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You got to love the postscript.
Some ignorant jackass (and legions like him) imagines a personal affront to his religion (and probably his funding), but lacking any knowledge, abilities, or reason, turns to a personal smear campaign, claiming the authors were influenced, even duped, by a bomb tossing pedophile god worshipper false scientist.
the Sun usability test looks like something someone dashed off in a half hour just to say they had a whitepaper. Any casual "grandma" test reveals more, and even most geeks are aware enough of regular usability issues that there is plenty to work on without going afield.
What version of windows explorer on what hardware?
On an Athlon MP with a gig of RAM and and the best video card money can buy, UI tends to level out. Over a modem on a P133, you might notice the difference between twm and gnome+nautilus.
On a Duron 750 with 256M RAM and moderate video there is a very noticible difference between Gnome 1.4 w/ Nautilus and without.
The same dudes that made M.U.L.E. made a game called Seven Cities of Gold. The game rocked on C64 but playability was completely destroyed on the PC version which introduce some extra *ahem* features
What can you tell us about the future of the Nautilus file manager as it relates to Ximian Gnome? Is Ximian planning to continue development where Eazel left off, continue using and maintaining it, or replace it with something a little more...uh... lightweight?
so you're saying its okay to change the ads on the billboards if it's a news broadcast? Cause what they show me on TV news these days is definitely some parallel (and I use the term loosely) universe.
teach them aliases, because it helps get rid of the fear of memorizing odd or complex commands. But since computer users don't even know simple commands like "dir" anymore, that's probably moot.
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by playing jumpman or bubble bobble you are robbing Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony of your game playing time.
Based on the number of hits to servers hosting sites such as theunderdogs.net (say 1 million) multiplied by the estimated number of hours per day people are playing abandonware games (2 hours per day) divided by the amount of time it takes to beat the average modern game (42 hours) Multiplied by the typical new video game price ($49.95), so called "abandonware" is costing game companies $868 millon lost revenues anually do to theft of valuable consumer entertainment time, not even taking into the consideration the lost mind share innovative game companies are losing to zombie corporations like Commodore, Atari, and...er... Nintendo.
No comment was made about parasite "open source" games such as nethack and doom, but Blizzard executives have accused the first game of "riding on the coattails of their popular Diablo II game" and "infringing on playability copyrights"
just yesterday the security bigwigs at the corp i work at sent down a draconian letter about instant messenger programs wasting bandwidth, and more importantly, exposing proprietary information on the internet.
A little over a year ago instant messenger clients were banned "without specific authorization" and were heavily used contraband. Now MSN Messenger is a vital part (and defacto standard) of corporate communications. Unfortunately there is a lot of productivity lost from A) Microsoft's shitty network that doesn't deliver near as many messages as you'd expect, and fails to report errors... and B) lots of information that is generated in impromptu conversations and lost when the chat is done. Then there is also C) the waste of bandwidth and D) the security and privacy issues.
Back in the contraband days I whipped up a quick VB program for our group, and was in the process of converting it to a java applet with direct socket layer communication when MSN Messenger was finally let in.
When the new email came down, I quickly responded with a link to imici.com for a solution and then threw in jabber.org and mentioned it as a free alternative. Any one of the above reasons (A-D) is enough to switch, but maybe not enough to overcome the inertia of MSN un-emoticons.
why don't you look at the legal definition of piracy? There were certain conditions that had to be met to be convicted of "piracy", just like there are legal differences between manslaughter and murder.
I don't think you could find anyone who equates hooking with making rugs, or would understand it, even in the specific context.
Of course, "hooking" isn't a legitimate substitute for "prostitution" to most people either. "Hooker" may equate with "prostitute" but the connotation doesn't translate grammatically to a present participle verb.
only cracker has been a type of food for over a hundred years and has only been associated with hacking in the past decade. Whereas hacking itself has been used to mean "hacking into" computer systems at least as long as "hacking on" them.
Then why do they have to "market" it (teach us that we want it) so heavily? There was ten times as much variety in music 50 years ago, when profit margins (and the market) was much smaller. Even 5 years ago there was way more variety through the same commercial outlets that exist today.
Just because people don't want to pay for a disk with a label on it anymore doesn't mean they have a right to make everyone do so.
If no one is willing to make music because they can't get paid for a portion of the sale of each disk with their name on, then there just won't be any music.
So gateway is worried about selling computers. The record labels wants to stop them from selling computers (and us from using them.) No one is trying to stop the record labels from doing anything. That's a freedom issue. Notice also what they are from their name -- a company that puts labels on records. Not exactly a paragon of industry, is it?
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You got to love the postscript.
Some ignorant jackass (and legions like him) imagines a personal affront to his religion (and probably his funding), but lacking any knowledge, abilities, or reason, turns to a personal smear campaign, claiming the authors were influenced, even duped, by a bomb tossing pedophile god worshipper false scientist.
the Sun usability test looks like something someone dashed off in a half hour just to say they had a whitepaper. Any casual "grandma" test reveals more, and even most geeks are aware enough of regular usability issues that there is plenty to work on without going afield.
What version of windows explorer on what hardware?
On an Athlon MP with a gig of RAM and and the best video card money can buy, UI tends to level out. Over a modem on a P133, you might notice the difference between twm and gnome+nautilus.
On a Duron 750 with 256M RAM and moderate video there is a very noticible difference between Gnome 1.4 w/ Nautilus and without.
The same dudes that made M.U.L.E. made a game called Seven Cities of Gold. The game rocked on C64 but playability was completely destroyed on the PC version which introduce some extra *ahem* features
What can you tell us about the future of the Nautilus file manager as it relates to Ximian Gnome? Is Ximian planning to continue development where Eazel left off, continue using and maintaining it, or replace it with something a little more ...uh... lightweight?
carbon dioxide won't kill you.
er... not for philophers and lawyers.
so you're saying its okay to change the ads on the billboards if it's a news broadcast? Cause what they show me on TV news these days is definitely some parallel (and I use the term loosely) universe.
What about the billboard companies that puts up the signs along the highways?
In case you haven't noticed, most movies that show people driving ( or roads for that matter ) actually *refuse* to show the billboards.
And when you watch a western, sometimes they will go so far as to avoid showing the roads *at all* just to spite the advertizers.
teach them aliases, because it helps get rid of the fear of memorizing odd or complex commands. But since computer users don't even know simple commands like "dir" anymore, that's probably moot.
by playing jumpman or bubble bobble you are robbing Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony of your game playing time.
...er... Nintendo.
Based on the number of hits to servers hosting sites such as theunderdogs.net (say 1 million) multiplied by the estimated number of hours per day people are playing abandonware games (2 hours per day) divided by the amount of time it takes to beat the average modern game (42 hours) Multiplied by the typical new video game price ($49.95), so called "abandonware" is costing game companies $868 millon lost revenues anually do to theft of valuable consumer entertainment time, not even taking into the consideration the lost mind share innovative game companies are losing to zombie corporations like Commodore, Atari, and
No comment was made about parasite "open source" games such as nethack and doom, but Blizzard executives have accused the first game of "riding on the coattails of their popular Diablo II game" and "infringing on playability copyrights"
no, people weren't sure where troy was until he found it -- though many suspected it was somewhere around where he was searching.
Once a cave dweller discovers something that lets the society grow however
Like sex? Every civilization thinks they're the first to discover it.
just yesterday the security bigwigs at the corp i work at sent down a draconian letter about instant messenger programs wasting bandwidth, and more importantly, exposing proprietary information on the internet.
A little over a year ago instant messenger clients were banned "without specific authorization" and were heavily used contraband. Now MSN Messenger is a vital part (and defacto standard) of corporate communications. Unfortunately there is a lot of productivity lost from A) Microsoft's shitty network that doesn't deliver near as many messages as you'd expect, and fails to report errors... and B) lots of information that is generated in impromptu conversations and lost when the chat is done. Then there is also C) the waste of bandwidth and D) the security and privacy issues.
Back in the contraband days I whipped up a quick VB program for our group, and was in the process of converting it to a java applet with direct socket layer communication when MSN Messenger was finally let in.
When the new email came down, I quickly responded with a link to imici.com for a solution and then threw in jabber.org and mentioned it as a free alternative. Any one of the above reasons (A-D) is enough to switch, but maybe not enough to overcome the inertia of MSN un-emoticons.
why don't you look at the legal definition of piracy? There were certain conditions that had to be met to be convicted of "piracy", just like there are legal differences between manslaughter and murder.
I don't think you could find anyone who equates hooking with making rugs, or would understand it, even in the specific context.
Of course, "hooking" isn't a legitimate substitute for "prostitution" to most people either. "Hooker" may equate with "prostitute" but the connotation doesn't translate grammatically to a present participle verb.
sorry, that's restricted knowledge. I'm not able to partake of the information in your hyperlink.
only cracker has been a type of food for over a hundred years and has only been associated with hacking in the past decade. Whereas hacking itself has been used to mean "hacking into" computer systems at least as long as "hacking on" them.
Lowest-common denominator sells - at a profit!
Then why do they have to "market" it (teach us that we want it) so heavily? There was ten times as much variety in music 50 years ago, when profit margins (and the market) was much smaller. Even 5 years ago there was way more variety through the same commercial outlets that exist today.
I seem to remember an MPAA swat team in Norway...
Surely murder is a lot worse than piracy.
Piracy, by definition is murder, and rape, and theft.
but a child has the exclusive and final decision over which parent wins custody in a divorce proceeding
Just because people don't want to pay for a disk with a label on it anymore doesn't mean they have a right to make everyone do so.
If no one is willing to make music because they can't get paid for a portion of the sale of each disk with their name on, then there just won't be any music.
So gateway is worried about selling computers. The record labels wants to stop them from selling computers (and us from using them.) No one is trying to stop the record labels from doing anything. That's a freedom issue. Notice also what they are from their name -- a company that puts labels on records. Not exactly a paragon of industry, is it?
they got my goodwill.
Do you know if I can buy a dual proc (AMD or Intel) 1U rack server from gateway?