Users don't want plugins! No, I don't want a video "right in my web page". Just launch the media player and let me resize it and interact with its full menu to set things like video options. Got a cool flash/Java app? Let me save an swf or jar and click on it whenever I feel like running your stuff. Why do you think I am connected to Internet all the time anyways? Want to sell me stuff? Not gonna work if I am pissed off at your ad format. Use text or in-page images with tasteful colors. Or better yet, give me an intelligent search engine to find stuff at best prices when I am actually looking for it.
I use Safari and Opera for 99.9% of pages and they are pretty good at blocking the worst offenders, by design and because they tend to write IE-specific Javascript anyway. Firefox sounds like the right thing to install on PCs of friends who don't want to buy Opera.
Trading in pedal bikes for motor bikes, regardless of power source is not as green as a regular pedal bike
Well, it is more green if it causes you to bike to more places, rather than buying a car or taking a taxi. Or if it becomes popular with middle-aged/senior people.
Actually I was just making fun of the parent poster, in case he wasn't gay. I am not bothered at all by other people's sexuality as long as it's not directed towards me, it's just probability, which I believe is at least 90%. As for scientific facts, infection rate probably somewhat depends on the "method" and strongly depends on the number of partners, which AFAIK (which is not much) is higher for gay males than for an average person.
I guess slashdot mods don't have a sense of humor. I guess I don't either if I take karma seriously. Except that it's kind of sad if political/scientific correctness is required even on slashdot. Well, I am not going to hide and be a coward just because some people can't take a joke. Ah, what the hell...
Maybe today will be good. Commercial e-mail is no longer viable because it has such a bad rap among users and ISPs. How do you know spammers are not spoofing your messages with credit card-capturing links?
Set up a personalized web site where users can see their current offers. Then write a little tray icon that appears (but no blinking/sounds PLEASE!) when there is interesting stuff to view. Colaborate with other people so that the app can monitor multiple URLs and addition/removal is securily under user's control. I can't see what you lose compared to truly solicited email campaign.
cell phone that can seemlessly switch calls between cell networks and VoIP over WiFi, when it sees WiFi available to it
No, I want a cell phone that can seemlessly switch my iBook's internet access between WiFi and cell networks when it sees that WiFi is not available. Just consider which situation is more common and design products accordingly.
How is open source prevented from overwritting kernel memory? All you need is mapped memory and port access in a user-level shared library, plus a daemon to switch back to text mode if the library's process dies without a clean shutdown.
Maybe not US anymore, but some place where writting multi-purpose software that protects privacy is not a crime. Japan's loss, that country's win. I just hope he doesn't have to spend long time in jail first.
Then after they close the loophole, they should let me do exactly that with the (imaginary) car I won. But for Coke's case, they should just pay all the related taxes for the winner. They can afford it, with only one (or a few) cars to give away, and the winners will be more happy/verbal if contacted by the press.
And why should Linux users care about it? If Regents of university of California want a line of credits for writting an OS, and the network stack I am using, I have no problem with that. If John Shmoe wants credit for writting an impementation of MD5, I won't use his code. Simply put, both GPL and BSD only make sense for worthwhile programs.
The method I found the easiest is first writting a bad version of the product - adhoc design by developers, no optimization attempts, components "integrate" by reading each other's text files, no NLS support and so on - and getting it to run just enough to see where it would fail to fulfill customer requirements even if wasn't so buggy.
Then you start again with an empty source tree and write another version. This time people know exactly what the application is supposed to do, what kind of services other components need from this one and which areas are likely to cause problems and need to be explicitely designed.
Yes, but this still doesn't explain why IE or Mozilla take so long to launch. We are talking two-dimensional text layout here, not video editing, and Opera is not near as bad. Has to be sloppy programming, not any fundamental reason.
You now, the variety that commits suicide between two of the hundreds of wires and changes the behaviour of your program. You also might want to keep a cat to take care of mice that chew insulation.
It's practically impossible to reason with computer scientists. They will just keep telling you to play with their latest toy when you already learned to do everything that needs to be done with a current one.
There may well be laws that give you the right to a replacement copy should your copy fail, but do you really think this is an issue in the grand scheme of things? Is that what worries you when you think about copyright law?
Well yes, corporate welfare with no responsibilities in return. If they insist on copy protection, they better send me a replacement, or a copy in a new format if DVD players are no longer in wide use.
Also, software companies that outsource all the jobs shouldn't then whine if I download their stuff for free. Either both of us should have a right to make money, or both of us should have a right to lower our costs.
If you leave a bunch of beers sitting on the street, with signs (links) pointing to them from all directions, and no note to say who can consume them, don't be surprised if some disappear. If you add a note later, you still can't demand anything from people who already took one.
Images seen on the web should be free by default and authors should (as in "nice thing to do") leave them free unless they are seriously planning to sell them through some well organized catalog. Otherwise, making a simple powerpoint presentation with screenshots of some popular web site will turn into a nightmare of tracking down a dozen people, sending them written forms, getting back signatures...
By providing a free Media player for Mac and licensing it for Linux, MS is "unlocking" aunt Millie to try other OSes. The core problem here is that they, as a rich monopoly, can afford to give the player away, denying Real and Apple a chance to make a little money. A lesser problem is that WMP is bundled with Windows. But frankly, if your connection is fast enough for MP3s and streaming video, it's fast enough to download a player. It's not Microsoft's fault that free RealPlayer is so diffucult to find, download and setup. Why not a self-installing ActiveX plugin like Java?
Perhaps a monopoly in inherintly evil, and should be broken up, restricted in how they do business and/or taxed to death. But blame Microsoft for the right reason. They are definitely not preventing OS competion by licensing windows media for Linux.
And then, the kernel being open source, I will patch it to disable any checking so that I can enjoy my modem/video drivers and release the patch publically, under GPL. Wahoo!
It is a problem with the company lying to the kernel
Yes, but the kernel is not a person, right? In fact lying to hardware/software is a well-accepted practice for interoperability, emulation and fair use. If we want it to be illegal, we might as well defend DMCA.
And why would they do such a thing for a product with low market share on desktops? If Debian and Fedora don't include a working version of their drivers out of the box, NVIDIA could just stop making them, because the market share would be further reduced to the users able to compile and install their own kernel modules.
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Users don't want plugins! No, I don't want a video "right in my web page". Just launch the media player and let me resize it and interact with its full menu to set things like video options. Got a cool flash/Java app? Let me save an swf or jar and click on it whenever I feel like running your stuff. Why do you think I am connected to Internet all the time anyways? Want to sell me stuff? Not gonna work if I am pissed off at your ad format. Use text or in-page images with tasteful colors. Or better yet, give me an intelligent search engine to find stuff at best prices when I am actually looking for it.
I use Safari and Opera for 99.9% of pages and they are pretty good at blocking the worst offenders, by design and because they tend to write IE-specific Javascript anyway. Firefox sounds like the right thing to install on PCs of friends who don't want to buy Opera.
Trading in pedal bikes for motor bikes, regardless of power source is not as green as a regular pedal bike
Well, it is more green if it causes you to bike to more places, rather than buying a car or taking a taxi. Or if it becomes popular with middle-aged/senior people.
Actually I was just making fun of the parent poster, in case he wasn't gay. I am not bothered at all by other people's sexuality as long as it's not directed towards me, it's just probability, which I believe is at least 90%. As for scientific facts, infection rate probably somewhat depends on the "method" and strongly depends on the number of partners, which AFAIK (which is not much) is higher for gay males than for an average person.
I guess slashdot mods don't have a sense of humor. I guess I don't either if I take karma seriously. Except that it's kind of sad if political/scientific correctness is required even on slashdot. Well, I am not going to hide and be a coward just because some people can't take a joke. Ah, what the hell...
I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR NEW GAY OVERMODS!
That AIDS is most easily spread through gay sex.
or else I'll wake up one day
Maybe today will be good. Commercial e-mail is no longer viable because it has such a bad rap among users and ISPs. How do you know spammers are not spoofing your messages with credit card-capturing links?
Set up a personalized web site where users can see their current offers. Then write a little tray icon that appears (but no blinking/sounds PLEASE!) when there is interesting stuff to view. Colaborate with other people so that the app can monitor multiple URLs and addition/removal is securily under user's control. I can't see what you lose compared to truly solicited email campaign.
cell phone that can seemlessly switch calls between cell networks and VoIP over WiFi, when it sees WiFi available to it
No, I want a cell phone that can seemlessly switch my iBook's internet access between WiFi and cell networks when it sees that WiFi is not available. Just consider which situation is more common and design products accordingly.
How is open source prevented from overwritting kernel memory? All you need is mapped memory and port access in a user-level shared library, plus a daemon to switch back to text mode if the library's process dies without a clean shutdown.
Maybe not US anymore, but some place where writting multi-purpose software that protects privacy is not a crime. Japan's loss, that country's win. I just hope he doesn't have to spend long time in jail first.
that you could convert to dollars tax-free
Then after they close the loophole, they should let me do exactly that with the (imaginary) car I won. But for Coke's case, they should just pay all the related taxes for the winner. They can afford it, with only one (or a few) cars to give away, and the winners will be more happy/verbal if contacted by the press.
I've never used Windows myself
Wow, you could get a spot on news. Care to explain how you managed this remarkable achivement, especially if you work with computers?
Maybe I should land it on GNOME CVS before I get another drive failure. ;-)
*Freaky!*
Remember, the FSF has an ideological goal
And why should Linux users care about it? If Regents of university of California want a line of credits for writting an OS, and the network stack I am using, I have no problem with that. If John Shmoe wants credit for writting an impementation of MD5, I won't use his code. Simply put, both GPL and BSD only make sense for worthwhile programs.
Scrap iron. 10 cents per pound. A pound of iron outside earth's gravity well, ready to be used for space explaration. Priceless!
The method I found the easiest is first writting a bad version of the product - adhoc design by developers, no optimization attempts, components "integrate" by reading each other's text files, no NLS support and so on - and getting it to run just enough to see where it would fail to fulfill customer requirements even if wasn't so buggy.
Then you start again with an empty source tree and write another version. This time people know exactly what the application is supposed to do, what kind of services other components need from this one and which areas are likely to cause problems and need to be explicitely designed.
Made in USA much earlier :-)
Yes, but this still doesn't explain why IE or Mozilla take so long to launch. We are talking two-dimensional text layout here, not video editing, and Opera is not near as bad. Has to be sloppy programming, not any fundamental reason.
You now, the variety that commits suicide between two of the hundreds of wires and changes the behaviour of your program. You also might want to keep a cat to take care of mice that chew insulation.
And to think about how slow are todays dialup modems, cellular networks and even Cable/DSL. 2.5mbps. Yum!
It's practically impossible to reason with computer scientists. They will just keep telling you to play with their latest toy when you already learned to do everything that needs to be done with a current one.
There may well be laws that give you the right to a replacement copy should your copy fail, but do you really think this is an issue in the grand scheme of things? Is that what worries you when you think about copyright law?
Well yes, corporate welfare with no responsibilities in return. If they insist on copy protection, they better send me a replacement, or a copy in a new format if DVD players are no longer in wide use.
Also, software companies that outsource all the jobs shouldn't then whine if I download their stuff for free. Either both of us should have a right to make money, or both of us should have a right to lower our costs.
If you leave a bunch of beers sitting on the street, with signs (links) pointing to them from all directions, and no note to say who can consume them, don't be surprised if some disappear. If you add a note later, you still can't demand anything from people who already took one.
Images seen on the web should be free by default and authors should (as in "nice thing to do") leave them free unless they are seriously planning to sell them through some well organized catalog. Otherwise, making a simple powerpoint presentation with screenshots of some popular web site will turn into a nightmare of tracking down a dozen people, sending them written forms, getting back signatures...
By providing a free Media player for Mac and licensing it for Linux, MS is "unlocking" aunt Millie to try other OSes. The core problem here is that they, as a rich monopoly, can afford to give the player away, denying Real and Apple a chance to make a little money. A lesser problem is that WMP is bundled with Windows. But frankly, if your connection is fast enough for MP3s and streaming video, it's fast enough to download a player. It's not Microsoft's fault that free RealPlayer is so diffucult to find, download and setup. Why not a self-installing ActiveX plugin like Java?
Perhaps a monopoly in inherintly evil, and should be broken up, restricted in how they do business and/or taxed to death. But blame Microsoft for the right reason. They are definitely not preventing OS competion by licensing windows media for Linux.
And then, the kernel being open source, I will patch it to disable any checking so that I can enjoy my modem/video drivers and release the patch publically, under GPL. Wahoo!
It is a problem with the company lying to the kernel
Yes, but the kernel is not a person, right? In fact lying to hardware/software is a well-accepted practice for interoperability, emulation and fair use. If we want it to be illegal, we might as well defend DMCA.
And why would they do such a thing for a product with low market share on desktops? If Debian and Fedora don't include a working version of their drivers out of the box, NVIDIA could just stop making them, because the market share would be further reduced to the users able to compile and install their own kernel modules.