Due to the patriot act we've had to curtail certain rights. The seven words you can't say on television now have been expanded to 256. The first additions were the words "in god we trust". You have missles for arms? This could be a problem, as yow may know, smoking prohibited in public places.
If you take any stock in what Bill Gates says here are some more beauties:
I'm in the same traffic as everybody else. I'm in the same airplane delay as everybody else. I sit in the same coach seat as everybody else.
Anyone ever see Bill Gates in coach? That is so much B.S I don't know where to begin.
The reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines. So Microsoft did that eh? Whats next, Microsoft created Linux? And they discovered Al Gore's internet too.
And my favorite quote:
There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
So we all cheered at MS's legal problems in Europe because we all just love Microsoft. Makes me want to break out the guitar and sing Kumbaya!
They never said they weren't going to include GTK, just they would standardize on QT. They wouldn't release a desktop system without such key software as the Gimp. I believe Novell for their own additions have probably settled on QT. Think QT versions of groupwise etc. I also think that you will probably see C# mono implementations of Evolution. This would make switching toolkits a snap. In the end, I believe that SuSe will end up adding alot stuff netware services etc. and taking away very little from where it stands today.
With MS there is no choice at all.
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I can concede that 50+ operating systems with no data exchange compatibility would be a bad thing. But that is not the same as having no choice at all. The old Soviet Union had one choice state owned monopolies. Look where it got them. The addition of choice becomes less of a problem when they all follow standards. Take a look at cars, they all have a steering wheel, brakes, etc. They all use similiar motor oil, the same gas etc. Having a choice in cars is good. Being locked into one supplier or manufacturer is bad. It's the same with computers. Open standards, choice, competition spurring innovation, all good things. One supplier, added features and imcompatibilties just to force an upgrade and maintain monopoly, bad!
Yeah! The DOE has has been using them to simulate Nuclear reactions before building the reactors. And nasa uses them to do simulations before creating spaceships. And most weather forcasting and climate simulations are being done on Linux. Not to mention movie special effects, none of these were critical to the companies involved. Yep! You must be right since you read Kernel Traffic and post to slashdot!
I could do all those things with my windows machine. If only I weren't wasting CPU time removing viruses, reporting my compuster usage through all the damn data mining crap that magically appears. And those damn popup ads that appear on my desktop even though the browser hasn't been started by me once since I booted the machine.
Actually the Open Office people inherited it from the original Star Office produced by a german company Star Division. Neither Sun nor the Open Office developers have really dug that deep into it. The first version of Open/Star Office was not that much different than the original Star Office 5.2. That version could be made to look like Star Office 6 just by changing some configuration files inside. They originally removed more than they put in. It used to have a really decent email client and a not so decent web browser.
He didn't was their was life, he said get it under a microscope to confirm life. I wouldn't call that jumping the gun, I call it the next logical step. Now if a microscope turned up a fossil or better yet a still moving microbe would that be jumping the gun to you?
I said that you could do that, the likely hood of it being a steadfast rule is slim.
To ask them not to just increases the cost of the project, and decreases the number of companies willing to take the job, which screws over whoever wants to get the thing done
1) The money is the US taxpayers, it should be distributed back to the US taxpayers via jobs! Not to India, they can build their own damn rockets.
2) So your saying a company is going to turn down billions in contracts that they didn't have before because they didn't get to hire non-us citizens with no health care benefits or minimum wage or minimum age? B.S! When push comes to shove, they'll take the contracts. Money is money and just as they'll sell US workers out, they will sell out any other countries workers if it means profit! Because to not take them will mean the government doesn't send someone to mars and there will be no cash cow.
3) The only viable way for the economy to support such an expensive proposition, is for that expenditure to make it back to our economy!
I think the money spent would create jobs here in the US. Just put a stipulation in the contracts that they cannot be outsourced and you can have all the money going back to the US economy. Most critics of the plan want us to give the money to poor countries, who will then most likely end up spending it on weapons. And later they will just spit in our face. Screw that! I'll build jobs here!
We are not the worlds welfare system!
Agreed! I use a kensington optical wireless mouse with my ibook. It's nice having no wires. And the one button mouse bitch is really a joke considering a usb wheel mouse costs $20 these days!
At $800 and larger than the ipod, who would want it? I've seen dvd players with LCD screens that also play cd's for less. So maybe thats the reason you don't see an apple media center that plays video in MS's proprietary format. No market! But I can store 2 dvd's worth of movies in most formats in my ipod and connect it to my ibook and play them with mplayer for OSX anytime, anywhere I choose, plus play my 500+ songs I've ripped from my CD collection.
My cell is bought and paid for by my employer, so is my laptop. If they can't see the value of having a cellphone, ask them if the upper management needs them, and are they following the policy. If they want to put dumb rules in place, then they all should live by them. I usually find that upper management never follows any of these types of policies, and they're usually open to honest requests. If they're not mayge you should quietly look for better employment.
Exactly! I was trying to learn the language. And to the above poster, I was extremely polite. I'm alot older than most slashdot posters (44) I was was taught manners early in my childhood. Unlike the parisians I was introduced to. The German's treated me much better than the French. But in all my travels, I've enjoyed Scotland, Denmark and South Korea the most. I've been to about 16 different countries.
I don't like the French because of the way I treated there. Your countrymen acted like complete asses when I was there. This was 1992, the anti - american attitude was just as prevalent then as it is now. And I only came to visit where my ancestors were born.
That's a new one, I've been using k3b to do just that for over a year now. There are quite a few dependancies and if your using RedHat you might not have MAD installed, MAD is a high-quality MPEG audio decoder. You might try a emailing the authors directly or browse the FAQ at K3b.org.
I'm sure someone in the 'community', can answer your questions. You could post a question at Linuxquestions.org.
Good Luck! I think you'll find k3b a great little program once we get your problem solved.
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Due to the patriot act we've had to curtail certain rights. The seven words you can't say on television now have been expanded to 256. The first additions were the words "in god we trust". You have missles for arms? This could be a problem, as yow may know, smoking prohibited in public places.
Definately Jar-Jar
Allow you to tweak the parameters, optimize for your architecture and still easily remove and or upgrade the package.
I'm in the same traffic as everybody else. I'm in the same airplane delay as everybody else. I sit in the same coach seat as everybody else. Anyone ever see Bill Gates in coach? That is so much B.S I don't know where to begin.
The reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines.
So Microsoft did that eh? Whats next, Microsoft created Linux? And they discovered Al Gore's internet too.
And my favorite quote:
There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
So we all cheered at MS's legal problems in Europe because we all just love Microsoft. Makes me want to break out the guitar and sing Kumbaya!
They never said they weren't going to include GTK, just they would standardize on QT. They wouldn't release a desktop system without such key software as the Gimp. I believe Novell for their own additions have probably settled on QT. Think QT versions of groupwise etc. I also think that you will probably see C# mono implementations of Evolution. This would make switching toolkits a snap. In the end, I believe that SuSe will end up adding alot stuff netware services etc. and taking away very little from where it stands today.
I can concede that 50+ operating systems with no data exchange compatibility would be a bad thing. But that is not the same as having no choice at all. The old Soviet Union had one choice state owned monopolies. Look where it got them. The addition of choice becomes less of a problem when they all follow standards. Take a look at cars, they all have a steering wheel, brakes, etc. They all use similiar motor oil, the same gas etc. Having a choice in cars is good. Being locked into one supplier or manufacturer is bad. It's the same with computers. Open standards, choice, competition spurring innovation, all good things. One supplier, added features and imcompatibilties just to force an upgrade and maintain monopoly, bad!
Yeah! The DOE has has been using them to simulate Nuclear reactions before building the reactors. And nasa uses them to do simulations before creating spaceships. And most weather forcasting and climate simulations are being done on Linux. Not to mention movie special effects, none of these were critical to the companies involved. Yep! You must be right since you read Kernel Traffic and post to slashdot! I could do all those things with my windows machine. If only I weren't wasting CPU time removing viruses, reporting my compuster usage through all the damn data mining crap that magically appears. And those damn popup ads that appear on my desktop even though the browser hasn't been started by me once since I booted the machine.
Actually the Open Office people inherited it from the original Star Office produced by a german company Star Division. Neither Sun nor the Open Office developers have really dug that deep into it. The first version of Open/Star Office was not that much different than the original Star Office 5.2. That version could be made to look like Star Office 6 just by changing some configuration files inside. They originally removed more than they put in. It used to have a really decent email client and a not so decent web browser.
I don't have that problem, what version of Open Office do you have and what version of MS Office are you using. Mine are 1.1 & 2000 respectively.
Now how much does it cost and can I roll it up to discipline my dog!
They had to do something! This tidbit already got them $.04 per share!
I'm wondering if the rover will next find an unused star gate!
He didn't was their was life, he said get it under a microscope to confirm life. I wouldn't call that jumping the gun, I call it the next logical step. Now if a microscope turned up a fossil or better yet a still moving microbe would that be jumping the gun to you?
And figured I'd bring it down with a good old slashdot denial of service attack!
To ask them not to just increases the cost of the project, and decreases the number of companies willing to take the job, which screws over whoever wants to get the thing done
1) The money is the US taxpayers, it should be distributed back to the US taxpayers via jobs! Not to India, they can build their own damn rockets.
2) So your saying a company is going to turn down billions in contracts that they didn't have before because they didn't get to hire non-us citizens with no health care benefits or minimum wage or minimum age? B.S! When push comes to shove, they'll take the contracts. Money is money and just as they'll sell US workers out, they will sell out any other countries workers if it means profit! Because to not take them will mean the government doesn't send someone to mars and there will be no cash cow.
3) The only viable way for the economy to support such an expensive proposition, is for that expenditure to make it back to our economy!
I think the money spent would create jobs here in the US. Just put a stipulation in the contracts that they cannot be outsourced and you can have all the money going back to the US economy. Most critics of the plan want us to give the money to poor countries, who will then most likely end up spending it on weapons. And later they will just spit in our face. Screw that! I'll build jobs here! We are not the worlds welfare system!
Agreed! I use a kensington optical wireless mouse with my ibook. It's nice having no wires. And the one button mouse bitch is really a joke considering a usb wheel mouse costs $20 these days!
At $800 and larger than the ipod, who would want it? I've seen dvd players with LCD screens that also play cd's for less. So maybe thats the reason you don't see an apple media center that plays video in MS's proprietary format. No market! But I can store 2 dvd's worth of movies in most formats in my ipod and connect it to my ibook and play them with mplayer for OSX anytime, anywhere I choose, plus play my 500+ songs I've ripped from my CD collection.
My cell is bought and paid for by my employer, so is my laptop. If they can't see the value of having a cellphone, ask them if the upper management needs them, and are they following the policy. If they want to put dumb rules in place, then they all should live by them. I usually find that upper management never follows any of these types of policies, and they're usually open to honest requests. If they're not mayge you should quietly look for better employment.
Exactly! I was trying to learn the language. And to the above poster, I was extremely polite. I'm alot older than most slashdot posters (44) I was was taught manners early in my childhood. Unlike the parisians I was introduced to. The German's treated me much better than the French. But in all my travels, I've enjoyed Scotland, Denmark and South Korea the most. I've been to about 16 different countries.
Didn't read the review heh? Look at the part that says in mostly caps "UNIX(Bourne)".
I don't like the French because of the way I treated there. Your countrymen acted like complete asses when I was there. This was 1992, the anti - american attitude was just as prevalent then as it is now. And I only came to visit where my ancestors were born.
I'm sure someone in the 'community', can answer your questions. You could post a question at Linuxquestions.org. Good Luck! I think you'll find k3b a great little program once we get your problem solved.
Since when is suing car companies is good for america?