As recently as 3 or 4 years ago (last time I was there) they were still burning books, harrasing prostitues (while in the mean time corrupt cops are using them to blackmail foreign tourists), and selectively destroying advertisment (lets say this week Coke was cool, Pepsi was evil).
Their naivite is typical of the technologicaly ignorant though: most Western companies used to have full uncensored access to the Internet via their corporate backbones. As far as I remember Vietnamese workers were not closing their eyes while surfing foreign media sites.
-The Goverment can't promote any religious belief. Period.
-The schools, as part of the goverment, are promoting a religious belief every time they force children to recite the pledge. This violates separation of Church and state.
I am not religious and such practice offends me and I think it i unconstitutional. If you think it is fine good for you, but then don't complain when other principles that guarantee diferent freedoms are eroded by powerful religious groups with an agenda of making of the US an intolerant Christian country.
Big companies require standards, otherwise the cost of support is too high, and also some support form an entity entirely devoted to provide it is highly desirable.
A bank or an oil company are not in the business of testing and releasing operating systems, that is why they turn to other companies to do the work.
Companies like Caldera an RedHat can sparehead the introduction of Linux in big companies, thus bringing money into Linux development and convincing the skeptics about the quality of OS software.
People still have the other distros, and failing everything else, you can still choose to get the source from Caldera;s distribution and compile and link, activities you seem to be very fond off.
In a corporate environment there is not enough time and resources (people) to compile your stuff for every single utility or program you need.
When your priority is to keep systems running the last thing you need is to "learn" to link and compile, these activities are completely superfluos to the objectives of your work.
In case you did not notice (illiteracy is high everywhere), the source code is fully available (as it should be, this is GPL stuff we are talking about) so if you find a problem you can still contribute to solve it. Or you can try to suit some code to your needs. You still have the certified binaries but can play with code to adpat it to your needs if so are you inclined.
If OpenOffice.org manages to stablish its own, open, publicly available format then MS may be forced to support it.
I as far as I am concerned will not need to buy overpriced software anymore if there are options that gurantee I will read my documents when and where I needed it.
French consumers with a clue (I hope there are many) will order their stuff from other EU countries. Now finally they have got an incentive to polish that English, German or Spanish.
Secondly, artists not belonging to the enterteinment cartels would be amazingly stupid if they don't claim their part of the share, which if it is denied, will give them a huge case to go to the European courts to fight this appaling piece of pseudo legislation.
Thirdly, French consumers should demand to store whatever they want in the medium of their choice. They will be paying blanket royalties, they should get blanket access.
To be honest I would not be against an scheeme like that: you pay for media, get taxed, the money goes to the artists (or their leeches, if the artists don't have guts to organize themselves I could not care less) and then you can put whatever you want in that media without ever been bothered by one of the cartels' lawyers.
Nobody is buying a Mac just to get an iPod. There are things like the Archos that although not as sexy provide the same functionality to Winblows and Linux users.
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How is that companies can sell bottled air or water?
Simple: they add some value (they gurantee the contents is clean, or enriched with minerals or whatever).
Music distribution costs is zero. The Big Dinos need to wake up to that reality.
What can they do? I don't know. I would have not known either if a horse-carriage company would have asked me when it became evident that cars were becoming widespread.
Are there still horse-carriages? Uhm, yes, in museums and as nice tourist attractions.
How do you measure smoothness while browsing? Just fscking curious.
Idealogical reasons my ass.
I got tired of crashes, and been hacked very other day.
I did what any sane person would do: looked for a better alternative.
At home I have 2 PCS, my wife's running W2K, mine is running Debian unestable (let me repeat: unestable).
My machine has been running for weeks since last reboot, I can get home, start the browser, the emial, etc, work, finish and the machine will be ready to work at any time. No crashes, and whne there is one I have to restart the unfortunate application, not the machine.
My wife can't leave her PC on for more than 3 hours. Who knows which program decided that her TCP stuff should stop to work after around 3 hours. Reboot, otherwise no network at all.
Unsuprisingly she has vowed to give MS a last chance with XP, if that does not work (wait that she learns about registration, licensing, and the price. She thinks it costs 20 dollars or something, he) she will move to Linux.
I wonder how many people are there in the brink of changing, not for "ideological" but ppurely practical reasons.
And I did not even mention that i don't do business with companies that act illegaly.
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As recently as 3 or 4 years ago (last time I was there) they were still burning books, harrasing prostitues (while in the mean time corrupt cops are using them to blackmail foreign tourists), and selectively destroying advertisment (lets say this week Coke was cool, Pepsi was evil).
Their naivite is typical of the technologicaly ignorant though: most Western companies used to have full uncensored access to the Internet via their corporate backbones. As far as I remember Vietnamese workers were not closing their eyes while surfing foreign media sites.
There are very few simple ideas to grasp here:
-The Goverment can't promote any religious belief. Period.
-The schools, as part of the goverment, are promoting a religious belief every time they force children to recite the pledge. This violates separation of Church and state.
I am not religious and such practice offends me and I think it i unconstitutional. If you think it is fine good for you, but then don't complain when other principles that guarantee diferent freedoms are eroded by powerful religious groups with an agenda of making of the US an intolerant Christian country.
No? Yeah, thought so.
Enough said.
Honest, what is so great about those movies.
Big companies require standards, otherwise the cost of support is too high, and also some support form an entity entirely devoted to provide it is highly desirable.
A bank or an oil company are not in the business of testing and releasing operating systems, that is why they turn to other companies to do the work.
Companies like Caldera an RedHat can sparehead the introduction of Linux in big companies, thus bringing money into Linux development and convincing the skeptics about the quality of OS software.
People still have the other distros, and failing everything else, you can still choose to get the source from Caldera;s distribution and compile and link, activities you seem to be very fond off.
In a corporate environment there is not enough time and resources (people) to compile your stuff for every single utility or program you need.
When your priority is to keep systems running the last thing you need is to "learn" to link and compile, these activities are completely superfluos to the objectives of your work.
In case you did not notice (illiteracy is high everywhere), the source code is fully available (as it should be, this is GPL stuff we are talking about) so if you find a problem you can still contribute to solve it. Or you can try to suit some code to your needs. You still have the certified binaries but can play with code to adpat it to your needs if so are you inclined.
Please enlighten us.
What matters is:
1.- That Caldera respects the GPL (or any licensing for that matter, but most people here have an interest in OS licenses).
2.-Caldera can convince clients that it is worth paying for the "marketspeak gobbledygook" as you put it.
What should you or anybody else take issue at them as long as they respect the GPL?
So please, don't even try to say who the enemies of the OS movement are.
As long as a company respects the GPL they are very welcome to use GPLed software to make as much money as they possibly can.
Widespread use of OS software makes everybody's life easier and better, so all the power to companies trying to make a buck from GPLed software.
Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder anyway.
I hear whining about fonts but I find them perfectly adequate.
File format is the name of the game.
If OpenOffice.org manages to stablish its own, open, publicly available format then MS may be forced to support it.
I as far as I am concerned will not need to buy overpriced software anymore if there are options that gurantee I will read my documents when and where I needed it.
Because it has other device that uses it?
I got my first camera with CF and have made sure any other device I get (MP3 player, PDA) can use the same media. It makes life much simpler.
The goverment has no business monitoring the every single detail of what you do.
Why is that so difficult to understand for some???
French consumers with a clue (I hope there are many) will order their stuff from other EU countries. Now finally they have got an incentive to polish that English, German or Spanish.
Secondly, artists not belonging to the enterteinment cartels would be amazingly stupid if they don't claim their part of the share, which if it is denied, will give them a huge case to go to the European courts to fight this appaling piece of pseudo legislation.
Thirdly, French consumers should demand to store whatever they want in the medium of their choice. They will be paying blanket royalties, they should get blanket access.
To be honest I would not be against an scheeme like that: you pay for media, get taxed, the money goes to the artists (or their leeches, if the artists don't have guts to organize themselves I could not care less) and then you can put whatever you want in that media without ever been bothered by one of the cartels' lawyers.
Nobody is buying a Mac just to get an iPod. There are things like the Archos that although not as sexy provide the same functionality to Winblows and Linux users.
The library in my town is open 9;00-17:00, Monday to Fridays and most libraries in this country only accept people living in close prosimity.
Nedless to say libraries are mostly empty and are the meeting point of the unemployed and the retired people.
This is a developped country BTW.
I will buy something, I hope shipping prices to Uagudugu are reasonable.
The question you want ot ask is: Is is copy restricted?
I think it is not.
You meant copy restriction measures?
Nope, none I know.
I postponed the banning of this individual fro far too long.
After posting this I am going straight to my Preferences and banishing him for good.
What a moron.
Give me a brake.
Spiderman is a teeny movie with touches of parochialism and cheap shots at patriotism. It says loads about the intended audience.
MS claimed ownership of the pictures
They really did.
MS claimed ownership of the pictures
It was in the EULA
MS claimed ownership of the pictures
Greedy company.
MS claimed ownership of the pictures
Eat your cake and have it.
MS claimed ownership of the pictures
Poor Steffi.
MS claimed ownership of the pictures
MS claimed ownership of the pictures
MS claimed ownership of the pictures
MS claimed ownership of the pictures
MS claimed ownership of the pictures
MS claimed ownership of the pictures
MS claimed ownership of the pictures
MS claimed ownership of the pictures
MS claimed ownership of the pictures
MS claimed ownership of the pictures
MS claimed ownership of the pictures
Do I make myself clear?
How is that companies can sell bottled air or water?
Simple: they add some value (they gurantee the contents is clean, or enriched with minerals or whatever).
Music distribution costs is zero. The Big Dinos need to wake up to that reality.
What can they do? I don't know. I would have not known either if a horse-carriage company would have asked me when it became evident that cars were becoming widespread.
Are there still horse-carriages? Uhm, yes, in museums and as nice tourist attractions.
How do you measure smoothness while browsing? Just fscking curious.
Idealogical reasons my ass.
I got tired of crashes, and been hacked very other day.
I did what any sane person would do: looked for a better alternative.
At home I have 2 PCS, my wife's running W2K, mine is running Debian unestable (let me repeat: unestable).
My machine has been running for weeks since last reboot, I can get home, start the browser, the emial, etc, work, finish and the machine will be ready to work at any time. No crashes, and whne there is one I have to restart the unfortunate application, not the machine.
My wife can't leave her PC on for more than 3 hours. Who knows which program decided that her TCP stuff should stop to work after around 3 hours. Reboot, otherwise no network at all.
Unsuprisingly she has vowed to give MS a last chance with XP, if that does not work (wait that she learns about registration, licensing, and the price. She thinks it costs 20 dollars or something, he) she will move to Linux.
I wonder how many people are there in the brink of changing, not for "ideological" but ppurely practical reasons.
And I did not even mention that i don't do business with companies that act illegaly.