What if one company controlled 97% of the battery-powered electronics market and decided it wanted to expand into rechargable batteries by including a set and charger "free" with every purchase? Legal? Probably not...
Take it from me, poor kids in third world countries don't even think about paying for Windows. I live in Thailand, and the estimated "copyright infringement" rate is 97%. Noone buys real software except large, foreign companies. Oh, and me, but they think I'm stupid, a freak, or both.
I tell someone that I use 100% legal software and they look at me like I'm speaking Greek. "What does that mean?"
Since KDE can look like virtually anything you want it to, how can it be modelled after Windows? If the default looks like Windows, that's probably because more people are comfortable with it. But, then again, KDE default mouse behavior doesn't follow Windows', so they need to change that to be exactly like Windows, so I'll fire that off in an email to the developers. Thanks for your flamebait... oops I meant input.
I wrote a/. submission about this control panel style several years ago when Redmond Linux (now Lycoris) decided to use it. It is based on UI usability studies done by some major players, including, but not limited to, MS, but was not a copy of MS at the time. IIRC, it was that the two pane approach with more advanced features available on request was determined to be the way to go.
So, it's in the public record as a good idea. Just because MS did it doesn't mean that they did it first or that it was their idea to begin with.
Connectiva is the original "apt-get for RPM with repositories on the CD and updates" distro. Everyone else who has has produced an apt-rpm distro has taken their work as a basis, and you can even see Connectiva's name in the apt-get binaries somewhere, though I don't remember how I ran across it. My distro (LinuxTLE) uses their apt work, as well.
So, I'm sorry to inform you that, for once at least, the editors were not wrong on this, and their "apt-get goodness" doesn't need to mean debs.
Because they couldn't remember the words pomme frites (sp?), just like the hot dog came from a newspaper guy who couldn't remember the "hot daschund." (sp?)
This can be read in only one proper way. Whom is virtually dead in present day English.
Who do you go to for your computer needs? (no relative clause)
Who does your brother, who who has beautiful teeth, go to for dental work? (non-defining relative clause)
How do all the male children who have no fathers find a role model to go to for advice? (defining relative clause)
Who do all these people who are concerned about false labelling go to for enforcment? (maybe you'd want to change that to "To whom do all these people... go for enforcement?)
We need a slashdot mod for Grammar Nazis who are f***ing wrong.
virtually unbelieveable insulation at the coldest of temperatures...creating super greenhouses/habitats and so forth...
I live in Bangkok, you insensitive clod! I need air-conditioning, not insulation.
Yeah, that was it, but I couldn't remember the name. Too many years and too many beers. Hell, maybe I never even really knew the name. It was just a cassette I copied from a friend who copied one that made it out SF to Hawaii. Ah, the life of a middle-aged ex-thrasher...
When I tell people that I like Metallica, they come at me with all kinds of songs I've never heard. Then I tell them, "No, I stopped liking them when they put out Master of Puppets. I only listen to the original demo (with Dave) that has too many dropouts to listen to, KEA or RTL." I get some strange looks.
One of the greatest phones that I've ever used for battery life is the PCT. It's.01 watt. Charge that thing and the battery can last for up to two weeks. Super small and light, too.
I once was woken up at 4 am by the sound of gun shots in my apartment building. I called the police, and they arrived at my door about 15 seconds later. The door had a sticky deadbolt (one of about five), so I couldn't get it open.
Meanwhile, another set of police were banging on the fire escape side door, screaming for me to open it. When I finally got the front door open, there were five cops shoulder to shoulder with their guns drawn on me.
Being half asleep, I just said something like "Wait a minute" and went to open the back door. The cops came in and interrogated me quite thoroughly. My neighbor had called the police about two minutes before I did and told them that the shots came from my apartment. They ran through all the blood on the first floor and past the rivels of human flesh on the walls to get to me, apparently without thinking that the problem might be down there. Lucky that they didn't shoot me when I turned and walked away from them, I guess.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I was too shocked by it all to feel menaced or, really, anything at all.
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What if one company controlled 97% of the battery-powered electronics market and decided it wanted to expand into rechargable batteries by including a set and charger "free" with every purchase? Legal? Probably not...
Take it from me, poor kids in third world countries don't even think about paying for Windows. I live in Thailand, and the estimated "copyright infringement" rate is 97%. Noone buys real software except large, foreign companies. Oh, and me, but they think I'm stupid, a freak, or both.
I tell someone that I use 100% legal software and they look at me like I'm speaking Greek. "What does that mean?"
My friends list on Orkut was more female than male.
Yeah, that's what they told you...
Since KDE can look like virtually anything you want it to, how can it be modelled after Windows? If the default looks like Windows, that's probably because more people are comfortable with it. But, then again, KDE default mouse behavior doesn't follow Windows', so they need to change that to be exactly like Windows, so I'll fire that off in an email to the developers. Thanks for your flamebait ... oops I meant input.
I wrote a /. submission about this control panel style several years ago when Redmond Linux (now Lycoris) decided to use it. It is based on UI usability studies done by some major players, including, but not limited to, MS, but was not a copy of MS at the time. IIRC, it was that the two pane approach with more advanced features available on request was determined to be the way to go.
So, it's in the public record as a good idea. Just because MS did it doesn't mean that they did it first or that it was their idea to begin with.
No, you get his eX-GF.
I think, right now, you're looking more like the fanatic.
Connectiva is the original "apt-get for RPM with repositories on the CD and updates" distro. Everyone else who has has produced an apt-rpm distro has taken their work as a basis, and you can even see Connectiva's name in the apt-get binaries somewhere, though I don't remember how I ran across it. My distro (LinuxTLE) uses their apt work, as well.
So, I'm sorry to inform you that, for once at least, the editors were not wrong on this, and their "apt-get goodness" doesn't need to mean debs.
You think that it's slow now? Wait till the story gets reposted in three days...
OK, mod me down!
Because they couldn't remember the words pomme frites (sp?), just like the hot dog came from a newspaper guy who couldn't remember the "hot daschund." (sp?)
What? Drop the tong and go in after them?
This can be read in only one proper way. Whom is virtually dead in present day English. ... go for enforcement?)
Who do you go to for your computer needs? (no relative clause)
Who does your brother, who who has beautiful teeth, go to for dental work? (non-defining relative clause)
How do all the male children who have no fathers find a role model to go to for advice? (defining relative clause)
Who do all these people who are concerned about false labelling go to for enforcment? (maybe you'd want to change that to "To whom do all these people
We need a slashdot mod for Grammar Nazis who are f***ing wrong.
Actually, I was pointing out that abstentions are counted with the majority, whether that be yes or no. So, really, that makes it unanimous.
6 abstentions
Speaking... hypodermically...
So, you want your post to get under my skin? What is that, something like flamebait?
Dan
You posted while I was searching for the link... Here it is anyways. Interesting project, though it appears to be stuck back on RH7.3.
It was a joke...
virtually unbelieveable insulation at the coldest of temperatures...creating super greenhouses/habitats and so forth...
I live in Bangkok, you insensitive clod! I need air-conditioning, not insulation.
Yeah, that was it, but I couldn't remember the name. Too many years and too many beers. Hell, maybe I never even really knew the name. It was just a cassette I copied from a friend who copied one that made it out SF to Hawaii. Ah, the life of a middle-aged ex-thrasher...
2003 called... Oh, fuck it!
When I tell people that I like Metallica, they come at me with all kinds of songs I've never heard. Then I tell them, "No, I stopped liking them when they put out Master of Puppets. I only listen to the original demo (with Dave) that has too many dropouts to listen to, KEA or RTL." I get some strange looks.
One of the greatest phones that I've ever used for battery life is the PCT. It's .01 watt. Charge that thing and the battery can last for up to two weeks. Super small and light, too.
1997 called, they want their "[year] called, they want their [joke] back" joke back
Man I need a vacation: a virtual one. "Blue Skies on Mars" sounds good. Hook me up, doc.
I once was woken up at 4 am by the sound of gun shots in my apartment building. I called the police, and they arrived at my door about 15 seconds later. The door had a sticky deadbolt (one of about five), so I couldn't get it open.
Meanwhile, another set of police were banging on the fire escape side door, screaming for me to open it. When I finally got the front door open, there were five cops shoulder to shoulder with their guns drawn on me.
Being half asleep, I just said something like "Wait a minute" and went to open the back door. The cops came in and interrogated me quite thoroughly. My neighbor had called the police about two minutes before I did and told them that the shots came from my apartment. They ran through all the blood on the first floor and past the rivels of human flesh on the walls to get to me, apparently without thinking that the problem might be down there. Lucky that they didn't shoot me when I turned and walked away from them, I guess.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I was too shocked by it all to feel menaced or, really, anything at all.