I think that the "big" antitrust trial with MS has showed EU officials that MS had decided not to play smoothly with European justice. So now, logically, they put under heavy scrutiny the actions of the Redmond's giant.
Given that, it hardly matters what OS it runs, as long as school systems, educators, and students have the ability to write and run the educational software they need on it.
I _still_ would be happy to know a bit more about the specifications and the software choices. Not to judge them, but to be able to help efficiently this action. I have tried to find informations on how to help as a developper, and all I found was an advice like "Just translate and debug all the good OSS you find on the Web". Which is a good advice, but...
On the same note, Dell has been forced to lower its profits estimation for 2006 due to Vista delay. It *is* a known and accepted fact among the hardware industry that each Windows release corresponds to a raise in hardware sales.
Democracy ? Where ?
Opposants arrested before the election, partisan commitee invalidating many opposants candidature, a "Supreme guide" able to veto or force a law...
Elections does not imply democracy.
What comes first in my mind:
- KDE (mainly german)
- Anjuta (lead programmer is Indian FWIK)
- The Shadowrun RPG website (German IIRC)
- MPlayer (Hungarian)
- A lot of O.V. Anime
There are surely other things but that is the first things I thought of. Ah yes, another bit, a bit stretched, I admit it : Linux. Without access to a global community, the Finnish Mr Torvalds would never have completed his freaky project.
Do you think Linux gets a free pass under the law, just because the developers are trying to do something nice?
Wouldn't it be true in a democracy ? People working for the good of the community protected by the law ? Or at least, not bugged by big guys protecting their egoist interests ?
I don't know if anyone still reads this, but I am ashamed to have been modded up to +5. Apparently I have read misinformed or biased medias : reverse-engineering is NOT protected not even mentionned and interoperability is only to be enforced when it doesn't prevent the DRM to work correctly (read : no open source implementation) I am sincerely sorry for everyone that read my post and found it informative.
I've always said that protestantism was the "open source" version of christianism. It was more true at the time when catholics were forbidden to read the Bible by themselves, but hey...
I don't understand the bashing, this law has a lot of criticable flaws but its only force is that it forces DRMs (all DRMs, Apple is not specifically targeted) to be interoperable, what part of it don't you like ?
It could have been a DMCA a la Francaise, we mobilized to prevent it. We don't want to screw Apple but we don't want them to screw anyone "cracking" their DRMs
1) Interoperability must be assured by the providers and reverse-engineering toward this goal is authorized. (Article 7.)
2) A publisher/editor can force an artist to accept that his/her creation will be published with DRMs. ("vivendi" amendment, actually, four different amendments)
As you see, we have fucked up politicians here too. I would say we have slightly less corruption from the lobbies but far more incompetence.
Ok, I spent some time looking at the websites, learning how to contribute, the list of participating countries, but...
I don't see any status information. Therefore, questions to the knowledgeables:
- Is the design of the lime PC fixed ? Where can it be found (I mean, the real specs, which proc, which wifi adaptater, etc...)
- Is the distrib chosen or in the process to be made ?
- Has the distribution begun ? Is there a date for the planned begining of the distribution ?
- What is the name of the MIT's software developed to establish the "local network mesh" central to this initiative ? Is it done ? Can it be tested ? Even in developed countries it could prove useful for nomadic uses...
Right, the bias exists. But we all know it and acknowledge it. I'd say it is part of the spirit of/. On the other hand, one must recognize that there is rarely lies in order to preserve this bias, patches from MS and flaws from linux are also reported, and even if the critics are far from balanced, wrong facts remain rare and willfully wrong facts even rarer. I believe this makes Slashdot a factual-objective, opinion-biaised forum. I like it.
And don't speak about md5sum to check it, how could you be sure to be running the right md5sum software ?
Label me paranoiac, I must be because I am into network security, but keep in mind that it is the government that organize the elections and chose the voting machines. Be it democrat or republican, I don't want to trust them with a single ballot.
Of course it is hot, of course it can vaporize water : this is how it works ! Desalinize sea water with it if you wish, but this is a waste of heat that could be used to produce electricity. You can make hydrogen too, but I doubt that it will be more efficient than making electrolyse...
SUV are the inverse of terrorist : you fight them at home in order to not have to fight them elsewhere. The problem is not with 30% of americans owning a SUV, it is with the 10% of chinese that can afford to do the same...
US Army has done studies during and after WWII to evaluate the efficiency of a foot soldier in a fire fight. They found out that soldiers are more mentally sane than usually believed as near 50% of them didn't manage to pull the trigger. They prefered to do other needed task, carrying munitions, taking wounded behind the lines. It was the "I really don't aim well, sir" syndrom. From this point in time, the training has tried to raise the proportion of happy-triggers. They have reached 90% during the vietnam war.
Brainwash is the most vital objective of today's military training.
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I think that the "big" antitrust trial with MS has showed EU officials that MS had decided not to play smoothly with European justice. So now, logically, they put under heavy scrutiny the actions of the Redmond's giant.
Given that, it hardly matters what OS it runs, as long as school systems, educators, and students have the ability to write and run the educational software they need on it.
I _still_ would be happy to know a bit more about the specifications and the software choices. Not to judge them, but to be able to help efficiently this action. I have tried to find informations on how to help as a developper, and all I found was an advice like "Just translate and debug all the good OSS you find on the Web". Which is a good advice, but...
On the same note, Dell has been forced to lower its profits estimation for 2006 due to Vista delay. It *is* a known and accepted fact among the hardware industry that each Windows release corresponds to a raise in hardware sales.
And even...
Hacking may be hard, but jamming is always doable. It could prevent a bolt to "open" or "close" in a critical moment.
Democracy ? Where ?
Opposants arrested before the election, partisan commitee invalidating many opposants candidature, a "Supreme guide" able to veto or force a law...
Elections does not imply democracy.
What comes first in my mind :
- KDE (mainly german)
- Anjuta (lead programmer is Indian FWIK)
- The Shadowrun RPG website (German IIRC)
- MPlayer (Hungarian)
- A lot of O.V. Anime
There are surely other things but that is the first things I thought of. Ah yes, another bit, a bit stretched, I admit it : Linux. Without access to a global community, the Finnish Mr Torvalds would never have completed his freaky project.
Do you think Linux gets a free pass under the law, just because the developers are trying to do something nice?
Wouldn't it be true in a democracy ? People working for the good of the community protected by the law ? Or at least, not bugged by big guys protecting their egoist interests ?
Bill Gates sues anything called .indows
and wins.
I don't know if anyone still reads this, but I am ashamed to have been modded up to +5. Apparently I have read misinformed or biased medias : reverse-engineering is NOT protected not even mentionned and interoperability is only to be enforced when it doesn't prevent the DRM to work correctly (read : no open source implementation) I am sincerely sorry for everyone that read my post and found it informative.
I've always said that protestantism was the "open source" version of christianism. It was more true at the time when catholics were forbidden to read the Bible by themselves, but hey...
Say good bye to Georges, Hello to Jeb.
By the way, when are Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld scheduled to be removed again ?
I don't understand the bashing, this law has a lot of criticable flaws but its only force is that it forces DRMs (all DRMs, Apple is not specifically targeted) to be interoperable, what part of it don't you like ?
It could have been a DMCA a la Francaise, we mobilized to prevent it. We don't want to screw Apple but we don't want them to screw anyone "cracking" their DRMs
1) Interoperability must be assured by the providers and reverse-engineering toward this goal is authorized. (Article 7.)
2) A publisher/editor can force an artist to accept that his/her creation will be published with DRMs. ("vivendi" amendment, actually, four different amendments)
As you see, we have fucked up politicians here too. I would say we have slightly less corruption from the lobbies but far more incompetence.
Ok, I spent some time looking at the websites, learning how to contribute, the list of participating countries, but...
:
I don't see any status information. Therefore, questions to the knowledgeables
- Is the design of the lime PC fixed ? Where can it be found (I mean, the real specs, which proc, which wifi adaptater, etc...)
- Is the distrib chosen or in the process to be made ?
- Has the distribution begun ? Is there a date for the planned begining of the distribution ?
- What is the name of the MIT's software developed to establish the "local network mesh" central to this initiative ? Is it done ? Can it be tested ? Even in developed countries it could prove useful for nomadic uses...
Right, the bias exists. But we all know it and acknowledge it. I'd say it is part of the spirit of /. On the other hand, one must recognize that there is rarely lies in order to preserve this bias, patches from MS and flaws from linux are also reported, and even if the critics are far from balanced, wrong facts remain rare and willfully wrong facts even rarer. I believe this makes Slashdot a factual-objective, opinion-biaised forum. I like it.
How would you notice the difference if there where an alien code like:
And don't speak about md5sum to check it, how could you be sure to be running the right md5sum software ?
Label me paranoiac, I must be because I am into network security, but keep in mind that it is the government that organize the elections and chose the voting machines. Be it democrat or republican, I don't want to trust them with a single ballot.
Of course it is hot, of course it can vaporize water : this is how it works ! Desalinize sea water with it if you wish, but this is a waste of heat that could be used to produce electricity. You can make hydrogen too, but I doubt that it will be more efficient than making electrolyse...
Probably about a million people using it. Is IRC successful? Cause thats one of my open source projects.
Sheeeesh, my open source project is Internet then, bigger than yours!
welcome our old Overlords
...will see this as the preparation for NASA's buyout by Ares Macrotechnologies. The megacorp that is your friend and your country's friend.
I too am somehow surprised with these rules. They intend to simulate moon conditions in our 1g gravity and atmosphere. What kind of prank is that ?
rand() even happen to give me the correct answer before I ask the question !
The wikipedia says "in the tens of gigahertz". According to it, water particules vibrate due to the microwaves, but do not resonate at this frequency.
SUV are the inverse of terrorist : you fight them at home in order to not have to fight them elsewhere. The problem is not with 30% of americans owning a SUV, it is with the 10% of chinese that can afford to do the same...
US Army has done studies during and after WWII to evaluate the efficiency of a foot soldier in a fire fight. They found out that soldiers are more mentally sane than usually believed as near 50% of them didn't manage to pull the trigger. They prefered to do other needed task, carrying munitions, taking wounded behind the lines. It was the "I really don't aim well, sir" syndrom. From this point in time, the training has tried to raise the proportion of happy-triggers. They have reached 90% during the vietnam war.
Brainwash is the most vital objective of today's military training.