I entirely agree. Editors like vi and emacs are decades behind the rest of the world in terms of usability and intuitiveness. Luckily, on a remote server I can always launch a modern text editor using X11 forwarding over ssh. I know just enough vi to type, search, save, and exit. If I hit q without hitting:, it switches to some recording mode and stops responding to normal commands. It I hit # when not in insert mode, it put a bright yellow highlight on whatever word the cursor was over, which persists even after I exit vi and start it again, until I manually edit the config file to delete the highlight keyword. I'm sure there are easy ways out of both problems, and the many others I've encountered, if I memorized the help file rather than just skimming it a few times, but I'd rather not spend any more time than I need to with such a backward piece of sh^Hoftware. I only use vi for very minor edits, like changing a single value in a config file. For everything else, I use a real text editor.
Unfortunately, you'll have to install the newest version and type:help version-6.4 to learn what those fixes are, to learn why you just took the time to download, compile, and install a vim update.
There are many many sources for satellite photos. If they have places they want censored, they can ask Google as the US government has done on a few occasion, and they'll probably blur or edit the location, but then terrorists, or more likely, anyone else interested in photos of those locations, can just get them from elsewhere.
How hard would it be to patent the rest of it in one fell swoop? Just attach a copy of the remaining human genome as a prototype and roughly describe what it does, in broad, overreaching terms because you don't understand it all yet. Leave it to the courts figure out what your patent really covers.
72 pin. Come to think of it, my 16mb SIMMs might be in a system I rebuilt a few weeks back. So I might have only 4 and 8mb SIMMs. And the "large pile" is probably only 6 or 8 SIMMs.
Gaim is the best IM I've used on Windows or Linux. MSN messenger looks and behaves like a piece of crap. That I had to use the command line to disable it on Windows was bad enough.
Is anyone else looking at that webpage in Firefox on Linux with font smoothing enabled and set to "Best Contrast"? Their choice of font looks terrible. I'm not sure if it's an accident or if they're trying to make a point.
I only block Java, Flash, and popup ads, and limit the number of cycles for animated gifs. Advertisers can expect this much. If an ad is a popup, or it's flashing, or it slows my browser to a crawl, I make a mental note of the company behind the ad to avoid them in the future, and I never click them anyway (unless it says "Microsoft" and "Get the Facts"), so it's best that I just don't see them. I'm not an impulse buyer. Online I've bought a few computers and some web hosting, none of it influenced by advertising. Seeing a flashy online advertisement tells me that the product or service is of too poor quality to succeed by word of mouth, and that their website is too cheap to do well in search rankings. Reputable businesses have no interest in annoying types of advertisements.
On Slashdot, I pay the subscription fee to hide about half of the ads.
Several times every year, we hear of some company expecting to soon release a storage product that'll be orders of magnitude better than any existing technology, yet somehow they hardly do.
Sure they can. They own the copyright to at least the portions they developed. They can't prevent you from forking the GPL'd releases, but they can do with it as they please. As for code contributed from other authors, all they have to do is remove it or get permission. Some GPL project maintainers even require copyright assignment to accept patches from the community, giving them the ability to relicense the whole thing as they please without asking any other contributors.
Maybe he's saying they created an Office for the Mac, but now they're focused 100% on Windows. I think they're really focused 100% on profit and securing (locking in) future revenue.
If one of those movies were to make its way onto a P2P network, God forbid, the results would be disasterous...
The other half of the article - Sunbird
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I wonder if it would create any confusion if Sun started marketing Mozilla's Sunbird. It'd be nice to seem some fresh development on that project though.
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I think we've been misled.
Whatever redesigning takes place, it should start there.
I entirely agree. Editors like vi and emacs are decades behind the rest of the world in terms of usability and intuitiveness. Luckily, on a remote server I can always launch a modern text editor using X11 forwarding over ssh. I know just enough vi to type, search, save, and exit. If I hit q without hitting :, it switches to some recording mode and stops responding to normal commands. It I hit # when not in insert mode, it put a bright yellow highlight on whatever word the cursor was over, which persists even after I exit vi and start it again, until I manually edit the config file to delete the highlight keyword. I'm sure there are easy ways out of both problems, and the many others I've encountered, if I memorized the help file rather than just skimming it a few times, but I'd rather not spend any more time than I need to with such a backward piece of sh^Hoftware. I only use vi for very minor edits, like changing a single value in a config file. For everything else, I use a real text editor.
Unfortunately, you'll have to install the newest version and type :help version-6.4 to learn what those fixes are, to learn why you just took the time to download, compile, and install a vim update.
The number and quality will just vary from one year to the next. It's like asking if there's a future for B-movies.
That's a very old comparison.
There are many many sources for satellite photos. If they have places they want censored, they can ask Google as the US government has done on a few occasion, and they'll probably blur or edit the location, but then terrorists, or more likely, anyone else interested in photos of those locations, can just get them from elsewhere.
VCR's aren't sold on a subscription basis.
How hard would it be to patent the rest of it in one fell swoop? Just attach a copy of the remaining human genome as a prototype and roughly describe what it does, in broad, overreaching terms because you don't understand it all yet. Leave it to the courts figure out what your patent really covers.
72 pin. Come to think of it, my 16mb SIMMs might be in a system I rebuilt a few weeks back. So I might have only 4 and 8mb SIMMs. And the "large pile" is probably only 6 or 8 SIMMs.
Then I'd feel comfortable discarding my large pile of 4-16mb SIMMs.
Thanks for solving one of my top gnome complaints.
No one who wants performance uses gcc?
It's still running. Things might be different if this article made it on the standard front page.
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I don't think this is going to work. I doubt adults will be willing to share their credit card numbers with Yahoo either.
Gaim is the best IM I've used on Windows or Linux. MSN messenger looks and behaves like a piece of crap. That I had to use the command line to disable it on Windows was bad enough.
Is anyone else looking at that webpage in Firefox on Linux with font smoothing enabled and set to "Best Contrast"? Their choice of font looks terrible. I'm not sure if it's an accident or if they're trying to make a point.
I only block Java, Flash, and popup ads, and limit the number of cycles for animated gifs. Advertisers can expect this much. If an ad is a popup, or it's flashing, or it slows my browser to a crawl, I make a mental note of the company behind the ad to avoid them in the future, and I never click them anyway (unless it says "Microsoft" and "Get the Facts"), so it's best that I just don't see them. I'm not an impulse buyer. Online I've bought a few computers and some web hosting, none of it influenced by advertising. Seeing a flashy online advertisement tells me that the product or service is of too poor quality to succeed by word of mouth, and that their website is too cheap to do well in search rankings. Reputable businesses have no interest in annoying types of advertisements.
On Slashdot, I pay the subscription fee to hide about half of the ads.
I'll see if they'll hire my cat as a stress relief therapist.
Several times every year, we hear of some company expecting to soon release a storage product that'll be orders of magnitude better than any existing technology, yet somehow they hardly do.
Sure they can. They own the copyright to at least the portions they developed. They can't prevent you from forking the GPL'd releases, but they can do with it as they please. As for code contributed from other authors, all they have to do is remove it or get permission. Some GPL project maintainers even require copyright assignment to accept patches from the community, giving them the ability to relicense the whole thing as they please without asking any other contributors.
Maybe he's saying they created an Office for the Mac, but now they're focused 100% on Windows. I think they're really focused 100% on profit and securing (locking in) future revenue.
Interesting followup:f lying_furniture/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/23/ballmers_
I suspect we'll be seeing Ballmer chair throwing posts for many years to come. It'll be immortalized in the Slashdot subculture.
If one of those movies were to make its way onto a P2P network, God forbid, the results would be disasterous...
I wonder if it would create any confusion if Sun started marketing Mozilla's Sunbird. It'd be nice to seem some fresh development on that project though.