Same here (Unreal Tournament, GOTY edition). What's all this talk about Perl & CPAN modules?
Re:Its a matter of perspective
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Pay vs. Happiness
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No one said anything about living in poverty. Pursuing some "hippy fancy" doesn't mean that you will be poor, or that you can't afford the standard of living that you want. Not everyone wants the same things. Personally, I would be happy with a moderate house, a reliable vehicle, and a couple decent computers and other modest toys. I don't think that takes much, and I don't much care if I pull down a 6-7 figure salary.
Some people want large salaries and live extravagant lifestyles. Some don't. I don't think either is necessarily better. I do think that some people think that having a lot of money and possessions will make them happy and then find out that isn't the case once they have them.
Maybe I'm just in the minority, but giving my children financial independence is not high on my list of priorities. Such children would probably grow up feeling entitled and not do anything worthwhile with their lives. I'd much rather they work for what they want and know that they earned it themselves. Call me crazy, but I think that's a good thing.
I used to wish for that too, since I used to use Galeon and it had the close button on the tabs. When I switched to FF so I could use the same browser on Windows and Linux, I started hating the single tab close button.
There is an (better) equivalent in FF that I really like though. If you middle-click a tab, it will close. That has eliminated my wish for an explicit close button on the tab, since that would obviously take up some space that could be put to better use on the title of the page in that tab.
HR 2795 is supposed to make the system work 'more efficiently' and be 'less prone to litigation.'
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Less prone to litigation, or less prone to innovation?
I know I really shouldn't be, but I am always amazed at our government's tendency to treat the symptoms rather than the causes of problems. I just don't see how first-to-file encourages anything other than filing as many patent applications as possible without actually innovating.
But I'm sure the big business owners that kindly provide a place for our representatives to live (i.e. their front pockets) have nothing to do with it.
</rant>
I havn't bought a RIAA CD in years. But I havn't pirated anything in years either.
Same here. There seem to be many people who boycott the RIAA and just refuse to give them any money, but turning around and downloading songs off of P2P networks just makes the RIAA right when they talk about downloading leading to decreased sales.
You make some good points, but the one thing in TFA that jumped out at me was:
you don't have as many security threats for other software as most of the people developing Linux probably sit at night writing up malicious code for windows!
I stopped reading right there, as that comment by itself is enough to tell me that this guy is just a MS fanboy (as if the title of the article wasn't enough).
But Windows has 0 exploits in its design, while it has quite a big number of exploits in its implementation.
Even if that is true, I don't see how the distinction is relevant. Just because a flaw^Wexploit is in the implementation rather than the design doesn't make it any less dangerous.
But that's exactly what you're implying. Good job.
But yes, it's still stealing. Even if it doesn't apply to you, the fact that this commercial product (yes, Star Wars is a commercial product), because they are only offering it as a *PAY* product, it is only a pay product, and it is not up to the general public to make the decisions for them.
No, it's not. It's copyright infringement. Nice try.
If you see this same woman, is not working at a particular moment, due to not having a paying client, should you be allowed to take a free romp? Sure, why not, that's what she does, and she's just sitting there.
Not the same thing, dude. That is possibly the worst analogy I've ever seen in a discussion like this.
I think the same of Ferarri's. I go down to a dealership twice a week, and when I see a Ferarri just sitting there, all lonely, with no owner, I steal the car, and drive it around. It wants to be driven, right?
That would actually be theft. Theft in the real sense, not in the (RI|MP)AA sense. Again, bad analogy.
Are you with the MPAA by chance? Your logic seems to imply that you are.
Interesting... I never was able to get mine to sync. Tungsten E, Debian. 2.4 kernel of some sort, IIRC. (I'm not at work, or I'd check.) The ttyUSB shows up, but I have never managed to get it to do anything but sit telling me that I should hit the hot sync button (Though that message would only appear after I hit it!)
If you aren't already, you may want to try ttyUSB1 instead of ttyUSB0. Two different devices get set up for Palms & related devices (Visor, etc), and AFAIK, ttyUSB1 is the one you want for syncing. That's what mine always has been anyway.
My Tunsten E works flawlessly using Jpilot and pilot-link on Debian and FreeBSD. It doesn't work with Gnome-Pilot for some reason, but I haven't really tried very hard to get it to. I normally use Jpilot, and since it works fine, I don't worry too much about it.
Maybe this is a thoroughly unhelpful suggestion, but I'd say try Jpilot if you don't require Evolution or some other specific app to be able to sync with.
If I were you, I would stay long enough to hire and train a replacement.
I'd have to disagree here. As others have already said, you should stay two weeks. Four at most if you're feeling particularly nice. If you stay "long enough to hire and train a replacement" your soon-to-be ex-boss will probably just drag his feet on finding someone.
This also allows the manufacturers to take a stab at building a communications relationship (or just gather stats) with their actual end users
This is why I will not buy things based on the availability of rebates, nor will I send in rebates for things I do buy based on the "before rebates" price. How much is my personally identifiable information worth? A lot. It'd have to be a pretty large rebate to make it worth giving them my info.
I can't help but feel that they're just trying to get someone else to do the non-fun stuff for them. It is more fun to work on new functionality, but it doesn't seem right to do that when there are obviously widely known problems that need to be fixed.
We did this when we were re-wiring the network at a place I used to work. The wiring before that was utter shit. It was a web of cables thrown (literally) across the ceiling tiles.
We put plastic conduit with our cat5 cabling inside (and fiber in the conduit between our main tech area and the server room). It made it MUCH easier to keep things organized.
In addition to the cabling we put in initially, we put 2 or 3 lines of some kind of string inside. That way you can just tie one end of cable to one of the strings an pull it through to the other end.
Agreed. My current wallet has served me for about 8 years. That's a guess, since I got it in high school, and i'm now 24. It's a tri-fold leather one with snaps. It's getting a little worn on the sides where it folds, but it's solid. One of those skateboarder chain wallets (minus the chain - haven't worn that in about 7 years).
As for the configuration, it only really has 2 useful sides, because the snaps on the one side make the pocket on that side a bit too small. The others are good though. Driver's license, library card, etc in the left side. ATM cards and spare truck key in the center.
That's because the problem is in the login mechanism. If you delete the/. cookies (or use a browser without them), you get rid of the 503 errors.
No, you don't. At least I don't. I'm using Galeon, and I've cleared my/. cookies several times with no success. It seems the only thing that does fix it is time. Wait a while and try again. Very annoying.
Maybe it's just the tone of the parent's post that got it modded "Troll", but if I had mod points today, I'd probably be modding this "Insightful" instead.
Not every developer's goal is to advance OSS. I have no data to back this up, but it seems to me that many probably just wrote a program to do something they wanted. The fact that they released it in hopes that others may find it useful should not obligate them to cater to every person that feels that they have the right to have their hand held while they use said program.
I'm not going to lie and say that good documentation is not needed. It is. In many places it's lacking. I'm not going to say that I look through the source code any time I try to use a program with little/no/bad documentation. I usually don't, and just look for something else. But to assume that every developer of an open source program needs to dedicate their time to something that YOU want is a little selfish, IMO.
I wonder how many of these people that whine and complain about bad documentation have actually written any documentation OR code. They obviously feel the need to write something though, so maybe instead of bitching about the situation, they should do something to improve it. Of course, I think we all know which is the easier of the two options...
I can't wait for SCO to go bankrupt. This of course would be in all of our best interest, but i'm hoping i'll be able to get some cheap computers or furniture or something on their very last attempt for some cash: when they auction off all their crap as they go out of business. Maybe i'll even be able to get a Linux license...
A Windows machine is useful to 100% of the student body. A Linux or Mac machine isn't useful to anywhere near that number of students. That's just the way it is.
A Windows machine may be usable to all, but may not useful to 100% of the student body. I just graduated from the local community college, which had all Windows machines. I would go home to do my work on my Linux box because the Windows machines would drive me insane.
I can understand why they would buy PCs and not Macs or Unix workstations or whatever, but the general idea is to teach students. In my opinion, having a "Software Monoculture" in this type of environment deprives students of valuable experience that they could be gaining with other platforms. This just perpetuates the attitude that Windows is the only OS that you'll ever need to know, and that anything else is irrelevant. I think this creates closed-minded "professionals" that just go with the flow. I'm sure Microsoft just loves that. I do not.
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Same here (Unreal Tournament, GOTY edition). What's all this talk about Perl & CPAN modules?
No one said anything about living in poverty. Pursuing some "hippy fancy" doesn't mean that you will be poor, or that you can't afford the standard of living that you want. Not everyone wants the same things. Personally, I would be happy with a moderate house, a reliable vehicle, and a couple decent computers and other modest toys. I don't think that takes much, and I don't much care if I pull down a 6-7 figure salary.
Some people want large salaries and live extravagant lifestyles. Some don't. I don't think either is necessarily better. I do think that some people think that having a lot of money and possessions will make them happy and then find out that isn't the case once they have them.
Maybe I'm just in the minority, but giving my children financial independence is not high on my list of priorities. Such children would probably grow up feeling entitled and not do anything worthwhile with their lives. I'd much rather they work for what they want and know that they earned it themselves. Call me crazy, but I think that's a good thing.
I used to wish for that too, since I used to use Galeon and it had the close button on the tabs. When I switched to FF so I could use the same browser on Windows and Linux, I started hating the single tab close button.
There is an (better) equivalent in FF that I really like though. If you middle-click a tab, it will close. That has eliminated my wish for an explicit close button on the tab, since that would obviously take up some space that could be put to better use on the title of the page in that tab.
HR 2795 is supposed to make the system work 'more efficiently' and be 'less prone to litigation.'
<rant>
Less prone to litigation, or less prone to innovation?
I know I really shouldn't be, but I am always amazed at our government's tendency to treat the symptoms rather than the causes of problems. I just don't see how first-to-file encourages anything other than filing as many patent applications as possible without actually innovating.
But I'm sure the big business owners that kindly provide a place for our representatives to live (i.e. their front pockets) have nothing to do with it.
</rant>
I havn't bought a RIAA CD in years. But I havn't pirated anything in years either.
Same here. There seem to be many people who boycott the RIAA and just refuse to give them any money, but turning around and downloading songs off of P2P networks just makes the RIAA right when they talk about downloading leading to decreased sales.
You make some good points, but the one thing in TFA that jumped out at me was:
you don't have as many security threats for other software as most of the people developing Linux probably sit at night writing up malicious code for windows!
I stopped reading right there, as that comment by itself is enough to tell me that this guy is just a MS fanboy (as if the title of the article wasn't enough).
This is not a mundane detail, Michael!
But Windows has 0 exploits in its design, while it has quite a big number of exploits in its implementation.
Even if that is true, I don't see how the distinction is relevant. Just because a flaw^Wexploit is in the implementation rather than the design doesn't make it any less dangerous.
That's not to say Linux users are theives.
But that's exactly what you're implying. Good job.
But yes, it's still stealing. Even if it doesn't apply to you, the fact that this commercial product (yes, Star Wars is a commercial product), because they are only offering it as a *PAY* product, it is only a pay product, and it is not up to the general public to make the decisions for them.
No, it's not. It's copyright infringement. Nice try.
If you see this same woman, is not working at a particular moment, due to not having a paying client, should you be allowed to take a free romp? Sure, why not, that's what she does, and she's just sitting there.
Not the same thing, dude. That is possibly the worst analogy I've ever seen in a discussion like this.
I think the same of Ferarri's. I go down to a dealership twice a week, and when I see a Ferarri just sitting there, all lonely, with no owner, I steal the car, and drive it around. It wants to be driven, right?
That would actually be theft. Theft in the real sense, not in the (RI|MP)AA sense. Again, bad analogy.
Are you with the MPAA by chance? Your logic seems to imply that you are.
Interesting... I never was able to get mine to sync. Tungsten E, Debian. 2.4 kernel of some sort, IIRC. (I'm not at work, or I'd check.) The ttyUSB shows up, but I have never managed to get it to do anything but sit telling me that I should hit the hot sync button (Though that message would only appear after I hit it!)
If you aren't already, you may want to try ttyUSB1 instead of ttyUSB0. Two different devices get set up for Palms & related devices (Visor, etc), and AFAIK, ttyUSB1 is the one you want for syncing. That's what mine always has been anyway.
My Tunsten E works flawlessly using Jpilot and pilot-link on Debian and FreeBSD. It doesn't work with Gnome-Pilot for some reason, but I haven't really tried very hard to get it to. I normally use Jpilot, and since it works fine, I don't worry too much about it.
Maybe this is a thoroughly unhelpful suggestion, but I'd say try Jpilot if you don't require Evolution or some other specific app to be able to sync with.
But occasionally you can get a "Free Day Pass." Maybe that's how he saw it early. I got one of those last week...
Their phone bills must be in need of a major piss break?
I'd have to disagree here. As others have already said, you should stay two weeks. Four at most if you're feeling particularly nice. If you stay "long enough to hire and train a replacement" your soon-to-be ex-boss will probably just drag his feet on finding someone.
This also allows the manufacturers to take a stab at building a communications relationship (or just gather stats) with their actual end users
This is why I will not buy things based on the availability of rebates, nor will I send in rebates for things I do buy based on the "before rebates" price. How much is my personally identifiable information worth? A lot. It'd have to be a pretty large rebate to make it worth giving them my info.
This has been mentioned here before. There's also a memory bounties page on the Gnome site.
I can't help but feel that they're just trying to get someone else to do the non-fun stuff for them. It is more fun to work on new functionality, but it doesn't seem right to do that when there are obviously widely known problems that need to be fixed.
We did this when we were re-wiring the network at a place I used to work. The wiring before that was utter shit. It was a web of cables thrown (literally) across the ceiling tiles.
We put plastic conduit with our cat5 cabling inside (and fiber in the conduit between our main tech area and the server room). It made it MUCH easier to keep things organized.
In addition to the cabling we put in initially, we put 2 or 3 lines of some kind of string inside. That way you can just tie one end of cable to one of the strings an pull it through to the other end.
This is a little off-topic, but what kind of case is that?
"copy shortcut" eh? That sounds like an IE-ism to me. I think you meant "Copy Link Location"
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Sounds like exactly what stow does.
Agreed. My current wallet has served me for about 8 years. That's a guess, since I got it in high school, and i'm now 24. It's a tri-fold leather one with snaps. It's getting a little worn on the sides where it folds, but it's solid. One of those skateboarder chain wallets (minus the chain - haven't worn that in about 7 years).
As for the configuration, it only really has 2 useful sides, because the snaps on the one side make the pocket on that side a bit too small. The others are good though. Driver's license, library card, etc in the left side. ATM cards and spare truck key in the center.
No, you don't. At least I don't. I'm using Galeon, and I've cleared my /. cookies several times with no success. It seems the only thing that does fix it is time. Wait a while and try again. Very annoying.
Maybe it's just the tone of the parent's post that got it modded "Troll", but if I had mod points today, I'd probably be modding this "Insightful" instead.
Not every developer's goal is to advance OSS. I have no data to back this up, but it seems to me that many probably just wrote a program to do something they wanted. The fact that they released it in hopes that others may find it useful should not obligate them to cater to every person that feels that they have the right to have their hand held while they use said program.
I'm not going to lie and say that good documentation is not needed. It is. In many places it's lacking. I'm not going to say that I look through the source code any time I try to use a program with little/no/bad documentation. I usually don't, and just look for something else. But to assume that every developer of an open source program needs to dedicate their time to something that YOU want is a little selfish, IMO.
I wonder how many of these people that whine and complain about bad documentation have actually written any documentation OR code. They obviously feel the need to write something though, so maybe instead of bitching about the situation, they should do something to improve it. Of course, I think we all know which is the easier of the two options...
I can't wait for SCO to go bankrupt. This of course would be in all of our best interest, but i'm hoping i'll be able to get some cheap computers or furniture or something on their very last attempt for some cash: when they auction off all their crap as they go out of business. Maybe i'll even be able to get a Linux license...
A Windows machine may be usable to all, but may not useful to 100% of the student body. I just graduated from the local community college, which had all Windows machines. I would go home to do my work on my Linux box because the Windows machines would drive me insane.
I can understand why they would buy PCs and not Macs or Unix workstations or whatever, but the general idea is to teach students. In my opinion, having a "Software Monoculture" in this type of environment deprives students of valuable experience that they could be gaining with other platforms. This just perpetuates the attitude that Windows is the only OS that you'll ever need to know, and that anything else is irrelevant. I think this creates closed-minded "professionals" that just go with the flow. I'm sure Microsoft just loves that. I do not.