Kill SuSE and you've killed the most popular business oriented linux distribution in Europe.
You think that businesses will go back to Linux after that fiasco? Nope. Hell, I'd think twice myself! I can't afford to fight legal battles.
But in Europe the mysterious MS software licence claims that Novell wants to protect it's customers from are null and void, Suse like any other distribution is not affected.
The retaining layer of clay that was since many thousands of years keeping the mud from reaching the surface was breached by an oil drilling rig in the hands of greedy and corrupt owners/politicians.
This layer of clay is far too thin to be able to 'collapse' into itself and thus close the breach.
Quite a few world-class experts from oil companies have had a look at the problem and so far no one has devised a reliable cure for the problem.
Some 15,000 people have due to the floods lost their homes.
Dumping the Indonesian political establishment in the crater might not stop the flow but at least prevent recurrence of such a disaster...
The Russians are still paranoid.
Basically you are not allowed to bring in any GPS receivers, the nice pics of Google must be quite upsetting for the Russians:)
Yes on Google the sensitive Dutch sites have been blurred just about since the beginning.
Otherwise all of The Netherlands are at a very high resolution, my 1.5 meter satellite dish is about 3-4 pixels across. The square near the Parliament in The Hague is at one of the highest resolutions anywhere, probably in the order of about 20cm.
On the MS Live Search the whole country is at such a low resolution nothing needs to be blurred:)
Our commerce department is quite in favour of any environmentally friendly industry.
The Sexual Recreation and Entertainment industry fits that bill quite nicely.
Indeed, this same system was used on the Dutch Guilder.
And now there are several European states that do this with the Euro, cents are not minted, circulated or accepted in for example Finland.
In The Netherlands most larger stores will not accept 1 and 2 cent coins as cash payments.
This has nothing to do with the metal value of the coins but everything with the expense of handling them.
I've not yet seen Vista in the wild but read up about it.
And I understand that even on a fast computer the CPU 'idles' at around 20%.
I imagine this is not really fitting in with the Bush government's drive to lower power consumption by 20%.
Yes I know the CPU is only a part of the power bill and Bush talked about cars but for the millions of systems that are going to be deployed just these DRM cycles might cost an extra power plant...
Back to the subject of Vista SP1, is this Quality of Life maybe a backing out of the DRM scheme now it's basically cracked anyway?
As to confirm my complaint I just see a blurp on the RSS feed of my paper about the/a British Fire Chief warning for putting sponges in the microwave.
Again without any reference or explanation why it's a bad idea.
The first and the next articles I saw on this subject (in some main publications) left the wetting of the sponge out.
What I'm so far missing in this discussion is that journalists / writers/editors of at least the serious press have an obligation as well.
considering the theoretical impossibility of an unbreakable DRM scheme.
Not too fast buddy!
It is very well possible, if they'd only not have released any disks the HDDVD and/or Blue Ray DRM would still have been in tact!
I love linux and have used several distros, and Ubuntu is very, very good but I can't send Mark Shuttleworth the bill for the time I spent fixing things or hunting for solutions in forums.
I wrote my time spend tweaking off against Mark's credit he gained by giving me a terrific OS.
Well first of all, corporations are only accountable to their shareholders, not to anyone else.
Yeah right, where are you from that there are no laws governing the behaviour of corporations?
Shareholders have a great interest in legal behaviour of the company using their monies as it might otherwise be lost forever.
Even unethical behaviour can cost dearly once the clients or public get fed up enough.
if a user were viewing medical imagery concurrently with playback of video which required image constraint
Who decides if it requires image constraint?
Who else except me has such a call to make on my private property?
Liberty can only be achieved by the masses when there is a system to control the strongest.
And thousands of years ago it was already discovered democracy was a particular liberal way of getting this control in the hands of the masses.
There are other systems that profess to be liberal, but none has such a successful history of giving equal chances to all.
Your idea that freedom from the "tyranny of the majority" has any value for human society as a whole is delicate, it is as history and the present show, all too easily replaced by the tyranny of the strong and powerful.
I vote for outright democracy in a society where liberty for the individual can then prosper without fear for the mighty.
Can anyone explain why there are _any_ limits on political speech? Isn't that the most important kind of speech to protect? Why do you need to "register" as a PAC?
Let me as a European hazard a response; As far as I know all sides of the American political spectrum subscribe to the principle of Democracy.
And democracy is about 1 man = 1 vote.
That principle is under thread from groups (possibly under the guise of bloggers) that have large sums of corporate/interest groups money to spend.
The idea of registering those that get paid to influence political decisions, be it through politicians or voters, might be good for traceability and avoid undemocratic behaviour.
The only conservative things he's (G.W.Bush) done are lowered taxes
No, he bought the well off part of his electorate by deferring the needed financing of his adventures to a future generation.
OK, I always understood these cops were there for their own account.
Not that it is seen much different in Europe, over here 'Rent a Cop' is quite impossible, the law and it's application cannot be bought. Discussions keep cropping up that for example sports events (Hooliganism) should pay for the cost of the cops but this is always shot down on grounds of the above.
Anyway, my attempt to make a connection with The Topic is now failing.
Back in the day this request for a different format was quite common.
People were mainly using using Word Perfect or Word for DOS so sending an MS doc was taking chances.
And the request was usually met with understanding.
I just want to know why he is writing traffic tickets on "his own time" There you mention somehing.
Being from Europe I've always been surprised by seeing US policemen in uniform doing some extra time for them selves in or outside a bar or restaurant. Where I come from this 'officer' would find his sorry ass in court on a charge of corruption.
Bringing it back to the story at hand I would say that just as they now want the fruit of his labour as programmer they'd as much have a right to (a portion of) the wages this off-duty cop at the door of a night club is making 'in his own time' but using the knowledge, uniform and authority of his profession.
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The man(?) is ridiculing the GPL and the people that elect to use it.
I'm not calling him a moron (his choice of words!) for preferring BSD licensing but for disrespecting the choice of others for the GPL.
You think that businesses will go back to Linux after that fiasco? Nope. Hell, I'd think twice myself! I can't afford to fight legal battles.
But in Europe the mysterious MS software licence claims that Novell wants to protect it's customers from are null and void, Suse like any other distribution is not affected.
(I'm not talking here about IP claims).
You are a moron because your opinion is flawed.
The BSD style licence has it's merits and so does the GPL.
Contributors are free to chose the licence that fits best with their views and desires.
It is a moron who tries to ridicule the free choice people make.
Yeah we need to DRM these words like Format and Delete.
That'll stop the abuse!
The retaining layer of clay that was since many thousands of years keeping the mud from reaching the surface was breached by an oil drilling rig in the hands of greedy and corrupt owners/politicians.
This layer of clay is far too thin to be able to 'collapse' into itself and thus close the breach.
Quite a few world-class experts from oil companies have had a look at the problem and so far no one has devised a reliable cure for the problem.
Some 15,000 people have due to the floods lost their homes.
Dumping the Indonesian political establishment in the crater might not stop the flow but at least prevent recurrence of such a disaster...
And as the recent 'Tortilla Crisis' in Mexico shows it drives up the price of food stuff for the masses.
Sizewell is leaking so much that a shut down due to a terrorist attack would probably be the cleanest solution.
The Russians are still paranoid. :)
Basically you are not allowed to bring in any GPS receivers, the nice pics of Google must be quite upsetting for the Russians
Yes on Google the sensitive Dutch sites have been blurred just about since the beginning.
:)
Otherwise all of The Netherlands are at a very high resolution, my 1.5 meter satellite dish is about 3-4 pixels across.
The square near the Parliament in The Hague is at one of the highest resolutions anywhere, probably in the order of about 20cm.
On the MS Live Search the whole country is at such a low resolution nothing needs to be blurred
Our commerce department is quite in favour of any environmentally friendly industry.
The Sexual Recreation and Entertainment industry fits that bill quite nicely.
b.t.w. where are you from?
Indeed, this same system was used on the Dutch Guilder.
And now there are several European states that do this with the Euro, cents are not minted, circulated or accepted in for example Finland.
In The Netherlands most larger stores will not accept 1 and 2 cent coins as cash payments.
This has nothing to do with the metal value of the coins but everything with the expense of handling them.
And I understand that even on a fast computer the CPU 'idles' at around 20%.
I imagine this is not really fitting in with the Bush government's drive to lower power consumption by 20%.
Yes I know the CPU is only a part of the power bill and Bush talked about cars but for the millions of systems that are going to be deployed just these DRM cycles might cost an extra power plant...
Back to the subject of Vista SP1, is this Quality of Life maybe a backing out of the DRM scheme now it's basically cracked anyway?
As to confirm my complaint I just see a blurp on the RSS feed of my paper about the/a British Fire Chief warning for putting sponges in the microwave.
Again without any reference or explanation why it's a bad idea.
Good!
/editors of at least the serious press have an obligation as well.
The first and the next articles I saw on this subject (in some main publications) left the wetting of the sponge out. What I'm so far missing in this discussion is that journalists / writers
Not too fast buddy!
It is very well possible, if they'd only not have released any disks the HDDVD and/or Blue Ray DRM would still have been in tact!
I wrote my time spend tweaking off against Mark's credit he gained by giving me a terrific OS.
Yeah right, where are you from that there are no laws governing the behaviour of corporations?
Shareholders have a great interest in legal behaviour of the company using their monies as it might otherwise be lost forever.
Even unethical behaviour can cost dearly once the clients or public get fed up enough.
Who decides if it requires image constraint?
Who else except me has such a call to make on my private property?
Liberty can only be achieved by the masses when there is a system to control the strongest.
And thousands of years ago it was already discovered democracy was a particular liberal way of getting this control in the hands of the masses.
There are other systems that profess to be liberal, but none has such a successful history of giving equal chances to all.
Your idea that freedom from the "tyranny of the majority" has any value for human society as a whole is delicate, it is as history and the present show, all too easily replaced by the tyranny of the strong and powerful.
I vote for outright democracy in a society where liberty for the individual can then prosper without fear for the mighty.
Let me as a European hazard a response; As far as I know all sides of the American political spectrum subscribe to the principle of Democracy.
And democracy is about 1 man = 1 vote.
That principle is under thread from groups (possibly under the guise of bloggers) that have large sums of corporate/interest groups money to spend. The idea of registering those that get paid to influence political decisions, be it through politicians or voters, might be good for traceability and avoid undemocratic behaviour.
No, he bought the well off part of his electorate by deferring the needed financing of his adventures to a future generation.
Not that it is seen much different in Europe, over here 'Rent a Cop' is quite impossible, the law and it's application cannot be bought.
Discussions keep cropping up that for example sports events (Hooliganism) should pay for the cost of the cops but this is always shot down on grounds of the above.
Anyway, my attempt to make a connection with The Topic is now failing.
People were mainly using using Word Perfect or Word for DOS so sending an MS doc was taking chances.
And the request was usually met with understanding.
The same could easily happen again.
Being from Europe I've always been surprised by seeing US policemen in uniform doing some extra time for them selves in or outside a bar or restaurant.
Where I come from this 'officer' would find his sorry ass in court on a charge of corruption.
Bringing it back to the story at hand I would say that just as they now want the fruit of his labour as programmer they'd as much have a right to (a portion of) the wages this off-duty cop at the door of a night club is making 'in his own time' but using the knowledge, uniform and authority of his profession.