Nope, you misread. If a French version is available, it's not illegal to sell any other versions. You can still sell the English version of the game without any problems, as long as you stock both versions. I don't even see how this law is invasive in anyway. It just garantees that if a French version exists somewhere in the world, it has to be made available in Quebec.
Too bad your fantasies aren't reality. Quebecers don't want the rest of Canada to speak French. Even the most extermists of French Quebecers wouldn't give a damn if Canadians spoke Spanish or Greek or any other language. They mostly want out of Canada.
Oh come on. The law has nothing to do with why KFC renamed to PFK in Quebec. That was a corporate decision in order get some brownie points with the French people of the province. Don't believe me ? Fine, try to find a Roi du Hambourgoie somewhere in the province ? Can't right, try looking it up under Burger King. That's right, there it is!
The law is clear that if a name in another language than French is a trademark, that name can be used with no limitations at all.
Don't mistake a poster not knowing about about HTML Entities vs character encoding mismatches in your browser. If the poster submitted the é character as 8859-1 and you're trying to view it as a UTF-8 encoded page, stuff like that is bound to happen. That's not Slashdot's fault. That's why you use é to represent é.
If you knew anything about French vs Quebec history, you'd know why we don't really give a damn about what they think of us and why there is a language difference between our 2 countries (Hint, it has both to do with the French revolution and the Traite de Paris (1763)).
Of course, some SUN admins do their work using SMC (blech...), AIX admins use SMITTY and HP-UX admins use SAM, but it doesn't mean they aren't Unixy...
Snow Leopard includes out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 built into Mail, Address Book, and iCal. Mac OS X uses the Exchange Web Services protocol to provide access to Exchange Server 2007. Because Exchange is supported on your Mac and iPhone, you'll be able to use them anywhere with full access to your email, contacts, and calendar.
Or perhaps you failed to understand his complaint in the first place ? His complaint is pretty simple actually. He's saying that even if you would want to reimplement Gmail has a GPL software, you would never be able to have it served to you. Basically, he's saying that you can't write a Free client to Gmail, no matter how hard you try. Your browser will keep fetching Google's proprietary Javascript and executing that instead of your own.
You assume that obfuscating your derivative work (which would be illegal if you didn't have a license to the original that permitted such derivation) is going to be easier than writing it from scratch. I think that's your first mistake.
I've had an XBox 360 (newest 60Gb Pro model) since September, and I've had no problems aside from the occasional freeze, corrupted save file, and a single red ring of death (to my surprise, a simple power cycle made it go away). I got a cheap HDMI cable and I use that in place of the standard component connector.
This was sarcasm right ? It's not registering on my sarcasm detector (a real useful invention) at all. Please tell us you were being sarcastic ?
Just to add to what Hazydave said, Apple are also including the Grand Central framework in their next release, which is available to developers right now, in order to give them the tools needed to build multi core aware apps. So I guess Apple is ahead of the game here, probably why the article doesn't mention it.
Have you ever heard of a USB hub ? Please hand over your geek credentials. Plus, having storage in your computer is worthless nowadays and so are USB hard drives. Home NAS storage, which is accessible through WIFI or wired network for every computer in the house hold is where it's at nowadays.
As others have said, you don't have a clue how Mac OS X works. XML is a text-based format which can be fixed like you say. But more to the point, none of what you say is in the Unix specification. Fortunately for us, the Open Group realises that system initialisation doesn't have to be standardized across different flavors of Unix. For HP-UX, it's under/sbin/init.d, for Solaris, init has been replaced with SMF, in Mac OS X, it's launchd. And if you'd bothered to read the man page for launchd (yes, it has a man page), you'd see it provides pretty much everything init does and more. It's files are text based plists, and their location is documented:
FILES ~/Library/LaunchAgents Per-user agents provided by the user. /Library/LaunchAgents Per-user agents provided by the adminis- trator. /Library/LaunchDaemons System wide daemons provided by the admin- istrator. /System/Library/LaunchAgents Mac OS X Per-user agents. /System/Library/LaunchDaemons Mac OS X System wide daemons.
The price is the mini is fine and competitive. You're not comparing it against other SFF computers and that's your problem. Spec a Dell Studio Hybrid and then compare it to the mini, you'll see.
I personnally prefer the "Booming voice from the heavens" approach. Floating obelisks just use up space, big booming voice saying "Do unto others as blah blah" once or twice a month should remind people, no matter what they are doing at the time, that they need to get down on their knees and worship you.
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Nope, you misread. If a French version is available, it's not illegal to sell any other versions. You can still sell the English version of the game without any problems, as long as you stock both versions. I don't even see how this law is invasive in anyway. It just garantees that if a French version exists somewhere in the world, it has to be made available in Quebec.
Too bad your fantasies aren't reality. Quebecers don't want the rest of Canada to speak French. Even the most extermists of French Quebecers wouldn't give a damn if Canadians spoke Spanish or Greek or any other language. They mostly want out of Canada.
Found your own province, they you'll be able to vote any kind of laws you want. Until then, you are free to move elsewhere if you don't like it.
Oh come on. The law has nothing to do with why KFC renamed to PFK in Quebec. That was a corporate decision in order get some brownie points with the French people of the province. Don't believe me ? Fine, try to find a Roi du Hambourgoie somewhere in the province ? Can't right, try looking it up under Burger King. That's right, there it is!
The law is clear that if a name in another language than French is a trademark, that name can be used with no limitations at all.
No, Arret means stop. Ralentir means to slow down.
Don't mistake a poster not knowing about about HTML Entities vs character encoding mismatches in your browser. If the poster submitted the é character as 8859-1 and you're trying to view it as a UTF-8 encoded page, stuff like that is bound to happen. That's not Slashdot's fault. That's why you use é to represent é.
If you knew anything about French vs Quebec history, you'd know why we don't really give a damn about what they think of us and why there is a language difference between our 2 countries (Hint, it has both to do with the French revolution and the Traite de Paris (1763)).
Can you point us in the direction of this "Traditional Unix" specifications you guys keep writing about ?
And that means nothing as far as Mac OS X's Unix status, but the Airport line of routers aren't Mac OS X. What was your point in even bringing it up ?
Of course, some SUN admins do their work using SMC (blech...), AIX admins use SMITTY and HP-UX admins use SAM, but it doesn't mean they aren't Unixy...
Have you run an Apple and tried to run it against an Exchange server? Nothing works 100%. Apple can't/won't fix it.
Then why is Apple advertising improved Exchange support in the next version of OS X (Snow Leopard) ? See this page :
http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/
Microsoft Exchange Support
Snow Leopard includes out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 built into Mail, Address Book, and iCal. Mac OS X uses the Exchange Web Services protocol to provide access to Exchange Server 2007. Because Exchange is supported on your Mac and iPhone, you'll be able to use them anywhere with full access to your email, contacts, and calendar.
I'm thinking this means Apple can/will fix it.
Or perhaps you failed to understand his complaint in the first place ? His complaint is pretty simple actually. He's saying that even if you would want to reimplement Gmail has a GPL software, you would never be able to have it served to you. Basically, he's saying that you can't write a Free client to Gmail, no matter how hard you try. Your browser will keep fetching Google's proprietary Javascript and executing that instead of your own.
You assume that obfuscating your derivative work (which would be illegal if you didn't have a license to the original that permitted such derivation) is going to be easier than writing it from scratch. I think that's your first mistake.
I've had an XBox 360 (newest 60Gb Pro model) since September, and I've had no problems aside from the occasional freeze, corrupted save file, and a single red ring of death (to my surprise, a simple power cycle made it go away). I got a cheap HDMI cable and I use that in place of the standard component connector.
This was sarcasm right ? It's not registering on my sarcasm detector (a real useful invention) at all. Please tell us you were being sarcastic ?
Just to add to what Hazydave said, Apple are also including the Grand Central framework in their next release, which is available to developers right now, in order to give them the tools needed to build multi core aware apps. So I guess Apple is ahead of the game here, probably why the article doesn't mention it.
So does the Adamo. Intel® GS45 Integrated Graphics with 256MB Memory.
Hum, it's launching when you launch VMWare.
That Dell doesn't have a Core 2 Duo or nVidia graphics, or the dual monitor connexion of the Mini. Your comparison is a big a fail.
Funny you say that, in my team at work (which is the Unix systems administration department), 8 of us use Macs out of 10 admins.
Have you ever heard of a USB hub ? Please hand over your geek credentials. Plus, having storage in your computer is worthless nowadays and so are USB hard drives. Home NAS storage, which is accessible through WIFI or wired network for every computer in the house hold is where it's at nowadays.
2 screws and a latch are a decent amount of work ? It's dead simple to replace HDs and RAM in the new Macbooks/Macbooks Pro.
I just tried that on my HP-UX 11i v3 box and it doesn't either. Ditto my Solaris 10 server. Aren't HP-UX 11i and Solaris 10 Unix either ?
The price is the mini is fine and competitive. You're not comparing it against other SFF computers and that's your problem. Spec a Dell Studio Hybrid and then compare it to the mini, you'll see.
I personnally prefer the "Booming voice from the heavens" approach. Floating obelisks just use up space, big booming voice saying "Do unto others as blah blah" once or twice a month should remind people, no matter what they are doing at the time, that they need to get down on their knees and worship you.