...it's called revoking a corporation's charter, and up till a hundred years ago was done when a corporation was found to be no longer serving the public good. There is currently a petition underway to revoke Phillip Morris' charter.
Hmm. I think I meant to say largest *international* project ever. There have been bigger projects even within NASA (ie. Apollo)... although I guess that's not construction...
Oh well. I certain amount of hyperbole should be expected in/. posts.;) -- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
If something is not a derivative work, then the license of some other program is irrelevant,.
Well, I don't think there's an argument over whether the given DLL is a derivative, just whether the front-end program is. Therefore usage of the DLL is governed by the license agreement. Therefore, any restrictions against using that DLL (ie. "don't link to it in a non-GPL program") would be applicable.
I mean, I could release a DLL and say "you must be patting your head when you use this DLL in any way" and if a user is using a program which uses the DLL, they gotta be patting their head or they're in violation. -- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
If the FSF wins, it would be an almost unprecedented increase in copyright coverage.
And if the FSF loses, it won't be that big a deal... GPL 3 would just have to include a clause saying "no dynamic linking with a non-GPL program" -- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Which is why I'm wondering how the hell the Russians keep getting in the news for space-related stuff. First Tito, now this? Where the hell was the US? This isn't a criticism of Russia, but considering the funding difficulties they're having at the moment, they're sure as hell going out there and actually doing stuff. We seem to just be sitting on our asses and spending fifty time as much money to do so!
That's just a bit silly. Tito and this are happening solely because of the money - you think Russia's not making a handsome profit on this deal? Same with Tito... they *needed the money*.
Why aren't the States getting these? Because the $20 million that Tito paid is a drop in the bucket for NASA. Why is that? Bureaucratic inefficiency? Concern with safety to the point of standstill? Maybe, a bit. But the main reason is our engineers, workers, equipment suppliers, etc. are paid American wages. The Russians are paid in Russian wages, which are orders of magnitude less, when they are paid at all.
In any case, "sitting on our asses?" Being the primary builder and organizer of the International Space Station, possibly the largest construction project ever, bringing together the US, Canada, ESA, Japan, Brazil, and, yes, Russia and having it (minor issues with Russians aside) actually work? 6-8 shuttle missions a year? That's "sitting on our asses"?
Is there more we could be doing, space-wise? Yes. Could we be doing what we're doing better? Sure. But you shouldn't deify the Russians just because they're desparate to hawk their wares.
(Not to desparage the Russian space program, which, for most of its life, probably bested the Americans. But until they get their economy in good shape, launching tourists in 60's era Soyuz vehicles is probably the best they'll be doing for a while...) -- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Well, the closer you get to the users, the more complex things get... never mind the feature involved. The Win32 libraries include everything from the base file system things to sound libraries to MIDI support to all the UI widgets to networking to printer support to...
There's a lot in there. Somethings haven't really been done on built-from-scratch UNIX environments, never mind trying to emulate exactly what Microsoft did... -- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Re:trolling through the forest all day long...
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I dunno... KDE widgets seems to be sufficiently different from traditional Motif widgets to warrant a new set of design guidelines. For example, KDE buttons are usually highlighted on the inside, Windows-style, instead of around the outside like Motif. Things like that make a significant difference in spacing.
Given all the different themes that are available, design guidelines for for app spacing/sizing and theme design would probably be a good idea. Or maybe there's really just no way to make apps look professional with someone's Wooden-button Matrix-like Pamela Anderson theme...
-- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Re:trolling through the forest all day long...
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The Superior Motif?
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"No user design guides in linux" How about
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards /k de/style/basics/index.html
or
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/design/ui /i ndex.html
What those don't cover (or, at least, I didn't see it) is a basic guide to size/positioning - how far apart buttons should be, how high they should be, spacing between labels/checkboxes/radio boxes/tabs/etc, icon sizes, etc. Consistency in those little anal details actually makes a bit difference in giving an application a professional crispness. -- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Also, MyMP3.com's CD library and verification scheme. Useful for all sorts of things - like licensing out for the "play any cd in the store just based on the barcode" demo stations at the higher-end retail stores...
Still not worth the valuation, but don't forget they aren't paying cash, they're just dishing out some (probably overvalued) shares... -- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this issue... which is worse, big government or big business?
It's probably the wrong way to think about it... it's probably just best to think of what's can be improved with each. They both exist, and they are both necessary for our current society.
Without big government, big business and capitalism runs amok... the rich would get richer, at the cost of everything and everyone else.
Without big business, society stagnates under the weight of big government controlling everything, without any competition to inspire progress.
Without either, society become a bunch of small, isolated communities with insufficient trade to allow economic growth. Which would probably, given human nature, result in wars.
So, given that both are necessary, the questions become what's wrong with corporations and government and needs to be done to fix those dificiencies.
I'd venture that corporations need to be changed so that (a) they no longer exist only to make money at the cost of everthing, and (b) when they fuck things up, the responsibility falls on people and not nameless entities.
I'd venture that government needs to be isolated from the money so that those that control the corporations don't also, due to their money, also control the government.
Or something like that...;) -- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Corperations are made of people who are remarkable like you and I, and run by people who actually grew up pretty much the same as you did
Uh huh. That works find when you have a company of 10 civic-minded and financially comfortable people. When you have a mammoth corporation, it's an enormous beast designed money. Every decision is based on raising the earnings per share, and everyone keeps passing the buck, not being the one to cost the company any money. And no one wants to compromise their kid's orthodontics by being the one to blame when profits are down.
Even with small companies... if you had to tell your investors that the only reason you were losing money is because of a moral choice, do you think they'd accept it? Maybe, if they were your friends... but not if they were VCs or banks...
It's hard enough to get companies to take risks on new ideas to *make* money, never mind if those ideas our environmentally responsible or not. You'd have to have an entire company of very, very brave people to make a decision that is the right thing to do but *costs* the company money. And such people just don't exist in sufficient quanitity.
That's why corporations need to be regulated.
(And, you can be sure, those that get promoted in the company are those that can twist the new regulations to maximise profits... usually by minimizing the changes they were supposed to bring.) -- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
That's not really that scary a nick-name... A label letting parents know that a record they just bought their 9-year-old contains lyrics like "rape sluts" or "fuck a nigger like me" is really not that terrible an idea.
Banning speech is one thing; intelligent warning about the violence/sex/language content in popular culture is another. When a parent goes to bring their 9-year-old kids to a movie, they're should be an easy way for them to know they won't have to explain what a 69 is when they get out... -- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
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Honestly, I find Mike Myers pretty annoying in that he's too scared to use his own voice in *anything* and is still stuck in that improv schtick.
Actually, I saw in an interview somewhere that he had done the whole movie in his regular voice, and then after the first screening he saw of it (presumeable still fairly early in the creation process) he realized it would work a lot better with the accent, so he did a few scenes, showed them to Spielburg et al and they allowed him to redo all the voice work.
I imagine the animators weren't exactly thrilled by that.;) -- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Well, the argument would be that having fuckgeneralmotors.com point to ford.com is like saying "fuck general motors, they suck, buy a ford instead."
(Not that I agree with that... but that's the "Free speech" aspect that differentiates the aimster and f!gm cases...) -- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
It's okay if the site in question just bitches about a company, but not if they make money?
Hit the nail on the head with that one. The fuckgeneralmotors case is free speech. The aimster case is someone taking advantage of someone else's name to help their own product.
-- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Aimster is an instant messenger service, complete with Buddies, and clicking on "What is Aimster" just says you can Find New Buddies and Share with Buddies... It's totally designed to confuse your typical AOL user. As the article said...
In the NAF decision, Peter Michaelson wrote: "These domain names were intentionally selected... by the respondent due to their high degree of similarity to the complainant's marks and hence for their potential to mislead the complainant's users."
Similarity? Instant Messenging products with Buddies called AIM and AIMster? I don't see any similarity at all...;)
Of course the typical AOL user would be confused between Aimster and AIM. AOL has every right to go after them. (Inasmuch as corporations have rights, which is a whole other issue...)
-- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
I dunno... DirectX games in combination with nVidia drivers are the only things that have ever BSODed my Win 2000 machine.
I think DirectX is seriously flawed in which the DirectX games take place the on the same desktop as your, well, desktop.... when you run a DirectX game which changes resolution, your original desktop gets changed as well, and if the game mucks up, your whole desktop's fucked. They should have done a much better job separating DirectX video control from your normal deskop... it was kinda ok for Win9x, which was an unstable mess anyway, but it's really a piss poor solution for Win 2000. The process should be completely separate, and a 'ctrl-esc' or whatnot should, *without fail* bring you back to your pristine original desktop...
-- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
The problem is this new series is being brought to you by the same people that made Voyager... so it seems unlikely that they're going to be making the huge changes to the current Trek formula that would be needed to win back many fans. -- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
I browse at +3 (actually, it's at -1 but with a highlight threshold of +3...) just because I don't really have the time to wade through 500 messages.... although some gems might be missed, in general, it picks up the interesting ones... and its easy enough to follow a thread if one wants to...
Although the obvious surplus of mod points lately is screwing up my system... there's no way my 'this is how the mod system works' message was worth a 5... a 5 used to be something you had to work for... now they're everywhere; almost everything that gets a 3 ends up as 5 as too many people are dishing out the points... -- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Yeah, but there's no guarantee IBM will be supporting Linux in 10 years. Remember OS/2? Microchannel architecture? -- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Read up on how the moderation system works... moderation points are given out randomly to any logged-in/. reader. (Except maybe those with negative karma.)
So saying they're hypocrites is a bit silly, as its impossible to generalize. If you want to complain about anything, complain about how the/. news posters editorialize in their headlines.
If you really want to see all the "SPORK!" messages, just change your setting to browse at -1 - you'll see everything that's been posted. Me, I'm glad the idiot comments get modded down and the intelligent ones get modded up (I browse at +3)... it makes/. the only message board on the internet that's actually worth reading... -- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
...has (mostly) what you're looking for. A relatively easy-to-use designer, a scalable server component which feeds the client-side control, and ActiveX and Java-based client-side controls which are embedded in the browser. The client-side controls have full printing capability, as well as exporing to a variety of formats.
The downside? It tends to be difficult to format complicated reports, it has a archaic data access layer which makes database independence difficult, and the server components only works with Windows/ASP. -- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Seriously, why are companies coming out with these suites that don't integrate with anything else on the desktop?
Perhaps they're afraid to offend users of the rejected desktop suite (ie. perhaps they're afraid KDE users won't use a Gnome app, Gnome users won't use a KDE app...) -- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
The only real fact about wealth which is not a mirage is the old saying "The Rich get richer and Poor get poorer". By its very nature money flows towards those who know how to get it and keep it (The Rich) and away from those who do not (The Poor).
I think it would probably be more accurate to say "By its very nature money flows towards those who *have it* and know how to get it and keep it (The Rich) and away from those who do not (The Poor)." It's a lot easier to have your money work for you when you have some money to "play with", so to speak... risking capital is generally a luxury afforded to those who have capital to risk.
Not that the poor can't become rich with sufficient skill or luck (or the rich can't become poor with vastly insufficent skill or luck), but it's easier to make a million bucks when you already have that first million, even if you just inherited it from daddy... -- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
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...it's called revoking a corporation's charter, and up till a hundred years ago was done when a corporation was found to be no longer serving the public good. There is currently a petition underway to revoke Phillip Morris' charter.
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For more on this, see the AdBuster's web site:
http://adbusters.org/campaigns/corporate/tour/1.h
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Hmm. I think I meant to say largest *international* project ever. There have been bigger projects even within NASA (ie. Apollo)... although I guess that's not construction...
/. posts. ;)
Oh well. I certain amount of hyperbole should be expected in
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
If something is not a derivative work, then the license of some other program is irrelevant,.
Well, I don't think there's an argument over whether the given DLL is a derivative, just whether the front-end program is. Therefore usage of the DLL is governed by the license agreement. Therefore, any restrictions against using that DLL (ie. "don't link to it in a non-GPL program") would be applicable.
I mean, I could release a DLL and say "you must be patting your head when you use this DLL in any way" and if a user is using a program which uses the DLL, they gotta be patting their head or they're in violation.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
If the FSF wins, it would be an almost unprecedented increase in copyright coverage.
And if the FSF loses, it won't be that big a deal... GPL 3 would just have to include a clause saying "no dynamic linking with a non-GPL program"
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Which is why I'm wondering how the hell the Russians keep getting in the news for space-related stuff. First Tito, now this? Where the hell was the US? This isn't a criticism of Russia, but considering the funding difficulties they're having at the moment, they're sure as hell going out there and actually doing stuff. We seem to just be sitting on our asses and spending fifty time as much money to do so!
That's just a bit silly. Tito and this are happening solely because of the money - you think Russia's not making a handsome profit on this deal? Same with Tito... they *needed the money*.
Why aren't the States getting these? Because the $20 million that Tito paid is a drop in the bucket for NASA. Why is that? Bureaucratic inefficiency? Concern with safety to the point of standstill? Maybe, a bit. But the main reason is our engineers, workers, equipment suppliers, etc. are paid American wages. The Russians are paid in Russian wages, which are orders of magnitude less, when they are paid at all.
In any case, "sitting on our asses?" Being the primary builder and organizer of the International Space Station, possibly the largest construction project ever, bringing together the US, Canada, ESA, Japan, Brazil, and, yes, Russia and having it (minor issues with Russians aside) actually work? 6-8 shuttle missions a year? That's "sitting on our asses"?
Is there more we could be doing, space-wise? Yes. Could we be doing what we're doing better? Sure. But you shouldn't deify the Russians just because they're desparate to hawk their wares.
(Not to desparage the Russian space program, which, for most of its life, probably bested the Americans. But until they get their economy in good shape, launching tourists in 60's era Soyuz vehicles is probably the best they'll be doing for a while...)
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Well, the closer you get to the users, the more complex things get... never mind the feature involved. The Win32 libraries include everything from the base file system things to sound libraries to MIDI support to all the UI widgets to networking to printer support to ...
There's a lot in there. Somethings haven't really been done on built-from-scratch UNIX environments, never mind trying to emulate exactly what Microsoft did...
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
I dunno... KDE widgets seems to be sufficiently different from traditional Motif widgets to warrant a new set of design guidelines. For example, KDE buttons are usually highlighted on the inside, Windows-style, instead of around the outside like Motif. Things like that make a significant difference in spacing.
Given all the different themes that are available, design guidelines for for app spacing/sizing and theme design would probably be a good idea. Or maybe there's really just no way to make apps look professional with someone's Wooden-button Matrix-like Pamela Anderson theme...
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
"No user design guides in linux" How abouts /k de/style/basics/index.html
i /i ndex.html
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standard
or
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/design/u
What those don't cover (or, at least, I didn't see it) is a basic guide to size/positioning - how far apart buttons should be, how high they should be, spacing between labels/checkboxes/radio boxes/tabs/etc, icon sizes, etc. Consistency in those little anal details actually makes a bit difference in giving an application a professional crispness.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Also, MyMP3.com's CD library and verification scheme. Useful for all sorts of things - like licensing out for the "play any cd in the store just based on the barcode" demo stations at the higher-end retail stores...
Still not worth the valuation, but don't forget they aren't paying cash, they're just dishing out some (probably overvalued) shares...
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this issue... which is worse, big government or big business?
;)
It's probably the wrong way to think about it... it's probably just best to think of what's can be improved with each. They both exist, and they are both necessary for our current society.
Without big government, big business and capitalism runs amok... the rich would get richer, at the cost of everything and everyone else.
Without big business, society stagnates under the weight of big government controlling everything, without any competition to inspire progress.
Without either, society become a bunch of small, isolated communities with insufficient trade to allow economic growth. Which would probably, given human nature, result in wars.
So, given that both are necessary, the questions become what's wrong with corporations and government and needs to be done to fix those dificiencies.
I'd venture that corporations need to be changed so that (a) they no longer exist only to make money at the cost of everthing, and (b) when they fuck things up, the responsibility falls on people and not nameless entities.
I'd venture that government needs to be isolated from the money so that those that control the corporations don't also, due to their money, also control the government.
Or something like that...
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Corperations are made of people who are remarkable like you and I, and run by people who actually grew up pretty much the same as you did
Uh huh. That works find when you have a company of 10 civic-minded and financially comfortable people. When you have a mammoth corporation, it's an enormous beast designed money. Every decision is based on raising the earnings per share, and everyone keeps passing the buck, not being the one to cost the company any money. And no one wants to compromise their kid's orthodontics by being the one to blame when profits are down.
Even with small companies... if you had to tell your investors that the only reason you were losing money is because of a moral choice, do you think they'd accept it? Maybe, if they were your friends... but not if they were VCs or banks...
It's hard enough to get companies to take risks on new ideas to *make* money, never mind if those ideas our environmentally responsible or not. You'd have to have an entire company of very, very brave people to make a decision that is the right thing to do but *costs* the company money. And such people just don't exist in sufficient quanitity.
That's why corporations need to be regulated.
(And, you can be sure, those that get promoted in the company are those that can twist the new regulations to maximise profits... usually by minimizing the changes they were supposed to bring.)
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Tipper "parental advisory label" Gore
That's not really that scary a nick-name... A label letting parents know that a record they just bought their 9-year-old contains lyrics like "rape sluts" or "fuck a nigger like me" is really not that terrible an idea.
Banning speech is one thing; intelligent warning about the violence/sex/language content in popular culture is another. When a parent goes to bring their 9-year-old kids to a movie, they're should be an easy way for them to know they won't have to explain what a 69 is when they get out...
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Honestly, I find Mike Myers pretty annoying in that he's too scared to use his own voice in *anything* and is still stuck in that improv schtick.
;)
Actually, I saw in an interview somewhere that he had done the whole movie in his regular voice, and then after the first screening he saw of it (presumeable still fairly early in the creation process) he realized it would work a lot better with the accent, so he did a few scenes, showed them to Spielburg et al and they allowed him to redo all the voice work.
I imagine the animators weren't exactly thrilled by that.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Well, the argument would be that having fuckgeneralmotors.com point to ford.com is like saying "fuck general motors, they suck, buy a ford instead."
(Not that I agree with that... but that's the "Free speech" aspect that differentiates the aimster and f!gm cases...)
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
It's okay if the site in question just bitches about a company, but not if they make money?
Hit the nail on the head with that one. The fuckgeneralmotors case is free speech. The aimster case is someone taking advantage of someone else's name to help their own product.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Aimster is an instant messenger service, complete with Buddies, and clicking on "What is Aimster" just says you can Find New Buddies and Share with Buddies... It's totally designed to confuse your typical AOL user. As the article said...
... by the respondent due to their high degree of similarity to the complainant's marks and hence for their potential to mislead the complainant's users."
;)
In the NAF decision, Peter Michaelson wrote: "These domain names were intentionally selected
Similarity? Instant Messenging products with Buddies called AIM and AIMster? I don't see any similarity at all...
Of course the typical AOL user would be confused between Aimster and AIM. AOL has every right to go after them. (Inasmuch as corporations have rights, which is a whole other issue...)
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"Striving to make the world a better place."
;)
Heh. Right.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
I dunno... DirectX games in combination with nVidia drivers are the only things that have ever BSODed my Win 2000 machine.
I think DirectX is seriously flawed in which the DirectX games take place the on the same desktop as your, well, desktop.... when you run a DirectX game which changes resolution, your original desktop gets changed as well, and if the game mucks up, your whole desktop's fucked. They should have done a much better job separating DirectX video control from your normal deskop... it was kinda ok for Win9x, which was an unstable mess anyway, but it's really a piss poor solution for Win 2000. The process should be completely separate, and a 'ctrl-esc' or whatnot should, *without fail* bring you back to your pristine original desktop...
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
The problem is this new series is being brought to you by the same people that made Voyager... so it seems unlikely that they're going to be making the huge changes to the current Trek formula that would be needed to win back many fans.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
I browse at +3 (actually, it's at -1 but with a highlight threshold of +3...) just because I don't really have the time to wade through 500 messages.... although some gems might be missed, in general, it picks up the interesting ones... and its easy enough to follow a thread if one wants to...
Although the obvious surplus of mod points lately is screwing up my system... there's no way my 'this is how the mod system works' message was worth a 5... a 5 used to be something you had to work for... now they're everywhere; almost everything that gets a 3 ends up as 5 as too many people are dishing out the points...
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Yeah, but there's no guarantee IBM will be supporting Linux in 10 years. Remember OS/2? Microchannel architecture?
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Read up on how the moderation system works... moderation points are given out randomly to any logged-in /. reader. (Except maybe those with negative karma.)
/. news posters editorialize in their headlines.
/. the only message board on the internet that's actually worth reading...
So saying they're hypocrites is a bit silly, as its impossible to generalize. If you want to complain about anything, complain about how the
If you really want to see all the "SPORK!" messages, just change your setting to browse at -1 - you'll see everything that's been posted. Me, I'm glad the idiot comments get modded down and the intelligent ones get modded up (I browse at +3)... it makes
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...has (mostly) what you're looking for. A relatively easy-to-use designer, a scalable server component which feeds the client-side control, and ActiveX and Java-based client-side controls which are embedded in the browser. The client-side controls have full printing capability, as well as exporing to a variety of formats.
The downside? It tends to be difficult to format complicated reports, it has a archaic data access layer which makes database independence difficult, and the server components only works with Windows/ASP.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Perhaps they're afraid to offend users of the rejected desktop suite (ie. perhaps they're afraid KDE users won't use a Gnome app, Gnome users won't use a KDE app...)
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
I think it would probably be more accurate to say "By its very nature money flows towards those who *have it* and know how to get it and keep it (The Rich) and away from those who do not (The Poor)." It's a lot easier to have your money work for you when you have some money to "play with", so to speak... risking capital is generally a luxury afforded to those who have capital to risk.
Not that the poor can't become rich with sufficient skill or luck (or the rich can't become poor with vastly insufficent skill or luck), but it's easier to make a million bucks when you already have that first million, even if you just inherited it from daddy...
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.