Not only you get refunds for the tax you unduly paid, but you may also apply to get your share of that money you were stolen by the rip-and-copy pirates that copy music on CDs instead of buying your [ripped] CDs ! T hat's an awesome business-plan ! A bit like entropy, but backwards: at every iteration, you generate more money !
I can't find the exact articles in the law it refers to , as they've been edited out from the official site:
http://legifrance.gouv.fr => 'Loi' and search for "2001-624"
However it seems real enough. We already pay taxes on the CD-Rs we buy. I *think* that if you can prove you buy them for commercial purpose, you can get a refund.
Well, it also means that I can download and rip all I want, since I'm paying for it ! Maybe we'll have a "tax" for shoplifting too ?
"Do you know what they call the 'BaconDouble Athlon with Cheese in France ?" "What, they don't call it the 'Bacon Double Athlon with Cheese' ?" "Nah, they got some sense, they call it "Le Hammer" "Le Hammer, sh*t"
(well , actually we'd pronounce it "le ameure" (no 'H' at the beginning and the usual adding of an 'e' at the end))
"We're french types-ah , why else do you think we have this outrrrrrrageous accent for ?"
> The atomic clocks in space which may substantially > outperform ground based clocks.
\begin{1337 sp34k} Yeah, you wait till I get this nitrogen cooling system on *my* atomic clock, and it'll wipe out yours ! Land based and all. \end{1337 sp34k}
>How is the project going to get completed without anyone working on it?
Read my lips: E-VO-LU-TION
Example: Start with "printf("Hello World\n");" and leave it in a warm, wet place for a few months, feed it with some.po, and.in files, and see what you get : GNU/Hello !
I have a strong belief that's what they did with Mozilla:)
> I see the pointy that any further information about space (even out of our solar > system) is useful, but what would we do if we found an earth-like planet?
I'm not sure you grasp well the importance of the study of extra-solar star systems. If I'm mistaken, my apologies, yet I'll try to refresh everyone's mind:
The difficulty in this field of Astrophysics (the birth of the Solar System) is not so much in finding a decent model, but rather in feeding the right parameters to the model. At the moment, we have but one well-studied example of a star system, and it happens to be ours. This is not good enough for statistics, we *need* at least another one.:)
Many problems remain unanswered, such as the stability of the orbit of the Earth through the ages, and its remaining in the "Liquid Water Belt" around the Sun (even taking into account some retroactions with the GreenHouse effect cycles).
The models currently used have been tweaked to fit our only example, but remember that one of the first planet discovered couldn't even *exist* there according to the then current model (too big, too close, too fast. WTF is it doing here ? Back to the chalkboard, fellows...). Outside H2G2, that means the model has to be changed.
The more systems we find and study, the more we learn about our own system. Some of those will be very young ones, some will be older, and some of these two kinds may look even a bit like ours did (and will do), giving us some answers as to our past, and our future.
I'm a bit myopic, so I'll let you guys peek endlessly in the night. I'll tend the bar for you in the meantime.
My last sentence was largely inspired by Microsoft.
However, one can see from your example that multiple companies offering similar products does not necessarily lead to competitive behaviors.
If you look back to the glorious times of before the hegemony of the PC at the plethora of absolutely non-compatible computers, it can be argued that the standardization on PC/Mac standards has benefited to many (remember we're talking about a pre-internet, pre-java, almost pre-linux era when "cross-platform" was restricted to Mario Bros). The balance is difficult to strike, all the more so since companies evolve: AMD/Intel is more likely to cartelize now than when the K6 was launched and AMD was the new kid on the block.
We, as customers, must help the emerging companies that have a strong "Go get 'em" attitude, because they force established companies into motion, if they succeed in growing beyond critical mass, that is...
When the K6 (K6-II, I believe) beat the Pentium-du-jour in some benchmarks, I first couldn't believe it (who had really heard of AMD at that time ?) then I thought "OMG, there's gonna be blood spilled, and cheaper processors ! W00t !".
I'm glad today that competition drives both AMD and Intel to excel, and I enjoy watching their strategic moves: Athlon vs P[34], Hammer vs Itanium, it's like a boxing match from which the customer can only profit.
AMD vs Intel is a textbook example of healthy competition.
Konqueror is a mostly empty shell that wraps around components that use the KPart architecture to display context-dependent widgets/menuitems, or kio_slaves that provide a filesystem-like display of stuffs. Konqueror technically has the ability of embedding mozilla through the kMozilla component.
But then, you can also view DivX, PS, PDF (through KParts), browse an audio CD (and rip in.ogg or.wav with a simple drag n' drop (including freedb.org querying)), your POP3 account (possibly still in development) in Konqueror, and lots of other things (through KIO).
Actually, Konqueror is what looks most like the good old Unix philosophy of small tools: "cat slashdot.org | kHTML | Konqueror"
Besides, with anti-aliased fonts, it's truly gorgeous !
> Choosing software JUST because it's open sourced is just as bad as choosing software just because it's closed.
While this may be true for medium-range commercial applications, this argument doesn't scale to major (IT) businesses and countries.
Major IT businesses because they can be (or become) competitors of the company that produced the software.
Countries because of Free/Open-Source Software's independance with respect to other countries/companies agendas. With F/OS Software, the German Bundestag can be sure that nobody will be able to use its own computers as a lobbying tool.
Actually what they're planning is a *lot* worse than just a file manager! It'll be seamlessly integrated in the wm, with lots of bindings to iconboxes, menus, etc. All of this with the E eyecandy we've come to love (alpha blending, etc...)
Besides, advanced configuration and tweaks will be done using ferite, a scripting language. If you follow enlightenment-devel, you'll find there are quite a few more goodies...:)
The idea underneath (before I get flamed for the "seamless integration", turn it off if you don't like it:) is to be as configurable as possible. It was a strength of E16, and it will be even better in E17.
Now all those crack-smoking theme designers will have the tool to realize their wildest dreams:)
Ken Thompson has since confirmed that this hack was implemented and that the Trojan Horse code did appear in the login binary of a Unix Support group machine. Ken says the crocked compiler was never distributed. Your editor has heard two separate reports that suggest that the crocked login did make it out of Bell Labs, notably to BBN, and that it enabled at least one late-night login across the network by someone using the login name `kt'.
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ah, yes indeed, you are right, since infinite recursion is not usually useful. An insightful :)
:)
comment !
However the more simple quote makes it easier to use out of its context (formal dinner in town, for example
'tis even worse, my friend.
:)
Not only you get refunds for the tax you unduly paid, but you may also apply to get your share of that money you were stolen by the rip-and-copy pirates that copy music on CDs instead of buying your [ripped] CDs !
T
hat's an awesome business-plan ! A bit like entropy, but backwards: at every iteration, you generate more money !
Reminds me of:
Recursive: adj, see 'recursive'.
Grab your best babelfish::legalese and check there:
e e/ rem_copie_privee.htm
http://www.legalis.net/jnet/2001/rem_copie_priv
I can't find the exact articles in the law it refers to , as they've been edited out from the official site:
http://legifrance.gouv.fr => 'Loi' and search for "2001-624"
However it seems real enough. We already pay taxes on the CD-Rs we buy. I *think* that if you can prove you buy them for commercial purpose, you can get a refund.
Well, it also means that I can download and rip all I want, since I'm paying for it !
Maybe we'll have a "tax" for shoplifting too ?
"Do you know what they call the 'BaconDouble Athlon with Cheese in France ?"
"What, they don't call it the 'Bacon Double Athlon with Cheese' ?"
"Nah, they got some sense, they call it "Le Hammer"
"Le Hammer, sh*t"
(well , actually we'd pronounce it "le ameure" (no 'H' at the beginning and the usual adding of an 'e' at the end))
"We're french types-ah , why else do you think we have this outrrrrrrageous accent for ?"
> The atomic clocks in space which may substantially
> outperform ground based clocks.
\begin{1337 sp34k}
Yeah, you wait till I get this nitrogen cooling system on *my* atomic clock, and it'll wipe out yours ! Land based and all.
\end{1337 sp34k}
> I'm always willing to come down and see dad and untangle whatever mess exists on his PC.
Me too, especially if I can get a good dinner out of it.
>How is the project going to get completed without anyone working on it?
.po, and .in files, and see what you get : GNU/Hello !
:)
Read my lips: E-VO-LU-TION
Example:
Start with "printf("Hello World\n");" and leave it in a warm, wet place for a few months, feed it with some
I have a strong belief that's what they did with Mozilla
> I see the pointy that any further information about space (even out of our solar
:)
> system) is useful, but what would we do if we found an earth-like planet?
I'm not sure you grasp well the importance of the study of extra-solar star systems.
If I'm mistaken, my apologies, yet I'll try to refresh everyone's mind:
The difficulty in this field of Astrophysics (the birth of the Solar System) is not so much in finding a decent model, but rather in feeding the right parameters to the model.
At the moment, we have but one well-studied example of a star system, and it happens to be ours. This is not good enough for statistics, we *need* at least another one.
Many problems remain unanswered, such as the stability of the orbit of the Earth through the ages, and its remaining in the "Liquid Water Belt" around the Sun (even taking into account some retroactions with the GreenHouse effect cycles).
The models currently used have been tweaked to fit our only example, but remember that one of the first planet discovered couldn't even *exist* there according to the then current model (too big, too close, too fast. WTF is it doing here ? Back to the chalkboard, fellows...). Outside H2G2, that means the model has to be changed.
The more systems we find and study, the more we learn about our own system. Some of those will be very young ones, some will be older, and some of these two kinds may look even a bit like ours did (and will do), giving us some answers as to our past, and our future.
I'm a bit myopic, so I'll let you guys peek endlessly in the night. I'll tend the bar for you in the meantime.
Very good point.
A quick correction, if I remember correctly (my Debian box is at home) I think it should be
# apt-get -u dselect-upgrade
^^^^^^^
rather than "dist-upgrade".
> And since stock broker/analysts do not require Counterstrike to run on their machines,
:)
Dude, CStrike runs just *fine* on WineX, see Transgaming
I even play w/ the server and a few bots all on the same box.
But don't tell those brokers, ok ?
You have an excellent point.
My last sentence was largely inspired by Microsoft.
However, one can see from your example that multiple companies offering similar products does not necessarily lead to competitive behaviors.
If you look back to the glorious times of before the hegemony of the PC at the plethora of absolutely non-compatible computers, it can be argued that the standardization on PC/Mac standards has benefited to many (remember we're talking about a pre-internet, pre-java, almost pre-linux era when "cross-platform" was restricted to Mario Bros).
The balance is difficult to strike, all the more so since companies evolve: AMD/Intel is more likely to cartelize now than when the K6 was launched and AMD was the new kid on the block.
We, as customers, must help the emerging companies that have a strong "Go get 'em" attitude, because they force established companies into motion, if they succeed in growing beyond critical mass, that is...
When the K6 (K6-II, I believe) beat the Pentium-du-jour in some benchmarks, I first couldn't believe it (who had really heard of AMD at that time ?) then I thought
"OMG, there's gonna be blood spilled, and cheaper processors ! W00t !".
I'm glad today that competition drives both AMD and Intel to excel, and I enjoy watching their strategic moves: Athlon vs P[34], Hammer vs Itanium, it's like a boxing match from which the customer can only profit.
AMD vs Intel is a textbook example of healthy competition.
Actually, that was Armageddon showing on TV.
I almost ran to the basement myself, when I saw Bruce Willis with a NASA spacesuit....
Hmm, never has my sig been more appropriate. Except, of course when that trawler caught a cow dropped from a russian cargo planel...
Arthur Dent: Ford, I've got it ! "What's the kernel compile time in seconds on an Intel 8-way Xeon ?"
Ford: 42 ! We're made !
You might want to add OpenOffice to that list.
Konqueror is *not* a web browser.
.ogg or .wav with a simple drag n' drop (including freedb.org querying)), your POP3 account (possibly still in development) in Konqueror, and lots of other things (through KIO).
kHTML is.
Konqueror is a mostly empty shell that wraps around components that use the KPart architecture to display context-dependent widgets/menuitems, or kio_slaves that provide a filesystem-like display of stuffs.
Konqueror technically has the ability of embedding mozilla through the kMozilla component.
But then, you can also view DivX, PS, PDF (through KParts), browse an audio CD (and rip in
Actually, Konqueror is what looks most like the good old Unix philosophy of small tools:
"cat slashdot.org | kHTML | Konqueror"
Besides, with anti-aliased fonts, it's truly gorgeous !
Would a Beowulf cluster be an implementation of the Herd ?
> Choosing software JUST because it's open sourced is just as bad as choosing software just because it's closed.
While this may be true for medium-range commercial applications, this argument doesn't scale to major (IT) businesses and countries.
Major IT businesses because they can be (or become) competitors of the company that produced the software.
Countries because of Free/Open-Source Software's independance with respect to other countries/companies agendas. With F/OS Software, the German Bundestag can be sure that nobody will be able to use its own computers as a lobbying tool.
I wish the best luck to the Bundestux campaign.
> Jar-Jar's not dead? I ain't watching.
Would you have preferred him dying without us knowing ?
This way we have the hope of seeing him dye a long slow and painfull death,
a just revenge on what *he* inflincted on *us* in TPM.
:)
...
> Why not a open source marketing department?
:)
Simply because it's better not to see the source code of most marketing BS.
I'll have my share of buzzwords precompiled, thanks.
lol
:)
:) is to be as configurable as possible. It was a strength of E16, and it will be even better in E17.
:)
Actually what they're planning is a *lot* worse than just a file manager! It'll be seamlessly integrated in the wm, with lots of bindings to iconboxes, menus, etc. All of this with the E eyecandy we've come to love (alpha blending, etc...)
Besides, advanced configuration and tweaks will be done using ferite, a scripting language. If you follow enlightenment-devel, you'll find there are quite a few more goodies...
The idea underneath (before I get flamed for the "seamless integration", turn it off if you don't like it
Now all those crack-smoking theme designers will have the tool to realize their wildest dreams
Maybe you can check out the latest Enlightenment.
Release 17 will be something absolutely awesome !
I use E16.5 , and borrow apps both from Gnome and KDE, but
I don't actually use any more of them than I need.
> I just can't get past clicking on an ugly foot to "start" my computing adventure.
"experience", not "adventure".
Sorry, you failed Buzzwords101....
from the Jargon:
Ken Thompson has since confirmed that this hack was implemented and that the Trojan Horse code did appear in the login binary of a Unix Support group machine. Ken says the crocked compiler was never distributed. Your editor has heard two separate reports that suggest that the crocked login did make it out of Bell Labs, notably to BBN, and that it enabled at least one late-night login across the network by someone using the login name `kt'.