Actually, it's completely legal... you're the one choosing to run X Random Software on your computer without paying for it (doing so illegally)... and I'm sure the author is smart enough to clear himself legally by saying in the warranty something to the effect of "If you didn't pay for this, this software comes with absolutely no warranty, and may destroy your computer or even harm you physically"... I believe Slackware and other linux distros have warranty clauses to the effect of "This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY and may set your computer on fire" (yes, the caps are there originally)... basically they could make a computer program that eats you, and that's not illegal if -you- -choose- to run it and have it eat you... it's only illegal if they didn't give you a choice (ie didn't tell you it would eat you).
1. First, highest, or foremost in importance, rank, worth, or degree; chief. See Synonyms at chief.
2. Of, relating to, or being financial principal, or a principal in a financial transaction.
check it out on dictionary dot com. that spelling doesn't only refer to the school administrator.
"Why are those "Democratic" voters? Do the Democrats own them? How do you know they wouldn't have just stayed home if Nader weren't on the ballot?"
They're democratic voters because they chose to list their party affiliation as "Democratic" when they registered to vote. They might have just stayed home, but chances are a lot of them would have voted with their party affiliation. It's impossible to know, of course.
The assumption is that if they went to vote at all, and had already affiliated themselves with one party, they would have voted for the candidate of that party had the person they actually voted for not been running.
WineX (Cedega) is a tweaked, commercial, GAMING-only version of WINE. While they are putting a lot of commercial effort into making it a product, their product is for gaming only.
CrossoverOffice might be a better bet to rant about/rag on for getting QuickBooks support, but for the majority of users, that still isn't nearly as important as Microsoft Office and the Adobe products. Those are for the most part working with CrossoverOffice, and many users are quite happy with it.
a) being in Walmart at 9:30am the day after Thanksgiving does not make us happy. b) our digital camera is crappy and we needed a better one. Walmart is perfect for this because they have a 0% restocking fee and a 90-day return policy (89 days more than we needed). We got an HP435, which was a mistake-- it comes with a tiny amount of storage and the pictures suck. Still, it was slightly better than what we had. Onward!"
last: "Back to Walmart to return the lousy camera. Thanks for the loaner, guys!"
I use iceWM as my only "desktop environment" (hahaha) on very new machines (my desktop is an Athlon XP 3000+). There's no reason to add bloat simply because your computer can handle it.
I wouldn't worry about it screwing up your games... it doesn't appear to run on Windows. From the Platform Requirements: "Operating System - Project Looking Glass has been tested on Sun Java Desktop System Release 1 and Release 2, RedHat 9, SuSE Linux 8.1."
If you want to be a coder speaking the truth, you could try to be informed first.
The philosophy of only coding for what browsers can handle is a noble one... and one that, as far as I know, every sane web developer has been doing as long as the field has existed... who wants to code for non-existent clients?
As for your description of that as "Just HTML", that's Just Wrong. The W3C standards are, currently, XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2.0.
The W3C has long been advocating HTML/XHTML for markup and CSS for layout/design, pretty much since that paradigm was invented (or reinvented) by them. The W3C standards have evolved a bit since you've last checked. Your assumption was:
W3C standard: HTML 4.0
Browser Proprietary Stuff: everything else
However, there's a very different story today:
W3C standards: XHTML 1.0-1.1, CSS 1.0-2.0, SVG
Used by browsers commonly, but not W3C compliant: JavaScript (or JScript), DHTML, Java (not so much anymore)... I think that's about it.
The only designers not following your advice are those coding for Internet Explorer and not for Mozilla or for W3C standards.
It only does that (a really annoying behavior, imho) in Internet Explorer, as far as I know.
Mozilla, as well as any Netscape releases built on it, have multiple-letter typing selection. I would guess that most Mozilla derivatives do as well.
They accomplish this by skipping to the next letter after you type a particular letter for the first one, and so on, but with a timeout of maybe a second or two.
i don't think that analogy works for what you're talking about (have multiple pieces of OSS that do exactly the same thing, or intend to, like multiple kernels/distributions/desktop environments/web browsers).
i think a more fitting analogy is that in the world of open source, the wheel need only be invented once... and then everyone can make their own (slightly different) wheel. is it more effort? yes. is it an exact duplication of effort? definitely not, when those projects might be used by different people, or designed differently.
Not necessarily. Though there is a cable going from the CD drive to your sound card, it might not be used when you're playing audio from the drive. Some software CD players, including Windows Media Player, give you the option to play the CD digitally (though I don't remember what they call this feature), effectively removing the possibility of skipping except on severely scratched CDs. It effectively copies the data on an audio CD and plays that while it's in RAM (through software), rather than having the CD drive decode the audio in hardware and output to the sound card. It almost always results in less skipping, but as discussed, might be "illegal".
the w3c is a standards body, and they're just trying to be as complete as they can. for something actually informative to end-users and developers, try http://www.w3schools.com... i use their information (and reference info) regularly for web development in CSS/XHTML.
Why do web designers still have to target a particular resolution? Back when image scaling sucked (well, it still does) and layout was done with a complex series of pixel-aligned tables, I can see why this was necessary. These days, CSS should allow web developers to scale their site to any resolution, or even any media! (Look at the w3c's CSS recommendations for screen and print media).
Web layou should no longer be done in pixels, period. This will even -look- a lot better, not to mention fit a lot more resolutions, once SVG or similar vector-rendering support is built into browsers. This shouldn't be far off for Mozilla, and IE will have to catch up.
LOL, never noticed that... whoops. I find it odd that they have a publicly available website, complete with domain, if they want it to be "kept private"... I guess in retrospect, I'm sorry I posted the link, but it never occurred to me not to.:)
check out i2p... maybe it's exactly what you're looking for. if you're really impressed, and you can, please contribute! we need this network functional and -used- as soon as possible, given the state of politics worldwide and the necessity for free speech.
wouldn't have been nearly as funny in the post, though. you'd just have seen "while the offer lasts". the point of the ^H was to express a backspace -written out-... a more accessible version of that would be to put a strikethrough on the word "SCO"... though I don't think that's possible in Slashdot comments. so... that's why it was neccessary.
for as long as I've been here, it's been standard practice to use ^H to express a backspace (usually for the purpose of humor).
not to mention, compare Microsoft's operating system marketing budget to the Linux marketing budget of all competitors put together (including Sun, IBM). I bet Microsoft is still spending considerably more.
Shouldn't the ones who are spending less need the tour bus to "get the word out"? If people already know about one operating system, it's Windows. what does that say?
i've never had mplayer segfault. were you using a stable release or an unstable/cvs build? what compile options did you use? did you submit a bug report?
follow through when something like this happens... help make open source software better for you, and for all of us! that's kinda the point.:)
i think you just hit it on the nail right there with "like wireless internet". why even go through traditional airwaves, when we can (still, i hope) control some of the digital airwaves?:)
start your own -internet radio- station. with the proliferation of wireless internet hotspots in municipalities and around major cities, this could be more effective than a traditional "radio" station.
We've all (as slashdot readers) come across more than "a few here and there" corporations behaving unethically... and those are just in the tech sector.
the problem is not at all capitalism... it's "kapitalism", and what I think s/he meant by that is Corporate Capitalism. this is what is currently in practice in the United States, or at least what we're on a trend towards (ask any economist/political scientist). Corporate Capitalism is a restrictive form of capitalism in which the market is no longer entirely free... it becomes controlled from the top down by the largest corporations. it becomes even harder for small businesses to start, compete, and succeed... and laws are made not to protect the free market and individuals, but to protect large corporations -from those very things-! (See DMCA of 1998).
the influence of large corporations on the government is stifling innovation, killing the small business "ma and pa" outfits, and hurting individuals and their rights. it's no longer as simple as "don't give them your money"... for many people there's no choice. when PC makers are forced by contract to sell -only windows- if they want to sell it at all, consumers no longer have a choice. that's not a free market.
this happens across the spectrum with large corporations in every field, especially with "diverse" megacorporations that have an impact on almost every field.
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Actually, it's completely legal... you're the one choosing to run X Random Software on your computer without paying for it (doing so illegally)... and I'm sure the author is smart enough to clear himself legally by saying in the warranty something to the effect of "If you didn't pay for this, this software comes with absolutely no warranty, and may destroy your computer or even harm you physically"... I believe Slackware and other linux distros have warranty clauses to the effect of "This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY and may set your computer on fire" (yes, the caps are there originally)... basically they could make a computer program that eats you, and that's not illegal if -you- -choose- to run it and have it eat you... it's only illegal if they didn't give you a choice (ie didn't tell you it would eat you).
principal:
adj.
1. First, highest, or foremost in importance, rank, worth, or degree; chief. See Synonyms at chief.
2. Of, relating to, or being financial principal, or a principal in a financial transaction.
check it out on dictionary dot com. that spelling doesn't only refer to the school administrator.
"Why are those "Democratic" voters? Do the Democrats own them? How do you know they wouldn't have just stayed home if Nader weren't on the ballot?"
They're democratic voters because they chose to list their party affiliation as "Democratic" when they registered to vote. They might have just stayed home, but chances are a lot of them would have voted with their party affiliation. It's impossible to know, of course.
The assumption is that if they went to vote at all, and had already affiliated themselves with one party, they would have voted for the candidate of that party had the person they actually voted for not been running.
You don't have to go to Iran to get arrested for having sex outside of marriage... it's illegal in the fine state of Georgia, US. :(
http://www.ageofconsent.com/georgia.htm
WineX (Cedega) is a tweaked, commercial, GAMING-only version of WINE. While they are putting a lot of commercial effort into making it a product, their product is for gaming only.
CrossoverOffice might be a better bet to rant about/rag on for getting QuickBooks support, but for the majority of users, that still isn't nearly as important as Microsoft Office and the Adobe products. Those are for the most part working with CrossoverOffice, and many users are quite happy with it.
The parent means these captions:
2: "This picture reveals two things:
a) being in Walmart at 9:30am the day after Thanksgiving does not make us happy.
b) our digital camera is crappy and we needed a better one. Walmart is perfect for this because they have a 0% restocking fee and a 90-day return policy (89 days more than we needed). We got an HP435, which was a mistake-- it comes with a tiny amount of storage and the pictures suck. Still, it was slightly better than what we had. Onward!"
last: "Back to Walmart to return the lousy camera. Thanks for the loaner, guys!"
I use iceWM as my only "desktop environment" (hahaha) on very new machines (my desktop is an Athlon XP 3000+). There's no reason to add bloat simply because your computer can handle it.
why? do you actually want to criminalize your own recreational activities, or have you not been reading up on your party's stance on some issues?
you might want to check out the libertarian party... assuming you don't like being in prison.
Good try, but that's a noun.
I wouldn't worry about it screwing up your games... it doesn't appear to run on Windows. From the Platform Requirements: "Operating System
- Project Looking Glass has been tested on Sun Java Desktop System Release 1 and Release 2, RedHat 9, SuSE Linux 8.1."
If you want to be a coder speaking the truth, you could try to be informed first.
The philosophy of only coding for what browsers can handle is a noble one... and one that, as far as I know, every sane web developer has been doing as long as the field has existed... who wants to code for non-existent clients?
As for your description of that as "Just HTML", that's Just Wrong. The W3C standards are, currently, XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2.0.
The W3C has long been advocating HTML/XHTML for markup and CSS for layout/design, pretty much since that paradigm was invented (or reinvented) by them. The W3C standards have evolved a bit since you've last checked. Your assumption was:
W3C standard: HTML 4.0
Browser Proprietary Stuff: everything else
However, there's a very different story today:
W3C standards: XHTML 1.0-1.1, CSS 1.0-2.0, SVG
Used by browsers commonly, but not W3C compliant: JavaScript (or JScript), DHTML, Java (not so much anymore)... I think that's about it.
The only designers not following your advice are those coding for Internet Explorer and not for Mozilla or for W3C standards.
You're on Slashdot. The Nerd Alert is unnecessary.
Did you think this was "News for Normal People, Stuff that Isn't Geeky"?
It only does that (a really annoying behavior, imho) in Internet Explorer, as far as I know.
Mozilla, as well as any Netscape releases built on it, have multiple-letter typing selection. I would guess that most Mozilla derivatives do as well.
They accomplish this by skipping to the next letter after you type a particular letter for the first one, and so on, but with a timeout of maybe a second or two.
i don't think that analogy works for what you're talking about (have multiple pieces of OSS that do exactly the same thing, or intend to, like multiple kernels/distributions/desktop environments/web browsers).
i think a more fitting analogy is that in the world of open source, the wheel need only be invented once... and then everyone can make their own (slightly different) wheel. is it more effort? yes. is it an exact duplication of effort? definitely not, when those projects might be used by different people, or designed differently.
Not necessarily. Though there is a cable going from the CD drive to your sound card, it might not be used when you're playing audio from the drive. Some software CD players, including Windows Media Player, give you the option to play the CD digitally (though I don't remember what they call this feature), effectively removing the possibility of skipping except on severely scratched CDs. It effectively copies the data on an audio CD and plays that while it's in RAM (through software), rather than having the CD drive decode the audio in hardware and output to the sound card. It almost always results in less skipping, but as discussed, might be "illegal".
the w3c is a standards body, and they're just trying to be as complete as they can. for something actually informative to end-users and developers, try http://www.w3schools.com ... i use their information (and reference info) regularly for web development in CSS/XHTML.
Why do web designers still have to target a particular resolution? Back when image scaling sucked (well, it still does) and layout was done with a complex series of pixel-aligned tables, I can see why this was necessary. These days, CSS should allow web developers to scale their site to any resolution, or even any media! (Look at the w3c's CSS recommendations for screen and print media).
Web layou should no longer be done in pixels, period. This will even -look- a lot better, not to mention fit a lot more resolutions, once SVG or similar vector-rendering support is built into browsers. This shouldn't be far off for Mozilla, and IE will have to catch up.
LOL, never noticed that... whoops. I find it odd that they have a publicly available website, complete with domain, if they want it to be "kept private"... I guess in retrospect, I'm sorry I posted the link, but it never occurred to me not to. :)
check out i2p... maybe it's exactly what you're looking for. if you're really impressed, and you can, please contribute! we need this network functional and -used- as soon as possible, given the state of politics worldwide and the necessity for free speech.
http://www.i2p.net/
wouldn't have been nearly as funny in the post, though. you'd just have seen "while the offer lasts". the point of the ^H was to express a backspace -written out-... a more accessible version of that would be to put a strikethrough on the word "SCO"... though I don't think that's possible in Slashdot comments. so... that's why it was neccessary.
for as long as I've been here, it's been standard practice to use ^H to express a backspace (usually for the purpose of humor).
not to mention, compare Microsoft's operating system marketing budget to the Linux marketing budget of all competitors put together (including Sun, IBM). I bet Microsoft is still spending considerably more.
Shouldn't the ones who are spending less need the tour bus to "get the word out"? If people already know about one operating system, it's Windows. what does that say?
i've never had mplayer segfault. were you using a stable release or an unstable/cvs build? what compile options did you use? did you submit a bug report?
:)
follow through when something like this happens... help make open source software better for you, and for all of us! that's kinda the point.
from march 24, 04 ... http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=101573&cid =8656078
it's not that old, and it's an AC post... i'd bet that's taken from somewhere else, though google turned up nothing.
i think you just hit it on the nail right there with "like wireless internet". why even go through traditional airwaves, when we can (still, i hope) control some of the digital airwaves? :)
start your own -internet radio- station. with the proliferation of wireless internet hotspots in municipalities and around major cities, this could be more effective than a traditional "radio" station.
democracy on internet radio... how about Air America Radio?
We've all (as slashdot readers) come across more than "a few here and there" corporations behaving unethically... and those are just in the tech sector.
the problem is not at all capitalism... it's "kapitalism", and what I think s/he meant by that is Corporate Capitalism. this is what is currently in practice in the United States, or at least what we're on a trend towards (ask any economist/political scientist). Corporate Capitalism is a restrictive form of capitalism in which the market is no longer entirely free... it becomes controlled from the top down by the largest corporations. it becomes even harder for small businesses to start, compete, and succeed... and laws are made not to protect the free market and individuals, but to protect large corporations -from those very things-! (See DMCA of 1998).
the influence of large corporations on the government is stifling innovation, killing the small business "ma and pa" outfits, and hurting individuals and their rights. it's no longer as simple as "don't give them your money"... for many people there's no choice. when PC makers are forced by contract to sell -only windows- if they want to sell it at all, consumers no longer have a choice. that's not a free market.
this happens across the spectrum with large corporations in every field, especially with "diverse" megacorporations that have an impact on almost every field.