The web couldn't be invented today because the lawyers learned their lesson... from the web? I've heard the "hindsight is 20/20" saying, but this is ridiculous. Further, why the hell are they talking about WIPO and the Disney corp? It took the brightest minds on the planet, found at places like CERN -- and research budgets of an astronomical scale that could only have been bankrolled by government agencies like the US Army -- to get where we got with the internet and the web. I have never even heard a suggestion that something like this could ever have come from a pile of douchebags like WIPO.
After reading this article, I wish I had found it in a magazine, so I could have the pleasure of throwing it in the trash. This is garbage.
If your goal is widespread adoption ASAP, then no, the stack mentality doesn't make any sense. You want your program to run anywhere, even if it starts on an MS platform and moves to OSS platforms later.
However, third-world governments and other impoverished groups are automatically excluded from the use of any program which requires an MS platform, because the cost of entry is automatically at least the cost of the operating system from Microsoft.
This is, of course, no reason to deride the great applications that are available only on MS platforms -- and I remember when Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox was one of those -- but by any account it's slightly foolish to tie your programming to a single platform. If the anti-Microsoft crew gets their way, and open source is the only option, where does that leave your dot-net application? Hopefully in the hands of the mono project... but if you're tied exclusively to a platform, your deployment options drastically dwindle.
Not only does this kernel support the Active Protection system on newer thinkpad hard drives, it also supports DRM for the Savage graphics series. Most importantly for me, as a T23 owner: they fixed the crash-on-resume bug in the SuperSavage series!
I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.Also my pet hate when Word underlines all my headers and says "fragment: consider revising"...what the heck you dumb program!
You need all the help you can get.
I hate it when Word encourages me not to use the passive voice. Also, I hate it when Word underlines my headers and says, "Fragment: consider revising." What the heck, you dumb program?
You sort of missed the point there. If you are getting ripped off, then you are legally entitled to tell anyone who'll listen about your woes.
However, if Bob's clerk is rude to you, and you begin parading around town claiming that Bob raped your family and set fire to an orphanage, you are breaking the law.
If CSUSA wants to take Reigelman to court, they must think they have proof that some statements on her message board are false, and they must think they have a legal right to justice.
Now, if CSUSA doesn't have any evidence that the postings were libelous, then Reigelman will win the suit (and will also win her countersuit for legal fees, if her lawyers are worth a damn). They may even be found guilty of barratry.
The point is that this is not a frivolous lawsuit or a First Amendment violation. This is a company taking the matter before a judge, because they think they have been wronged. This is how things are supposed to work. This is due process.
As a side, note, because the site owner claims to monitor the site -- specifically because she claims that all the content is "fact-based" -- the ceases to be protected by the laws that protect, say, Slashdot from being held responsible for the idiocy of Anonymous Coward. She has taken responsibility for the content of her site, and so she is now going to have to prove that all those angry posts are based entirely in fact.
Listen closely: this has nothing to do with freedom of speech.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
See anything in there mentioning that you're allowed to lie about a company in order to defame it and damage its business?
Looking at some of the comments on that site, I can see why CSUSA thinks they have a case. Most of the worst posts have now been deleted, but the parents were in there accusing teachers of all kinds of horrible crimes, as well as CSUSA of condoning them.
If CSUSA takes Reigelman to court and successfully proves that the parents were falsely defaming CSUSA on that website, then it is an open and shut case of libel, which is against the law.
You're so worried about "freedom of speech" -- a concept which you seem not to understand -- but you seem to have forgotten all about "due process of law."
Let's see my Athlon 64 with its GeForce 6800 run on 12 watts of power -- or 15.4 for that matter. I think the author's just getting a little excited about old technology.
Now, if we could rig power over 802.11g... then we'd have something.
I like humor. Humor is funny. This is a chatlog featuring some idiot. The reason this is not funny is simple: there are a million of this guy, and we've all seen it before.
They bought the copyright. The GPL is just a license to use copyrighted work. They own the copyright now, and they can license it however the hell they want. Including using a Microsoft-style EULA.
The point is that this is probably the last Free version of this software -- and is the source of the last available code to fork, ever. If the company so decides, nobody will ever get to see source to the newer versions.
Why is everyone always saying "Software should be free, unless you're a business, in which case, get your checkbook"? The GPL shouldn't mandate anything except that code be made available. I think corporations should be entitled to the same rights and privileges as private citizens.
...because that's the only reason I can think of to include it. I don't know anyone who runs Gnome or KDE on slackware. I run fluxbox, some people I know run Afterstep, some run Windowmaker, a lot run xfce, but nobody runs KDE. Admittedly, most people keep the kde and gnome library packages installed, so that we can run programs that require them, but as for the UI -- well, I've just never seen it.
I'd be interested to hear anecdotes from Slackware users who run Gnome or KDE. This change just won't affect me much.
Bittorrent calls you a liar, buddy. We trade 5.25" floppies in a metaphorical sense constantly. When I develop a program that takes random input and outputs Frank & Earnest cartoons, I don't want to have to wait for some Board of Linux Usage Oversight to give my 5k perl script the Stamp of Approval.
Nobody's trying to copy the Windows paradigm with autopackage. What they're trying to do is break down that barrier to cross-distribution software releasing. Your average desktop user does not want to compile software. Dropping to a terminal, cd pathtoapp, tar -jxvf whatever.tar.gz, cd newpath,./configure; make; make install is too much shit for a user -- and then how to uninstall? Keep the source directory there forever?
"If they can't compile they should run Windows" is a stupid, backwards attitude, and autopackage is trying to fix it. Relying on upstream content providers is dangerous -- what happens when you disagree with your upstream provider? You have to switch distributions? Pat recently dropped Gnome support for Slackware -- I still run gnome. I do it with a third-party package from dropline. Is that broken? No.
The way to fix the problems you describe is to educate users, not to remove their usage priveleges. Teach people not to install untrusted software -- and teach them how to tell what software to trust! Don't just slap their hand and yell NO.
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...well, at least this week.
The web couldn't be invented today because the lawyers learned their lesson... from the web? I've heard the "hindsight is 20/20" saying, but this is ridiculous. Further, why the hell are they talking about WIPO and the Disney corp? It took the brightest minds on the planet, found at places like CERN -- and research budgets of an astronomical scale that could only have been bankrolled by government agencies like the US Army -- to get where we got with the internet and the web. I have never even heard a suggestion that something like this could ever have come from a pile of douchebags like WIPO.
After reading this article, I wish I had found it in a magazine, so I could have the pleasure of throwing it in the trash. This is garbage.
If your goal is widespread adoption ASAP, then no, the stack mentality doesn't make any sense. You want your program to run anywhere, even if it starts on an MS platform and moves to OSS platforms later.
However, third-world governments and other impoverished groups are automatically excluded from the use of any program which requires an MS platform, because the cost of entry is automatically at least the cost of the operating system from Microsoft.
This is, of course, no reason to deride the great applications that are available only on MS platforms -- and I remember when Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox was one of those -- but by any account it's slightly foolish to tie your programming to a single platform. If the anti-Microsoft crew gets their way, and open source is the only option, where does that leave your dot-net application? Hopefully in the hands of the mono project... but if you're tied exclusively to a platform, your deployment options drastically dwindle.
the brilliant IBM support
That's funny; when I call them I get Lenovo. Is this review in a time warp?
Not only does this kernel support the Active Protection system on newer thinkpad hard drives, it also supports DRM for the Savage graphics series. Most importantly for me, as a T23 owner: they fixed the crash-on-resume bug in the SuperSavage series!
Thinkpads have been made of titanium and carbon fiber for years.
I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.Also my pet hate when Word underlines all my headers and says "fragment: consider revising" ...what the heck you dumb program!
You need all the help you can get.
I hate it when Word encourages me not to use the passive voice. Also, I hate it when Word underlines my headers and says, "Fragment: consider revising." What the heck, you dumb program?
There you go.
Or you could, you know, just sell your damn cell phone (sorry, convergent device).
Or -- get this -- learn to manage your life well enough to make your time your own.
It's a computer. It doesn't have to be in control.
See? http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/Pro ductInformation/0,,50_2330_12264_12105~92447,00.ht ml
Because I have dibs.
We could go to xHTML 4.01 strict, and someday we might, but today we're happy to just get to 4.01 and CSS.
I'm sure by the time you upgrade again, xhtml 4.01 will exist.
http://img310.imageshack.us/img310/5150/screenshot 2vj.png
BUSTED
I'm glad they moved all the way up to HTML 4.01 instead of that crazy XHTML crap that ALA basically handed to them.
Really.
For the cost of a blank DVD and an hour or so to download an ISO, I can have everything I want and more.
Now that is a fast connection.
You sort of missed the point there. If you are getting ripped off, then you are legally entitled to tell anyone who'll listen about your woes.
However, if Bob's clerk is rude to you, and you begin parading around town claiming that Bob raped your family and set fire to an orphanage, you are breaking the law.
If CSUSA wants to take Reigelman to court, they must think they have proof that some statements on her message board are false, and they must think they have a legal right to justice.
Now, if CSUSA doesn't have any evidence that the postings were libelous, then Reigelman will win the suit (and will also win her countersuit for legal fees, if her lawyers are worth a damn). They may even be found guilty of barratry.
The point is that this is not a frivolous lawsuit or a First Amendment violation. This is a company taking the matter before a judge, because they think they have been wronged. This is how things are supposed to work. This is due process.
As a side, note, because the site owner claims to monitor the site -- specifically because she claims that all the content is "fact-based" -- the ceases to be protected by the laws that protect, say, Slashdot from being held responsible for the idiocy of Anonymous Coward. She has taken responsibility for the content of her site, and so she is now going to have to prove that all those angry posts are based entirely in fact.
Looking at some of the comments on that site, I can see why CSUSA thinks they have a case. Most of the worst posts have now been deleted, but the parents were in there accusing teachers of all kinds of horrible crimes, as well as CSUSA of condoning them.
If CSUSA takes Reigelman to court and successfully proves that the parents were falsely defaming CSUSA on that website, then it is an open and shut case of libel, which is against the law.
You're so worried about "freedom of speech" -- a concept which you seem not to understand -- but you seem to have forgotten all about "due process of law."
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Let's see my Athlon 64 with its GeForce 6800 run on 12 watts of power -- or 15.4 for that matter. I think the author's just getting a little excited about old technology.
Now, if we could rig power over 802.11g... then we'd have something.
...gentoo users are notorious for failing to comprehend the implications of their system philosophy.
I like humor. Humor is funny. This is a chatlog featuring some idiot. The reason this is not funny is simple: there are a million of this guy, and we've all seen it before.
so that I can remove it in my preferences.
They bought the copyright. The GPL is just a license to use copyrighted work. They own the copyright now, and they can license it however the hell they want. Including using a Microsoft-style EULA.
The point is that this is probably the last Free version of this software -- and is the source of the last available code to fork, ever. If the company so decides, nobody will ever get to see source to the newer versions.
Why is everyone always saying "Software should be free, unless you're a business, in which case, get your checkbook"? The GPL shouldn't mandate anything except that code be made available. I think corporations should be entitled to the same rights and privileges as private citizens.
I argue that in any country, if the government opposed Internet service, how do you get Internet service?
The funny thing is that this guy's from China. And we all know how well their government does with promoting the internet.
...because that's the only reason I can think of to include it. I don't know anyone who runs Gnome or KDE on slackware. I run fluxbox, some people I know run Afterstep, some run Windowmaker, a lot run xfce, but nobody runs KDE. Admittedly, most people keep the kde and gnome library packages installed, so that we can run programs that require them, but as for the UI -- well, I've just never seen it.
I'd be interested to hear anecdotes from Slackware users who run Gnome or KDE. This change just won't affect me much.
no, I wanted whatever.tar.bz2. good catch.
Bittorrent calls you a liar, buddy. We trade 5.25" floppies in a metaphorical sense constantly. When I develop a program that takes random input and outputs Frank & Earnest cartoons, I don't want to have to wait for some Board of Linux Usage Oversight to give my 5k perl script the Stamp of Approval.
./configure; make; make install is too much shit for a user -- and then how to uninstall? Keep the source directory there forever?
Nobody's trying to copy the Windows paradigm with autopackage. What they're trying to do is break down that barrier to cross-distribution software releasing. Your average desktop user does not want to compile software. Dropping to a terminal, cd pathtoapp, tar -jxvf whatever.tar.gz, cd newpath,
"If they can't compile they should run Windows" is a stupid, backwards attitude, and autopackage is trying to fix it. Relying on upstream content providers is dangerous -- what happens when you disagree with your upstream provider? You have to switch distributions? Pat recently dropped Gnome support for Slackware -- I still run gnome. I do it with a third-party package from dropline. Is that broken? No.
The way to fix the problems you describe is to educate users, not to remove their usage priveleges. Teach people not to install untrusted software -- and teach them how to tell what software to trust! Don't just slap their hand and yell NO.