I cannot _stand_ people who think Yoda speaks in a fashion that just randomly rearranges words. The times I've watched Star Wars (tm) movies, it's always seemed to me that he speaks in a classical Latin word order
eg.
"Strong you are" (Yoda) or whatever, as compared to "mangus es" (Romans)
Will they finally flesh out the woefully inadequate GTK+ documentation?
One of the biggest problems I've found when developin free software is I'll think "Ooo... this toolkit/framework has the features I need" (happened with GTK+ about a year ago) and then it'll take a month to find documentation or guides about it or figure it out from scratch myself.
It's been said heaps before, but developer documentation for Windows stuff comes by the bucketload and there's less different things to document. Of course, the ever-changing nature of free software APIs may have something to do with it...
I hope that more people start realising that all this IP/copyright/DRM crap is just big US companies trying to preserve their profits.
Did you read in the story that "Billions of dollars of entertainment-industry profits are at stake.". I mean - geez! Do they expect to have laws mandating their profitability forever or something??
As has been said in a number of excellent articles lately, the point is not whether Mozilla is better than Netscape or how many open source browsers there are.
It's this: IE on 90% desktops = All web pages use proprietary MS stuff = we lose. No Mozilla, no KDE browser, no nothing. Everyone will have to use IE to view most of the web pages out there.
Cos Joe web-site-designer will use everything to make his web site 'look cool'. And then nobody except MS wins.
Being a student in pure mathematics, I just feel the urge to point this out: Encryption was not invented by privacy groups, the government or software developers. All encryption algorithms are simple mathematical tricks which any university student could understand (Heck - they taught us RSA in irst year).
The proposition to ban encryption is a parallel to restricting the right of people to think of novel things and invent novel things.
Hmm.. Calling a free product a buisness competitor
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This has been a symptom of Microsoft's lack of comprehension, or of their FUD campaigning, for a while now. They seem to be claiming that an operating system developed by hobbiests around the world is in fact some sort of buisness move against them.
Obviously, there are the buisnesses who try to sell 'solutions' based on linux, but instead of attacking them, Microsoft seems to want to instill distrust of linux in everyone - potential clients, users, everybody.
Linux might fall in the buisness world if Microsoft's aggressive tactics triumph once again, but Linux can't 'die' simply because it isn't a product, it's a hobby, and is -abolutely- nothing to do with any sort of buisness.
From my little legal knowledge, I seem to recall that intellectual ownership (copyright?) of anything stays with a person until 50 years after their death or whatever. If this is the case, maybe a full and detailed documentation of the development of internet technologies and exactly who did what when, along with more outspeaking from computer pioneers will be able to counteract the validity of some of these 'patents'.
Because as we all know, lots of these patents aren't just overly broad and obvious, they're things which were hacked up in universities and research labs decades ago.
One of the sticking points, though, is proving to courts et cetera that an idea isn't 'novel' as they call it. In some cases, patent challenging has failed because something was SO obvious that no-one ever published any papers or anything on it. And so mr big company could say in court "no one thought of this before us" and nobody could get any evidence to counter this.
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I cannot _stand_ people who think Yoda speaks in a fashion that just randomly rearranges words. The times I've watched Star Wars (tm) movies, it's always seemed to me that he speaks in a classical Latin word order
eg.
"Strong you are" (Yoda) or whatever, as compared to
"mangus es" (Romans)
copyright.org.au
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http://www.copyright.org.au/PDF/InfoSheets/G070
I was shocked to find out that ripping your "own" cds isn't permitted. Maybe there are some other wierd rules.
But doesn't that assume heat is continuous and not quantised?
1GB per day? Bring it on! Optus gives most people 3GB per month in Australia...
Sorry.. just had to.
And now the US navy get 0wnz0red by hostile countries. Well, it's their choice.
Amazon owns all shopping for #Clicks >= 1.
Sorry....
People control the DMCA!
Innocent people prosecute the courts!
Hey - that's not so bad after all.
Is herec e/2002 /debian-devel-announce-200212/msg00002.html
.iso and details about this release/filing bugreports.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announ
Including links to an
Will they finally flesh out the woefully inadequate GTK+ documentation?
One of the biggest problems I've found when developin free software is I'll think "Ooo... this toolkit/framework has the features I need" (happened with GTK+ about a year ago) and then it'll take a month to find documentation or guides about it or figure it out from scratch myself.
It's been said heaps before, but developer documentation for Windows stuff comes by the bucketload and there's less different things to document. Of course, the ever-changing nature of free software APIs may have something to do with it...
Why do so many people not diferentiate between socialism and communism? :/
I hope that more people start realising that all this IP/copyright/DRM crap is just big US companies trying to preserve their profits.
Did you read in the story that "Billions of dollars of entertainment-industry profits are at stake.". I mean - geez! Do they expect to have laws mandating their profitability forever or something??
Well, speculation fuels peoples' interest. "Scientists do some more math!" isn't exactly a headline...
It's this: IE on 90% desktops = All web pages use proprietary MS stuff = we lose. No Mozilla, no KDE browser, no nothing. Everyone will have to use IE to view most of the web pages out there.
Cos Joe web-site-designer will use everything to make his web site 'look cool'. And then nobody except MS wins.
The proposition to ban encryption is a parallel to restricting the right of people to think of novel things and invent novel things.
Obviously, there are the buisnesses who try to sell 'solutions' based on linux, but instead of attacking them, Microsoft seems to want to instill distrust of linux in everyone - potential clients, users, everybody.
Linux might fall in the buisness world if Microsoft's aggressive tactics triumph once again, but Linux can't 'die' simply because it isn't a product, it's a hobby, and is -abolutely- nothing to do with any sort of buisness.
From my little legal knowledge, I seem to recall that intellectual ownership (copyright?) of anything stays with a person until 50 years after their death or whatever. If this is the case, maybe a full and detailed documentation of the development of internet technologies and exactly who did what when, along with more outspeaking from computer pioneers will be able to counteract the validity of some of these 'patents'. Because as we all know, lots of these patents aren't just overly broad and obvious, they're things which were hacked up in universities and research labs decades ago. One of the sticking points, though, is proving to courts et cetera that an idea isn't 'novel' as they call it. In some cases, patent challenging has failed because something was SO obvious that no-one ever published any papers or anything on it. And so mr big company could say in court "no one thought of this before us" and nobody could get any evidence to counter this.