Because what makes Slackware different from the other distros hasn't really changed since previous versions. What has changed are the addition of new features that other distros have had, and Slackware is now adding.
By the way, It was the Multnomah County Library that led the national fight against Internet censorship in libraries several years ago. They have chosen to reject federal funding so that they don't have to comply with the Children's Internet Protection Act (won't somebody think of the children!) which mandates that public libraries install filtering software on their computers.
NOTE: sorry about the wall of text. This is my first Slashdot post and I haven't yet figured out how to make it appear in paragraphs the way I wrote it. I recommend the "Plain Old Text" option. It will still allow you to insert HTML tags for things like bold/italic/etc., but will keep your paragraph spacing the way you entered it.
This is something I've never understood. Google's best selling point is that it can take something that has been done before (search engines weren't new, NASA WorldWind existed before Google Earth, etc), yet it came along and made them usable, likeable and popular. Apparently you're not aware that Google didn't create Google Earth, they bought it.
when I'm doing anything complex like encoding a movie I have to pull the battery out or it overheats. I use an app for my iBook called G4FanControl; you may want to look for something similar. It lets me adjust the thresholds for the temperature sensors, so I can make the fan come on at lower temperatures than Apple seems to think should be acceptable. That should solve your overheating problem (at the cost of hearing the fan come on more often).
When I had to replace the hard drive on my iBook, it took me about two hours, following instructions I had to hunt for online because Apple considers such information to be proprietary. The procedure involved removing forty-eight screws, seven of which are Torx T8 (so I had to buy a Torx screwdriver set before I began). I then had to buy replacement feet from eBay, because some of the screws are hidden under the feet and the feet are designed to break when you remove them (Apple's official procedure is to replace the feet whenever they open the machine).
Obviously, different models may be less complicated than mine, but no Mac laptop has a hard drive that is anywhere near as easy to replace as in most PC laptops.
LAUNCELOT: No, it's unhealthy. GALAHAD: Bet you're gay! LAUNCELOT: No, I'm not. NARRATOR: Sir Launcelot had saved Sir Galahad from almost certain temptation, but they were still no nearer the Grail. Meanwhile, King Arthur and Sir Bedemir, not more than a swallow's flight away, had discovered something. Oh, that's an unladen swallow's flight, obviously. I mean, they were more than two laden swallow's flights away -- four, really, if they hadn't a cord of line between them. I mean, if the birds were walking and dragging-- CROWD: Get on with it!
Persistent local storage? What does that have to do with page markup? I guess you've never heard of cookies. They're not handled very well currently. Cookies aren't part of the HTML spec either. They're part of HTTP.
Please report this message to your IT administrator. Who are you expecting that to be, exactly? If they had an IT administrator, chances are they wouldn't be infected to begin with. They don't.
And, like the other poster said, malware already pops up exactly that message; it's a scam to get you to buy malware-removal software that doesn't actually work. Fortunately, few people are gullible enough to fall for such messages.
In this case, you're incorrect; the license specifically allows burning DRM-encumbered tracks from the iTunes Store to audio CD, as long as you don't burn a single playlist more than 7 times (you can burn the tracks as many times as you want, but you'll have to create a new playlist).
If you were to re-rip this audio CD with lossy encoding (MP3, AAC, Vorbis, etc.) there would of course be a loss of quality. Also, you can make as many copies as you like of the original DRM-encumbered M4P files, but that's not relevant to this discussion.
I assume he meant the former, which is the entire purpose behind the patent system in the first place. They're supposed to describe your invention with enough detail that anyone skilled in the art could figure out how to reproduce your invention, and therefore human knowledge is advanced. In exchange, nobody is legally allowed to do so for a limited time, and you get a monopoly so you can make a bunch of money (the promise of which is what motivated you to invent it in the first place).
If the patent doesn't adequately describe the invention, then the system is broken.
No, but it means they'll try to bust doctors who prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill patients in a state that has legalized this practice.
Oregon voters (not the legislature, it was actually voted on by the people) passed a law legalizing doctor-assisted suicide under limited circumstances and with strict controls to make sure it's not used inappropriately. Actually, I think either the legislature figured out a way to override it or the state Supreme Court found it unconstitutional (I don't recall which), so a modified version went back to the voters and the voters approved it again. Anyway, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft instructed the DEA to bust doctors who prescribed these drugs, because the drugs have no legitimate medical purpose and are therefore not legal, according to him. It went to the US Supreme Court, which upheld the state's rights.
By the way, some of the restrictions on the "Death With Dignity Act", not relevant to the above but just in case anybody's wondering:
You must be terminally ill, i.e. you're going to die soon of natural causes anyway
You must request a lethal drug from a doctor
You must wait at least one or two weeks (I forget) after you have made this request
You must then make the request again
Only then can a doctor prescribe the drug, which you are given to take home with you (it is NOT administered by the doctor)
Once you have the drug, it's your decision whether or not to take it
Changing which monospace font to use doesn't help the fact that this post should not be using a monospaced font.
Selecting a variable-width font to use for all monospaced fonts would be even worse, because that would mess up any posts that really should be monospaced.
Uhm, you and I don't care about Second Life, but out there in the real world, somehow it's a big deal. I can't imagine why, but don't say nobody cares, because that's obviously false.
(Actually, Vista doesn't piss me off like XP always did. It's still Windows, but Vista's compatibility problems aren't any worse than XP's were six years ago. And I leave UAC turned on, because even though it's a piece of crap, it doesn't get in my way unless I'm trying to do things I don't frequently do. But even Microsoft wishes Windows ME never existed.)
Under normal conditions, the duration of the yellow light is just fine (assuming they haven't shortened it as in this article). Under those conditions, you should ignore the blinking green. However, if the road is wet or icy, or if you're driving a large vehicle, or a vehicle with a trailer, or you're carrying sensitive cargo and don't want to stop too suddenly, a couple extra seconds of warning could help you to make a better choice.
Heck, I still think "yellow" is mainly so people who've been waiting can finally make their left turns.... That's definitely what it's for in Phoenix. Here in Portland we're a little more civilized, and actually have left turn signals at most (but not all) intersections that have a left turn lane.
Lynx (the text-based web browser) hard-wraps textarea submissions. He probably didn't press Enter; his browser inserted those line breaks automatically.
Here is the correct question: Should consumers pay for bandwidth when they pay for bandwidth? Or should consumers pay for bandwidth when they pay for content?
When phrased correctly, the answer becomes obvious. Consumers should pay for bandwidth when they pay for bandwidth. Any other answer has negative consequences, both to the economy and to the current nature of the Internet. It may not be quite that simple. If I buy something from the iTunes Store, I'm paying for my bandwidth when I pay for bandwidth, and also paying for Apple's bandwidth when I pay for content.
Should the content owners, who make the profits pay for the extra infrastructure or should the consumer pay?
The consumer will pay. PERIOD. Even if the content owners pay, the costs STILL get passed down to the consumer.
Not necessarily - I mean, yeah, somebody winds up paying for it, but if Google's costs go up, that doesn't mean I wind up paying for it, because I'm not Google's customer. I don't pay them anything. I may or may not be a customer of the companies that pay Google for advertising, and if I am, I might pay higher prices if those companies have to pay more for advertising, or I might seek out a competitor who doesn't advertise on Google and therefore has lower costs.
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Yep, apparently they decided building Gnome is a pain in the ass, and somebody else was already doing a better job anyway, so why bother?
Because what makes Slackware different from the other distros hasn't really changed since previous versions. What has changed are the addition of new features that other distros have had, and Slackware is now adding.
By the way, It was the Multnomah County Library that led the national fight against Internet censorship in libraries several years ago. They have chosen to reject federal funding so that they don't have to comply with the Children's Internet Protection Act (won't somebody think of the children!) which mandates that public libraries install filtering software on their computers.
And they link to Slashdot.
Would you prefer blows worse?
Anybody have a torrent of the files on this thumb drive? Might be fun to play with! ;-)
When I had to replace the hard drive on my iBook, it took me about two hours, following instructions I had to hunt for online because Apple considers such information to be proprietary. The procedure involved removing forty-eight screws, seven of which are Torx T8 (so I had to buy a Torx screwdriver set before I began). I then had to buy replacement feet from eBay, because some of the screws are hidden under the feet and the feet are designed to break when you remove them (Apple's official procedure is to replace the feet whenever they open the machine).
Obviously, different models may be less complicated than mine, but no Mac laptop has a hard drive that is anywhere near as easy to replace as in most PC laptops.
LAUNCELOT: No, it's unhealthy.
GALAHAD: Bet you're gay!
LAUNCELOT: No, I'm not.
NARRATOR: Sir Launcelot had saved Sir Galahad from almost certain temptation, but they were still no nearer the Grail. Meanwhile, King Arthur and Sir Bedemir, not more than a swallow's flight away, had discovered something. Oh, that's an unladen swallow's flight, obviously. I mean, they were more than two laden swallow's flights away -- four, really, if they hadn't a cord of line between them. I mean, if the birds were walking and dragging--
CROWD: Get on with it!
And, like the other poster said, malware already pops up exactly that message; it's a scam to get you to buy malware-removal software that doesn't actually work. Fortunately, few people are gullible enough to fall for such messages.
In this case, you're incorrect; the license specifically allows burning DRM-encumbered tracks from the iTunes Store to audio CD, as long as you don't burn a single playlist more than 7 times (you can burn the tracks as many times as you want, but you'll have to create a new playlist).
If you were to re-rip this audio CD with lossy encoding (MP3, AAC, Vorbis, etc.) there would of course be a loss of quality. Also, you can make as many copies as you like of the original DRM-encumbered M4P files, but that's not relevant to this discussion.
I assume he meant the former, which is the entire purpose behind the patent system in the first place. They're supposed to describe your invention with enough detail that anyone skilled in the art could figure out how to reproduce your invention, and therefore human knowledge is advanced. In exchange, nobody is legally allowed to do so for a limited time, and you get a monopoly so you can make a bunch of money (the promise of which is what motivated you to invent it in the first place).
If the patent doesn't adequately describe the invention, then the system is broken.
Oregon voters (not the legislature, it was actually voted on by the people) passed a law legalizing doctor-assisted suicide under limited circumstances and with strict controls to make sure it's not used inappropriately. Actually, I think either the legislature figured out a way to override it or the state Supreme Court found it unconstitutional (I don't recall which), so a modified version went back to the voters and the voters approved it again. Anyway, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft instructed the DEA to bust doctors who prescribed these drugs, because the drugs have no legitimate medical purpose and are therefore not legal, according to him. It went to the US Supreme Court, which upheld the state's rights.
By the way, some of the restrictions on the "Death With Dignity Act", not relevant to the above but just in case anybody's wondering:
This is called Wikiality, and it's how Stephen Colbert caused an increase in the African elephant population (which, as it turns out, is absolutely true).
Changing which monospace font to use doesn't help the fact that this post should not be using a monospaced font.
Selecting a variable-width font to use for all monospaced fonts would be even worse, because that would mess up any posts that really should be monospaced.
There was a ghost! Did anybody see the ghost? There's ectoplasm everywhere!
Uhm, you and I don't care about Second Life, but out there in the real world, somehow it's a big deal. I can't imagine why, but don't say nobody cares, because that's obviously false.
Better example:
Windows 98
Windows ME
(Actually, Vista doesn't piss me off like XP always did. It's still Windows, but Vista's compatibility problems aren't any worse than XP's were six years ago. And I leave UAC turned on, because even though it's a piece of crap, it doesn't get in my way unless I'm trying to do things I don't frequently do. But even Microsoft wishes Windows ME never existed.)
No, that idea actually makes sense.
Under normal conditions, the duration of the yellow light is just fine (assuming they haven't shortened it as in this article). Under those conditions, you should ignore the blinking green. However, if the road is wet or icy, or if you're driving a large vehicle, or a vehicle with a trailer, or you're carrying sensitive cargo and don't want to stop too suddenly, a couple extra seconds of warning could help you to make a better choice.
Lynx (the text-based web browser) hard-wraps textarea submissions. He probably didn't press Enter; his browser inserted those line breaks automatically.
When phrased correctly, the answer becomes obvious. Consumers should pay for bandwidth when they pay for bandwidth. Any other answer has negative consequences, both to the economy and to the current nature of the Internet. It may not be quite that simple. If I buy something from the iTunes Store, I'm paying for my bandwidth when I pay for bandwidth, and also paying for Apple's bandwidth when I pay for content.
Should the content owners, who make the profits pay for the extra infrastructure or should the consumer pay?
The consumer will pay. PERIOD. Even if the content owners pay, the costs STILL get passed down to the consumer.
Not necessarily - I mean, yeah, somebody winds up paying for it, but if Google's costs go up, that doesn't mean I wind up paying for it, because I'm not Google's customer. I don't pay them anything. I may or may not be a customer of the companies that pay Google for advertising, and if I am, I might pay higher prices if those companies have to pay more for advertising, or I might seek out a competitor who doesn't advertise on Google and therefore has lower costs.