-- open all your documents wherever you are. -- collaborate with people you allow to view it. -- keep the history of revisions. -- publish them immediately at web sites (you don't even have to upload, just click on "publish"). -- do all of the stuff I'm too dumb to come up with (and I'm sure they'll come up with a lot of great features).
All of us thought that gmail will be yet-another-email-client, only branded by Google. But it's far better than anything before, admit it.
I still see "Taiwan, Province of China". I'm not under chinese jurisdiction, but my IP comes from a similarly evil organisation - Polish telecom. Maybe that's why.
they will customize ubuntu for some org that wants some tweaks or new features. they'll collect money and that's it. it's not like they're gonna sell it later on as an "improved" (pro/plus/whatever) version.
imagine you're rich and you want to have phpMyAdmin with a pink theme. the easiest way is to go to PMA's devs and tell them "modify it for me to be pink and I'll give you $xxx.
What I hate the most in ff is the lack of ctrl+alt+shift+N (new tab with the same content) which I use all the time. Oh, and new windows opening on several different occasions (getting extensions to name one) pisses me off, too. Why do they do that?
not until someone exploits them, but until:
-- someone exploits it
-- it's discovered (it's not immediate, right?)
-- it finds its way to MS staff
-- it goes through the whole beaurocratic monster at MS all the way from a person who receives a bug report, through god knows how many decision makers to coders.(I guess that's not so quick)
Hackers have a lot of time to play around with those vulnerabilities...
Plus, I bet that in case of proprietary soft more (percentage wise) holes are discovered by those who are ill-minded (why in the world would you look for holes in IE? I don't know how does that look in FF's case, but I can imagine people looking for such stuff because they're doing a Good Thing).
Seriously, my last install of windows had something screwed up with some *ntfs*.* file (it loaded straight to BSOD every time). I was under linux most of the time and I -- having spent few hours trying to correct the problem -- didn't want to re-install an OS I wasn't using a lot (plus I'd have to fix GRUB).
Solution: I installed windows on another disc, booted from it and then chose the first installation during the boot time.
Problem: linux was on the first disc with the broken windows. In order to boot to Windows, I had to go to BIOS and change order of booting (luckily one disc was SATA, so I didn't have to mess with cables).
CMSs are used by some people to make wonderful stuff used by millions... stuff that they wouldn't be able to do by themselves.
Example: several years ago I made a free info site that gets 5k unique visitors a day. Many people benefit greatly from what I've posted there (a lot of text, some useful web tools, etc.).
Back when I was making it, I had absolutely no php (or anything similar) skills and simply wouldn't have done that website. I made it because there were some CMSs. And many people benefited my work (and indirectly the work of people that made my CMS).
Now... I don't see how is a driver for some device for not so popular OS far more useful than millions of people being able to use CMS-based websites. Both things are important, let's just not be "my stuff is the only important thing"-like nazis.
Call me when you're back from the outer space. I just want to know if you get better.
In case some of you don't know... this guy talk about "every right-wing idea already implemented" in a country that has 50% income taxes for the richest people and a government that keeps its hands on every aspect of ppls lives. Not that I'm overly liberal when it comes to economy (in fact, I'm less and less liberal as the time passes), but I think that what a parent says is a pure nonsense.
It's not a question of how much could you buy for it, but rather how much an average person can spare for such stuff after paying bills (and the answer is "almost nothing").
In general, food and services are cheaper in developing countries, but anything related to technology is either more or a lot more expensive. Example: I'd say notebooks are 50% more expensive than in US. And keep in mind average salary is waaaaaay lower (I'd say it's about 500 USD right now... fresh university graduates are happy to get $300).
That's what you get when you elect politicians who'd rather invest in heavy industry and agriculture.
I could get 1Mbps/256kbps for $20 less. Provided there are 3 of us living in this apartament, additional 1Mb is nice (all of us tend to abuse bandwidth at times;) ).
I can get additional 256 up for (to a total of 512) for $35. I can do it any time, but don't really neet it (torrent suffers, tho...)
The game we're developing is a web-based game. With gzip compression turned on average page is a bit over 4kB. That gives us ~7 pages per second with 256kbps. If one logged in user requests one page per 30 seconds (my assumption), we'll be able to serve 210 logged in users, which is more than enough for early beta.
Tell me about it. After being driven crazy by my ISP for 4 years or so, I got the cheapest reliable connection in Poland that has a static IP (we're going to beta-test our game on my comp to cut costs).
$100 for 2Mbps down / 256 kbps up (yes, that's cheapest DSL that doesn't have monthly transfer limit of 35-or-so GB).
$110 installation, $100 monthly. And that's only because they offer a "promotion" since the begining of June (was much more). Plus it's a minimum 24 months deal.
You guys don't have a clue what less fortunate people (why oh why wasn't I born in a civilized country?) feel when they read your complaints about the level of service you're being provided with (and costs associated with it, especially when you take a look at average salary).
The market deals with malicious ads itself. Here's a real situation:
I have a popular, community driven site. I display just one 468x60 box (google adsense, cuz it's so light on the user) and run some other graphical ads as defaults (they kick in when google has nothing to show). Once I dealt with a company that displayed malicious ad (some trojan crap). One minute after I checked a mail to see 2 different messages about it I checked it myself and removed their banners from the flow. That adrep company (similar to Double Click) lost a publisher. Fewer publishers - fewer impressions to sell. That's how market works.
Now, if I knew that most of the people use ad blockers to block adsense (I don't really care about others), I would NEVER started to make that site. It took me 3 months of constant work + sporadic work later on. It has tones of free content which would never be created if I didn't have financial benefits. So yes, the guy is 50% right. It might not be an end of free content, but surely it will stop some people (like myself) from working on free stuff.
Fortunatelly,/. has other ways of earning money...
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What is spyware? Is it this kind of software that I need Wine to run?
- Add extra repositories for installing a lot of additional software.
- Install multimedia codecs for reading all videos, musics and DVDs.
- Activate the "audio preview" feature in Nautilus.
- Install the most needed Firefox plugins: Flash, Java, Real, videos. Adds Microsoft fonts, GNOME's Firefox buttons, officials Firefox icons.
- Install archiving support for RAR and ACE.
- Install the most used peer-to-peer softwares: aMule (a clone of eMule) and Azureus (for Bittorent).
- Install the Skype voice-over-IP software. (Warning: at this time Skype is not packaged for Breezy so install don't work)
- MSN: Install AMSN cvs with webcam support.
- Num lock: Active the num lock at system startup.
- Replace the GNOME foot logo with Ubuntu's logo.
- Install the NVIDIA or ATI driver for 3D support.
(copied from their site)I gave bongs up several years ago when it started looking like this:
Just a branded office? -- takes bong hit -- what were we talking about? -- looks at the ceiling for half a minute -- never mind, let's eat something
Just a branded office? man, it's on the web.
-- open all your documents wherever you are.
-- collaborate with people you allow to view it.
-- keep the history of revisions.
-- publish them immediately at web sites (you don't even have to upload, just click on "publish").
-- do all of the stuff I'm too dumb to come up with (and I'm sure they'll come up with a lot of great features).
All of us thought that gmail will be yet-another-email-client, only branded by Google. But it's far better than anything before, admit it.
I still see "Taiwan, Province of China". I'm not under chinese jurisdiction, but my IP comes from a similarly evil organisation - Polish telecom. Maybe that's why.
they will customize ubuntu for some org that wants some tweaks or new features. they'll collect money and that's it. it's not like they're gonna sell it later on as an "improved" (pro/plus/whatever) version.
imagine you're rich and you want to have phpMyAdmin with a pink theme. the easiest way is to go to PMA's devs and tell them "modify it for me to be pink and I'll give you $xxx.
I've seen over 30000 peers and (I think) around 2000 seeds when GTA San Andreas came out.
;)
I bet that now that everybody knows about an outrageous Hot Coffee thing nobody wants to d/l it
Good idea. They used it in Rise of Nations and it was a nice balancing factor. IMHO Civ games should be more balanced.
My question: are you going to implement something that would ensure "fair" starting locations? It's wildly random in Civ III.
What I hate the most in ff is the lack of ctrl+alt+shift+N (new tab with the same content) which I use all the time. Oh, and new windows opening on several different occasions (getting extensions to name one) pisses me off, too. Why do they do that?
"Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled."
chickens
until some hacker exploits it
not until someone exploits them, but until:
-- someone exploits it
-- it's discovered (it's not immediate, right?)
-- it finds its way to MS staff
-- it goes through the whole beaurocratic monster at MS all the way from a person who receives a bug report, through god knows how many decision makers to coders.(I guess that's not so quick)
Hackers have a lot of time to play around with those vulnerabilities...
Plus, I bet that in case of proprietary soft more (percentage wise) holes are discovered by those who are ill-minded (why in the world would you look for holes in IE? I don't know how does that look in FF's case, but I can imagine people looking for such stuff because they're doing a Good Thing).
When it started booting to BSOD by default ;)
Seriously, my last install of windows had something screwed up with some *ntfs*.* file (it loaded straight to BSOD every time). I was under linux most of the time and I -- having spent few hours trying to correct the problem -- didn't want to re-install an OS I wasn't using a lot (plus I'd have to fix GRUB).
Solution: I installed windows on another disc, booted from it and then chose the first installation during the boot time.
Problem: linux was on the first disc with the broken windows. In order to boot to Windows, I had to go to BIOS and change order of booting (luckily one disc was SATA, so I didn't have to mess with cables).
Oh... I wish my mommy was here. Now you've spoiled my whole freaking day, bastard!
start backing up your stuff then.
MS hired Pablo Picasso.
What's cool about Enlightment? Been looking at their website for some time and can't find anything useful. How does it compare to KDE or Gnome?
CMSs are used by some people to make wonderful stuff used by millions... stuff that they wouldn't be able to do by themselves.
Example: several years ago I made a free info site that gets 5k unique visitors a day. Many people benefit greatly from what I've posted there (a lot of text, some useful web tools, etc.).
Back when I was making it, I had absolutely no php (or anything similar) skills and simply wouldn't have done that website. I made it because there were some CMSs. And many people benefited my work (and indirectly the work of people that made my CMS).
Now... I don't see how is a driver for some device for not so popular OS far more useful than millions of people being able to use CMS-based websites. Both things are important, let's just not be "my stuff is the only important thing"-like nazis.
you mean it's like being a library?
actually, the score is 648 to 14 ;)
Call me when you're back from the outer space. I just want to know if you get better.
In case some of you don't know... this guy talk about "every right-wing idea already implemented" in a country that has 50% income taxes for the richest people and a government that keeps its hands on every aspect of ppls lives. Not that I'm overly liberal when it comes to economy (in fact, I'm less and less liberal as the time passes), but I think that what a parent says is a pure nonsense.
In general, food and services are cheaper in developing countries, but anything related to technology is either more or a lot more expensive. Example: I'd say notebooks are 50% more expensive than in US. And keep in mind average salary is waaaaaay lower (I'd say it's about 500 USD right now... fresh university graduates are happy to get $300).
That's what you get when you elect politicians who'd rather invest in heavy industry and agriculture.
I could get 1Mbps/256kbps for $20 less. Provided there are 3 of us living in this apartament, additional 1Mb is nice (all of us tend to abuse bandwidth at times ;) ).
I can get additional 256 up for (to a total of 512) for $35. I can do it any time, but don't really neet it (torrent suffers, tho...)
The game we're developing is a web-based game. With gzip compression turned on average page is a bit over 4kB. That gives us ~7 pages per second with 256kbps. If one logged in user requests one page per 30 seconds (my assumption), we'll be able to serve 210 logged in users, which is more than enough for early beta.
Tell me about it. After being driven crazy by my ISP for 4 years or so, I got the cheapest reliable connection in Poland that has a static IP (we're going to beta-test our game on my comp to cut costs).
$100 for 2Mbps down / 256 kbps up (yes, that's cheapest DSL that doesn't have monthly transfer limit of 35-or-so GB).
$110 installation, $100 monthly. And that's only because they offer a "promotion" since the begining of June (was much more). Plus it's a minimum 24 months deal.
You guys don't have a clue what less fortunate people (why oh why wasn't I born in a civilized country?) feel when they read your complaints about the level of service you're being provided with (and costs associated with it, especially when you take a look at average salary).
The market deals with malicious ads itself. Here's a real situation:
/. has other ways of earning money...
I have a popular, community driven site. I display just one 468x60 box (google adsense, cuz it's so light on the user) and run some other graphical ads as defaults (they kick in when google has nothing to show). Once I dealt with a company that displayed malicious ad (some trojan crap). One minute after I checked a mail to see 2 different messages about it I checked it myself and removed their banners from the flow. That adrep company (similar to Double Click) lost a publisher. Fewer publishers - fewer impressions to sell. That's how market works.
Now, if I knew that most of the people use ad blockers to block adsense (I don't really care about others), I would NEVER started to make that site. It took me 3 months of constant work + sporadic work later on. It has tones of free content which would never be created if I didn't have financial benefits. So yes, the guy is 50% right. It might not be an end of free content, but surely it will stop some people (like myself) from working on free stuff.
Fortunatelly,