example (this is lifted straight out of the book)......
The 'while' loop..........
while ($tickets_sold;
chomp($purchase);
$tickets_sold += $purchase;
}
If it was taken from the book, why are there 2 syntax errors in the first line? Try again.
This isn't actually that good an example of what my gripe is, but look at it !!! I mean, what's wrong with a READABLE example like.....
Your syntax is wrong, how about this?
my ($blob) = 0;
for $blob1 ($blob..10)
{
  print "$blob1\n";
}
Your arguments would have much more power if you actually had ANY IDEA what you are talking about.
example (this is lifted straight out of the book)......
The 'while' loop..........
while ($tickets_sold;
chomp($purchase);
$tickets_sold += $purchase;
}
If it was taken from the book, why are there 2 syntax errors in the first line? Try again.
This isn't actually that good an example of what my gripe is, but look at it !!! I mean, what's wrong with a READABLE example like.....
my ($blob) = 0;
while ($blob 10)
{
print "$blob\n";
}
What makes you think I didn't check first? Just because I didn't actually see the nasty picture is no reason not to get some karma subtracted from a slimeball like you. I can't believe you actually accumulated enough to post at 2 - how did that happen?
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Since the problem is that "spam works", get ISPs to outlaw responding to spam, via the ISPs' AUPs. Then send some spam and forward the email address of any moron who replies to their own ISP.
Mozilla is the result of Netscape opening the source, so I think it reflects well. If their business model relies on users not being able to change their browser's homepage and feeling compelled to buy whatever pops up on the browser, they're in trouble.
Can someone please repost how to do this? I think it was posted in discussion of an earlier release, but I can't find it. I think it's a line in prefs.js
he Transmeta chip runs 80% cooler with 80% less power requirements, eliminating a lot of heat and need for
fans, bringing single point of failure in the machine down to near zero."
Almost wholly falacious (fellatious?) reasoning. You may think the processor is less likely to fail if it runs cooler, but if there's only one of them, it is still a single point of failure. A single point of failure either is or isn't. It is not "nearly" anything. (If you entirely do away with the need for a fan, it helps some.)
Don't be fooled. While Apple's OS X (as well as Linux and BSD) is not an officially sanctioned UNIX, that does not make it any less powerful or compatible than the official UNIX standard, nor does it trivialize it as a bastardized offshoot with only limited capability.
I've sysadminned on SCO, Solaris and Linux. Linux may not qualify for use of the trademark, but it's more than close enough for me. I can't comment on OS X, tho, haven't tried it.
yer, cause it's not like you cant just save as html.
Have you ever seen the HTML created by MS-Word? Hideous stuff, barely useable, with deprecated tags, incorrectly made entities and invalid ASCII. See http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/ You are better off to save as text, then go in with a text editor and add the markup.
Also, how long until they remove these export mechanisms "in order to serve us better" with more "innovation"? For example, they could make Front Page read Word format (if it doesn't already), then claim that this removes any need for export to text or HTML and that this represents better "integration" (their premier code-word for "lock-in").
...the posts people feel they have to waste their mod points on.
Do people actually feel compelled to moderate? I frequently don't. I can take it or leave it. Maybe something in the FAQ could address this (tho then you have to get people to RTFF).
and OSS supporters will still hate Microsoft (well....what do you expect?
most only care about the free-as-in-beer aspect of open source anyway).
I think this is an exaggeration. I thnk many of us care about the free-as-in-choice aspect. MS is not about choice - when they say 'windows everywhere' they *mean* 'nothing else anywhere'.
Ooops, you can't just bookmark after clicking, it still references the USA site, you'll have to extract the foreign URLS from your location line. Here's a couple:
Go here and search fo something. Book mark the servernames you get out of the results - many of them are in foreign countries which, if the sites aren't owned by americans, may be more immune to this crap. It's important to do this now because the URL above IS in the good ol' USA, so even tho it's only a search engine, it might get shut down under the same reasoning as Napster.
Screw Fox. Also, you can go to Google Advanced Groups Search, enter the song title into the "with the exact phrase" field and enter "alt.guitar.tab" into the "Newsgroup" field, then click "google search" and you're set. Let's see the pricks shut down usenet.
I can tell you from personal experience that most of the "official" sheet music that comes out for guitar is pure garbage. Example: I paid a great deal for a Led Zeppelin book to understand "The Rain Song". It was a VERY POOR approximation, in that it didn't even have the correct tuning of the guitar (which is how the strings are tuned, and makes a huge difference in how the song is played and how it SOUNDS). The publishers can take a hike until they produce a quality product at ANY proce (which they've spent 25 years that I know of proving that they can't or won't.
The money "saved" by going open source would be lost in the subsequent economic slump.
Please try to think before you post. Even if the slump you posit happened, it would be temporary. The savings from license fees would continue every year forever.
And there is no reason why a slump has to occur. Just because the software is libre doesn't mean it must be gratis. Someone could still get paid to write the specialized stuff that isn't already out there.
RSS partisanship aside, this episode strikes yet another blow against the use of centralized
(specifically copyright) DTDs in an increasingly distributed computing environment.
Publicly used DTDs need to be somewhere where the public can count on them long term.
Or else we need a DTD caching mechanism with an inifinite TTL - and this *still* doesn't address the copyright issue.
Maybe the modifications Maryland made weren't toothless after all.
Cancel that. It's apparently conflicting jurisdiction that's at fault, and that's always been part of UCITA. Also, there's nothing in the article that states that the Passport EUA is aimed at UCITA - it's just a chance collision of a law and an agreement.
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Ooops, hit submit when I meant preview
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example (this is lifted straight out of the book)...... The 'while' loop..........
while ($tickets_sold
chomp($purchase);
$tickets_sold += $purchase;
}
If it was taken from the book, why are there 2 syntax errors in the first line? Try again.
This isn't actually that good an example of what my gripe is, but look at it !!! I mean, what's wrong with a READABLE example like.....
Your syntax is wrong, how about this?
my ($blob) = 0;
for $blob1 ($blob..10)
{
  print "$blob1\n";
}
Your arguments would have much more power if you actually had ANY IDEA what you are talking about.
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example (this is lifted straight out of the book)...... The 'while' loop.......... ;
while ($tickets_sold
chomp($purchase);
$tickets_sold += $purchase;
}
If it was taken from the book, why are there 2 syntax errors in the first line? Try again.
This isn't actually that good an example of what my gripe is, but look at it !!! I mean, what's wrong with a READABLE example like..... my ($blob) = 0; while ($blob 10) { print "$blob\n"; }
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What makes you think I didn't check first? Just because I didn't actually see the nasty picture is no reason not to get some karma subtracted from a slimeball like you. I can't believe you actually accumulated enough to post at 2 - how did that happen?
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Since the problem is that "spam works", get ISPs to outlaw responding to spam, via the ISPs' AUPs. Then send some spam and forward the email address of any moron who replies to their own ISP.
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Someone please moderate this asswipe to some nether region - this is a goatse.cx link.
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That was supposed to be a 4004.
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Mozilla is the result of Netscape opening the source, so I think it reflects well. If their business model relies on users not being able to change their browser's homepage and feeling compelled to buy whatever pops up on the browser, they're in trouble.
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You modified proprietary code and he doesn't get it?
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Can someone please repost how to do this? I think it was posted in discussion of an earlier release, but I can't find it. I think it's a line in prefs.js
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he Transmeta chip runs 80% cooler with 80% less power requirements, eliminating a lot of heat and need for fans, bringing single point of failure in the machine down to near zero."
Almost wholly falacious (fellatious?) reasoning. You may think the processor is less likely to fail if it runs cooler, but if there's only one of them, it is still a single point of failure. A single point of failure either is or isn't. It is not "nearly" anything. (If you entirely do away with the need for a fan, it helps some.)
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From the OSOprinion article:
Don't be fooled. While Apple's OS X (as well as Linux and BSD) is not an officially sanctioned UNIX, that does not make it any less powerful or compatible than the official UNIX standard, nor does it trivialize it as a bastardized offshoot with only limited capability.
I've sysadminned on SCO, Solaris and Linux. Linux may not qualify for use of the trademark, but it's more than close enough for me. I can't comment on OS X, tho, haven't tried it.
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yer, cause it's not like you cant just save as html.
Have you ever seen the HTML created by MS-Word? Hideous stuff, barely useable, with deprecated tags, incorrectly made entities and invalid ASCII. See http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/ You are better off to save as text, then go in with a text editor and add the markup.
Also, how long until they remove these export mechanisms "in order to serve us better" with more "innovation"? For example, they could make Front Page read Word format (if it doesn't already), then claim that this removes any need for export to text or HTML and that this represents better "integration" (their premier code-word for "lock-in").
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...the posts people feel they have to waste their mod points on.
Do people actually feel compelled to moderate? I frequently don't. I can take it or leave it. Maybe something in the FAQ could address this (tho then you have to get people to RTFF).
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Except if UCITA also makes the EULA binding and the EULA dsclaims all warranties then where are you?
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but it is getting passed in many states,
It has passed in 2, count 'em, 2 states.
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Open Intellectual Property ("open source", "free software", whatever)
- The Internet
- The World Wide Web, including HTML
- Linux
Microsoft:Wow, I'm so impressed with MS's contribution.
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cipher to neo after the latter took the red pill.
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and OSS supporters will still hate Microsoft (well....what do you expect? most only care about the free-as-in-beer aspect of open source anyway).
I think this is an exaggeration. I thnk many of us care about the free-as-in-choice aspect. MS is not about choice - when they say 'windows everywhere' they *mean* 'nothing else anywhere'.
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Go here and search fo something. Book mark the servernames you get out of the results - many of them are in foreign countries which, if the sites aren't owned by americans, may be more immune to this crap. It's important to do this now because the URL above IS in the good ol' USA, so even tho it's only a search engine, it might get shut down under the same reasoning as Napster.
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Screw Fox. Also, you can go to Google Advanced Groups Search, enter the song title into the "with the exact phrase" field and enter "alt.guitar.tab" into the "Newsgroup" field, then click "google search" and you're set. Let's see the pricks shut down usenet.
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I can tell you from personal experience that most of the "official" sheet music that comes out for guitar is pure garbage. Example: I paid a great deal for a Led Zeppelin book to understand "The Rain Song". It was a VERY POOR approximation, in that it didn't even have the correct tuning of the guitar (which is how the strings are tuned, and makes a huge difference in how the song is played and how it SOUNDS). The publishers can take a hike until they produce a quality product at ANY proce (which they've spent 25 years that I know of proving that they can't or won't.
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The money "saved" by going open source would be lost in the subsequent economic slump.
Please try to think before you post. Even if the slump you posit happened, it would be temporary. The savings from license fees would continue every year forever.
And there is no reason why a slump has to occur. Just because the software is libre doesn't mean it must be gratis. Someone could still get paid to write the specialized stuff that isn't already out there.
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The last sentecne says it all:
RSS partisanship aside, this episode strikes yet another blow against the use of centralized (specifically copyright) DTDs in an increasingly distributed computing environment.
Publicly used DTDs need to be somewhere where the public can count on them long term.
Or else we need a DTD caching mechanism with an inifinite TTL - and this *still* doesn't address the copyright issue.
--
Maybe the modifications Maryland made weren't toothless after all.
Cancel that. It's apparently conflicting jurisdiction that's at fault, and that's always been part of UCITA. Also, there's nothing in the article that states that the Passport EUA is aimed at UCITA - it's just a chance collision of a law and an agreement.
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