It's not so bad, when you allow for the fact that the media up here will cheerfully crucify any politician who shows any weakness. Witness Stockwell Day.
Also, our ruling party, the Liberals (who are actually conservatives) doesn't have that big a majority in Parliament. If the four opposition parties ever get their act together, and if some Liberals vote against their party, the opposition could defeat the government's bill.
Theoretically.
But the Bloc will just argue over what the bill gives to Quebec, the Alliance will continue to commit suicide, the NDP will give very eloquent speeches but will end up making no difference at all, the Conservatives (who may or may not be conservatives, depending on whether their flipped heads or tails that morning) will do nothing, and John Nunziatta will whine.
And the bill will go through, and Teflon Jean will get away with everything.
Hey, kids! Let's play "guess which of the opposition parties the poster is a bitter member of!"
Ah, no wonder it's slow under pure WM. I installed 2.2 beta 1, but I've never run the desktop. I only installed it for the libraries so that I can run KDE and QT applications. Ditto with Gnome 1.4 for the Gnome and GTK apps, so don't think I'm just a rabid Gnome zealot flaming KDE.:)
I'd say that it was the residual resentment at Microsoft, and the realisation that the same could happen with any of their other partners, that led them to be so interested in Open Source and Linux: if the software is free and easily portable, then that's more money to be made in hardware and services, and IBM is just 1 massive hardware and services supplier, that has to produce software as a sideline to get the hardware to work.
So that makes IBM just like Apple, except successful.;)
The KDE libraries are a desktop perfection. I fail to see this price they are paying.
Ah, I see. And having KMail take almost two minutes to load on a K6-2 400MHz machine with 384 MB of RAM under no other load besides X, Windowmaker and DFM is perfection? Seems like a pretty piss-poor definition of perfection to me.
Proudly posting from Opera, just to piss off the really hardcore GNU zealots.;)
"The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn't excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws," said Thomas Nolle, a New Jersey telecommunications consultant.
Well, I guess if they're not being followed, they're not really basic laws, eh?:)
The LPGL? What, so you can just link that code to a closed program that you'll go and sell? No, Borland understands what they did.
Same with the BSD license.
Borland is a business. Businesses exist to make money. This specific business makes damn good software that's worth the price.
If you don't like it, if you don't want to pay for someone else's work, go and write your own RAD tool. Don't bitch and moan about how you think Borland is being so mean.
What about a modular system for sticking weights in? Maybe instead of a PCI card, you could bolt in a PCI-card-sized piece of concrete. It may not be as heavy in the end, but if you could fill empty space in the case with small individual weights, it might be worthwhile. Is there anything that's cheap, heavy, solid and non-conductive? Iridium weights might be good, but they only satisy two of the criteria.;)
The article was vary vague, and didn't even have an exact quote from the MS guy. Is he saying no C# program can be written under an open source license, or are they saying no-one can make a C# compatible language, or am I just reading it wrong?
If the second point is the case, could Ximian get around all this by doing what the Mesa developers do, i.e. basically saying that their software just happens to work just like the official stuff?
I'd argue that Doom did well because it was just plain fun. Isn't that the reason most people play games?
Sigh. Too many people worry about how high a framerate a game can achieve, or how detailed an explosion is, or how many gallons of virtual blood spill out of a freshly-dead enemy soldier. Why can't most game designers make games that are just fun?
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It's not so bad, when you allow for the fact that the media up here will cheerfully crucify any politician who shows any weakness. Witness Stockwell Day.
Also, our ruling party, the Liberals (who are actually conservatives) doesn't have that big a majority in Parliament. If the four opposition parties ever get their act together, and if some Liberals vote against their party, the opposition could defeat the government's bill.
Theoretically.
But the Bloc will just argue over what the bill gives to Quebec, the Alliance will continue to commit suicide, the NDP will give very eloquent speeches but will end up making no difference at all, the Conservatives (who may or may not be conservatives, depending on whether their flipped heads or tails that morning) will do nothing, and John Nunziatta will whine.
And the bill will go through, and Teflon Jean will get away with everything.
Hey, kids! Let's play "guess which of the opposition parties the poster is a bitter member of!"
Just watch out for Professor G's version, it's not quite appropriate for eye surgery.
Ah, no wonder it's slow under pure WM. I installed 2.2 beta 1, but I've never run the desktop. I only installed it for the libraries so that I can run KDE and QT applications. Ditto with Gnome 1.4 for the Gnome and GTK apps, so don't think I'm just a rabid Gnome zealot flaming KDE. :)
I'd say that it was the residual resentment at Microsoft, and the realisation that the same could happen with any of their other partners, that led them to be so interested in Open Source and Linux: if the software is free and easily portable, then that's more money to be made in hardware and services, and IBM is just 1 massive hardware and services supplier, that has to produce software as a sideline to get the hardware to work.
So that makes IBM just like Apple, except successful. ;)
The KDE libraries are a desktop perfection. I fail to see this price they are paying.
Ah, I see. And having KMail take almost two minutes to load on a K6-2 400MHz machine with 384 MB of RAM under no other load besides X, Windowmaker and DFM is perfection? Seems like a pretty piss-poor definition of perfection to me.
Proudly posting from Opera, just to piss off the really hardcore GNU zealots. ;)
Hah. Let's see Columbo solve this.
"The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn't excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws," said Thomas Nolle, a New Jersey telecommunications consultant.
Well, I guess if they're not being followed, they're not really basic laws, eh? :)
You too, huh? :)
Although I often have to be careful if I go out driving right after an hours-long GT session. I live exactly one block away from a police station.
The LPGL? What, so you can just link that code to a closed program that you'll go and sell? No, Borland understands what they did. Same with the BSD license.
Borland is a business. Businesses exist to make money. This specific business makes damn good software that's worth the price.
If you don't like it, if you don't want to pay for someone else's work, go and write your own RAD tool. Don't bitch and moan about how you think Borland is being so mean.
What about a modular system for sticking weights in? Maybe instead of a PCI card, you could bolt in a PCI-card-sized piece of concrete. It may not be as heavy in the end, but if you could fill empty space in the case with small individual weights, it might be worthwhile. Is there anything that's cheap, heavy, solid and non-conductive? Iridium weights might be good, but they only satisy two of the criteria. ;)
I feel your pain, Mr. Vice President.
On the other hand, a 133t-speak text adventure game might be funny.
>j00 533 4 d00r
0p3/\/ d00r.
>th3 d00r 15 10x0r3d.
Un10j00 n33d 4 k3y.
Yeah, but with Tim Burton. The man's got a gift for weirdness.
I haven't seen JP3 yet, and I'm kind of hoping, nay, praying that you're kidding.
I dunno, it's happened to me once. I watched the first few minutes of Biodome, and for some gosh darn reason I thought that it wouldn't be much.
Am I the only one who would really like to see their respective production companies get together and have Ed meet Lain?
So just carry around a "oR.
I believe Slackware still ships it, but I could be wrong.
The article was vary vague, and didn't even have an exact quote from the MS guy. Is he saying no C# program can be written under an open source license, or are they saying no-one can make a C# compatible language, or am I just reading it wrong?
If the second point is the case, could Ximian get around all this by doing what the Mesa developers do, i.e. basically saying that their software just happens to work just like the official stuff?
I'd argue that Doom did well because it was just plain fun. Isn't that the reason most people play games?
Sigh. Too many people worry about how high a framerate a game can achieve, or how detailed an explosion is, or how many gallons of virtual blood spill out of a freshly-dead enemy soldier. Why can't most game designers make games that are just fun?
Since people at >200000 were no longer trolls. ;)
$3242.50 as of this morning. Still too close for comfort. :)
Whoops, sorry about that. I guess my coffee didn't really kick in at the time.
Next will be shootings, accidents and executions.
Stile Project. 'Nuff said.
7.0 of which distribution? It's rather important.