He's back, and he's once again the dashing Jedi Knight ready to kick some serious sith ass.
I fear Mr. Neeson has now been permanently typecast, or maybe they couldn't afford a new wardrobe so they asked him to bring his Jedi robe. Just grow a beard, Liam you old fruit. You'll be fine, lad. Just fine. No one will recognize you. What? No, no lightsaber. Put the ghastly thing away. Thanks.
Hahaha, I love it when the retarded zealots tell me my machine is somehow dying and I haven't noticed. Yeah, I was looking out for BSODs and missed the reboots!
I kid you not, by the time your reps pick up the phone your callers will be spurting blood from their nipples as they spasm incontrollably and chant demonic verses along the lines of "Du Hast Mich" in hair-raising, spine splitting gothic German.
Then again if this is not a tech support line, please disregard. Might want to think about doing the Engelbert Humperdinck thang.
MS is a saturated monopolist making software for the wrong reasons. The are 1st in marketing strategy, but when it comes to product quality and innovation, it's a bunch of lazy schmucks
Funny. Did you feel the same about IE4? Because at the time Netscape was trying to sell themselves as the inventors of the internet and coming up with exciting, new proprietary extensions to HTML and the DOM, Microsoft released what was then the best browser around.
How quick (or conveniently) we forget. No one was bitching about Microsoft being "a saturated monopolist writing software for all the wrong reasons" before Mozilla released their first usable alpha. But now they're lazy bastards or whatever.
Your post sounds like FUD to me. Would you like to provide some backing proof of your claim that they are "shills"? Proof that Microsoft is buying German politicians? What, are they "shills" because they don't happen to think like you do? Do you even understand the situation in Munich to make this kind of assertion?
Perhaps a note along the lines of "for Linux" or "on *nix systems" would have been nice, especially for the thousands of people who read this website, run Windows and couldn't care less about whether or not a language supports "shebang".
OS/2 as an OS was a geat success [...] as OSs go, BeOS was a success.
By your logic I could also assert that AtheOS is a fantastic OS, yet I can't explain why it hasn't grabbed 50% of the market share. Then again, I can also do that for Linux, and you'll probably blame it on "The Monopolist" (did I get that right?) instead of on just plain end-user unfriendly design and unstable user space crap that can't compete with commercial software if its life depended on it. Oh, but wait - that's reality. I guess you don't want to hear about that.
But, maybe the marketing was a failure, even IBM did not realise at first how ruthless Sir Bill can be.
Yes, "Sir Bill" (did I get that right? that's so cute!) reduced International Business Machines to the equivalent of a scared blinking anime doll, because we all know that IBM can't compete to save their lives. Oh wait, maybe IBM just underestimated Microsoft and got shafted. That's capitalism for you.
BTW, you can use "Windoze" and "Criminal Monopolist" only so many times before you start sounding like a desperate pathetic zealot. Just a FYI.
Hurdles: Since you seem to already have clearance to release this (I assume you're not the lone developer), there's not much trouble there. Just make sure that you do have full permissions to release it.
License: Pick the one that best suits your project and how you expect people to use it (or not). Normally SF requires that you use one of the OSI approved licenses.. For example, if your application is a library (doesn't seem to be) then you wouldn't want to use the GPL; OTOH the GPL is normally fine for standalone apps. If you're not sure, talk to a lawyer.
Other than that, in SourceForge the trick is to categorize your project in the Software Trove very carefully. Otherwise people will have trouble finding it. I've found stuff in Freshmeat through Google that I couldn't find browsing the trove because the developer miscategorized his/her work.
Well if they do we won't be able to tell, just like I am, like, totally fooled when I get a phone call from "Dany" in "Wisconsin" trying to sell me a credit card with an accent right out of those Fanta Shokata commercials.
Why is this relevant? Why does everything have to be "GPL-compatible"? How about the GNU folks stop using any and all open source software that is not "GPL-compatible" or otherwise GPL-licensed?
Stop using Apache, Mozilla, gzip, etc. etc.
Your obvious argument "um, not that hot because it's not GPL compatible" is stupid, but I guess that's how our "community" works. If Microsoft released Office under the GPL tomorrow you'd find some way to bitch about it.
Use a physical lock. Take care of your laptop (what, are you assuming that it will be stolen?). Use an encrypted filesystem. Do some sort of dead man's switch where the wrong logon will wipe your data.
Expecting that whomever steals it will merrily go home and plug it into an ethernet jack is a bit too much, I think.
Lawyers for the embattled Utah-based corporation did not confirm rumors that they intend to sue Microsoft over their patent of a rare type of apple. However, SCO's lead counsel was quoted as saying "our status as the original bad seed will not be undermined by these old fruits".
vim does support folding, though it's a little quirky to get just right. Most editors based on Scintilla (which is very popular with the Python crowd) do as well.
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I fear Mr. Neeson has now been permanently typecast, or maybe they couldn't afford a new wardrobe so they asked him to bring his Jedi robe. Just grow a beard, Liam you old fruit. You'll be fine, lad. Just fine. No one will recognize you. What? No, no lightsaber. Put the ghastly thing away. Thanks.
bwahahahaha!!!!!
My god.
We're still kinda working on this one:
Then again if this is not a tech support line, please disregard. Might want to think about doing the Engelbert Humperdinck thang.
Funny. Did you feel the same about IE4? Because at the time Netscape was trying to sell themselves as the inventors of the internet and coming up with exciting, new proprietary extensions to HTML and the DOM, Microsoft released what was then the best browser around.
How quick (or conveniently) we forget. No one was bitching about Microsoft being "a saturated monopolist writing software for all the wrong reasons" before Mozilla released their first usable alpha. But now they're lazy bastards or whatever.
Uncanny.
Funny, you just said it was. Two posts ago. Actually I get the impression you always say that. Funny how that is.
That's ridiculous. It's fairly obvious that you use Office (whatever application) only to, as the OP said, write college papers.
Off the top of my head - on the fly spell check, revision control, task panes, etc, etc, etc, etc.
Your post sounds like FUD to me. Would you like to provide some backing proof of your claim that they are "shills"? Proof that Microsoft is buying German politicians? What, are they "shills" because they don't happen to think like you do? Do you even understand the situation in Munich to make this kind of assertion?
That's probably why I'm a troll.
So, I RTFA, but I really didn't have to.
That title is wrong.
By your logic I could also assert that AtheOS is a fantastic OS, yet I can't explain why it hasn't grabbed 50% of the market share. Then again, I can also do that for Linux, and you'll probably blame it on "The Monopolist" (did I get that right?) instead of on just plain end-user unfriendly design and unstable user space crap that can't compete with commercial software if its life depended on it. Oh, but wait - that's reality. I guess you don't want to hear about that.
But, maybe the marketing was a failure, even IBM did not realise at first how ruthless Sir Bill can be.
Yes, "Sir Bill" (did I get that right? that's so cute!) reduced International Business Machines to the equivalent of a scared blinking anime doll, because we all know that IBM can't compete to save their lives. Oh wait, maybe IBM just underestimated Microsoft and got shafted. That's capitalism for you.
BTW, you can use "Windoze" and "Criminal Monopolist" only so many times before you start sounding like a desperate pathetic zealot. Just a FYI.
License: Pick the one that best suits your project and how you expect people to use it (or not). Normally SF requires that you use one of the OSI approved licenses.. For example, if your application is a library (doesn't seem to be) then you wouldn't want to use the GPL; OTOH the GPL is normally fine for standalone apps. If you're not sure, talk to a lawyer.
Other than that, in SourceForge the trick is to categorize your project in the Software Trove very carefully. Otherwise people will have trouble finding it. I've found stuff in Freshmeat through Google that I couldn't find browsing the trove because the developer miscategorized his/her work.
No one will use your stuff if they can't find it.
Well if they do we won't be able to tell, just like I am, like, totally fooled when I get a phone call from "Dany" in "Wisconsin" trying to sell me a credit card with an accent right out of those Fanta Shokata commercials.
It's "you", not "u".
What can YOU do with that?
Take a wild guess as to what I can do with all this. Ever heard of social engineering?
I could care less, but for someone who is in India it might prove rather useful.
And this is relevant because...?
- Psycho-analize Slashbots for $4.50 a pop
- ???
- Profit!
Thank you, I'll be here all week.Way to go stupid conspiracy theories.
Stop using Apache, Mozilla, gzip, etc. etc.
Your obvious argument "um, not that hot because it's not GPL compatible" is stupid, but I guess that's how our "community" works. If Microsoft released Office under the GPL tomorrow you'd find some way to bitch about it.
Expecting that whomever steals it will merrily go home and plug it into an ethernet jack is a bit too much, I think.
Stay tuned.
Would you like to provide some backing on this? I've shot this down enough times, I suppose I can do it with you as well.
C'mon, let's have it.
Wow, shades of 1999 and the Whistler betas. I'm impressed.
vim does support folding, though it's a little quirky to get just right. Most editors based on Scintilla (which is very popular with the Python crowd) do as well.