I am considering upgrading from SuSE 9.1, but I'm not sure if it's worth taking the risk with the newest version of GCC... I don't know enough about the newest release, although I've heard about problems compiling KDE, which may or may not have been fixed. Any thoughts?
Marketing exec: All right, it's water absorbent! It's...Super Absorbent String!
"ABSORB WATER TODAY WITH SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL WATER ABSORB-A-TEX STRINGETTES! AWAY WITH FLOODS!"
Mr Simpson: You just said it was waterproof!
Exec: "AWAY WITH THE DULL DRUDGERY OF WORKADAY TIDAL WAVES! USE SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL FLOOD PREVENTERS!"
Mr Simpson: You're mad!
Exec: Shut up, shut up, shut up! Sex, sex sex, must get sex into it. Wait,
I see a television commercial-
There's this nude woman in a bath holding a bit of your string. That's
great, great, but we need a doctor, got to have a medical opinion.
There's a nude woman in a bath with a doctor--that's too sexy. Put an
archbishop there watching them, that'll take the curse off it. Now, we
need children and animals.
There's two kids admiring the string, and a dog admiring the archbishop
who's blessing the string. Uhh...international flavor's missing...make the
archbishop Greek Orthodox. Why not Archbishop Macarios? No, no, he's
dead... nevermind, we'll get his brother, it'll be cheaper... So, there's
this nude woman....
The day Firefox gets ActiveX capability built in is the day I will stop using it, and stop reccomending it to others.
I don't know if you're a troll, joking, or simply clueless, but ActiveX is the single biggest reason that IE is the swiss cheese of browsers. I think most websites that use it I can do without, and those that I can't (aessuccess.org for example) get very strongly worded letters admonishing them for using it. I even disable ActiveX completely in IE at every oppertunity.
I'm glad somebody caught that reference. I was afraid I was being too subtle. Even more I was afraid that none of the/. population reads history anymore.
Yeah. I know this is a bad thing. But I'm starting to suffer from 'outrage fatigue'. It's getting damn tiring hearing about our rights being eroded and getting angry about it. So I have decided it's time to give my blood pressure a rest. I think I'll make a cup of tea instead.
SpIM, won't happen, at least not with centralized services such as AIM.
Reason? They have automatic rate-limiting, and if you use the 'warn' button their rate limit gets even stricter, and further warnings against the account will practically cease all IM activity. This is server-enforced, so the huge volumes that we're used to with spam aren't possible on IM. The above is true for AIM, other protocols may have similar anti-spim systems in place.
And then there's the legal standpoint. AOL considers it's AIM network and subscribers to be valuable, and it can and will fight legal battles against those who pollute it. When you sign up for an AIM account you have to do a capcha and agree that they can terminate your account for spamming. All these factors mean spIM will remain nothing more than a very minor nuisance.
Most tellingly, if spIM was possible, it would already be a huge problem because we know quite well how devious spammers are. I have gotten a grand total of something like two pieces of spIM in my entire six years on AIM.
Ironically protocols such as Jabber are more suceptible to spIM because of their open and decentralized nature--the only reason they don't is because they are relatively obscure. I'm not saying that email should be centralized, but those who design protocols for IM should take spIM into account and preemptively fight it (e.g. implementing an authentication scheme similar to, say, Domain Keys).
I find KDE so gawdy and QT so ugly that I feel like an idiot using it.
and
I am not window-manager bashing here.
I'd really like to know how on earth the above statement not window-manager bashing. I am geniunely curious to know how you've justified this whole bashing-KDE-is-not-WM-bashing. Cause I can't figure out how on earth you can say that with a straight face. Or were you trying for +5 Funny?
I read that essay and this has nothing to do with it--and everything to do with a company trying to keep up the suspense of a massive bestseller right until the publishing date. And then after that all the locks go off and this will be distributed just like any other book.
[...] I don't think the.xxx domain will be used for much decent stuff.
I don't think the xxx domain will be used for any decent stuff. It will all be very indecent!
Ba-dum-tch
Given that malaria is one of the biggest third-world killers, and that very few drug companies are willing to invest research money into drugs for poor people, I think the Gates' are actually doing some good work in this area.
I suppose you could tie that to an "agenda," but you'd have to be awfully cynical.
I used all those test patterns and at first found no dead pixels whatsoever on my Envision 15" screen. I thought that was rather odd, so I tried again and found two pixels that are only dead if you look at them from a certain angle... which is quite odd but certainly acceptable considering that in the year that I've had it it took special test-patterns to find them. Usually specks of dirt on my monitor are a bigger problem.
We shouldn't have to use adblock. Some sites have gotten around the blocker, and that is unacceptable (I submitted a story about it to Slashdot yesterday, but it was rejected). We want Firefox to be a better browser even for those who don't have the expertise to use things like that.
Here is me new patent pending idea Wiki DNS. No more lock in with registrations. Create an entry for you favorite web site and add an IP address. Think you have a better slashdot than slashdot? Update the DB and let the world be the judge. Develop a mesh query policy and dump the root servers. The DNS DB could live all over the net rather than in some sealed bunker somewhere. Power to the people.
I'm still trying to figure out if that suggestion is serious or not. It was modded up interesting, but we all know the mods here are clueless. I hope it was intended as funny.
At first glance I actually thought that it could work. Then I slapped some sense into myself.
Just imagine:
www.google.com = www.goat.cx
That's all that needs to occur to you for you to realize that this idea would never work in a million years.
I have found LOGO to be quite a useful language, especially when working with text data. It's best thought of as "scheme without parentheses" but it suffers the same fragmentation issues that scheme does, in terms of built-in procedures varying from environment to environment.
It also lacks data protection of any sort, and as an interpreted language, many of the environments leave something to be desired.
First of all, licensed stuff can be rewritten, just like netscape.
Second of all, iTunes isn't a "good guy" until it runs on *nix (crossover doesn't count). And even then it's still a closed-source app. If we develop WinAmp into LinAmp (instead of a clone like XMMS) then we have a powerful, multi-platform player that isn't controlled by some other company that could turn evil.
Really. I never understood the reason for such restrictive licenses on drivers. I could distribute the drivers far and wide, but without buying the company's hardware (read: paying them money) they are really really useless.
So why do companies have a problem with free driver distribution?
Perhaps it threatens the spirit of the electoral college, but hasn't it occured to you that the electoral college is broken?
Sure, it gives smaller states power, which I have nothing against. But in 2000 a majority of people at the polls said they wanted Gore. And the Electoral College said Bush. How is that not broken?
Ever heard of Zelda Classic? A quick Google search will reveal that they are rather blatantly using Nintendo's trademarks in a way that could be confusing to consumers, and they also are possibly violating Nintendo copyrights as well. So far they have not had any sort of letter to stop cloning the game, or copying the quest files or graphics that are copyrighted by Nintendo.
This is the stupidest cease and desist letter I have ever seen.
Sorry but that tinfoil-hat additude doesn't make sense. It's just another tool, like handwriting analasys. Would you hand-write any documents that you don't want traced back to you when you know full well that the government can track your handwriting? Of course not. So now you know they can track the printer inkwriting too. Jeez, if you're that paranoid, don't use it.
You know the government can compare fingerprints. The government can compare DNA. The government can match paper fiber samples and patterns. Compared to all the government can do right now, I'd say this ability is rather innocuous. First of all they have to find the original printer for one thing.
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I am considering upgrading from SuSE 9.1, but I'm not sure if it's worth taking the risk with the newest version of GCC... I don't know enough about the newest release, although I've heard about problems compiling KDE, which may or may not have been fixed. Any thoughts?
"ABSORB WATER TODAY WITH SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL WATER ABSORB-A-TEX STRINGETTES! AWAY WITH FLOODS!"
Mr Simpson: You just said it was waterproof!
Exec: "AWAY WITH THE DULL DRUDGERY OF WORKADAY TIDAL WAVES! USE SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL FLOOD PREVENTERS!"
Mr Simpson: You're mad!
Exec: Shut up, shut up, shut up! Sex, sex sex, must get sex into it. Wait, I see a television commercial-
There's this nude woman in a bath holding a bit of your string. That's great, great, but we need a doctor, got to have a medical opinion.
There's a nude woman in a bath with a doctor--that's too sexy. Put an archbishop there watching them, that'll take the curse off it. Now, we need children and animals.
There's two kids admiring the string, and a dog admiring the archbishop who's blessing the string. Uhh...international flavor's missing...make the archbishop Greek Orthodox. Why not Archbishop Macarios? No, no, he's dead... nevermind, we'll get his brother, it'll be cheaper... So, there's this nude woman....
I don't know if you're a troll, joking, or simply clueless, but ActiveX is the single biggest reason that IE is the swiss cheese of browsers. I think most websites that use it I can do without, and those that I can't (aessuccess.org for example) get very strongly worded letters admonishing them for using it. I even disable ActiveX completely in IE at every oppertunity.
I'm glad somebody caught that reference. I was afraid I was being too subtle. Even more I was afraid that none of the /. population reads history anymore.
Yeah. I know this is a bad thing. But I'm starting to suffer from 'outrage fatigue'. It's getting damn tiring hearing about our rights being eroded and getting angry about it. So I have decided it's time to give my blood pressure a rest. I think I'll make a cup of tea instead.
Reason? They have automatic rate-limiting, and if you use the 'warn' button their rate limit gets even stricter, and further warnings against the account will practically cease all IM activity. This is server-enforced, so the huge volumes that we're used to with spam aren't possible on IM. The above is true for AIM, other protocols may have similar anti-spim systems in place.
And then there's the legal standpoint. AOL considers it's AIM network and subscribers to be valuable, and it can and will fight legal battles against those who pollute it. When you sign up for an AIM account you have to do a capcha and agree that they can terminate your account for spamming. All these factors mean spIM will remain nothing more than a very minor nuisance.
Most tellingly, if spIM was possible, it would already be a huge problem because we know quite well how devious spammers are. I have gotten a grand total of something like two pieces of spIM in my entire six years on AIM.
Ironically protocols such as Jabber are more suceptible to spIM because of their open and decentralized nature--the only reason they don't is because they are relatively obscure. I'm not saying that email should be centralized, but those who design protocols for IM should take spIM into account and preemptively fight it (e.g. implementing an authentication scheme similar to, say, Domain Keys).
I read that essay and this has nothing to do with it--and everything to do with a company trying to keep up the suspense of a massive bestseller right until the publishing date. And then after that all the locks go off and this will be distributed just like any other book.
Hey, you might mod this funny, but that's just what they did with Blender, which was abandonware at the time. Now it's a thriving OSS app.
What could be next? Any ideas?
Winamp perhaps?...
[...] I don't think the .xxx domain will be used for much decent stuff.
I don't think the xxx domain will be used for any decent stuff. It will all be very indecent!
Ba-dum-tch
Time to check the patent registry, and call them on it. I think they're just BSing.
I used all those test patterns and at first found no dead pixels whatsoever on my Envision 15" screen. I thought that was rather odd, so I tried again and found two pixels that are only dead if you look at them from a certain angle... which is quite odd but certainly acceptable considering that in the year that I've had it it took special test-patterns to find them. Usually specks of dirt on my monitor are a bigger problem.
We shouldn't have to use adblock. Some sites have gotten around the blocker, and that is unacceptable (I submitted a story about it to Slashdot yesterday, but it was rejected). We want Firefox to be a better browser even for those who don't have the expertise to use things like that.
Urban Dictionary: Box
Oooooh....
heheheheheheheheh
<conspiracy theory>
Perhaps they're trying to legitimize the rumour by doing this. That must be it!
</conspiracy theory>
At first glance I actually thought that it could work. Then I slapped some sense into myself.
Just imagine:
That's all that needs to occur to you for you to realize that this idea would never work in a million years.
I have found LOGO to be quite a useful language, especially when working with text data. It's best thought of as "scheme without parentheses" but it suffers the same fragmentation issues that scheme does, in terms of built-in procedures varying from environment to environment. It also lacks data protection of any sort, and as an interpreted language, many of the environments leave something to be desired.
Second of all, iTunes isn't a "good guy" until it runs on *nix (crossover doesn't count). And even then it's still a closed-source app. If we develop WinAmp into LinAmp (instead of a clone like XMMS) then we have a powerful, multi-platform player that isn't controlled by some other company that could turn evil.
So why do companies have a problem with free driver distribution?
Sure, it gives smaller states power, which I have nothing against. But in 2000 a majority of people at the polls said they wanted Gore. And the Electoral College said Bush. How is that not broken?
This is the stupidest cease and desist letter I have ever seen.
You know the government can compare fingerprints. The government can compare DNA. The government can match paper fiber samples and patterns. Compared to all the government can do right now, I'd say this ability is rather innocuous. First of all they have to find the original printer for one thing.
Nope! Not according to whois. All four are owned by different companies.