Even less so when said "dialogues" looks like Windows ones;D
(Well, one would expect people would get a hint when it shakes around all over the screen, but no, must be real, better click it! It looks very important! Doesn't it?)
Hint: They want to sell their antivirus/-malware tools to Vista users aswell. (Hey, with the current market coverage by Vista that may add up to TENS of licenses!;))
I don't get your last part, but what whould happen if someone took the hexadecimal numbers, converted them to binary/trinary and then used just the same principle as in part 1 and 3? I'm to lazy to do it.
Probably nothing useful and probably already done by someone else but anyway:)
I must add that after posting that a small bit further down in the same thread I found information that Shivaji wasn't an imaginary person but a real one living 1627-1680 and considered a hero in India according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivaji
Just to get the facts straight. (And I'm willing to admit that Jesus as a person probably was real aswell, not as a son of god thought... And neither are god, regarding mohammed I don't know the story so I can't tell.) I just expected this Shivaji to be some sort of indian god.
I can see how behaving bad against an oldtime hero of the country don't make you popular, thought getting beaten with sticks are a little to much of a punishment for it. Some religous people probably think behaving bad against a godess are even worse, they are just wrong;)
In any case I think it's ok to bash all official characters, and most private ones aswell;D
I can't understand why Google helped them, it's not like it was a big deal. Just like all the bullshit because of those Mohammed pictures over here in scandinavia, I mean who gives a fuck? It's just an imaginary fictional character anyway. Personally I'd be willing to draw 50 Mohammeds or Shivajis eating their own shit for each complaint on them. (Or Jesus for all I care, or may I say it _YOUR MOM_ to whoever reads this:D)
Who cares, it's just a picture, feel free to answer with imageshack links of your drawings of me.
Intresting thing, never seen it before (seen gp32 and gp2x thought), I saw some photos of it with a laptop and what I think was the eeepc in the same image, sadly enough I can't find it again. I guess it may not be as useful for desktop stuff but it's waaaay smaller and probably more fun;)
Thought (I have a hard time admitting this) I would eventually go with PSP instead due to more new games (I have a DS..) Though this is open for real, got better resolution, is faster, got two SD-slots,..
KDE are way better than the UI in Windows and may be better than OS X ones aswell thought. I run OS X but could see myself use KDE. Especially with Amarok and Kopete.
I use Adium which is somewhat based on Pidgin and the slow MSN transfers do annoy me, but only because more or less everyone for some stupid reason use MSN. It works perfect with ICQ (and probably Jabber) and webcam and voip support for Jabber are so much cooler than fast file transfers over MSN.
With webcam and voip in Jabber there are very few reasons not to use Jabber, except noone else use it.
Yeah, I read this article on Osnews earlier I think and I didn't get stiff by the projects mentioned either. Maybe the Pidgin webcam/voip-part will work but except that meh.
And there are LOTS of work in LOTS of projects which will be done, so only 21 things are way to little. Just look thru the official list instead. http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
Btw, what a cool world it would be if we all paid together to get things done (tm) and then all could share the benefits and knowledge without patents and closed source... Knowledge, medicine and code available for everyone.
But I guess those kinds of ideas don't fit well with the communism hating americans of Slashdot:)
Not 100% related but one thing which I find weird with such things are how money from radio stations and such are distributed. Over here you pay a fee for being able to use all artists work, but how are that money distributed? Probably to the well known artists? But as a small artist / person who just makes some tunes, do you get any money? Probably not. Why not?
Similair in this case, people who produce commercial software may complain that they should get some kind of fee because others copies their work without paying, but what about the people who don't sell their software? Shouldn't they get some money aswell in that case?
It would be if you paid for them to make their work. Aslong as you don't it's up to them to do whatever they feel like, and if some guy wants to port parts of enlightenment to Windows it's in his own right, why the fuck should he care about where you would like him to spend his time?
So you mean that they patch issues in every open-source software they use as soon as they are found and don't wait until they have a bunch of issues and fix them all in one large update?
Because if you do we can't be running the same version of OS X..
But then if all they need/want is a botnet how much does it matter that they miss the *BSD-users, and Linux and Solaris aswell? They already cover a lot of computers.
Also they had intrest in it, they didn't expect to get the techniques for all of them, I guess, atleast not permanently.
Are you serious? "Protect"? Just how they protect it against terrorism, communism and religions?
Personally I feel fear out of this since I run OS X nowadays and Apple aren't the most security aware and patch decisive* company/group/.. around. And I don't want to computer owned by the american government thank you, and preferably noone else either.
The funny part with all Bush bashing is that it do make me wonder what kind of people would vote for a moron as president;)
But then I guess most partys and leaders and such gets their share of bashing no matter who they are, and Bush may be a moron extraordinaire so I guess it's appropriate and understandable.
Which is why people should just use http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/ live with it and stop complaining. Just wait until it updates and buy. Sure it sucks that Apple don't adjust prices, but there is nothing to do about it.
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Even less so when said "dialogues" looks like Windows ones ;D
(Well, one would expect people would get a hint when it shakes around all over the screen, but no, must be real, better click it! It looks very important! Doesn't it?)
Hint: They want to sell their antivirus/-malware tools to Vista users aswell. (Hey, with the current market coverage by Vista that may add up to TENS of licenses! ;))
I don't get your last part, but what whould happen if someone took the hexadecimal numbers, converted them to binary/trinary and then used just the same principle as in part 1 and 3? I'm to lazy to do it.
:)
Probably nothing useful and probably already done by someone else but anyway
But, you know, I'm not a citizen of Mumbai, India. And in this matter I'm happy that I'm not.
Yeah, but I see Jesus as some guy who made it into the history, but isn't divine in some sort at all ;)
I must add that after posting that a small bit further down in the same thread I found information that Shivaji wasn't an imaginary person but a real one living 1627-1680 and considered a hero in India according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivaji
;)
;D
Just to get the facts straight. (And I'm willing to admit that Jesus as a person probably was real aswell, not as a son of god thought... And neither are god, regarding mohammed I don't know the story so I can't tell.) I just expected this Shivaji to be some sort of indian god.
I can see how behaving bad against an oldtime hero of the country don't make you popular, thought getting beaten with sticks are a little to much of a punishment for it. Some religous people probably think behaving bad against a godess are even worse, they are just wrong
In any case I think it's ok to bash all official characters, and most private ones aswell
I can't understand why Google helped them, it's not like it was a big deal. Just like all the bullshit because of those Mohammed pictures over here in scandinavia, I mean who gives a fuck? It's just an imaginary fictional character anyway. Personally I'd be willing to draw 50 Mohammeds or Shivajis eating their own shit for each complaint on them. (Or Jesus for all I care, or may I say it _YOUR MOM_ to whoever reads this :D)
Who cares, it's just a picture, feel free to answer with imageshack links of your drawings of me.
Intresting thing, never seen it before (seen gp32 and gp2x thought), I saw some photos of it with a laptop and what I think was the eeepc in the same image, sadly enough I can't find it again. I guess it may not be as useful for desktop stuff but it's waaaay smaller and probably more fun ;)
..
Thought (I have a hard time admitting this) I would eventually go with PSP instead due to more new games (I have a DS..)
Though this is open for real, got better resolution, is faster, got two SD-slots,
KDE are way better than the UI in Windows and may be better than OS X ones aswell thought. I run OS X but could see myself use KDE. Especially with Amarok and Kopete.
+ one billion.
I use Adium which is somewhat based on Pidgin and the slow MSN transfers do annoy me, but only because more or less everyone for some stupid reason use MSN. It works perfect with ICQ (and probably Jabber) and webcam and voip support for Jabber are so much cooler than fast file transfers over MSN.
With webcam and voip in Jabber there are very few reasons not to use Jabber, except noone else use it.
Yeah, I read this article on Osnews earlier I think and I didn't get stiff by the projects mentioned either. Maybe the Pidgin webcam/voip-part will work but except that meh.
And there are LOTS of work in LOTS of projects which will be done, so only 21 things are way to little. Just look thru the official list instead.
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
Btw, what a cool world it would be if we all paid together to get things done (tm) and then all could share the benefits and knowledge without patents and closed source... Knowledge, medicine and code available for everyone.
:)
But I guess those kinds of ideas don't fit well with the communism hating americans of Slashdot
Not 100% related but one thing which I find weird with such things are how money from radio stations and such are distributed. Over here you pay a fee for being able to use all artists work, but how are that money distributed? Probably to the well known artists? But as a small artist / person who just makes some tunes, do you get any money? Probably not. Why not?
Similair in this case, people who produce commercial software may complain that they should get some kind of fee because others copies their work without paying, but what about the people who don't sell their software? Shouldn't they get some money aswell in that case?
It would be if you paid for them to make their work. Aslong as you don't it's up to them to do whatever they feel like, and if some guy wants to port parts of enlightenment to Windows it's in his own right, why the fuck should he care about where you would like him to spend his time?
Yeah, I searched for exercise to find this post, because what I wanted to say was:
:)
"but atleast they don't waste energy on exercises!"
Or well, most of them, some fat people do, and those are the worst kind of fat people! Obviously
There exist many jabber-only clients.
So you mean that they patch issues in every open-source software they use as soon as they are found and don't wait until they have a bunch of issues and fix them all in one large update?
..
Because if you do we can't be running the same version of OS X
So the chinese people better build a chinese network not connected to the Internet for their warplans, and then what?
(Of course people could leak information then, so isolated systems may be better, thought not bulletproof either, but no plans are.)
But then if all they need/want is a botnet how much does it matter that they miss the *BSD-users, and Linux and Solaris aswell? They already cover a lot of computers.
Also they had intrest in it, they didn't expect to get the techniques for all of them, I guess, atleast not permanently.
Both targets will probably be owned, so does it matter?
Are you serious? "Protect"? Just how they protect it against terrorism, communism and religions?
Personally I feel fear out of this since I run OS X nowadays and Apple aren't the most security aware and patch decisive* company/group/.. around. And I don't want to computer owned by the american government thank you, and preferably noone else either.
* (I tried to find some opposite to hesitate)
That don't change how Apple price their machines and adjust the prices over time.
You use abbreviations way to much, I started with looking up LEO:
LEO - Low Earth Orbit
But then I found MSL, "lunar pie-in-the-sky" and MER.
What does it all mean?
IANAAS.
The funny part with all Bush bashing is that it do make me wonder what kind of people would vote for a moron as president ;)
But then I guess most partys and leaders and such gets their share of bashing no matter who they are, and Bush may be a moron extraordinaire so I guess it's appropriate and understandable.
Which is why people should just use http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/ live with it and stop complaining. Just wait until it updates and buy. Sure it sucks that Apple don't adjust prices, but there is nothing to do about it.