With Windows I can just point out the "Designed for Windows X" logo and my customers will get devices that work every. single. time.
Normally, I wouldn't nitpick to this degree, but you seemed to place great emphasis on this point. Are you saying that you've never encountered a Windows user complaining that their printer just "stopped working?" It seems to me that every nontechnical person I know has expressed this frustration to me at one time or another.
Why is it always assumed that--for instance--pharmaceutical patents, technological patents, and software patents all have to follow the same patent law?
Wouldn't it be best to tailor the law to what's practical in each particular field?
I wouldn't say we're better off for having GTK, or at last we're not better off having GTK be as popular as it is. Choice is good, but Linux would be much further toward acceptance on the Desktop with one main GUI toolkit.
We'd be better off had GTK completely killed off QT, or if it hadn't been created at all. We ended up with the worst possible outcome. I can't think of anything that could slow down Desktop Linux development more than two major competing DEs duplicating each other's efforts.
What makes you think that there wouldn't be two major competing DEs, both using the same toolkit? KDE and Gnome are different enough, philosophically, that we'd likely still have both.
If you followed the global mobile news you would know about mobile-review already. But most in the US don't know shit about anything except RIM, Apple and Motorola.
Truth be told, I don't follow them, either. The summary leads one to believe there's an interesting technology article somewhere in there, but there really isn't anything of the sort (which is probably why I don't find mobile phones very compelling in the first place--for such a potentially-important class of technologies to be hindered by some inexplicable need to be tied to a phone service does not make sense to me).
I hate to pop your balloon (pun intended) but 10,000 feet is not that high. In World War 2 the Germans had anti-aircraft guns that could easily get to much over 20,000 feet. Many cheap modern shoulder held anti-aircraft missiles can easily shoot this high and a blimp would be easy to hit. It might be safe from small arms fire but a few small holes wouldn't hurt it much. An anti-aircraft missile is another matter.
Some people might not be bright enough to distinguish from actual downloading of some sort and streaming from some site like Hulu or Pandora. How does Pandora or radio streams fit into this particular bit of government propaganda?
Both are blocked outright on DoD networks, along with all other mainstream music/video distribution sites, so no worries.
I tried to RTFA, but apparently the author assumes that I spend day and night reading his website and know the story behind all his half-alluded-to technologies. The only bit of coherent information I was able to garner from that pile of misspelled words, glued together with condescension, was how great the author thinks he is for being all "insider" and stuff.
Risks: - The outlook for the UK dental market...is positive - Current dental provision in the UK is low with only c. 50% of the population registered with dentists. There are also too few practices to meet the capacity needs.
Recently tried OpenRPG. Was okay, but we've since moved to rptools (rptools.net), which is open-source, very actively developed, and fantastic.
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But I pay £140 a year
Ok in all honesty where in your mind does £140 even begin to cover the literally thousands of hours of production? Do you think that covers even a SINGLE employee for a SINGLE episode? THIS people is the problem with the whole "I'm a noble pirate" bs that flies around on Slashdot. The mechanisms are in no way economically sustainable.
Apparently it does, since that's the price that was set by industry. I'm pretty sure the difference is made up by the fact that there are many more people paying that price than there are employees.
And here we are back to the "I purchased a license to use" argument again. Fine. I purchased a license to use the software, so if my disk goes tits up, then I should be able to get a replacement for no cost to me, since I did purchase a license, not the physical medium.
Download links for the entire game can be found on your Account Settings page.
No; if you read all the way to the end, you can see where they discuss the limited specific "general" programs that currently support this kind of thing. Namely, folding@home (on ATI cards) and maybe Photoshop in the future. The tomography software they use is likely their own code, is graphics-heavy, and is tailored for this set-up.
I like Insert (vi user). It is especially handy for a Dvorak layout, where ctrl-C and ctrl-V are cumbersome. Using ctrl-ins and shift-ins for copy/paste with this layout is actually even MORE convenient.
It's worth pointing out, I think, that your assumed sequence of cause-and-effect may be backwards.
Perhaps if patents were not such a legal minefield, people other than the independently wealthy and the retired would be motivated to take advantage of the system the way in which it was intended. In other words, the inventors are all independently wealthy or retired because nobody else can 'afford' the current system.
Secondly, I think that you will find that using binary drivers may very well be a violation of the license. This is one of the things that is still up in the air because of the GPL license... Is a driver a derived work? There are those that argue yes, and those that argue no. Personally, believe it is a derived work... it'd be damn difficult to have that driver without the GPL licensed Linux kernel. I think you will find that no part of the GPL says I can't use binary drivers on my box if that's what it pleases me to do. GPL is about redistribution; has nothing to do with use. I'll do whatever I darn well please on MY box, thank you. If that requires me to rip out code that arbitrarily blocks me from doing so, I'll do that, too. Even then, I still won't even be in cruise-missile range of anything that could be considered 'in violation of the license'.
Of course, this is EXACTLY the benefit of opening your drivers...once they're in the kernel, it's the kernel devs who will fix it when something changes in the kernel. You don't have to do a thing.
As a relatively low-power system, which cant handle graphics much more powerful than the Gamecube itself, Im extremely curious to see where the gimmicky console will stand in two years against the larger powerhouse competitors.
You play 'em on a TV. Who cares about graphics? Seems the "gimmick" to me is the ones trying to convince the market that graphics quality at TV (even HDTV) resolutions is somehow relevant.
That's always been a 'set-once, forget about it' option for me. If I knew the feature was there and was searching for it, I still might have missed it!
There's a Firefox in Debian stable? It's only like 2 years old. Someone must've slipped it in by accident. Quick! Revert to Mozilla 0.7 before someone notices!
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With Windows I can just point out the "Designed for Windows X" logo and my customers will get devices that work every. single. time.
Normally, I wouldn't nitpick to this degree, but you seemed to place great emphasis on this point. Are you saying that you've never encountered a Windows user complaining that their printer just "stopped working?" It seems to me that every nontechnical person I know has expressed this frustration to me at one time or another.
Why is it always assumed that--for instance--pharmaceutical patents, technological patents, and software patents all have to follow the same patent law?
Wouldn't it be best to tailor the law to what's practical in each particular field?
I wouldn't say we're better off for having GTK, or at last we're not better off having GTK be as popular as it is. Choice is good, but Linux would be much further toward acceptance on the Desktop with one main GUI toolkit.
We'd be better off had GTK completely killed off QT, or if it hadn't been created at all. We ended up with the worst possible outcome. I can't think of anything that could slow down Desktop Linux development more than two major competing DEs duplicating each other's efforts.
What makes you think that there wouldn't be two major competing DEs, both using the same toolkit? KDE and Gnome are different enough, philosophically, that we'd likely still have both.
If you followed the global mobile news you would know about mobile-review already. But most in the US don't know shit about anything except RIM, Apple and Motorola.
Truth be told, I don't follow them, either. The summary leads one to believe there's an interesting technology article somewhere in there, but there really isn't anything of the sort (which is probably why I don't find mobile phones very compelling in the first place--for such a potentially-important class of technologies to be hindered by some inexplicable need to be tied to a phone service does not make sense to me).
I hate to pop your balloon (pun intended) but 10,000 feet is not that high. In World War 2 the Germans had anti-aircraft guns that could easily get to much over 20,000 feet. Many cheap modern shoulder held anti-aircraft missiles can easily shoot this high and a blimp would be easy to hit. It might be safe from small arms fire but a few small holes wouldn't hurt it much. An anti-aircraft missile is another matter.
True.
Blimpin' ain't easy.
That's still no reason to falsely accuse someone.
Some people might not be bright enough to distinguish from actual downloading
of some sort and streaming from some site like Hulu or Pandora. How does Pandora
or radio streams fit into this particular bit of government propaganda?
Both are blocked outright on DoD networks, along with all other mainstream music/video distribution sites, so no worries.
I tried to RTFA, but apparently the author assumes that I spend day and night reading his website and know the story behind all his half-alluded-to technologies. The only bit of coherent information I was able to garner from that pile of misspelled words, glued together with condescension, was how great the author thinks he is for being all "insider" and stuff.
A dental health network:
Risks:
- The outlook for the UK dental market...is positive
- Current dental provision in the UK is low with only c. 50% of the population registered with dentists. There are also too few practices to meet the capacity needs.
Invest! Invest!
Agreed! Also, the source code for the language (written in C) is very digestible, well-commented, and easy-to-read. A great second step.
The language is a pleasure to use. It just feels right.
That quote sums it up perfectly. There's just something about the language that "just works" for me, at least.
Recently tried OpenRPG. Was okay, but we've since moved to rptools (rptools.net), which is open-source, very actively developed, and fantastic.
But I pay £140 a year
Ok in all honesty where in your mind does £140 even begin to cover the literally thousands of hours of production? Do you think that covers even a SINGLE employee for a SINGLE episode? THIS people is the problem with the whole "I'm a noble pirate" bs that flies around on Slashdot. The mechanisms are in no way economically sustainable.
Apparently it does, since that's the price that was set by industry. I'm pretty sure the difference is made up by the fact that there are many more people paying that price than there are employees.
The Ones Who Walk Away from OmeLAS?
And here we are back to the "I purchased a license to use" argument again. Fine. I purchased a license to use the software, so if my disk goes tits up, then I should be able to get a replacement for no cost to me, since I did purchase a license, not the physical medium.
Download links for the entire game can be found on your Account Settings page.
No; if you read all the way to the end, you can see where they discuss the limited specific "general" programs that currently support this kind of thing. Namely, folding@home (on ATI cards) and maybe Photoshop in the future. The tomography software they use is likely their own code, is graphics-heavy, and is tailored for this set-up.
I like Insert (vi user). It is especially handy for a Dvorak layout, where ctrl-C and ctrl-V are cumbersome. Using ctrl-ins and shift-ins for copy/paste with this layout is actually even MORE convenient.
It's worth pointing out, I think, that your assumed sequence of cause-and-effect may be backwards.
Perhaps if patents were not such a legal minefield, people other than the independently wealthy and the retired would be motivated to take advantage of the system the way in which it was intended. In other words, the inventors are all independently wealthy or retired because nobody else can 'afford' the current system.
Of course, this is EXACTLY the benefit of opening your drivers...once they're in the kernel, it's the kernel devs who will fix it when something changes in the kernel. You don't have to do a thing.
So how soon until we can start pre-ordering our Phantom IIs?
As a relatively low-power system, which cant handle graphics much more powerful than the Gamecube itself, Im extremely curious to see where the gimmicky console will stand in two years against the larger powerhouse competitors.
You play 'em on a TV. Who cares about graphics? Seems the "gimmick" to me is the ones trying to convince the market that graphics quality at TV (even HDTV) resolutions is somehow relevant.
Oh, sneaky. I had the same annoyance. Good catch!
That's always been a 'set-once, forget about it' option for me. If I knew the feature was there and was searching for it, I still might have missed it!
Thanks!
SVG?
Do they have one that shows how to close HTML tags? >8)
There's a Firefox in Debian stable? It's only like 2 years old. Someone must've slipped it in by accident. Quick! Revert to Mozilla 0.7 before someone notices!
Exactly...make it one of those computery numbers. That's how you know it's too complicated to bother questioning.