What, its exactly the same for propietary systems!
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You're analogy to McViegh is wayyy off.
So like....McVeigh was a 'better','nicer' terrorist?
Alex
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I understand everyone feeling a lot of pain about 9-11. Its okay.... but to think that NY city damnified is a better place to spend dollars than any other (REALLY) bad warzone is pure biggotry and just goes to show how selfish can you be when your soil has been attacked.
What, you think NY was hard??? How about Bosnia, Congo, Africa in general. Or Americans deserve more???
Its so incredebly sad to understand you....
Alex
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Oh give me a break!
That is an inmensly stupid comparision because it looks like you are implying that McVeigh was also a "less bad" terrorist when he was as inmensly small dicked as the taliban.
Do you know what the most popular restaurant in Paris is? McDonalds.
Shit!.... Have you ever been to Paris???? I mean, its okay, you have your point of view and I respect it, but the most popular restaurants in Paris are, no doubt about it, Gyro stands in the vicinity of the Sorbone...dont let your inner Uncle Sam take over...shish!...
Alex
Im not really shure why, but yeah, most probably its because of x4.1. For example, if i use xtt as truetype module in x4.1, AA goes out the window. If instead i LoadModule freetype, AA goes to work....
Its fun to use and nice. I think it is still an option and it shure beats koffice (for now) and even WordPerfect...
New openoffice's fonts are beautyfull, Anti Aliased truly true type fonts. IMHO, better looking than Office's 98 (wich is AFAIK of MSOffice).
You can also embed documents from any other OO/SO application.
From the point of view of an outsider, i think american universities have an advantage. Since you guys get to pick most of your classes (or thats the idea i have about them), the student can be as specialized as he wants. There are countries (such as mine) where even in the best of best of colleges, we have six courses a semester and almost all of them are part of a given "program" which you cannot escape or change in any way. So you get to learn exactly what they want (which is allways very very bad, prehistoric garbage).
OTOH,Im all for the german idea of universities, if you dont want to be a specialized academic, take a three years technical degree that will pay as much (or even much more) than what an academic makes.
So what should universities do? give the student the freedom to choose most of their courses, let them shape their own future. Let them mix in master's degree classes if they want, and credit them for it. And those who take only the easy courses, let them go out in life and try and find a job with a BS degree in cooking burgers and american anthropology.
President Bush is, although popular and very smart looking on TV last week, still a corporativist. As such, he is going to be passing a lot of dough to Microsoft (he already helped them with their 'little problem'), Oracle and every company that in his itty bitty mind looks like 'the very foundation of the american economy'.
So, me coming from an infamously corporativist governed country, can testify that when government start giving this easy deals to big companies (or small ones, for that matter), it just spoils them.
It is an uncouncios way to control their innovation as the companies include in their strategy the weight of this new...er...say.... "partner".
Now, this aint gonna do no good to the companies in the techonologicall way. Sure, it'll make them lots of cash, but their innovation will slow down as they give priority to the enormous requirements of this big ass systems that, in the end, wont do to much good either 'cause as soon as the U.S. can retake its normal way of life all this kind of bulshit systems will be thrown out the recycle bin.
So, I say someone has gotta pick up the ball for innovation, or at least take advantage of the small breath this companies will take. It will make them less competitive, it will slow their pace, they wont see the creation of new technology as important as satisfying big brother's cries for help.
So this is our time all over again, I think this companies grip in some markets will loosen because the contraction in the economy will make those markets smaller, and again, the government becomes a strong ally, but a strong client as well (and suits know thats never good). So, all geeks should be working twice as hard to make their stuff work and present it as a real option to the market, that will perceive by itself how techonology (for them) isnt moving as fast as it used to.
In wars nobody is innocent. More palestinians are dead than jews (and they are the ones that loose their lands) in that war. America has been in many wars, only none as bizarre as the one we saw tuesday.
War is this way, you cant go on and do it and not expect people to be angry....
Why am I responding to you troll anyway....I dont know....
but I mostly resent all that will happen to all of us (im Mexican). My country's economy will shatter as america closes its borders, your economy will die as well, but thats offtopic...
Communications. If you guys start passing this kind of laws, it will be very hard for us to communicate with you.
Inside america there are lots of providers (mostly for the Mexican industry, and also clients. How are we all going to talk to each other if all calls will be monitored and americans wont be able to use decryption. Economically speaking, this world could shatter if America tightens its border too much (you guys consume almost a third of the worlds production. Needless to say that no, you cant produce it yourselves, you need the exterior as well.), and it will bring her own dead with this measures.
I hope your historical, proved alliance with democratic and liberal values saves you... and us all.
... With people not releasing open source kernel modules (Well, actually drivers)...
As long as they respect the GPL (said modules would have had to be written from scratch, not based on GPL), hence, gpl2 now exists and kernel libs are (optionally) gpl2
So, if the modules in question are theirs (rtlinux's), there is nothing to prosecute and fsf would be doing more harm than good to the Linux community if they take the case and loose, because they will if thease are kernel modules written from scratch.
Of course, i dont know exactly what parts of the kernel we are talking about here but any legal action can only be taken by the copyright holder and (if they are from-scratch modules), rtlinux is the owner and thus have the right to patent whatever they want, within that copyright....err or at least thats what i think
The tools are here, just pick your prefered interface and make easy builders.
Check out qtbuilder, thats nice.... its a matter of time until we have FREE integratable component based architectures.... i think everybody is working on those lines (phpgroupware/gnome/kde/gnue) all projects are integrating (look at the ogs)....
And its not a linux idea, its the way technology is moving....
Terrorism is a kind war act that intends to provoke terror and to extract as much propaganda as possible from it (it does not go against military targets, its e psychologicall). Nobody has vindicated this act, noone has said we did it.
Guerrilla, on the other side, is a kind of war that attempts to achieve the normal objectives of conventional war (to ce ause military and economic cost to the enemy). The fact that the enemy has not said he did it doesnt show that he is afraid, it shows that he is smart.
This way he can extract the most of his attack because it will cost the US much more than if they vindicated the attack.
Maybe they are silly and will be crushed, but it looks like they at least think they are in a war. It also looks like the US is at defcon3, its obvious that CIA provoked the Afghan incidents in the afternoon, but they dont say because standard conventional war information tactics prohibit this.
So its not terrorism, its a WAR, a conventional guerrilla one (think about it, you couldnt hit NY with a warhead, but the utter simplicity of these jerks did it -and real cheap too).
We are allways online, if any OS programmer is dead, its not easy that their family would (or could) post something about them...
Maybe somebody could check (by phone?... news feeds like slashdot probably has the numbers) to see if everyone of the american or american-based project leaders are okay...
Ive met people who worked on projects in MS Research and they are among of the best programmers in my country.
Id just like MS to refocus its marketing strategy to compete based on these research projects and not on a monopolistic grasp on a market.
I mean all cool things they do in research (look at the handwrite recognition software....much much better than any other out there) are minimized because of their stupid way to look at market oportunities.
They finaly found a way to make this tools really wanted by your average linux developer. Its a good idea because it will help them create a base of users and a welth of applications. Its a typical case of leveraging through Open Source development. Kudos to the marketing suits in Borland.
I, for one will go, download it and make my long wanted X frontend to Akopia (for example), or the long needed dbms front end to managing postgress... you get the idea.
Congrats Free Software guys, we just aquired a biggie...
Alex
Somebody should tell the Jabber community to stop dreaming about an integrated instant messaging solution... now the BIG guys... the GOOD guys... just invented it and are going to do us the favor of releasing it OPEN?
Im so glad, i also hope they put a shared source license with it like the one dady microsoft made...
..is that some countries in america (continent, of course) will be stupid enough to follow the US steps with their internet related laws...
It is our responsibility, from a global perspective, to protest by actively spreading the code...
Let alone that, this kind of law is threatening the Free Software movement directly, its obvious that all this cases (decss included) put jurisprudence on behalf of code being locked... when the big case of O.S. comes, all the prosecuttor (or defendant) will have to say is: "As was clarified on X versus Y, open, publicly available code is dangerous and destroys the very fabric of society, letting those ruskies hurt our american companies...."
Im gonna be sick....
Alex
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What, its exactly the same for propietary systems!
You're analogy to McViegh is wayyy off.
So like....McVeigh was a 'better','nicer' terrorist?
Alex
I understand everyone feeling a lot of pain about 9-11. Its okay.... but to think that NY city damnified is a better place to spend dollars than any other (REALLY) bad warzone is pure biggotry and just goes to show how selfish can you be when your soil has been attacked.
What, you think NY was hard??? How about Bosnia, Congo, Africa in general. Or Americans deserve more???
Its so incredebly sad to understand you....
Alex
Oh give me a break!
That is an inmensly stupid comparision because it looks like you are implying that McVeigh was also a "less bad" terrorist when he was as inmensly small dicked as the taliban.
Alex
Do you know what the most popular restaurant in Paris is? McDonalds.
Shit!.... Have you ever been to Paris???? I mean, its okay, you have your point of view and I respect it, but the most popular restaurants in Paris are, no doubt about it, Gyro stands in the vicinity of the Sorbone...dont let your inner Uncle Sam take over...shish!...
Alex
phpgroupware... that compares and surpasses (in some cases).....
Sucks...bad. Reason (so dont mod me):
1.- Slow on a titpb
2.- Many many closed source components
3.- Plain stupid look for a UNIX
4.- Console doesnt work right
5.- I hate you.....
To see them try and hack into my 2.4 firewall....
:)
Alex
Im not really shure why, but yeah, most probably its because of x4.1. For example, if i use xtt as truetype module in x4.1, AA goes out the window. If instead i LoadModule freetype, AA goes to work....
Its fun to use and nice. I think it is still an option and it shure beats koffice (for now) and even WordPerfect...
You go and download Open Office (same friggin thing, almost) from www.openoffice.org and be off with it.
New openoffice's fonts are beautyfull, Anti Aliased truly true type fonts. IMHO, better looking than Office's 98 (wich is AFAIK of MSOffice).
You can also embed documents from any other OO/SO application.
From the point of view of an outsider, i think american universities have an advantage. Since you guys get to pick most of your classes (or thats the idea i have about them), the student can be as specialized as he wants. There are countries (such as mine) where even in the best of best of colleges, we have six courses a semester and almost all of them are part of a given "program" which you cannot escape or change in any way. So you get to learn exactly what they want (which is allways very very bad, prehistoric garbage).
OTOH,Im all for the german idea of universities, if you dont want to be a specialized academic, take a three years technical degree that will pay as much (or even much more) than what an academic makes.
So what should universities do? give the student the freedom to choose most of their courses, let them shape their own future. Let them mix in master's degree classes if they want, and credit them for it. And those who take only the easy courses, let them go out in life and try and find a job with a BS degree in cooking burgers and american anthropology.
Alex
President Bush is, although popular and very smart looking on TV last week, still a corporativist. As such, he is going to be passing a lot of dough to Microsoft (he already helped them with their 'little problem'), Oracle and every company that in his itty bitty mind looks like 'the very foundation of the american economy'.
So, me coming from an infamously corporativist governed country, can testify that when government start giving this easy deals to big companies (or small ones, for that matter), it just spoils them.
It is an uncouncios way to control their innovation as the companies include in their strategy the weight of this new...er...say.... "partner".
Now, this aint gonna do no good to the companies in the techonologicall way. Sure, it'll make them lots of cash, but their innovation will slow down as they give priority to the enormous requirements of this big ass systems that, in the end, wont do to much good either 'cause as soon as the U.S. can retake its normal way of life all this kind of bulshit systems will be thrown out the recycle bin.
So, I say someone has gotta pick up the ball for innovation, or at least take advantage of the small breath this companies will take. It will make them less competitive, it will slow their pace, they wont see the creation of new technology as important as satisfying big brother's cries for help.
So this is our time all over again, I think this companies grip in some markets will loosen because the contraction in the economy will make those markets smaller, and again, the government becomes a strong ally, but a strong client as well (and suits know thats never good). So, all geeks should be working twice as hard to make their stuff work and present it as a real option to the market, that will perceive by itself how techonology (for them) isnt moving as fast as it used to.
Alex
Now this is backlash....you sad little thing
In wars nobody is innocent. More palestinians are dead than jews (and they are the ones that loose their lands) in that war. America has been in many wars, only none as bizarre as the one we saw tuesday.
War is this way, you cant go on and do it and not expect people to be angry....
Why am I responding to you troll anyway....I dont know....
Alex
I deeply resent all thats happened to you....
but I mostly resent all that will happen to all of us (im Mexican). My country's economy will shatter as america closes its borders, your economy will die as well, but thats offtopic...
Communications. If you guys start passing this kind of laws, it will be very hard for us to communicate with you.
Inside america there are lots of providers (mostly for the Mexican industry, and also clients. How are we all going to talk to each other if all calls will be monitored and americans wont be able to use decryption. Economically speaking, this world could shatter if America tightens its border too much (you guys consume almost a third of the worlds production. Needless to say that no, you cant produce it yourselves, you need the exterior as well.), and it will bring her own dead with this measures.
I hope your historical, proved alliance with democratic and liberal values saves you... and us all.
Alex
As long as they respect the GPL (said modules would have had to be written from scratch, not based on GPL), hence, gpl2 now exists and kernel libs are (optionally) gpl2
So, if the modules in question are theirs (rtlinux's), there is nothing to prosecute and fsf would be doing more harm than good to the Linux community if they take the case and loose, because they will if thease are kernel modules written from scratch.
Of course, i dont know exactly what parts of the kernel we are talking about here but any legal action can only be taken by the copyright holder and (if they are from-scratch modules), rtlinux is the owner and thus have the right to patent whatever they want, within that copyright....err or at least thats what i think
Alex
The tools are here, just pick your prefered interface and make easy builders.
Check out qtbuilder, thats nice.... its a matter of time until we have FREE integratable component based architectures.... i think everybody is working on those lines (phpgroupware/gnome/kde/gnue) all projects are integrating (look at the ogs)....
And its not a linux idea, its the way technology is moving....
Alex
Terrorism is a kind war act that intends to provoke terror and to extract as much propaganda as possible from it (it does not go against military targets, its e psychologicall). Nobody has vindicated this act, noone has said we did it.
Guerrilla, on the other side, is a kind of war that attempts to achieve the normal objectives of conventional war (to ce ause military and economic cost to the enemy). The fact that the enemy has not said he did it doesnt show that he is afraid, it shows that he is smart.
This way he can extract the most of his attack because it will cost the US much more than if they vindicated the attack.
Maybe they are silly and will be crushed, but it looks like they at least think they are in a war. It also looks like the US is at defcon3, its obvious that CIA provoked the Afghan incidents in the afternoon, but they dont say because standard conventional war information tactics prohibit this.
So its not terrorism, its a WAR, a conventional guerrilla one (think about it, you couldnt hit NY with a warhead, but the utter simplicity of these jerks did it -and real cheap too).
Alex
We are allways online, if any OS programmer is dead, its not easy that their family would (or could) post something about them...
Maybe somebody could check (by phone?... news feeds like slashdot probably has the numbers) to see if everyone of the american or american-based project leaders are okay...
Alex
Monopolystic practices arent....
Ive met people who worked on projects in MS Research and they are among of the best programmers in my country.
Id just like MS to refocus its marketing strategy to compete based on these research projects and not on a monopolistic grasp on a market.
I mean all cool things they do in research (look at the handwrite recognition software....much much better than any other out there) are minimized because of their stupid way to look at market oportunities.
Where is this ascii you say????
:)
Good,
They finaly found a way to make this tools really wanted by your average linux developer. Its a good idea because it will help them create a base of users and a welth of applications. Its a typical case of leveraging through Open Source development. Kudos to the marketing suits in Borland.
I, for one will go, download it and make my long wanted X frontend to Akopia (for example), or the long needed dbms front end to managing postgress... you get the idea.
Congrats Free Software guys, we just aquired a biggie...
Alex
Somebody should tell the Jabber community to stop dreaming about an integrated instant messaging solution... now the BIG guys... the GOOD guys... just invented it and are going to do us the favor of releasing it OPEN?
Im so glad, i also hope they put a shared source license with it like the one dady microsoft made...
..is that some countries in america (continent, of course) will be stupid enough to follow the US steps with their internet related laws...
It is our responsibility, from a global perspective, to protest by actively spreading the code...
Let alone that, this kind of law is threatening the Free Software movement directly, its obvious that all this cases (decss included) put jurisprudence on behalf of code being locked... when the big case of O.S. comes, all the prosecuttor (or defendant) will have to say is: "As was clarified on X versus Y, open, publicly available code is dangerous and destroys the very fabric of society, letting those ruskies hurt our american companies...."
Im gonna be sick.... Alex