Heh. Young 'un. The first game I ever completed was Never Ending Story, which I played to death on my ZX Spectrum+ (48K) [basically a Spectrum in a proper case with hard keys], and had to load it from audio cassette from the start every time I had to play some more of it.
The day I finished the game the cassette broke and wouldn't ever load again. Irritating? You betcha.
Firebird has a minimum font size setting in the options.
I haven't seen it in other browsers because to be honest I don't like any others, I was IE until I went to Firebird as default.
You're missing a small yet incredibly important point.
If WindowsUpdate puts this into the next service pack, Granny S. Public and her family full of Locked-In sheep will have this technology running and will be able to filter out 90% of spam.
If 90% of Windows boxen won't accept spam, what point is there in sending it?
A spammer sends a million emails a day, he gets 4 replies, 1 purchase.
Do the math. Spam that doesn't get opened doesn't get read and doesn't get clicked.
Wouldn't it be more in the spirit of/. to suggest that we edumacate the young in the ways of FOSS like OpenOffice at the earliest opportunity, rather than locking them into the Windows/Office cycle?
I mentio this because I built a PC for my 7 year old kid this Xmas and it dual boots SuSE 9 and XP, with games a plenty for both, shared Data partition and OpenOffice installed instead of Office.
I'm hoping that he starts hacking up the Linux install and finding out what a command line is before he learns about the registry, but its in his hands from here on, its for him to decide which OS he boots.
Microsoft will slam him/her with a lawsuit and it will be another HUGE PR fiasco for free software
There are two solutions to this, you can try either or both. PR is meaningless to some.
Stop reading the news and letting the media do your thinking for you.
If you read the news, read it carefully and don't believe everything they tell you without checking the facts.
I go for number one, and I form my opinions based on what/. tells me to do while I'm sleeping.
If you are a man of means, wobble down to PC World (I'm in the UK, you might try Wal-Mart I guess) and spend the 30 needed for SuSE 9.0. If you aren't, these things are freely downloadable from many places on the internet.
What do you have to lose?
Surely you can see many benefits of opening your world just a little to admit something that *might* change it for the better, or at least give you a better understanding of the minds of others?
Any surveys that say that any of those areas are "very important", are immediately assumed to be from zealots, and there answers are given less credence if not ignored completely
I would imagine that the entire form is run through a number cruncher and tested on consistency and flagged up with a probability of truthfulness score before it is put into any kind of usable format.
Participating in this 'survey' will assure your perpetual receipt of a flood of pro-MS propoganda.
Hence giving them a hotmail email address. Let the monkey be on its own back for a while.
The survey asked:
"What two things would you suggest to make MS better?"
I said: Open the source Bill, let us see your dirty secrets.
Stop writing constitutional violations into EULAs.
The survey asked:
"What two things would you suggest to make Linux better?"
I said: Stop trying to compete with MSFT.
Stop fighting over KDE/Gnome.
Not quite accurate anymore. here in Europe where dialup is metered, and broadband isn't
Unmetered dialup has been the norm for 5 years now, anyone who charges by-the-minute is in a minority, or offers it alongside their primary ISP payment program.
Surely it would be better for all people on the planet if cheap, crap, untargeted advertising was proven to be ineffective and all businesses that develop sub standard advertising techniques were to flop without mercy?
Since when did business care in the least about writing off a few hundred thousand dollars? This could be a tax writeoff for all we know.
That Senator Hatch bastard could do with a good dose of syphilis or something equally nice.
Scuse me, but whenever I talk about killing prominent political figures over non-encrypted channels I like to mention words like terrorism, echelon, cocaine and nuclear.
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It's the first game that I've ever finished
Heh. Young 'un. The first game I ever completed was Never Ending Story, which I played to death on my ZX Spectrum+ (48K) [basically a Spectrum in a proper case with hard keys], and had to load it from audio cassette from the start every time I had to play some more of it.
The day I finished the game the cassette broke and wouldn't ever load again. Irritating? You betcha.
Why am I bothering to reply to an AC? Because I only just finished off my mod points and I didn't set to +2 yet.
Why don't you guys log in? I would have modded this up and you would have Karma for it. *sigh*
Firebird has a minimum font size setting in the options.
I haven't seen it in other browsers because to be honest I don't like any others, I was IE until I went to Firebird as default.
You're missing a small yet incredibly important point.
If WindowsUpdate puts this into the next service pack, Granny S. Public and her family full of Locked-In sheep will have this technology running and will be able to filter out 90% of spam.
If 90% of Windows boxen won't accept spam, what point is there in sending it?
A spammer sends a million emails a day, he gets 4 replies, 1 purchase.
Do the math. Spam that doesn't get opened doesn't get read and doesn't get clicked.
Think "Fight Club" and see how far out of your block you can send mangled burning pieces of computer with a good old fashioned gas explosion...
Good insurance is expensive to come by, lets keep it that way.
(and for schools I would suggest ms office)
/. to suggest that we edumacate the young in the ways of FOSS like OpenOffice at the earliest opportunity, rather than locking them into the Windows/Office cycle?
Wouldn't it be more in the spirit of
I mentio this because I built a PC for my 7 year old kid this Xmas and it dual boots SuSE 9 and XP, with games a plenty for both, shared Data partition and OpenOffice installed instead of Office.
I'm hoping that he starts hacking up the Linux install and finding out what a command line is before he learns about the registry, but its in his hands from here on, its for him to decide which OS he boots.
Sorry for the misunderstanding, I hope you have a long and happy relationship with all your operating systems =)
Microsoft will slam him/her with a lawsuit and it will be another HUGE PR fiasco for free software
/. tells me to do while I'm sleeping.
There are two solutions to this, you can try either or both. PR is meaningless to some.
Stop reading the news and letting the media do your thinking for you.
If you read the news, read it carefully and don't believe everything they tell you without checking the facts.
I go for number one, and I form my opinions based on what
The MSFT butterfly requires 4 colors to draw, the penguin only 3.
Linux is efficiency at work.
The Hacker emblem needs two colors, therefore hacking is the wave of the future.
www.codeweavers.com
Crossover office. Free MSFT Office running under WINE.
NT
Please?
If you are a man of means, wobble down to PC World (I'm in the UK, you might try Wal-Mart I guess) and spend the 30 needed for SuSE 9.0. If you aren't, these things are freely downloadable from many places on the internet.
What do you have to lose?
Surely you can see many benefits of opening your world just a little to admit something that *might* change it for the better, or at least give you a better understanding of the minds of others?
Never attribute to malice that which ...
You know the quote =)
What about Firebird too?
This could actually be the browser that topples IE, and there is no mention of it.
Any surveys that say that any of those areas are "very important", are immediately assumed to be from zealots, and there answers are given less credence if not ignored completely
I would imagine that the entire form is run through a number cruncher and tested on consistency and flagged up with a probability of truthfulness score before it is put into any kind of usable format.
Consider this an MBTI for the computer user.
Participating in this 'survey' will assure your perpetual receipt of a flood of pro-MS propoganda.
Hence giving them a hotmail email address. Let the monkey be on its own back for a while.
The survey asked:
"What two things would you suggest to make MS better?"
I said:
Open the source Bill, let us see your dirty secrets.
Stop writing constitutional violations into EULAs.
The survey asked:
"What two things would you suggest to make Linux better?"
I said:
Stop trying to compete with MSFT.
Stop fighting over KDE/Gnome.
Unless you use hotmail for some bizarre reason, block MSN.COM in your firewall, or HOSTS it to 127.0.0.1
...
It isn't rocket science, but if only we coudl get the lusers to do it
Nice sig. ...
Reminds me of another I saw recently
I feel that in the digital age when muscle and ink are no longer required to name a thing, names of one word are too common to be unique.
.sigs are hellishly descriptive and give an insight into the person who uses them.
The obvious solution is to use numbers, but thats way too big brother.
Longer names seems to be the way to go. Quotes and
This is /. after all, we all hate MSFT, even when they are being the good guys.
Right?
Not quite accurate anymore.
here in Europe where dialup is metered, and broadband isn't
Unmetered dialup has been the norm for 5 years now, anyone who charges by-the-minute is in a minority, or offers it alongside their primary ISP payment program.
Alternatively you could have a dual monitor set up and one monitor is attached to /dev/null
To be fair, who cares if it works or not?
Surely it would be better for all people on the planet if cheap, crap, untargeted advertising was proven to be ineffective and all businesses that develop sub standard advertising techniques were to flop without mercy?
Since when did business care in the least about writing off a few hundred thousand dollars? This could be a tax writeoff for all we know.
If you invoke the name of Senior Computer Twissel, *I* will know what you're talking about, would anyone else?
That Senator Hatch bastard could do with a good dose of syphilis or something equally nice.
Scuse me, but whenever I talk about killing prominent political figures over non-encrypted channels I like to mention words like terrorism, echelon, cocaine and nuclear.