I am saying that from what I have been reading that people are complaining about them [Sun] not releasing information they [open source programmers] need to get their hardware working in Linux.
From the criticisms I have been reading over the net, Sun has been hiding information on how to get their hardware working in Linux. Hardly what I would call a committed player to open source software. Am I wrong on this?
In any case what they have just done sounds more like they just want people to peer review their work rather then release anything useful. I wonder what they'd do if someone started selling processors based on the information they just released.
The summary talks about the BBFC incase you didn't know, BBFC stands for "British Board For Censorship".
David Cooke has been the director for waaay too long, he is taking his job too seriously as the protector of UK adults. It's time he resigned and let someone who isn't an old git that doesn't understand this new fangled technology take over.
I've always wanted to vote Green (when I've been living somewhere big enough to have the chance to:D), but have held back because they wouldn't have the first clue on how to run the country properly.
That's silly thinking, I voted green last time. Not because I wanted to see them run the country but because I wanted them to have more seats in government to voice their opinion.
People think it's "throwing your vote away" but it's better to vote for a small party that wants to make a change then a one of the three main parties that changes their attitude to win votes. They only care about being in power, it's dangerous to vote for people like that. Hence why we have all the corruption in our government.
It is clear that these clouds are changing, a sign that a part of our atmosphere is changing and we do not understand how, why or what it means,
That has to be the first honest answer I have read from someone on our climate, ever.
We hear too often from these climate "experts", finally someone is ready to admit that our climate is so big and complex that we don't know exactly how it all works.
Anything beyond that, including a W3C-lead standardization of a "free" codec, or the active endorsement of proprietary technology such as Ogg,..., by W3C, is, in our opinion, not helpful for the co-existence of the two ecosystems (web and video), and therefore not our choice.
You know whats not helpful? Retards like you Stephan that can't be bothered to research stuff your writing in papers.
I'm not taking anything seriously from a guy called Booble. I seriously doubt he even earned his title of Dr. from a real University.
one sentence summary and it makes front page..
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Firefox 2.0.0.11 Released
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Firefox 2.0.0.11 has been released, the Release Notes show the only major change as a correction of a compatibility issue with some websites and extensions as discovered in Firefox 2.0.0.10.
If you think it wasn't that big of a change then why did you sumbit it to Slashdot?!
Hitler didn't gas anyone himself, either. It's not about who's hand pulls the trigger, it's about who's running the ship.
Actually I have to disagree. I believe that everyone is responsible for their own actions. A Nazi that kills a baby and says "He's just doing his job" because Hitler told him to is responsible. All those Germans that voted him into power are responsible. Everyone is responsible, because everyone does their own evil deeds to contribute.
This is what Google means when it comes to "Do no Evil". Individual responsibility for your actions.
Next time you watch the news look out for the lines "Just doing my job". It could be a soldier in a pointless war or a policemen that is in a highly political problem. They don't want to take individual responsibility for their actions that they feel are wrong. So they pass on the blame to make themselves feel better, rather then standing up for what is right.
Google initially said that disclosing the blogger's identity violated rulings on the balance between freedom of expression and a person's right to his reputation.
However, in a pre-ruling, Judge Oren Schwartz said that the blog's content raised suspicions of criminal conduct, and Google took the hint.
That seems pretty clear that Google tried to stand by their principles until the Judge gave them the "You're going to Jail if you don't do this", wink, wink. Not everywhere in the world is "to the letter" and "needs paper work". Some countries don't work like that.
Even so the councilmen gave the guy three whole days to turn himself in and defend himself in court but he didn't. We can only suspect that he either didn't receieve the messages on time or we was running because he knew he was guilty.
Yahoo on the otherhand gave the chinese government that anon bloggers home address without even trying to protect him, then lied about it. No one seems to call them evil even though they do a lot more worse things then Google does. I don't want to sidetrack the issue but this seems like "doing good in Israel", "Doing evil in freedom America" or "I want my lawless internets back".
There is nothing stopping him from moving to a different country where the laws are less stricter and he can freely break the law of his own country.
You're kinda missing the point. You're saying Google should break Israel law to defend a criminal therefore becoming a criminal themselves.
The first amendment only applys to the US and you have to understand that what is evil to you is different from what is evil to everyone else.
Google refusing to co-orperate with a government that could throw all its employees in Jail because an idiot forgot to use Tor while breaking the laws of his country sounds quite evil to me.
More likely is that he'll get protesters to gather outside the bar and tell everyone that take-two paid the judges to take away his license, because Jack had "got too deep in the rabbit hole!" and now the "games industry black helicopters are after him!!".
Ah yes half life 2 and its invisible walls I kept bumping into. Wait.. How is that different from CoD4? There is no freedom there too. Infact you changed your argument to fit HL2.
A better example would be nethack. Complete freedom.
...Because you would hold up the call operator for 40 minutes discussing the benefits of which OS the nanobots should run centred around some kind of car analogy?
When users think of an emulator, they tend to think of things like Super Nintendo emulators or virtualization software. This is the wrong way to think about Wine - Wine runs Windows applications in essentially the same way Windows does. There is no inherent loss of speed due to "emulation" when using Wine, nor is there a need to open Wine before running your application.
Have you finished asking stupid flamebait questions that can could be answered by looking at the website? Or is it that I hurt your pride by pointing out your dumb mistake and now you're going to keep replying until you feel your e-penis is bigger then mine?
Vista is the only operating system that supports DirectX10 at the moment. if it stays that way and games start making use of DirectX10 features then games will have no choice but to use Vista.
Game developers/publishers don't care about vista and DX10. They care about selling games to the largest target market. If the customer base doesn't move then game developers won't make titles exclusive to Vista, especially when code for XP runs fine on Vista.
There is also the small matter of "Vista only" games such as Halo 2 and the eagerly awaited Alan Wake from Remedy, the makers of Max Payne. that too will be a "Vista only" title.
Are you seriously suggesting people are going to purchase an OS that is over $400 just to play a 3 year old xbox game?! I could buy Halo 2 and an Xbox cheaper!
As for any other Vista only titles coming out, check how well they are selling. Shadowrun was Vista only and it sold so badly they had to close the game studio!
But Gray said he was convinced Microsoft will win out in the end, if only because it has virtually no competitor worth the name in the enterprise market. "Linux and Mac have 1% or 2%, and in some cases, such as Europe and the largest corporations, they don't even register," he said. "Microsoft owns this space, and I don't see that changing."
He couldn't resist taking a jab could he?
Of course the enterprise market isn't moving to Linux they're ass slow to move to ANYTHING. These companies are so huge that it takes years to change the way they work.
What I want to know is the made up (because you know what stats are like) figures of Linux growth in the Small to Medium businesses since they make up a larger majority of businesses then a couple of giant mega corps..
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I am saying that from what I have been reading that people are complaining about them [Sun] not releasing information they [open source programmers] need to get their hardware working in Linux.
From the criticisms I have been reading over the net, Sun has been hiding information on how to get their hardware working in Linux. Hardly what I would call a committed player to open source software. Am I wrong on this?
In any case what they have just done sounds more like they just want people to peer review their work rather then release anything useful. I wonder what they'd do if someone started selling processors based on the information they just released.
I was joking.
Wow, how insightful, you dismiss the parents problems because you're not having them and go so far as to call him a troll.
I too am having the same problems in Firefox so why don't you just STFU.
The summary talks about the BBFC incase you didn't know, BBFC stands for "British Board For Censorship".
David Cooke has been the director for waaay too long, he is taking his job too seriously as the protector of UK adults. It's time he resigned and let someone who isn't an old git that doesn't understand this new fangled technology take over.
People think it's "throwing your vote away" but it's better to vote for a small party that wants to make a change then a one of the three main parties that changes their attitude to win votes. They only care about being in power, it's dangerous to vote for people like that. Hence why we have all the corruption in our government.
We hear too often from these climate "experts", finally someone is ready to admit that our climate is so big and complex that we don't know exactly how it all works.
I hope you lose your job over this you idiot.
I'm not taking anything seriously from a guy called Booble. I seriously doubt he even earned his title of Dr. from a real University.
I would like to be the first citizen of your sexciety!
....as long as I am not living in sausagefest city....
There was this healthy guy I knew that started playing violent games and he got lung cancer!
Think of all those dangerous chemicals that are in games. They should be illegal!
A Nazi that kills a baby and says "He's just doing his job" because Hitler told him to is responsible. All those Germans that voted him into power are responsible. Everyone is responsible, because everyone does their own evil deeds to contribute.
This is what Google means when it comes to "Do no Evil". Individual responsibility for your actions.
Next time you watch the news look out for the lines "Just doing my job". It could be a soldier in a pointless war or a policemen that is in a highly political problem. They don't want to take individual responsibility for their actions that they feel are wrong. So they pass on the blame to make themselves feel better, rather then standing up for what is right.
Even so the councilmen gave the guy three whole days to turn himself in and defend himself in court but he didn't. We can only suspect that he either didn't receieve the messages on time or we was running because he knew he was guilty.
Yahoo on the otherhand gave the chinese government that anon bloggers home address without even trying to protect him, then lied about it. No one seems to call them evil even though they do a lot more worse things then Google does. I don't want to sidetrack the issue but this seems like "doing good in Israel", "Doing evil in freedom America" or "I want my lawless internets back".
There is nothing stopping him from moving to a different country where the laws are less stricter and he can freely break the law of his own country.
You're kinda missing the point. You're saying Google should break Israel law to defend a criminal therefore becoming a criminal themselves.
The first amendment only applys to the US and you have to understand that what is evil to you is different from what is evil to everyone else.
Google refusing to co-orperate with a government that could throw all its employees in Jail because an idiot forgot to use Tor while breaking the laws of his country sounds quite evil to me.
More likely is that he'll get protesters to gather outside the bar and tell everyone that take-two paid the judges to take away his license, because Jack had "got too deep in the rabbit hole!" and now the "games industry black helicopters are after him!!".
In the UK it would cost me £199.99 to purchase vista home premium in the store or website.
Google tells me that 199 British pounds = 409.7211 U.S. dollars.You're right i'm sorry, it doesn't cost $400.. It costs $409.
Ah yes half life 2 and its invisible walls I kept bumping into. Wait.. How is that different from CoD4? There is no freedom there too. Infact you changed your argument to fit HL2.
A better example would be nethack. Complete freedom.
...Because you would hold up the call operator for 40 minutes discussing the benefits of which OS the nanobots should run centred around some kind of car analogy?
Wouldn't the DX10 on XP backwards compatibility depend on if OpenGL 3.1 can be run on XP? Is that going to be possible?
You can download the code from here. No idea if the DX10 API has made it into the main wine releases yet.
As for any other Vista only titles coming out, check how well they are selling. Shadowrun was Vista only and it sold so badly they had to close the game studio!
Of course the enterprise market isn't moving to Linux they're ass slow to move to ANYTHING. These companies are so huge that it takes years to change the way they work.
What I want to know is the made up (because you know what stats are like) figures of Linux growth in the Small to Medium businesses since they make up a larger majority of businesses then a couple of giant mega corps..