But isn't it a right under constitution for giant corporations to be able to own individual artists and sacrifise the originality of their work in return for gross profit which the artist will see so little off?
If you're in Linux, this build is worth getting, WHATEVER it may break, because it finally renders pages as they download. Firefox 1.0 was impossibly slow.
I was hoping for some long-needed features such as cross-session downloads. Single-window mode is more reliable. Bookmarks are better though. And XUL error pages work. So that's two less extensions I need.
I think Red Hat's arrangement with Fedora Core is pretty good. Fedora Core - great community operating system. Every other year Red Hat stick it in a box, say ooh it's certified and offer support, and sell it.
"we want to work with open source projects" By that I suspect our Google overloads may mean they want to steal free code and then patent blanket it and any other competition.
I'm sorry, but I'd argue that p2p only costs major label sellout bands, and doesn't touch small local artists who actually need that cash to succeed.
Say I download the new Oasis album. They're all millionaire twats, so should I feel guilty? Buying that CD is only going to put more into their smug pockets and that of their major record company.
I have to buy CDs for small, local, upcoming bands because their material isn't avaliable online. Proceeds of their home-produced CDs and ticket sales go to buying them equipment, getting them further gigs, and hopefully that band will get spotted and eventually make it big.
I won't feel guilty downloading their platinum album on Sony, knowing that two years ago I made or breaked it for that band.
An argument as stupid as this is being used in a (successful?) serious campaign to limit immigration into the USA. This is by an American environmental group, greensomething, I think, fairly typical of their type.
1) Americans are fat, polluting etc 2) Everyone outside America is better. 3) Don't let ppl become American.
Really, I don't think a Mexican worker gets over the border, picks some fruit and then buys an SUV and eats everyday in MacDonalds.
The servers used are Apache 2, with mod_perl (2 i think also) on Linux boxes. They are very open and give a lot of statistics at a subdomain.
bbc.co.uk is (one of) the biggest site(s) around, with an incredibly amount of traffic (I remember NewScientist saying about a quarter of a million page views a month a year or so ago). Any other server does not have the reliability needed for such an operation
How safe is Linux? A dedicated hacker on a mission could take down my system within an hour. But that's different to Windows, which doesn't even require a person, it's all automated. Just visit a dodgy website or open an email or talk to someone over IM.
I'd still say the biggest danger to my fc3 box is myself. Yesterday I ran rm * in my home directory (since then I have set some safety aliases in my shell) and last week I formatted one of my hard drives, but forgetting that I had yet to back up it's data onto the other one.
there is such thing as perfect security (and it lies in simplciity) >echo "hello world"; and also such thing as perfect stupidity >run $code-from-the-net; #as privileged
As said earlier lynx is perfectly secure. This is because it has minimum sufficient functionality for browsing the web (minus images). You DO NOT need flash, java, javascript or activex. Sure some sites require them. But they don't need to! Why use window.open to do (badly) what the target attribute of the anchor tag was intended for? Only window.open can be executed automatically to launch popups. What a dumb idea.
We have to break the cycle! Currently plenty of sites use Flash (without a text-only alternative) because they know most browsers support it. And most browsers support Flash, because they need to display those sites.
Seriously, disable Java, Flash and Javascript, and if there are any sites you can't get to. Fuck them. Sue them for bad accessibility. Or use that regex extension.
> How long will it be until Microsoft comes in with some "free" software to bring them back into the fold? My school is regularly sent free software to keep it update, I remember most recently Microsoft sent us their new security program, MS Blast.
How can you say a virus that wiped your OS clean off your computer was a bad thing? If a virus did that to my parents computer I could probably convince them to move to Linux.
No, viruses today slow the system, inundate the user with ads and send spam to the point that the OS is unbearable to use to anyone who has ever used a Mac or Linux, but so they say "it's ok, it works for me".
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um, it doesn't work quite like that...
it's called dexidecimal 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B :P
because 12 is a well known power of two. 2 ^ (2/3)? maybe. i can't figure out gnome calculator.
are those the words of a certain grandmaster?
:(
i've only heard wheels of steel
>So Flash is good now? Flash is bad. But is that bad as in rad as in wicked as in good or bad as in inaccesible, inusuable and memory intensive?
old news. did you miss the article on AOL's chimp marketting scheme on boingboing last month? they found apes connected better to their target customers.
But isn't it a right under constitution for giant corporations to be able to own individual artists and sacrifise the originality of their work in return for gross profit which the artist will see so little off?
better still use '~'! :p
matt v matthew surname
my linux user gets a short name cos I can have a longer full name bound to it.
ok fair comparison let's go to keystrokes
/ h tab m tab = that's five
c:/ (3) + d tab + m tab + my d tab about 10?
yes, with Longhorn, Windows will at least be suitable for my the desktop!
If you're in Linux, this build is worth getting, WHATEVER it may break, because it finally renders pages as they download. Firefox 1.0 was impossibly slow.
I was hoping for some long-needed features such as cross-session downloads. Single-window mode is more reliable. Bookmarks are better though. And XUL error pages work. So that's two less extensions I need.
i've just patented "an irritating little man that you pay to fight dirty in the so-called 'justice' system". think i'll call it a lawyer.
Anyone thought of any good acronyms L.A.W.Y.E.R. could stand for?
But I enjoyed typing "c:/documents and settings/matthew surname/my documents/". it's so much easier than /home/matt
clearly his 'intellectual property' amounts to little more than two brain cells.
I think Red Hat's arrangement with Fedora Core is pretty good. Fedora Core - great community operating system. Every other year Red Hat stick it in a box, say ooh it's certified and offer support, and sell it.
"we want to work with open source projects"
By that I suspect our Google overloads may mean they want to steal free code and then patent blanket it and any other competition.
I'm sorry, but I'd argue that p2p only costs major label sellout bands, and doesn't touch small local artists who actually need that cash to succeed.
Say I download the new Oasis album. They're all millionaire twats, so should I feel guilty? Buying that CD is only going to put more into their smug pockets and that of their major record company.
I have to buy CDs for small, local, upcoming bands because their material isn't avaliable online. Proceeds of their home-produced CDs and ticket sales go to buying them equipment, getting them further gigs, and hopefully that band will get spotted and eventually make it big.
I won't feel guilty downloading their platinum album on Sony, knowing that two years ago I made or breaked it for that band.
IPoVoIP That's not redundant!
(+1) can't wait either!
good to know it uses Linux, but the new system is nasty. (ok better now you actually see scotland), but our beautiful country is now a dirt brown.
An argument as stupid as this is being used in a (successful?) serious campaign to limit immigration into the USA. This is by an American environmental group, greensomething, I think, fairly typical of their type.
1) Americans are fat, polluting etc
2) Everyone outside America is better.
3) Don't let ppl become American.
Really, I don't think a Mexican worker gets over the border, picks some fruit and then buys an SUV and eats everyday in MacDonalds.
(Read in NewScientist)
The servers used are Apache 2, with mod_perl (2 i think also) on Linux boxes. They are very open and give a lot of statistics at a subdomain. bbc.co.uk is (one of) the biggest site(s) around, with an incredibly amount of traffic (I remember NewScientist saying about a quarter of a million page views a month a year or so ago). Any other server does not have the reliability needed for such an operation
given life span has increased by at least 12 years over the last century, i am not at all surprised.
How safe is Linux? A dedicated hacker on a mission could take down my system within an hour. But that's different to Windows, which doesn't even require a person, it's all automated. Just visit a dodgy website or open an email or talk to someone over IM.
I'd still say the biggest danger to my fc3 box is myself. Yesterday I ran rm * in my home directory (since then I have set some safety aliases in my shell) and last week I formatted one of my hard drives, but forgetting that I had yet to back up it's data onto the other one.
there is such thing as perfect security (and it lies in simplciity)
>echo "hello world";
and also such thing as perfect stupidity
>run $code-from-the-net; #as privileged
As said earlier lynx is perfectly secure. This is because it has minimum sufficient functionality for browsing the web (minus images). You DO NOT need flash, java, javascript or activex. Sure some sites require them. But they don't need to! Why use window.open to do (badly) what the target attribute of the anchor tag was intended for? Only window.open can be executed automatically to launch popups. What a dumb idea.
We have to break the cycle! Currently plenty of sites use Flash (without a text-only alternative) because they know most browsers support it. And most browsers support Flash, because they need to display those sites.
Seriously, disable Java, Flash and Javascript, and if there are any sites you can't get to. Fuck them. Sue them for bad accessibility. Or use that regex extension.
> How long will it be until Microsoft comes in with some "free" software to bring them back into the fold?
My school is regularly sent free software to keep it update, I remember most recently Microsoft sent us their new security program, MS Blast.
How can you say a virus that wiped your OS clean off your computer was a bad thing? If a virus did that to my parents computer I could probably convince them to move to Linux. No, viruses today slow the system, inundate the user with ads and send spam to the point that the OS is unbearable to use to anyone who has ever used a Mac or Linux, but so they say "it's ok, it works for me".