Yes, porn companies have been doing it for some time but many of the companies that you sign up to to get these dollars/sale skim numbers off the sales. So if it's not the consumer putting it to the advertiser, it's the other way around. Some of the programs have an option as to what % to skim. So eat or be eaten, I guess.
Well you people also treat "open source community", "open source" or "Linux" as a single collective being. "All open source software have unusable interfaces", "all programmers must be banned from UI design", etc. etc.
Please, don't refer to me as "you people" here because I am all for open source. I'm using it as I type this. I use it exclusively at home. I advocate and push those I know to use open source alternatives whenever it meets their needs.
I was in no way trashing open source. And hopefully you are in the minority for taking it that way. I was just stating that "slashdot" isn't one mind and I don't understand why people make such grand generalizations like that when we should all be intelligent enough to know far better than that.
So "slashdotters" are a collective that all have to share the same opinions? Quite frankly, Slashdot would be a joke if everyone just sat around replying "I agree! Corporate is good". The whole point of these forums are to discuss and spark a debate about topics that we're largely passionate about. Differing opinions and all.
Now, if parent had also been the one who was touting that corporate was good, but now is bad, the the point is valid and disregard the previous paragraph....and sorry about the Off Topic, but I see a lot of that sort of rhetoric where someone complains that multiple viewpoints are found in the forums as if that's not the way it was meant to be and I have yet to understand why.
Embrace and extend? Microsoft? That's the problem. There is little embracing of the standard and much done in the way of proprietary tags/functionality.
If they at the very least had support for open standards, they could add their own widgets/etc. on top. It's fine for specialized use, internally if that's what your company uses and you know that everyone who is going to use it will be using IE.
But it's the responsibility of web developers to make their pages standards-compliant and to degrade nicely if they choose otherwise. I can't go through another "This site is best viewed with xxxx browser".
At the very least, every browser (Lynx included) should be able to read that page and any add-ons for specific browsers should only affect the browser that they work in. Though I would prefer that developers stick to agreed upon open standards whenever dealing with the internet.
Does anyone honestly believe Microsoft will be vanquished? It will never happen. Either they'll keep their ridiculous monopoly as it is now, or in a perfect world, this new standard providing more functionality and security than IE and people start switching.
There are people still using Windows 95. There will always be people using IE. A lot of people. We can hope for MS to lose a chunk of their browser share, but that, in turn, could force them to up their standards compliance.
In a couple years, if 40% of the people are using non-MS browsers and the number is a rising trend, that is something they would obviously be taking seriously and would likely roll out better standards support. Or... I'm living a pipe dream. Time will tell.
With that said, then if a similar concept were available using open standards, with security and interoperability in mind, you wouldn't give it a chance?
I will likely try it out just because that's what most of us do... try it, if it breaks, put it away. If it works, figure out ways to make it work for you. I'm rooting for WHAT.
Thank you! Stop changing headers to show your browser as IE to view sites that won't allow it otherwise.
Those tools kick ass for web developers but using them to casually browse sites that trip on an alternate browser only compounds the problem.
The admins can't justify *not* catering to IE specifically when it holds 98% share. No matter how much he may want to. They've got suits to answer to and all those suits care about is reaching the most people. And as stated earlier, they likely think that "e" is the Internet as a whole.
I believe there are... and I'm not 100% on any of this, but I'll throw it out there. This is/. so I know I'll be quickly corrected if I'm off on anything.
First, I believe that the default connections/server and such settings are set according to a TCP/IP standard. I believe the default max is 4? Regardless, I am under the impression that that is why it is not set otherwise by default.
As for some of the other settings, I don't know that those are necessarily the best settings for someone on dial-up. I only say this because when looking up Firefox tweaks I found a user.js file for broadband and another for dial-up. The dial-up user.js. I don't recall what values were different or how different they were.
I'll second that. Previously I would listen to right-wing blowhard Limbaugh followed by Randi Rhodes on WJNO. Randi is now on Air America Radio from 3-7 I believe. Al Franken is on starting at noon. It is interesting radio... and I'm Canadian. I wish I knew of canadian-equivalent radio. I feel it fairly important to keep abreast of what is going on south of me just as much as what is happening here. Your elections do affect how things work up here.
Similarly the damage done to the owners of the name 'googol' could be fairly substantial
Can someone PLEASE tell me how *ANY* damage has been done to the name googol. It's not even a name! It's a NUMBER. 1 million. 1 billion. 1 googol. There is no legal claim to the name. Therefore, there is no damage done and these are the kinds of people that make me fucking sick to my stomach.
I have an older PII 450 running Slackware 9.1 w/ fluxbox and it runs like a dream, even for an outdated 7 year old POS. And it does a lot more than an out-of-the-box XP. And even at 7 years old, the *ONLY* thing that doesn't work right off install is sound, and even as a newb I had the sound working on my first Linux installation within an hour... thanks to online help and forums.
While still in the Windows trap, I tried installing XP to see how it would run and it was *SLOW*. A bit better with Classic view, but still slower than I'd like.
So take into consideration the cost of a new system in order to run XP efficiently and that too skews the cost of the OS. Slack, $0. Install, 20 mins. Sound, 1 hour. If I paid myself $50/hr that nice, clean, secure, smooth running, otherwise-obsolete machine, is running a $67 OS rounded up. I'll take it.
I was under the impression that you could only patent the implementation of an idea. If MS were to become litigious bastards would they not have to prove the offending code and make their own visible as well?
And mod me offtopic, but what I've been wondering is how would anyone know if there is a MS employee working on an OS project, and using MS code in it for the express purpose of discrediting OS at a later time?
Thanks. Very interesting concept... and it addresses one of the things that I witness most from end users who aren't familiar with computers in general. I will say something that, to me, would seem simple. Say, go to your home directory, is what I tell them. They look at me like I asked them to do long division. Then, I think about it, and try to put it in *SIMPLER* terms that they can relate to and I just tell them to "show me where you save your files" and they figure it out.
To me, those two sentences are the same thing, but to them, they are two entirely different concepts. For the user themselves to be able to put their own input in as to what they want or what they relate tasks to is a very good idea...
...will any Linux distro forego familiarity and try to revolutionize a new desktop? People are familiar with Windows, but, as stated here, is it really that intuitive? Not unless you've used it for some time. So why not develop the next gen desktop and trump MS. I know IceVM and the like are vastly different, but I don't know how Joe Sixpack would adapt to the interface. Who knows, maybe he would... but I would definitely like to see some innovation in the desktop as it has been untouched for decades, really. Christ, I remember GEOS on the C64 that was an 8bit, 64k version of today's desktop. End of rant... informative or not...
Personally, I couldn't give two squirts what his motives are. It's not every day that you actually see someone actively trying to catch crooks. I am sure I am not the only one who is sick of seeing the excessively rich get richer by bending over those who are likely struggling to get by as it is. At current rate we'll soon have two classes... middle class will be relegated to "back in my day" stories.
So if he's doing this for political gain... great. Go nuts. If he's doing it to get chicks, let'er rip! If he's doing it because the voices in his head said it's the right thing to do then who am I to argue. Let him clean this shit up since no one else who is SUPPOSED to be doing it is.
People won't change to Linux because of the nerd-factor involved.
I highly doubt that Joe user knows of the "geek" stigma that Linux has. I'm willing to bet provided you didn't have to have them install anything, and to just sit there, send an e-mail, browse, and write resumes, you could probably convince them it was Windows Longhorn and that they should just shut up and use it.
But on the other hand, what is the use of Linux if all that is needed is what Windows is capable of doing?
My car can turn both right and left, signal (usually) turns, accellerate and brake on command. Why would anyone have any other car than the one I have? Because some cars (and OSs) are better in certain ways. Linux is great for Grandma who isn't trying to tweek her system, install the latest video driver, etc. If she just wants to browse the internet for crochet designs, and to use her e-mail to keep in touch with her grand kids, then why not Linux. Once it's set up it's stable. And that's all she needs.
I work in the IT dept for a county in Ontario. I'm not sure how other counties are set up in Canada, let alone in the States, but here, libraries are the responsibility of the IT dept. If a LUG were to make such a proposition to a library here it would likely (unfortunately) be turned down.
Sadly, this place, like many others are so hooked on MS that I doubt I'll see the day where anything else is used. I couldn't even get them to use Linux on a TESTING web server. No, they went out and bought a brand new system with 2003. For a goddamned test web server.
If this situation doesn't apply to you, Godspeed! It would be great to get more of the general public exposed to Linux in an environment where it's designed to be comfortable for them.
Well said. You can have an exhibit that is dumbed down for kids, and have some more of the technical real scientific side of things about that exhibit along side it. The kid stares and giggles watching Mr.Sun explain why he's so hot and the dad can read about the life cycle of an atom in the core of the sun and how it could take millions/billions of years for a proton to actually escape the sun and get launched to earth.
If an image is only being displayed on one eye would there not be some distortion whenever the other eye is open? I put my finger in front of my right eye. Close my right eye and my left eye cannot see it. Close my left eye and my right eye sees it fine. Open both eyes and it's a distorted "see-through" image of my finger. Would a similar effect not happen here or is there some compensation built into the device? I saw no mention of it in the article but perhaps someone has more information.
I would say that that is starting to not be the case. The last two jobs I've held I was interviewed directly by the people who were my superiors.
The one job was a panel interview with four people, two of which were the senior IT staff, the IT manager, and the HR chick. The other job was two panel interviews. The first was with HR folk and the IT manager, then I was called back for a second interview with the IT manager and three senior IT staffers. There was no bullshitting your way into either of these jobs.
I think too many companies were burned by bullshitters and lost a lot of money in training costs and poor productivity. I'm surprised it took as long as it did for this lesson to be learned.
Sorry, but gimp is not even CLOSE to a replacement for photoshop. Is it a nice image editor? Sure. But there's no way it can compete with PS at this time.
That is the *one* thing that is keeping me from being Windows free at this point. I've found open source replacements for everything else I use and look forward to gimp being able to do the things I need to do in PS so I can make the switch. I'm rooting for it.
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Yes, porn companies have been doing it for some time but many of the companies that you sign up to to get these dollars/sale skim numbers off the sales. So if it's not the consumer putting it to the advertiser, it's the other way around. Some of the programs have an option as to what % to skim. So eat or be eaten, I guess.
People who drive BMW's still like to check out Ferarri's when they drive by.
Why bother registering domains when you can just sue someone who uses one of "your domains" and get $3.9 million in return. Now that's ROI.
Please, don't refer to me as "you people" here because I am all for open source. I'm using it as I type this. I use it exclusively at home. I advocate and push those I know to use open source alternatives whenever it meets their needs.
I was in no way trashing open source. And hopefully you are in the minority for taking it that way. I was just stating that "slashdot" isn't one mind and I don't understand why people make such grand generalizations like that when we should all be intelligent enough to know far better than that.
So "slashdotters" are a collective that all have to share the same opinions? Quite frankly, Slashdot would be a joke if everyone just sat around replying "I agree! Corporate is good". The whole point of these forums are to discuss and spark a debate about topics that we're largely passionate about. Differing opinions and all.
...and sorry about the Off Topic, but I see a lot of that sort of rhetoric where someone complains that multiple viewpoints are found in the forums as if that's not the way it was meant to be and I have yet to understand why.
Now, if parent had also been the one who was touting that corporate was good, but now is bad, the the point is valid and disregard the previous paragraph.
Embrace and extend? Microsoft? That's the problem. There is little embracing of the standard and much done in the way of proprietary tags/functionality.
If they at the very least had support for open standards, they could add their own widgets/etc. on top. It's fine for specialized use, internally if that's what your company uses and you know that everyone who is going to use it will be using IE.
But it's the responsibility of web developers to make their pages standards-compliant and to degrade nicely if they choose otherwise. I can't go through another "This site is best viewed with xxxx browser".
At the very least, every browser (Lynx included) should be able to read that page and any add-ons for specific browsers should only affect the browser that they work in. Though I would prefer that developers stick to agreed upon open standards whenever dealing with the internet.
Does anyone honestly believe Microsoft will be vanquished? It will never happen. Either they'll keep their ridiculous monopoly as it is now, or in a perfect world, this new standard providing more functionality and security than IE and people start switching.
There are people still using Windows 95. There will always be people using IE. A lot of people. We can hope for MS to lose a chunk of their browser share, but that, in turn, could force them to up their standards compliance.
In a couple years, if 40% of the people are using non-MS browsers and the number is a rising trend, that is something they would obviously be taking seriously and would likely roll out better standards support. Or... I'm living a pipe dream. Time will tell.
With that said, then if a similar concept were available using open standards, with security and interoperability in mind, you wouldn't give it a chance?
I will likely try it out just because that's what most of us do... try it, if it breaks, put it away. If it works, figure out ways to make it work for you. I'm rooting for WHAT.
Thank you! Stop changing headers to show your browser as IE to view sites that won't allow it otherwise.
Those tools kick ass for web developers but using them to casually browse sites that trip on an alternate browser only compounds the problem.
The admins can't justify *not* catering to IE specifically when it holds 98% share. No matter how much he may want to. They've got suits to answer to and all those suits care about is reaching the most people. And as stated earlier, they likely think that "e" is the Internet as a whole.
I believe there are... and I'm not 100% on any of this, but I'll throw it out there. This is /. so I know I'll be quickly corrected if I'm off on anything.
First, I believe that the default connections/server and such settings are set according to a TCP/IP standard. I believe the default max is 4? Regardless, I am under the impression that that is why it is not set otherwise by default.
As for some of the other settings, I don't know that those are necessarily the best settings for someone on dial-up. I only say this because when looking up Firefox tweaks I found a user.js file for broadband and another for dial-up. The dial-up user.js. I don't recall what values were different or how different they were.
I'll second that. Previously I would listen to right-wing blowhard Limbaugh followed by Randi Rhodes on WJNO. Randi is now on Air America Radio from 3-7 I believe. Al Franken is on starting at noon. It is interesting radio... and I'm Canadian. I wish I knew of canadian-equivalent radio. I feel it fairly important to keep abreast of what is going on south of me just as much as what is happening here. Your elections do affect how things work up here.
I have an older PII 450 running Slackware 9.1 w/ fluxbox and it runs like a dream, even for an outdated 7 year old POS. And it does a lot more than an out-of-the-box XP. And even at 7 years old, the *ONLY* thing that doesn't work right off install is sound, and even as a newb I had the sound working on my first Linux installation within an hour... thanks to online help and forums.
While still in the Windows trap, I tried installing XP to see how it would run and it was *SLOW*. A bit better with Classic view, but still slower than I'd like.
So take into consideration the cost of a new system in order to run XP efficiently and that too skews the cost of the OS. Slack, $0. Install, 20 mins. Sound, 1 hour. If I paid myself $50/hr that nice, clean, secure, smooth running, otherwise-obsolete machine, is running a $67 OS rounded up. I'll take it.
I was under the impression that you could only patent the implementation of an idea. If MS were to become litigious bastards would they not have to prove the offending code and make their own visible as well?
And mod me offtopic, but what I've been wondering is how would anyone know if there is a MS employee working on an OS project, and using MS code in it for the express purpose of discrediting OS at a later time?
Thanks. Very interesting concept... and it addresses one of the things that I witness most from end users who aren't familiar with computers in general. I will say something that, to me, would seem simple. Say, go to your home directory, is what I tell them. They look at me like I asked them to do long division. Then, I think about it, and try to put it in *SIMPLER* terms that they can relate to and I just tell them to "show me where you save your files" and they figure it out.
To me, those two sentences are the same thing, but to them, they are two entirely different concepts. For the user themselves to be able to put their own input in as to what they want or what they relate tasks to is a very good idea...
...will any Linux distro forego familiarity and try to revolutionize a new desktop? People are familiar with Windows, but, as stated here, is it really that intuitive? Not unless you've used it for some time. So why not develop the next gen desktop and trump MS. I know IceVM and the like are vastly different, but I don't know how Joe Sixpack would adapt to the interface. Who knows, maybe he would... but I would definitely like to see some innovation in the desktop as it has been untouched for decades, really. Christ, I remember GEOS on the C64 that was an 8bit, 64k version of today's desktop. End of rant... informative or not...
...and I'm pretty sure it has a lot to do with how much money you've given to the gov't that is supposed to be keeping an eye on you.
Personally, I couldn't give two squirts what his motives are. It's not every day that you actually see someone actively trying to catch crooks. I am sure I am not the only one who is sick of seeing the excessively rich get richer by bending over those who are likely struggling to get by as it is. At current rate we'll soon have two classes... middle class will be relegated to "back in my day" stories.
So if he's doing this for political gain... great. Go nuts. If he's doing it to get chicks, let'er rip! If he's doing it because the voices in his head said it's the right thing to do then who am I to argue. Let him clean this shit up since no one else who is SUPPOSED to be doing it is.
People won't change to Linux because of the nerd-factor involved.
I highly doubt that Joe user knows of the "geek" stigma that Linux has. I'm willing to bet provided you didn't have to have them install anything, and to just sit there, send an e-mail, browse, and write resumes, you could probably convince them it was Windows Longhorn and that they should just shut up and use it.
But on the other hand, what is the use of Linux if all that is needed is what Windows is capable of doing?
My car can turn both right and left, signal (usually) turns, accellerate and brake on command. Why would anyone have any other car than the one I have? Because some cars (and OSs) are better in certain ways. Linux is great for Grandma who isn't trying to tweek her system, install the latest video driver, etc. If she just wants to browse the internet for crochet designs, and to use her e-mail to keep in touch with her grand kids, then why not Linux. Once it's set up it's stable. And that's all she needs.
I work in the IT dept for a county in Ontario. I'm not sure how other counties are set up in Canada, let alone in the States, but here, libraries are the responsibility of the IT dept. If a LUG were to make such a proposition to a library here it would likely (unfortunately) be turned down.
Sadly, this place, like many others are so hooked on MS that I doubt I'll see the day where anything else is used. I couldn't even get them to use Linux on a TESTING web server. No, they went out and bought a brand new system with 2003. For a goddamned test web server.
If this situation doesn't apply to you, Godspeed! It would be great to get more of the general public exposed to Linux in an environment where it's designed to be comfortable for them.
Well said. You can have an exhibit that is dumbed down for kids, and have some more of the technical real scientific side of things about that exhibit along side it. The kid stares and giggles watching Mr.Sun explain why he's so hot and the dad can read about the life cycle of an atom in the core of the sun and how it could take millions/billions of years for a proton to actually escape the sun and get launched to earth.
I have to wonder why we have SCIENCE museums that are based on anything else...
If an image is only being displayed on one eye would there not be some distortion whenever the other eye is open? I put my finger in front of my right eye. Close my right eye and my left eye cannot see it. Close my left eye and my right eye sees it fine. Open both eyes and it's a distorted "see-through" image of my finger. Would a similar effect not happen here or is there some compensation built into the device? I saw no mention of it in the article but perhaps someone has more information.
I would say that that is starting to not be the case. The last two jobs I've held I was interviewed directly by the people who were my superiors.
The one job was a panel interview with four people, two of which were the senior IT staff, the IT manager, and the HR chick. The other job was two panel interviews. The first was with HR folk and the IT manager, then I was called back for a second interview with the IT manager and three senior IT staffers. There was no bullshitting your way into either of these jobs.
I think too many companies were burned by bullshitters and lost a lot of money in training costs and poor productivity. I'm surprised it took as long as it did for this lesson to be learned.
Sorry, but gimp is not even CLOSE to a replacement for photoshop. Is it a nice image editor? Sure. But there's no way it can compete with PS at this time.
That is the *one* thing that is keeping me from being Windows free at this point. I've found open source replacements for everything else I use and look forward to gimp being able to do the things I need to do in PS so I can make the switch. I'm rooting for it.