Sure it does. NOAA is just one small part of the Department of Commerce. Keeping NOAA will be nowhere near as expensive as keeping the entire department.
Cable and Internet TV get to be a lot more racy than Broadcast. MS is planning to provide cable content through the XBox, so bill-payers just may decide to drop the cable box.
And if they do that, the kids are going to circumvent the XBox to watch... what, exactly?
Does it really matter just what pulls it in, as long as the end user tries to install Calc and java gets pulled in?
Yes, it matters. You aren't installing vanilla OpenOffice; you are installing a custom version crafted by Fedora Core. Windows users don't need Java. Debian users don't need Java. Users of Oracle's generic Linux build don't need Java.
Playing the "blame the distro" game isn't helpful either. If the app devs make it too difficult for the world's biggest OSS contributor to provide OO.o without java, the blame should not be placed with the distro. Nor the end user.
It's a tradeoff between installing Java or crippling OOo's more enterprise-friendly features until the end-administrator installs it manually. As an enterprise-oriented distro, it makes sense for Red Hat to include Java as a dependency.
Meh. The GPL doesn't require that you open your project to external submissions. At least they don't even try to pretend that it's a community project, like Sun did with OpenOffice.
In other words, UPS would need to pretty much guarantee the delivery date to the day (or to the hour) or else they take flak. But more difficult deliveries, like international, are given a range exactly because there is no way to know how long will it take to go through customs or how good the weather will be over Elbonia.
Meh; I'd be satisfied if they let me know when the package has reached the final distribution center. By that point it shouldn't be too difficult for them to know whether the box is going out on today's rounds, or tomorrow's.
Not everyone gets next-day shipping. If the "contract" says my package can arrive anywhere between Wednesday and Saturday, it'd be nice to have a heads-up on the day it actually gets here.
There's a whole rash of things that never became available (Quicken, games, etc), because their vendors didn't see the advantage of Linux support, or were holding back to wait for critical mass, or wanted to jump in, but were stymied by the need to choose a platform on top of Linux (GNOME, KDE, etc) to target.
Uhh... why would Quicken need to choose between KDE and Gnome?
nvidia has stated that they "have no plans to support wayland" in their proprietary drivers.
That's OK. X will still be around for years to come; plenty of time for Nvidia to change their minds, OSS drivers to catch up, or to drop Nvidia while building a new box.
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Sure it does. NOAA is just one small part of the Department of Commerce. Keeping NOAA will be nowhere near as expensive as keeping the entire department.
Some may get it right. Better than the Fed forcing all of them to get it wrong.
Cable and Internet TV get to be a lot more racy than Broadcast. MS is planning to provide cable content through the XBox, so bill-payers just may decide to drop the cable box.
And if they do that, the kids are going to circumvent the XBox to watch... what, exactly?
It's Calligra now.
I'm sure he could find a way to make them work for a club or two.
Not sure why you think it would block TV signals, which come down a cable in the US.
Uhhh... I've never known broadcast TV to come via anything but rabbit ears.
Do you have many rooftop antennas in your area or something?
We'll be fine as long as we don't set replication's priority at 999, we should be fine.
Until they drain it, yeah. They may neutralize it with various chemicals, but they'll never get it all.
If God made the universe, then where did God come from?
Mu
Anything outside the universe is not bound by cause-and-effect or the conservation of mass.
Does it really matter just what pulls it in, as long as the end user tries to install Calc and java gets pulled in?
Yes, it matters. You aren't installing vanilla OpenOffice; you are installing a custom version crafted by Fedora Core. Windows users don't need Java. Debian users don't need Java. Users of Oracle's generic Linux build don't need Java.
Playing the "blame the distro" game isn't helpful either. If the app devs make it too difficult for the world's biggest OSS contributor to provide OO.o without java, the blame should not be placed with the distro. Nor the end user.
It's a tradeoff between installing Java or crippling OOo's more enterprise-friendly features until the end-administrator installs it manually. As an enterprise-oriented distro, it makes sense for Red Hat to include Java as a dependency.
prior to 3.1-rc3?
after 3.1-rc3.
So nuke the servers and every patch prior to 3.1-rc3?
It isn't. The crime is the digital equivalents of Breaking & Entering, Trespassing, Vandalism, Industrial Espionage/Sabotage...
My guess is that they plan to make some changes in the near future that will break it, and nobody cares enough to update it.
If the mystery yeast was from Germany, they probably would have found it in Germany.
I think it would be bad business to spend time and money educating a person just to have them buy the degree from somewhere else.
Why do you assume we are the threat that the aliens are dealing with?
Meh. The GPL doesn't require that you open your project to external submissions. At least they don't even try to pretend that it's a community project, like Sun did with OpenOffice.
It's not like companies are required to work on only one problem at a time.
Because I just don't get why if you don't want to play the GPL game you'd even bother with GPL code when BSD is right there.
It is? Would you care to point out the BSD-licenced ebook program they could have used instead?
In other words, UPS would need to pretty much guarantee the delivery date to the day (or to the hour) or else they take flak. But more difficult deliveries, like international, are given a range exactly because there is no way to know how long will it take to go through customs or how good the weather will be over Elbonia.
Meh; I'd be satisfied if they let me know when the package has reached the final distribution center. By that point it shouldn't be too difficult for them to know whether the box is going out on today's rounds, or tomorrow's.
Not everyone gets next-day shipping. If the "contract" says my package can arrive anywhere between Wednesday and Saturday, it'd be nice to have a heads-up on the day it actually gets here.
There's a whole rash of things that never became available (Quicken, games, etc), because their vendors didn't see the advantage of Linux support, or were holding back to wait for critical mass, or wanted to jump in, but were stymied by the need to choose a platform on top of Linux (GNOME, KDE, etc) to target.
Uhh... why would Quicken need to choose between KDE and Gnome?
nvidia has stated that they "have no plans to support wayland" in their proprietary drivers.
That's OK. X will still be around for years to come; plenty of time for Nvidia to change their minds, OSS drivers to catch up, or to drop Nvidia while building a new box.
Apple has a EULA clause that only allows you to install OSX on "Apple-labeled" hardware.
Psystar tried selling non-Apple hardware with OSX, and got crushed in court for it. How is that not relevant?