Instead of telling people who matter, you're just posting it on Slashdot. No matter how many times you sound like a broken record, you're not going to get anything done here, buddy.
In any case, how do you know about somebody's key before they've called you first? With your system, every time a new person got a VOIP phone, I'd have to go though my "low priority" calls anyway, and your system has solved nothing.
Apparently so. Everyone I knew (except one) had a Playstation and not a Nintendo 64. The only Nintendo 64 games we'd sit around and play were Goldeneye and the Mario Cart game. I'm not even sure if he owned any more Nintendo 64 games than that. I think, collectively, we spent more time playing the fishing game (with the rod controller) on the Playstation than we did on the Nintendo 64.
So grandma typos an email address by a single letter, and she's blocked from sending email to that server ever again? Wow, that's an asshole policy you thought up there.
... except Java's a terrible choice if you want quality software. There's no way to get a Java app to behave like a native app in Windows, Linux *or* OS X because the Java frameworks only seem to have the bare minimum functionality supported on each platform. Show me a Java app on OS X that supports AppleEvents/AppleScript, the integrated spell-checker, the Services menu and *doesn't* look and run like ass, and I'll be really impressed. Right now, the best example of a cross-platform Java app seems to be Limewire, and it leaves a *lot* to be desired on OS X.
That Microsoft put towels back in the locker room? Other than the word "blog", that's about the only event I can discern from that rabid rambling summary. Was this written by the E! Entertainment Network?
Slashdot Flash: Microsoft has put towels in the locker rooms! Full story at 11:00!
Then IBM has to stop selling it as a email system to every business that owns one.
All the Notes developers always *say* that. Then you go to the website, and what does it talk about? Email, calendaring, email again, look it competes with Exchange, email, etc.
So in other words, if IBM *sells* it as an email program, and it's terrible at email (which it is,) then they're selling a crappy product. Period. I don't care what Notes developers think it's supposed to be used for, but IBM *clearly states* that it's used for email.
In any case, if it wasn't used for email, it'd still be a crappy product. It looks like a mutant alien on every OS it runs on, the UI is arcane and terrible. There's no menu organization whatsoever (default browser is in *location* preferences?! Like I'd want to use Notes browser in one location, and IE in another!?) It includes features that are not only useless, but stupid (like drawing icons when you type your password.)
I know you probably foam at the mouth when anybody mentions a Microsoft product, so I won't mention Access but instead Filemaker: Filemaker can do everything Notes can do (that isn't email related; but according to you it's not an email client, right?) much, much better than Notes does it. It's also cheaper. It also has a good UI that fits in with the platform it's running on.
IBM either needs to rewrite Notes from scratch so it doesn't suck so much ass, or just kill it off. Right now, it's expensive, ugly, and everybody hates using it.
1) By your definition, DOOM is a role-playing game.
2) You miss the point; in Oblivion, you have the choice not to play the "main quest" *at all*. When you "win" the "main quest", the game doesn't end... the only reason it's really even the "main quest" in the first place is that it's a long quest chain that happens to start with the very first quest you receive. If you want, you can play Oblivion as if the assassin's guild quests were the "main quest", beat that chain, and declare it won. That's true freedom. And the fact is, Oblivion is pretty much equally fun whether or not you even participate in the "main quest."
BS. Doing something to risk arrest under a bad law is actually useful, and brings attention to the issue. Sitting in your basement using a P2P program over an encrypted link without any chance to get arrested or, for that matter, publicized is just being greedy and wanting free movies. Do you really see no difference between the two situations?
On the other side of the coin, it's IBM that inflicts the seeping wound known as Lotus Notes/Domino into the IT world. If IBM re-write that application to not utterly suck ass, I might be able to give them a little credit, but for now... no. When your email product is worse than Outlook/Exchange, just give up and do something else.
Gaming existed before the NES, and you don't include anything before then. Yar's Revenge and Adventure belong on any "must-play" list.
Super Mario Bros 2 is a very good game. I have no clue why you think it sucked... given, it's not as good as SMB3, but I enjoyed it at least as much as SMB1. Different != bad.
Metroid has no ending or point? Wow, you must have really sucked at it.
No Zelda/Zelda II?
If you're going to include a gold box D&D game, you can't get away without including at least one Wizardry, one Ultima, and one Might and Magic game. I mean, come-on man!
What about early FPS games? System Shock, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Marathon, Descent? Sound familiar at all?
And at least Apple's is cross-platform. I can't watch AOL's "Go2TV" web-based TV shows because it uses Microsoft DRM, which is not only more intrusive than Apple's, but doesn't even work on OS X. Which is a shame, because I love Head of the Class.
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Yes, because nobody who's livelihood relies on Linux and other open source software would ever come to Slashdot and post positive comments about it. That would be totally unprofessional.
Hate to break it to you, but this entire site relies on the FUD flying both ways. If it didn't have that, what would we talk about all day?
You're *voluntarily* running Windows ME? Is there some reason, other than masochism, that you bypassed Windows 2000 and went with that piece of shite instead?
Yeah, I do all that on a single dual-G5 1.8 ghz and a couple of monitors. Saves me a lot of time and money.
Personally, I think you're still in the "I collect a lot of crap" category... there's no reason you couldn't buy (or build) a single modern computer to do all of that on a single machine. Except for the gaming LAN, natch, but considering you're using OS/2, I'm guessing you don't really have friends over all that often.;)
doxygen chokes on the complex macros used in the legacy C modules of my C++ application. Does anybody know of any tool similar to doxygen, but better at parsing C?
Whether or not the EULA is legally binding and yadda yadda, if the EULA says that the tool reports back to Microsoft, it's foolish to be surprised and outraged at it. The point is that the software disclosed, off the bat, exactly what it was doing, and you clicked the "Ok" button and installed it anyway... that applies whether or not the EULA is legally binding.
On the plus side, it's far less expensive, offers far better support, and is open and extensible.
Ok, I agree with the general thrust of your argument... "if you don't like Windows, use something else," but I have to take issue with a couple of these points.
SuSE has better support than Windows? Are you talking about hardware support? Because I have a Hauppauge video capture card sitting in my PC with no Linux support whatsoever that makes a pretty strong counter-argument. Are you talking about software support? Because SuSE might have support forums and mailing lists-- but so does Windows, so at best they're equal on that point.
(Admittedly, I still have Office 97 which is arguably inferior to Office 2003, but why should I shell out big bucks every few years for what is essentially the same product?)
If you're happy with the featureset of Office 97, great, good for you, don't bother to upgrade. But to say that Office 2003 is "essentially the same product" is really misleading. You might not *use* the features that are in it (and not in Office 97, natch), but that doesn't mean that everybody is like you. Our business is enhanced greatly by the collaboration features in Office 2003, for which there are no open source alternatives.
Quicken is a piece of crap. It's crap on Mac OS also. It's a cross-platform piece of crap. If they made a Linux version, the Linux version would be a piece of crap. That's all I have to say about that.
Do you think it has something to do with them consulting Sun lawyers and not their own? An intensely stupid move, no matter what the organization is?
You *always* talk to your own lawyers before talking to the other guy's... your asking to be rammed up the ass (legally speaking) otherwise. If a conflict does arise, talking to their lawyers first weakens your case tremendously. The legal firm is probably:
1) Offended that they (apparently) weren't trusted to evaluate this license, but Sun's lawyers were
2) Upset because now, if there IS a conflict, building a case will be much more work for them, and there's a good chance they might lose it, thus sullying their reputation.
The fault is with whatever Debian admin consulted Sun's lawyers first, not Debian's legal firm.
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Instead of telling people who matter, you're just posting it on Slashdot. No matter how many times you sound like a broken record, you're not going to get anything done here, buddy.
In any case, how do you know about somebody's key before they've called you first? With your system, every time a new person got a VOIP phone, I'd have to go though my "low priority" calls anyway, and your system has solved nothing.
Apparently so. Everyone I knew (except one) had a Playstation and not a Nintendo 64. The only Nintendo 64 games we'd sit around and play were Goldeneye and the Mario Cart game. I'm not even sure if he owned any more Nintendo 64 games than that. I think, collectively, we spent more time playing the fishing game (with the rod controller) on the Playstation than we did on the Nintendo 64.
So grandma typos an email address by a single letter, and she's blocked from sending email to that server ever again? Wow, that's an asshole policy you thought up there.
... except Java's a terrible choice if you want quality software. There's no way to get a Java app to behave like a native app in Windows, Linux *or* OS X because the Java frameworks only seem to have the bare minimum functionality supported on each platform. Show me a Java app on OS X that supports AppleEvents/AppleScript, the integrated spell-checker, the Services menu and *doesn't* look and run like ass, and I'll be really impressed. Right now, the best example of a cross-platform Java app seems to be Limewire, and it leaves a *lot* to be desired on OS X.
That Microsoft put towels back in the locker room? Other than the word "blog", that's about the only event I can discern from that rabid rambling summary. Was this written by the E! Entertainment Network?
Slashdot Flash: Microsoft has put towels in the locker rooms! Full story at 11:00!
Then IBM has to stop selling it as a email system to every business that owns one.
All the Notes developers always *say* that. Then you go to the website, and what does it talk about? Email, calendaring, email again, look it competes with Exchange, email, etc.
So in other words, if IBM *sells* it as an email program, and it's terrible at email (which it is,) then they're selling a crappy product. Period. I don't care what Notes developers think it's supposed to be used for, but IBM *clearly states* that it's used for email.
In any case, if it wasn't used for email, it'd still be a crappy product. It looks like a mutant alien on every OS it runs on, the UI is arcane and terrible. There's no menu organization whatsoever (default browser is in *location* preferences?! Like I'd want to use Notes browser in one location, and IE in another!?) It includes features that are not only useless, but stupid (like drawing icons when you type your password.)
I know you probably foam at the mouth when anybody mentions a Microsoft product, so I won't mention Access but instead Filemaker: Filemaker can do everything Notes can do (that isn't email related; but according to you it's not an email client, right?) much, much better than Notes does it. It's also cheaper. It also has a good UI that fits in with the platform it's running on.
IBM either needs to rewrite Notes from scratch so it doesn't suck so much ass, or just kill it off. Right now, it's expensive, ugly, and everybody hates using it.
1) By your definition, DOOM is a role-playing game.
2) You miss the point; in Oblivion, you have the choice not to play the "main quest" *at all*. When you "win" the "main quest", the game doesn't end... the only reason it's really even the "main quest" in the first place is that it's a long quest chain that happens to start with the very first quest you receive. If you want, you can play Oblivion as if the assassin's guild quests were the "main quest", beat that chain, and declare it won. That's true freedom. And the fact is, Oblivion is pretty much equally fun whether or not you even participate in the "main quest."
BS. Doing something to risk arrest under a bad law is actually useful, and brings attention to the issue. Sitting in your basement using a P2P program over an encrypted link without any chance to get arrested or, for that matter, publicized is just being greedy and wanting free movies. Do you really see no difference between the two situations?
On the other side of the coin, it's IBM that inflicts the seeping wound known as Lotus Notes/Domino into the IT world. If IBM re-write that application to not utterly suck ass, I might be able to give them a little credit, but for now... no. When your email product is worse than Outlook/Exchange, just give up and do something else.
IBM's website should be classified as a war crime. The only company with a worse web presence is Cisco. Ugh.
Your sig is a Zardoz reference, and therefore you win the Internet. Congratulations.
When he says "any computer" he means "any computer except the 95% running Windows." Just clearing that up for you. :)
Ok, your list sucks.
Gaming existed before the NES, and you don't include anything before then. Yar's Revenge and Adventure belong on any "must-play" list.
Super Mario Bros 2 is a very good game. I have no clue why you think it sucked... given, it's not as good as SMB3, but I enjoyed it at least as much as SMB1. Different != bad.
Metroid has no ending or point? Wow, you must have really sucked at it.
No Zelda/Zelda II?
If you're going to include a gold box D&D game, you can't get away without including at least one Wizardry, one Ultima, and one Might and Magic game. I mean, come-on man!
What about early FPS games? System Shock, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Marathon, Descent? Sound familiar at all?
Also, TFAuthor really need to figure out how punctuation works. That was terrible.
And at least Apple's is cross-platform. I can't watch AOL's "Go2TV" web-based TV shows because it uses Microsoft DRM, which is not only more intrusive than Apple's, but doesn't even work on OS X. Which is a shame, because I love Head of the Class.
Yes, because nobody who's livelihood relies on Linux and other open source software would ever come to Slashdot and post positive comments about it. That would be totally unprofessional.
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Hate to break it to you, but this entire site relies on the FUD flying both ways. If it didn't have that, what would we talk about all day?
Besides, OS X is better.
You're *voluntarily* running Windows ME? Is there some reason, other than masochism, that you bypassed Windows 2000 and went with that piece of shite instead?
Yeah, I do all that on a single dual-G5 1.8 ghz and a couple of monitors. Saves me a lot of time and money.
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Personally, I think you're still in the "I collect a lot of crap" category... there's no reason you couldn't buy (or build) a single modern computer to do all of that on a single machine. Except for the gaming LAN, natch, but considering you're using OS/2, I'm guessing you don't really have friends over all that often.
Either cite a reference, or otherwise prove your claims that the novel was made-up, or get in line behind the Time Cube guy for your meds.
So don't buy it then! Why the heck do we care?
Why don't we save the comments in the article about Windows Vista for people who are actually interested in Windows Vista?
And moderators, let's start using that "Off-Topic" button a little bit more, ok?
I emailed them about OS X support, and they replied that they have an OS X version in beta, but won't be ready to release until late this year.
Just FYI for anybody else looking into it.
doxygen chokes on the complex macros used in the legacy C modules of my C++ application. Does anybody know of any tool similar to doxygen, but better at parsing C?
Whether or not the EULA is legally binding and yadda yadda, if the EULA says that the tool reports back to Microsoft, it's foolish to be surprised and outraged at it. The point is that the software disclosed, off the bat, exactly what it was doing, and you clicked the "Ok" button and installed it anyway... that applies whether or not the EULA is legally binding.
On the plus side, it's far less expensive, offers far better support, and is open and extensible.
Ok, I agree with the general thrust of your argument... "if you don't like Windows, use something else," but I have to take issue with a couple of these points.
SuSE has better support than Windows? Are you talking about hardware support? Because I have a Hauppauge video capture card sitting in my PC with no Linux support whatsoever that makes a pretty strong counter-argument. Are you talking about software support? Because SuSE might have support forums and mailing lists-- but so does Windows, so at best they're equal on that point.
(Admittedly, I still have Office 97 which is arguably inferior to Office 2003, but why should I shell out big bucks every few years for what is essentially the same product?)
If you're happy with the featureset of Office 97, great, good for you, don't bother to upgrade. But to say that Office 2003 is "essentially the same product" is really misleading. You might not *use* the features that are in it (and not in Office 97, natch), but that doesn't mean that everybody is like you. Our business is enhanced greatly by the collaboration features in Office 2003, for which there are no open source alternatives.
Quicken is a piece of crap. It's crap on Mac OS also. It's a cross-platform piece of crap. If they made a Linux version, the Linux version would be a piece of crap. That's all I have to say about that.
Do you think it has something to do with them consulting Sun lawyers and not their own? An intensely stupid move, no matter what the organization is?
You *always* talk to your own lawyers before talking to the other guy's... your asking to be rammed up the ass (legally speaking) otherwise. If a conflict does arise, talking to their lawyers first weakens your case tremendously. The legal firm is probably:
1) Offended that they (apparently) weren't trusted to evaluate this license, but Sun's lawyers were
2) Upset because now, if there IS a conflict, building a case will be much more work for them, and there's a good chance they might lose it, thus sullying their reputation.
The fault is with whatever Debian admin consulted Sun's lawyers first, not Debian's legal firm.