I had a simpler version of your idea (not submitted to the Koffice comp because I didn't know about it).
Basically some of the menu entries are colour coded based on the kind of functionality they provide, included is a colour code for functions that I can perform directly on the currently selected object. This may be a better idea for something like Gimp but it can easily be applied to most applications with little more than allowing menu entries to be coloured.
Huge firms: Custom-modified OOo tailored to their needs.
It's much, much easier to customize Office using VBA etc... It's fairly easy to write a full document managements system (in Office 97!) that intergrates everything through exchange and forms / macros in Outlook.
and as Microsoft said OOo doesn't even have an email client, and can you fully intergrate it with Eudora or Thunderbird?
Office also supports revision control out of the box (Office 97!) OOo doesn't.
I haven't used an Office product about Office 2000 (which is just like Office 97 IMO) but if Microsoft have improved collaborative working then it's going to take that Huge company a couple of years of development work to get OOo anywhere near by which tine Office may have improved again.
That's just my opinion based on a hell of a lot of VBA and Office integration work that I done about ten years ago.
I don't think they can be servered a valid DMCA order wherever they are, DMCA is for copy protection this hack doesn't break any form of copy protection.
It could be that the Intel only locking is a bit like the IE locking on many websites, not dictated by Intel but implemented by some idiot who didn't know any better.
I was trolling a little as I knew about the Latin America population growth but I didn't want to pick on them in a way that may be construed as being racist (not that I am racist in any way) so I slipped in a hint about population growth and catholic birth control (or the lack of it!).
Anyhow, large families were fine when many of your kids would die off, in a modern society large (above 2!) families are a waste of resources.
Your assuming he voted for the Government in power, or even voted at all. He may have purchased a copy of Windows and that's as good as a vote in my books.
So, who would you trust more. Someone in an electoral system that you cannot even bring yourself to take part in. A company whos product you purchased and used/use.
"it is hard to see how consumption cn be reduced in a competitive global environment."
By reducing the population? The UK looks like it may start to have a fall in population soon, China has (or had) a population control policy but in the US it looks like everyone's a catholic.
If you can't use contraception keep your cock in your pants (or go to geek school for a few years)
As for alternative fuels having to cover the whole plannet, until a viable alternative comes along (or the population of the world drops to a sustainable level) why not make the best of what we've got, including cow dung.
On a side note, methane (produced by cows) is about 8 times worse than CO2 when it comes to global warming.
There were about 80 minutes of film taken, lets say it takes ten times as long to make as it does to take.
So that's 80 * 10 = 800 A very good wage is $50 per hour.
800 / 60 = 13.3333 * $50 = $666.665
You could pay 10.5 people a very good wage for that kind of money.
I also see a fair amount of very good live music that costs me nothing more than a few pints of beer, the people playing get paid about $90 per hour to play, which seems quite a reasonable wage to me.
We don't need huge budget productions, you could probably feed Africa for the amount of money wasted on films and music production.
Companies aren't allowed to use 'threatening' tactics to obtain money, and any discrepancies or vagueness in a contract always goes to the customer and not the provider.
Since most companies use threatening tactics and have vague contracts it's fairly easy to wriggle in the EU. In the UK (more or less) all you have to do is offer a payment that will pay of the debit over a number of years and the creditor doesn't have a leg to stand on.
There are also some new bankruptcy laws coming into place that mean people can declare themselves bankrupt very easily and have all the debits written off.
Forsing Microsoft to unbundle every new feature in Windows Vista that directly compeats with another company, e.g. internet search is an attempt to kill off google.
And then forsing them to sell at a significantly reduced price (compaired to the fully bundled version of vista) and forcing them to setup a web page that points to competitors products.
Then welcoming the competition to setup HQ's in the EU.
'It looks to me that if I link to any library, my code is now a derivative.'
Your work is only a derived work if you include anything that can be copyrighted (interfaces cannot be copyrighted!), so a statically linked binary will include the copyrighted library so the work is derived, a dynamically linked binary contants no copyrightable part of the library it was linked against (innlines in the headers are copyrightable so watch out) and isn't a derived work.
From the GPL: 0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program", below, refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program" means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".
It has been argued that the GPL cannot prevent dynamic linking, e.g. I linked against ATI's opengl implementation and then used MESA when I ran the application since the GPL cannot infect ATI's opengl then how can it infect my application? or something to that effect...
1. Time, space, and matter came into existence by themselves. Well, the first law of thermodynamics tells us that Time, space, and matter may always have been here (maybe not in the form of Time space and matter but in some form with equivalent energies)
2. Planets and stars formed from space dust. This one's pretty much proven by looking at the distribution of different elements (infact he planets and stars are formed from other stars and not just 'space dust')
3. Matter created life by itself. We've almost got this one, once we can make the building blocks (RNA and something like a cell) the rest pretty much follows.
4. Early life-forms learned to reproduce themselves. I think he means evolved and RNA already reproduces it's self, that's how it works!
5. Major changes occurred between these diverse life forms (i.e., fish changed to amphibians, amphibians changed to reptiles, and reptiles changed to birds or mammals). There are fossils of several reptile/bird out there, and if we could extract the DNA we could undoubtedly show there was a lineage.
All my comments are basic highschool stuff, I'm sure someone with a bit more indeapth knowledge could have a very good crack at the $250,000 and in the next hundred years the prize will probably be claimed, I'd like to see him do better at trying to prove that God exists, or even provide some pointers in the right direction! Most creationists / God believers seem to think that a lack of scientific evidence or an error in the scientific evidence is the exception that proves that God exists or that creationism is correct, just like pagans believed that the Sun was god because they didn't have a proper scientific explanation for it. The thing is every time science looks at God all they find is science and God gets pushed farther and farther into the realms of the unexplained. Hopefully God will end up being so nonsensical that everyone comes to their senses and stops believing in this rubbish.
'If atheists accepted that pretty much everyone holds onto irrational beliefs....'
I'm not against irrational beliefs, I'm against people trying to convert others to their irrational beliefs or force them upon children. And yes I do have a go at people when they start spouting other nonsense, but 99 times out a hundred the nonsense people spout is religious, spiritual etc...
I kinda hope that Charles looses his copyright battle on the ground of 'public interest', that way all you have to do is to show that something is or the public interest and the copyright owner can say goodbye to their monopoly.
It's more like Sony being the only real media player (e.g. CD player) maker in the world, forcing builders to install a Sony player into every new home and then bundling a few thousand CDs with music produced by Sony with it and set on Sony speakers and headphones.
Who's going to go out and buy a new CD player, speakers, headphones and collection of CDs when the ones Sony have provided are just good enough?
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I had a simpler version of your idea (not submitted to the Koffice comp because I didn't know about it).
Basically some of the menu entries are colour coded based on the kind of functionality they provide, included is a colour code for functions that I can perform directly on the currently selected object. This may be a better idea for something like Gimp but it can easily be applied to most applications with little more than allowing menu entries to be coloured.
Common, at least try to try.
In Soviet Russia aliens reign over you!
Huge firms: Custom-modified OOo tailored to their needs.
It's much, much easier to customize Office using VBA etc... It's fairly easy to write a full document managements system (in Office 97!) that intergrates everything through exchange and forms / macros in Outlook.
and as Microsoft said OOo doesn't even have an email client, and can you fully intergrate it with Eudora or Thunderbird?
Office also supports revision control out of the box (Office 97!) OOo doesn't.
I haven't used an Office product about Office 2000 (which is just like Office 97 IMO) but if Microsoft have improved collaborative working then it's going to take that Huge company a couple of years of development work to get OOo anywhere near by which tine Office may have improved again.
That's just my opinion based on a hell of a lot of VBA and Office integration work that I done about ten years ago.
I don't think they can be servered a valid DMCA order wherever they are, DMCA is for copy protection this hack doesn't break any form of copy protection.
It could be that the Intel only locking is a bit like the IE locking on many websites, not dictated by Intel but implemented by some idiot who didn't know any better.
I was trolling a little as I knew about the Latin America population growth but I didn't want to pick on them in a way that may be construed as being racist (not that I am racist in any way) so I slipped in a hint about population growth and catholic birth control (or the lack of it!).
Anyhow, large families were fine when many of your kids would die off, in a modern society large (above 2!) families are a waste of resources.
Your assuming he voted for the Government in power, or even voted at all. He may have purchased a copy of Windows and that's as good as a vote in my books.
So, who would you trust more.
Someone in an electoral system that you cannot even bring yourself to take part in.
A company whos product you purchased and used/use.
"it is hard to see how consumption cn be reduced in a competitive global environment."
By reducing the population? The UK looks like it may start to have a fall in population soon, China has (or had) a population control policy but in the US it looks like everyone's a catholic.
If you can't use contraception keep your cock in your pants (or go to geek school for a few years)
As for alternative fuels having to cover the whole plannet, until a viable alternative comes along (or the population of the world drops to a sustainable level) why not make the best of what we've got, including cow dung.
On a side note, methane (produced by cows) is about 8 times worse than CO2 when it comes to global warming.
There were about 80 minutes of film taken, lets say it takes ten times as long to make as it does to take.
So that's 80 * 10 = 800
A very good wage is $50 per hour.
800 / 60 = 13.3333 * $50 = $666.665
You could pay 10.5 people a very good wage for that kind of money.
I also see a fair amount of very good live music that costs me nothing more than a few pints of beer, the people playing get paid about $90 per hour to play, which seems quite a reasonable wage to me.
We don't need huge budget productions, you could probably feed Africa for the amount of money wasted on films and music production.
Well, you can make a fairly good film for $7,000. Film production is a huge waste of money, just as much as hyping Britney Spears is a waste of money.
Quick note:
'People who pirate are still consumers, people who actually pay for the stuff are called customers.'
"having a virus scanner, firefox and viewing emails only as plain text keeps your Windows plenty safe and stable."
See, you have to implement workarounds to keep windows stable, it should be stable out of the box.
Companies aren't allowed to use 'threatening' tactics to obtain money, and any discrepancies or vagueness in a contract always goes to the customer and not the provider.
Since most companies use threatening tactics and have vague contracts it's fairly easy to wriggle in the EU.
In the UK (more or less) all you have to do is offer a payment that will pay of the debit over a number of years and the creditor doesn't have a leg to stand on.
There are also some new bankruptcy laws coming into place that mean people can declare themselves bankrupt very easily and have all the debits written off.
How about adding,
Forsing Microsoft to unbundle every new feature in Windows Vista that directly compeats with another company, e.g. internet search is an attempt to kill off google.
And then forsing them to sell at a significantly reduced price (compaired to the fully bundled version of vista) and forcing them to setup a web page that points to competitors products.
Then welcoming the competition to setup HQ's in the EU.
It's the name given to a tough bunch of millipedes.
Same here in Europe, all US mesurements seem to be a bit screwed (hence the US gallon etc...) there is a milliard which is what the US call a billion.
'It looks to me that if I link to any library, my code is now a derivative.'
Your work is only a derived work if you include anything that can be copyrighted (interfaces cannot be copyrighted!), so a statically linked binary will include the copyrighted library so the work is derived, a dynamically linked binary contants no copyrightable part of the library it was linked against (innlines in the headers are copyrightable so watch out) and isn't a derived work.
From the GPL:
0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program", below, refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program" means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law : that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it , either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".
It has been argued that the GPL cannot prevent dynamic linking, e.g. I linked against ATI's opengl implementation and then used MESA when I ran the application since the GPL cannot infect ATI's opengl then how can it infect my application? or something to that effect...
For more info lookup Abstraction, Filtration, Comparison
"The GPL is not entirely clear on the degree or methods of separation necessary to prevent the GPL "
Umm... Yes it is the GPL is based on copyright, if you don't include anything copyrightable then you are separated from the GPLed code/application.
The GPL isn't an EULA in the classic sense it's just a bunch of copy restrictions.
Smokers blame tobacco companies when they have health problems associated with smoking.
You pick Microsoft with it's track record and what do you expect?
1. Time, space, and matter came into existence by themselves.
Well, the first law of thermodynamics tells us that Time, space, and matter may always have been here (maybe not in the form of Time space and matter but in some form with equivalent energies)
2. Planets and stars formed from space dust.
This one's pretty much proven by looking at the distribution of different elements (infact he planets and stars are formed from other stars and not just 'space dust')
3. Matter created life by itself.
We've almost got this one, once we can make the building blocks (RNA and something like a cell) the rest pretty much follows.
4. Early life-forms learned to reproduce themselves.
I think he means evolved and RNA already reproduces it's self, that's how it works!
5. Major changes occurred between these diverse life forms (i.e., fish changed to amphibians, amphibians changed to reptiles, and reptiles changed to birds or mammals).
There are fossils of several reptile/bird out there, and if we could extract the DNA we could undoubtedly show there was a lineage.
All my comments are basic highschool stuff, I'm sure someone with a bit more indeapth knowledge could have a very good crack at the $250,000 and in the next hundred years the prize will probably be claimed, I'd like to see him do better at trying to prove that God exists, or even provide some pointers in the right direction! Most creationists / God believers seem to think that a lack of scientific evidence or an error in the scientific evidence is the exception that proves that God exists or that creationism is correct, just like pagans believed that the Sun was god because they didn't have a proper scientific explanation for it. The thing is every time science looks at God all they find is science and God gets pushed farther and farther into the realms of the unexplained. Hopefully God will end up being so nonsensical that everyone comes to their senses and stops believing in this rubbish.
'If atheists accepted that pretty much everyone holds onto irrational beliefs....'
I'm not against irrational beliefs, I'm against people trying to convert others to their irrational beliefs or force them upon children. And yes I do have a go at people when they start spouting other nonsense, but 99 times out a hundred the nonsense people spout is religious, spiritual etc...
They can afford to, the MPAA/RIAA know that all it takes is a few scantly clad women and they'll have everyone running back to them.
Why shouldn't they operate in a closed system and have to fund themselfs by charging an sensible amount for patent applications.
I kinda hope that Charles looses his copyright battle on the ground of 'public interest', that way all you have to do is to show that something is or the public interest and the copyright owner can say goodbye to their monopoly.
She probably learnt all she knew from an RIAA/MPAA seminar.
It's more like Sony being the only real media player (e.g. CD player) maker in the world, forcing builders to install a Sony player into every new home and then bundling a few thousand CDs with music produced by Sony with it and set on Sony speakers and headphones.
Who's going to go out and buy a new CD player, speakers, headphones and collection of CDs when the ones Sony have provided are just good enough?