you found an obscure and difficult to exploit vulnerability. Now quit trying to make out the world is doomed and trolling on Linus to keep the spotlight on youself.
O'Gara's article was bullshit but if obvious bullshit engenders the sort of response we saw then people are gonna start wondering about just how grounded in reality you really are.
well a lot Firefox advocates like to claim tabs as a Firefox/Mozilla innovation, along with serveral other features they borrowed from Opera so of course MS will claim they innovated it.
On top of that, Jobs' insistence that the machine have no fan made for a very hot board. After being used for a day or two, the mainboard would get so hot it would warp and unseat some of the chips. Apple refused to install a fan to fix the problem and instructed users to drop the machine on their desk to bang the chips back into place.
before venturing into the unknown with a system that currently works for the sake of saving a few thousand dollars. If the savings were greater or there was areadily accessible tried and test means then go for it. But for the sake of a few grand, if it works I would leave well enough alone.
Update: killes points out at Drupal.org, "Chris Messina (a.k.a factoryjoe) has spend long hours with Dan to convince him to use Drupal. Thanks Chris." Indeed.
looks more like they needed serious persuading to choose it.
I would see it differently. Extending copyright encourages creativity because it shows that if you can come up with good original concept that catches the popular imagination you can make an absolute mint off it. If that does not encourage people to create, or investors to back creative people nothing will. Disney have invested serious time and effort in building up a brand around their characters, why should they drop copyright and let others make inferior duplicates ad nauseum until the original concept is destroyed.
Preventing people from rehashing old ideas from the 30's and 40's is not necessarily a bad thing. The fact that true creators like Walt Disney only come along every few decades is far more stiffling to creativity than copyright.
You are mistaken in your reading of the sentence. Set is an OS coder who works for Oracle, and the offering is a chicken. Oracle are trying to appease the coding gods and Set is the only person who can make the offering because of his religious beliefs (and the fact that his manager beat him into submission with a stick.)
You are missing the point. In the US its a two horse race, you are either for or against a candidate. Bush won but 49% of the population did not vote for him and now have to shut up and like the result.
In the UK its even worse. They operate a first past the post system where for example 65% of the people may not vote for you but you can still be elected. Recently the LibDems got 6 million votes in the Euro elections and not 1 seat because of the system.
Here in Ireland, and several other European countries we operate Proportional Representation systems where by you can specify you preferred candidate and then a list of your 2nd, third choice etc. Its a system which represents the popular vote more accurately and helps avoid having candidates you are dimetrically opposed to foisted on you.
A recent visitor to Phatak's office was Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Craig Mundie.
"I told him a competitive price point (for a desktop OS) would be in the single digit dollars," Phatak said.
Are you kidding? I installed redhat on a machine in the office for the first time in 98-99, much to the amusement of several colleagues who could not believe Star Office was so slow and unstable and that Konq fell over on just about every other web page. Even Netscape was more usable at that stage.
I have to admit the considerable slagging I received has biased me against Konq, which is part of the reason I think them complaining about Apple was an incredibly stupid thing for them to do. But you are correct, at least they had something as opposed to the Mozilla 'platform to rule the world' pipedream.
WTF are you babbling about. Are you seriously trying to suggest that an object with clean, uncluttered lines and silver/white colour would not fit in with the clean uncluttered lines and very light colours in the link you posted?
No, I thought they were all rubbish. A clear case of someone trying to be far too smart for their own good. The population at large does not know the brand firefox, does not know what it does and more importantly does not really care. A couple unamusing and totally obscure videos are not going to change that.
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You need to stop listening to your keyboard man.
you found an obscure and difficult to exploit vulnerability. Now quit trying to make out the world is doomed and trolling on Linus to keep the spotlight on youself.
O'Gara's article was bullshit but if obvious bullshit engenders the sort of response we saw then people are gonna start wondering about just how grounded in reality you really are.
but theres a nice version of locate which runs in the windows taskbar. I cant remember what it was called anyone know?
well a lot Firefox advocates like to claim tabs as a Firefox/Mozilla innovation, along with serveral other features they borrowed from Opera so of course MS will claim they innovated it.
On top of that, Jobs' insistence that the machine have no fan made for a very hot board. After being used for a day or two, the mainboard would get so hot it would warp and unseat some of the chips. Apple refused to install a fan to fix the problem and instructed users to drop the machine on their desk to bang the chips back into place.
Doesnt seem to bother people when they get on fly by wire planes.
for my flying car. There will be a plumet, followed by a very sudden stop at the end.
Well why not, after the damage is done and they have made themselves look very very stupid.
before venturing into the unknown with a system that currently works for the sake of saving a few thousand dollars. If the savings were greater or there was areadily accessible tried and test means then go for it. But for the sake of a few grand, if it works I would leave well enough alone.
Update: killes points out at Drupal.org, "Chris Messina (a.k.a factoryjoe) has spend long hours with Dan to convince him to use Drupal. Thanks Chris." Indeed.
looks more like they needed serious persuading to choose it.
just as soon as we get rid of this pesky planetary atmosphere.
We all know that Human evolution is shorty to be off shored to Mars because martians are a dime a dozen and grow faster in the reduced gravity.
I would see it differently. Extending copyright encourages creativity because it shows that if you can come up with good original concept that catches the popular imagination you can make an absolute mint off it. If that does not encourage people to create, or investors to back creative people nothing will. Disney have invested serious time and effort in building up a brand around their characters, why should they drop copyright and let others make inferior duplicates ad nauseum until the original concept is destroyed.
Preventing people from rehashing old ideas from the 30's and 40's is not necessarily a bad thing. The fact that true creators like Walt Disney only come along every few decades is far more stiffling to creativity than copyright.
You are mistaken in your reading of the sentence. Set is an OS coder who works for Oracle, and the offering is a chicken. Oracle are trying to appease the coding gods and Set is the only person who can make the offering because of his religious beliefs (and the fact that his manager beat him into submission with a stick.)
You are missing the point. In the US its a two horse race, you are either for or against a candidate. Bush won but 49% of the population did not vote for him and now have to shut up and like the result.
In the UK its even worse. They operate a first past the post system where for example 65% of the people may not vote for you but you can still be elected. Recently the LibDems got 6 million votes in the Euro elections and not 1 seat because of the system.
Here in Ireland, and several other European countries we operate Proportional Representation systems where by you can specify you preferred candidate and then a list of your 2nd, third choice etc. Its a system which represents the popular vote more accurately and helps avoid having candidates you are dimetrically opposed to foisted on you.
Are you insane! How will the slashbots know what the current group think is without the asinine comments!
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I knew you were going to say that.
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A recent visitor to Phatak's office was Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Craig Mundie. "I told him a competitive price point (for a desktop OS) would be in the single digit dollars," Phatak said.
Would that digit have been 0 by any chance?
Are you kidding? I installed redhat on a machine in the office for the first time in 98-99, much to the amusement of several colleagues who could not believe Star Office was so slow and unstable and that Konq fell over on just about every other web page. Even Netscape was more usable at that stage.
I have to admit the considerable slagging I received has biased me against Konq, which is part of the reason I think them complaining about Apple was an incredibly stupid thing for them to do. But you are correct, at least they had something as opposed to the Mozilla 'platform to rule the world' pipedream.
WTF are you babbling about. Are you seriously trying to suggest that an object with clean, uncluttered lines and silver/white colour would not fit in with the clean uncluttered lines and very light colours in the link you posted?
As soon as my lightsabre is available for $99.99 in Walmart I will hack you to pieces for your blasphemy you you blasphemer you.
No, I thought they were all rubbish. A clear case of someone trying to be far too smart for their own good. The population at large does not know the brand firefox, does not know what it does and more importantly does not really care. A couple unamusing and totally obscure videos are not going to change that.