because toys and space travel have sooo much in common
20 million dollars doesn't even come out to 1 cent per person in this country and besides the rich are the only ones that really pay income taxes in this country. I believe the percentages are around the top 5% of income earners pay over 50% of all of the taxes. Space travel currently has no economic return. The only way to jumpstart it is to create an incentive to do this. That's why the x-prize exists. Once a company can actually succefully send a large craft into space cheaply, efficiently, and with a near perfect success rate it will then begin to turn a profit and not need the government incentive. Hell currently the government is paying for amtrack to keep running trains because it no longer can create any real revenue. Send your complaints towards them.
These shell replacements do not change the look of the windows itself so it's not an exact relation to X11 window managers but it does change the windows interface to whatever you want. It is a feature of windows that has existed since windows 3.1. In windows 9x you could change the shell back to what 3.1 had and use that (I don't know why you would though). They kept the functionality in windows nt line in case they ever want to replace explorer.exe I would guess.
It is somewhat safe but not a guaruanteed. I have never had it totally kill my windows. If it doesn't work you can hit ctrl-alt-delete and run explorer to get your normal windows back. I have found that these shell replacements can make windows a lot better but they are not for everyone. They take a lot of work to get setup.
You can get said shell replacements on http://www.shellfront.org/ Also you can get a lot of themes at www.wincustomize.com i think.
This is the windows 2000 solution. The windows 98 solution is by changing the shell=explorer.exe in the win.ini file to whatever. Goto http://www.shellfront.org/ for more info.
Funny that there is a save as office 97 document feature in the save as window. Even on my mac, I can save word v.X files as word 4.0 files. How horrible.
You call up regedit and change the shell DWORD from explorer.exe to whatever shell you want such as litestep. You have just as much choice in windows as linux for window managers (shells). They are just not the same choice. Also they come with the same pains as linux window managers have for setting up.
Before you counter me with the litestep sucks arguement, I will use a common linux arguement said to me: program one yourself.
Lastly if you want to change the look of the individual windows, use windows blinds on top of that. You can make windows look completely different.
There is a fairly decent client for OSX that I've been using. I only have one windows computer so I don't know what all features the windows client has but if you tell me what all you need I can try them on my powerbook this weekend sometime.
Knowing that it's sda1 not to mention knowing how to mount things or even understanding what mounting means. From a userfriendly point of view this is horrible.
Yay, they are finally doing something to curb at least some of the spam. Hopefully this will work well. Another implementation idea is to make a user of an email account pay $.05 per email for every email over a set limit (on a per month basis). For example if a spammer sends out a spam to 20,000 people he would have to pay nearly $1000 just to do that which would make the spam model not worth it. This might cause some issues with businesses doing legitimate mail but I'm sure somebody has some thoughts on how to fix this idea.
Ok, let's try a different perspective. If you copy the program then the author is going to make less money off of it. If you weren't going to buy it anyways then you should learn to live without the program. It is illegal to copy a program to somebody else's computer (I would agree to immediate family being exempt) without paying for it if it is a program that doesn't allow redistrobution.
You do realize that by developers I mean people that right software for personal computers right? I certainly hope that you don't think that windows is not the most programmed for OS in this area. Embedded devices are anybodies game currently and have many os's on them. Also a certain event that happened to linksys is coming to mind right now.
You can get the intel compiler as a replacement for gcc. It's a much better and faster compiler from what I hear anyways. Also I don't know what window managers/toolkits are non-gpl. If anybody knows please respond. The only programs that I can think of that you'll really miss is an aim client (not that gaim is that great anyways). I don't know of any bsd aim clients that are not GPL...maybe I should go back to working on that aim client I was writing.
Also I started using FreeBSD as my linux replacement and haven't really had any problems.
The reason that people prefer the BSD license is that people aren't going to have to fear using a library under the BSD license in their code. I've seen way to many people use GPL libraries and then having tons of people immediatly demand that the whole program be released under the GPL. As a programmer this disgusts me and will keep me from ever writing a real program for linux (with the exception of the ones for class).
I don't feel there's anything inherently wrong with propietary software other than the fact that I believe it will ultimately fail.
Proprietary software will not fail. It is known that corporate funded proprietary software is almost always better than non corporate funded software. A good example would be games. Most programmers (including me) do not want to work for free. I want to be paid to program something because there is no way in hell that I'm going to be a cashier for a living.
I hope that he nullifies the GPL. That way coorporations that use linux won't be forced to do things against their will such as Lynksis having to release the source code to their routers. This way when I actually get out of college I'll be able to actually make money to be able to eat with.
If the source code was ever released to the internet, that would let the world know exactly who released it. This would probably lead to him getting fired. I'm reserving judgement on this until after it's clear if he worked on this during his work hours or not.
I think I'll stick to my OSX, thank you very much. I have never been able to get gentoo to fully install with everything. FreeBSD is much easier to get working then gentoo and it isn't GPL.
First you don't see all the comments on the page anyways because they are modded down. Second, apparently you didnt see that some people had already done what he said and so he's not automatically putting down the posters of slashdot.
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because toys and space travel have sooo much in common 20 million dollars doesn't even come out to 1 cent per person in this country and besides the rich are the only ones that really pay income taxes in this country. I believe the percentages are around the top 5% of income earners pay over 50% of all of the taxes. Space travel currently has no economic return. The only way to jumpstart it is to create an incentive to do this. That's why the x-prize exists. Once a company can actually succefully send a large craft into space cheaply, efficiently, and with a near perfect success rate it will then begin to turn a profit and not need the government incentive. Hell currently the government is paying for amtrack to keep running trains because it no longer can create any real revenue. Send your complaints towards them.
I think you mean especially the linux zealots not the mac zealots. I've seen faaaaaaar more zealotry in the linux realm on this site.
I think you are sort of correct. It should be California and then the rest is the US.
It is somewhat safe but not a guaruanteed. I have never had it totally kill my windows. If it doesn't work you can hit ctrl-alt-delete and run explorer to get your normal windows back. I have found that these shell replacements can make windows a lot better but they are not for everyone. They take a lot of work to get setup.
You can get said shell replacements on http://www.shellfront.org/ Also you can get a lot of themes at www.wincustomize.com i think.
Have a happy shell replacing!
This is the windows 2000 solution. The windows 98 solution is by changing the shell=explorer.exe in the win.ini file to whatever. Goto http://www.shellfront.org/ for more info.
Funny that there is a save as office 97 document feature in the save as window. Even on my mac, I can save word v.X files as word 4.0 files. How horrible.
You call up regedit and change the shell DWORD from explorer.exe to whatever shell you want such as litestep. You have just as much choice in windows as linux for window managers (shells). They are just not the same choice. Also they come with the same pains as linux window managers have for setting up. Before you counter me with the litestep sucks arguement, I will use a common linux arguement said to me: program one yourself. Lastly if you want to change the look of the individual windows, use windows blinds on top of that. You can make windows look completely different.
LCD monitors aren't going to look very good using the VGA input. Also if you like to run insanely high resolutions, you need to stick to a CRT.
There is a fairly decent client for OSX that I've been using. I only have one windows computer so I don't know what all features the windows client has but if you tell me what all you need I can try them on my powerbook this weekend sometime.
Yay, they are finally doing something to curb at least some of the spam. Hopefully this will work well. Another implementation idea is to make a user of an email account pay $.05 per email for every email over a set limit (on a per month basis). For example if a spammer sends out a spam to 20,000 people he would have to pay nearly $1000 just to do that which would make the spam model not worth it. This might cause some issues with businesses doing legitimate mail but I'm sure somebody has some thoughts on how to fix this idea.
I prefer quality rather than waste my time fixing somebody elses code when i could be working on something more usefull.
Ok, let's try a different perspective. If you copy the program then the author is going to make less money off of it. If you weren't going to buy it anyways then you should learn to live without the program. It is illegal to copy a program to somebody else's computer (I would agree to immediate family being exempt) without paying for it if it is a program that doesn't allow redistrobution.
You do realize that by developers I mean people that right software for personal computers right? I certainly hope that you don't think that windows is not the most programmed for OS in this area. Embedded devices are anybodies game currently and have many os's on them. Also a certain event that happened to linksys is coming to mind right now.
You can get the intel compiler as a replacement for gcc. It's a much better and faster compiler from what I hear anyways. Also I don't know what window managers/toolkits are non-gpl. If anybody knows please respond. The only programs that I can think of that you'll really miss is an aim client (not that gaim is that great anyways). I don't know of any bsd aim clients that are not GPL...maybe I should go back to working on that aim client I was writing.
Also I started using FreeBSD as my linux replacement and haven't really had any problems.
The reason that people prefer the BSD license is that people aren't going to have to fear using a library under the BSD license in their code. I've seen way to many people use GPL libraries and then having tons of people immediatly demand that the whole program be released under the GPL. As a programmer this disgusts me and will keep me from ever writing a real program for linux (with the exception of the ones for class).
This may be true but I've come across way more bugs in free software (ever used X anyone?) than I have in software that I've paid for.
If the source code was ever released to the internet, that would let the world know exactly who released it. This would probably lead to him getting fired. I'm reserving judgement on this until after it's clear if he worked on this during his work hours or not.
I think I'll stick to my OSX, thank you very much. I have never been able to get gentoo to fully install with everything. FreeBSD is much easier to get working then gentoo and it isn't GPL.
First you don't see all the comments on the page anyways because they are modded down. Second, apparently you didnt see that some people had already done what he said and so he's not automatically putting down the posters of slashdot.