This may be nitpicking, but I think we should be saying that Free software can be good, not that good software can be free. Saying it the other way 'round sounds like saying, "Photoshop is good, and it can be free if you download it using this P2P app".
The initial post had it right. Many LEGO pieces are LEGO blocks, not legos.
And I completely agree that generic LEGO blocks are excellent toys as far as creativity is concerned. My kids will have LEGO for sure. However, these branded LEGO sets seem to considerably limit creativity...
Command Line Interface is better for blind users than a GUI
Is this really surprising? I frequently have trouble finding my pointer on the screen without moving it around, and I have decent vision. In a CLI you can just type; in most cases there is no need to get feedback as to the location of the cursor.
For the record, I prefer the CLI to a GUI for many operations and use it daily in Linux and Windows. (If I had money for a Mac, I'm pretty sure I'd use it there too.)
And before advertising there were fewer pointless, shitty sites. If web advertising takes a nose dive, hopefully we can get back to an Internet full of, *gasp*, INFORMATION instead of crap.
Excellent point. I used to tutor kids in the 9-to-12-year-old range. I could never understand why their parents picked up games like GTA:SA for them.
Where I live (in Ontario, Canada) you legally have to be 18 to purchase some of these games. They actually ID you.
The problem seems to be that non-geek parents tend to assume that video games are for kids. If a 45-year-old man is buying GTA, there's a good chance it's not for him. But the retailers don't bother carding him because he's obviously old enough to purchase the game.
I know this won't help the bottom line too much, but the stores need to start making it painfully obvious to parents that some games are NOT FOR CHILDREN.
It should almost be mandatory to orally inform all buyers of video games of the game's rating upon purchase...
I know that I could get a gesture patch and all...
It's not a patch, it's an extension. This is one of the most powerful features of Firefox: it allows you to add functionality that you want, while keeping the browser itself lean & mean for the rest of us.
You may not get it now, and you may think that I'm splitting hairs, but if you get into FF you'll see what I mean.
Just look at Hoobaskank, one formulated bubble gum song, and they are headling big shows... what have they done since???
It's not so much what they've done since, but what they did before. Their 2001 self-titled release had 2 fairly strong singles: "Crawling in the Dark" and "Running Away". The rest of the album was quite solid, too.
The problem is that "The Reason" was a little more pop, caught on, and got play on pretty much every crap-top-40 radio station out there. To listeners of these stations, Hoobastank was new. I suggest you do a little research before you start throwing around labels like "one hit wonder".
Incidentally, they have another single released called "Out of control". You probably won't hear this on your top-40 stations, either.
For the record, this has happened before. Just think Filter's "Take a picture".
Because if you can label them something bad (racist, homophobe, zealot, nutball, nazi, commie, etc), then you can promptly dismiss their argument without addressing it.
Pfft! I don't have to listen to your explanation, you freaky nutjob!
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It's because our penises are so huge.
Disclaimer: I'm not really a PERL developer.
and now see that good software can be free
This may be nitpicking, but I think we should be saying that Free software can be good, not that good software can be free. Saying it the other way 'round sounds like saying, "Photoshop is good, and it can be free if you download it using this P2P app".
The initial post had it right. Many LEGO pieces are LEGO blocks, not legos.
And I completely agree that generic LEGO blocks are excellent toys as far as creativity is concerned. My kids will have LEGO for sure. However, these branded LEGO sets seem to considerably limit creativity...
degrees Fahrenheit (the metric I'm most familiar with)
;)
You must be American. Fahrenheit is not metric
Command Line Interface is better for blind users than a GUI
Is this really surprising? I frequently have trouble finding my pointer on the screen without moving it around, and I have decent vision. In a CLI you can just type; in most cases there is no need to get feedback as to the location of the cursor.
For the record, I prefer the CLI to a GUI for many operations and use it daily in Linux and Windows. (If I had money for a Mac, I'm pretty sure I'd use it there too.)
Alright, isn't this enough?
We already have:
I, for one, welcome our new $overlords.
In soviet Russia, $object $actions you.
Missing option:
CmdrTaco.
etc.
Do we REALLY need "In Korea..."?
ROFLMAO...gramatical mistake lol.
And this speaks loads for the credibility of, well, you.
It's always nice to see OSS being used anywhere.
On another note, is there a good reason for OOo to be running as root?
Aren't all links on /. temporary?
Theres know whey this be true. Wen i wuz a kid, I used thecomputer alll the time and i end up smrter then my freinds. Its gotta be rong!
Which nation exactly owns Mars?
That's how many people lost service, not how many calls were lost.
25 000 people would have been unable to call 911 had they needed to; the article doesn't seem to say if/how many actual calls were missed.
Am I the only one who read this:
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI)
as the British Pornography Industry?
Excellent point. I used to tutor kids in the 9-to-12-year-old range. I could never understand why their parents picked up games like GTA:SA for them.
Where I live (in Ontario, Canada) you legally have to be 18 to purchase some of these games. They actually ID you.
The problem seems to be that non-geek parents tend to assume that video games are for kids. If a 45-year-old man is buying GTA, there's a good chance it's not for him. But the retailers don't bother carding him because he's obviously old enough to purchase the game.
I know this won't help the bottom line too much, but the stores need to start making it painfully obvious to parents that some games are NOT FOR CHILDREN.
It should almost be mandatory to orally inform all buyers of video games of the game's rating upon purchase...
I had a friend who bought a car because it had a 6-CD changer. Don't underestimate the idiocy of the masses...
Give out a CD with OSS Windows apps, first.
If somebody's already tried and approved OOo and Firefox, it'll be a lot easier to transition to a whole new OS.
I suspect that if this technology has actually been around for 20 years, it has gotten good enough to be nearly impossible to bypass.
Think about it: if counterfeiters wanted to pay some less-than-moral geek to fix this, wouldn't they be doing it already?
And (to the tinfoil hat club), why is this so bad?
Not sure how this would affect protection from malware, but as for "stealing"...
From AdBlock's FAQ:
Q: But I want to support my favorite site! Can I set Adblock to download, and then hide stuff?
A: Yes, see next question.
Q: What's the difference between "hide" and "remove"?
A: "Hide" preserves a page's layout -- content being downloaded, but not visibly rendered.
"Remove" collapses the layout -- no content is downloaded.
I know that I could get a gesture patch and all...
It's not a patch, it's an extension. This is one of the most powerful features of Firefox: it allows you to add functionality that you want, while keeping the browser itself lean & mean for the rest of us.
You may not get it now, and you may think that I'm splitting hairs, but if you get into FF you'll see what I mean.
Just look at Hoobaskank, one formulated bubble gum song, and they are headling big shows... what have they done since???
It's not so much what they've done since, but what they did before. Their 2001 self-titled release had 2 fairly strong singles: "Crawling in the Dark" and "Running Away". The rest of the album was quite solid, too.
The problem is that "The Reason" was a little more pop, caught on, and got play on pretty much every crap-top-40 radio station out there. To listeners of these stations, Hoobastank was new. I suggest you do a little research before you start throwing around labels like "one hit wonder".
Incidentally, they have another single released called "Out of control". You probably won't hear this on your top-40 stations, either.
For the record, this has happened before. Just think Filter's "Take a picture".
Because if you can label them something bad (racist, homophobe, zealot, nutball, nazi, commie, etc), then you can promptly dismiss their argument without addressing it.
Pfft! I don't have to listen to your explanation, you freaky nutjob!
Might be fun to rename IE to iexplore.bak and FF to iexplore.exe
:)
I'd prefer renaming iexplore.exe to iexplore.pos
If Gizmodo is so biased, how did they get the pretty Excel graphs to prove their point??
Not only that, but apparently
Perfigo is a developer of packaged network access control solutions...
(Emphasis mine).