"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun
registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the
world will follow our lead into the future!" --Adolph Hitler, 1935
They have a history of following stupid facists movements.
The phrase "good enough for government work" comes to mind. This kind of crap really does (and should) irk every single tax-paying American. Shoddy design work like this should shame the contractor that billed the gov't for it.
I know it will not make the astronauts say much publicly about how they really feel to fly on the shuttle when this kind of news comes out, but I'm sure it makes the spouses and families of the astronauts have many sleepless nights.
Kind of makes me imagine what the space program would be if we combined common sense with the intelligence from those rocket scientists. Hmmmmm.
I have yet to find something I can't make Opera do.
Since you now can write your own widgets and it has UserJS, I refuse to spend all that time downloading and keeping plugins up to date when a FF update breaks something.
The whole "distribution of wealth" thing really is annoying. Take from those that want to excercise freedom to benefit those that don't... and we'll just take our cut first. This kind of crap really is just the reductions of freedom under the guise of the greater good. Baloney!
Yeah, I think that there is immense value in the term "Google it" in people's hearts and minds. How is Micro$oft going to compete against that? If I say to someone looking for something to, "just M$ it". Will he automatically know that I am telling him to search for it on M$, or to screw it up completely and just innovate whatever crap he can come up with.
This is a duplicative effort. It is already being studied in Utah. There is an extensive case study going on... I think it is called SCO v. IBM. And there are at least three related studies called SCO v. Novell, SCO v. Redhat, and finally, SCO v. DaimlerChrysler.
The studies seem to be quite comprehensive and even may shed some light on a rat variant that is pervasive in Washington state. But it is known that those rats are a bit more deceptive and may be able to escape the spotlight in these studies.
I don't think that this study will produce the quality of results we expect in the existing studies that are ongoing. All it will do is confirm what they already have exposed.
The problem I have with Opera (flame me all you want, I haven't even downloaded it yet; kinda hard while at school though..), is that it seems to come with all of these features built in. All of this added functionality that one may or may not use. Firefox, on the otherhand, will let you go to a nice directory of extensions that can be sorted by type, name, date, etc. and you can pick and choose what you want.
The fact that all these features are built in is exactly why it so great. I don't have to download each and every one. And I don't have to use them if I don't want to. I'm still using Outlook for my mail, but it was just a simple option to select the default email client for my computer as my choice. Most features don't get in the way either. They are there if you want them, and don't interfere if you don't. Also from what I've heard, when you update FireFox, it can break the extensions you have downloaded and set up. I don't have that with Opera.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing Opera. I actually plan on trying it out as soon as I get home, but from what I've heard/seen, it seems as if Firefox will be the better choice for me (I do plan to go into Opera with an open-mind, though). Because all that matters in the end is the user's opinion.
Please do go into the Opera experience with an open mind. I started using it back when Netscape 4 was starting to really starting to look long in the tooth and having problems rendering. I couldn't stand Internet Exploder from the beginning. So I uninstalled Netscape and deleted my IE 3.0 icons and installed Opera. I went cold turkey telling myself I would do it for a month and would surrender to IE after that if Opera wasn't it for me.
After a month I was having too much fun. Opera just makes the browsing experience so easy. You just have to learn to utilize all the enhancements they have. Check out the Opera community and forums and the site 30 Days to becoming an Opera Loverhttp://tntluoma.com/opera/lover/8.
Yeah, but why would they make it secretly run Windows. That would involve a tremendous amount of work just to get Windows to run on that hardware I'm sure. Then who knows when it will crash.
If they put Linux on it then they can look at the source and modify it so they can control when it crashes, even at their own command.
If anyone from DirecTV bought one of these to study it or to surreptitiously have dealings with the purveyors of these programmer/readers, then IMO they would be a target of the suit as well. Since it doesn't matter why one purchased the programmer/reader, but that they did puchase it. According to their reasoning, it doesn't matter what you intended to do with the programmer/reader, you have no reason to have one other than to steal DirecTV programming. It wouldn't matter that they were doing their own investigating of the black market programmer/readers, they are liable of their own suit. If they are not liable because of their reasoning...then isn't everyone else that purchase one?
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Yeah, no doubt.
"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun
registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the
world will follow our lead into the future!"
--Adolph Hitler, 1935
They have a history of following stupid facists movements.
The phrase "good enough for government work" comes to mind. This kind of crap really does (and should) irk every single tax-paying American. Shoddy design work like this should shame the contractor that billed the gov't for it.
I know it will not make the astronauts say much publicly about how they really feel to fly on the shuttle when this kind of news comes out, but I'm sure it makes the spouses and families of the astronauts have many sleepless nights.
Kind of makes me imagine what the space program would be if we combined common sense with the intelligence from those rocket scientists. Hmmmmm.
This is actually the first thing I *can* wait to build a Beowulf cluster from.
Not that I know of. Would be a good feature to request from them. Docking/Anchoring of Widgets.
Good Luck
I have yet to find something I can't make Opera do.
Since you now can write your own widgets and it has UserJS, I refuse to spend all that time downloading and keeping plugins up to date when a FF update breaks something.
http://widgets.opera.com/widget/3903
Accuweather widget plugin on Opera.
Enjoy!!!
Yawn.
This was my thought exactly. I'm glad I read through the posts before I posted.
This is the first step in their modus operandi to beat their opponents.
Frankly, it makes me feel all ooogy when M$ does this. Ewww!
The whole "distribution of wealth" thing really is annoying. Take from those that want to excercise freedom to benefit those that don't ... and we'll just take our cut first. This kind of crap really is just the reductions of freedom under the guise of the greater good. Baloney!
Yeah, I think that there is immense value in the term "Google it" in people's hearts and minds. How is Micro$oft going to compete against that? If I say to someone looking for something to, "just M$ it". Will he automatically know that I am telling him to search for it on M$, or to screw it up completely and just innovate whatever crap he can come up with.
The studies seem to be quite comprehensive and even may shed some light on a rat variant that is pervasive in Washington state. But it is known that those rats are a bit more deceptive and may be able to escape the spotlight in these studies.
I don't think that this study will produce the quality of results we expect in the existing studies that are ongoing. All it will do is confirm what they already have exposed.
Anyone think that they would support the OGG format?
Hello, is anybody there?
Gnome just doesn't suck anymore :-)
:-/
GNOME. It just doesn't suck anymore
Should be pretty easy.
The problem I have with Opera (flame me all you want, I haven't even downloaded it yet; kinda hard while at school though..), is that it seems to come with all of these features built in. All of this added functionality that one may or may not use. Firefox, on the otherhand, will let you go to a nice directory of extensions that can be sorted by type, name, date, etc. and you can pick and choose what you want.
The fact that all these features are built in is exactly why it so great. I don't have to download each and every one. And I don't have to use them if I don't want to. I'm still using Outlook for my mail, but it was just a simple option to select the default email client for my computer as my choice. Most features don't get in the way either. They are there if you want them, and don't interfere if you don't. Also from what I've heard, when you update FireFox, it can break the extensions you have downloaded and set up. I don't have that with Opera.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing Opera. I actually plan on trying it out as soon as I get home, but from what I've heard/seen, it seems as if Firefox will be the better choice for me (I do plan to go into Opera with an open-mind, though). Because all that matters in the end is the user's opinion.
Please do go into the Opera experience with an open mind. I started using it back when Netscape 4 was starting to really starting to look long in the tooth and having problems rendering. I couldn't stand Internet Exploder from the beginning. So I uninstalled Netscape and deleted my IE 3.0 icons and installed Opera. I went cold turkey telling myself I would do it for a month and would surrender to IE after that if Opera wasn't it for me.
After a month I was having too much fun. Opera just makes the browsing experience so easy. You just have to learn to utilize all the enhancements they have. Check out the Opera community and forums and the site 30 Days to becoming an Opera Lover http://tntluoma.com/opera/lover/8.
Yeah, but why would they make it secretly run Windows. That would involve a tremendous amount of work just to get Windows to run on that hardware I'm sure. Then who knows when it will crash.
If they put Linux on it then they can look at the source and modify it so they can control when it crashes, even at their own command.
If this stuff is so resilient, NASA should really research a coating of it over the Shuttle tank foam that keeps falling off.
That bathroom breaks mean exactly the opposite for these bacteria?
Windows Update
Was that not a funny movie. One of those movies that makes you laugh even though you keep saying to yourself, "This is so dumb"
You are so SCOrewed!
Maybe your head is getting smaller!
For wireless transmissions thru the air
If anyone from DirecTV bought one of these to study it or to surreptitiously have dealings with the purveyors of these programmer/readers, then IMO they would be a target of the suit as well. Since it doesn't matter why one purchased the programmer/reader, but that they did puchase it. According to their reasoning, it doesn't matter what you intended to do with the programmer/reader, you have no reason to have one other than to steal DirecTV programming. It wouldn't matter that they were doing their own investigating of the black market programmer/readers, they are liable of their own suit. If they are not liable because of their reasoning...then isn't everyone else that purchase one?
I used to have a really good sig...