Because "Solaris" and "DB/2" are trademarks, whereas "_____ for Dummies" is not, because you can't trademark that. See comment #143. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
What? You mean ABC hasn't copyrighted the words "Who wants to"? I bet it won't be long, then. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Please stop posting "facts" like that without any backup for them. I'd be willing to believe you except that I've seen many reports (firsthand, even - though you'd say they were just lying) that say it CAN run in the preview pane, and nothing to back up the fact that it will NEVER run in the preview pane, except for you and fougasse spamming Slashdot about it.
You've honestly tried this in every single version of Outlook? Or heard from a reliable source who has?
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You seem to be in a very vocal minority with that point of view.
Yes, you have said it way too many times. And you have nothing to back it up. There are firsthand accounts of it happening posted here. Are you saying those people are all liars?
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Do you have a source for this statement? The fact is that there ARE reports of this happening, which is better than what I've seen to back up your claim (i.e. nothing). -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
That wouldn't work especially well for a distribution that keeps its kernel image in/boot/vmlinuz instead of/vmlinuz. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
I believe the original poster was referring to Nautilus, the GNOME file manager in development, which will embed Mozilla for viewing web pages. So one particular implementation of it is moving toward GTK. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
This is completely off-topic, but I think it's funny how I originally misinterpreted your sig. The connotation I read was, "Are you talking to the real John Carmack, or just ESR *pretending* to be John Carmack?" -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
I'd mod him down if I had moderation points. He makes a good point, but then he gives away the ending, which would take a lot of the enjoyment out of the book for someone who hasn't read it yet. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Nope. It's quite easy to envision an unsolvable FreeCell position. Here's one, for example. The last 5 rows are:
3 3 3 3 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 4 7 7 9 9 9 9 J 7 7 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 K K K K J J J
Put any 4 cards you want in the holding cells - you won't have any valid moves. It's possible that the 32,000 games that the Microsoft version is capable of generating are all solvable, though. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
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You seem to be mistaken about what solving chess means. The "solution" to chess would be a HUGE tree. Not just one perfect game, but a tree telling you the best move to make in any situation. That's why chess is so hard to solve. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
It's surprising lojban doesn't catch on more among geeks.
You can obfuscate the language. It has shorter ways of describing mathematical equations than any other language. You can pronounce hexadecimal numbers. (0xf00f is "vainonovai"). It has words for "foo", "bar", and "baz" ("da", "de", "di"), it has words for "iff" and "xor" ("go" and "gonai"), and even a "lambda" word if you really like messing with people's minds ("ce'u").
Even if lojban never ends up being widely used for ordinary speech, I can see it becoming used for technical purposes.
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It sounds like this universal language could be lojban. It would take a while for people to come up with all the words necessary to represent any idea in any major language using lojban's word-inventing rules, but it'd be possible. lojban is completely unambiguous and is made of a few hundred well-defined rules, so that it can be parsed by a computer.
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But if you've read Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams, you'd know that powering a spaceship with bad news isn't a very good idea. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Huh? The fact that source isn't released *IS* the violation of the GPL.
Also, the licenses are there in plain sight, and changing the GPL license on a piece of software to Abit without the permission of the copyright holders is completely illegal. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
From reading his description of the attempt, it sounds like he made an effort to contact many more than 200 people. And he got exactly 1 response. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
The exception disproves the rule. Moxy Fruvous' "Green Eggs and Ham" has an MP3, yet was never on any CD, only a demo tape. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Okay, troll, you can stop now. The stock shot up from all the sheep who decided that LNUX was going to suddenly get tons of money from nowhere, then fell as they realized how wrong they were. That has nothing to do with Linux's success as an operating system.
And I don't think it takes that many funds to run Slashdot. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
I'm baffled by all the people who recommend AbiWord as a word processor that's usable now. It looks extremely alpha to me. Like if you ever click in the Font Size box, you can never get the cursor out of it, so that you can type but the dropdown list pops up every time you hit the spacebar. And there are all those neat menu option, but all but about 5 of them point to a dialog box saying "This feature isn't here yet". And it doesn't support TrueType fonts.
LyX is good, though. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Really? I hate that dropdown box. Especially when I hit "page down" and instead of (gasp) going DOWN the PAGE, the browser (IE or Netscape 4 for Windows) sends me to whatever site I visited 11 sites ago. What's the use of that? -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
No, 032909 is just as bad at registering clicks as the rest of the nightlies have been for the past week. I should know, I reported bug 33952.
But while the developers play "Hot Potato" with the bug, I make the best of it. Like, if I feel like clicking frantically in order to get anything done but I'm bored of xbill, there's always Mozilla.:)
(And about bug 34528 - try leaving the sidebar on. It works for me.)
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Because "Solaris" and "DB/2" are trademarks, whereas "_____ for Dummies" is not, because you can't trademark that. See comment #143.
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bah. s/copyright/trademark/g
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What? You mean ABC hasn't copyrighted the words "Who wants to"? I bet it won't be long, then.
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Please stop posting "facts" like that without any backup for them. I'd be willing to believe you except that I've seen many reports (firsthand, even - though you'd say they were just lying) that say it CAN run in the preview pane, and nothing to back up the fact that it will NEVER run in the preview pane, except for you and fougasse spamming Slashdot about it.
You've honestly tried this in every single version of Outlook? Or heard from a reliable source who has?
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Examples: Melissa, BubbleBoy, ILOVEYOU. Enough said.
Yes, I know you think these can't be run automatically under any circumstances. I'll eat my words if you show me some facts to prove that.
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You seem to be in a very vocal minority with that point of view.
Yes, you have said it way too many times. And you have nothing to back it up. There are firsthand accounts of it happening posted here. Are you saying those people are all liars?
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Do you have a source for this statement? The fact is that there ARE reports of this happening, which is better than what I've seen to back up your claim (i.e. nothing).
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That wouldn't work especially well for a distribution that keeps its kernel image in /boot/vmlinuz instead of /vmlinuz.
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I believe the original poster was referring to Nautilus, the GNOME file manager in development, which will embed Mozilla for viewing web pages. So one particular implementation of it is moving toward GTK.
--
No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
This is completely off-topic, but I think it's funny how I originally misinterpreted your sig. The connotation I read was, "Are you talking to the real John Carmack, or just ESR *pretending* to be John Carmack?"
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I'd mod him down if I had moderation points. He makes a good point, but then he gives away the ending, which would take a lot of the enjoyment out of the book for someone who hasn't read it yet.
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Nope. It's quite easy to envision an unsolvable FreeCell position.
Here's one, for example. The last 5 rows are:
3 3 3 3 5 5 5
6 6 6 6 4 7 7
9 9 9 9 J 7 7
2 2 2 2 4 4 4
K K K K J J J
Put any 4 cards you want in the holding cells - you won't have any valid moves.
It's possible that the 32,000 games that the Microsoft version is capable of generating are all solvable, though.
--
No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
You seem to be mistaken about what solving chess means. The "solution" to chess would be a HUGE tree. Not just one perfect game, but a tree telling you the best move to make in any situation. That's why chess is so hard to solve.
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The OS doesn't make a difference. 'cd ..' is a bash command as well.
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It's surprising lojban doesn't catch on more among geeks.
You can obfuscate the language. It has shorter ways of describing mathematical equations than any other language. You can pronounce hexadecimal numbers. (0xf00f is "vainonovai"). It has words for "foo", "bar", and "baz" ("da", "de", "di"), it has words for "iff" and "xor" ("go" and "gonai"), and even a "lambda" word if you really like messing with people's minds ("ce'u").
Even if lojban never ends up being widely used for ordinary speech, I can see it becoming used for technical purposes.
--
No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
It sounds like this universal language could be lojban. It would take a while for people to come up with all the words necessary to represent any idea in any major language using lojban's word-inventing rules, but it'd be possible. lojban is completely unambiguous and is made of a few hundred well-defined rules, so that it can be parsed by a computer.
--
No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
But if you've read Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams, you'd know that powering a spaceship with bad news isn't a very good idea.
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No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Huh? The fact that source isn't released *IS* the violation of the GPL.
Also, the licenses are there in plain sight, and changing the GPL license on a piece of software to Abit without the permission of the copyright holders is completely illegal.
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From reading his description of the attempt, it sounds like he made an effort to contact many more than 200 people. And he got exactly 1 response.
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That defeats the purpose - I bet that Emusic still gets a large cut of the money.
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The exception disproves the rule. Moxy Fruvous' "Green Eggs and Ham" has an MP3, yet was never on any CD, only a demo tape.
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Okay, troll, you can stop now. The stock shot up from all the sheep who decided that LNUX was going to suddenly get tons of money from nowhere, then fell as they realized how wrong they were. That has nothing to do with Linux's success as an operating system.
And I don't think it takes that many funds to run Slashdot.
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No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
I'm baffled by all the people who recommend AbiWord as a word processor that's usable now. It looks extremely alpha to me. Like if you ever click in the Font Size box, you can never get the cursor out of it, so that you can type but the dropdown list pops up every time you hit the spacebar. And there are all those neat menu option, but all but about 5 of them point to a dialog box saying "This feature isn't here yet". And it doesn't support TrueType fonts.
LyX is good, though.
--
No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Really? I hate that dropdown box. Especially when I hit "page down" and instead of (gasp) going DOWN the PAGE, the browser (IE or Netscape 4 for Windows) sends me to whatever site I visited 11 sites ago. What's the use of that?
--
No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
No, 032909 is just as bad at registering clicks as the rest of the nightlies have been for the past week. I should know, I reported bug 33952.
:)
But while the developers play "Hot Potato" with the bug, I make the best of it. Like, if I feel like clicking frantically in order to get anything done but I'm bored of xbill, there's always Mozilla.
(And about bug 34528 - try leaving the sidebar on. It works for me.)
--
No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.