Perhaps when it acquired quotation marks? In the ever evolving english language, perhaps "forking" means "releasing plugins for a product" and forking means what it bloody well already does mean.
Hmm, that reminds me of the trend of tacking on a question mark to a controversial headline in order to avoid claims of inaccuracy. The headline would be something like, "Slashdot Full of Weirdos?" and even if the article concedes that, no, only half of Slashdot posters are weirdos, so it can hardly be construed as "full" of them, the impression has still been made -- especially on the casual viewer who sees the headline, but doesn't read the article.
Forks like this mean that some open-source developers and organizations may ban or license their software in such a way that prevents Novell from sharing the goodies.
Any such license could not be reasonably considered "open source." Actually, you might be able to call it open source, but it certainly wouldn't fall under "free software" and wouldn't be compatible with the GPL. So any existing GPL projects would not be able to block Novell unless Novell itself violated the GPL. Any existing BSD-licensed projects could create a fork under another license, but would give up the strengths of the BSD license.
More likely, OSS developers and organizations will stop supporting Novell by contributing to SuSE, providing support for SuSE-specific bugs in their apps/libs, etc.
A similar idea is for the sign to say "POLITE PATROL". Now, given the shock, they're probably just going to assume it says "POLICE PATROL", and hey, why take the risk?
In this vein, I remember seeing some remark about unofficial "no parking" signs using the phrase "Polite Notice." Turns out you can find a number of samples online (mostly on the first page -- it seems to go off topic once it hits page two).
Since we're talking about the MPAA, detectives from Rockford through Veronica Mars have routinely called people up, put on a false accent and claimed to be someone who might reasonably be expected to be entitled to certain information. It's a staple of the genre.
Vista -- the operating system that Hollywood and the music industry designed.
Does this mean we'll finally get one of those nifty GUIs where the fonts are fixed at 36-point and above, all text appears one letter at a time, applications are always maximized, and the search function flashes thumbnails of every file that doesn't match as it goes through the index?
Opera 9 also introduced Fit to width mode: CTRL+F11. It's similar, but adjusts pages to your window size rather than to ~200px across and would be more suitable for 640x480 or 800x600 screens.
Couple it with Full Screen mode (F11), and you can even hide all the toolbars, menus, borders, etc.
Since invariably someone gets these mixed up, there are three main browser types that Opera produces:
Opera Desktop - this is the full-up web browser that you can use on Widows, Mac or Linux (plus a few other Unixes)
Opera Mobile - this uses the same rendering engine, but runs on smaller devices like PDAs and some phones. The DS and Wii browsers are probably based on this version.
Opera Mini - this is the Java-based app that runs on virtually any JVM-capable phone and does a lot of the processing on a proxy server.
Well, it's a standard feature of sendmail, so there are a lot of other sites for which username+tag@domain will work.
One drawback, though, is that you can run into insufficient email address validation. I've tried using that scheme on some sites which then complained that the address was invalid, beause their regex didn't take into account + as a valid character for the LHS.
On a related note, I've found with seeding spamtrap addresses that, more often than not, harvesting bots will see the + as a boundary, miss the username part, and pick up tag@domain.com.
I'd suspect that most actual spammers go through the likes of hotmail and gmail since the accounts last longer than 10 minutes, so they can use a single account to attack a lot of forums.
Not familiar with the GP's site, but I can imagine something like this would be useful for trolls. Also, TFA mentions that you can choose to make the address last longer than 10 minutes if you want.
On one hand, it galls me that Mr. Gingrich would say free speech should be limited at a First Amendment Award banquet. The real irony, though, is that this is exactly what the speech, press, and association clauses of the first amendment are all about: protecting the expression of political ideas that might disagree with law, government policy, or popular opinion.
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I hate making grammatical errors when talking about grammar!
Heh. I think it's one of those unwritten rules of the internet that posts about spelling must contain speling mistakes, and posts about grammar must grammar mistakes.
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They incorporate all the new features after they have been exhaustively tested into its commercial product, namely Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Really? I thought it was the other way around? It was when I last tested it.
The sentence is poorly structured, hard to parse, and has a few grammatical errors (they/its), but is not backwards. It could use a couple of commas:
"They incorporate all the new features, after they have been exhaustively tested, into their commercial product..."
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If you look at RedHat linux releases previous to Fedora, the pace was about the same.
Yeah, they used to release 5.0, then 6-9 months later 5.1, then 6-9 months later 5.2, then 6-9 months later 6.0. Now it's 3, then 6-9 months later 4, then 6-9 months later 5, then 6-9 months later 6.
The biggest change in the release schedule is the numbering scheme. They're just incrementing a full number each time instead of doing point releases.
The cell-phone vs. mobile divide reminds me of "radio" vs. "wireless." It's another case where, initially, at least, the Americans went with the implementation and the British went with the functionality. Though this may just be an invalid impression I got from watching too many movies set in the early 20th century.
And I thought that thing was complicated enough just with just the Log Out/Switch/Sleep/Shutdown options! No wonder it's taking so long!
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One problem yum has had is that it wants to check the network for updates before every operation. This has improved recently, either in Fedora Core 6 or one of the updates to Fedora Core 5. Now if you run more than one yum operation within a period of time -- I think it's an hour, at least by default -- it will use its cached copy instead of calling out to the network.
It still needs to re-read the data, which takes longer than it should, but only has to call out to the network if something is likely to be different, which makes a *huge* difference when you're installing individual packages or querying it with search or info.
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Hmm, that reminds me of the trend of tacking on a question mark to a controversial headline in order to avoid claims of inaccuracy. The headline would be something like, "Slashdot Full of Weirdos?" and even if the article concedes that, no, only half of Slashdot posters are weirdos, so it can hardly be construed as "full" of them, the impression has still been made -- especially on the casual viewer who sees the headline, but doesn't read the article.
Any such license could not be reasonably considered "open source." Actually, you might be able to call it open source, but it certainly wouldn't fall under "free software" and wouldn't be compatible with the GPL. So any existing GPL projects would not be able to block Novell unless Novell itself violated the GPL. Any existing BSD-licensed projects could create a fork under another license, but would give up the strengths of the BSD license.
More likely, OSS developers and organizations will stop supporting Novell by contributing to SuSE, providing support for SuSE-specific bugs in their apps/libs, etc.
You had to use the phrases "romp in the sheets" and "goat" next to each other, didn't you?
Excuse me, I need to go find some bleach for my brain.
It is if the main OpenOffice.org project decides not to accept the contributed code.
But if you think it's FUD, blame Groklaw, not Slashdot. They're the ones who came up with the headline.
I remember when Novell bought SuSE, people were wondering just how they would inevitably fork up Linux.
Now we know.
In this vein, I remember seeing some remark about unofficial "no parking" signs using the phrase "Polite Notice." Turns out you can find a number of samples online (mostly on the first page -- it seems to go off topic once it hits page two).
Since we're talking about the MPAA, detectives from Rockford through Veronica Mars have routinely called people up, put on a false accent and claimed to be someone who might reasonably be expected to be entitled to certain information. It's a staple of the genre.
Does this mean we'll finally get one of those nifty GUIs where the fonts are fixed at 36-point and above, all text appears one letter at a time, applications are always maximized, and the search function flashes thumbnails of every file that doesn't match as it goes through the index?
Hmm, no experience with it personally, but here's a possibility:
Unstable OS + good crash recovery = crashes, but doesn't lose your work?
But is it stuff that matters?
Is this the same Dvorak we've all come to know and love? Who thinks Microsoft should buy Opera, that CSS doesn't work because he couldn't figure out what "cascading" meant, and admits to trolling Mac users?
Oh, wait, he's making disparaging remarks about Microsoft! I'm sorry I ever doubted you, John!
Opera 9 also introduced Fit to width mode: CTRL+F11. It's similar, but adjusts pages to your window size rather than to ~200px across and would be more suitable for 640x480 or 800x600 screens.
Couple it with Full Screen mode (F11), and you can even hide all the toolbars, menus, borders, etc.
Since invariably someone gets these mixed up, there are three main browser types that Opera produces:
Opera Desktop - this is the full-up web browser that you can use on Widows, Mac or Linux (plus a few other Unixes)
Opera Mobile - this uses the same rendering engine, but runs on smaller devices like PDAs and some phones. The DS and Wii browsers are probably based on this version.
Opera Mini - this is the Java-based app that runs on virtually any JVM-capable phone and does a lot of the processing on a proxy server.
Well, it's a standard feature of sendmail, so there are a lot of other sites for which username+tag@domain will work.
One drawback, though, is that you can run into insufficient email address validation. I've tried using that scheme on some sites which then complained that the address was invalid, beause their regex didn't take into account + as a valid character for the LHS.
On a related note, I've found with seeding spamtrap addresses that, more often than not, harvesting bots will see the + as a boundary, miss the username part, and pick up tag@domain.com.
Not familiar with the GP's site, but I can imagine something like this would be useful for trolls. Also, TFA mentions that you can choose to make the address last longer than 10 minutes if you want.
Hey, if the Vice President can say it to a sitting senator...
On one hand, it galls me that Mr. Gingrich would say free speech should be limited at a First Amendment Award banquet. The real irony, though, is that this is exactly what the speech, press, and association clauses of the first amendment are all about: protecting the expression of political ideas that might disagree with law, government policy, or popular opinion.
Hey, if The Onion can occasionally predict the future, why not BBSpot?
Heh. I think it's one of those unwritten rules of the internet that posts about spelling must contain speling mistakes, and posts about grammar must grammar mistakes.
The sentence is poorly structured, hard to parse, and has a few grammatical errors (they/its), but is not backwards. It could use a couple of commas:
"They incorporate all the new features, after they have been exhaustively tested, into their commercial product..."
Yeah, they used to release 5.0, then 6-9 months later 5.1, then 6-9 months later 5.2, then 6-9 months later 6.0. Now it's 3, then 6-9 months later 4, then 6-9 months later 5, then 6-9 months later 6.
The biggest change in the release schedule is the numbering scheme. They're just incrementing a full number each time instead of doing point releases.
The cell-phone vs. mobile divide reminds me of "radio" vs. "wireless." It's another case where, initially, at least, the Americans went with the implementation and the British went with the functionality. Though this may just be an invalid impression I got from watching too many movies set in the early 20th century.
And they still call it Internet Radio when it's not transmitted via radio waves.
And I thought that thing was complicated enough just with just the Log Out/Switch/Sleep/Shutdown options! No wonder it's taking so long!
One problem yum has had is that it wants to check the network for updates before every operation. This has improved recently, either in Fedora Core 6 or one of the updates to Fedora Core 5. Now if you run more than one yum operation within a period of time -- I think it's an hour, at least by default -- it will use its cached copy instead of calling out to the network.
It still needs to re-read the data, which takes longer than it should, but only has to call out to the network if something is likely to be different, which makes a *huge* difference when you're installing individual packages or querying it with search or info.