If we're not coming up with something new and innovative we're stuck making outlook clones. People don't like writing software like that.
What are you talking about?? Writing clones of commercial software is the prime directive of open source! I'm going to go out on a limb and say that actually there are quite a lot of people who like nothing more than doing exactly that.
"I cringe when I see them," says the movie critic Roger Ebert, interviewed via e-mail. On the other hand, he adds, "smileys might be a real help for today's students, raised on TV and unskilled at spotting irony without a laugh track."
"The smiley is an attack on writers and readers alike. If it is funny, it doesn't need a smiley. If is not funny, a smiley won't help it. The smiley teaches writers that anything they write will pass as humor as long as it is punctuated properly. It teaches readers that they must ignore their better judgment, and look only at punctuation to determine intent." -- Russell Turpin
"...the hateful:) which means 'just kidding' and is used by people who would dot their i's with little circles and should have their eyes dotted with Drano." -- Penn Jillette
Someone asked me if jwz.org was for sale the other day, and I said "sure!" but they seemed to think that ten million was too high. They didn't even make a counter-offer, though; I probably would have gone as low as a million. What, don't people haggle any more?
I use and really like Adium, but the one major thing it doesn't do that GAIM does is IRC. Which is weird, since that's built in to libgaim (which Adium uses). And it's doubly weird since the Adium developers hang out on an IRC channel. Doesn't that make their heads explode? Guess not.
Nobody ever asks me to be their spokeswhore. Curse you, marca! Curse you and your squirty toilet.
Speaking of squirty toilets. I think that you should all know that Mr. Andreessen had the stinkiest shits in the universe. There was many a time when I'd be about to go into the bathroom, and someone coming the other way would shake their head and say "Captain's Log."
...since the first thing one learns about OSX is that it makes traditional "find" incantations completely malfunction due to filenames with spaces in them: you have to re-train your finger memory from
find . -type f | xargs foo to find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 foo
For a good laugh, try explaining why that is necessary to a Unix newbie!
I got this extremely head-explodey spam the other day. Though, I guess it's nice to see spammers engaging in predation on other spammers for once...
Subject: Become an CELLPHONE SPAMMER From: "Rickey Brock" <...@yahoo.com>
Everyone knows response rates for email
spam have gone downhill tremendously
over the past two years. It's no surprise...
after all, we've been bombarding people
with ads for everything from penile enlargement
pills to mortgages almost since the day the
Web was invented.
But cellphones are a different story. Very few
people know how to mass broadcast text messages.
But I do. I've been doing it for six months now,
and the response rate is HUGE. If I send a hundred
thousand messages, I'll pull 20 good mortgage leads
easily. And it's not hard to send a few million
text messages a day. Remember, cellphone carriers
ARE NOT ISPS. They don't know anything about filters!
They have a few filters, sure, but they are weak
and ineffective.
Bottom line... I am getting sued by two major
carriers and must get out of the business. I am willing
to pass on the torch to 3 people only. I will
give you everything you need to start mass
mailing text messages instantly. Here is what
I will provide you:
[...blah blah blah... ]
I am not a ripoff. Upon request, I can fax you a
copy of the 74 page lawsuit against me by Verizon.
I have been a bulker since 1996 and focused entirely
on text messaging for the past six months.
Once again, contact me at [different email address]
for more info.
Please don't mangle email addresses in Google Groups!
I guess you are doing this because of some misguided belief that it will help with spam, but really all it does is decrease the utility of the internet as a communications medium. I do not hide my email address because I want people to be able to contact me, and the new Google Groups beta destroys the email addresses that I quite intentionally put in my messages. This is bad. Please don't do it.
Here's what the old way looked like: (old way) And here's the new way: (new way)
What I consider bugs in the new way are:
destruction of email addresses in From, Sender, etc headers;
destruction of email addresses in the message body;
destruction of message IDs in the headers (because sometimes message IDs look like email addresses, you mangle them -- even though it's guarenteed that no email addresses will ever appear in the References or Message-ID headers.)
that the returned document is of type text/html instead of type text/plain. It was a good feature of the old system that the "Original Format" link returned a plain text version of the original, tabs and all. Sometimes you want to get at the message as it was actually posted, and not at some marked up approximation thereof.
The EOS-300D will shoot 4 frames at 2.5 frames per second and the EOS-10D will shoot 9 frames at 3 frames per second.
I just bought a 10D, and this was the primary reason that I picked it over the 300D; shooting speed is really important to me. I imagine that this particular difference is a function of the hardware platform (cpu speed? bus speed?) rather than whether certain preferences are exposed in the software.
I guess I'm the only one here who thinks the original story was just not very good at all? Not only doesn't it follow its own internal rules about time travel in any logical way, I also don't think the writing is any good.
Given that, the "Time Cop" guy probably wasn't an inappropriate choice.
If you're a Unix user, "OpenGL Programming for the X Window System" by Mark Kilgard is a good one to get. That way you won't have to stumble around Windows-specific instructions. (It's a good book in general, too; fortunately there's not a whole lot about OpenGL that is either Windows- or Unix-specific.)
Since everyone is plugging their own programs that do this, I'll plug mine: Gronk.
It gives you a FreeDB-driven web-based playlist manager and controls a running XMMS process. The XMMS Oddcast DSP plugin lets it shout to a local Icecast server so you can listen locally or remotely.
I also like the Crossfade plugin, for smooth transitions between songs.
The Tivo remote is definitely one of the nicest remotes I've ever used -- my only complaint about it is that it's too symmetrical. I always end up picking it up pointed the wrong way and rewinding when I meant to fast-forward.
I used to have a Philips Pronto remote (with the LCD screen that looks like a bloated Palm) and it was very flexible, but impossible to use in the dark: you had to look at it to see where the buttons were, since it was just a touch-screen. (Then I dropped a cup on it and the screen cracked, so that was the end of that.)
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What are you talking about?? Writing clones of commercial software is the prime directive of open source! I'm going to go out on a limb and say that actually there are quite a lot of people who like nothing more than doing exactly that.
"I cringe when I see them," says the movie critic Roger Ebert, interviewed via e-mail. On the other hand, he adds, "smileys might be a real help for today's students, raised on TV and unskilled at spotting irony without a laugh track."
"The smiley is an attack on writers and readers alike. If it is funny, it doesn't need a smiley. If is not funny, a smiley won't help it. The smiley teaches writers that anything they write will pass as humor as long as it is punctuated properly. It teaches readers that they must ignore their better judgment, and look only at punctuation to determine intent." -- Russell Turpin
"...the hateful :) which means 'just kidding' and is used by people who would dot their i's with little circles and should have their eyes dotted with Drano." -- Penn Jillette
This headline is funnier if you read it as "Smurf Removed From NCAA Game for Smurfing".
Someone asked me if jwz.org was for sale the other day, and I said "sure!" but they seemed to think that ten million was too high. They didn't even make a counter-offer, though; I probably would have gone as low as a million. What, don't people haggle any more?
I use and really like Adium, but the one major thing it doesn't do that GAIM does is IRC. Which is weird, since that's built in to libgaim (which Adium uses). And it's doubly weird since the Adium developers hang out on an IRC channel. Doesn't that make their heads explode? Guess not.
Not quite: Adium doesn't do IRC, despite the fact that libgaim supports it.
Since all of the OSX IRC clients I've seen suck, I've pretty much stopped using IRC as a result.
Nobody ever asks me to be their spokeswhore. Curse you, marca! Curse you and your squirty toilet.
Speaking of squirty toilets. I think that you should all know that Mr. Andreessen had the stinkiest shits in the universe. There was many a time when I'd be about to go into the bathroom, and someone coming the other way would shake their head and say "Captain's Log."
It's only slow if you don't have a paid account. I agree that their theme systems (both of them) are totally from hell.
find . -type f | xargs foo
to
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 foo
For a good laugh, try explaining why that is necessary to a Unix newbie!
I like how they don't even bother to define the term. Do they mean "faster than 56k", or do they mean "always on", or what?
"The problem for your problem!"
(Oops, I posted that comment on the wrong story! Nothing to see here, move along.)
"The problem for your problem!"
I just sent this to groups-support@google.com:
Well, no, not really. Here's how it really works.
I totally agree that too few Unix programs support the C-c/C-v idiom, but it's orthogonal to the select/middle-click idiom.
I just bought a 10D, and this was the primary reason that I picked it over the 300D; shooting speed is really important to me. I imagine that this particular difference is a function of the hardware platform (cpu speed? bus speed?) rather than whether certain preferences are exposed in the software.
Given that, the "Time Cop" guy probably wasn't an inappropriate choice.
Kilgard is the author of GLUT.
Dude, I think it's time to move out of your mom's basement.
Since everyone is plugging their own programs that do this, I'll plug mine: Gronk.
It gives you a FreeDB-driven web-based playlist manager and controls a running XMMS process. The XMMS Oddcast DSP plugin lets it shout to a local Icecast server so you can listen locally or remotely.
I also like the Crossfade plugin, for smooth transitions between songs.
Damn The Man. Damn The Man.
How many proposed new window systems named "Y" have there been at this point? Because I first heard this joke in like, 1988.
(The gag being that there were earlier window systems named V and W.)
(Also let me take this moment to say "C++: it's not just a name, it's a grade.")
(Thank you, I'm here all week. Try the veal.)
I used to have a Philips Pronto remote (with the LCD screen that looks like a bloated Palm) and it was very flexible, but impossible to use in the dark: you had to look at it to see where the buttons were, since it was just a touch-screen. (Then I dropped a cup on it and the screen cracked, so that was the end of that.)
It's not a bulb: if it costs more than a hundred bucks, it's a lamp. That way you feel better about being raped.