In fact the government is saying they they can vote 'yes' because, as they say, the current proposal does not allow for software patents.
The position of the dutch government on software is schizofrenic. At one side they support big companies by voting support for software patents and secretly(!) arranging 5 year contract with Microsoft despite a law ordering big contracts to fulfilled after requesting prices at various vendors and a motion ordering goverment to buy _only_ free software after 2006.
On the other hand , aformentioned motion is in place, but is being ignored, a goverment institution with very little funds is supposed to promote free software and recently a European symposium on free software was organised.
In toto, the government does more against than for free software.
Here is the position of the VVD on software patents. Basically what it says is that they are strongly against softwarepatents but support the current proposal, because it does not, according to their minister Brinkhorst, allow for the patenting of software as such. This is completely naive, but a necessary statement the party needs to avoid intern inconsistency. Basically, what they are saying and what they are doing is not the same.
Being able to download the technology powering the Google search engine must be the dream of every competing search engine. Maybe this will even result in a free software version which may replace 'locate' and 'htdig' on linux.
Just downloaded it by adding this as a resource to SuSE's YaST. It got rid of some really annoying bugs in KDE 3.3.0 as far as I can see so far. Also the beginnings of GMail support are there (thanks David Faure) although this is not complete.
I'm using KDE for a couple of years now and it's really the best! Some of my favorite shortcuts that I can't live without anymore:
Alt-F2
Execute command
Ctrl-[
Previous konqueror tab
Ctrl-]
Next konqueror tab
Shift-left
Previous konsole tab
Shift-right
Next konsole tab
Middle mouse click on 'maximize' window icon
Maximize vertically!
Isn't that a bit overkill. Surely there's a way to connect a simple traditional speedometer, where a magnet on your spoke flies past sensor on your fork, to a chip with a couple of kb of memory. Basically all the system would need to do is to store the time between subsequent ticks. By the way this Power Tap that Armstrong is using, doesn't seem to register the gear you're using.
I was hoping this discussion would be about adding gear to your bike that shows you how fast you are peddling, what your acceleration is, etc. Also there are bikes where you have to paddle, but that have automatic gears. Where I come from, electric bikes are considered to be for old people.
Seriously, does someone have a cool speedometer on his bike that stores a distance vs. time data on a convenient storage medium, e.g. usb-stick or memory card?
Of course extra data like, inclination vs. time would be a cool addition for the extreme mountain bikers, as well as heart-beat and body temperature.
We'll never find out, unless someone took out the message before they cremated Douglas N. Adams. If you'd like to inspect the ashes for hidden meaning, go here.
I bought the book mainly because of the windows version of the library. There are four versions of the library on the CD:
Qt for Borland C++ Builder 5
Qt for Borland C++ Builder 6 trial edition
Qt for Visual C++ 6
Qt for Visual C++.NET
I've ported my app cubetest to windows with the Builder 5 compiler. This compiler is however very old and the debugger works in DOS. That's not really a problem if the app would work well. Unfortunately, on other computers than my own the app seems to crash quite often even though I've thoroughly checked floating point errors and memory problems under linux.
So I'd like to use a better compiler and debugger under windows, to get the last problems out. Are there any other free compilers that could work with the Qt versions supplied on the CD? It would be ok to use a Microsoft compiler, since I'm porting to windows anyway.
PS: irritating feature of Windows XP, if my app crashes, XP offers to send it to Microsoft for debugging!
What would be really useful, is if a large site like w3m, slashdot or, why not, microsoft (ok maybe not) would host this stylesheet. This has a number of advantages: - stylesheet can be cached: no penalty on website size - a central version with the latest stable release: less fuss for website maintainers
A simple mail filter will take care of that problem. The receiver may choose to automatically return anonymous email or email with an unknown key with a short message: 'if you want me to read your mail, please send me your public key and a short motivation for me to read you messages in the format described below'.
In this way, the receiver can choose to read only the short motivation messages. When a sender has something interesting to say, the receiver can add the sender's public key to his 'accept' filter.
Instead of spending money on research to find life on mars, Bush should spend money on research that creates environmentally friendly technology (low energy consumption, low amount of waste, reuse of waste). This type of research can also be very high-tech and can provide a boost to the economy in several ways: - reduce industry spending on energy and resources - gain an advantage in low resource use over other countries. - stimulate the economy with gouvernment spending
Beter to save millions of species on earth than to find one on mars!
I'm not claiming that the textbox should be depricated. It's good. The added helpful suggestion is nice and I like it too. I like the tab key as well. I also like typing an absolute path and using the tab key there or receiving a suggestion would be nice. I don't know about Gnome, but KDE does not have it. It be a nice addition.
The average user will not type absolute paths often because he will have to always start with '/home/username/', which is a nuisance.
Mistaking the cursur keys for the enter key is something I've never done. It might be an issue on laptops, but not on ones I've used. Usuually, there's a warning dialog before overwrite a file in a file selector.
I have made mistakes using the tab key by simply not paying enough attention to the suggestion or how far the completion went.
* Saving favorite locations is an add-on feature for a lot of file selectors. This is easy to add, and might be worth considering. This is not GNOME-specific.
Just drag your favourite location to the side-bar in the file selector. A new icon representing the favourite appears. It can be removed with it's context menu. In addition to this there's a bookmarks button, but that's really redunant now because of the sidebar.
* Showing the last N locations used with this app or globally might be a nice (potentially optional, for privacy reasons) feature.
The top of the file selector has a combobox containing the current path. Openinging it shows 10 often/recently accesed directories.
Even better than tab comletion, KDE shows a list of matching names. The top one can be chosen by pressing enter. The arrow keys and subsequent enter choose another matching name.
The file dialog is not perfect, but it's quite close. What would be nice is tooltips showing key shortcuts for all buttons.
Slashdot Mirror
In fact the government is saying they they can vote 'yes' because, as they say, the current proposal does not allow for software patents.
The position of the dutch government on software is schizofrenic. At one side they support big companies by voting support for software patents and secretly(!) arranging 5 year contract with Microsoft despite a law ordering big contracts to fulfilled after requesting prices at various vendors and a motion ordering goverment to buy _only_ free software after 2006.
On the other hand , aformentioned motion is in place, but is being ignored, a goverment institution with very little funds is supposed to promote free software and recently a European symposium on free software was organised.
In toto, the government does more against than for free software.
Here is the position of the VVD on software patents. Basically what it says is that they are strongly against softwarepatents but support the current proposal, because it does not, according to their minister Brinkhorst, allow for the patenting of software as such. This is completely naive, but a necessary statement the party needs to avoid intern inconsistency. Basically, what they are saying and what they are doing is not the same.
Yes, that should work. What should work too, is using two camcorders taped together. Stereo photography has been around for ages.
Middle/right click on bookmarks is not implemented in today's mozilla build. It is, however, implemented for the personal toolbar.
Try this:
valgrind
It's a Free Software purify alternative and works great!
Being able to download the technology powering the Google search engine must be the dream of every competing search engine. Maybe this will even result in a free software version which may replace 'locate' and 'htdig' on linux.
Just downloaded it by adding this as a resource to SuSE's YaST. It got rid of some really annoying bugs in KDE 3.3.0 as far as I can see so far. Also the beginnings of GMail support are there (thanks David Faure) although this is not complete.
I'm using KDE for a couple of years now and it's really the best!
Some of my favorite shortcuts that I can't live without anymore:
Alt-F2 Execute command Ctrl-[ Previous konqueror tab Ctrl-] Next konqueror tab Shift-left Previous konsole tab Shift-right Next konsole tab Middle mouse click on 'maximize' window icon Maximize vertically!
[fill in person]
false hope:
viral marketing
note the amount of ads!
Isn't that a bit overkill. Surely there's a way to connect a simple traditional speedometer, where a magnet on your spoke flies past sensor on your fork, to a chip with a couple of kb of memory. Basically all the system would need to do is to store the time between subsequent ticks.
By the way this Power Tap that Armstrong is using, doesn't seem to register the gear you're using.
I was hoping this discussion would be about adding gear to your bike that shows you how fast you are peddling, what your acceleration is, etc. Also there are bikes where you have to paddle, but that have automatic gears. Where I come from, electric bikes are considered to be for old people.
Seriously, does someone have a cool speedometer on his bike that stores a distance vs. time data on a convenient storage medium, e.g. usb-stick or memory card?
Of course extra data like, inclination vs. time would be a cool addition for the extreme mountain bikers, as well as heart-beat and body temperature.
robotic urang utang
There's a good book on it's development.
We'll never find out, unless someone took out the message before they cremated Douglas N. Adams.
If you'd like to inspect the ashes for hidden meaning, go here.
While that's a pretty clumsy way of saying, it, Shakespeare was ahead of Boole.
I suggest we all add the following statement (or equivalent) to our code in honor of this great mind.
typedef bool shakespear;
I've ported my app cubetest to windows with the Builder 5 compiler. This compiler is however very old and the debugger works in DOS. That's not really a problem if the app would work well. Unfortunately, on other computers than my own the app seems to crash quite often even though I've thoroughly checked floating point errors and memory problems under linux.
So I'd like to use a better compiler and debugger under windows, to get the last problems out. Are there any other free compilers that could work with the Qt versions supplied on the CD? It would be ok to use a Microsoft compiler, since I'm porting to windows anyway.
PS: irritating feature of Windows XP, if my app crashes, XP offers to send it to Microsoft for debugging!
What would be really useful, is if a large site like w3m, slashdot or, why not, microsoft (ok maybe not) would host this stylesheet. This has a number of advantages:
- stylesheet can be cached: no penalty on website size
- a central version with the latest stable release: less fuss for website maintainers
I bet Steve Balmer is jealous: 3 big mouths and good legs for jumping around.
Please point me to 3.2.1, because I can't find it. How could Mandrake've used if it isn't even out yet.
According the the release plan it should be almost there:
Sunday February 29th, 2004: Preparing KDE 3.2.1
KDE 3.2.1 tarballs are generated and uploaded to the packagers. Announcement roughly a week later.
But it's not there yet.
This is how you can make an english euro.
Split the euro and put in a penny (i think).
Here's a similar package funded by a dutch institution:
A-A-P
A simple mail filter will take care of that problem. The receiver may choose to automatically return anonymous email or email with an unknown key with a short message: 'if you want me to read your mail, please send me your public key and a short motivation for me to read you messages in the format described below'.
In this way, the receiver can choose to read only the short motivation messages. When a sender has something interesting to say, the receiver can add the sender's public key to his 'accept' filter.
Instead of spending money on research to find life on mars, Bush should spend money on research that creates environmentally friendly technology (low energy consumption, low amount of waste, reuse of waste). This type of research can also be very high-tech and can provide a boost to the economy in several ways:
- reduce industry spending on energy and resources
- gain an advantage in low resource use over other countries.
- stimulate the economy with gouvernment spending
Beter to save millions of species on earth than to find one on mars!
Thanks a lot!
That makes a huge difference in speed.
Now this application runs much smoother.
I'm not claiming that the textbox should be depricated. It's good. The added helpful suggestion is nice and I like it too. I like the tab key as well. I also like typing an absolute path and using the tab key there or receiving a suggestion would be nice. I don't know about Gnome, but KDE does not have it. It be a nice addition.
The average user will not type absolute paths often because he will have to always start with '/home/username/', which is a nuisance.
Mistaking the cursur keys for the enter key is something I've never done. It might be an issue on laptops, but not on ones I've used. Usuually, there's a warning dialog before overwrite a file in a file selector.
I have made mistakes using the tab key by simply not paying enough attention to the suggestion or how far the completion went.
The KDE file selector has all these:
* Saving favorite locations is an add-on feature for a lot of file selectors. This is easy to add, and might be worth considering. This is not GNOME-specific.
Just drag your favourite location to the side-bar in the file selector. A new icon representing the favourite appears. It can be removed with it's context menu.
In addition to this there's a bookmarks button, but that's really redunant now because of the sidebar.
* Showing the last N locations used with this app or globally might be a nice (potentially optional, for privacy reasons) feature.
The top of the file selector has a combobox containing the current path. Openinging it shows 10 often/recently accesed directories.
Even better than tab comletion, KDE shows a list of matching names. The top one can be chosen by pressing enter. The arrow keys and subsequent enter choose another matching name.
The file dialog is not perfect, but it's quite close. What would be nice is tooltips showing key shortcuts for all buttons.