Spell checking, popup blocking, session management, RSS reader, phishing detection... Yes, most users would like them, that's why they'd be shipped with the base install, just like Talkback and the DOM Inspector.
I don't like Firefox for its features, I like it because it's a development platform based around a browser. Firefox' lifeblood is its extensibility. Actually, if the folks over at Mozilla would focus on that I'd be happy about stuff like spell cheking being added - as default-shipped extensions. Bang, we have a browser that does everything, but if you don't like a particular feature you can throw it out. Much better than having to put up with thirty features you don't need.
Daft Punk did this with Discovery. You got a "membership card" that contained an access code for their "Daft Club" website containing a lot of remixes of songs from the album. Of course they still required you to install some silly Win-only program the purpose of which I never found out (as the files on the site were unprotected MP3s), but it was a nice gesture.
Later they opened the site to everyone, which was much better. But buyers of the album got there first (provided they were Win users and didn't mind installing random crap on their machines).
The problem is that Spider-Man 3 is a computer-generated extravaganza. B-Movies don't fit into that category. The fact that most computer-generated extravaganzas have scripts and acting better suited for B- or Z-movies doesn't mean that they aren't hellishly expensive computer-generated extravaganzas.
Seriously, they could make a computer-generated extravaganza about a magical turd hopping around Cleveland and people would pay to see it just because it's a computer-generated extravaganza with an advertising budget bigger than Poland's GNP.
Yes, part of that post was to say "computer-generated extravaganza" as often as possible. But the point still holds.
No, we abandon the internet and move all noncorporate websites to Freenet because an internet that doesn't fully anonymize all participants no longer fulfils its mission of free information exchange.
Let's face it, information wants to be free, but the corps don't want it to. Unfortunately, since the corps pretty much run the game, unlicensed sharing of information will become more and more illegal.
Think on a bigger scale. If six billion people each have one thousand bright LEDs on that's 300 Terawatts! That's enough power to drive a really huge railgun! If we burned all LEDs this instant we'd solve global warming, war and P=NP.
And bling, ha, one word beryl, Mac aint got shit on us. We're the beast in this mother fucker.
I really like these two sentences, especially "we're the beast in this mother fucker".
Curious wording aside, I agree that Linux gaming might have a big comeback - after all, thanks to Vista's new driver model Creative will have to pipe EAX through OpenAL, which should give OAL more popularity among Windows game devs, making the games a bit more portable.
Let's take a look at Aspyr. They do pretty much exactly what Loki did, just for Mac OS. The Mac gaming market isn't that big, but Aspyr has been doing business just fine (and doing AAA titles no less). Granted, the Linux market is more diverse and more difficult to serve, but still there's no reason why it shouldn't work.
Maybe someone will get capital to start a second Loki.
I have a Mighty Mouse, so no microsoft there either, but at one point I had a Microsoft AP/router that almost didn't suck. Okay, I bricked it when I tried to reflash the firmware with something better (which required me to build my own serialJTAG cable) and it only worked well when you used Microsoft's weird config tool (which didn't work that well either)... But in theory it was worth its money. When I bought it on eBay. Used.
This decision may become even a new theme for the comic books (manga) that they read on their way to work, so the people will learn quickly about the new status quo.
Great. It'll be the OS-tan version of (Infinite) Crisis on (Infinite Worlds|the Civil War|Marvel).
I can aleady see it - The four well-known MacOS-tans (OS 9, Panther, Tiger, Leopard) team up with the eleven well-known Linux-tans (Fedora, RHEL, SUSE, Slackware, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Knoppix, Arch, Debian, Mandriva, Linspire) and engage in bloody warfare (involving random sex) against the Windows-tans. Written by Toshio Maeda (thus the random sex).
Scientologists believe humans are tainted by the remnants of aliens' souls who were dumped on Earth and blown up with nuclear bombs.
Kinda puts the whole thing in perspective, doesn't it? I'd be screaming, too.
Hey, add an old Amerind curse and you get the plot of a really bad "horror" movie I've seen once... (Seriously, the movie had an Indian curse, aliens and the Trinity test site all near one invisible desert town. No, it didn't bother to tie the stuff together or explain anything.)
I mean, for Christ's sake, people. Is there a limit to how ridiculous you can get?
Some people would argue that the concept of an invisible, undetectible humanoid creating the planet in six days and his never-conceived son being both dead and immortal quite bizarre. Religion has this weird property where it's all about being unverifiable. Thus, Pastafarianism as an equally probably alternative to creationism/ID.
I agree that Scientology does follow some rather silly ideas, but what do you expect from a religion started by a science fiction author as a get-rich-quick scheme?
Before anyone comments on "YUO ATHIEST HAVE NO IDEA HEATHEN!!11DIE IN HEL", I'd like to point out that I'm an agnostic (Protestant Christian on paper) and try not to make assumptions on whether someone's concept of an undetectable overbeing is real or not.
And being attacked for criticizing Scientology is something that could have happened to you. For, let's say, talking bad about those Sons-of-a-Bitch here on Slashdot.
We take offense to that and will fight that accusation. There was clearly more than one bitch involved in the making of our members.
2007 is *the* year, I don't care what anyone else thinks--I know this to be true because this is the first year I've actually got friends to honestly convert over to free software/OSS software.
Unfortunately, that's not because of FOSS' strengths but because some people will install _anything_ to get rid of Vista and its user interface. My girlfriend wanted Linux, simply because it didn't come with Aero (in the end we more or less settled on outfitting her with Win2k, although we reserve dualbooting as a future option).
Windows Vista: The operating system that made desktop Linux attractive.
Even much of the Fortune 500 has been investing significantly into Linux (such as the corporation I work for, which is one of the larger global financial companies).
Interesting. If many F500 corps have invested in FOSS and IBM decides to contest Microsoft's claims they might end up with a larger war chest than anticipated. IBM alone is a fearsome legal enemy, but IBM backed by Citigroup and BofA should be capable of defeating anyone by dragging out the case indefinitely and waiting for the opponent to either die or lose interest.
It was already stated that Microsoft uses a good number of IBM-patented things. Currently they seem to have some sort of agreement (such as a blanket license), but if Microsoft really starts bullying IBM customers IBM might pull out the blanket agreement (if they can) and start bullying Microsoft (or its customers, depending on what's possible). IBM might be able to undo "Noboy Ever Got Fired For Buying Microsoft" and that's bad PR on a scale even Microsoft should fear.
I'd like to see IBM lean on Microsoft and point out that patent warfare is a multiplayer game. If Microsoft isn't out to raise the bar on corporate stupidity that should silence them quite fast.
By the way, notice something? Who just entered a patent agreement with Microsoft and thus can't participate in this fight? Right, Novell. For some reason I like that corp less and less...
1.) You have to do a presentation.
2.) The data you're supposed to turn into one sits on Google's servers.
3.) Google is down. You can't access your spreadsheet.
4.) Well, so you just download the backups and grep out the relevant numbers. Just access your Google Mail storage and--
5.)...
6.) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
Online apps, maybe. Online backups, maybe. But please not both on the same server if the backups are of the very data the online apps produce. It's usually a good idea to avoid single points of failure.
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Spell checking, popup blocking, session management, RSS reader, phishing detection... Yes, most users would like them, that's why they'd be shipped with the base install, just like Talkback and the DOM Inspector.
I don't like Firefox for its features, I like it because it's a development platform based around a browser. Firefox' lifeblood is its extensibility. Actually, if the folks over at Mozilla would focus on that I'd be happy about stuff like spell cheking being added - as default-shipped extensions. Bang, we have a browser that does everything, but if you don't like a particular feature you can throw it out. Much better than having to put up with thirty features you don't need.
Daft Punk did this with Discovery. You got a "membership card" that contained an access code for their "Daft Club" website containing a lot of remixes of songs from the album. Of course they still required you to install some silly Win-only program the purpose of which I never found out (as the files on the site were unprotected MP3s), but it was a nice gesture.
Later they opened the site to everyone, which was much better. But buyers of the album got there first (provided they were Win users and didn't mind installing random crap on their machines).
After having gone to bed the night before drunken and bi-curious?
That would explain how boy group careers always appear to pop up over night and pop down shortly after.
The problem is that Spider-Man 3 is a computer-generated extravaganza. B-Movies don't fit into that category. The fact that most computer-generated extravaganzas have scripts and acting better suited for B- or Z-movies doesn't mean that they aren't hellishly expensive computer-generated extravaganzas.
Seriously, they could make a computer-generated extravaganza about a magical turd hopping around Cleveland and people would pay to see it just because it's a computer-generated extravaganza with an advertising budget bigger than Poland's GNP.
Yes, part of that post was to say "computer-generated extravaganza" as often as possible. But the point still holds.
Upside of everything old being new: Lifelong employment will come back.
Downside of everything old being new: Wham! will come back.
I'm pretty sure I prefer to live in the future, not the past...
No, we abandon the internet and move all noncorporate websites to Freenet because an internet that doesn't fully anonymize all participants no longer fulfils its mission of free information exchange.
Let's face it, information wants to be free, but the corps don't want it to. Unfortunately, since the corps pretty much run the game, unlicensed sharing of information will become more and more illegal.
Thank you, now I'm going to be stuck with the Picard song for the rest of the day. Real great.
You don't understand. He'll still know the lights are on, even if he can't see them. It causes him stress. Things aren't the way he wants them.
Sounds like the kind of person who solves difficult murder cases, provided that his assistant doesn't run out of moist towelettes.
Think on a bigger scale. If six billion people each have one thousand bright LEDs on that's 300 Terawatts! That's enough power to drive a really huge railgun! If we burned all LEDs this instant we'd solve global warming, war and P=NP.
And bling, ha, one word beryl, Mac aint got shit on us. We're the beast in this mother fucker.
I really like these two sentences, especially "we're the beast in this mother fucker".
Curious wording aside, I agree that Linux gaming might have a big comeback - after all, thanks to Vista's new driver model Creative will have to pipe EAX through OpenAL, which should give OAL more popularity among Windows game devs, making the games a bit more portable.
Let's take a look at Aspyr. They do pretty much exactly what Loki did, just for Mac OS. The Mac gaming market isn't that big, but Aspyr has been doing business just fine (and doing AAA titles no less). Granted, the Linux market is more diverse and more difficult to serve, but still there's no reason why it shouldn't work.
Maybe someone will get capital to start a second Loki.
I have a Mighty Mouse, so no microsoft there either, but at one point I had a Microsoft AP/router that almost didn't suck. Okay, I bricked it when I tried to reflash the firmware with something better (which required me to build my own serialJTAG cable) and it only worked well when you used Microsoft's weird config tool (which didn't work that well either)... But in theory it was worth its money. When I bought it on eBay. Used.
They can still do like Sun and call their version of GNOME "Japan Ruby Desktop".
This decision may become even a new theme for the comic books (manga) that they read on their way to work, so the people will learn quickly about the new status quo.
Great. It'll be the OS-tan version of (Infinite) Crisis on (Infinite Worlds|the Civil War|Marvel).
I can aleady see it - The four well-known MacOS-tans (OS 9, Panther, Tiger, Leopard) team up with the eleven well-known Linux-tans (Fedora, RHEL, SUSE, Slackware, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Knoppix, Arch, Debian, Mandriva, Linspire) and engage in bloody warfare (involving random sex) against the Windows-tans. Written by Toshio Maeda (thus the random sex).
Hey, add an old Amerind curse and you get the plot of a really bad "horror" movie I've seen once... (Seriously, the movie had an Indian curse, aliens and the Trinity test site all near one invisible desert town. No, it didn't bother to tie the stuff together or explain anything.)
I mean, for Christ's sake, people. Is there a limit to how ridiculous you can get?
Some people would argue that the concept of an invisible, undetectible humanoid creating the planet in six days and his never-conceived son being both dead and immortal quite bizarre. Religion has this weird property where it's all about being unverifiable. Thus, Pastafarianism as an equally probably alternative to creationism/ID.
I agree that Scientology does follow some rather silly ideas, but what do you expect from a religion started by a science fiction author as a get-rich-quick scheme?
Before anyone comments on "YUO ATHIEST HAVE NO IDEA HEATHEN!!11DIE IN HEL", I'd like to point out that I'm an agnostic (Protestant Christian on paper) and try not to make assumptions on whether someone's concept of an undetectable overbeing is real or not.
And being attacked for criticizing Scientology is something that could have happened to you. For, let's say, talking bad about those Sons-of-a-Bitch here on Slashdot.
We take offense to that and will fight that accusation. There was clearly more than one bitch involved in the making of our members.
See you in court.
Sincerely,
Scientology
2007 is *the* year, I don't care what anyone else thinks--I know this to be true because this is the first year I've actually got friends to honestly convert over to free software/OSS software.
Unfortunately, that's not because of FOSS' strengths but because some people will install _anything_ to get rid of Vista and its user interface. My girlfriend wanted Linux, simply because it didn't come with Aero (in the end we more or less settled on outfitting her with Win2k, although we reserve dualbooting as a future option).
Windows Vista: The operating system that made desktop Linux attractive.
Even much of the Fortune 500 has been investing significantly into Linux (such as the corporation I work for, which is one of the larger global financial companies).
Interesting. If many F500 corps have invested in FOSS and IBM decides to contest Microsoft's claims they might end up with a larger war chest than anticipated. IBM alone is a fearsome legal enemy, but IBM backed by Citigroup and BofA should be capable of defeating anyone by dragging out the case indefinitely and waiting for the opponent to either die or lose interest.
It was already stated that Microsoft uses a good number of IBM-patented things. Currently they seem to have some sort of agreement (such as a blanket license), but if Microsoft really starts bullying IBM customers IBM might pull out the blanket agreement (if they can) and start bullying Microsoft (or its customers, depending on what's possible). IBM might be able to undo "Noboy Ever Got Fired For Buying Microsoft" and that's bad PR on a scale even Microsoft should fear.
I'd like to see IBM lean on Microsoft and point out that patent warfare is a multiplayer game. If Microsoft isn't out to raise the bar on corporate stupidity that should silence them quite fast.
By the way, notice something? Who just entered a patent agreement with Microsoft and thus can't participate in this fight? Right, Novell. For some reason I like that corp less and less...
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buy our product.
So Rubish works like English, it just takes three times longer to read and the only complete dictionary is written in Japanese?
But humans could be enhanced with machine parts to serve a perfect immortal machine...
1.) You have to do a presentation. ...
2.) The data you're supposed to turn into one sits on Google's servers.
3.) Google is down. You can't access your spreadsheet.
4.) Well, so you just download the backups and grep out the relevant numbers. Just access your Google Mail storage and--
5.)
6.) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
Online apps, maybe. Online backups, maybe. But please not both on the same server if the backups are of the very data the online apps produce. It's usually a good idea to avoid single points of failure.