I was under the impression that some public stock is indeed voting stock. In major companies such as Exxon or Amoco which are almost 100% owned by the stockholders, people who own 5% of the stock pretty much control the company (since most of the rest of the stock is spread out among people who each own less than 0.5% of the stock). Even those who own, say, 100 shares, can vote them, however. When certain critical (and closely contested) votes come up, people on each side will mail the small stockholders (those who own less than 1% of the shares) for permission to vote their shares as part of their bloc.
Using derogatory misspellings or alterations of names is still somewhat childish. Calling something "winblows" or "w1nbl0wz" or "Linsucks" or "slowaris" or "crapintosh" is not what I'd expect somebody over the age of 10 to do.
Well, IMHO, Mozilla sucks compared to Opera. Not as badly as Netscape 4.5 sucked, but still not as good as Opera. Mozilla lacks useful buttons that Opera has such as the ability to toggle between the page's colors/fonts and user-defined colors/fonts without going into menus (to read those horribly designed pages), the ability to toggle graphics on and off without going into menus, and the ability to zoom in and out on a page (without changing your screen resolution).
Well, MDI is one of the main reasons I use Opera. I like opening Opera, and having slashdot.org, segfault.org, hackernews.com, and several other sites automatically begin loading. Not to mention that I don't like Netscape taking up 8 slots cluttering up my taskbar, compared to Opera's one.
As for "back," you have to go all the way to the menubar thing in Netscape and Mozilla too. In Opera, the "back" button is in nearly the same place as in Netscape. Plus, if you don't like that, you can press ctrl- to go back. Try that with Netscape.
Mainly because, compared to Opera, Mozilla is still a big bloated piece of (something). I seriously doubt that the final version of Netscape Communicator 5.0 will be available in a 1.15 meg download, as Opera is.
MDI is the main reason I use Opera. There's around 8 sites I check daily, and if it wasn't for Opera's MDI, my taskbar would be constantly cluttered with open Netscape windows.
The UI is one of my favorite things about Opera. Being able to turn off images, change the background color of a page, zoom in/out, all from the toolbar (without going into menus) is really useful. Netscape and IE don't even come close.
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Any ideas? (aside from installing FreeBSD)
I think you answered your own question (despite disregarding the solution).
Well, let's take an example. Borland C++ Builder Client/Server edition is a useful piece of software for a student that wants to play around with Windows GUI programming. Pirating it, they'll play around and learn some C++. Borland claims this is $3000 in lost revenue, which is false. No student is going to pay $3000 for something to play around with a bit.
So either the student pirates it, and Borland gets no money, or the student doesn't pirate it, and Borland still gets no money. I don't see how it affects them either way.
I seriously doubt you'd make more than $20K in royalties. Even if you made $10/book in royalties (unlikely; you'd probably get less), that'd require 2,000 books to be sold. I doubt that this book will sell 2,000 copies. Do even 2,000 people use GNOME?
Interesting that the previous post ("Why don't that fuker yze Linix!!! What a waist of some majer shyit!") gets scored -1 as a troll, while this, which has the exact same content phrased in a different way, stays at 1.
AC is not a necessity, even if it's 110 degrees outside. Do you think all of Africa is equipped with air conditioning? Even in Greece, which is rich compared to Africa, the majority of people don't have air conditioning, even in the cities where it gets up to 120 degrees during the summer. Air conditioning is a luxury. Only a spoiled American would dream of calling it a "necessity."
What renders faster? an Empty-box (NT) Or a Linux-box?
They render at approximately the same speed, with all other factors being equal.
IS Linux faster rendering than NT?
No.
I would assume (yeah, dangerous I know) that he would be able to get the same savings and speed by running Linux as his rendering box. Not to mention how much more he would be able to take on after overclocking it at that point.
That assumption is incorrect. Switching from NT to Linux would have almost no effect on the rendering speed. It would certainly not double it.
My question is what can Windows possibly do with a 100mb/s pipe?
Hmm, I probably shouldn't feed the troll, but I'm bored, so what the heck.
I can think of tons of things to do. Downloading mp3s at that speed would be nice, and I'm sure those who run ftp servers to distribute mp3s would find it useful. Not to mention quick downloads of those 100 MB+ full-screen movie trailers.
Read a history book again. Since the majority of "purists" claim the MIT origins of the word "hacker" as a reason it should refer to programmers, you should also note that *every* system intruder of the 1960s could legitimately be called a "hacker," because nobody else even knew how to work a computer, much less break into one.
Yeah, that'll happen right about the same time that hackers/geeks/nerds/coders/etc. gets classed as a protected minority under hate crimes legislation:P
Well, that's more analogous to calling somebody a "hacker" as a term of respect (i.e. "that guy hacked into the NSA") or an insult ("those delinquent hackers need to be prosecuted"). Getting people to use the original "programming" definition of hacker would be about as easy as getting people to go back to using "gay" as a synonym for happy. I don't envision either happening anytime soon.
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I was under the impression that some public stock is indeed voting stock. In major companies such as Exxon or Amoco which are almost 100% owned by the stockholders, people who own 5% of the stock pretty much control the company (since most of the rest of the stock is spread out among people who each own less than 0.5% of the stock). Even those who own, say, 100 shares, can vote them, however. When certain critical (and closely contested) votes come up, people on each side will mail the small stockholders (those who own less than 1% of the shares) for permission to vote their shares as part of their bloc.
Using derogatory misspellings or alterations of names is still somewhat childish. Calling something "winblows" or "w1nbl0wz" or "Linsucks" or "slowaris" or "crapintosh" is not what I'd expect somebody over the age of 10 to do.
So if somebody said "I don't like that hippie Linsucks operating system" you would take them seriously?
That doesn't do me any good. Actually having the buttons in Opera, on the other hand, does do me some good.
Well, IMHO, Mozilla sucks compared to Opera. Not as badly as Netscape 4.5 sucked, but still not as good as Opera. Mozilla lacks useful buttons that Opera has such as the ability to toggle between the page's colors/fonts and user-defined colors/fonts without going into menus (to read those horribly designed pages), the ability to toggle graphics on and off without going into menus, and the ability to zoom in and out on a page (without changing your screen resolution).
you can press ctrl- to go back.
that's ctrl-[leftarrow]
Well, MDI is one of the main reasons I use Opera. I like opening Opera, and having slashdot.org, segfault.org, hackernews.com, and several other sites automatically begin loading. Not to mention that I don't like Netscape taking up 8 slots cluttering up my taskbar, compared to Opera's one.
As for "back," you have to go all the way to the menubar thing in Netscape and Mozilla too. In Opera, the "back" button is in nearly the same place as in Netscape. Plus, if you don't like that, you can press ctrl- to go back. Try that with Netscape.
Mainly because, compared to Opera, Mozilla is still a big bloated piece of (something). I seriously doubt that the final version of Netscape Communicator 5.0 will be available in a 1.15 meg download, as Opera is.
Just because the free software browsers suck compared to Opera doesn't give you the right to steal Opera. Either live with Mozilla, or pay for Opera.
MDI is the main reason I use Opera. There's around 8 sites I check daily, and if it wasn't for Opera's MDI, my taskbar would be constantly cluttered with open Netscape windows.
The UI is one of my favorite things about Opera. Being able to turn off images, change the background color of a page, zoom in/out, all from the toolbar (without going into menus) is really useful. Netscape and IE don't even come close.
Any ideas? (aside from installing FreeBSD)
I think you answered your own question (despite disregarding the solution).
Well, let's take an example. Borland C++ Builder Client/Server edition is a useful piece of software for a student that wants to play around with Windows GUI programming. Pirating it, they'll play around and learn some C++. Borland claims this is $3000 in lost revenue, which is false. No student is going to pay $3000 for something to play around with a bit.
So either the student pirates it, and Borland gets no money, or the student doesn't pirate it, and Borland still gets no money. I don't see how it affects them either way.
I seriously doubt you'd make more than $20K in royalties. Even if you made $10/book in royalties (unlikely; you'd probably get less), that'd require 2,000 books to be sold. I doubt that this book will sell 2,000 copies. Do even 2,000 people use GNOME?
Isn't the $20K enough royalties?
Interesting that the previous post ("Why don't that fuker yze Linix!!! What a waist of some majer shyit!") gets scored -1 as a troll, while this, which has the exact same content phrased in a different way, stays at 1.
Hmm.
AC is not a necessity, even if it's 110 degrees outside. Do you think all of Africa is equipped with air conditioning? Even in Greece, which is rich compared to Africa, the majority of people don't have air conditioning, even in the cities where it gets up to 120 degrees during the summer. Air conditioning is a luxury. Only a spoiled American would dream of calling it a "necessity."
A/C is not a necessity right? Well, here in Phoeniz, AZ it *is*.
Umm, not it's not. Even in Phoenix, it's a luxury. Many hundreds of millions of people live in hotter locales and do not have air conditioning.
What renders faster? an Empty-box (NT)
Or a Linux-box?
They render at approximately the same speed, with all other factors being equal.
IS Linux faster rendering than NT?
No.
I would assume (yeah, dangerous I know) that he would
be able to get the same savings and speed by running
Linux as his rendering box. Not to mention how much more
he would be able to take on after overclocking it at that point.
That assumption is incorrect. Switching from NT to Linux would have almost no effect on the rendering speed. It would certainly not double it.
Sure, it can be done without the source code, but it's a lot harder. Why give out the source code and make cheating easier?
My question is what can Windows possibly do with a 100mb/s pipe?
Hmm, I probably shouldn't feed the troll, but I'm bored, so what the heck.
I can think of tons of things to do. Downloading mp3s at that speed would be nice, and I'm sure those who run ftp servers to distribute mp3s would find it useful. Not to mention quick downloads of those 100 MB+ full-screen movie trailers.
That's the same problem again. You're trying to class "hackers" based on what you view as ethics, while the term is one describing skill.
Read a history book again. Since the majority of "purists" claim the MIT origins of the word "hacker" as a reason it should refer to programmers, you should also note that *every* system intruder of the 1960s could legitimately be called a "hacker," because nobody else even knew how to work a computer, much less break into one.
Yeah, that'll happen right about the same time that hackers/geeks/nerds/coders/etc. gets classed as a protected minority under hate crimes legislation :P
Well, that's more analogous to calling somebody a "hacker" as a term of respect (i.e. "that guy hacked into the NSA") or an insult ("those delinquent hackers need to be prosecuted"). Getting people to use the original "programming" definition of hacker would be about as easy as getting people to go back to using "gay" as a synonym for happy. I don't envision either happening anytime soon.