"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Marcus Brigstocke
Well, the problem with Tcl or Perl or any scripting language for that matter is that while the interpretter's may be found on 95% of platforms, they aren't found on Windows by default. This turns a several hundred kilobyte download into a 7 meg download (to make up some numbers off the top of my head)
As for Jabber being XMPP: yeah, I knew that, but after re-reading my post I make it sound like I'm arguing for Jabber over XMPP, probably because I jumped to totally different topics between paragraphs. What I was trying to get at was that it would be a lot easier to switch people over to Jabber/XMPP from Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, etc if they think they are just being converted over to "Google Messenger". They'd be none the wiser and the rest of us don't have to worry about about mutating proprietary protocols not working in gaim (and friends).
That would be great, but I don't really see any indication of it happening soon. Google seems to be geared towards search solutions (even Gmail has a great search tool).
What I would like to see is Google make their own Jabber client and set up their own public Jabber servers and call it "Google Messenger". It's hard to convert people to Jabber because they've never heard of it and Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, etc work fine for them. The "Google" name carries a lot more weight though and we might be able to start moving our friends over to an open IM (and more, I know) standard.
By the way, I'm typing in Dvorak. I don't find the odd shortcuts to be a problem. I just got use to their position and I can hit those shortcut keys just as fast. I think the benifits of not having to reach for keys outweighs the shock of having to relearn where all the shortcuts are. In fact, I find it easier to reach my middle right finger up for CTRL+C and my ring right finger for CTRL+V. Try it!:) It has a sorta teeter totter effect.
Well, the problem is you can't use the mouse any the shortcut keys at the same time (which I like). It's nice using the Copy/Cut/Paste key combos while clicking around with the mouse to move text. Other ones are Ctrl+W to close tabs and Ctrl+R to refresh and Ctrl+T to open a new tab in Firefox
Unfortunately, you can't mod the actual news posts. In this case, it doesn't matter anyway, because slashdot doesn't have a "-1, Who comes up with this shit?" mod.
Then, my friend, the internet will hang up, which will ultimately lead to the destruction of the universe...
... as we know it.
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"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?" - Gandhi
I mean, really. The article is very terse, and says nothing that hasn't been beaten to death on Slashdot every month or so.
Well, it must be that time of the month again.
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Wow, I just noticed now that you changed it to a Perl script:
^?ELF^A^A^A^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^B^@^C^@^A^@^@^@@~R^Seriously, though, why not still have it as a shell script?
However, you can't make downloading FreeBSD into copyright infringement whatever you do...
Unless you put SCO code into it first.
They're talking about learning from experience, not adding it.
You must've missed the Enlightenment article yesterday. Check out the videos.
I believe MediaWiki (ie, Wikipedia) does this sort of thing for ISBN numbers, RFC's and possibly others . Not sure for how long, though.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Marcus Brigstocke
Nice sig to go along with that comment.
Two things are certain in life: death and taxes.
Only one thing is certain in death: getting sued by the RIAA
What? You mean they have slashdot on gopher now?
Time to upgrade!
Well, the problem with Tcl or Perl or any scripting language for that matter is that while the interpretter's may be found on 95% of platforms, they aren't found on Windows by default. This turns a several hundred kilobyte download into a 7 meg download (to make up some numbers off the top of my head)
As for Jabber being XMPP: yeah, I knew that, but after re-reading my post I make it sound like I'm arguing for Jabber over XMPP, probably because I jumped to totally different topics between paragraphs. What I was trying to get at was that it would be a lot easier to switch people over to Jabber/XMPP from Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, etc if they think they are just being converted over to "Google Messenger". They'd be none the wiser and the rest of us don't have to worry about about mutating proprietary protocols not working in gaim (and friends).
That would be great, but I don't really see any indication of it happening soon. Google seems to be geared towards search solutions (even Gmail has a great search tool).
What I would like to see is Google make their own Jabber client and set up their own public Jabber servers and call it "Google Messenger". It's hard to convert people to Jabber because they've never heard of it and Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, etc work fine for them. The "Google" name carries a lot more weight though and we might be able to start moving our friends over to an open IM (and more, I know) standard.
Qwerty?
By the way, I'm typing in Dvorak. I don't find the odd shortcuts to be a problem. I just got use to their position and I can hit those shortcut keys just as fast. I think the benifits of not having to reach for keys outweighs the shock of having to relearn where all the shortcuts are. In fact, I find it easier to reach my middle right finger up for CTRL+C and my ring right finger for CTRL+V. Try it! :) It has a sorta teeter totter effect.
Well, the problem is you can't use the mouse any the shortcut keys at the same time (which I like). It's nice using the Copy/Cut/Paste key combos while clicking around with the mouse to move text. Other ones are Ctrl+W to close tabs and Ctrl+R to refresh and Ctrl+T to open a new tab in Firefox
Mine worked fine. You should try upgrading (downgrading?) to Slashdot English 0.0.1-alpha-pre.
Interesting.. they have an image with no alt attribute on there page. Do they not use there own browser?
Unfortunately, you can't mod the actual news posts. In this case, it doesn't matter anyway, because slashdot doesn't have a "-1, Who comes up with this shit?" mod.
Haha.. I'm glad I'm not the only one. I don't think I've ever misread biotech that way. Must be my low expectations for slashdot.
What!? Ghandi is liberal? Someone stop the presses!
Then, my friend, the internet will hang up, which will ultimately lead to the destruction of the universe...
... as we know it.
--
Ryan
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?" - Gandhi
I guess you missed the point of the article...
That's quite easy to do if you don't read the article.
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Did you play anything other than Zero Wing?
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. . . you guys fail basic Journalism 101 class dudes.
Of course.. that's why they're posting on slashdot :)
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It *would* be, had somebody bothered to proofread the summary.
I just hope that this isn't another maneuver to get better pricing.
I just hope they don't get eaten by a seal.
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I mean, really. The article is very terse, and says nothing that hasn't been beaten to death on Slashdot every month or so.
Well, it must be that time of the month again.
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"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?" - Gandhi