That's most of the story. The sound "Sosumi" was originally to be named "xylophone", but someone at Apple's legal dept thought that it could get them in trouble because of their agreement with Apple Music to not get into the music business. The developer of the sound suggested that they change the name of xylophone to sosumi, which HE SAID was japanese for "the abesence of all musicality". Apple legal agreed and a great "FU" was unleashed on the world.
I buy songs that work with it. I don't go to Real or Napster, buy music, and then try to work around their DRM to strip it and make it compatible with my iPod.
That's your choice, and I completely respect it. But there's nothing inherently wrong about Jon doing it.
The only way to evaluate a distro is to install and use it. If you're thinking about mandrake, or Suse, or Fedora, or Debian, or whatever. See if you've got the space to try it out and then do so.
Mandrake is my distro of choice, but I understand that it isn't for everyone.
Urpmi makes it a breeze to install everything on Mandrake.
Urpmi is THE main reason why I haven't sought out another distro. I quit using Red Hat in favor of Mandrake because I got sick of rpm-depend-hell. Urpmi solved that forever. I don't particularly like the options that they compiled Apache with, but that's minimal compared to trolling through rpm-depends.
So is your claim is that Judaism isn't a religion, that those Jews who protested saw the film before they protested or that the protestors were actually non-fundamentalist Jews?
Of course Judaism is a religion. It's a beautiful ancient religion with a rich spiritual tradition. 5000 years of history is an impressive feat. My contention is that it wasn't religious Jews who protested the films. It was people who wear their Judiasm as a chip on their shoulders.
Other movies have been shut down by people who haven't seen them, like the Reagans or whatever it was. Unfortunately in that case the protestors not only didn't see the movie, they prevented the rest of us from seeing it. Now that is ridiculous.
I saw it. Did they prevent you from getting Showtime as well?
That was nearly 20 years ago, and their protests were not unfounded. There is some evidence that Jesus may have been married to Mary Magdalene, but this movie featured them fornicating.
I'm not a Christian, but I get no particular joy from bashing them either.
You'd be surprised at how easy it can be to spot propaganda wen someone unnaturally twists a word for political reasons if you understand the root of that word.
Of course they do, unlike most other open source projects which just check in whole lumps of code without caring about what it does... Sorry which bit of this makes your comment relevant to the discussion?
Binary drivers.
You can't review the source code to binary only drivers. Other open source OS projects don't pay the kind of attention to detail that OpenBSD does.I'm not accusing them of not caring at all, but they don't spend as much energy on it as the OpenBSD team.
Oddly enough, that's one of the ways that they know if you need Viagra. If you don't get those involuntary erections during your sleep and hence (can't get up in the morning), you're a good candidate for Viagra.
And why is it that it's the smallest team that must make these demands?
My guess would be because of the security auditing that the Open BSD team does. They go over every line of code. You can't guarantee the safety of something if you haven't personally reviewed the source code.
Linux and FreeBSD's foci aren't on safety. They're on operability. If the drivers work(even if imperfectly), those two sets of developers are happy.
In the Netherlands, the Supreme Court can only reverse previous decisions by lower courts. Before it renders a verdict, it asks the Attorney-General for advice.
It seems to me that a Supreme Court should render decisions based on their own learned opinions and understanding of the law. It's dangerous to have a Supreme Court rendering decisions based on the will of the current government.
At least you knew that Clinton wouldn't get away with too much in the way of hurting our civil liberties, because the Republicans controlled Congress for most of his Presidency.
The Republicans gained control of congress because of Clinton's attack on 2nd amendment rights. Bill himself admitted this in his 1995 state of the union address.
And despite Clinton's fiscal conservatism, he was a liberal at heart, so he wasn't interested so much in curtailing civil liberties as he was in growing social welfare programs, i.e., growing the "feel good" side of government, often at the expense of defense programs.
Bill Clinton was certainly interested in curtailing civil liberties. He sought to give the president the unilateral power to label ANY group he saw fit as a terrorist group and outlaw membership in that group. He had people arrested for protesting him.
Bush, on the other hand, might talk a good game of conservatism, but his actions speak differently. And so it is with his and congress's actions to "protect our liberty.
Bush is doing what we elected him to do. Protect our second amendment rights and not spend our money on abortions. I realize that these may not be popular ideals in a place like Slashdot, but the fact is that we don't care who doesn't like what we believe. We'll go right on believing it and winning elections.
Bush pays lip service to conservative ideals, but at heart he is a criminal who will do anything to gain more power for himself or his friends.
There is only one president who has committed a felony during my lifetime, and it wasn't Bush.
I noticed some smaller PC builder selling preinstalled OOo for $30.
I suspect that the charge is for the labor and future tech support. If people don't know how to download and install OpenOffice, then they will probably need some help using it.
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Have you ever heard a xylophone on a synth before?
LK
That's most of the story. The sound "Sosumi" was originally to be named "xylophone", but someone at Apple's legal dept thought that it could get them in trouble because of their agreement with Apple Music to not get into the music business. The developer of the sound suggested that they change the name of xylophone to sosumi, which HE SAID was japanese for "the abesence of all musicality". Apple legal agreed and a great "FU" was unleashed on the world.
LK
If they released a product to automate the migration from their SQL server to MySQL or PostgreSQL.
Seriously, they could squeeze a few more bucks out of the people who are no longer going to be using one of their products.
LK
I buy songs that work with it. I don't go to Real or Napster, buy music, and then try to work around their DRM to strip it and make it compatible with my iPod.
That's your choice, and I completely respect it. But there's nothing inherently wrong about Jon doing it.
LK
I want this guy to marry my sister.
I need someone like this in the family.
LK
but I want Mr. Wizard to make a return.
LK
I wasn't trying to imply an imperfection with apache, but more that one specific use for one of my machines required a bit of dancing on my part.
Over all, I haven't had many issues with Mandrake's apache.
LK
You mean how the FBI "lost" the front doors to the church in Waco Texas right before congress asked to see them?
LK
The only way to evaluate a distro is to install and use it. If you're thinking about mandrake, or Suse, or Fedora, or Debian, or whatever. See if you've got the space to try it out and then do so.
Mandrake is my distro of choice, but I understand that it isn't for everyone.
LK
Urpmi makes it a breeze to install everything on Mandrake.
Urpmi is THE main reason why I haven't sought out another distro. I quit using Red Hat in favor of Mandrake because I got sick of rpm-depend-hell. Urpmi solved that forever. I don't particularly like the options that they compiled Apache with, but that's minimal compared to trolling through rpm-depends.
LK
So is your claim is that Judaism isn't a religion, that those Jews who protested saw the film before they protested or that the protestors were actually non-fundamentalist Jews?
Of course Judaism is a religion. It's a beautiful ancient religion with a rich spiritual tradition. 5000 years of history is an impressive feat. My contention is that it wasn't religious Jews who protested the films. It was people who wear their Judiasm as a chip on their shoulders.
LK
Other movies have been shut down by people who haven't seen them, like the Reagans or whatever it was. Unfortunately in that case the protestors not only didn't see the movie, they prevented the rest of us from seeing it. Now that is ridiculous.
I saw it. Did they prevent you from getting Showtime as well?
LK
They used the "Patriot Act" to bust him for selling bongs.
That's a blatent abuse of an act that was supposed to combat terrorism.
70's pothead comedians aren't blowing shit up in this country.
LK
That was nearly 20 years ago, and their protests were not unfounded. There is some evidence that Jesus may have been married to Mary Magdalene, but this movie featured them fornicating.
I'm not a Christian, but I get no particular joy from bashing them either.
LK
Fundamentalists no more need to go to a museum to protest it, than they have to attend a mainstream film before denouncing it.
It wasn't religious fundamentalists who protested Mel Gibson's film before they saw it.
This is a tactic of all thought police, religious affiliation not withstanding.
LK
To feed your brain.
You'd be surprised at how easy it can be to spot propaganda wen someone unnaturally twists a word for political reasons if you understand the root of that word.
LK
Of course they do, unlike most other open source projects which just check in whole lumps of code without caring about what it does... Sorry which bit of this makes your comment relevant to the discussion?
Binary drivers.
You can't review the source code to binary only drivers. Other open source OS projects don't pay the kind of attention to detail that OpenBSD does.I'm not accusing them of not caring at all, but they don't spend as much energy on it as the OpenBSD team.
Is that clearer?
LK
Would you goto jail for a couple years for 50 million dollars? I would.
Prison is NOT a nice place. There's no guarantee that you'll come out alive.
LK
Oddly enough, that's one of the ways that they know if you need Viagra. If you don't get those involuntary erections during your sleep and hence (can't get up in the morning), you're a good candidate for Viagra.
LK
So, what you're saying is that all those other amendments are way less important than the second amendment?
The second amendment is what allows us to have the other nine. So in one sense, yes the other nine amendments are not as important as the second.
Besides, if you were really worried about abortions, you wouldn't be backing a president whose policies have increased the number of abortions.
No president has the power to enforce ethics on the populace. He does have a say about whether or not taxpayer money is used for it.
LK
And why is it that it's the smallest team that must make these demands?
My guess would be because of the security auditing that the Open BSD team does. They go over every line of code. You can't guarantee the safety of something if you haven't personally reviewed the source code.
Linux and FreeBSD's foci aren't on safety. They're on operability. If the drivers work(even if imperfectly), those two sets of developers are happy.
LK
In the Netherlands, the Supreme Court can only reverse previous decisions by lower courts. Before it renders a verdict, it asks the Attorney-General for advice.
It seems to me that a Supreme Court should render decisions based on their own learned opinions and understanding of the law. It's dangerous to have a Supreme Court rendering decisions based on the will of the current government.
LK
If you RTF Summary you'd see that. It's one thing to be too lazy to RTFA, but at least we can read the summary.
LK
At least you knew that Clinton wouldn't get away with too much in the way of hurting our civil liberties, because the Republicans controlled Congress for most of his Presidency.
The Republicans gained control of congress because of Clinton's attack on 2nd amendment rights. Bill himself admitted this in his 1995 state of the union address.
And despite Clinton's fiscal conservatism, he was a liberal at heart, so he wasn't interested so much in curtailing civil liberties as he was in growing social welfare programs, i.e., growing the "feel good" side of government, often at the expense of defense programs.
Bill Clinton was certainly interested in curtailing civil liberties. He sought to give the president the unilateral power to label ANY group he saw fit as a terrorist group and outlaw membership in that group. He had people arrested for protesting him.
Bush, on the other hand, might talk a good game of conservatism, but his actions speak differently. And so it is with his and congress's actions to "protect our liberty.
Bush is doing what we elected him to do. Protect our second amendment rights and not spend our money on abortions. I realize that these may not be popular ideals in a place like Slashdot, but the fact is that we don't care who doesn't like what we believe. We'll go right on believing it and winning elections.
Bush pays lip service to conservative ideals, but at heart he is a criminal who will do anything to gain more power for himself or his friends.
There is only one president who has committed a felony during my lifetime, and it wasn't Bush.
LK
I noticed some smaller PC builder selling preinstalled OOo for $30.
I suspect that the charge is for the labor and future tech support. If people don't know how to download and install OpenOffice, then they will probably need some help using it.
LK