All Linux needs is a dedicated hardware manufacturer that is creating complete solutions for users in hardware and software. For example, the entire OS X, iTunes, iPud, iTunes store solution.
Dell PC with: Ubuntu, Rhythmbox/Amarok/Songbird, almost any mp3 player, Amazon Music Store/Magnatune or whatever (I don't buy media online).
Thank you.
I will be buying one (two?) of these.
It is kind of comforting to know that my nephew's little green toy has a brother somewhere in Cambodia.
If the freeware tools capable of creating or exporting to SWF files don't meet your needs, a license for Flash goes for about $700 retail. To anybody serious about distributing content, that is NOT a large sum of money.
I have always hated this argument. "I am comfortable with this barrier to entry, why aren't you?" Why do I have to be "serious" about making content to have an easy to use tool?
My 9 year old nephew, upon discovering my copy of Wii Play, scares everyone in the house by screaming at the top of his lungs, "It's Duck Hunt!" for 30 minutes.
My 55 year old uncle, who has been berating my gaming hobby since I purchased a Dreamcast on 9-9-99, came over to my house with a copy of World Series of Poker and his own Wiimote to play. "Couldn't find one of them boxes (the Wii itself, I assume)," he tells me, "So I'll just use yours."
My 19 year old brother asks me, "Can I invite some friends over and have a Wii party at your house and play Monkey Ball and Warioware?"
All I want to do is finish Zelda.
So is the Wii finished? At my home, it hasn't even started.
I can't wait to see these hacks butcher the Quake 2 movie. Seriously, how do you fuck up Doom? A marine on Mars shoots demons. That is not a lot of plot to shred, but they somehow managed. This looks more like the bastard stepchild of Resident Evil and Alien 4. At least those two stinkers had hot chicks instead of The Rock.
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The rest of the sections RMS dislikes are still in the Plan 9 Open Source License Version 1.4 - 09/10/02. But the license is good enough for me. I will download a copy as soon as the slashdotting subsides.
I think that cheap electronics and the internet are to blame (for everything!) for the growing popularity of indie music. Back in the 80s and early 90s, I really *wanted* to be indie, especially when I would see that bumber sticker that says "Corporate rock still sucks." But I just couldn't get into the bad sounding, low-talent self-made cassette crap I would here down at the local "alt" record store. Jesus, I didn't want to buy another Madonna CD, but the alternatives were noise or silence. I'm sure there was good quality alt music out there, but I couldn't find it. It was just not possible for a kid in a southern US town to know about an ass-kickin DJ from Toronto, or that weird (but talented) rapper from Rio. There were no mp3s for download in 1991, but there was a Sound Whorehouse with a giant display of Garth Brooks CDs. Things are different now. I haven't bought a "big 5" cd in several years. And I don't steal/pirate/liberate music. But my hard drive and CDRs brim full with fucking excellent tunes produced and distributed by indie labels and self-produced artists who are glad to hook you up with some free mp3s just to get their songs heard. And you know what, I usually end up buying their CDs. Maybe to get those other songs that aren't available for download, or sometimes even when I have all of the songs already, just to support the cool artist who provided me dozens of hours of sound with no expectation of compensation (And once to get the bumber sticker included with the disk). Not only can I easily sift through the crap to find the gold now, but the ultra-low barrier-to-entry for digital music production has created even more indie music than I ever dreamed existed in 1991. Sure there is more talentless noise, but damn, I never thought there would be this much good music hiding on lonely web sites waiting for someone to download, burn, and pass around. So fuck you RIAA! I don't buy big5 CDs, and I've never used kazaa. But I've got lots of music, and somebody is earning my music dollars without giving you a cut! Eventually lots of people are going to realize it. You'll have to shut off the entire internet to stop it now!
What if my non-insured car catches on fire, and is reduced to carbon? Do I still keep paying my bank?
Bad analogy. More like "What if my fully-registered car catches on fire, and is reduced to carbon? Do I still have to pay the state registration fee every year?"
unless it plays ogg files. And I'm not falling for that "a bios update will come soon that supports ogg" again. That's how I got tricked into buying an iToilet!
So I installed GAIM, it doesn't have the notification area thingy.
Firstly, you need to be running a nightly snapshot or CVS of gaim (the 0.60 series). I don't know what version is in FreeBSD ports, but you can grab the nightly from the GAIM download page. After it's installed, go into the plugins page of the GAIM settings, and toggle on the "tray icon" plugin. The status icon should appear immediately (if you have the system-tray/notification-area running).
And sometimes, the window bar is on the top; other times its on the left. I don't want it on the left, but I'm confused as to what happened. None of my configuration files changed, but using the newer version of GAIM has removed the icon. Any hints?
I'm not sure what you mean. Is it a window manager problem? In KDE, you can right click on the titlebar of a window and select "Save Window Settings", and kwin will map the window to the same size/location every time.
In gnome 1 I was able to put applets for gaim and xmms in my sidebar. They are unobtrusive there and available on all my desktops. It was wonderful. KDE doesn't have these.
Both GAIM (in nightly snapshots) and XMMS now have "dock plugins" that place themselves in the dock area. (KDE calls it "system tray", and GNOME calls it "notification area") The dock applet API is a freedesktop.org standard that both desktops are using. So KDE docklets work in GNOME 2.2 and GNOME docklets work in KDE 3.1.
The only way to get game developers to come to Linux is to develop a Direct-X like API that makes it easy to develop Linux-native games.
What's wrong with SDL / OpenGL? It is stable, featureful, and cross-platform. The API is full featured, and the implementation is rock-solid. Throw in OpenAL, and you have got everything that DirectX does (except stupid patented crap like force-feedback input) in a standards-based package. That is about as "linux-native" as it gets. I can't think of a single desktop-targetted distro that doesn't include the SDL libraries. If more windows developers used SDL for their games, then the Linux and MacOSX ports would be almost effortless.
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My main fear is that KMail and Konquerer won't be good Evolution/Galeon replacements.
No worries. Just keep Evolution and Galeon. I switched from GNOME2 around KDE 3.1RC2 and haven't looked back. If you're worried about consistent look (feel is another story) then you have a couple of options. You could get the Geramik theme for gtk 1.x and 2.x this will match the default Keramik theme in KDE, and even inherit any color changes made in the kde control center! This is what I did, and now the GIMP, GAIM, and Pan (and mozilla/phoenix) all match my KDE desktop perfectly. You could also try the Wonderland theme (called BlueCurve in RedHat) from the RedHat Artwork package. It will theme gtk 1.x/2.x and kde consistently. Another more difficult option would be to use the Liquid theme for kde, and dig up some Aqua[Graphite] themes for gtk. Since Aqua-ish themes exist for everything that is skinnable, you get a reasonably homogenous desktop.
With a little effort, you can have a beautiful and consistent Unix desktop, regardless of which apps you need to run or which desktop you choose.
The thing that keeps Chimera on my powerbook is the fact that it runs on "older" OS X releases and on computers with less RAM. I'm stuck with 10.1.5 on a old G3 until I can scrape together the spare change to upgrade to 10.2. Buying OS software for my aging computer is not a priority for me right now, and since Safari won't run on my laptop, I'm sticking with Chimera as long as they keep making it.
Mozilla, and Netscape before it pioneered mouse-only browsing.
Then try right-clicking or ctrl+clicking the offending tab in chimera and selecting "close tab" from the context menu. This works the same as mozilla or konqueror.
You'll notice that Mozilla has a GUI widget for closing a tab
The versions of mozilla I have seen don't have a close button on each tab, but a single close button to the right of the tabs. And it will only close the currently focused tab, much like the Apple+W hotkey suggestion above.
A quote from this message sums up exactly in one sentence why debian is worthy of the support and admiration of the community: "I refuse to treat non-i386 users like second-class citizens."
As a linux-using powerbook owner, I thank you. I can't count how many times I have been told that I am not worthy of consideration because my niche is too small. Thank you debian for extending the useful lifespan of my computer several years while everyone else snorts derisively and tells me to buy a new Mac.
I'm not buying another portable until I can get vorbis support. Someone please legitimize the format! This thing plays everything (CDs as well as MP3, WAV and WMA files that are stored on CDs, DVDs or the company's own Memory Stick cards) but vorbis! Is there really more people with WAVs stored on Memory Sticks than folks who want vorbis playback?
Dude... haven't you got a library? The original source of free books...
Of course, but I can't be the only slashgeek who knows the length and bredth of the scifi (and horror, and mystery) sections of his local library like the back of his hand. And I can't be the only one to have his librarian say, "You know, for the amount of late fees you have paid for those overdue Cherryh novels over the years, you could have bought your own collection of hardbacks."
And I have a local coffee house too, if I want to hear smartasses expouse uninformed opinions. But I still pay for my slashdot membership. Some things are just convenient to get online.:)
Joke if you want, but I can fill in 2 for you: 1. free books 2. free books act as gateway drug for non-free ebooks. 3. PROFIT!!!
It happened to me. When paperbacks started costing > 9 dollars, I stopped buying them. It hurt to decrease my favorite entertainment, but with my scifi/fantasy appetite of 2-4 paperbacks a weekend, I just couldn't afford it.
Then I heard fictionwise was giving away hugo and nebula award nominees. How could I resist? I downloaded them all. After spending a happy hour tweaking Weasel Reader, I settled in with my Palm to devour some words.
I was like the recovered junky, who, having one hit, falls deep into addiction again. But I still wasn't going to pay 9 bucks for a paperback, or worse, the same amount for an ebook. I trolled Project Gutenberg, Baen, OReilly look for a good read. That held off the monkey on my back for a little while. Still I needed more. So I went back to fictionwise, credit card in hand, looking for my fix. I discovered that unlike some ebookstores (cough,cough Peanut Press) not all ebooks were overpriced, DRM'd e-versions of last years NYT bestseller list. fictionwise has TONS of great novels cheap. Real cheap. In text format. Did I mention cheap? And even better: novellas, short stories, serials, all manner of quickie escapism that fit perfectly into the time it takes to ride the bus, or watch your clothes dry.
So now I'm hooked on cheapie short stories from fictionwise. On Friday nights I used to go down to the Blockbuster and rent 9 dollars worth of DVDs for my weekend entertainment. Now I spend a fun hour browsing an ebookstore, and for 4 dollars (0.30 - 1.50 each) I download a half-dozen good stories to fill my free time.
programming with Xt is not easy or intuitive and the on-screen widgets are not up to it.
No joke. To program directly with Xt is to hate your life. But I think you miss the point. Toolkits written *on top of* Xt, like Athena, OLIT, and Motif, are able to interoperate much better than say Qt and Gtk+. You can embed Athena widgets in a Motif app, or vice versa. It is not so easy with non-Xt toolkits. It helps if you think of Xt more like GDK than GTK+, like a sub-toolkit. Nobody writes apps completely with GDK, but *lots* of apps use it indirectly.
But when they speak about how cool macs are and how uncool PCs are, they do so because they got money from Apple. Their confessions are just about as real as those of the "fictional" and "composite" person from Microsoft.
Whatever. I will gush all day about the great and powerful Linux to anyone who wants to hear it. For free. On TV, on the radio, on slashdot, and in print. I will confess my love of Mozilla, KDE, and the unstoppable gcc toolchain. Especially if Linus or RMS asked me to do so. I am sure that the Mac fans of the world would do the same. Especially if Jobs asked them to do it.
Jungle Book from Rudyard Kipling. Alice in Wonderland from Lewis Carroll. Peter Pan from J.M. Barrie
That is just the animated features. Most of the "classic" Disney films are based on works with expired copyrights. (Black Beauty, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Heidi, etc.) Have a look at this list of books that have lost copyright and passed into the public domain. Then count how may are Disney flicks.
Disney had a rich culture of stories to draw from and reinterpret. They are trying to prevent the next generation of storytellers and media producers from doing to them what they did to earlier content creators.
Pre-moderation, pre-Hot grits, pre-First post, and so on.
But not pre-troll. I remember when the user accounts became available, I wasn't going to sign up. I usually just read, not posted, so I didn't need one. But someone said something (wish I could remember what) that irked me so bad I just had to log in to make a scathing reply. So I wouldn't even be here if it weren't for the nascent slashdot troll community. Thanks slashdot! Five more years!
What irks me about galeon is the half-way integration. The app framework is nice, all gtk/gnome goodness, but in the gecko render window itself I get a mishmash of three widget styles. First there is the "mozilla native" widgets, which are unthemeable by any means, used for form buttons and the little arrow buttons on dropdown comboboxes. Then there is the gtk widget used for the actual dropdown list in a combobox (complete with gtk-themed scrollbar!). Finally, the scrollbars that border the render window and sub-frames are themed with the mozilla theme. Unless you use the Raleigh gtk theme, the "classic" mozilla scrollbar won't match gtk. You could try theming gtk with a Mozilla Modern theme and setting gecko to use Modern so the scrollbars match, but that's a cop-out, and nothing will fix the "mozilla native" widgets in the HTML forms. If you are like me and use the elegantly flat ThinIce gtk theme for your desktop, then galeon looks like the frankenstein monster it is, all bolted together from barely compatible parts. Call me when galeon looks as slick as Konqueror running the Liquid theme.
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All Linux needs is a dedicated hardware manufacturer that is creating complete solutions for users in hardware and software. For example, the entire OS X, iTunes, iPud, iTunes store solution.
Dell PC with: Ubuntu, Rhythmbox/Amarok/Songbird, almost any mp3 player, Amazon Music Store/Magnatune or whatever (I don't buy media online).
Happy?
Thank you. I will be buying one (two?) of these. It is kind of comforting to know that my nephew's little green toy has a brother somewhere in Cambodia.
If the freeware tools capable of creating or exporting to SWF files don't meet your needs, a license for Flash goes for about $700 retail. To anybody serious about distributing content, that is NOT a large sum of money.
I have always hated this argument. "I am comfortable with this barrier to entry, why aren't you?"
Why do I have to be "serious" about making content to have an easy to use tool?
My 9 year old nephew, upon discovering my copy of Wii Play, scares everyone in the house by screaming at the top of his lungs, "It's Duck Hunt!" for 30 minutes.
My 55 year old uncle, who has been berating my gaming hobby since I purchased a Dreamcast on 9-9-99, came over to my house with a copy of World Series of Poker and his own Wiimote to play. "Couldn't find one of them boxes (the Wii itself, I assume)," he tells me, "So I'll just use yours."
My 19 year old brother asks me, "Can I invite some friends over and have a Wii party at your house and play Monkey Ball and Warioware?"
All I want to do is finish Zelda.
So is the Wii finished? At my home, it hasn't even started.
I can't wait to see these hacks butcher the Quake 2 movie.
Seriously, how do you fuck up Doom? A marine on Mars shoots demons. That is not a lot of plot to shred, but they somehow managed. This looks more like the bastard stepchild of Resident Evil and Alien 4.
At least those two stinkers had hot chicks instead of The Rock.
You agree to provide the Original Contributor, at its request, with a copy of the complete Source Code version, Object Code version and related documentation for Modifications created or contributed to by You if used for any purpose.
This has been changed:
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Ammended:
You may also, at Your option, charge for any other software, product or service that includes or incorporates the Original Software as a part thereof.
The rest of the sections RMS dislikes are still in the Plan 9 Open Source License Version 1.4 - 09/10/02. But the license is good enough for me. I will download a copy as soon as the slashdotting subsides.
I think that cheap electronics and the internet are to blame (for everything!) for the growing popularity of indie music.
Back in the 80s and early 90s, I really *wanted* to be indie, especially when I would see that bumber sticker that says "Corporate rock still sucks." But I just couldn't get into the bad sounding, low-talent self-made cassette crap I would here down at the local "alt" record store. Jesus, I didn't want to buy another Madonna CD, but the alternatives were noise or silence. I'm sure there was good quality alt music out there, but I couldn't find it. It was just not possible for a kid in a southern US town to know about an ass-kickin DJ from Toronto, or that weird (but talented) rapper from Rio. There were no mp3s for download in 1991, but there was a Sound Whorehouse with a giant display of Garth Brooks CDs.
Things are different now. I haven't bought a "big 5" cd in several years. And I don't steal/pirate/liberate music. But my hard drive and CDRs brim full with fucking excellent tunes produced and distributed by indie labels and self-produced artists who are glad to hook you up with some free mp3s just to get their songs heard. And you know what, I usually end up buying their CDs. Maybe to get those other songs that aren't available for download, or sometimes even when I have all of the songs already, just to support the cool artist who provided me dozens of hours of sound with no expectation of compensation (And once to get the bumber sticker included with the disk).
Not only can I easily sift through the crap to find the gold now, but the ultra-low barrier-to-entry for digital music production has created even more indie music than I ever dreamed existed in 1991. Sure there is more talentless noise, but damn, I never thought there would be this much good music hiding on lonely web sites waiting for someone to download, burn, and pass around.
So fuck you RIAA! I don't buy big5 CDs, and I've never used kazaa. But I've got lots of music, and somebody is earning my music dollars without giving you a cut! Eventually lots of people are going to realize it. You'll have to shut off the entire internet to stop it now!
What if my non-insured car catches on fire, and is reduced to carbon? Do I still keep paying my bank?
Bad analogy. More like "What if my fully-registered car catches on fire, and is reduced to carbon? Do I still have to pay the state registration fee every year?"
I come here every fucking week, but I still don't know what a "Radio Picture" is!!!
It's a picture of a radio, duh.
unless it plays ogg files. And I'm not falling for that "a bios update will come soon that supports ogg" again. That's how I got tricked into buying an iToilet!
So I installed GAIM, it doesn't have the notification area thingy.
Firstly, you need to be running a nightly snapshot or CVS of gaim (the 0.60 series). I don't know what version is in FreeBSD ports, but you can grab the nightly from the GAIM download page. After it's installed, go into the plugins page of the GAIM settings, and toggle on the "tray icon" plugin. The status icon should appear immediately (if you have the system-tray/notification-area running).
And sometimes, the window bar is on the top; other times its on the left. I don't want it on the left, but I'm confused as to what happened. None of my configuration files changed, but using the newer version of GAIM has removed the icon. Any hints?
I'm not sure what you mean. Is it a window manager problem? In KDE, you can right click on the titlebar of a window and select "Save Window Settings", and kwin will map the window to the same size/location every time.
In gnome 1 I was able to put applets for gaim and xmms in my sidebar. They are unobtrusive there and available on all my desktops. It was wonderful. KDE doesn't have these.
Both GAIM (in nightly snapshots) and XMMS now have "dock plugins" that place themselves in the dock area. (KDE calls it "system tray", and GNOME calls it "notification area") The dock applet API is a freedesktop.org standard that both desktops are using. So KDE docklets work in GNOME 2.2 and GNOME docklets work in KDE 3.1.
The only way to get game developers to come to Linux is to develop a Direct-X like API that makes it easy to develop Linux-native games.
What's wrong with SDL / OpenGL? It is stable, featureful, and cross-platform. The API is full featured, and the implementation is rock-solid. Throw in OpenAL, and you have got everything that DirectX does (except stupid patented crap like force-feedback input) in a standards-based package.
That is about as "linux-native" as it gets. I can't think of a single desktop-targetted distro that doesn't include the SDL libraries. If more windows developers used SDL for their games, then the Linux and MacOSX ports would be almost effortless.
My main fear is that KMail and Konquerer won't be good Evolution/Galeon replacements.
No worries. Just keep Evolution and Galeon. I switched from GNOME2 around KDE 3.1RC2 and haven't looked back. If you're worried about consistent look (feel is another story) then you have a couple of options.
You could get the Geramik theme for gtk 1.x and 2.x this will match the default Keramik theme in KDE, and even inherit any color changes made in the kde control center! This is what I did, and now the GIMP, GAIM, and Pan (and mozilla/phoenix) all match my KDE desktop perfectly.
You could also try the Wonderland theme (called BlueCurve in RedHat) from the RedHat Artwork package. It will theme gtk 1.x/2.x and kde consistently.
Another more difficult option would be to use the Liquid theme for kde, and dig up some Aqua[Graphite] themes for gtk. Since Aqua-ish themes exist for everything that is skinnable, you get a reasonably homogenous desktop.
With a little effort, you can have a beautiful and consistent Unix desktop, regardless of which apps you need to run or which desktop you choose.
The thing that keeps Chimera on my powerbook is the fact that it runs on "older" OS X releases and on computers with less RAM. I'm stuck with 10.1.5 on a old G3 until I can scrape together the spare change to upgrade to 10.2. Buying OS software for my aging computer is not a priority for me right now, and since Safari won't run on my laptop, I'm sticking with Chimera as long as they keep making it.
Mozilla, and Netscape before it pioneered mouse-only browsing.
Then try right-clicking or ctrl+clicking the offending tab in chimera and selecting "close tab" from the context menu. This works the same as mozilla or konqueror.
You'll notice that Mozilla has a GUI widget for closing a tab
The versions of mozilla I have seen don't have a close button on each tab, but a single close button to the right of the tabs. And it will only close the currently focused tab, much like the Apple+W hotkey suggestion above.
Anyway, please read this:d ebian-d evel-200204/msg01343.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/
A quote from this message sums up exactly in one sentence why debian is worthy of the support and admiration of the community:
"I refuse to treat non-i386 users like second-class citizens."
As a linux-using powerbook owner, I thank you. I can't count how many times I have been told that I am not worthy of consideration because my niche is too small. Thank you debian for extending the useful lifespan of my computer several years while everyone else snorts derisively and tells me to buy a new Mac.
I'm not buying another portable until I can get vorbis support. Someone please legitimize the format!
This thing plays everything (CDs as well as MP3, WAV and WMA files that are stored on CDs, DVDs or the company's own Memory Stick cards) but vorbis! Is there really more people with WAVs stored on Memory Sticks than folks who want vorbis playback?
Dude... haven't you got a library? The original source of free books...
:)
Of course, but I can't be the only slashgeek who knows the length and bredth of the scifi (and horror, and mystery) sections of his local library like the back of his hand. And I can't be the only one to have his librarian say, "You know, for the amount of late fees you have paid for those overdue Cherryh novels over the years, you could have bought your own collection of hardbacks."
And I have a local coffee house too, if I want to hear smartasses expouse uninformed opinions. But I still pay for my slashdot membership. Some things are just convenient to get online.
Joke if you want, but I can fill in 2 for you:
1. free books
2. free books act as gateway drug for non-free ebooks.
3. PROFIT!!!
It happened to me. When paperbacks started costing > 9 dollars, I stopped buying them. It hurt to decrease my favorite entertainment, but with my scifi/fantasy appetite of 2-4 paperbacks a weekend, I just couldn't afford it.
Then I heard fictionwise was giving away hugo and nebula award nominees. How could I resist? I downloaded them all. After spending a happy hour tweaking Weasel Reader, I settled in with my Palm to devour some words.
I was like the recovered junky, who, having one hit, falls deep into addiction again. But I still wasn't going to pay 9 bucks for a paperback, or worse, the same amount for an ebook. I trolled Project Gutenberg, Baen, OReilly look for a good read. That held off the monkey on my back for a little while. Still I needed more. So I went back to fictionwise, credit card in hand, looking for my fix. I discovered that unlike some ebookstores (cough,cough Peanut Press) not all ebooks were overpriced, DRM'd e-versions of last years NYT bestseller list. fictionwise has TONS of great novels cheap. Real cheap. In text format. Did I mention cheap? And even better: novellas, short stories, serials, all manner of quickie escapism that fit perfectly into the time it takes to ride the bus, or watch your clothes dry.
So now I'm hooked on cheapie short stories from fictionwise. On Friday nights I used to go down to the Blockbuster and rent 9 dollars worth of DVDs for my weekend entertainment. Now I spend a fun hour browsing an ebookstore, and for 4 dollars (0.30 - 1.50 each) I download a half-dozen good stories to fill my free time.
programming with Xt is not easy or intuitive and the on-screen widgets are not up to it.
No joke. To program directly with Xt is to hate your life. But I think you miss the point. Toolkits written *on top of* Xt, like Athena, OLIT, and Motif, are able to interoperate much better than say Qt and Gtk+. You can embed Athena widgets in a Motif app, or vice versa. It is not so easy with non-Xt toolkits. It helps if you think of Xt more like GDK than GTK+, like a sub-toolkit. Nobody writes apps completely with GDK, but *lots* of apps use it indirectly.
But when they speak about how cool macs are and how uncool PCs are, they do so because they got money from Apple. Their confessions are just about as real as those of the "fictional" and "composite" person from Microsoft.
Whatever. I will gush all day about the great and powerful Linux to anyone who wants to hear it. For free. On TV, on the radio, on slashdot, and in print. I will confess my love of Mozilla, KDE, and the unstoppable gcc toolchain. Especially if Linus or RMS asked me to do so.
I am sure that the Mac fans of the world would do the same. Especially if Jobs asked them to do it.
No sure what Disney stole other than the Mermaid.
Jungle Book from Rudyard Kipling.
Alice in Wonderland from Lewis Carroll.
Peter Pan from J.M. Barrie
That is just the animated features. Most of the "classic" Disney films are based on works with expired copyrights. (Black Beauty, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Heidi, etc.) Have a look at this list of books that have lost copyright and passed into the public domain. Then count how may are Disney flicks.
Disney had a rich culture of stories to draw from and reinterpret. They are trying to prevent the next generation of storytellers and media producers from doing to them what they did to earlier content creators.
Pre-moderation, pre-Hot grits, pre-First post, and so on.
But not pre-troll. I remember when the user accounts became available, I wasn't going to sign up. I usually just read, not posted, so I didn't need one. But someone said something (wish I could remember what) that irked me so bad I just had to log in to make a scathing reply. So I wouldn't even be here if it weren't for the nascent slashdot troll community.
Thanks slashdot! Five more years!
What irks me about galeon is the half-way integration. The app framework is nice, all gtk/gnome goodness, but in the gecko render window itself I get a mishmash of three widget styles. First there is the "mozilla native" widgets, which are unthemeable by any means, used for form buttons and the little arrow buttons on dropdown comboboxes. Then there is the gtk widget used for the actual dropdown list in a combobox (complete with gtk-themed scrollbar!). Finally, the scrollbars that border the render window and sub-frames are themed with the mozilla theme.
Unless you use the Raleigh gtk theme, the "classic" mozilla scrollbar won't match gtk. You could try theming gtk with a Mozilla Modern theme and setting gecko to use Modern so the scrollbars match, but that's a cop-out, and nothing will fix the "mozilla native" widgets in the HTML forms.
If you are like me and use the elegantly flat ThinIce gtk theme for your desktop, then galeon looks like the frankenstein monster it is, all bolted together from barely compatible parts. Call me when galeon looks as slick as Konqueror running the Liquid theme.