Salon has supported open source by giving it visibility and decently well-informed coverage for a mainstream media outlet. And they were doing that before most of the rest of the non-technical media had any idea what open source was.
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Camille Paglia's stuff. She stayed strong long after Maureen Dowd resorted to utter self-parody.
Yeah, Camille Paglia did it right by beginning with utter self-parody at the outset.
I find it odd that Americans are all so willing to insult France for being defeated by one of the most powerful armies in modern time, but are now all upset when they don't want to aid an attack on a small, middle-eastern country who has shown no signs of a direct threat.
It's because these days we Americans pride ourselves on our ability to destroy countries smaller and weaker than us. France is raining on our parade dammit!
If you let them read the document, there is always the possibility of them copying it. If you want them to be able to read the document but not manipulate its contents, save it as a damn jpg or something. Or print it out and send it to them in the mail. DRM is not going to help you here, you're better off trying to work with people you actually trust. Also, if you wrote a doc and someone changed a title page and is making money from that document, you are protected by copyright law. Call a lawyer.
I have to agree. I've been using Word for the Mac since 4.0, and I've tried weaning myself off of it several times with no success. Before OS X I was trying to switch to linux, have tried staroffice and wordperfect and abiword and open office and kword on a variety of platforms (slackware, redhat, mandrake, and lately on OS X). The features I need as a sometimes-academic writer include some of the above, but an absolute necessity is sane footnote/endnote handling. Other word processors do crazy and counterintuitive things like give me separate windows for every footnote. That's a little silly when you have over 100 of them and you edit them a lot.
Of course, like most people, I find that the most important thing about Word is that I can always count on getting help writing a letter.
Have you read the act? I have. I have also read a number of analyses of the Act. Very few things to protect anyone; plenty of things to take important Constitutional liberties away. You issue death threats on slashdot to "leftests" based on opposition to the Patriot Act? The act is a disgrace to the word "patriot" and anyone who supports it should take the plastic flag decal off their fucking SUV.
I think things might be better with a Congress that was not making hasty decisions in the wake both of 9-11 and of an anthrax attack aimed directly at Congressmembers. Many people theorized that the anthrax attacker specifically wanted to push Congress to vote for this act without reading it.
According to Supreme Court decisions extending back to Olmstead v. U.S. and affirmed in such cases as Griswold v Connecticut, the right to privacy emanates from the penumbras of the first, fourth, fifth, and ninth amendments to the Constitution. It is not specifically mentioned but it has been called by the Court (in Brandeis' dissent in 1928, which is now Court precedent as it has been heavily cited) "the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized man." Privacy is protected by the US Constitution, even though you won't find the word in the Bill of Rights.
Then you get to have your ISP prosecued for a serious crime (at least much more serious than copyright violation) if they do manage to break the encryption.
Only if your copyrighted files are underneath the encryption. If it is RIAA owned material, for example, you're not likely to be able to claim they broke a copyright protection scheme, even though perhaps they did. You have no legal right to "protect" someone else's intellectual property like that (especially if your idea of protection is sharing it with your friend).
are you saying Apple doesn't support iSCSI? how is that possible? It starts with an "i" followed by a capital letter? How could they not support it?! Help, my world is collapsing around me!
I downloaded an app called "Homeland Alert" which purports to do this in the menubar, but it says we're at "yellow," when the true status is "orange." Hopefully the konfabulator widget is more accurate? I would hate to forget my duct tape because my Mac didn't accurately calculate the terror alert status.
Was this published in english or was Gates originally translated into german and then back into english for us to view? That could make a difference too.
If that were the case, we should see babelfish-like results: "Because insects are at low temperature."
So I was flying in this private jet that I used to rent and we got in a snowstorm and it was like BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP and we almost died!! So I was like shit but maybe I can make my company buy me a jet so I don't have to rent this piece of crap. Besides I deserve my own jet because I thought of putting the icons on the RIGHT side of the desktop, which is the one true reason Macs are superior. Plus Apple's only paying me a dollar a year anyway, what the hell; just for yucks I'll see if I can get away with having them buy me the jet and rent it back to them, and make even MORE MONEY. My stockholders would be pissed if they knew, but all they care about is translucent hardware and lickable web browsers. Muwahahahahahaha! It was a really good jet.
It sounds oddly like the *BSD troll. There's something surreal about hearing a freaking Operating System described in such breathy, urgent prose. It feels almost.... dirty.....
It's the new dialog boxes that drive most OS9'ers crazy. OS X definitely took a step backward in terms of navigation through the dialog boxes, which made a lot more sense in 9. I've gotten used to them by now but I saw a lot of frustration expressed on lists and so forth about the new dialog boxes; Apple should really rethink them, or Default Folder X should get a lot better....
Just to confirm, I can't find anything wrong with my network settings, and I just installed the update, and I certainly didn't have to edit etc/resolv.conf!
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Salon has supported open source by giving it visibility and decently well-informed coverage for a mainstream media outlet. And they were doing that before most of the rest of the non-technical media had any idea what open source was.
Yeah, Camille Paglia did it right by beginning with utter self-parody at the outset.
It's because these days we Americans pride ourselves on our ability to destroy countries smaller and weaker than us. France is raining on our parade dammit!
pyrotechnics!!!!
*ducks*
(1) to whine about the mouse
(2) to mention Kreskin
(3) red ink! river of blood!
If you let them read the document, there is always the possibility of them copying it. If you want them to be able to read the document but not manipulate its contents, save it as a damn jpg or something. Or print it out and send it to them in the mail. DRM is not going to help you here, you're better off trying to work with people you actually trust. Also, if you wrote a doc and someone changed a title page and is making money from that document, you are protected by copyright law. Call a lawyer.
Of course, like most people, I find that the most important thing about Word is that I can always count on getting help writing a letter.
Why? You need help writing a letter?
True. In the intervening time, he's provided us with hundreds of thousands of newer, cooler bugs than we ever had in Windows 3.1.
How about, that requires me to get off the chair in front of my computer and put down the bong? Hell, that even requires leaving the house.
Have you read the act? I have. I have also read a number of analyses of the Act. Very few things to protect anyone; plenty of things to take important Constitutional liberties away. You issue death threats on slashdot to "leftests" based on opposition to the Patriot Act? The act is a disgrace to the word "patriot" and anyone who supports it should take the plastic flag decal off their fucking SUV.
I think things might be better with a Congress that was not making hasty decisions in the wake both of 9-11 and of an anthrax attack aimed directly at Congressmembers. Many people theorized that the anthrax attacker specifically wanted to push Congress to vote for this act without reading it.
According to Supreme Court decisions extending back to Olmstead v. U.S. and affirmed in such cases as Griswold v Connecticut , the right to privacy emanates from the penumbras of the first, fourth, fifth, and ninth amendments to the Constitution. It is not specifically mentioned but it has been called by the Court (in Brandeis' dissent in 1928, which is now Court precedent as it has been heavily cited) "the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized man." Privacy is protected by the US Constitution, even though you won't find the word in the Bill of Rights.
Only if your copyrighted files are underneath the encryption. If it is RIAA owned material, for example, you're not likely to be able to claim they broke a copyright protection scheme, even though perhaps they did. You have no legal right to "protect" someone else's intellectual property like that (especially if your idea of protection is sharing it with your friend).
are you saying Apple doesn't support iSCSI? how is that possible? It starts with an "i" followed by a capital letter? How could they not support it?! Help, my world is collapsing around me!
Interesting.
Coincidence? I think not.
did not experience this problem. I did repair permissions right after the update but I didn't notice this problem at all.
I downloaded an app called "Homeland Alert" which purports to do this in the menubar, but it says we're at "yellow," when the true status is "orange." Hopefully the konfabulator widget is more accurate? I would hate to forget my duct tape because my Mac didn't accurately calculate the terror alert status.
If that were the case, we should see babelfish-like results: "Because insects are at low temperature."
So I was flying in this private jet that I used to rent and we got in a snowstorm and it was like BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP and we almost died!! So I was like shit but maybe I can make my company buy me a jet so I don't have to rent this piece of crap. Besides I deserve my own jet because I thought of putting the icons on the RIGHT side of the desktop, which is the one true reason Macs are superior. Plus Apple's only paying me a dollar a year anyway, what the hell; just for yucks I'll see if I can get away with having them buy me the jet and rent it back to them, and make even MORE MONEY. My stockholders would be pissed if they knew, but all they care about is translucent hardware and lickable web browsers. Muwahahahahahaha! It was a really good jet.
Apple makes TVs now?
It sounds oddly like the *BSD troll. There's something surreal about hearing a freaking Operating System described in such breathy, urgent prose. It feels almost.... dirty.....
It's the new dialog boxes that drive most OS9'ers crazy. OS X definitely took a step backward in terms of navigation through the dialog boxes, which made a lot more sense in 9. I've gotten used to them by now but I saw a lot of frustration expressed on lists and so forth about the new dialog boxes; Apple should really rethink them, or Default Folder X should get a lot better....
I haven't seen the problem at all, and I've been using 2 laptops, a tibook and an iBook.
Just to confirm, I can't find anything wrong with my network settings, and I just installed the update, and I certainly didn't have to edit etc/resolv.conf!