For those of you who aren't "into" FOSS culture and all that, all us Linux users already know ogle as The first opensource DVD player to support DVD menus!. Another example of a developer not thinking twice about the basic tenets of picking a name for your software, including:
Is it shit?
Is it already in use?
Is it also a word with negative connotations?
Will it get me shut down by the trademark police?
There are many examples of FOSS software breaking these rule. I don't care enough about this incredibly niche piece of software to check if it's Free though (it's a fairly irrelevant detail anyway).
a man standing on the street corner talking to Jesus with no pants on.
You sir, are an inspiration to my inner webcomic artist. You deserve this. May I suggest you print it out and frame it, as it is in your honor?
Can we use this figure of "more than 3 years" as any indication for the rest of their products?
This is a question for software developers - does a company like Google have a system that generally produces "1.0 quality" software after a certain amount of time, or does it depend entirely on the nature of a particular project?
I only ask because I can't wait for Gmail to go "live" for real.
Slashdot is a ferris wheel, but it's not an amusement park. It's a modification of a line from some very 'indie' brazilian rap I happened to be listening to when I reached the Sig: box when setting my preferences. The original line was O mundo e uma roda gigante, mas nao e um parque de diversao. There had just been a particularly spectacular dupe on the front page at the time, which made the line stick in my head for a moment.
I really should change it, it's quite shit.
[Please don't hurt my karma, o honorably mods. I am merely satisfying one man's curiosity, my intent is not to hurt your beloved story!]
I'll certainly be boycotting this cookie-cutter crime game. It's $GameTypeoftheWeek with $Gimmick7654 added in - GTA with a pick-sides dynamic.
This is one gaming fad I've had 100% enough of, and I'm actually beginning to worry about the effect that this saturation marketing of crime games might be having on the many, many kids that are getting these games bought for them.
I hate these "OMG THINK OF THE KIDS" bandwagons, but to be blunt, fuck these game companies with their bullshit megaviolence crime tripe. In a few decades, we'll look back on this crap like we do to all the boring-ass crime investigation dramas from the 70's (which incidentally are having a high-tech renaissance as we speak - fuck that too).
These cases are so isolated compared to the overwhelming anecdotal evidence that this is a feature, as Google claims, that I'm pretty convinced that cases like yours are down to a mistake on the part of people emailing you. I'm even prepared to believe that more than one person could screw up over some email addresses, based on deep psychologically provoked typos.
This is mostly because I rely heavily on Gmail and I am desperately trying not to have a heart attack. For what it's worth, the moment I learned of this, I tried the potential "attack" on my most uniquely named account: caffeination.net@gmail.com, which I knew was unoccupied in any other form, and was blocked.
Where the uncertainty comes in is in the claims that in the early stages, this safeguard didnt work properly. I'm not an early-adopter... thank Intelligent Designer...
Seems this thread attracted the anti-Linux-zealots or something. Your response is only as much flamebait as your parent post, which is far from interesting. In an ideal world, he would have been "modded into oblivion" in moments, and you would never have thought to waste your time responding to his very amateur flamebaiting.
Bad luck man.
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- Is it shit?
- Is it already in use?
- Is it also a word with negative connotations?
- Will it get me shut down by the trademark police?
There are many examples of FOSS software breaking these rule. I don't care enough about this incredibly niche piece of software to check if it's Free though (it's a fairly irrelevant detail anyway).a man standing on the street corner talking to Jesus with no pants on.
You sir, are an inspiration to my inner webcomic artist. You deserve this. May I suggest you print it out and frame it, as it is in your honor?
Can we use this figure of "more than 3 years" as any indication for the rest of their products?
This is a question for software developers - does a company like Google have a system that generally produces "1.0 quality" software after a certain amount of time, or does it depend entirely on the nature of a particular project?
I only ask because I can't wait for Gmail to go "live" for real.
Slashdot is a ferris wheel, but it's not an amusement park. It's a modification of a line from some very 'indie' brazilian rap I happened to be listening to when I reached the Sig: box when setting my preferences. The original line was O mundo e uma roda gigante, mas nao e um parque de diversao. There had just been a particularly spectacular dupe on the front page at the time, which made the line stick in my head for a moment.
I really should change it, it's quite shit. [Please don't hurt my karma, o honorably mods. I am merely satisfying one man's curiosity, my intent is not to hurt your beloved story!]
I'll certainly be boycotting this cookie-cutter crime game. It's $GameTypeoftheWeek with $Gimmick7654 added in - GTA with a pick-sides dynamic.
This is one gaming fad I've had 100% enough of, and I'm actually beginning to worry about the effect that this saturation marketing of crime games might be having on the many, many kids that are getting these games bought for them.
I hate these "OMG THINK OF THE KIDS" bandwagons, but to be blunt, fuck these game companies with their bullshit megaviolence crime tripe. In a few decades, we'll look back on this crap like we do to all the boring-ass crime investigation dramas from the 70's (which incidentally are having a high-tech renaissance as we speak - fuck that too).
These cases are so isolated compared to the overwhelming anecdotal evidence that this is a feature, as Google claims, that I'm pretty convinced that cases like yours are down to a mistake on the part of people emailing you. I'm even prepared to believe that more than one person could screw up over some email addresses, based on deep psychologically provoked typos.
This is mostly because I rely heavily on Gmail and I am desperately trying not to have a heart attack. For what it's worth, the moment I learned of this, I tried the potential "attack" on my most uniquely named account: caffeination.net@gmail.com, which I knew was unoccupied in any other form, and was blocked.
Where the uncertainty comes in is in the claims that in the early stages, this safeguard didnt work properly. I'm not an early-adopter... thank Intelligent Designer...
Seems this thread attracted the anti-Linux-zealots or something. Your response is only as much flamebait as your parent post, which is far from interesting. In an ideal world, he would have been "modded into oblivion" in moments, and you would never have thought to waste your time responding to his very amateur flamebaiting.
Bad luck man.