However, a drawback to reading everything on screen (I suspect this will mostly be the case, although you could of course print) is worse for your eyes than reading the dead tree versions.
At least one should take preventative measures, like looking out the window, and focusing on a far-away object for approx. 30 seconds, every half hour or so. Hope they get educated on that, too.
For the record, I've just started using glasses a year ago, and I suspect staring at the screen too much for too long without doing the above (google for more things you should do).
It is really odd that Gnome opted for Epiphany as a default browser in 2.x, when Galeon is a better and more featureful choice. I've read that the reasons were that Galeon did not follow some UI guidelines (this could surely be worked out?), and that Epiphany is simpler to use.
I just find it hard to believe than anyone would pick Epiphany over Galeon, even considering simplicity, since Galeon mostly works like Mozilla. Galeon seems simpler to use to me - Epiphany doesn't look or feel like any other browser I've used.
You can find the decision by the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit at:
Kremen, et al. v. Online Classifieds Inc., et al. (pdf warning)
You don't really have to give a "pdf warning". PDF is an open format, with free-as-in-rms viewers.
So if I write an open source virus or trojan it's basically ethical? hell i'll even GPL it (or LGPL should someone want to make a closed source version of it). You are missing a huge piece of the puzzle here - that is that 90% of Windows Users are not going to bother looking at the source first. Do you look at the source for everything you run? I doubt it, but if you do, my hat is off to you for it (and you apparently have no life other than computers or you don't run many applications).
Well, the purpose of a virus/worm/trojan is basically defeated once the source is open, since the purpose of those kinds of programs is to do something covert. And you cannot really be covert when the code is open, now can you?
Ballmer said governments that abandon Microsoft are more interested in making a political statement than using the best and most affordable software.
Damn right!
Heh...apparently it comes as a total shock for Ballmer that not everyone is all about the almighty dollar (or euro or whatever). Yes, Munich did this to save money in the short term, but in the long term it is also politics. I just hope it works out for Munich, then hopefully more cities and goverments will follow.
That language is even more vendor-tied than Java, and it's already bad enough there.
Agreed. Java is very proprietary, and no decent free version of it exists, since some of the internals are undocumented. This is the reason I no longer code in Java, although I love some things about language (interfaces, for instance, and the API is generally documented very good).
How is the situation with C#, can you use this in a free-as-in-rms environment?
Note that Denmark is one of the happiest countries in the world despite having a substantially lower "standard of living" than the US.
Are you sure about that? I'm Danish, and AFAIK, Denmark is one of the richest contries in the world.
Regarding being a happy country, this doesn't really surprise me, since we have some desirable things, which USA lacks - great social security, for instance.
I say sadly, because I wish television wasn't so dumbed down. It really saddens me to think that 99 % (number pulled out of my ass) of other people rely on the evening news as their primary, reliable news source.
TV news could be so good. It has some advantages over the Web still. Instead it is so truly fucked up. In Denmark, at least, and I suspect other contries too.
Slashdot Mirror
And why should it? Only Klingons code in Perl.
Sounds very nice, and a great idea.
However, a drawback to reading everything on screen (I suspect this will mostly be the case, although you could of course print) is worse for your eyes than reading the dead tree versions.
At least one should take preventative measures, like looking out the window, and focusing on a far-away object for approx. 30 seconds, every half hour or so. Hope they get educated on that, too.
For the record, I've just started using glasses a year ago, and I suspect staring at the screen too much for too long without doing the above (google for more things you should do).
It is really odd that Gnome opted for Epiphany as a default browser in 2.x, when Galeon is a better and more featureful choice. I've read that the reasons were that Galeon did not follow some UI guidelines (this could surely be worked out?), and that Epiphany is simpler to use.
I just find it hard to believe than anyone would pick Epiphany over Galeon, even considering simplicity, since Galeon mostly works like Mozilla. Galeon seems simpler to use to me - Epiphany doesn't look or feel like any other browser I've used.
1990: The SNES was out, Bush was president, the US was at war with Iraq and the economy sucked.
2004: The SNES emulator is out, Bush is trying to emulate the old Bush, the US is at war with a modded Iraq and the economy sucks.
Ratpoison.
Or you could just buy a cat.
What is it with these silly "pdf warnings"?
.pdf right there.
It is an open format, with rms-free viewers. And for the opening of an external app, can people not look at the link? It says
You don't really have to give a "pdf warning". PDF is an open format, with free-as-in-rms viewers.
M-x doctor is all you need.
Emacs wins again.
Can it be true?
Yes.
Is it?
Probably not. I have no respect for unsubstantiated Hollywood rumors. Please provide some factual evidence before posting stupid rumors like that.
Well, the purpose of a virus/worm/trojan is basically defeated once the source is open, since the purpose of those kinds of programs is to do something covert. And you cannot really be covert when the code is open, now can you?
So it does not matter to you that he is right?
How very exiting!
A website offline for a few hours, then back up again. Website owner confirms that it was a trivial problem.
How on earth is this Slashdot front page material? Because it was Microsoft's site? Pathetic.
Damn right!
Heh...apparently it comes as a total shock for Ballmer that not everyone is all about the almighty dollar (or euro or whatever). Yes, Munich did this to save money in the short term, but in the long term it is also politics. I just hope it works out for Munich, then hopefully more cities and goverments will follow.
Why would anyone make fun of Linus naked?
I mean, he's just so HOT!!
OMG!!1, gotta go now!
Whatever happened to the free sharing of ideas?
Why is it that most people think that noone would want to work on anything without being paid tons of money?
Patent and copyright law are essentialy just manifestations of these sad, capitalistic ideas driving most of the western world.
I would rather say that George W. Bush sues Bin Laden for xenophobia patent infringement, but Bin Laden can point to Hitler to prove prior art.
How to get a hardon
And since we've got that covered, the followup:
Tom's networking guide:
How to get laid
In Soviet Russia robots blow YOUR whistle!
Agreed. Java is very proprietary, and no decent free version of it exists, since some of the internals are undocumented. This is the reason I no longer code in Java, although I love some things about language (interfaces, for instance, and the API is generally documented very good).
How is the situation with C#, can you use this in a free-as-in-rms environment?
Are you sure about that? I'm Danish, and AFAIK, Denmark is one of the richest contries in the world.
Regarding being a happy country, this doesn't really surprise me, since we have some desirable things, which USA lacks - great social security, for instance.
Except that Sourceforge keeps their code secret. You should use savannah.gnu.org instead, which was born because SF closed their source.
Google around for more info.
I say sadly, because I wish television wasn't so dumbed down. It really saddens me to think that 99 % (number pulled out of my ass) of other people rely on the evening news as their primary, reliable news source.
TV news could be so good. It has some advantages over the Web still. Instead it is so truly fucked up. In Denmark, at least, and I suspect other contries too.
I, for one, welcome our new head hunting, collecting and shrinking overlords!
I, for one, welcome our new standardized spider overlords.
IANAPD (I am not a Perl Developer), but why do you need 900 pages to explain an Apache module?
Surely, if you'd read the Camel Book and some tutorials/references on the Apache site, you'd be covered?