Congress on the whole and particularly in the last 14 years has been working hard on transferring the nation's wealth up the economic ladder.
too bad that's just not true. the rich pay the lion's share of the tax bill. the wealthiest 5 percent pay more than half the taxes, while people in the bottom half pay just 4 percent.
very interesting. you should do a paper and have this published in the leading physics journals.
your valuable insights have made slashdot a more intelligent place for physics minded people like you and me.
Seagate and Western Digital are both going to 1 yr warranties for the major potion of their product lines. WD will keep a 3yr on the Special Edition drives.
As of now....IBM is the only company to not announce a change in drive warranty...my guess is that will change once they introduce their new drives.
While we can obliterate training camps and oust dictators, we're never going to subject every man who hates us to such abject poverty that he can't buy a box cutter and a plane ticket
you do realize that the 9/11 terrorists were college educated middle class men, hardly poverty stricken people crying for justic.
But of course, that doesn't fit with your US Empire view, so you can just ignore that.
Mozilla is not just a browser. Mozilla is also a framework that allows developers to create cross-platform applications. This framework is made up of JavaScript, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and Mozilla's XUL (XML-based User-interface Language) as well as the Gecko rendering engine, XBL (eXtensible Binding Language), XPCOM (Mozilla's component model), and several other components. Creating Applications with Mozilla explains how applications are created with Mozilla and provides step-by-step information about how you can create your own programs using Mozilla's powerful cross-platform development framework. This book also shows examples of many different types of existing applications to demonstrate some of the possibilities of Mozilla application development. One of Mozilla's biggest advantages for a developer is that Mozilla-based applications are cross-platform, meaning programs work the same on Windows as they do on Linux or the Mac OS.
Working through the book, you are introduced to the Mozilla development environment and after installing Mozilla, you quickly learn to create simple applications. After the initial satisfaction of developing your own portable applications, the book branches into topics on modular development and packaging your application. In order to build more complex applications, coverage of XUL, JavaScript, and CSS allow you to discover how to customize and build out your application shell. The second half of the book explores more advanced topics including UI enhancement, localization, and remote distribution.
Mozilla 1.0 was released on June 5th, 2002, after more than four years of development as an open source project. This book has been written so that all of the information and examples will work with this release and any of the 1.0.x maintenance releases. In addition to Netscape's Mozilla-based browsers (Netscape 6.x and 7.x), the Mozilla framework has been used to create other browsers such as Galeon and Chimera, and chat clients such as ChatZilla and JabberZilla. Developers have also used Mozilla to create games, development tools, browser enhancements, as well as all sorts of other types of applications.
you fuckin idiot, clinton was the president when the dmca was passed, what the fuck does Bush have to do with this? sounds like more knee jerk america bashing again.
and yet, on slashdot this is +5 insightful! hooray for this great moderation system!
I mean, this is a fairly insignificant story, and you guys post this article with chock full of links so that Microsoft can look bad.
I mean, jeez, get some priorities or something. Nobody outside of maybe slashdotters or other MS-haters really would care, you people are frothing out the mouths over their godamn PR campaign! Is there nothing about Microsoft you won't bitch about?
Maybe if you guys focused your time on making Linux better, you people wouldn't be so jealous.
In Canada, censorship is almost a national sport, like lacrosse and hockey. In Saskatchewan last year, a newspaper was fined for publishing an ad that quoted Bible verses on homosexuality. For this human-rights violation, the Saskatoon StarPhoenix and the man who took out the ad had to pay $1,500. Presumably, if the authors of the Bible had been available for trial, Saskatchewan would have dealt sternly with them, too.
first you see where the author's agenda is when he writes "Whenever the United States attacks a country, diplomatically or physically, it cites human rights claims." Well, that's just not true, first of all, but he fills this article with all sorts of false statements like this to knock down. The same challenges arise when a human rights organization publicly presents its results. The politicians, generals, and other power-holders will dispute every step in reasoning. Well yea, but what does free software have to do with this? People who challenge results talk about the methodologies used, how they collect the data, and so forth. Nobody cares what software they use. Openness of code is meaningless if the process is closed. Look at the slashdot moderation system.
Patrick finds the costs of proprietary software offensive. "It widens the imbalance between the rich and poor regions of the world," he says. Even worse, "It concentrates power in the hands of software owners." That's just bullshit. Where's the evidence for that? You don't want to pay for expensive software, don't buy it. If the costs are so offensive, then buy something cheaper. Oh wait, the cheap free solution often times isn't as good.
While Open Source can make for cool code for the cool apps, it still lags far behind the big boys when it comes to the most mundane things, copy-n-paste, fonts, printing, etc.
While everybody works on creating the cool things, the uncool things get little attention. That's where proprietary software is still superior. You can get paid to do the grunt work. In Open Source, nobody really cares when you do that, and you won't look at leet as the guy making another IRC application.
So the big boys like Microsoft and Apple will always have a leg up.
Libranet GNU/Linux? Can anyone seriously say this without getting tongue-tied or feeling stupid?
Seriously, open source software just does not name their products well. Who in God's Green Earth this is a good name for their product? It's not sexy or cool, and is too convoluted for such a simple product, which is Linux.
And the number of times this articles says GNU/Linux is more than enough to make me nauseous.
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That's Interesting, that corresponds with a slow drop in productivity of the Tech sector...
That presupposes that most of slashdot's readers are actually working. Somehow I don't think that is the case.
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My girlfriend is a PHD student, and she is currently doing research in medical technology. Recently she's had a demonstration of this device. After that demonstration, they were allowed to handle the machine and try some manipulations.
From what I understood: 1. This is not an intelligent robot, but a tool for the surgeon. Sensors are connected to the surgeons hands and arms, and they are transmitted to the operational device. It still is the surgeon which does the operation.
2. Resistance, which I saw mentioned in one of the other responses, is simulated to the surgeon doing the operation. Thus, a more 'natural' feel is created.
3. This device and devices like it are great tools for Minimal Invasive Surgery (MIS). Because the opening doesn't have to be large at all, and devices can be sterilized, this greatly reduces the risk of infection.
4. If developments continue along this line, and there is no reason to believe they won't, operation rooms may become obsolete for many operations: a closed sterile device is pressed against the area where the opening has to come. All that has to be sterile is the insides of the operation device.
The FSF are not the language police. You can suggest we call a horse a fish, but people will not respond. Likewise, this is just as silly. They act like they dont know what you're talking about when you say "Linux" when it's quite obvious they do. It's a political battle for them, and they lost a long long time ago.
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too bad that's just not true. the rich pay the lion's share of the tax bill. the wealthiest 5 percent pay more than half the taxes, while people in the bottom half pay just 4 percent.
that explain why I've been so productive at work so lately, and why I have been able to enjoy the great outdoors a little more.
Some things can be blesses in disguise, and this probably is it.
very interesting. you should do a paper and have this published in the leading physics journals. your valuable insights have made slashdot a more intelligent place for physics minded people like you and me.
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ooh..good one man..are you an insult comic or something? you are truly a comedic genious.
Hi, you are a fucking idiot.
Arguing on Slashdot is like winning the special olympics. Even when you win, you're still a retard.
Seagate and Western Digital are both going to 1 yr warranties for the major potion of their product lines. WD will keep a 3yr on the Special Edition drives.
As of now....IBM is the only company to not announce a change in drive warranty...my guess is that will change once they introduce their new drives.
you do realize that the 9/11 terrorists were college educated middle class men, hardly poverty stricken people crying for justic.
But of course, that doesn't fit with your US Empire view, so you can just ignore that.
Gotta love the "insighfulness" of slashdot.
Mozilla is not just a browser. Mozilla is also a framework that allows developers to create cross-platform applications. This framework is made up of JavaScript, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and Mozilla's XUL (XML-based User-interface Language) as well as the Gecko rendering engine, XBL (eXtensible Binding Language), XPCOM (Mozilla's component model), and several other components.
Creating Applications with Mozilla explains how applications are created with Mozilla and provides step-by-step information about how you can create your own programs using Mozilla's powerful cross-platform development framework. This book also shows examples of many different types of existing applications to demonstrate some of the possibilities of Mozilla application development. One of Mozilla's biggest advantages for a developer is that Mozilla-based applications are cross-platform, meaning programs work the same on Windows as they do on Linux or the Mac OS.
Working through the book, you are introduced to the Mozilla development environment and after installing Mozilla, you quickly learn to create simple applications. After the initial satisfaction of developing your own portable applications, the book branches into topics on modular development and packaging your application. In order to build more complex applications, coverage of XUL, JavaScript, and CSS allow you to discover how to customize and build out your application shell. The second half of the book explores more advanced topics including UI enhancement, localization, and remote distribution.
Mozilla 1.0 was released on June 5th, 2002, after more than four years of development as an open source project. This book has been written so that all of the information and examples will work with this release and any of the 1.0.x maintenance releases. In addition to Netscape's Mozilla-based browsers (Netscape 6.x and 7.x), the Mozilla framework has been used to create other browsers such as Galeon and Chimera, and chat clients such as ChatZilla and JabberZilla. Developers have also used Mozilla to create games, development tools, browser enhancements, as well as all sorts of other types of applications.
you fuckin idiot, clinton was the president when the dmca was passed, what the fuck does Bush have to do with this? sounds like more knee jerk america bashing again.
and yet, on slashdot this is +5 insightful! hooray for this great moderation system!
Yes, because there's just no way anybody can disagree on slashdot and not work for Microsoft!
what incredibly shallow and mind-numbing logic.
And seeing how my legitimate comment gets modded -1, it's pretty obvious what a circle jerk this place is now.
I mean, jeez, get some priorities or something. Nobody outside of maybe slashdotters or other MS-haters really would care, you people are frothing out the mouths over their godamn PR campaign! Is there nothing about Microsoft you won't bitch about?
Maybe if you guys focused your time on making Linux better, you people wouldn't be so jealous.
You guys can save yourselves a lot of trouble if you stop having these delusions that Linux ready to topple Windows in gaming. It's not.
Even when you have native Linux ports of games, it's still not as fast, not as smooth as the windows version.
So this news is nice, but it's really little more than a novelty for die hard zealots.
In Canada, censorship is almost a national sport, like lacrosse and hockey. In Saskatchewan last year, a newspaper was fined for publishing an ad that quoted Bible verses on homosexuality. For this human-rights violation, the Saskatoon StarPhoenix and the man who took out the ad had to pay $1,500. Presumably, if the authors of the Bible had been available for trial, Saskatchewan would have dealt sternly with them, too.
The same challenges arise when a human rights organization publicly presents its results. The politicians, generals, and other power-holders will dispute every step in reasoning. Well yea, but what does free software have to do with this? People who challenge results talk about the methodologies used, how they collect the data, and so forth. Nobody cares what software they use. Openness of code is meaningless if the process is closed. Look at the slashdot moderation system.
Patrick finds the costs of proprietary software offensive. "It widens the imbalance between the rich and poor regions of the world," he says. Even worse, "It concentrates power in the hands of software owners." That's just bullshit. Where's the evidence for that? You don't want to pay for expensive software, don't buy it. If the costs are so offensive, then buy something cheaper. Oh wait, the cheap free solution often times isn't as good.
Once this POS hits bankruptcy, the Linux as Microsoft-beater movement will be over.
(This ia a real prediction, not a troll).
sorta comparing a KIA with a BMW.
different strokes for different folk, I guess.
While everybody works on creating the cool things, the uncool things get little attention. That's where proprietary software is still superior. You can get paid to do the grunt work. In Open Source, nobody really cares when you do that, and you won't look at leet as the guy making another IRC application.
So the big boys like Microsoft and Apple will always have a leg up.
Seriously, open source software just does not name their products well. Who in God's Green Earth this is a good name for their product? It's not sexy or cool, and is too convoluted for such a simple product, which is Linux.
And the number of times this articles says GNU/Linux is more than enough to make me nauseous.
That presupposes that most of slashdot's readers are actually working.
Somehow I don't think that is the case.
My girlfriend is a PHD student, and she is currently doing research in medical technology. Recently she's had a demonstration of this device. After that demonstration, they were allowed to handle the machine and try some manipulations.
From what I understood:
1. This is not an intelligent robot, but a tool for the surgeon. Sensors are connected to the surgeons hands and arms, and they are transmitted to the operational device. It still is the surgeon which does the operation.
2. Resistance, which I saw mentioned in one of the other responses, is simulated to the surgeon doing the operation. Thus, a more 'natural' feel is created.
3. This device and devices like it are great tools for Minimal Invasive Surgery (MIS). Because the opening doesn't have to be large at all, and devices can be sterilized, this greatly reduces the risk of infection.
4. If developments continue along this line, and there is no reason to believe they won't, operation rooms may become obsolete for many operations: a closed sterile device is pressed against the area where the opening has to come. All that has to be sterile is the insides of the operation device.
The premise is wrong too, you can argue that freedom has actually been increasing for more people in the USA and the world.
But hey, with an editor like michael, "features" like this are newsworthy when it is in fact just another of his pet issues he likes to push.
I don't see where changing the saying of one word changes anything besides feeding their ego.
If the FSF was successful in this quest, even Stalin or Mao would be impressed.
They claim they are trying to educate, but to me it's quite clear they are attempting to indoctrinate.
Time to call them out on this newspeak.