Making exceptions to rules generally nullifies the power a rule has.
With patents (unlike trademarks) you can enforce them as selectively as you want without the patent becoming any less binding. If they wanted they could allow everyone in the world except me use everything they had patented.
Blaster had very little impact on our network. Nachi on the other hand caused absolute bloody chaos. There is absolutely nothing "white hat" about running code on someone elses machine without their permission.
I see. Where I work the ability to run the latest games is a low priority. My machine here has the cheapest and crapiest soundcard and network card imaginable, DirectX is not supported because it is a Microsoft technology and for some reason they aren't too keen on supporting Linux. Having said that apparently FarCry works fine under WineX. Don't ask me what they consider "fine" though, I haven't personally tried it.
Perhaps you would care to provide us with a list of this exotic hardware which is commonly used in a business setting and has no Linux drivers. I don't think DirectX9 video cards are particularly heavily utilised in office (The flight sim easter egg works fine with software rendering).
"They want rid of child porn, but would be very pissed as soon as undertrained medical patients injure one of their kids."
They shouldn't be allowing the patients to treat each other.
And if Doctor Nick was going to operate on my child and said he'd have to look up how to do it on the Internet I would be looking for a second opinion.
I'm sure when customers started phoning up your brothers competitors to say their website was inaccessible it wouldn't take long to trace it back to the cause.
I am posting this from a machine running Fedora Core 2. I installed it the day it was released and it has been up since then. I would say 100% uptime is about as far from crash-prone as you can get.
Presumably your suggesting that using film instead of digital you still need to take those 500 photographs to get any decent shots. At least now we have digital you no longer have to follow your wife around on holiday with the wheelbarrow full of film.
I was just about to comment on the terrible wording too. I presume what they mean is currently google groups is "only" a usenet archive and will become a usenet archive plus the new Google Groups 2.
The word "replace" makes it all horribly ambiguous.
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"Or perhaps KDE could look into working out why it takes longer to compile KDE than Gnome"
Isn't KDE written in C++? C++ takes much longer to compile than C.
Does anyone know if this is because of C++ or is it the GNU C++ compiler?
"If you can't crush 'em though, you don't sell their products!"
Not even if you get their products for free and then get to keep all the money you make on the sale?
Making exceptions to rules generally nullifies the power a rule has.
With patents (unlike trademarks) you can enforce them as selectively as you want without the patent becoming any less binding. If they wanted they could allow everyone in the world except me use everything they had patented.
I think it was to prevent the metal arms with the letters on the end from jamming together, it is pretty redundant now.
Blaster had very little impact on our network. Nachi on the other hand caused absolute bloody chaos.
There is absolutely nothing "white hat" about running code on someone elses machine without their permission.
Nope, can't see any mention of Bush in there. Details of your Germano-French conspiracy also seemed strangely absent.
They are out to get you though, it's clear if you read between the lines . I can hear them whispering about you right now.
I see. Where I work the ability to run the latest games is a low priority. My machine here has the cheapest and crapiest soundcard and network card imaginable, DirectX is not supported because it is a Microsoft technology and for some reason they aren't too keen on supporting Linux. Having said that apparently FarCry works fine under WineX. Don't ask me what they consider "fine" though, I haven't personally tried it.
The Businessweek shills are probably getting multi-million dollar kickbacks from those super rich Debian and Gentoo developers.
Perhaps you would care to provide us with a list of this exotic hardware which is commonly used in a business setting and has no Linux drivers. I don't think DirectX9 video cards are particularly heavily utilised in office (The flight sim easter egg works fine with software rendering).
NT has an OpenVMS kernel
No it doesn't it has a Windows NT Kernel.
Kernel panics and blue screens are synonymous
I have at least half a dozen servers and workstations here with uptime over a year, I doubt many people running NT can say the same.
so that I don't have to drive into work on a Saturday in order to reset a RedHat server
Then tell it to reboot on a kernel panic "man sysctl"
And frankly, aside you retards, who gives a flying fuck what the kernel is?
People who don't want to work Saturdays?
How many dicks is that?
I'm downloading AGrikulturalPolicyNOCD+crakz.zip right now.
They shouldn't be allowing the patients to treat each other.
And if Doctor Nick was going to operate on my child and said he'd have to look up how to do it on the Internet I would be looking for a second opinion.
Then you would no longer be working for the IWF.
I'm sure when customers started phoning up your brothers competitors to say their website was inaccessible it wouldn't take long to trace it back to the cause.
Get a job where they don't pay you in fruit.
I am posting this from a machine running Fedora Core 2. I installed it the day it was released and it has been up since then. I would say 100% uptime is about as far from crash-prone as you can get.
There is only one XFree86 system. It is called XFree86.
Now that's entertainment!
So GHOST.EXE must kill your computer then. Very intuitive.
I tried browsing the interweb without any ad blocking yesterday for the first time in ages.
Apart from a few sites it was almost unbearable. How do people put up with all that crap?
Game related sites seem to be the worst offenders (not including "specialist adult interest sites") of course.
The word "replace" makes it all horribly ambiguous.
For trolling of this quality there should be a +1 Troll mod. If emoticons were not so stupid there would be a smiley one right here.
Just to add that at least sendmail defaults to only allowing connections from localhost. Why on earth they enable nfs by default I have no idea.