Touch a sore point? Look, let me ask you this: Doesn't this whole Slash story just prove exactly what the RIAA has been saying all along? Haven't Slashdotters been saying it isn't true? Does anyone see a bit of hipocracy here?
Seriously, though. Microsoft products only get good enough to kill the competition, and no better. And you don't have to be better than the competition to kill the competition.
So, you think it could be "better" than FF? As if anything could! It's not FOSS, how could it be "better"? It does not come with a GPL so how could it be "better"? It is written by non-open source C coders, so how could it ever be better?
As I understand it, Opera runs on more devices than any other browser.
So... you don't actually use Opera. I'm not suprised, I've been looking for actual Opera users for years. Not sure who they are, but I sure don't know any.
Just a thought (many dead bodies spinning in graves), what if IE7 is the Tit, the Jones, the Cake, the next best thing to drugs, and secure? Will it be a sign of the apocalypse?
Really. Which ones? More than any? Drugs. Are. Cool.
I have no problems with Opera tooting their horn, but people need to understand that Opera is not FOSS / Open Source / Next To God. They are a commercial product just like Microsoft, looking to tap into a market. There is nothing wrong with that, but they are not the Holy Open Source Application. Just a nice company. With a quirky funny web app.
Honestly, what is the point to making "challenges" to Microsoft to bring their browser into the fold of standards compatibility? This is not news. This is hype for Opera, a browser that is a commercial product looking for customers that are not there. Standards compatibility is something that all applications should look to meet, thanks Opera for telling me this nugget of wisdom.
Question: Is Opera looking for market? Basing your business model on selling a web browser is not going to make it. Note to Opera: Application Platform. Or die.
When I started working for my employer several years ago I signed an IP agreement that states anything I think while working for them is theirs, as well as anything I've ever thought in the past if it enters their building; dumb, but I needed a job.
It wasn't as if I was drunk and unaware of my actions, but the gentleman in a dark coat, by the name of Louis Cyphre, offered me a very sweet deal.. "Alas... how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise," he said to me, as he cracked open an egg.
As long as it does not bother you at all that you are providing statistical data that is being gathered for the explicit and expressed purpose of spamming you. If you have no problem with that, ROCK ON!
I think that people and companies should not use Microsoft's product, Windows, because it is not secure enough, has scalability problems and could [has] fork[ed] into many different flavours.
It's a keyword matching system, that's it, that's all. Yes, they do targetted marketing [based on the content of your email]...
So, in other words, they "troll" through your email...
And, keep in mind, what a For Profit Corporation does today, and why they tell you they do it, may change over time as they realize that as a publically traded company, what counts is the finantials.
And this applies to Google and Gmail as well. Google trolls your email to "serve" you adverts. Of course, Google is a Slashdot Love Child, so it's kind of OK, sort of winked at. But Microsoft, on the other hand... Pure Evil for something that is half as half baked as the Google deal. Ah, Slashdot.... Full of hypocrisy.
How is this any different than Google trolling through your email? Oh, it's not quite as bad, but since it's Microsoft, it's Pure Evil? And of course since Google is our Love Child, it's OK for them to do something that in reality is twice as offensive? Ah Slashdot....
Perhaps I should start a pool as to when/. posts the article about a person who was arrested for interfering in an investigation and tampering with police property?
If it isn't marked, who's to know who it belongs to or who installed it? We can make educated assumptions, but unless it says "Property of XYZ Police Department", who knows? And even than, it's in your car, without your permission, what the hell do you know why it's there?
But, I think this post is a load of shit from someone who wants to see some data on a stolen drive that has nothing to do with any "investigation", and probibly came from a stolen laptop owned by the company this person works for.
There is not much problem running both PHP4x and PHP5 on the same server. My host did it with v.3 to v.4 and is doing it with v.4 and v.5. Just a matter of the document extension...
Just ask that guy in the inner-inner office at work how much outside light he gets.
They don't allow us to talk to him or even look at him directly. Although, I do toss in some raw meat an a cold Mt. Dew now and than just to keep the noise level down.
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Touch a sore point? Look, let me ask you this: Doesn't this whole Slash story just prove exactly what the RIAA has been saying all along? Haven't Slashdotters been saying it isn't true? Does anyone see a bit of hipocracy here?
Hi, I'm 15.
So, you think it could be "better" than FF? As if anything could! It's not FOSS, how could it be "better"? It does not come with a GPL so how could it be "better"? It is written by non-open source C coders, so how could it ever be better?
Ouch! Three fucking paragraphs! Life? Do you have one?
So... you don't actually use Opera. I'm not suprised, I've been looking for actual Opera users for years. Not sure who they are, but I sure don't know any.
Just a thought (many dead bodies spinning in graves), what if IE7 is the Tit, the Jones, the Cake, the next best thing to drugs, and secure? Will it be a sign of the apocalypse?
I have no problems with Opera tooting their horn, but people need to understand that Opera is not FOSS / Open Source / Next To God. They are a commercial product just like Microsoft, looking to tap into a market. There is nothing wrong with that, but they are not the Holy Open Source Application. Just a nice company. With a quirky funny web app.
Question: Is Opera looking for market? Basing your business model on selling a web browser is not going to make it. Note to Opera: Application Platform. Or die.
It wasn't as if I was drunk and unaware of my actions, but the gentleman in a dark coat, by the name of Louis Cyphre, offered me a very sweet deal.. "Alas... how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise," he said to me, as he cracked open an egg.
As long as it does not bother you at all that you are providing statistical data that is being gathered for the explicit and expressed purpose of spamming you. If you have no problem with that, ROCK ON!
I think that people and companies should not use Microsoft's product, Windows, because it is not secure enough, has scalability problems and could [has] fork[ed] into many different flavours.
But what all Slashdotters want to know is: What does Roland Pickapoo think about this?
So, in other words, they "troll" through your email...
And, keep in mind, what a For Profit Corporation does today, and why they tell you they do it, may change over time as they realize that as a publically traded company, what counts is the finantials.
Very good! +3 Funny.
And this applies to Google and Gmail as well. Google trolls your email to "serve" you adverts. Of course, Google is a Slashdot Love Child, so it's kind of OK, sort of winked at. But Microsoft, on the other hand... Pure Evil for something that is half as half baked as the Google deal. Ah, Slashdot.... Full of hypocrisy.
How is this any different than Google trolling through your email? Oh, it's not quite as bad, but since it's Microsoft, it's Pure Evil? And of course since Google is our Love Child, it's OK for them to do something that in reality is twice as offensive? Ah Slashdot....
If it isn't marked, who's to know who it belongs to or who installed it? We can make educated assumptions, but unless it says "Property of XYZ Police Department", who knows? And even than, it's in your car, without your permission, what the hell do you know why it's there?
But, I think this post is a load of shit from someone who wants to see some data on a stolen drive that has nothing to do with any "investigation", and probibly came from a stolen laptop owned by the company this person works for.
Well, they are looking for (and will likely succeed in building) a FF killer. Doesn't look good...
There is not much problem running both PHP4x and PHP5 on the same server. My host did it with v.3 to v.4 and is doing it with v.4 and v.5. Just a matter of the document extension...
Yet another person who should just come out and be honest about being a Perl whore.
http://www.busybox.net/shame.html
http://www.kiss-technology.com/
Before you open your trap, open your ears and eyes.
Which begs the question, why are IP rights a Homeland Security issue?
But what we REALLY should be asking is why IE Bloatware sucks less memory than Firefox. Needs a fix, guys.
They don't allow us to talk to him or even look at him directly. Although, I do toss in some raw meat an a cold Mt. Dew now and than just to keep the noise level down.
Windows don't have the "bling bling" factor.