, bye, bye karma, nice knowing you.
What is this 'karma' you speak of? It seems valuable. Can you sell it? eat it? Can you exchange it for google money (aka GMoney(tm))? Does it help your reincarnation progress? Does it have anything to do with outsourcing?
I have no idea how the parent post got modded as "interesting". Or perhaps since it's posted anonymously the person modded his or herself.
This quote is funny because it's retarded: "I am also forced to download kilobytes (megabytes?) of useless information embedded in comments." News flash, this is slashdot. You download useless information embedded in comments every day. And this is one of them!
In a show of one-upsmanship, the FSF gives away free software to starving children in Africa. And SCO sues the FSF for violating its patent for giving free software to starving children.
If you go to the Maxthon page link and scroll to the bottom it lists awards that it's won. The first and only one I clicked was the last one on the page, p2btech, because I never heard of it. It's an article that doesn't even mention the Maxthon browser at all. It rates a few different browsers from a long time ago, Firefox 0.8 and Opera 7.5.
but what's the point?
On a side note, this map is illegal due to copyright infringement of the Mozilla logos, since they're trademarked. I'm sure the GNWater GNBuffalo logo isn't trademarked. I don't know about the others, but I would imagine the SuSe and RedHat are officially owned.
I'm not 100% on this, but I'm pretty sure that software released under the GPL requires you to distribute the source code if it is asked for. If SCO were to release a version of Linux with their so called proprietary code removed then it could be compared, not easily, to other distros to see what code they are claiming ownership of, since it would be missing in the GPL code.
They're covering their asses by including "their" code because they won't have to identify it. This prevents anyone from rewriting the disputed sections and it prevents the community from disputing their claims of ownership. It's even possible that they're not allowed at this point to disclose such information because of some legal issues. IANAL.
You have to be a white, land-owning, male, preferably with blond hair and blue eyes, to write computer code?
That sounds a bit fucked up to me.
It's not genetics, it's culture. Boys are given guns to play with as children. Fake plastic guns that shoot little colorfull discs, water guns, whatever, they're still fucking guns. And then people bitch and complain then they start using real ones.
Little girls on the other hand are given baby dolls to play with. It's not uncommon in the United States to see little girls still in diapers carrying around a baby doll. They're preconditioned to be subjective to men.
I think it's wrong, but that's society for you, not much I can do but point it out .
Some shit is genetics, such as fucking to save the species, I'll give you that much. But a generous portion of behavior is cultural, id est, environmental.
You're a Nazi! This flame is complete! woot! huzzah! foshizzle!
After all, is there any significant difference between capturing a scene from the real world and capturing a scene from a fictional world? That makes a difference to their business model?
I can't tell, but are you being sarcastic or naive? Creating a real photograph is a lot more complex than simply pressing the "Print Scrn" button on a keyboard. Aesthetics aside, a video game is limited in scope and variation, and all pictures end up looking similar. Creating a real world photograph is more complex in too many ways to list here, but I'll give it a shot. You can use a flash, timed exposures, you have depth of field in terms of focus, you can manually adjust focus, lighting is realistic or sould I say real, DYI developing allows even more options in terms of timing of development such as over/under develop, real life objects are infintely complex, live subjects can express more emotion and have a larger range of motion. I could go on but I think I've made a point. A xerox-copy facsimile of the Mona Lisa is not art.
Energy is on everyone's mind right now, especially since gas prices are going up, yadda yadda yadda.
You really do need to be critical of panaceas in a time of need. Buying this product is like buying candles and stocking up on non-perishable food in preperation for the doom of the Y2K bug.
After doing a quick search, I didn't see any topic that had been modded enough to be exposed on the top level stating the obvious: To store electricity you need to convert from AC to DC, and then to use it it must be converted back to AC. There is significant energy loss, in terms of price and scale, in this process to make this product useless, and it could possibly even cost you more in the long run.
he STILL did what he did out of his sheer love of the genre, and to a significant extent I'm sure the video producers did the same.
If you read the wikipedia article the "producers" named the file "Jackass_starwars_funny.wmv." They were not his friends, so I doubt they called him a jackass out of "love of the genre."
Can God create a rock that he can't lift?
To give background information on this riddle, it is of the form where you have a card or piece of paper. On one side it says "The statement on the other side of this paper is true." On the other side it says "The statement on the other side of this paper is false." I'm not sure what the logical term for this type of paradox is called, but the God/Rock idea is very similar.
The circular reference in the quoted riddle should be obvious. The solution to this riddle is not a question of God's power. As with most riddles the answer is found by using a vague or misleading definition of a word.
The key term in this riddle is "lift." If God created a rock that consumes(replaces) all of spacetime then there is no concept of "up", therefore the rock can not be "lifted" in the normal sense of the term since "lifting" is relative to some other object.
With this solution you have achieve a dual state instead of a nonsense state. If an entity can create this hypthetical "omnirock" then the free will of God comes into play. He can create a state where he can not lift the rock and can also create a state where he can by creating a smaller object in space move/lift the first rock; ultimately allowing relative movemnent. The final solution is that both states are possible and exist simultaneously. Look up 'Schrodinger cat' on google.
QED
Google offers a search appliance, why not an email and/or web office equivalent? You buy the rack mount brains and hook up some hard drives, and you would stay in possesion of your data/email.
if anything, I'm an old school netscape fanboy. My first browser was Lynx, then I eventually jumped on the bandwagon and got netscape 3, then eventually moved on to long lasting netscape 4.x series. Netscape 6 sucked so I stayed with netscape 4.x during that time. I eventually starting using the Mozilla suite pre 1.0 after stumbling upon it. The lack of AOL branding at the time was a major reason for my jump from Netscape proper. Since then I've been using Mozilla, then Phoneix, then Firebird, then eventually Firefox. When 1.5 came out, it really sucked major ass for me. FF1.5 would crash at least 7 to 10 times per day. I'm fairly computer savy and I followed explicit instructions on making sure it was a clean install. I was browsing with hardly any extensions at all, which sucked.
There have been other major changes behind the scenes that might not be so apparent to the average user. In my attempts to create an extension for FF1.5 extension contest I came accross a shitload of bugs. Very simple XUL markup could make the browser disappear by simply clicking on a hyperlink. And by disappear I mean as in invisibile, except for plain text. And there are others, but my attempts at using Bugzilla have sucked. I've reported bugs in the past only to have them recently deleted because no one want's to fix them.
OSS is fine, but it seems to foster a mentality that if a developer can't reproduce a bug then the end user must be stupid. That's annoying, especially for a company that's marketing its browser to everyone, including urging people that don't know what a browser even is to upgrade.
The feeling I've gotten from this open source netscape project is that I'm using a product, such that if it ever gives me serious problems, I'm left with no recourse since there is no focused method for attaining a definitive solution or fix for something. It's like the bystander effect when it comes to fixing or even acknowleding problems.
I haven't read the article, but I wrote a little blurb on spreadfirefox.com (it's down, been hacked) suggesting that Google needs to create a XUL office suite. Of course, my intentions by posting on spreadfirefox.com was to come up with ideas on how best to spread the browser. If you've ever seen the Amazon search example that shows how cool xul can be, then hopefully you'll see the power.
As the news article about using "AJAX" for an office program shows, many people think it's a laughable concept. I think it is too if you try to be browser independent. Another limitation with an "AJAX" implimentation is that it's pretty much only been a document editor. Don't forget about spreadsheets and databases, they're both very important in the workplace.
The general business concept that I envisioned for Google was to lease or sell its rack mount hardware to companies as a central file server. Google already sells something like this but only for searching a LAN.
This allows companies to keep the data in house and allows people to search their documents with the power of Google. For those lucky enough to work from home, you would use VPN to access your files. I know you can do that already locally on the desktop with Google Desktop, but document access and search from any PC is a really nice concept.
On that same token, Google should lease hardware to allow companies to have their own gmail-like email servers that integrates with their office stuff. But since it's on the company lan, emails would be "me@mycompany.com" isntead of @gmail. And with hardware upgrades you wouldn't be limited by your inbox size for email.
I would expect the WYSIWYG editor to be used on the mozilla web site is either the html editior in the 'suite' application or possibly the gecko based Nvu.
from what I've read it does not require any extra water. From the website...
Operating the device will not change a room's environment, air quality or other conditions. Air comes into the device, is modified then ejected and illuminated to produce the image. Nothing is added to the air so there isn't any harmful gas or liquid emitted from the device. If a Heliodisplay were left running for a week in a hermetically sealed room, the only change to the room`s environment would be from the electricity used to run the device. Although the Heliodisplay uses lasers, the images are not holographic.
One thing I noticed from the images is that the color black is transparent which makes sense since there is no thing such as black as in #00000 light as in not UV. Such a limitation would make some things, such as doom 3, nearly impossible to play. Of course, you could always use the device in a totally black room, or at least with a black background.
google notice the first image, with the laptop image in the background, you'll notice how black is transparent.
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user 21276481 is either fucked up, a republican, or both.
, bye, bye karma, nice knowing you.
What is this 'karma' you speak of? It seems valuable. Can you sell it? eat it? Can you exchange it for google money (aka GMoney(tm))? Does it help your reincarnation progress? Does it have anything to do with outsourcing?
I have no idea how the parent post got modded as "interesting". Or perhaps since it's posted anonymously the person modded his or herself.
This quote is funny because it's retarded: "I am also forced to download kilobytes (megabytes?) of useless information embedded in comments." News flash, this is slashdot. You download useless information embedded in comments every day. And this is one of them!
In a show of one-upsmanship, the FSF gives away free software to starving children in Africa. And SCO sues the FSF for violating its patent for giving free software to starving children.
If you go to the Maxthon page link and scroll to the bottom it lists awards that it's won. The first and only one I clicked was the last one on the page, p2btech, because I never heard of it. It's an article that doesn't even mention the Maxthon browser at all. It rates a few different browsers from a long time ago, Firefox 0.8 and Opera 7.5.
but what's the point? On a side note, this map is illegal due to copyright infringement of the Mozilla logos, since they're trademarked. I'm sure the GNWater GNBuffalo logo isn't trademarked. I don't know about the others, but I would imagine the SuSe and RedHat are officially owned.
"...anal-retentive grammar fascists..."
Is that anything like having a dictionary up your ass?
Can you imagine the kind of movement you have to do for the Hot Coffee mod on this console?
And the speaker in the wiimote could make some noises as well. Squishy wet noises of... um... hot coffee, yeah!
I'm not 100% on this, but I'm pretty sure that software released under the GPL requires you to distribute the source code if it is asked for. If SCO were to release a version of Linux with their so called proprietary code removed then it could be compared, not easily, to other distros to see what code they are claiming ownership of, since it would be missing in the GPL code. They're covering their asses by including "their" code because they won't have to identify it. This prevents anyone from rewriting the disputed sections and it prevents the community from disputing their claims of ownership. It's even possible that they're not allowed at this point to disclose such information because of some legal issues. IANAL.
You have to be a white, land-owning, male, preferably with blond hair and blue eyes, to write computer code?
That sounds a bit fucked up to me.
It's not genetics, it's culture. Boys are given guns to play with as children. Fake plastic guns that shoot little colorfull discs, water guns, whatever, they're still fucking guns. And then people bitch and complain then they start using real ones.
Little girls on the other hand are given baby dolls to play with. It's not uncommon in the United States to see little girls still in diapers carrying around a baby doll. They're preconditioned to be subjective to men.
I think it's wrong, but that's society for you, not much I can do but point it out .
Some shit is genetics, such as fucking to save the species, I'll give you that much. But a generous portion of behavior is cultural, id est, environmental.
You're a Nazi! This flame is complete! woot! huzzah! foshizzle!
I'd like to say, "see how it feels?",
I'll say it for you then. See how it feels?
Energy is on everyone's mind right now, especially since gas prices are going up, yadda yadda yadda. You really do need to be critical of panaceas in a time of need. Buying this product is like buying candles and stocking up on non-perishable food in preperation for the doom of the Y2K bug. After doing a quick search, I didn't see any topic that had been modded enough to be exposed on the top level stating the obvious: To store electricity you need to convert from AC to DC, and then to use it it must be converted back to AC. There is significant energy loss, in terms of price and scale, in this process to make this product useless, and it could possibly even cost you more in the long run.
Can God create a rock that he can't lift? To give background information on this riddle, it is of the form where you have a card or piece of paper. On one side it says "The statement on the other side of this paper is true." On the other side it says "The statement on the other side of this paper is false." I'm not sure what the logical term for this type of paradox is called, but the God/Rock idea is very similar. The circular reference in the quoted riddle should be obvious. The solution to this riddle is not a question of God's power. As with most riddles the answer is found by using a vague or misleading definition of a word. The key term in this riddle is "lift." If God created a rock that consumes(replaces) all of spacetime then there is no concept of "up", therefore the rock can not be "lifted" in the normal sense of the term since "lifting" is relative to some other object. With this solution you have achieve a dual state instead of a nonsense state. If an entity can create this hypthetical "omnirock" then the free will of God comes into play. He can create a state where he can not lift the rock and can also create a state where he can by creating a smaller object in space move/lift the first rock; ultimately allowing relative movemnent. The final solution is that both states are possible and exist simultaneously. Look up 'Schrodinger cat' on google. QED
You're obviously not a very good April's Fool jokester since everyone can plainly see you're not the first poster.
nyooclear weapons, yeehaw! 1 2 3 4 5
Google offers a search appliance, why not an email and/or web office equivalent? You buy the rack mount brains and hook up some hard drives, and you would stay in possesion of your data/email.
if anything, I'm an old school netscape fanboy. My first browser was Lynx, then I eventually jumped on the bandwagon and got netscape 3, then eventually moved on to long lasting netscape 4.x series. Netscape 6 sucked so I stayed with netscape 4.x during that time. I eventually starting using the Mozilla suite pre 1.0 after stumbling upon it. The lack of AOL branding at the time was a major reason for my jump from Netscape proper. Since then I've been using Mozilla, then Phoneix, then Firebird, then eventually Firefox. When 1.5 came out, it really sucked major ass for me. FF1.5 would crash at least 7 to 10 times per day. I'm fairly computer savy and I followed explicit instructions on making sure it was a clean install. I was browsing with hardly any extensions at all, which sucked.
There have been other major changes behind the scenes that might not be so apparent to the average user. In my attempts to create an extension for FF1.5 extension contest I came accross a shitload of bugs. Very simple XUL markup could make the browser disappear by simply clicking on a hyperlink. And by disappear I mean as in invisibile, except for plain text. And there are others, but my attempts at using Bugzilla have sucked. I've reported bugs in the past only to have them recently deleted because no one want's to fix them.
OSS is fine, but it seems to foster a mentality that if a developer can't reproduce a bug then the end user must be stupid. That's annoying, especially for a company that's marketing its browser to everyone, including urging people that don't know what a browser even is to upgrade.
The feeling I've gotten from this open source netscape project is that I'm using a product, such that if it ever gives me serious problems, I'm left with no recourse since there is no focused method for attaining a definitive solution or fix for something. It's like the bystander effect when it comes to fixing or even acknowleding problems.
The vgmuseum.com site tried to isntall "Downloader-RK" on my computer via its popup advertisements.
I'm sure there will eventually be an overflow bug in the year 2042 where people will start getting negative UID numbers.
I haven't read the article, but I wrote a little blurb on spreadfirefox.com (it's down, been hacked) suggesting that Google needs to create a XUL office suite. Of course, my intentions by posting on spreadfirefox.com was to come up with ideas on how best to spread the browser. If you've ever seen the Amazon search example that shows how cool xul can be, then hopefully you'll see the power.
As the news article about using "AJAX" for an office program shows, many people think it's a laughable concept. I think it is too if you try to be browser independent. Another limitation with an "AJAX" implimentation is that it's pretty much only been a document editor. Don't forget about spreadsheets and databases, they're both very important in the workplace.
The general business concept that I envisioned for Google was to lease or sell its rack mount hardware to companies as a central file server. Google already sells something like this but only for searching a LAN.
This allows companies to keep the data in house and allows people to search their documents with the power of Google. For those lucky enough to work from home, you would use VPN to access your files. I know you can do that already locally on the desktop with Google Desktop, but document access and search from any PC is a really nice concept.
On that same token, Google should lease hardware to allow companies to have their own gmail-like email servers that integrates with their office stuff. But since it's on the company lan, emails would be "me@mycompany.com" isntead of @gmail. And with hardware upgrades you wouldn't be limited by your inbox size for email.
I would expect the WYSIWYG editor to be used on the mozilla web site is either the html editior in the 'suite' application or possibly the gecko based Nvu.
There's some irony in there somewhere.
Is this the end of my cat? Oh, the horror!
One thing I noticed from the images is that the color black is transparent which makes sense since there is no thing such as black as in #00000 light as in not UV. Such a limitation would make some things, such as doom 3, nearly impossible to play. Of course, you could always use the device in a totally black room, or at least with a black background.
google notice the first image, with the laptop image in the background, you'll notice how black is transparent.