The West Wing is currently stalled about halfway through Season Five in Australia on free-to-air. The last episode of Season Six screens in the US this coming week. The channel that has the rights over here won't even state whether it's coming back at all, let along when.
Pay TV (cable or satellite) isn't a solution - one cable channel is currently screening repeats of Season One).
In addition, I own the first four seasons on DVD and intend to purchase S5 and S6 on DVD as soon as they become available.
So, you'll just have to pardon me for not feeling particularly guilty about having seen ripped episodes that are yet to air down here.
If some tinpot republic (or China) is unhappy with the state of the Internet, then fine. If that country's citizens are unhappy with their lack of access, let them fight for it.
I'd rather let them go without, than accept limitations on the Internet to appease their government.
Not likely. RMS has already stated that Free Software should not be restricted from use for a particular purpose. He even used the example of Free Software being not restricted by use from either an abortion clinic or an anti-abortion campaigner.
- shut down everything on my computer, save open documents, and all that crap
- find a CD
- boot to that CD (assuming it likes my hardware to start with)
With:
- walk over to the computer, turn it on (because, like most people, the user keeps the computer powered down and sitting in the corner when not being used) and shove the CD in the drive
Notice that "IP" issues, even down to the explicit legalisation of software patents, are a key part of every trade agreement that the US has entered into recently.
Which is why I ask "Why hasn't there been a framework written yet to make ANY windowing system look native?"
We're pretty much there. On Windows XP, there's a system library called themexp.dll that accepts primitive UI calls ("draw a listbox frame", "draw a button"). It's what takes care of the switch between the new XP look and the older classic Windows look.
Qt (the commercially licensed one from Trolltech, don't know about this new GPLed port), GTK and Mozilla's stuff all call down into this library to draw controls on Windows.
Qt does the same on the Mac as well, although it doesn't do as good a job. I don't know about Firefox/Mac, and there's no Aqua port of a modern GTK yet.
I went to help a user this morning with their voicemail. I push the "Voice Mail" button on their phone and it asks their password. He pulls out a notepad from his top, always unlocked, desk drawer. This notepad has ALL of his passwords written on it. He has access to some pretty important stuff, too.
IMO, the user is the problem here. You have a security policy and he's breaking it.
If someone did the same to physical security policies - if they repeatedly wedged secure doors open, left their keys on a table outside the front door, didn't arm the alarm before leaving, etc - they'd be done for it. Odds are they'd lose security privileges (no, you can't have a key to that door, you're not responsible enough). If those privileges were essential to their job, well, they'd lose their job.
Yes, remembering passwords can be a pain. Lots of things are. People have to suck it up and get over it already.
.. you get people jumping up and down when you graft some stem cells into a pig so that its blood is structured like a human's, but there's no such outcry over the fact that great apes effectively have no rights?
Chimps and gorillas have far more in common with humans than half of the potential chimeras mentioned in the article will ever do.
For some reason the entire registrar business has taken on a seedy air, the reek of small time evil:).
It's the smell of a natural monopoly (you know, those things that used to be operated as public utilities and nonprofits) being swarmed over by people with MBAs, suits and shareholders.
Great, but my Qt application has a tab widget in it.. and Qt renders it 10.2 style on everything, including MacOS X 10.3. (Apparantly to be fixed in Qt 4).
There's this nifty protocol called TCP/IP that I think could do what you're looking for. You can send data in either direction at any point in time and compress it however you like.
Libraries aren't about saving disk space, they're about saving space in memory, and also about having exactly one version of the library on the system, which the packaging software will update as required. (Particularly important security-wise).
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The West Wing is currently stalled about halfway through Season Five in Australia on free-to-air. The last episode of Season Six screens in the US this coming week. The channel that has the rights over here won't even state whether it's coming back at all, let along when. Pay TV (cable or satellite) isn't a solution - one cable channel is currently screening repeats of Season One). In addition, I own the first four seasons on DVD and intend to purchase S5 and S6 on DVD as soon as they become available. So, you'll just have to pardon me for not feeling particularly guilty about having seen ripped episodes that are yet to air down here.
Do not eat iPod Shuffle.
If some tinpot republic (or China) is unhappy with the state of the Internet, then fine. If that country's citizens are unhappy with their lack of access, let them fight for it.
I'd rather let them go without, than accept limitations on the Internet to appease their government.
I prefer Theo de Raadt's hypothetical baby mulching machines.
For most people: you can replace this:
With:
Notice that "IP" issues, even down to the explicit legalisation of software patents, are a key part of every trade agreement that the US has entered into recently.
Of course not, they're obviously part of a liberal conspiracy.
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Fat lot of fucking good this decision did.
Linux is not the desktop.
Doesn't make sense? Then take a GNOME application that runs on Linux and try porting it to:
- compile against the KDE libraries on Linux
- compile against the GNOME libraries on Solaris
GNOME is a desktop platform, and KDE is a desktop platform, whatever the underlying base system and kernel. Linux is not a desktop platform.
We're pretty much there. On Windows XP, there's a system library called themexp.dll that accepts primitive UI calls ("draw a listbox frame", "draw a button"). It's what takes care of the switch between the new XP look and the older classic Windows look.
Qt (the commercially licensed one from Trolltech, don't know about this new GPLed port), GTK and Mozilla's stuff all call down into this library to draw controls on Windows.
Qt does the same on the Mac as well, although it doesn't do as good a job. I don't know about Firefox/Mac, and there's no Aqua port of a modern GTK yet.
Which "standard" Win32 controls would you be talking about?
The ones build into user32.dll? Those don't even include a listview.
The ones in CTL3DV2.DLL?
The ones in MFC?
The custom stuff that Microsoft comes up with for each new version of Office?
The Windows.Forms stuff that most .NET applications use?
The notion that there's a "standard Win32 set of controls" is a myth.
Maybe you missed the fact that the new Windows dual licensing applies from Qt 4.0 onwards. This effort is for Qt 3.x.
Qt 4 is (a) not entirely backwards compatible and (b) not available yet.
IMO, the user is the problem here. You have a security policy and he's breaking it.
If someone did the same to physical security policies - if they repeatedly wedged secure doors open, left their keys on a table outside the front door, didn't arm the alarm before leaving, etc - they'd be done for it. Odds are they'd lose security privileges (no, you can't have a key to that door, you're not responsible enough). If those privileges were essential to their job, well, they'd lose their job.
Yes, remembering passwords can be a pain. Lots of things are. People have to suck it up and get over it already.
This is not an issue, because export to PDF is built in to the OS X printing system. Every Apple application that prints supports it.
Apple will abandon Mac OS X in favour of GoogleOS, running on x86.
.. you get people jumping up and down when you graft some stem cells into a pig so that its blood is structured like a human's, but there's no such outcry over the fact that great apes effectively have no rights?
Chimps and gorillas have far more in common with humans than half of the potential chimeras mentioned in the article will ever do.
It's the smell of a natural monopoly (you know, those things that used to be operated as public utilities and nonprofits) being swarmed over by people with MBAs, suits and shareholders.
I have Watson's book on my shelf but am yet to read it all the way through.
I felt that the book, ironically enough, beat about the bush and took too long to make a simple point.
Great, but my Qt application has a tab widget in it.. and Qt renders it 10.2 style on everything, including MacOS X 10.3. (Apparantly to be fixed in Qt 4).
There's this nifty protocol called TCP/IP that I think could do what you're looking for. You can send data in either direction at any point in time and compress it however you like.
Libraries aren't about saving disk space, they're about saving space in memory, and also about having exactly one version of the library on the system, which the packaging software will update as required. (Particularly important security-wise).
Eh, manufacture film? I thought they were a Java company.