As long as my code is the only freely available code to do a particular task, and anyone is free to submit patches to refine it, i don't mind to publish it. Afterall, it is the best way to refine it. My ego doesn't suffer significantly when i meet a better coder. I just don't like people who criticise but don't submit any fixes.
Proprietary formats cannot be standard, because they are usually supplied by a single entity. Ogg is open, so theoretically it could be implemented by anyone. This has some benefits, like any browser and OS could play it, so it is actually the opposite of your allegiation. Ogg is the guarantee that you don't have to pick an OS and browser. Any OS or browser programmer could use it.
Most web developers know about url hacking but don't care at all. Especially externally contracted ones. Heh, i'm responsible for internal testing, and when i find such things, even our internal developers usually say: 'who cares':)
RIAA is not a government operated agency, so sweeping it into the same basket isn't right. Apparently it is getting less and less approved by the state.
I don't use that many plugins and i don't go to malicious sites too often to experience the stuff you write about. I experienced IE7 for about 2 hours, and Vista about 1 hour. It was enough for me.
My original post wasn't about the clever way of embedding plugins in a safer process space (this is something Mozilla should do as well), it was mostly about the nag questions, the sluggish performance and the redesigned (for change's sake) UI.
Disney and their bunch copied freely available 'code' and made proprietary versions out of them. So originally they were Camp A while now they are Camp B.
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I guess, it will be thrown right after the funeral.
My bet is you don't use compiz, or even X-windows where command line is enough.
Which Word, Excel and Powerpoint?
Hmm? Is there anything known to us humans, that isn't human-defined?
As long as my code is the only freely available code to do a particular task, and anyone is free to submit patches to refine it, i don't mind to publish it.
Afterall, it is the best way to refine it. My ego doesn't suffer significantly when i meet a better coder.
I just don't like people who criticise but don't submit any fixes.
Proprietary formats cannot be standard, because they are usually supplied by a single entity.
Ogg is open, so theoretically it could be implemented by anyone.
This has some benefits, like any browser and OS could play it, so it is actually the opposite of your allegiation.
Ogg is the guarantee that you don't have to pick an OS and browser.
Any OS or browser programmer could use it.
Tell me just one HD which is compatible with sauce.
Look this up, grasshopper.
Who wouldn't want a WinXP version with source code attached? :)
If i was Negroponte, i wouldn't say a flat 'NO'. I would ask for the source code
You are a kind of typo nazi, right?
Fix your name before nitpicking.
Anything NASA does in order to get to Mars could be used to get to other planets/moons in the system.
So this is a dead ruling.
If you know it is a dead horse, who do you beat it?
Most web developers know about url hacking but don't care at all. Especially externally contracted ones. :)
Heh, i'm responsible for internal testing, and when i find such things, even our internal developers usually say: 'who cares'
Well, but this requires entanglement.
How do you entangle billions of electrons to the 'reader'?
How will you know which one you 'read'?
What other platform you talk about? I guess M$'s intention is to have a single platform. For customer's benefit.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/03/0717229
RIAA is not a government operated agency, so sweeping it into the same basket isn't right.
Apparently it is getting less and less approved by the state.
I don't use that many plugins and i don't go to malicious sites too often to experience the stuff you write about.
I experienced IE7 for about 2 hours, and Vista about 1 hour. It was enough for me.
My original post wasn't about the clever way of embedding plugins in a safer process space (this is something Mozilla should do as well), it was mostly about the nag questions, the sluggish performance and the redesigned (for change's sake) UI.
Why IE7 and Vista security are so fscked up then?
My Linux doesn't ask stupid questions every time I use it.
Firefox is much more usable than IE7, hell, even IE6 is more usable.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
These are trademarked by M$, Asus would get into serious trouble.
Disney and their bunch copied freely available 'code' and made proprietary versions out of them.
So originally they were Camp A while now they are Camp B.
Look at this from the other side.
Vista is a bust, M$ will want to sell something (and it will be XP) next year too.
The previous story was a repost of an 5 years old news, this one is BRAND NEW.
I see no reason why not to do it.
If they won't do it, someone else will do it.
How did you draw the latter conclusion from the former questions?