..in addition to revised terminology, the master drive must be painted black and the (formerly enslaved) drive must be white to compensate for years of oppression. Remember, the important thing is getting the colours and labels right.
I think they're using toilet paper right now, with plans to move into newspaper when it becomes available in sufficient quantity. Currently, there's no open-source alternative to the proprietary plastic wrap on Microsoft products and licenses.
Ironically, shrinkwrap, Micro and soft describe Microsoft's offerings quite accurately of late.
X is GAY and the only desirable feature it has is network transparency. It's entirely unsuitable for desktop use by design and it can't be fixed; a total redesign is needed, with priority given to UI speed and responsiveness - BeOS is a great example to follow, but you clearly have no experience with it.
X sucks because every GUI program shares the X timeslice, which is neither guaranteed nor even intelligently prioritized in any way. I've had enough of X freezing randomly, crashing, and generally behaving like the big bossy pig that it is.
Exactly. Starting again, legacy-free, is the only way to ensure performance and stability in the new generation of applications. That awful OS9 is more of a headache than anything else. Unfortunately, it looks like Apple still doesn't prioritize UI speed, but I expect that'll come in the next couple years.
Linux just isn't as fast, either. Things like UI speed matter more to me than filesystem fragmentation issues; you can schedule a defrag, but you can't schedule UI responsiveness. Considering how sucky Linux drivers are (doesn't matter whose fault that is, BTW, end users only care for results) it's amazing that ANYbody gets Linux to run satisfactorily. Lord knows I've tried too many times to count, and Libranet's the closest thing to a decent Windows replacement -- for Windows 95, that is, if only its performance were as good. Szulik is right; Linux won't meet 90% of people's needs.
yeah, it's sad for the brothers all right. I pity them much the same way that I pity the robber who gets robbed, the door-to-door salesman whose car gets towed, and the meter maid who gets a parking violation ticket in another city.
Vaguely on-topic: does anybody know when X11 will finally die? That day will not come soon enough, my friends. Let's kill X11 next!
the USA should reconsider the software patents that have crippled American innovation for decades, and also the DMCA which has effectively denied Americans their fair use rights.
eastern canada is so far ahead of these people it's not even funny. that's what that gigantic power outage test drill was for, in case Canadian laws ever absorb your american 'sue-everybody' rule.
aye, the fact is that compulsory licensing is just a bad idea from the start. Compulsory licensing is just another page ripped from the communist camp: deciding that everybody pays equally and shares equally with his fellow man. Communism looks great on paper, but it's pretty sad in practice. I doubt that Americans can pull it off any better than Chairman Mao or Karl Marx.
I'm still waiting for a Win32 version of Evolution. It's a great program, but being tied to Linux limits its possibilities dramatically. When Evo comes to my platform, nobody will care about Outlook at all.
TBird didn't ask me for ANYthing when I tried to use it. It just gave me an error message for my "password not accepted" even though I'd never actually entered one. This was my first attempt to use TBird.
this Introduction contains erroneous information. THe author blatantly neglects to mention that there is NO place to enter a password for your account during the account setup, and since Thunderbird 0.1 doesn't ask for passwords, anybody with an iota of common sense will be unable to use this shoddy build. Nice.
If you download it, and it's on your hard disk with the copyright owner's consent, then it becomes your private personal property. It's like buying a book - you can re-read it after 30 days no matter WHAT the author says.
it's called Autoscroll. Find it here. Most Mozilla extensions have incomprehensible names that aren't suggestive of what they do;) Caveat: it might disable middle-click-on-link functionality. That would suck.
the EULA is not actually a contract, which is a point missed by everybody here so far. Is there actually a binding legal agreement made by clicking on a button? Hell no. If my 4-year-old clicks on that button, is he bound to a contract? I think not. If I use that program after my kid installs it, am I bound to the terms of that EULA? Think again, people.
Pure and simple: the EULA is not an enforceable contract because there is no evidence of actual agreement between two parties. Of course, all you have to do is show me my signature and I'll take all the above back.
Whether the Baystate copiers, er, I mean coders actually copied the user interface is irrelevant here - sure that'd be wrong to most people, but that wasn't what this case is about. This case is about EULA violation.
if those dick-heads at DirecTV can beam their signals through my head without so much as a by-your-leave, then I can rightfully decrypt those same bloody signals if I want to. If they don't want 'em decrypted, they can keep their signals off my property. Oh, and I think it's no longer "legal" (but still morally right, and therefore OK) to get free satellite stuff here in Canada. Where went common sense, prithee tell?
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yeah, wake me up when it's on Win32. Yawn.
..in addition to revised terminology, the master drive must be painted black and the (formerly enslaved) drive must be white to compensate for years of oppression. Remember, the important thing is getting the colours and labels right.
I think they're using toilet paper right now, with plans to move into newspaper when it becomes available in sufficient quantity. Currently, there's no open-source alternative to the proprietary plastic wrap on Microsoft products and licenses.
Ironically, shrinkwrap, Micro and soft describe Microsoft's offerings quite accurately of late.
X is GAY and the only desirable feature it has is network transparency. It's entirely unsuitable for desktop use by design and it can't be fixed; a total redesign is needed, with priority given to UI speed and responsiveness - BeOS is a great example to follow, but you clearly have no experience with it.
X sucks because every GUI program shares the X timeslice, which is neither guaranteed nor even intelligently prioritized in any way. I've had enough of X freezing randomly, crashing, and generally behaving like the big bossy pig that it is.
Exactly. Starting again, legacy-free, is the only way to ensure performance and stability in the new generation of applications. That awful OS9 is more of a headache than anything else.
Unfortunately, it looks like Apple still doesn't prioritize UI speed, but I expect that'll come in the next couple years.
Linux just isn't as fast, either. Things like UI speed matter more to me than filesystem fragmentation issues; you can schedule a defrag, but you can't schedule UI responsiveness.
Considering how sucky Linux drivers are (doesn't matter whose fault that is, BTW, end users only care for results) it's amazing that ANYbody gets Linux to run satisfactorily. Lord knows I've tried too many times to count, and Libranet's the closest thing to a decent Windows replacement -- for Windows 95, that is, if only its performance were as good.
Szulik is right; Linux won't meet 90% of people's needs.
and to think that just the other day, I was remarking to self that the documentation looks largely as though written by a ten year old too. Wow.
I agree. :P
Plus, anybody who can afford an Apple can afford the upgrade
No. Why would anybody pay to support the oppressive copyright regime?
We have a moral mandate to pirate, my friend.
yeah, it's sad for the brothers all right. I pity them much the same way that I pity the robber who gets robbed, the door-to-door salesman whose car gets towed, and the meter maid who gets a parking violation ticket in another city.
Vaguely on-topic: does anybody know when X11 will finally die? That day will not come soon enough, my friends. Let's kill X11 next!
the USA should reconsider the software patents that have crippled American innovation for decades, and also the DMCA which has effectively denied Americans their fair use rights.
eastern canada is so far ahead of these people it's not even funny. that's what that gigantic power outage test drill was for, in case Canadian laws ever absorb your american 'sue-everybody' rule.
only 2 of the software choices are open source! not incl. the kernel of OSX10.3 of course
aye, the fact is that compulsory licensing is just a bad idea from the start. Compulsory licensing is just another page ripped from the communist camp: deciding that everybody pays equally and shares equally with his fellow man. Communism looks great on paper, but it's pretty sad in practice. I doubt that Americans can pull it off any better than Chairman Mao or Karl Marx.
Shame on you, Georgey!
but fool me twice (and who wasn't fooled by the vain hope that Attack of the Cloned Plot was any better than Phantom Plot?) and that's SHAME ON ME!
informal protest vote cast - I shan't be in attendance whenever this mess comes to the theatre near me. George Lucas can suck a dick.
BTW nice post heading by parent! Couldn't have said it any better. w00t!
I'm still waiting for a Win32 version of Evolution.
It's a great program, but being tied to Linux limits its possibilities dramatically. When Evo comes to my platform, nobody will care about Outlook at all.
TBird didn't ask me for ANYthing when I tried to use it. It just gave me an error message for my "password not accepted" even though I'd never actually entered one. This was my first attempt to use TBird.
this Introduction contains erroneous information. THe author blatantly neglects to mention that there is NO place to enter a password for your account during the account setup, and since Thunderbird 0.1 doesn't ask for passwords, anybody with an iota of common sense will be unable to use this shoddy build. Nice.
If you download it, and it's on your hard disk with the copyright owner's consent, then it becomes your private personal property. It's like buying a book - you can re-read it after 30 days no matter WHAT the author says.
PS: seen the Bum Hunter?? Talk about your first-class Steve Irwin ripoff! Check it out.
Yuck. However, even though Torrentse's down, Goatse is still alive. Hopefully it'll survive this slashdotting...
it's called Autoscroll. Find it here. Most Mozilla extensions have incomprehensible names that aren't suggestive of what they do ;)
Caveat: it might disable middle-click-on-link functionality. That would suck.
the EULA is not actually a contract, which is a point missed by everybody here so far. Is there actually a binding legal agreement made by clicking on a button? Hell no. If my 4-year-old clicks on that button, is he bound to a contract? I think not. If I use that program after my kid installs it, am I bound to the terms of that EULA? Think again, people.
Pure and simple: the EULA is not an enforceable contract because there is no evidence of actual agreement between two parties. Of course, all you have to do is show me my signature and I'll take all the above back.
Whether the Baystate copiers, er, I mean coders actually copied the user interface is irrelevant here - sure that'd be wrong to most people, but that wasn't what this case is about. This case is about EULA violation.
if those dick-heads at DirecTV can beam their signals through my head without so much as a by-your-leave, then I can rightfully decrypt those same bloody signals if I want to. If they don't want 'em decrypted, they can keep their signals off my property. Oh, and I think it's no longer "legal" (but still morally right, and therefore OK) to get free satellite stuff here in Canada. Where went common sense, prithee tell?