Nice troll. Fair use rights were established by the Supreme Court in several cases, for example, Sony vs. Colombia.
They weren't "taken away" because of "greedy pirates", and while nothing makes the media cartels ensure that they are easy to exercise, they are still rights and they still can be exercised. The practical ability of modern consumers to do so, and the impact that this will have on libraries, the free exchange of information, etc. is a whole different issue.
It's a running joke on the GNOME mailing lists that any harsh comments made about GNOME will be taken out of context and posted to Slashdot. Good to see that this works in real life!
> Jesus Christ. I just wasted 30 minutes of my life reading through that whole mess. I want those 30 minutes back!
Sounds like it's lawsuit time to me...
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This HAD to happen 12 hours after I installed 2.4.12, it happens every time. Linus must hate me.
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The only reason that the GNOME core won't be bonoboized is if there isn't enough time before the freeze to do it in. (The GNOME guys are really serious about getting the release out in a timely fashion, they set an early freeze date of July 31 and limited the feature set due to that.) Havoc never had any objections to the GNOME core being bonoboized, the argument was about his library (GConf) being replaced for GNOME 2.0 without his knowledge. The gnome-core maintainers have always planned on bonoboizing the panel (Vertigo), nautilus already uses bonobo, and the control-center is moving away from any embedding mechanism, which was a joint decision with both the Ximian guys (Chema, Zaphod) and Havoc.
... and if we're about to blame Bush (not that I'm implying you are) for only increasing the budget by 3% this year, is the Clinton administration at fault for not raising it at all for the last 7 years?
Yes you can do inheritance. It's not a language feature, but a feature of gtk+. Read up on the GtkObject system. There's nothing preventing you from hiding implementation details in C. (You can't totally bar people out with private, but you can provide stable interfaces.)
Weird Al was under the impression that Coolio had said it was OK to do, so he went ahead and parodied it. Later, Coolio said he didn't agree and thought that the song was too serious to parody. Weird Al apologized, but Coolio never said anything in return.
E ships with keybindings.cfg.gmc that you can swap in for the normal keybindings.cfg and it works like 0.15 did. And helix (or gnome 1.1.x) has a scalable panel.
I don't think censorship is the answer. As far as only long-time readers being able to read comments, that seems horribly paternalistic. Slashdot should remain free, as it always has, except in the case where trolls try to overwhelm the servers. Most moderators share our tastes, so in order to avoid the crap, surf at Threshold : 1. The guy's an asshole no doubt, but I like a forum where any opinion goes, and I'm glad Rob has avoided the censorship route. The only way that all legitimate posters can be heard is by making sure all people can be heard, no matter how offending they may be to our senses.
I'm amazed Sony would go so far as to recall the Playstation2. That really has to hurt their momentum, which they need badly to combat the Dreamcast's installed base here in the US, and also so they can be entrenched for the menace of the X-Box. I guess it just shows how committed Sony as a movie company and MPAA member is to the continuation of the restrictions on regions.
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... sucks!
If it makes you feel any better, Scheme is still as firmly entrenched as ever.
How long until I get a trackball embedded in my mouse?
Try turning the mouse over.
Nice troll.
Fair use rights were established by the Supreme Court in several cases, for example, Sony vs. Colombia.
They weren't "taken away" because of "greedy pirates", and while nothing makes the media cartels ensure that they are easy to exercise, they are still rights and they still can be exercised. The practical ability of modern consumers to do so, and the impact that this will have on libraries, the free exchange of information, etc. is a whole different issue.
Harvey
It's a running joke on the GNOME mailing lists that any harsh comments made about GNOME will be taken out of context and posted to Slashdot. Good to see that this works in real life!
And he'll see his hard drive melt right before his eyes....
> Jesus Christ. I just wasted 30 minutes of my life reading through that whole mess. I want those 30 minutes back!
Sounds like it's lawsuit time to me...
This HAD to happen 12 hours after I installed 2.4.12, it happens every time. Linus must hate me.
The only reason that the GNOME core won't be bonoboized is if there isn't enough time before the freeze to do it in. (The GNOME guys are really serious about getting the release out in a timely fashion, they set an early freeze date of July 31 and limited the feature set due to that.) Havoc never had any objections to the GNOME core being bonoboized, the argument was about his library (GConf) being replaced for GNOME 2.0 without his knowledge. The gnome-core maintainers have always planned on bonoboizing the panel (Vertigo), nautilus already uses bonobo, and the control-center is moving away from any embedding mechanism, which was a joint decision with both the Ximian guys (Chema, Zaphod) and Havoc.
Sorry for drifting so far off-topic...
At least you didn't get bitten by this hole. Goodbye, kernel...
To read PDF:
Switch "a" with "n", "b" with "o",
and et cetera.
Although this is a great victory, and it shows what we can do when we get organized and unified...
1. Dmitry is still in jail.
2. The DMCA is still on the books.
3. The EFF still needs your help.
Let's keep this momentum going!
... and if we're about to blame Bush (not that I'm implying you are) for only increasing the budget by 3% this year, is the Clinton administration at fault for not raising it at all for the last 7 years?
"Wealth" and "Income" are two different things. Wealth isn't taxed until it is sold for a net gain, income is taxed yearly.
I think that the comments are rated within score by the order that they were posted in.
Yes you can do inheritance. It's not a language feature, but a feature of gtk+. Read up on the GtkObject system. There's nothing preventing you from hiding implementation details in C. (You can't totally bar people out with private, but you can provide stable interfaces.)
"Scooby" backwards.
WiredX.net is an ASP ........
http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx/screenshots.html
Wired and Weird are different.
Very strange coincidence that both provide very similar products, maybe WeirdX is a clone of WiredX
Yeah, I'm on your side. What do you pay these guys for anyway? What? You don't pay them? Oh....
Weird Al was under the impression that Coolio had said it was OK to do, so he went ahead and parodied it. Later, Coolio said he didn't agree and thought that the song was too serious to parody. Weird Al apologized, but Coolio never said anything in return.
E ships with keybindings.cfg.gmc that you can swap in for the normal keybindings.cfg and it works like 0.15 did. And helix (or gnome 1.1.x) has a scalable panel.
I don't think censorship is the answer. As far as only long-time readers being able to read comments, that seems horribly paternalistic. Slashdot should remain free, as it always has, except in the case where trolls try to overwhelm the servers. Most moderators share our tastes, so in order to avoid the crap, surf at Threshold : 1. The guy's an asshole no doubt, but I like a forum where any opinion goes, and I'm glad Rob has avoided the censorship route. The only way that all legitimate posters can be heard is by making sure all people can be heard, no matter how offending they may be to our senses.
Sorry man, but the media kit has NOTHING to do with quicktime.
He was referring to the fact that Quicktime adds a bunch of multimedia loading and displaying functions that support many codecs.
What happened to Xing? You'd think that what they did was worse for the DVD industry ostensibly.
I'm amazed Sony would go so far as to recall the Playstation2. That really has to hurt their momentum, which they need badly to combat the Dreamcast's installed base here in the US, and also so they can be entrenched for the menace of the X-Box. I guess it just shows how committed Sony as a movie company and MPAA member is to the continuation of the restrictions on regions.