It is true that LCDs actually have a fixed resolution, but you can actually adjust them. When this happens, the monitor makes two or more pixels represent one. However, this is a huge disadvantage, because of the fact that resolutions usually don't divide into each other evenly, there are some regions that are duped, some that are not, making a really wavy image that is readable, but still rather unclear.
Well, there are the main two formats that are common in Linux: tar.gz and tar.bz2
In both cases, the files are essentially concatinated into a single file by the tape archiver (tar) and then that file is compressed using either the gzip or bzip2 utility. While bzip2 is capable of much better ratios, it takes a lot more processing power, and is not nearly as ubiquitous as gzip is.
In some older UNIXes and most Linux distros, there is still the zip utility that makes files with the extension.tar.Z . This is an older format, but it is still being used sometimes.
A nation that is probably more in necessity of such a technology is China, as much of the computer waste is exported there. There are literally mountains of plastic and lead that could be made into monitors which is doing nothing more than polluting the landscape and causing health problems.
If Matsushita(Isn't that AKA Panasonic?) would just move their industry over to the west of Japan, it would be a win/win situation. More stuff to recycle = more profit from recycling, and the locals (though many of them make a living digging in the waste heaps) would probably appreciate the cleanup.
Actually, that's not entirely true. Though Apple uses it as a format for distribution of copyright works through their music store, as far as I've heard, it has no DRM related features at all.
Though they ARE Apple and tend to exaggerate claims (rivals CD quality? Pssh... Ogg Vorbis can do better than AAC)
In the United States, everyone, even citizens, are getting closer and closer to the status of "suspected" every day. That's why they passed weird laws and regulations that even let them see into what books a person checks out from a library without even getting a warrent for that information, and any donation to a terrorist organization, whether the donator knew it or not, would be grounds for the stripping of citizenship status.
You're forgetting that this article only furthers the claims that SCO themselves have legally gifted the seed of this tecnology to Linux. Therefore, it is perfectly legal to use this. I don't see any reason why to rewrite this at all.
Moreover, SCO is testing the bounds and limits of the legal system by going after the end users. I have not seen any company idiotic enough to believe that the users of the software owe them money, for an unsubstantiated claim that, most likely, will not hold out in court. The users have done nothing wrong. If, in the unlikely case that there is a substantial amount of infringing code in the Linux kernel, the users were not aware of that when they first started using the OS, and therefore should be absolved from any blame, and the blame, as well as the indemity, goes squarely on the shoulders of those who planted the code there, whether it be IBM or some other firm/individual.
So, the end result is, if there is some wrongdoing on IBM's part, which is unlikely, SCO's beef is still with IBM, and the end users, who have no wrongdoing on their part, should be immune to any attack by SCO. Just think: if your friend stashed pot in your car and you had no idea that it was there, it would be your friend who recieves the blame if you two were ever busted.
You're probably trolling, but I would have to say that you're an absolute idiot if you believe SCO's position. I, for one, appreciate copyright, and believe that it is what keeps innovation in the world going (alongside with patents), but when they are abused, then we get angry.
Face the facts. All SCO has done is blabber on and on about how they think that Linux contains UNIX code and not backing up their claims about it with any substantial information. Their claims about SMP and business related aspects are total BS, as even before IBM involvement, Linux was a very mature OS. Right now, their third rate OS Unixware is capable of 8 processor SMP, while Linux is capable of up to 64. Why would any intelligent person take parts for a Mustang from an Escort?
Their claims will not hold up in a court of law. If you think that any company can just make random claims and extort money off of the hard work of others, then you obviously are not familliar with the legal process. The very notion that SCO is selling licenses to UnixWare for Linux, BEFORE a trial even started, just proves that they are dishonest in making a licensing scheme for a product that they did not prove was theirs.
The only solid evidence that SCO may have is the fact that there are portions of similar code in Linux and in SVR4 UNIX, the latter of which they own. Recently, the code, all 80 lines of it, was shown to some people who signed a non-disclosure agreement. Apparently, not all the people who viewed it had to sign, a mistake on their part, and it seems that even these 80 lines are kind of a stretch. There were no line numbers, no filenames, no function names on the demosnstration packet. Sometimes, there were portions that made no sense at all, like identical comments next to completely different portions of code. SCO claims that there are tens of thousands more, and Sontag even made that claim that there were files that were directly taken from UNIX. If any of that crap is true, then why did they show only 80 lines of it, where most of it was kind of a stretch?
Linux was developed through the most transparent means possible, and it is possible to see where almost every feature of the kernel came from. The developers were even very careful about the small portions that IBM did contribute, and added it in after much verification.
In conclusion, if you're not trolling, then you're either misinformed, hate Linux, or are just ignorant. I don't care whether or not you hate Linux or free software, but telling lies about it makes you no better than SCO.
UnixWare has never really been a first rate operating system, and it pales in comparison to AIX, HP-UX, and many of the other *NIXes out there. Given the choice between expensive, yet crappy UnixWare, versus verstile, cheap, and plentiful Linux, I think that most people would probably take the latter.
Therefore, SCO has two ways of profiting from their UNIX now. They can either sue people for violating their copyright by alleging that they have misapproprated code from their OS in some way, or, they can get the money from coercing other businesses to buy licenses to their third rate operating system to use another OS.
Either way, they profit, even if it means that they will have to tell a mountain of lies and distort a brainsick amount of facts. Clearly, these people have no morals, no ethics, only the desire for cash, even if it comes from the hard work of others.
Therefore, they must be stopped, and very soon, before they can reap the benefits that they do not deserve.
Sure, I can understand that they would still have problems with compatibility to the vast collection of Windows software out there, but the Gartner report never really stated a number. It seems that this person just made up a number, cited only a single souce (Gartner) and makes no references at all.
Sure, I also think that Linux is perhaps not ready yet for GENERAL desktop use and replacement for Windows for all, but this article is a lot like Yellow Journalism, where the facts are more BS, fluff, and stretched fact than anything else.
They're also forgetting a major thing. If they were to use SO many computers with Windows anyway, WHY DIDN'T THEY JUST TAKE THE MICROSOFT DEAL? Instead of blowing several million euros on SuSE's Linux and IBM's machines?
In all, this article makes little or no sense, cites only one reference, gives no source for the statistic, and stretches many facts in the sole reference, to the point where it makes little/no sense. The very fact that this crap could be MENTIONED on Slashdot really makes me question the integrity of this news source.
But even though I haven't used old primitive DOS for a long time now, I know enough, and almost everyone should know enough, to realize that DOS has no buttons, unlike that stupid advertisement that looks kinda like a DOS prompt, saying that the computer is not optimized, and has an OK button right next to it.
Moreover, the GUI elements of KDE are unlike those of Windows, which is what they usually in those FUI advertisements, and I could easily tell which ones are real and which ones are fake (belive it or not, there are some real GUI element banners where you can select some things, and THEN click on it to take you to the results.)
SO dissapointing...
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I would have expected something much more from a corperate partnership between Apple and Volkswagen, like some sort of dock in the car that you can directly plug the iPod into and leave the headphone port free.
Instead, its a lame combination of just a generic casette adapter, a generic cigarette lighter slot charger, and a bumper sticker, which they're ALWAYS out of. Instead of buying a beetle with this lame system,
I think that I can build my own. All I need is a spare iPod dock, that kit that you can use to connect to the RCA ports behind the radio, and the charger that plugs into the dock. Then, I simply attach the dock to a drink holder or something, and there is a MUCH better solution than the one that Apple/VW is offering. All I would have to do is plug the iPod into the dock, instead of messing with wires.
When the paper is grinded into very small squares or rectangles, its a lot harder to put together than paper shredders that merely cut it into shreds.
Better yet, burn them. That's what I do. I make a large file of all sensitive information, and then when its time to get rid of them, I go into the backyard with a large metal barrel, and burn all of it.
Hmm... IMO, the Sharp model is much better, and it just seems that Sony decided to copy their design. I've seen a lot of mobile PCs, and the Zaurus C700 series is the first of its kind.
With its better processor and far superior OS ( I always hated palm because I bought a Palm IIIxe with Palm OS 3, and SUPPOSEDLY it could upgrade, the jump to 4 did very little for it, and I can't use 5 on it) I think the choice is clear which is better.
True, however, remember that ths is the very reason why Indie music labels were founded in the first place - to bypass the middleman while making profit at the same time. As a matter of fact, this approach has become extremely popular.
Remember that not all people are as generous as your group is, and they want to make profit off of their creativity and music.
A constitutional right is not necessarily an unalienable human right. In Europe, Asia, and actually most countries in the world, the posession of firearms is illegal, which the US and Canada are notable exceptions.
Criminals indeed do give up rights if they are convicted. Sure, they still retain their human rights, but they have to give up some constitutional rights. The words "WITH DUE PROCESS" that are attached to many of the clauses of the constitution means that under fair trial and conviction may these rights be stripped from the person.
Still, don't forget that the vulnerability was THERE, way before Microsoft revealed the nature of it. They didn't tell you about it until they releaesd the patch to it.
Would you trust a company that obviously hides the truth about the very foundation of your computer software base?
Two airports have been alerted after a giant robotic balloon escaped from a science centre in South Yorkshire.
Man, they really overdramatized the subhead of that article. They make it sound like something out of a sci-fi movie. Either that or perhaps we humans have strange connotations with the words "giant" "robotic" and "escaped".
The parts about the two airports sounds particularly interesting. Without reading the article, a person could assume that the balloon may land at those airports and seize them.
All goes to show that these sub-headlines need to be toned down a little.
Lycoris Destop, like the tablet version, is like WinXP, and that's really just a style that they chose for some reason (though I personally hate the Windows default interface... it reminds me of preschool toys). Dosn't mean that the entire OS is ripped off of XP. The inner workings are substantially different.
Since it uses KDE, you should be able to configure just about everything about the interface if you have an internet conneciton. A great site to get new styles for the interface is here
Then why do over 6 billion people still play it then? I'm not implying anything, but given the choice of staying in this not very fun game or ending it, the vast majority of people would say that they still want to stay.
Is this because most people are skeptical about what happens after they quit the game or because they're enjoying it too much? Even though it isn't "very fun"?
I think I speak for many of us when I say: "Life is good."
The thing is, who knows whether or not those statistics are actually accruate or not? Once software is deployed on a computer, there is no way that a company or orginization can effectively and accruately count every single system and tabulate an exact percentage of which operating system has what share, etc.
Microsoft clearly has the optomistic figure here, because of their way of counting. Every Windows license sale they count, and every Windows upgrade counts too. For example, if a user was to buy Windows 3.1, then 95, and then 98, and then XP, Microsoft could assume that it is 4 copies of Windows installed on 4 different computers.
Linux and the other free operating systems like BSD, on the other hand, have much less of an advatage numerically, for you see, because free operating systems get distributed so many ways, there is no effecitve way to count all of them. To get a "logical estimate", the best way is to tabulate how many Linux box sets and CDs were sold, see how many ISOs were downloaded from FTP sites that are willing to cooperate, and thats about it. After these CDs are bought or downloaded and burned, anything could happen to them. The owner could install them on 2 computers, or 4 computers. Nobody knows, as there are no restrictions.
The numbers that are presented are just logical estimates. What are the real numbers? Nobody knows. On the next census in the US, there should be a place to fill in what operating system the person usually uses. That would be more accruate than counting software distributions.
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Actually, its spelled "cheez whiz". And also note that what I just said was a trademark of Kraft.
It is true that LCDs actually have a fixed resolution, but you can actually adjust them. When this happens, the monitor makes two or more pixels represent one. However, this is a huge disadvantage, because of the fact that resolutions usually don't divide into each other evenly, there are some regions that are duped, some that are not, making a really wavy image that is readable, but still rather unclear.
In both cases, the files are essentially concatinated into a single file by the tape archiver (tar) and then that file is compressed using either the gzip or bzip2 utility. While bzip2 is capable of much better ratios, it takes a lot more processing power, and is not nearly as ubiquitous as gzip is.
In some older UNIXes and most Linux distros, there is still the zip utility that makes files with the extension .tar.Z . This is an older format, but it is still being used sometimes.
If Matsushita(Isn't that AKA Panasonic?) would just move their industry over to the west of Japan, it would be a win/win situation. More stuff to recycle = more profit from recycling, and the locals (though many of them make a living digging in the waste heaps) would probably appreciate the cleanup.
Though they ARE Apple and tend to exaggerate claims (rivals CD quality? Pssh... Ogg Vorbis can do better than AAC)
In the United States, everyone, even citizens, are getting closer and closer to the status of "suspected" every day. That's why they passed weird laws and regulations that even let them see into what books a person checks out from a library without even getting a warrent for that information, and any donation to a terrorist organization, whether the donator knew it or not, would be grounds for the stripping of citizenship status.
Moreover, SCO is testing the bounds and limits of the legal system by going after the end users. I have not seen any company idiotic enough to believe that the users of the software owe them money, for an unsubstantiated claim that, most likely, will not hold out in court. The users have done nothing wrong. If, in the unlikely case that there is a substantial amount of infringing code in the Linux kernel, the users were not aware of that when they first started using the OS, and therefore should be absolved from any blame, and the blame, as well as the indemity, goes squarely on the shoulders of those who planted the code there, whether it be IBM or some other firm/individual.
So, the end result is, if there is some wrongdoing on IBM's part, which is unlikely, SCO's beef is still with IBM, and the end users, who have no wrongdoing on their part, should be immune to any attack by SCO. Just think: if your friend stashed pot in your car and you had no idea that it was there, it would be your friend who recieves the blame if you two were ever busted.
Face the facts. All SCO has done is blabber on and on about how they think that Linux contains UNIX code and not backing up their claims about it with any substantial information. Their claims about SMP and business related aspects are total BS, as even before IBM involvement, Linux was a very mature OS. Right now, their third rate OS Unixware is capable of 8 processor SMP, while Linux is capable of up to 64. Why would any intelligent person take parts for a Mustang from an Escort?
Their claims will not hold up in a court of law. If you think that any company can just make random claims and extort money off of the hard work of others, then you obviously are not familliar with the legal process. The very notion that SCO is selling licenses to UnixWare for Linux, BEFORE a trial even started, just proves that they are dishonest in making a licensing scheme for a product that they did not prove was theirs.
The only solid evidence that SCO may have is the fact that there are portions of similar code in Linux and in SVR4 UNIX, the latter of which they own. Recently, the code, all 80 lines of it, was shown to some people who signed a non-disclosure agreement. Apparently, not all the people who viewed it had to sign, a mistake on their part, and it seems that even these 80 lines are kind of a stretch. There were no line numbers, no filenames, no function names on the demosnstration packet. Sometimes, there were portions that made no sense at all, like identical comments next to completely different portions of code. SCO claims that there are tens of thousands more, and Sontag even made that claim that there were files that were directly taken from UNIX. If any of that crap is true, then why did they show only 80 lines of it, where most of it was kind of a stretch?
Linux was developed through the most transparent means possible, and it is possible to see where almost every feature of the kernel came from. The developers were even very careful about the small portions that IBM did contribute, and added it in after much verification.
In conclusion, if you're not trolling, then you're either misinformed, hate Linux, or are just ignorant. I don't care whether or not you hate Linux or free software, but telling lies about it makes you no better than SCO.
Therefore, SCO has two ways of profiting from their UNIX now. They can either sue people for violating their copyright by alleging that they have misapproprated code from their OS in some way, or, they can get the money from coercing other businesses to buy licenses to their third rate operating system to use another OS.
Either way, they profit, even if it means that they will have to tell a mountain of lies and distort a brainsick amount of facts. Clearly, these people have no morals, no ethics, only the desire for cash, even if it comes from the hard work of others.
Therefore, they must be stopped, and very soon, before they can reap the benefits that they do not deserve.
They could get a robot that can play DDR.
1. Start pro-Microsoft schpiel site 2. Post BS article filled with senseless extrapolations 3. Get noted on /.
4. ???
5. PROFIT!!!!
Sure, I also think that Linux is perhaps not ready yet for GENERAL desktop use and replacement for Windows for all, but this article is a lot like Yellow Journalism, where the facts are more BS, fluff, and stretched fact than anything else.
They're also forgetting a major thing. If they were to use SO many computers with Windows anyway, WHY DIDN'T THEY JUST TAKE THE MICROSOFT DEAL? Instead of blowing several million euros on SuSE's Linux and IBM's machines?
In all, this article makes little or no sense, cites only one reference, gives no source for the statistic, and stretches many facts in the sole reference, to the point where it makes little/no sense. The very fact that this crap could be MENTIONED on Slashdot really makes me question the integrity of this news source.
Moreover, the GUI elements of KDE are unlike those of Windows, which is what they usually in those FUI advertisements, and I could easily tell which ones are real and which ones are fake (belive it or not, there are some real GUI element banners where you can select some things, and THEN click on it to take you to the results.)
Instead, its a lame combination of just a generic casette adapter, a generic cigarette lighter slot charger, and a bumper sticker, which they're ALWAYS out of. Instead of buying a beetle with this lame system,
I think that I can build my own. All I need is a spare iPod dock, that kit that you can use to connect to the RCA ports behind the radio, and the charger that plugs into the dock. Then, I simply attach the dock to a drink holder or something, and there is a MUCH better solution than the one that Apple/VW is offering. All I would have to do is plug the iPod into the dock, instead of messing with wires.
Secondly, not all "Linux people" are loners who never get laid.
Better yet, burn them. That's what I do. I make a large file of all sensitive information, and then when its time to get rid of them, I go into the backyard with a large metal barrel, and burn all of it.
With its better processor and far superior OS ( I always hated palm because I bought a Palm IIIxe with Palm OS 3, and SUPPOSEDLY it could upgrade, the jump to 4 did very little for it, and I can't use 5 on it) I think the choice is clear which is better.
Remember that not all people are as generous as your group is, and they want to make profit off of their creativity and music.
A constitutional right is not necessarily an unalienable human right. In Europe, Asia, and actually most countries in the world, the posession of firearms is illegal, which the US and Canada are notable exceptions.
Criminals indeed do give up rights if they are convicted. Sure, they still retain their human rights, but they have to give up some constitutional rights. The words "WITH DUE PROCESS" that are attached to many of the clauses of the constitution means that under fair trial and conviction may these rights be stripped from the person.
Would you trust a company that obviously hides the truth about the very foundation of your computer software base?
Man, they really overdramatized the subhead of that article. They make it sound like something out of a sci-fi movie. Either that or perhaps we humans have strange connotations with the words "giant" "robotic" and "escaped".
The parts about the two airports sounds particularly interesting. Without reading the article, a person could assume that the balloon may land at those airports and seize them.
All goes to show that these sub-headlines need to be toned down a little.
Since it uses KDE, you should be able to configure just about everything about the interface if you have an internet conneciton. A great site to get new styles for the interface is here
Can we plz change the picture that is associated with sci fi? Everytime I see that weird looking face, I get a little freaked out.
Is this because most people are skeptical about what happens after they quit the game or because they're enjoying it too much? Even though it isn't "very fun"?
I think I speak for many of us when I say: "Life is good."
Microsoft clearly has the optomistic figure here, because of their way of counting. Every Windows license sale they count, and every Windows upgrade counts too. For example, if a user was to buy Windows 3.1, then 95, and then 98, and then XP, Microsoft could assume that it is 4 copies of Windows installed on 4 different computers.
Linux and the other free operating systems like BSD, on the other hand, have much less of an advatage numerically, for you see, because free operating systems get distributed so many ways, there is no effecitve way to count all of them. To get a "logical estimate", the best way is to tabulate how many Linux box sets and CDs were sold, see how many ISOs were downloaded from FTP sites that are willing to cooperate, and thats about it. After these CDs are bought or downloaded and burned, anything could happen to them. The owner could install them on 2 computers, or 4 computers. Nobody knows, as there are no restrictions.
The numbers that are presented are just logical estimates. What are the real numbers? Nobody knows. On the next census in the US, there should be a place to fill in what operating system the person usually uses. That would be more accruate than counting software distributions.