It is time Australia passed a law allowing freedom of speech! That is something worth campaigning for, and something the Labor government could be doing to get real political support.
At the moment the Labor and Liberal party just seem to be squabbling over who is more conservative.
It is time the went back to their roots. it is time they got the support of the socialists again - who currently have no true choice - unless they want to go green....but that also has social consequences not in line with socialism.
If Gogh Whitlam were still in charge, Australia would be much more progressive, and mindless dribble like this would not make australia look like a backwards militant regime.
Of recent there seem to be a growing number of projects that endeavour to make FreeBSD prettier/easier to install. I personally would like to see this kind of development become part of FreeBSD, and keep everything together and fully integrated. That I believe is one of FreeBSD's greatest strengths.
I've almost gotten to the point where I consider a phrase like "makes its own gravy" to be written wrong because of the missing apostrophe, because it's so common -- even in advertising copy, for pete's sake.
A. Its is the possessive form of it. It's is a contraction of it is or it has.
Examples:
It's a common mistake.
The boat has a hole in its hull.
The confusion arises from the dual function of the 's ending, which can indicate either possession or contraction, as in: Joe's hamburgers are the best (="The hamburgers which are Joe's -- that is, in that he makes them -- are the best"); Joe's going to have to buy some more patties soon (="Joe is going to have to buy some more patties soon"). However, 's is never used to indicate possession in pronouns. We do not write hi's (instead of his), for example.
Here is a test we can perform to determine whether to use it's or its: Replace it with his and see if the sentence still makes (grammatical) sense. His a common mistake does not make sense. The boat has a hole in his hull does make sense -- at least grammatically; of course boats are not boys, but we can pretend that they are for the sake of improving our spelling. The rule we shall apply, then, is this: If the sentence makes sense with his, which does not have an apostrophe, it is safe to replace it with its, which also does not have an apostrophe.
For verily God said chmod 0777 earth, and it became thus. And there came into the land one being called Bill Gates who looked upon the earth and the chmod of God, and did say, I shall take that seed of wisdom and incorporate it into my own, and I shall be like unto God, ye, I shall become God.
Wow - my best friend is one of the developers of jMusic! It is an open source music synthesis and composition package written in java. You can download the latest version from sourceforge. or you can get it from the jMusic web site:
http://jmusic.ci.qut.edu.au
jMusic has been used for many other very weird and wonderful things like elevator installations, and many electronic performances. It does heaps of stuff including Markov, gendyn, granular and particle synthesis, dance music and much more:)
...but I won't be happy until I can finally get a 5.x version install CD of FreeBSD to boot on my IBM Thinkpad R50......4.x works fine....well if you don't mind having a few common features missing......sigh
We have had number portability in Australia for a number of years now, so have many other countries - It's like so many other outdated ideas that are still carried on in the US. My litre of water (weighing 1kg) will boil at 100C, and then freeze when it gets down to 0C. It's just so much easier....:P
There is no 5th amendment in Australia, nor anything similar. Most Australians think they have that right because of all the American television, but there is no such thing there. I was once in an Australian court room when a defendant actually stated he wanted to plead the 5th amendment. He had to be informed he was not in the United States, and there was no 5th amendment. Likewise there is also no 1st amendment. Most people think it a right (which it should be), but there is no actual legal protection in Australia.
And the results in: Results 1-15 of about 916195 containing "FreeBSD" Results 1-15 of about 251143 containing "OpenBSD" Results 1-15 of about 190918 containing "NetBSD" Results 1-15 of about 2373 containing "Windows" Results 1-15 of about 365 containing "Linux"
According to MSN: All BSDs are clear winners in this competition. FreeBSD is supreme leader, way ahead of both Windows and Linux. What did netcraft have to say about this.......?
One other interesting fact, that no one seems to have mentioned - the search seems to be somewhat case sensitive - check out the different results:
Results 1-15 of about 916195 containing "FreeBSD" Results 1-15 of about 1129745 containing "freebsd"
I don't have the opportunity to use cups. My FreeBSD box sits in a Macintosh computer lab at a music research centre. The printer is a remote ethernet printer. It is postscript though, so it was easy to set up using LPR, and I just send documents straight to its ip address. Considering how easy it was to set up, I don't see the need for CUPS anyway, even if it could have been done that way:p
Fair enough comment, but most artists were already signed on before record companies started selling albums electronically, and most will be stuck on them for a long time to come. The new contracts will supposedly have a new clause for electronic sales, but I am yet to see the new contracts.
It's also possible that perhaps Linux isn't really ready for the mainstream desktop. I personally have a hard time picturing my mom installing and maintaining Linux on her home computer.
That statement is all well and good, but how often does your mom maintain windows? Has she ever had to install windows or anything like that? Most of the people in this category find someone else to do that kind of thing when something goes wrong. They don't even care what OS they are running just as long as they know what buttons to click to get to internet, email, word, and solitaire, and as long as there is someone around to fix things when there is a problem, or to set up a new ISP connection. Most Windows boxes have everything preinstalled, and they never get updated, ever. We could do the same thing with Linux, BSD or whatever platform we choose. Find a stable version where everything works nicely, and install it on our parents computers. Put the buttons in plain view, and they will be happy to keep on computing like they always have. It never needs to be updated (of course it would be nice...) and will probably still be running fine 5 years down the track without so much as even crashing once:)
It is good that people are now paying for the music they download, but a lot of people don't understand that the artists get very little of this money. Generally a band will only get 10% - $1 for the entire album downloaded, whereas the record company gets $9 for each album downloaded.
In the CD world, 10% ($2) was a good deal for the band because the record companies had to pay for manufacturing, cases, booklets, shipping and publicity, which is quite costly. But now they don't have to do anything - it is pure profit for the record companies, so they should be passing on a higher percentage of the profit to the bands.
Until They change how much the bands get payed for digital downloads I will stick to buying CDs. Plus I like getting booklets:)
Depending on your download speed (I am on modem), it might be quicker to install 4.8 from the CD then use CVSUP to download the latest (4.9) bits. Although if you have never recompiled a whole system, it may seem a bit daunting and tricky for an inexperienced BSD user, but when you reboot after doing a make world it is a glorious feeling:p
the.doc format is now an open xml format (with optional digital signing if you want the security), so any wordprocessor can have the ability to import a.doc file (the xml kind).
Microsofts reasoning behind this move: If.doc becomes the standard format for all documents (on all wordprocessors, despite their OS), then Microsoft Word by default becomes the defacto standard for all documents.
The question then becomes, who will be able to outdo Microsoft in working with the.doc format given they have a 10 year head start?
Has anyone here actually tried Textmaker? If it delivers what the web site states, then it is probably worth paying for. They have a free 30 day trial version which I am currently downloading. If I like it and think it will do a better job than the other software I am currently using then I will pay for it. If not, well hey, it is just fun trying new stuff out.
Charging people to download songs is a good idea, but I would only support it if I knew my download money was going to the artist of the song I was downloading.
Then again MP3s don't contain any fancy packaging, and they take songs out of context, reducing an album to a bunch of singles.....Buying the full package will always contain a certain magic for me:)
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It is time Australia passed a law allowing freedom of speech! That is something worth campaigning for, and something the Labor government could be doing to get real political support.
At the moment the Labor and Liberal party just seem to be squabbling over who is more conservative.
It is time the went back to their roots. it is time they got the support of the socialists again - who currently have no true choice - unless they want to go green....but that also has social consequences not in line with socialism.
If Gogh Whitlam were still in charge, Australia would be much more progressive, and mindless dribble like this would not make australia look like a backwards militant regime.
Of recent there seem to be a growing number of projects that endeavour to make FreeBSD prettier/easier to install. I personally would like to see this kind of development become part of FreeBSD, and keep everything together and fully integrated. That I believe is one of FreeBSD's greatest strengths.
and then I made a typo - ofF - does this topic make everyone else feel under scrutiny just for responding?
sorry.....I misunderstood the ramification of "because it's so common". Yes I agree it's is far too commonly used incorrectly.
Ooops, I forgot to turn of italics, and my bunny is broken......
I've almost gotten to the point where I consider a phrase like "makes its own gravy" to be written wrong because of the missing apostrophe, because it's so common -- even in advertising copy, for pete's sake.
/ i/its.html
its is correct.
reference: http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language
Q. What is the difference between its and it's?
A. Its is the possessive form of it.
It's is a contraction of it is or it has.
Examples:
It's a common mistake.
The boat has a hole in its hull.
The confusion arises from the dual function of the 's ending, which can indicate either possession or contraction, as in: Joe's hamburgers are the best (="The hamburgers which are Joe's -- that is, in that he makes them -- are the best"); Joe's going to have to buy some more patties soon (="Joe is going to have to buy some more patties soon"). However, 's is never used to indicate possession in pronouns. We do not write hi's (instead of his), for example.
Here is a test we can perform to determine whether to use it's or its: Replace it with his and see if the sentence still makes (grammatical) sense. His a common mistake does not make sense. The boat has a hole in his hull does make sense -- at least grammatically; of course boats are not boys, but we can pretend that they are for the sake of improving our spelling. The rule we shall apply, then, is this: If the sentence makes sense with his, which does not have an apostrophe, it is safe to replace it with its, which also does not have an apostrophe.
For verily God said chmod 0777 earth, and it became thus. And there came into the land one being called Bill Gates who looked upon the earth and the chmod of God, and did say, I shall take that seed of wisdom and incorporate it into my own, and I shall be like unto God, ye, I shall become God.
Did KITT ever get a virus?
If he ever got sick it would have been that he was just sick of having David Hasselhoff hanging around all the time.
I am just waiting for an adbar that pops up links for goatse.cx and the like, so I don't need to log into slashdot anymore for online spam ;)
Wow - my best friend is one of the developers of jMusic! It is an open source music synthesis and composition package written in java. You can download the latest version from sourceforge.
:)
or you can get it from the jMusic web site:
http://jmusic.ci.qut.edu.au
jMusic has been used for many other very weird and wonderful things like elevator installations, and many electronic performances. It does heaps of stuff including Markov, gendyn, granular and particle synthesis, dance music and much more
...but I won't be happy until I can finally get a 5.x version install CD of FreeBSD to boot on my IBM Thinkpad R50......4.x works fine....well if you don't mind having a few common features missing......sigh
Now I know what to buy everyone for Christmas!
We have had number portability in Australia for a number of years now, so have many other countries - It's like so many other outdated ideas that are still carried on in the US. :P
My litre of water (weighing 1kg) will boil at 100C, and then freeze when it gets down to 0C. It's just so much easier....
I wonder if these will run Lindows or XP.
:p
Does this question really need to be asked? They will run FreeBSD of course!
Errrm, what OS was running on the servers compromised? :)
Doe DFBSD have *WORKING* Kernel MIDI support?
:)
The first BSD to have that will become my favourite. So far FreeBSD is in the lead
There is no 5th amendment in Australia, nor anything similar. Most Australians think they have that right because of all the American television, but there is no such thing there. I was once in an Australian court room when a defendant actually stated he wanted to plead the 5th amendment. He had to be informed he was not in the United States, and there was no 5th amendment.
Likewise there is also no 1st amendment. Most people think it a right (which it should be), but there is no actual legal protection in Australia.
And the results in:
Results 1-15 of about 916195 containing "FreeBSD"
Results 1-15 of about 251143 containing "OpenBSD"
Results 1-15 of about 190918 containing "NetBSD"
Results 1-15 of about 2373 containing "Windows"
Results 1-15 of about 365 containing "Linux"
According to MSN: All BSDs are clear winners in this competition. FreeBSD is supreme leader, way ahead of both Windows and Linux. What did netcraft have to say about this.......?
One other interesting fact, that no one seems to have mentioned - the search seems to be somewhat case sensitive - check out the different results:
Results 1-15 of about 916195 containing "FreeBSD"
Results 1-15 of about 1129745 containing "freebsd"
I don't have the opportunity to use cups. My FreeBSD box sits in a Macintosh computer lab at a music research centre. The printer is a remote ethernet printer. It is postscript though, so it was easy to set up using LPR, and I just send documents straight to its ip address. Considering how easy it was to set up, I don't see the need for CUPS anyway, even if it could have been done that way :p
Fair enough comment, but most artists were already signed on before record companies started selling albums electronically, and most will be stuck on them for a long time to come. The new contracts will supposedly have a new clause for electronic sales, but I am yet to see the new contracts.
It's also possible that perhaps Linux isn't really ready for the mainstream desktop. I personally have a hard time picturing my mom installing and maintaining Linux on her home computer.
:)
That statement is all well and good, but how often does your mom maintain windows? Has she ever had to install windows or anything like that? Most of the people in this category find someone else to do that kind of thing when something goes wrong. They don't even care what OS they are running just as long as they know what buttons to click to get to internet, email, word, and solitaire, and as long as there is someone around to fix things when there is a problem, or to set up a new ISP connection. Most Windows boxes have everything preinstalled, and they never get updated, ever. We could do the same thing with Linux, BSD or whatever platform we choose. Find a stable version where everything works nicely, and install it on our parents computers. Put the buttons in plain view, and they will be happy to keep on computing like they always have. It never needs to be updated (of course it would be nice...) and will probably still be running fine 5 years down the track without so much as even crashing once
It is good that people are now paying for the music they download, but a lot of people don't understand that the artists get very little of this money. Generally a band will only get 10% - $1 for the entire album downloaded, whereas the record company gets $9 for each album downloaded.
:)
In the CD world, 10% ($2) was a good deal for the band because the record companies had to pay for manufacturing, cases, booklets, shipping and publicity, which is quite costly. But now they don't have to do anything - it is pure profit for the record companies, so they should be passing on a higher percentage of the profit to the bands.
Until They change how much the bands get payed for digital downloads I will stick to buying CDs. Plus I like getting booklets
Depending on your download speed (I am on modem), it might be quicker to install 4.8 from the CD then use CVSUP to download the latest (4.9) bits. Although if you have never recompiled a whole system, it may seem a bit daunting and tricky for an inexperienced BSD user, but when you reboot after doing a make world it is a glorious feeling :p
In what way is it infringing?
.doc format is now an open xml format (with optional digital signing if you want the security), so any wordprocessor can have the ability to import a .doc file (the xml kind).
.doc becomes the standard format for all documents (on all wordprocessors, despite their OS), then Microsoft Word by default becomes the defacto standard for all documents.
.doc format given they have a 10 year head start?
the
Microsofts reasoning behind this move: If
The question then becomes, who will be able to outdo Microsoft in working with the
Has anyone here actually tried Textmaker? If it delivers what the web site states, then it is probably worth paying for. They have a free 30 day trial version which I am currently downloading. If I like it and think it will do a better job than the other software I am currently using then I will pay for it. If not, well hey, it is just fun trying new stuff out.
Charging people to download songs is a good idea, but I would only support it if I knew my download money was going to the artist of the song I was downloading.
:)
Then again MP3s don't contain any fancy packaging, and they take songs out of context, reducing an album to a bunch of singles.....Buying the full package will always contain a certain magic for me