It supprises me that things still can be patent pending with the whole "let 'em patent it now, whether they deserved it or not is the courts decision" attitude.
It just goes to show, even when all time consuming attention to detail is bypassed by sheer laziness that burocracy will always find a way to slow things down to their healthy speed.
I understand that views of slashdot and slashdot fanboys such as myself are tilted in a particular direction as are everyone elses. It is impossible for a human to be fully objective as human minds all posess a cirtain set of values that we personally hold to be true and our morals and integrity usually prevent us from acting against those values meaning that even if a universal truth existed it would be doubtful if it could be followed by anyone.
I come here because I have tried most of the alternatives to linux (Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2K and XP, MacOS 7, 8 and 9 and even OpenBSD) and I have decided that I not only like LINUX the most, I like it the most by a huge margin. Since I like Linux, I therefore see from a LINUX lover's perspective and therefore like to hear news written from a LINUX lover's perspective, because I see that as objective because it conforms the the values that I hold as universal truth.
For me, anything that concedes that windows 2000 is a tollerable operating system is totally innacurate and most probably biased as I have had three years of personal experiance to the contrary. I however understand that this view is not shared by everyone. Those who I dissagree with possibly have views that are valid as my own, but are however completly wrong from my own perspective, and I will argue insult and bitch accordingly.
See those four letters at the bottom of every page on slashdot? They say OSDN, Open Source Development Network, a project set up to encorage open source development and a subsidury of VA Linux Systems. Why wouldn't you expect it to support Linux with the zeal that is fitting of something with its interests tied so closely with Linux?
As for yourself, I have no idea where you stand on the subject of operating system preference, for all I know you could be a bigger linux fanboy than myself or you could be the guy who wrote that aweful peice of trash security guide. It doesn't really matter. All I call to you to do is to acknowledge that everyone is biased as true objectivity cannot be found anywhere. You should also possibly have a think about whether continuing to read slashdot will give you greater greif than it will bring you enlightenment.
Wow, your testemony sure puts to rest all those rumors of GTK-2 being slow if it is snappy on a 133MHz 486 (although I can't claim I have seen a 486 clocked that fast myself)
the people in "the infamous camp X-ray" aren't there for violating copyrights
I never said they were, you just made a remark about the fairness of the Chineese justice system, and I was giving an example of the fairness of the American one
Frankly I have not been impressed with the Chineese government's approach to freedom either. Many of it's behaviors such as enforcing the gap between rich and poor by resticting movement from the country to the citys without somehow compansating the country areas sickens me. Specially since it is supposedly a communist country.
However using a link from the US department of state to prove your point is just rediculous.
It is a well known fact the the US department of state has historicly had less than a warm relationship with China, not to mention the fact that the US government (granted, not the state department) runs the infamous camp X-ray.
Quite frankly, with its firewalling etc. China's government is simply substituting corperate information control with state information control, but that doesn't mean that the US government is any better.
Hi, I have some mod points and I was going to mod you (-1 flamebait) until I read that last line where you denounced the article, so I will do the gentlemanly thing and semi-flame you instead:
From my experiance the LINUX community in general hates restricting of rights on the internet a lot more than it hates dumb users. I am not sure if you use LINUX or not, but most LINUX users I know would cringe at the thought of being lectured on the goodness of interlectual property, how RPC faults are our problem not MS' and how a virus checker is an essential part of a well set up system.
Really, I think you would find a group of people more opposed to that sort of thing than LINUX users.
Try a Tooheys Old, it is a good full bodied black ale.
Anyway, that line was said by an Australian in "Live at the Hollwood Bowl" about American beer, not about Australian beer itself. If you don't believe me look here.
You really need to get your Monty Python sorted out before you use it to pick on the calibre of Aussie Bruces you will find on Slashdot.
I am calling apon all Australians to fight this anti-booze sentiment to restore the nationalistic pride of the only country to have ever used rum as a national currency, and who's national food: vegimite is made from beer extract.
Victorians, remember that your scientific research as well as your VB swilling nature is under direct threat so even if us New South Welsh people are overcome with soberity I beg you to fight on.
Yes, but that's because when a LINUX user is in bed but not alone, LINUX user and the LINUX user's partner are too busy to sleep until noon the following day. By that time the chance to obtain slumber has long since past.
That reminds me about an appendix to George Orwell's "Down and out in Paris and London" where he discusses the development of nauty words. The funny thing is that it was edited back in the forties so as to remove the naughty words and the original unedited manuscript has been lost. As a concequence it has become completely meaningless, but many publishers put it in anyway as a bit of an ironic message about censureship.
Like I said before, our polititions are dickheads, but our courts are great. Personally, I don't care if they are fairly bland seeming, I don't care how many gay hookers Michael Kirby did or didn't pick up in how many government cars, I wouldn't even care if they found me guilty of murder (if I did it of course). I have a deep respect for those guys, and I believe that until they are mainly replaced they will keep making nice decisions.
The thing about Australia is that we have little to be patriotic with, our flag is unrecognisable to most of the world, our national anthem is unknown to most Australians, everyone seems to think our capital is Sydney, our soccer team can never make it to the world cup, Fosters is synonomous with us everywhere outside Austalia but is undrinkable to most Australians, our new submarines are noisy, Paul Hogan seems to be mistaken sometimes for a national ambasitor, our Prime Minister has the charisma of a block of wood, and one of the most popular politicians in recent history was just locked up for three years because she was too stupid to understand our electoral funding laws.
The only thing we have to be proud of is our judicial system, the guys who blocked the Gordon below Franklin damn even though blocking it was COMPLETELY unconstitutional it was just right, the guys who locked up Pauline Hanson, the guys who fined those record labels, the guys who don't give a DAMN about what the big guys say about what you can and can't do with your own stuff. They make me proud to be an Australian,
Even though in Australia it is unpatriotic to be patriotic (or at least you are judged to be a weeny if you are). It is times like this when I would like to press my hand to my chest, salute our crappy, halfarsely designed flag, scull my VB (not Fosters, YUCK!) and sing "Advance Australia Fair" at the top of my voice (even though it was written by white supremists, at least it is not about a suicidal sheep duffer).
Try sodipodi, it is a nice, powerful, and of course free graphics program that uses SVG as its native format. It is not completed but already is very usable.
It has aspirations of becoming to vector graphics what gimp is to bitmap, and is taking the right steps towards following in it's footsteps, and soon may be second best in it's field just like the gimp is (if it isn't at the moment).
How IBM could submit 1000000 lines of code, in the space in time that it would require to copy them without Linus Torvalds noticing is beyond me. After some rough calculations I worked out that that would mean that Linux-2.4 has more in common with sys V than linux-2.2
But no, there is a logical answer to this. Evident if one RTFAs, as the the quote from which the number was taken from is by Jeff Gerhardt, not an SCO spokesman nor anything like it:
we want to be able to look at the offending code without prejudicing our future careers and so that we can remove any offending code, even if that is a million lines
That is not a reference that SCO has claimed there are 1000000 lines stolen, that is a comment saying that even if they did, LINUX could be repaired. But I must consede that while SCO has not claimed this in this article I wouldn't be suprised if they did somewhere else.
and their shuttle program was scrapped and turned into a carnival ride
I find it funny that an American mentions the Buran.
The buran was launched once in 1988 as a response to the American shuttle program. It was not fully completed at the time so it was flown wholly with autopilot. It circled the earth nicely and landed automatically in strong crosswinds. However when the Russians found out how much it costs to keep them running (still less than the space shuttle though) they were abandoned and never launched again.
I see it as a tribute to the russian space program that they had the sense to can something because it was unecconomical, unlike NASA who still flys space shuttles 25 year after they were designed, after 14 fatalities (twice as many as have died in all other American and Soviet space crafts combined) and billions in maintainance costs.
It would seem that 100 posts or so into the subject, still noone has stated the obvious. So here goes:
Well scout walkers are ok, but the star wars character I would most like to see in this is Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman) naked and petrified, with plenty of hot grits! She can loosen my "leg stirrups" any day!
Doesn't that sound like something that one could yell from a construction site? I am personally already ashamed of myself, but it had to be said.
I believe there was only one joke actually by Yakov Smirnoff, that was:
In America you can always find a party, in Soviet Russia party can always find you
an extremely witty joke by almost everyone's standards, making a great pun with the word "party" to create truly a beautiful and lasting joke.
The classic joke was later reused in the cartoon Family Guy as the Yakoff Smirnoff setting of the autodrive system. The voice made comments like "you are coming to a fork in road, in soviet russia, road fork you!" and "in soviet russia, car drive you" to succesfully create riotous amusement by the shear lameness of the repitition.
Unfortunantly lameness and repititon are also the chosen methods of expression on another media: the internet. This continuation of the running joke has made the memory of that great joke lost in a sea of "in soviet russia, opteron makes beowolf cluster out of you!" travesties.
But it seems in this corrupt world, anything innocent and beautiful will eventally be raped by those who have nothing to do but distroy purity.
Are you hoping for a Battle of Stalingrad situation, where there is really no site to cheer for?
Whatever one's opinion of Stalin might be there are many reasons to go for the Russians in that particlar battle:
The Germans were invading the Russians, not the other way around (this is before you could say that the Russians deserved it, as you could have ten years later after they invaded Poland, Hungry, Romania, etc. although the Romanians had it coming)
The Germans were mass executing civilians in Russian towns for being Jewish, the soviets only killed people for dissagreeing with them... which is still pretty bad but not genocide.
The Germans were also attacking western europe and making bits of bastards of themselves as far as policies towards their new territories.
The Russians were both the underdogs as far as military power was concerned, and the victors... everyone likes to cheer for people like that
The Russian had that delightful Vacilli Zeichzev chap and the rest of the good guys in enemy at the gates which I think was a pretty darn good movie.
The Germans were allies with the japaneese who were at that time having a great time spreading their empire, starving and torturing POWs, raping Korean women and generally getting up to mischief, while the Russians were allies with the British and the Americans who were out there trying to stop genecide, instead of creating a slightly different flavor of it in Asia.
As for godzilla battle I would go for rodin... I know walking on cities is an artform as much as sculpture is, but there is something about sculpting the thinker that is cool.
And for the feeding frenzy, you would go for the poor little things getting eaten, not the sharks.
It does seem ironic that the right wing factions promote freedoms and civil liberties that give people the right to posess guns (devices for killing), also promote freedoms of commerce that prohibit the posession of smart card programmers (devices for sticking numbers onto cards).
Just goes to show freedom is only gained by trampling the freedoms of others.
I believe Johann Strauss' Blue Danube was what was playing during the docking sequence.
The use of Richard Strauss' "Thus Spoke Zarathrusta" would only be relivent for when you whip out your obilisk. Or possibly when you wanna get out your monkey and start hitting your wife with the bone. (ok, that was really quite bad wasn't it)
All I can say is that if you can keep it for as long as that boring movie seemed to go on for you are more of a man than I am. I liked Clockwork Orange more... but I must concede that there is nothing in that movie that would be advisable to emulate with one's wife. For that one needs Eyes Wide Shut
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It just goes to show, even when all time consuming attention to detail is bypassed by sheer laziness that burocracy will always find a way to slow things down to their healthy speed.
I come here because I have tried most of the alternatives to linux (Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2K and XP, MacOS 7, 8 and 9 and even OpenBSD) and I have decided that I not only like LINUX the most, I like it the most by a huge margin. Since I like Linux, I therefore see from a LINUX lover's perspective and therefore like to hear news written from a LINUX lover's perspective, because I see that as objective because it conforms the the values that I hold as universal truth.
For me, anything that concedes that windows 2000 is a tollerable operating system is totally innacurate and most probably biased as I have had three years of personal experiance to the contrary. I however understand that this view is not shared by everyone. Those who I dissagree with possibly have views that are valid as my own, but are however completly wrong from my own perspective, and I will argue insult and bitch accordingly.
See those four letters at the bottom of every page on slashdot? They say OSDN, Open Source Development Network, a project set up to encorage open source development and a subsidury of VA Linux Systems. Why wouldn't you expect it to support Linux with the zeal that is fitting of something with its interests tied so closely with Linux?
As for yourself, I have no idea where you stand on the subject of operating system preference, for all I know you could be a bigger linux fanboy than myself or you could be the guy who wrote that aweful peice of trash security guide. It doesn't really matter. All I call to you to do is to acknowledge that everyone is biased as true objectivity cannot be found anywhere. You should also possibly have a think about whether continuing to read slashdot will give you greater greif than it will bring you enlightenment.
It's how you use it!
Wow, your testemony sure puts to rest all those rumors of GTK-2 being slow if it is snappy on a 133MHz 486 (although I can't claim I have seen a 486 clocked that fast myself)
I never said they were, you just made a remark about the fairness of the Chineese justice system, and I was giving an example of the fairness of the American one
However using a link from the US department of state to prove your point is just rediculous. It is a well known fact the the US department of state has historicly had less than a warm relationship with China, not to mention the fact that the US government (granted, not the state department) runs the infamous camp X-ray.
Quite frankly, with its firewalling etc. China's government is simply substituting corperate information control with state information control, but that doesn't mean that the US government is any better.
Sometimes you just have to sit back and laugh at how much irony one can create without noticing.
From my experiance the LINUX community in general hates restricting of rights on the internet a lot more than it hates dumb users. I am not sure if you use LINUX or not, but most LINUX users I know would cringe at the thought of being lectured on the goodness of interlectual property, how RPC faults are our problem not MS' and how a virus checker is an essential part of a well set up system.
Really, I think you would find a group of people more opposed to that sort of thing than LINUX users.
Who ends a letter with "respectfully", that's a great way to sound like a total brownose.
Anyway, that line was said by an Australian in "Live at the Hollwood Bowl" about American beer, not about Australian beer itself. If you don't believe me look here.
You really need to get your Monty Python sorted out before you use it to pick on the calibre of Aussie Bruces you will find on Slashdot.
However this part of our culture is under threat from the tea totaling anti-Australian premier of NSW.
I am calling apon all Australians to fight this anti-booze sentiment to restore the nationalistic pride of the only country to have ever used rum as a national currency, and who's national food: vegimite is made from beer extract.
Victorians, remember that your scientific research as well as your VB swilling nature is under direct threat so even if us New South Welsh people are overcome with soberity I beg you to fight on.
telstra is half owned by the australian goverment, I doubt if the government would let them outsourse to India or China, or indeed California
Yes, but that's because when a LINUX user is in bed but not alone, LINUX user and the LINUX user's partner are too busy to sleep until noon the following day. By that time the chance to obtain slumber has long since past.
That reminds me about an appendix to George Orwell's "Down and out in Paris and London" where he discusses the development of nauty words. The funny thing is that it was edited back in the forties so as to remove the naughty words and the original unedited manuscript has been lost. As a concequence it has become completely meaningless, but many publishers put it in anyway as a bit of an ironic message about censureship.
Like I said before, our polititions are dickheads, but our courts are great. Personally, I don't care if they are fairly bland seeming, I don't care how many gay hookers Michael Kirby did or didn't pick up in how many government cars, I wouldn't even care if they found me guilty of murder (if I did it of course). I have a deep respect for those guys, and I believe that until they are mainly replaced they will keep making nice decisions.
The only thing we have to be proud of is our judicial system, the guys who blocked the Gordon below Franklin damn even though blocking it was COMPLETELY unconstitutional it was just right, the guys who locked up Pauline Hanson, the guys who fined those record labels, the guys who don't give a DAMN about what the big guys say about what you can and can't do with your own stuff. They make me proud to be an Australian,
Even though in Australia it is unpatriotic to be patriotic (or at least you are judged to be a weeny if you are). It is times like this when I would like to press my hand to my chest, salute our crappy, halfarsely designed flag, scull my VB (not Fosters, YUCK!) and sing "Advance Australia Fair" at the top of my voice (even though it was written by white supremists, at least it is not about a suicidal sheep duffer).
It has aspirations of becoming to vector graphics what gimp is to bitmap, and is taking the right steps towards following in it's footsteps, and soon may be second best in it's field just like the gimp is (if it isn't at the moment).
SCO claims linux is comunist... China is comunist. It is the same thing
But no, there is a logical answer to this. Evident if one RTFAs, as the the quote from which the number was taken from is by Jeff Gerhardt, not an SCO spokesman nor anything like it:
we want to be able to look at the offending code without prejudicing our future careers and so that we can remove any offending code, even if that is a million lines
That is not a reference that SCO has claimed there are 1000000 lines stolen, that is a comment saying that even if they did, LINUX could be repaired. But I must consede that while SCO has not claimed this in this article I wouldn't be suprised if they did somewhere else.
I find it funny that an American mentions the Buran.
The buran was launched once in 1988 as a response to the American shuttle program. It was not fully completed at the time so it was flown wholly with autopilot. It circled the earth nicely and landed automatically in strong crosswinds. However when the Russians found out how much it costs to keep them running (still less than the space shuttle though) they were abandoned and never launched again.
I see it as a tribute to the russian space program that they had the sense to can something because it was unecconomical, unlike NASA who still flys space shuttles 25 year after they were designed, after 14 fatalities (twice as many as have died in all other American and Soviet space crafts combined) and billions in maintainance costs.
Well scout walkers are ok, but the star wars character I would most like to see in this is Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman) naked and petrified, with plenty of hot grits! She can loosen my "leg stirrups" any day!
Doesn't that sound like something that one could yell from a construction site? I am personally already ashamed of myself, but it had to be said.
In America you can always find a party, in Soviet Russia party can always find you
an extremely witty joke by almost everyone's standards, making a great pun with the word "party" to create truly a beautiful and lasting joke.
The classic joke was later reused in the cartoon Family Guy as the Yakoff Smirnoff setting of the autodrive system. The voice made comments like "you are coming to a fork in road, in soviet russia, road fork you!" and "in soviet russia, car drive you" to succesfully create riotous amusement by the shear lameness of the repitition.
Unfortunantly lameness and repititon are also the chosen methods of expression on another media: the internet. This continuation of the running joke has made the memory of that great joke lost in a sea of "in soviet russia, opteron makes beowolf cluster out of you!" travesties.
But it seems in this corrupt world, anything innocent and beautiful will eventally be raped by those who have nothing to do but distroy purity.
Whatever one's opinion of Stalin might be there are many reasons to go for the Russians in that particlar battle:
The Germans were invading the Russians, not the other way around (this is before you could say that the Russians deserved it, as you could have ten years later after they invaded Poland, Hungry, Romania, etc. although the Romanians had it coming)
The Germans were mass executing civilians in Russian towns for being Jewish, the soviets only killed people for dissagreeing with them... which is still pretty bad but not genocide.
The Germans were also attacking western europe and making bits of bastards of themselves as far as policies towards their new territories.
The Russians were both the underdogs as far as military power was concerned, and the victors... everyone likes to cheer for people like that
The Russian had that delightful Vacilli Zeichzev chap and the rest of the good guys in enemy at the gates which I think was a pretty darn good movie.
The Germans were allies with the japaneese who were at that time having a great time spreading their empire, starving and torturing POWs, raping Korean women and generally getting up to mischief, while the Russians were allies with the British and the Americans who were out there trying to stop genecide, instead of creating a slightly different flavor of it in Asia.
As for godzilla battle I would go for rodin... I know walking on cities is an artform as much as sculpture is, but there is something about sculpting the thinker that is cool.
And for the feeding frenzy, you would go for the poor little things getting eaten, not the sharks.
I hope I have made your judgement much simpler
Just goes to show freedom is only gained by trampling the freedoms of others.
The use of Richard Strauss' "Thus Spoke Zarathrusta" would only be relivent for when you whip out your obilisk. Or possibly when you wanna get out your monkey and start hitting your wife with the bone. (ok, that was really quite bad wasn't it)
All I can say is that if you can keep it for as long as that boring movie seemed to go on for you are more of a man than I am. I liked Clockwork Orange more... but I must concede that there is nothing in that movie that would be advisable to emulate with one's wife. For that one needs Eyes Wide Shut