Bluntu? Really? I looked at it and said, "Jesus Christ. It's a fucking mac."
It's not that I have a problem with the images per se, or anything against macs. I'm own a mac, and I'm using it right now. I like my mac, but come on! EVERY DAMN RELEASE of an oss interface is a copy of something else. This isn't art. It's a damn ripoff. How come apple and even microsoft come up with original art, and it's impossible for the oss comunity to do so? Obviously there are talented artists, the images speak to that. Well, let me take that back. There's obviously technically talented artists. The lack of originality is damning indictment of their creativity. I mean what look at the "home" icon. It's identical to the mac home icon, except that the chimney is smoother and the door is tapered at the bottom. Anyone that seriously argues that they're different, probably also believes that the music to Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" is distinct from the Queen's "Under Pressure." (Damn you Robert Van Winkle. Damn you to hell.) Also don't give me that crap about how it's more user friendly. That's specious. That's an argument that hinges on the reasoning that by dressing something up to look like one thing, but actually behaves differently from it is "intuitive." No. That's counter productive. ("How come I can't do X? I can do it on a mac. What do you mean this isn't a mac? It must be. It looks just like a mac! This mac is just broken.")
The particular patent deal that they made is against section 7 of the GPL and also other parts of the license. Novell is attempting to create a loophole in the license with a legal fiction. By paying Microsoft to make a covenant to Novell's users directly, instead of to Novell, they are attempting to get us, and whatever judges eventually rule on this, to believe that no patents are being licensed even though the effect is the same as if they were being licensed.
I don't think that's what they're doing. They're certainly trying to cloudthe issue, but I don't understand how Novell could even receive a license for a patent, unless they were the author of the GPL program. I mean if they don't own the IP, how would they have an standing to enter an agreement regarding it?
I think Novell is wasting their money, and there's no change to the IP landscape.
There is also the matter of the spirit of the license. By violating that, they are making a clear "screw you" gesture to everyone whose code they are running. There are now a lot of angry people who will now go out of their way to get business to go elsewhere than Novell. Have you noticed that SCO's business went completely down the tubes? Novell's going to have a hard time avoding that.
Oh it's definately a "screw you" gesture. In all honesty though, I think SCO had all sorts of problems before their legal hissy-fits. That's not to say Novell is sailing cleanly themselves.
2) A whole lot of famous (and not so famous) leaders have been unfaithful to their wives. Look up some interesting facts on google on your own time. Rudy's wife was a bitch, a really mean person, and they were practically divorced when he started messing around.
That maybe, but the public waants to pretend that's not the case. All anyone is going to remember is that his wife threw him out of the mayoral mansion.
The fact is though, that Ken Mehlman is widely known in Washington to be gay. He doesn't hide it, not even to the press. He just doesn't want it reported, and thus cost the Republicans the bigot vote. It's like Mark Foley. "I'm out, but not in the media." It's called, "the glass closet." There are LOTS of powerful gay Republicans. There's nothing wrong with them being gay per se. There's lots wrong with them being hypocrites for courting the anti-gay bigot vote while being gay themselves.
So what you have is actually a case of someone letting the rest of the country on to the open secret. Bill Maher revealed nothing more than something on the level of, "Did you know. Don Rumsfield is married?" (Oh wait! We've never seen his wife! That's completely UNSOURCED! Strike that from the record!)
Yes. CNN is part of a conspiracy of silence to ensure that the Republicans can continue their cynical play on bigotry.
With Republicans being in the pockets of media giants who wanted DMCA, and YouTube (aka Google) succumbing instead of fighting for our fair use rights, I would say you are supposed direct all of your anger to the Retardicans.
Here's an idea. Why don't you fight for your rights? It's not YouTube is not a party to the alleged crime. If you have your material subject to a a takedown notice, it's your place, no one else's, to fight for it. If you think any third party is going to fight you're battles for you, you're incredibly naive.
As far as step 3 is concerened, lawyers are skilled individuals who deserve compensation for their services. Your sophmoric remark makes as much sense as:
1) A floods basement. 2) ???? 3) Plumber P profits!
Yeah. Damn that plumber for taking the buisness and providing service.
Interpersonal skills and technical skills are mutually exclusive. A person with one by definition doesn't have the other. Someday the politics will adjust to account for that- but not yet.
That's not true. There are plenty of people who are both likeable and technically competent. Slashdot's (Be proud. I resisted the urge to write "/.'s":) ) readers glorify "troglodyte culture." Talking about how all there's nothing better than keeping your head down, stay out of the sun, and pound on your keyboard. That's fine to a point. But if you don't tell people what you're doing. Make them interested in what youre doing. Address their issues, and get them to address yours, you're a failure. No one respects the comic book guy. And no one respects the pretty boy either. You have to be a bit of both.
Bitching about how this isn't a technocracy based on standardized tests (except of course for those that complain about the standardize test and how they "don't need no educations or nor fancy degree.") gets you nowhere. Adjust. Evolve. Damn it.
I can hear the comments now. "I don't see why I need interpersonal skills. My technicals skills should be what counts." and "My interpersonal skills are better than anyone I know, but I still don't get ahead because of politics. They say I'm an arrogant condsending misanthrope, but that's just because they're jealous of my coding skills. I work hard, but never talk to anyone because they're just so dumb. Then they screw me over. I don't get it. They're all such bastards."
Well grow up you whiney bitch. Whenever you get two people together there's "politics." It's called society. Deal with it.
And the GOP are rigging an election right now as we speak http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15603344/ Of course you can always find one or two examples, but the fact is the widespread orchastration of voter supression and voter fraud comes from the Republican party. Every election is like that. You can try and cloud the issue, but it just ain't so.
Listen I said "since Eisenhower" whose term ended in 1960 with the election of JFK. There fore wer're talking the election of 1960 and later.
It really helps if you read the entire sentence, unless of course you're intentinally trying to misrepresent someone. In that case you're doing a bang up job. Kudos.
I worked on a campaign. Apparently studies show that it's almost impossible to annoy someone enough to change their vote out of spite. Instead all it does is give you diminishing returns (i.e. less and less people switch to your side.)
The modern GOP (by that I mean since Eisenhower, and Ike wasn't even truly a Republican. He was apolitical -- as the entire military was up until Reagan -- and then ended with his Presidential tenure with the infamous warning of the Military-Industrial Complex. I'd like to see any Republican give such a speech today.) has a long history of dirty tricks, from the Watergate break in, all the way to today. In the 2002 election the GOP jammed the Democratic phone banks in New Hampshire. People went to jail because of that. Race baiting ads as part of their "southern strategy". Challenging legal voters based on bogus "felon lists." Challenging voters to present photo id when it's not a requirement. Informing voters in predominately black neighborhoods that the election was either postponed, or directing them to the wrong precincts. Frankly it's not surprising. The same ones that were running the party back then are the same ones running the party now. Total contempt for democracy. Macavelli would be proud.
No. Democrats don't do these sort of things.. Arguably, because liberals are "too pussy" to cheat, and "too naive" and believe in fair elections.
There was a time when the "Vote Facist for Law and Order" bumper stickers were funny. Now the seem just a bit too truthful.
Honestly, if you have a football-shaped controller that you throw to see how far you can throw it in a video game, why not get a *real* football and see how far you can throw it in real life? Throw a couple of friends in the mix, and you have yourself a fun game of football!
Because everyone wants to throw the ball 70 yards, and now they "can."
First. The puck did not change colors. That was a digital effect. Second. Yes. The puck did have ir leds in it, so it could be automatically tracked, but not by the television cameras. It was so that the digital effect could be applied correctly.
A quick search for "glowing puck" would shoot down this myth.
Hell, I never even agreed to be any citizen of any country. Show me a signature where I did. So therefore, how do any laws apply to him, or me?
Because you're participating in the society.
As far as I'm concerned, if you have no say so in the making of a law, then you have no obligation whatsoever to have to abide by it.
I never voted on any murder statute. Therefore, I can bludgeon anyone I want.
So many jackasses.
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There is just something about working from a commmand line and manually doing a lot of the maintnance and setup that the inner geek craves.
I understand how you want to Know every bit of your machine, but frankly there's better things to do. Like actually working on cool stuff. These problems are solved. Don't go and reinvent the wheel and spend your time fiddling with trival things. There aren't enough hours in the day to spend so many doing that.
I'm tempted to give the GF Ubuntu and try out FC6 (or maybe something like gentoo or slackware for a true uber-geek OS experienc).
I used slackware Back in The Day(tm), I can't comment on it 10 years later. Gentoo always struck me as the ultimate loser distro. You know like the losers who stick neonlights underneath their honda civic and then proudly display kanji stickers on their rearwindow upside down, because kanji is k3w1, but they don't know what it is. There's no point to compiling everything from source. All you're doing is putting your machine in an usuable state for a long time. The benfit is nonexistent and negligable at best. Unless you're installing on ancient or esoteric hardware what's the point. There's no real difference between your P4 and some other guy's P4, or hell even a third guy's athlon.
I prefer to reading which doesn't cause G-d to be commanding His people to break the Ten Commandments, personally.
Yeah, we all would, but the Old Testament shows a petty and vindictive god. For instance, He orders His people to kill every living thing at the Battle of Jerhico. We have a word for that. It's "war crime."
Now in all fairness some of the atrocities that are glorified in the OT aren'tactually ordered, by God, but rather his prohets. Specifically, I'm thinking about how Moses orders all the Midianite men killed, and upon learning that the women and children were spared, orders all the boys and non-virgin women and girls killed.
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Bluntu? Really? I looked at it and said, "Jesus Christ. It's a fucking mac."
It's not that I have a problem with the images per se, or anything against macs. I'm own a mac, and I'm using it right now. I like my mac, but come on! EVERY DAMN RELEASE of an oss interface is a copy of something else. This isn't art. It's a damn ripoff. How come apple and even microsoft come up with original art, and it's impossible for the oss comunity to do so? Obviously there are talented artists, the images speak to that. Well, let me take that back. There's obviously technically talented artists. The lack of originality is damning indictment of their creativity. I mean what look at the "home" icon. It's identical to the mac home icon, except that the chimney is smoother and the door is tapered at the bottom. Anyone that seriously argues that they're different, probably also believes that the music to Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" is distinct from the Queen's "Under Pressure." (Damn you Robert Van Winkle. Damn you to hell.) Also don't give me that crap about how it's more user friendly. That's specious. That's an argument that hinges on the reasoning that by dressing something up to look like one thing, but actually behaves differently from it is "intuitive." No. That's counter productive. ("How come I can't do X? I can do it on a mac. What do you mean this isn't a mac? It must be. It looks just like a mac! This mac is just broken.")
The particular patent deal that they made is against section 7 of the GPL and also other parts of the license.
Novell is attempting to create a loophole in the license with a legal fiction. By paying Microsoft to make a covenant to Novell's users directly, instead of to Novell, they are attempting to get us, and whatever judges eventually rule on this, to believe that no patents are being licensed even though the effect is the same as if they were being licensed.
I don't think that's what they're doing. They're certainly trying to cloudthe issue, but I don't understand how Novell could even receive a license for a patent, unless they were the author of the GPL program. I mean if they don't own the IP, how would they have an standing to enter an agreement regarding it?
I think Novell is wasting their money, and there's no change to the IP landscape.
There is also the matter of the spirit of the license. By violating that, they are making a clear "screw you" gesture to everyone whose code they are running. There are now a lot of angry people who will now go out of their way to get business to go elsewhere than Novell. Have you noticed that SCO's business went completely down the tubes? Novell's going to have a hard time avoding that.
Oh it's definately a "screw you" gesture. In all honesty though, I think SCO had all sorts of problems before their legal hissy-fits. That's not to say Novell is sailing cleanly themselves.
2) A whole lot of famous (and not so famous) leaders have been unfaithful to their wives. Look up some interesting facts on google on your own time. Rudy's wife was a bitch, a really mean person, and they were practically divorced when he started messing around.
That maybe, but the public waants to pretend that's not the case. All anyone is going to remember is that his wife threw him out of the mayoral mansion.
No. That would be politicians. Lawyers don't make laws.
The fact is though, that Ken Mehlman is widely known in Washington to be gay. He doesn't hide it, not even to the press. He just doesn't want it reported, and thus cost the Republicans the bigot vote. It's like Mark Foley. "I'm out, but not in the media." It's called, "the glass closet." There are LOTS of powerful gay Republicans. There's nothing wrong with them being gay per se. There's lots wrong with them being hypocrites for courting the anti-gay bigot vote while being gay themselves.
So what you have is actually a case of someone letting the rest of the country on to the open secret. Bill Maher revealed nothing more than something on the level of, "Did you know. Don Rumsfield is married?" (Oh wait! We've never seen his wife! That's completely UNSOURCED! Strike that from the record!)
Yes. CNN is part of a conspiracy of silence to ensure that the Republicans can continue their cynical play on bigotry.
You're right. It is ridiculous, but that's what you get when you court the bigot vote.
With Republicans being in the pockets of media giants who wanted DMCA, and YouTube (aka Google) succumbing instead of fighting for our fair use rights, I would say you are supposed direct all of your anger to the Retardicans.
Here's an idea. Why don't you fight for your rights? It's not YouTube is not a party to the alleged crime. If you have your material subject to a a takedown notice, it's your place, no one else's, to fight for it. If you think any third party is going to fight you're battles for you, you're incredibly naive.
Step 2 is "A/B gets their way."
As far as step 3 is concerened, lawyers are skilled individuals who deserve compensation for their services. Your sophmoric remark makes as much sense as:
1) A floods basement.
2) ????
3) Plumber P profits!
Yeah. Damn that plumber for taking the buisness and providing service.
Interpersonal skills and technical skills are mutually exclusive. A person with one by definition doesn't have the other. Someday the politics will adjust to account for that- but not yet.
:)
That's not true. There are plenty of people who are both likeable and technically competent. Slashdot's (Be proud. I resisted the urge to write "/.'s"
) readers glorify "troglodyte culture." Talking about how all there's nothing better than keeping your head down, stay out of the sun, and pound on your keyboard. That's fine to a point. But if you don't tell people what you're doing. Make them interested in what youre doing. Address their issues, and get them to address yours, you're a failure. No one respects the comic book guy. And no one respects the pretty boy either. You have to be a bit of both.
Bitching about how this isn't a technocracy based on standardized tests (except of course for those that complain about the standardize test and how they "don't need no educations or nor fancy degree.") gets you nowhere. Adjust. Evolve. Damn it.
fuck you. my technical skills should be all that matters. :)
I can hear the comments now. "I don't see why I need interpersonal skills. My technicals skills should be what counts." and "My interpersonal skills are better than anyone I know, but I still don't get ahead because of politics. They say I'm an arrogant condsending misanthrope, but that's just because they're jealous of my coding skills. I work hard, but never talk to anyone because they're just so dumb. Then they screw me over. I don't get it. They're all such bastards."
Well grow up you whiney bitch. Whenever you get two people together there's "politics." It's called society. Deal with it.
I for one am looking forward to Rummy's presentation with the Medal of Freedom and the his presidential pardon "even though he committed no crime."
And the GOP are rigging an election right now as we speak http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15603344/ Of course you can always find one or two examples, but the fact is the widespread orchastration of voter supression and voter fraud comes from the Republican party. Every election is like that. You can try and cloud the issue, but it just ain't so.
Listen I said "since Eisenhower" whose term ended in 1960 with the election of JFK. There fore wer're talking the election of 1960 and later.
It really helps if you read the entire sentence, unless of course you're intentinally trying to misrepresent someone. In that case you're doing a bang up job. Kudos.
Well 1960 isn't really the modern era is it?
And you're right I did forget some things. 2004 Ohio, and 2000 Florida, and of course Bush v Gore.
Yes. You're an accessory.
I worked on a campaign. Apparently studies show that it's almost impossible to annoy someone enough to change their vote out of spite. Instead all it does is give you diminishing returns (i.e. less and less people switch to your side.)
The modern GOP (by that I mean since Eisenhower, and Ike wasn't even truly a Republican. He was apolitical -- as the entire military was up until Reagan -- and then ended with his Presidential tenure with the infamous warning of the Military-Industrial Complex. I'd like to see any Republican give such a speech today.) has a long history of dirty tricks, from the Watergate break in, all the way to today. In the 2002 election the GOP jammed the Democratic phone banks in New Hampshire. People went to jail because of that. Race baiting ads as part of their "southern strategy". Challenging legal voters based on bogus "felon lists." Challenging voters to present photo id when it's not a requirement. Informing voters in predominately black neighborhoods that the election was either postponed, or directing them to the wrong precincts. Frankly it's not surprising. The same ones that were running the party back then are the same ones running the party now. Total contempt for democracy. Macavelli would be proud.
No. Democrats don't do these sort of things.. Arguably, because liberals are "too pussy" to cheat, and "too naive" and believe in fair elections.
There was a time when the "Vote Facist for Law and Order" bumper stickers were funny. Now the seem just a bit too truthful.
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"When the president does it that means that it is not illegal."
-- Richard Nixon, May 19, 1977 interview with Robert Frost
I am sorry , I do not find any references or facts to back up your claim that Slavery is a right wing "thing" nor did you provide any.
Perhaps, but serfdom definately is. And serfdom vs slavery is a distinction without a difference.
Case in point: The biggest winner in the Senate, George Allen (78%).
Sorry. But I'm not voting for a racist.
Honestly, if you have a football-shaped controller that you throw to see how far you can throw it in a video game, why not get a *real* football and see how far you can throw it in real life? Throw a couple of friends in the mix, and you have yourself a fun game of football!
Because everyone wants to throw the ball 70 yards, and now they "can."
First. The puck did not change colors. That was a digital effect.
Second. Yes. The puck did have ir leds in it, so it could be automatically tracked, but not by the television cameras. It was so that the digital effect could be applied correctly.
A quick search for "glowing puck" would shoot down this myth.
So lame that this got modded up.
Hell, I never even agreed to be any citizen of any country. Show me a signature where I did. So therefore, how do any laws apply to him, or me?
Because you're participating in the society.
As far as I'm concerned, if you have no say so in the making of a law, then you have no obligation whatsoever to have to abide by it.
I never voted on any murder statute. Therefore, I can bludgeon anyone I want.
So many jackasses.
There is just something about working from a commmand line and manually doing a lot of the maintnance and setup that the inner geek craves.
I understand how you want to Know every bit of your machine, but frankly there's better things to do. Like actually working on cool stuff. These problems are solved. Don't go and reinvent the wheel and spend your time fiddling with trival things. There aren't enough hours in the day to spend so many doing that.
I'm tempted to give the GF Ubuntu and try out FC6 (or maybe something like gentoo or slackware for a true uber-geek OS experienc).
I used slackware Back in The Day(tm), I can't comment on it 10 years later. Gentoo always struck me as the ultimate loser distro. You know like the losers who stick neonlights underneath their honda civic and then proudly display kanji stickers on their rearwindow upside down, because kanji is k3w1, but they don't know what it is. There's no point to compiling everything from source. All you're doing is putting your machine in an usuable state for a long time. The benfit is nonexistent and negligable at best. Unless you're installing on ancient or esoteric hardware what's the point. There's no real difference between your P4 and some other guy's P4, or hell even a third guy's athlon.
I prefer to reading which doesn't cause G-d to be commanding His people to break the Ten Commandments, personally.
Yeah, we all would, but the Old Testament shows a petty and vindictive god. For instance, He orders His people to kill every living thing at the Battle of Jerhico. We have a word for that. It's "war crime."
Now in all fairness some of the atrocities that are glorified in the OT aren'tactually ordered, by God, but rather his prohets. Specifically, I'm thinking about how Moses orders all the Midianite men killed, and upon learning that the women and children were spared, orders all the boys and non-virgin women and girls killed.
Classy.