One the one hand, SPI works for Debian. So they should go along with whatever Debian says.
When you hire legal council, do you expect it to go along with everything you say? I sure hope not. Their whole point is to tell you when you're full of crap. If an attorney just agrees with you and then watches you get into just as much trouble as you would have on your own, well, what's the point in that?
OK then, let's turn the tables. Let's see YOU try to eradicate all the spyware from a Linux or FreeBSD system. I'll wait. Having a hard time? You can't do it either!
I don't see why people are giving Microsoft such a hard time over this...
They also say Tomczak is legally liable for their fees if they lose the court case against Apple.
If Tomczak has no prior arrangement with those law firms, how can he be involved at all? Let's say those law firms lose their case against Apple (likely) and file a suit to recover their fees... Wouldn't any judge just throw it out with prejudice?
This is an idiotic analogy. The skyscraper is far easier to inspect. It consists of a few hundred very similar floors and the framing to support it. All of its materials are the same age and located in the same spot.
The houses are spread out over many hundreds of acres of land, each one with different architecture, different soil conditions, different age and building materials, different pests, different occupants, each one with unique requriements when arranging inspection visits. Some houses will be wood-framed, some might be steel-framed, some might be ram-earth, some might be adobe,... You get the idea.
Which is easier for the less trained to be brought up to speed on?
You've got to be kidding.
Try a bit harder the next time you attempt an analogy? Maybe one involving cars?
I bought a ThinkPad i1452 in 1999. IBM took it back once under warranty to clean cat hairs out of the keyboard (oops) and once, OUT OF WARRANTY, to replace a still-working but loose power connector. No hassles; I just call them up, spend 10 minutes on the phone, a shipping container arrives the next day, and I have a working laptop back within a week. Beautiful.
My roommate just bought an X41. The hardware is beautiful but the software that it shipped with is insanely buggy. She spent a day applying all the updates. Click update, click yes, reboot, click update, click yes, reboot reboot reboot. At the end of that, the laptop still throws up random error dialogs about hard disk issues and the CD-ROM drive is really flaky. She spent 4 hours on the phone with Lenovo over the weekend. Lenovo told her to run the entire diagnostic regimen (takes over 12 hours). No errors. Then they told her to wipe the hard drive and recover from the recovery partition. And then go through another day of update hell. She hasn't done that yet -- the laptop is sitting unused while she tries to find time to hassle with it again.
Lenovo seems to think that it's acceptable to charge her almost $2500 for a laptop and then burn over TWO DAYS of her time trying to get working software on this thing. IBM would have fixed it or replaced it and ensured she has a laptop that actually works. If she wanted to repair her own laptop, she would have bought an Asus.
I've bought and recommended ThinkPads since 1999. No more. Does anybody have any recommendations for a ThinkPad replacement? A company that makes solid laptops and stands behind them 100%?
I would like to see the data that they're collecting but I can't find it anywhere on their site. Am I just missing it?
I learned my lesson with the cddb disaster: don't submit your own data unless you can mirror it yourself. Otherwise, if someone gets bored or greedy, everybody's hard work gets lost forever. Or, worse, it gets subverted to make profit for Gracenote.
Mirroring is easy enough even if you have almost no bandwidth: use bittorrent. So, where are the submitted results?
It's absolutely true. The more user-friendly Gnome apps get, the more time I spend hunting around in gconf-editor for obscure and undocumented configuration keys. It's like gconf is the new Gnome UI. What a step in the right direction!
You've still got a problem: your password hits the command line multiple times. Command lines are public knowledge in Unix ("ps -f -u root"). You need to use something like:
Well, persistance can be seen as pushy. And, ye Gods, are you Mormons persistent. When I lived in Santa Clara, at least 3 groups of 2 or 3 boys (always boys) per year would come cold calling upon my door. It gets tiring after a while, you know? I'd complain, but moving was easier. Thankfully, you guys haven't managed to find my new place yet.
Dell is still clearly thinking in terms of large, impenetrable operating systems. Choosing which Windows operating system to install (ME? XP? 2003 Pro? etc,) is critical. The wrong choice will sink a line of computers.
So, what Linux operating system to pick? It doesn't matter! Choose whatever distro you think you can support the best. Preinstall Weezix (distro maintained by George Jefferson's wife) for all I care. If you can show me Weezix running, drivers and all, that means that I can copy the config to my distro of choice. Yes, that takes some expertise. But there are tons of people with that sort of expertise nowadays.
And here's the kicker: within two months, step-by-step instructions will appear on the forums and wikis of the major distros. Within six months, most distros will automatically support that machine out-of-the-box.
It doesn't matter which one you choose, it only matters that you choose! Though you can make everybody's lives a lot easier by selecting hardware with open source drivers. Too bad about the graphics card situation...
nuclear waste is infinitely easier to contain than a cloud coming out of a smokestack.
Oh really? "Infinitely?" It takes a hell of a lot of coal to come close to the problems at Hanford or Rocky Flats. And Yucca Mountain is already overflowing.
Personally, I'm pro nuclear power too. But it's only significantly cleaner than coal when you ignore the waste.
The dudes from Kentucky are convinced Springfield is in Kentucky, the dudes from Missouri are sure it's in Missouri... When you're selective abou tthe facts you accept, it's trivial to figure out where Springfield is located!
would also make normal operations faster with the faster swap.
If you're swapping while running normal applications, something is wrong with your system. If an increase in swap speed is immediately noticeable as better system performance, you need more memory. I do like the idea of suspending to flash though.
For the pendantic: sure, OCCASINALLY you might have to dip into swap. And sure, OCCASIONALLY you'll have to pull in some really stale pages. But these are supposed to be rare events. But if these are not rare occurrences, adding some flashy feature (sorry) to your hard drive isn't the best way to solve it.
It's called "laser speckle". It shows up when a coherent beam is held fairly stationary on an irregular surface. I imagine that if the beam is scanning fast, it won't be much of a problem because the specks will be too brief for your eye to see. POV will take care of the problem. But, of course, I haven't actually tried this myself.
If people would simply block all HTML message this show would be over in no time.
Wrong. Most email clients make URLs clickable even in plain text messages. Even if they didn't, most users would just copy and paste a URL from the message rather than type something. I can't understand how you would think that banning HTML mail would help this situation at all.
and I think they have a pretty good case (security/fraud) for taking it away.
Yes. The problem is, once you have a good case for taking it away, it's too late! The scam has already worked. The scammers don't care; they're already moving on to the next domain.
The *best* support you could get in Gimp is a work-around.
That may be true but it's not due to patents. Basic CMYK is supported in the new Krita, and work is progressing on color cal and Pantone seps. If patents are not a problem for other projects, why are they showstoppers for the Gimp? If you want to discuss this further, how about posting the #'s of the potentially infringing patents?
Cinepaint, included in say, for instance, MediainLinux IS Gimp
Yes, old Cinepaint was derived from the Gimp. But, as you say, it doesn't have many features and all further developemnt is dead. Unless someone steps up to maintain and merge it, it's irrelevant for the discussion at hand (I'm not holding my breath). If you recall, we're talking about whether or not the *Gimp* can do better than 8-bit channels. And it can't.
So, my points are secure. But, hey, a point to you for knowing how to look something up in the Jargon dictionary!
Did you even click on the link you gave for CMYK support? Separate is just a rudimentary plug-in. Proper seps are deeply complex and require core support to be done properly. Even the Gimp developers agree that CMYK is simply not supported. Why would you pretend otherwise?
And then you bring up Cinepaint as an example of the Gimp supporting 16-bit pixels?? It has been almost SIX YEARS since CinePaint could be considered a part of the Gimp. From your own link, "CinePaint is undergoing a transition from being a monolithic GTK-based tool to a constellation of applications that use FLTK." Dropping CinePaint is, in my opinion, the worst decision that the Gimp project ever made. In the past six years CinePaint has thrived while the Gimp has pretty much stagnated. Oops.
So, you must agree that the *Gimp* supports neither CMYK nor 16-bit, right? If not, have you got that LART handy? You may need a healthy dose of it...
I hate to tell you... As long as Carol has gimp.org in her email address, she DOES represent the Gimp project. And she continues to be a major problem. I can't believe you guys are still waffling over this... Any other project would have revoked her email address after the first stern talking-to.
[IPv6] is wanted, as it solves a very pressing issue.
Do you have any evidence? If so, why are adoption numbers so vanishingly small? They that IPv6 is wanted by almost nobody, probably because they don't have any pressing issues that only IPv6 solves..
While NAT may be useful in its own right, it should not be used solely to allow for more devices.
Er, that's the whole reason NAT was invented. Why shouldn't it be used that way?
Without quality control mechanisms such as W3C validation, we would have a very poor Internet indeed.
The vast majority of pages fail to validate yet the internet as a whole seems to work very well. Strict validation, while definitely nice, doesn't seem to be quite as important as you think.
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One the one hand, SPI works for Debian. So they should go along with whatever Debian says.
When you hire legal council, do you expect it to go along with everything you say? I sure hope not. Their whole point is to tell you when you're full of crap. If an attorney just agrees with you and then watches you get into just as much trouble as you would have on your own, well, what's the point in that?
Dude. Obviously.
-1 troll? That means 3 people didn't get the joke plus you. Y'all need to get outside more.
OK then, let's turn the tables. Let's see YOU try to eradicate all the spyware from a Linux or FreeBSD system. I'll wait. Having a hard time? You can't do it either!
I don't see why people are giving Microsoft such a hard time over this...
They also say Tomczak is legally liable for their fees if they lose the court case against Apple.
If Tomczak has no prior arrangement with those law firms, how can he be involved at all? Let's say those law firms lose their case against Apple (likely) and file a suit to recover their fees... Wouldn't any judge just throw it out with prejudice?
Someone please explain!
This is an idiotic analogy. The skyscraper is far easier to inspect. It consists of a few hundred very similar floors and the framing to support it. All of its materials are the same age and located in the same spot.
... You get the idea.
The houses are spread out over many hundreds of acres of land, each one with different architecture, different soil conditions, different age and building materials, different pests, different occupants, each one with unique requriements when arranging inspection visits. Some houses will be wood-framed, some might be steel-framed, some might be ram-earth, some might be adobe,
Which is easier for the less trained to be brought up to speed on?
You've got to be kidding.
Try a bit harder the next time you attempt an analogy? Maybe one involving cars?
That's comedy. Wish I had mod points.
I bought a ThinkPad i1452 in 1999. IBM took it back once under warranty to clean cat hairs out of the keyboard (oops) and once, OUT OF WARRANTY, to replace a still-working but loose power connector. No hassles; I just call them up, spend 10 minutes on the phone, a shipping container arrives the next day, and I have a working laptop back within a week. Beautiful.
My roommate just bought an X41. The hardware is beautiful but the software that it shipped with is insanely buggy. She spent a day applying all the updates. Click update, click yes, reboot, click update, click yes, reboot reboot reboot. At the end of that, the laptop still throws up random error dialogs about hard disk issues and the CD-ROM drive is really flaky. She spent 4 hours on the phone with Lenovo over the weekend. Lenovo told her to run the entire diagnostic regimen (takes over 12 hours). No errors. Then they told her to wipe the hard drive and recover from the recovery partition. And then go through another day of update hell. She hasn't done that yet -- the laptop is sitting unused while she tries to find time to hassle with it again.
Lenovo seems to think that it's acceptable to charge her almost $2500 for a laptop and then burn over TWO DAYS of her time trying to get working software on this thing. IBM would have fixed it or replaced it and ensured she has a laptop that actually works. If she wanted to repair her own laptop, she would have bought an Asus.
I've bought and recommended ThinkPads since 1999. No more. Does anybody have any recommendations for a ThinkPad replacement? A company that makes solid laptops and stands behind them 100%?
You haven't heard that? It's the new urban to replace peace out.
Gotta run. mod up.
I would like to see the data that they're collecting but I can't find it anywhere on their site. Am I just missing it?
I learned my lesson with the cddb disaster: don't submit your own data unless you can mirror it yourself. Otherwise, if someone gets bored or greedy, everybody's hard work gets lost forever. Or, worse, it gets subverted to make profit for Gracenote.
Mirroring is easy enough even if you have almost no bandwidth: use bittorrent. So, where are the submitted results?
It's absolutely true. The more user-friendly Gnome apps get, the more time I spend hunting around in gconf-editor for obscure and undocumented configuration keys. It's like gconf is the new Gnome UI. What a step in the right direction!
Well, persistance can be seen as pushy. And, ye Gods, are you Mormons persistent. When I lived in Santa Clara, at least 3 groups of 2 or 3 boys (always boys) per year would come cold calling upon my door. It gets tiring after a while, you know? I'd complain, but moving was easier. Thankfully, you guys haven't managed to find my new place yet.
Dell is still clearly thinking in terms of large, impenetrable operating systems. Choosing which Windows operating system to install (ME? XP? 2003 Pro? etc,) is critical. The wrong choice will sink a line of computers.
So, what Linux operating system to pick? It doesn't matter! Choose whatever distro you think you can support the best. Preinstall Weezix (distro maintained by George Jefferson's wife) for all I care. If you can show me Weezix running, drivers and all, that means that I can copy the config to my distro of choice. Yes, that takes some expertise. But there are tons of people with that sort of expertise nowadays.
And here's the kicker: within two months, step-by-step instructions will appear on the forums and wikis of the major distros. Within six months, most distros will automatically support that machine out-of-the-box.
It doesn't matter which one you choose, it only matters that you choose! Though you can make everybody's lives a lot easier by selecting hardware with open source drivers. Too bad about the graphics card situation...
nuclear waste is infinitely easier to contain than a cloud coming out of a smokestack.
Oh really? "Infinitely?" It takes a hell of a lot of coal to come close to the problems at Hanford or Rocky Flats. And Yucca Mountain is already overflowing.
Personally, I'm pro nuclear power too. But it's only significantly cleaner than coal when you ignore the waste.
Sorenson requires w32codecs doesn't it? A damned useful set of code modules to be sure but also pretty damned illegal.
The dudes from Kentucky are convinced Springfield is in Kentucky, the dudes from Missouri are sure it's in Missouri... When you're selective abou tthe facts you accept, it's trivial to figure out where Springfield is located!
Pretty much every user says that breaking the back button is a *bad* thing. Who cares what the developers think?
would also make normal operations faster with the faster swap.
If you're swapping while running normal applications, something is wrong with your system. If an increase in swap speed is immediately noticeable as better system performance, you need more memory. I do like the idea of suspending to flash though.
For the pendantic: sure, OCCASINALLY you might have to dip into swap. And sure, OCCASIONALLY you'll have to pull in some really stale pages. But these are supposed to be rare events. But if these are not rare occurrences, adding some flashy feature (sorry) to your hard drive isn't the best way to solve it.
It's called "laser speckle". It shows up when a coherent beam is held fairly stationary on an irregular surface. I imagine that if the beam is scanning fast, it won't be much of a problem because the specks will be too brief for your eye to see. POV will take care of the problem. But, of course, I haven't actually tried this myself.
If people would simply block all HTML message this show would be over in no time.
Wrong. Most email clients make URLs clickable even in plain text messages. Even if they didn't, most users would just copy and paste a URL from the message rather than type something. I can't understand how you would think that banning HTML mail would help this situation at all.
Huh. Turns out the mods are pretty bright today!
and I think they have a pretty good case (security/fraud) for taking it away.
Yes. The problem is, once you have a good case for taking it away, it's too late! The scam has already worked. The scammers don't care; they're already moving on to the next domain.
The *best* support you could get in Gimp is a work-around.
That may be true but it's not due to patents. Basic CMYK is supported in the new Krita, and work is progressing on color cal and Pantone seps. If patents are not a problem for other projects, why are they showstoppers for the Gimp? If you want to discuss this further, how about posting the #'s of the potentially infringing patents?
Cinepaint, included in say, for instance, MediainLinux IS Gimp
Yes, old Cinepaint was derived from the Gimp. But, as you say, it doesn't have many features and all further developemnt is dead. Unless someone steps up to maintain and merge it, it's irrelevant for the discussion at hand (I'm not holding my breath). If you recall, we're talking about whether or not the *Gimp* can do better than 8-bit channels. And it can't.
So, my points are secure. But, hey, a point to you for knowing how to look something up in the Jargon dictionary!
Wow, you are really out of touch.
Did you even click on the link you gave for CMYK support? Separate is just a rudimentary plug-in. Proper seps are deeply complex and require core support to be done properly. Even the Gimp developers agree that CMYK is simply not supported. Why would you pretend otherwise?
And then you bring up Cinepaint as an example of the Gimp supporting 16-bit pixels?? It has been almost SIX YEARS since CinePaint could be considered a part of the Gimp. From your own link, "CinePaint is undergoing a transition from being a monolithic GTK-based tool to a constellation of applications that use FLTK." Dropping CinePaint is, in my opinion, the worst decision that the Gimp project ever made. In the past six years CinePaint has thrived while the Gimp has pretty much stagnated. Oops.
So, you must agree that the *Gimp* supports neither CMYK nor 16-bit, right? If not, have you got that LART handy? You may need a healthy dose of it...
I hate to tell you... As long as Carol has gimp.org in her email address, she DOES represent the Gimp project. And she continues to be a major problem. I can't believe you guys are still waffling over this... Any other project would have revoked her email address after the first stern talking-to.
[IPv6] is wanted, as it solves a very pressing issue.
Do you have any evidence? If so, why are adoption numbers so vanishingly small? They that IPv6 is wanted by almost nobody, probably because they don't have any pressing issues that only IPv6 solves..
While NAT may be useful in its own right, it should not be used solely to allow for more devices.
Er, that's the whole reason NAT was invented. Why shouldn't it be used that way?
Without quality control mechanisms such as W3C validation, we would have a very poor Internet indeed.
The vast majority of pages fail to validate yet the internet as a whole seems to work very well. Strict validation, while definitely nice, doesn't seem to be quite as important as you think.