Where do abuse reports get sent when someone starts sending spam using your domain name? What about take-down notices when someone posts copyrighted material on a website with your domain name? Yeah!
Where do police go to hunt down political dissidents?
Where do people who disagree with your political beliefs go to threaten you and your family?
Granted, there are alternatives such as free hosting and what not.
This whole 'internet addiction' is just one large double-standard pile of crap. If someone were to play a sport for 15 hours a day, they would be considered a star athelete. Someone chooses to use the computer, and it's considered a detrimental addiction. Granted, the sports may be better for you physically, but at the same time use of the computer could be providing the mental challenge you couldn't get anywhere else.
And if the campaign garners enough attention and if Steve Ballmer maintains silence, then the community and companies behind Linux can take the silence for for the admission that it is. And the general public still won't give a damn.
I've had a fairly good experience with 1&1. Although, be careful about obtaining domains with their hosting packages. They slap you with a registration fee if you want to dissociate the domain with that hosting package.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Red Faction or Red Faction 2. I loved being able to blow up my environment, get around doors without needing to unlock them, and even blowing the bridge out of under my enemies and their vehicles. Both are old titles, but I would recommend checking them out, I thought they were fairly fun games.
This is basically how I got into the world of programming, if I may be so bold. I started with VB 6.
Eventually, I got bored with the simplicity of it. It just didn't "challenge" me, if I may once again be so bold.
I wanted to know more about how the things worked, other than just accepting Text1.Text = "Blah", so I delved into C++, which, to this day, am still learning (to be honest, I've only recently started programming in C++, making a big leap a year or two ago.)
Let the kid be, if he's truly interested in programming, he'll follow a path similar to mine, wanting to delve deeper into it, maybe even learning concepts/programming paradigms.
Just my 0.02... something to think about.
I've yet to read anyone posting about the fact they ship free CDs too. Not the free except for shipping crap, but actually at no direct financial cost to you.
More info here: http://shipit.ubuntu.com/
You also forgot that nobody really profits from keeping an open source app up to date either. All in all, you made a good point.
MOD PARENT UP!
But because it's open source doesn't mean the leaders of the project won't suddenly decide that such and such a feature isn't nescesary (still haven't learned it), and you end up with the same problem, an OSS project with a napolean complex (I'm kidding...) And then a group of intrepid developers suddenly decide to fork the project, with such and such a feature. Bam. Back to the problem of having too many browsers. Although, FF does seem to alleviate this possibility through extensions.
It's basically an endless cycle, and I'm just bitching about it. Maybe I should go start my own browser...
I must say, while a single browser would be nice, it would be like the 90s again when MS won the browser war.
Since IE was the only real browser used by the masses, MS just decided to sit on it. Now that Opera and Mozilla are getting their shit together, MS is being forced to actually put some work into the browser if they want to continue to control things.
So having a single, universal browser wouldn't be great if the developers suddenly decided what features people do and do not need, and whether support for something is really all that nescesary (check spelling.)**
What I would like to see, is a universal-ish rendering engine, that people then build browsers upon.
** - This is talking closed source. Open source basically debunks the point I'm trying to make.
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How hard is it to link the the single page print version...m mand=printArticleBasic&articleId=9012345
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?co
AC to avoid the whoring of karma.
A shorter name.
You are trying to be insightful. Therefore, your are un-insightful. Where's the un-insightful modifier? :P
Where do police go to hunt down political dissidents?
Where do people who disagree with your political beliefs go to threaten you and your family?
Granted, there are alternatives such as free hosting and what not.
This whole 'internet addiction' is just one large double-standard pile of crap. If someone were to play a sport for 15 hours a day, they would be considered a star athelete. Someone chooses to use the computer, and it's considered a detrimental addiction. Granted, the sports may be better for you physically, but at the same time use of the computer could be providing the mental challenge you couldn't get anywhere else.
Vote kick/ban are always handy.
I've had a fairly good experience with 1&1. Although, be careful about obtaining domains with their hosting packages. They slap you with a registration fee if you want to dissociate the domain with that hosting package.
I think you made some of those words up.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Red Faction or Red Faction 2. I loved being able to blow up my environment, get around doors without needing to unlock them, and even blowing the bridge out of under my enemies and their vehicles. Both are old titles, but I would recommend checking them out, I thought they were fairly fun games.
My sarcasm was lost on you.
Personally, I think Wii is a brilliant name.
Think about it...
It's the sound the execs at Nintendo make when they go down their slides that land into their boardroom chairs.
It's the sound EVERYONE (if you don't, you're not American) makes going down a slide...
We just spell it differently.
They give everyone a chance to go on self-righteous rants. Or rants criticizing other rants...
You mean he shot out his flashlight, right? Lights in Doom3... har har har!
He's holding us for ransom against HIV. Brilliant!
This is basically how I got into the world of programming, if I may be so bold. I started with VB 6. Eventually, I got bored with the simplicity of it. It just didn't "challenge" me, if I may once again be so bold. I wanted to know more about how the things worked, other than just accepting Text1.Text = "Blah", so I delved into C++, which, to this day, am still learning (to be honest, I've only recently started programming in C++, making a big leap a year or two ago.) Let the kid be, if he's truly interested in programming, he'll follow a path similar to mine, wanting to delve deeper into it, maybe even learning concepts/programming paradigms. Just my 0.02... something to think about.
I've yet to read anyone posting about the fact they ship free CDs too. Not the free except for shipping crap, but actually at no direct financial cost to you. More info here: http://shipit.ubuntu.com/
You also forgot that nobody really profits from keeping an open source app up to date either. All in all, you made a good point.
MOD PARENT UP!
But because it's open source doesn't mean the leaders of the project won't suddenly decide that such and such a feature isn't nescesary (still haven't learned it), and you end up with the same problem, an OSS project with a napolean complex (I'm kidding...) And then a group of intrepid developers suddenly decide to fork the project, with such and such a feature. Bam. Back to the problem of having too many browsers. Although, FF does seem to alleviate this possibility through extensions.
It's basically an endless cycle, and I'm just bitching about it. Maybe I should go start my own browser...
I must say, while a single browser would be nice, it would be like the 90s again when MS won the browser war.
Since IE was the only real browser used by the masses, MS just decided to sit on it. Now that Opera and Mozilla are getting their shit together, MS is being forced to actually put some work into the browser if they want to continue to control things.
So having a single, universal browser wouldn't be great if the developers suddenly decided what features people do and do not need, and whether support for something is really all that nescesary (check spelling.)**
What I would like to see, is a universal-ish rendering engine, that people then build browsers upon.
** - This is talking closed source. Open source basically debunks the point I'm trying to make.
What about an open version of say, Kazaa, where no one is directly the owner of it. Could this work?
Opera didn't do that, although I never stuck with it long enough to find out if you could change it.
Oh well... I guess I'll never be a UI designer.
Damn.
Guild Wars is a great game. He should have gotten a higher score just for that!
Yesterday I waited for FireFox to do it's automatic update thing to no avail.
I decide to go to Options->Advanced and do a manual Check for Update, which returned nothing.
Why has Mozilla abandoned me??!?
And no, I am not currently running 1.0.5
Shocker!
Bloomington, Illinois?