Actually it's equivalent to X with a big chunk of GNOME thrown in. IMHO, in some respects it's still way ahead of X and GNOME, in other respects it's maybe only a few years behind.
Open sourcing OS/2 is not very likely since Microsoft holds a number of the patents on the kernel and HPFS file system which I don't blame them for holding on to since some are likely included in the current release of Windows. However, I may be wrong, but I think only IBM holds the patents for the WPS. There was even a WPS for Windows developed unofficially by a group of IBMers although I don't know if it's sill active.
It would be great to see a WPS running on a Linux stack.
The sort of people wanting a separate Quebec seem to be people who are passionate about the idea, without really understanding what it will mean if they succeed...
I believe it was Mordecai Richler who noted that if Quebec were to separate they would be the first third world nation to get snow.
Sounds a lot like my last year of high school, if you add 3 advanced math classes, but I still found the time to take a computer course and work part time as a programmer for a small firm.
I've found people head down two paths when they start out in IT. The first group has a real curiosity about everything related to computers and usual end up being the techies that keep IT departments working. The second group are people who an interest and a bit of attitude but quickly get overwhelmed by the day to day demands of IT work. They usually end up getting out of the pure technical roles and move towards more management type roles within a few years.
Because of the extremely technical nature of the job it requires a true passion for the work to be successful. If by the time you get to university you don't have more than a basic (no pun intended) proficiency in programming then you're likely headed for a non-techie role.
That's if you only use your modifications internally. If you read past the first paragraph you would see the condition that actually applies here:
But if you release the modified version to the public in some way, the GPL requires you to make the modified source code available to the program's users, under the GPL.
Thanks for once again proving that Anonymous Coward often also means Anonymous Short Attention Span.
I know it doesn't drown out all the whiners but please accept my thanks for all your hard work.
I use CentOS on my server and I have nothing but praise for it. Some people like to live on the bleeding edge but for a server OS I appreciate the stability of CentOS.
It's not just an issue of energy density but also safety. If an H2 rocket explodes we have some extra hydrogen in the atmosphere but if a nuclear rocket explodes we have U-235 scattered in the upper atmosphere.
After what's happened in Japan the last few weeks it's not likely we'll get a new reactor built on the ground in the next 20 years let alone one that's intended to be lobbed into orbit.
And how do you plan to dispose of the spent fuel in those rockets we send up? Open up a McFuel Depot(tm) in orbit? Or maybe send it back down to earth risking yet another accident to happen.
Have you ever seen somebody watching a two hour movie on ipad? It's a sight to behold. TWO HOURS of holding it in your one hand.
You know you can hold it with two hands...unless you're watching porn. If the people you saw were watching porn then I guess that was a sight to behold.
You make a blanket statement that they learn this type of behaviour at school and then provide not a single example, flawed or otherwise, to support your claim. Typical right wing rhetoric, all sound bites no substance.
And by the way, Lord of the Flies was about how kids behave without adult supervision. So thanks for making by point that proper adult supervision prevents this type of behaviour.
And I didn't address who I think the primary care givers of these children are because that was not my point. My point was that the school, as you suggested, is not to blame for the behaviour of these kids.
That was the definition when the concept was first created but it has been used in many other ways since.
Now it is more generally a clause in a contract or agreement that ensures a particular behaviour or outcome by outlining the penalty if that condition is not satisfied.
Moreover, I think your estimates are a bit low. Given the number of macs I see on campus every day, there are plenty of people with money to burn.
Moreover, I think your estimates are a bit low. Given the number of macs I see on campus every day, there are plenty of students who have parents with money to burn.
Because clearly the school encouraged these kids to call their teacher a paedophile.
What a load of crap. Kids don't learn this type of anti-social behaviour in school. They learn it from bad parenting, other kids with bad parenting or celebrity role models with bad parenting.
Radar Technician: Sir! The radar, sir! It appears to be... [Jam starts flowing through the computer screen] jammed! Dark Helmet: Jammed... [Examines the jam and tastes it] Raspberry. There's only one man... [Sandurz gets out of the way of the approaching camera]...who would dare give me the raspberry! [Pulls his mask down] Lone Starr! [Walks into the camera and collapses]
The only thing that makes Linux usable is the fact that Mono runs on it.
Without Mono I wouldn't be able to browse the web, read email, chat, make VOIP calls, edit documents/spreadsheets, create presentations, record TV, play music, watch/download(only legally of course) movies, edit video, manage photos, run a home web server, develop web applications or manage centralized backups for all my computers.
Oh wait, I don't have Mono installed on any of my Fedora 14 systems.
You run Java? You run C++? You run the Linux kernel? They all are "patent-encumbered bloatware".
Java: Sun (aka the patent holder) GPL'd the Java libraries and runtime before the Oracle acquisition. Mono is provided by someone other than the patent holder and still has a few patent issues over it's head.
C++: WTF???
Linux kernel: Citation please. And if you cite the SCO lawsuit I'm going to puke.
...Microsoft is bad because Bill Gates is a seal clubbing bastard...
Stop that! You're going to give seal clubbing bastards a bad name. Just kidding.
I agree with your sentiment but it's not likely to change any time soon. Microsoft bashing was a recreational sport even before the web existed. A history of predatory business practices, abuse of monopoly power, vendor lock in, subversion of standards and generally evil behaviour tend to overshadow any good technology they do produce particularly in the eyes of the FLOSS community.
As a result the FLOSS community is mistrusting, I think rightfully so, of anything even remotely linked to Microsoft. Unfortunately after decades of mistrust it's more often to manifest as soapbox pontifications rather than reasoned statements.
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Actually it's equivalent to X with a big chunk of GNOME thrown in. IMHO, in some respects it's still way ahead of X and GNOME, in other respects it's maybe only a few years behind.
Open sourcing OS/2 is not very likely since Microsoft holds a number of the patents on the kernel and HPFS file system which I don't blame them for holding on to since some are likely included in the current release of Windows. However, I may be wrong, but I think only IBM holds the patents for the WPS. There was even a WPS for Windows developed unofficially by a group of IBMers although I don't know if it's sill active.
It would be great to see a WPS running on a Linux stack.
This is true. The contents of that .db file are never sent to Apple or anyone else.
Yet.
All your base are belong to us.
Definitely not the Vogons. They embrace change...what with their constant building of hyperspace bypasses and all.
I wouldn't let anyone at this hospital touche my dick.
Photoshop's goatscaping feature
I didn't realize Photoshop could shave a goat's genitals.
Awesome...you made my day.
Strip clubs have the best packaging. :D
The sort of people wanting a separate Quebec seem to be people who are passionate about the idea, without really understanding what it will mean if they succeed...
I believe it was Mordecai Richler who noted that if Quebec were to separate they would be the first third world nation to get snow.
Sounds a lot like my last year of high school, if you add 3 advanced math classes, but I still found the time to take a computer course and work part time as a programmer for a small firm.
I've found people head down two paths when they start out in IT. The first group has a real curiosity about everything related to computers and usual end up being the techies that keep IT departments working. The second group are people who an interest and a bit of attitude but quickly get overwhelmed by the day to day demands of IT work. They usually end up getting out of the pure technical roles and move towards more management type roles within a few years.
Because of the extremely technical nature of the job it requires a true passion for the work to be successful. If by the time you get to university you don't have more than a basic (no pun intended) proficiency in programming then you're likely headed for a non-techie role.
I guess now we know what the "O" in "LOL" really is.
That's if you only use your modifications internally. If you read past the first paragraph you would see the condition that actually applies here:
Thanks for once again proving that Anonymous Coward often also means Anonymous Short Attention Span.
I know it doesn't drown out all the whiners but please accept my thanks for all your hard work.
I use CentOS on my server and I have nothing but praise for it. Some people like to live on the bleeding edge but for a server OS I appreciate the stability of CentOS.
Don't let the vocal minority get you down.
It's not just an issue of energy density but also safety. If an H2 rocket explodes we have some extra hydrogen in the atmosphere but if a nuclear rocket explodes we have U-235 scattered in the upper atmosphere.
After what's happened in Japan the last few weeks it's not likely we'll get a new reactor built on the ground in the next 20 years let alone one that's intended to be lobbed into orbit.
And how do you plan to dispose of the spent fuel in those rockets we send up? Open up a McFuel Depot(tm) in orbit? Or maybe send it back down to earth risking yet another accident to happen.
Have you ever seen somebody watching a two hour movie on ipad? It's a sight to behold. TWO HOURS of holding it in your one hand.
You know you can hold it with two hands...unless you're watching porn. If the people you saw were watching porn then I guess that was a sight to behold.
I prefer Smurf blood sacrifices.
Let the streets run blue with Smurf blood!!!
You make a blanket statement that they learn this type of behaviour at school and then provide not a single example, flawed or otherwise, to support your claim. Typical right wing rhetoric, all sound bites no substance.
And by the way, Lord of the Flies was about how kids behave without adult supervision. So thanks for making by point that proper adult supervision prevents this type of behaviour.
And I didn't address who I think the primary care givers of these children are because that was not my point. My point was that the school, as you suggested, is not to blame for the behaviour of these kids.
That was the definition when the concept was first created but it has been used in many other ways since.
Now it is more generally a clause in a contract or agreement that ensures a particular behaviour or outcome by outlining the penalty if that condition is not satisfied.
So in this case it is a poison pill.
Moreover, I think your estimates are a bit low. Given the number of macs I see on campus every day, there are plenty of people with money to burn.
Moreover, I think your estimates are a bit low. Given the number of macs I see on campus every day, there are plenty of students who have parents with money to burn.
FTFY
Because clearly the school encouraged these kids to call their teacher a paedophile.
What a load of crap. Kids don't learn this type of anti-social behaviour in school. They learn it from bad parenting, other kids with bad parenting or celebrity role models with bad parenting.
I think this is the quote you were looking for:
Radar Technician: Sir! The radar, sir! It appears to be... [Jam starts flowing through the computer screen] jammed! ...who would dare give me the raspberry! [Pulls his mask down] Lone Starr! [Walks into the camera and collapses]
Dark Helmet: Jammed... [Examines the jam and tastes it] Raspberry. There's only one man... [Sandurz gets out of the way of the approaching camera]
What I don't understand if they could build a computer that small and light back in 2004, why aren't they all that size these days?
Because the keyboard on a 12" or 13" laptop is only usable by children and midgets.
The only thing that makes Linux usable is the fact that Mono runs on it.
Without Mono I wouldn't be able to browse the web, read email, chat, make VOIP calls, edit documents/spreadsheets, create presentations, record TV, play music, watch/download(only legally of course) movies, edit video, manage photos, run a home web server, develop web applications or manage centralized backups for all my computers.
Oh wait, I don't have Mono installed on any of my Fedora 14 systems.
You run Java? You run C++? You run the Linux kernel? They all are "patent-encumbered bloatware".
Java: Sun (aka the patent holder) GPL'd the Java libraries and runtime before the Oracle acquisition. Mono is provided by someone other than the patent holder and still has a few patent issues over it's head.
C++: WTF???
Linux kernel: Citation please. And if you cite the SCO lawsuit I'm going to puke.
...Microsoft is bad because Bill Gates is a seal clubbing bastard...
Stop that! You're going to give seal clubbing bastards a bad name. Just kidding.
I agree with your sentiment but it's not likely to change any time soon. Microsoft bashing was a recreational sport even before the web existed. A history of predatory business practices, abuse of monopoly power, vendor lock in, subversion of standards and generally evil behaviour tend to overshadow any good technology they do produce particularly in the eyes of the FLOSS community.
As a result the FLOSS community is mistrusting, I think rightfully so, of anything even remotely linked to Microsoft. Unfortunately after decades of mistrust it's more often to manifest as soapbox pontifications rather than reasoned statements.