I've switched from IE to Mozilla 18 now... and I'm pretty happy... I even find that side bar useful now too.
Arranging the bookmarks is easier to do in Mozilla than IE as well. My only citicism is that IE still loads faster, though this may be because it is bastardized into the win32 shell too. I can't help wondering if the load time would have been faster if they'd concentrated on the browser itself...
Because, in spite of all the add-ons useful features, I still don't use their email or news clients and for web editing, I generally prefer text.
Still... forget Netscape... use the Mozilla builds.
Long after a product has ceased to be viable to them...
Long after a failed product has any hope of ever giving them a return on their investments...
Long after all those interested in the money side of the software have forgotten about it....
Even long after the company has died....
You still find bonehead managers thinking they have something to lose by releasing the software to the community... idiots! pathetic loons! incomprehensibly devoid of imagination and vision!
This is the reason the gaming industry sucks now! It's being managed by stagnant blobs who are devoid of even a micro-hint of good-will.
It's ironic in more ways than I can describe that you would defend this law claiming the "protection of lives" when part of the subject of this post was an article by a gentleman who did what he did to prevent the wanton disregard for american lives...
It should never be illegal for somebody to expose government miss-management/corruption/lies/incompetence even if they are hidden in a shroud of Top Secret secrecy.
Another use:
Making useable older machines that are donated to the 3rd world which come with technologies that often are so totally obselete that replacing them is prohibitive.
In this case the idea is a very good one. A machine that would have been otherwise useless is made fully functional by Linux and what seems an ingenious way to fix the problem.
Consider this point then:
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Anonymity
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That freedom of speech is a right in the US is mostly true. The internet, however, spans the entire globe including along its lines many countries that do not have freedom of speech.
Anonymity is what ensures everyone has freedom of speech, including those who are missfortunate to live in countries where that right is not safeguarded.
Consider also people whose opinions on a particular subject vary greatly to those of the part of society they live in. In the worst case, you are basically saying: if you aren't prepared to risk being ostracised by everyone you know, lose your job, and risk violence you don't have the right to free speech. Freedom of speech seems a moot point after you've been beaten up and left in a gutter for something you said. Part of having the right to freedom of speech is the idea that I should be able to say something I believe to be true without reprisals. In many cases, anonymity is the only way to achieve this.
Finally, consider the case of the person who wishes to comment on a political decision but cannot officially because his contract with his company forbids him. Yes, he could risk financial well-being by making the statement and then suffer the wrath of well-paid corporate lawyers hell-bent on punishing for voicing his preference on a matter, but is that something society should demand of him? I think not.
Anonymity is simply what protects people from being punished for voicing their opinions. And that protection, I contend, is indeed implicit to the right to freedom of speech.
The irony is amazing... after regurgitating for months(years?) to the media they are not a monopoly, they have the odacity to make the claim that customers buying naked PCs must by necessity install pirated versions Windows, implicitly making the claim that there are no other options.
What more damning evidence could their be as to the outrageous lies spewing out of Redmond?
Last I checked console games mostly don't have keyboards and use game pads. These types of online games require a large array of inputs from the user that a simple gamepad won't offer. Of course, this isn't to mention the simple need for being able to communicate easily with other players.
The games also typically need updating very frequently and thus need to be installed onto a hard drive and cannot be run from a CD.
Perhaps newer systems will address all those issues (XBox?). Being a PC owner exclusively means I will never know.
I'm rather surprised to see all the negative comments on this idea.
I can think of so many useful applications:
- Time spent on phone can be easily tied to contacts and provide an efficient way to itemize time billed.
- All kinds of useful call management software such as:
a. Managing calls so that you only receive ones from people you actually want to talk to.
b. Keeping a calllog to track who called you and when you replied to them.
c. One touch dialing.. or even better, Voice Recognition dialing.
d. Software to display the cost of a call to you as you are talking based on your long distance package.
e. Programs to interact with the PCS provider and better use their provided features.. such as voicemail retrieval, number of calls in queue..
- Best of all: one less device to carry around.
This is a great idea, and I'm convinced (if they can keep it reasonably priced) that they will sell a lot of those.
Don't underestimate the value of saving a person's time to them. In fact, I have very good experience with this type of product. People are skeptical at first but buy into the idea immeadiately when they try it out.
Simple:
- Automatically add incoming callerid calls to phone book.
- Built-in fine grained call management...
- Assign call lengths to particular phone book entries. Great for those people who bill for their time.
- About a billion text messaging applications
- and I have many more ideas....
Some points.. it should have an earphone jack.
It should include some memory for custom messages.
They are going to make a mint of that idea if it works. I just don't know how they're going to fit all of that inside the the expansion slot.
Rumour sites are what get the hype going, people salivating, and the media interested and pumped.
Steve Jobs is a control freak who while being good at getting people focused and directed, has proven time and again to be bad for the long term interests of the company. He needs a balance; somebody to keep him in reign when he starts throthing at the mouth.
I have been the unfortunate spectator of many debates about the proper positionning of block delimitors. The only thing people always agree on is that the code needs to be indented.
I hate starting on to a project and getting used to a particular style only to have to totally adjust again because some other programmer had different ideas on where to put his brackets and align his code.... and don't get me started on naming conventions.
I for one find the elimination of traditional delimitors in Python refreshing. Its one of the things that is attracing me to the language.
I'm sure the qt developers will now sleep much better at night knowing you now approve their monumental effort.
I'm just thankful the Troll folks were able to overlook such patronizing politics and do something that will finally and forever put to bed all the bitching.
One thing that is rarely mentionned is that they have rock solid video drivers (although I haven't done 3d in linux with it). Every steroid pumping card I've used from Diamond or ATI or has _always_ had stability problems and/or poor support for none win9x platforms.
Quite frankly, after 30fps it don't make much of a diff. I play half-life(CS) in 800x600 all the time and never had probs. Not to mention that all good games always come with little g400 problems. I'm always reading faq items from people detailing various 3dfx card problems or weird behaviors. The faq sections for the g400s are always empty.
Anyways, as long as they keep up the decent 3d performance I'll be happy. The others can keep their 60fps cards and blue screens.
The idea of virualizing an OS is hardly a new one. IBM tried to do something akin to this with OS2 and Windows 3.1...
I suspect VOS would have a hard time claiming prior art to that.
I contacted them since their website says they plan to open up to the international community. Their reply was that it was "still in the works"
I can't imagine a safer more convenient way to setup for example a system were international members of a club can pay dues. Or quickly pay for that item you bought on Ebay without having to go to the bank for a damn cashier's check.
The hugest bonus, is it avoids all the hassles of dealing with currency exchanges directly, since you can use your credit card to make payments to the people... (no more ridiculous bank fees for getting a damn check in US funds)
Anyways... if anybody at Paypal is reading, it would be nice if you posted some information on when the service will be open to international customers.
UO has seen many custom servers built for it... in the end, setting up a game server depends largely on how redundant your backend is and how much of a pipe you can afford.
If UO is any precedent, Verant has nothing to worry about.
Do we have to endure a new slashdot post for every single Microsoft lawsuit that will be coming down the pipes in the coming years? Slashdot has ignored much more interesting events.
Microsoft is simply reaping the results that all bullies do at one point or another: everybody dislikes you.... If you really want to keep tabs, setup up a Microsoft lawsuit page to keep the count going. I'm sure that within the next few years, countless people and organizations around the world are going to be lining up for a chance to get a piece of those Microsoft billions.
Incorrect. Not only are you asked for the sa password during SQL7 setup, it is trivial to change using the Enterprise Manager at any time.
I can't believe people are making an issue of this. Choosing a good root password is the No1 step of any system setup. Next you'll be saying that "well it should pick a password for me and provide me with an api to change it..."..
Come on. "yeah... I think I'll go live with a blank root password... thats a good idea.. huhuhuuhuhuhhhu"
They can keep their politically influenced awards to themselves and stick their heads in the sand if they want. Couldn't care less. I stopped caring about their opinions on films a long time ago.
This is all about Microsoft trying to win a public relations battle. If Microsoft wins in the appelate court, it will give them leverage when they go looking for support in the crime capitol.
Fundamentally, the issues here need to be decided on by the Supreme Court. Judge Jackson is quite correct in stating the public is not served by a proacted delay caused by one party hoping to stall long enough for the next elections. What are the issues? Does having sufficient market pull where you are able to and in fact do coherce your vendors into only using your product constitute an abusive monopoly? Is the government within its right, in such an event, to persue remedy in the courts? Nobody but the Supreme Court can properly address this.
I also think if Microsoft truly thought there was merit to their case they would be glad to hit the mats quickly... no, what they want to do is win the public relations war and leverage the confusion inherent to elections to cause the issues to never get resolved.
I totally disagree. Katz is smoking cow dung.
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Review: 'Titan A.E.'
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It was evident merely from the previews that the movie would have a typical holywood storyline.
BUT HE IS WRONG ABOUT THE MOVIE'S ENTERTAINMENT VALUE.
There are some truly amusing and well thought out scenes. This, not to mention the fact that the animation is absolutely OUTSTANDING and the computer graphics AWESOME.
No, its not a revolutionary film... but it IS entertaining. And, to boot, its in a genre that I wish we saw A LOT MORE in the theaters.
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I've switched from IE to Mozilla 18 now... and I'm pretty happy... I even find that side bar useful now too. Arranging the bookmarks is easier to do in Mozilla than IE as well. My only citicism is that IE still loads faster, though this may be because it is bastardized into the win32 shell too. I can't help wondering if the load time would have been faster if they'd concentrated on the browser itself... Because, in spite of all the add-ons useful features, I still don't use their email or news clients and for web editing, I generally prefer text. Still... forget Netscape... use the Mozilla builds.
Long after a product has ceased to be viable to them...
Long after a failed product has any hope of ever giving them a return on their investments...
Long after all those interested in the money side of the software have forgotten about it....
Even long after the company has died....
You still find bonehead managers thinking they have something to lose by releasing the software to the community... idiots! pathetic loons! incomprehensibly devoid of imagination and vision!
This is the reason the gaming industry sucks now! It's being managed by stagnant blobs who are devoid of even a micro-hint of good-will.
It's ironic in more ways than I can describe that you would defend this law claiming the "protection of lives" when part of the subject of this post was an article by a gentleman who did what he did to prevent the wanton disregard for american lives...
It should never be illegal for somebody to expose government miss-management/corruption/lies/incompetence even if they are hidden in a shroud of Top Secret secrecy.
Another use:
Making useable older machines that are donated to the 3rd world which come with technologies that often are so totally obselete that replacing them is prohibitive.
In this case the idea is a very good one. A machine that would have been otherwise useless is made fully functional by Linux and what seems an ingenious way to fix the problem.
That freedom of speech is a right in the US is mostly true. The internet, however, spans the entire globe including along its lines many countries that do not have freedom of speech.
Anonymity is what ensures everyone has freedom of speech, including those who are missfortunate to live in countries where that right is not safeguarded.
Consider also people whose opinions on a particular subject vary greatly to those of the part of society they live in. In the worst case, you are basically saying: if you aren't prepared to risk being ostracised by everyone you know, lose your job, and risk violence you don't have the right to free speech. Freedom of speech seems a moot point after you've been beaten up and left in a gutter for something you said. Part of having the right to freedom of speech is the idea that I should be able to say something I believe to be true without reprisals. In many cases, anonymity is the only way to achieve this.
Finally, consider the case of the person who wishes to comment on a political decision but cannot officially because his contract with his company forbids him. Yes, he could risk financial well-being by making the statement and then suffer the wrath of well-paid corporate lawyers hell-bent on punishing for voicing his preference on a matter, but is that something society should demand of him? I think not.
Anonymity is simply what protects people from being punished for voicing their opinions. And that protection, I contend, is indeed implicit to the right to freedom of speech.
The irony is amazing... after regurgitating for months(years?) to the media they are not a monopoly, they have the odacity to make the claim that customers buying naked PCs must by necessity install pirated versions Windows, implicitly making the claim that there are no other options.
What more damning evidence could their be as to the outrageous lies spewing out of Redmond?
Yeah, damn them for trying to get free advertising on my dime.... capitalist dogs indeed.
Yeah.. its a little thing; multiply it by 40 fucking billion and all of a sudden all you are doing is opting out of lame ass marketing ideas.
... its still my time and you have no right taking it for free and make money from it.
I don't care if it takes me a microsecond to "opt out"
Last I checked console games mostly don't have keyboards and use game pads. These types of online games require a large array of inputs from the user that a simple gamepad won't offer. Of course, this isn't to mention the simple need for being able to communicate easily with other players.
The games also typically need updating very frequently and thus need to be installed onto a hard drive and cannot be run from a CD.
Perhaps newer systems will address all those issues (XBox?). Being a PC owner exclusively means I will never know.
I'm rather surprised to see all the negative comments on this idea.
I can think of so many useful applications:
- Time spent on phone can be easily tied to contacts and provide an efficient way to itemize time billed.
- All kinds of useful call management software such as:
a. Managing calls so that you only receive ones from people you actually want to talk to.
b. Keeping a calllog to track who called you and when you replied to them.
c. One touch dialing.. or even better, Voice Recognition dialing.
d. Software to display the cost of a call to you as you are talking based on your long distance package.
e. Programs to interact with the PCS provider and better use their provided features.. such as voicemail retrieval, number of calls in queue..
- Best of all: one less device to carry around.
This is a great idea, and I'm convinced (if they can keep it reasonably priced) that they will sell a lot of those.
Don't underestimate the value of saving a person's time to them. In fact, I have very good experience with this type of product. People are skeptical at first but buy into the idea immeadiately when they try it out.
Simple:
- Automatically add incoming callerid calls to phone book.
- Built-in fine grained call management...
- Assign call lengths to particular phone book entries. Great for those people who bill for their time.
- About a billion text messaging applications
- and I have many more ideas....
Some points.. it should have an earphone jack.
It should include some memory for custom messages.
They are going to make a mint of that idea if it works. I just don't know how they're going to fit all of that inside the the expansion slot.
Rumour sites are what get the hype going, people salivating, and the media interested and pumped.
Steve Jobs is a control freak who while being good at getting people focused and directed, has proven time and again to be bad for the long term interests of the company. He needs a balance; somebody to keep him in reign when he starts throthing at the mouth.
Its better and there are a billion different clients for it.
kxicq being my favorite.
I have been the unfortunate spectator of many debates about the proper positionning of block delimitors. The only thing people always agree on is that the code needs to be indented.
I hate starting on to a project and getting used to a particular style only to have to totally adjust again because some other programmer had different ideas on where to put his brackets and align his code.... and don't get me started on naming conventions.
I for one find the elimination of traditional delimitors in Python refreshing. Its one of the things that is attracing me to the language.
I'm sure the qt developers will now sleep much better at night knowing you now approve their monumental effort.
I'm just thankful the Troll folks were able to overlook such patronizing politics and do something that will finally and forever put to bed all the bitching.
One thing that is rarely mentionned is that they have rock solid video drivers (although I haven't done 3d in linux with it). Every steroid pumping card I've used from Diamond or ATI or has _always_ had stability problems and/or poor support for none win9x platforms.
Quite frankly, after 30fps it don't make much of a diff. I play half-life(CS) in 800x600 all the time and never had probs. Not to mention that all good games always come with little g400 problems. I'm always reading faq items from people detailing various 3dfx card problems or weird behaviors. The faq sections for the g400s are always empty.
Anyways, as long as they keep up the decent 3d performance I'll be happy. The others can keep their 60fps cards and blue screens.
The idea of virualizing an OS is hardly a new one. IBM tried to do something akin to this with OS2 and Windows 3.1 ...
I suspect VOS would have a hard time claiming prior art to that.
I contacted them since their website says they plan to open up to the international community. Their reply was that it was "still in the works"
I can't imagine a safer more convenient way to setup for example a system were international members of a club can pay dues. Or quickly pay for that item you bought on Ebay without having to go to the bank for a damn cashier's check.
The hugest bonus, is it avoids all the hassles of dealing with currency exchanges directly, since you can use your credit card to make payments to the people... (no more ridiculous bank fees for getting a damn check in US funds)
Anyways... if anybody at Paypal is reading, it would be nice if you posted some information on when the service will be open to international customers.
UO has seen many custom servers built for it... in the end, setting up a game server depends largely on how redundant your backend is and how much of a pipe you can afford.
If UO is any precedent, Verant has nothing to worry about.
Do we have to endure a new slashdot post for every single Microsoft lawsuit that will be coming down the pipes in the coming years? Slashdot has ignored much more interesting events.
Microsoft is simply reaping the results that all bullies do at one point or another: everybody dislikes you.... If you really want to keep tabs, setup up a Microsoft lawsuit page to keep the count going. I'm sure that within the next few years, countless people and organizations around the world are going to be lining up for a chance to get a piece of those Microsoft billions.
No need. Just login again and the cookie will be re-created.
Incorrect. Not only are you asked for the sa password during SQL7 setup, it is trivial to change using the Enterprise Manager at any time.
I can't believe people are making an issue of this. Choosing a good root password is the No1 step of any system setup. Next you'll be saying that "well it should pick a password for me and provide me with an api to change it..."..
Come on. "yeah... I think I'll go live with a blank root password... thats a good idea.. huhuhuuhuhuhhhu"
They can keep their politically influenced awards to themselves and stick their heads in the sand if they want.
Couldn't care less. I stopped caring about their opinions on films a long time ago.
*the bird*
This is all about Microsoft trying to win a public relations battle. If Microsoft wins in the appelate court, it will give them leverage when they go looking for support in the crime capitol.
Fundamentally, the issues here need to be decided on by the Supreme Court. Judge Jackson is quite correct in stating the public is not served by a proacted delay caused by one party hoping to stall long enough for the next elections. What are the issues? Does having sufficient market pull where you are able to and in fact do coherce your vendors into only using your product constitute an abusive monopoly? Is the government within its right, in such an event, to persue remedy in the courts? Nobody but the Supreme Court can properly address this.
I also think if Microsoft truly thought there was merit to their case they would be glad to hit the mats quickly... no, what they want to do is win the public relations war and leverage the confusion inherent to elections to cause the issues to never get resolved.
It was evident merely from the previews that the movie would have a typical holywood storyline.
BUT HE IS WRONG ABOUT THE MOVIE'S ENTERTAINMENT VALUE.
There are some truly amusing and well thought out scenes. This, not to mention the fact that the animation is absolutely OUTSTANDING and the computer graphics AWESOME.
No, its not a revolutionary film... but it IS entertaining. And, to boot, its in a genre that I wish we saw A LOT MORE in the theaters.
Go see it. You won't regret it.