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Muscle stimula aren't allowed everwhere. In the EU most countries do not allow certain types or none at all. In fact, the decision of the EU to block meat from the US because of that resulted in a small crisis.
Further more, humans are omnivorous. Nothing wrong with that. Why turn vegan when you can choose to eat meat which comes from an "animal friendly" environment that satisfies your ethical problem with animal treatment.
Your choice to be vegan is of course entirely yours just like my choice to be omnivorous is mine. I won't hold it against you;-)
The average cost of a console is far higher than it's retail price. If it wasn't as cheap as it is now nobody would by the damn thing. To be able to make money the games are sold at a higher than normal price. This is how they are able to make money. To control and make sure that their revenue stream is not disrupted by illegal copies or non-standard usage of a console (i.e. use it as a linux pc) they seek the courts aid in this. The loss in revenue outweighs te legal fees.
Besides, those companies have their lawyers on a payroll so it isn't as if it will cost them alot extra like it would cost us alot of money.
Also, this new spam program retaliates and the law is very nasty about vigilantism and retaliation,
The law has nothing to say over this. I'm at total liberty to block access to my site for whoever i want to block. If i block others in the process then that is their problem solely and not that of the lawmakers. Basicly you're stating that just because i have an email address i am not allowed to decide who may and who may not send me email.
The retaliation you're mentioning is just a message that is being sent back to the spammer who as a result has alot of errormessages in his mailbox, if they used a valid email address that is.
WHEN BAYESIAN TECHNIQUES ARE USED AT THE ISP END hint hint...
When I think of all of the worthy charities that help the less-fortunate, the idea of a bunch of self-indulgent computer programmers taking advantage of our tax code like this is revolting.
And the very idea of having your tax money being used to wage war against a very poor country isn't?
Why? Simple. As a software vendor i would like to port my application to Linux. But what distribution should i support where it comes to libs and directory layouts? Red Hat? SuSE? Gentoo? Debian? Mandrake? Slackware? etc. etc. etc.
I have only a limited amount of time to make my product compatible with the os. If i have to support all of them i would have to make more money of my customers just to cover the costs. This would make my product not very attractive to users, and i will probably not sell enough of it to support my efforts. So i decide not to port it yet and wait for better times. The other option is to choose just one distro like so many other vendors (Red Hat anyone?). Making that distro the de-facto standard, not because of the fact that it is the best but because that is the one on which most commercial software runs.
So standardisation is good. It attracts commercial software for all distro's which will attract new users who will make Linux to be able to reach new heights.
Now, i know that OSS could compete on alot of levels with commercial software so it would not be necesary to have commercial ones but not all of them are as good as the commercial product. For alot of software there simply is no OSS alternative which could be viable. Not yet anyway. (e.g. Visio (Kivio comes close but that's it), Dreamweaver, Video-editing software (professional versions) etc. etc.)
Unfortunatly even on NT there are problems. Most programs like to run with root priviliges and thus compromising the entire system. In the hands of an experienced computer user this should be relatively harmless (allthough a virus could still ruin everything) but when joe sixpack and his kids uses it you can bet your ffing A$$ it will turn into problems you do not want.
It's a pitty to see Intel's name as one of the companies opposing OSS. Strangely they reach out at one side and then at the other side they slap you in the face. It is not that Intel should choose sides.
I can understand fully that it is in Intels best interest to have support from both camps but this is really something they should watch out for. It may well be that more OSS developers and users will buy the products of their competitors if these kind of things become normal practice for them.
I'd hate to end up missing something like this and instead be out having meaningless sex...
Can we switch places please? I would like to have meaningless sex instead of some meteorstorm which returns every 33 years... the chance of me having meaningless sex in the same period is much smaller...
And how would MicroSoft do this without hurting it's own sales? Did you think that MS earns most of it's money in the US? If MS would do that they would lose millions of dollars a day in loss of sales.
If the EU would transfer to Linux or any other OS. Would you think this to be a bad thing? Consider the whole new world and market for all those ISV's who are holding out now because of Linux's market share.
(come to think of it... that wouldn't be a bad thing at all.....)
Actually OSS has been subject to several studies from one or the other eu comission. There are some strong promotors for OSS like Germany and several special interest groups which include some distros and smaller OSS companies.
Further more, the recent cooling down of relations between the US and Germany inflicted fear upon several EU parliament members who suggest that it would be wise to look into OSS software to make sure the EU is not too depending on software of American origin.
I can understand their sentiment given the alleged fact that information aquired through echelon was abused to give American companies an advantage. So they are afraid that using "American" software could give them the same problems. Aside from the fact that the EU too does not like vendor lock-in there is also a growing resentment of how Microsoft is going about it's bussiness without even the slightest hesitation because of it's legal battles and the ongoing investigation of it's practices by the EU.
Besides.. they'd rather spend all that money they could save on licensing costs on farming subsidies anyway;-)
Why do people try to put UL and RH against each other? UL is een open initiative in which Linux distro's can participate. This includes RH. So i don't understand the fuss.. what i do know is that people are still thinking that RH is big in the entire world. IT'S NOT!!!. Here in Europe SuSE is one of the biggest distro's and RedHat is, although known to most, over here what SuSE is to u in the US.
Furthermore, the fact that this UL distro looks like a mix of SuSE and SCO's linux distro is because they put the most effort in this for the moment.
It remains to be seen if this initiative attracts ISV though. And that is not because of lack of support but more an economical reason. Since it is not easy in this economical climate most ISV would rather stay on the beaten path then try to find new roads..
Let's see.. a few years back Linus just used CVS. Developers began complaining about shortcomings since Linux became too big to be handled in plain CVS etc.
Since CVS is a different beast then the Linux Kernel they did not try to develop something themselves. Besides, that would only distract them from kernel development. To make things worse the competitor, subversions, wasn't much usefull eather since it was still in development (and still is).
So Linux chose BitKeeper. Not because he was pushed or otherwise but because it was, and still is, the best alternative offered then and now. Not because out of convenience but to keep the development going in a strong pace lest it become, like the HURD, a product which seems to be never finished.
BitMover provided the software for free to kernel developers. The only real restriction is that you ae not allowed to use BitKeeper to create a competitive product. Why? Because that's the way BitMover earns it's money to pay it's employees and to fund development for BitKeeper.
So, to be able to use a good product (BitKeeper) which in it's turn made it possible to create a good product (linuxkernel) Linus agreed on the terms that were layed out. If they should have to go back to CVS (which is technologically still possible although people claim otherwise) they would also have to go back to all the problems there were before they started using BitKeeper.
And may eventually a better product come by which is OSS then i would have no doubt everyone would switch to using that.
I can understand RMS's opinion. He sees the flagship of the FSF being "corrupted" by closed source software. This is of course a big blow to him. The FSF always tried to create the tools to do the job themselves. Apparently their jobs were not as big as the Linux kernel though. So their tools became inadequate. However, instead of arguing he could also try to understand the forces that work here. If he could start up a project aiming to replace BitKeeper i think alot of people would jump right in. But if he does not then please be a bit more polite against the people working on the Linux kernel.
You would be surprised what kind of hardware is used in mission critial applications. When it is possible to reduce the costs suits would do anything. Including using inferior hardware and such.
And what about public funded government controlled institutions such as the NASA? They still use the 8086 chips, even though those are consumergrade, in their shuttles. If it functions it's good. Especially if the materials are cheap.
First of all, this is obviously a concept car. If you read the article and take a look at their homepage the idea comes forward.
As someone else allready stated, the weight is huge and 8 wheels is strange for a passenger car. However, on their homepage it is made clear that they created a standard chassis on which a bus, truck or passenger car can be build. Further more, it's interesting to see their concept as it shows that perhaps the future of automotive transportation lies in a totally different concept than currently used.
You can compare it to toyota's electric car or the lotus elise but those cars are made with todays concept of building cars. The engine built in the wheel is a refreshing thought as it surely leaves alot of room for a developer to design the card without compromising for motor compartments etc.
Off course it does raise questions like what would be the price of a new wheel and such but somehow i don't think the audience for this type of car will be impressed by it's maintenance costs.
Besides that, i think it's a refreshing design. But that's pure personal prefference.
This is a fine example that X11 is a good graphics-server.
Although alot of X11 bashing has been going on IRIX shows us that X11 is actually a very viable and capable graphics-server and certainly gives the finger to all those X11 implementations which have been done BAD.
So please, next time you go and blame your sucky graphics on X11, take a good look at the implementation of it in your system.
Also does the duration of the flight only last for a couple of months WITH fuel cel. The Helios project is only usefull for situations where communication is only necessary for a short period of time i.e. military actions or rescue actions.
Unfortunatly we see this kind of thing happening everywhere. Telecom companies devaluating their recent investments for UMTS licenses, Companies like Worldcom and KPN QWEST in serieus trouble (right to the point that at least KPN QWEST goes bankrupt). It is no surprise that Teledesic does not want to venture into a territory which is hostile to say the least at this moment. To uphold their promise they must not only build, launch and exploit the satelites but they must also create the groundstations and maintain them for the governments and regional governments. Otherwise those satelites would be very expensive space junk. So they are looking at a very substantial investment in a time where no-one would invest because of unstable markets.
Unfortunatly there is no forseeable uplift for the telecom sector. It's a wise decision to stop now and to evaluate the situation. Perhaps when the worldeconomy is seeing some uplift the company can start again with its original plans. Until then i'm afraid those 3 billion people will still not have access. Although they will never miss it by the way, nor am i afraid that they are worse off then those who do have access.
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Muscle stimula aren't allowed everwhere. In the EU most countries do not allow certain types or none at all. In fact, the decision of the EU to block meat from the US because of that resulted in a small crisis.
;-)
Further more, humans are omnivorous. Nothing wrong with that. Why turn vegan when you can choose to eat meat which comes from an "animal friendly" environment that satisfies your ethical problem with animal treatment.
Your choice to be vegan is of course entirely yours just like my choice to be omnivorous is mine. I won't hold it against you
It is no priciple thing. Look at it this way:
The average cost of a console is far higher than it's retail price. If it wasn't as cheap as it is now nobody would by the damn thing. To be able to make money the games are sold at a higher than normal price. This is how they are able to make money. To control and make sure that their revenue stream is not disrupted by illegal copies or non-standard usage of a console (i.e. use it as a linux pc) they seek the courts aid in this. The loss in revenue outweighs te legal fees.
Besides, those companies have their lawyers on a payroll so it isn't as if it will cost them alot extra like it would cost us alot of money.
it would only cut one hour off the flight time from LA - NYC.
Can you imagine what is does with the flight from La to Amsterdam, London, Paris or Berlin...
Stop being so US centric please. There is a whole world outside the US of A besides Afghanistan and Iraq.
Also, this new spam program retaliates and the law is very nasty about vigilantism and retaliation,
;-)
The law has nothing to say over this. I'm at total liberty to block access to my site for whoever i want to block. If i block others in the process then that is their problem solely and not that of the lawmakers. Basicly you're stating that just because i have an email address i am not allowed to decide who may and who may not send me email.
The retaliation you're mentioning is just a message that is being sent back to the spammer who as a result has alot of errormessages in his mailbox, if they used a valid email address that is.
WHEN BAYESIAN TECHNIQUES ARE USED AT THE ISP END hint hint...
Now there's a statement i can live with..
When I think of all of the worthy charities that help the less-fortunate, the idea of a bunch of self-indulgent computer programmers taking advantage of our tax code like this is revolting.
And the very idea of having your tax money being used to wage war against a very poor country isn't?
I know i'd rather spend it on helping GNOME.
Why? Simple. As a software vendor i would like to port my application to Linux. But what distribution should i support where it comes to libs and directory layouts? Red Hat? SuSE? Gentoo? Debian? Mandrake? Slackware? etc. etc. etc.
I have only a limited amount of time to make my product compatible with the os. If i have to support all of them i would have to make more money of my customers just to cover the costs. This would make my product not very attractive to users, and i will probably not sell enough of it to support my efforts. So i decide not to port it yet and wait for better times. The other option is to choose just one distro like so many other vendors (Red Hat anyone?). Making that distro the de-facto standard, not because of the fact that it is the best but because that is the one on which most commercial software runs.
So standardisation is good. It attracts commercial software for all distro's which will attract new users who will make Linux to be able to reach new heights.
Now, i know that OSS could compete on alot of levels with commercial software so it would not be necesary to have commercial ones but not all of them are as good as the commercial product. For alot of software there simply is no OSS alternative which could be viable. Not yet anyway. (e.g. Visio (Kivio comes close but that's it), Dreamweaver, Video-editing software (professional versions) etc. etc.)
Guess who just won my business...and who just LOST it.
Sub:Walmart: you just lost to Target
Not much left to guess is there?
Unfortunatly even on NT there are problems. Most programs like to run with root priviliges and thus compromising the entire system. In the hands of an experienced computer user this should be relatively harmless (allthough a virus could still ruin everything) but when joe sixpack and his kids uses it you can bet your ffing A$$ it will turn into problems you do not want.
This is no dupe, it's a followup on a previous story
It's a pitty to see Intel's name as one of the companies opposing OSS. Strangely they reach out at one side and then at the other side they slap you in the face. It is not that Intel should choose sides.
I can understand fully that it is in Intels best interest to have support from both camps but this is really something they should watch out for. It may well be that more OSS developers and users will buy the products of their competitors if these kind of things become normal practice for them.
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Yeah... except that most european countries took a swing to the right over the last couple of years. So i'm afraid your theory doesn't quite add up...
I'd hate to end up missing something like this and instead be out having meaningless sex...
Can we switch places please? I would like to have meaningless sex instead of some meteorstorm which returns every 33 years... the chance of me having meaningless sex in the same period is much smaller...
So I send all of my childhood attempting to get into girls bushes and failing
Sexually tinted....
Now I spend my entire adult life failing to get in another mans' tree.
I hope this isn't the same kind of remark is it?
And how would MicroSoft do this without hurting it's own sales? Did you think that MS earns most of it's money in the US? If MS would do that they would lose millions of dollars a day in loss of sales.
If the EU would transfer to Linux or any other OS. Would you think this to be a bad thing? Consider the whole new world and market for all those ISV's who are holding out now because of Linux's market share.
(come to think of it... that wouldn't be a bad thing at all.....)
Porn Screen Of Death?
More like Porn Screen Of Divorce in my case...
Actually OSS has been subject to several studies from one or the other eu comission. There are some strong promotors for OSS like Germany and several special interest groups which include some distros and smaller OSS companies.
;-)
Further more, the recent cooling down of relations between the US and Germany inflicted fear upon several EU parliament members who suggest that it would be wise to look into OSS software to make sure the EU is not too depending on software of American origin.
I can understand their sentiment given the alleged fact that information aquired through echelon was abused to give American companies an advantage. So they are afraid that using "American" software could give them the same problems. Aside from the fact that the EU too does not like vendor lock-in there is also a growing resentment of how Microsoft is going about it's bussiness without even the slightest hesitation because of it's legal battles and the ongoing investigation of it's practices by the EU.
Besides.. they'd rather spend all that money they could save on licensing costs on farming subsidies anyway
Why do people try to put UL and RH against each other? UL is een open initiative in which Linux distro's can participate. This includes RH. So i don't understand the fuss.. what i do know is that people are still thinking that RH is big in the entire world. IT'S NOT!!!. Here in Europe SuSE is one of the biggest distro's and RedHat is, although known to most, over here what SuSE is to u in the US.
Furthermore, the fact that this UL distro looks like a mix of SuSE and SCO's linux distro is because they put the most effort in this for the moment.
It remains to be seen if this initiative attracts ISV though. And that is not because of lack of support but more an economical reason. Since it is not easy in this economical climate most ISV would rather stay on the beaten path then try to find new roads..
Let's see.. a few years back Linus just used CVS. Developers began complaining about shortcomings since Linux became too big to be handled in plain CVS etc.
Since CVS is a different beast then the Linux Kernel they did not try to develop something themselves. Besides, that would only distract them from kernel development. To make things worse the competitor, subversions, wasn't much usefull eather since it was still in development (and still is).
So Linux chose BitKeeper. Not because he was pushed or otherwise but because it was, and still is, the best alternative offered then and now. Not because out of convenience but to keep the development going in a strong pace lest it become, like the HURD, a product which seems to be never finished.
BitMover provided the software for free to kernel developers. The only real restriction is that you ae not allowed to use BitKeeper to create a competitive product. Why? Because that's the way BitMover earns it's money to pay it's employees and to fund development for BitKeeper.
So, to be able to use a good product (BitKeeper) which in it's turn made it possible to create a good product (linuxkernel) Linus agreed on the terms that were layed out. If they should have to go back to CVS (which is technologically still possible although people claim otherwise) they would also have to go back to all the problems there were before they started using BitKeeper.
And may eventually a better product come by which is OSS then i would have no doubt everyone would switch to using that.
I can understand RMS's opinion. He sees the flagship of the FSF being "corrupted" by closed source software. This is of course a big blow to him. The FSF always tried to create the tools to do the job themselves. Apparently their jobs were not as big as the Linux kernel though. So their tools became inadequate. However, instead of arguing he could also try to understand the forces that work here. If he could start up a project aiming to replace BitKeeper i think alot of people would jump right in. But if he does not then please be a bit more polite against the people working on the Linux kernel.
So far for this not entirely coherent post...
You would be surprised what kind of hardware is used in mission critial applications. When it is possible to reduce the costs suits would do anything. Including using inferior hardware and such.
And what about public funded government controlled institutions such as the NASA? They still use the 8086 chips, even though those are consumergrade, in their shuttles. If it functions it's good. Especially if the materials are cheap.
First of all, this is obviously a concept car. If you read the article and take a look at their homepage the idea comes forward.
As someone else allready stated, the weight is huge and 8 wheels is strange for a passenger car. However, on their homepage it is made clear that they created a standard chassis on which a bus, truck or passenger car can be build. Further more, it's interesting to see their concept as it shows that perhaps the future of automotive transportation lies in a totally different concept than currently used.
You can compare it to toyota's electric car or the lotus elise but those cars are made with todays concept of building cars. The engine built in the wheel is a refreshing thought as it surely leaves alot of room for a developer to design the card without compromising for motor compartments etc.
Off course it does raise questions like what would be the price of a new wheel and such but somehow i don't think the audience for this type of car will be impressed by it's maintenance costs.
Besides that, i think it's a refreshing design. But that's pure personal prefference.
This is a fine example that X11 is a good graphics-server.
Although alot of X11 bashing has been going on IRIX shows us that X11 is actually a very viable and capable graphics-server and certainly gives the finger to all those X11 implementations which have been done BAD.
So please, next time you go and blame your sucky graphics on X11, take a good look at the implementation of it in your system.
except that you need alot of those for GLOBAL coverage.
Also does the duration of the flight only last for a couple of months WITH fuel cel. The Helios project is only usefull for situations where communication is only necessary for a short period of time i.e. military actions or rescue actions.
Unfortunatly we see this kind of thing happening everywhere. Telecom companies devaluating their recent investments for UMTS licenses, Companies like Worldcom and KPN QWEST in serieus trouble (right to the point that at least KPN QWEST goes bankrupt). It is no surprise that Teledesic does not want to venture into a territory which is hostile to say the least at this moment. To uphold their promise they must not only build, launch and exploit the satelites but they must also create the groundstations and maintain them for the governments and regional governments. Otherwise those satelites would be very expensive space junk.
So they are looking at a very substantial investment in a time where no-one would invest because of unstable markets.
Unfortunatly there is no forseeable uplift for the telecom sector. It's a wise decision to stop now and to evaluate the situation. Perhaps when the worldeconomy is seeing some uplift the company can start again with its original plans. Until then i'm afraid those 3 billion people will still not have access. Although they will never miss it by the way, nor am i afraid that they are worse off then those who do have access.