks to you, AOL, I can enjoy my tunes for free.
I don't beleive the concrete is conducting anything, the water is.