[...] Is how they're going to sort out whom has a legal copy of a song, and whom has an illegal copy of a song.
They could do what EMusic does, which is keep a catalog of all the music you've ever downloaded with your account. This is supposedly for convenience so you can look back and grab songs you downloaded before, or something like that. But I bet it'd be a good way of proving that you have a legit copy of a song you got from the service.
Don't believe that I have a legal right to that copy of "Hey Pachuco"? Check my EMusic history, bub. I got it fair and square.
...and presumably it will cost another $130 for the upgrade.
For what it's worth, students (and "higher education" faculty) can get Mac OS X for $69 at the Apple Education Store. It'll probably be the same deal for Panther. It's still a lot of money, but not as steep as $130.:)
Okay, I'm a tard, and wasn't paying attention when I replied. My own messed up head combined with a bratty pug puppy made me do it! Anyway, I did not RTFSPVC (Read The F...ing Slashdot Posting Very Closely), so just ignore the above. Thanks.
It is their country. They can do what they want really.
Well now that's the sticky part now, isn't it? Who is "they"? In this case, "they" is the government, and not necessarily the people who live with the decision "they" make. If there was a vote and 80% (or something) of the population voted in favor of blacklisting Google, then fine. Go for it. But the real issue here is that it is the government deciding that its people should not be allowed to access a given resource, namely Google. And that is what makes this such a nasty situation: the few are deciding what the many can do, and this whole thing goes contrary to the whole spirit of the net.
Boy, if I didn't throw away and re-write stuff, it'd be even buggier and harder to maintain than it is.
Amen to that. I do mostly small-scale Perl scripting and the like, but I tend to rewrite my scripts two or three times before I'm content with them. Why? Because my first pass is usually just to sketch out the functionality, with little regard to efficiency, etc. Then I go through again and rethink the approach I took, and try to slim the code down so it's as lean and mean as possible. And as I toss and turn at night, I'm often struck with ideas for how to refine my code from earlier in the day even further.
The advice in the article is like saying Microsoft should just stick with DOS for even longer, and continue to pile more 32-bit (and eventually, 64-bit) crap on top of it. I mean, DOS is "all tested and working code" right? Sorry bub, but as time goes by, things need to be rethunk and often rewritten. This goes for the small scale as well as the large scale.
With traditional Perl, such a condition could never evaluate to true. After all, if $foo is 1, how can $foo be 2 and 3 as well? Now take a look at the following:
Thanks to our Quantum-powered Perl (heh), this condition is true. $foo is 1, 2, and 3 all at once. Sort of. In quantum terms, $foo isn't any of those values. But once you test $foo to see if it is 1, it becomes 1. And when you look to see if it's 2, it becomes 2, etc. But if you test $foo to see if it is 4, it is not - that's not one of the possible values.
Good riddance! We should all go back to surfing the web with Lynx, and typing up e-mail with mutt.
In all seriousness though, I'm glad to see this new road map. IMO, this shows a lot of maturity and foresight on the part of the Mozilla team, and I applaud them for it. They realize the shortcomings of the approach they've taken during the last 5 years, and they have put together a solid plan for where they want to go from here. While this will undoubtedly cause some instability and uproar within the community (and the code) to some degree, once the dust settles down we'll be left with a better browser. And a better e-mail client. If I had the coding skills to help them out, I'd dive right into the Mozilla project right now and lend a hand. But for now, I shall cheer them on from the sidelines of bug reporting.:)
I very much welcome the post of this informative review of RH 9.0 . I hope this starts a trend in Slashdot, and that childish, bitching, immature first-person-experience reviews (should we even call them "reviews"?)
I think that's what makes this an April Fool's joke - it's actually a legit article on Slashdot of all places.
The guys at KDE have written their own browser with no company backing them...
Indeed. When you think about it, they've actually gone the opposite direction of Mozilla in that sense. Mozilla was initiated by a company, and picked up by the open source community. Konqueror was initiated by the open source community, and picked up by a company.:)
Is anyone aware of any regulations allowing you to transfer your home phone number to your cell phone if you were to disconnect your home phone number?
I think there are a lot of people who would rather not really want to go through such a transfer. Sure, there are some who would find it convenient, but think about it - how many phone calls does your home phone number get at dinner time? Or if your area is like mine, all day long? My home phone got at least 30 calls during pre-dinner hours, all of them telemarketing or answering machine spam.
I'm sure someday it'll be just as annoying with your cell phone, but for now I'm enjoying the peace and quiet of having only a handful of people knowing how to reach me now that my land line has been disconnected.:) And for those few unsolicited calls that do slip through, I'm thankful for caller ID on my cell. Now if I had a phone with an option to only ring audibly for numbers in my phone book, that'd be pretty sweet...
There's a heavy flavor of Aren't-We-Mac-Users-So-Special and gleeful putdowns of Microsoft that turns me off.
I'm not so sure why this is a big deal - I didn't notice this 'flavor' much, but perhaps that is because I've been reading Slashdot for years. All joking aside, though, I think this is indicative of the lighthearted nature of this book - which is its biggest strength, imo. The author loves the Mac, and isn't ashamed to show pride in the machine and the OS. But he also is very honest about the shortcomings of OS X, and instead of just griping about them, he provides real solutions.
To me, the fact that the Missing Manual is a fairly laid back (while still informative and thorough) read is one of the best reasons to have it on your bookshelf. Hardcore geeks may scoff at the idea, but I am a hardcore geek and have found the book to be handy; if for no other reason than because of the frequent interludes that explain the history of this or that in the Mac world, helping to give some background to what you're learning. To a (now former) Mac outsider, that is very useful indeed.
Maybe instead of discontinuing this program, Apple should have quietly started watermarking the private builds of Safari. A different watermark for each developer they give a sneak peak too. Then when it's leaked, they'll know who did it.
Of course, they may do this already, and just decide not to divulge that information... Just a thought anyway.
Some people think the ease of use found in modern distros is a sign of weakness. I think its a sign of progress.
This is such a troll, but I'll bite anyway. Slackware is not a "throwback" distro. It is all about simplicity. Believe it or not, some people don't WANT to use lots of GUI stuff, and they don't WANT everything set up for them from the start. Slackware is great for building a system that does what YOU want, and ONLY what you want. It also does so while being more UNIXy than other distributions, which is either a feature or a curse depending on your point of view.
And IMO, the installer is not hard to use. It's very straightforward and offers details that make it pretty simple to get things set up the way you want. Okay, it's not going to go through and auto detect your sound card for you, and it's not going to resize your partitions. But honestly that's not what Slackware is for. It's about being simple, clean, and full featured (or not, as you desire).
There is without doubt elitism in the Slackware community, but that is not what Slack is all about. And for the record I have never seen someone use the term "Redhate". If they did, they still wouldn't be half as trollish as you, my friend.
While there are currently some "open" formats like PDF and PS, the problem is that they are not easy to create for the average user, nor are they easy to edit. While PDF may be a good format, we need something better.
A step in the right direction is to take a cue from Apple: make creating PDFs easy as pie by building print-to-PDF support into the OS. It doesn't matter what app I'm in, if I can print, I can make a nice PDF out of my document (or image, or whatever). While this isn't great for things you intend other people to edit without having to cough up the dough, and it doesn't compress graphics in your PDF (something you'll need to pay Adobe for), it is a definite step in the right direction.
If I want to send someone a file, and I don't intend for them to be able to edit it (or if I simply want to make sure it will match as closely as possible to the look I intended), I just "print" up a PDF. I've yet to have a problem with people being able to view my documents, and it's very handy when I need to carry a document off somewhere else to print...
Shouldn't that be "The Spam Game" and not "The SPAM Game"? Hormell may not go after every little thing that says "SPAM" anymore, but I think Slashdot should have enough courtesy to not use the all-caps version. Wait... "Slashdot" and "courtesy" in the same sentence... What am I thinking?
Yep, soft drinks are a huge money maker for food places.
Amen to that. At the state fair around here, someone I know does drinks and snacks vending. They make a 400% profit on Coca Cola, because the cups and the soda itself costs them next to nothing. The state fair is a great place for profits like that - you can sell air and liquid for outrageous prices and people will pay. It's all part of the spirit, and cool drinks are a necessity here in the desert in summertime...
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Whenever I lose something, sometimes it turns up in my shoes.
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By the way, you haven't seen my red Swingline lying around anywhere, have you?
This one? :)
[...] Is how they're going to sort out whom has a legal copy of a song, and whom has an illegal copy of a song.
They could do what EMusic does, which is keep a catalog of all the music you've ever downloaded with your account. This is supposedly for convenience so you can look back and grab songs you downloaded before, or something like that. But I bet it'd be a good way of proving that you have a legit copy of a song you got from the service.
Don't believe that I have a legal right to that copy of "Hey Pachuco"? Check my EMusic history, bub. I got it fair and square.
> > I then moved to a PC and dual booted between RH5/6/7/8 and Win 95/98/NT/2000
> Wow that's a lot of operating systems on one computer.
That's also a lot of OSes to "dual" boot. :)
For what it's worth, students (and "higher education" faculty) can get Mac OS X for $69 at the Apple Education Store. It'll probably be the same deal for Panther. It's still a lot of money, but not as steep as $130. :)
Mr. Von's article is so full of wishful and Utopian thinking, one wonders how it made to Slashdot
You must be new here. :)
Oh, a skript kiddie, the worst koind!
Shouldn't that be: Crikey! A script kiddie! ? :)
Okay, I'm a tard, and wasn't paying attention when I replied. My own messed up head combined with a bratty pug puppy made me do it! Anyway, I did not RTFSPVC (Read The F...ing Slashdot Posting Very Closely), so just ignore the above. Thanks.
It is their country. They can do what they want really.
Well now that's the sticky part now, isn't it? Who is "they"? In this case, "they" is the government, and not necessarily the people who live with the decision "they" make. If there was a vote and 80% (or something) of the population voted in favor of blacklisting Google, then fine. Go for it. But the real issue here is that it is the government deciding that its people should not be allowed to access a given resource, namely Google. And that is what makes this such a nasty situation: the few are deciding what the many can do, and this whole thing goes contrary to the whole spirit of the net.
2. Use of a fish of some sort to perform the spanking.
Maybe a large trout? :)
Boy, if I didn't throw away and re-write stuff, it'd be even buggier and harder to maintain than it is.
Amen to that. I do mostly small-scale Perl scripting and the like, but I tend to rewrite my scripts two or three times before I'm content with them. Why? Because my first pass is usually just to sketch out the functionality, with little regard to efficiency, etc. Then I go through again and rethink the approach I took, and try to slim the code down so it's as lean and mean as possible. And as I toss and turn at night, I'm often struck with ideas for how to refine my code from earlier in the day even further.
The advice in the article is like saying Microsoft should just stick with DOS for even longer, and continue to pile more 32-bit (and eventually, 64-bit) crap on top of it. I mean, DOS is "all tested and working code" right? Sorry bub, but as time goes by, things need to be rethunk and often rewritten. This goes for the small scale as well as the large scale.
To give people an example of what Quantum::Superpositions does, take the following snippet of code:
With traditional Perl, such a condition could never evaluate to true. After all, if $foo is 1, how can $foo be 2 and 3 as well? Now take a look at the following:
Thanks to our Quantum-powered Perl (heh), this condition is true. $foo is 1, 2, and 3 all at once. Sort of. In quantum terms, $foo isn't any of those values. But once you test $foo to see if it is 1, it becomes 1. And when you look to see if it's 2, it becomes 2, etc. But if you test $foo to see if it is 4, it is not - that's not one of the possible values.
Good riddance! We should all go back to surfing the web with Lynx, and typing up e-mail with mutt.
:)
In all seriousness though, I'm glad to see this new road map. IMO, this shows a lot of maturity and foresight on the part of the Mozilla team, and I applaud them for it. They realize the shortcomings of the approach they've taken during the last 5 years, and they have put together a solid plan for where they want to go from here. While this will undoubtedly cause some instability and uproar within the community (and the code) to some degree, once the dust settles down we'll be left with a better browser. And a better e-mail client. If I had the coding skills to help them out, I'd dive right into the Mozilla project right now and lend a hand. But for now, I shall cheer them on from the sidelines of bug reporting.
I very much welcome the post of this informative review of RH 9.0 . I hope this starts a trend in Slashdot, and that childish, bitching, immature first-person-experience reviews (should we even call them "reviews"?)
I think that's what makes this an April Fool's joke - it's actually a legit article on Slashdot of all places.
And Duke Nukem Forever, if you download within the next 24 hours.
The guys at KDE have written their own browser with no company backing them...
Indeed. When you think about it, they've actually gone the opposite direction of Mozilla in that sense. Mozilla was initiated by a company, and picked up by the open source community. Konqueror was initiated by the open source community, and picked up by a company. :)
Is anyone aware of any regulations allowing you to transfer your home phone number to your cell phone if you were to disconnect your home phone number?
I think there are a lot of people who would rather not really want to go through such a transfer. Sure, there are some who would find it convenient, but think about it - how many phone calls does your home phone number get at dinner time? Or if your area is like mine, all day long? My home phone got at least 30 calls during pre-dinner hours, all of them telemarketing or answering machine spam.
I'm sure someday it'll be just as annoying with your cell phone, but for now I'm enjoying the peace and quiet of having only a handful of people knowing how to reach me now that my land line has been disconnected. :) And for those few unsolicited calls that do slip through, I'm thankful for caller ID on my cell. Now if I had a phone with an option to only ring audibly for numbers in my phone book, that'd be pretty sweet...
There's a heavy flavor of Aren't-We-Mac-Users-So-Special and gleeful putdowns of Microsoft that turns me off.
I'm not so sure why this is a big deal - I didn't notice this 'flavor' much, but perhaps that is because I've been reading Slashdot for years. All joking aside, though, I think this is indicative of the lighthearted nature of this book - which is its biggest strength, imo. The author loves the Mac, and isn't ashamed to show pride in the machine and the OS. But he also is very honest about the shortcomings of OS X, and instead of just griping about them, he provides real solutions.
To me, the fact that the Missing Manual is a fairly laid back (while still informative and thorough) read is one of the best reasons to have it on your bookshelf. Hardcore geeks may scoff at the idea, but I am a hardcore geek and have found the book to be handy; if for no other reason than because of the frequent interludes that explain the history of this or that in the Mac world, helping to give some background to what you're learning. To a (now former) Mac outsider, that is very useful indeed.
Oh well, just my two cents.
Maybe instead of discontinuing this program, Apple should have quietly started watermarking the private builds of Safari. A different watermark for each developer they give a sneak peak too. Then when it's leaked, they'll know who did it.
Of course, they may do this already, and just decide not to divulge that information... Just a thought anyway.
I - must - press - Ctrl-S - every - 15 - seconds reflex
I think the worst is when you find yourself typing :w or :wq after you say something on IRC. Sadly, I've done that more times than I'd care to count...
Some people think the ease of use found in modern distros is a sign of weakness. I think its a sign of progress.
This is such a troll, but I'll bite anyway. Slackware is not a "throwback" distro. It is all about simplicity. Believe it or not, some people don't WANT to use lots of GUI stuff, and they don't WANT everything set up for them from the start. Slackware is great for building a system that does what YOU want, and ONLY what you want. It also does so while being more UNIXy than other distributions, which is either a feature or a curse depending on your point of view.
And IMO, the installer is not hard to use. It's very straightforward and offers details that make it pretty simple to get things set up the way you want. Okay, it's not going to go through and auto detect your sound card for you, and it's not going to resize your partitions. But honestly that's not what Slackware is for. It's about being simple, clean, and full featured (or not, as you desire).
There is without doubt elitism in the Slackware community, but that is not what Slack is all about. And for the record I have never seen someone use the term "Redhate". If they did, they still wouldn't be half as trollish as you, my friend.
I did my master's research in extended depth-of-field optics
Was he a cruel master, or a tough but fair one? :) </lame>
While there are currently some "open" formats like PDF and PS, the problem is that they are not easy to create for the average user, nor are they easy to edit. While PDF may be a good format, we need something better.
A step in the right direction is to take a cue from Apple: make creating PDFs easy as pie by building print-to-PDF support into the OS. It doesn't matter what app I'm in, if I can print, I can make a nice PDF out of my document (or image, or whatever). While this isn't great for things you intend other people to edit without having to cough up the dough, and it doesn't compress graphics in your PDF (something you'll need to pay Adobe for), it is a definite step in the right direction.
If I want to send someone a file, and I don't intend for them to be able to edit it (or if I simply want to make sure it will match as closely as possible to the look I intended), I just "print" up a PDF. I've yet to have a problem with people being able to view my documents, and it's very handy when I need to carry a document off somewhere else to print...
</proapple>
Shouldn't that be "The Spam Game" and not "The SPAM Game"? Hormell may not go after every little thing that says "SPAM" anymore, but I think Slashdot should have enough courtesy to not use the all-caps version. Wait... "Slashdot" and "courtesy" in the same sentence... What am I thinking?
Yep, soft drinks are a huge money maker for food places.
Amen to that. At the state fair around here, someone I know does drinks and snacks vending. They make a 400% profit on Coca Cola, because the cups and the soda itself costs them next to nothing. The state fair is a great place for profits like that - you can sell air and liquid for outrageous prices and people will pay. It's all part of the spirit, and cool drinks are a necessity here in the desert in summertime...
I'm in the wrong business.