It's actually "thou shalt not murder". Murder is the unrightful termination of a presumably human life. Killing during war, self defence, or execution does nto apply. The word kill was a bad or politicized mis translation.
WTF? Is that 1984 double speak? I'm pretty sure its "Kill", since I have never ever ever come across Thou shall not Murder and to be honest I don't really see the point you are making?
You're trying to pretend there is a difference between killing and killing a killer, or that it's somehow OK to kill during war. I don't really have any strong believes in anything but I have very strong morals on this topic.
I don't think Canonical does much in-house testing. I thought they got the community to do almost everything to do with Ubuntu, apart from employees who live around the globe and commit their code to the servers.
You can buy the phone now. What you won't get is consumer grade software for the phone in the finished state. It's not dead, it's just that the software development is taking longer then expected. I have never seen a project completed on time anyway.
In any case if the phone isn't a success not to worry you can use the Moko's software on other phones. I was reading about how a Chinese hacker got Moko running on his A1200, so it's not a total loss and everything is under the GPL anyway.
The last link about the Linux devices... Some of these arn't open source. For example the Motorola phones, although they use Linux are locked down via DRM.
I found out about this after I bought a Motorola A1200 advertised as using Linux then found out that although you can get a code of the Linux code they use it's completely useless because your can't compile and use your own kernel for the phone.
Even if Europe enforced patents they still might not apply to all countries in the EU. For example UK law is very clear on this matter and it would take a change of law in both Europe and the UK before you could sue anyone in the UK for software patent infringement.
You say 1% but that's not in proportion to the number of people who would purchase the game.
1% is probably an accurate amount of desktops with Linux on in the world but since geeks are more likely to be purchasing UT then your Mum's windows box from the low budget store I would say that the amount is higher then 1% .
Is it PHP's fault that people don't escape their data before executing MySQL statements? No. Still it's such a wide problem that PHP is now going to escape all data in later versions of PHP.
This is the exact same situation. There are problems with un-escaped data and Microsoft doesn't want to bother much like the PHP team did before they changed their minds about the situation.
The only difference here is the way the code executes. I personally think it's not Microsoft's fault but they should fix it anyway. If they're that freaked out about backwards compatibility then just have an "on" or "off" switch in the registry so for the 0.1% of people that need it to stay the same have that option, but the vast majority are covered.
There was a case in England a few years back of a middle class women raising money for cancer. She put on a party and had a live band playing.
She raised £300 ($600) for a cancer charity, but the government heard about it and charged her the standard tax fee for public performances which happened to be £300. It was a coincidence that it happened to be the amount she raised but this whole public performance nonsense is out of hand. England is already boring enough, now we can't even enjoy some friendly music.
Oh the great injustice of the world if someone doesn't get paid for vibrating my ear drums!
Wine will never fully support windows because Microsoft are ingenious at inventing ways of breaking compatibility. With that said I like the Linux apps available much better then any windows apps.
If you want to replace windows, linux isn't the answer. Linux isn't trying to be a windows replacement. If you're ready to unlearn how you did things on windows for better ways of working then maybe you should give Linux a try.
1) Consumers demand fibre. 2) Monoploys think its too expensive to install so ignore the idea. 3) fibre Start-ups can't break into the telecommunications monopoly. 4) go to 1
Capitalism is the idea that you can control greed. It works for individuals but not for super rich companies that control a monopoly.
It's so obvious why they said Linux violates Microsoft's patents. Vista was just launching and soon companies would seriously think about switching to Linux instead of buying vista.
So Steve comes out with his patent FUD to make sure his customers don't think about switching operating systems.
This project isn't about getting people who aren't learning into the classroom it's about providing a resource to 3rd world classrooms.
You seem to be under the assumption that the XO will be a substitute for classroom teaching which it's not. It's place is as a tool to be used in the classroom. So guarding the vegetable plants as you put it is not a situation that would come up.
The pay-off that the XO is to provide would be to raise the standard of education, once that is done the next generation would have the knowledge sufficient to improve their lives and the lives of the people around them.
To cure the world of poor living standards you have to first start with education. If you don't start with education your country will be full of useless idiot beggars depending on the handouts of a government.
The XO is a step in the right direction to improve education by providing the ability to make available vast amounts of information to students that normally wouldn't have the opportunity because of their birth location.
Games are available on Linux and it's a myth that they're not available.
A good place to start is the free games list that shows a wide variety of open source games.
Also available are commercial games with Linux binaries such as Americas Army, Enemy Territory, Unreal Tournament off the top of my head, so please stop with the "There are no games for linux" myth.
They know people hide money in childeren's rooms, in toys, under beds, etc. They'll completely trash your room and your children's rooms stealing their toys and everything else they can find.
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WTF? Is that 1984 double speak? I'm pretty sure its "Kill", since I have never ever ever come across Thou shall not Murder and to be honest I don't really see the point you are making?
You're trying to pretend there is a difference between killing and killing a killer, or that it's somehow OK to kill during war. I don't really have any strong believes in anything but I have very strong morals on this topic.
Killing is Killing and it's bad to kill people!
Awesome. This could also be used to capture electricity from lightning strikes!?!
I don't think Canonical does much in-house testing. I thought they got the community to do almost everything to do with Ubuntu, apart from employees who live around the globe and commit their code to the servers.
What happens to the kite when it's not windy? Someone would have to drive up to the plant and relaunch the kite. : /
You can buy the phone now. What you won't get is consumer grade software for the phone in the finished state. It's not dead, it's just that the software development is taking longer then expected. I have never seen a project completed on time anyway.
In any case if the phone isn't a success not to worry you can use the Moko's software on other phones. I was reading about how a Chinese hacker got Moko running on his A1200, so it's not a total loss and everything is under the GPL anyway.
The last link about the Linux devices... Some of these arn't open source. For example the Motorola phones, although they use Linux are locked down via DRM.
I found out about this after I bought a Motorola A1200 advertised as using Linux then found out that although you can get a code of the Linux code they use it's completely useless because your can't compile and use your own kernel for the phone.
WTF does Warsow have to do with the GPs post?
Even if Europe enforced patents they still might not apply to all countries in the EU. For example UK law is very clear on this matter and it would take a change of law in both Europe and the UK before you could sue anyone in the UK for software patent infringement.
You say 1% but that's not in proportion to the number of people who would purchase the game.
1% is probably an accurate amount of desktops with Linux on in the world but since geeks are more likely to be purchasing UT then your Mum's windows box from the low budget store I would say that the amount is higher then 1% .
Is it PHP's fault that people don't escape their data before executing MySQL statements? No. Still it's such a wide problem that PHP is now going to escape all data in later versions of PHP.
This is the exact same situation. There are problems with un-escaped data and Microsoft doesn't want to bother much like the PHP team did before they changed their minds about the situation.
The only difference here is the way the code executes. I personally think it's not Microsoft's fault but they should fix it anyway. If they're that freaked out about backwards compatibility then just have an "on" or "off" switch in the registry so for the 0.1% of people that need it to stay the same have that option, but the vast majority are covered.
Thanks for the links and if Mark is reading this, I wish you good luck in your new position.
This is news? I've never heard of this guy before? What's he done for free software before being hired by the FSF?
Linux is the thing they ftp into to upload the php files. Most development is done on their local windows box running apache.
I really don't understand why you think people who can do a bit of web scripting are somehow Linux professionals..
There was a case in England a few years back of a middle class women raising money for cancer. She put on a party and had a live band playing.
She raised £300 ($600) for a cancer charity, but the government heard about it and charged her the standard tax fee for public performances which happened to be £300. It was a coincidence that it happened to be the amount she raised but this whole public performance nonsense is out of hand. England is already boring enough, now we can't even enjoy some friendly music.
Oh the great injustice of the world if someone doesn't get paid for vibrating my ear drums!
Wine will never fully support windows because Microsoft are ingenious at inventing ways of breaking compatibility. With that said I like the Linux apps available much better then any windows apps.
If you want to replace windows, linux isn't the answer. Linux isn't trying to be a windows replacement. If you're ready to unlearn how you did things on windows for better ways of working then maybe you should give Linux a try.
1) Consumers demand fibre.
2) Monoploys think its too expensive to install so ignore the idea.
3) fibre Start-ups can't break into the telecommunications monopoly.
4) go to 1
Capitalism is the idea that you can control greed. It works for individuals but not for super rich companies that control a monopoly.
It's so obvious why they said Linux violates Microsoft's patents. Vista was just launching and soon companies would seriously think about switching to Linux instead of buying vista.
So Steve comes out with his patent FUD to make sure his customers don't think about switching operating systems.
It's not about obscuring it's about being as homogeneous as possible.
This project isn't about getting people who aren't learning into the classroom it's about providing a resource to 3rd world classrooms.
You seem to be under the assumption that the XO will be a substitute for classroom teaching which it's not. It's place is as a tool to be used in the classroom. So guarding the vegetable plants as you put it is not a situation that would come up.
The pay-off that the XO is to provide would be to raise the standard of education, once that is done the next generation would have the knowledge sufficient to improve their lives and the lives of the people around them.
To cure the world of poor living standards you have to first start with education. If you don't start with education your country will be full of useless idiot beggars depending on the handouts of a government.
The XO is a step in the right direction to improve education by providing the ability to make available vast amounts of information to students that normally wouldn't have the opportunity because of their birth location.
Games are available on Linux and it's a myth that they're not available.
A good place to start is the free games list that shows a wide variety of open source games.
Also available are commercial games with Linux binaries such as Americas Army, Enemy Territory, Unreal Tournament off the top of my head, so please stop with the "There are no games for linux" myth.
I believe there was an arm wrestle.
uh.. but Novell employs a lot of people to work on open source projects, like the Kernal and Samba.
WRONG! Theives take everything!
They know people hide money in childeren's rooms, in toys, under beds, etc. They'll completely trash your room and your children's rooms stealing their toys and everything else they can find.