To be fair, on many VCR it is more hard to set the clock than it is to install an OS on many computers, because VCR's user interfaces are so badly designed and counter-intuitives.
So the REAL solution would have been to put a defrag tool in NT. Microsoft here promotes a crappy way of doing things (or, at least, very annoying) only because they fail to provide a tool which was necessary with their system. You should'nt have to buy software to compensate defaults of your system and you should'nt have to be obliged to hardware (tapes) for the same reason.
On a smaller level, societies where people own guns are usually more peaceful ones.
In what world are you living where societies where people own guns are peaceful ? If people own guns, people will be killed by guns. If people have no guns, they can't kill their family by mistake when thinking being in presence of a criminal or when being drunk. If people have no guns, children can't take them at school and kill other students.
I live in a country where there is a few guns, and we have many less problems. No Columbine here. No Corean killing others after playing Sonic...
And, when a problem occurs, no need to say that's the GTA fault cause we don't have to protect guns sellers' business.
Even the government oblige people to use IE : it seems that they have made the standard cryptography protocol to be dependent of Active X (they don't use SSL but SEED, their own protocol).
What kind of government is this ? Do they really consider themselves a democracy ?
Here, in France, we protect freedom on the Internet. Oh wait...
When you encounter such a problem, go to the store which sell you the device and ask to be refunded. even if the law is not on your side, the vendor can refund you to avoid losing a client or to avoid you to begin doing a scandal in the store.
I know consummer protection laws are less effective in such countries than here (france) but here vendors are obliged to refund you if you return things you have buy in a certain time, so one thing linux users can do is to buy things that don't work to return them to the vendor. When vendors will be tired of that, they will ask manufacturers to make drivers.
I didn't say that all the laws comes from Brussels. However, some of the most controversials recent liberticid laws here (France), like data log retention or DADVSI (DMCA-like) were implemented after being voted by Brussels. (and, in the case of DADVSI, after being decided one level upper by international treatie.)
One of the problems in EU is that when a law is make at Brussels, it doesn't apply instantly (it have to be implemented locally) so people don't care. And when it's time to implement the law locally, well, it's too late, because states are obliged to implement Brussel's laws.
Why don't you (US citizens) run a class action against ISPs like Comcast for blocking p2p traffic ? Here (France) we don't have class actions (one or two years ago a law should have give us class actions but it was cancelled), but when a company don't give us what we pay for, consummers associations go in court to attack them. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that consummers are less protected in USA and defend themselves less.
I don't say they are commercial (they are not), but the title of this story is "GPL Edutainment Software" and the guy look for "good OSS games" but Scratch is not GPL nor free (as in freedom).
I live in France too and I totally agree with you. I'm tired of living in a country in which there is so many stupid politicians, mainly rightists, who don't understand how work the information society.
Historically, France was known to be the country in which human rights were born. We can be proud of that. But nowadays, nobody care about it. France is one of the most condemned country in EU for violation of human rights in the law, mostly freedom.
And now, they want to block the Internet, to delete free information diffusion, to cut culture sharing, to remove freedom in the IT world.
I'm afraid the dwarf (sarkozy) is enough stupid to listen the FNAC CEO and the lobbies of industrial culture (which are mostly his friends) and promote a law to block downloaders.
I'm shame for my country.
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Average user doesn't mess with Grub configuration...
this was a case of Google deliberately misrepresenting their implementation and harming Oracle's trademark.
You mean by not doing crap they were harming Oracle's trademark ? Couldn't agree more...
I believe they do traffic shaping only on lines with no local-loop unbundling, so most users are not concerned.
To be fair, on many VCR it is more hard to set the clock than it is to install an OS on many computers, because VCR's user interfaces are so badly designed and counter-intuitives.
So the REAL solution would have been to put a defrag tool in NT. Microsoft here promotes a crappy way of doing things (or, at least, very annoying) only because they fail to provide a tool which was necessary with their system. You should'nt have to buy software to compensate defaults of your system and you should'nt have to be obliged to hardware (tapes) for the same reason.
On a smaller level, societies where people own guns are usually more peaceful ones.
In what world are you living where societies where people own guns are peaceful ? If people own guns, people will be killed by guns. If people have no guns, they can't kill their family by mistake when thinking being in presence of a criminal or when being drunk. If people have no guns, children can't take them at school and kill other students. I live in a country where there is a few guns, and we have many less problems. No Columbine here. No Corean killing others after playing Sonic... And, when a problem occurs, no need to say that's the GTA fault cause we don't have to protect guns sellers' business.
+1 I compiled and executed it and all what I see was a lot of no-sense junk in the console. What is it supposed to do ?
My big complaint is that they have apt-get, but you really can't use it or stuff breaks.
'cause Ulteo don't uses apt-get but a system of squashfs layers for installing groups of applications.
Even the government oblige people to use IE : it seems that they have made the standard cryptography protocol to be dependent of Active X (they don't use SSL but SEED, their own protocol). What kind of government is this ? Do they really consider themselves a democracy ? Here, in France, we protect freedom on the Internet. Oh wait...
When you encounter such a problem, go to the store which sell you the device and ask to be refunded. even if the law is not on your side, the vendor can refund you to avoid losing a client or to avoid you to begin doing a scandal in the store. I know consummer protection laws are less effective in such countries than here (france) but here vendors are obliged to refund you if you return things you have buy in a certain time, so one thing linux users can do is to buy things that don't work to return them to the vendor. When vendors will be tired of that, they will ask manufacturers to make drivers.
I didn't say that all the laws comes from Brussels. However, some of the most controversials recent liberticid laws here (France), like data log retention or DADVSI (DMCA-like) were implemented after being voted by Brussels. (and, in the case of DADVSI, after being decided one level upper by international treatie.)
One of the problems in EU is that when a law is make at Brussels, it doesn't apply instantly (it have to be implemented locally) so people don't care. And when it's time to implement the law locally, well, it's too late, because states are obliged to implement Brussel's laws.
Why don't you (US citizens) run a class action against ISPs like Comcast for blocking p2p traffic ? Here (France) we don't have class actions (one or two years ago a law should have give us class actions but it was cancelled), but when a company don't give us what we pay for, consummers associations go in court to attack them. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that consummers are less protected in USA and defend themselves less.
I don't say they are commercial (they are not), but the title of this story is "GPL Edutainment Software" and the guy look for "good OSS games" but Scratch is not GPL nor free (as in freedom).
Scratch is not free software. The licence doesn't allow commercial usage of the code.
I live in France too and I totally agree with you. I'm tired of living in a country in which there is so many stupid politicians, mainly rightists, who don't understand how work the information society. Historically, France was known to be the country in which human rights were born. We can be proud of that. But nowadays, nobody care about it. France is one of the most condemned country in EU for violation of human rights in the law, mostly freedom. And now, they want to block the Internet, to delete free information diffusion, to cut culture sharing, to remove freedom in the IT world. I'm afraid the dwarf (sarkozy) is enough stupid to listen the FNAC CEO and the lobbies of industrial culture (which are mostly his friends) and promote a law to block downloaders. I'm shame for my country.