What possible use could that email list be in a trademark case? Additionally, how can MS force them to hand over the addresses and even some of the messages when the Lindows privacy promise explicitly said they would do no such thing? (Yes I am aware the promise wasn't written for this purpose, just seems like it should have an effect.)
You know they should put one of these in a movie. Then they could go to some island and get eaten by Dinosaurs.
Seems like a lot of really cool ideas from movies are being taken on as projects and being made into reality. This is making for some really fun new toys that we've always wished we could have. C'mon Hollywood, keep 'em coming!
That's definitely not true. Developers tend to not support Linux, not the other way around. I have found that the games that are supposed to work on Linux, and even some that aren't, work great. Sure, they take a bit more work (my recent bout with Return to Castle Wolfenstein is proof of this), but once you get them going, they work just as well as any windows version. If you don't want to compile anything, or copy a few files from one location to another, then you're right, however if you don't mind doing a few extra little things, Linux makes a fine game platform.
Thank you! I've been looking for something this easy for a while. I have been using Linux for a long time now and have grown to really really like it. I have some friends who want to get into it as well, but need something just like this to help them do the things they need while they are learning how to do it "properly" (manually). Having something like this will probably slow down the learning process, but it will allow them to really use Linux much faster, and hey, that's what we all want right?
The basic stamp is used to turn the thing on and shut it down, how much speed does it need??? Basic is easy to learn and painless to use for small applicaitons like this. Why would you go through the trouble of using something so much more complicated to do such a simple task. 16k is a lot of memory just to send a signal to the motherboard that the key changed position. I thought it was a pretty good idea myself...
Damn, now that you're onto us, we'll have to start encrypting those major business networks that run on Cybiko power! The world is no longer a safe place! Hackers now have small devices capable of sending wireless signals....
Does this seem a little backwards to anyone else? Free software is simply software you can get for free (usually open source in our minds these days). GNOME is both. You can't say they've outgrown they're roots because they won't port to some platform, or because they've gotten too big. RMS may have a problem with it because it doesn't conform to HIS view of free software, but last time I checked, we weren't letting him rewrite the dictionary for us. Free is still free, and until GNOME isn't, it's still free software.
I disagree completely. Sure they don't have to offer any discount at all, but they also don't have to charge over $90 for an OS. When I first heard about the $10 discount, my immediate reaction was laughter. People are willing to spend the money to put this thing on more than one PC and here's MS giving them a whole $10 off. Wow.
Just a side note, if you think that families are the reason they are out of these licenses, you're nuts. I know of at least 5 small businesses who have purchased this license for the "discount" that it offers. Many, many families have a 14 year old kid, or friend that has Pro Corporate on CD, they don't need to buy it.
I think that by designing one larger program, you leave the maintainer (even if it is yourself) with an easier job. It is much much less painful to use one compiler to change one set of source files, in one language. Maybe it's just me, but I always seem to have problems shifting gears between more than two languages at once. And C compilers don't like perl a whole lot.....
This goes double if your code is open source. There is enough hard to read, poorly organized code out there that anything that is unified (in style, language, etc.) is helpful. Call me old fasioned, but simpler is usually better.
I'm in exactly the same position. I am graduating in the spring with my CS degree. This year has been hell. Not only are several of my classes incredibly boring and unapplicable, but I am getting flooded with more work than I can keep up with. I am beginning to tire of some of the people in my classes, and I just don't have the motivation to do the work any more. But, one thought keeps me going. One simple little thought lets me dismiss the arrogant rantings of my classmates and the ever-present "fix this seg fault" assigments: All I need is that piece of paper.
I have been fortunate enough to get a wide variety of real world expirience. The most important thing I have learned is that once you get out of school, you will use only about 5% of what you learned. Most of the material covered in classes is next to useless. But that diploma, that single piece of paper that represents 4 years of utterly pointless work will open up many more opportunities and (at least for me) allow the things that make computers fun become important again. Stick with it, get the paper, and good luck. Remember there are thousands of us in the same position...
WHAT?!?! You mean to tell me that you don't see any improvement over plain old X with Gnome or KDE? I mean, patching 8 libs together to get one program to compile is fun and all, but I think I'll go with a defined environment....
Seems like there are many here that still don't see anything wrong with blocking ads... Its a not the viewers right to block ads period. It is the same as stealing from a store because you think the price is too high.
What possible right (that I would be violating by blocking ads) does any site have to put pictures (over which I have no control) on my computer? I suppose it would be ok with you if I came to your house and painted a big ad for the porn shop around the corner on your siding because they pay me for every person that sees it. Or at least you wouldn't have a right to remove it, right? Let's put aside the fact that you paid for the house, the paint I used, and the ladder that I needed to do the painting.
Of course there is nothing wrong with sites using ads to generate money, but saying that it is a violation of rights for me to block those ads is just plain stupid.
I believe I was anticipating the *fact* that slashdot readers are exactly the ones (myself included) that *will not* simply put up with an irritating imposition on their web browsing. I assume Taco knows this, which makes me think that the subscription fees will be "higher, rather than lower" than those at ars technica.
You are apparently also forgetting the *fact* that Slashdot readers are the exactly ones that are more prone to simply block the ads if the cost is too high. Taco knows the reader base, and isn't dumb enough to try to gouge us for something we can easily do ourselves. I for one am all for paying if the price is within reason. And I'm willing to bet that others feel the same.
Give the guy a chance before you jump all over him. This site takes a lot of work and money. You can't expect anyone to pay it out of pocket...
Yeah, and look what happened to him, the Brittish government had him killed because he became a liability. (yeah, yeah, I know he committed suicide... believe what you want). I think this is a great opportunity, it just makes me a little wary.
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What possible use could that email list be in a trademark case? Additionally, how can MS force them to hand over the addresses and even some of the messages when the Lindows privacy promise explicitly said they would do no such thing? (Yes I am aware the promise wasn't written for this purpose, just seems like it should have an effect.)
You know they should put one of these in a movie. Then they could go to some island and get eaten by Dinosaurs.
Seems like a lot of really cool ideas from movies are being taken on as projects and being made into reality. This is making for some really fun new toys that we've always wished we could have. C'mon Hollywood, keep 'em coming!
That's definitely not true. Developers tend to not support Linux, not the other way around. I have found that the games that are supposed to work on Linux, and even some that aren't, work great. Sure, they take a bit more work (my recent bout with Return to Castle Wolfenstein is proof of this), but once you get them going, they work just as well as any windows version. If you don't want to compile anything, or copy a few files from one location to another, then you're right, however if you don't mind doing a few extra little things, Linux makes a fine game platform.
Thank you! I've been looking for something this easy for a while. I have been using Linux for a long time now and have grown to really really like it. I have some friends who want to get into it as well, but need something just like this to help them do the things they need while they are learning how to do it "properly" (manually). Having something like this will probably slow down the learning process, but it will allow them to really use Linux much faster, and hey, that's what we all want right?
The basic stamp is used to turn the thing on and shut it down, how much speed does it need??? Basic is easy to learn and painless to use for small applicaitons like this. Why would you go through the trouble of using something so much more complicated to do such a simple task. 16k is a lot of memory just to send a signal to the motherboard that the key changed position. I thought it was a pretty good idea myself...
Well, naturally it's an opinion...unless the message board is in the court room of course.
But a judge said it so it must be fact now.
Damn, now that you're onto us, we'll have to start encrypting those major business networks that run on Cybiko power! The world is no longer a safe place! Hackers now have small devices capable of sending wireless signals....
Does this seem a little backwards to anyone else? Free software is simply software you can get for free (usually open source in our minds these days). GNOME is both. You can't say they've outgrown they're roots because they won't port to some platform, or because they've gotten too big. RMS may have a problem with it because it doesn't conform to HIS view of free software, but last time I checked, we weren't letting him rewrite the dictionary for us. Free is still free, and until GNOME isn't, it's still free software.
I disagree completely. Sure they don't have to offer any discount at all, but they also don't have to charge over $90 for an OS. When I first heard about the $10 discount, my immediate reaction was laughter. People are willing to spend the money to put this thing on more than one PC and here's MS giving them a whole $10 off. Wow.
Just a side note, if you think that families are the reason they are out of these licenses, you're nuts. I know of at least 5 small businesses who have purchased this license for the "discount" that it offers. Many, many families have a 14 year old kid, or friend that has Pro Corporate on CD, they don't need to buy it.
I think that by designing one larger program, you leave the maintainer (even if it is yourself) with an easier job. It is much much less painful to use one compiler to change one set of source files, in one language. Maybe it's just me, but I always seem to have problems shifting gears between more than two languages at once. And C compilers don't like perl a whole lot.....
This goes double if your code is open source. There is enough hard to read, poorly organized code out there that anything that is unified (in style, language, etc.) is helpful. Call me old fasioned, but simpler is usually better.
I'm in exactly the same position. I am graduating in the spring with my CS degree. This year has been hell. Not only are several of my classes incredibly boring and unapplicable, but I am getting flooded with more work than I can keep up with. I am beginning to tire of some of the people in my classes, and I just don't have the motivation to do the work any more. But, one thought keeps me going. One simple little thought lets me dismiss the arrogant rantings of my classmates and the ever-present "fix this seg fault" assigments: All I need is that piece of paper.
I have been fortunate enough to get a wide variety of real world expirience. The most important thing I have learned is that once you get out of school, you will use only about 5% of what you learned. Most of the material covered in classes is next to useless. But that diploma, that single piece of paper that represents 4 years of utterly pointless work will open up many more opportunities and (at least for me) allow the things that make computers fun become important again. Stick with it, get the paper, and good luck. Remember there are thousands of us in the same position...
WHAT?!?! You mean to tell me that you don't see any improvement over plain old X with Gnome or KDE? I mean, patching 8 libs together to get one program to compile is fun and all, but I think I'll go with a defined environment....
Screenshot of a locked system? How might you propose doing that?
Seems like there are many here that still don't see anything wrong with blocking ads... Its a not the viewers right to block ads period. It is the same as stealing from a store because you think the price is too high.
What possible right (that I would be violating by blocking ads) does any site have to put pictures (over which I have no control) on my computer? I suppose it would be ok with you if I came to your house and painted a big ad for the porn shop around the corner on your siding because they pay me for every person that sees it. Or at least you wouldn't have a right to remove it, right? Let's put aside the fact that you paid for the house, the paint I used, and the ladder that I needed to do the painting.
Of course there is nothing wrong with sites using ads to generate money, but saying that it is a violation of rights for me to block those ads is just plain stupid.
-J
I believe I was anticipating the *fact* that slashdot readers are exactly the ones (myself included) that *will not* simply put up with an irritating imposition on their web browsing. I assume Taco knows this, which makes me think that the subscription fees will be "higher, rather than lower" than those at ars technica.
You are apparently also forgetting the *fact* that Slashdot readers are the exactly ones that are more prone to simply block the ads if the cost is too high. Taco knows the reader base, and isn't dumb enough to try to gouge us for something we can easily do ourselves. I for one am all for paying if the price is within reason. And I'm willing to bet that others feel the same.
Give the guy a chance before you jump all over him. This site takes a lot of work and money. You can't expect anyone to pay it out of pocket...
-J
Yeah, and look what happened to him, the Brittish government had him killed because he became a liability. (yeah, yeah, I know he committed suicide... believe what you want). I think this is a great opportunity, it just makes me a little wary.