He made a difference in the normal users and big corporations that could support linux themselves. Those corporations can implement the linux desktop far more easily than the average home user.
The GPL is mostly based on the copyright as defined by the Bern Convention. It will be pretty solid in countries that recognize it, and as far as I know Denmark does.
Actually it hurts SCO's claims... On of there PR thingys was indemnification, by creating this fund IBM is showing that they don't believe SCO will win. They are also making sure that whoever SCO is going to target can defend itself properly. Nothing could be worse than some linux user getting sued and loosing due to lack of funds and setting a precedent.
Worse, its probably in a bga (ball grid array) package. These are almost impossible to desolder (especially ones with a high pin count) and handsoldering them onto something else is practicly impossible. Besides I don't think you can justify buying a notebook and demanding it possible to use its seperate parts for something else.
AMD doesn't claim it runs at 1700Mhz, it seems that they have the same problem here. ie. they never were promised a real 9200 chip.
The 1GB=1000MB is far more nastier since in the 'normal' meaning of Giga and Mega that is correct although not common in computer land.
There is a very large grey area between downright misleading and nice sounding numbers in advertising. (If not practicly every commercial would be outlawed)
The fact that he excecuted so many people was special but the way he did it (or had it done). His nickname was Vlad the impaler (Not sure about the spelling), that should tell you something
No, bluecurve are still seperate themes that look the same.. You need to make each theme both for gtk and for qt. This theme engine uses the actual qt theme and thus does not require any duplicate work when creating a theme.
I wonder if the reverse could also be done (a qt engine that uses the gtk engine for its theme) or is gtk more flexible in this regard?
Maybe in some ways, like distance and target area size... But in other ways its very different, like you can't alter the golfballs course half way over the atlantic but you can adjust the course of a marse probe a bit.
Why because democracies with judeo-christian roots are known not to use them? Or because democracies with judeo-christion roots are known never to start a war?
Please go check some history (even recent events) and come back.
You only need escape velocity if you give the object one kick and then no more acceleration (only deacceleration from the earths gravity). No current space transport device reaches escape velocity becuase you would get astrounaut pate on the back of the cockpit.
The problem with sharks is that they are not discriminatory (you already mentiond the humans getting bit). The native fish will suffer from sharks (and from fishing btw) aswell.
Given that this gene will only spread among a species of fresh water fish it will not spread far beond the salt watter surrounded island australia is. What you do have to watch for is idiots transporting these fish out of the country.
Worse even if you believe the first email its obvious that there is a fraud going on... In this case it was some corrupt bank worker wanting to move cash out of a unused bank account.
Anybody that falls for this is just a thief an served right when they don't get anything.
Only if the junk is reflective..... Anything 'darker' then the earths surface (and water is very reflective) is going to result in a net heating effect.
Jeroen
Re:Kyoto sez: Pollution is good for economy
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The Kyoto accords rightfully acknowledged that some countries are underdeveloped right now. Forcing them to stay at the same level would destroy any chance of getting to a higher development level in the short term (although unviable in the long term allowing pollution does have positive economic effects in short term). Others who are already developed far enough don't need this extra breathing space and should work to get their pollution down to a sustainable level.
Using your classroom analogy, it is a set of school rules where some kids have to stop hitting others over the head with their school books, and other kids are encouraged to do this more.
To go further in this analogy: In society some kids need to be thought how to stand up for themselves (be a little bit more assertive) and others need to be thought that bullying is bad.
Same for pollution: A little bit is accepted and countries are allowed to pollute that much in order to develop sufficiently. Some are now under that level and are allowed (not encouraged ass in the class) to pollute a bit more.
Jeroen
Re:So now...
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Dimming != Cooling
The article is about less sunlight reaching the earth's surface. Nothing about the earth cooling down....
Lets have an experiment: 1 Take a black (or very dark) plastic bag. 2 Go stand in the sun. 3 Pull the bag over your head (not to tight you are not going for a Darwin Award) 4 Stand for a while
You will notice the following: 1 You don't see much since the sunlight does not reach your eyes. (Lets call this 'dimming') 2 It gets hot in the bag. (Lets call this 'warming')
Conclusion: You can have dimming and warming at the same time.
It is all politics. No where is this more apparent than the Kyoto Accords, where the "good" countries are allowed to greatly increase their supposedly global-warming causing pollution while the "bad" countries must damage their economies and cut their emissions. If Kyoto was serious about its environmental claims, it would have demanded reductions on all countries involved.
Now that is politics.....
The reason "bad" countries had to reduce more is because they are poluting far more to begin with... Its that simple.
If you are a small pollutter now you only have to pollute a little bit less. If you are a big polluter now you have to reduce more. Yet somehow the bad boys in class don't get that simple logic
Jeroen
Re:Global Cooling Theories
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No, dimming and warmimg are not mutually exclusive... They go together quite happily... Less light to the ground does not mean a colder climate, the heath from the sun is simply absorbed somewhere else like in an atmosphere full of greenhouse gasses. The global warming fad won't be put away. The new data will simply be integrated into the models and will likely proove we screwed our environment up even further than we thought.
There may have been a few laws since the 70's but the amount of pollution now is way higher then it was in the 70's. And the biggest polluters don't seem to be in a hurry to really solve the problem.
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He made a difference in the normal users and big corporations that could support linux themselves.
Those corporations can implement the linux desktop far more easily than the average home user.
Jeroen
The GPL is mostly based on the copyright as defined by the Bern Convention.
It will be pretty solid in countries that recognize it, and as far as I know Denmark does.
Jeroen
Actually it hurts SCO's claims...
On of there PR thingys was indemnification, by creating this fund IBM is showing that they don't believe SCO will win.
They are also making sure that whoever SCO is going to target can defend itself properly. Nothing could be worse than some linux user getting sued and loosing due to lack of funds and setting a precedent.
Jeroen
If you bought 'roast beef sandwich' you have a right to complain.
If you bought 'sandwich that tastes like roast beef' though luck.
Jeroen
Worse, its probably in a bga (ball grid array) package. These are almost impossible to desolder (especially ones with a high pin count) and handsoldering them onto something else is practicly impossible.
Besides I don't think you can justify buying a notebook and demanding it possible to use its seperate parts for something else.
Jeroen
AMD doesn't claim it runs at 1700Mhz, it seems that they have the same problem here.
ie. they never were promised a real 9200 chip.
The 1GB=1000MB is far more nastier since in the 'normal' meaning of Giga and Mega that is correct although not common in computer land.
There is a very large grey area between downright misleading and nice sounding numbers in advertising.
(If not practicly every commercial would be outlawed)
Jeroen
I suppose you don't want to talk about that piece of quality american math that went to Mars a few years ago????
And the Russions almost beat you to the Moon. (They did beat you to orbit, both unmanned, dogged(sp?) and manned)
Jeroen
The fact that he excecuted so many people was special but the way he did it (or had it done).
His nickname was Vlad the impaler (Not sure about the spelling), that should tell you something
Jeroen
No, bluecurve are still seperate themes that look the same.. You need to make each theme both for gtk and for qt.
This theme engine uses the actual qt theme and thus does not require any duplicate work when creating a theme.
I wonder if the reverse could also be done (a qt engine that uses the gtk engine for its theme) or is gtk more flexible in this regard?
Jeroen
Maybe in some ways, like distance and target area size...
But in other ways its very different, like you can't alter the golfballs course half way over the atlantic but you can adjust the course of a marse probe a bit.
Jeroen
Why because democracies with judeo-christian roots are known not to use them?
Or because democracies with judeo-christion roots are known never to start a war?
Please go check some history (even recent events) and come back.
Jeroen
You only need escape velocity if you give the object one kick and then no more acceleration (only deacceleration from the earths gravity).
No current space transport device reaches escape velocity becuase you would get astrounaut pate on the back of the cockpit.
Jeroen
The problem with sharks is that they are not discriminatory (you already mentiond the humans getting bit). The native fish will suffer from sharks (and from fishing btw) aswell.
Given that this gene will only spread among a species of fresh water fish it will not spread far beond the salt watter surrounded island australia is.
What you do have to watch for is idiots transporting these fish out of the country.
Jeroen
So how much is a Library of Confgress?
Jeroen
Scammers: 'We want your help in robbing someones bank account'
Idiot: 'Sure I'll help you rob someone just don't make me do anything illegal'
So when you say 'don't ask me to do anything illegal' when helping criminals it somehow protects you from the law????
Jeroen
Well... Some do succeed in voting :)
Jeroen
He agreed to help steel money from a bank account......
He agreed to help commit a crime.
Jeroen
Worse even if you believe the first email its obvious that there is a fraud going on... In this case it was some corrupt bank worker wanting to move cash out of a unused bank account.
Anybody that falls for this is just a thief an served right when they don't get anything.
Jeroen
Only if the junk is reflective.....
Anything 'darker' then the earths surface (and water is very reflective) is going to result in a net heating effect.
Jeroen
The Kyoto accords rightfully acknowledged that some countries are underdeveloped right now.
Forcing them to stay at the same level would destroy any chance of getting to a higher development level in the short term (although unviable in the long term allowing pollution does have positive economic effects in short term).
Others who are already developed far enough don't need this extra breathing space and should work to get their pollution down to a sustainable level.
Jeroen
Using your classroom analogy, it is a set of school rules where some kids have to stop hitting others over the head with their school books, and other kids are encouraged to do this more.
To go further in this analogy: In society some kids need to be thought how to stand up for themselves (be a little bit more assertive) and others need to be thought that bullying is bad.
Same for pollution: A little bit is accepted and countries are allowed to pollute that much in order to develop sufficiently. Some are now under that level and are allowed (not encouraged ass in the class) to pollute a bit more.
Jeroen
Dimming != Cooling
The article is about less sunlight reaching the earth's surface. Nothing about the earth cooling down....
Lets have an experiment:
1 Take a black (or very dark) plastic bag.
2 Go stand in the sun.
3 Pull the bag over your head (not to tight you are not going for a Darwin Award)
4 Stand for a while
You will notice the following:
1 You don't see much since the sunlight does not reach your eyes. (Lets call this 'dimming')
2 It gets hot in the bag. (Lets call this 'warming')
Conclusion:
You can have dimming and warming at the same time.
Jeroen
It is all politics. No where is this more apparent than the Kyoto Accords, where the "good" countries are allowed to greatly increase their supposedly global-warming causing pollution while the "bad" countries must damage their economies and cut their emissions. If Kyoto was serious about its environmental claims, it would have demanded reductions on all countries involved.
Now that is politics..... The reason "bad" countries had to reduce more is because they are poluting far more to begin with... Its that simple. If you are a small pollutter now you only have to pollute a little bit less. If you are a big polluter now you have to reduce more. Yet somehow the bad boys in class don't get that simple logic Jeroen
No, dimming and warmimg are not mutually exclusive... They go together quite happily...
Less light to the ground does not mean a colder climate, the heath from the sun is simply absorbed somewhere else like in an atmosphere full of greenhouse gasses.
The global warming fad won't be put away. The new data will simply be integrated into the models and will likely proove we screwed our environment up even further than we thought.
Jeroen
There may have been a few laws since the 70's but the amount of pollution now is way higher then it was in the 70's. And the biggest polluters don't seem to be in a hurry to really solve the problem.
Jeroen