The government always needs a boogeyman to keep us off-balance. The cold war with Russia carried it for a while.
I don't think the populations of the countries that were effectively annexed by the Soviet Union thought of them as a mere bogeyman. The Cold War came about when the Soviet Union refused to honor her wartime agreements and decided to annex Eastern Europe.
Funny, but it is not how it is remembered in those countries. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Betrayal .
It was Roosvelt and Churchill who sold whole Central and Eastern Europe to Stalin in Yalta.
'Refusal to honor wartime agreements' is just an attempt to rewrite history.
So, who exactly is the victim in this case?
If none is required then logically everybody involved in production of any work of (questionable) arts depicting killing, assault, robbery or any other crime should be convicted.
Too bad over 80% or more of Hollywood and TV production would become illegal.
Solution: opportunistic encryption (I think freeswan supported this).
Select one scheme, put it in Linux, enable by default and in 2 - 3 years, after everybody upgrade you will see a lot of encrypted traffic - small ISP routers, web shops, small business servers and others. Of course if it really works, MS will invent its own incompatible scheme, but the goal will be achieved anyway.
I would not call it 'riding on the back'. Trolltech is getting as much as it gives - lots of testing, constant stream of fixes flowing back, even whole components like WebKit and Phonon. They also have KDE as their biggest showcase of Qt abilities.
Yeah, it allows to use single binary on multiple platforms as much as.NET: you just compile it for windows and run it with wine on non-Windows. I don't see much difference between win32 app running on 'alternative' win32 API implementation (wine) and.NET app running on 'alternative'.NET implementation (mono). Well, except for the fact that wine is more mature and more likely to work properly. Miguel may argue otherwise, but all we got from mono is another windows subset emulator doomed to always play catch up and never actually get close.
Don't think so. Because it would open a huge security hole and probably outlaw most operating systems in existance (except, *cough*, Windows), causing lots of protests and backlash. I don't think Apple will have any trouble with adding this 'feature', so who will be left to protest? Bunch of angry nerds? Nobody (that actually matters) cares.
Besides, that kind of requirement opens a huge security hole and would mean that noone has right to a privacy. And this is surprising how?
Windows EULA can cover only Windows. My box (and all its physical parts like hard disk) is mine alone. You want to examine your property? Fine, but do it without touching *my* property.
Even simpler, without any boot cd or USB thingies. Just add 'init=/bin/bash' to kernel commandline in GRUB. Obvious defence is to protect boot loader with password or disallow editing but I don't think any consumer distro does it by default.
So main points for GTK3 development are: theming, canvas, animations, introspection and OS integration. Just fork Qt4, rename it to GTK3 and you can have all this even today. With great documentation as a bonus.
OpenSuse has it solved in much nicer way. The first time I tried to play.mp3 with Amarok I got messagebox with big 'Install MP3 support' button. That's it, no messing with repositories, terminal, apt-get, whatever. Promoting distros that are actually user-friendly and polished instead of blindly following Ubuntu hype would be much more beneficial for users (and geeks who dream of 'year of linux desktop').
Start it in text mode and look at kernel messages at boot - everything is detected on startup. That's why you can just move installed linux into completely different machine and it will just run (don't even try it with Windows).
I honestly have no idea how adding/moving/removing a PCI card can break the system.
What a nice world you live in. See http://action.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/102405/3235.pdf
- scan of official autopsy report. The victim was Iraqi soldier, not 'unlawful combatant'. Did they read him Geneva convention? No, just hanged from doorframe and beaten to death. So much for US military behaving as civilized people. By the way who are 'they' that killed civilians 9/11? Iraqi soldiers are just any convenient target?
So me (and others in similar situation) will not be forced to switch Windows + Office 2007 at work after rest of company went through round of upgrades (some MS subscription license) and suddenly.docx documents started appearing everywhere.
From idealistic standpoint OO.org authors' decision may look like sellout but from pragmatic one it allows many people to cling to their 'free' niches they built for themselves.
Why? The only thing hard to believe is that this was not passed on first attempt. Hey MS, what went wrong then? Not enough time to "prepare" national boards? Bribe chest too small?
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The government always needs a boogeyman to keep us off-balance. The cold war with Russia carried it for a while.
I don't think the populations of the countries that were effectively annexed by the Soviet Union thought of them as a mere bogeyman. The Cold War came about when the Soviet Union refused to honor her wartime agreements and decided to annex Eastern Europe.
Funny, but it is not how it is remembered in those countries. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Betrayal . It was Roosvelt and Churchill who sold whole Central and Eastern Europe to Stalin in Yalta. 'Refusal to honor wartime agreements' is just an attempt to rewrite history.
No. And neither did you.
Just hope it won't be the last thing you will ever do. Or at least last thing before being shipped to whatever hellhole replaces Guantanamo.
So, who exactly is the victim in this case? If none is required then logically everybody involved in production of any work of (questionable) arts depicting killing, assault, robbery or any other crime should be convicted. Too bad over 80% or more of Hollywood and TV production would become illegal.
Solution: opportunistic encryption (I think freeswan supported this). Select one scheme, put it in Linux, enable by default and in 2 - 3 years, after everybody upgrade you will see a lot of encrypted traffic - small ISP routers, web shops, small business servers and others. Of course if it really works, MS will invent its own incompatible scheme, but the goal will be achieved anyway.
Oh, they do. Detain you until specialists arrive.
I would not call it 'riding on the back'. Trolltech is getting as much as it gives - lots of testing, constant stream of fixes flowing back, even whole components like WebKit and Phonon. They also have KDE as their biggest showcase of Qt abilities.
Yeah, it allows to use single binary on multiple platforms as much as .NET: you just compile it for windows and run it with wine on non-Windows. I don't see much difference between win32 app running on 'alternative' win32 API implementation (wine) and .NET app running on 'alternative' .NET implementation (mono). Well, except for the fact that wine is more mature and more likely to work properly. Miguel may argue otherwise, but all we got from mono is another windows subset emulator doomed to always play catch up and never actually get close.
Of course, it is not from Apple. Therefore by definition it cannot be 'great feat of form'.
GStreamer backend may still make it to KDE 4.1
Windows EULA can cover only Windows. My box (and all its physical parts like hard disk) is mine alone. You want to examine your property? Fine, but do it without touching *my* property.
Even simpler, without any boot cd or USB thingies. Just add 'init=/bin/bash' to kernel commandline in GRUB. Obvious defence is to protect boot loader with password or disallow editing but I don't think any consumer distro does it by default.
5. Because it is fun
So main points for GTK3 development are: theming, canvas, animations, introspection and OS integration. Just fork Qt4, rename it to GTK3 and you can have all this even today. With great documentation as a bonus.
TOR is used only by geeks so it can be outlawed without too much protests.
Just outlaw all encryption without some kind of 'master key' for government.
OpenSuse has it solved in much nicer way. The first time I tried to play .mp3 with Amarok I got messagebox with big 'Install MP3 support' button. That's it, no messing with repositories, terminal, apt-get, whatever. Promoting distros that are actually user-friendly and polished instead of blindly following Ubuntu hype would be much more beneficial for users (and geeks who dream of 'year of linux desktop').
Start it in text mode and look at kernel messages at boot - everything is detected on startup. That's why you can just move installed linux into completely different machine and it will just run (don't even try it with Windows). I honestly have no idea how adding/moving/removing a PCI card can break the system.
What a nice world you live in. See http://action.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/102405/3235.pdf - scan of official autopsy report. The victim was Iraqi soldier, not 'unlawful combatant'. Did they read him Geneva convention? No, just hanged from doorframe and beaten to death. So much for US military behaving as civilized people. By the way who are 'they' that killed civilians 9/11? Iraqi soldiers are just any convenient target?
Try Krita. Based on Qt, with all those new hyped features of GIMP (like 16bit channels) available since long time. Sane GUI as a bonus.
So me (and others in similar situation) will not be forced to switch Windows + Office 2007 at work after rest of company went through round of upgrades (some MS subscription license) and suddenly .docx documents started appearing everywhere.
From idealistic standpoint OO.org authors' decision may look like sellout but from pragmatic one it allows many people to cling to their 'free' niches they built for themselves.
Why? The only thing hard to believe is that this was not passed on first attempt. Hey MS, what went wrong then? Not enough time to "prepare" national boards? Bribe chest too small?