Slashdot humor aside for a moment, it's truly a great honour to be recognized by one's country, and Matthias ought to be proud of the accomplishments of himself and the KDE community.
Keep up the good work Matthias and all the KDE folks. You deserve this, and your efforts are appreciated (though sorry, slashdot doesn't give out Crosses of Merit, yet)
Western Digital went to crap a while back (personal opinion, based on professional experience)
Now Seagate appears to be going down the same path
Both are/were leading-edge drive manufacturers
So has magnetic hard-drive technology simply reached an end-stage of current magnetic and mechanical capability, and does this hasten the introduction of technologies like SSD?
If you can wrap the missile in an optical cloaking device (http://www.physorg.com/news94744716.html) then the incoming laser energy should just 'flow' around the body of the missile and exit the other side.
The resulting dispersal of the laser energy would prevent the missile from being seriously damaged.
"My new QC is not working, I'd like a replacement under the warranty"
"What makes you think it's broken?"
"It keeps giving wrong results"
"But it's giving the right results in lots of nearby parallel universes. The computer is not broken - you're not observing from the recommended viewing position. This is user error." CLICK.
So a given implementation that embodies a patented idea is protected by both the patent and its own copyright.
Hence a different implementation may still violate the patent, but will not violate copyright of some other implementation.
The silliness in the patent system has come about because patent offices too often judge 'new' ideas to be 'novel', as opposed to 'obvious to those skilled in the art'.
The distros have had a big hand in the unpopular reception of KDE4.0.
I've been a Fedora user since Core1, followed most of the revisions, and recently upgraded to F9. I have found most all Fedora major releases to be more stable and usable than previous.
Upon installation of F9/KDE4.0, I thought something really bad had happened to my system (strange menu, taskbar screwed up, desktop icons weird). Only after some reading (yeah, should have RTFM first) did I learn it was all intentional - KDE4.0 !
Having used it for a while, I admit it has potential. Due to the independence on display resolution, KDE4 looks much nicer on my old 1024x768 laptop than KDE3.x ever did. The guts feel great, the skin is flaky (I humbly await your jokes).
But I wish Fedora (yes, I do realize that Fedora is a 'testbed' of bleeding-edge packages) had waited before including KDE4.0, perhaps giving an install option, or simply putting it off until F10/KDE4.x
Fortunately, I didn't upgrade my office machine to F9 - I would be really in a mess if I tried to used it as productively as I can with F8/KDE3.x
KDE4.x future looks bright, I'm more disappointed with the Fedora team that chose it as the only KDE desktop for F9.
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Slashdot humor aside for a moment, it's truly a great honour to be recognized by one's country, and Matthias ought to be proud of the accomplishments of himself and the KDE community.
Keep up the good work Matthias and all the KDE folks. You deserve this, and your efforts are appreciated (though sorry, slashdot doesn't give out Crosses of Merit, yet)
carry books? I never did that in college, and all of my books weighed like .8 lbs or less, and I didn't have any reasons to carry them around.
Do you hear "Can I get fries with that" often?
Link?
I don't know whether to mod this as Insightful, Funny, or Desperate
Clicked through the site a little to the 'PKI Online Training' section, and I'm informed that I must :
1. enable flash
2. enable cookies
3. enable javascript
4. disable pop-up blocking
I desperately hope this is a scam, since the alternative possibility is just frightening
Western Digital went to crap a while back (personal opinion, based on professional experience)
Now Seagate appears to be going down the same path
Both are/were leading-edge drive manufacturers
So has magnetic hard-drive technology simply reached an end-stage of current magnetic and mechanical capability, and does this hasten the introduction of technologies like SSD?
No, mine is certainly a Commodore-64. It's old, it's beige, and what is this 'Pentium' of which you speak?
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Shouldn't that be ... Don't put a gift horse in the mouth
Oh wait, that sounds even worse. Nevermind.
Hello, I'm a researcher from National Autonomous University of Mexico, and I'm an alchemist.
[group] What's that in your jacket pocket?
The bottle of tequila? Err, that's for my research, I can create diamonds from it !
[group] Sure... Welcome brother, you're with friends now..
The business guys want it fast, cheap, first.
Engineering want it correct, perfect, however long it takes.
There's the struggle.
Any good business needs to strike a balance between the two. The tension is inevitable, and healthy.
However, once I get home, I'm a consumer like everyone else.
I do use a Linux distro on my home server, but I have neither the time nor the inclination to fix bugs.
Call me a leach if you will.
But consider this - I don't expect the manufacturer of my vehicle to tell me to fix my own problems when things go wrong. Even if I could.
Admittedly, I did have to pay for my vehicle, so support should be expected, whereas my Linux distro was free.
So maybe I should just pay for software and stop my whining.
Of course that would probably mean running right back to the Beast of Redmond.
It's a lose-lose. I'm either a 'stupid Linux user that can't / won't fix bugs' or 'a slave to the Beast'
I suspect I'm not alone in this quandary.
(okay so more strictly that would need to be ammonium perchlorate, but I'm sure the astronauts could, ahem, provide a little ammonia themselves).
Best get the mining ships up there quickly (assuming the Martians haven't already scalped the place).
The resulting dispersal of the laser energy would prevent the missile from being seriously damaged.
Believe me, you need to exercise in your house.
"What should you do if you get lost in an Icelandic forest? ... Stand up."
Made me chuckle :)
Than again, it ain't this : http://www.greenlandholiday.com/AboutGreenland/Ice/tabid/68/Default.aspx
Anyone else noticed that Iceland is quite a green and verdant place, while Greenland is a large lump of ice?
"Hello, Quantum Computer Tech Support"
"My new QC is not working, I'd like a replacement under the warranty"
"What makes you think it's broken?"
"It keeps giving wrong results"
"But it's giving the right results in lots of nearby parallel universes. The computer is not broken - you're not observing from the recommended viewing position. This is user error." CLICK.
GNU/Linux claims 'SCO Unix is the best release we ever did'
guerrilla OS has turned his Dell notebook into a well-oiled machine that never gets sluggish and rarely needs to reboot
I've got an old, old Dell notebook. It's a well-oiled machine that never gets sluggish and rarely needs to reboot.
I didn't know I was using Workstation2008. Thanks for the info!
this CD player next to me is not copyrightable, no matter how many unique features it may have
I'll bet I get sued for copyright infringement if I make an identical model and try to sell it
IANAL, but here's my Rule of Thumb :
1. Patents protect novel ideas
2. Copyright protects actual implementation
So a given implementation that embodies a patented idea is protected by both the patent and its own copyright.
Hence a different implementation may still violate the patent, but will not violate copyright of some other implementation.
The silliness in the patent system has come about because patent offices too often judge 'new' ideas to be 'novel', as opposed to 'obvious to those skilled in the art'.
That University of Illinois machine sounds like it needs more memory.
Only 620TB? Why not bump it up to 640? That should be enough for anybody.
We BASIC programmers only know how to peek and poke
They added bling to the dictionary?
Like a rhinestone-encrusted cover and illuminated neon spine?
It's about time, those big books look just soooo boring!
(Guess they jacked the price up 1000% too?)
The distros have had a big hand in the unpopular reception of KDE4.0.
I've been a Fedora user since Core1, followed most of the revisions, and recently upgraded to F9. I have found most all Fedora major releases to be more stable and usable than previous.
Upon installation of F9/KDE4.0, I thought something really bad had happened to my system (strange menu, taskbar screwed up, desktop icons weird). Only after some reading (yeah, should have RTFM first) did I learn it was all intentional - KDE4.0 !
Having used it for a while, I admit it has potential. Due to the independence on display resolution, KDE4 looks much nicer on my old 1024x768 laptop than KDE3.x ever did. The guts feel great, the skin is flaky (I humbly await your jokes).
But I wish Fedora (yes, I do realize that Fedora is a 'testbed' of bleeding-edge packages) had waited before including KDE4.0, perhaps giving an install option, or simply putting it off until F10/KDE4.x
Fortunately, I didn't upgrade my office machine to F9 - I would be really in a mess if I tried to used it as productively as I can with F8/KDE3.x
KDE4.x future looks bright, I'm more disappointed with the Fedora team that chose it as the only KDE desktop for F9.