I'm pretty sure part of the license agreement is that you won't just shove the keys anywhere willy-nilly. At the very least, there's almost certainly a requirement that the recipient of the keys must be a customer of the company that licensed the key.
IIRC, Linspire sells a DVD playback kit along with their OS, it's not just built-in, and it's certainly not distributed to other distros.
He's talking about it for the same reason anybody in the industry is talking about it right now: Because people are interested in the topic, and because interviewers and reporters are asking a bunch of questions about it. Case in point, the reason Ballmer talks about it in this article is because he was asked specifically about it, not because he's going out of his way to slam Apple.
This article is total BS in any case. They asked me during my phone interview what file extension a Outlook email archive file had. WTF!? What does that question have to do with anything at all?
There's no 'i' in "team," but there is an "i" in "Team Cheerios." Always remember that.
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Haha, fine. I'll pick one we can all hate: Superman 64.
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Good intellectually-dishonest nostalgia-laced gripe, but you made three fatal errors:
1) You trashed games that are still good when you play them today. Like Unreal Tourney and Command and Conquer. By what logic is Alpha Centauri a classic and Unreal Tournament not? If you wanted to trash 3D games simply because they're 3D, you'd have been better off trashing ones that, you know, actually were bad. Like Red Faction, or every Tomb Raider after the first one. Or something.
(For that matter, in what way is Civ II more "classic" than Civilization? Or SimCity 2000 more "classic" than SimCity? You're not even getting the nostalgia right! Older always = better!)
2) You're wrong saying none of those "classic" games had top of the line graphics when they came out. SimCity 2000 definitely made most computers chug when it came out, as did Civ II and Alpha Centauri.
3) You forgot to whine about how there are no Sierra adventure games anymore. That's requisite!
I hate the way it formats stuff whether I want it or not. I hate that it automatically changes URLs and e-mail addresses into links, even though I'm creating print documents. I REALLY hate that copied text from elsewhere is pasted in with whatever format it had elsewhere, not with the format of the text on the page that I'm editing.
Why do people gripe about features it takes And I hate that it is invariably difficult or impossible to turn this crap off.
It's in Options. Turn off Autoformat. That's it. You're done.
That's why everybody should be using Paint.NET instead of plain ol' Paint. I'm actually moderately surprised Microsoft still bothers to package Paint in with Vista.
Wow! Where do you buy your uber-reliable HDs that never fail? How do you use your system to recover the document you were working on all week, but then you flubbed a keyboard command and deleted it? How do you get your files back if there was (god-forbid) a fire in your house?... I get the impression you're kind of missing the point of backups.
You're right, but you're not addressing the point.
The point isn't that Ubuntu doesn't allow people to do those tasks without a terminal window; the point is what whenever somebody brings up a shortcoming in Linux (regardless of what it is!) the stock answer from the Slashdot crowd is: "oh, you're an idiot, that's easy, you just type cat sudo touch yada."
What he's saying is that if there is no solution that doesn't involved a terminal session (which occurs frequently in Ubuntu from my experience-- try getting a Hauppauge PVR-250 card, or a AirPort Express card working without one!), then the response should be more along the lines of: "you're right, there's room for improvement there."
The people saying it can be done miss the point; if a user can't figure out how to do something that "something", for all practical purposes, does not exist. Having a feature is no good if nobody can use it, which is why usability is of prime importance when designing any system you expect to be used interactively.
Microsoft redesigned the Office interface because most of their feature requests were for features Office already had... but people couldn't find those features, and so they thought they did not exist. The open source world should be following that example. Anytime you say "it's easy, you just have to type..." you should instead say, "hey, let's write that into the control panel interface so people don't have to type it." Isn't that what the spirit of open source is all about?
Don't taunt CrazyJim1. He invented every video game ever made before they were even made! He also invented a comic book where a guy has two katanas with rockets in the hilt. He holds a record for most wins in Starcraft also! (I know because it's on his resume.) You don't want to mess with CrazyJim1, man.
Imagine a giant radish, like a planet sized radish. Now imagine that there's a bunny hopping to the radish, and it takes a bite out of it. But the bunny spits out that bite and kind of smears it back in place on the radish with a paw. Then it rains.
And you'll have 24,000 candidates for President every four years. With no parties, and a country of 300 million people, voting becomes nearly impossible.
A state might be able to pull it off, but I don't think the Federal Government could.
Also, by outlawing the recycling of paper, you'll reduce the number of trees that are still alive,
Trees aren't oil; they're renewable.
That's like saying that if a lot of people buy iPods, Apple will have fewer iPods. No! All it means is that Apple will make a lot more iPods to meet the demand.
Similarly, lumber companies will plant a ton more trees to meet the demand of more paper. Almost all non-third-world lumber companies already operate at a "net tree gain" level, i.e. planting more trees than they cut down each year.
The only good way to encourage people to do something is to give them money for it. If you pay money for trees, you'll encourage people to plant more trees. It's simple.
Uh. Lying under oath is a pretty serious offense. I'd be more concerned if a President *wasn't* impeached for an accusation like that with good evidence behind it. It doesn't matter which political party is involved.
Being able to sync with bookmarks stored on DotMac would be a nice feature that Firefox currently lacks but Safari has. That, and the Safari using the OS-standard spelling dictionary are the reason I prefer it right now.
The topic is how to improve Firefox on OS X, not "hey let's talk about Camino, which is not Firefox!" Not that moderators ever mod anything off-topic around here...
In any case, the biggest problem with Firefox is that the spell-checker doesn't integrate with the OS X spell-checker. I'm sick of every damned application using its own spell-checker on an OS with one built-in. Use the built-in one! Duh! I can't count the number of dictionaries I've had to add my last name to, on the same machine.
One example is DeepNines, who is suing McAfee over a patent that covers combining an IDS and firewall in a single device. The patent was filed on May 17, 2000 and issued on June 6, 2006. No prior art for that, no siree.
Is there? I've never seen a combination device like this prior to 2000. Can anybody cite an actual example instead of just saying "no siree" and assuming we'd all just get in the mob and believe there's prior art?
Did anyone actually expect a law that limits the power of businesses and hands some back to you? Can you name a single law that was created in the last, say, 7 years that actually promotes privacy and limits the power businesses have over you?
Didn't California recently pass a law that any company that loses personal information must make a public announcement of it?
Sorry, I'm not a politics nerd, but I'm not buying your point.
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I'm pretty sure part of the license agreement is that you won't just shove the keys anywhere willy-nilly. At the very least, there's almost certainly a requirement that the recipient of the keys must be a customer of the company that licensed the key.
IIRC, Linspire sells a DVD playback kit along with their OS, it's not just built-in, and it's certainly not distributed to other distros.
I'm sorry, this post is stupid.
He's talking about it for the same reason anybody in the industry is talking about it right now: Because people are interested in the topic, and because interviewers and reporters are asking a bunch of questions about it. Case in point, the reason Ballmer talks about it in this article is because he was asked specifically about it, not because he's going out of his way to slam Apple.
Cripes.
No. There was no existing meaning to that. You must be thinking of "kicking but and taking names."
This article is total BS in any case. They asked me during my phone interview what file extension a Outlook email archive file had. WTF!? What does that question have to do with anything at all?
There's no 'i' in "team," but there is an "i" in "Team Cheerios." Always remember that.
Haha, fine. I'll pick one we can all hate: Superman 64.
Good intellectually-dishonest nostalgia-laced gripe, but you made three fatal errors:
1) You trashed games that are still good when you play them today. Like Unreal Tourney and Command and Conquer. By what logic is Alpha Centauri a classic and Unreal Tournament not? If you wanted to trash 3D games simply because they're 3D, you'd have been better off trashing ones that, you know, actually were bad. Like Red Faction, or every Tomb Raider after the first one. Or something.
(For that matter, in what way is Civ II more "classic" than Civilization? Or SimCity 2000 more "classic" than SimCity? You're not even getting the nostalgia right! Older always = better!)
2) You're wrong saying none of those "classic" games had top of the line graphics when they came out. SimCity 2000 definitely made most computers chug when it came out, as did Civ II and Alpha Centauri.
3) You forgot to whine about how there are no Sierra adventure games anymore. That's requisite!
You think Microsoft's bad? Try using OS X sometime.
Slashdot seems to have swallowed about half my post there. This software sucks more than people whining about features they could turn off.
I hate the way it formats stuff whether I want it or not. I hate that it automatically changes URLs and e-mail addresses into links, even though I'm creating print documents. I REALLY hate that copied text from elsewhere is pasted in with whatever format it had elsewhere, not with the format of the text on the page that I'm editing.
Why do people gripe about features it takes And I hate that it is invariably difficult or impossible to turn this crap off.
It's in Options. Turn off Autoformat. That's it. You're done.
That's why everybody should be using Paint.NET instead of plain ol' Paint. I'm actually moderately surprised Microsoft still bothers to package Paint in with Vista.
Wow! Where do you buy your uber-reliable HDs that never fail? How do you use your system to recover the document you were working on all week, but then you flubbed a keyboard command and deleted it? How do you get your files back if there was (god-forbid) a fire in your house? ... I get the impression you're kind of missing the point of backups.
You're right, but you're not addressing the point.
The point isn't that Ubuntu doesn't allow people to do those tasks without a terminal window; the point is what whenever somebody brings up a shortcoming in Linux (regardless of what it is!) the stock answer from the Slashdot crowd is: "oh, you're an idiot, that's easy, you just type cat sudo touch yada."
What he's saying is that if there is no solution that doesn't involved a terminal session (which occurs frequently in Ubuntu from my experience-- try getting a Hauppauge PVR-250 card, or a AirPort Express card working without one!), then the response should be more along the lines of: "you're right, there's room for improvement there."
The people saying it can be done miss the point; if a user can't figure out how to do something that "something", for all practical purposes, does not exist. Having a feature is no good if nobody can use it, which is why usability is of prime importance when designing any system you expect to be used interactively.
Microsoft redesigned the Office interface because most of their feature requests were for features Office already had... but people couldn't find those features, and so they thought they did not exist. The open source world should be following that example. Anytime you say "it's easy, you just have to type..." you should instead say, "hey, let's write that into the control panel interface so people don't have to type it." Isn't that what the spirit of open source is all about?
Don't taunt CrazyJim1. He invented every video game ever made before they were even made! He also invented a comic book where a guy has two katanas with rockets in the hilt. He holds a record for most wins in Starcraft also! (I know because it's on his resume.) You don't want to mess with CrazyJim1, man.
Imagine a giant radish, like a planet sized radish. Now imagine that there's a bunny hopping to the radish, and it takes a bite out of it. But the bunny spits out that bite and kind of smears it back in place on the radish with a paw. Then it rains.
That's the internet.
And you'll have 24,000 candidates for President every four years. With no parties, and a country of 300 million people, voting becomes nearly impossible.
A state might be able to pull it off, but I don't think the Federal Government could.
Also, by outlawing the recycling of paper, you'll reduce the number of trees that are still alive,
Trees aren't oil; they're renewable.
That's like saying that if a lot of people buy iPods, Apple will have fewer iPods. No! All it means is that Apple will make a lot more iPods to meet the demand.
Similarly, lumber companies will plant a ton more trees to meet the demand of more paper. Almost all non-third-world lumber companies already operate at a "net tree gain" level, i.e. planting more trees than they cut down each year.
The only good way to encourage people to do something is to give them money for it. If you pay money for trees, you'll encourage people to plant more trees. It's simple.
I thought all it could do was play old Infocom text adventures!
It also doesn't help that, usually, the candidates chosen by the libertarian party are actually insane.
Uh. Lying under oath is a pretty serious offense. I'd be more concerned if a President *wasn't* impeached for an accusation like that with good evidence behind it. It doesn't matter which political party is involved.
Speaking of integration with OS X...
Being able to sync with bookmarks stored on DotMac would be a nice feature that Firefox currently lacks but Safari has. That, and the Safari using the OS-standard spelling dictionary are the reason I prefer it right now.
Isn't this post off-topic?
The topic is how to improve Firefox on OS X, not "hey let's talk about Camino, which is not Firefox!" Not that moderators ever mod anything off-topic around here...
In any case, the biggest problem with Firefox is that the spell-checker doesn't integrate with the OS X spell-checker. I'm sick of every damned application using its own spell-checker on an OS with one built-in. Use the built-in one! Duh! I can't count the number of dictionaries I've had to add my last name to, on the same machine.
One example is DeepNines, who is suing McAfee over a patent that covers combining an IDS and firewall in a single device. The patent was filed on May 17, 2000 and issued on June 6, 2006. No prior art for that, no siree.
Is there? I've never seen a combination device like this prior to 2000. Can anybody cite an actual example instead of just saying "no siree" and assuming we'd all just get in the mob and believe there's prior art?
Why? What does proof of alien life accomplish?
I think a true atheist wouldn't capitalize "Atheist." Makes it seem like a religion by a different name.
Did anyone actually expect a law that limits the power of businesses and hands some back to you? Can you name a single law that was created in the last, say, 7 years that actually promotes privacy and limits the power businesses have over you?
Didn't California recently pass a law that any company that loses personal information must make a public announcement of it?
Sorry, I'm not a politics nerd, but I'm not buying your point.