"the new version really, really, sucks." ranks alongside such great arguments as "Your mum" and "Because I said so". That's probably why it was suggested that they read the licence.
I think that'll be the same situation you would be in if I borrowed your car, enaged in a few police chases and drove through a house before parking it outside your house, leaving you to take the blame. It's not going to be much fun and probably difficult for either of you to prove your innocence unless you have an alibi or amazing character references.
Nah, that's not trolling, it's stating a fact. I don't know what OS my mobile phone is running (Symbian I think) and that wasn't really a concern I had when I bought it. Most computer users are the same. They'll use whatever is pre-installed and they'll stick with that. The continuing popularity of Windows and IE are proof of that.
The problem here is that a lot of those distributions are obscure and aimed at very specific markets. The average user looking for Linux really doesn't have to search long to find a generic Linux/BSD distro that will suit their needs. I'd expect someone to do a little research anyway before they jump in to any significant software change.
If someone doesn't want to take 30 minutes to do some research, they should just go to their local computer store, hand over a bundle of cash and let the salesman pick things off the shelf for them until the cash is gone. I don't use Linux, I prefer the BSDs, but it took me less than 5 minutes to narrow it down to 3 choices.
Depends who you sell it to. Double-cross the wrong people and I reckon you'd be getting a beating from some nasty gentlemen. The criminals who bought the exploit might also be a bit violent.
Yeah, he was nothing like the way I expected him to be. The accent totally grated on me.
The film itself was entertaining enough and remarkably true to the book, but I prefer the book. Terry Pratchet is very good at describing characters, and if you have a half-decent imagination the description from the book is going to allow you to create an image of the character that'll be beyond anything a a film-maker could do.
Yeah, totally agree with that. I had read the book so I knew the story but the adverts did seem to give away a hell of a lot. The little "coming in the next installment" thing they did was pretty bad as well.
I can't recall off-hand, been a long time since I tried to use Hotmail. In hind-sight, it may have been unfair to include Hotmail since my biggest issue with them was the horribly complicated system for contacting their support people if you were not a Hotmail user. The site itself may well have worked but the experience with their support people left me with an axe to grind.
It's true that things have improved but until recently, the hotmail site was a sod to access if you weren't using IE on Windows. My local government web site had been IE (on Windows) only for years and they just fixed it about 2 months ago.
Embedded media has long been an issue. These days a lot of sites are using flash-based players rather than serving WMV files that can't be viewed on other platforms. That's a definite improvement.
Web sites are definitely going in the right direction. There is still a certain amount of MS lock-in regarding the use of features (and bugs) only present on Windows but most sites have fixed those. I credit Firefox with helping a great deal in opening up the web for people who don't use Windows.
Fonts are going to hold compatibility back for some time though. PDF embeds the necessary fonts which makes it a nice format for sending to others. It's not easy to edit them though and even if you could edit it, you can run in to font licencing issues.
I hope he joins wikipedia as a writer. Deaf people, with the aid of a speech synthesizer can finally understand what the whole goatse thing is all about.
Yeah, I suppose since people are willing to pay for gold and power-levelling, they are probably just as willing to buy a hardware device. I may have understimated the laziness of people.
You sound quite talented and definitely in a minority. In WoW anyway, most botters are just people who downloaded an app like Glider. If they had to go through the hassle of building hardware or ordering pre-made hardware, a lot will just give up.
Especially considering that HIV transmission is 100% preventable.
Well, it is if you follow the advice of the Catholic Church regarding sex. You'd probably also want to avoid going to countries where the screening of blood products is a bit ropey.
Yep, what you suggest is theoretically possible. It's just a case of getting everyone to agree on the standards but it'd be a long fight to do it.
Realistically, I think this is more likely to work for a specific project rather than the community as a whole. There are a lot of programming languages and it's unlikely one set of rules will suit them all. I think it's totally reasonable for an OSS project to require certain standards before they'll even consider the code. It'll separate the 'write and flight' coders from the ones who are interested in something a bit more long-term. Wikipedia's writing guidelines are a good example of a project trying to standardise submissions.
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"the new version really, really, sucks." ranks alongside such great arguments as "Your mum" and "Because I said so". That's probably why it was suggested that they read the licence.
I think that'll be the same situation you would be in if I borrowed your car, enaged in a few police chases and drove through a house before parking it outside your house, leaving you to take the blame. It's not going to be much fun and probably difficult for either of you to prove your innocence unless you have an alibi or amazing character references.
Nah, that's not trolling, it's stating a fact. I don't know what OS my mobile phone is running (Symbian I think) and that wasn't really a concern I had when I bought it. Most computer users are the same. They'll use whatever is pre-installed and they'll stick with that. The continuing popularity of Windows and IE are proof of that.
The problem here is that a lot of those distributions are obscure and aimed at very specific markets. The average user looking for Linux really doesn't have to search long to find a generic Linux/BSD distro that will suit their needs. I'd expect someone to do a little research anyway before they jump in to any significant software change.
http://www.linux.org/dist/
If someone doesn't want to take 30 minutes to do some research, they should just go to their local computer store, hand over a bundle of cash and let the salesman pick things off the shelf for them until the cash is gone. I don't use Linux, I prefer the BSDs, but it took me less than 5 minutes to narrow it down to 3 choices.
Depends who you sell it to. Double-cross the wrong people and I reckon you'd be getting a beating from some nasty gentlemen. The criminals who bought the exploit might also be a bit violent.
Yeah, he was nothing like the way I expected him to be. The accent totally grated on me.
The film itself was entertaining enough and remarkably true to the book, but I prefer the book. Terry Pratchet is very good at describing characters, and if you have a half-decent imagination the description from the book is going to allow you to create an image of the character that'll be beyond anything a a film-maker could do.
A gay wizard? That book signing in Kansas is going to be colourful.
Yeah, totally agree with that. I had read the book so I knew the story but the adverts did seem to give away a hell of a lot. The little "coming in the next installment" thing they did was pretty bad as well.
I can't recall off-hand, been a long time since I tried to use Hotmail. In hind-sight, it may have been unfair to include Hotmail since my biggest issue with them was the horribly complicated system for contacting their support people if you were not a Hotmail user. The site itself may well have worked but the experience with their support people left me with an axe to grind.
It's true that things have improved but until recently, the hotmail site was a sod to access if you weren't using IE on Windows. My local government web site had been IE (on Windows) only for years and they just fixed it about 2 months ago.
Embedded media has long been an issue. These days a lot of sites are using flash-based players rather than serving WMV files that can't be viewed on other platforms. That's a definite improvement.
A lot of work done, some fine-tuning left to do.
Web sites are definitely going in the right direction. There is still a certain amount of MS lock-in regarding the use of features (and bugs) only present on Windows but most sites have fixed those. I credit Firefox with helping a great deal in opening up the web for people who don't use Windows.
Fonts are going to hold compatibility back for some time though. PDF embeds the necessary fonts which makes it a nice format for sending to others. It's not easy to edit them though and even if you could edit it, you can run in to font licencing issues.
Ha ha, that is bloody priceless. Thanks, never knew the MP3s.
I miss the old fonts that had a line through the zero so you knew it was a numberal. Them Nordics had to come along though and spoil things.
You got me there. In my defence I was posting before 9am.
I hope he joins wikipedia as a writer. Deaf people, with the aid of a speech synthesizer can finally understand what the whole goatse thing is all about.
Well, 8-bit if you're comparing it to the obsolete hardware of the day - the Commodore 64 for example.
Mac OS was using 24-bit addressing (on the same family of processors as the Amiga) and Windows of the era was 16-bit if I remember correctly.
The Amiga was an amazing machine. I was still using mine until the late 90s.
You're technically correct, the best kind of correct.
Some of the GCC libraries are there, but the GCC package as a whole only comes when you install the developer tools.
A survey of the feelings of two people is certainly enough to convince me. Windows here I come!
Yeah, I suppose since people are willing to pay for gold and power-levelling, they are probably just as willing to buy a hardware device. I may have understimated the laziness of people.
You sound quite talented and definitely in a minority. In WoW anyway, most botters are just people who downloaded an app like Glider. If they had to go through the hassle of building hardware or ordering pre-made hardware, a lot will just give up.
Especially considering that HIV transmission is 100% preventable.
Well, it is if you follow the advice of the Catholic Church regarding sex. You'd probably also want to avoid going to countries where the screening of blood products is a bit ropey.
As long as they're not motivated by a violent religion or ideology. If they are then they'll take that goodwill and continue with business as usual.
Nothing to stop them except legal action and the possibility of losing the US as a market.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helms-Burton_Act
If I had to chose between trading with Cuba or the US, I'd need a very good reason to chose the former.
Yep, what you suggest is theoretically possible. It's just a case of getting everyone to agree on the standards but it'd be a long fight to do it.
Realistically, I think this is more likely to work for a specific project rather than the community as a whole. There are a lot of programming languages and it's unlikely one set of rules will suit them all. I think it's totally reasonable for an OSS project to require certain standards before they'll even consider the code. It'll separate the 'write and flight' coders from the ones who are interested in something a bit more long-term. Wikipedia's writing guidelines are a good example of a project trying to standardise submissions.