Why is white-collar crime somehow not deserving of punishment like gaol? Some kid who steals a $30K car, screams down a street and writes it off against a tree is expected to end up gaoled, but someone causing a nuisance to far more people and costing millions of dollars is not because he didn't get his hands dirty doing it?
The recording and movie industries would love to see this particular bit of hyperbole become widespread...
I don't know what rock you've been sleeping under... but piracy is already the common term for unauthorised copying and has been for a quite some time.
Are you sure you're talking about the same Australia?
Record tax rates, record working hours, locking up young children for staying in the country too long, overpriced and 3rd-world-rate utilities, severe environmental degredation, failing and costly health services, oppressive over-regulation - you can barely sneeze in public without breaking some law.
What an odd post, nothing you're saying matches reality with any strength.
8 bit support of what? It hasn't changed. sorting is the same the interface isn't that much different it is a lot faster the imap code is identical, a few less bugs perhaps
It doesn't scale very well at all. All of the spacing is hard coded, and must be according to the hig. So the best you can do is use small fonts, which then means your buttons are even more spaced out.
If you'd notice, the pictures have all been converted to a low colour resolution to reduce bandwidth requirements.
I'm not saying its normally particularly colourful, but that particular theme and those screenshots aren't entirely representative of how it actually looks.
The physical mechanism emitting photons takes time to react when you change the input signal. If the diode doesn't stop transmitting instantly -- and they don't -- then frame #2 has a lot of the pattern of light from frame #1 mixed into it. This is the effect that people sometimes describe as "ghosting" or "mouse trails".
Umm, lcd's don't use diodes. And if they did the response time would be in nanoseconds. The photons stop instantly once power is turned off and the current stops flowing.
LCD's bend the polarisation plane of the light passing through them based on current, and it takes time for the polarising effect to dissipate as the current turns off (capacitive effects perhaps?).
In my experience I wouldn't normally look at a piece of code that I use as a product. Unless I see some unexpected behaviour, and the effort to look at the code isn't high.
So suddenly that project has an experienced developer looking at something that doesn't work right. And maybe they might find a bug.
That is a completely impossible scenario with any proprietary software. So even if it only happens for one in a hundred products, and only one in a thousand users can contribute once in a while, throughout the world that adds up to a lot more than nothing.
And for many critical projects, like the kernel, there ARE actually people looking at the code 'for fun' anyway.
So if its as easy as using a Sender header, then "whats the fucking point?"?
If anyone can set any Sender header when using any relay, how is that different from any other address forgery.
This whole system looks like a bad idea, poorly implemented, which will just make mail harder to use, less reliable for clients (e.g. oh work's mail server is down, i'll just use my isp's today), and wont provide any useful service on top.
I think you meant to say "You sass that hoopy Rod Lord? Now there's a frood who really knows where his towel is.". Not that I know who he is, oh phillistine I am.
Oh well.
I refuse to prove that I exist," says god. "For proof denies faith and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says man. "The babel fish is a dead giveaway isnt it? It proves you exist and so therefore you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says god. "I hadn't thought of that." And promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh that was easy." says man. And for an encore he proves that black is white and gets killed on the next zebra crossing.
Well for starters he's not charging for the distribution of it, it is a later charge for using the code. Which would be a GPL violation (further restriction), but he suggests thta he isn't distributing it as GPL source.
As for the licensing - that is very simple. If a source file has a copyright statement of a contributor, and it isn't him, then either the code is GPL and he's violating it, or he's breaking the copyright law anyway by distributing an unlicensed work.
If they have no copyright statement, then he owns the combined file (assuming it has an existing copyright statement and it is his).
Since almost all files are copyright him, i think he's actually legally fairly safe on that front. Contributors of decent patches should always add their own copyright statements to files.
Although he's probably breaking the openssl licensing, and infact breaking the gpl licensing for the unix version anyway by distributing something which links to openssl in the first place.
Cricket isn't even close to as boring as baseball, at least you get more than 2 or 3 runs in an innings, and since the ball bounces before you hit it, there's a lot more going on at every delivery.
Cricket is hardly on tv anymore, so its falling out of the countries conciousness under the weight of the US's multinational cultural onslaught.
Uh, thats precisely why I got into computers in the first place, and found I was so good at it.
Maybe most chicks just don't think in a way that fits the work anyway, if i had other skills I certainly wouldn't want to sit behind a bloody keyboard all day every day. Why force the issue. I couldn't build a social network to save my life, whats wrong with recognising and celebrating the differences and rather than persuing some fake artificial "identicality" goal.
Come on guys, this is OLD news. Ximian did this years ago, and nothing's changed except the name.
It hasn't been a real problem with any of the few contributions we've had to the codebase; i think maybe one or two guys got upset about it. It's been more of a hinderance to us, limiting what extenal projects we can utilise for some of the chunkier features.
Bigger deterrants to potential contributors is the rapid development pace, limited documentation, the size of the codebase, and our anally retarded quality requirements for patches.
Some of the extensions people want to do aren't useful to the general community and would impact on the user experience for everyone else, or they had under-developed GUI interfaces which we couldn't include in the main product, or they were just poor code.
In reality we're lucky if we've had 5% of the code from non-company contributors, and that is probably being generous. So much for Free Software. Often it's quicker and easier to write it ourselves than try to get someone's patch up to speed, unfortunately; but thats a non-technical and non-legal issue.
In 2.2 we'll have an extension mechanism that will let anyone write extensions and release them separate to the main codebase. This will entirely negate most of the issues here since the code will no longer have to be accepted into the main codebase to extend Evolution, and hence wont require assignment. We'll have something like the kernel tainting mechanism to enforce valid combinations (and also to let us know if it isn't our bug).
All well and good, but not all hardware can be emulated.
A 2Ghz cpu strugges to emulate a 1mhz 8 bit cpu with a couple of tiny audio/visual chips. It would be more effective just emulating the COBOL they ran if they are old business systems, but add any funky hardware and you're up shit creek without the proverbial.
Some chips, like the MOS SID cannot be emulated fully, as each chip has its own electrical and audio electrical characteristics making them individually unique and unemulatable.
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Actually just dumping stuff on an FTP server isn't "to the letter" of the GPL, neither is CVS for that matter.
"To the letter" includes things like written offer, so many years, physical media, etc.
It is a little out of date.
Hey they held some poor kid over here in custody for 12 days for attempting to steal an ice cream, so spamming should deserve years!
Why is white-collar crime somehow not deserving of punishment like gaol? Some kid who steals a $30K car, screams down a street and writes it off against a tree is expected to end up gaoled, but someone causing a nuisance to far more people and costing millions of dollars is not because he didn't get his hands dirty doing it?
I don't know what rock you've been sleeping under ... but piracy is already the common term for unauthorised copying and has been for a quite some time.
Are you sure you're talking about the same Australia?
Record tax rates, record working hours, locking up young children for staying in the country too long, overpriced and 3rd-world-rate utilities, severe environmental degredation, failing and costly health services, oppressive over-regulation - you can barely sneeze in public without breaking some law.
Yeah, bloody fantastic place.
Don't they just reduce their employees wages instead?
I can tell you it will be more work than that, the code heavily uses and relies on a posix environment.
What an odd post, nothing you're saying matches reality with any strength.
8 bit support of what? It hasn't changed.
sorting is the same
the interface isn't that much different
it is a lot faster
the imap code is identical, a few less bugs perhaps
Yes, there is much use. Being able to control and extend the hardware you purchased, for example.
I mean, really. Who in their right mind would want to put up with a winter like that if they don't have to.
Sounds like a more limited, less cross platform version of ifolder.
evolution stores configuration data in gconf since 1.4 i think. you need to back that up as well as the stuff in ~/evolution.
Well it would be hard for anyone to use it for nntp yet since it only got enabled as a supported target in this release.
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If you like tin i'm sure you'll keep using it
No you can't.
It doesn't scale very well at all. All of the spacing is hard coded, and must be according to the hig. So the best you can do is use small fonts, which then means your buttons are even more spaced out.
If you'd notice, the pictures have all been converted to a low colour resolution to reduce bandwidth requirements.
I'm not saying its normally particularly colourful, but that particular theme and those screenshots aren't entirely representative of how it actually looks.
Umm, lcd's don't use diodes. And if they did the response time would be in nanoseconds. The photons stop instantly once power is turned off and the current stops flowing.
LCD's bend the polarisation plane of the light passing through them based on current, and it takes time for the polarising effect to dissipate as the current turns off (capacitive effects perhaps?).
umm, it wasn't that obscure.
And it predated "the simpsons" by a decade.
Of course you might know that if you were actually a glint on your dads eye by the time it came out, which obviously your weren't.
In my experience I wouldn't normally look at a piece of code that I use as a product. Unless I see some unexpected behaviour, and the effort to look at the code isn't high.
So suddenly that project has an experienced developer looking at something that doesn't work right. And maybe they might find a bug.
That is a completely impossible scenario with any proprietary software. So even if it only happens for one in a hundred products, and only one in a thousand users can contribute once in a while, throughout the world that adds up to a lot more than nothing.
And for many critical projects, like the kernel, there ARE actually people looking at the code 'for fun' anyway.
I wonder if he's also playing on the use of the word 'nouse' as meaning something like 'clue' or 'smarts'.
Nouse is already a word around here.
So if its as easy as using a Sender header, then "whats the fucking point?"?
If anyone can set any Sender header when using any relay, how is that different from any other address forgery.
This whole system looks like a bad idea, poorly implemented, which will just make mail harder to use, less reliable for clients (e.g. oh work's mail server is down, i'll just use my isp's today), and wont provide any useful service on top.
I think you meant to say "You sass that hoopy Rod Lord? Now there's a frood who really knows where his towel is.". Not that I know who he is, oh phillistine I am.
Oh well.
I refuse to prove that I exist," says god. "For proof denies faith and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says man. "The babel fish is a dead giveaway isnt it? It proves you exist and so therefore you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says god. "I hadn't thought of that." And promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh that was easy." says man. And for an encore he proves that black is white and gets killed on the next zebra crossing.
Well for starters he's not charging for the distribution of it, it is a later charge for using the code. Which would be a GPL violation (further restriction), but he suggests thta he isn't distributing it as GPL source.
As for the licensing - that is very simple. If a source file has a copyright statement of a contributor, and it isn't him, then either the code is GPL and he's violating it, or he's breaking the copyright law anyway by distributing an unlicensed work.
If they have no copyright statement, then he owns the combined file (assuming it has an existing copyright statement and it is his).
Since almost all files are copyright him, i think he's actually legally fairly safe on that front. Contributors of decent patches should always add their own copyright statements to files.
Although he's probably breaking the openssl licensing, and infact breaking the gpl licensing for the unix version anyway by distributing something which links to openssl in the first place.
Possible perhaps, but not with cricket.
Cricket isn't even close to as boring as baseball, at least you get more than 2 or 3 runs in an innings, and since the ball bounces before you hit it, there's a lot more going on at every delivery.
Cricket is hardly on tv anymore, so its falling out of the countries conciousness under the weight of the US's multinational cultural onslaught.
Uh, thats precisely why I got into computers in the first place, and found I was so good at it.
Maybe most chicks just don't think in a way that fits the work anyway, if i had other skills I certainly wouldn't want to sit behind a bloody keyboard all day every day. Why force the issue. I couldn't build a social network to save my life, whats wrong with recognising and celebrating the differences and rather than persuing some fake artificial "identicality" goal.
Come on guys, this is OLD news. Ximian did this years ago, and nothing's changed except the name.
It hasn't been a real problem with any of the few contributions we've had to the codebase; i think maybe one or two guys got upset about it. It's been more of a hinderance to us, limiting what extenal projects we can utilise for some of the chunkier features. Bigger deterrants to potential contributors is the rapid development pace, limited documentation, the size of the codebase, and our anally retarded quality requirements for patches.
Some of the extensions people want to do aren't useful to the general community and would impact on the user experience for everyone else, or they had under-developed GUI interfaces which we couldn't include in the main product, or they were just poor code. In reality we're lucky if we've had 5% of the code from non-company contributors, and that is probably being generous. So much for Free Software. Often it's quicker and easier to write it ourselves than try to get someone's patch up to speed, unfortunately; but thats a non-technical and non-legal issue.
In 2.2 we'll have an extension mechanism that will let anyone write extensions and release them separate to the main codebase. This will entirely negate most of the issues here since the code will no longer have to be accepted into the main codebase to extend Evolution, and hence wont require assignment. We'll have something like the kernel tainting mechanism to enforce valid combinations (and also to let us know if it isn't our bug).
All well and good, but not all hardware can be emulated.
A 2Ghz cpu strugges to emulate a 1mhz 8 bit cpu with a couple of tiny audio/visual chips. It would be more effective just emulating the COBOL they ran if they are old business systems, but add any funky hardware and you're up shit creek without the proverbial.
Some chips, like the MOS SID cannot be emulated fully, as each chip has its own electrical and audio electrical characteristics making them individually unique and unemulatable.