There is a thing such as American English. You need to specify English because of the other American languages such as Spanish, Ebonics, French (Canada is in the Americas also) or Portuguese. All of those languages are as American as English.
I think under the current EULA of Mircosoft you can run a copy of windows on your laptop as well as Desktop. Interesting to see if they incorporate this somehow or changer their EULA. Or I'm wrong about that.
Also, probably the cracks will in as patches or something of the sort so you won't have to redownload windows or anything. Shouldn't be much of a hassle.
My opinion on the whole issue is that they will somehow keep the current EULA (which alows you to delate the software on one computer and install it on another) in the final version.
It wouldn't be very hard for someone on Earth to figure this out with some spectroscopy. A spectroscope is very simple. You can get a real cheap one for like $10. Anyone on earth with access to a good one could have been tracking the build up of oxygen. One doesn't need a "external oxygen detector."
I actually didn't see the movie, but I have been frustrated by such things in the past. Like this one movie where a creature had like "30% human DNA and 70% gecko DNA" which is of course crap because neither humans nor reptiles have DNA that unique. If they simply hadn't mentioned how they know the monster was composed as such it wouldn't be so bad.
Does anyone know anything more about it? That would be a very handy feature. Windose terminals wouldn't be a bad idea. I doubt they would have the terminal software be less then the actual software, because that would be the way of MS.
Are not other countries even more restrictive (not sure about this)?
I know some people who when they worked in Spain in the technical field had to work at US corporations, because there is no way to get a real work visa in Spain. This is probably due to their levels of unemployment.
Not designed to kill? For some reason, I find it hard to believe that... Perhaps having to do with the fact they do a pretty good job of it
I believe that the fabled founding fathers meant by that was that people have the right to bear arms so people could revolt againist the government. Somehow I think they did not have in mind the olympic games.
Thomas Jefferson is noted for having said that a revolt every 20 years was necesary for a healthy democracy. (He is also noted for saving things he didn't really believe in, like his opinion on slavery.) So, if you want to keep the true meaning of the 2nd admendment, you would have to allow people to have nuclear missles, tanks, chemicals and all items of war that are necesary to be competitive with the United States Military. However, its already been ruled that is a bad idea for more the obvious reasons.
I for one was using their program before they got sued.
The point is, that they got lots of press coverage because they are in court. People hear on the news about a program that allows you to get lots of illegal MP3s and they think "cool."
It like when Bill Clinton was being impeached and his favor rating when up. So there really isn't a such thing as bad publicity because any publicity is good.
Of course, there are expections like Exxon's spilling oil.
Nice to see someone else thinking reasonably about this. I use Napster. I liked Napster. And I don't because I'm making a political statment but because I'm cheap. (I'm the type who never blamed their dog for not having their homework, but that I had simply forgot.)
I'm not in denial about it.
What Napster is doing is facilitating theivary. The differnece between it and DeCSS, is that most people would have used DeCSS for legal reasons. Such as Linux DVD players that don't make you watch the trailers.
It is much easier to find illegal songs then legal ones on Napster. If your looking for legal songs, the convential internet is better as you get a fast reliable connection, unlike Napster with its Cable and Analog modems that are going on and offline. What makes Napster better is that it has illegal songs.
They did and are waiting for the new kernel in a way. This beta release uses the beta 2.4 kernel.
So, heres my question, are they going to wait for the kernel 2.4 to be released offically (as well as KDE 2.0, but I imagine that will not be an issue as its suppose to come out stable this month) or perhaps Mandrake standards are not as high as Linus's when it comes to stability?
You have a point though. I still see Mandrake 6.4 in stores sometimes. I pity the newbie who buys it.
(the rest is off-topic)
I use Mandrake, and it is a great distro. It automatically recognized my ethernet card, which on Debian entailed wading through HOWTOs and having a more Linux-experienced friend come over. Not that Debian is bad, but it certainly wasn't for me (of course you could argue I'm a better person with all that hands-on experience.)
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I'm not clear about the QPL yet. Does this mean that open-source and freeware people can port their stuff to windows without hassle? That would be nifty.
As far as companies not wanting to pay, I'm sure that will not be too much of a consideration considering that a few thousands bucks isn't very much money for a commerical software project.
The only people I see being put in the dark are the ms windows shareware developers (considering there isn't much shareware in the *nix world.)
All-in-all I'm with cmdrtaco in that its about time. It would have been better for KDE and QT if they had done this earlier.
I had Corel Linux (a youthful indiscristion, as George W. would put it) and then Debian and I finally settled on Mandrake. One of the few major differences I,the end-user less then a year of *nix experience, saw between them other then the setup was that Mandrake had no way to install a package from a list of possible ones and download all needed components the.deb based distros.
It makes more then a lot of sense.
Its about time someone added this feature to other distros.
In general though, the whoe package system is more then a large mess and completly new system needs to be divised. I mean look at how the distrubtions are used for primarly for the getting all the packages to play nice with each. In the reviews of distros I've read the programs included is a main issue. It shouldn't be. A person should take a barebones linux w/X/and environment and have no problem installing all the programs they want.
Suppose its that publich school. (-:
I learned it as pure democracy.
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No no no. Apparently I wasn't making myself clear. My point was more that we are not portrayed as Nazi killers, which I believe us Americans more or less are. The weapon of choice may be howitzers and naplam instead of gas chambers, but its the same idea. (I'm a pacifist if you havn't figured that out yet.)
(ranting continues)
Look at us not cleaning up the mess in Cambodia that we started (the 'evil' vietnamese were the ones who did, albeit for their own selfish reasons.) And we continue to bomb Iraq. The UN estamated that 1 million people have died as a result of the sactions againist it. Saddam Hussan is noted as having sent 300,000 citizens to the grave at one time. Granted his grand total of people killed is probably 1 million (especially if you count Iran) but the point is that we Americans (and other members of NATO for that matter, but especially the US and Britain) are no better then him. We saying to him "You have no respect for your people lifes. In punshiment we will put sactions that lead to their deaths."
Yes, it is a real shame that we are not trying to go Mars. Instead we are wasting money on the International Space Station, which has a very low science-for-your-buck ratio (The ISS is in a higly explored part of space, a micro-graviety environment and vibrations that could distrub experinments). A trip to Mars wouldn't cost much more (perhaps the same, with using cost-saving messures such as making fuel from Martian air) and would have great scientific value, as seen in this artical and the successful Apollo missions. When was the last time you heard about that mystery that is the low earth orbit? The earth orbit should be left to private sector. The purpose of the NASA and other governmental space organizations is to pioneer. ISS was just a way to employ the Defense industry in a post-cold war era.
They also need to concentrate more on Europa. A possible liquid ocean comes off as more interesting then the no longer existant ocean of Mars. And admitedly I'm a fan of Arthur C. Clarke (-:
If you're saying that the consititution is what makes us not a democracy, your wrong. What you are refering to as Democracy is actually Pure Democracy (such as what the Athenians had something like). However, when you say Democracy all by itself that is simply the idea of the power coming from the people. It doesn't have to be directly.
However, America is not a Consititutional Republic in reality because power comes from the upper class (as they have more say in elections with campaign controbutions), thus making it a Plutocracy. So, in a Plutocracy it is only natural that laws such as the DMCA exist.
It is a common misconceptioin that the US is a democracy.
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Yes, I'm annoyed by cuts also. Its annoying having to go find the next book.
That American Adventure site is very interesting. I was not aware that tex-mex food was a popular choice en The Alamo when the Mexicans butchered the Americans for their stealing their land.
I thought us Americans were particarly bad at having a twisted view of history, but I guess the bug gets around.
Excuse me, but I've got to coon hunting with my dogs.
How could we tell what was natural pheomena and what was the work of ET? If ET's technology reaches cosomological in scale you could make a hypothesis that it would be impossible to know what was "natural" and what was "artifical," since we have always been assuming that everything we see is natural.
I checked out that book from my local library and I thought it did what it set out to do pretty well. I've been using Linux for about 10 months now and the main thing I learned from it were the existence of several programs that I downloaded as a result of lookin through the book (the CD and book is a little outdated.)
I wouldn't buy the book, but its worth a look for newbies who already have an idea of how to use their linux boxes (as it never goes indepth.)
If my knowledge of how this stuff works is correct, if they got an unguilty verdict by this low-level judge then it wouldn't have meant much. Its is a good thing that it has to go to the appeals court.
Can someone more knowledgable about this comment on this?
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If you replace "motivated students" with "rich snobs" then I would agree with you.
If you already have Windows and language software, then using a virtual windows in VMWare makes the most sense.
There is a thing such as American English. You need to specify English because of the other American languages such as Spanish, Ebonics, French (Canada is in the Americas also) or Portuguese. All of those languages are as American as English.
He meant join any software team that happened to be headed by a French guy.
I think under the current EULA of Mircosoft you can run a copy of windows on your laptop as well as Desktop. Interesting to see if they incorporate this somehow or changer their EULA. Or I'm wrong about that.
Also, probably the cracks will in as patches or something of the sort so you won't have to redownload windows or anything. Shouldn't be much of a hassle.
My opinion on the whole issue is that they will somehow keep the current EULA (which alows you to delate the software on one computer and install it on another) in the final version.
It wouldn't be very hard for someone on Earth to figure this out with some spectroscopy. A spectroscope is very simple. You can get a real cheap one for like $10. Anyone on earth with access to a good one could have been tracking the build up of oxygen. One doesn't need a "external oxygen detector."
I actually didn't see the movie, but I have been frustrated by such things in the past. Like this one movie where a creature had like "30% human DNA and 70% gecko DNA" which is of course crap because neither humans nor reptiles have DNA that unique. If they simply hadn't mentioned how they know the monster was composed as such it wouldn't be so bad.
Guess I should have looked harder
http://slashdot.org/com ments.pl?sid=00/09/22/0236233&cid=65
I couldn't find any discussion about the remote desktop
Does anyone know anything more about it? That would be a very handy feature. Windose terminals wouldn't be a bad idea. I doubt they would have the terminal software be less then the actual software, because that would be the way of MS.
Are not other countries even more restrictive (not sure about this)?
I know some people who when they worked in Spain in the technical field had to work at US corporations, because there is no way to get a real work visa in Spain. This is probably due to their levels of unemployment.
How do other countries fair on immigration?
(note: I know this is offtopic)
Not designed to kill? For some reason, I find it hard to believe that... Perhaps having to do with the fact they do a pretty good job of it
I believe that the fabled founding fathers meant by that was that people have the right to bear arms so people could revolt againist the government. Somehow I think they did not have in mind the olympic games.
Thomas Jefferson is noted for having said that a revolt every 20 years was necesary for a healthy democracy. (He is also noted for saving things he didn't really believe in, like his opinion on slavery.) So, if you want to keep the true meaning of the 2nd admendment, you would have to allow people to have nuclear missles, tanks, chemicals and all items of war that are necesary to be competitive with the United States Military. However, its already been ruled that is a bad idea for more the obvious reasons.
I for one was using their program before they got sued.
The point is, that they got lots of press coverage because they are in court. People hear on the news about a program that allows you to get lots of illegal MP3s and they think "cool."
It like when Bill Clinton was being impeached and his favor rating when up. So there really isn't a such thing as bad publicity because any publicity is good.
Of course, there are expections like Exxon's spilling oil.
Nice to see someone else thinking reasonably about this. I use Napster. I liked Napster. And I don't because I'm making a political statment but because I'm cheap. (I'm the type who never blamed their dog for not having their homework, but that I had simply forgot.)
I'm not in denial about it.
What Napster is doing is facilitating theivary. The differnece between it and DeCSS, is that most people would have used DeCSS for legal reasons. Such as Linux DVD players that don't make you watch the trailers.
It is much easier to find illegal songs then legal ones on Napster. If your looking for legal songs, the convential internet is better as you get a fast reliable connection, unlike Napster with its Cable and Analog modems that are going on and offline. What makes Napster better is that it has illegal songs.
There was artical only 3 days ago about an helix code RPM manager that does exactly that.
There is nothing built into RPM that means it can't be updated automatically.
If Mandrake started using Deb instead of RPM it would pratically be another distrobution.
They did and are waiting for the new kernel in a way. This beta release uses the beta 2.4 kernel. So, heres my question, are they going to wait for the kernel 2.4 to be released offically (as well as KDE 2.0, but I imagine that will not be an issue as its suppose to come out stable this month) or perhaps Mandrake standards are not as high as Linus's when it comes to stability? You have a point though. I still see Mandrake 6.4 in stores sometimes. I pity the newbie who buys it. (the rest is off-topic) I use Mandrake, and it is a great distro. It automatically recognized my ethernet card, which on Debian entailed wading through HOWTOs and having a more Linux-experienced friend come over. Not that Debian is bad, but it certainly wasn't for me (of course you could argue I'm a better person with all that hands-on experience.)
I'm not clear about the QPL yet. Does this mean that open-source and freeware people can port their stuff to windows without hassle? That would be nifty.
As far as companies not wanting to pay, I'm sure that will not be too much of a consideration considering that a few thousands bucks isn't very much money for a commerical software project.
The only people I see being put in the dark are the ms windows shareware developers (considering there isn't much shareware in the *nix world.)
All-in-all I'm with cmdrtaco in that its about time. It would have been better for KDE and QT if they had done this earlier.
I had Corel Linux (a youthful indiscristion, as George W. would put it) and then Debian and I finally settled on Mandrake. One of the few major differences I,the end-user less then a year of *nix experience, saw between them other then the setup was that Mandrake had no way to install a package from a list of possible ones and download all needed components the .deb based distros.
It makes more then a lot of sense.
Its about time someone added this feature to other distros.
In general though, the whoe package system is more then a large mess and completly new system needs to be divised. I mean look at how the distrubtions are used for primarly for the getting all the packages to play nice with each. In the reviews of distros I've read the programs included is a main issue. It shouldn't be. A person should take a barebones linux w/X/and environment and have no problem installing all the programs they want.
Suppose its that publich school. (-: I learned it as pure democracy.
No no no. Apparently I wasn't making myself clear. My point was more that we are not portrayed as Nazi killers, which I believe us Americans more or less are. The weapon of choice may be howitzers and naplam instead of gas chambers, but its the same idea. (I'm a pacifist if you havn't figured that out yet.) (ranting continues) Look at us not cleaning up the mess in Cambodia that we started (the 'evil' vietnamese were the ones who did, albeit for their own selfish reasons.) And we continue to bomb Iraq. The UN estamated that 1 million people have died as a result of the sactions againist it. Saddam Hussan is noted as having sent 300,000 citizens to the grave at one time. Granted his grand total of people killed is probably 1 million (especially if you count Iran) but the point is that we Americans (and other members of NATO for that matter, but especially the US and Britain) are no better then him. We saying to him "You have no respect for your people lifes. In punshiment we will put sactions that lead to their deaths."
Yes, it is a real shame that we are not trying to go Mars. Instead we are wasting money on the International Space Station, which has a very low science-for-your-buck ratio (The ISS is in a higly explored part of space, a micro-graviety environment and vibrations that could distrub experinments). A trip to Mars wouldn't cost much more (perhaps the same, with using cost-saving messures such as making fuel from Martian air) and would have great scientific value, as seen in this artical and the successful Apollo missions. When was the last time you heard about that mystery that is the low earth orbit? The earth orbit should be left to private sector. The purpose of the NASA and other governmental space organizations is to pioneer. ISS was just a way to employ the Defense industry in a post-cold war era.
They also need to concentrate more on Europa. A possible liquid ocean comes off as more interesting then the no longer existant ocean of Mars. And admitedly I'm a fan of Arthur C. Clarke (-:
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If you're saying that the consititution is what makes us not a democracy, your wrong. What you are refering to as Democracy is actually Pure Democracy (such as what the Athenians had something like). However, when you say Democracy all by itself that is simply the idea of the power coming from the people. It doesn't have to be directly.
However, America is not a Consititutional Republic in reality because power comes from the upper class (as they have more say in elections with campaign controbutions), thus making it a Plutocracy. So, in a Plutocracy it is only natural that laws such as the DMCA exist.
It is a common misconceptioin that the US is a democracy.
Yes, I'm annoyed by cuts also. Its annoying having to go find the next book.
That American Adventure site is very interesting. I was not aware that tex-mex food was a popular choice en The Alamo when the Mexicans butchered the Americans for their stealing their land.
I thought us Americans were particarly bad at having a twisted view of history, but I guess the bug gets around.
Excuse me, but I've got to coon hunting with my dogs.
How could we tell what was natural pheomena and what was the work of ET? If ET's technology reaches cosomological in scale you could make a hypothesis that it would be impossible to know what was "natural" and what was "artifical," since we have always been assuming that everything we see is natural.
I checked out that book from my local library and I thought it did what it set out to do pretty well. I've been using Linux for about 10 months now and the main thing I learned from it were the existence of several programs that I downloaded as a result of lookin through the book (the CD and book is a little outdated.) I wouldn't buy the book, but its worth a look for newbies who already have an idea of how to use their linux boxes (as it never goes indepth.)
If my knowledge of how this stuff works is correct, if they got an unguilty verdict by this low-level judge then it wouldn't have meant much. Its is a good thing that it has to go to the appeals court.
Can someone more knowledgable about this comment on this?