>But you still need to (for KDE) manually create an icon for the desktop to let you mount the CompactFlash reader
When I plug my Clie PDA into an USB-Port, KDE automagically brings up a new icon for the filesystem on the memorystick. I didn't fiddle with the configuration, it just works.
because your statement is false. I work at a company which develops applications for web browsers, so there is a lot of Javascript/DOM/DHTML etc involved. The current browser generation is not nearly as difficult to handle as it was in the bad old times of Netscape4/IE4. We have a neat little js-framework that handles the differences between IE and Mozilla and most code works on both browsers without heavy modification.
For me, the involvements of the big commercial players in open source development get more confusing every day. It would be nice to have an overview of which company x is involved in which open source product y. I knew that SuSE was supporting KDE development and i've heard that Sun was supporting gnome development. IBM afaik is involved in some file system projects. Thats about all i know, but i'm sure there must be many more connections.
GoodThing(TM) if you have such a neighbor. most of my neighbors still live in the stone age, so i have to leave my house to get access, or use plain old wired dsl. such a pity.
yes, i've heard that rumour too. but afaik the campus-wide wlan is now secured by a VPN solution. every student can get access for free, but unfortunately i'm not a student any more.
depends on what "free" means for you. i've been driving through my city (cologne, germany) last week with my notebook and i discovered lots and lots of private wlans. more than 30 access points in just a few minutes. most of them (about 85%) were totally unprotected and gave direct access to the internet and even to their windows shares... ok it might not be legal to use those, but you can get wireless internet access virtually everywhere in town.:-)
Talking of game quality... isn't that why Atari went bust? If you don't make good games or good games hardware packaged with good games any more, people won't pay for them.
*sigh* i wonder how long will take until EA Games gets the message. People never learn.
Never underestimate the power of abstraction, my friend. I was at a pizza hut restaurant today and I noticed to my very surprise that they have SCO Open Server(TM) terminals for the employees there. My first (obvious) thought was that SCO might claim to have invented the Chicken Supreme(TM) recipe and that I will have to pay license fees to SCO for my beloved pizza in the very near future.;)
informative, huh? sure, the source code is available, but it is not open source. neither free as in beer nor free as in speech. the parent poster knew about this, hence the winking smiley. should be "funny" or "karma whore" instead.
The decision had nothing to do with iraq. In fact, the games has been banned about three weeks ago and one of the reasons was that C&C players where encouraged to kill civilians for profit in the GLA campaign.
Where's the evidence? I haven't seen any yet. The only countries that I know of that are interested in the Iraqi oil are France, Russia, and China.
well, you are perfectly right in suspecting that the true reasons for france, china and russia in vetoing against the US plans were mostly oil reasons. it is well known that all of them had contracts with saddam for (future) rights to get access to iraqi oil fields. those contracts would be meaningless if the US would gain control over iraq. but that still does not mean that the US is burning billions on war spendings for humanitary reasons. assuming there is no $$bigcash$$ reason for that war would be rather naive in that context, don't you think? There are lots of websites dealing with the connections between the Bush administration and american oil tycoons. Do yourself a favor and look it up on google.
Not really. There's a ton of oil in the US. Bush is a capitalist. He wants to drill for oil here in the US. In Alaska specifically. Why would he go to Iraq and spend all that money when he could be drilling for oil here?
The people in Iraq have none of these freedoms. We are fighting to give them the same rights we have. Certainly civilians will die, but Saddam has murdered thousands of his own citizens.
Take a look at what's happening in Afghanistan right now. Where do you find freedom there? Where are the (human) rights you mentioned? Where is basic democracy? The country is in a most desolate state, the world has simply forgotten the country. The warlords previously ruling the country are gaining power again and it's just a matter of time until the old conditions - or worse - will be restored, because the US simply doesn't care any more.
There is certainly no doubt that Saddam Hussein is a tyrannic dictator who is willing to kill his own people. But there is also little doubt that the US government won't ignore the UN security council and international agreements and the law of nations just out of sheer humanity reasons. Take a look at the bigger picture. There are so many connections between Bush & friends and big oil companies, it's really hard to ignore. Iraq is the country with the second most oil resources in the middle east. Those resources can't be extracted right now because of the UN embargo empowered in 1991. On the other hand, known experts say that global oil resources will be depleted in the next 40 years. funny coincidence, isn't it?
If we made him what he is, then it is probably our responsibility to get rid of him.
<SARCASM> and as a pleasant side effect we're also getting rid of thousands of civilians. especially children. but who cares, they're just moslems and therefore terrorists. </SARCASM>
Why are there so many people in the US blindly believing the propaganda transmitted via CNN? 98% weapon acuracy? Come on. How can you believe that if you know that all known technical things (like cars, PC software, space shuttles) have lots of technical flaws. Do you really think that weapons designers primary concern is accuracy? it's firepower, nothing else that counts.
Concerning saddam, he will most likely get away in time. He will probably just disappear from the face of the earth, just like Bin Laden. Will that be worth it?
I have no problems with US patriotism, but please try to think for once. The current US government's intentions are directly opposed to everything America stands for. Freedom of Speech, The American Way of Life, liberty, basic civil rights. All this will be gone soon if you refuse to wake up and take a critical view with open eyes.
Propaganda "works". Blind patriotism "works". Corruption and greed "works". But that of course doesn't mean that it is good for a country and it's people.
On a side note: Europe has never been a super power because Europe is not a single country but a continent with independent countries on it. And of course, the EU does not form a republic or state. Maybe you should listen up in class next time before posting such bullshit.
not exactly amazing if you remember the thing called "time zones". not to mention the remote possibility that there are slashdot readers outside of the us.
On the other side, if real just implemented an encryption wrapper that would allow for "stealing" the original file after unwrapping, calling this DRM would be really cheap. not worth mentioning or even throwing out a press release.
hey, all you folks complaining about getting laid off and mentioning that this guy should be glad to have received the fscking gift. get real. the poster was asking *employed* people for their comments.
what you people are doing here is like saying "sure your wife is ugly but at least you have a wife. be grateful".
and, apart from that a TCO would be much more useful if there were a defined period of time in the calculation of the TCO. for instance, w2k might be cheaper within a period one year, but after that year you will be forced to upgrade even your hardware to use the new palladium/tcpa-enhanced MS OS 3000 or whatever new buzzword comes to Microsofts minds. you will have to send your admins to expensive microsoft seminars etc. to catch up with the latest technologies and such. if you add the costs of your obligation to buy whatever microsoft wants to sell you to your calculated TCO, things might look quite different.
First of all, we're talking about public mass transport here. Second, if you live near or in a bigger city in germany, you might have noticed the traffic jams everywhere. See how useless your Porsche is in the middle of a 40km jam.
does that come with a crackling/rustling noise when turning up the volume? then it's more likely a problem of the potentiometers. the connection between the "plates" is oxydized. try to push the volume control up and down completely for a couple of times (while the thing is turned off, unless you want to wake up the neighbors). that should help.
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my guess is that update will be worthless then, because the checksum of the binary will be incorrect after editing the file.
>But you still need to (for KDE) manually create an icon for the desktop to let you mount the CompactFlash reader
When I plug my Clie PDA into an USB-Port, KDE automagically brings up a new icon for the filesystem on the memorystick. I didn't fiddle with the configuration, it just works.
because your statement is false. I work at a company which develops applications for web browsers, so there is a lot of Javascript/DOM/DHTML etc involved. The current browser generation is not nearly as difficult to handle as it was in the bad old times of Netscape4/IE4. We have a neat little js-framework that handles the differences between IE and Mozilla and most code works on both browsers without heavy modification.
For me, the involvements of the big commercial players in open source development get more confusing every day. It would be nice to have an overview of which company x is involved in which open source product y. I knew that SuSE was supporting KDE development and i've heard that Sun was supporting gnome development. IBM afaik is involved in some file system projects. Thats about all i know, but i'm sure there must be many more connections.
GoodThing(TM) if you have such a neighbor. most of my neighbors still live in the stone age, so i have to leave my house to get access, or use plain old wired dsl. such a pity.
yes, i've heard that rumour too. but afaik the campus-wide wlan is now secured by a VPN solution. every student can get access for free, but unfortunately i'm not a student any more.
depends on what "free" means for you. i've been driving through my city (cologne, germany) last week with my notebook and i discovered lots and lots of private wlans. more than 30 access points in just a few minutes. most of them (about 85%) were totally unprotected and gave direct access to the internet and even to their windows shares... :-)
ok it might not be legal to use those, but you can get wireless internet access virtually everywhere in town.
Because when Microsoft donates, there's always a catch. Here are two (totally unrelated) examples:
http://archive.uwstudent.org/story/9658
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27878.html
Talking of game quality... isn't that why Atari went bust? If you don't make good games or good games hardware packaged with good games any more, people won't pay for them.
*sigh* i wonder how long will take until EA Games gets the message. People never learn.
Never underestimate the power of abstraction, my friend. I was at a pizza hut restaurant today and I noticed to my very surprise that they have SCO Open Server(TM) terminals for the employees there. My first (obvious) thought was that SCO might claim to have invented the Chicken Supreme(TM) recipe and that I will have to pay license fees to SCO for my beloved pizza in the very near future. ;)
informative, huh? sure, the source code is available, but it is not open source. neither free as in beer nor free as in speech. the parent poster knew about this, hence the winking smiley. should be "funny" or "karma whore" instead.
Well, they probably had to sign an NDA in their contract that forbid them to talk to the public as an SCO employee.
Just in case CNET gets slashdotted? :-) I guess that's rather unlikely.
If this is the case, it's plain ignorance.
The decision had nothing to do with iraq. In fact, the games has been banned about three weeks ago and one of the reasons was that C&C players where encouraged to kill civilians for profit in the GLA campaign.
Where's the evidence? I haven't seen any yet. The only countries that I know of that are interested in the Iraqi oil are France, Russia, and China.
well, you are perfectly right in suspecting that the true reasons for france, china and russia in vetoing against the US plans were mostly oil reasons. it is well known that all of them had contracts with saddam for (future) rights to get access to iraqi oil fields. those contracts would be meaningless if the US would gain control over iraq. but that still does not mean that the US is burning billions on war spendings for humanitary reasons. assuming there is no $$bigcash$$ reason for that war would be rather naive in that context, don't you think? There are lots of websites dealing with the connections between the Bush administration and american oil tycoons. Do yourself a favor and look it up on google.
Not really. There's a ton of oil in the US. Bush is a capitalist. He wants to drill for oil here in the US. In Alaska specifically. Why would he go to Iraq and spend all that money when he could be drilling for oil here?
simply because he is not allowed to.
BTW, i was wondering why you weren't commenting on the afghanistan issue and other things in my reply. running out of arguments, arent' ya?
The people in Iraq have none of these freedoms. We are fighting to give them the same rights we have. Certainly civilians will die, but Saddam has murdered thousands of his own citizens.
Take a look at what's happening in Afghanistan right now. Where do you find freedom there? Where are the (human) rights you mentioned? Where is basic democracy? The country is in a most desolate state, the world has simply forgotten the country. The warlords previously ruling the country are gaining power again and it's just a matter of time until the old conditions - or worse - will be restored, because the US simply doesn't care any more.
There is certainly no doubt that Saddam Hussein is a tyrannic dictator who is willing to kill his own people. But there is also little doubt that the US government won't ignore the UN security council and international agreements and the law of nations just out of sheer humanity reasons. Take a look at the bigger picture. There are so many connections between Bush & friends and big oil companies, it's really hard to ignore. Iraq is the country with the second most oil resources in the middle east. Those resources can't be extracted right now because of the UN embargo empowered in 1991. On the other hand, known experts say that global oil resources will be depleted in the next 40 years. funny coincidence, isn't it?
Concerning saddam, he will most likely get away in time. He will probably just disappear from the face of the earth, just like Bin Laden. Will that be worth it?
I have no problems with US patriotism, but please try to think for once. The current US government's intentions are directly opposed to everything America stands for. Freedom of Speech, The American Way of Life, liberty, basic civil rights. All this will be gone soon if you refuse to wake up and take a critical view with open eyes.
Propaganda "works". Blind patriotism "works". Corruption and greed "works". But that of course doesn't mean that it is good for a country and it's people.
On a side note: Europe has never been a super power because Europe is not a single country but a continent with independent countries on it. And of course, the EU does not form a republic or state. Maybe you should listen up in class next time before posting such bullshit.
not exactly amazing if you remember the thing called "time zones". not to mention the remote possibility that there are slashdot readers outside of the us.
On the other side, if real just implemented an encryption wrapper that would allow for "stealing" the original file after unwrapping, calling this DRM would be really cheap. not worth mentioning or even throwing out a press release.
hey, all you folks complaining about getting laid off and mentioning that this guy should be glad to have received the fscking gift. get real. the poster was asking *employed* people for their comments.
:)
what you people are doing here is like saying "sure your wife is ugly but at least you have a wife. be grateful".
and yes, i expect an ipod as a company gift.
I'm wondering where the client binary files on that site are located?? I don't want to download the source code or register for that.
There is a nice explanation of TCO here.
and, apart from that a TCO would be much more useful if there were a defined period of time in the calculation of the TCO. for instance, w2k might be cheaper within a period one year, but after that year you will be forced to upgrade even your hardware to use the new palladium/tcpa-enhanced MS OS 3000 or whatever new buzzword comes to Microsofts minds. you will have to send your admins to expensive microsoft seminars etc. to catch up with the latest technologies and such. if you add the costs of your obligation to buy whatever microsoft wants to sell you to your calculated TCO, things might look quite different.
First of all, we're talking about public mass transport here. Second, if you live near or in a bigger city in germany, you might have noticed the traffic jams everywhere. See how useless your Porsche is in the middle of a 40km jam.
does that come with a crackling/rustling noise when turning up the volume? then it's more likely a problem of the potentiometers. the connection between the "plates" is oxydized. try to push the volume control up and down completely for a couple of times (while the thing is turned off, unless you want to wake up the neighbors). that should help.