and that hasn't caused any problems.
lets just say that KDE becomes everybodies favorite desktop, and all the computer neophytes embrace it over windows, then i'll have the joy of reading all teh slashdot rants about 'how stupid it is that konqueror is built into the system. it's an invitation for viruses and exploits.' Now i know that 'the most popular browser in the world' is a virus whore for reasons other then just being popular, but having it integrated so deeply into your system gives you a great single point of failure for people to attack. Sooner or later you'll have remote widgets opening up in everything. No thank you.
I like my file manager as a file manger, my browser as a browser. I'm not saying no to interoperability (it is nice) but i don't think they should be the same program. (FTP support ina file manager isn't a bad idea though, as long as you use your file manager for managing files)
Also, I think that IE is the most prolific browser in the world, not the most popular. Opera and Firefox have borderline cult followings. Many IE users don't even realise that they are using a browser and not the internet (this is not to say people who use IE are stupid, but stupid people have easy access to IE, where stupid = not in the know). Basically, if you lookde for people proclaiming their undieing affection for their browser of choice, i don't think (despite the steep market lead), IE wins
couldn't you just link to them on slash dot
that's been proven to be an effective, system independent DoS attack (even if the attack was unintentional or brought about by the owner)
"I should point out that a healthy industry is not an excuse for stealing intellectual property. Cop: "You're under arrest for stealing TV's from Sears!" Crook: "What? But Sears posted a 13% profit increase in the 3rd quarter! They can afford this!" That doesn't work." - Psymunn
See what i just did?!? I stole your intellectual property. I took credit for something you said. But wait.. I can't help but notice, affexed to my own post, your quote is still there, glaringly obvious for all to see...
Surely if I stole it, it must be gone. Mayhaps a diffrent crime has taken place, but theft it can not be...
I thinkt he problem people have is not that there is health of the industry, therefore I can steal but the possiblity (though this has never been proven) that P2P actually helps the movie industry. After all, thanks to me, your words got approximatly twice as much viewage (my taking credit for them however was morally bankrupt, that i must admit). Years ago people where declaring that VCRs would be the death of the movie theatre business. But, what people don't realise is, I do not have a 3 story high screen in my basment and, some movies, really are meant to be seen on a BFS (big friendly screen). I think (with music, and movies) P2P allows people to sample things a lot more and, with a bit of luck, will ultimatly mean the death of one-hit-wonders.
Granted, illegally copying copyrighted material is still illegal, but all that clamping down on this apparant scourge on society is giong to do is, hopefully, help the indie guys who aren't making much money and just want to have their stuff seen.
But there's that commercial with the guy whose the stuntman and... and... he goes through all that work and you can watch his movie with just a single click... and... P2P rapes 3rd world children...
I hate all these people trying to guilt trip me into thinking I'm a criminal because I download movies, even though I pay to see them in theatre, buy them if I think they are excellent, and then they turn around and make more money then i will ever see off of something like chronicles of riddik. I think for every Van Helsing (arguably the worst movie EVER) a person watches, they should be entitled to download 2 movies.
Not many people have watched teh Clerks cartoon, but it's worth it jsut for the scene where Randall brings every shitty movie director into court and demands, under oath, that they admit that 'star wars 1 sucked' or something to that effect.
My dad was contracting for microsoft a couple years back, writing software for their speaker installation or something along those lines. It turns out that, without fail, almost ever microsoft peripheral actually generates a loss. The entire hardware department was, more or less, held up on the basis of the microsoft mouse alone. Of course, it's generally in Microsofts best interest to produce everything, even if they don't stand to make money with it
Incidently, the speakers tanked. Not bad at all (managed to scam a free set) but cost double what anything else on the market at the time did more or less based on the fact they where USB (this was just about the time USB was getting off the ground).
Your remark was cringe-inducing, so I felt compelled to mention that you really, truly meant to write "for all intents and purposes".
Nope. I was refering, of course, only to the purposes that where intensive. Intensive purposes are a sub domain of the 'intents and purposes' super set. I suppose, that when the Canadian government is feeling more laid back, they whip out a couple of old records and head bang to 'summer of '69.' Just because my statment would have been more accurate and/or more logical using your wording, does not mean it is at all what i meant. What i believe you really, truly meant to say instead of 'grammar nazi' is 'silly person who peruses the internet for grammatical errors and smells like pooh (and why am i punching myself).'
Keep fighting the good fight my friend. If you have nothing relevant to say, might as well spell check the largest body of bad grammer and speling available to man.
As a side note, any grammatical errors, misuse of tense, spilling of salt, odd numbering of sentences, or a blatant reversal of 'i' and 'e' after the letter 'c' where entirely intentional and, in a post-modernist-sort-of-a-way help get across what ever message you interpreted which, to you is probably the right one because... well that's what postmodernists do.
Now go back to seperating the diffrent coloured skittles into diffrent bags. Thank you
"Its they're wey off spelin' butt eye height it!"
One of the problem with Shareware (or cripple ware) and open source is that it's generally just as easy to distribute the shareware version as the complete version, so it only takes one person to purchase a product and give it to everyone.
I think this impacts open source game production because, frankly, it's hard to find a way to give the source to the community and still ensure some kind of revenue stream.
What I figured is, why can't someone release a game, GPL all the source code, but claim that the artwork and level data are copyrighted and, please, feel free to give your buddies a copy, but don't use the art/leveldata in a commercial release
I think that, while not nesseccarily in keeping with the free software ideology, it is in keeping with the open source philosophy (and yes, bare with me, i know that free is not cost free and open is not simply saying 'check out my code')
By providing my source code to whomever wants it, I make it easier for the next guy not to have to reinvent the wheel. But the specific game data (leveldata, game sprites) are what makes this game unique (if only at the surface level) and are useless to a programer who wants to use my code to write his own game.
Such a license would allow one to release a Shareware version of the game (akin to Doom or Commander Keen, where you get an episode, not some software that expires over time and does half of what you want) which allows for commercial distribution, and a full version which the author can sell.
Of course, maybe that makes the author a capatalistpropriatarypigbastard, but i'd like to hear feedback on the idea...
Alpha Gamma Delta?!? That's a sorority...
Okay, i'm fully confused. This is one of those indie irony, 'i'm not in a sorority and hate computers' kind of a thing isn't it... only explenation i can think of
From my personal experince, that advanced calculus class has a fairly lopsided male to female ratio. Any girl who shows up in that class... trust me, the guys will be "all over her." Of course, these males, more often then not, are not your typical alpha males and there for not considered desirable.
But I guess I'm wrong. Taking advanced classes makes a man attractive. In our society, no one is encouraged to take advanced calculus.
I say it will because microsoft isn't the ones making the plugins. The vast majority of computer users i know have flash and quicktime installed. It's in microsofts best interest to support these plugins, not break them.
Granted they can (and will) try counter with their own nonstandard format but microsoft can only reinvent their own less stable (but far more proliphic) wheels...
Actually it doesn't. Bryan Adams works for an american label and has, for all intensive purposes, been disowned by the Canadian government.
But yes. It still strikes a chord with me every time i have to backup a virus strewn windows computer onto CDs that, because i'm reformatting YET AGAIN, I'm indirectly financing Chad Kruger (who makes shitty music, and more money then me). It's almost as if these people are getting payed every time windows fucks up. Hm...
Spiderman DIES!!!
seriously... it's not like this story is an origional work. It's just like people i know who didn't want me telling them what happens at the end of Lord of the rings (pssst, frodo dies)
It's not a secret. It doesn't wreck the story. I mean, the full spoiler has been published already...
Isn't anyone who is trying to, asymptotically, reach peak productivness, really just calling for an end to slash dot? I mean... that'd increase productivity quite a lot.
This WM actually doesn't look too bad. Whenever I hear 3D desktop I assume garish arrangment of spinning browsers on cubes. This looks more akin to a *box with some neat ways of organising files on screen (the shrinking inactive files). Personally, I prefer my fluxbox tabbing, but I like the sensable 3D approach (not just some glitzy graphics demo).
Yeah, i can proclaim my OS suppiriority by... printing up a label.
And, what's more, the label can mention just how unfeasable it would have been to have it's self created had it's creator not been using everyones favorite GTK based desktop
Or... you know... maybe the whole linux labeling community is a dead idea before it starts...
Forgive me for beign naive, but if i went up to the magority of people i know and said 'hey man, there's this kick ass confrence streaming on the internet, and guess what: it's OGG' i'd receive a whoel lot of WTF.
Don't get me wrong, i support ogg because it's 'free as in awesome', and i hate realplayer because it's 'annoying as in YAPI' (yet another plug in) but i think another format is just going to confuse new users. What's more, joe user isn't truly going to embrace something like ogg until bob porn producer does.
which claims to be the world's number-two maker of colour TVs
Silly Microsoft. Colour TVs are still experimental technology and will never take off. Far better for them to team up with developers of the tried, tested, and true, black and white televion set
Yeah, of course it's lame. So are all the silly animations that the Mac OS does by default. But silly rotating things is by and large the direction things are going to be heading. Afterall, Microsoft isn't the only one who realises that the average user only needs a word processor, web browser, media player and possibly a messenger program. So why would they get a newer computer if they can run all those features more then adequatly on an old computer with a large hard drive. Because it wouldn't be 3D accelerated.
The problem with computers is, for the average user, they are more or less fast enough to do everything a person who isn't a gamer, or graphic artist needs. So now people need to make them unnessecarly obsolete. It's all part of the big bad (intentional) bloat.
human behaviors I'd rather robots not emulate, such as warring
So you don't want robots getting free wireless internet? I hear you brother. Fight the good fight
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Man, there's this great ad campaign in Vancouver, BC where a kid gets caught stealing a candy bar and just tells his dad 'but you steal satellite singals.' It's brought to you by the concerned statelite people of north america or something.
Man, i love those 'Concerened X's of Y.' Who are these people. Are they a a group of house wives (or husbands) who get together and say 'our society is falling to pieces, we must raise money to publish adds that will make satelite-single-stealers/internet-pirates/movie-bo otleggers feel bad about themselves?!? I just wish the cable companies or record companies would flat out admit it's them who are frowning apon what you are doing
At the end of teh day, I'm goign to give up UT because 'killing people online is still killing.'
And remember children: 'When you download MP3s, you Download Communism!!!'
I know why they did it but it would have been nice if Firefox was stil Firebird... you know... for consistancy
Or they could just change everything else to Thunderfox and Sunfox...
Yeah... I think Sunbird deserved it's own animal group prehaps. Whatever, Mozilla is the one comapny that seems to be able to pull of inconsistant naming and improve their brand identity becausee of it (at least among geeks)
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Hey kids, welcome to Krusty's KDE Klub.
*Looks back at large billboard acronym* ooh that doesn't look good
(and yes, i abbreviated an acronym...)
and that hasn't caused any problems.
lets just say that KDE becomes everybodies favorite desktop, and all the computer neophytes embrace it over windows, then i'll have the joy of reading all teh slashdot rants about 'how stupid it is that konqueror is built into the system. it's an invitation for viruses and exploits.' Now i know that 'the most popular browser in the world' is a virus whore for reasons other then just being popular, but having it integrated so deeply into your system gives you a great single point of failure for people to attack. Sooner or later you'll have remote widgets opening up in everything. No thank you.
I like my file manager as a file manger, my browser as a browser. I'm not saying no to interoperability (it is nice) but i don't think they should be the same program. (FTP support ina file manager isn't a bad idea though, as long as you use your file manager for managing files)
Also, I think that IE is the most prolific browser in the world, not the most popular. Opera and Firefox have borderline cult followings. Many IE users don't even realise that they are using a browser and not the internet (this is not to say people who use IE are stupid, but stupid people have easy access to IE, where stupid = not in the know). Basically, if you lookde for people proclaiming their undieing affection for their browser of choice, i don't think (despite the steep market lead), IE wins
couldn't you just link to them on slash dot
that's been proven to be an effective, system independent DoS attack (even if the attack was unintentional or brought about by the owner)
"I should point out that a healthy industry is not an excuse for stealing intellectual property. Cop: "You're under arrest for stealing TV's from Sears!" Crook: "What? But Sears posted a 13% profit increase in the 3rd quarter! They can afford this!" That doesn't work." - Psymunn
See what i just did?!? I stole your intellectual property. I took credit for something you said. But wait.. I can't help but notice, affexed to my own post, your quote is still there, glaringly obvious for all to see...
Surely if I stole it, it must be gone. Mayhaps a diffrent crime has taken place, but theft it can not be...
I thinkt he problem people have is not that there is health of the industry, therefore I can steal but the possiblity (though this has never been proven) that P2P actually helps the movie industry. After all, thanks to me, your words got approximatly twice as much viewage (my taking credit for them however was morally bankrupt, that i must admit). Years ago people where declaring that VCRs would be the death of the movie theatre business. But, what people don't realise is, I do not have a 3 story high screen in my basment and, some movies, really are meant to be seen on a BFS (big friendly screen). I think (with music, and movies) P2P allows people to sample things a lot more and, with a bit of luck, will ultimatly mean the death of one-hit-wonders.
Granted, illegally copying copyrighted material is still illegal, but all that clamping down on this apparant scourge on society is giong to do is, hopefully, help the indie guys who aren't making much money and just want to have their stuff seen.
But there's that commercial with the guy whose the stuntman and... and... he goes through all that work and you can watch his movie with just a single click... and... P2P rapes 3rd world children...
I hate all these people trying to guilt trip me into thinking I'm a criminal because I download movies, even though I pay to see them in theatre, buy them if I think they are excellent, and then they turn around and make more money then i will ever see off of something like chronicles of riddik. I think for every Van Helsing (arguably the worst movie EVER) a person watches, they should be entitled to download 2 movies.
Not many people have watched teh Clerks cartoon, but it's worth it jsut for the scene where Randall brings every shitty movie director into court and demands, under oath, that they admit that 'star wars 1 sucked' or something to that effect.
My dad was contracting for microsoft a couple years back, writing software for their speaker installation or something along those lines. It turns out that, without fail, almost ever microsoft peripheral actually generates a loss. The entire hardware department was, more or less, held up on the basis of the microsoft mouse alone. Of course, it's generally in Microsofts best interest to produce everything, even if they don't stand to make money with it
Incidently, the speakers tanked. Not bad at all (managed to scam a free set) but cost double what anything else on the market at the time did more or less based on the fact they where USB (this was just about the time USB was getting off the ground).
I've tried that
Turns out, each time, i just convince myself that I could stand to know more about breasts. *sigh*
Your remark was cringe-inducing, so I felt compelled to mention that you really, truly meant to write "for all intents and purposes".
Nope. I was refering, of course, only to the purposes that where intensive. Intensive purposes are a sub domain of the 'intents and purposes' super set. I suppose, that when the Canadian government is feeling more laid back, they whip out a couple of old records and head bang to 'summer of '69.' Just because my statment would have been more accurate and/or more logical using your wording, does not mean it is at all what i meant. What i believe you really, truly meant to say instead of 'grammar nazi' is 'silly person who peruses the internet for grammatical errors and smells like pooh (and why am i punching myself).'
Keep fighting the good fight my friend. If you have nothing relevant to say, might as well spell check the largest body of bad grammer and speling available to man.
As a side note, any grammatical errors, misuse of tense, spilling of salt, odd numbering of sentences, or a blatant reversal of 'i' and 'e' after the letter 'c' where entirely intentional and, in a post-modernist-sort-of-a-way help get across what ever message you interpreted which, to you is probably the right one because... well that's what postmodernists do.
Now go back to seperating the diffrent coloured skittles into diffrent bags. Thank you
"Its they're wey off spelin' butt eye height it!"
One of the problem with Shareware (or cripple ware) and open source is that it's generally just as easy to distribute the shareware version as the complete version, so it only takes one person to purchase a product and give it to everyone.
I think this impacts open source game production because, frankly, it's hard to find a way to give the source to the community and still ensure some kind of revenue stream.
What I figured is, why can't someone release a game, GPL all the source code, but claim that the artwork and level data are copyrighted and, please, feel free to give your buddies a copy, but don't use the art/leveldata in a commercial release
I think that, while not nesseccarily in keeping with the free software ideology, it is in keeping with the open source philosophy (and yes, bare with me, i know that free is not cost free and open is not simply saying 'check out my code')
By providing my source code to whomever wants it, I make it easier for the next guy not to have to reinvent the wheel. But the specific game data (leveldata, game sprites) are what makes this game unique (if only at the surface level) and are useless to a programer who wants to use my code to write his own game.
Such a license would allow one to release a Shareware version of the game (akin to Doom or Commander Keen, where you get an episode, not some software that expires over time and does half of what you want) which allows for commercial distribution, and a full version which the author can sell.
Of course, maybe that makes the author a capatalistpropriatarypigbastard, but i'd like to hear feedback on the idea...
Alpha Gamma Delta?!? That's a sorority...
Okay, i'm fully confused. This is one of those indie irony, 'i'm not in a sorority and hate computers' kind of a thing isn't it... only explenation i can think of
From my personal experince, that advanced calculus class has a fairly lopsided male to female ratio. Any girl who shows up in that class... trust me, the guys will be "all over her." Of course, these males, more often then not, are not your typical alpha males and there for not considered desirable.
But I guess I'm wrong. Taking advanced classes makes a man attractive. In our society, no one is encouraged to take advanced calculus.
I say it will because microsoft isn't the ones making the plugins. The vast majority of computer users i know have flash and quicktime installed. It's in microsofts best interest to support these plugins, not break them.
Granted they can (and will) try counter with their own nonstandard format but microsoft can only reinvent their own less stable (but far more proliphic) wheels...
Actually it doesn't. Bryan Adams works for an american label and has, for all intensive purposes, been disowned by the Canadian government.
But yes. It still strikes a chord with me every time i have to backup a virus strewn windows computer onto CDs that, because i'm reformatting YET AGAIN, I'm indirectly financing Chad Kruger (who makes shitty music, and more money then me). It's almost as if these people are getting payed every time windows fucks up. Hm...
Spiderman DIES!!!
seriously... it's not like this story is an origional work. It's just like people i know who didn't want me telling them what happens at the end of Lord of the rings (pssst, frodo dies)
It's not a secret. It doesn't wreck the story. I mean, the full spoiler has been published already...
Thanks for giving the world one choice!!!
Sorry, just kidding. SuSE for people jsut starting out (who don't mind paying money). Gentoo if you want to feel hardcore but really aren't (yay, me).
Isn't anyone who is trying to, asymptotically, reach peak productivness, really just calling for an end to slash dot? I mean... that'd increase productivity quite a lot.
This WM actually doesn't look too bad. Whenever I hear 3D desktop I assume garish arrangment of spinning browsers on cubes. This looks more akin to a *box with some neat ways of organising files on screen (the shrinking inactive files). Personally, I prefer my fluxbox tabbing, but I like the sensable 3D approach (not just some glitzy graphics demo).
Yeah, i can proclaim my OS suppiriority by... printing up a label.
And, what's more, the label can mention just how unfeasable it would have been to have it's self created had it's creator not been using everyones favorite GTK based desktop
Or... you know... maybe the whole linux labeling community is a dead idea before it starts...
Forgive me for beign naive, but if i went up to the magority of people i know and said 'hey man, there's this kick ass confrence streaming on the internet, and guess what: it's OGG' i'd receive a whoel lot of WTF.
Don't get me wrong, i support ogg because it's 'free as in awesome', and i hate realplayer because it's 'annoying as in YAPI' (yet another plug in) but i think another format is just going to confuse new users.
What's more, joe user isn't truly going to embrace something like ogg until bob porn producer does.
which claims to be the world's number-two maker of colour TVs
Silly Microsoft. Colour TVs are still experimental technology and will never take off. Far better for them to team up with developers of the tried, tested, and true, black and white televion set
Yeah, of course it's lame. So are all the silly animations that the Mac OS does by default. But silly rotating things is by and large the direction things are going to be heading. Afterall, Microsoft isn't the only one who realises that the average user only needs a word processor, web browser, media player and possibly a messenger program. So why would they get a newer computer if they can run all those features more then adequatly on an old computer with a large hard drive. Because it wouldn't be 3D accelerated.
The problem with computers is, for the average user, they are more or less fast enough to do everything a person who isn't a gamer, or graphic artist needs. So now people need to make them unnessecarly obsolete. It's all part of the big bad (intentional) bloat.
"The lottery is just a way to punish people who are bad at math"
human behaviors I'd rather robots not emulate, such as warring
So you don't want robots getting free wireless internet? I hear you brother. Fight the good fight
Man, there's this great ad campaign in Vancouver, BC where a kid gets caught stealing a candy bar and just tells his dad 'but you steal satellite singals.' It's brought to you by the concerned statelite people of north america or something.o otleggers feel bad about themselves?!? I just wish the cable companies or record companies would flat out admit it's them who are frowning apon what you are doing
Man, i love those 'Concerened X's of Y.' Who are these people. Are they a a group of house wives (or husbands) who get together and say 'our society is falling to pieces, we must raise money to publish adds that will make satelite-single-stealers/internet-pirates/movie-b
At the end of teh day, I'm goign to give up UT because 'killing people online is still killing.'
And remember children: 'When you download MP3s, you Download Communism!!!'
We are the tech support that say 'NI'
Now go fetch me a radeon or i shall say 'NI' to you...
I know why they did it but it would have been nice if Firefox was stil Firebird... you know... for consistancy
Or they could just change everything else to Thunderfox and Sunfox...
Yeah... I think Sunbird deserved it's own animal group prehaps. Whatever, Mozilla is the one comapny that seems to be able to pull of inconsistant naming and improve their brand identity becausee of it (at least among geeks)