There are models that predict catastrophic climate change on the order of 5-10 years, so yes, it could happen.
If my memory serves, one such model predicts the north pole heating up enough that large chunks of ice start will start slipping off. This will push the currents that keep northern Europe warm further south, and suddenly northen Europe is in a deep freeze.
There needs to be a distinction here. The GPL is, IMNSHO, indisputably less free than the BSD license. You can't make a good argument otherwise. The only requirement of the (revised) BSD license is that the copyright line and BSD license follow the code around. This same requirement is present in the GPL, but the GPL adds tons of other restrictions to what you can do with the code.
These restrictions are to ensure that the code remains free, true, but they are restrictions. You can do strictly less with GPL'd code than you can with BSD'd code.
The GPL may help increase the amount of free software, but it still has restrictions the BSD license doesn't.
This is not meant as an endorsement of either license, just a criticism of the argument that the GPL is more free that comes from looking at the license's results rather than what it actually allows you to do.
You need to learn what arbitration is in this context. It's essentially a replacement of a trial. The parties agree to arbitrate rather than go to court, but other than that it's pretty much the same. They go through discovery, subpoena witnesses, take depositions, introduce evidence, etc. The other main difference is there usually isn't any recourse to appeal. Arbitration is, in essense, a private version of the court system.
If it is, it's for good reason. It'll be trademarked for the same reason the MPAA has 'NC-17', 'X', 'R', 'PG-13', 'PG', 'M', and 'G' trademarked: it prevents people from taking a porn movie and saying "hey, this is PG-13!" They give out permission to use the trademarks like candy, but only after making sure that whatever will be using them actually fits the criteria.
(The MPAA gives blanket privaledge to call a movie 'NC-17' without their approval, but that and 'X' are, I assume, still trademarked.)
I don't mind most of the interface, but the fact that you have like 3 or 4 windows open on average and they aren't connected is a HUGE frustration for me. Raising one window should raise them all; I don't want to go have to click on several windows in order to do work. Similarily minimize and restore should work on all the windows at once.
The multiple windows isn't what bothers me, but it's done shittily. Visual Basic pre-version 5 had a similar interface, but IIRC (it's been a while) it worked. Why? Because the main window, with the menus and toolbar, was the only one to show up in the task bar, controlled the other windows, etc.
As others have said, you can boot Knoppix without it touching the hard drive (or even in a computer without one I assume), and in fact that's the default configuration. It is possible to tell it about a swap partition (or file I think), but it's unnecessary.
Any drives you have aren't even mounted at boot, though they do get desktop icons. Clicking them mounts the drive for use. (I forget about defaults regarding read vs. read/write; I think using the icons just gives you readonly.)
They are also going to offer (presumably paper versions of) the EULA in the store:
CompUSA, Best Buy and Staples "agreed to provide such EULAS to consumers upon request prior to sale of the above software at their retail stores in California and to provide notices to consumers in such stores to effectuate the above."
Okay, now one that doesn't suck in a Gimp-like "let's have have 27,000 different windows that aren't connected so if you change to another program you have to activate all of them in order to keep working again" way?
"Access-like" is more specific. If they had just said "database" it could have been a wider range of applications. "Access-like" specifies that it's used like access.
MySQL is a database, yet I hardly think you'd call it "access-like".
...the Microsoft ARPA initiative back in the '70's that got the internet going...
Wait, I thought it was the 'Al Gore ARPA' initiative.
(Anyone who replies with a link to Snopes will be shot. Yeah I know that Gore's words were twisted to be somewhat out of context, but you can't deny that he was exaggerating a bit.)
Are we forgetting that you used to need third-party shareware in Windows too?
No, because you don't. Explorer treats ZIP files as folders in XP, and I presume from your parent post, ME as well. Other programs can steal the association away from Explorer, but the feature is there and on by default.
I retract the first paragraph... after some investigation it appears I was wrong. Apparently the only DSLRs with LCD preview are a couple of Olympus models. I swear I read something that said the 10D had it.
Hmm, after some investigation it appears I was wrong. Apparently the only DSLRs with LCD preview are a couple of Olympus models. I swear I read something that said the 10D had it...
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There are models that predict catastrophic climate change on the order of 5-10 years, so yes, it could happen.
If my memory serves, one such model predicts the north pole heating up enough that large chunks of ice start will start slipping off. This will push the currents that keep northern Europe warm further south, and suddenly northen Europe is in a deep freeze.
There needs to be a distinction here. The GPL is, IMNSHO, indisputably less free than the BSD license. You can't make a good argument otherwise. The only requirement of the (revised) BSD license is that the copyright line and BSD license follow the code around. This same requirement is present in the GPL, but the GPL adds tons of other restrictions to what you can do with the code.
These restrictions are to ensure that the code remains free, true, but they are restrictions. You can do strictly less with GPL'd code than you can with BSD'd code.
The GPL may help increase the amount of free software, but it still has restrictions the BSD license doesn't.
This is not meant as an endorsement of either license, just a criticism of the argument that the GPL is more free that comes from looking at the license's results rather than what it actually allows you to do.
You need to learn what arbitration is in this context. It's essentially a replacement of a trial. The parties agree to arbitrate rather than go to court, but other than that it's pretty much the same. They go through discovery, subpoena witnesses, take depositions, introduce evidence, etc. The other main difference is there usually isn't any recourse to appeal. Arbitration is, in essense, a private version of the court system.
If it is, it's for good reason. It'll be trademarked for the same reason the MPAA has 'NC-17', 'X', 'R', 'PG-13', 'PG', 'M', and 'G' trademarked: it prevents people from taking a porn movie and saying "hey, this is PG-13!" They give out permission to use the trademarks like candy, but only after making sure that whatever will be using them actually fits the criteria.
(The MPAA gives blanket privaledge to call a movie 'NC-17' without their approval, but that and 'X' are, I assume, still trademarked.)
I don't mind most of the interface, but the fact that you have like 3 or 4 windows open on average and they aren't connected is a HUGE frustration for me. Raising one window should raise them all; I don't want to go have to click on several windows in order to do work. Similarily minimize and restore should work on all the windows at once.
The multiple windows isn't what bothers me, but it's done shittily. Visual Basic pre-version 5 had a similar interface, but IIRC (it's been a while) it worked. Why? Because the main window, with the menus and toolbar, was the only one to show up in the task bar, controlled the other windows, etc.
I'll have to get me some of that after-death email... what ISP do you suggest?
Yeah. Then you can have swap space without the mess of repartitioning anything.
As others have said, you can boot Knoppix without it touching the hard drive (or even in a computer without one I assume), and in fact that's the default configuration. It is possible to tell it about a swap partition (or file I think), but it's unnecessary.
Any drives you have aren't even mounted at boot, though they do get desktop icons. Clicking them mounts the drive for use. (I forget about defaults regarding read vs. read/write; I think using the icons just gives you readonly.)
If you go to MS you'll find it's actually quite common to run everything through Virtual PC.
I'm not sure that's true. You can waive your first sale rights (along with fair use rights and interoperability rights).
Okay, now one that doesn't suck in a Gimp-like "let's have have 27,000 different windows that aren't connected so if you change to another program you have to activate all of them in order to keep working again" way?
Or a way to fix the above problem?
I would kill for an OSS Visio-like program...
Anyone else know of any?
It looks like they took the screenshots in Windows, so maybe in Linux they will look different.
Frankly, at least if they change it for Linux, I think a more Windowsish theme will help it's acceptance; it's closer to what people know and use now.
"Access-like" is more specific. If they had just said "database" it could have been a wider range of applications. "Access-like" specifies that it's used like access.
MySQL is a database, yet I hardly think you'd call it "access-like".
I have a suspicion it will be changed by the time the final release is out. Right now it's just someone's idea of a joke.
The company got its start by offering a tool to identify pornographic images
:-)
Like you need a tool to do this?
At least Justice Stewart might be a client of this...
You could send it to a chip implanted in your brain that directly stimulates the right nerves :-p
I should really stop replying to posts when my brain has demonstratably stopped working. My reading comprehension goes way down...
...the Microsoft ARPA initiative back in the '70's that got the internet going...
Wait, I thought it was the 'Al Gore ARPA' initiative.
(Anyone who replies with a link to Snopes will be shot. Yeah I know that Gore's words were twisted to be somewhat out of context, but you can't deny that he was exaggerating a bit.)
Are we forgetting that you used to need third-party shareware in Windows too?
No, because you don't. Explorer treats ZIP files as folders in XP, and I presume from your parent post, ME as well. Other programs can steal the association away from Explorer, but the feature is there and on by default.
Does MS Bob even work under 2k or XP?
I don't think MS Bob worked under Windows 3.11...
I retract the first paragraph... after some investigation it appears I was wrong. Apparently the only DSLRs with LCD preview are a couple of Olympus models. I swear I read something that said the 10D had it.
Hmm, after some investigation it appears I was wrong. Apparently the only DSLRs with LCD preview are a couple of Olympus models. I swear I read something that said the 10D had it...
"Just move closer to the subject."
And by the time you get there the subject has dashed off or security guards have dragged you away. C'mon, you know that's not always possible.
"Optical zoom is particularly useless on a small-sensor camera because you are zooming in on few pixels"
Um... don't you mean digital zoom? Optical zoom should give you the same quality at all focal lengths.