As long as women choose this over even the most dignified forms of poverty it will continue.
What would you prefer to do with your life. Star in Porn flicks where you have sex with whatever the director sends in and pretend to enjoy it for $500 a day ( wild guess ) or clean bathrooms for $250 a weak ?
These porn actresses have simply chosen one of the many forms of prostitution available pretty girls. Others exactly like them are standing on the corner all night or seducing the boss at work or marrying wealthy men they don't like.
I don't feel much sympathy. Not while she has options other than starvation.
BTW: What about the men in this business ? They are off whoring just like the women. Except that they make LESS. Reversing the trend that exists everywhere else.
Linux Bios.
Embedded Linux for the OS.
Embedded QT for the desktop.
Proper working palmtop browsers ( Using this CSS spec and a bunch of other things that aren't available yet ).
Palm's future is a little doubtful but it's gona be fun to watch the fight. PalmOS with the installed base. LinuxEmded with the flexibility and extras. Wince ( Now Windows Powered ) with all those marketing dollars.
The question is; Can MS PAY enough people to use that the network effects make it the default ?
Well, I just clicked on that link in Konqueror and was almost surprised to see the document open within the same browser window.
As far as I know this is the only browser that dose this for a PDF document. It's treated almost like an HTML file. Beautiful work KDE team, Beautiful work.
As for the document. It will take some time to read and digest. Check back here:)
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The hilarius thing is that the picture on that page looks a lot like Deon Hemings. Defending champion in the women's 400 Meter hurdles.
At least she wasn't demonstrating alongside the lesser members of the Jamaican team yesterday:)
The FSF wanted to find violations. So did the Gnome teem and several others.
they couldn't come up with any code they owned which was in violation so maybe they don't own any of the code ?
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I m officially signing on to blame Joseph Carter for this.
Would QT go GPL if he hadn't been as load and vulgar about Troll Tech and KDE on kde-licensing@ ? My hat goes off to you Mr. Carter. Thanks and God bless.
This is not a flame. As someone who has been in the trenches on this one for years now, with Knightbird and Mosfet, I can tell you it's been a strain.
Troll Tech has up to recently been scared spitless of using the GPL for QT. They don't quite trust it. These days however they are strong enogh to fight abusers and big enogh to outrun forkers.
Do you realize that GNOME itself is the 1st successful software project based on Corba ?
Why should a technology not produce any good results for over 10 years and then suddenly become worthwhile when an open source project starts to use it ?
Not just any Open Source project either but one with lots of backing and funding from everywhere.
You see Corba is broken. but only a little. In order to use it you must build something else on top that actually talks to your apps. Gnome usees Bonobo. KDE used Kom. Despite being built on the same technology they couldn't communicate with each other. Not even when Gnome used the same ORB as KDE ( Mico ).
This is the power of the Hacker mentality at work. They took a broken twisted pile of junk and built a wonderful interface on top of that. Best of all being Corba makes it 100% buzzword compliant. Read this post to asses how much of a "buzzword" it is.
So they get more lawsuites. All they do is trin more lawyers ( well the universities anyway ).
As for this ruling in particular. Enforcing it against every web site wasn't the point. Not by a long shot. If it was they wold have picked a site at randum.
They chose 2600 because as far as US courts are concerned they are the least liked site in existance. 2600 protested Kevin Mitnic's "pree trial sentence" for all the years that it ran. They post stroies about stuff that old men ( I.e. most judges ) are scared of.
The point was to creat precedent so that if some company desides to build a Linux set top box with a DVD player built in, they can be sued sucesfully for using this code or any other DVD driver that they didn't pay the DVD-CCA for.
"His talents as a general lie in his ability to chuse incompetent oponents"
This reminds me of the energy and the hope embodied in the original QT release. When a bunch of Ozis added strong encryption in 24 hours and 5 Norwegians ( 3 Troll, 2 KDE ) ported it to QT in a couple of days ( fast 2 meg binary that crashed as much as Mozilla did 8 months ago ). Back then it looked like a 6 month project.
We have come a long way with people calling the project dead and others resigning because it just wasn't working out. Now it looks like there is a light at the end of the tonel. Mozilla will be done eventually. Maybe in as little as 3 months.
Now with at least 3 mostly standards compliant browsers, two of which support the same plugins ( Mozilla and Konquorer ) there is a chance to take back the web and marginalize proprietary interfaces.
I like choice. I want to use 3 or 4 different browsers depending on mood, lighting and How I will use the site. However I want them to agree on what "HTML" stands for. I want XML and other buzzwords to be accurately supported. I want the freedom to use what I like.
If Big Sister 2000 isn't on the list I will be seriously upset.
That movie stank. It had to be absolutely the worst quality movie any way you want to measure it. From having watched it I get the feeling it was a Porn director with a couple days to kill and none of his male actors able to get more erections, or maybe there was an outbreak of crabs from the quality of acting ( Bad by porn star standards ).
I watched it twice too ( Masochistic ? ) just so I could find out if there was actually a plot. Then again when you have female actors in big coveralls playing male rolls it ought to be a tip-off that something's odd here.
Strangely enough the best thing in it was the opening sean where a naked girl wearing only combat boots "locked" in a jail cell squeezed her 40-D silicone implants through the bars and ran away. Only to be caught a few minutes later by "men" in coveralls. It had 1 redeeming feature. She was good looking.
I won't deal with the "uses less memory" argument. I see a different pattern when I use KDE. Namely that KDE-1.1.2 is smaller than any Gnome version ( including this Helix stuff ). I also see KDE-2.0 being smaller than that. However PCs vary and so do compilers and tags and other stuff. "YMMV".
This is why I am still a little pissed that they didn't link to the interview I submitted in which Kurt dealt with the whole "Corba Issue". Here is the full quote. This is more valuable than his whole rant above.
Kurt: Yes, we did. The initial development on the KDE 2.0 branch was all done with Corba, using the Mico ORBb.
Liz: What changed that?
Kurt: There were several reasons. We worked on the KDE 2.0 development starting when we were still stabilizing KDE 1.0. We spent months on it but were unhappy with the results. The performance was very bad. That, we knew, was potentially fixable through the use of a different ORB, possible Orbit. In addition, though, the complexity of the code, the complexity of the Corba standard, was such that the code became more and more difficult to work with. Eventually, we only had a small group of seven or eight developers who really understood it and could work with it. That was a huge bottleneck for development. Then one of our developers sat down and developed KParts, an alternative to CORBA, within only a short amount of time. He showed it to us. Not only was it blindingly fast, but the code itself resembled the code we'd already written for KDE 1.0. That made it possible for all of our developers to work with it immediately.
Then we had our KDE developer meeting in Europe. We sat down and looked at the potential cost of dumping CORBA. We would be losing the ability to use remote components, but we didn't know anyone currently using that ability and felt it could be added later if people really wanted it. Interoperability with other CORBA implementations wasn't a major impact; everyone builds their own layer on top of CORBA (like Bonobo) and you really have to be compatible with that, not just CORBA, in order to interoperate. So all we really felt we lost was the buzzword. That isn't important to us as developers, so we moved to KParts.
Major releases calculated to coincide with big trade shows. That has always been a sign of hype over substance.
At least this time it's not a 1.0 "stable" release that comes in the middle of a storm of new bug reports and latter had people excusing it with comments like:
"Of course it's ready. The developers have been in insane bugfix mode for the past week"
Yes,. This actually happened with Gnome itself. Linux, SaMBa, Apache, KDE, XFree. These are serious free projects that release code "when it's ready" and issue betas "when the software is complete enough to be called beta and normal people can help with bug tracking". Nothing but technical considerations are relevant.
Just finished reading plaintiffs arguments. It is worth noting that "Trade Secret" dose not appear in that document at any point.
Translation. They now accept that revers engineering a consumer product cannot no matter how difficult or complex constitute violation of a trade secret.
Of course once you get to that point they need to *own* DeCSS in order to effect any copyright control. They can't actually claim to already own it ( see Trade Secret above ) so they might try to buy it ( Fat chance after Johnny boy got a medal from his president.
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As long as women choose this over even the most dignified forms of poverty it will continue.
What would you prefer to do with your life. Star in Porn flicks where you have sex with whatever the director sends in and pretend to enjoy it for $500 a day ( wild guess ) or clean bathrooms for $250 a weak ?
These porn actresses have simply chosen one of the many forms of prostitution available pretty girls. Others exactly like them are standing on the corner all night or seducing the boss at work or marrying wealthy men they don't like.
I don't feel much sympathy. Not while she has options other than starvation.
BTW: What about the men in this business ? They are off whoring just like the women. Except that they make LESS. Reversing the trend that exists everywhere else.
Linux Bios.
Embedded Linux for the OS.
Embedded QT for the desktop.
Proper working palmtop browsers ( Using this CSS spec and a bunch of other things that aren't available yet ).
Palm's future is a little doubtful but it's gona be fun to watch the fight. PalmOS with the installed base. LinuxEmded with the flexibility and extras. Wince ( Now Windows Powered ) with all those marketing dollars.
The question is; Can MS PAY enough people to use that the network effects make it the default ?
yes. I am.
I put that disclaimer in my sig to force people who disagree with me to attack the substance of my coment rather than spelling.
RiserFS is actualy FASTER than EXT2 on My Pentium 200 64 meg box under Mandrake 7.1
Well, I just clicked on that link in Konqueror and was almost surprised to see the document open within the same browser window.
:)
As far as I know this is the only browser that dose this for a PDF document. It's treated almost like an HTML file. Beautiful work KDE team, Beautiful work.
As for the document. It will take some time to read and digest. Check back here
The hilarius thing is that the picture on that page looks a lot like Deon Hemings. Defending champion in the women's 400 Meter hurdles.
:)
At least she wasn't demonstrating alongside the lesser members of the Jamaican team yesterday
Gnome dosn't force C programing. It has all sorts of bindings.
Onfortunatly it's a lot easier for a C++ programer to switch to C than to use the almost functional C++ bindings in Gnome.
The same goes for nearly all the other language bindings so Gnome is esentialy a C environment to the same extent KDE is a C++ one.
It's about as silly as the Window Manager choice argument. I.e. Most Gnome Window Managers are KDE compliant too.
Haww, Hawww.
Kimp was never distributed. As such it was never in violation of the GPL or the wishes of the Gimp developers.
The GPL allows you unlimited rights to curupt GPLed code as long as the results stay internal.
The FSF wanted to find violations. So did the Gnome teem and several others.
they couldn't come up with any code they owned which was in violation so maybe they don't own any of the code ?
I m officially signing on to blame Joseph Carter for this.
Would QT go GPL if he hadn't been as load and vulgar about Troll Tech and KDE on kde-licensing@ ? My hat goes off to you Mr. Carter. Thanks and God bless.
This is not a flame. As someone who has been in the trenches on this one for years now, with Knightbird and Mosfet, I can tell you it's been a strain.
Troll Tech has up to recently been scared spitless of using the GPL for QT. They don't quite trust it. These days however they are strong enogh to fight abusers and big enogh to outrun forkers.
Every time KDE is mentioned we have the claim about no standards or people needing QT to develop KDE apps.
Actualy what you need is to folow the stile guide.
KDE Standards and Style Guides
Ohh. And here is an interview with Kurt Granroth.
Do you realize that GNOME itself is the 1st successful software project based on Corba ?
Why should a technology not produce any good results for over 10 years and then suddenly become worthwhile when an open source project starts to use it ?
Not just any Open Source project either but one with lots of backing and funding from everywhere.
You see Corba is broken. but only a little. In order to use it you must build something else on top that actually talks to your apps. Gnome usees Bonobo. KDE used Kom. Despite being built on the same technology they couldn't communicate with each other. Not even when Gnome used the same ORB as KDE ( Mico ).
This is the power of the Hacker mentality at work. They took a broken twisted pile of junk and built a wonderful interface on top of that. Best of all being Corba makes it 100% buzzword compliant. Read this post to asses how much of a "buzzword" it is.
KDE has had a compleat stile guide since before KDE-1.0.
You don't have a desktop environment ontil your stile guide is in place because otherwise it's not posible to make an app without your toolkit.
Folowing the stile guide you can write a KDE application that dosn't use the KDElibs, QT or even C++.
Talk about developer choice.
So they get more lawsuites. All they do is trin more lawyers ( well the universities anyway ).
As for this ruling in particular. Enforcing it against every web site wasn't the point. Not by a long shot. If it was they wold have picked a site at randum.
They chose 2600 because as far as US courts are concerned they are the least liked site in existance. 2600 protested Kevin Mitnic's "pree trial sentence" for all the years that it ran. They post stroies about stuff that old men ( I.e. most judges ) are scared of.
The point was to creat precedent so that if some company desides to build a Linux set top box with a DVD player built in, they can be sued sucesfully for using this code or any other DVD driver that they didn't pay the DVD-CCA for.
"His talents as a general lie in his ability to chuse incompetent oponents"
Congres desided that you yanks shouldn't have freedum of speach anymore. Read The DMCA.
This case is going to the apeals court.
This reminds me of the energy and the hope embodied in the original QT release. When a bunch of Ozis added strong encryption in 24 hours and 5 Norwegians ( 3 Troll, 2 KDE ) ported it to QT in a couple of days ( fast 2 meg binary that crashed as much as Mozilla did 8 months ago ). Back then it looked like a 6 month project.
We have come a long way with people calling the project dead and others resigning because it just wasn't working out. Now it looks like there is a light at the end of the tonel. Mozilla will be done eventually. Maybe in as little as 3 months.
Now with at least 3 mostly standards compliant browsers, two of which support the same plugins ( Mozilla and Konquorer ) there is a chance to take back the web and marginalize proprietary interfaces.
I like choice. I want to use 3 or 4 different browsers depending on mood, lighting and How I will use the site. However I want them to agree on what "HTML" stands for. I want XML and other buzzwords to be accurately supported. I want the freedom to use what I like.
If Big Sister 2000 isn't on the list I will be seriously upset.
That movie stank. It had to be absolutely the worst quality movie any way you want to measure it. From having watched it I get the feeling it was a Porn director with a couple days to kill and none of his male actors able to get more erections, or maybe there was an outbreak of crabs from the quality of acting ( Bad by porn star standards ).
I watched it twice too ( Masochistic ? ) just so I could find out if there was actually a plot. Then again when you have female actors in big coveralls playing male rolls it ought to be a tip-off that something's odd here.
Strangely enough the best thing in it was the opening sean where a naked girl wearing only combat boots "locked" in a jail cell squeezed her 40-D silicone implants through the bars and ran away. Only to be caught a few minutes later by "men" in coveralls. It had 1 redeeming feature. She was good looking.
Sory. Here is the link http://lwn.net/2000/features/Linux World/KDE.php3
This is why I am still a little pissed that they didn't link to the interview I submitted in which Kurt dealt with the whole "Corba Issue". Here is the full quote. This is more valuable than his whole rant above.
Kurt: Yes, we did. The initial development on the KDE 2.0 branch was all done with Corba, using the Mico ORBb.
Liz: What changed that?
Kurt: There were several reasons. We worked on the KDE 2.0 development starting when we were still stabilizing KDE 1.0. We spent months on it but were unhappy with the results. The performance was very bad. That, we knew, was potentially fixable through the use of a different ORB, possible Orbit. In addition, though, the complexity of the code, the complexity of the Corba standard, was such that the code became more and more difficult to work with. Eventually, we only had a small group of seven or eight developers who really understood it and could work with it. That was a huge bottleneck for development. Then one of our developers sat down and developed KParts, an alternative to CORBA, within only a short amount of time. He showed it to us. Not only was it blindingly fast, but the code itself resembled the code we'd already written for KDE 1.0. That made it possible for all of our developers to work with it immediately.
Then we had our KDE developer meeting in Europe. We sat down and looked at the potential cost of dumping CORBA. We would be losing the ability to use remote components, but we didn't know anyone currently using that ability and felt it could be added later if people really wanted it. Interoperability with other CORBA implementations wasn't a major impact; everyone builds their own layer on top of CORBA (like Bonobo) and you really have to be compatible with that, not just CORBA, in order to interoperate. So all we really felt we lost was the buzzword. That isn't important to us as developers, so we moved to KParts.
Am I the only one who can get nothing more than the "technocrat" banner ?
It's not just this story or today either. I used to go there every day but have not been able to connect for most of this week.
Major releases calculated to coincide with big trade shows. That has always been a sign of hype over substance.
At least this time it's not a 1.0 "stable" release that comes in the middle of a storm of new bug reports and latter had people excusing it with comments like:
"Of course it's ready. The developers have been in insane bugfix mode for the past week"
Yes,. This actually happened with Gnome itself. Linux, SaMBa, Apache, KDE, XFree. These are serious free projects that release code "when it's ready" and issue betas "when the software is complete enough to be called beta and normal people can help with bug tracking". Nothing but technical considerations are relevant.
Just finished reading plaintiffs arguments. It is worth noting that "Trade Secret" dose not appear in that document at any point.
Translation. They now accept that revers engineering a consumer product cannot no matter how difficult or complex constitute violation of a trade secret.
Of course once you get to that point they need to *own* DeCSS in order to effect any copyright control. They can't actually claim to already own it ( see Trade Secret above ) so they might try to buy it ( Fat chance after Johnny boy got a medal from his president.
The other arguments are just plain lame.
Thank you :).
Althogh technicaly it's 1/2 serius.
It stops being funy if we say which half.
Basicaly numbers get rounded somewhere.
2.4 wold get rounded to 2.
2.4 + 2.4 = 4.8
of course 4.8 gets rounded _up_ to 5
so yes. For suficently large values of 2
2 + 2 dose = 5