wait for the flame wars about why its GNOME and not KDE
That's actually a very valid question.
I fear that with the corporate support from the likes of Sun, GTK/GNOME will become the dominant free desktop. Just like in the days of VHS and BETA, an inferior product will triumph over a technically more advanced one because of marketing.
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt.45 and a.38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950 . That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
without Adobe support a large core of professionals will not take up
Just remember that Adobe was the company that sued Sklyarov and is actively participating in locking down the books of the future in the name of the intellectual "property". I will blame it partially on Adobe when I am seen as a criminal if I loan a book to my friend. Also PDF is still a proprietary format.
Because I have to use MS Office in my work because most of the correspondence with the clients takes place via e-mail and attachments. Furthermore, I like playing games once in a while and open source games... well, quite frankly suck.
StarOffice and other office suites cannot open all MS Office files and even if they do the layout and fonts are often fucked up. Complex graphs and Excel charts are particularly problematic. Non-MS wordprocessors don't have version control, either.
Face it. No matter how much you love your "superior" operating systems, the applications are subpar.
Shit. It's true. I just tried on my WindowsME laptop to see if there really are hidden directories and files that contain my browsing history and cookies.
It's all there even after the IE5 has "cleared" the browsing history and cookies!
The easiest way to find the hidden files and directories is to install Cygwin and use find to search for "index.dat" in your Windows directory.
Someone should give Microsoft hell for this "feature". Any ideas how to best make noise about this?
The funny thing is that now that the treaty is accepted in 177 or so countries, every attempt in the USA to overturn the DMCA will have to fight the argument "but the same principles have been internationally ratified by 177 countries. Thus, DMCA cannot be wrong!".
Well, I was hopeful that the EU as a whole would have the backbone to stand up to the USA in trade issues but I guess the global media has both EU and USA in their pockets.
I have no hope anymore as far as the Fair Use rights are concerned.
unhappy about being part of the WIPO treaty, they can leave
Are you trolling?
This treaty has been SHOVED down the throats of the "177 countries" by threats of catastrophic loss of trade agreements and obscene tolls by the USA. It's a "you're either with out entertainment industry or you're against us" treaty.
Oh, believe it. This is the DMCA for the rest of the world. WTO and the big business it represents are already overruling the national legislation in several European countries. They start with the small countries. Your time will come.
They can't get away with selling bandwidth to the public on one hand and locking up content on the other. They're mutually exclusive.
I don't see how these are mutually exclusive. Just set strict conditions on the bandwidth that you are not allowed to use it to transfer "intellectual property" without the explicit authorisation from the copyright holder.
Get caught running ftp, scp or some p2p system and you're already a suspect.
It's because it takes several years, even decades for the state-of-the-art research to reach the mainstream component-level commercial production. Why? Because you really have to know how the stuff works AND how you can produce millions of these components at an affordable price.
At present companies are more interested in producing relatively "simple" stuff like blue LEDs and lasers.
I know this because I did my PhD (and continue working) in Materials Physics (exotic materials) involving atomic scale engineered materials. They promise extreme hardness, tensile-strength and fucking weird electronic properties but the applications are still way off for the reasons I mentioned above.
You're right that disc and a sphere will not roll downhill at the same speed. That's because the moment of inertia changes. However, a skier does not roll -- he slides downhill.
Just write down the equations for potential and kinetic energy and you'll see that changing the center of gravity won't change shit as far as the speed goes.
Moving the center of gravity up or down changes the potential energy, but since its reference level can be chosen arbitrarily it will have no effect in how much potential energy can be converted to kinetic energy.
I'd like to get my hands on the magnificent ass of either Jennifer Lopez or Shakira.
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THE FIRST DUTY of the state is to nourish it's OWN citizens.
All your demands are based on the assumption that nation states are somehow natural when, in fact, they are not. If they were natural, why would we need to have armed guards on our borders?
This leads us to the fact that a completely free and unhindered movement of people is the only natural way for happy and peaceful societies to form. Thus all states and borders should be abolished and a world government established instead.
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That's actually a very valid question.
I fear that with the corporate support from the likes of Sun, GTK/GNOME will become the dominant free desktop. Just like in the days of VHS and BETA, an inferior product will triumph over a technically more advanced one because of marketing.
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950 . That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
I had this sudden urge to go out and buy four BigMacs and lots of fries. Yumyum.
Just call it the Real IRA then. Oh wait... nevermind!
Really? So, you are not 48/m/Alaska with big man-boobs and hair all over your body?
Just remember that Adobe was the company that sued Sklyarov and is actively participating in locking down the books of the future in the name of the intellectual "property". I will blame it partially on Adobe when I am seen as a criminal if I loan a book to my friend. Also PDF is still a proprietary format.
StarOffice and other office suites cannot open all MS Office files and even if they do the layout and fonts are often fucked up. Complex graphs and Excel charts are particularly problematic. Non-MS wordprocessors don't have version control, either.
Face it. No matter how much you love your "superior" operating systems, the applications are subpar.
It's all there even after the IE5 has "cleared" the browsing history and cookies!
The easiest way to find the hidden files and directories is to install Cygwin and use find to search for "index.dat" in your Windows directory.
Someone should give Microsoft hell for this "feature". Any ideas how to best make noise about this?
Want2cyber?
The funny thing is that now that the treaty is accepted in 177 or so countries, every attempt in the USA to overturn the DMCA will have to fight the argument "but the same principles have been internationally ratified by 177 countries. Thus, DMCA cannot be wrong!".
Good or you. However, you should know that some of the latest (Sony) desktop DVD and CD players only play "Music CDRs" and not ordinary CD-R:s...
I have no hope anymore as far as the Fair Use rights are concerned.
For which you have to pay a "piracy tax" regardless of whether you copy IP or not.
Most of the CD-R:s sold in Europe already include this tax and you can bet that's it's coming to the USA as well.
Are you trolling?
This treaty has been SHOVED down the throats of the "177 countries" by threats of catastrophic loss of trade agreements and obscene tolls by the USA. It's a "you're either with out entertainment industry or you're against us" treaty.
They can't get away with selling bandwidth to the public on one hand and locking up content on the other. They're mutually exclusive.
I don't see how these are mutually exclusive. Just set strict conditions on the bandwidth that you are not allowed to use it to transfer "intellectual property" without the explicit authorisation from the copyright holder.
Get caught running ftp, scp or some p2p system and you're already a suspect.
I'll try.
It's because it takes several years, even decades for the state-of-the-art research to reach the mainstream component-level commercial production. Why? Because you really have to know how the stuff works AND how you can produce millions of these components at an affordable price.
At present companies are more interested in producing relatively "simple" stuff like blue LEDs and lasers.
I know this because I did my PhD (and continue working) in Materials Physics (exotic materials) involving atomic scale engineered materials. They promise extreme hardness, tensile-strength and fucking weird electronic properties but the applications are still way off for the reasons I mentioned above.
She's got a great butt!
Their stock's in a freefall.
You're right that disc and a sphere will not roll downhill at the same speed. That's because the moment of inertia changes. However, a skier does not roll -- he slides downhill.
Just write down the equations for potential and kinetic energy and you'll see that changing the center of gravity won't change shit as far as the speed goes.
Moving the center of gravity up or down changes the potential energy, but since its reference level can be chosen arbitrarily it will have no effect in how much potential energy can be converted to kinetic energy.
Yet, I have to settle for beer. Bummer.
Is this some kind of a new perversion invented by Jon? It's the hat that really disturbs me...
Did the Linkin Park break up and now you're starting another boy-band?
What the hell is going on here??
I'd like to get my hands on the magnificent ass of either Jennifer Lopez or Shakira.
All your demands are based on the assumption that nation states are somehow natural when, in fact, they are not. If they were natural, why would we need to have armed guards on our borders?
This leads us to the fact that a completely free and unhindered movement of people is the only natural way for happy and peaceful societies to form. Thus all states and borders should be abolished and a world government established instead.