I wish you hadn't ended your post with this "don't get me wrong, I like [some of] his movies and all, but I can't help but suspect that despite all his success, Lucas is just sort of a sad, isolated, lonely, messed-up old fucker."... up to this point I thought it had been insightful, especially your third paragraph. I assume you probably were a formerly intelligent enough person who had been around slashdot a long enough time to use the cliche disclaimer "1) don't get me wrong", followed by "2) I like X and all, but" and then take your license to say something that's phrased in the most idiotic way.
What idiot modded your post insightful??!! that was the most idiotic thing I read today; Just because you can munch and swallow doesn't make you an expert in the scientific field of nutrition. Likewise, just because you caught a rodent and put it on sale doesn't make you an expert contributor to the scienfific classification of species.
I've always heard about this slashdot/firefox thing but I've used firefox since phoenix 0.1 and never noticed anything wrong with slashdot; what am I missing out on?
I only use it through the context menu, I rarely use its explorer interface, and its context menu dialogs are very efficient. What matters though is that the 7-zip coded is superior to most other closed ones.
Yesterday, while sitting in town watching people come and go (try it; it's good exercise for your eyes from the strain of screens or reading), I noticed a guy loaded on hair gel, in hip clothing and designer flip-flops strutting a conspicuous white ipod on the side of his belt and plugged into his hears... now trying telling him he should be using a windows-mobile-powered samsung or motorolla.
They often tend to be better applications that are no-nonsense, focused on the essentials, and nicely usable since the users are the developers. Even on windows, examples are firefox/thunderbird/nvu being One-of-the-Best browser/email/html, gaim being OotB instant messenger, 7-zip being OotB compression, Azureus OotB bittorent clinets, Shareaza/kceasy OotB, Syn/jedit OotB text editors, and so on.
The reason they do this is twofold; 1) to get their favorite but widely controversial legislation passed, this due to the fact that by attaching spurious stuff to otherwise necessary bills they can 2) embarrass opposition senators and congressman, and dare any of them object they will use it against him in the future, such as the idiotic negative publicity of 2004 "Senator Kerry is against the troops! he voted against them!" when he actually voted against bad bills that he thought needed further editing.
"That means the holder still makes a pile of money, but eventually sooner or later the work will make it into the public domain so it can be enjoyed by all."
Most books can already be "enjoyed by all" and cost a mere handful of dollars new, and even dirt-cheap in secondhand and charity bookshops. The main limitation I have on why I'm not reading more is lack of time or attention-span rather than cost of books. The exception would be some that are sold for hundreds of dollars, but the problem there is not a copyright one.
In addition to the DSL fee to my ISP, I have to pay BT a line rental fees eventhough I never use it to make or receive phone calls! And it isn't cheap either; ~£50 per quarter at least.
Is the box office industry itself; potential beneficiaries from your project. Demonstrate to them how they might benefit, and they may wish to help. If your project has no demonstrable benefits to its vertical market, then you may want to rethink if it's really worthwhile. Especially consider what their requirements and needs may be, and this way you'll get perhaps something even more valuable than just money. I don't think it's fair to seek funding from a general donor such an open source fund if you have a specific product that many won't be using when many other products with wider applicability are already desperate for what scarce resources there are.
I don't see why blogging as a company PR move should make it under any obligation to host a seemingly bitter and vindictive comment from someone who admits to going around and telling people how horrible they are and not to buy their products.
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Windows had rabid piracy, Mac didn't.
I wish you hadn't ended your post with this "don't get me wrong, I like [some of] his movies and all, but I can't help but suspect that despite all his success, Lucas is just sort of a sad, isolated, lonely, messed-up old fucker."... up to this point I thought it had been insightful, especially your third paragraph.
I assume you probably were a formerly intelligent enough person who had been around slashdot a long enough time to use the cliche disclaimer "1) don't get me wrong", followed by "2) I like X and all, but" and then take your license to say something that's phrased in the most idiotic way.
I will not be able to entirely wean myself off outlook until an alternative can support mobile calendars on pocketpc and palmos.
What idiot modded your post insightful??!! that was the most idiotic thing I read today; Just because you can munch and swallow doesn't make you an expert in the scientific field of nutrition. Likewise, just because you caught a rodent and put it on sale doesn't make you an expert contributor to the scienfific classification of species.
I've always heard about this slashdot/firefox thing but I've used firefox since phoenix 0.1 and never noticed anything wrong with slashdot; what am I missing out on?
Aureus if excellent, trying downloading a torrent after its tracker has gone down without it.
I only use it through the context menu, I rarely use its explorer interface, and its context menu dialogs are very efficient. What matters though is that the 7-zip coded is superior to most other closed ones.
Yesterday, while sitting in town watching people come and go (try it; it's good exercise for your eyes from the strain of screens or reading), I noticed a guy loaded on hair gel, in hip clothing and designer flip-flops strutting a conspicuous white ipod on the side of his belt and plugged into his hears... now trying telling him he should be using a windows-mobile-powered samsung or motorolla.
They often tend to be better applications that are no-nonsense, focused on the essentials, and nicely usable since the users are the developers. Even on windows, examples are firefox/thunderbird/nvu being One-of-the-Best browser/email/html, gaim being OotB instant messenger, 7-zip being OotB compression, Azureus OotB bittorent clinets, Shareaza/kceasy OotB, Syn/jedit OotB text editors, and so on.
Doesn't KOffice and the whole of KDE have a trolltech QT problem? I'd much rather have a Java "problem" than a QT one.
The reason they do this is twofold; 1) to get their favorite but widely controversial legislation passed, this due to the fact that by attaching spurious stuff to otherwise necessary bills they can 2) embarrass opposition senators and congressman, and dare any of them object they will use it against him in the future, such as the idiotic negative publicity of 2004 "Senator Kerry is against the troops! he voted against them!" when he actually voted against bad bills that he thought needed further editing.
"That means the holder still makes a pile of money, but eventually sooner or later the work will make it into the public domain so it can be enjoyed by all."
Most books can already be "enjoyed by all" and cost a mere handful of dollars new, and even dirt-cheap in secondhand and charity bookshops. The main limitation I have on why I'm not reading more is lack of time or attention-span rather than cost of books. The exception would be some that are sold for hundreds of dollars, but the problem there is not a copyright one.
In addition to the DSL fee to my ISP, I have to pay BT a line rental fees eventhough I never use it to make or receive phone calls! And it isn't cheap either; ~£50 per quarter at least.
Is the box office industry itself; potential beneficiaries from your project. Demonstrate to them how they might benefit, and they may wish to help. If your project has no demonstrable benefits to its vertical market, then you may want to rethink if it's really worthwhile. Especially consider what their requirements and needs may be, and this way you'll get perhaps something even more valuable than just money. I don't think it's fair to seek funding from a general donor such an open source fund if you have a specific product that many won't be using when many other products with wider applicability are already desperate for what scarce resources there are.
For our favorite firefox these are merely teething aches; the sooner the better.
Well that's the essential question. If it doesn't I'd rather flee to mozilla suite than IE.
I guess that's the main question.
Google should switch then.
I don't see why blogging as a company PR move should make it under any obligation to host a seemingly bitter and vindictive comment from someone who admits to going around and telling people how horrible they are and not to buy their products.
Does anyone know any free alternatives for the GWA? ones that work on windows? I'm aware of squid, any others?
I bet ebay bidders ARE (more) impulsive.
Yet another attempt to turn a counter-culture to an over-the-counter culture.
I agree. Now bloggers and pundits are supposedly more credible than rocket scientists. Do mod him down please.
Why is it called h2g2?
How does a dual-processor compare to a dual-core processor? How do these powermacs compare to the latest AMD?