If you look at all the new programs they've been putting out lately, the deskbar, the toolbar, the new Gmail Notifier etc. and realize that all that stuff could be very usefully integrated into a web browser... not to mention some of the stuff floating around in their Labs section. I suspect that's not the last word we'll here on a new browser.
Yeah I know you just think if you keep spreading these rumours about a google web browser, that in the end they'll give in and make one to shut you up right.
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While that is true, Sinatra may not have been a great musician to be studied by posterity, but at least he was a singer. He entertained with his voice, by singing good tunes in an aesthetically pleasing manner.
What can I say but yiiiick, Sinarta and his mates sang like honeyed shit, sickly sweet on the outside, and you know what inside.
Ok my point is this it's all a matter of taste, personally I HATE the so called ratpak and infact the entire crooner style of singing, Yiiick, as for britney why should she be taken less seriously just because she does pop?? thats just elitism
As I said in another post, I think he knows darn well Linux isn't going to be the only other arround. He's just trying to get everyone else to gang up against Linux. It is a brilliant strategic move on behalf of MS, and a classic divide and conquer strategy. He's trying to do the same thing between redhat and novell too.
I'm sure this is true, but open sourcer's need not worry, so long as you have a strong FOSS community about your OS, it will live, so despite the periodic articles *BSD, and all the other non-linux open source OS's look plenty strong to me.
But don't worry we should still see lots of X is dying stories:-P.
A disturbing study showing that the suicide rates for whites in US metropolitan areas is higher in cities where more country music is played on the radio
I wonder if other favorite country music themes are up too, like murdering your girlfriend, just goes to show that filling your head with a particular thought will have some effect.
Everybody complaining about Slashdot becoming Piquepaille's personal soapbox for plagiarisim seems to get instantly modded down. Is he a pseudonym for one of the Slashdot editors or something?
Hmmmmmm yeah Roland pipsqueak annoys me too, most of his articles display a poor understanding of technology, he's a bit of a non-event. I would love to know how come so many of his articles get posted.
Oh, wait... You're referring to the 3% minority of blogs that are NOT about the cat, the latest Linkin Park song* or that cute "boi" at high school? Okay, carry on.
Ah and you are the obligatory/. intellectual snob --- ok on you go then.
The problem with viral campaigns like VoteOrNot is that it is too easy to have multiple on-line personalities. In these days, nobody has one email account... it's easy for one person to be a ton of people online. That's the problem the company will have.
Yes all of me agrees with you, well most of me's do.
That's a bit of a catch-22, now isn't it? No wonder lefties don't buy lefty mice... because there aren't any on the market! I'm not asking for equal numbers here.. You know.. a ninth as many lefthanded mice as there are righthanded mice would be nice.. But they aren't there. You say if lefties bought lefty mice, then Logitech would sell them... but Logitech doesn't make lefty mice, lefties won't be buying lefty mice, now will they?! You can't buy what doesn't exist! I won't blame the lefties who use righty mice, I'll blame the righties who made them use righty mice! There is one arena where I get militant--the lack of support for lefties. It's nigh-impossible to find lefty desks at my university and it's nigh-impossible to find lefty mice. Lefties have been persecuted and ignored for centuries. I'm not asking for "affirmative action" regarding enrollment.. just put enough lefty desks on campus for us to use, god damn it!
Damm lefty commies, terrorists the lot o' them we should shoot em all with their la-di-dah using the wrong hand, when I was a lad........
When I read the CS Lewis books as a kid, I loved them all up to the last one (don't remember the name of it). I was six or seven, but even at that age I reacted against the judgemental mean-spiritedness of it. Here the preceding books had showed the endless fatherly love of the Lion, and here he let the world end, and a huge number of living beings die. If I remember correctly, all living beings passed by him, and those who passed into his shadow faded away forever.
When I got older, I read that it was basically the End of Days/Second coming of Christ, for kids. The two evil and foolish characters the Monkey and the Donkey represented scientists (evolution, get it?) and disbelievers. This didn't make me like the book any better.
hmmmm it's a hard dark book, it always bothered me too, but your dead wrong about the source, the book isn't an allegory, and you just cannot read it that way. The problem is the it is written from a theological/philosophical veiw point which is anathamea to the modern mind, a very negative veiw which says the world is diminishing, everything is less good, less powerful, less nice, less..., less..., less...,..... defeat defeat despair, lets have a depression party together
one might be tempted to think this was just a by product of WWII etc but infact this thinking is much older, it got into roman catholicism in the dark ages I believe (I've not been roman catholic for a long time), but it goes back further, many pagans believed themselves to be diminished lesser mortals than their fore fathers, not sure why really it gives me the shit but.
Actually, no. He didn't have a real objection to biological evolution and clearly differentiated it from what he called the "universal evolutionism of modern thought".
Thats true also the book as any one who's read much of Lewis's essays on literature/Christianity would know just pure and simple was not an allegory, to the best of my knowledge lewis only ever wrote one one allegory "The Pilgrims Regress", I gather he was at least in part persuaded by his buddy J. R. R. Tolkiens extreme views that allegories where literary abominations.
How convenient to think that it's a straight up allegory...
Of course Lewis did not become a Christian until after he wrote those books...he was quite outspoken against Christianity at the time...so I doubt the symbolism could be as you represent it under the circumstances
Ummmmm NO!! && Yes, Lewis was most definitely a Christian at this point in his life, but yes it was not an allegory, for many reasons, not least because it just plain obviously wasn't written as one.
My sources well I've read near enough every thing Lewis or Tolkien (his buddy) ever wrote, but in particular, he mentions this over and over in essays on litrature etc, it just never was an allegory, he wrote only one allegory and that was "A Pillgrims Regress"
I can see this becoming annoying quite quickly. If you had just one friend who used this, but you actually had a life (that wasn't completely dependent on them), you'd constantly get pathetic messages on your phone, despite the fact that you don't want to hang out with them every night of the week. It would only take one overly extroverted person to annoy dozens of normal people.
what makes you say that glpierce huh, huh, you wanta hangout glpierce, huh huh.....
Damm them those FBI scum, they never turn out to be tailing me, they never bugg my phone, Bastards don't I have a right to some serious paranoia, so what if I don't live in the USA, so what if Australia is not their jurisdiction, I demand my right to be persecuted by my agency(s) of choice.
Anyone for whom English ain't no native language
(like myself) occasionally finds good suggestions
from Word grammar checker.
Hmmmmm that would explain some of the aweful gramar I see, just a clue the gramatical "suggestions" word gives you are almost always wrong, the word gramar checker is rubbish.
The Trolls make heaps of noise as it is, SCO could never afford to pay enough shills to get to that level of noise anyway, and they'd need heeps more noise to break the moderation system.
The funny thing is the last sentence of the story: "One IBM employee in the company's internal technology department characterized the decision as routine".
So a routine decision makes the front page of Slashdot, clearly advertized as "IBM doesn't trust Microsoft".
The basic anti MS movement is still out there.
nah it's not so much the anti M$ thing as the general, lets make a big fuss about nothing reflex.
It's not like the government is running around tapping your phone lines willy-nilly.
For now yeah, equally if their spying on me their being bored to death, but will it always be this way, there are always those who would advocate more and still more powers, just as the there are those who oppose even the most simple and sensible powers, the issue for a society is to keep the balance.
All these talks of "revolutionary" debugging techniques bother me a little. There's only one debugging technique, and that's the debugger's skill and experience. Debuggers, traces, logs and other printf()s and LEDs flashing are just tools.
Andrew Ko's invention is just another tool. It won't do the debugging for you. Just like modern cars have diagnostic computers, but somehow it appears you still have to fork off $30/hr for the workmanship to get it fixed...
That is just so true, but the one thing I'd have to add is that since this thing works in a natural language, and it appears to be based on AI idea's. Hence it will have the properties of such systems, i.e. it will promise much and deliver little or nothing, I'm betting on the nothing.
You forget the original purpose of HTML. HTML's purpose, and the reason it grew so quikly, was to be an easily understood markup language that could be used by less technical people.
Bollocks show me one reason to believe that this rubbish had anything to do with the purpose of html. You just made that up to suite you're hatred of xhtml.
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I never thought it would come to this but I just fell in love with a printer. :-P
Well he would be Proud of him, just like his father he's a nasty little crook. no news here.
The Trolls make heaps of noise as it is, SCO could never afford to pay enough shills to get to that level of noise anyway, and they'd need heeps more noise to break the moderation system.
well thats got my head spinning