It may sound good to you but MS sell their products in many countries where it is illegal to access someones computer without their permission. Click through agreements do not give any permission to anyone in most countries so I think this could result in some interesting litigation if anything goes wrong.
To some degree I agree with you but often I have found that converting a.doc file into OO has resolved a problem that collegues were having. The idea of.doc being a 'standard' is a nonsense. It is not even a 'standard' in the MS world as collegues using different versions of MS Office can have problems. Most of the problems are caused by fonts not being available on the different machines and that is what causes most of the issues with opening a.doc file in OO. Other problems caused by issues like errors in history and security get striped out if you open with OO.
I have to use MS Word on XP at work now and think it is rubbish. I take work home and find OO much better. I have all the TT fonts loaded and tend to stick with them.
Wales ??? I think that is a county in the west of England?:) The rest of England has somwhat better coverage with 98% of the country having a signal... I think the phone companies do not think that sheep farmers or their sheep need phones:) so they have not put up the masts.
In the UK they have to allow portability of your number. I recently wanted a new phone as my old one was now a year old. My phone company (Orange) wanted 150 UK pounds for the phone I wanted (Sony T610) but another company (Vodaphone) would give me the phone for free if I switched to them. When I asked my phone company for a PAC number which is the code that I need to take my phone number with me to the new company, the old company decided that they could give me the new phone for free as long as I agreed to a new 1 year contract (same as the new company would have required). My current contract costs me 12 UK pounds each month (including 20 minutes of calls) so it is cheaper to take the contract than buying the phone.
Insurance companies do not have any right whatsoever to arrest or detain.
What are the search/seizure
Nor do they have any right to search or detain.
I do not think they are talking about arresting, searching or seizing anything so I do not think this matters. I cannot read the article to check what it says as it is/.'d but I am used to refusing people into my house and refusing to be detained. TV licence people always want to check if I have a TV and I tell them to f*&k off.
Except that... It's faster, better, and cheaper because of improved video processing software. The operating system is incidental at best if not irelevant.
Are you saying that the OS has no effect on the cost at all?
Phones:- my mobile has laods of games on it that were once arcade classics. There will always be low end markets to buy these games until they end up PD.
The US government did not provide the Taliban with any evidence to support the request for bin Laden to be handed over. The Taliban were happy to consider the request and were keen to find a reaonable way out of the situation but the US did not allow them a way out.
I do not support the Taliban, they were an evil regime that treated its people despicably, but they could not legally hand over citizens to another country without a reason. They did not even have an extradition treaty, yet they wanted to discuss it. If the US had been reasonable bin Laden may have been handed over, instead lots of innocent people died, loads of innocent people are still held in Guantamalo bay and we still do not have bin Laden.
The British helped create Al Qaida in Libya and the Us gave them so much money while they were in Afghanistan that they became a real force. The only reason the Talibam could not hand anyone over is because Afghanistan and the US do not have an extradition treaty and it was therefore illegal to do so. The Taliban were prepared to negotiate a treaty but the US were more keen on dropping lots of bombs and killing lots of people. A treaty would have resulted in the arrest of bin Laden but killing innocent people was the chosen option.
The Taliban were not given any legal option as the US did not provide any evidence whatsoever to give a reason to extradite bin Laden.
America may have a terrorist past but that was hundreds of years ago. Now, the US is more tight than Russia. Dissent is not allowed. Old ladies can be arrested for critising the war in public and lawyers arrested for wearing t-shirts with critical slogans.
I think that this guy was going too far and needed to be shut down but that does not make it right, as that means that I do not think freedom of speech is right. He did not do anything, he just said what he thought.
SCO already look more than a little looney to those that understand. With a bit of provocation they may end up looking completely looney to everyone. This can be a good thing for Linux. Linux look sane and the anti-Linux guys look like loonies.
Normally I would agree that things should be kept out of court but this has gone on too long and if someone does not fight back then SCO will win in the hearts and minds of the plebs.
Have you looked at the Mac ? Serious ability without the noise. I have not owned one yet but I am thinking about getting one next especially now they run *nix.
Large databases are being built up of fingerprint data and now DNA data. The acuracy of this data is at best questionable. Fingerprints are measured at 16 points. From this you do not get 16^16. I think that if you measured fingerprints to an infinite acuracy you may find the theoretical infinate number of fingerprints required to sustain the myth that no 2 fingerprints are the same but here in the real world we measure a finite number of points and therefore have a finite number of prints and as the database reaches that number there must be mistakes. The mistakes are already happening with DNA and because this evidence is perported assumed to be infallible innocent people are being arrested. If this evidence was only used to support other evidence I would see it as a good thing but when it is used as the only evidence then it is very bad. I think that in the future this DNA witch hunt will be seen for what it is but for now innocent people will be caught up with the guilty.
I think you missed the point of the internet, you buy one from anywhere you want and it arrives just like anything else. OK, they will not be in the shops for a while, but as there is not law against owning one I think it will be just like police radar detectors which are illegal to use yet you can buy them in any car accesory shop. I have already sorted out my purchase of an iTrip which will be happily delivered to the UK from the US without breaking any laws.
A good troll needs to have some foundation in truth. It needs to at least sound as if you believe your arguement. Anyone that has used Linux recently will know that what you say is patently untrue and that all you are trying to do is inflame people. If you want to get a good flame war going you have to have a plausible and defendable arguement. If you had focused solely on the ability to copy DVDs and accepted that although it is possible it is so difficult that it makes the use of Linux ridiculous, then you would have got lots of people going who think you are wrong or simplifying the arguement too much. Because you make so many statements about things like MP3s etc. for which Linux has more options than Windows, you sound as if you do not know what you are talking about and no one is going to bite.
Slashdot Mirror
The parts that they show are already public. The part that they hide is probably the part that is not public and would have no right to enter Linux.
/ sy s/sys/malloc.c.html
http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/32VKern/usr/src
This is old code that has already entered the public domain.
It may sound good to you but MS sell their products in many countries where it is illegal to access someones computer without their permission. Click through agreements do not give any permission to anyone in most countries so I think this could result in some interesting litigation if anything goes wrong.
To some degree I agree with you but often I have found that converting a .doc file into OO has resolved a problem that collegues were having. The idea of .doc being a 'standard' is a nonsense. It is not even a 'standard' in the MS world as collegues using different versions of MS Office can have problems. Most of the problems are caused by fonts not being available on the different machines and that is what causes most of the issues with opening a .doc file in OO. Other problems caused by issues like errors in history and security get striped out if you open with OO.
I have to use MS Word on XP at work now and think it is rubbish. I take work home and find OO much better. I have all the TT fonts loaded and tend to stick with them.
It still sounds dumb... They have a really good corporate identity and they want to ruin it ??? Sounds like SCO marketting to me.
Wales ??? I think that is a county in the west of England? :) The rest of England has somwhat better coverage with 98% of the country having a signal... I think the phone companies do not think that sheep farmers or their sheep need phones :) so they have not put up the masts.
In the UK they have to allow portability of your number. I recently wanted a new phone as my old one was now a year old. My phone company (Orange) wanted 150 UK pounds for the phone I wanted (Sony T610) but another company (Vodaphone) would give me the phone for free if I switched to them. When I asked my phone company for a PAC number which is the code that I need to take my phone number with me to the new company, the old company decided that they could give me the new phone for free as long as I agreed to a new 1 year contract (same as the new company would have required). My current contract costs me 12 UK pounds each month (including 20 minutes of calls) so it is cheaper to take the contract than buying the phone.
Well you can listen to music on your iPod while working on your iBook and sitting in your iBot whilst invading iRaq.
illegal detainment
/.'d but I am used to refusing people into my house and refusing to be detained. TV licence people always want to check if I have a TV and I tell them to f*&k off.
Insurance companies do not have any right whatsoever to arrest or detain.
What are the search/seizure
Nor do they have any right to search or detain.
I do not think they are talking about arresting, searching or seizing anything so I do not think this matters. I cannot read the article to check what it says as it is
Except that... It's faster, better, and cheaper because of improved video processing software. The operating system is incidental at best if not irelevant.
Are you saying that the OS has no effect on the cost at all?
Phones :- my mobile has laods of games on it that were once arcade classics. There will always be low end markets to buy these games until they end up PD.
and how does Novell's interest in Ximian affect all this? If they can still dictate what is licensed surely they will now say Linux is fine ...
RTFA - yes, the article says the power adapter is universal and will work in the real world.
Looks like a picture to me :-
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http://www.sipphone.com/tiki-index.php?page=Ord
The US government did not provide the Taliban with any evidence to support the request for bin Laden to be handed over. The Taliban were happy to consider the request and were keen to find a reaonable way out of the situation but the US did not allow them a way out.
I do not support the Taliban, they were an evil regime that treated its people despicably, but they could not legally hand over citizens to another country without a reason. They did not even have an extradition treaty, yet they wanted to discuss it. If the US had been reasonable bin Laden may have been handed over, instead lots of innocent people died, loads of innocent people are still held in Guantamalo bay and we still do not have bin Laden.
The British helped create Al Qaida in Libya and the Us gave them so much money while they were in Afghanistan that they became a real force. The only reason the Talibam could not hand anyone over is because Afghanistan and the US do not have an extradition treaty and it was therefore illegal to do so. The Taliban were prepared to negotiate a treaty but the US were more keen on dropping lots of bombs and killing lots of people. A treaty would have resulted in the arrest of bin Laden but killing innocent people was the chosen option.
The Taliban were not given any legal option as the US did not provide any evidence whatsoever to give a reason to extradite bin Laden.
America may have a terrorist past but that was hundreds of years ago. Now, the US is more tight than Russia. Dissent is not allowed. Old ladies can be arrested for critising the war in public and lawyers arrested for wearing t-shirts with critical slogans.
I think that this guy was going too far and needed to be shut down but that does not make it right, as that means that I do not think freedom of speech is right. He did not do anything, he just said what he thought.
SCO already look more than a little looney to those that understand. With a bit of provocation they may end up looking completely looney to everyone. This can be a good thing for Linux. Linux look sane and the anti-Linux guys look like loonies.
Normally I would agree that things should be kept out of court but this has gone on too long and if someone does not fight back then SCO will win in the hearts and minds of the plebs.
So now I can park in their car park and dl all the pr0n and MP3s I want ?
It will tell you :p
Have you looked at the Mac ? Serious ability without the noise. I have not owned one yet but I am thinking about getting one next especially now they run *nix.
MythTV is a fantastic project,
:)
Sounds good
but it's pretty picky about the hardware it will run on.
Sounds bad
a bit of a contradiction...
It's just a box
You chose the OS that you put on the system when you have chosen your CPU, hard disk, CD/DVD drive, memory etc.
Large databases are being built up of fingerprint data and now DNA data. The acuracy of this data is at best questionable. Fingerprints are measured at 16 points. From this you do not get 16^16.
I think that if you measured fingerprints to an infinite acuracy you may find the theoretical infinate number of fingerprints required to sustain the myth that no 2 fingerprints are the same but here in the real world we measure a finite number of points and therefore have a finite number of prints and as the database reaches that number there must be mistakes.
The mistakes are already happening with DNA and because this evidence is perported assumed to be infallible innocent people are being arrested.
If this evidence was only used to support other evidence I would see it as a good thing but when it is used as the only evidence then it is very bad.
I think that in the future this DNA witch hunt will be seen for what it is but for now innocent people will be caught up with the guilty.
They just won't be for sale here.
I think you missed the point of the internet, you buy one from anywhere you want and it arrives just like anything else. OK, they will not be in the shops for a while, but as there is not law against owning one I think it will be just like police radar detectors which are illegal to use yet you can buy them in any car accesory shop. I have already sorted out my purchase of an iTrip which will be happily delivered to the UK from the US without breaking any laws.
Michael
A good troll needs to have some foundation in truth. It needs to at least sound as if you believe your arguement. Anyone that has used Linux recently will know that what you say is patently untrue and that all you are trying to do is inflame people. If you want to get a good flame war going you have to have a plausible and defendable arguement. If you had focused solely on the ability to copy DVDs and accepted that although it is possible it is so difficult that it makes the use of Linux ridiculous, then you would have got lots of people going who think you are wrong or simplifying the arguement too much. Because you make so many statements about things like MP3s etc. for which Linux has more options than Windows, you sound as if you do not know what you are talking about and no one is going to bite.
Better luck next time.