My company uses Netscape Calendar for scheduling at work. Any idea when Sunbird will support the Netscape calendaring protocol so I can ditch Netscape Calendar, which isn't all that stable or usable.
I actually bought an XBox because of Knights of the Old Republic, which was available ONLY for the XBox.
I couldn't run the game on my PIII, because the specs asked for a processor running at least 1 GHz, and my budget didn't allow me to buy a new PC yet.
I was able to find every other game I wanted for the XBox:
Enter the Matrix Splinter Cell EA Sports Baseball Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb
Now, despite being anti-Microsoft, I use the XBox as my exclusive gaming platform. This way, I can wean myself off Windows, and either run Linux exclusively on a PC, or buy a Mac. Now I have one less reason to buy a Windows license.
This is yet another example of why Windows shouldn't allow the user account to install software. A Windows user should have to log in to an administrator or root account if he/she wants to install any kind of software.
This would solve many Windows problems, including spyware, virii and this DRM installer nonesense.
Microsoft doesn't want to give you this ability, because it prevents them from allowing the media companies to take over YOUR computer.
Maybe Argentina owes somebody for bailing them out of some financial mess.
When you owe as many banks/corporations as much money as Argentina owes, you owe them favours as well. My guess is that Argentina got recruited to push this legislation so that somebody could argue that the "third world" "wanted" this legislation.
Disclaimer: This is pure speculation. I have no facts to back this up.
Call me paranoid or even a conspiracy theorist, but what if Microsofy is behind this? What if Microsoft, as part of their settlement with Sun, asked them to open-source Java so that they could embrace and extend it, and pollute it as they tried to before?
How much do you want to bet that Java will be open sourced under a BSD-style license, and not the GPL.
going after someone who infringes on GPL IP is ok, but going after people who download music and movies is not ok.
You're making a spurious comparison. The former violation involves a corporation using the copyrighted material to sell a product and earn profits, while implicitly (or explicitly, in the case of SCO) claiming the copyrighted material as their own. The latter involves individuals making unauthorized copies for personal use, or at worst making those unauthorized copies available to others for free.
The former is much more blatant than the latter. They should be considered separate crimes, with seperate sentences and/or penalties.
Linus Torvalds joined the fray with some rather humorous comments.
You Americans don't know how to spell humourous.
I must be one of the smartest person on Earth
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I've never even *thought* of getting married. I've never been in a long-term relationship. I haven't been in even a semi-serious relationship (over three weeks long) for three years. I haven't had sex for over a year, and I haven't been on a date in almost seven months.
I've never even *thought* of getting married. I've never been in a long-term relationship. I haven't been in even a semi-serious relationship (over three weeks long) for three years. I haven't had sex for over a year, and I haven't been on a date in almost seven months.
If you don't want me to ruin the ending for you, read no further. I'll probably get modded down, anyway, so you'll have to click on a hyperlink to see it. I tried to make the font white, so that you'd only see what I wrote, but that didn't work.
I really liked the ending to this movie, which was by far the most pleasant surprise of the whole film. I was totally expecting them to put in some lame-ass Hollywood ending where they save the world from nuclear destruction at the last minute. However, they didn't. They did the right thing in actually allowing nuclear war to go ahead, thus ensuring the survival of the franchise and paving the way for future Terminator movies taking place in a post-nuclear war world. We finally have the chance to see how this saga plays itself out: how the humans eventually beat the machines (mentioned briefly in Terminator I), as well as the critical battles during this war.
Thus, the saga that began in the first movie lives on and John Connor fulfils his destiny as leader of the humans against the machines.
The way they revealed it was cool too. When John and Kate go into the supposed heart of Skynet, we immediately know something is wrong, but it takes us a while to clue in. We eventually figure out that the complex is full of 30 year old computers, and that there's no way this is the heart of skynet. We then realize that nuclear war will actually take place, and there will be no stupid Hollywood ending.
There were some flaws in the movie, but I was extremely pleasantly surprised by the appropriate ending.
I know this may be out of left field, but could I not copyright my identity? What's to stop me from copyrighting my name, address, phone number, email, IP address, etc? If my ISP were to reveal my identity, I could then initiate the same process that the **AA is initiating against file swappers. This way, anyone who infringes on my privacy by either sending my spam, telemarketing, revealing my address, engage in identity theft, or revealing my identity to people/organizations I don't want would be guilty of copyright infringement.
Each individual in the open source movement needs to file a small claims law suit not only against SCO but against the individual lawyers working for SCO. These people have defamed us, and they need to learn that they do well to leave all of us alone.
Any reason this can't be done to other enemies of OpenSource and antitrust law violators, like Microsoft?
IIRC, corporations are required by law to provide the best return possible for their shareholders. By sharply discounting or giving away their products, are they not intentionally making themselves less profitable? Could Microsoft shareholders not sue them?
Where's the Bill Gates borg pic that was there before, and what's up with the unrecognizable "Windows" pic?
Time to find another architecture for OpenSource
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This was bound to happen sooner or later. Microsoft, Intel and AMD are ALL anti-OpenSource, yet x86 has been the primary architecture for Linux and other OpenSource programs. How did you really think it would be before those three companies were going to lock us out? It's their hardware, they were going to control it totally, it was just a matter of time.
What the OpenSource community needs to do is rally behind another architecture to ensure its survival. This can either be Sparc, plain-vanilla PowerPC systems, or both. Linux's dependence on the x86 architecture will spell its doom otherwise, and for any semblence of competition for consumer OS's besides Mac. Fortunately, all programs written for Linux will work on all Linux-supported architectures, and if they don't, they can always compiled on these architectures.
Personally, I'm ready to give up dual-booting into Windows, games, etc, if it means that I don't have to pay the Microsoft tax, or having Ashcroft/FBI/CIA monitoring every single keystroke I make on my PC. I'm also ready to give up the funky multimedia stuff and even new digital content if I can simply access the internet, write, compile and run my own or OpenSource programs. I'd rather have liberty than new toys.
Hopefully, Michael Robertson and LindowsOS will see this comming and make a deal with a generic PowerPC motherboard manfacturer and start porting Lindows to that architecture and quickly. It's the only hope left for free (as in speech) personal computing.
I've had a job since October, and actually found ANOTHER job in December that gave me a C$ 9,000 raise over the last one.
Still, I haven't had sex for well over 10 months.
Would I rather be getting laid or have a good job? You better believe I'd rather have the job!
The sex will come eventually, and having a job will dramatically improve my chances over those who are unemployed (ie, no $$$). There's a good chance that if I ever lose my job I wouldn't be able to find another in my field, or one that would even 2/3 of what I'm making now. Also, if I was unemployed, my chances of getting sex would be much, much lower.
So the lack of sex doesn't bother me. I can afford to go out for beers with my buddies on the weekend:)
Yes in IE the default source viewer is Notepad, but that can be changed - there's no mention of that ability in the article.
Do you know how? I'm running IE 5.5 and I can't find out how. I can change my HTML editor, Email program, Newsgroups viewer, etc, but not my HTML view under Tools > Internet Options > Programs.
Two Things I like about debugging apps in Mozilla:
1) JavaScript debugger. It's WAY better than IE and far more specific. IE will give you a cryptic error message telling what line of code generated the error, but in what file? (js, html or jsp?) Mozilla's JavaScript debugger will tell you the filename, method name AND line number.
2) JSP debugging. If my JSP page is broken in IE, IE will simply give me a page not found error. Mozilla will point out the line number and the part of the line that's causing an error, as javac would when I'm compiling a Java file.
This is about as credible as linking Iraq and Saddam to Al Q'aida (sp?) and bin Laden.
If I can pirate something for free on KaZaa or eDonkey, why would I buy it from pirates? I might want to buy a pirated DVD because downloading movies takes so long, but then I'd only be saving a few bucks over a legit DVD.
I suppose the next logical step is to link the Open Source movement to terrorism. Some have already implied this. It would help them fight Linux and other Open Source software (much of which I prefer to proprietary software), by branding those who support its use as terrorist symapthizers. The link is even more proposterous. Open Source projects have no money, nor can they can go and make any.
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My company uses Netscape Calendar for scheduling at work. Any idea when Sunbird will support the Netscape calendaring protocol so I can ditch Netscape Calendar, which isn't all that stable or usable.
I actually bought an XBox because of Knights of the Old Republic, which was available ONLY for the XBox.
I couldn't run the game on my PIII, because the specs asked for a processor running at least 1 GHz, and my budget didn't allow me to buy a new PC yet.
I was able to find every other game I wanted for the XBox:
Enter the Matrix
Splinter Cell
EA Sports Baseball
Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb
Now, despite being anti-Microsoft, I use the XBox as my exclusive gaming platform. This way, I can wean myself off Windows, and either run Linux exclusively on a PC, or buy a Mac. Now I have one less reason to buy a Windows license.
This is yet another example of why Windows shouldn't allow the user account to install software. A Windows user should have to log in to an administrator or root account if he/she wants to install any kind of software.
This would solve many Windows problems, including spyware, virii and this DRM installer nonesense.
Microsoft doesn't want to give you this ability, because it prevents them from allowing the media companies to take over YOUR computer.
Maybe Argentina owes somebody for bailing them out of some financial mess.
When you owe as many banks/corporations as much money as Argentina owes, you owe them favours as well. My guess is that Argentina got recruited to push this legislation so that somebody could argue that the "third world" "wanted" this legislation.
Disclaimer: This is pure speculation. I have no facts to back this up.
Call me paranoid or even a conspiracy theorist, but what if Microsofy is behind this? What if Microsoft, as part of their settlement with Sun, asked them to open-source Java so that they could embrace and extend it, and pollute it as they tried to before?
How much do you want to bet that Java will be open sourced under a BSD-style license, and not the GPL.
At least my logic isn't incredibly flawed, like yours is.
It's obvious you didn't even bother reading my post:
The former is much more blatant than the latter. They should be considered separate crimes, with seperate sentences and/or penalties.
I said both crimes should be punished. One crime should simply be punished more severely than the other.
Next time, don't be so eager to click the submit button right away.
going after someone who infringes on GPL IP is ok, but going after people who download music and movies is not ok.
You're making a spurious comparison. The former violation involves a corporation using the copyrighted material to sell a product and earn profits, while implicitly (or explicitly, in the case of SCO) claiming the copyrighted material as their own. The latter involves individuals making unauthorized copies for personal use, or at worst making those unauthorized copies available to others for free.
The former is much more blatant than the latter. They should be considered separate crimes, with seperate sentences and/or penalties.
Sure... you can file a complaint with the FTC. But you must include your email address.
How about:
Mistress/Slave?
There you go! Problem solved!
I doubt that IBM, Dell, HP as well as many fortune 500 companies that run Linux on the server would allow this to happen.
Of course, none of these companies probably gives a damn if Microsoft maintains control over the desktop.
Linus Torvalds joined the fray with some rather humorous comments.
You Americans don't know how to spell humourous.
I've never even *thought* of getting married. I've never been in a long-term relationship. I haven't been in even a semi-serious relationship (over three weeks long) for three years. I haven't had sex for over a year, and I haven't been on a date in almost seven months.
:)
I must be one of the smartest people on Earth
I've never even *thought* of getting married. I've never been in a long-term relationship. I haven't been in even a semi-serious relationship (over three weeks long) for three years. I haven't had sex for over a year, and I haven't been on a date in almost seven months.
:)
I must be one of the smartest people on Earth
The site appears to have been slashdotted. Can anybody provide mirrors or summaries?
;)
Just like every other Slashdot reader, I'd like to read the article before I post a comment
If you don't want me to ruin the ending for you, read no further. I'll probably get modded down, anyway, so you'll have to click on a hyperlink to see it. I tried to make the font white, so that you'd only see what I wrote, but that didn't work.
I really liked the ending to this movie, which was by far the most pleasant surprise of the whole film. I was totally expecting them to put in some lame-ass Hollywood ending where they save the world from nuclear destruction at the last minute. However, they didn't. They did the right thing in actually allowing nuclear war to go ahead, thus ensuring the survival of the franchise and paving the way for future Terminator movies taking place in a post-nuclear war world. We finally have the chance to see how this saga plays itself out: how the humans eventually beat the machines (mentioned briefly in Terminator I), as well as the critical battles during this war.
Thus, the saga that began in the first movie lives on and John Connor fulfils his destiny as leader of the humans against the machines.
The way they revealed it was cool too. When John and Kate go into the supposed heart of Skynet, we immediately know something is wrong, but it takes us a while to clue in. We eventually figure out that the complex is full of 30 year old computers, and that there's no way this is the heart of skynet. We then realize that nuclear war will actually take place, and there will be no stupid Hollywood ending.
There were some flaws in the movie, but I was extremely pleasantly surprised by the appropriate ending.
I know this may be out of left field, but could I not copyright my identity? What's to stop me from copyrighting my name, address, phone number, email, IP address, etc? If my ISP were to reveal my identity, I could then initiate the same process that the **AA is initiating against file swappers. This way, anyone who infringes on my privacy by either sending my spam, telemarketing, revealing my address, engage in identity theft, or revealing my identity to people/organizations I don't want would be guilty of copyright infringement.
Just a thought.
Each individual in the open source movement needs to file a small claims law suit not only against SCO but against the individual lawyers working for SCO. These people have defamed us, and they need to learn that they do well to leave all of us alone.
Any reason this can't be done to other enemies of OpenSource and antitrust law violators, like Microsoft?
IIRC, corporations are required by law to provide the best return possible for their shareholders. By sharply discounting or giving away their products, are they not intentionally making themselves less profitable? Could Microsoft shareholders not sue them?
Where's the Bill Gates borg pic that was there before, and what's up with the unrecognizable "Windows" pic?
This was bound to happen sooner or later. Microsoft, Intel and AMD are ALL anti-OpenSource, yet x86 has been the primary architecture for Linux and other OpenSource programs. How did you really think it would be before those three companies were going to lock us out? It's their hardware, they were going to control it totally, it was just a matter of time.
What the OpenSource community needs to do is rally behind another architecture to ensure its survival. This can either be Sparc, plain-vanilla PowerPC systems, or both. Linux's dependence on the x86 architecture will spell its doom otherwise, and for any semblence of competition for consumer OS's besides Mac. Fortunately, all programs written for Linux will work on all Linux-supported architectures, and if they don't, they can always compiled on these architectures.
Personally, I'm ready to give up dual-booting into Windows, games, etc, if it means that I don't have to pay the Microsoft tax, or having Ashcroft/FBI/CIA monitoring every single keystroke I make on my PC. I'm also ready to give up the funky multimedia stuff and even new digital content if I can simply access the internet, write, compile and run my own or OpenSource programs. I'd rather have liberty than new toys.
Hopefully, Michael Robertson and LindowsOS will see this comming and make a deal with a generic PowerPC motherboard manfacturer and start porting Lindows to that architecture and quickly. It's the only hope left for free (as in speech) personal computing.
I've had a job since October, and actually found ANOTHER job in December that gave me a C$ 9,000 raise over the last one.
:)
Still, I haven't had sex for well over 10 months.
Would I rather be getting laid or have a good job? You better believe I'd rather have the job!
The sex will come eventually, and having a job will dramatically improve my chances over those who are unemployed (ie, no $$$). There's a good chance that if I ever lose my job I wouldn't be able to find another in my field, or one that would even 2/3 of what I'm making now. Also, if I was unemployed, my chances of getting sex would be much, much lower.
So the lack of sex doesn't bother me. I can afford to go out for beers with my buddies on the weekend
Yes in IE the default source viewer is Notepad, but that can be changed - there's no mention of that ability in the article.
Do you know how? I'm running IE 5.5 and I can't find out how. I can change my HTML editor, Email program, Newsgroups viewer, etc, but not my HTML view under Tools > Internet Options > Programs.
Two Things I like about debugging apps in Mozilla:
1) JavaScript debugger. It's WAY better than IE and far more specific. IE will give you a cryptic error message telling what line of code generated the error, but in what file? (js, html or jsp?) Mozilla's JavaScript debugger will tell you the filename, method name AND line number.
2) JSP debugging. If my JSP page is broken in IE, IE will simply give me a page not found error. Mozilla will point out the line number and the part of the line that's causing an error, as javac would when I'm compiling a Java file.
This is about as credible as linking Iraq and Saddam to Al Q'aida (sp?) and bin Laden.
If I can pirate something for free on KaZaa or eDonkey, why would I buy it from pirates? I might want to buy a pirated DVD because downloading movies takes so long, but then I'd only be saving a few bucks over a legit DVD.
I suppose the next logical step is to link the Open Source movement to terrorism. Some have already implied this. It would help them fight Linux and other Open Source software (much of which I prefer to proprietary software), by branding those who support its use as terrorist symapthizers. The link is even more proposterous. Open Source projects have no money, nor can they can go and make any.