I don't know RH8, but I'd venture a guess that it's due to GTK versions. I can't find what version of GTK thunderbird requires, but RH8's is probably just a little old. Thunderbird probably uses GTK2, which for Mandrake requires a separate set of RPMs than GTK 1.x. Good luck.
Thunderbird's not at v0.1 yet, so I've been sticking with Mozilla's current mail client. How is thunderbird at the moment? Is it stable enough to switch?
When you're rich it doesn't work this way. You're referring to the simple lines on the 1040 tax form. The rich set up charitable trusts. The money they donate goes on that line of the 1040. The trust, a non-profit entity, can do many things with that money, and the owner can also use it to his advantage. I can take a lunch, in the name of the trust, and treat is as an expense rather than out-of-pocket. Therefore the trust is paying for it with my money which I did not pay taxes on. Donating to the Red Cross or whoever does nothing for us tax-wise, correct. But when you're wealthy you can easily use quite a few loopholes.
I really don't like it when people say he's "quite the philanthropist." It's quite the opposite. My father's a CPA and one of the first things he tells a rich client is to give a lot to charity for tax purposes. If someone makes $100,000/yr and gives away $5,000 that's 5% going to charity. If Bill G's assets are (let's just say) increasing by $1 billion per year, giving away $10,000,000 is only 1% going to charity. So giving $50 million to charity may seem like a lot, but it's a very small portion of what he's got.
But much more important are where the so-called charity is going. Most of it goes into the trust his wife manages. Do you know what that charity does with their assets under management? The money that's in holding and not going out to good use is put into investments - tax-free investments in companies who are Microsoft's allies. I can't find the link at the moment, but the "charitable" Bill G is using his donations to fund companies to help Microsoft and put competition out of business. Also, much of the donations are for Microsoft software to be put into school systems. There's a lot more going on than cash going to poor starving children.
Total of 65,000 bugs - estimated 28,000 are âoerealâ problems > 21,000 âoepostponedâ at time of release (Feb 2000) > 27,000 âoeunfinished workâ or âoelong-forgotten problemsâ
The original source was a ZDNet article quoting a Microsoft memo. The article is no longer online. I have more related information here.
A friend just got back from an interview at NYU for grad school (MBA). For his job he reviews companies such as Red Hat. He told me when he ellaborated on what he writes about and mentioned Linux, the interview asked, "Isn't that the one with the cute little penguin?"
There's very little marketing of the penguin to the general public. (Red Hat has their, well, red hat... IBM has just their logo and targets corporate users, etc.) Yet this non-techie person at NYU knew something of the mascot. With that and other stories I've been hearing I think Linux is slowly gaining some mindshare, even will little marketing.
I'm also at a large investment firm. Our rules are similar, but currently differ with IM. They're trying to figure out how to give it to us without any legal implications. Since it's currently blocked I've set up an SSH tunnel to home and proxy IM through that. The only reason I'm able to do it is because I'm a developer and get to manage my own workstation. So whatever goes on the standard users will have to abide by the rules, but for the forseeable future us developers will always have a way around those rules. I imagine it's similar elsewhere.
Out of curiosity, isn't the EULA automatically protected under copyright law like everything else? Even without a copyright statement attached to it I'm not sure anyone is allowed to reproduce it without permission. I think it would have to explicitly give permission in the doc.
You consent to the operation of these features, unless you choose to switch them off or not use them.
Haha... Yes, I consent to the operation of features I bought and left on. I don't consent to those I turn off or don't use. But could I consent to the actions of those I turn off? If I don't operate them can I give permission for them to operate? This is such a wacky sentence it's funny. I give permission for the features which are turned on to operate and don't give permission to those which are turned off to operate. I know it's legal mumbo-jumbo, but could this statement ever not be true?
consent: 2. To indicate or express a willingness; to yield to guidance, persuasion, or necessity; to give assent or approval; to comply.
Is this a requirement for newspapers in Europe? If not it seems exceptionally inconsitant. I imagine a lot of people (companies) are worried about their image on the net and want to force web sites to allow public responses in the same place as the source. I thought the US is having bigger problems with free speech, but this sounds very bad.
A little offtopic, but I'd like to see book links point to somewhere else, like Barnes & Noble. After all the coverage on/. of the amazon.com patents I thought this would have been obvious. Let's not support software patents and shop somewhere else instead. Here are the B&N links:
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When I was fresh out of college (a little while back) I ran into something related. My boss definitely preferred me for the fact I was youngest and he probably perceived my general energy as also being faster at programming. But I also ran into another problem. Here's an example:
It's a late Friday afternoon and we've got plenty to do, but with plenty of time. The boss tells me he wants the work done for Monday morning instead of the extra week we were originally told we had. The older developers with families told him they weren't staying late Friday, they were going home. I told him the same, but he replies, "Why? You don't have anything better to do." Apparently since I was young and didn't have any family I had no reason not to work more. I was fuming and I didn't work late. He tried to pull that crap a few more times after that.
So not only are younger minds quicker, but apparently they're also easier to manipulate and take advantage of.
A mature platform? It's in version 0.24. As of today they state 77% of just the core library is implemented. Teamwork and recognition does not imply maturity. The term needs to be used correctly and more sparingly or it'll lose all meaning.
We haven't done that, yet, but our concern right now is like everyone else: unemployment. A few of us are thinking of putting together a business plan to start a new company, but that's going nowhere fast. We don't yet have that one great, unique, amazing software idea to start a company. So we're all stuck waiting it out until the market's better and we can move on or we finally come up with that great idea.
I've been considering getting a good DLP projector, but it seems the good ones are very expensive. Where did you find one for under $3k? How's your experience been compared to LCD and/or CRT? For $3500 or less it's possible to get a 42" plasma, so I'm debating.
Then explain JBoss, O'Reilly, IBM, Merril Lynch, and others, all who use and support open source development. Oh, and how about Linus and his $200,000 per year job? This is only the beginning, while people get used to the idea that restricting bits to make them more valuable isn't possible. Is the developers' services which are paid for, not bits. About 5% of developers work for software companies. Most are paid for services to other industries. Get a grip. We'll all still be making plenty tomorrow.
Read this. Longhorn will not be backwards compatible. Windows Server 2003 is not compatible with Windows 2000, so what makes you think they wouldn't further break compatibility? As my employer has found out they are in the continual process of making customers re-write their applications to run on Windows. This continues their revenue stream. Why do customers put up with this? Past investment in Microsoft makes people reluctant to give up. Desktop monopoly is also a major factor.
Considering it's a software company, hire a lawyer. Developers alone should not be making these decisions where a company's fate is at stake. Hire a law firm who specializes in software and/or copyright, go over everything with them, and then make up policy. It's not smart to not consult a lawyer in this case.
This from a person who puts his home page as Netscape.com? Your home site (employer?) is the first commercial company (probably) to have released their product to the open source community.
I've been thinking about something like this too. It would be great to have a system automatically attach metadata to any file. There could be a database that catches calls to create files and asks the user to enter metadata if desired, but that may be too annoying. Having some form of AI such as in Haystack combined with a good view of categories and other metadata would be very useful in organizing data. Ideally there would be very little effort by the user to perform the organizing. The AI would do almost all the work and user could just browse.
Time to download the code and get the wheels turning...
It's far too easy to change an odometer reading to rely on this. Odometers are changed all the time when selling used cars. It's not legal, but for a mechanic it's trivial to remove the panel and change it. Also, like others have said, not all states have inspections, or at least not annual.
So you want to have one of those arguments? Check the news about all of the countries whose governments are switching desktops to linux. Take a look at the largest country in the world having their government promote their own flavor of desktop linux. And how about yesterday's news of a country with more people than the US having a president recommending linux. Let's not forget IBM with over 250,000 employees switching. And then there's Merryl Lynch and Morgan Stanley. How about 640,000 TiVo users? See my list for a few more.
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I don't know RH8, but I'd venture a guess that it's due to GTK versions. I can't find what version of GTK thunderbird requires, but RH8's is probably just a little old. Thunderbird probably uses GTK2, which for Mandrake requires a separate set of RPMs than GTK 1.x. Good luck.
Thunderbird's not at v0.1 yet, so I've been sticking with Mozilla's current mail client. How is thunderbird at the moment? Is it stable enough to switch?
When you're rich it doesn't work this way. You're referring to the simple lines on the 1040 tax form. The rich set up charitable trusts. The money they donate goes on that line of the 1040. The trust, a non-profit entity, can do many things with that money, and the owner can also use it to his advantage. I can take a lunch, in the name of the trust, and treat is as an expense rather than out-of-pocket. Therefore the trust is paying for it with my money which I did not pay taxes on. Donating to the Red Cross or whoever does nothing for us tax-wise, correct. But when you're wealthy you can easily use quite a few loopholes.
I really don't like it when people say he's "quite the philanthropist." It's quite the opposite. My father's a CPA and one of the first things he tells a rich client is to give a lot to charity for tax purposes. If someone makes $100,000/yr and gives away $5,000 that's 5% going to charity. If Bill G's assets are (let's just say) increasing by $1 billion per year, giving away $10,000,000 is only 1% going to charity. So giving $50 million to charity may seem like a lot, but it's a very small portion of what he's got.
But much more important are where the so-called charity is going. Most of it goes into the trust his wife manages. Do you know what that charity does with their assets under management? The money that's in holding and not going out to good use is put into investments - tax-free investments in companies who are Microsoft's allies. I can't find the link at the moment, but the "charitable" Bill G is using his donations to fund companies to help Microsoft and put competition out of business. Also, much of the donations are for Microsoft software to be put into school systems. There's a lot more going on than cash going to poor starving children.
Don't forget the freakin' sharks with freakin' laser beams attached to their freakin' heads. They've killed many an un-named henchmen.
Total of 65,000 bugs - estimated 28,000 are âoerealâ problems
> 21,000 âoepostponedâ at time of release (Feb 2000)
> 27,000 âoeunfinished workâ or âoelong-forgotten problemsâ
The original source was a ZDNet article quoting a Microsoft memo. The article is no longer online. I have more related information here.
A friend just got back from an interview at NYU for grad school (MBA). For his job he reviews companies such as Red Hat. He told me when he ellaborated on what he writes about and mentioned Linux, the interview asked, "Isn't that the one with the cute little penguin?"
There's very little marketing of the penguin to the general public. (Red Hat has their, well, red hat... IBM has just their logo and targets corporate users, etc.) Yet this non-techie person at NYU knew something of the mascot. With that and other stories I've been hearing I think Linux is slowly gaining some mindshare, even will little marketing.
I'm also at a large investment firm. Our rules are similar, but currently differ with IM. They're trying to figure out how to give it to us without any legal implications. Since it's currently blocked I've set up an SSH tunnel to home and proxy IM through that. The only reason I'm able to do it is because I'm a developer and get to manage my own workstation. So whatever goes on the standard users will have to abide by the rules, but for the forseeable future us developers will always have a way around those rules. I imagine it's similar elsewhere.
Out of curiosity, isn't the EULA automatically protected under copyright law like everything else? Even without a copyright statement attached to it I'm not sure anyone is allowed to reproduce it without permission. I think it would have to explicitly give permission in the doc.
You consent to the operation of these features, unless you choose to switch them off or not use them.
Haha... Yes, I consent to the operation of features I bought and left on. I don't consent to those I turn off or don't use. But could I consent to the actions of those I turn off? If I don't operate them can I give permission for them to operate? This is such a wacky sentence it's funny. I give permission for the features which are turned on to operate and don't give permission to those which are turned off to operate. I know it's legal mumbo-jumbo, but could this statement ever not be true?
consent: 2. To indicate or express a willingness; to yield to guidance, persuasion, or necessity; to give assent or approval; to comply.
Is this a requirement for newspapers in Europe? If not it seems exceptionally inconsitant. I imagine a lot of people (companies) are worried about their image on the net and want to force web sites to allow public responses in the same place as the source. I thought the US is having bigger problems with free speech, but this sounds very bad.
if you're going to boycott anybody who holds software patents, you'll never be able to buy software again
I don't.
If you want to make a difference, write your congressperson
I do. Hillary Clinton doesn't write back to any of her constituents who I've spoken to.
be politically active
I am.
join a movement
I have.
a lot more effective than this kneejerk boycott crap
It's hardly kneejerk and every little bit helps.
A little offtopic, but I'd like to see book links point to somewhere else, like Barnes & Noble. After all the coverage on /. of the amazon.com patents I thought this would have been obvious. Let's not support software patents and shop somewhere else instead. Here are the B&N links:
The Bug
Close to the Machine
When I was fresh out of college (a little while back) I ran into something related. My boss definitely preferred me for the fact I was youngest and he probably perceived my general energy as also being faster at programming. But I also ran into another problem. Here's an example:
It's a late Friday afternoon and we've got plenty to do, but with plenty of time. The boss tells me he wants the work done for Monday morning instead of the extra week we were originally told we had. The older developers with families told him they weren't staying late Friday, they were going home. I told him the same, but he replies, "Why? You don't have anything better to do." Apparently since I was young and didn't have any family I had no reason not to work more. I was fuming and I didn't work late. He tried to pull that crap a few more times after that.
So not only are younger minds quicker, but apparently they're also easier to manipulate and take advantage of.
A mature platform? It's in version 0.24. As of today they state 77% of just the core library is implemented. Teamwork and recognition does not imply maturity. The term needs to be used correctly and more sparingly or it'll lose all meaning.
We haven't done that, yet, but our concern right now is like everyone else: unemployment. A few of us are thinking of putting together a business plan to start a new company, but that's going nowhere fast. We don't yet have that one great, unique, amazing software idea to start a company. So we're all stuck waiting it out until the market's better and we can move on or we finally come up with that great idea.
Running the site from home. Ports 80 and 8080 blocked.
I've been considering getting a good DLP projector, but it seems the good ones are very expensive. Where did you find one for under $3k? How's your experience been compared to LCD and/or CRT? For $3500 or less it's possible to get a 42" plasma, so I'm debating.
Then explain JBoss, O'Reilly, IBM, Merril Lynch, and others, all who use and support open source development. Oh, and how about Linus and his $200,000 per year job? This is only the beginning, while people get used to the idea that restricting bits to make them more valuable isn't possible. Is the developers' services which are paid for, not bits. About 5% of developers work for software companies. Most are paid for services to other industries. Get a grip. We'll all still be making plenty tomorrow.
Read this. Longhorn will not be backwards compatible. Windows Server 2003 is not compatible with Windows 2000, so what makes you think they wouldn't further break compatibility? As my employer has found out they are in the continual process of making customers re-write their applications to run on Windows. This continues their revenue stream. Why do customers put up with this? Past investment in Microsoft makes people reluctant to give up. Desktop monopoly is also a major factor.
Considering it's a software company, hire a lawyer. Developers alone should not be making these decisions where a company's fate is at stake. Hire a law firm who specializes in software and/or copyright, go over everything with them, and then make up policy. It's not smart to not consult a lawyer in this case.
This from a person who puts his home page as Netscape.com? Your home site (employer?) is the first commercial company (probably) to have released their product to the open source community.
I've been thinking about something like this too. It would be great to have a system automatically attach metadata to any file. There could be a database that catches calls to create files and asks the user to enter metadata if desired, but that may be too annoying. Having some form of AI such as in Haystack combined with a good view of categories and other metadata would be very useful in organizing data. Ideally there would be very little effort by the user to perform the organizing. The AI would do almost all the work and user could just browse.
Time to download the code and get the wheels turning...
It's far too easy to change an odometer reading to rely on this. Odometers are changed all the time when selling used cars. It's not legal, but for a mechanic it's trivial to remove the panel and change it. Also, like others have said, not all states have inspections, or at least not annual.
So you want to have one of those arguments? Check the news about all of the countries whose governments are switching desktops to linux. Take a look at the largest country in the world having their government promote their own flavor of desktop linux. And how about yesterday's news of a country with more people than the US having a president recommending linux. Let's not forget IBM with over 250,000 employees switching. And then there's Merryl Lynch and Morgan Stanley. How about 640,000 TiVo users? See my list for a few more.