If Linux is so good, why would you ever need to boot into Windows? I don't ever hear Windows users say "damn, let me boot into Linux so I can do this"
Well, it's probably unlikely that anyone would feel the need to dual boot if they didn't have both installed, so it is not really a case of Linux users booting into Windows while Windows users don't boot into Linux. Rather, Windows/Linux dual booters consider one OS to be their primary OS and the other to be the one they have to use occasionally. If you only ever here from Linux users who dual boot into Windows, that probably just implies that most dual booters prefer Linux. But I could be biased.
I disagree, irony is more than that. Rain on your wedding day is just bad luck. I suppose that rain on a meteorologist's wedding day could be considered mildly ironic. Did you look at the link that I included in my previous reply?
I make no comment on the intelligence and social skills of the poster whatsoever - infer what you will. Similarly, I have no intent to imply anything about the/. audience - I am clealy a part of this community.
I certainly don't question the intelligence and social skills of the BBC audience (of which I am a part); it should hardly be a surprise to anyone that the BBC news site covers technical subjects in rather less detail than/. readers may be accustomed to - it is aimed at a far broader spectrum of the populace. I also fail to see how "his articles are generally pretty good" translates into any kind of criticism of the author's intelligence?
Is this the best face they could find to put in an article dealing with Open Source adoptation?
That face, I believe, belongs to Bill Thompson - the author of the article. His articles are generally pretty good considering the audience his column is aimed at. Do you perhaps think that his looks imply that he has nothing interesting or worthwhile to say?
The first site doesn't look particularly offensive (despite the spelling), it just says "This site is being redesigned, so be patient Their is going to be a discussionboard and some other feedback posibilities".
Repugnant as the views expressed on the other sites may be, I really can't see the point in this. If being entered on to the list has any impact at all (except for driving lots of people to look at it and see what the fuss is all about), the site owners can easily relocate the content to a new domain. There are an infinitely many potential domain names for them to choose from.
I don't believe this is intended to perform any useful purpose other than to send a message to someone. Perhaps the White House will point to this next time they are accused of favouring the Israeli government over the plight of the Palestinians. Alternatively, perhaps it is just a testing of the waters, if they get away with this one, they may feel emboldened to start tackling other organisations.
It has been pointed out to me previously that installing masts for mobile phones by schools may actually be beneficial; it means that the kids' phones don't have to transmit at high power to communicate with the network.
Outlook Express isn't removable from Win2k onwards. MS considers it part of the OS. So it is the OS's fault.
Far be it from me to defend Microsoft, but the fact that it is installed on the computer doesn't mean that people have to use it. People who use Mozilla as their e-mail client on Windows are no more vulnerable to viruses than they would be if Outlook Express were not installed. The real problem is the number of people who do use OE and they would be just as much of a problem if they used it on Linux as they are when they use it on Windows.
It was a really good bit of writing until it started going out on a limb to attack Karl Marx and communism half way down the second page. It got a bit predictable there, I wasn't really very surprised to see the old Linux=Communism=Bad equation popping up on the third page.
NISO assumes the responsibility of making sure that if the Library of Congress is using "lccn", then the Literary Clubs of Congo Nationalists cannot. And thats it. Thats all this does.
And the Congolese should be quite happy to accept such a ruling from a National standards organisation because......
For those who still haven't got the message that this is a good thing, you can read the actual amendments passed by the parliament here. Basically, ffii have won this round. The big question is what will the European Commission do now that the parliament has reversed the intent of the directive?
Why would you want to waste money on something like the space program for bragging rights when we can cut taxes and create jobs?
The US government pours enormous subsidies (a.k.a. development contracts) into its native industro-military complex. It may be debatable whether or not this is money well spent (and highly dependent on factors such as your nationality and personal point of view), but there is certainly no question that it creates/maintains very large numbers of high skilled jobs. It is probably fair to assume that an extension of the Indian space program will not have a negative impact on the number of people employed in first class jobs in the nation.
The FSF is right to bring attention to this matter. It surely can't hurt to remind users of highly proprietary software that they are not guaranteed the full benefits of the free software community if they don't mend there evil ways;-)
However, the community would be very unwise to drop support for any system that is not utterly obsolete. I, for one, have found the fact that gcc is the most portable compiler to be an excellent way of getting free software into large businesses.
Problem getting the same software to compile on Solaris and Irix, no problem, let's just use gcc. Hey, we'll need gnu make to install it. Compatability problem with blah, no problem, we'll use gnu blah on both platforms. A couple of years later, hey, seeing as we are using gnu everything, wouldn't it just be easier (cheaper) to use Gnu/Linux instead? Worked for me!
"I got a message form my bank to days ago telling me I had to use the 'standard' Java VM to get their service to work. They meant MS VM."
Write back to your bank. Explain to them why you are closing your account. Banks are incredibly sensitive to lost accounts. They are particularly sensitive if you have a lot of money, and even more so if you owe them lots.
Saying that something is {some trademark} compatible isn't a problem. You can sell a Ford compatible wheel without Ford's permission. It is only if you try to claim or imply that you have Ford's approval or are in some way connected with the company that you could run into legal difficulties.
I think you will find that DoD employees are not free to just hand out stuff they find lying around the office. "Here Saddam, have a look at this simulation of a nuclear bomb I found..."
Aside from the national security implications, where do you get the idea that an employee has any right to distribute software obtained by their employer? I am fairly sure that a court would find that the employer, not the employee, owns the software.
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Well, it's probably unlikely that anyone would feel the need to dual boot if they didn't have both installed, so it is not really a case of Linux users booting into Windows while Windows users don't boot into Linux. Rather, Windows/Linux dual booters consider one OS to be their primary OS and the other to be the one they have to use occasionally. If you only ever here from Linux users who dual boot into Windows, that probably just implies that most dual booters prefer Linux. But I could be biased.
I disagree, irony is more than that. Rain on your wedding day is just bad luck. I suppose that rain on a meteorologist's wedding day could be considered mildly ironic. Did you look at the link that I included in my previous reply?
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The most ironic thing about that song, is that it doesn't actually contain any examples of irony.
You certainly read a lot into my reply!
I make no comment on the intelligence and social skills of the poster whatsoever - infer what you will. Similarly, I have no intent to imply anything about the /. audience - I am clealy a part of this community.
I certainly don't question the intelligence and social skills of the BBC audience (of which I am a part); it should hardly be a surprise to anyone that the BBC news site covers technical subjects in rather less detail than /. readers may be accustomed to - it is aimed at a far broader spectrum of the populace. I also fail to see how "his articles are generally pretty good" translates into any kind of criticism of the author's intelligence?
That face, I believe, belongs to Bill Thompson - the author of the article. His articles are generally pretty good considering the audience his column is aimed at. Do you perhaps think that his looks imply that he has nothing interesting or worthwhile to say?
Repugnant as the views expressed on the other sites may be, I really can't see the point in this. If being entered on to the list has any impact at all (except for driving lots of people to look at it and see what the fuss is all about), the site owners can easily relocate the content to a new domain. There are an infinitely many potential domain names for them to choose from.
I don't believe this is intended to perform any useful purpose other than to send a message to someone. Perhaps the White House will point to this next time they are accused of favouring the Israeli government over the plight of the Palestinians. Alternatively, perhaps it is just a testing of the waters, if they get away with this one, they may feel emboldened to start tackling other organisations.
It made sense at the time :o/
Yeah, but it probably won't be free code, and as we Linux users are all to cheap to pay for software, we should all be ok! :o)
Far be it from me to defend Microsoft, but the fact that it is installed on the computer doesn't mean that people have to use it. People who use Mozilla as their e-mail client on Windows are no more vulnerable to viruses than they would be if Outlook Express were not installed. The real problem is the number of people who do use OE and they would be just as much of a problem if they used it on Linux as they are when they use it on Windows.
It was a really good bit of writing until it started going out on a limb to attack Karl Marx and communism half way down the second page. It got a bit predictable there, I wasn't really very surprised to see the old Linux=Communism=Bad equation popping up on the third page.
And the Congolese should be quite happy to accept such a ruling from a National standards organisation because ......
For those who still haven't got the message that this is a good thing, you can read the actual amendments passed by the parliament here. Basically, ffii have won this round. The big question is what will the European Commission do now that the parliament has reversed the intent of the directive?
1908 was the year of the mysterious Tunguska impact
The US government pours enormous subsidies (a.k.a. development contracts) into its native industro-military complex. It may be debatable whether or not this is money well spent (and highly dependent on factors such as your nationality and personal point of view), but there is certainly no question that it creates/maintains very large numbers of high skilled jobs. It is probably fair to assume that an extension of the Indian space program will not have a negative impact on the number of people employed in first class jobs in the nation.
Why does everyone automatically assume that this was a mistake?!
.The stated aim of the mission is to
The Indian government want to show off the advances they have made in time travel!
The FSF is right to bring attention to this matter. It surely can't hurt to remind users of highly proprietary software that they are not guaranteed the full benefits of the free software community if they don't mend there evil ways ;-)
However, the community would be very unwise to drop support for any system that is not utterly obsolete. I, for one, have found the fact that gcc is the most portable compiler to be an excellent way of getting free software into large businesses.
Problem getting the same software to compile on Solaris and Irix, no problem, let's just use gcc. Hey, we'll need gnu make to install it. Compatability problem with blah, no problem, we'll use gnu blah on both platforms. A couple of years later, hey, seeing as we are using gnu everything, wouldn't it just be easier (cheaper) to use Gnu/Linux instead? Worked for me!
Still on the home front, do you have discussions with your teenage kids about software piracy, and if so, do they agree with you?
No, no, no, no, no!
You're supposed to keep the debian cd around for when you want to uninstall redhat
Probably because software isn't subject to metal fatigue, corrosion, etc.
Write back to your bank. Explain to them why you are closing your account. Banks are incredibly sensitive to lost accounts. They are particularly sensitive if you have a lot of money, and even more so if you owe them lots.
Compact Disc - Philips - Dutch company. Nasa? Dan Goldin? Faster cheaper better (choose 2)
Saying that something is {some trademark} compatible isn't a problem. You can sell a Ford compatible wheel without Ford's permission. It is only if you try to claim or imply that you have Ford's approval or are in some way connected with the company that you could run into legal difficulties.
Aside from the national security implications, where do you get the idea that an employee has any right to distribute software obtained by their employer? I am fairly sure that a court would find that the employer, not the employee, owns the software.