Ah yes... but for the people who use Microsoft as their computer and Netscape as their ISP, these issues become very important. Of course the higher numbers must be better, right? Not that I know why this should apply to linux dists, but to lots of microsoftian sheep it means alot.
Swedish rules are very hard on that matter... just look at yahoo.se. They had to start a company with a long damn name abbreviated to y.a.h.o.o (AB) to get the domain. Look it up if you have the time sometime... it's a pretty funny name.
Yepp... and www.wheather.com used to be porn typo site for www.weather.com. My father mistyped that in the middle of a big computer conference =) It's gone now though.
No, not at all. There's just these thousands of people that all happened to increase their music budged when napster came out... it's totally unrelated.
I'm not against Napster, really, it's a great idea, I think that, if anything, it actually promotes record sales, and is generally good for the world. But there is something inherently wrong with a program that gives anyone and everyone access to practically any song ever recorded without compensating the artists.
So, even though it promotes record sales, it's bad? And what you said next...
If everyone used Napster, both Fred Durst AND Lars Ulrich would be working at McDonalds, probably together, bitching about how they wish they could make money off of their music, instead of having to distribute it for free.
... is the exact opposite. Didn't you just say napster promoted record sales?
1. Napster does for many promote record sales. I buy more CDs now than I did before I started listening to mp3s. I have 2 CDs of bands, that aren't even sold in my country. I had to import them specially. 2. Maybe it's wrong, but then get us something that's right! Let me take an example, the song "Private Emotion" by Ricky Martin. Now I think Ricky Martin sucks. But that song is great. Do I have to buy the single for like $5? Or a CD full of songs I don't like? No, I'm not gonna do that. So, unless they come up with a system, where I can pay for downloading the song, then I'm just gonna download it anyway.
Ah yes, but you're missing the point... question is, is it napster's fault? They're not doing the actual sharing, they're simply providing a search engine for music. Their search engine has no way to check if the music found is legally shareable or not. Just like altavista, or google. Both could be used to find both legal and illegal material.
I think you fail to remember that when the KDE project chose, there was no GTK to choose. Maybe QT is the problem, but I have a feeling that at this point it'd be easier to reimplement QT than to rewrite all of KDE to GTK... there's a very big difference between the two toolkits.
My point was more to the fact that if there's no "base skin" or common design, how are you going to learn what those elements are that you use alot and wanna move around?
I'm not saying skinning is bad, I'm just saying that I've found that it's mostly a too complex feature for making something look cool but otherwise pretty useless. Movable toolbars, customizable menus and scripting are features i find much more usable, although they do not make the app look more "cool".
Years ago I had much more use of the fact that I could make my own buttons in Word and tie them to macros, or just rearrange the menus to where it fit me, than I do today with the fact that I can make winamp bright red or look at mozilla in it's slimy bluegreen hide.
Yeah. Or maybe that company should stop violating the usage conditions of the servers, ask before they did it, and generally stop harassing IRC users and admins. If they asked permission to run their bots on a network, they would never be allowed on any medium or big sized net. Problem solved.
My case still holds. You don't know what would have happened if drug laws hadn't come into place, and all else is just speculation. It's easy to blame it all on the laws, but you can't prove that now can you?
Just because there were no problems before the laws, it's not certain that the laws caused the problems.
Yes, but the problems with skinning are pretty huge too. We're used to using programs with a similar interface. It worked to learn one or two programs with a different interface, but imagine having to learn the UI each time you want to learn a new program? Not to talk about the inconsistent look of everything.
Skinning is hard, because each program has its own needs, and therefore a "general" skinning interface wouldn't be able to change much. A little like enlightenment... change the colors and patterns, looks on things that exist on all windows, borders, etc... but you can't change the way buttons look in mozilla or something like that, with a general skin.
Well at least don't do as my country (sweden) did, and make it LEGAL. All the other european countries make it illegal and they make it legal... go figure.
As for speeding and drugs, we'll never know, since we'll never find out what would have happened if the laws had not been made.
Well ummm, articles received before the news header is a part of the official spec for news, should be exempt. I shouldn't have to roam the web to see what kinda little odd newsheaders this site or that site use just for them to not infringe on my copyright! Just because deja happens to be the biggest doesnt make it more right.
The responsibility to get my approval lies with them, not me.
Yeah, and the guy was bright enough to make all the links point to dayone.html. *sigh* Did/. even check that this site wasnt some pr0n site or something before they posted the story?
Read less sciense fiction. Read more of ICANN's FAQ: "Will ICANN protect my personal data?
Yes. ICANN will use the personal data you provide in the application form only for purposes relating to its At Large Membership and election efforts. Your data will not be sold or transferred to unaffiliated companies or organizations, or used for any commercial purpose whatsoever."
Of course, but doing a binary distribution yourself doesnt mean the next part will. Meaning, Red Hat sends you a CD with a binary distribution of linux on it, sources included. This doesnt mean you have to distribute it in binary form, or distribute it at all.
Se this comment for a more extensive scenario explaining what I mean.
I think the problem is this scenario: You make this grand open source Web Thingie 1.0. You place it under the GPL and release the source to the world. Now Big Bad Company comes along, takes the code, modifies it and runs Wub Thangie 2 on their servers. They make millions off it, but refuse to release the source to their modifications. Why? Because they're not doing a binary distribution of the system, which means they don't have to distribute the sources either, but can still be within the limits of the GPL.
Problem is, Big Bad Company has taken your program and used it in a non-internal way, without releasing sources, thus effectively converting your open source program to a proprietary tool. Clearly not in the spirit of the GPL, but not violating it's wording.
... except that that could lead to someone taking the code and placing it under a commercial license again. And oh, we need something like that, so let's duplicate that effort in our own, BSD-licensed software. Repeat until tired.
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Ah yes... but for the people who use Microsoft as their computer and Netscape as their ISP, these issues become very important. Of course the higher numbers must be better, right? Not that I know why this should apply to linux dists, but to lots of microsoftian sheep it means alot.
Swedish rules are very hard on that matter... just look at yahoo.se. They had to start a company with a long damn name abbreviated to y.a.h.o.o (AB) to get the domain. Look it up if you have the time sometime... it's a pretty funny name.
Yepp... and www.wheather.com used to be porn typo site for www.weather.com. My father mistyped that in the middle of a big computer conference =)
It's gone now though.
No, not at all. There's just these thousands of people that all happened to increase their music budged when napster came out... it's totally unrelated.
So, even though it promotes record sales, it's bad? And what you said next...
If everyone used Napster, both Fred Durst AND Lars Ulrich would be working at McDonalds, probably together, bitching about how they wish they could make money off of their music, instead of having to distribute it for free.
1. Napster does for many promote record sales. I buy more CDs now than I did before I started listening to mp3s. I have 2 CDs of bands, that aren't even sold in my country. I had to import them specially.
2. Maybe it's wrong, but then get us something that's right! Let me take an example, the song "Private Emotion" by Ricky Martin. Now I think Ricky Martin sucks. But that song is great. Do I have to buy the single for like $5? Or a CD full of songs I don't like? No, I'm not gonna do that. So, unless they come up with a system, where I can pay for downloading the song, then I'm just gonna download it anyway.
Ah yes, but you're missing the point... question is, is it napster's fault? They're not doing the actual sharing, they're simply providing a search engine for music. Their search engine has no way to check if the music found is legally shareable or not. Just like altavista, or google. Both could be used to find both legal and illegal material.
I think you fail to remember that when the KDE project chose, there was no GTK to choose. Maybe QT is the problem, but I have a feeling that at this point it'd be easier to reimplement QT than to rewrite all of KDE to GTK... there's a very big difference between the two toolkits.
Yeah... I'm sure they wouldn't give all the other 3D displays out there as 'nice' reviews.
I'm not saying skinning is bad, I'm just saying that I've found that it's mostly a too complex feature for making something look cool but otherwise pretty useless. Movable toolbars, customizable menus and scripting are features i find much more usable, although they do not make the app look more "cool".
Years ago I had much more use of the fact that I could make my own buttons in Word and tie them to macros, or just rearrange the menus to where it fit me, than I do today with the fact that I can make winamp bright red or look at mozilla in it's slimy bluegreen hide.
Yeah. Or maybe that company should stop violating the usage conditions of the servers, ask before they did it, and generally stop harassing IRC users and admins. If they asked permission to run their bots on a network, they would never be allowed on any medium or big sized net. Problem solved.
Just because there were no problems before the laws, it's not certain that the laws caused the problems.
Skinning is hard, because each program has its own needs, and therefore a "general" skinning interface wouldn't be able to change much. A little like enlightenment... change the colors and patterns, looks on things that exist on all windows, borders, etc... but you can't change the way buttons look in mozilla or something like that, with a general skin.
As for speeding and drugs, we'll never know, since we'll never find out what would have happened if the laws had not been made.
Of course not, but most probably you will only ever sell one copy of your program.
Did I miss something here? Somehow I can't seem to make that metaphor fit.
The responsibility to get my approval lies with them, not me.
Yeah, and the guy was bright enough to make all the links point to dayone.html. *sigh* Did /. even check that this site wasnt some pr0n site or something before they posted the story?
"Will ICANN protect my personal data?
Yes. ICANN will use the personal data you provide in the application form only for purposes relating to its At Large Membership and election efforts. Your data will not be sold or transferred to unaffiliated companies or organizations, or used for any commercial purpose whatsoever."
Se this comment for a more extensive scenario explaining what I mean.
Problem is, Big Bad Company has taken your program and used it in a non-internal way, without releasing sources, thus effectively converting your open source program to a proprietary tool. Clearly not in the spirit of the GPL, but not violating it's wording.
Here is the article you're refering to and here is the info on it from Aiwa.
It doesnt. It makes them possible.
... except that that could lead to someone taking the code and placing it under a commercial license again. And oh, we need something like that, so let's duplicate that effort in our own, BSD-licensed software. Repeat until tired.
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A domain is just a name... It's like letting some company keep billing you, even though they shut down and some other company started a totally different service but with the same name. Pointless and stupid, for your part.
in a non-html formatted post and use the preview button you mean?