A free legal Windows copy is not worth the trouble of writing all that stuff down. It's not even worth reading TFA, if you want my opinion. Throw in a few shares, then you'll have me.
This OOo VS MSO debate reminds me of something called Colibris (French). Colibris means "COntenu LIBRe pour Institutions Scolaires" which translates to something like "Free material (software) for educational institutions". My mother works in a school, and one day she got a bunch of CDs sent from Colibris with open source apps on then (OOo was there, yes). She showed it to some teachers and the dude in charge of the computer class, and some (if not all) computers have it installed and is listed as "an alternative" until they figure out if it's "better" than MSO. So there is definately room for comparison, but "Hey, it's open source!" argument won't cut it. People will use it if it's better, and knowing what we know, i don't think OOo, as much as i like it, can be better than MSO.
I just thought i'd throw in my exemple of popularization attempt.
If you think that there's no corruption, lobbyism or influence in these spheres, you need a reality check. It is quite possible that Mandleson was influenced by Allen, and it's quite possible that it's exactly why he accepted to go on that yacht. I mean, come on. If OSS developers could afford the same things, you think they wouldn't show off how lucrative their endeavours are? In this particular case, i think the goal was more to share this lucrativity and showing it off just to send the message "What if..".
Or they could just be friends, you know. Those things happen.
It's harder to profit from open-source based languages than it is for closed-source ones. In other words, it's harder to sell something you made with something free than sell something you made with something you paid.. get it?
but i think that when you start developping open source stuff, may it be linux-related projects or any open source languages (php, perl, etc) you're basically saying that you're doing it because you like it and not for the money. If you would want the money, you'd develop your shit in languages such as ASP, VB or Java. I guess that when you've been doing it for as long as those guys, it gets depressing at some point to work for free. Coding linux related stuff is (in my book) meant to be a hobby, not a profession (yet). So if you do this for money, you'll be disappointed.
Nice feature. I work in a shipping dock and i get couriers here all day delivering their stuff. Some packages are unnamed, some get here when i'm gone so i don't know who shipped it. Chances are, though, that there's a sticker on the box that says who the shipper was, who is it supposed to go to and the P.O. and tracking number. However Google supports only major couriers such as USPS, UPS, Fedex and others among those lines. It will never be complete, either since local couriers are way too numerous and small to be important to Google. Also, i only get FedEx and UPS delivering here, so if the tracking is starts with "1Z", i know it's UPS, if it's all digits, it's FedEx. Those two are about 1/4 of all my incoming packages, and Google doesn't support the others. So it's a nice innovation, but mostly useless for someone who has a minimum experience with couriers.
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A free legal Windows copy is not worth the trouble of writing all that stuff down. It's not even worth reading TFA, if you want my opinion. Throw in a few shares, then you'll have me.
I sure hope that's what IceFool^Ht's server is cooled with. Slashdotted.
I, for one, welcome our new Alienware Jedis overlords.
I mean, how many of his movies have not been digitally remasterized?
That oughta keep him busy for some time!
There's just more targets.
Physicists could soon be creating black holes in the laboratory
When shall we get pet dark holes?
Imagine cleaning the house with one of these around!
I like windows!!
But i like mod points more!
Why does Truth, Linux and Windows in the same sentence seems so awfully wrong to me?
There are so much to joke about in this, i'll have to focus on one thing at a time!
I think my nose is bleeding.
This OOo VS MSO debate reminds me of something called Colibris (French). Colibris means "COntenu LIBRe pour Institutions Scolaires" which translates to something like "Free material (software) for educational institutions". My mother works in a school, and one day she got a bunch of CDs sent from Colibris with open source apps on then (OOo was there, yes). She showed it to some teachers and the dude in charge of the computer class, and some (if not all) computers have it installed and is listed as "an alternative" until they figure out if it's "better" than MSO. So there is definately room for comparison, but "Hey, it's open source!" argument won't cut it. People will use it if it's better, and knowing what we know, i don't think OOo, as much as i like it, can be better than MSO.
I just thought i'd throw in my exemple of popularization attempt.
If you think that there's no corruption, lobbyism or influence in these spheres, you need a reality check. It is quite possible that Mandleson was influenced by Allen, and it's quite possible that it's exactly why he accepted to go on that yacht. I mean, come on. If OSS developers could afford the same things, you think they wouldn't show off how lucrative their endeavours are? In this particular case, i think the goal was more to share this lucrativity and showing it off just to send the message "What if..".
Or they could just be friends, you know. Those things happen.
It's harder to profit from open-source based languages than it is for closed-source ones. In other words, it's harder to sell something you made with something free than sell something you made with something you paid.. get it?
but i think that when you start developping open source stuff, may it be linux-related projects or any open source languages (php, perl, etc) you're basically saying that you're doing it because you like it and not for the money. If you would want the money, you'd develop your shit in languages such as ASP, VB or Java.
I guess that when you've been doing it for as long as those guys, it gets depressing at some point to work for free. Coding linux related stuff is (in my book) meant to be a hobby, not a profession (yet). So if you do this for money, you'll be disappointed.
Sounds like a business opportunity to me. Set up SeaWhores and park it close by.
With blackjack, and hookers! In fact, forget the blackjack!
You mean that babelfish translates?!
Man, all this time i was thinking it was only generating random words in given language. All of it were lies. LIES!
The application itself has embedded ads (free version of Opera), do you expect they will block ads from everyone else?
Nice feature. I work in a shipping dock and i get couriers here all day delivering their stuff. Some packages are unnamed, some get here when i'm gone so i don't know who shipped it. Chances are, though, that there's a sticker on the box that says who the shipper was, who is it supposed to go to and the P.O. and tracking number. However Google supports only major couriers such as USPS, UPS, Fedex and others among those lines. It will never be complete, either since local couriers are way too numerous and small to be important to Google. Also, i only get FedEx and UPS delivering here, so if the tracking is starts with "1Z", i know it's UPS, if it's all digits, it's FedEx. Those two are about 1/4 of all my incoming packages, and Google doesn't support the others. So it's a nice innovation, but mostly useless for someone who has a minimum experience with couriers.
Was fine for me. I even remotely installed them on my home computer from work.
You mean VH1.When.Metallica.Ruled.The.World.DSRip.XviD-aAF?
Oops?
6. And please, PLEASE stop releasing albums sang by dead artists (Tupac and the likes) every week! THEY'RE DEAD!!
You mean that those normally airs on TV?!
Man, i never knew.
welcome our new popup-blocking overlords.
It's the 3rd story promoting ThinkGeek today. April Fools is one thing, but drop the propaganda.
You know it's April Fools when /. comments make more sense than stories.
Yahoo Slacker is next, not Yahoo Yoohoo.