It's definitely a waste of bandwidth on the server side of things. Imagine a server sending and receiving 1000 emails per second; now add up the overhead caused by all that useless HTML, and see how much bandwidth that accounts for: way too much.
If it's hard-coded for one game, it would be non-trivial to use it in other games. Trivial means doable, and non-trivial means nearly impossible or ueber tedious (in the programmer sense of the words anyhow).
I didn't know you could email posts. Friggin' sweet.
And I don't think Writely works in Konqueror/Safari due to the lack of rich text editting features found in Firefox, Seamonkey, IE, and probably Opera (don't know offhand), so that doesn't really help.
But Microsoft depends on the corporate customers who actually pay a huge amount of money for hundreds or thousands of licences for the more expensive "pro" versions. The "consumers" who buy OEM Vista (which is heavily discounted for OEMs) hardly contribute any money to Microsoft, and a lot of people who use vanilla versions pirate their copies or get a copy from the office.
There's a huge drop in the number of stories posted, and that not only annoys the other side of the world but also people like myself who might be awake at 4 in the morning (GMT-6) with nothing to do.
Mono would lose its necessity iff Microsoft were to release the entirety of.Net under the GPL (or LGPL, or another OSI-approved license perhaps) and donated all its related patents either to the public domain or to some other open patent initiative. Since I don't see that happening, uh, ever, we can rest assured that Mono will continue to be relevant as long as.Net is relevant as well.
And of course, the Safari/Konqueror love was nonexistent. Works perfectly in Firefox, obviously, but you can't create new or edit existing blog posts in Safari/Konqueror with or without the WYSIWYG editor.
According to lame.sf.net, they called it that because it started off as a patch to the reference encoder from the MPEG standard. It eventually became a full-blown encoder once all the code was replaced. So yes, LAME is an MP3 encoder; they just used the GNU acronym joke.
...which is why I prefer sudo. You can just press up a couple times to get back to the command you wanted to do, prefix with sudo, and be done with it. Of course, you could also prefix with su -c " and suffix with ", but I still prefer sudo over su any day.
I've submitted a search engine (Bungie.net Gamertag search specifically) a long while back, and I didn't need to be a developer or anything (although I am a programmer, the MyCroft search thing is practically just a small HTML file which you can edit from an existing search anyhow).
Microsoft doesn't make any money giving out IE, but they do make money from the ads on MSN.com (the default homepage for IE). I can see why they'd be pissed.
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It's definitely a waste of bandwidth on the server side of things. Imagine a server sending and receiving 1000 emails per second; now add up the overhead caused by all that useless HTML, and see how much bandwidth that accounts for: way too much.
If it's hard-coded for one game, it would be non-trivial to use it in other games. Trivial means doable, and non-trivial means nearly impossible or ueber tedious (in the programmer sense of the words anyhow).
Maybe you like C# better than Java? That would be a valid reason.
Or maybe in some cases Mono might be faster than Java? Use the right tools for the right job...
I didn't know you could email posts. Friggin' sweet.
And I don't think Writely works in Konqueror/Safari due to the lack of rich text editting features found in Firefox, Seamonkey, IE, and probably Opera (don't know offhand), so that doesn't really help.
But Microsoft depends on the corporate customers who actually pay a huge amount of money for hundreds or thousands of licences for the more expensive "pro" versions. The "consumers" who buy OEM Vista (which is heavily discounted for OEMs) hardly contribute any money to Microsoft, and a lot of people who use vanilla versions pirate their copies or get a copy from the office.
Mindshare != success.
There's a huge drop in the number of stories posted, and that not only annoys the other side of the world but also people like myself who might be awake at 4 in the morning (GMT-6) with nothing to do.
Mono would lose its necessity iff Microsoft were to release the entirety of .Net under the GPL (or LGPL, or another OSI-approved license perhaps) and donated all its related patents either to the public domain or to some other open patent initiative. Since I don't see that happening, uh, ever, we can rest assured that Mono will continue to be relevant as long as .Net is relevant as well.
Plus, .Net doesn't have their own Apache.org equivalent for more than enough classes you'll ever need and then some.
And of course, the Safari/Konqueror love was nonexistent. Works perfectly in Firefox, obviously, but you can't create new or edit existing blog posts in Safari/Konqueror with or without the WYSIWYG editor.
Looks like a shill got mod points today...
I use Linux; how exactly are they going to do this to me?
I wouldn't exactly consider reinstalling the kernel and co as "recovering". There's no way to remove a rootkit other than overwriting the kernel...
Copyright => patents.
pedantic.mode = ON
According to lame.sf.net, they called it that because it started off as a patch to the reference encoder from the MPEG standard. It eventually became a full-blown encoder once all the code was replaced. So yes, LAME is an MP3 encoder; they just used the GNU acronym joke.
What about the stuff from Bell Labs? Does that count?
Their licence doesn't allow Free Software implementations of it (requires revenue sharing).
Free/Open Source software is not like a wiki...
According to his posting history, he's either a shill, or an enormous MS fanboy who takes every opportunity possible to defend MS on /.
In RPC2 drives, I think the drive outright refuses to read an out of region disc.
Standard Oil.
That is all I have to say.
...which is why I prefer sudo. You can just press up a couple times to get back to the command you wanted to do, prefix with sudo, and be done with it. Of course, you could also prefix with su -c " and suffix with ", but I still prefer sudo over su any day.
This is why I use tab-completion ALL THE TIME. I'm sure that tab is the most used key after space when I'm in a shell.
I've submitted a search engine (Bungie.net Gamertag search specifically) a long while back, and I didn't need to be a developer or anything (although I am a programmer, the MyCroft search thing is practically just a small HTML file which you can edit from an existing search anyhow).
Microsoft doesn't make any money giving out IE, but they do make money from the ads on MSN.com (the default homepage for IE). I can see why they'd be pissed.
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