I just got an image in my head of a bunch of Apple stormtroopers, looking much like the Star Wars versions, except with different colored, large, shiny apple logos on their chest, marching in and siezing hardware. And Jeff Goldblum, dressed in black, coming in right behind them, saying "I want those themes.org maintainers alive!"
The only ads I pay attention to are A) Funny or B) During the super bowl (e.g. funny).
We've become desensitized to pretty much all advertisements. Do you know what the ad at the top of this page is right now? You saw it, but you didn't notice. The first game to have ads might see success, but by the second game no one will notice the ads anymore.
In addition, maybe I'm crazy, but I don't really make product choices based on what I see in ads (Except of course, Pepsi because of Brittney Spears!!! She's hot.)
Interoperability is a key competitive strength. We clearly accept that customers will choose multiple operating systems depending on how they need to solve their business problems. Providing ways to plug into those other operating systems - both at a system level (e.g. files, user directories etc.) and at an application level (e.g. data formats) is essential.
I see. So that means Microsoft will publish the full, open specs to all Office formats when exactly?
Dude, it's the hacker ethic. It's what makes America great. It's what makes humans humans as opposed to tall monkeys.
What if the IBM BIOS was not hacked on? IBM would still be the only PC maker. Would that be good? What if that one kid did not hack DVD? We wouldn't have no DVD playback (on linux anyway). And if in 3 months someone has made something really cool based on this guys hacking of his ipaq, well, it would be worth it, no?
I can understand you want one, but sacrifices have to be made. I hope this brave guy can get his back together tho'
it's basically the only way to get on AIM without using an AOL client. and don't tell me TOC is an alternative, it's not.
Yes it is.
The thing everybody does not understand is that TOC does what 95% of everyone needs: chat. Oscar does the file xfering shit (although I think thats possible through TOC too?), buddy icons, direct talking (voice over AIM), sending of pictures, etc.
Given that GAIM is AIM for linux, how many linux users exactly give a flying fuck about buddy icons? How many use AIM to xfer files, instead of say, scp or email?
I agree that OSCAR support for linux clients would be cool, especially if linux is to ever become a desktop alternative (after all, Joe PC loves those superflous features I mentioned) but until that time, I, for one, dont really give a damn. (Note also that more people using linux on the desktop would actually give AOL a reason to let other clients in on the all the protocol fun. Until then, they rightly don't care.)
Kaim or Gaim is good enough for me. As long as TOC is never closed (fingers crossed) then I'll be happy, and so would everyone else, if they'd quit the zealotry and learn what they're ranting about.
Los Angeles, CA - In what seems like another completely ludicrous way to get the 'net' into homes, Los Angeles based CrazyFarm has announced that it will install a laser-based internet service, where each connection will have a laser pointed at... the moon! The moon will house a large facility that will communicate via lasers, providing 1.5MB/s of service, to users on the Earth's surface. "The major problem we haven't solved yet," said the CTO, "is that the moon is only visible to half the earth at once, and since we need a direct line of site for our service, we are planning to blow up the moon into 2, possibly 3, fragments, each of which will host our ISP moon bases."
Capcom a little guy? Capcom games (SF *) are the most popular games when I'm at the arcade. People still are pumping quarters into the latest version of SF, which is why the news that Capcom is opting out is pretty scary: if the most popular arcade games arent good enough, then how can any of the other companies continue the arcade biz?
I'm not too big into playing all the street fighters out right now (I was wicked good at the SNES version though!) but I often find myself going into the arcade on campus just to stare at the latest SF incarnation (I really like the Marvel crossover).
Capcom should really be commended for staying true to the original gameplay and feel of the SF series, while doing amazing things to improve the game. I know, I know, the many iterations of the game are just to suck the latest quarter out of your pocket without you getting bored of the game, but the hacker in me really respects the amazing look and play of the games. They are all still 2D, which means that instead of buying into the 3D hype, capcom focused on squeezing as much gameplay out of SF as possible. (I know about SF:Ex, but after that failed, they didnt try again at least:)
Well sir, this post was a thing of beauty. some additional points:
There's thousands (maybe more?) religions in the world. Why is YOURS right, or true? Why is there a God instead of another deity? Does the christian God exists because it is the most popular religion? And I'm supposed to believe religion X because I was born in region Y? I can't accept that.
The religions that exist today have survived because they are vague and were designed as unprovable as possible. The greeks believed a god pulled the sun across the sky. They believed a god threw down the lighting bolts from a high mountain. But what happened when man climbed that mountain? What happened when man realized what the sun was? Those beliefs were disproved, and those religions dropped like a bad habit.
The ambitious monks who devised Christianity knew what they were doing, and they designed a religion that has stood the test of time because it does NOT contain mountains, or chariots, or anything else dissprovable... yet.
I find it most interesting that Galileo was imprisoned by the Church when he was spreading his information about the solar system, yet a few(?) years ago, the Pope met with Hawking, and gave formal approval to the Big Bang theory as "compatible" with the Bible. Quite a change of opinion, no?
Religions dont bother me though. I know that religion is just a manifestation of the morals and conscience and common sense of ALL human beings. As such, it is doing NO harm to humanity, and only good things come out of it. I, for one, do not know the meaning of "blind faith," so I listen to my conscience.
Does it really matter where he got that? Even if it's not true, it would make sense.
Every crazy KKK freak calls what he does (practice hate) a religious act, even thinking up crazy names like the "Church of the Creator" or some nonsense. If Christianity can be interpreted as whatever by whoever, then what is the point of it?
Why do we humans have it so tough? Global warming, pollution, not enough electricity, AIDS, cancer, crooked politicians, taxes, homelessness, joblessness, and probably a billion other problems I can't/don't want to think of.
It can't all be our fault, can it? Will we ever fix it all? damn it.
I prefer a standalone DVD player to a PC. I prefer to use a Palm for storing addresses. PCs, even notebooks, don't carry around very well. I'd prefer to carry a mini MP3 player around than to carry a PC around. I prefer a PlayStation for many games over a PC.
Ya, it would be great if there was a standalone word processing device that I could go to, to do my papers. And then, one right next to it that would do spreadsheets. And next to that, one that would check my email. And one more, with a nice big monitor, to browse the web! Seems kind of wasteful, we should just make all these functions on one device? Wouldn't it also be really cool if said device could play my mp3's, or play games, or play dvd's? Oh wait.......
I don't buy this multiple device idea. While it might be true that the devices you mentioned are doing well in sales, arent they a little more specific in purpose then the tasks I mentioned? The PC has lasted this long due to its general applicability to a slew of applications.
Also, which one of your devices (aside from the playstation) would be worth the plastic it was made out of without a PC it could dock/communicate/exchange-data with?
Of course, I'm just a naive young software-developer, and I'd be out of a job if not for the PC.:)
There are a lot of technologies out there that suck. Computers have many problems. But "have contributued nothing useful"? How many of these scientists and engineers would be where they're at without computers? Indeed, how many of them would have been able to schedule, arrive at, and execute their trip to this meeting?
I dont know why they would say such a stupid thing... I'll assume we all took what they said out of context/too seriously.
Why is this such a common myth? (or are you basing this on some numbers?) The only numbers I've seen is that Nintendo is raking it it in with the GB/GBA, and soon the gamecube (which looks like a kick ass system).
This news is wonderful, however the oil companies will not like it one bit. You bet that Shell, BP, Texaco, Mobil and so on are all lobbying for various taxes to be imposed even as we speak, and considering all sorts of strategies to undermine the Electric car as a serious proposition.
You couldn't be more right. I heard that back when L.A. was just a town, the city board recognized that it would be a megatropolis in the future, and were deciding what to invest in: public transit systems (trams, trains, etc) or building lots of highways. There were oil tycoons on the board and other executive positions, so you can guess which one we got.
Now, we have 2 hour waits to drive 20 miles on the 405, and air quality went to shit (although it has improved dramatically of late, and we are now cleaner than a lot of other big cities.)
It's a damn shame that in this country, decisions are made base on lobbyers (sp?) and not based on whats right.
people always mock KDE because it is so Microsoftish
I really wish I knew what this meant. I'm sick and tired of hearing it. How exactly is KDE more windows-like than gnome? Can someone enumerate the points? To me, they look pretty fucking similar, and neither looks like windows.
What a ridiculous argument. By your argument, anyone who has ever done anything "wrong" (and I'm not yet sure that charging money for a high quality products is "wrong"), we should never forgive them or give them a second chance. Utterly ridiculous.
You're doing yourself no favor by staying away from Qt. It is an oustanding toolkit, and you should take a look at v3.0 on the way soon.
know anyone (no, not your company) who owns a real copy of Motif
No, but I know more than one company that has a Qt license.
I give trolltech lots of respect for giving away their flagship product for nothing. If they want to make money on it by using two licenses, more power to them. It works for them, and it works for me (and other free software developers).
But hey, don't let logic convince you... go on denying yourself access to a slew of amazing free apps.
I like how a Joe Blow CS student with a good idea is all of a sudden labeled a 21-year-old Canadian Web entrepreneur. How is he an entrepreneur? How is this plan of his going to make him money? It seems he's just after enogh ($15k) to pay the bills.
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Ya, the show was not that great. Why wouldn't the government baddies want to kill Byers and his dad afterwards? Wouldn't they want them keeping their mouths shut?
I can't complain about the source code screen shots, though. One of them looked like C (a linked list?), and the previous one looked like scheme. Anyone else notice them? It was when they were hacking into the DOD computer, or something.
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it was *not* Apple seizing the hardware
I just got an image in my head of a bunch of Apple stormtroopers, looking much like the Star Wars versions, except with different colored, large, shiny apple logos on their chest, marching in and siezing hardware. And Jeff Goldblum, dressed in black, coming in right behind them, saying "I want those themes.org maintainers alive!"
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The only ads I pay attention to are A) Funny or B) During the super bowl (e.g. funny).
We've become desensitized to pretty much all advertisements. Do you know what the ad at the top of this page is right now? You saw it, but you didn't notice. The first game to have ads might see success, but by the second game no one will notice the ads anymore.
In addition, maybe I'm crazy, but I don't really make product choices based on what I see in ads (Except of course, Pepsi because of Brittney Spears!!! She's hot.)
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Wouldn't the best way of demonstrating your pissed-ness be to take your business elsewhere? Find another provider.
Also find a web-host review site or something, and tell the world how bad your current provider sucks.
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The first movie I saw that got me interested in computers I saw in 1st grade: Tron. I hear they're re-doing it?
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Interoperability is a key competitive strength. We clearly accept that customers will choose multiple operating systems depending on how they need to solve their business problems. Providing ways to plug into those other operating systems - both at a system level (e.g. files, user directories etc.) and at an application level (e.g. data formats) is essential.
I see. So that means Microsoft will publish the full, open specs to all Office formats when exactly?
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Dude, it's the hacker ethic. It's what makes America great. It's what makes humans humans as opposed to tall monkeys.
What if the IBM BIOS was not hacked on? IBM would still be the only PC maker. Would that be good? What if that one kid did not hack DVD? We wouldn't have no DVD playback (on linux anyway). And if in 3 months someone has made something really cool based on this guys hacking of his ipaq, well, it would be worth it, no?
I can understand you want one, but sacrifices have to be made. I hope this brave guy can get his back together tho'
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it's basically the only way to get on AIM without using an AOL client. and don't tell me TOC is an alternative, it's not.
Yes it is.
The thing everybody does not understand is that TOC does what 95% of everyone needs: chat. Oscar does the file xfering shit (although I think thats possible through TOC too?), buddy icons, direct talking (voice over AIM), sending of pictures, etc.
Given that GAIM is AIM for linux, how many linux users exactly give a flying fuck about buddy icons? How many use AIM to xfer files, instead of say, scp or email?
I agree that OSCAR support for linux clients would be cool, especially if linux is to ever become a desktop alternative (after all, Joe PC loves those superflous features I mentioned) but until that time, I, for one, dont really give a damn. (Note also that more people using linux on the desktop would actually give AOL a reason to let other clients in on the all the protocol fun. Until then, they rightly don't care.)
Kaim or Gaim is good enough for me. As long as TOC is never closed (fingers crossed) then I'll be happy, and so would everyone else, if they'd quit the zealotry and learn what they're ranting about.
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Hey man, wherever gvim builds and runs, I'm there.
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Los Angeles, CA - In what seems like another completely ludicrous way to get the 'net' into homes, Los Angeles based CrazyFarm has announced that it will install a laser-based internet service, where each connection will have a laser pointed at... the moon! The moon will house a large facility that will communicate via lasers, providing 1.5MB/s of service, to users on the Earth's surface. "The major problem we haven't solved yet," said the CTO, "is that the moon is only visible to half the earth at once, and since we need a direct line of site for our service, we are planning to blow up the moon into 2, possibly 3, fragments, each of which will host our ISP moon bases."
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The little guys might be dying out
Capcom a little guy? Capcom games (SF *) are the most popular games when I'm at the arcade. People still are pumping quarters into the latest version of SF, which is why the news that Capcom is opting out is pretty scary: if the most popular arcade games arent good enough, then how can any of the other companies continue the arcade biz?
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I'm not too big into playing all the street fighters out right now (I was wicked good at the SNES version though!) but I often find myself going into the arcade on campus just to stare at the latest SF incarnation (I really like the Marvel crossover). :)
Capcom should really be commended for staying true to the original gameplay and feel of the SF series, while doing amazing things to improve the game. I know, I know, the many iterations of the game are just to suck the latest quarter out of your pocket without you getting bored of the game, but the hacker in me really respects the amazing look and play of the games. They are all still 2D, which means that instead of buying into the 3D hype, capcom focused on squeezing as much gameplay out of SF as possible. (I know about SF:Ex, but after that failed, they didnt try again at least
It'll be sad to see SF in the arcade disappear...
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How about human morality and conscience? ALL religions are based off these anyway.
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Well sir, this post was a thing of beauty. some additional points:
There's thousands (maybe more?) religions in the world. Why is YOURS right, or true? Why is there a God instead of another deity? Does the christian God exists because it is the most popular religion? And I'm supposed to believe religion X because I was born in region Y? I can't accept that.
The religions that exist today have survived because they are vague and were designed as unprovable as possible. The greeks believed a god pulled the sun across the sky. They believed a god threw down the lighting bolts from a high mountain. But what happened when man climbed that mountain? What happened when man realized what the sun was? Those beliefs were disproved, and those religions dropped like a bad habit.
The ambitious monks who devised Christianity knew what they were doing, and they designed a religion that has stood the test of time because it does NOT contain mountains, or chariots, or anything else dissprovable... yet.
I find it most interesting that Galileo was imprisoned by the Church when he was spreading his information about the solar system, yet a few(?) years ago, the Pope met with Hawking, and gave formal approval to the Big Bang theory as "compatible" with the Bible. Quite a change of opinion, no?
Religions dont bother me though. I know that religion is just a manifestation of the morals and conscience and common sense of ALL human beings. As such, it is doing NO harm to humanity, and only good things come out of it. I, for one, do not know the meaning of "blind faith," so I listen to my conscience.
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Where did you get that ?
Does it really matter where he got that? Even if it's not true, it would make sense.
Every crazy KKK freak calls what he does (practice hate) a religious act, even thinking up crazy names like the "Church of the Creator" or some nonsense. If Christianity can be interpreted as whatever by whoever, then what is the point of it?
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Why do we humans have it so tough? Global warming, pollution, not enough electricity, AIDS, cancer, crooked politicians, taxes, homelessness, joblessness, and probably a billion other problems I can't/don't want to think of.
It can't all be our fault, can it? Will we ever fix it all? damn it.
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I prefer a standalone DVD player to a PC. I prefer to use a Palm for storing addresses. PCs, even notebooks, don't carry around very well. I'd prefer to carry a mini MP3 player around than to carry a PC around. I prefer a PlayStation for many games over a PC.
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Ya, it would be great if there was a standalone word processing device that I could go to, to do my papers. And then, one right next to it that would do spreadsheets. And next to that, one that would check my email. And one more, with a nice big monitor, to browse the web! Seems kind of wasteful, we should just make all these functions on one device? Wouldn't it also be really cool if said device could play my mp3's, or play games, or play dvd's? Oh wait.......
I don't buy this multiple device idea. While it might be true that the devices you mentioned are doing well in sales, arent they a little more specific in purpose then the tasks I mentioned? The PC has lasted this long due to its general applicability to a slew of applications.
Also, which one of your devices (aside from the playstation) would be worth the plastic it was made out of without a PC it could dock/communicate/exchange-data with?
Of course, I'm just a naive young software-developer, and I'd be out of a job if not for the PC.
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There are a lot of technologies out there that suck. Computers have many problems. But "have contributued nothing useful"? How many of these scientists and engineers would be where they're at without computers? Indeed, how many of them would have been able to schedule, arrive at, and execute their trip to this meeting?
I dont know why they would say such a stupid thing... I'll assume we all took what they said out of context/too seriously.
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Nintendo looks shaky.
Why is this such a common myth? (or are you basing this on some numbers?) The only numbers I've seen is that Nintendo is raking it it in with the GB/GBA, and soon the gamecube (which looks like a kick ass system).
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Ya, you damn fool! I can't believe you have not memorized all of IBM's supercomputers and what they have done! fool!!!!
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This news is wonderful, however the oil companies will not like it one bit. You bet that Shell, BP, Texaco, Mobil and so on are all lobbying for various taxes to be imposed even as we speak, and considering all sorts of strategies to undermine the Electric car as a serious proposition.
You couldn't be more right. I heard that back when L.A. was just a town, the city board recognized that it would be a megatropolis in the future, and were deciding what to invest in: public transit systems (trams, trains, etc) or building lots of highways. There were oil tycoons on the board and other executive positions, so you can guess which one we got.
Now, we have 2 hour waits to drive 20 miles on the 405, and air quality went to shit (although it has improved dramatically of late, and we are now cleaner than a lot of other big cities.)
It's a damn shame that in this country, decisions are made base on lobbyers (sp?) and not based on whats right.
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people always mock KDE because it is so Microsoftish
I really wish I knew what this meant. I'm sick and tired of hearing it. How exactly is KDE more windows-like than gnome? Can someone enumerate the points? To me, they look pretty fucking similar, and neither looks like windows.
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What a ridiculous argument. By your argument, anyone who has ever done anything "wrong" (and I'm not yet sure that charging money for a high quality products is "wrong"), we should never forgive them or give them a second chance. Utterly ridiculous.
You're doing yourself no favor by staying away from Qt. It is an oustanding toolkit, and you should take a look at v3.0 on the way soon.
know anyone (no, not your company) who owns a real copy of Motif
No, but I know more than one company that has a Qt license.
I give trolltech lots of respect for giving away their flagship product for nothing. If they want to make money on it by using two licenses, more power to them. It works for them, and it works for me (and other free software developers).
But hey, don't let logic convince you... go on denying yourself access to a slew of amazing free apps.
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I like how a Joe Blow CS student with a good idea is all of a sudden labeled a 21-year-old Canadian Web entrepreneur. How is he an entrepreneur? How is this plan of his going to make him money? It seems he's just after enogh ($15k) to pay the bills.
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Ya, the show was not that great. Why wouldn't the government baddies want to kill Byers and his dad afterwards? Wouldn't they want them keeping their mouths shut?
I can't complain about the source code screen shots, though. One of them looked like C (a linked list?), and the previous one looked like scheme. Anyone else notice them? It was when they were hacking into the DOD computer, or something.
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Well, I for one am glad that one of those 15 different story editors saw it appropriate to give us an episode where the android gets some!!
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