Game designers/publischers have a genuine interest to make the "laws" as good as they can to serve the needs of all of their users. Politicians only listen to the people who pay them the most, and they make the rules in a way, that they allways win. The analogy in game design would be to sell the choices in rule design to the highest bidder, and include cheatcodes for those and themselves.
It could help, if the owner of the invalid patend had to pay instead of the tax payer. And not 20% let's say 400%. So People would have to think: "Is this really a new Idea? Maybe better not file that patent." An even better thing would be to dump Patents all together, but that's another story...
Well, what a surprise. The RIAA and international counterparts piss of everyone and then they think they are going to make more money? When you want People to buy something from you, you have to be nice to them, or at least pretend so. Here in Germany we have a huge media Campain that basicly says: If you copy cds or dvds you are a criminal and go to Jail. Not only is this hugely exagerated, it is a plain lie. The only chance of going to jail for that, is when you charge money for it. But they think they kan scare people into buying crappy songs from crappy mainstream bands... Well, i own about 25 cd's, all of which were bought, when you could get them for 15DM (about 7.50 EUR). I will not buy anymore untill i can get them for that price or lower again AND they stop behaving like the mafia. It's bad enough, that i pay a fee on each recordable media i buy for recording Knoppix or Debian on it.
> Anyways, its a shame that OOo isn't ready for the Mac.
OOo is long since ready for the Mac! Just not for ONE of the operating systemS that run these nice Computer systems. Just don't say Mac, when you mean OSX.
And if you are looking for a real performance difference try python under gentoo with full optimizations in comparison to the standard debian package. The gentoo python is up to 5 times faster, depending on the python program you feed it.
Well, when you first touch vi, it's really cryptic, but if you read the first 4 pages of the tutorial, you can do basic text editing in less than 10 minutes. Emacs is even better (for the newbie). When used under X you can do basic text editing instantly. This does not mean that you have any understanding of the power, that you could be using, if you read the manual. But the learning curve is not very steep to the both of them. When you first try blender (even after finishing the first tutorial) you can not do basic 3d editing. While that might be a problem of the complexity of the task, other modelers are easyer in the begining.
Trouble is most People nowadays consider using a decent editor rocket-science and installing Linux beyond thinkable. We both know different, but the Windows folks out there... they still think there is no alternative, how else would they stick to something like vb-script |-P
I noticed a few days ago, that Slashdot looks "aquatic" every time there is an osx story. Does anyone know who did this look and how? It looks by far better than the original.
I recently had to convert 100 pages of M$-Word to Latex. There was loads of mathematics in it, and Open Office helped me a great deal in seeing what the original looked like, since i don't have any M$ on my machine.
"I'd probably say that the best idea would be for some group to go and dedictate a year or so to making the be-all-end-all of interfaces. Not some wierd hybrid of previous interfaces like most distros ship now, but something that is simple, elegent, etc."
It's allready there it's called ION!:) http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.fresco.org/data/screenshots/xggi-xchat. png
Would you please be so kind as to deliver any examples, where the US have desireable civil liberties, Germany doesn't?
If only i could play those strings...
Game designers/publischers have a genuine interest to make the "laws" as good as they can to serve the needs of all of their users.
Politicians only listen to the people who pay them the most, and they make the rules in a way, that they allways win. The analogy in game design would be to sell the choices in rule design to the highest bidder, and include cheatcodes for those and themselves.
It could help, if the owner of the invalid patend had to pay instead of the tax payer. And not 20% let's say 400%. So People would have to think: "Is this really a new Idea? Maybe better not file that patent." An even better thing would be to dump Patents all together, but that's another story...
Well, what a surprise. The RIAA and international counterparts piss of everyone and then they think they are going to make more money? When you want People to buy something from you, you have to be nice to them, or at least pretend so. Here in Germany we have a huge media Campain that basicly says: If you copy cds or dvds you are a criminal and go to Jail.
Not only is this hugely exagerated, it is a plain lie. The only chance of going to jail for that, is when you charge money for it.
But they think they kan scare people into buying crappy songs from crappy mainstream bands...
Well, i own about 25 cd's, all of which were bought, when you could get them for 15DM (about 7.50 EUR). I will not buy anymore untill i can get them for that price or lower again AND they stop behaving like the mafia. It's bad enough, that i pay a fee on each recordable media i buy for recording Knoppix or Debian on it.
> Anyways, its a shame that OOo isn't ready for the Mac.
OOo is long since ready for the Mac!
Just not for ONE of the operating systemS that run these nice Computer systems.
Just don't say Mac, when you mean OSX.
Well, allmost... ;)
but a more precise name would be "Qt/OSX" anyway...
A friend of mine has an i-book. ;-)
He got rid of the osx and installed debian.
And guess what, KDE runs fine.
No porting needed
Well, maybe with microsoft as a partner open source/linux drivers may be not so high priority for ATI in the near future...
> However they do need to be sure about security,
> otherwise they are not doing their job.
There is no way what so ever, to be sure about security except that there is none. That applys especialy to Software.
And if you are looking for a real performance difference try python under gentoo with full optimizations in comparison to the standard debian package. The gentoo python is up to 5 times faster, depending on the python program you feed it.
Well, when you first touch vi, it's really cryptic, but if you read the first 4 pages of the tutorial, you can do basic text editing in less than 10 minutes. Emacs is even better (for the newbie). When used under X you can do basic text editing instantly.
This does not mean that you have any understanding of the power, that you could be using, if you read the manual. But the learning curve is not very steep to the both of them.
When you first try blender (even after finishing the first tutorial) you can not do basic 3d editing. While that might be a problem of the complexity of the task, other modelers are easyer in the begining.
Trouble is most People nowadays consider using a decent editor rocket-science and installing Linux beyond thinkable. We both know different, but the Windows folks out there... they still think there is no alternative, how else would they stick to something like vb-script |-P
If they can shell out enough money for lawyers, the outcome is not so sure...
There is a GNU vm out there, it just seems to need a little work thou.t ning.ht ml
http://www.gnu.org/software/lightning/ligh
So first of all outlaw Microsoft software, it's the biggest securety threat, and it's even more widely used than wifi.
I have never seen an UI (Usable Interface)
so small, beautyfull, intuitive and functional.
Plus it's not copied from anything i know.
i meant better than the original osx not better than the original slashdot.
A friend brought me this messagepad 120 some months ;-)
ago. I tried some tricks i found on newton fan pages but it's still not getting any better.
I noticed a few days ago, that Slashdot looks "aquatic" every time there is an osx story.
Does anyone know who did this look and how?
It looks by far better than the original.
I really hope this is sarcasm and not medieval catholicism!
Want to burn some witches too?
I recently had to convert 100 pages of M$-Word to Latex. There was loads of mathematics in it, and Open Office helped me a great deal in seeing what the original looked like, since i don't have any M$ on my machine.
It 's a riddle to me why they do not choose the implementation with the superior license.
Or am i missing something?
"I'd probably say that the best idea would be for some group to go and dedictate a year or so to making the be-all-end-all of interfaces. Not some wierd hybrid of previous interfaces like most distros ship now, but something that is simple, elegent, etc."
:)
It's allready there it's called ION!
http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/