Radio stations aren't out there for for the benefit of artists or record companies, they are out to make money like any other business. If it takes money to get them to play your record, that's fine. They aren't obligated to play anyone's record. They aren't even obligated to listen to anyone's record. I don't see how this is a problem. Why is it "bad" to accept money to play a record? Because someone else didn't get an opportunity to be heard? They are NOT obligated to hear anyone. This isn't socialism here, it's capitalism!
I will say that eventually this behavior will lead to people to stop listening to a station, as their content will inevitably turn into crap. I personal don't listen to radio for music for that reason. It's all preprocessed pop crap. Their own behavior will drive them out of business, as no one will want to advertise on a station that plays crap and has no listeners. We don't need any legislation to fix this!
From what I read on alot of tech sites, there are several devices on the way which will have the keyboard/PDA/Cellphone thing. I can't resist to tell you that I am working on such a device at Motorola. You probably haven't heard about it yet but it's called the Accompli 009 and has been in a few press releases. Accompli 009. Google also has a good image archive of it here. But anyway there are more devices on the way from Samsung, Nokia, Sharp,... pratically anyone who makes gagdets. Lots of them run Linux too, like the Sharp SD500L.
"M$, an equal opportunity platform security breach."
I think what it boils down to here is that trusting your security to a company will always leave you vulnerable because a company's best interest only *sometimes* is with you the user. A companies formost interest is money for themselves and their stockholders; any true capitalist such as myself with tell you this. If security happens to fall in line with that, then great, but don't ever solely rely on it.
Don't implicitly trust a company with your security, ever.
Trust yourself and trust the code that you can read. Trust no one else.
Oh and don't misconstrue my opinions for those of my employer.
What the heck is intel thinking? I mean having a compiler for you chip is an obivous thing but then making people pay for it? We already paid for the chip! And another thing, why would we use your compiler which has questionable improvements (I don't trust it till I see some graphs) over the perfectly good free and open GCC alternative? Hello! Open source apps aren't going to benifit from this at all unless some user buys intel's compiler for themselves! This doesn't make any sense to me. Can someone explain? Obviously nothing prohibits use in Open Source projects but realistically is this only for "commercial" apps?
It strikes me odd that Microsoft didn't think of the obvious solution. Instead of a webmaster having to turn OFF SmartLinks with that tag, they should have to turn them ON with that tag. That way no one's content gets modified without permission, assuming that the presence of the tag is a sign of permission. So why didn't they do it that way?... Oh, wait, right, because no one would use them.
What did you expect? An oscar performance? Yes it was complete cheese. I knew it was going to be when I went in and I was right. I also laughed throughout the entire movie, not only at the joke but sometimes at the sheer nonsensical nature of the movie. There are only so many ways to have a fantasy movie with out doing something someone else already did. THERE ARE NO NEW PLOTS. They simply recycle old ones to make them seem new. Therefore every movie is a "rip" of something else. Ever notice how starwars rips on alot of mythology? Not specifics of course, but the lone hero against insurmountable odds. Lucas even admitted that! Every good hero movie has parallels to mythology, this one just happen to hit on all the ones we know best.
There where lots of scenes where I immediately spotted the "rip-offs" like the Elven Village, the cave with the dragon staff, etc... I don't understand why they did it that way but when you think about it some of them really aren't as strong a rip off as people are saying. I think we noticed them only because we are the type of people who can recall those movies with exacting presicsion and when we see the faint or even moderate similarities we jump all over them like it's sacrilegious or something. The vehement reaction most people have here seems undeserved. Yeah most of the movie was cliche`. So what? It's a movie, not a social commentary. Most of the acting was silly but how do you expect a dwarf or an elf to act? The characters were complete stereotypes of what we would expect of those fantasy races and character classes. What else would they put in the first D&D movie?
Some people clapped when Snails died, but at least in this movie the "comic relief" bit it, unlike another movie I could name... *cough* Episode 1 *cough*... And don't even mention the ending. I still haven't figured that out.
The summary of my point I think boils down to this. Movies of any of our favorite subjects are never ever going to satisfy hard core gamer/geek people such as ourselves. Could you fit a decent campaign within 2 hours? No! Why did you expect a movie to? You can only hope that it presents the subject matter in a way that makes other people understand what's so enjoyable about it to us.
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oooo......
He's funny.
I've seen alot of arguement over this issue myself and the same issues are raised every time.
Paper is easier to read.
Paper doesn't rely on a computer to be read.
Paper is easier to search.
I question these arguements. How is paper easier to read? Text is text. Perhaps you don't have the proper monitor settings or perhaps your OS doesn't have pretty fonts or text anti-aliasing or whatever but I just don't buy this arguement. Text on a monitor is as easy to read, _to me_, as it is on paper. Second arguement, you don't have to be near your computer to read a manual. True, but you can also print out the electronic version if you so desire, since you might like paper better anyway? Also, when do you need to read the manual and not be near the computer? Personally I haven't had this experience though I don't doubt that it happens. Third, paper is certainly NOT easier to search through than electronically. I can't count the number of times the index or the appendix of a book has been just a page or two off and I've had to read a couple of pages just to find that one sentence I'm looking for. How can anyone justify this claim? Electronic documents allow precise searching, paper doesn't, end of story.
Perhaps I'm just being flamebait when I say that this sort of "reverence" to paper is outdated. Isn't the goal of all this electronic stuff to have a paperless office, to save some trees and keep the rainforest around a little longer? At least until we all want mahogany computer furniture that is. It might be a sad fact to you but I rejoice when I realize that paper has it's uses but not here. PDF's, HTML, SGML, XML, anyformatwhatsoever, heck even just.txt files I think are superior to the old ways. And of course I'll give you the overused, "Don't get me wrong, I like books!" But only when it's something I can actually be away from a computer to use. Like an auto repair guide or some text book about the history of the tibetan monks. Book have their uses, but not for computer program documents.
First Level Sucks, Second, Third not too bad.
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Daikatana Goes Gold!
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I have to agree with most people here, the first level sucks. Punching flys and frogs is not fun. But if you manage to save enough ammo to get past the first level and beat the uber-fly then the second level is much better.
The disk weapon is kinda cool and the monsters are actually monsters though there still are annoying ground insects who, evidently, I can't crush under me feet. When you finally meet your "sidekicks" is when the game gets marginally more interesting. The interface with the "sidekick" is difficult to use at first since you have to center objects in the crosshair to get them to "get" or "attack" them. However I don't want them ganking my ammos and powerps either.
The third stage is ok, but snow is not that much more impressive or necessary than the rain on the first level. Oh and why does it rain UNDERWATER in the first level? Anyway... in the third level controlling two sidekicks was just a pain. Yeah, we wiped up the level but I could have done that by myself while not eliciting such comments such as "Stop pushing me around!" or "You could have just asked me to move." when I bump into the sidekicks. All in all I can't see 1)where Ion Storm's money went and 2) how this demo makes the game seem worth spending money on. It's neat but it was done before in Unreal and Thief and almost everyother first person singleplayer (with the exception of the "sidekicks" of course). I don't think I'll buy it.
Perpahs they have tried it but could they not have written thier own drivers for the nessesary scanners and printers and such. I understand that such a thing is not a small undertaking but might it not be cheaper than paying all those liscence fees?
They are not just founding memebers of the ATL but also the Assocation for Competitive Technology, a founding group of the ATL! Double Dipping! Also it's supported by the Clarity Group whcih if you look at their web site is enamored wiht Microsoft. Some of these groups have an obvious vested interest in keep Microsoft together, how can we believe this poll then? I wonder why there hasn't been a truly impartial poll, one with no finacial support to groups doing the poll, about whether Microsoft should break up. Perhaps the answer would be unsavory?
Rep. Jean McGrath, R-Glendale, college kids are full blown adults in the eyes of the law. You can not tell them what they can and can not see, hear or do (within the current laws of course) on the internet. They are not your childern. All this bill does is rob those students of their freedom and make would-be-students of any arizona institution look elsewhere for their education. Can you say Kansas/Evolution? Sure you can! How can these twits stay in office? Do they really have a constituency to back them up? A constituency ready to rob other legal aged citizens of their rights? Sure these institutions are state funded (that's how they can legitimize all of this) but that doesn't mean these students don't shell out money for their internet connection too! If I pay for my connection (and I do even though I live in a dorm) I can do with it what I want. Just because the state paid the initial down payment on the routers doesn't mean they can dicate to me what I can and can't do with my connection. If they had paid in full for everything and were currently paying for my connection now then I would admit that they could limit it in any way they wanted. But then I wouldn't be living in a dorm.
Great, try to sue that pants off the little guys who don't even make a significant dent in the market. Doesn't this just leave a bad taste in your mouth??? Brian's page doesn't have anything that's illegal either! This draft from the MPAA accomplishes nothing. Actually I take that back, what it does accomplish is this: When the next weak encryption scheme comes along and someone cracks it, instead of taking credit for their cleverness they'll just release anonymously. Then who are you going to sue MPAA? The MPAA knows they can't stop what's out there already but they can try try try to take down the figure heads to discourage further spreading of the LiViD player and the cracking program. They still don't understand that the nature of computers makes it nearly if not totally impossible to make anything that we can stick in our computers and play, secure, because the player has to break the encryption, liscensed though it may be, that means we can break it too, liscensed or not.
It's funny that none of this would have happened if they had not ignored Linux and just made us a stupid DVD player.
The net may not be secure enough for voting, but we have to ask ourselves something very important. Do you really want to see banner ads for political canidates? My god, think of the pop-up windows, the pop-up windows! I'm sure you can imagine a scenario: Canidate X's popup pops up, then Canidate Y's pops up over X's and then Z's covers both Y and X. It would be worse than prOn sites!
This article is basically a summation of my existance. I am a college senior. I make all my decisions about where I live, when I go back home and what computers come or stay based on the connection. Here at school (Georgia Tech) we have Residential network. At home (parents) we have a Masqueraded ADSL connection for all the PC's in the house on the LAN. While the ADSL is not as fast, it's never busy unlike the dorm network. Before my parent got their connection I really didn't want to leave school and visit them for extended periods. I would usually wait around a couple days after the quarter ended before I went home. I would also come back a few days early because I could not stand the modem usage.
A while back when Slashdot had an article about 100Mbps Optical connections that Bellsouth was testing I immediately contacted them about getting hooked up. Unfortunately they are only testing it in the Dunwoody area of Atlanta. I now want to live there when I graduate. It's only like 10 minutes from here.
Furthermore, while all of my friends live off campus I choose to stay. Why? T1 connection. BellSouth has really dragged their heels getting xDSL connections setup. Mostly it's because they are still setting up infrastructure. My parents got lucky when they signed up. I know people who have moved off campus and signed up for xDSL service with Speak-easy, who resells BellSouth in this area, who, after being jerked around on the phones for nearly 2 MONTHS, still don't have an installation date. Before that they tried broadband. They waited 5 months for the service to become availble only to find out they weren't going to get it because of some distribution issue. Now they are forced into cable modems which have lots-o-users in the area (Does that actually affect speed? I must admit ignorance about cable modems). Anyway, all these reasons have kept me on campus and with my dear, sweet, lovely T1 line.
(homer talk) Oooh, baby, Did all that talk scare you? Shhhhh... I'll never leave you.... (/homer talk)
Well, that is until I graduate, then I'll have to buy one of my own. Or I could stay in school until they finally roll out ADSL everywhere. Yeah, that sounds like a plan!
And besides where else could I download and burn a CD of the most recent Linux ISO's in under 30 minutes?
You might ask if i have a life other than computers and computer games. Sure I do. You mean with real people? Yep. Do you sit around and dicuss computers? Nope, everything but.
Basically what I'm saying is that a person can be addicted to high speed access and still have a normal (?) life / social life. It just becomes a question of using the time you spend online right, like reading slashdot.
Part of the success in an Open Source Project is the focus of the project itself, in this case Fetchmail. Fetchmail is one of the really useful programs but not exactly a sexy one to work on. Some people are attracted to an Open Source Project because of the type of project it is, kernel hacking, GUI development, etc. The topic matter is not nessesarily more interesting or more difficult or just better it's just that people want to volunteer for those projects not others, like Fetchmail. One could even reason that Open Source Project Staffing is like a demand-side market. We the prorgammers decide which projects survive by contributing our time to them. Therefore only projects that attract people, or that people are attracted to, are likely to gain support. But since we all are intellegent human beings we can see that such behavior will lead to only gimmicky, flashy, no substance projects that have a lot of support but not much else. We know that some projects whether we like them or not need to be supported because if we don't support them then no one will. It's sad, but Fetchmail could be one of those projects.
So what did we learn? Basically the C keyword auto is useless.
Lets not bother Mr. Raymond with such terrestial matters such as his favorite distribution or his most loved caffine delivery system, lets cut to the important questions.
What is it like to be immortalized, for all time, in the online comic masterpieces such as Illiad's User Friendly?
So what did we learn? Basically the C keyword auto is useless.
I guess COREL doesn't understand the GPL or OpenSource Liscensing yet. Not that I expected that they would, mind you, but I'm dissapointed that they can't seem to shake their old liscensing habits. Here's a hint COREL. Anything, in any phase of development that has a GPL on it, MUST be released as GPL. This isn't Windows or Mac software where you can be restrictive about the liscense for alpha, beta, etc. You MUST put it under GPL. Personally this just killed any respect I have for them because they don't respect our liscense or our work.
So what did we learn? Basically the C keyword auto is useless.
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Radio stations aren't out there for for the benefit of artists or record companies, they are out to make money like any other business. If it takes money to get them to play your record, that's fine. They aren't obligated to play anyone's record. They aren't even obligated to listen to anyone's record. I don't see how this is a problem. Why is it "bad" to accept money to play a record? Because someone else didn't get an opportunity to be heard? They are NOT obligated to hear anyone. This isn't socialism here, it's capitalism!
I will say that eventually this behavior will lead to people to stop listening to a station, as their content will inevitably turn into crap. I personal don't listen to radio for music for that reason. It's all preprocessed pop crap. Their own behavior will drive them out of business, as no one will want to advertise on a station that plays crap and has no listeners. We don't need any legislation to fix this!
From what I read on alot of tech sites, there are several devices on the way which will have the keyboard/PDA/Cellphone thing. I can't resist to tell you that I am working on such a device at Motorola. You probably haven't heard about it yet but it's called the Accompli 009 and has been in a few press releases. Accompli 009. Google also has a good image archive of it here. But anyway there are more devices on the way from Samsung, Nokia, Sharp, ... pratically anyone who makes gagdets. Lots of them run Linux too, like the Sharp SD500L.
"M$, an equal opportunity platform security breach."
I think what it boils down to here is that trusting your security to a company will always leave you vulnerable because a company's best interest only *sometimes* is with you the user. A companies formost interest is money for themselves and their stockholders; any true capitalist such as myself with tell you this. If security happens to fall in line with that, then great, but don't ever solely rely on it.
Don't implicitly trust a company with your security, ever.
Trust yourself and trust the code that you can read. Trust no one else.
Oh and don't misconstrue my opinions for those of my employer.
What the heck is intel thinking? I mean having a compiler for you chip is an obivous thing but then making people pay for it? We already paid for the chip! And another thing, why would we use your compiler which has questionable improvements (I don't trust it till I see some graphs) over the perfectly good free and open GCC alternative? Hello! Open source apps aren't going to benifit from this at all unless some user buys intel's compiler for themselves! This doesn't make any sense to me. Can someone explain? Obviously nothing prohibits use in Open Source projects but realistically is this only for "commercial" apps?
It strikes me odd that Microsoft didn't think of the obvious solution. Instead of a webmaster having to turn OFF SmartLinks with that tag, they should have to turn them ON with that tag. That way no one's content gets modified without permission, assuming that the presence of the tag is a sign of permission. So why didn't they do it that way? ... Oh, wait, right, because no one would use them .
What did you expect? An oscar performance? Yes it was complete cheese. I knew it was going to be when I went in and I was right. I also laughed throughout the entire movie, not only at the joke but sometimes at the sheer nonsensical nature of the movie. There are only so many ways to have a fantasy movie with out doing something someone else already did. THERE ARE NO NEW PLOTS. They simply recycle old ones to make them seem new. Therefore every movie is a "rip" of something else. Ever notice how starwars rips on alot of mythology? Not specifics of course, but the lone hero against insurmountable odds. Lucas even admitted that! Every good hero movie has parallels to mythology, this one just happen to hit on all the ones we know best.
There where lots of scenes where I immediately spotted the "rip-offs" like the Elven Village, the cave with the dragon staff, etc... I don't understand why they did it that way but when you think about it some of them really aren't as strong a rip off as people are saying. I think we noticed them only because we are the type of people who can recall those movies with exacting presicsion and when we see the faint or even moderate similarities we jump all over them like it's sacrilegious or something. The vehement reaction most people have here seems undeserved. Yeah most of the movie was cliche`. So what? It's a movie, not a social commentary. Most of the acting was silly but how do you expect a dwarf or an elf to act? The characters were complete stereotypes of what we would expect of those fantasy races and character classes. What else would they put in the first D&D movie?
Some people clapped when Snails died, but at least in this movie the "comic relief" bit it, unlike another movie I could name... *cough* Episode 1 *cough*... And don't even mention the ending. I still haven't figured that out.
The summary of my point I think boils down to this. Movies of any of our favorite subjects are never ever going to satisfy hard core gamer/geek people such as ourselves. Could you fit a decent campaign within 2 hours? No! Why did you expect a movie to? You can only hope that it presents the subject matter in a way that makes other people understand what's so enjoyable about it to us.
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- Paper is easier to read.
- Paper doesn't rely on a computer to be read.
- Paper is easier to search.
I question these arguements. How is paper easier to read? Text is text. Perhaps you don't have the proper monitor settings or perhaps your OS doesn't have pretty fonts or text anti-aliasing or whatever but I just don't buy this arguement. Text on a monitor is as easy to read, _to me_, as it is on paper. Second arguement, you don't have to be near your computer to read a manual. True, but you can also print out the electronic version if you so desire, since you might like paper better anyway? Also, when do you need to read the manual and not be near the computer? Personally I haven't had this experience though I don't doubt that it happens. Third, paper is certainly NOT easier to search through than electronically. I can't count the number of times the index or the appendix of a book has been just a page or two off and I've had to read a couple of pages just to find that one sentence I'm looking for. How can anyone justify this claim? Electronic documents allow precise searching, paper doesn't, end of story.Perhaps I'm just being flamebait when I say that this sort of "reverence" to paper is outdated. Isn't the goal of all this electronic stuff to have a paperless office, to save some trees and keep the rainforest around a little longer? At least until we all want mahogany computer furniture that is. It might be a sad fact to you but I rejoice when I realize that paper has it's uses but not here. PDF's, HTML, SGML, XML, anyformatwhatsoever, heck even just
I have to agree with most people here, the first level sucks. Punching flys and frogs is not fun. But if you manage to save enough ammo to get past the first level and beat the uber-fly then the second level is much better.
The disk weapon is kinda cool and the monsters are actually monsters though there still are annoying ground insects who, evidently, I can't crush under me feet. When you finally meet your "sidekicks" is when the game gets marginally more interesting. The interface with the "sidekick" is difficult to use at first since you have to center objects in the crosshair to get them to "get" or "attack" them. However I don't want them ganking my ammos and powerps either.
The third stage is ok, but snow is not that much more impressive or necessary than the rain on the first level. Oh and why does it rain UNDERWATER in the first level? Anyway... in the third level controlling two sidekicks was just a pain. Yeah, we wiped up the level but I could have done that by myself while not eliciting such comments such as "Stop pushing me around!" or "You could have just asked me to move." when I bump into the sidekicks. All in all I can't see 1)where Ion Storm's money went and 2) how this demo makes the game seem worth spending money on. It's neat but it was done before in Unreal and Thief and almost everyother first person singleplayer (with the exception of the "sidekicks" of course). I don't think I'll buy it.
Perpahs they have tried it but could they not have written thier own drivers for the nessesary scanners and printers and such. I understand that such a thing is not a small undertaking but might it not be cheaper than paying all those liscence fees?
They are not just founding memebers of the ATL but also the Assocation for Competitive Technology, a founding group of the ATL! Double Dipping! Also it's supported by the Clarity Group whcih if you look at their web site is enamored wiht Microsoft. Some of these groups have an obvious vested interest in keep Microsoft together, how can we believe this poll then? I wonder why there hasn't been a truly impartial poll, one with no finacial support to groups doing the poll, about whether Microsoft should break up. Perhaps the answer would be unsavory?
Rep. Jean McGrath, R-Glendale, college kids are full blown adults in the eyes of the law. You can not tell them what they can and can not see, hear or do (within the current laws of course) on the internet. They are not your childern. All this bill does is rob those students of their freedom and make would-be-students of any arizona institution look elsewhere for their education. Can you say Kansas/Evolution? Sure you can! How can these twits stay in office? Do they really have a constituency to back them up? A constituency ready to rob other legal aged citizens of their rights? Sure these institutions are state funded (that's how they can legitimize all of this) but that doesn't mean these students don't shell out money for their internet connection too! If I pay for my connection (and I do even though I live in a dorm) I can do with it what I want. Just because the state paid the initial down payment on the routers doesn't mean they can dicate to me what I can and can't do with my connection. If they had paid in full for everything and were currently paying for my connection now then I would admit that they could limit it in any way they wanted. But then I wouldn't be living in a dorm.
Great, try to sue that pants off the little guys who don't even make a significant dent in the market. Doesn't this just leave a bad taste in your mouth??? Brian's page doesn't have anything that's illegal either! This draft from the MPAA accomplishes nothing. Actually I take that back, what it does accomplish is this: When the next weak encryption scheme comes along and someone cracks it, instead of taking credit for their cleverness they'll just release anonymously. Then who are you going to sue MPAA? The MPAA knows they can't stop what's out there already but they can try try try to take down the figure heads to discourage further spreading of the LiViD player and the cracking program. They still don't understand that the nature of computers makes it nearly if not totally impossible to make anything that we can stick in our computers and play, secure, because the player has to break the encryption, liscensed though it may be, that means we can break it too, liscensed or not.
It's funny that none of this would have happened if they had not ignored Linux and just made us a stupid DVD player.
The net may not be secure enough for voting, but we have to ask ourselves something very important. Do you really want to see banner ads for political canidates? My god, think of the pop-up windows, the pop-up windows! I'm sure you can imagine a scenario: Canidate X's popup pops up, then Canidate Y's pops up over X's and then Z's covers both Y and X. It would be worse than prOn sites!
This article is basically a summation of my existance. I am a college senior. I make all my decisions about where I live, when I go back home and what computers come or stay based on the connection. Here at school (Georgia Tech) we have Residential network. At home (parents) we have a Masqueraded ADSL connection for all the PC's in the house on the LAN. While the ADSL is not as fast, it's never busy unlike the dorm network. Before my parent got their connection I really didn't want to leave school and visit them for extended periods. I would usually wait around a couple days after the quarter ended before I went home. I would also come back a few days early because I could not stand the modem usage.
A while back when Slashdot had an article about 100Mbps Optical connections that Bellsouth was testing I immediately contacted them about getting hooked up. Unfortunately they are only testing it in the Dunwoody area of Atlanta. I now want to live there when I graduate. It's only like 10 minutes from here.
Furthermore, while all of my friends live off campus I choose to stay. Why? T1 connection. BellSouth has really dragged their heels getting xDSL connections setup. Mostly it's because they are still setting up infrastructure. My parents got lucky when they signed up. I know people who have moved off campus and signed up for xDSL service with Speak-easy, who resells BellSouth in this area, who, after being jerked around on the phones for nearly 2 MONTHS, still don't have an installation date. Before that they tried broadband. They waited 5 months for the service to become availble only to find out they weren't going to get it because of some distribution issue. Now they are forced into cable modems which have lots-o-users in the area (Does that actually affect speed? I must admit ignorance about cable modems). Anyway, all these reasons have kept me on campus and with my dear, sweet, lovely T1 line.
(homer talk)
Oooh, baby, Did all that talk scare you? Shhhhh... I'll never leave you....
(/homer talk)
Well, that is until I graduate, then I'll have to buy one of my own. Or I could stay in school until they finally roll out ADSL everywhere. Yeah, that sounds like a plan!
And besides where else could I download and burn a CD of the most recent Linux ISO's in under 30 minutes?
You might ask if i have a life other than computers and computer games. Sure I do. You mean with real people? Yep. Do you sit around and dicuss computers? Nope, everything but.
Basically what I'm saying is that a person can be addicted to high speed access and still have a normal (?) life / social life. It just becomes a question of using the time you spend online right, like reading slashdot.
Since this will be an Open Source ICD (?) hopefully we will be able to port this over to BeOS, OS/2 etc? Lets get the ports under way!
So what did we learn?
Basically the C keyword auto is useless.
Part of the success in an Open Source Project is the focus of the project itself, in this case Fetchmail. Fetchmail is one of the really useful programs but not exactly a sexy one to work on. Some people are attracted to an Open Source Project because of the type of project it is, kernel hacking, GUI development, etc. The topic matter is not nessesarily more interesting or more difficult or just better it's just that people want to volunteer for those projects not others, like Fetchmail. One could even reason that Open Source Project Staffing is like a demand-side market. We the prorgammers decide which projects survive by contributing our time to them. Therefore only projects that attract people, or that people are attracted to, are likely to gain support. But since we all are intellegent human beings we can see that such behavior will lead to only gimmicky, flashy, no substance projects that have a lot of support but not much else. We know that some projects whether we like them or not need to be supported because if we don't support them then no one will. It's sad, but Fetchmail could be one of those projects.
So what did we learn?
Basically the C keyword auto is useless.
Lets not bother Mr. Raymond with such terrestial matters such as his favorite distribution or his most loved caffine delivery system, lets cut to the important questions.
What is it like to be immortalized , for all time, in the online comic masterpieces such as Illiad's User Friendly?
So what did we learn?
Basically the C keyword auto is useless.
I guess COREL doesn't understand the GPL or OpenSource Liscensing yet. Not that I expected that they would, mind you, but I'm dissapointed that they can't seem to shake their old liscensing habits. Here's a hint COREL. Anything , in any phase of development that has a GPL on it, MUST be released as GPL. This isn't Windows or Mac software where you can be restrictive about the liscense for alpha, beta, etc. You MUST put it under GPL. Personally this just killed any respect I have for them because they don't respect our liscense or our work.
So what did we learn?
Basically the C keyword auto is useless.