That's true to a point (though GNOME has tended to steer clear of "hacks" to get a feature if it is best implemented elsewhere). But as I said GNOME and KDE are fairly mature projects now, not just in terms of code but in terms of the problems they are prepared to tackle.
With freedesktop.org (see things like fontconfig and the sort of forking of X) it is clear that they are not content to sit there and say "it's not possible on Linux the kernel (X/libxyz.so) has to be changed first". They are actually prepared to go out and fix it.
Certainly the competition between the two has created some "drive" in the projects but even if one of them were to recede there are still at least two other significant desktops with which to compete, Windows and OS X.
The fight for the open desktop is a tiny battle compared to the fight for all desktops. Perhaps KDE and GNOME have reached a maturity where greater focus on the large battle might be beneficial.
Why capitalize that? Whether she bought them or not is largely irrelevant. The relevant question is whether she had the right to create copies for other people by sharing them.
It's a completely different case. The three people who got charged were apparently involved in blatent copyright violation, ie offering and hosting other peoples copyrighted music for download.
The mp3s4free.net case involves linking, not hosting and targets a completely different set of people.
I only saw episode three last night. After avoiding all mention of it for days I finally started reading about it today on forums and have been dissappointed by the general "bag the Matrix" mindset I've come accross.
I think a lot of people went in there expecting or wanting to be dissappointed and got that wish.
Personally I was impressed and it finished on a much more "real" rather than "mumbo-jumbo" footing than I expected.
Because he met the family. Meeting the family was an important point because it reitterated that the machines/programs aren't "evil" per se and that while The Matrix is a prison for some it is a haven for others so simply destroying the Matrix isn't a particularly good solution.
Neo had to be taken outside the main plotlines to have the time to engage in that conversation. I agree he could have got out in a way that didn't necessitate the club scene or involving Merv. The fight scene getting into the club was good though. Without that there would have been very few "matrix style" fight scenes and some people would have been disappointed by that.
a) This cuts out one method of opportunity for exploitation. Even if another X methods remain there is still value in reducing avenues for exploitation.
b) If I am a terrorist I do things the easiest and simplest way possible. If I can simply walk onto a plane with a box cutter then I do that rather fucking around with complex plans. If I can effectively walk away with a truck preloaded with bad shit I will do that rather than committing a bunch of other independant crimes as a lead up, spending time loading up the toxic shit myself. As a terrorist or criminal the more fucking around I have to do before I commit my crime the more chance I have of getting caught.
We are at the serendipitious end of an ice age, it's stupid of us, with our short life spans, to assume the world was and should always be thus. It is the hieght of conciet for us to always expect it to be so.
Regardless of whether it is natural or not if a change in climate will make the earth less hospitable to us and it is within our power to stop or lesson that effect it makes sense for us to do so.
I've only seen the movie (which was pretty bad, Milla perving factor notwithstanding) but weren't there some scenes out in/near a forest. Either her flashbacks or something else?
I remember typing this in from the manual for my Sinclair ZX spectrum.
I'm sure it was quite exciting at the time but it doesn't seem to have much more than nostalgia value these days.
Mozilla is tri-licensed MPL/GPL/LGPL, so the user chooses which license they wish to use the software under
"The user"?. The code is available under those three licences. Anybody can take the code and choose one of those licences to distribute under if they want.
There is nothing iffy about that. It is exactly what the tri-licence was set up for in the first place.
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That's true to a point (though GNOME has tended to steer clear of "hacks" to get a feature if it is best implemented elsewhere). But as I said GNOME and KDE are fairly mature projects now, not just in terms of code but in terms of the problems they are prepared to tackle.
With freedesktop.org (see things like fontconfig and the sort of forking of X) it is clear that they are not content to sit there and say "it's not possible on Linux the kernel (X/libxyz.so) has to be changed first". They are actually prepared to go out and fix it.
APRA collects money for Australian artists, not ARIA.
Why do you feel it necessary to comment on stuff you clearly don't know about?
Our fair use exemptions do not allow for it.
What a stupid fuckstick. That goes double for the moderator.
It's the Australian Record Industry Association.
Artists are only part of that. Other parts of it is distributors, record companies, etc.
That includes Australian companies selling music by foreign artists.
Certainly the competition between the two has created some "drive" in the projects but even if one of them were to recede there are still at least two other significant desktops with which to compete, Windows and OS X.
The fight for the open desktop is a tiny battle compared to the fight for all desktops. Perhaps KDE and GNOME have reached a maturity where greater focus on the large battle might be beneficial.
Seems like an appropriate alternative.
Why capitalize that?
Whether she bought them or not is largely irrelevant.
The relevant question is whether she had the right to create copies for other people by sharing them.
It's a completely different case. The three people who got charged were apparently involved in blatent copyright violation, ie offering and hosting other peoples copyrighted music for download.
The mp3s4free.net case involves linking, not hosting and targets a completely different set of people.
No, I don't see any possible problems with that at all......
Julie Arhoolian? NORML? Who modded this shit up?
It says so on the webpage
By being so ridiculous, satire is impossible.
I only saw episode three last night. After avoiding all mention of it for days I finally started reading about it today on forums and have been dissappointed by the general "bag the Matrix" mindset I've come accross. I think a lot of people went in there expecting or wanting to be dissappointed and got that wish. Personally I was impressed and it finished on a much more "real" rather than "mumbo-jumbo" footing than I expected.
Because he met the family. Meeting the family was an important point because it reitterated that the machines/programs aren't "evil" per se and that while The Matrix is a prison for some it is a haven for others so simply destroying the Matrix isn't a particularly good solution.
Neo had to be taken outside the main plotlines to have the time to engage in that conversation. I agree he could have got out in a way that didn't necessitate the club scene or involving Merv. The fight scene getting into the club was good though. Without that there would have been very few "matrix style" fight scenes and some people would have been disappointed by that.
They could improve their search engine by taking what they learn from IRC and removing anything similar from their web database.
It certainly is.
Indeed, I wonder what percentage of Australian households doesn't have a VCR?
Perhap a liking for lawbreaking is throwback to our convict past.
She's going to snap in half.
a) This cuts out one method of opportunity for exploitation. Even if another X methods remain there is still value in reducing avenues for exploitation.
b) If I am a terrorist I do things the easiest and simplest way possible. If I can simply walk onto a plane with a box cutter then I do that rather fucking around with complex plans.
If I can effectively walk away with a truck preloaded with bad shit I will do that rather than committing a bunch of other independant crimes as a lead up, spending time loading up the toxic shit myself. As a terrorist or criminal the more fucking around I have to do before I commit my crime the more chance I have of getting caught.
A proposed solution to a specific problem that doesn't solve _all_ problems is no less appropriate for solving that one problem.
If I were you I'd give that forehead a harder slap.
I've only seen the movie (which was pretty bad, Milla perving factor notwithstanding) but weren't there some scenes out in/near a forest. Either her flashbacks or something else?
I remember typing this in from the manual for my Sinclair ZX spectrum. I'm sure it was quite exciting at the time but it doesn't seem to have much more than nostalgia value these days.
There is nothing iffy about that. It is exactly what the tri-licence was set up for in the first place.