because my story is almost exactly the same, although I did try (and fail) to motivate myself for campus. The Basic and Drupal stuff matches!
Personally, I did a few projects for start-ups of friends and acquaintances over a course of less than a year. Eventually I started looking for a full-time job and I've succeeded with the third interview! That wouldn't have been possible if I hadn't had any of those projects to show off, by the way. I did keep in mind to fill up a portfolio.
Apparently to them, less is more. Less code means verifiability?? I thought it was just a matter of checking how well a certain standard was implemented. And if only 1 standard is implemented, well, less code to check?
They could have just taken GnuTLS and removed everything they didn't need. And even that would be plain stupid, as it would simply mean you're disabling a feature (instead of just choosing not to use said feature).
And what about support for Saudi Arabia, probably more out there than Iran in terms of Islamic fundamentalism?
Iraq has gone from a secular country, to one that with US troops on the ground has had its constitution changed to say its Islamic.
How Islamic is "Islamic"? Are you talking about the outward appearance? Saudi Arabia allowed the USA to have military bases in it's country, something which is strictly forbidden in Islam, although some scholars bought into the war propaganda and made an exception. Recently, the Saudi king has allowed women in congress, something else which is prohibited. Or how about the discrimination of foreigners who'd like to settle in the country? I can go on and on about Saudi Arabia. As for Iran, I'm surprised hardly anybody knows that the majority of the population of Iran are Twelver Shiites, whose Imami doctrine is significantly different from Sunni doctrine. These Twelvers consider Sunnis disbelievers and vice versa. They can therefore hardly be called "Islamic", as these Twelvers represent a minority of ~10% of all Muslims. Ever heard about the Shiite death squads in Iraq, killing "suspicious" sunni youngsters, but even women and children? And these murderers have since become police officers?? LMGTFY: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_squad#Iraq
If we look at history over the years, up to this very day without change, the west from the 1970s has always backed fundamentalist Islamists, and fought to overthrow secular regimes,
Are you serious? Are you saying that the US in Afghanistan is drinking shai with the Taliban? Or what about Saddam Hussein, whose regime had been outwardly communist, but who slowly grew attached to his religion?
flag-wavers like Sylvester Stallone made movies lionizing the Islamic radicals.
You're joking, right? The amount of films demonizing Muslims as a whole dwarfs the amount of films "lionizing" them. And don't forget that this "lionizing" is in the context of the US' proxy was against Russia.
The Saudi government is built up. Yet we are told we have to fear the radical Islamists
Now you're starting to make some sense. Many of the oppressive Mid-East governments were actually instated and subsequently supported by the West! But why would they support these, many of which were/are dictators? I think I know why...
I'm not sure where you could possibly get that kind of information from, and I wonder how such nonsense could earn you 3 mod-ups.
The Apache v2.0 license is an OSL approved, GPLv3 compatible license and the FSF consider it a free software license. Same thing with the new BSD license. These licenses exist since 2004 and 1999 respectively...
Now these licenses clearly aren't copyleft. That is, however, a whole other issue.
AFAICT upgrading an addon to a new version of Firefox is often enough just changing your maxVersion entry in it's install.rdf. That said, I can see why it's problematic that one would have to do this every few weeks, because a new version of Firefox comes out. This hasn't got much to do with Mozilla's new versioning scheme, it's rather that the new scheme exposes a problem in the design of the compatibility checker. I think it's too simplistic.
Like what? I presume your talking about a website? In that case whoever built it is to blame, because standards compliance is essential for interoperability. And last time I checked, the web was designed from the ground up to be inter-operable.
Then what is? Debian. Most distros are based on Debian to begin with, including Ubuntu. Debian stable is still on Gnome 2 by default, which suits those who are more conservative i.r.t. GDM's. As for me, I'll be switching to Debian Sid, which is on Gnome 3 by default (and I like it). Gnome 3 even has gnome-panels in fallback mode, which is awesome. The best thing of all, is that this single distro offers about as much freedom of choice as all distros combined. Most users stay with the default though, so that gives developers a steady target.
Interesting to hear about the drivers you mentioned. I haven't had any troubles myself at home with Ubuntu & Gnome3.
At work I have Debian Sid sitting in a virtual machine. Sid is running Gnome3 right now by default and it seems to have a better default configuration than Ubuntu. In Ubuntu, you only get to see the poweroff function when you press ALT, which feels as if the configuration was written for a laptop. It's a minor difference but still...
As for multimedia in Debian, I'm not sure it's that hard. They have a wiki page about it and it seems that the same packages as in Ubuntu are available. http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs
The procedure to install them also seems the same as for Ubuntu. What's called mediabuntu i.r.t. Ubuntu is called multimedia-keyring i.r.t. Debian.
But if you want to install it, make sure you install Debian Sid. Not the stable branch, that one is *really* stable, somewhat like CentOS I guess. It doesn't even have the Gnome3 packages yet.
What you explain confirms my thoughts when I was test-driving Gnome3 after ditching Unity. Desktops are more "visible" and dynamic, so much more likely to be used (although I already used them regularly in Gnome2). Gnome3 also has the "good" things of Unity, like getting out of the way of the application, some eye-candy and a menu with search.
Gnome 3 doesn't have some of the bad things of Unity though. Like the lack of a notification area, the way a user has to carefully avoid the left side of the screen to prevent the ribbon from opening.
Other things Gnome3 does better are the convenient overview and switching of windows. Although having many windows open could make that a handicap, this is where the multiple desktop feature comes in.
And best of all: Gnome3 has a built in desktop recording feature! It's accessible with CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+R. Right now there is no audio recording, nor anything to configure, but they're working on an interface for it that will address these issues for the 3.4 release iirc.
This is something that might actually sway me towards Debian sid.
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The community would rather fund open source projects. We all know only large media companies (other copyright trolls) will place bids.
+99 flamebait
Anyone have a link to the _orginal_ article? Then we can confirm that this, indeed, is a bunch of bullcrap.
Can you explain how that alleged causal relationship works?
I thought my situation was bad, with 15 year old speakers.
Only because he got dizzy.
Shouldn't they go after all those serial killers, car thieves and enemies of the state, who are playing GTA?
Drupal + Rules will do just that :)
because my story is almost exactly the same, although I did try (and fail) to motivate myself for campus. The Basic and Drupal stuff matches!
Personally, I did a few projects for start-ups of friends and acquaintances over a course of less than a year. Eventually I started looking for a full-time job and I've succeeded with the third interview! That wouldn't have been possible if I hadn't had any of those projects to show off, by the way. I did keep in mind to fill up a portfolio.
What scholars would that be? And did they also include the numerous ahadeeth on the subject?
I'm Dutch and I feel ashamed!
Apparently to them, less is more. Less code means verifiability?? I thought it was just a matter of checking how well a certain standard was implemented. And if only 1 standard is implemented, well, less code to check?
They could have just taken GnuTLS and removed everything they didn't need. And even that would be plain stupid, as it would simply mean you're disabling a feature (instead of just choosing not to use said feature).
And what about support for Saudi Arabia, probably more out there than Iran in terms of Islamic fundamentalism?
Iraq has gone from a secular country, to one that with US troops on the ground has had its constitution changed to say its Islamic.
How Islamic is "Islamic"? Are you talking about the outward appearance? Saudi Arabia allowed the USA to have military bases in it's country, something which is strictly forbidden in Islam, although some scholars bought into the war propaganda and made an exception. Recently, the Saudi king has allowed women in congress, something else which is prohibited. Or how about the discrimination of foreigners who'd like to settle in the country? I can go on and on about Saudi Arabia.
As for Iran, I'm surprised hardly anybody knows that the majority of the population of Iran are Twelver Shiites, whose Imami doctrine is significantly different from Sunni doctrine. These Twelvers consider Sunnis disbelievers and vice versa. They can therefore hardly be called "Islamic", as these Twelvers represent a minority of ~10% of all Muslims.
Ever heard about the Shiite death squads in Iraq, killing "suspicious" sunni youngsters, but even women and children? And these murderers have since become police officers?? LMGTFY: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_squad#Iraq
If we look at history over the years, up to this very day without change, the west from the 1970s has always backed fundamentalist Islamists, and fought to overthrow secular regimes,
Are you serious? Are you saying that the US in Afghanistan is drinking shai with the Taliban? Or what about Saddam Hussein, whose regime had been outwardly communist, but who slowly grew attached to his religion?
flag-wavers like Sylvester Stallone made movies lionizing the Islamic radicals.
You're joking, right? The amount of films demonizing Muslims as a whole dwarfs the amount of films "lionizing" them. And don't forget that this "lionizing" is in the context of the US' proxy was against Russia.
The Saudi government is built up. Yet we are told we have to fear the radical Islamists
Now you're starting to make some sense. Many of the oppressive Mid-East governments were actually instated and subsequently supported by the West! But why would they support these, many of which were/are dictators? I think I know why...
...because it found a vunerability in the setup.
+1 interesting
I'm not sure where you could possibly get that kind of information from, and I wonder how such nonsense could earn you 3 mod-ups.
The Apache v2.0 license is an OSL approved, GPLv3 compatible license and the FSF consider it a free software license. Same thing with the new BSD license. These licenses exist since 2004 and 1999 respectively...
Now these licenses clearly aren't copyleft. That is, however, a whole other issue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing#Planning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Begin#Jewish_underground
Terrorist by any standard, right?
And then suddenly in 1978: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Begin#Camp_David_accords
Nobel peace price. WTF?
I don't feel like pointing out the hypocrisy in other parts of your comment.
AFAICT upgrading an addon to a new version of Firefox is often enough just changing your maxVersion entry in it's install.rdf. That said, I can see why it's problematic that one would have to do this every few weeks, because a new version of Firefox comes out. This hasn't got much to do with Mozilla's new versioning scheme, it's rather that the new scheme exposes a problem in the design of the compatibility checker. I think it's too simplistic.
Like what? I presume your talking about a website? In that case whoever built it is to blame, because standards compliance is essential for interoperability. And last time I checked, the web was designed from the ground up to be inter-operable.
Now go spread your FUD somewhere else, Fandroid.
Says someone whose name is macs4all
I wasn't going to reply until I saw your comment.
I like Gnome Shell as well.
...is ironically NOT Unity.
Then what is? Debian. Most distros are based on Debian to begin with, including Ubuntu. Debian stable is still on Gnome 2 by default, which suits those who are more conservative i.r.t. GDM's. As for me, I'll be switching to Debian Sid, which is on Gnome 3 by default (and I like it). Gnome 3 even has gnome-panels in fallback mode, which is awesome.
The best thing of all, is that this single distro offers about as much freedom of choice as all distros combined. Most users stay with the default though, so that gives developers a steady target.
Interesting to hear about the drivers you mentioned. I haven't had any troubles myself at home with Ubuntu & Gnome3. At work I have Debian Sid sitting in a virtual machine. Sid is running Gnome3 right now by default and it seems to have a better default configuration than Ubuntu. In Ubuntu, you only get to see the poweroff function when you press ALT, which feels as if the configuration was written for a laptop. It's a minor difference but still... As for multimedia in Debian, I'm not sure it's that hard. They have a wiki page about it and it seems that the same packages as in Ubuntu are available. http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs The procedure to install them also seems the same as for Ubuntu. What's called mediabuntu i.r.t. Ubuntu is called multimedia-keyring i.r.t. Debian. But if you want to install it, make sure you install Debian Sid. Not the stable branch, that one is *really* stable, somewhat like CentOS I guess. It doesn't even have the Gnome3 packages yet.
What you explain confirms my thoughts when I was test-driving Gnome3 after ditching Unity. Desktops are more "visible" and dynamic, so much more likely to be used (although I already used them regularly in Gnome2). Gnome3 also has the "good" things of Unity, like getting out of the way of the application, some eye-candy and a menu with search. Gnome 3 doesn't have some of the bad things of Unity though. Like the lack of a notification area, the way a user has to carefully avoid the left side of the screen to prevent the ribbon from opening. Other things Gnome3 does better are the convenient overview and switching of windows. Although having many windows open could make that a handicap, this is where the multiple desktop feature comes in. And best of all: Gnome3 has a built in desktop recording feature! It's accessible with CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+R. Right now there is no audio recording, nor anything to configure, but they're working on an interface for it that will address these issues for the 3.4 release iirc. This is something that might actually sway me towards Debian sid.