I think this has already been said, but I'm gonna say it anyway because its a fairly important point.
Microsoft were developing an operating system as well as a gui, and a proportion of what they were doing was original work (althogh it could be argued that a lot was lifted from MacOS and OS/2). The KDE team are only developing half a GUI (they are based on X-Windows after all) and most of the ideas are directly lifted from Windows anyway.
On a personal note, I find KDE an awful GUI to use. It has nothing like the responsiveness or stability of Windows and while it is okay for running odd GUI applications, it is no substitiute for a command line as the explorer shell is in Windows. They have some way to go before they reach that level of usability, and as long as they stick to X-Windows, I doubt they will ever achieve the same level of responsiveness.
This is a weird one. Compy protection on CDs is not a new thing, games manufacturers have been doing it for years, and that doesn't seem to stop people. I don't see how N*Sync's protection will stop people copying the CD in RAW mode (with CloneCD or something similar). If its this that they're trying to prevent then they will fail miserably.
If it rippers they're worried about, then they may stop people for a few months, but sooner or later, someone will figure out a way of doing it, and in the mean time, anyone can make an MP3 by connecting the headphones out on their Discman to the line in on their sound card. Sure, the quality might not be as good as a digital rip, but it won't be bad.
I think somebody said that the technology is there for computer enthusiasts with a fair amount of knowlege to crack this already. If this is the case, it won't be long before somebody writes a user friendly UI for this and it filters down to the masses.
All in all, its just another recording industry head in the sand job.
Its true that europe launches a large number of satellites and the tax should apply to all(like I said).
If you look at the CO2 emissions figures, you'll see that Europe really isn't the issue at the moment. America's emissions dwarf it (and are set to go even lower by 2010).
There should be a global tax for satellite launces, rather than satellite orbits to be spent on environmental projects. A huge amount of environmental damage is done by launching rockets into space (but then the americans here wouldn't know about the environment, would you?).
Such a project might also refocus the minds of the international community away from police states to combat terrorism (which might one day wipe out the human race) back onto environmental damage (which certainly will).
Allowing government agencies to spy on people without warrent, is more than dangerous. Its giving up freedom (which is supposedly what Bush is fighting to protect?). The courts are there to protect people from unfair treatment and going round them in this area would be extremely dangerous, especially in the current climate. If this come in, I wouldn't like to be an American Muslim.
Not being an American myself I'm less likely to be affected, and I don't know your laws that well, but wouldn't the supreme court get a say in this. Could it be see as unconstitutional?
Not really. One of those is mine and its a spelling error in the relase notes. Show stopping, I think not. Try reading the post, and you'll see what it says about development bugs not even reaching the end users.
I realise you posted soley to produce an angry reaction (trolling), so I'm not even gonna argue with your over-opinionated final paragraph.
Mark
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I think this has already been said, but I'm gonna say it anyway because its a fairly important point.
Microsoft were developing an operating system as well as a gui, and a proportion of what they were doing was original work (althogh it could be argued that a lot was lifted from MacOS and OS/2). The KDE team are only developing half a GUI (they are based on X-Windows after all) and most of the ideas are directly lifted from Windows anyway.
On a personal note, I find KDE an awful GUI to use. It has nothing like the responsiveness or stability of Windows and while it is okay for running odd GUI applications, it is no substitiute for a command line as the explorer shell is in Windows. They have some way to go before they reach that level of usability, and as long as they stick to X-Windows, I doubt they will ever achieve the same level of responsiveness.
English people are never mad, mearly eccentric.
I'm English, BTW.
This is a weird one. Compy protection on CDs is not a new thing, games manufacturers have been doing it for years, and that doesn't seem to stop people. I don't see how N*Sync's protection will stop people copying the CD in RAW mode (with CloneCD or something similar). If its this that they're trying to prevent then they will fail miserably.
If it rippers they're worried about, then they may stop people for a few months, but sooner or later, someone will figure out a way of doing it, and in the mean time, anyone can make an MP3 by connecting the headphones out on their Discman to the line in on their sound card. Sure, the quality might not be as good as a digital rip, but it won't be bad.
I think somebody said that the technology is there for computer enthusiasts with a fair amount of knowlege to crack this already. If this is the case, it won't be long before somebody writes a user friendly UI for this and it filters down to the masses.
All in all, its just another recording industry head in the sand job.
The only people who think (spamming == free speech) and !(spamming) == !(free speech) are spammers.
Guess what I do for a living.
Its true that europe launches a large number of satellites and the tax should apply to all(like I said).
If you look at the CO2 emissions figures, you'll see that Europe really isn't the issue at the moment. America's emissions dwarf it (and are set to go even lower by 2010).
There should be a global tax for satellite launces, rather than satellite orbits to be spent on environmental projects. A huge amount of environmental damage is done by launching rockets into space (but then the americans here wouldn't know about the environment, would you?).
Such a project might also refocus the minds of the international community away from police states to combat terrorism (which might one day wipe out the human race) back onto environmental damage (which certainly will).
Allowing government agencies to spy on people without warrent, is more than dangerous. Its giving up freedom (which is supposedly what Bush is fighting to protect?). The courts are there to protect people from unfair treatment and going round them in this area would be extremely dangerous, especially in the current climate. If this come in, I wouldn't like to be an American Muslim. Not being an American myself I'm less likely to be affected, and I don't know your laws that well, but wouldn't the supreme court get a say in this. Could it be see as unconstitutional?
Because there's no viable alternative in the business desktop market. As for the web servers, its usually because they like ASP.
This is getting old now.
100,00 show stopping bugs?
Not really. One of those is mine and its a spelling error in the relase notes. Show stopping, I think not. Try reading the post, and you'll see what it says about development bugs not even reaching the end users.
I realise you posted soley to produce an angry reaction (trolling), so I'm not even gonna argue with your over-opinionated final paragraph.
Mark
Who needs explosives, just put some shards of metal on the runway.