Well, I can't speak for the average AOL'er, but I have never, nor will I ever click on an Ad like that, nor will I ever buy any product that is advertised this way.
If I am in the market for buying something, I want to decide who, where and how I want to buy the product and no ad on any website will change that.
Some companies just throw money out the ying-yang!
Mandrake is a great newbie distribution.
I just read the review over at OSNews and one thing that bothers me a bit is that Mandrake seems to be just as bad as Windows wwhen it comes to loading all kinds of unecessary services. Eugenia said that the startup time was horrible due to all the services that gets started. I know it can be turned off, but how many people actually do that (except for you geeks, of course).
Personally, I'll continue to enjoy my optimized Gentoo box, only running the services that I decide is necessary.
I actullay met the guy several times during the early 80's. I was working for a distributor of Osborne computers in a rather obscure country:)
I really liked the guy, he had a lot of good ideas in the pioneer days of PC computing and he made the first portable computer that was actually usable.
Adam, you will be missed by many who knew you and admired the work you did.
Its a new undisclosed product. The problem is that it has so many bugs and security holes that they can not release it yet. Besides, their own development team has no clue how to track down security bugs so they actually depend on independent hackers to find them for MS. That was what they meant by independent expertise in the article!
Well, he may have written what you would call "another gnome sucks" article, but for a lot of people that article made a lot of sense. He actually penned the feelings a lot of users have about Gnome. Please, this is not a flame war about Gnome/KDE, but about how Linux spreads and how difficult it is to get exact figure on how many people actually use Linux. And here I agree with him. The nature of Linux makes it hard to count. The nature og how MS spreads also makes it hard to get a realistic count.
I would say it was a good article with a lot fo valid points. MS is loosing market and fast too.
Well, about 10 years ago a ct brought in an old IBM PC that was used for some type of server apps. It had stopped working and the ct wanted us to fix it. I removed the cover and it was not just A dust-bunny. The whole interior was completly covered in a dust-mat. I used some compressed air to blow it clean and then a vacuum-cleaner to remove the rest and applied some electronic cleaner. The PC started right up again, ct happy, me charged them big bucks:)
I hope that they will let the terrible stupid and horribly acted show rest forever. I hope we never, ever see any re-runs of Buffy. It is one of the worst shows ever on TV. How anyone can even be remotly interested in such crap is beyond my comprehension.
Hmmm... If I remember correctly, OS-X uses a red, yellow and green button. In normal everyday life, Red means stop, Yellow get ready (beware), Green go. How can you say that OS-X adheres to this? So, if I click on the Red button on an Aqua based window, it's going to stop what I'm doing? Green will start it again? I didn't think so!
From a usability point of view, Aqua is about the worst I have seen. They try to use an analogy from everyday life and failed miserably. Is it pretty? Maybe, depends on the eye looking of course. Is it intuitive? NO!
Another "great, huge fantasy role playing blaah!" Super yawn. Things like this doesn't even stir a small amount of excitment. I know a lot of people actually "live" in these worlds and can't wait to have another one to waste their life on.
Instead of playing all these games, have you ever thought about going outdoors and do something in real life with friends or family? Don't forget: There is a life outside your PC.
Oh, I like games, but role playing games are just sooooo booooooring.
I guess it is more of a law question than a comment to you.
I find it strange that the supreme court can enforce a law that will be applied backwards in time so to speak. Basically you are never sure if whatever you do is not going to be affected by some law in the future and you may even be sued in the future for something that was legal when you did it in the past, but now (in the future) is illegal. That doesn't make sense to me.
Ok, extend the copyright laws, but only for new work created AFTER the law was passed. Work created earlier, will expire as said law regulated when the work was created.
I have never played the game nor will I ever play it.
I have just one single comment for the guy who wrote the article above: Stop playing!
If you don't like the way it is done, then don't play it. If more and more players stop using it Sony will figure out that something is wrong, the company isn't that stupid.
Bottom line: It's your choice. Play if you like it, but don't complain. Stop playing if you can't live with the conditions of the game. Simple, eh?
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I have used Opera since it was launched many years ago and I currently use Phoenix on Gentoo Linux here at work in production. Both are great browsers, but Phoenix is still lacking in some sense.
One feature I miss in Phoenix is handling both the select-buffer and the cut-and-paste buffer in Xwindows, it only handles the select buffer. Opera does and I need it since I do a lot of cut and paste between web-pages and an internal tool written in Java (only supports the cut and paste buffer)
Another issue, which is a bug in Phoenix is downloading UNIX compressed files (.Z). Phoenix does not save them at all.
I can go on and on with differnces, but I don't need to. Both browsers are good and I'm sure Phoenix will be even better as their development goes forward. Browser wars are stupid. Test several browsers and pick the one that covers your usage. It may not be the same as everybody else chooses, but so what?
Why don't you just call Yahoo, use the phone man! That's what they are for. Then traverse the hierarcy until you find the one responsible, but start at the top.
Just call them each time you get a message, sooner or later they'll get tired.
Jeg er norsk, bor I Florida, snakker norsk og 6 andre spraak..
(I'm Norwegian and live in Florida, speaking Norwegian and 6 other languages).
The initial post in this thread is one of the causes to why USA is in more armed conflicts with other countries than any other country on this planet is. Namely arrogance!
I really see several reasons why source code should NOT be shipped with a commercial product:
Support of user modified code is impossible
Competitors may take advantage of reading the source
It's "my money" that went into developing the source and "I" want to reap the benefits of "my" work
Bug handling would be a nightmare
There are several other reasons too. I'm not sure why all source has to be open source. Sometimes I feel that a lot of people just want a system to be Open SOurce just because it is The Right Thing (Tm), not because it would give them anything.
I have no problem with non-commercial software beeing open-sourced or even to a certain degree commercial software. But is it really necessary that ALL software is open source? I fail to see the need in all cases or the reason for it to be so.
Intersting idea, but is it really possible to have a laser based cell phone? I guess a laser would have to be used.
Besides the technical problems, I really don't see much use for it. I'm happy as long as I can talk on my cell phone and I don't need: games, internet, messaging, carwash, deodorant, floss, toothpicks, swiss army knife, lunch, soft drink incorporated into my cell-phone.
I'm not that important, neither is the rest of the Slashdot crowd:)
They do have a point here.
The fewer centralized points the traffic has to go through the higher the risk of failure. And with failure, the lack of service to millions of people.
I can't validate the correctness of the story, but my impression has always been that the backbones are designed to failover if they hit a problem and that there are several routes between multiple backbones that is serving the same strecth of net. I may be wrong on this, but at least that was the goal back in the 80's when I first started using the net.
The article needs to be taken serious, as more and more business depends on the net. If it fails one one or more backbone stretches, it will have enormous consequences for business, meaning your's and my paycheck may be endangered. Oh, and the answee is not to get rid of Microsoft in this case:-)
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Well, I can't speak for the average AOL'er, but I have never, nor will I ever click on an Ad like that, nor will I ever buy any product that is advertised this way.
If I am in the market for buying something, I want to decide who, where and how I want to buy the product and no ad on any website will change that.
Some companies just throw money out the ying-yang!
Still the same date, eh?
Yawwwwnnnnn....
Mandrake is a great newbie distribution.
I just read the review over at OSNews and one thing that bothers me a bit is that Mandrake seems to be just as bad as Windows wwhen it comes to loading all kinds of unecessary services. Eugenia said that the startup time was horrible due to all the services that gets started. I know it can be turned off, but how many people actually do that (except for you geeks, of course).
Personally, I'll continue to enjoy my optimized Gentoo box, only running the services that I decide is necessary.
Happy Linux'ing...
I actullay met the guy several times during the early 80's. I was working for a distributor of Osborne computers in a rather obscure country :)
I really liked the guy, he had a lot of good ideas in the pioneer days of PC computing and he made the first portable computer that was actually usable.
Adam, you will be missed by many who knew you and admired the work you did.
Rest in peace!
Its a new undisclosed product. The problem is that it has so many bugs and security holes that they can not release it yet. Besides, their own development team has no clue how to track down security bugs so they actually depend on independent hackers to find them for MS. That was what they meant by independent expertise in the article!
Well, he may have written what you would call "another gnome sucks" article, but for a lot of people that article made a lot of sense. He actually penned the feelings a lot of users have about Gnome. Please, this is not a flame war about Gnome/KDE, but about how Linux spreads and how difficult it is to get exact figure on how many people actually use Linux. And here I agree with him. The nature of Linux makes it hard to count. The nature og how MS spreads also makes it hard to get a realistic count.
I would say it was a good article with a lot fo valid points. MS is loosing market and fast too.
Well, about 10 years ago a ct brought in an old IBM PC that was used for some type of server apps. It had stopped working and the ct wanted us to fix it. I removed the cover and it was not just A dust-bunny. The whole interior was completly covered in a dust-mat. I used some compressed air to blow it clean and then a vacuum-cleaner to remove the rest and applied some electronic cleaner. The PC started right up again, ct happy, me charged them big bucks :)
How can this be treated as a flamebait.
My point was that by using 1 GigaBit card between my 2 PC's here at work I can easily achieve 10% of the speed
Conclusion: Not too impressed with their speed record no.
I'm not that impressed...
I transferred about 600Mb between 2 of my PC's here at work in 55.18 seconds.
Not more than the original show.
I hope that they will let the terrible stupid and horribly acted show rest forever. I hope we never, ever see any re-runs of Buffy. It is one of the worst shows ever on TV. How anyone can even be remotly interested in such crap is beyond my comprehension.
Hmmm... If I remember correctly, OS-X uses a red, yellow and green button. In normal everyday life, Red means stop, Yellow get ready (beware), Green go. How can you say that OS-X adheres to this? So, if I click on the Red button on an Aqua based window, it's going to stop what I'm doing? Green will start it again? I didn't think so!
From a usability point of view, Aqua is about the worst I have seen. They try to use an analogy from everyday life and failed miserably. Is it pretty? Maybe, depends on the eye looking of course. Is it intuitive? NO!
Yawn... Big Yawn...
Another "great, huge fantasy role playing blaah!" Super yawn. Things like this doesn't even stir a small amount of excitment. I know a lot of people actually "live" in these worlds and can't wait to have another one to waste their life on.
Instead of playing all these games, have you ever thought about going outdoors and do something in real life with friends or family? Don't forget: There is a life outside your PC.
Oh, I like games, but role playing games are just sooooo booooooring.
I guess it is more of a law question than a comment to you.
I find it strange that the supreme court can enforce a law that will be applied backwards in time so to speak. Basically you are never sure if whatever you do is not going to be affected by some law in the future and you may even be sued in the future for something that was legal when you did it in the past, but now (in the future) is illegal. That doesn't make sense to me.
Ok, extend the copyright laws, but only for new work created AFTER the law was passed. Work created earlier, will expire as said law regulated when the work was created.
I have never played the game nor will I ever play it.
I have just one single comment for the guy who wrote the article above: Stop playing!
If you don't like the way it is done, then don't play it. If more and more players stop using it Sony will figure out that something is wrong, the company isn't that stupid.
Bottom line: It's your choice. Play if you like it, but don't complain. Stop playing if you can't live with the conditions of the game. Simple, eh?
I have used Opera since it was launched many years ago and I currently use Phoenix on Gentoo Linux here at work in production. Both are great browsers, but Phoenix is still lacking in some sense.
One feature I miss in Phoenix is handling both the select-buffer and the cut-and-paste buffer in Xwindows, it only handles the select buffer. Opera does and I need it since I do a lot of cut and paste between web-pages and an internal tool written in Java (only supports the cut and paste buffer)
Another issue, which is a bug in Phoenix is downloading UNIX compressed files (.Z). Phoenix does not save them at all.
I can go on and on with differnces, but I don't need to. Both browsers are good and I'm sure Phoenix will be even better as their development goes forward. Browser wars are stupid. Test several browsers and pick the one that covers your usage. It may not be the same as everybody else chooses, but so what?
Why don't you just call Yahoo, use the phone man! That's what they are for. Then traverse the hierarcy until you find the one responsible, but start at the top.
Just call them each time you get a message, sooner or later they'll get tired.
No taping in Norwegian courts.
TV from courts is a nasty American fenomena. And it sucks, because laywers pose more than they work, same for the prosecution.
Jeg er norsk, bor I Florida, snakker norsk og 6 andre spraak..
(I'm Norwegian and live in Florida, speaking Norwegian and 6 other languages).
The initial post in this thread is one of the causes to why USA is in more armed conflicts with other countries than any other country on this planet is. Namely arrogance!
Why?
I doubt that he has over 100MB of data typed in that is worth saving.
Since I bet this is all pr0n, printing it is bad since Jenna Jameson looks bad in hexadecimal!
Ehhh. Eiffel studio is free?
Their webpage quotes the price as follows: Pricing for the Windows and Linux versions of EiffelStudio is US$ 4,799.00.
I have a problem understanding how $4,799=Free. Please explain!
Ummmm... You said use OSX. As far as I know, it is still not Open Source.
The article talked about Open Source, not your personal preference for OSX which is very closed.
Support of user modified code is impossible
Competitors may take advantage of reading the source
It's "my money" that went into developing the source and "I" want to reap the benefits of "my" work
Bug handling would be a nightmare
There are several other reasons too. I'm not sure why all source has to be open source. Sometimes I feel that a lot of people just want a system to be Open SOurce just because it is The Right Thing (Tm), not because it would give them anything.
I have no problem with non-commercial software beeing open-sourced or even to a certain degree commercial software. But is it really necessary that ALL software is open source? I fail to see the need in all cases or the reason for it to be so.
Intersting idea, but is it really possible to have a laser based cell phone? I guess a laser would have to be used.
:)
Besides the technical problems, I really don't see much use for it. I'm happy as long as I can talk on my cell phone and I don't need: games, internet, messaging, carwash, deodorant, floss, toothpicks, swiss army knife, lunch, soft drink incorporated into my cell-phone.
I'm not that important, neither is the rest of the Slashdot crowd
They do have a point here.
:-)
The fewer centralized points the traffic has to go through the higher the risk of failure. And with failure, the lack of service to millions of people.
I can't validate the correctness of the story, but my impression has always been that the backbones are designed to failover if they hit a problem and that there are several routes between multiple backbones that is serving the same strecth of net. I may be wrong on this, but at least that was the goal back in the 80's when I first started using the net.
The article needs to be taken serious, as more and more business depends on the net. If it fails one one or more backbone stretches, it will have enormous consequences for business, meaning your's and my paycheck may be endangered. Oh, and the answee is not to get rid of Microsoft in this case
Hmmm... WJ does not require a subscription to read this article.
I clicked the link and was able to read the article without any subscription. Please, try it out before bashing, will you?