Lol, that reminds me of the completely generic corporate advertisement (you can find it in the prelinger archives, it's called "Your Name Here" or something).
"That's right Mary, starting tomorrow I'm no longer just a shipping clerk! I'm now... Chairman of the Board!"
my Canon i320 only cost me $40 at MicroCenter. I can buy black replacement cartridges for $6.50 at Wal-Mart.
Wow, really? I'm assuming the prices are American, but that's still impressive.
I bought my Canon BJC-250 for $200CDN way back in the day when it was top-of-the-line, and the genuine Canon cartridges for it are something like $40CDN, though the knockoff brand is $25CDN.
I wouldn't mind investing in a new printer if I could get ink cartridges for $10, that would be an awesome deal:)
Lol, people won't stop making music just because they can't make money at it anymore. There will always be the people who make music because they enjoy making music, much like the people who write software because they enjoy writing software.
Look at websites like IUMA, tons of free, legal music from independant and unsigned artists.
(Good) musicians can still make a living off of live tours, ever heard of the Grateful Dead?
Cheap as fuck (I don't remember exact prices, but it's gotta be something like 10 for a dollar or two) and very reliable. I use them all the time.
Beware of the cheap knockoffs, the ink doesn't dry fast enough and smudges all over the place, even for a right-handed person (ie, when you write the next line, you smudge the previous line).
My guess would be that a lot of people think a law is absolutely correct and immutable (due to the legal system?), while they think a theory is just a vague set of guesses.
The truth, of course, is more the opposite. A law tends to be a detailed observation, while a theory is the best explanation we can come up with given the evidence we have to work with.
Laws are ultimately useless, because they don't really give us anything to work with. A theory, on the other hand, can be incrementally improved or completely disproved and replaced, and the process of improving theories allows us to gain a better understanding of the universe.
Personally, I think that there already is a total combo device... they're called laptops.
His iPod, gameboy, and PDA can be replaced by a laptop, but he'd have to keep his cell phone. I think that would work well; a laptop is far too clunky to be used as a phone, and a phone is far to small to be used as a PDA/mp3 player/gaming system.
I would counter that you would be able to build a different building for some other organization; it's not like you'd starve and die if the USPTO decided not to build this new campus.
MS has used considerable amounts of BSD code in the past,
Congradulations! You don't understand the differences between BSD and GPL.
With the BSD license, MS is allowed to take the code and put it into their proprietary products. They can, and do, because it's easy and cheap, and often has good results (for them).
GPL, on the other hand, would "infect" their source and require them to GPL whatever program they put GPL code into. The idea that MS might be forced into releasing the windows codebase as GPL scares the shit out of them, so they've put a huge amount of beurocracy in the way, so that it won't happen.
Ideally, there should be one standard toolkit api that is easily extensible by developers (ie a very flexible widget system), easily reconfigurable by the users (one standard look and feel, that "power users" can change).
The problem with that kind of talk is that it makes you want to write a new, "standard" toolkit.
Personally, I say we just throw out QT and standardize on GTK:)
There's one bug I've noticed that hasn't been fixed:
When I try to download a torrent that is multiple files (as in, a torrent of a directory, as opposed to a regular torrent of one file), the interface will stop refreshing. It'll still download the files just fine, but the interface will be totally unresponsive, like the program is totally locked up.
That was the biggest problem I had with 3.2, and 3.3 does the same thing. I can use btdownloadheadless.py and it won't have that problem, but it's annoying that I can't just use the GUI.
Though I admit, the time bt3.3 takes to check an existing file has sped up a lot, and is much less CPU intensive. I'm impressed with that:)
I like Linus's description of himself from RevolutionOS:
"Think of Stallman as the Great Philosopher, and think of me as the Engineer."
Granted, it's totally bogus -- I would argue that Stallman has put more work ('engineering') into the GNU toolset than Linus has put into Linux, but it's still a nice way of thinking about it.
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Can Linux do this? If not, Windows is better than Linux.
The only time I can see this being useful is if your terminal app is too crippled to allow you to copy and paste natively.
So, this isn't a great innovative feature, it's a clever workaround for some other fundamental brain-damage.
As Chris Murry [...] notes, 'Many consumers hate their cable companies'
Yes, yes we do.
Oh... there was more to that quote?
Lol, that reminds me of the completely generic corporate advertisement (you can find it in the prelinger archives, it's called "Your Name Here" or something).
"That's right Mary, starting tomorrow I'm no longer just a shipping clerk! I'm now... Chairman of the Board!"
In Soviet Russia, bad slashdot cliche's abuse YOU!
my Canon i320 only cost me $40 at MicroCenter. I can buy black replacement cartridges for $6.50 at Wal-Mart.
:)
Wow, really? I'm assuming the prices are American, but that's still impressive.
I bought my Canon BJC-250 for $200CDN way back in the day when it was top-of-the-line, and the genuine Canon cartridges for it are something like $40CDN, though the knockoff brand is $25CDN.
I wouldn't mind investing in a new printer if I could get ink cartridges for $10, that would be an awesome deal
Lol, people won't stop making music just because they can't make money at it anymore. There will always be the people who make music because they enjoy making music, much like the people who write software because they enjoy writing software.
Look at websites like IUMA, tons of free, legal music from independant and unsigned artists.
(Good) musicians can still make a living off of live tours, ever heard of the Grateful Dead?
Cheap as fuck (I don't remember exact prices, but it's gotta be something like 10 for a dollar or two) and very reliable. I use them all the time.
Beware of the cheap knockoffs, the ink doesn't dry fast enough and smudges all over the place, even for a right-handed person (ie, when you write the next line, you smudge the previous line).
Don't forget the sharpie markers.
Worst. Quote. Ever.
Can someone explain to me why that is?
My guess would be that a lot of people think a law is absolutely correct and immutable (due to the legal system?), while they think a theory is just a vague set of guesses.
The truth, of course, is more the opposite. A law tends to be a detailed observation, while a theory is the best explanation we can come up with given the evidence we have to work with.
Laws are ultimately useless, because they don't really give us anything to work with. A theory, on the other hand, can be incrementally improved or completely disproved and replaced, and the process of improving theories allows us to gain a better understanding of the universe.
Personally, I think that there already is a total combo device... they're called laptops.
His iPod, gameboy, and PDA can be replaced by a laptop, but he'd have to keep his cell phone. I think that would work well; a laptop is far too clunky to be used as a phone, and a phone is far to small to be used as a PDA/mp3 player/gaming system.
I would counter that you would be able to build a different building for some other organization; it's not like you'd starve and die if the USPTO decided not to build this new campus.
By awarding obvious and unoriginal patents, the USPTO's plan was to amass a ton of money so they can have wasteful, luxurious campuses...
Next we'll be reading about how each patent clerk gets his own stripper and lapdances are mandatory every hour on the hour.
MS has used considerable amounts of BSD code in the past,
Congradulations! You don't understand the differences between BSD and GPL.
With the BSD license, MS is allowed to take the code and put it into their proprietary products. They can, and do, because it's easy and cheap, and often has good results (for them).
GPL, on the other hand, would "infect" their source and require them to GPL whatever program they put GPL code into. The idea that MS might be forced into releasing the windows codebase as GPL scares the shit out of them, so they've put a huge amount of beurocracy in the way, so that it won't happen.
You could also just turn it around, "The early worm gets the bird." :)
See how easy it is to attack an argument that overly relies on metaphor?
For every common phrase or saying, there is an equal and opposite phrase or saying.
For example:
"The early bird gets the worm" vs. "Good things come to those that wait."
Or, my personal favorite:
"Great minds think alike" vs. "No two fools differ."
Yes, you could.
"It's so good, you'll puke!"
Ideally, there should be one standard toolkit api that is easily extensible by developers (ie a very flexible widget system), easily reconfigurable by the users (one standard look and feel, that "power users" can change).
:)
The problem with that kind of talk is that it makes you want to write a new, "standard" toolkit.
Personally, I say we just throw out QT and standardize on GTK
Yeah, I used to use one of them, it had the same problems, too.
:)
I'll email bram and ask him what's wrong (if anybody knows, it's probably him. I probably just have an old version of python or something).
If he can fix it, I'll donate some money for him
There's one bug I've noticed that hasn't been fixed:
:)
When I try to download a torrent that is multiple files (as in, a torrent of a directory, as opposed to a regular torrent of one file), the interface will stop refreshing. It'll still download the files just fine, but the interface will be totally unresponsive, like the program is totally locked up.
That was the biggest problem I had with 3.2, and 3.3 does the same thing. I can use btdownloadheadless.py and it won't have that problem, but it's annoying that I can't just use the GUI.
Though I admit, the time bt3.3 takes to check an existing file has sped up a lot, and is much less CPU intensive. I'm impressed with that
You should be seeding the torrent if you already have the ISOs! Make it faster for everybody else :)
Anyone will agree that windows is the best OS 'today', or 'this year'
Ummmmm... I don't.
this abrupt change will push the whole world back by 5-10 years. (Well, maybe if not a pushback there will be stagnation).
You mean like the stagnation we've been suffering through for the last 5-10 years? Has windows really changed much since Win95?
I like Linus's description of himself from RevolutionOS:
"Think of Stallman as the Great Philosopher, and think of me as the Engineer."
Granted, it's totally bogus -- I would argue that Stallman has put more work ('engineering') into the GNU toolset than Linus has put into Linux, but it's still a nice way of thinking about it.
every time I hear of some thing cool, google for it... it ends up being some *nix program...
:)
Sounds like it's time to install Linux! Then you'll actually be able to do all those cool things