The interview starts off displaying this image, claiming him to be "Mad as hell and not going to take it". He looks about as mad as I would be if I won a billion dollars in the lottery while getting a blowjob from Carmen Electra. Oh yes, very mad indeed.
Anyway, the interviewer then goes on to imply that all linux developers are really just heartless pirates, like the music downloaders on Kazaa.
Later on, we are graced with this gem:
"One view of Linux that's persisted over the years is that it's free. Even though that's not fully accurate,... "
Yes, those pesky pirates keep insisting that Linux is free! Clearly it's not, however, as RedHat is charging lots of money for it! Moron.
"Microsoft would say the same thing. I have customers.
They have customers too. Great."
Wow, RedHat has customers? Microsoft too? Truly, these are men of vision. Men of unparalleled insight!
Notice how the window's contents are arranged HORIZONTALLY? Seems a horizontal scroll-thingie would me mighty useful in this situation.
Maybe if you're using windows explorer or something.
In any case, a horizontal scroll wheel is completely redundant in that situation: the unused "vertical" scroll wheel should be made to scroll horizontally if the window does not require vertical scrolling.
I used to have a mouse that had two scroll wheels on it, and that was 5+ years ago. I used it for both horizontal and vertical scrolling (though it was configurable what you could actually do with it).
Also, in some linux toolkits (gtk I believe, possibly others), you can scroll any scrollbar (no matter what direction it's in) just by putting the mouse over it and scrolling.
For example, in gaim, if your buddy list has a horizontal scrollbar, you can scroll horizontally by putting the mouse over the horizontal scrollbar and scrolling. Even better, it doesn't even have to be a scrollbar: on the experimental bittorrent client, you can scroll the little frob that controls the maximum number of uploads this way.
Fun stuff! I see little point in providing a hardware solution to a problem that was solved with software long, long ago.
Complaining about the GPL's terms is a bit like complaining that you can't go around hitting others: giving you the freedom to punch others takes away those others' freedoms. Laws against assault aren't restrictions on your freedom, they are guarantees of everyone's freedom. It's the same way with the GPL.
I like to think of it this way: With BSD, the author is free; With the GPL, the code is free.
It's a bit simplistic, but it's basically true: if your code is released under the BSD license, any programmer can take your code and do anything they want with it (including removing the freedom from the code), but if your code is released under the GPL, then any programmer can do whatever they want, AS LONG AS they don't remove the freedom from the code.
If your mission is to learn about linux, you can't go wrong with Linux From Scratch. It explains how to compile everything yourself, with easy step-by-step instructions. None of this silly hand-holding that you get with portage/emerge.
My memory is a little foggy here, but I seem to remember the slashdot story about Windows getting the Common Criteria cert -- the rating was so crappy, it basically meant "MS reps showed up, but no actual testing happened". Now Linux gets CC certified, and it gets the highest possible rating.
I guess I don't really have a point, I just thought that was funny.
I applaud the mutt team for keeping it a MUA, and nothing more. Sure, I'd like to see NNTP support, but there are perfectly good newsreading tools out there and, instead, mutt development can focus on being the best MUA it can be.
There is an user-maintained NNTP patch for mutt. I used to use it, and it was quite good... It's linked to from somewhere on mutt.org, but I don't remember where.
Most XP users I have seen never become competent with it:-)
Sadly, I have a rabidly pro-microsoft friend who has used windows for so long, he is actually convinced that he could build windows from scratch (he told me the reason he didn't want to switch to linux was because he put so much effort into learning windows that he could "pretty much build it from scratch").
I've used Linux for a couple years, and I actually HAVE built an entire, working linux system from scratch. Go figure...
I don't know much about Peachtree, but if there can't be more than one person logged into any given module at any given time, it seems like a pretty useless piece of software, unless your company has 1 or less employees.
You quoted from the WIKI. Go to www.mandrakesoft.com, and try to find a link to the torrents. good luck:)
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Also there's the case of somesmallcompany.com sending out a mailer/advertisement to millions of people, because the email is hosted on their machine, their connection/server might become overwhelmed
I think that's the whole point -- make it infeasable to send a mail to a ludicrous amount of people.
Those torrents I pointed out are from mandrake themselves..
I was quite impressed to see that. I hope that the Mandrake guys save lots of money on the bandwidth they save there. I seeded the files for about a day.
One thing, though -- I wasn't able to find the link to the torrents from their official website. Oh well; I guess BT is at that stage where it's provided but not actively advertised as the primary download method:)
You're right that 'H1.5O' is "illegal" nomenclature, it would really be 'H3O2', because chemists like whole numbers. This sort of flies in the face of everything I learned in highschool, though.
The solution to that problem is easy -- pick up the tickets that you paid for, and then scalp them at a greater price. Then you make a profit off the ordeal:)
I have read a couple of Blender tutorials and it still seems like too much work.
Yeah, pressing the tab key is just so hard.
Seriously, get over it. I made the same complaints when i was a blender newbie, and the developers basically just said "shut up, we like it this way".
At this point, I think the pain/cost of making all the expert users retrain themselves is worse than just having the occaisonal new user get used to the way things are.
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did you know that a lot (most?) of Canada can reach temperatures of 35C during the summer,
Considering that I live in Edmonton, I am painfully aware of this. I threw in that 90% figure just to indicate how short the summers are, though.
Or go work in Southern California. "Tomorrow? Sunny!"
No, the meteorologists have it way easier in Canada.
"Tomorrow? SNOW!"
And they'd be right 90% of the time.
This is NOT TWO FUCKING WHEELS. It's one wheel that fucking tilts.
Oh my GOD! That is SO innovative! it's the exact same fucking thing, except that the two wheels are made into ONE FROB! NO WAY!
Moron.
The interview starts off displaying this image, claiming him to be "Mad as hell and not going to take it". He looks about as mad as I would be if I won a billion dollars in the lottery while getting a blowjob from Carmen Electra. Oh yes, very mad indeed.
... "
Anyway, the interviewer then goes on to imply that all linux developers are really just heartless pirates, like the music downloaders on Kazaa.
Later on, we are graced with this gem:
"One view of Linux that's persisted over the years is that it's free. Even though that's not fully accurate,
Yes, those pesky pirates keep insisting that Linux is free! Clearly it's not, however, as RedHat is charging lots of money for it! Moron.
"Microsoft would say the same thing.
I have customers.
They have customers too.
Great."
Wow, RedHat has customers? Microsoft too? Truly, these are men of vision. Men of unparalleled insight!
Notice how the window's contents are arranged HORIZONTALLY? Seems a horizontal scroll-thingie would me mighty useful in this situation.
Maybe if you're using windows explorer or something.
In any case, a horizontal scroll wheel is completely redundant in that situation: the unused "vertical" scroll wheel should be made to scroll horizontally if the window does not require vertical scrolling.
I used to have a mouse that had two scroll wheels on it, and that was 5+ years ago. I used it for both horizontal and vertical scrolling (though it was configurable what you could actually do with it).
Also, in some linux toolkits (gtk I believe, possibly others), you can scroll any scrollbar (no matter what direction it's in) just by putting the mouse over it and scrolling.
For example, in gaim, if your buddy list has a horizontal scrollbar, you can scroll horizontally by putting the mouse over the horizontal scrollbar and scrolling. Even better, it doesn't even have to be a scrollbar: on the experimental bittorrent client, you can scroll the little frob that controls the maximum number of uploads this way.
Fun stuff! I see little point in providing a hardware solution to a problem that was solved with software long, long ago.
Complaining about the GPL's terms is a bit like complaining that you can't go around hitting others: giving you the freedom to punch others takes away those others' freedoms. Laws against assault aren't restrictions on your freedom, they are guarantees of everyone's freedom. It's the same way with the GPL.
I like to think of it this way: With BSD, the author is free; With the GPL, the code is free.
It's a bit simplistic, but it's basically true: if your code is released under the BSD license, any programmer can take your code and do anything they want with it (including removing the freedom from the code), but if your code is released under the GPL, then any programmer can do whatever they want, AS LONG AS they don't remove the freedom from the code.
Its a great learning exprience.
BZZZT. Wrong!
If your mission is to learn about linux, you can't go wrong with Linux From Scratch. It explains how to compile everything yourself, with easy step-by-step instructions. None of this silly hand-holding that you get with portage/emerge.
LFS for learning, Gentoo for portage.
The torrents have been slashdotted, but my download is going slow. What gives?
My memory is a little foggy here, but I seem to remember the slashdot story about Windows getting the Common Criteria cert -- the rating was so crappy, it basically meant "MS reps showed up, but no actual testing happened". Now Linux gets CC certified, and it gets the highest possible rating.
I guess I don't really have a point, I just thought that was funny.
I applaud the mutt team for keeping it a MUA, and nothing more. Sure, I'd like to see NNTP support, but there are perfectly good newsreading tools out there and, instead, mutt development can focus on being the best MUA it can be.
There is an user-maintained NNTP patch for mutt. I used to use it, and it was quite good... It's linked to from somewhere on mutt.org, but I don't remember where.
Most XP users I have seen never become competent with it :-)
Sadly, I have a rabidly pro-microsoft friend who has used windows for so long, he is actually convinced that he could build windows from scratch (he told me the reason he didn't want to switch to linux was because he put so much effort into learning windows that he could "pretty much build it from scratch").
I've used Linux for a couple years, and I actually HAVE built an entire, working linux system from scratch. Go figure...
Slashdot didn't link to it, and neither did linuxdevices.com, so I just thought I'd say that the Opie homepage is here.
I don't know much about Peachtree, but if there can't be more than one person logged into any given module at any given time, it seems like a pretty useless piece of software, unless your company has 1 or less employees.
You quoted from the WIKI. Go to www.mandrakesoft.com, and try to find a link to the torrents. good luck :)
Also there's the case of somesmallcompany.com sending out a mailer/advertisement to millions of people, because the email is hosted on their machine, their connection/server might become overwhelmed
I think that's the whole point -- make it infeasable to send a mail to a ludicrous amount of people.
Those torrents I pointed out are from mandrake themselves..
:)
I was quite impressed to see that. I hope that the Mandrake guys save lots of money on the bandwidth they save there. I seeded the files for about a day.
One thing, though -- I wasn't able to find the link to the torrents from their official website. Oh well; I guess BT is at that stage where it's provided but not actively advertised as the primary download method
Excuse me, but what does the Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology have to do with anything?
You're right that 'H1.5O' is "illegal" nomenclature, it would really be 'H3O2', because chemists like whole numbers. This sort of flies in the face of everything I learned in highschool, though.
The solution to that problem is easy -- pick up the tickets that you paid for, and then scalp them at a greater price. Then you make a profit off the ordeal :)
He has a strong sense of self-preservation
Does that mean it will kill everybody that tries to destroy it?
especially it being resiliant to the /. effect (read: DOS attacks),
/. effect... all freesites are equally slow :)
I just installed it this morning, and you're right, it is resiliant to the
Hey, I just metamoderated one of the 'redundant' mods as unfair. I thought the post was interesting, myself.
I have read a couple of Blender tutorials and it still seems like too much work.
Yeah, pressing the tab key is just so hard.
Seriously, get over it. I made the same complaints when i was a blender newbie, and the developers basically just said "shut up, we like it this way".
At this point, I think the pain/cost of making all the expert users retrain themselves is worse than just having the occaisonal new user get used to the way things are.
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