In other words, they should've just reproduced various IFPI press releases about how horribly bad the industry is doing because of "piracy", how low the margin on CD's are these days, and how they only do this for the good of their artists, without no self-interest?;-P
All this said, anything along what you outline, while entertaining, would be a clear case of copyright infringement.
[...] for a login program that is no longer needed after a single user has signed on.
Actually, that's incorrect. GDM isn't a login program, it's a display manager. I suggest you read up on the concept a bit, and you'll realise that GDM needs to keep running even after login...
And it won't as long as people only vote for the Republicrats. Buying off two parties instead of one is not a big deal, especially when both are equally greedy.
What you do is follow the standard and file bug reports against non-compliant applications. Documents that can crash Koffice would probably rate as quite severe bugs (IMHO it shouldn't crash no matter how incorrect input you feed it), and the OpenOffice people probably wants to be able to import Koffice files.
I got the invitation to download IE7 when running Firefox on a Mac, and even when running IE5 under CrossOver; but not when running IE7 under Parallels.
Uhm, no, did you really expect to get an invitation to download IE7 if you were already running IE7?!
Uhm, no, I'm not retarded, thank you very much (and if you cannot even stand for your opinions, you should not post such things). I read the original posters comment, I responded to some of the incorrect critique against Linux, I did not say anywhere that Linux is superior to BSD. If you find my posts to be "frothy-mouthed linux zealotry" you really need a reality check... I do however suspect that you are some sort of zealot, and I definitely do not think it furthers whatever cause you support...
It just comes down to what distro you choose. And if you want rc-file style init, there's for instance file-rc.
And I find it quite revealing that the thread you refer to complains about the need of hunting down repositories for Debian, when Debian already contains the biggest set of packages available in any distribution... Also, searching enough it's always possible to find something to whine about if you really want to. The user in the refered to thread obviously wants things to work out of the box - if so he should've tried Ubuntu, to get a Debian-system with that kind of setup (or used a recent enough version of Debian - I have working wireless on my Debian laptop without any problems what so ever, without any config-file changes). From that thread: "I really dislike the fact that upgrading a few packages can result in upgrading the whole OS version." Uhm? No. The only way to upgrade the OS-version in Debian is to do a dist-upgrade. And since Debian only releases when it's ready, this means at least 18 months apart or more.
I honestly find it easier and more comfortable to do system administration via the CLI on BSD than via the various GUI administration tools in Linux, but that's just a matter of taste.
Uhm, you do know that you can do system administration on the command-line in Linux too, right? (And I bet that there are GUI administration tools for the BSD's too, for that matter...
Democrat propaganda from Fox News? You gotta be kidding me... Fox News jumps whenever the Republicans say jump... Remember when Florida suddenly "turned Bush"?
Well, I agree that I only use the CD for ripping (even though I want the booklet with the lyrics too), but I definitely don't want the CD's to disappear. Why? Because then the record companies will have full control of the file format. This will very likely mean that I'll no longer have access to full quality flacs...
Because making it backwards compatible with Bluetooth would have nullified the major gains of the new technology; lower cost, and lower power consumption...
Well, at least Zak you can play in ScummVM (yes, even the 64-version is supported; although the 256-colour FM-towns version is the best looking, the 64-version has the best music).
And Israel already *has* nukes... Oh, and what about the U.S. that has already threatened to use nukes against Iran? And GWB definitely qualifies as dangerous; he's already started two wars on questionable grounds.
Wrong. See for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor - sure, you don't generate the power from the heavy water itself, but it's needed for that kind of reactor. Together with uranium, which, surprise, they also are building an enrichment plant for.
While I do not completely trust this enterprise to be peaceful, I don't trust the U.S., Israel, the U.K., Russia or any of the other countries that already *have* nuclear weapons, and in the case of the U.S. have used them. Until the nuclear weapon carrying countries that already exists have dismantled their last bombs and missiles, I'll continue finding their cries about others building research facilities or nuclear plants very hypocritical.
Well, at least this time the evidence is somewhat better than the "Oh, oh, they've got metal pipes - they're building nukes!" used as a motive to invade Iraq...
You know, just because you haven't seen any new releases yet doesn't mean there's no work going on. Oh, and what's so magic about the USA webpage? It's not like USA == the world...
The maemo.org site is run by Nokia, for the developer community. And you complained about dropped development support. If you don't have interest in downloading Alpha and Beta test versions, you're probably not a developer... And please don't try to speak for other users, let them speak for themselves.
Dropping all development support for it however was a bad idea. Nokia seems to have abandoned the platform.
Uhm? We haven't dropped the development support. We even have people hired to follow maemo-devel and help developers posting there. Right now it's vacation time in Finland though, so the activity isn't as high as normal, but we do our best to help the maemo community. The latest big change on maemo.org was the launch of Sardine, which took place on the 13th of July 2006. not exactly what I'd call an abandoned platform...
That's what the Debian New Maintainer process is for. Sure, with some social engineering and a display of good package maintainership you can get an account, but I suspect few script-kiddies would be willing to spend 6-8 months of tests and waiting just to get an account on a Debian machine. Oh, and since all Debian developers are *required* to have a GPG-key that's been signed by a Debian developer, it means that at some point in time they need to show their passport to a Debian developer. Not exactly the best way to sneak your way in...
If I know US patent law well enough, it's not only necessary that the prior art is prior to the date of filing, but also that it's *significantly* prior to that date (as in 1 year or more), to make sure that the patent filers have had a decent chance of spotting that there was prior art.
But, I'm not a lawyer, especially not an "IPR"-lawyer.
Ahhh, but it's soo hard to hide 3D-benchmark boosting if you have drivers with open source, which
means that that NVidia and ATI would suddenly have to compete on pure hardware quality... Ouch!
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In other words, they should've just reproduced various IFPI press releases about how horribly bad the industry is doing because of "piracy", how low the margin on CD's are these days, and how they only do this for the good of their artists, without no self-interest? ;-P
All this said, anything along what you outline, while entertaining, would be a clear case of copyright infringement.
Yup. Much better to use a SID-chip.
Actually, that's incorrect. GDM isn't a login program, it's a display manager. I suggest you read up on the concept a bit, and you'll realise that GDM needs to keep running even after login...
And it won't as long as people only vote for the Republicrats. Buying off two parties instead of one is not a big deal, especially when both are equally greedy.
To me it sounds like they are trying to keep up the tradition of odd numbered ST-movie = bad, even numbered ST-movie = good...
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi
Now s/they/Microsoft/;s/you/Linux/ and hope for a repeat of history =)
What you do is follow the standard and file bug reports against non-compliant applications. Documents that can crash Koffice would probably rate as quite severe bugs (IMHO it shouldn't crash no matter how incorrect input you feed it), and the OpenOffice people probably wants to be able to import Koffice files.
Uhm, no, did you really expect to get an invitation to download IE7 if you were already running IE7?!
Uhm, no, I'm not retarded, thank you very much (and if you cannot even stand for your opinions, you should not post such things). I read the original posters comment, I responded to some of the incorrect critique against Linux, I did not say anywhere that Linux is superior to BSD. If you find my posts to be "frothy-mouthed linux zealotry" you really need a reality check... I do however suspect that you are some sort of zealot, and I definitely do not think it furthers whatever cause you support...
It just comes down to what distro you choose. And if you want rc-file style init, there's for instance file-rc.
And I find it quite revealing that the thread you refer to complains about the need of hunting down repositories for Debian, when Debian already contains the biggest set of packages available in any distribution... Also, searching enough it's always possible to find something to whine about if you really want to. The user in the refered to thread obviously wants things to work out of the box - if so he should've tried Ubuntu, to get a Debian-system with that kind of setup (or used a recent enough version of Debian - I have working wireless on my Debian laptop without any problems what so ever, without any config-file changes). From that thread: "I really dislike the fact that upgrading a few packages can result in upgrading the whole OS version." Uhm? No. The only way to upgrade the OS-version in Debian is to do a dist-upgrade. And since Debian only releases when it's ready, this means at least 18 months apart or more.
Uhm, you do know that you can do system administration on the command-line in Linux too, right? (And I bet that there are GUI administration tools for the BSD's too, for that matter...
Democrat propaganda from Fox News? You gotta be kidding me... Fox News jumps whenever the Republicans say jump... Remember when Florida suddenly "turned Bush"?
Well, I agree that I only use the CD for ripping (even though I want the booklet with the lyrics too), but I definitely don't want the CD's to disappear. Why? Because then the record companies will have full control of the file format. This will very likely mean that I'll no longer have access to full quality flacs...
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Because making it backwards compatible with Bluetooth would have nullified the major gains of the new technology; lower cost, and lower power consumption...
Well, at least Zak you can play in ScummVM (yes, even the 64-version is supported; although the 256-colour FM-towns version is the best looking, the 64-version has the best music).
Well, luckily there's both Nighthawk and Freedroid (the latter with great music as a bonus).
And Israel already *has* nukes... Oh, and what about the U.S. that has already threatened to use nukes against Iran? And GWB definitely qualifies as dangerous; he's already started two wars on questionable grounds.
Wrong. See for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor - sure, you don't generate the power from the heavy water itself, but it's needed for that kind of reactor. Together with uranium, which, surprise, they also are building an enrichment plant for.
While I do not completely trust this enterprise to be peaceful, I don't trust the U.S., Israel, the U.K., Russia or any of the other countries that already *have* nuclear weapons, and in the case of the U.S. have used them. Until the nuclear weapon carrying countries that already exists have dismantled their last bombs and missiles, I'll continue finding their cries about others building research facilities or nuclear plants very hypocritical.
Well, at least this time the evidence is somewhat better than the "Oh, oh, they've got metal pipes - they're building nukes!" used as a motive to invade Iraq...
You know, just because you haven't seen any new releases yet doesn't mean there's no work going on. Oh, and what's so magic about the USA webpage? It's not like USA == the world...
The maemo.org site is run by Nokia, for the developer community. And you complained about dropped development support. If you don't have interest in downloading Alpha and Beta test versions, you're probably not a developer... And please don't try to speak for other users, let them speak for themselves.
Uhm? We haven't dropped the development support. We even have people hired to follow maemo-devel and help developers posting there. Right now it's vacation time in Finland though, so the activity isn't as high as normal, but we do our best to help the maemo community. The latest big change on maemo.org was the launch of Sardine, which took place on the 13th of July 2006. not exactly what I'd call an abandoned platform...
That's what the Debian New Maintainer process is for. Sure, with some social engineering and a display of good package maintainership you can get an account, but I suspect few script-kiddies would be willing to spend 6-8 months of tests and waiting just to get an account on a Debian machine. Oh, and since all Debian developers are *required* to have a GPG-key that's been signed by a Debian developer, it means that at some point in time they need to show their passport to a Debian developer. Not exactly the best way to sneak your way in...
If I know US patent law well enough, it's not only necessary that the prior art is prior to the date of filing, but also that it's *significantly* prior to that date (as in 1 year or more), to make sure that the patent filers have had a decent chance of spotting that there was prior art.
But, I'm not a lawyer, especially not an "IPR"-lawyer.
Ahhh, but it's soo hard to hide 3D-benchmark boosting if you have drivers with open source, which means that that NVidia and ATI would suddenly have to compete on pure hardware quality... Ouch!
Some of it can be found in the Maemo application catalog.