I think that tells you just how bad the situation is. I'd like to see their numbers on how many 360s have come up dead as well as how much it's costing them to do all these replacements.
Because I don't run gnome and it's annoying when I have to deal with that shit just to run a program that's written in gtk because the author is so fucking stupid as to use it?
Do you honestly think Steam can't be cracked? In fact it probably has been, given Valve's inability to program anything securely. If I gave a fuck about Valve or windows gaming I'd probably know, but I don't. Pretty sure any of these documents that are being archived don't rely on phone home activation to be read though.
Just an FYI, governments don't have to worry about licensing. Especially in situations like this. They have the power of eminent domain. If they needed a license for the software and were in some way not able to pay for a boxed copy and store it in a vault or whatever, they could (and should) just take it.
Definitely shouldn't keep the stuff in microsoft formats, but is ODF really any better? I've not found it to be very consistently handled between apps that supposedly support it. Anyone else having better luck with it?
Well, naturally. Qt (note the proper case, btw) is great. I guess if you count Opera as "commercial" I wouldn't say all of the good ones used motif/lesstif. But I wouldn't say it's commercial so much as just proprietary. But I guess that point could be argued.
Nor should one mistake Apple's ability to bring stuff to the people (such as the UI of Xerox et al) - what Microsoft's an order of magnitude better at, if market cap is anything to go by - a measure of their R&D skill. The parent post is NOT insightful, mods. In fact he can't even read. The GP didn't say anything about the quality (though I'd argue that from a design perspective apple and microsoft both suck) but about bringing "stuff" to "people." You'll even notice that the GP emphasized this point. It is about the ability to sell stuff as the parent says, but then misses the point that that is what the GP was talking about.
You'd think with a UID that low that you'd have learned at least a little reading comprehension in all that time. I guess not. Sorry, Tony, quality has NOTHING to do with ability to get product to people. For good examples of both look at windows and ipod, tons of users, little quality. Both companies have been very good at bringing this "stuff" to "people" however.
Why is it that so many people think Linux and other open source software is somehow at its best when it puts pressure on microsoft to make better products and nothing else? Microsoft will never do anything that will make me want to run their OS. Even if they could, the product would have to be so much like what I'm running already that I'd just stick with what I've got.
Let's focus on making the big Linux distros release better OSes first. For starters I'd like to see them stop pushing gnome/gtk so exclusively.
Well if it only has 3 digits it isn't going to be that useful. Unless there is some excessively cumbersome mechanic to opening the lock you could brute force every combination in a matter of minutes. Even if you started at 000 and worked your way to 999.
You can probably block incoming text messages. On my phone (the ultra crappy RAZR V3r that's getting replaced VERY soon) you can set it not automatically accept text. I believe it prompts you every time someone sends one to you, though. So it's still pretty crappy, but at least if it annoys you it won't be annoying you AND costing you money. You should see if your phone has such an option.
Is it per person who does development or is it per developer? Like if your developer leaves the company do you have to buy a new license or as long as only one person is coding with Qt at a time is it ok to just have the one license?
You must purchase a Qt Commercial License from Trolltech or from any of its authorized resellers before you start developing proprietary software. The Commercial license does not allow the incorporation of code developed with the Open Source Edition of Qt into a proprietary product.
That's funny, all the good commercial apps I've used for Linux use motif or lesstif. I think the reason you see so many apps using gtk has more to do with who is in control of the big corporate Linux distros than with a $3000/seat license. Because if it were just about the money there are many toolkits that are much nicer than gtk (fewer bugs, less buck passing about them) and just as Free.
So you're saying that developers (who I'd assume are generally making their living at it) are just not programming ANYTHING in anticipation of a new version of.net? Please, get the fuck out! That's got to be the dumbest thing I've read all day.
You're glad you had to learn about a "registry?" WTF!??! The registry is one of the stupidest things ever put into windows. Copying it for gnome very well might be the stupidest thing EVER put on Linux, but I won't say that for sure because miguel de icaza does a LOT of dumb stuff on Linux.
I still play Super Mario World. That, by the way, is the real greatest game ever made. Ocarina of Time was and still is very good, but I don't even think it's the best of the 3D Zelda games. Not to even speak of the 2D ones, that with the exception of those on NES and Minish Cap on GBA, are all better than the best of 3D Zelda.
Given the size of the universe (and whatever is beyond that) and the number of stars in it. Even if there are very, very few planets that could support humanoid-like life and even if only very few of those actually do, did, or will support such life, it still seems quite likely that at least one of them in fact does. With a place as big as EVERYTHING even very remote possibilities become statistical likelihoods.
Of course I'd still tend to believe that it's close enough to impossible that any of them would ever happen to visit Earth while humans are around. It's kind of hard to believe that such life would be existing at, or early enough before, us and close enough to get here, even if they were somehow capable of locating our planet and making the journey. But maybe we're just too well made for surviving in our middle-sized environment to intuit such things.
Either way, it seems unreasonable to supposed that such things don't exist and almost as unreasonable to suppose that they ever have or will get here while we're here to witness it.
Their customer and tech support is great, but I've had nothing but nightmares with their rebate department. I tried for 3 months to get them to process the rebate. Every time the guy on the other end said it looked to be in order, reprocessed it, and about a week later I would get a letter in the mail saying that my rebate had been denied.
Also, am I the only person who doesn't see it as unfortunate that people are having problems with the iphone? Really, problems with apple products not working properly would be more like "expected" wouldn't it?
He's already enough of an apple fanboi to buy an iphone, enter into a two year contract with the worst national cell phone carrier, and probably paid a ton to break his existing contract. I'm pretty sure he's going to be buying a mac to sync his iphone with soon anyway.
This is just another way to sneak "trusted computing" into people's computers. We've seen this topic here before, if not this exact article (I'm not going to read it because it smells of dupe).
Besides, should we really be using Valve as a role model for secure programming? These guys are THE WORST.
This would actually be a lot more fun than WoW and it'd have the added bonus of weeding out all the idiot kids because none of them would get past the single digit addition levels in the n00b area.
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I think that tells you just how bad the situation is. I'd like to see their numbers on how many 360s have come up dead as well as how much it's costing them to do all these replacements.
So how much is Google going to offer this guy for the trademark?
Because I don't run gnome and it's annoying when I have to deal with that shit just to run a program that's written in gtk because the author is so fucking stupid as to use it?
Do you honestly think Steam can't be cracked? In fact it probably has been, given Valve's inability to program anything securely. If I gave a fuck about Valve or windows gaming I'd probably know, but I don't. Pretty sure any of these documents that are being archived don't rely on phone home activation to be read though.
Just an FYI, governments don't have to worry about licensing. Especially in situations like this. They have the power of eminent domain. If they needed a license for the software and were in some way not able to pay for a boxed copy and store it in a vault or whatever, they could (and should) just take it.
Definitely shouldn't keep the stuff in microsoft formats, but is ODF really any better? I've not found it to be very consistently handled between apps that supposedly support it. Anyone else having better luck with it?
Well, naturally. Qt (note the proper case, btw) is great. I guess if you count Opera as "commercial" I wouldn't say all of the good ones used motif/lesstif. But I wouldn't say it's commercial so much as just proprietary. But I guess that point could be argued.
What Qt apps are you running?
You'd think with a UID that low that you'd have learned at least a little reading comprehension in all that time. I guess not. Sorry, Tony, quality has NOTHING to do with ability to get product to people. For good examples of both look at windows and ipod, tons of users, little quality. Both companies have been very good at bringing this "stuff" to "people" however.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Why is it that so many people think Linux and other open source software is somehow at its best when it puts pressure on microsoft to make better products and nothing else? Microsoft will never do anything that will make me want to run their OS. Even if they could, the product would have to be so much like what I'm running already that I'd just stick with what I've got.
Let's focus on making the big Linux distros release better OSes first. For starters I'd like to see them stop pushing gnome/gtk so exclusively.
Well if it only has 3 digits it isn't going to be that useful. Unless there is some excessively cumbersome mechanic to opening the lock you could brute force every combination in a matter of minutes. Even if you started at 000 and worked your way to 999.
You can probably block incoming text messages. On my phone (the ultra crappy RAZR V3r that's getting replaced VERY soon) you can set it not automatically accept text. I believe it prompts you every time someone sends one to you, though. So it's still pretty crappy, but at least if it annoys you it won't be annoying you AND costing you money. You should see if your phone has such an option.
The *first* thing you think is, "that is a stupid person." Am I right?
Is it per person who does development or is it per developer? Like if your developer leaves the company do you have to buy a new license or as long as only one person is coding with Qt at a time is it ok to just have the one license?
That's funny, all the good commercial apps I've used for Linux use motif or lesstif. I think the reason you see so many apps using gtk has more to do with who is in control of the big corporate Linux distros than with a $3000/seat license. Because if it were just about the money there are many toolkits that are much nicer than gtk (fewer bugs, less buck passing about them) and just as Free.
So you're saying that developers (who I'd assume are generally making their living at it) are just not programming ANYTHING in anticipation of a new version of .net? Please, get the fuck out! That's got to be the dumbest thing I've read all day.
You're glad you had to learn about a "registry?" WTF!??! The registry is one of the stupidest things ever put into windows. Copying it for gnome very well might be the stupidest thing EVER put on Linux, but I won't say that for sure because miguel de icaza does a LOT of dumb stuff on Linux.
I still play Super Mario World. That, by the way, is the real greatest game ever made. Ocarina of Time was and still is very good, but I don't even think it's the best of the 3D Zelda games. Not to even speak of the 2D ones, that with the exception of those on NES and Minish Cap on GBA, are all better than the best of 3D Zelda.
But where in Seattle?!?! Location or GTFO!
Given the size of the universe (and whatever is beyond that) and the number of stars in it. Even if there are very, very few planets that could support humanoid-like life and even if only very few of those actually do, did, or will support such life, it still seems quite likely that at least one of them in fact does. With a place as big as EVERYTHING even very remote possibilities become statistical likelihoods.
Of course I'd still tend to believe that it's close enough to impossible that any of them would ever happen to visit Earth while humans are around. It's kind of hard to believe that such life would be existing at, or early enough before, us and close enough to get here, even if they were somehow capable of locating our planet and making the journey. But maybe we're just too well made for surviving in our middle-sized environment to intuit such things.
Either way, it seems unreasonable to supposed that such things don't exist and almost as unreasonable to suppose that they ever have or will get here while we're here to witness it.
Their customer and tech support is great, but I've had nothing but nightmares with their rebate department. I tried for 3 months to get them to process the rebate. Every time the guy on the other end said it looked to be in order, reprocessed it, and about a week later I would get a letter in the mail saying that my rebate had been denied.
Also, am I the only person who doesn't see it as unfortunate that people are having problems with the iphone? Really, problems with apple products not working properly would be more like "expected" wouldn't it?
He's already enough of an apple fanboi to buy an iphone, enter into a two year contract with the worst national cell phone carrier, and probably paid a ton to break his existing contract. I'm pretty sure he's going to be buying a mac to sync his iphone with soon anyway.
This is just another way to sneak "trusted computing" into people's computers. We've seen this topic here before, if not this exact article (I'm not going to read it because it smells of dupe).
Besides, should we really be using Valve as a role model for secure programming? These guys are THE WORST.
This would actually be a lot more fun than WoW and it'd have the added bonus of weeding out all the idiot kids because none of them would get past the single digit addition levels in the n00b area.