That's true to a degree, but does that really matter?
I mean, if the sources are available, people can check them, without having to actually be running the software all the time, right? An install would be useful, but not crucial.
I'm sure not all the people who exploit Windows run it.
But given that MS is being forced to remove it's own JVM, and pack the Sun one instead, surely they're shooting themselves in their own feet?
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I think most/. readers will be okay, just poor MSJVM kids that will have to suffer.
You're completely correct. I use GNU/Linux on my webserver, and the most command line stuff I need to do is chmod and tar -- maybe create.htaccess files.
I'd love to be able to use it regularly, on a computer I actually work with. Now, everyone tells me Debian is where it's at, distro wise... and now that someone's set it all up for me, I'd agree.
It's not that I can't set it all up on a command line, it's not particularly difficult to find the information on how to do it, but the question is... why should I have to? My time is pretty valuable, and I'd like to spend more of my time actually creating content and working, rather than installing an operating system...
Lack of any user knowledge is largely ignorance. Apple publish lots of information, Usability experts publish lots of information...
I just wanted to tell you how completely disappointed I am in LucasArts' decision to stop production on the new Sam and Max game. I am a Macintosh user, and I was actually planning on buying a Windows PC, just to play this game.
Well, you've saved me a lot of money, and I can continue to play my scratched SAMNMAX CD-ROM on ScummVM, but I can't help but wonder if LucasArts' will regret this...
Some game players remember when LucasArts were cool, producing hilarious games, and not just a series of boring Star Wars games. Maybe you don't realise, but the new Star Wars films suck, Jar-Jar sucks, and now the DVD release that George has been planning for such a long long time, will also suck.
Please rest assured that until another Sam and Max game is released, I will not buy another product from any Lucas company.
If possible, forward this message to George himself, and maybe HE will put a stop to this lunacy and release that there's money to be made from something other than flogging a dead horse.
well, it could have changed it to something else completely, it's just that IMO Michael Robertson's company seems to sell itself on the grounds of 'Well, we have a lawsuit with Microsoft over our name'
Fair enough, Microsoft shouldn't be able to sue over ?indows, but Robertson shouldn't be allowed to base everything his company does on the fact the Microsoft sued.
I got my third set of headphones today for my 30gb iPod. I mean, cool - they're free and it just takes a quick call to Apple UK Support, but it's a shame.
Also, my co-workers mock me for having to go to the Apple Support page, because I was saying how great the build quality on Apple kit is.
The Internet is no place for people looking for 'perverse gratification', claims the police officer leading the UK's fight against e-crime
The most senior officer from the UK's Hi-Tech Crime Unit has called for Web sites devoted to subjects such as cannibalism and necrophilia to be closed down, claiming they contribute to Internet criminality.
Detective chief superintendent Len Hynds, who is the head of Britain's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), said on Tuesday that the most vulnerable people in society need to be protected from corrupting influences.
"For the Internet to take the final step to adulthood it must first deal with those fringe elements that choose to promote abhorrent activities like cannibalism and necrophilia," Hynds told the e-Crime Congress 2004 in London.
"For it [the Internet] to continue to grow as a mainstream medium for businesses, education and entertainment, it must design out the minority factors that inhabit cyberspace for their own perverse gratification," Hynds added.
According to Hynds, Web sites devoted to such extreme material are the online equivalent of graffiti and litter. He believes that taking a zero tolerance on this kind of content could make the Internet a more law-abiding place.
But a clampdown on sites devoted to subjects such as cannibalism could be all but impossible to enforce.
Earlier this month, it was reported that a man convicted of murdering a special needs teacher by strangulation has been a regular visitor to pornographic Web sites that included images of necrophilia.
The family of the victim has called on Internet service providers to close down or filter out such material, but the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has already warned that the legal position is complicated.
"At the IWF we do sometimes receive complaints about Web sites and material which contains adult content, but unless they are hosted in the UK and may potentially be 'borderline extreme' in terms of content, i.e. it is unclear as to whether the images may be illegal, it is not within our remit to further investigate these sites," according to a statement from the Foundation.
"Due to the increasing diversity in social attitudes, 'adult' content, the context in which it is viewed and possessed and any 'influence' it may have, is very difficult to govern," the statement continued.
Hynds' statement may also anger those who believe that one of the Web's great strengths is that it accommodates such a wide range of interests, free from censorship.
Have a look inside the iTunes.app package... you'll find icons for WMA and OGG, already designed and waiting there.. Apple must be either considering implementing it, or were considering it and changed their minds.
Either way, it's quite interesting to see it there.
Linux may be the kernel on your computer, but I believe you are wrong when you say it's not really GNU at the heart of it.
I feel that GNU/Linux doesn't suggest we should prefix our OS with the app userspace, but rather give credit to the main thing that allows us to do what we do...
I don't say Mac OS X/Darwin - I just call it Mac OS X. If a version of Mac OS X were somehow released with a different kernel, I would therefore continue to call it Mac OS X.
the Linux kernel enabled the GNU project to be complete, but let's not forget that without the GNU project, you'd find Linux a rather useless piece of source code.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's hoping I can get xbill to the top of the list.
Okay, don't tell anyone, but you can download the source code to a large part of OS X, over here
That's true to a degree, but does that really matter?
I mean, if the sources are available, people can check them, without having to actually be running the software all the time, right? An install would be useful, but not crucial.
I'm sure not all the people who exploit Windows run it.
Do they use passwords on OpenFirmware? I'm just thinking about what would prevent a student from resetting a password on the machine, ie. root?
But given that MS is being forced to remove it's own JVM, and pack the Sun one instead, surely they're shooting themselves in their own feet?
Unicast is committed to ensuring that all ads either play perfectly or not at all.
At times, we make temporary decisions to exclude certain browser and/or configurations that contain known bugs or perform inconsistently in our testing and quality assurance environments.
Unicast has temporarily blocked the Sun JVM as a result of some modifications made with the most recent Sun releases. Unicast has seen consistent instability with this configuration and will continue to evaluate updates and new releases as they become available.
I think most
They're not really suited to being compared like this.
Of course, they're probably referring to GNU/Linux...
It's interesting to think that when GNU was started, Windows was little more than a shell.
You are a legend, thank you.
You're completely correct. I use GNU/Linux on my webserver, and the most command line stuff I need to do is chmod and tar -- maybe create .htaccess files.
I'd love to be able to use it regularly, on a computer I actually work with. Now, everyone tells me Debian is where it's at, distro wise... and now that someone's set it all up for me, I'd agree.
It's not that I can't set it all up on a command line, it's not particularly difficult to find the information on how to do it, but the question is... why should I have to? My time is pretty valuable, and I'd like to spend more of my time actually creating content and working, rather than installing an operating system...
Lack of any user knowledge is largely ignorance. Apple publish lots of information, Usability experts publish lots of information...
$4 and a dinner at Wendy's!
No reg needed!
Heh, you'll like this... JPEG baby
I just wanted to tell you how completely disappointed I am in LucasArts' decision to stop production on the new Sam and Max game. I am a Macintosh user, and I was actually planning on buying a Windows PC, just to play this game.
Well, you've saved me a lot of money, and I can continue to play my scratched SAMNMAX CD-ROM on ScummVM, but I can't help but wonder if LucasArts' will regret this...
Some game players remember when LucasArts were cool, producing hilarious games, and not just a series of boring Star Wars games. Maybe you don't realise, but the new Star Wars films suck, Jar-Jar sucks, and now the DVD release that George has been planning for such a long long time, will also suck.
Please rest assured that until another Sam and Max game is released, I will not buy another product from any Lucas company.
If possible, forward this message to George himself, and maybe HE will put a stop to this lunacy and release that there's money to be made from something other than flogging a dead horse.
well, it could have changed it to something else completely, it's just that IMO Michael Robertson's company seems to sell itself on the grounds of 'Well, we have a lawsuit with Microsoft over our name'
Fair enough, Microsoft shouldn't be able to sue over ?indows, but Robertson shouldn't be allowed to base everything his company does on the fact the Microsoft sued.
I got my third set of headphones today for my 30gb iPod. I mean, cool - they're free and it just takes a quick call to Apple UK Support, but it's a shame.
Also, my co-workers mock me for having to go to the Apple Support page, because I was saying how great the build quality on Apple kit is.
Place a CD on a paper cup - more exciting than seeing Tron for the first time.
Place a lightbulb in a half glass of milk.
All the fun of a Microwave.
Another example of the inconsiderate slashdotting factor.
Would it really be such a pain for pudge/whoever to setup a little mirror before slashdotting the fuck out of the poor guy?
That said, it seems like a good project... maybe I'll buy my friend Dr Mark a Newton now -- he never had a NES.
"Eat up Martha"
Four. Honestly.
The Internet is no place for people looking for 'perverse gratification', claims the police officer leading the UK's fight against e-crime
The most senior officer from the UK's Hi-Tech Crime Unit has called for Web sites devoted to subjects such as cannibalism and necrophilia to be closed down, claiming they contribute to Internet criminality.
Detective chief superintendent Len Hynds, who is the head of Britain's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), said on Tuesday that the most vulnerable people in society need to be protected from corrupting influences.
"For the Internet to take the final step to adulthood it must first deal with those fringe elements that choose to promote abhorrent activities like cannibalism and necrophilia," Hynds told the e-Crime Congress 2004 in London.
"For it [the Internet] to continue to grow as a mainstream medium for businesses, education and entertainment, it must design out the minority factors that inhabit cyberspace for their own perverse gratification," Hynds added.
According to Hynds, Web sites devoted to such extreme material are the online equivalent of graffiti and litter. He believes that taking a zero tolerance on this kind of content could make the Internet a more law-abiding place.
But a clampdown on sites devoted to subjects such as cannibalism could be all but impossible to enforce.
Earlier this month, it was reported that a man convicted of murdering a special needs teacher by strangulation has been a regular visitor to pornographic Web sites that included images of necrophilia.
The family of the victim has called on Internet service providers to close down or filter out such material, but the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has already warned that the legal position is complicated.
"At the IWF we do sometimes receive complaints about Web sites and material which contains adult content, but unless they are hosted in the UK and may potentially be 'borderline extreme' in terms of content, i.e. it is unclear as to whether the images may be illegal, it is not within our remit to further investigate these sites," according to a statement from the Foundation.
"Due to the increasing diversity in social attitudes, 'adult' content, the context in which it is viewed and possessed and any 'influence' it may have, is very difficult to govern," the statement continued.
Hynds' statement may also anger those who believe that one of the Web's great strengths is that it accommodates such a wide range of interests, free from censorship.
Have a look inside the iTunes.app package... you'll find icons for WMA and OGG, already designed and waiting there.. Apple must be either considering implementing it, or were considering it and changed their minds.
Either way, it's quite interesting to see it there.
No idea, but I'd guess some media troll trying to gain notoritity by spreading FUD about rms and FSF.
Thank you.
I'm no nazi about it either, if people say "Linux", I might tell them why it's GNU/Linux, but then I stop telling them and carry on the conversation.
I don't actually live in Paignton, thankfully... I live in Devon though.
Linux may be the kernel on your computer, but I believe you are wrong when you say it's not really GNU at the heart of it.
I feel that GNU/Linux doesn't suggest we should prefix our OS with the app userspace, but rather give credit to the main thing that allows us to do what we do...
I don't say Mac OS X/Darwin - I just call it Mac OS X. If a version of Mac OS X were somehow released with a different kernel, I would therefore continue to call it Mac OS X.
the Linux kernel enabled the GNU project to be complete, but let's not forget that without the GNU project, you'd find Linux a rather useless piece of source code.
You're completely correct. Mod me down folks.
Big Gulps anyone?