To most people, Windows already is free. It's a non-optional compoent of their new Dell, not an add on. Non-geeks never upgrade their OS, so Windows' cost is never an issue.
There's nothing more irritating to me than looking for "that thing about the stuff I saw two months ago" with Google, but I hated having hundreds of bookmarks for sites I may never need to visit again. With del.icio.us, I just bookmark it, tag it, and forget about it. Any time I need a link, it's there, organized in a system that makes sense to me.
My Firefox bookmarks menu is amazingly short now, just stuff I visit regularly.
As my posting history clearly shows, the easiest way to whore karma is with Funny posts. A rehash of old jokes, especially ones related to marketing conventions, is always successful. Don't be too clever, though, or you risk an Offtopic/Flamebait.
If you can't come up with a lame pun, it's also easy to boil someone else's opinion down to a series of points. Bulleted lists are useful here. You will be branded as Insightful and/or Interesting for your efforts. Take care that your opinion is that of the majority, and that it is not really an opinion at all, or your post will be marked Flamebait.
If thinking just isn't your game, do a google search on whatever the topic is, then post the first three or four links you find. Doing so makes you Informative.
People will also insist on wasting moderation points on this, so out comes the +1.
You know, I've never understood the need for things like that. I've built vim and tcpdump and lots of other goodies from source with no problems whatsoever. These "pre-packaged" apps may be handy for people who can't type "make && make install", but you've gotta wonder why such people would be using unix apps in the first place.
Which would you choose - be buried peacefully, remembered fondly, or have your body stripped naked, strapped to a Richard Nixon blow up doll, and dragged through every major metropolitan area on the west coast by the wienermobile?
It doesn't get much worse than death by AOL. Just ask the nearest Netscape employee.
Probably a little harsh, yes. Maybe I didn't put it in proper perspective. I'd rather pull my own head off before using Windows, so OS 9 was the best choice, despite it's faults.
Looking at it through Aqua colored glasses, though, it's hard to see OS 9 as the great OS I once thought it was.
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They support CSS3 selectors, which are still candidate recommendations.
I think it's that their support for the border module is terribly incomplete, so they're not going to suggest that they support any of it quite yet.
I guess it's kind of a niche product, eh?
Instead of implementing a vendor-specific tag, why not support the proposed CSS3 border-radius property?
To most people, Windows already is free. It's a non-optional compoent of their new Dell, not an add on. Non-geeks never upgrade their OS, so Windows' cost is never an issue.
Being against $current_media_darling makes you so cool.
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Please don't look at any of the weblogs. Their sanity-destroying power is like concentrated goatse.
That's why I switched to del.icio.us.
There's nothing more irritating to me than looking for "that thing about the stuff I saw two months ago" with Google, but I hated having hundreds of bookmarks for sites I may never need to visit again. With del.icio.us, I just bookmark it, tag it, and forget about it. Any time I need a link, it's there, organized in a system that makes sense to me.
My Firefox bookmarks menu is amazingly short now, just stuff I visit regularly.
Personally, it took me about ten tries before I "got it." Maybe we're both dense, I don't know.
delicious for Firefox rocks, by the way.
Karma Whoring for Dummies:
As my posting history clearly shows, the easiest way to whore karma is with Funny posts. A rehash of old jokes, especially ones related to marketing conventions, is always successful. Don't be too clever, though, or you risk an Offtopic/Flamebait.
If you can't come up with a lame pun, it's also easy to boil someone else's opinion down to a series of points. Bulleted lists are useful here. You will be branded as Insightful and/or Interesting for your efforts. Take care that your opinion is that of the majority, and that it is not really an opinion at all, or your post will be marked Flamebait.
If thinking just isn't your game, do a google search on whatever the topic is, then post the first three or four links you find. Doing so makes you Informative.
People will also insist on wasting moderation points on this, so out comes the +1.
I hope this clears things up.
Not to by nitpicky about your nitpicks, but it was Olive Oyl.
A binary offers no build options, so what you get is up to whoever built it.
"This trial is brought to you by windows xp(tm)...eXPerience the difference!"
Oh, and bash, too. Fits in so well I forgot it wasn't the default shell :)
OS X. I downloaded the same source as everyone else, built it, ran it. You've got to have the developer tools installed.
You know, I've never understood the need for things like that. I've built vim and tcpdump and lots of other goodies from source with no problems whatsoever. These "pre-packaged" apps may be handy for people who can't type "make && make install", but you've gotta wonder why such people would be using unix apps in the first place.
http://developer.apple.com/macosx/
all you need to know.
Which would you choose - be buried peacefully, remembered fondly, or have your body stripped naked, strapped to a Richard Nixon blow up doll, and dragged through every major metropolitan area on the west coast by the wienermobile?
It doesn't get much worse than death by AOL. Just ask the nearest Netscape employee.
You betcha! I gave up Premiere and Photoshop for Windows Movie Maker and Paint long ago.
I can't wait until Micrsoft provides all my software!
Yes, my purchasing department can.
So can the bsa.
As far as lowering the prices, how can they hope to compete with people selling their entire library for $5(US)?
If you don't like the prices, don't use the software.
have you seen this chicken?
Spoken like someone who has never run one. DVD-R (on a home computer, for christ's sake), firewire, 802.11b, we got the hardware.
I think the world is trying to catch up.
There was MacPerl and MacVim, but no bash or mysql that I know of. OS 9 was a fonky thing.
I had dinner with Matthias Neeracher on Thursday night, by the way. How cool is that?
You get an os that can run all of your favorite unix applications. bash, perl, vim, mysql, they all run. All the glory is thine, daddy-o.
Top it all off with a computer that works out of the box. No driver setup, no fooling around with PCI cards and IDE cables. Give it power, it works.
"Keep Out" is the kind of message that makes people feel nifty about not keeping out.
Probably a little harsh, yes. Maybe I didn't put it in proper perspective. I'd rather pull my own head off before using Windows, so OS 9 was the best choice, despite it's faults.
Looking at it through Aqua colored glasses, though, it's hard to see OS 9 as the great OS I once thought it was.
System 7. Now there was a snappy OS.