Anyone still use it? Its been replaced by jabber and Windows Messenger, and I think messenger will die from neglect eventually.
I've 130 contacts on AIM, 20 on MSN, and 3 on Jabber. Well, 3 on the Google Talk subset of Jabber.
MSN is far more popular than AIM in some areas (Europe, for example), but AIM seems to rule the US (at least in the areas I've lived). Jabber may take off with Google's involvement, especially if they wind up interacting with AIM and MSN users, but before that Jabber was to AIM like the DOS prompt in Windows XP is to Everquest.
1. The reply is a direct quote from the Dictionary.com page. 2. If your definition of "culturally ignorant" is "doesn't know how many 'r's are in a single word" then I'm hardly hurt by your calling me that. Especially considering I myself am an Australian citizen, not a "Yank". 3. A Google search of "pages from the UK" for "referrer" yields 2.5 million results while "referer" yields 226,000. 4. And finally and perhaps most conclusively, the Oxford Dictionary Online returns no results for "referer", but a definition for "referrer" - and that's in the UK view!
" A misspelling of 'referrer' which somehow made it into the HTTP standard. A given web page's referer (sic) is the URL of whatever web page contains the link that the user followed to the current page. Most browsers pass this information as part of a request."
Deaths? 1800 or so. Compared to the 2500 deaths from the D-day invasion alone, this is hardly a costly war as lives go.
That's a rather silly comparison, given the utterly different wars, not to mention the fact that the Battle of Normandy had far greater numbers of combatants.
Note also the difference in American public opinion towards the two wars.
Then open a new document, rewrite everything so you're not violating copyright while retaining the exact same spirit of the GPL, and add on your restriction.
You can copyright a legal license, but you can't copyright "anything giving GPL-like freedoms".
The point is, if you don't like what the GPL lets people do, release it under a license more acceptable to you. Add in an addendum and operate under the (probably safe) assumption that the FSF won't come charging you with copyright violation. Rewrite it in your own words. What-the-fuck-ever.
No one should release code under the GPL if the GPL terms are unacceptable to them. That's idiotic. Anyone publishing code and then whining about people using that code ENTIRELY WITHIN THE TERMS OF THE LICENSE should be kicked in the teeth.
Anyone can modify the GPL to make their own similar-but-slightly-different version. You could make a version of the GPL that forbids Microsoft to use the code in any ways, for example.
And the privacy concerns? So they keep a record of searches. I don't care.
Exactly.
They've even got a way to delete your search history. Sure, there's no guarantee they don't keep it hidden somewhere, but nor is there that guarantee at any other engine on the web.
Possible, yeah. I had moles removed and the anesthetic (injected immediately before each mole) worked on the first perfectly but did nothing by the fourth. Not much fun.
Apparently there's a genetic disorder that causes such things.
Frankly, I consider a preoccupation with controlling your existing work to be a pretty sure sign that you're a two-bit hack who got lucky once and knows he can never repeat it.
Sure, 'cause Google has been a one-hit wonder thus far. Mmkay.
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Anyone still use it? Its been replaced by jabber and Windows Messenger, and I think messenger will die from neglect eventually.
I've 130 contacts on AIM, 20 on MSN, and 3 on Jabber. Well, 3 on the Google Talk subset of Jabber.
MSN is far more popular than AIM in some areas (Europe, for example), but AIM seems to rule the US (at least in the areas I've lived). Jabber may take off with Google's involvement, especially if they wind up interacting with AIM and MSN users, but before that Jabber was to AIM like the DOS prompt in Windows XP is to Everquest.
Woah woah woah, 100 meter range?
Every Bluetooth device I've purchased states a range of 30 feet, or about 10 meters. Where'd you hear 100 meters?
Considering Motorola makes and sells the phone, it's not surprising that Motorola gets to name it.
It's not particularly nice looking, either, so Apple probably wouldn't want their style of name on it regardless.
1. The reply is a direct quote from the Dictionary.com page.
l ts&freesearch=refererl ts&freesearch=referrer
2. If your definition of "culturally ignorant" is "doesn't know how many 'r's are in a single word" then I'm hardly hurt by your calling me that. Especially considering I myself am an Australian citizen, not a "Yank".
3. A Google search of "pages from the UK" for "referrer" yields 2.5 million results while "referer" yields 226,000.
4. And finally and perhaps most conclusively, the Oxford Dictionary Online returns no results for "referer", but a definition for "referrer" - and that's in the UK view!
See for yourself:
http://www.askoxford.com/results/?view=searchresu
http://www.askoxford.com/results/?view=searchresu
In short, fuck you.
30.00 Euros is $37.39, which is close enough to $40.00 for me.
Ironically, PayPal is the only system trusted by the vast majority of buyers on eBay and similar sites, so competitors haven't really taken off here.
On behalf of much of Slashdot, let me say this:
You bastard.
Can I come live with you?
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=referer
" A misspelling of 'referrer' which somehow made it into the HTTP standard. A given web page's referer (sic) is the URL of whatever web page contains the link that the user followed to the current page. Most browsers pass this information as part of a request."
As someone else has already noted in this thread, the students' own site notes that the laptops were taken away and their passwords changed.
I tend to doubt they wrote the new admin password on the back that time.
Personally, I'd rather have the one doing the innovating and speedy development than the one playing catchup all the time...
Except that Linux isn't designed by committee, it's not designed at all.
The kernel is certainly steered with a pretty firm grip, as are most of the major projects.
The software that makes it on Linux is determined by free market choice.
No more than in OSX or Windows. Microsoft and Apple certainly haven't banned third party apps from being developed without their permission.
OS X is the equivalent of Versailles and Windows the equivalent of the Kremlin, but those are not good places to live.
And so we should all move to the slums of Johannesburg during Apartheid?
I'm just quoting the grandparent poster.
Pressing the "Eject" key on the keyboard was too difficult?
What you simply don't get is that with Linux most people write the software to use it themselves.
He gets it.
He also gets that that is one of the reasons Linux seems to have "scattershot design by committee of blind idiots"...
Deaths? 1800 or so. Compared to the 2500 deaths from the D-day invasion alone, this is hardly a costly war as lives go.
That's a rather silly comparison, given the utterly different wars, not to mention the fact that the Battle of Normandy had far greater numbers of combatants.
Note also the difference in American public opinion towards the two wars.
No, we pulled out of vietnem. If by giving up, you mean we lost then yes i guess your right.
You can't fire me! I quit!
Then open a new document, rewrite everything so you're not violating copyright while retaining the exact same spirit of the GPL, and add on your restriction.
You can copyright a legal license, but you can't copyright "anything giving GPL-like freedoms".
The point is, if you don't like what the GPL lets people do, release it under a license more acceptable to you. Add in an addendum and operate under the (probably safe) assumption that the FSF won't come charging you with copyright violation. Rewrite it in your own words. What-the-fuck-ever.
No one should release code under the GPL if the GPL terms are unacceptable to them. That's idiotic. Anyone publishing code and then whining about people using that code ENTIRELY WITHIN THE TERMS OF THE LICENSE should be kicked in the teeth.
Without Perl, there'd be no Slashdot.
We don't call it Perl/Slashdot, though.
Then add it as an addendum or appendix.
(as a side note, that notice seems rather strange given the point of the GPL... heh... doesn't RMS know that information wants to be free?)
You don't have to use the stock GPL text.
Anyone can modify the GPL to make their own similar-but-slightly-different version. You could make a version of the GPL that forbids Microsoft to use the code in any ways, for example.
Actually putting in real commercials would result in the comercials being cut out and then the video being redistributed.
I don't know about that.
Put it out on the web at the same time it is airing, and I'll watch it commercials and all. I just lack a TV (and the desire to buy one).
I'd rather watch it now with commercials than find it on bittorrent the next morning and wait for a download. No question in my mind.
And the privacy concerns? So they keep a record of searches. I don't care.
Exactly.
They've even got a way to delete your search history. Sure, there's no guarantee they don't keep it hidden somewhere, but nor is there that guarantee at any other engine on the web.
Possible, yeah. I had moles removed and the anesthetic (injected immediately before each mole) worked on the first perfectly but did nothing by the fourth. Not much fun.
Apparently there's a genetic disorder that causes such things.
Hydrocodone is probably better known as Lortab or Vicodin. It's addictive.
;-)
No, it's not! I've been using it for years and I'm not... oh.
Seriously, though, the stuff does nothing for me. Dunno why people are so "woohoo!" about it...
Where are the contradictions there?
Frankly, I consider a preoccupation with controlling your existing work to be a pretty sure sign that you're a two-bit hack who got lucky once and knows he can never repeat it.
Sure, 'cause Google has been a one-hit wonder thus far. Mmkay.