rxvt developers (or anyone else for that matter) have full access to the KDE CVS and bug tracking system. KHTML developers don't have that luxury in regards to Webcore. This makes changes much easier to track and backport.
There isn't any violation, technically, but IMHO the spirit of the GPL has been broken. Of course, spirit isnt legally defensible. Apple released patches in large gobs instead of in easily digestible chunks, and their code comments made many references to bugs in the internal Apple bug database (which isn't available to the KHTML team). They also made many Mac OS specific (KDE incompatible) changes and they disallowed CVS access.
I think it's great that the KHTML team have managed to pass the ACID2 test only a month behind Apple. However, I am skeptical if this kind of pace can be continued in the future. Firstly, it looks like the KHTML developers might have been working harder than usual just to pass the test so that they wouldn't lose face. As the two code bases diverge (they only merged half of Apple's patches) it will become increasingly difficult for the KHTML guys to keep up. Webcore is effectively a fork, and there's a diminishing degree to which code can be shared between the fork and the original.
Unless KHTML receives extra resources (in money, developers, etc.), I fear that they may be left behind Mozilla and Webcore.
I have an Athlon 2100+ which I bought back in 2002 when it was brand new. After installing it, I experienced frequent lockups as the CPU overheated under heavy loads. I bought a new heatsink/fan combo (a Thermaltake Volcano 9, which was pretty good at the time) to replace the standard AMD one, but it sounded like a jet turbine at full speed and it only alleviated the problem a little. After that, I underclocked my FSB by only 3MHz (133MHz to 130MHz) and I haven't had a lockup in over a year. The associated drop in performance is unnoticable.
English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the national language and primary tongue of 30% of the people; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language
That is true. Hitler didn't declare war on Britain and France; they declared war on him. It had always been Hitler's intention to conquer Eastern Europe, hence his aggressive moves towards Czechoslovakia and Poland at the beginning.
Microsoft mice have always felt cheap and tacky to me. Logitech mice have the best feel of the major brands. I would recommend them to anybody. Genius make some decent mice at the low-end. They don't feel quite as nice as Logitech, but they're a bit cheaper and they're far ahead of the MS ones.
Wait for a sign from Gozer the Traveler; he will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectfication of the Voldrani, the Traveler came as a large and moving Tor. Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the Machetrik Supplicants, they chose a new form for him -- that of a Giant Slor! Many Shevs and Zuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day I can tell you!
The Xbox is designed so that games can bypass the OS when they need to. This is required to achieve maximum performance. The Dreamcast had a similar design. It had WinCE preinstalled, but many games bypassed it completely.
In your example, the game is probably using the OS to access the DVD, but bypassing it for the graphics, etc.
IMHO the most annoying 'feature' of Firefox is the requirement to be root to install search plug-ins. Normal users cannot add/change the plug-ins. This is covered by Bugs #123315 and #232638 in Bugzilla.
Sorry. From the way you wrote it, it looked like you were saying that the OpenOffice.org format is not the same as the newly-approved Open Document Format.
The fact that political websites can be established is a good thing. It shows that people are exercising their rights to freedom of speech and expression. The minute one tries to do the same thing against a corporation, though, they get sued and litigated into oblivion. It doesn't matter whether they are right or wrong, since they normally don't have the resources (time, money, legal representation, etc.) to defend themselves anyway.
When it comes to spending power, it is true that ordinary consumers have a lot of power as a collective. However, they do not always act as a collective. Look how many people still buy Windows and use IE, despite MS's contempt for its user base. Red Hat is a different story. Red Hat users are much more savvy about technology and GNU/Linux, and they have alternatives that are nearly identical (other distros). The situation isn't as clear in the Windows world, and most people are so technologically illiterate (this is not an insult; it just means they aren't geeks) that their views are easily manipulated by a large, integrated corporation like MS.
Voting is intended to ensure that each person gets one vote. Theoretically (discounting 'donations' and other possible avenues for corruption) you have just as much voting power as Bill Gates. Is your wallet as big as Bill's? The largest customers of most corporations are other corporations. Your wallet doesn't even register as a blip on their radar.
They answer to their voters. If they misbehave, it's the job of the voters to kick them out. If this isn't happening, you need to wonder how well your democracy is really working. Most countries have constitutions, and even governments must abide by laws.
They like to say they do. It's called DRM (Palladium, Trusted Computing, or whatever you want to call it). It's just an excuse to restrict what you can do on your computer so they can milk you for all you're worth.
Corporations these days hold tremendous sway over governmental decisions. Look how quickly Microsoft got off the hook once Bush won the 2000 election and put Ashcroft in charge of the Department of Justice.
It looks to me that governments are increasingly answering to corporations. Don't pass our proposals? No more 'soft money' campaign donations for you. Don't do things our way? We'll just move our company offshore.
Governments - even the Chinese government - are more open than many corporations. Who's to say that the Chinese government is less open than Microsoft?
I have found it odd that Americans (from what I've seen anyway) are so distrustful of governmental organisations yet so willing to trust a corporation. While I'm naturally distrustful of both, at least I vote for my government, and governments (in my country anyway) have safeguards imposing a degree of openness and accountability. How open is Microsoft? Did you vote for its board? Can you request to have copies of internal company documents?
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rxvt developers (or anyone else for that matter) have full access to the KDE CVS and bug tracking system. KHTML developers don't have that luxury in regards to Webcore. This makes changes much easier to track and backport.
There isn't any violation, technically, but IMHO the spirit of the GPL has been broken. Of course, spirit isnt legally defensible. Apple released patches in large gobs instead of in easily digestible chunks, and their code comments made many references to bugs in the internal Apple bug database (which isn't available to the KHTML team). They also made many Mac OS specific (KDE incompatible) changes and they disallowed CVS access.
I think it's great that the KHTML team have managed to pass the ACID2 test only a month behind Apple. However, I am skeptical if this kind of pace can be continued in the future. Firstly, it looks like the KHTML developers might have been working harder than usual just to pass the test so that they wouldn't lose face. As the two code bases diverge (they only merged half of Apple's patches) it will become increasingly difficult for the KHTML guys to keep up. Webcore is effectively a fork, and there's a diminishing degree to which code can be shared between the fork and the original.
Unless KHTML receives extra resources (in money, developers, etc.), I fear that they may be left behind Mozilla and Webcore.
I have an Athlon 2100+ which I bought back in 2002 when it was brand new. After installing it, I experienced frequent lockups as the CPU overheated under heavy loads. I bought a new heatsink/fan combo (a Thermaltake Volcano 9, which was pretty good at the time) to replace the standard AMD one, but it sounded like a jet turbine at full speed and it only alleviated the problem a little. After that, I underclocked my FSB by only 3MHz (133MHz to 130MHz) and I haven't had a lockup in over a year. The associated drop in performance is unnoticable.
From the CIA World Factbook:
That is true. Hitler didn't declare war on Britain and France; they declared war on him. It had always been Hitler's intention to conquer Eastern Europe, hence his aggressive moves towards Czechoslovakia and Poland at the beginning.
" Dunno about now, but for years Logitech used to make Microsoft's mice for them "
I don't think that has been the case for many years. I believe MS currently have their mice made by a company in Taiwan.
Microsoft mice have always felt cheap and tacky to me. Logitech mice have the best feel of the major brands. I would recommend them to anybody. Genius make some decent mice at the low-end. They don't feel quite as nice as Logitech, but they're a bit cheaper and they're far ahead of the MS ones.
Wait for a sign from Gozer the Traveler; he will come in one of the pre-chosen forms.
During the rectfication of the Voldrani, the Traveler came as a large and moving Tor.
Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the Machetrik Supplicants,
they chose a new form for him -- that of a Giant Slor!
Many Shevs and Zuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day I can tell you!
They didn't lose, they gave up. As to what makes one concede defeat when on the brink of victory, I'll leave that up to you :)
The Xbox is designed so that games can bypass the OS when they need to. This is required to achieve maximum performance. The Dreamcast had a similar design. It had WinCE preinstalled, but many games bypassed it completely.
In your example, the game is probably using the OS to access the DVD, but bypassing it for the graphics, etc.
At least he admits to knowing what the word "browser" means. He pretended not to during the antitrust trial.
IMHO the most annoying 'feature' of Firefox is the requirement to be root to install search plug-ins. Normal users cannot add/change the plug-ins. This is covered by Bugs #123315 and #232638 in Bugzilla.
- Right-click link, select "Copy Link Location" (or equivalent option)
- Middle-click the page
* works in any decent browser/OS combinationSorry. From the way you wrote it, it looked like you were saying that the OpenOffice.org format is not the same as the newly-approved Open Document Format.
Ummm... it's the same format.
"I AM ABOVE THE LAW!!!"
(it's a South Park reference, in case you didn't get it)
That, and they track you for life via GPS.
The fact that political websites can be established is a good thing. It shows that people are exercising their rights to freedom of speech and expression. The minute one tries to do the same thing against a corporation, though, they get sued and litigated into oblivion. It doesn't matter whether they are right or wrong, since they normally don't have the resources (time, money, legal representation, etc.) to defend themselves anyway.
When it comes to spending power, it is true that ordinary consumers have a lot of power as a collective. However, they do not always act as a collective. Look how many people still buy Windows and use IE, despite MS's contempt for its user base. Red Hat is a different story. Red Hat users are much more savvy about technology and GNU/Linux, and they have alternatives that are nearly identical (other distros). The situation isn't as clear in the Windows world, and most people are so technologically illiterate (this is not an insult; it just means they aren't geeks) that their views are easily manipulated by a large, integrated corporation like MS.
Voting is intended to ensure that each person gets one vote. Theoretically (discounting 'donations' and other possible avenues for corruption) you have just as much voting power as Bill Gates. Is your wallet as big as Bill's? The largest customers of most corporations are other corporations. Your wallet doesn't even register as a blip on their radar.
"Very few governments actually answer to anybody"
They answer to their voters. If they misbehave, it's the job of the voters to kick them out. If this isn't happening, you need to wonder how well your democracy is really working. Most countries have constitutions, and even governments must abide by laws.
They like to say they do. It's called DRM (Palladium, Trusted Computing, or whatever you want to call it). It's just an excuse to restrict what you can do on your computer so they can milk you for all you're worth.
Corporations these days hold tremendous sway over governmental decisions. Look how quickly Microsoft got off the hook once Bush won the 2000 election and put Ashcroft in charge of the Department of Justice.
It looks to me that governments are increasingly answering to corporations. Don't pass our proposals? No more 'soft money' campaign donations for you. Don't do things our way? We'll just move our company offshore.
Governments - even the Chinese government - are more open than many corporations. Who's to say that the Chinese government is less open than Microsoft?
I have found it odd that Americans (from what I've seen anyway) are so distrustful of governmental organisations yet so willing to trust a corporation. While I'm naturally distrustful of both, at least I vote for my government, and governments (in my country anyway) have safeguards imposing a degree of openness and accountability. How open is Microsoft? Did you vote for its board? Can you request to have copies of internal company documents?
They execute lots of bugs, viruses and worms ;-)