I know it's been said 1000 times but imho that's exactly why it's better if the losing party has to pay the costs of the law-suit.
This way *everyone* can enforce his/her/its right if the charges are ridiculous and big corporations can't overpower anyone who can't afford to sue up to the supreme court
Yes you have dozens of different toolkits and therefore you either only want to use the apps wich are programmed with your toolkit of choice (you lucky soab) or you ported every app you use to every toolkit (could you please send me an Qt Version of xchat?) or your desktop looks like an example of applied chaos theory
If pico is reasonably modular and well designed, you could have different versions (different in complexity, hardware abstraction, your own ultimate widget collection, etc) and still use *every* app *native* with the different flavours of picoGUI
1. It was a joke; we won't see Berlin any time before we see The Hurd 10.5 =)
2. It's a Graphical Interface like X and Qt combined with a WM. It has 3D acceleration, transparency etc., so there is no reason that it shouldn't look like enlightenment once somebody with artistic talent shows up
From what I read on heise.de competitors have complained that Microsoft might use their desktop-monopoly to get an unfair advantage on the cellphone market (the example of Exchange only working with their cellphone-OS was brought up).
Now the Commission is checking that and perhaps will consider it when determing restrictions if m$ is found guilty in the other antitrust suit - which sounds reasonable imho.
It's completely different. In Film Gimp you work with single frames it's Gimp with a big number of files.
VirtualDub on the other hand is stream based - you apply filters/codecs on a range of frames you don't apply it to single frames.
But that leads to an old question: Will there ever be VirtualDub for Linux? It was planned at least but I haven't heard of any concrete actions in a long time.
The point is that the MPAA is bellyaching over it when they aren't really going to lose money at all on their investment.
Indirectly they are, because film-making is like digging for gold. You have to work through tons of dirt to get just a little gold but if you're lucky it's worth it (of course watching movies works that way, too =).
The point is, while Harry Potter is a guaranteed success the studios need all the money they can get from the block-busters to finance all the movies which flop.
Of course it's not the same as an reverse engineered codec and I'm gonna be really impressed when someone pulls it off, but for the time being I enjoy waiting while watching all that cool movie trailers =)
I'd readily agree to these conditions if they would open their archives and offer all the old classics you can't get elsewhere
Blockbusters probably will be cheaper (and of better quality) if you rent them around the corner for the time being , but this would really be a possibility to get online-services off the ground as there is no good source for all that old stuff and it's even difficult to get them on p2p-nets so the studios wouldn't have to compete with the "why pay for something if I can pirate it"-mentality.
Geez, there are more than enough articles about Futurama and Simpsons and the myriads (=zero) of other american animation with adults as target audience.
You can block the category so stop the bitching and karma whoring and get a life
In my experience most times the usability and the content of a side are proportional
While there are exceptions, of course, most pages with good content don't concentrate as much on stupid layout-questions (how many i-frames can I use on the square inch and should this border be one pixel to the left or to the right) but focus on making the content accessible.
Only pages with nothing worth to look at concentrate on eye-candy.
(As I said, there are exceptions this is more a general observation)
I don't know whether I should mod this funny, flamebait or troll. How about a "stupid" category?
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All votes are counted twice (not by the same person of course) and each of this "people"-enitities only counts a small number and misplacing more than a tiny fraction would attract attention
Better than a computer system where a small group of persons with access could in theory forge the election in the whole country
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I think it's more like Japanese being obsessed with gadgets, Americans being curious and Germans strongly opposed as long as the inventor's not dead at least a decade
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Read it again. In France the person(s) (two candidates for the second round) with the most votes won (That was the problem in fact). Just the system of voting for a single candidate is flawed
The reason why member states can ignore the EU court now and then is that many decisions in the Union still have to be unanimous so it's normally less trouble for the rest of the countries and the commission simply to ignore such things.
M$ will pay (I hope) like the rest (while concrete conditions perhaps are more useful, fines like the 462mio EUR -which is currently the highest ever- could also be effective. It should even get m$ thinking about how to avoid such things in the future)
I thought the system in the UK was worse than most on the planet as it's 100% majority voting of candidates so a party can end with 49.9% of the votes without a single seat in the house of commons and there're no other national elections. Am I right or am I misinformed about the UK system?
Yep, I hate M$ as much as any other/.er I use Linux as my only desktop OS but the tablet-pc and especially the combined tablet-pc/normal notebook ones have me drooling non-stop
I think most people are still faster at writing with a pen than a keyboard and even if that's not the case the possibility to add a few sketches or make annotations without the limitations of a keyboard-based app is a system-seller
Also banned is Jesus-is-lord.com, a fundamentalist Christian site that is adamantly opposed to abortion.
I haven't read the page just looked around, abortion seems not to be the main topic (there's a number of pictures which put rotten.com to shame though) of the page it's more like an "Anti-*" page against anyone and everyone. Probably they violated hate-speech laws somewhere in one of their texts, wouldn't surprise me
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This way *everyone* can enforce his/her/its right if the charges are ridiculous and big corporations can't overpower anyone who can't afford to sue up to the supreme court
jm2
If pico is reasonably modular and well designed, you could have different versions (different in complexity, hardware abstraction, your own ultimate widget collection, etc) and still use *every* app *native* with the different flavours of picoGUI
1. It was a joke; we won't see Berlin any time before we see The Hurd 10.5 =)
2. It's a Graphical Interface like X and Qt combined with a WM. It has 3D acceleration, transparency etc., so there is no reason that it shouldn't look like enlightenment once somebody with artistic talent shows up
We have Berlin after all. =P
Now the Commission is checking that and perhaps will consider it when determing restrictions if m$ is found guilty in the other antitrust suit - which sounds reasonable imho.
jm2
VirtualDub on the other hand is stream based - you apply filters/codecs on a range of frames you don't apply it to single frames.
But that leads to an old question: Will there ever be VirtualDub for Linux? It was planned at least but I haven't heard of any concrete actions in a long time.
Indirectly they are, because film-making is like digging for gold. You have to work through tons of dirt to get just a little gold but if you're lucky it's worth it (of course watching movies works that way, too =).
The point is, while Harry Potter is a guaranteed success the studios need all the money they can get from the block-busters to finance all the movies which flop.
I completely agree with the rest of the posting
Anyone else concerned that more and more ppl don't read books anymore?
Of course it's not the same as an reverse engineered codec and I'm gonna be really impressed when someone pulls it off, but for the time being I enjoy waiting while watching all that cool movie trailers =)
Blockbusters probably will be cheaper (and of better quality) if you rent them around the corner for the time being , but this would really be a possibility to get online-services off the ground as there is no good source for all that old stuff and it's even difficult to get them on p2p-nets so the studios wouldn't have to compete with the "why pay for something if I can pirate it"-mentality.
You can block the category so stop the bitching and karma whoring and get a life
While there are exceptions, of course, most pages with good content don't concentrate as much on stupid layout-questions (how many i-frames can I use on the square inch and should this border be one pixel to the left or to the right) but focus on making the content accessible.
Only pages with nothing worth to look at concentrate on eye-candy.
(As I said, there are exceptions this is more a general observation)
When was the last time they got *good* press here?
Yeah, if God had wanted us to have sex He would have made it our way of reproduction
I'm more inclined to agree with the violence part though
I don't know whether I should mod this funny, flamebait or troll. How about a "stupid" category?
Better than a computer system where a small group of persons with access could in theory forge the election in the whole country
I think it's more like Japanese being obsessed with gadgets, Americans being curious and Germans strongly opposed as long as the inventor's not dead at least a decade
Read it again. In France the person(s) (two candidates for the second round) with the most votes won (That was the problem in fact). Just the system of voting for a single candidate is flawed
The reason why member states can ignore the EU court now and then is that many decisions in the Union still have to be unanimous so it's normally less trouble for the rest of the countries and the commission simply to ignore such things.
M$ will pay (I hope) like the rest (while concrete conditions perhaps are more useful, fines like the 462mio EUR -which is currently the highest ever- could also be effective. It should even get m$ thinking about how to avoid such things in the future)
I thought the system in the UK was worse than most on the planet as it's 100% majority voting of candidates so a party can end with 49.9% of the votes without a single seat in the house of commons and there're no other national elections. Am I right or am I misinformed about the UK system?
Should democracy be the choice of the majority of people or the majority of land.
But of course a overrepresentation of minorities is important you can't let 5 wolves and 2 sheep vote about what to eat for dinner.
Why, I don't think s.... OH MY GOD he was MALE???
I think most people are still faster at writing with a pen than a keyboard and even if that's not the case the possibility to add a few sketches or make annotations without the limitations of a keyboard-based app is a system-seller
Now if it'd only come with Linux optional =)
Is there any cheaper method to get screen time and articles in newspapers than getting sued over nonsensical issues?
I haven't read the page just looked around, abortion seems not to be the main topic (there's a number of pictures which put rotten.com to shame though) of the page it's more like an "Anti-*" page against anyone and everyone. Probably they violated hate-speech laws somewhere in one of their texts, wouldn't surprise me