I believe if I were to speak to the delegate from Georgia in the flesh, I would fully explain my understanding of the situation, which, despite not being formally involved in legislation (hey, I got to say that three times!), is a rather complete understanding (eh...certain issues, anyway).
We make a law that says we can do A. We might also be able to do B, but we now have explicit protection for our right to do A. We might lose the right to do B at a later date. We have the right to commit any act that is not expressly forbidden. However, we have certain guaranteed rights which are explicitly stated.
I know that, and you know that, but it's nice to know people still split hairs over wording on the internet.
(were you just itching to pull out that quote? wereya?;-)
If a law banning cheese came in to force, then the correct action would be to repeal that law, not to introduce another one limiting it.
This effectively repeals the portions of the DMCA that are especially vile. IANAS...TG (I am not a senator...thank God), but I'm under the impression that it would be much harder to repeal the entire law.
In the UK, laws set out the limits to your rights, they do not enumerate them.
In the US, we do have laws that explicitly state what we can do... like the Bill of Rights. It's a form of self-limitation in which the government prevents itself from passing future bad laws. What would you do if there were suddenly a ban on cheese? I guess it's working the other way around this time, though. Again, you don't see me in the blue suit, so I won't say anything I can't eat if I'm wrong;-)
How about a label that says "You Will Not Be Able To Play This Disc" or "This Will Break Your Computer." Seriously, it makes perfect sense to have labels on products sold in nonstandard formats. I sure as hell wouldn't want to buy a cd that I couldn't rip to ogg.
Quite a lot of that bill seems to fly in the face of the DMCA. I'm sure that's the idea, but wouldn't it be necessary to repeal the DMCA first? I love the spirit of this text (and would be quite pleased to see it passed as the Please-Think-of-the-Patriotic-Children Digital Freedom Act), but what about the contradictions with existing legislation?
(This post, on the other hand, will very likely get modded down as a troll.)
Bull. You know quite well that you'll end up with Funny. You used used that very special karma whoring key phrase.
Now this on the otherhand will "most likely be modded down" as flamebait, but don't bother. I'm at the cap.;-)
wierd how this comment was up before the first posts. Maybe Taco is warning sites before they are linked. Too many people with smoking Celerons linked to./ probably complained and forced some policy through.
I don't think you could make my cool-running celeron server smoke if you tried.
No, wait! I take it back!
/me watches server combust as the traffic spikes then gradually subsides as countless bored nerds discover there is no actual "content."
Seriously, wouldn't this be the sort of warning sites like that need? Props to/. if this is the case.
My best guess is Public Relations: free Slashdotting and an even open-friendlier image. Red Hat wouldn't get to show off quite as much if they just put another employee behind their doors.
And metacity? Is it not a windowmanager, or not part of gnome?
It is a window manager, but not part of gnome (well, not exclusively). Gnome can use any number of wms. Metacity and Sawfish just happen to be two of the popular ones.
I second this. The interface is absolutely marvelous. It's targeted towards keyboard shortcuts and speeds up work in much the same way the command line does. If 'a reasonable interface' means a candy coated bryce style button set, I'll avoid it like cli elitists shun desktop environments.
Even if we did this the BEST way to view a hypercube would be either to go to the 4th dimension to look at one, or have a creature from the 4th dimension come here and make a 3d representation of on.
Sun could modify their 'dumb' setup a little and make it more efficent. Example: Bob from accounting needs a simple computer to do spreadsheets, etc. Brenda from Marketing needs something with more graphics capabilities for banner ads. So issue each employee at sun equipment comparable to their job.
The cool thing about a server/dumb terminal model is that none of the client terminals need to have anything beyond basic capabilities. Anything besides input and display is handled quite capably (in theory anyway) by the server. Data storage and processing occurs on Ye Olde Giant Box.
That rolling cabient thing sound extremely cool.;-)
so take it down! please! one of the biggest obstacles i faced when trying to 'learn' linux was the vast ammount of horribly out of date liturature online. does a newbie really want to see this? you're doing more harm than good, i say.
you'd think they would have touted kde3 a bit more instead of putting it at the bottom of the list. isn't this the first major distro to ship with the newest version of kde?
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...and everybody ends up picking 37.
Except for the really smart people. They'd pick 47.
OT: where did you get that icon? It's absolutely snazzy.
Wow, that's almost as funny as .net advertisement on slashdot. :-(
I believe if I were to speak to the delegate from Georgia in the flesh, I would fully explain my understanding of the situation, which, despite not being formally involved in legislation (hey, I got to say that three times!), is a rather complete understanding (eh...certain issues, anyway).
We make a law that says we can do A. We might also be able to do B, but we now have explicit protection for our right to do A. We might lose the right to do B at a later date. We have the right to commit any act that is not expressly forbidden. However, we have certain guaranteed rights which are explicitly stated.
I know that, and you know that, but it's nice to know people still split hairs over wording on the internet.
(were you just itching to pull out that quote? wereya? ;-)
If a law banning cheese came in to force, then the correct action would be to repeal that law, not to introduce another one limiting it.
This effectively repeals the portions of the DMCA that are especially vile. IANAS...TG (I am not a senator...thank God), but I'm under the impression that it would be much harder to repeal the entire law.
In the UK, laws set out the limits to your rights, they do not enumerate them.
In the US, we do have laws that explicitly state what we can do... like the Bill of Rights. It's a form of self-limitation in which the government prevents itself from passing future bad laws. What would you do if there were suddenly a ban on cheese? I guess it's working the other way around this time, though. Again, you don't see me in the blue suit, so I won't say anything I can't eat if I'm wrong ;-)
How about a label that says "You Will Not Be Able To Play This Disc" or "This Will Break Your Computer." Seriously, it makes perfect sense to have labels on products sold in nonstandard formats. I sure as hell wouldn't want to buy a cd that I couldn't rip to ogg.
My next prediction: AMD will release a processor that's even faster! Nobody will expect that one.
;-)
Distant future (more than one week): Intel will release a processor that's faster than that one!
What if the video chipset industry was the same way? Whoa.
I think my reduction to BT looping is along the loons of "peasently surpassed." Which means I must be getting very cyclical.
Quite a lot of that bill seems to fly in the face of the DMCA. I'm sure that's the idea, but wouldn't it be necessary to repeal the DMCA first? I love the spirit of this text (and would be quite pleased to see it passed as the Please-Think-of-the-Patriotic-Children Digital Freedom Act), but what about the contradictions with existing legislation?
(This post, on the other hand, will very likely get modded down as a troll.)
Bull. You know quite well that you'll end up with Funny. You used used that very special karma whoring key phrase. ;-)
Now this on the otherhand will "most likely be modded down" as flamebait, but don't bother. I'm at the cap.
Thank you for putting those online.
i'm linking to this comment from my forum. please don't sue me for illegal use of hyperlinks ^_-
quite a few of us listen to bands off metropolis. Mad props to Digital Gunfire and the labels.
I don't think you could make my cool-running celeron server smoke if you tried.
No, wait! I take it back!
Seriously, wouldn't this be the sort of warning sites like that need? Props to /. if this is the case.
My best guess is Public Relations: free Slashdotting and an even open-friendlier image. Red Hat wouldn't get to show off quite as much if they just put another employee behind their doors.
It is a window manager, but not part of gnome (well, not exclusively). Gnome can use any number of wms. Metacity and Sawfish just happen to be two of the popular ones.
KDE = desktop environment + wigets + kwm
Gnome = de + wigets + your choice here
Then pick "the learning curve is steep." It's the truer of the two. Once you figgure out what does what, it's smooth sailing.
I second this. The interface is absolutely marvelous. It's targeted towards keyboard shortcuts and speeds up work in much the same way the command line does. If 'a reasonable interface' means a candy coated bryce style button set, I'll avoid it like cli elitists shun desktop environments.
In any case, this is great news!
Geeze, and I bet the ARIA wouldn't even give you royalties.
Props on the first post, Theo.
For all the beauty of Apple cases, I don't think the cpu itself looks all that much better.
-offtopic meta-commentary on slashdot dynamics: 1 karma point
-flaming the random man on the street: 2 karma points
-using tired old gags to get karma: priceless
you said:
The cool thing about a server/dumb terminal model is that none of the client terminals need to have anything beyond basic capabilities. Anything besides input and display is handled quite capably (in theory anyway) by the server. Data storage and processing occurs on Ye Olde Giant Box.
That rolling cabient thing sound extremely cool. ;-)
Probably not. Isn't toxic waste its own category?
so take it down! please! one of the biggest obstacles i faced when trying to 'learn' linux was the vast ammount of horribly out of date liturature online. does a newbie really want to see this? you're doing more harm than good, i say.
you'd think they would have touted kde3 a bit more instead of putting it at the bottom of the list. isn't this the first major distro to ship with the newest version of kde?