Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think AIM is so popular in the US mainly because AOL is the biggest ISP in the nation. In Europe (or at least in The Netherlands, where I live) AOL is insignificant. Most people have never heard of it.
MSN Messenger, on the other hand, comes bundled with Windows and starts automatically on boot.
Seeing how popular the 'America Today' clothing stores are in Amsterdam, I don't think the "A" has anything to do with it.
But if you really want to put it on the same machine, try compiling it into a binary, and not draw any attention to it, to avoid people getting curious about it.
Considering the fact that we're discussing it on/., I think we can safely assume that's no longer an option...
Not on my desktop, it doesn't. I've been using RH/Fedora for some years now, but SUSE (6.4, I seem to remember) was the distro that converted me to Linux. Even then, I used Gnome. It's probably a matter of taste, but to me, KDE seemed bloated and clumsy.
Last year, I kissed Gnome goodbye as well, though. Now I'll just sit back and watch the Holy Wars, while I enjoy my Xfce desktop.
How familiar are you with the situation between India and Pakistan? Unfortunately, the race for nuclear weapons was somewhat inevitable; the only question was who'd get there first. Under the circumstances, I see nothing wrong with what Dr. Kalam did.
I know about India and Pakistan. It's a dreadful situation. I'm glad to see that something as tragic and horrible as the recent earthquake may at least help the two to set their differences aside for a while.
That said, your line of reasoning could be used to justify every arms race in the whole wide world. E.g., "considering the threat Iraq/the USA/North-Korea was posing to Iran/the USSR/South-Korea, it is understandable for Teheran/Moscow/Seoul to be developing nuclear weapons (and vice versa)".
Abdul Kalam was the architect of India's nuclear tests (which caused much boo-hoo by the US) and is widely considered as one of the most intelligent and thoughtful men in the country.
Intelligent, perhaps. But thoughtful? How could anyone involved in creating weapons of mass destruction possibly be considered thoughtful?
I think it's pretty clear that at some point someone is simply going to write an Office plugin that opens and saves in the format
And what if that happens? I don't care a bit if people insist on using MS Office for reading or editing documents in an open, non-proprietary format, although I'd think they're wasting their money. At least they would no longer be forcing me to buy MS Office before we can exchange documents.
You were like Binary File Descriptor?
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection?
Brute Force Detection?
Boston Fire Department?
Berkeley Folk Dancers?
Berufsförderungsdienst der Bundeswehr?
Stealing means physically depriving someone of property. Hotlinking is not stealing, it's just slimy and a fact of how HTML works. Your copy of the flash app still exists regardless of whether or not Foodfuckers hotlinks it, right? Not stealing. Just unethical behavior.
Yes, you'd be stealing someone's bandwidth. Fuddruckers is offering their visitors a flash game while making someone else pay the hosting bill, without even asking for permission. You don't need to physically deprive someone of property to be a thief. Unless you wouldn't mind me using your phone to make lengthy long distance calls without your consent. IMHO, hotlinking is pretty much the same thing.
If fuddruckers had just included a LINK ("check out this great game on briggster.com"), that would be OK, because that's indeed what the web is all about.
But this isn't just direct linking, it's embedding the game into your own site as if it were part of your own site, while making someone else do all the work, and pay the bill.
Linking is not the same as hotlinking. The former is what makes the web, the latter is stealing.
IIRC, Blood (released in 1997, three years before Nintendo's claim) had something *very* similar if you got bitten by the spiders:
Spiders
Despite their small size, Blood's spiders are in no way mere nuisances. Depending on their species, their bite can cause either delirium or blindness. The smaller, reddish brown spider will give the player a sense of delirium, the screen swaying back and forth and tilting. (Almost as though Caleb was intoxicated or high.) The second spider, which is larger and green-colored will also bite you, causing the screen to dim. Both of these effects are accumulative (but temporary), meaning that with multiple spider bites a player could become totally blind, delirious or both. The third type of spider is the giant mother spider, detailed below. (...) (Source).
Funny thing is, exactly ten years later, the German conservative leader Angela Merkel picked another Stones song, Angie, to boost her campaign for the upcoming general elections. Just like MS, she apparentely failed to check out the lyrics first, too. "All the dreams we held so close seemed to all go up in smoke, Angie, you're beautiful, but ain't it time we said goodbye"
I probably shouldn't feed the troll, but here's some facts for you:
Your claim that the atomic bombs saved many lives is a (much repeated) myth. Japan was already on the verge of total collapse when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed. It would most likely have surrendered within weeks, if not days, anyway. Especially since the Russians were about to join the war in the Pacific. The latter is probably why the Americans were very keen to end the war ASAP: they (understandably, perhaps) wouldn't have wanted the Soviets to gain ground in Japan.
Because of this, hundreds of thousands of people, almost all of them innocent civilians, women, elderly and children, died instantly in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Even now, sixty years later, people die as a result of the attacks. Among them are children born decades after the war who suffer from genetic deceases caused by the radiation their (grand) parents were exposed to.
Also, IIRC, before the 1917 revolution the Russians were still using the Julian Calendar. The communists adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1918, which is why the so-called October Revolution was actually commemorated yearly on November the 7th.
Back when I still used Windows, I really liked Trillian. Only drawbacks I remember: not open source, no Jabber support. GAIM worked for me too though, I'm still hapilly using that on Linux.
Incidentally, BBC Radio 3 have in fact also broadcast *all* Beethoven's piano sonatas (including Moonlight). You can listen to them on the BBC website.
Symphonies are orchestral works. The Moonlight Sonata (Mondschein, as it's called in German), (no. 14, opus 27 no 2 in C sharp minor) is a solo piece written for a piano. Check wikipedia for a detailed discussion of symphonies and sonatas.
As a matter of fact, by incorrectly identifying itself as IE, Opera is telling lazy webmasters that IE is even more dominant than it really is, which gives them an excuse to rely on IE-only code. This, in turn, makes people use IE, "because alternative browsers render many sites wrong".
If Opera, like Firefox, Safari and Konqueror, would stand up for itself, and send out correct UA identifiation headers, it would help raise awareness among webmasters, thus helping to open up the market for alternatives.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think AIM is so popular in the US mainly because AOL is the biggest ISP in the nation. In Europe (or at least in The Netherlands, where I live) AOL is insignificant. Most people have never heard of it.
MSN Messenger, on the other hand, comes bundled with Windows and starts automatically on boot.
Seeing how popular the 'America Today' clothing stores are in Amsterdam, I don't think the "A" has anything to do with it.
They have a near-monopoly on IM communications
In the US, that is. Here in Europe, IM seems to be almost exclusively MSN. Hardly anyone uses AIM this side of the Atlantic.
On second thought, shouldn't technology that can help prevent the further spreading of Celine Dion actually be considered a good thing?
But if you really want to put it on the same machine, try compiling it into a binary, and not draw any attention to it, to avoid people getting curious about it.
/., I think we can safely assume that's no longer an option...
Considering the fact that we're discussing it on
Desktop-Linux means KDE in Europe.
Not on my desktop, it doesn't. I've been using RH/Fedora for some years now, but SUSE (6.4, I seem to remember) was the distro that converted me to Linux. Even then, I used Gnome. It's probably a matter of taste, but to me, KDE seemed bloated and clumsy.
Last year, I kissed Gnome goodbye as well, though. Now I'll just sit back and watch the Holy Wars, while I enjoy my Xfce desktop.
Looks an awful lot like the Cacodemon from Doom.
I know about India and Pakistan. It's a dreadful situation. I'm glad to see that something as tragic and horrible as the recent earthquake may at least help the two to set their differences aside for a while.
That said, your line of reasoning could be used to justify every arms race in the whole wide world. E.g., "considering the threat Iraq/the USA/North-Korea was posing to Iran/the USSR/South-Korea, it is understandable for Teheran/Moscow/Seoul to be developing nuclear weapons (and vice versa)".
Well, perhaps. But it's still fucking stupid.
I'm not an American, though. And even if I were, that wouldn't make me responsible for Hiroshima.
Abdul Kalam was the architect of India's nuclear tests (which caused much boo-hoo by the US) and is widely considered as one of the most intelligent and thoughtful men in the country.
Intelligent, perhaps. But thoughtful? How could anyone involved in creating weapons of mass destruction possibly be considered thoughtful?
I think it's pretty clear that at some point someone is simply going to write an Office plugin that opens and saves in the format
And what if that happens? I don't care a bit if people insist on using MS Office for reading or editing documents in an open, non-proprietary format, although I'd think they're wasting their money. At least they would no longer be forcing me to buy MS Office before we can exchange documents.
You were like Binary File Descriptor?
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection?
Brute Force Detection?
Boston Fire Department?
Berkeley Folk Dancers?
Berufsförderungsdienst der Bundeswehr?
Stealing means physically depriving someone of property. Hotlinking is not stealing, it's just slimy and a fact of how HTML works. Your copy of the flash app still exists regardless of whether or not Foodfuckers hotlinks it, right? Not stealing. Just unethical behavior.
Yes, you'd be stealing someone's bandwidth. Fuddruckers is offering their visitors a flash game while making someone else pay the hosting bill, without even asking for permission. You don't need to physically deprive someone of property to be a thief. Unless you wouldn't mind me using your phone to make lengthy long distance calls without your consent. IMHO, hotlinking is pretty much the same thing.
If fuddruckers had just included a LINK ("check out this great game on briggster.com"), that would be OK, because that's indeed what the web is all about.
But this isn't just direct linking, it's embedding the game into your own site as if it were part of your own site, while making someone else do all the work, and pay the bill.
Linking is not the same as hotlinking. The former is what makes the web, the latter is stealing.
IIRC, Blood (released in 1997, three years before Nintendo's claim) had something *very* similar if you got bitten by the spiders:
Spiders
Despite their small size, Blood's spiders are in no way mere nuisances. Depending on their species, their bite can cause either delirium or blindness. The smaller, reddish brown spider will give the player a sense of delirium, the screen swaying back and forth and tilting. (Almost as though Caleb was intoxicated or high.) The second spider, which is larger and green-colored will also bite you, causing the screen to dim. Both of these effects are accumulative (but temporary), meaning that with multiple spider bites a player could become totally blind, delirious or both. The third type of spider is the giant mother spider, detailed below. (...) (Source).
Funny thing is, exactly ten years later, the German conservative leader Angela Merkel picked another Stones song, Angie, to boost her campaign for the upcoming general elections. Just like MS, she apparentely failed to check out the lyrics first, too. "All the dreams we held so close seemed to all go up in smoke, Angie, you're beautiful, but ain't it time we said goodbye"
I probably shouldn't feed the troll, but here's some facts for you:
Your claim that the atomic bombs saved many lives is a (much repeated) myth. Japan was already on the verge of total collapse when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed. It would most likely have surrendered within weeks, if not days, anyway. Especially since the Russians were about to join the war in the Pacific.
The latter is probably why the Americans were very keen to end the war ASAP: they (understandably, perhaps) wouldn't have wanted the Soviets to gain ground in Japan. Because of this, hundreds of thousands of people, almost all of them innocent civilians, women, elderly and children, died instantly in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Even now, sixty years later, people die as a result of the attacks. Among them are children born decades after the war who suffer from genetic deceases caused by the radiation their (grand) parents were exposed to.
Don't you mean C-SPAN?
Also, IIRC, before the 1917 revolution the Russians were still using the Julian Calendar. The communists adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1918, which is why the so-called October Revolution was actually commemorated yearly on November the 7th.
Back when I still used Windows, I really liked Trillian. Only drawbacks I remember: not open source, no Jabber support. GAIM worked for me too though, I'm still hapilly using that on Linux.
Incidentally, BBC Radio 3 have in fact also broadcast *all* Beethoven's piano sonatas (including Moonlight). You can listen to them on the BBC website.
Yes I can. And they're pretty fast too. Seems I'm not the only /.er downloading them right now.
Well no. Sonata != Symphony.
Symphonies are orchestral works. The Moonlight Sonata (Mondschein, as it's called in German), (no. 14, opus 27 no 2 in C sharp minor) is a solo piece written for a piano. Check wikipedia for a detailed discussion of symphonies and sonatas.
Actually, Google mostly uses Python, IIRC.
Userfriendly on MS RSS
Spot on.
As a matter of fact, by incorrectly identifying itself as IE, Opera is telling lazy webmasters that IE is even more dominant than it really is, which gives them an excuse to rely on IE-only code. This, in turn, makes people use IE, "because alternative browsers render many sites wrong".
If Opera, like Firefox, Safari and Konqueror, would stand up for itself, and send out correct UA identifiation headers, it would help raise awareness among webmasters, thus helping to open up the market for alternatives.