Windows drivers aren't necessarily bad. WINE has already showed us that a lot of Windows applications are perfectly stable if you run them in a different environment.
There is no reason to think that if Linux were to support Windows drivers without emulation, they would be any slower or less stable than normal kernel modules.
This kind of studies seldom gets it right if they don't take all the important properties of the demographic into account. I wouldn't be surprised if this study didn't take into account that people from the upper classes tend to eat better, and are therefore taller.
There was a similar thing a few years back when some study showed that drinking wine is healthier than trinking beer. It turns out that the study did'n take into account that people from the middle and upper classes drink more wine while drinking beer is more typical of the working class.
They should really have included some WM including virtual desktops in the test. I seriously doubt that multihead displays are any better than that, except for some special applications.
It is actually an autotuner in that Cher song. Since it embaresses the producers to admit they have one, they claim that it's done with a vocoder. Anyone who have used a vocoder can hear it is not it, however.
I agree. It's a strike of luck that Linux is the project that is attacked, since it means a lot of companies (such as IBM and Red Hat) will invest a lot of money in this court process.
It's true, almost the whole world are polyglots. It has also been shown that children with more than one native toungue develops their language quicker and better than single-languaged children.
Also, I wouldn't want my descendants to be unable to read most of the literature of the world (translations suck).
While a lingua france is a good thing, there is every reason to keep other languages alive.
Actaully I'm friendly to the idea of a artificial language as a lingua franca, preferably one designed to be free of ambiguity and easy to process in a computer, such as lojban.
If you want to do something illegal, you probably won't use this type of gun in the first place, you'll use the regular old kind. But imagine that you are a cop accused of shooting someone irresponsibly. Having picture evidence of exactly what they were doing when you shot them could be quite useful to you.
I think it is more likely that cops will tape it up to hide when they use their weapon illegaly, just like they, for instance, here in Sweden, tape over the numbers on their riot gear.
It could still be useful if this obscuring of evidence was a crime in itself.
I did it by installing everything GNOME in/usr/local/stow/gnome. I didn't get any trouble, but then I didn't have that very many packages linking to it.
However, I agree that a real package manager is better for this kind of task.
Nowadays I run Gentoo, and don't use stow at all (actually, I don't have a single file/usr/local). I have found that making ebuilds are almost as comfortable when installing and much more comfortable when upgrading a package, since I don't have to manually go through the install process every time. Mostly, I actually just have to rename the.ebuild-file, and emerge fetches and builds the package for me by a single command.
b) Since Stow puts links in/usr/local/* (or wherever you tells it to) you get your libs etc. both in/usr/local and/usr/local/stow/packagename. Problem solved.
Stow requires you configure all the packages into their own directory, which will cause problems with Gnome and KDE. Some packages are easy to configure into one directory, eg./usr/local, and then install into another, eg./usr/local/stow/packagename.
This is not a problem, since you can configure AND install the package in/usr/local/stow/packagename. Since the real files will reside there, the program can look for them there.
Your other points of criticism are perfectly valid, and addressed in a few stow-clones, such as xstow (and srcpkg, I'm sure).
War is bad but there are plenty of things that are worse. Ask any survivor of the concentration camps who was liberated by the Allied Expeditionary Force whether they think war is 'cool.'
They wouldn't be there is it wasn't for war. The same way USA lock up moslems today Germany used the war to motivate laws that would not pass in peace time.
It is also worth to note that Germany declared war on the US, not the other way around.
You can just forget about the concept of a righteous war.
Have anyone got anything to say about the sound quality of this method. Why I am asking is that I am soon to move my computer out of my study and wonder how good this method would be for home stereo use?
I would have the sender connected to my computer and pick up the signal in another room on a stereo with a reciever.
We have them in Sweden too, but here they are called "cash cards" (ugh). I have one of those chips on my bank card but have never used it. When I think about it I have never seen anyone use it either.
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It would be nice if some sort of interface to this could be included in Google.
Since Amazon.com has some sort of API for external applications, it shouldn't be impossible.
Well, the original zealots a lot about stabbing people with knifes, IIRC.
I don't know about that. For that to be possible he has to be like six years old.
Windows drivers aren't necessarily bad. WINE has already showed us that a lot of Windows applications are perfectly stable if you run them in a different environment.
There is no reason to think that if Linux were to support Windows drivers without emulation, they would be any slower or less stable than normal kernel modules.
This kind of studies seldom gets it right if they don't take all the important properties of the demographic into account. I wouldn't be surprised if this study didn't take into account that people from the upper classes tend to eat better, and are therefore taller.
There was a similar thing a few years back when some study showed that drinking wine is healthier than trinking beer. It turns out that the study did'n take into account that people from the middle and upper classes drink more wine while drinking beer is more typical of the working class.
Doing some martial art myself, I could appreciate one of these as a training tool, if they made them robust enough.
A dummy that makes attack attempts would be so much better than a dumb dummy.
They should really have included some WM including virtual desktops in the test. I seriously doubt that multihead displays are any better than that, except for some special applications.
Could someone who has already whipped up a procmail recipe for this post it here.
It is actually an autotuner in that Cher song. Since it embaresses the producers to admit they have one, they claim that it's done with a vocoder. Anyone who have used a vocoder can hear it is not it, however.
I agree. It's a strike of luck that Linux is the project that is attacked, since it means a lot of companies (such as IBM and Red Hat) will invest a lot of money in this court process.
GnuPG has recieved a lot of support from the German government, IIRC. I think there has been a /. story about it.
I guess what they will be selling is just a paper where they promise not to persecute you for using Linux, not a license for Linux itself.
It's true, almost the whole world are polyglots. It has also been shown that children with more than one native toungue develops their language quicker and better than single-languaged children.
Also, I wouldn't want my descendants to be unable to read most of the literature of the world (translations suck).
While a lingua france is a good thing, there is every reason to keep other languages alive.
Actaully I'm friendly to the idea of a artificial language as a lingua franca, preferably one designed to be free of ambiguity and easy to process in a computer, such as lojban.
If you want to do something illegal, you probably won't use this type of gun in the first place, you'll use the regular old kind. But imagine that you are a cop accused of shooting someone irresponsibly. Having picture evidence of exactly what they were doing when you shot them could be quite useful to you.
I think it is more likely that cops will tape it up to hide when they use their weapon illegaly, just like they, for instance, here in Sweden, tape over the numbers on their riot gear.
It could still be useful if this obscuring of evidence was a crime in itself.
I did it by installing everything GNOME in /usr/local/stow/gnome. I didn't get any trouble, but then I didn't have that very many packages linking to it.
/usr/local). I have found that making ebuilds are almost as comfortable when installing and much more comfortable when upgrading a package, since I don't have to manually go through the install process every time. Mostly, I actually just have to rename the .ebuild-file, and emerge fetches and builds the package for me by a single command.
However, I agree that a real package manager is better for this kind of task.
Nowadays I run Gentoo, and don't use stow at all (actually, I don't have a single file
a) I have empirically observed that it works.
/usr/local/* (or wherever you tells it to) you get your libs etc. both in /usr/local and /usr/local/stow/packagename. Problem solved.
b) Since Stow puts links in
Stow requires you configure all the packages into their own directory, which will cause problems with Gnome and KDE. Some packages are easy to configure into one directory, eg. /usr/local, and then install into another, eg. /usr/local/stow/packagename.
/usr/local/stow/packagename. Since the real files will reside there, the program can look for them there.
This is not a problem, since you can configure AND install the package in
Your other points of criticism are perfectly valid, and addressed in a few stow-clones, such as xstow (and srcpkg, I'm sure).
War is bad but there are plenty of things that are worse. Ask any survivor of the concentration camps who was liberated by the Allied Expeditionary Force whether they think war is 'cool.'
They wouldn't be there is it wasn't for war. The same way USA lock up moslems today Germany used the war to motivate laws that would not pass in peace time.
It is also worth to note that Germany declared war on the US, not the other way around.
You can just forget about the concept of a righteous war.
There is no nobel prize for fiction. If you mean the prize for literature it went to Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul in 2001.
Have anyone got anything to say about the sound quality of this method. Why I am asking is that I am soon to move my computer out of my study and wonder how good this method would be for home stereo use?
I would have the sender connected to my computer and pick up the signal in another room on a stereo with a reciever.
"On another note, I've heard (someone please verify) that the military uses explosives to take care of old hard drives and storage media."
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I wouldn't put it beneath them
Thank you. That was exactly my point.
I can't see why you couldn't make a good movie from a bad book. I mean, just look at Starship Troopers.
We have them in Sweden too, but here they are called "cash cards" (ugh). I have one of those chips on my bank card but have never used it. When I think about it I have never seen anyone use it either.
I was mostly thinking of the Tolkien character, who is distinctly good.