Like ESR, I indicated to them that Microsoft was a company that I could never consider working for, under any circumstances whatsoever.
You mean, you made it sound like this?:)
On the day *I* go to work for Microsoft, faint oinking sounds will be heard from far overhead, the moon will not merely turn blue but develop polkadots, and hell will freeze over so solid the brimstone will go superconductive.
As a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for.NET, I specialize in Windows and Web software architecture and development for enterprise-class software products and systems.
Is comes as no surprise that you were being recruted by Microsoft. ESR however... he f***ing hates Microsoft, and everybody not living under a rock knows that.
I've had firefox take up 145 Mb of memory, that is ridiculous.
Was it really only Firefox or the installed plugins and extensions. I know from experience that on Windows the Adobe Acrobat and Macromedia Flash plugins are the biggest memory hogs. One more reason to think that Adobe buying Macromedia was not just a coincidence:)
You forgot to tell us about the accidents that may happen when using a regular (non-wireless) mouse. For example the cord might get around your neck and choke you to death. Really!
As for OpenOffice.org - they're using the OASIS format and Microsoft is a sponsor of that so you'd think they'd get around to it eventually
I think you've got the facts right. First, OASIS standardized a variant of the XML format used internally by OpenOffice (and KOffice now), not the other way around. Second, Microsoft didn't want to get involved in the standardization of OpenDocument, and they are not a sponsor of the OpenDocument TC.
I have to disagree with that. It's *very Difficult* to change your email address, even if it is webmail based.
I changed email addresses four times in the last three years and it was not that hard. Now I use Gmail which, unlike all the other services I used has a free forwarding service. So you can switch to whatever other service you like, and Google (unlike Yahoo! or Hotmail) won't impede you to do this. So could you please explain why would it be hard for anybody to switch from Gmail?
This is all I could think about when I read about their "summer of code", a big company exploiting a bunch of kids who don't know any better and ripping off their best ideas. Do no evil indeed.
Your anger against Google is very similar to that of the people interviewed in the article (and I think it has nothing to do with Google, or with anything else for the matter). Paying 4500$ to a student who wants to spend two of his month improving an open source project, benefits the student and the open source community as a whole. And Google doesn't own the idea, or anything else for the matter. It is true that maybe they found out of interesting ideas this way, but fuck, to go from this to "a big company exploiting a bunch of kids who don't know any better and ripping off their best ideas" is being paranoid.
You know, smart people have lots of ideas, and many of them are not so paranoid about hiding them from everybody else. This is why open source works so well.
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Like ESR, I indicated to them that Microsoft was a company that I could never consider working for, under any circumstances whatsoever.
:)
You mean, you made it sound like this?
On the day *I* go to work for Microsoft, faint oinking sounds will be heard from far overhead, the moon will not merely turn blue but develop polkadots, and hell will freeze over so solid the brimstone will go superconductive.
As a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for .NET, I specialize in Windows and Web software architecture and development for enterprise-class software products and systems.
... he f***ing hates Microsoft, and everybody not living under a rock knows that.
Is comes as no surprise that you were being recruted by Microsoft. ESR however
The "unofficial" torrents worked just fine for me.
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I've had firefox take up 145 Mb of memory, that is ridiculous.
:)
Was it really only Firefox or the installed plugins and extensions. I know from experience that on Windows the Adobe Acrobat and Macromedia Flash plugins are the biggest memory hogs. One more reason to think that Adobe buying Macromedia was not just a coincidence
Why wasn't parent moded funny?
No, they are not. Really!
Some of these projects do eventually get incorporated into products.
Any of you can think of any examples? Were Microsoft's products really innovative in any way? Ever?
Google?
We just put up the *real* torrents.
Do you mean that the interview I watched last night was just a fake? How are those torrents better?
I have don't friends any more, you insensitive clod. They would never hang together with one that doesn't have a cordless mouse.
You forgot to tell us about the accidents that may happen when using a regular (non-wireless) mouse. For example the cord might get around your neck and choke you to death. Really!
donald@catalin:~$ mplayer /common/downloads/ntv001.mp4
/common/downloads/ntv001.mp4. /usr/lib/codecs/avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll
MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 9)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
Playing
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll,
Seek failed
You are right, the mp4 is three times larger then the ogg ... but downloading it using the torrent is five times faster. Really!
As long as the books are under the copyright law, Google has to obey it. It is not a matter of choice.
... there is Slashdot :)
As for your freedom of information
while the survivors who are more resistant to UVs will procreate.
Who do you think those people will be? White people?
As for OpenOffice.org - they're using the OASIS format and Microsoft is a sponsor of that so you'd think they'd get around to it eventually
I think you've got the facts right. First, OASIS standardized a variant of the XML format used internally by OpenOffice (and KOffice now), not the other way around. Second, Microsoft didn't want to get involved in the standardization of OpenDocument, and they are not a sponsor of the OpenDocument TC.
I have to disagree with that. It's *very Difficult* to change your email address, even if it is webmail based. I changed email addresses four times in the last three years and it was not that hard. Now I use Gmail which, unlike all the other services I used has a free forwarding service. So you can switch to whatever other service you like, and Google (unlike Yahoo! or Hotmail) won't impede you to do this. So could you please explain why would it be hard for anybody to switch from Gmail?
This is all I could think about when I read about their "summer of code", a big company exploiting a bunch of kids who don't know any better and ripping off their best ideas. Do no evil indeed.
Your anger against Google is very similar to that of the people interviewed in the article (and I think it has nothing to do with Google, or with anything else for the matter). Paying 4500$ to a student who wants to spend two of his month improving an open source project, benefits the student and the open source community as a whole. And Google doesn't own the idea, or anything else for the matter. It is true that maybe they found out of interesting ideas this way, but fuck, to go from this to "a big company exploiting a bunch of kids who don't know any better and ripping off their best ideas" is being paranoid.
You know, smart people have lots of ideas, and many of them are not so paranoid about hiding them from everybody else. This is why open source works so well.
I am positive that they will add Google-style spell-checking.
The answer is Yes.
Yup, works great.
Only the basic version of Trillian is free and it works only on Windows. I would rather recommend GAIM.