The UK.gov claims it is trying to make the country into an e-commerce centre. However with the law and economy we have in the UK, I doubt very much that we'll see it happen. Consider the following factors:
2) The new tax laws which came into effect this month (IR35), which basically mean that self-employed programmers pay more tax than any other industry (~ 50% of their _company's income).
3) The recent demon et al. decisions, which hold ISP's responsible for defamatory material on their servers.
Quite how the government sees the situation as inviting to e-commerce companies is beyond me.
It's good that there are music apps for BeOs, but that shouldn't stop anybody writing them for Linux; just like there are plenty of apps for DOS/Windoze, but that shouldn't stop anybody writing them for BeOs. Choice is good.
Whilst there might be loopholes in Netscape, the Mozilla team seem to be very aware of the problems cookies can cause. Take a look at this bug 22994 for example. That goes to show they are paying attention to what people who _use_ their product, not spammers, want.
I am sure they would love to hear of any other suggestions for stopping cookie abuse. We have a chance to make a browser the way we want it to be, so we should take advantage of that.
Sire, you remember that third planet of the Sol system I have been studying recently?
Yes Grok
Well, my research indicates that the reptilian lifeforms currently inhabiting it have reached the end of their evolutionary path. The smaller mamalian species are being starved out of existence...
I see, Grok. Well fire a few mega-planet-fscking meteors at it using the mega-planet-fscking long range cannon.
Very good sire.
Oh, and put a few buckyballs in with the ammo so that the mammalian descendents will know that we helped them out...
Since Nvidia signed the deal with M$ to use their cards in the X-Box, I wonder whether their retiscence to release open source drivers has come from trying to please Redmond ?
If that's the case then I wonder if it might be more productive to try and persuade Creative labs to release open source drivers for their cards, or would Creative be limited by license agreements with Nvidia ?
The title "2600" refers to the frequency of pitch that technology-savvy Americans played into their telephone receivers to thwart long distance call charges in the early 1980s.
Interesting. I had always imagined that 2600 were named after the old Atari machine.
If these boxes do manage to sell well, it will be a major incentive for other companies to work with people like Loki to port their games over. And with Kylix in the works it might make sense for games companies to start porting their games themselves. This would be cool, an open source games console, running linux but with zero sysadmin required.
In fact this could be *the* major selling point of the system - other compaines like Sony charge developers a hefty fee to develop for their boxes, whereas developing for this would in essence cost nothing and have a pretty much guaranteed audience.
Ironic really considering the topic. And hasn't this subject already been extensively covered already (e.g. The Cathedral and the Bazaar et al.) ? I fail to see the point of posting a news article to a topic which a) costs money to view, and b) is probably just a rehash of works already in the public domain.
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1) The RIP bill which is going through parliament at the moment which would basically allow the authorities to demand anybody's security keys and allow covert monitoring of ISPs.
2) The new tax laws which came into effect this month (IR35), which basically mean that self-employed programmers pay more tax than any other industry (~ 50% of their _company's income).
3) The recent demon et al. decisions, which hold ISP's responsible for defamatory material on their servers.
Quite how the government sees the situation as inviting to e-commerce companies is beyond me.
Perhaps if some of us clubbed together we could get it !
It's good that there are music apps for BeOs, but that shouldn't stop anybody writing them for Linux; just like there are plenty of apps for DOS/Windoze, but that shouldn't stop anybody writing them for BeOs. Choice is good.
Bear in mind that a lot of that is stuff like Java which is not really part of Mozilla proper. Mozilla itself is currently around 6.5M
I am sure they would love to hear of any other suggestions for stopping cookie abuse. We have a chance to make a browser the way we want it to be, so we should take advantage of that.
almost does that - although admittedly you can't run it in real time.
There is also a tab to bar certain websites from ever storing cookies, which is not working yet.
Yes Grok
Well, my research indicates that the reptilian lifeforms currently inhabiting it have reached the end of their evolutionary path. The smaller mamalian species are being starved out of existence...
I see, Grok. Well fire a few mega-planet-fscking meteors at it using the mega-planet-fscking long range cannon.
Very good sire.
Oh, and put a few buckyballs in with the ammo so that the mammalian descendents will know that we helped them out...
Not to mention High Availability Linux, and the Failover protocols being developed as we speak...
If that's the case then I wonder if it might be more productive to try and persuade Creative labs to release open source drivers for their cards, or would Creative be limited by license agreements with Nvidia ?
Interesting. I had always imagined that 2600 were named after the old Atari machine.
It probably goes without saying, but I take it you did remember to do 'rm -r ~/.mozilla' before running a new build ?
Excuse me, "offtopic" ?
Unfortunately, the margin of the page was too small to show a diagram of his time machine.
In fact this could be *the* major selling point of the system - other compaines like Sony charge developers a hefty fee to develop for their boxes, whereas developing for this would in essence cost nothing and have a pretty much guaranteed audience.
Well, it's already been proven true for all even numbers up to 400,000,000,000,000. Good luck with finding a counter-example :-)
Ironic really considering the topic. And hasn't this subject already been extensively covered already (e.g. The Cathedral and the Bazaar et al.) ? I fail to see the point of posting a news article to a topic which a) costs money to view, and b) is probably just a rehash of works already in the public domain.
Thanks for that explanation :-)
Just rename all your mp3's to *.mp4
Actually we're 408 years late, pi day was on 3-14-1592...
I hope somebody does. This is the kind of message we should be shouting about. Nice one web mistress ;-)
What was the rest of your comment, it seems to have been chopped off ?
Nice playlist !!! Only problem is it's at 128Kbaud, and therefore useless over my crappy BT line.
Linux runs on Palm Pilots and other PDA's. Hasn't anybody written ethernet drivers under Linux for them ? If not, what is stopping them ?