You're probably thinking of the resignation of Greg Dyke as Director General in 2004 over criticism of the BBC's news reporting process in the Hutton Enquiry. That and the scheduled review of the licence fee in 2005 has made the BBC rather more cautious in its news reporting since.
The Developer's Kit is all open source - it installs gcc; python, perl and ruby are included by default, PHP can be enabled in the included version of Apache, there is good documentation to build Ruby on Rails or most other frameworks that you want. I've never used the IDE myself but there are plenty of Other Ways to Do It - ranging from Eclipse to TextMate (very powerful text editor with hooks into most compilers) and Coda from Panic, which is perhaps more designed as a web development IDE but is beautifully featured for that purpose.
BootCamp allows native Windows support, it doesn't do anything else. It's basically a driver bundle for Windows on Apple hardware. OS X has been able to format FAT32 for some time but the support has been flaky to say the least - FAT16 was more reliable. Fixing the problems with FAT32 should improve interconnectivity with disks mounted on Macs and shared to Windows machines.
OS X version 6. The differences between 10.0 and 10.5 are enormous, especially internally, pretty much in the same way that BSD and Linux have evolved over the past seven years.
Oh, Ballmer gets FOSS all right, in the same way that Margaret Thatcher had a very good grasp of Marxism. The philosophy of Microsoft is incredibly simple and has been for some 15 years: Windows on every desktop. Every desktop computer, probably every PC based computer, that doesn't run Windows is somehow subtracting from Microsoft's revenue stream, as if it was some kind of right, so Ballmer wants a pound of flesh from these recusants. The only response is to educate, to reach the people in your organisations that make the decisions and make sure that they at least get a glimmer of understanding that Ballmer is doing what he does best, spreading FUD with no basis in fact.
That's a pretty good feature - have you actually requested it? As ODF is XML based it seems like it should be easy to implement. I've never really used it in Word but I have fond memories of the tag interface in HoTMetaL, which remains quite a common in good text editors.
In the UK, Barclays Bank have trademarked the phrase 'hole in the wall' for their ATMs. I'm sure there must be prior art and that they didn't invent the term, but no-one seems to have complained yet.
Ballmer's job is to serve FUD to those who read Forbes Magazine for the articles, and he's done it again. He plants seeds of doubt in the minds of people who probably have their emails printed out for them, and can't tell the difference between Gmail, Hotmail or the corporate Lotus Notes system that's rapidly coming to the end of its life. The sysadmins will shortly recommend dumping Notes for a system based on Zimbra, but as the CEO goes to sign it off at a tenth of the price of an equivalent MS Exchange system, he notices in the high level description that it supports Gmail... wait, isn't that a bad thing? The proposal is rejected and the CEO's doubt sets in motion the installation of a shiny new Exchange system, and Microsoft take another scalp thanks to Speaks To CEOs' ramblings.
Can be found in the world of power smoothing. Granted, the average household power supply is pretty noisy, and you really want to reduce the possibility of mains hum in your speakers but these +£10,000 inline blocks of metal are pushing it a bit, along with the claim that different units make identifiably different changes to the sound. Danceable indeed.
Well, Radiohead are out of contract at the moment so they're releasing this record independently, so the costs are whatever it's cost for them to record it and get the lovely looking discboxes pressed up. Presumably they are using a download service to distribute the digital version (or there's going to be some annoyed people on Wednesday) so they take a chip, and the credit handler takes a chip (preferably not Paypal as they take 2-3%). They probably have publishing costs, but that could be their own company too. With no record company they are not affiliated the RIAA or BPI (UK equivalent) in any way, so they might be receiving a good 90-95% of the overheads before costs. The possible downside is that they have had to take all the risk where a record company would usually underwrite it, but Radiohead are a remarkably popular band and I would expect them to recoup. I have thought that there will be a standard CD for the shops (the supermarkets account for a considerable amount of sales in the UK for example), but this being Radiohead, well, they might not.
Not true, certification can be disabled in most Symbian phones: the installer warns that you are installing an uncertified app but will install it anyway. I say 'most' as my more recent experience has been with the E61 and the 9300 and I can't vouch for other phones.
Mac OS was undergoing a massive revision before the move to BSD started - Copland and Gershwin were both attempts at revising the Mac OS before Steve returned with OpenStep in his pocket and presented it as a finished product, first named Rhapsody and then OS X. OpenStep might have been a version of NextStep released under the GPL, but it certainly wasn't free - Apple paid $400 million for NeXT Inc, and Rhapsody's list price in 1997 was $499. The 'Linux/OpenOffice/Firefox camp' scarcely existed in 1997.
Commercial confidentiality still exists. I am no Google fanboy, but I believe in the right for companies to have proprietary code if it's fundamental to the operation of their business and if it hasn't been taken from work released as FOSS.
Look at it like this: if Google released the PageRank algorithms under the GPL their core business would be destroyed overnight and a great deal of work that is being sponsored as FOSS would lose Google's support. There has to be an ecology, and if business wants to support FOSS from its profits then it should do so, or we would all end up sleeping under our desks.
about Google not returning code to the Open Source movement. Practically every article that she writes that mentions Google includes this allegation or the similar claim that Google 'writes around' the principles of FOSS. Yet when she is questioned on it, she can't show any proof and somehow manages to ignore the million lines of code that Google has returned and the initiatives that it runs and manages under FOSS licencing. Apparently Google has to be completely open and not have any commercially confidential code at all because it uses free and open source software, which shows a stunning lack of understanding of business and of FOSS.
One of the more interesting developments following the release of the Sun UltraSPARC T1 & T2 chipsets under the GPL has been the S1, a single core implementation of the T1, which combined some other other GPLed hardware can be built as a RISC based system on a chip. It has massive potential as a powerful, low wattage processor that could compete with ARM and Intel in the portable device marketplace. It might be a couple of years in the future but I think it has the potential to be a competitor. It should run Solaris and BSD as well as Linux.
For large values of 'consistent' - if you go back and have a look at 10.1 in comparison to Leopard there's a world of difference, but the basic paradigms of the UI haven't changed/pedant
It could have been anything, but it *looks* like an AK47, and it's illegal to own a gun for almost any reason in the UK now. The point is that the kid was caught on camera on a railway station with something that appeared to be a gun, and the police couldn't get themselves together to intercept him before he crossed out their jurisdiction - Glossop is in the neighbouring county of Derbyshire, which has its own police force.
This image was on the front page of the Manchester Evening News last night. It appears to be a teenager holding an AK47 and aiming it at the cabin of a crane. The kid and his friend were sitting on a railway station platform at the time, so the Greater Manchester Police were alerted. By the time they had got themselves together the kids had got on a train, so the GMP alerted the British Transport Police, who are responsible for security on trains. The BTP refused to do anything about it saying that it was a matter for the GMP. Let's just remind ourselves that this is a couple of kids wandering around on the train network with an AK47, yet two police forces can't get it together to do anything about it. That's how well cameras work.
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You're probably thinking of the resignation of Greg Dyke as Director General in 2004 over criticism of the BBC's news reporting process in the Hutton Enquiry. That and the scheduled review of the licence fee in 2005 has made the BBC rather more cautious in its news reporting since.
Not on ISPs usually. Independent usenet providers are generally less prescriptive.
The Developer's Kit is all open source - it installs gcc; python, perl and ruby are included by default, PHP can be enabled in the included version of Apache, there is good documentation to build Ruby on Rails or most other frameworks that you want. I've never used the IDE myself but there are plenty of Other Ways to Do It - ranging from Eclipse to TextMate (very powerful text editor with hooks into most compilers) and Coda from Panic, which is perhaps more designed as a web development IDE but is beautifully featured for that purpose.
BootCamp allows native Windows support, it doesn't do anything else. It's basically a driver bundle for Windows on Apple hardware. OS X has been able to format FAT32 for some time but the support has been flaky to say the least - FAT16 was more reliable. Fixing the problems with FAT32 should improve interconnectivity with disks mounted on Macs and shared to Windows machines.
OS X version 6. The differences between 10.0 and 10.5 are enormous, especially internally, pretty much in the same way that BSD and Linux have evolved over the past seven years.
No-one who believes in creationism has any right to be regarded as a scientist. Fact. End of.
34%, surely?
Oh, Ballmer gets FOSS all right, in the same way that Margaret Thatcher had a very good grasp of Marxism. The philosophy of Microsoft is incredibly simple and has been for some 15 years: Windows on every desktop. Every desktop computer, probably every PC based computer, that doesn't run Windows is somehow subtracting from Microsoft's revenue stream, as if it was some kind of right, so Ballmer wants a pound of flesh from these recusants. The only response is to educate, to reach the people in your organisations that make the decisions and make sure that they at least get a glimmer of understanding that Ballmer is doing what he does best, spreading FUD with no basis in fact.
That's a pretty good feature - have you actually requested it? As ODF is XML based it seems like it should be easy to implement. I've never really used it in Word but I have fond memories of the tag interface in HoTMetaL, which remains quite a common in good text editors.
In the UK, Barclays Bank have trademarked the phrase 'hole in the wall' for their ATMs. I'm sure there must be prior art and that they didn't invent the term, but no-one seems to have complained yet.
Ballmer's job is to serve FUD to those who read Forbes Magazine for the articles, and he's done it again. He plants seeds of doubt in the minds of people who probably have their emails printed out for them, and can't tell the difference between Gmail, Hotmail or the corporate Lotus Notes system that's rapidly coming to the end of its life. The sysadmins will shortly recommend dumping Notes for a system based on Zimbra, but as the CEO goes to sign it off at a tenth of the price of an equivalent MS Exchange system, he notices in the high level description that it supports Gmail... wait, isn't that a bad thing? The proposal is rejected and the CEO's doubt sets in motion the installation of a shiny new Exchange system, and Microsoft take another scalp thanks to Speaks To CEOs' ramblings.
Can be found in the world of power smoothing. Granted, the average household power supply is pretty noisy, and you really want to reduce the possibility of mains hum in your speakers but these +£10,000 inline blocks of metal are pushing it a bit, along with the claim that different units make identifiably different changes to the sound. Danceable indeed.
Only that California would suddenly find an awful lot of offshore gambling houses in its new domain.
Just about to suggest this to the geekup list.
Well, Radiohead are out of contract at the moment so they're releasing this record independently, so the costs are whatever it's cost for them to record it and get the lovely looking discboxes pressed up. Presumably they are using a download service to distribute the digital version (or there's going to be some annoyed people on Wednesday) so they take a chip, and the credit handler takes a chip (preferably not Paypal as they take 2-3%). They probably have publishing costs, but that could be their own company too. With no record company they are not affiliated the RIAA or BPI (UK equivalent) in any way, so they might be receiving a good 90-95% of the overheads before costs.
The possible downside is that they have had to take all the risk where a record company would usually underwrite it, but Radiohead are a remarkably popular band and I would expect them to recoup. I have thought that there will be a standard CD for the shops (the supermarkets account for a considerable amount of sales in the UK for example), but this being Radiohead, well, they might not.
Not true, certification can be disabled in most Symbian phones: the installer warns that you are installing an uncertified app but will install it anyway. I say 'most' as my more recent experience has been with the E61 and the 9300 and I can't vouch for other phones.
Mac OS was undergoing a massive revision before the move to BSD started - Copland and Gershwin were both attempts at revising the Mac OS before Steve returned with OpenStep in his pocket and presented it as a finished product, first named Rhapsody and then OS X. OpenStep might have been a version of NextStep released under the GPL, but it certainly wasn't free - Apple paid $400 million for NeXT Inc, and Rhapsody's list price in 1997 was $499. The 'Linux/OpenOffice/Firefox camp' scarcely existed in 1997.
that if you pull a cockroach's legs off it goes deaf.
Commercial confidentiality still exists. I am no Google fanboy, but I believe in the right for companies to have proprietary code if it's fundamental to the operation of their business and if it hasn't been taken from work released as FOSS.
Look at it like this: if Google released the PageRank algorithms under the GPL their core business would be destroyed overnight and a great deal of work that is being sponsored as FOSS would lose Google's support. There has to be an ecology, and if business wants to support FOSS from its profits then it should do so, or we would all end up sleeping under our desks.
about Google not returning code to the Open Source movement. Practically every article that she writes that mentions Google includes this allegation or the similar claim that Google 'writes around' the principles of FOSS. Yet when she is questioned on it, she can't show any proof and somehow manages to ignore the million lines of code that Google has returned and the initiatives that it runs and manages under FOSS licencing. Apparently Google has to be completely open and not have any commercially confidential code at all because it uses free and open source software, which shows a stunning lack of understanding of business and of FOSS.
But the difficult bit is working out how to put Atlanta into orbit.
One of the more interesting developments following the release of the Sun UltraSPARC T1 & T2 chipsets under the GPL has been the S1, a single core implementation of the T1, which combined some other other GPLed hardware can be built as a RISC based system on a chip. It has massive potential as a powerful, low wattage processor that could compete with ARM and Intel in the portable device marketplace. It might be a couple of years in the future but I think it has the potential to be a competitor. It should run Solaris and BSD as well as Linux.
For large values of 'consistent' - if you go back and have a look at 10.1 in comparison to Leopard there's a world of difference, but the basic paradigms of the UI haven't changed /pedant
It could have been anything, but it *looks* like an AK47, and it's illegal to own a gun for almost any reason in the UK now. The point is that the kid was caught on camera on a railway station with something that appeared to be a gun, and the police couldn't get themselves together to intercept him before he crossed out their jurisdiction - Glossop is in the neighbouring county of Derbyshire, which has its own police force.
This image was on the front page of the Manchester Evening News last night. It appears to be a teenager holding an AK47 and aiming it at the cabin of a crane. The kid and his friend were sitting on a railway station platform at the time, so the Greater Manchester Police were alerted. By the time they had got themselves together the kids had got on a train, so the GMP alerted the British Transport Police, who are responsible for security on trains. The BTP refused to do anything about it saying that it was a matter for the GMP. Let's just remind ourselves that this is a couple of kids wandering around on the train network with an AK47, yet two police forces can't get it together to do anything about it. That's how well cameras work.