For the edification of non-Aussies, Stephen Conroy is a federal minister in a left-wing government, the conservatives (known as the Liberal party) are currently in opposition - clear as mud?
As clear as it can be. The Liberals are liberal in the proper sense of the word (which is liberalism in a mostly economic sense).
Somehow in the USA, 'liberal' (an alternate form of the word 'liberty') came to be known by many as meaning 'totalitarian'. I blame poor education standards.
If by that you mean that we should be investigating alternatives, then absolutely.
Before Adobe swallowed Macromedia, they were assisting the development of SVG as an alternative to Flash. Perhaps we need to return to this idea and place renewed emphasis on SVG. I'm sure that SVG combined with other open technologies (JavaScript, Ogg Speex/Vorbis/Theora, etc.) could prove to be a viable alternative if the right effort was put in.
The biggest stumbling blocks I see to this are the dearth of easy authoring tools and the lack of a strong install base on the client side.
Not to be a dick or anything, but it IS the active ingredient in peppers. In that case, what do you call the black stuff that normally accompanies salt on a dining table?
capsaicin (which is also the active ingredient in pepper spray, hence the name) There is no capsaicin in pepper. Pepper is from a completely different family of plants. What you're referring to would more appropriately be called capsicum.
GNU/Hurd is simply known as GNU, or the GNU OS. Hurd is a GNU project, and hence does not gain separate mention.
In contrast, GNU/Linux is so called because it would be wrong for the FSF to claim ownership over Linux and call the whole thing GNU. They give Linux credit by acknowledging it separately, using a slash (or a + sign in some cases) to indicate that they don't own it. If they were claiming ownership they'd be saying "GNU Linux", not "GNU/Linux" or "GNU+Linux". RMS is very careful to pronounce the slash (or plus) in his speech.
"Sadly, a kernel by itself gets you nowhere. To get a working system you need a shell, compilers, a library etc. These are separate parts and may be under a stricter (or even looser) copyright. Most of the tools used with linux are GNU software and are under the GNU copyleft." - Linus Torvalds, 'Notes for linux release 0.01', 1991
MS Office 2003 is a dead-end in terms of interface and file format. I've been finding plenty of people who are fed up with the OOXML formats and the bizarre interface of Office 2007. I don't know if Office 2007 can be set to save in the Office 97/2000/2003 formats by default, but OpenOffice.org sure as hell can. And it does it with an interface that is quite familiar. For most people, it's easier to migrate from MS Office 2003 to OpenOffice.org than it is to move from MS Office 2003 to 2007.
Codeweavers donate all of their modifications back to the WINE project. In fact, Codeweavers were the main groups to push for the licence change from BSD to GPL. A lot of the tweaks that Codeweavers include in Crossover are hacks that are not acceptible in WINE but which do fit a commercial product that aims for compatibility with a small number of apps.
What this means is that both Crossover and WINE will evolve in unison and feed off each other. This is a wonderful thing.
Civilisation 4 on x86 GNU/Linux (civ4linux)
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Anyone interested in playing Civilisation 4 on x86 GNU/Linux ought to visit http://www.civ4linux.com/.
GNU/Linux is generally built around the UNIX philosophy of "make each programme do one task, and do it well". It is the same concept as the "Lego" philosophy espoused in the article. With such a design, centrally-controlled design is not as necessary.
What the article is saying is that Windows is becoming more like UNIX. Modularity is the key to a flexible system.
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For the edification of non-Aussies, Stephen Conroy is a federal minister in a left-wing government, the conservatives (known as the Liberal party) are currently in opposition - clear as mud?
As clear as it can be. The Liberals are liberal in the proper sense of the word (which is liberalism in a mostly economic sense).
Somehow in the USA, 'liberal' (an alternate form of the word 'liberty') came to be known by many as meaning 'totalitarian'. I blame poor education standards.
Adopt Silverlight!
If by that you mean that we should be investigating alternatives, then absolutely.
Before Adobe swallowed Macromedia, they were assisting the development of SVG as an alternative to Flash. Perhaps we need to return to this idea and place renewed emphasis on SVG. I'm sure that SVG combined with other open technologies (JavaScript, Ogg Speex/Vorbis/Theora, etc.) could prove to be a viable alternative if the right effort was put in.
The biggest stumbling blocks I see to this are the dearth of easy authoring tools and the lack of a strong install base on the client side.
GNU/Hurd is simply known as GNU, or the GNU OS. Hurd is a GNU project, and hence does not gain separate mention.
In contrast, GNU/Linux is so called because it would be wrong for the FSF to claim ownership over Linux and call the whole thing GNU. They give Linux credit by acknowledging it separately, using a slash (or a + sign in some cases) to indicate that they don't own it. If they were claiming ownership they'd be saying "GNU Linux", not "GNU/Linux" or "GNU+Linux". RMS is very careful to pronounce the slash (or plus) in his speech.
"Sadly, a kernel by itself gets you nowhere. To get a working system you need a shell, compilers, a library etc. These are separate parts and may be under a stricter (or even looser) copyright. Most of the tools used with linux are GNU software and are under the GNU copyleft." - Linus Torvalds, 'Notes for linux release 0.01', 1991
MS Office 2003 is a dead-end in terms of interface and file format. I've been finding plenty of people who are fed up with the OOXML formats and the bizarre interface of Office 2007. I don't know if Office 2007 can be set to save in the Office 97/2000/2003 formats by default, but OpenOffice.org sure as hell can. And it does it with an interface that is quite familiar. For most people, it's easier to migrate from MS Office 2003 to OpenOffice.org than it is to move from MS Office 2003 to 2007.
Wasn't there an episode of Voyager where Harry Kim gets an STD after doing it with an alien chick?
"Light can travel around the Earth 7 times in 1 second."
Does that mean that Superman can fly faster than light? Is Superman faster than The Flash?
I would have thought that Toys R Us, with its years of experience in marketing towards children, would have more childlike explanations. Oh well :)
Codeweavers donate all of their modifications back to the WINE project. In fact, Codeweavers were the main groups to push for the licence change from BSD to GPL. A lot of the tweaks that Codeweavers include in Crossover are hacks that are not acceptible in WINE but which do fit a commercial product that aims for compatibility with a small number of apps.
What this means is that both Crossover and WINE will evolve in unison and feed off each other. This is a wonderful thing.
Anyone interested in playing Civilisation 4 on x86 GNU/Linux ought to visit http://www.civ4linux.com/.
You should find that the pubs that sell Fosters are the ones that have a high level of patronage from tourists. Locals don't drink it.
Why not just send a bunch of eunuchs? They can even bring along their own operating system.
Yes, the article is very wrong. I gave up reading once I had read that part.
Zoom right into the moon. Wallace was right, the moon really is made out of cheese!
No, it's "I don't have a nose, already!"
GNU/Linux is generally built around the UNIX philosophy of "make each programme do one task, and do it well". It is the same concept as the "Lego" philosophy espoused in the article. With such a design, centrally-controlled design is not as necessary.
What the article is saying is that Windows is becoming more like UNIX. Modularity is the key to a flexible system.
For the record (in case anyone gets confused) Advanced Civilisation is not Civilisation. They are entirely different games.
Freeciv is (for the most part) a Free Software clone of Civilisation 2. It can be found at http://www.freeciv.org/.
From my own experience, games like these are an excellent way to learn history and geography.
"So, has MS been taken to task yet for what they did to BeOS?"
Be Inc. took them to court and a settlement was made out of court.
For those who don't remember the old IBM advertising campaign.
"There is no emoticon for what I'm feeling!"
</Comic Book Guy>
Does this mean that MS will get back some of the $$$ they paid to AOL in the court settlement?
Paul Reiser was in Reiser2, but he was killed by an alien.
" Google has something that Microsoft doesn't - a brand name that's used as a verb. "
That might be a bad thing in the long run. If "google" becomes too much of a common word it could lose its trademark protection.
To take an example, Ed isn't half as funny in the dub. The voice actor doing the dub tries her best, but it's just not the same.