Except that the Slashdot version works better, and is more intuitive without instruction.
Zigzag looked more promissing, but seems to have been dead since 2001, and moribund since 1999. As I read it, Zigzag appears to be based around a resizeable vector of doubly-linked lists that were conceptualized as being orthogonal. Could have been *very* interesting, but probably also quite confusing to navigate.
Possibly you're right about Firefox...though you wouldn't have been a year ago. I use SeaMonkey, which is under this license: http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ Mozilla & Netscape Public Licenses
This page details the licenses under which Mozilla source code can be obtained. All of the code which makes up the core Mozilla products is licensed under a MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license or a licence compatible with all three of those (e.g. the BSD licence). Other code in our repository may have different licensing terms....
They didn't say so. Of course, they didn't say anything...
OTOH, that's what the licenses said to me when I read them, and that's what several others were saying at the time. So unless there's genuine evidence that I've misunderstood them, I plan to steer well clear of anything using the CDDL.
However, IANAL. If you don't trust my analysis (and you shouldn't), then research it yourself, or hire a lawyer to do so for you.
Not to worry. Firefox is available under GPL. MPL was never widely used outside of Mozilla, and that chiefly in the period before Mozilla was widely used. At that, it's a better license than the CDDL. The CDDL specificly allows distribution of binaries that depend on proprietary licenses of various forms. One of the forms would make the source code visible, and not clearly warn users that it was dependant on having licensed certain software patents...i.e., that the end-users were liable if they didn't properly license the patents required to use the software, and the company could know about it and not warn you.
The MPL protected against that. The CDDL removed that protection. So, I ask myself, *why* would Sun make such a change? (I asked Sun, too. They never responded...which doesn't prove anything.)
especially when the USA doesn't actually look any freer to us than any other first world country.
And less free than many. Currently the Nordic group of countries, taken as a whole, look to be the freest, but that *IS* an outside viewpoint. Canada is another good choice, and so is New Zealand.
One thing these freer countries have in common is a low population density. I'm not sure about Iceland. I believe that it's near the top in freedom, but also that people emigrate. I'm also not sure about Norway, as Sweden get more news coverage. (And, if you are fluent in the language, immigration looks easy.... Of course, that *IS* a big if.)
OK. I consider Flash working a negative, but I accept that many people consider it a plus. The other two I don't even recognize.
So it's good in places that I'd never look. Pity about the installer, then. If it weren't so unfriendly, I'd have it as a spare distro for my wife...but since it "doesn't play nicely with others", I had to uninstall it. (I forget whether it's just that Freespire uses Lilo instead of grub, or that it "encrypts" grub. One was Freespire and the other was Xandros. Both were quickly uninstalled for not playing nicely with the rest of my system. I replaced them with Mepis, which has many nice features...but I prefer Etch. [Well, actually I prefer Libranet, but that's a distro that's no longer with us.])
Sorry, I don't remember. I do, however, remember when I'm booted into Kubuntu.
I think that NEdit came in when I attached the Multiverse, so that's not it. It might have been wxRuby. (Well there were two or three, not just one.)
It's also true that I don't go into Kubuntu very often, so it's quite possible that the packages have been added since I last checked. Not liking sudo wasn't the reason that I didn't stay with Kubuntu, though, because at that point Etch had cups broken, and if I COULD have done my work in Kubuntu, I would have. (And that means that it probably wasn't wxRuby. I've only studied that, I've never actually used it.) I suppose it could have been gg95, or gnat. I've looked at those seriosly in about the right time period, even though I only ended up running test programs before dropping them. Ditto for felix. I don't think it was gcj...I seem to remember that Kubuntu was running gcj better than Etch was.
Sorry, I can't be specific. That may give you the flavor of the kind of package I'm talking about though.
I've looked at FreeSpire. I really can't see *what* it has to offer. I didn't see anything wrong about it, at least if you didn't have any other distros installed, but I also didn't see anything right about it.
The only reason I can see that it might attract new users is more advertising. There were many mal-features from my point of view, but I don't think they would matter to a new user. However I didn't encounter a single thing that was a "stand out value" for Freespire. Perhaps it's my computer. I was expecting better audio drivers, at least. I didn't find them. I suppose my midi card might be broken... but if it is, then I don't have any grounds for presuming that Ubuntu doesn't also have good audio drivers.
The differences aren't major, but they are significant. I have both Etch and (K)Ubuntu partitons on the same machine. (K)Ubuntu is nice, but most of the time I'm using Etch. Even with Multiverse enabled, (K)Ubuntu doesn't have many of the packages I need.
Ubuntu *was* easier to install, and it's stable distribution is more advanced than Sarge (which is why I have it installed...it replaces a Sarge installation). But generally I'm booted into Etch. (I don't really like sudo.)
I *LIVE* in a "high crime area". Most of the crimes that the police spend time on are "crimes by definition", not crimes because they injure someone or something. Those happen too, but because the police are swamped by things like "drug crimes" (which means using a drug rather than committing a crime while using a drug) their response time to *real* crimes can be quite slow. This gives the perpetrators lots of time to get away. And they generally can't be bothered tracing stolen merchandise. They're too busy with crimes-by=definition. Besides, it's safer to bust a drug user than to tackle someone who might be armed and dangerous.
A large part of the reason that this *IS* a high crime area is that the people don't trust the police. And they've got good reason to not trust them. If you've got dark skin, just driving legally on the road can get you pulled over and put through the wringer. I've never observed the process myself, but I've heard tales, and there have been reports to grand juries that have substantiated those tales. And the police in question were not prosecuted under the appropriate laws. The district attorney needs the cooperation of the police department.
If you live in with an honest government, congratulations. NEVER switch to electronic voting. EVER.
Your solution is a fair one, so I don't expect it to be chosen. (I've become a bit cynical about corporate ethics...as well as the ethics of many individual people.)
So there is at least one industry that has been overselling a service for a very long time. And as a result, I have NO sympathy for them when they get in ANY kind of trouble.
Well, they find it easier to buy off the government than to treat their customers fairly. They aren't alone in this. And there is a growing number of people who, as a result, hate and distrust all corporations. So they buy more protections from the government...reinforcing the cycle.
I don't know where this will end, but it's socially destructive and a decent government would stop it NOW. Fairly enforcing the existing laws would be a good start. Break up abusive monopolies. Insist that, as constitutionally mandated, justice be reasonable prompt and not unduly delayed. Enforce the right of all parties to decent representation before the courts. AND ELIMINATE ALL PLEA BARGAINING.
That wouldn't solve all problems, but it would ameliorate them. It would re-introduce justfiable trust into the process.
Have you checked satellite connections? I understand that though their is high latency, the throughput is very good. (OTOH, I have heard something about needing a secod voice line...so I may not understand what's involved.)
Well, there was one case where a modified sugar molecule created a variant that was toxic...and everyone had presumed that it would be safe, so the error was caught by accident rather than on purpose, but I don't think that was technically "genetically engineered". They were using an approach with less paperwork, and which everyone presumed was totally safe.
The fact is, whenever there's any change you introduce an element of danger. I would be quite comfortable with the sale of genetically modified plants and animals IF THEY WERE CLEARLY LABELLED. Since they have "fixed" the rules so that they don't need to label the products correctly, then I'm all in favor of a total ban.
That unashamed "rootkit vendor to the world" can't go up until it changes it's ways...or goes bankrupt. At this point going bankrupt would *improve* Sony's credibility.
Now examine the term of the copyright at the time the first US law on it went into effect. And examine the penalties. Now examine the current term of the copyright ant panalties.
It shouldn't take you long to decide that the system is broken.
Maybe. But strangely enough being a successful trader in one quarter doesn't predict that you will be successful in the next quarter.
My suspicion is that skilled traders avoid many common mistakes...but that most of being a "very successful" trader over any short period of time, say a year, is luck. It also means taking unwise chances with other people's money. Most such traders will lose, but some will win. When they lose, their clients lose. When they win, their clients win, and they gain more clients. (But winning over any short period of time does not predict winning over the next short period of time.)
The "good antenna" theory sounds plausible to me...OTOH, I haven't read the article. (I really distrust press releases.)
Do they talk about the quantity of energy collected? That would probably put some bounds on the possible sources.
OK. Now I've read the article. There seems to be literally NO significant information present. So little that now I'm leaning towards fraud rather than a good antenna.
Sun has at times recently engaged in actions that raise doubts about how much slack they should be cut. But please *do* remember OpenOffice. That was the first useable word processor for Linux (since MS bought out Corel and convinced them to drop WordPerfect). AbiWord just wasn't in the ballpark. KOffice was green and unready. Alpha quality.
And Linux NEEDED a word processor, not LaTex. And Sun provided one. (This *doesn't* excuse their subsidizing SCO...but it *IS* a large contribution to Linux, even if I suspect their motives.)
I wonder if you could swap them. I do occasionally have a use for capslock. But not as often as for the escape key. (And I don't use that often either. I intend to *avoid* carpal tunnel by not twisting my hands unmercifully. So far it's nearly working...whenever I get a sign of it's presence I switch which side of the keyboard my mouse is on.)
Slashdot Mirror
Except that the Slashdot version works better, and is more intuitive without instruction.
Zigzag looked more promissing, but seems to have been dead since 2001, and moribund since 1999. As I read it, Zigzag appears to be based around a resizeable vector of doubly-linked lists that were conceptualized as being orthogonal. Could have been *very* interesting, but probably also quite confusing to navigate.
Possibly you're right about Firefox...though you wouldn't have been a year ago. I use SeaMonkey, which is under this license:
...
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
Mozilla & Netscape Public Licenses
This page details the licenses under which Mozilla source code can be obtained. All of the code which makes up the core Mozilla products is licensed under a MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license or a licence compatible with all three of those (e.g. the BSD licence). Other code in our repository may have different licensing terms.
They didn't say so. Of course, they didn't say anything...
OTOH, that's what the licenses said to me when I read them, and that's what several others were saying at the time. So unless there's genuine evidence that I've misunderstood them, I plan to steer well clear of anything using the CDDL.
However, IANAL. If you don't trust my analysis (and you shouldn't), then research it yourself, or hire a lawyer to do so for you.
Not to worry. Firefox is available under GPL. MPL was never widely used outside of Mozilla, and that chiefly in the period before Mozilla was widely used. At that, it's a better license than the CDDL. The CDDL specificly allows distribution of binaries that depend on proprietary licenses of various forms. One of the forms would make the source code visible, and not clearly warn users that it was dependant on having licensed certain software patents...i.e., that the end-users were liable if they didn't properly license the patents required to use the software, and the company could know about it and not warn you.
The MPL protected against that. The CDDL removed that protection. So, I ask myself, *why* would Sun make such a change? (I asked Sun, too. They never responded...which doesn't prove anything.)
especially when the USA doesn't actually look any freer to us than any other first world country.
... Of course, that *IS* a big if.)
And less free than many. Currently the Nordic group of countries, taken as a whole, look to be the freest, but that *IS* an outside viewpoint. Canada is another good choice, and so is New Zealand.
One thing these freer countries have in common is a low population density. I'm not sure about Iceland. I believe that it's near the top in freedom, but also that people emigrate. I'm also not sure about Norway, as Sweden get more news coverage. (And, if you are fluent in the language, immigration looks easy.
No, but I don't watch movies or animations. From the names, I presume that's what they're about.
If you're going to bother to ask, be sure to check it, and write it down.
OK. I consider Flash working a negative, but I accept that many people consider it a plus. The other two I don't even recognize.
So it's good in places that I'd never look. Pity about the installer, then. If it weren't so unfriendly, I'd have it as a spare distro for my wife...but since it "doesn't play nicely with others", I had to uninstall it. (I forget whether it's just that Freespire uses Lilo instead of grub, or that it "encrypts" grub. One was Freespire and the other was Xandros. Both were quickly uninstalled for not playing nicely with the rest of my system. I replaced them with Mepis, which has many nice features...but I prefer Etch. [Well, actually I prefer Libranet, but that's a distro that's no longer with us.])
Sorry, I don't remember. I do, however, remember when I'm booted into Kubuntu.
I think that NEdit came in when I attached the Multiverse, so that's not it. It might have been wxRuby. (Well there were two or three, not just one.)
It's also true that I don't go into Kubuntu very often, so it's quite possible that the packages have been added since I last checked. Not liking sudo wasn't the reason that I didn't stay with Kubuntu, though, because at that point Etch had cups broken, and if I COULD have done my work in Kubuntu, I would have. (And that means that it probably wasn't wxRuby. I've only studied that, I've never actually used it.) I suppose it could have been gg95, or gnat. I've looked at those seriosly in about the right time period, even though I only ended up running test programs before dropping them. Ditto for felix. I don't think it was gcj...I seem to remember that Kubuntu was running gcj better than Etch was.
Sorry, I can't be specific. That may give you the flavor of the kind of package I'm talking about though.
I've looked at FreeSpire. I really can't see *what* it has to offer. I didn't see anything wrong about it, at least if you didn't have any other distros installed, but I also didn't see anything right about it.
... but if it is, then I don't have any grounds for presuming that Ubuntu doesn't also have good audio drivers.
The only reason I can see that it might attract new users is more advertising. There were many mal-features from my point of view, but I don't think they would matter to a new user. However I didn't encounter a single thing that was a "stand out value" for Freespire. Perhaps it's my computer. I was expecting better audio drivers, at least. I didn't find them. I suppose my midi card might be broken
The differences aren't major, but they are significant. I have both Etch and (K)Ubuntu partitons on the same machine. (K)Ubuntu is nice, but most of the time I'm using Etch. Even with Multiverse enabled, (K)Ubuntu doesn't have many of the packages I need.
Ubuntu *was* easier to install, and it's stable distribution is more advanced than Sarge (which is why I have it installed...it replaces a Sarge installation). But generally I'm booted into Etch. (I don't really like sudo.)
I *LIVE* in a "high crime area". Most of the crimes that the police spend time on are "crimes by definition", not crimes because they injure someone or something. Those happen too, but because the police are swamped by things like "drug crimes" (which means using a drug rather than committing a crime while using a drug) their response time to *real* crimes can be quite slow. This gives the perpetrators lots of time to get away. And they generally can't be bothered tracing stolen merchandise. They're too busy with crimes-by=definition. Besides, it's safer to bust a drug user than to tackle someone who might be armed and dangerous.
A large part of the reason that this *IS* a high crime area is that the people don't trust the police. And they've got good reason to not trust them. If you've got dark skin, just driving legally on the road can get you pulled over and put through the wringer. I've never observed the process myself, but I've heard tales, and there have been reports to grand juries that have substantiated those tales. And the police in question were not prosecuted under the appropriate laws. The district attorney needs the cooperation of the police department.
If you live in with an honest government, congratulations. NEVER switch to electronic voting. EVER.
I definitely agree that too many things have become crimes and that the laws are too complex ... or did you have a different point?
Your solution is a fair one, so I don't expect it to be chosen. (I've become a bit cynical about corporate ethics...as well as the ethics of many individual people.)
So there is at least one industry that has been overselling a service for a very long time.
And as a result, I have NO sympathy for them when they get in ANY kind of trouble.
Well, they find it easier to buy off the government than to treat their customers fairly. They aren't alone in this. And there is a growing number of people who, as a result, hate and distrust all corporations. So they buy more protections from the government...reinforcing the cycle.
I don't know where this will end, but it's socially destructive and a decent government would stop it NOW. Fairly enforcing the existing laws would be a good start. Break up abusive monopolies. Insist that, as constitutionally mandated, justice be reasonable prompt and not unduly delayed. Enforce the right of all parties to decent representation before the courts. AND ELIMINATE ALL PLEA BARGAINING.
That wouldn't solve all problems, but it would ameliorate them. It would re-introduce justfiable trust into the process.
Have you checked satellite connections? I understand that though their is high latency, the throughput is very good. (OTOH, I have heard something about needing a secod voice line...so I may not understand what's involved.)
Well, there was one case where a modified sugar molecule created a variant that was toxic...and everyone had presumed that it would be safe, so the error was caught by accident rather than on purpose, but I don't think that was technically "genetically engineered". They were using an approach with less paperwork, and which everyone presumed was totally safe.
The fact is, whenever there's any change you introduce an element of danger. I would be quite comfortable with the sale of genetically modified plants and animals IF THEY WERE CLEARLY LABELLED. Since they have "fixed" the rules so that they don't need to label the products correctly, then I'm all in favor of a total ban.
That unashamed "rootkit vendor to the world" can't go up until it changes it's ways...or goes bankrupt. At this point going bankrupt would *improve* Sony's credibility.
Now examine the term of the copyright at the time the first US law on it went into effect. And examine the penalties. Now examine the current term of the copyright ant panalties.
It shouldn't take you long to decide that the system is broken.
Well, for some insane reason I was hoping it was the Linux release of "Wizardry I: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord".
Maybe. But strangely enough being a successful trader in one quarter doesn't predict that you will be successful in the next quarter.
My suspicion is that skilled traders avoid many common mistakes...but that most of being a "very successful" trader over any short period of time, say a year, is luck. It also means taking unwise chances with other people's money. Most such traders will lose, but some will win. When they lose, their clients lose. When they win, their clients win, and they gain more clients. (But winning over any short period of time does not predict winning over the next short period of time.)
The "good antenna" theory sounds plausible to me...OTOH, I haven't read the article. (I really distrust press releases.)
Do they talk about the quantity of energy collected? That would probably put some bounds on the possible sources.
OK. Now I've read the article. There seems to be literally NO significant information present. So little that now I'm leaning towards fraud rather than a good antenna.
Sony clearly has the best interests of the end-user in mind.
Not.
Apparently the root kit was only the inflamed skin over the pustule.
Lance that boil and get rid of it.
Sun has at times recently engaged in actions that raise doubts about how much slack they should be cut. But please *do* remember OpenOffice. That was the first useable word processor for Linux (since MS bought out Corel and convinced them to drop WordPerfect). AbiWord just wasn't in the ballpark. KOffice was green and unready. Alpha quality.
And Linux NEEDED a word processor, not LaTex. And Sun provided one.
(This *doesn't* excuse their subsidizing SCO...but it *IS* a large contribution to Linux, even if I suspect their motives.)
I wonder if you could swap them. I do occasionally have a use for capslock. But not as often as for the escape key. (And I don't use that often either. I intend to *avoid* carpal tunnel by not twisting my hands unmercifully. So far it's nearly working...whenever I get a sign of it's presence I switch which side of the keyboard my mouse is on.)