PDF is for sending printable documents across the internet.
Flash is for making animated presentations / games / graphical webpages.
SVG is simply a special type of graphic file like a GIF, JPEG or PNG, except unlike those formats, SVGs are vector graphics, which means they can be scaled as much as you want without going "blocky" or "fuzzy" like raster graphics (e.g. GIF, JPEG, PNG) do.
The uses of these three types of file are completely seperate and none of them are a possible substitute for another.
Come again? High street shops only sell PCs with Windows on, and putting a PC together from components is not something that 90% of people have the time, inclination and knowhow to do.
1) People don't choose Microsoft because they have to.
If you want to read Word documents that someone sends you, you have to use Microsoft.
So instead of supporting state action to help Microsoft's would be competetors, why not support alternatives that really stand a chance at success? Does anyone really think Sun Microsystems is part of the future?
So who are Microsofts "would be competitors"? What do you mean by that? Sun and Real are actual competitors that are actually losing money because of anti-competitive practices. What do you mean by "alternatives that really stand a chance"? SCO? Is that you, Darl?
disproportionate to what? the racial make-up of the general population or of infringing street vendors?
if you mean the latter, then i doubt it.
I expect this is exactly what the original poster meant, and I'm *sure* that hispanics will be targeted. As has been pointed out in previous discussions, everyone knows migrants, legal or otherwise, won't go to the police with a complaint because they know the police are racist. Contrast this with your average white infringer who is a middle class surburban kid with a CD writer flogging Black Sabbath to his chums at school. His dad's a lawyer by the way. Who you gonna go after?
Its an interesting point - GNOME was originally started because Qt, which KDE was based on, wasn't "free software". But now it seems KDE is more "free software" than GNOME is.
Remember part of the point of free software is not just that its free to use, but free to modify and use the code for new programs. The only "drawback" being that if you base your software on free software, you are required to make your modification free software too.
Perens says in the article that his decision is not because of one being technically superior, but because you can make proprietary GNOME software for free, but if you make KDE software it has to be either GPL or you pay a lot of money to the makers of Qt.
The reason for this, I assume, and I haven't got the time to check it out, is because GNOME libraries are mostly LGPL, whereas the core Qt library for KDE is GPL only. The "Lesser" LGPL license lets you make proprietary software by screwing over free software developers and using their libraries without giving anything back to the community that provided the entire platform you are developing on. Even GNU says you should not license you're free software libraries LGPL.
The irony is that, as you point out, GNOME was supposed to be a "free" alternative to KDE, with all the GNU zealots following behind it for that reason. But now it seems the GNOME developers are getting fucked by the "open source" crew that were originally blamed for the travesty of KDE using a non-free development kit.
I guessed it was because the moderators saw it as a joke. It seems a little humourous to me.
The more obvious reason slashdot can't get slashdotted, is because a slashdotting is when slashdot users overwhelm a site because its linked on the slashdot front page. If slashdot can serve all those users that link, then it can obviously take the load of all those users clicking the link. QED
See the little ironic jest!;) I know theres a war on but if you refuse to smile at all you'll forget how.
How is the US less dependent on oil? That's utterly ridicuolous. Defence spending has gone down? Good. So why do you want it to go back up again when there's still no health care for poor people in the US?
Obviously the French have interests in Iraqi oil, practically all the industrialised nations (certainly the ones that are vocal in this matter) do. They haven't copyrighted 25% of Iraqi oil, you can't do that with oil. French companies have deals with Iraq but like all the deals they come under the UN oil for food programme.
Prehaps pretzel-eating-war-monkey would rather he could control all of the oil. They won't let him drill in those damn national parks so what else is a guy to do.
And perhaps Chirac (that's the French president) opposes because, like Bush, he knows that doing so makes victory at the next election much more likely for him.
P.S. Pretzels are German and democracy is French! (sorry)
Can someone explain how this is different from the existing back buttons. I don't know about IE, but the behaviour described in the article seems identical to Mozilla's back button.
Sounds a bit similar to the car in the latest James Bond that could change it's appearance, to make it seem invisible.
If somethings already been invented in fiction does that count as prior art?
Do you think companies who have put money into linux are going to jump ship straight away now? They've already spent money on it, they will probably work hard to find a way to stay in it or all that money will have been a waste.
I imagine this little scheme can be foiled in the same way that they stop you making a digital copy of a mini disc that itself is a digital copy of a master cd or md.
It doesn't matter if it only takes one paragraph to learn how to use it. It wouldn't matter if it only took one *word* to learn how to use it, people refuse point blank to ever RTFM. No one will ever do it. People designing computer interfaces just have to accept that - just like anyone in any other branch of design.
ncurses was fine (and great) when it was the only way to get things done (e.g. all those ncurses-style DOS installers), because every computer user at the time knew how to use it. But this kind of interface is dead, most computer users need a mouse.
Sure it has its uses - the ncurses linux config is handy if you don't have a working X-Windows system, but you wouldn't (honestly now) use it if X was working and you could use the X based linux config.
I don't mind ncurses myself, because I have experience with it, but you cannot say it is nearly as easy to use for someone who has only used Windows/MacOS.
Unfortunately Konqueror doesn't do this itself AFAIK, install Komba or Gnomba from the CD (I'm sure one or both are on there) and you can use that to browse the whole network.
That 128kbps downlink on the move sounds pretty sweet. But of course there's the extortionate mobile phone charges which could make the whole experience quite painful. The main reason I don't use the WAP features on my phone at the moment is I just can't afford it.
You can throw more money each year at telling people to turn down the heating, but each year the human population increases closer to (or perhaps beyond) the carrying capacity of the planet. This is the real problem. I have perfect confidence in the ability of life on this planet to survive a 5-10 F drop in temperature (its been done before). The human race is no exception - we are a non-specialist species with an ability to live in many climates. The article seems more worried about a decline in economic prosperity in the developed world;
"it could soon trigger a dramatic and abrupt cooling throughout the North Atlantic region--where, not incidentally, some 60 percent of the world's economy is based."
Sounds like that would be something you are in favour of.
P.S. saying that it must be right because it was written by the head of the WHOI is arguing to the person an not a valid scientific argument. There is no mention of peer review of this article, and it has a single author
The linux kernel doesn't really have a concept of backwards compatibility like most software does though. AFAIK, no-one has ever removed a driver from linux, so old hardware keeps working.
IMO, the 3 part numbering system is a little redundant in Linux now - mostly a legacy of when it was a little more appropriate. It would be just as well of with two numbers making up the version. The "major" version number at the front is of little consequence really.
But, as Linus said, its just a number. I seriously doubt it has big marketing implications, because it doesn't matter at that level what the version number is (think about it - glibc2 can also be called libc6, but mostly people use glibc2, because its hardly going to sell the OS better if the C library has a bigger version number). Leave the version inflation up to the distros.
Still, I say call it 3.0 just cause I like it and it doesn't matter;)
Hmm, interestingly you omit what the 639 were protesting against?
I was at the march in London. There was no violence I saw at all, and the BBC reports few arrests. Plus, as with the majority of marches in London, it was organised well in advance (something like 2 months ago is when I first knew it was happening), the police knew the route, and fortunately gave us no hassle (in spite of protestors deliberately aggravating them verbally - but not physically, this time). On the whole, however, I think it was down to the good behaviour of the protestors that the march was so successful.
100 geeks or more standing outside the Whitehouse offering floppy disks containing DeCSS to the public. That could even get a mention on international news (the protest against Dmitry Sklyarov's arrest did have a mention on British news at least).
Slashdot Mirror
PDF is for sending printable documents across the internet.
Flash is for making animated presentations / games / graphical webpages.
SVG is simply a special type of graphic file like a GIF, JPEG or PNG, except unlike those formats, SVGs are vector graphics, which means they can be scaled as much as you want without going "blocky" or "fuzzy" like raster graphics (e.g. GIF, JPEG, PNG) do.
The uses of these three types of file are completely seperate and none of them are a possible substitute for another.
You can easily buy a PC without Windows on it
Come again? High street shops only sell PCs with Windows on, and putting a PC together from components is not something that 90% of people have the time, inclination and knowhow to do.
1) People don't choose Microsoft because they have to.
If you want to read Word documents that someone sends you, you have to use Microsoft.
So instead of supporting state action to help Microsoft's would be competetors, why not support alternatives that really stand a chance at success? Does anyone really think Sun Microsystems is part of the future?
So who are Microsofts "would be competitors"? What do you mean by that? Sun and Real are actual competitors that are actually losing money because of anti-competitive practices. What do you mean by "alternatives that really stand a chance"? SCO? Is that you, Darl?
disproportionate to what? the racial make-up of the general population or of infringing street vendors?
if you mean the latter, then i doubt it.
I expect this is exactly what the original poster meant, and I'm *sure* that hispanics will be targeted. As has been pointed out in previous discussions, everyone knows migrants, legal or otherwise, won't go to the police with a complaint because they know the police are racist. Contrast this with your average white infringer who is a middle class surburban kid with a CD writer flogging Black Sabbath to his chums at school. His dad's a lawyer by the way. Who you gonna go after?
Actually, the whole image looks computer generated to me.
Its an interesting point - GNOME was originally started because Qt, which KDE was based on, wasn't "free software". But now it seems KDE is more "free software" than GNOME is.
Remember part of the point of free software is not just that its free to use, but free to modify and use the code for new programs. The only "drawback" being that if you base your software on free software, you are required to make your modification free software too.
Perens says in the article that his decision is not because of one being technically superior, but because you can make proprietary GNOME software for free, but if you make KDE software it has to be either GPL or you pay a lot of money to the makers of Qt.
The reason for this, I assume, and I haven't got the time to check it out, is because GNOME libraries are mostly LGPL, whereas the core Qt library for KDE is GPL only. The "Lesser" LGPL license lets you make proprietary software by screwing over free software developers and using their libraries without giving anything back to the community that provided the entire platform you are developing on. Even GNU says you should not license you're free software libraries LGPL.
The irony is that, as you point out, GNOME was supposed to be a "free" alternative to KDE, with all the GNU zealots following behind it for that reason. But now it seems the GNOME developers are getting fucked by the "open source" crew that were originally blamed for the travesty of KDE using a non-free development kit.
When you download mp3s,
You're downloading COMMUNISM
You mean its the annoying show-off in us. The hunter gatherer in us likes to eat wild boar.
Popups can be avoided with browser hacks...
It would be more useful to patent spam!
Gates: We're going open source!
Goon: Where did that bowl of petunias and sperm whale come from?
OK, why did this get modded up?
;) I know theres a war on but if you refuse to smile at all you'll forget how.
I guessed it was because the moderators saw it as a joke. It seems a little humourous to me.
The more obvious reason slashdot can't get slashdotted, is because a slashdotting is when slashdot users overwhelm a site because its linked on the slashdot front page. If slashdot can serve all those users that link, then it can obviously take the load of all those users clicking the link. QED
See the little ironic jest!
Actually, according to iraqbodycount.net, theres been 16. Exactly.
It was on 14 before the war started.
Que?
How is the US less dependent on oil? That's utterly ridicuolous. Defence spending has gone down? Good. So why do you want it to go back up again when there's still no health care for poor people in the US?
Obviously the French have interests in Iraqi oil, practically all the industrialised nations (certainly the ones that are vocal in this matter) do. They haven't copyrighted 25% of Iraqi oil, you can't do that with oil. French companies have deals with Iraq but like all the deals they come under the UN oil for food programme.
Prehaps pretzel-eating-war-monkey would rather he could control all of the oil. They won't let him drill in those damn national parks so what else is a guy to do.
And perhaps Chirac (that's the French president) opposes because, like Bush, he knows that doing so makes victory at the next election much more likely for him.
P.S. Pretzels are German and democracy is French! (sorry)
Can someone explain how this is different from the existing back buttons. I don't know about IE, but the behaviour described in the article seems identical to Mozilla's back button.
Sounds a bit similar to the car in the latest James Bond that could change it's appearance, to make it seem invisible. If somethings already been invented in fiction does that count as prior art?
Brilliant, now all we need is George W's phone number.
Do you think companies who have put money into linux are going to jump ship straight away now? They've already spent money on it, they will probably work hard to find a way to stay in it or all that money will have been a waste.
I imagine this little scheme can be foiled in the same way that they stop you making a digital copy of a mini disc that itself is a digital copy of a master cd or md.
It doesn't matter if it only takes one paragraph to learn how to use it. It wouldn't matter if it only took one *word* to learn how to use it, people refuse point blank to ever RTFM. No one will ever do it. People designing computer interfaces just have to accept that - just like anyone in any other branch of design.
ncurses was fine (and great) when it was the only way to get things done (e.g. all those ncurses-style DOS installers), because every computer user at the time knew how to use it. But this kind of interface is dead, most computer users need a mouse.
Sure it has its uses - the ncurses linux config is handy if you don't have a working X-Windows system, but you wouldn't (honestly now) use it if X was working and you could use the X based linux config.
I don't mind ncurses myself, because I have experience with it, but you cannot say it is nearly as easy to use for someone who has only used Windows/MacOS.
Unfortunately Konqueror doesn't do this itself AFAIK, install Komba or Gnomba from the CD (I'm sure one or both are on there) and you can use that to browse the whole network.
That 128kbps downlink on the move sounds pretty sweet. But of course there's the extortionate mobile phone charges which could make the whole experience quite painful. The main reason I don't use the WAP features on my phone at the moment is I just can't afford it.
Social programs cannot stop global warming.
You can throw more money each year at telling people to turn down the heating, but each year the human population increases closer to (or perhaps beyond) the carrying capacity of the planet. This is the real problem. I have perfect confidence in the ability of life on this planet to survive a 5-10 F drop in temperature (its been done before). The human race is no exception - we are a non-specialist species with an ability to live in many climates. The article seems more worried about a decline in economic prosperity in the developed world;
"it could soon trigger a dramatic and abrupt cooling throughout the North Atlantic region--where, not incidentally, some 60 percent of the world's economy is based."
Sounds like that would be something you are in favour of.
P.S. saying that it must be right because it was written by the head of the WHOI is arguing to the person an not a valid scientific argument. There is no mention of peer review of this article, and it has a single author
Really? I still have quite a good list of non-IDE/SCSI "Old" cdrom drivers in my 2.4 setup screen.
To be fair I am not using an old CDROM device of this style so I can't comment on if it works.
The linux kernel doesn't really have a concept of backwards compatibility like most software does though. AFAIK, no-one has ever removed a driver from linux, so old hardware keeps working.
;)
IMO, the 3 part numbering system is a little redundant in Linux now - mostly a legacy of when it was a little more appropriate. It would be just as well of with two numbers making up the version. The "major" version number at the front is of little consequence really.
But, as Linus said, its just a number. I seriously doubt it has big marketing implications, because it doesn't matter at that level what the version number is (think about it - glibc2 can also be called libc6, but mostly people use glibc2, because its hardly going to sell the OS better if the C library has a bigger version number). Leave the version inflation up to the distros.
Still, I say call it 3.0 just cause I like it and it doesn't matter
Hmm, interestingly you omit what the 639 were protesting against?
I was at the march in London. There was no violence I saw at all, and the BBC reports few arrests. Plus, as with the majority of marches in London, it was organised well in advance (something like 2 months ago is when I first knew it was happening), the police knew the route, and fortunately gave us no hassle (in spite of protestors deliberately aggravating them verbally - but not physically, this time). On the whole, however, I think it was down to the good behaviour of the protestors that the march was so successful.
I can imagine it:
100 geeks or more standing outside the Whitehouse offering floppy disks containing DeCSS to the public. That could even get a mention on international news (the protest against Dmitry Sklyarov's arrest did have a mention on British news at least).
Sweet!