With all the new crust being thrown into Firefox, Seamonkey may soon be the lighter alternative.
I prefer Seamonkey and almost always use it, with noscript, on the desktop, because I still believe in the ideal of a symmetrical web. The software I use to view HTML is also capable of producing it . If I encounter content I want to save locally, I click 'edit' and trim out the ads and junk and save it. When I want to organize information I sometimes stick it in tables on an html file and even sometimes scp it to the html directory on my Freeshell account so I can view it anywhere. (it's my non-cloud)
Anybody who can read html content should be capable of easily composing it. That's the old Web Suite philosophy.
You don't get it, if you insist on shoving a 'game' category into your list of 'apps' and treating the game market as just another 'category.'
Even the app store(s) know better than that. Games move in the market very differently than, say, an Outliner or some widget that reminds you to take your pills, gramps.
The whole purpose of beer is because the water was bad and dangerous to drink back when beer was actually a practical beverage. Now it's just a cultural thing, like lutefisk.
It's sort of like ketchup. I have an old cookbook, and it has all sorts of kinds of ketchup. The tomato variety is the only one that most people think of anymore, but there was ketchup made out of all sorts of things, for example walnut ketchup. In particular, things that people wanted to preserve out-of-season in the old days.
I mean when you have FREE services out there why would you spend 15 bucks a month?
Apple is vigorously working, right now, to convince the Big Music Publishers that they should stop allowing ANY free streaming of their music on the Internet.
No, seriously. They're doing that, and working really hard at it.
Are they still blocking a button on the iWatch to activate a fart app? Because I think a fart app on the iphone in your back pocket that you could trigger with a button on your watch is a killer app.
Games are just a category of app, nothing more nothing less.
You really really really don't get it. It's been years since you last played Shufflepuck Cafe, eh? Yep. That was what we call a 'game.'
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The Redbook Standard is one hell of a content monopoly.
I know, I know, it didn't start out that way. But still. It evolved. I think that's what GP was talking about. Some sort of evolve deal.
I stopped at Half Price Books tonight on my way home from work and picked up a few $2 DVDs off the clearance cart. Now I have a permanent license to a couple more movies. A permanent transferable license, no less.
We'll have to see what evolves out of the current mess.
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You can download Visual Studio these days for free. There are limits to what you can do, but NONE of those limits preclude you from giving your binaries away to 30,000,000 people if you can find 30,000,000 people who want to install them.
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It also includes the ability to sell your apps on the apple store.
Wrong. It affords you the privileged of petitioning Apple for permission to sell your apps on the Apple Store. And if they decline, you are shit out of luck.
Sure, you could do it but how are you going to get the visibility you need to get your app noticed if it is not in the app store? How are you going to set up the payment system/networking/server maintenance/etc/etc so that you accept all major credit cards and get all that secure for people to buy your app?
There's this weird old thing called 'selling software without having to go through the Apple Store.' It's shocking, I know, but people have been doing it for awhile now on many platforms. And if you make a free app, you don't need a payment system, etc. etc. etc. FTP is a very mature software distribution system. But Apple didn't invent it yet so it probably doesn't exist.
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What's more interesting is how hard Apple is trying to sell all the music publishers on not allowing ANY access to their catalogs for free streaming. They're kind doing the Bill Gates 'letter to hobbyists' thing to convince the music pubs to kill any possibility of free streaming music on any of Apple's competitors.
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Windows 8.1 is old news, and will be really old news in about a month and a half. I am really looking forward to Windows 10 on my Asus tablet. I'm hoping, honestly, that it kills the iPad. Which it very well could. I guess Apple phones are nice from what I've heard. None of my iPod touches (three of them) are older than the Windows 7 box that I can upgrade soon to Windows 10, yet they are all now stick with iOSes two to four versions old. Six months from now school kids will groan when their teachers issue them iPads.
That works for undergraduate education. It's not the way to pursue a lifetime of knowlege, though. But then, for your best bang for the buck, just watch Kahn's lectures online for free.
They probably disqualify anything that has that 'cool guy' stigma attached to it. Anything that was 'the first' before a genre became mainstream would fit that category. As a result, all the thousands of people who have posted "pah! WoW! I played Everquest..." in forums for years now hurt the chance of everquest ever making it into the hall.
Also, everybody who is carping and whining about the choices made this year: just like the Baseball Hall of Fame, every year all your particular favorites will have a chance again to make the list.
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The problem with your triumphant proclamation is that Orthodox Islam isn't dieing in the same way. In fact, it's sorta winning in certain spheres.
But that isn't old-white-man stuff so I suppose it's okay.
After the experiment, the train is in a relatively better shape than you are.
No, it isn't. It has drying traces of you smeared all over it.
"Only costs a few times more"?? Do you say stuff like that often while shopping for a new car or a house to live in?
Who would ever buy a Mac then? Apple's not going to further jeopardize the Mac platform that way.
With all the new crust being thrown into Firefox, Seamonkey may soon be the lighter alternative.
I prefer Seamonkey and almost always use it, with noscript, on the desktop, because I still believe in the ideal of a symmetrical web. The software I use to view HTML is also capable of producing it . If I encounter content I want to save locally, I click 'edit' and trim out the ads and junk and save it. When I want to organize information I sometimes stick it in tables on an html file and even sometimes scp it to the html directory on my Freeshell account so I can view it anywhere. (it's my non-cloud)
Anybody who can read html content should be capable of easily composing it. That's the old Web Suite philosophy.
I was going to comment "So we can make changes to his art and redistribute it? Maybe even send our improved version back to him?"
You don't get it, if you insist on shoving a 'game' category into your list of 'apps' and treating the game market as just another 'category.'
Even the app store(s) know better than that. Games move in the market very differently than, say, an Outliner or some widget that reminds you to take your pills, gramps.
Anybody who utters the word 'racist' is by definition 'racist.'
The whole idea of 'race' is contrived.
The whole purpose of beer is because the water was bad and dangerous to drink back when beer was actually a practical beverage. Now it's just a cultural thing, like lutefisk.
It's sort of like ketchup. I have an old cookbook, and it has all sorts of kinds of ketchup. The tomato variety is the only one that most people think of anymore, but there was ketchup made out of all sorts of things, for example walnut ketchup. In particular, things that people wanted to preserve out-of-season in the old days.
I mean when you have FREE services out there why would you spend 15 bucks a month?
Apple is vigorously working, right now, to convince the Big Music Publishers that they should stop allowing ANY free streaming of their music on the Internet.
No, seriously. They're doing that, and working really hard at it.
Are they still blocking a button on the iWatch to activate a fart app? Because I think a fart app on the iphone in your back pocket that you could trigger with a button on your watch is a killer app.
Games are just a category of app, nothing more nothing less.
You really really really don't get it. It's been years since you last played Shufflepuck Cafe, eh? Yep. That was what we call a 'game.'
The Redbook Standard is one hell of a content monopoly.
I know, I know, it didn't start out that way. But still. It evolved. I think that's what GP was talking about. Some sort of evolve deal.
I stopped at Half Price Books tonight on my way home from work and picked up a few $2 DVDs off the clearance cart. Now I have a permanent license to a couple more movies. A permanent transferable license, no less.
We'll have to see what evolves out of the current mess.
You can download Visual Studio these days for free. There are limits to what you can do, but NONE of those limits preclude you from giving your binaries away to 30,000,000 people if you can find 30,000,000 people who want to install them.
It also includes the ability to sell your apps on the apple store.
Wrong. It affords you the privileged of petitioning Apple for permission to sell your apps on the Apple Store. And if they decline, you are shit out of luck.
There's this weird old thing called 'selling software without having to go through the Apple Store.' It's shocking, I know, but people have been doing it for awhile now on many platforms. And if you make a free app, you don't need a payment system, etc. etc. etc. FTP is a very mature software distribution system. But Apple didn't invent it yet so it probably doesn't exist.
What's more interesting is how hard Apple is trying to sell all the music publishers on not allowing ANY access to their catalogs for free streaming. They're kind doing the Bill Gates 'letter to hobbyists' thing to convince the music pubs to kill any possibility of free streaming music on any of Apple's competitors.
Windows 8.1 is old news, and will be really old news in about a month and a half. I am really looking forward to Windows 10 on my Asus tablet. I'm hoping, honestly, that it kills the iPad. Which it very well could. I guess Apple phones are nice from what I've heard. None of my iPod touches (three of them) are older than the Windows 7 box that I can upgrade soon to Windows 10, yet they are all now stick with iOSes two to four versions old. Six months from now school kids will groan when their teachers issue them iPads.
I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
Of course for app portability you'd need to write the equivalent of Cocoa Touch for Android. And the equivalent of all the other frameworks too.
And then the touch-n-feel Apple lawyers will descend on you.
Apple isn't going to be the cross-platform panacea. There are other toolchains for that.
Still lame, after all these years.
But extremely popular with the mainstream.
And highly profitable.
Unfortunately there isn't an Obama Half Dollar yet.
That works for undergraduate education. It's not the way to pursue a lifetime of knowlege, though. But then, for your best bang for the buck, just watch Kahn's lectures online for free.
The iWatch has 'made it big'??
Let's wait a year and see how many people buy the new iWatch 2.
Sonic the Hedgehog is the Most Overated Game Ever,
They probably disqualify anything that has that 'cool guy' stigma attached to it. Anything that was 'the first' before a genre became mainstream would fit that category. As a result, all the thousands of people who have posted "pah! WoW! I played Everquest..." in forums for years now hurt the chance of everquest ever making it into the hall.
Also, everybody who is carping and whining about the choices made this year: just like the Baseball Hall of Fame, every year all your particular favorites will have a chance again to make the list.
This reminds me of the popular assumption that Cubans all have ancient old cars that they keep running with homebrew fixes.
Should we all be sending them our old TTL gates, to help them in keeping their computers up and running?
You might also add.....I am never wrong; as soon as I am wrong, I switch sides and them I'm right again.
That's a process we call learning.
Knowledge doesn't have a leaderboard.