The first step is a waste of time as you're going to repartition the drive and destroy whatever formating was on that (presumably vfat/ntfs) partition.
Although if you do actually get the windows refund in part 4 you're not really profiting - just recollecting money taken from you. (I guess that's really a glass half-empty half-full thing. I think its half-empty.)
They're patenting aspects of the iPod user interface. iTunes is very important to the iPod but isn't apart of the iPod AFAIK (I've never actually seen one).
We're flaming Apple because they're patenting something semi-obvious (though most posts will return to the usual flaming of the totally broken US Intellectual Property system). That I have no problem with.
gives the DOJ the power to pursue civil cases against file sharers
That by itself is reason enough for me to have serious - SERIOUS issues with it. It is the job of the copyright holder to press infringers for damages not the government (unless it holds the copyright).
The notion otherwise is ludicrious, thought that fits right in line with anything else Congress has thought up lately.
You're misusing the definition of a nation-state. A nation is a group of people that feel like they belong together as a group. A state is large government agency. Americans are a nation that have a state. You don't have to have a state to be a nation though - the Palestinans are a nation as are the Kurds (I tried to avoid those examples due to the feelings involved but couldn't think of nothing else).
Anyway, getting back to the matter - a kingdom can be a nation-state, as can a city-state for that matter. The question really becomes how big a group of people do you need to have to be a "nation" but thats neither here nor there.
Live your life well, try to bring more love than hate into the world. That's all. No big stuff -- no Revolution, no Topple the State, no Stop the Corporations. Work to your scale, as an individual; the rest is History.
That quote is deeply disturbing. I can't tell if you're playing Snowball in Animal Farm or the Ministry of Truth in 1984. I'm not about to advocate revolution but sitting back and letting others decide your life has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
If about config doesn't work use the gtk2 theme switcher. If you get version 2 it can set gtk2 themes and then any gtk/gnome app you have will match KDE (more or less). Germetick matches Kermetic, etc...
But its been a long time since I've run KDE so things might be different...
That's a historical definition. If you're a history major, thats what you go with. As an someone with a degree in International Relations, I've always used the grandparents defintion.
Then you didn't read my argument. My argument was that the grandparents argument is false. There was a proposal that OS X has the advantage of hardware support, whereas I countered that XP tends to have drivers for just about all modern hardware made for a PC. I don't know where you got linux out of that. Honestly, I have pretty standard hardware that is supported very well in Linux and in Windows.
That said, I think your order of magnitude statement is crap. There are scores upon scores of devices Linux will support that Windows won't. For example, this iMac.
One of the problems with Windows is that there is WAY too much hardware to support relyably...
Yeah, right. Because you know, this Yellow Dog Linux thing I'm typing this on is so unstable. My Macs and PCs run all run Linux (one that dual boots with XP). In both cases I have full support for my equipment. Linux supports all of my hardware as well because I'm capable of checking compatiblity before I buy. Comparing XP to OS X for hardware compat these days you're not going to find many people complaining on either side of the aisle. In alot of cases you can use "PC" parts in a Mac. If you want to talk security, thats another matter though I'm sure if Apple had the marketshare Windows had, it would suffer its own security worries.
I agree though, Apple wouldn't touch x86 if Windows dropped out as it would kill their hardware market. I'd see IBM building an OS X-esq OS for Windows from Linux and shipping that.
And I'm sure there will be an option to disable it in that bios. And when that option disappears, Macs and their OpenFirmware will look very attractive.
I don't have much respect for Sun these days. I bought a SparcStation 2 in the days when 400mhz was the norm and it was an amazing little box and a great DNS server. If you compare how well that thing was made to their new products, it's disapointing. Sun Blade products are flimsy and feel cheap. Of course their pricetag was anything but. Frankly, the OS X workstations at work were a much better deal. Pricey, but at well built.
In software, well, the Solaris machines at work are gone now and FreeBSD webservers and Linux just -about-everything machines are in their place. Java isn't on any of the OS X machines to save space (it doesn't provide anything usefull to us besides the employee's web-game applets so...).
Sun should realize that Linux et all should be some of the best friends they've got. If Mono brings.Net CLR to Linux in a pronounced way, Java's usefullness will end if for not other reason than the sheer number of people who can use C# and VB to do what they need.
For me, it really doesn't matter. Java is gone at work and is certainly not being installed on any of my Linux boxen at home. Only thing I'll notice when Sun goes belly up is the story on Slashdot.
Except for the fact that me and dozens of other people don't care the supermarkets know what I'm buying for dinner. In the interest of disclosure: I'm pretty much a tightarse about computer security at home and at my place of business. That said, I was taught at a very young age to "not sweat the small shit". I don't view the supermarket knowing what I buy as a major threat to my or the national security (I'm sure loons will come up with some explanation why it is). I generally shop at one supermarket and have the buyer's uber mega card version 5.0superplus right behind my debit card. Since I debit the order (because to me, its much more of a concern walking around with huge wads of cash when I do all of my shopping on fridays) they already know what I bought. Incidently, they also know what you bought just not your name.
Contrary to your belief that we are all sheep with our cards, many of us have looked into the worries associated with shopper cards and determined they are insignificant to us. I don't view RFID tags as a bad thing either becauase, as a poster pointed out years ago, walmart doesn't want their competitors to know what you're buying there and will likely deactivate the tags before you leave.
You have fun doing your thing, wasting time which I'm sure is valuable to you.
Xmms2 is supposed to be GTK2 but I don't know how off aways that is.
beep is pretty much a xmms fork that's Gtk2. Its not as refined as xmms (and there's no flac support) but I use it as my everyday multimedia player. I recommend if you build it, you use the cvs as thats way more up to date than the last release.
Except dillo doesn't (to my knowledge) support CSS at all. At that point, I can't even load my own page in it and have it look the way it supposed to. It's useable (I designed the page for accessiblity) but looks nasty. And I like CSS:)
I'm liable to switch over to FireFox (or whatever it's called this week), except the Preference Toolbar (on which I'm hooked like a crack addiction) still does not function in this stripped down version of the Moz browser.
Yeah, I have similar issues with epiphany. I like its layout and its Gnomeiness but there are certain options it blocks (even out of regular mozilla) that I would really like to have. Every time I download something and the damn download statusbar comes up I want to put my fist through the screen. You can't dare close it either as that will stop the download. Hopefully tomorrow when 2.6 launches I'll be able to play with Epiphany 1.2.0 and it'll have more options.
I have no idea how on Earth you got modded as Insightfull. I don't have any KDE or QT libs on my system. One of my better friends has an almost entirely KDE system (I do believe he has gtk installed).
For one thing, I usually need both installed if I want to be able to run any application without too many problems
My Gnome apps run fine without KDE and my friends KDE apps run fine without GTK.
This is a real double edged sword, as it means we will see less development of commercial applications, and in the case that we do, the interface is not going to be consistent or friendly.
That's also inaccurate. Trolltech has a whole page of commerical entities that use QT and, you know, Novell, SuSE, and Ximian have no interest in developing anything for Gnome commercially. And that Sun Java Desktop - boy I'm glad thats not a corporate venture or anything.
If we had two competing Linux implementations, similar to the BSD world, you would see a lot less progress and corporate backing than you do now.
The BSD kernel competes with the Linux kernel. Hell, Apache 1.x competes with Apache 2.x as well as Boa and a dozen other webservers.
The competition is what forces evolution in software. The Gnome - KDE rivalry is a goodnatured competition that makes both products better. I assumed most people had that figured out. By extending your logic we should just all run Windows and be a nice homogenous blob of sheep that take whatever we're fed because uniformity is a good thing. You can go back to 1984 now.
"you can't represent your own compilations or modifications as official builds"
Its more than official builds. If Debian compiles their own build of Firefox, they cannot call it Firefox or use the Logo. If you read the thread you'd know that. To quote Mr. Dotzler: "Before we're willing to sanction the distribution of a modified version of Firefox under our trademark name and logo, we need to know what those changes are, specifically."
That's not an unreasonable request, however Eric Dorland (Debian's Firefox maintainer) also has valid concerns:
"I understand that you would want Firefox to have the highest level of quality when using that name. But even if you approved of my patches today, what about tomorrow? Would I have to have you approve of every release that I do? If we disagreed and could not find a compromise would you disallow us from using the name? I'm not sure I would be comfortable working in that kind of situation."
Personally, I thing it is probably a non-issue. If they can't reach some sort of agreement then Debian can still compile the modified Firefox code with another set of artwork and call it something other than Firefox. I propose it be called "Phoenix";)
Yeah, especially after a rain. The odor would come down from North-east of East Halls and flood the campus. Good to know OPP will be able to put that all to good use heh.
Slashdot Mirror
*Points at big glowing spherical fusion plant in the sky*
;).
In 4 billion years when that sucker goes red-giant we'll see what it can't meltdown
I like my Earth's extra-crispy.
The first step is a waste of time as you're going to repartition the drive and destroy whatever formating was on that (presumably vfat/ntfs) partition.
Although if you do actually get the windows refund in part 4 you're not really profiting - just recollecting money taken from you. (I guess that's really a glass half-empty half-full thing. I think its half-empty.)
They're patenting aspects of the iPod user interface. iTunes is very important to the iPod but isn't apart of the iPod AFAIK (I've never actually seen one).
We're flaming Apple because they're patenting something semi-obvious (though most posts will return to the usual flaming of the totally broken US Intellectual Property system). That I have no problem with.
gives the DOJ the power to pursue civil cases against file sharers
That by itself is reason enough for me to have serious - SERIOUS issues with it. It is the job of the copyright holder to press infringers for damages not the government (unless it holds the copyright).
The notion otherwise is ludicrious, thought that fits right in line with anything else Congress has thought up lately.
You're misusing the definition of a nation-state. A nation is a group of people that feel like they belong together as a group. A state is large government agency. Americans are a nation that have a state. You don't have to have a state to be a nation though - the Palestinans are a nation as are the Kurds (I tried to avoid those examples due to the feelings involved but couldn't think of nothing else).
Anyway, getting back to the matter - a kingdom can be a nation-state, as can a city-state for that matter. The question really becomes how big a group of people do you need to have to be a "nation" but thats neither here nor there.
Live your life well, try to bring more love than hate into the world. That's all. No big stuff -- no Revolution, no Topple the State, no Stop the Corporations. Work to your scale, as an individual; the rest is History.
That quote is deeply disturbing. I can't tell if you're playing Snowball in Animal Farm or the Ministry of Truth in 1984. I'm not about to advocate revolution but sitting back and letting others decide your life has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
"Apple, the most powerful, lowest priced 64bit based PC available. That is true."
:)
*Looks at DEC Alpha in corner running NT*
*Looks at UltraSparc running Linux in other corner*
*Looks at reciept for both of them*
So where can I get a G5 for 300 dollars. I could use the upgrade
If about config doesn't work use the gtk2 theme switcher. If you get version 2 it can set gtk2 themes and then any gtk/gnome app you have will match KDE (more or less). Germetick matches Kermetic, etc ...
...
But its been a long time since I've run KDE so things might be different
That's a historical definition. If you're a history major, thats what you go with. As an someone with a degree in International Relations, I've always used the grandparents defintion.
Then you didn't read my argument. My argument was that the grandparents argument is false. There was a proposal that OS X has the advantage of hardware support, whereas I countered that XP tends to have drivers for just about all modern hardware made for a PC. I don't know where you got linux out of that. Honestly, I have pretty standard hardware that is supported very well in Linux and in Windows.
That said, I think your order of magnitude statement is crap. There are scores upon scores of devices Linux will support that Windows won't. For example, this iMac.
Attractive to whom?
I meant to me. I don't really care what the rest of the sheep are grazing on; I don't support DRM.
One of the problems with Windows is that there is WAY too much hardware to support relyably...
Yeah, right. Because you know, this Yellow Dog Linux thing I'm typing this on is so unstable. My Macs and PCs run all run Linux (one that dual boots with XP). In both cases I have full support for my equipment. Linux supports all of my hardware as well because I'm capable of checking compatiblity before I buy. Comparing XP to OS X for hardware compat these days you're not going to find many people complaining on either side of the aisle. In alot of cases you can use "PC" parts in a Mac. If you want to talk security, thats another matter though I'm sure if Apple had the marketshare Windows had, it would suffer its own security worries.
I agree though, Apple wouldn't touch x86 if Windows dropped out as it would kill their hardware market. I'd see IBM building an OS X-esq OS for Windows from Linux and shipping that.
And I'm sure there will be an option to disable it in that bios. And when that option disappears, Macs and their OpenFirmware will look very attractive.
Yeah, we're degrading Sun from a Class G to Class M.
... Anyone who's taken Astro 101 should get it ...
*snicker*
I don't have much respect for Sun these days. I bought a SparcStation 2 in the days when 400mhz was the norm and it was an amazing little box and a great DNS server. If you compare how well that thing was made to their new products, it's disapointing. Sun Blade products are flimsy and feel cheap. Of course their pricetag was anything but. Frankly, the OS X workstations at work were a much better deal. Pricey, but at well built.
...).
.Net CLR to Linux in a pronounced way, Java's usefullness will end if for not other reason than the sheer number of people who can use C# and VB to do what they need.
In software, well, the Solaris machines at work are gone now and FreeBSD webservers and Linux just -about-everything machines are in their place. Java isn't on any of the OS X machines to save space (it doesn't provide anything usefull to us besides the employee's web-game applets so
Sun should realize that Linux et all should be some of the best friends they've got. If Mono brings
For me, it really doesn't matter. Java is gone at work and is certainly not being installed on any of my Linux boxen at home. Only thing I'll notice when Sun goes belly up is the story on Slashdot.
Except for the fact that me and dozens of other people don't care the supermarkets know what I'm buying for dinner. In the interest of disclosure: I'm pretty much a tightarse about computer security at home and at my place of business. That said, I was taught at a very young age to "not sweat the small shit". I don't view the supermarket knowing what I buy as a major threat to my or the national security (I'm sure loons will come up with some explanation why it is). I generally shop at one supermarket and have the buyer's uber mega card version 5.0superplus right behind my debit card. Since I debit the order (because to me, its much more of a concern walking around with huge wads of cash when I do all of my shopping on fridays) they already know what I bought. Incidently, they also know what you bought just not your name.
Contrary to your belief that we are all sheep with our cards, many of us have looked into the worries associated with shopper cards and determined they are insignificant to us. I don't view RFID tags as a bad thing either becauase, as a poster pointed out years ago, walmart doesn't want their competitors to know what you're buying there and will likely deactivate the tags before you leave.
You have fun doing your thing, wasting time which I'm sure is valuable to you.
Xmms2 is supposed to be GTK2 but I don't know how off aways that is.
beep is pretty much a xmms fork that's Gtk2. Its not as refined as xmms (and there's no flac support) but I use it as my everyday multimedia player. I recommend if you build it, you use the cvs as thats way more up to date than the last release.
Except dillo doesn't (to my knowledge) support CSS at all. At that point, I can't even load my own page in it and have it look the way it supposed to. It's useable (I designed the page for accessiblity) but looks nasty. And I like CSS :)
I'm liable to switch over to FireFox (or whatever it's called this week), except the Preference Toolbar (on which I'm hooked like a crack addiction) still does not function in this stripped down version of the Moz browser.
Yeah, I have similar issues with epiphany. I like its layout and its Gnomeiness but there are certain options it blocks (even out of regular mozilla) that I would really like to have. Every time I download something and the damn download statusbar comes up I want to put my fist through the screen. You can't dare close it either as that will stop the download. Hopefully tomorrow when 2.6 launches I'll be able to play with Epiphany 1.2.0 and it'll have more options.
I have no idea how on Earth you got modded as Insightfull. I don't have any KDE or QT libs on my system. One of my better friends has an almost entirely KDE system (I do believe he has gtk installed).
For one thing, I usually need both installed if I want to be able to run any application without too many problems
My Gnome apps run fine without KDE and my friends KDE apps run fine without GTK.
This is a real double edged sword, as it means we will see less development of commercial applications, and in the case that we do, the interface is not going to be consistent or friendly.
That's also inaccurate. Trolltech has a whole page of commerical entities that use QT and, you know, Novell, SuSE, and Ximian have no interest in developing anything for Gnome commercially. And that Sun Java Desktop - boy I'm glad thats not a corporate venture or anything.
If we had two competing Linux implementations, similar to the BSD world, you would see a lot less progress and corporate backing than you do now.
The BSD kernel competes with the Linux kernel. Hell, Apache 1.x competes with Apache 2.x as well as Boa and a dozen other webservers.
The competition is what forces evolution in software. The Gnome - KDE rivalry is a goodnatured competition that makes both products better. I assumed most people had that figured out. By extending your logic we should just all run Windows and be a nice homogenous blob of sheep that take whatever we're fed because uniformity is a good thing. You can go back to 1984 now.
"you can't represent your own compilations or modifications as official builds"
;)
Its more than official builds. If Debian compiles their own build of Firefox, they cannot call it Firefox or use the Logo. If you read the thread you'd know that. To quote Mr. Dotzler: "Before we're willing to sanction the distribution of a modified version of Firefox under our trademark name and logo, we need to know what those changes are, specifically."
That's not an unreasonable request, however Eric Dorland (Debian's Firefox maintainer) also has valid concerns:
"I understand that you would want Firefox to have the highest level of quality when using that name. But even if you approved of my patches today, what about tomorrow? Would I have to have you approve of every release that I do? If we disagreed and could not find a compromise would you disallow us from using the name? I'm not sure I would be comfortable working in that kind of situation."
Personally, I thing it is probably a non-issue. If they can't reach some sort of agreement then Debian can still compile the modified Firefox code with another set of artwork and call it something other than Firefox. I propose it be called "Phoenix"
Damn, you took the exact words of my post, heh.
Slack on.
DOI employees cannot use the Web or send or receive e-mail.
:)
*thinks about what he does at work*
So they're letting everybody go home early then?
Yeah, especially after a rain. The odor would come down from North-east of East Halls and flood the campus. Good to know OPP will be able to put that all to good use heh.
I know thats a joke but it raises a good point.
:).
$160 Million US is 210 Million CA.
$160 Million CA is 121 Million US.
Though, if you've lost over 100 Million, whats another 40 Million between friends. I accept donations
Also, if you have vim installed, paste it into the window and do a 'g??' and presto-changeo.