Most people do use mozilla. It's used for all the popular browsers (mozilla, galeon, netscape, and maybe konqueror and nautilus?) and even Internet Explorer identifies itself as "Mozilla compatible" when you visit a website.
Maybe my website is just not targeted at people who use internet explorer? I've not installed the "We detect you're using IE, please upgrade to mozilla" script yet;-)
WINDOWS: if you have a car you're not allowed to buy a bike. A gramophone comes installed but if you want a CD player you have to buy it yourself. You can't remove the gramphone.
Microsoft, you'd have to click yes on the EULA every time you start the ignition
...and if RealPlayer wrote it, the car would install itself in your drive without having to buy it, start following you each time you walk out of the house, and you'd have to paint your bike grey before it would stop.
"To the extent not prohibited by law, in no event will BMW or its licensors be liable for any lost lives, injuries or damaged property, or for special, indirect, consequential, incidental or punitive damages, however caused regardless of the theory of liability, arising out of or related to the use of or inability to use the vehicle, even if BMW has been advised of the possibility of such damages."
Oh and no, we won't let you sue us whilst crashing through a pedestrian crossing whilst trying to find the "Start -> Environment -> Temperature -> Driver's side -> Footwell -> Make hotter" menu.
Censorship is an all-or-nothing thing. There is physically no difference between you wanting to imprison people for holding KKK views to me wanting to imprison you for holding democratic or capitalist views.
It's like matter/antimatter - the only way you tell which is "right" and which is "wrong" is by saying that if you're right, everyone else must be wrong.
The US wants to wiretap communists? Fine, but let us wiretap conservatives as well then.
"The government had every right to be suspicious about him"
Just like the government is allowed to be suspicious of anyone who's a democrat? It obviously justifies wiretapping.
Dammit, let's have a web-microphone for each and every telephone in parliament, see how people like freedom of information to work the other way around.
More to the point, where's the file on Erdos, the famous Hungarian communist (or mathematician, depending on who you ask)? There was a lot of government harrasement talked about in his autobiography.
So why not publish the offending source code on a page not accessible to US citizens, and let the rest of the world play with it? We don't have DMCA, yet somehow we still have to abide by it?
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I think the quote was: we want linux, but if we rush it, it'll go tits-up (like in mexico) -- the idea now is to do the migration with diligance and care, invest the money/manpower/training it needs, and get something that'll be a success and that'll last.
Well obviously. The kids will be recompiling kernels and root-kitting computers before the software's been installed a day, if it's anything like the schools I know.
There was a similar story in Alaska, quite famous: Bascially, the townspeople had been waiting forever for the council to take their thumbs out and build a bypass for the town.
Being alaskans, many people had earthmoving machinery in their driveways, and most of the people there were well familiar with construction work.
One dark night, a new road just mysteriously appeared outside the town. It seems they got fedup with waiting for the beaurocrats.
"Linux" is to "GNU/Linux" "Box" is to "central processing unit"
Or a better test: Take a linux distro, delete the C compiler, delete Gnome, GIMP and OpenOffice, then install RealPlayer, MS Office and Internet explorer running via the crossover applet.
Then you might have justification for calling it Linux without any reference to the GNU project.
Unfortunately, you're left with a system which can't do much useful. Like, change anything, or install free software. So why bother when you can have the GNU tools and call it GNU/Linux?
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"If we start putting GNU before every program that was made with GNU software, where will that lead us? "
It already does; that's why everything in GNOME starts with a G: because it stands for GNU.
* GNU network object modelling environment * GNU image manipulation program * GNU numeric * GNU edit * GNU A.I.M. * GNU Jabber
Makes it easy to distinguish from all the KDE files too:
ls/usr/bin/g* = show me the gnome apps ls/usr/bin/k* = show me the KDE apps
Not everyone runs their own mail servers, and not everyone knows Perl"
Some of us have dial-up connections, but still want a website. So we buy a domain name, and get someone to host it for us at $5/month
Having a handy domain name, I now use the handy email server provided by my website hosts as part of that same package. One email address for me, one for my sis, and a "catch-all" account for everything else.
So no, I don't have a mailserver. And I wouldn't really know how to write perlscripts to manage the email on that server. If I did, I'd be worried about introducing security holes (as I'm not an expert in mailserver programming)
So I use the bat. Or, I would if I used windows enough. I'm considering buying it for my parents, just so that I can encrypt mail to them.
Not all nerds run a server. And the comment was in response to somebody asking for an alternative to Outlook Express, which kind of implies that he's not a Perl-guru either.
I do hope they include an exception for games which can password-protect the bloodshed when the parent first installs it.
Example: something like MythII is a great game, eminently suitable for children, and you can set a password to replace dying soldiers with a twinkle of stars as the vanquished foe just disappears.
Some would argue that it would be more educational to show the deaths though; you'd be more wary of ordering people into battle if you have to watch the deaths. A lesson for those whose wars are fought abroad, perhaps?
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Most people do use mozilla. It's used for all the popular browsers (mozilla, galeon, netscape, and maybe konqueror and nautilus?) and even Internet Explorer identifies itself as "Mozilla compatible" when you visit a website.
;-)
Maybe my website is just not targeted at people who use internet explorer? I've not installed the "We detect you're using IE, please upgrade to mozilla" script yet
WINDOWS: if you have a car you're not allowed to buy a bike. A gramophone comes installed but if you want a CD player you have to buy it yourself. You can't remove the gramphone.
Foster's essay on UICTA and firestone tyres
Microsoft, you'd have to click yes on the EULA every time you start the ignition
...and if RealPlayer wrote it, the car would install itself in your drive without having to buy it, start following you each time you walk out of the house, and you'd have to paint your bike grey before it would stop.
"To the extent not prohibited by law, in no event will BMW or its licensors be liable for any lost lives, injuries or damaged property, or for special, indirect, consequential, incidental or punitive damages, however caused regardless of the theory of liability, arising out of or related to the use of or inability to use the vehicle, even if BMW has been advised of the possibility of such damages."
Oh and no, we won't let you sue us whilst crashing through a pedestrian crossing whilst trying to find the "Start -> Environment -> Temperature -> Driver's side -> Footwell -> Make hotter" menu.
How come my microwave smells when I burn CDRs? Is there a odor-free way to securely delete CDs?
Censorship is an all-or-nothing thing. There is physically no difference between you wanting to imprison people for holding KKK views to me wanting to imprison you for holding democratic or capitalist views.
It's like matter/antimatter - the only way you tell which is "right" and which is "wrong" is by saying that if you're right, everyone else must be wrong.
The US wants to wiretap communists? Fine, but let us wiretap conservatives as well then.
"The government had every right to be suspicious about him"
Just like the government is allowed to be suspicious of anyone who's a democrat? It obviously justifies wiretapping.
Dammit, let's have a web-microphone for each and every telephone in parliament, see how people like freedom of information to work the other way around.
More to the point, where's the file on Erdos, the famous Hungarian communist (or mathematician, depending on who you ask)? There was a lot of government harrasement talked about in his autobiography.
Wow. A celebrity on Slashdot.
"time-delayed GPL"
So is it possible for us to restore 10-year copyrights that way?
"Copyright 2002, OJW. This program may be considered public-domain after 20 May 2012"
I prefer stuff like Coors, Miller, and Colt45
You ought to try some real beers. They even have better names. Wychwood's Hobgoblin, CircleMaster and Back Witch would be a good place to start.
9 exabytes, yeah that should be sufficient to hold an Outlook mailbox with a published email address.
Nooooo! another 150 spam emails and the database will corrupt!
So why not publish the offending source code on a page not accessible to US citizens, and let the rest of the world play with it? We don't have DMCA, yet somehow we still have to abide by it?
http://www.thefreedmans.net/jokes/santa.htm
or have a CS teacher do it
More like, give it to a group of CS undergrads for their second-year university project
I think the quote was: we want linux, but if we rush it, it'll go tits-up (like in mexico) -- the idea now is to do the migration with diligance and care, invest the money/manpower/training it needs, and get something that'll be a success and that'll last.
Oh for the day when people are confused that they have to press a Penguin key to access the Windows start menu...
I'd settle for being able to buy something [anything] from a computer store without "Windows 95" as a minimum requirement.
"No one is worried about the kids"
Well obviously. The kids will be recompiling kernels and root-kitting computers before the software's been installed a day, if it's anything like the schools I know.
"Does that mean that if you install gcc, the OpenOffice port, the GIMP port, and cygwin to a Windows box you have to start calling it GNU/Windows?"
Sounds like a descriptive name to me. "GNU/MsWindows" would describe in 2 words that you're using all free software except for the kernel.
There was a similar story in Alaska, quite famous:
Bascially, the townspeople had been waiting forever for the council to take their thumbs out and build a bypass for the town.
Being alaskans, many people had earthmoving machinery in their driveways, and most of the people there were well familiar with construction work.
One dark night, a new road just mysteriously appeared outside the town. It seems they got fedup with waiting for the beaurocrats.
"Linux" is to "GNU/Linux" "Box" is to "central processing unit"
Or a better test: Take a linux distro, delete the C compiler, delete Gnome, GIMP and OpenOffice, then install RealPlayer, MS Office and Internet explorer running via the crossover applet.
Then you might have justification for calling it Linux without any reference to the GNU project.
Unfortunately, you're left with a system which can't do much useful. Like, change anything, or install free software. So why bother when you can have the GNU tools and call it GNU/Linux?
"If we start putting GNU before every program that was made with GNU software, where will that lead us? "
/usr/bin/g* = show me the gnome apps /usr/bin/k* = show me the KDE apps
It already does; that's why everything in GNOME starts with a G: because it stands for GNU.
* GNU network object modelling environment
* GNU image manipulation program
* GNU numeric
* GNU edit
* GNU A.I.M.
* GNU Jabber
Makes it easy to distinguish from all the KDE files too:
ls
ls
Not everyone runs their own mail servers, and not everyone knows Perl"
Some of us have dial-up connections, but still want a website. So we buy a domain name, and get someone to host it for us at $5/month
Having a handy domain name, I now use the handy email server provided by my website hosts as part of that same package. One email address for me, one for my sis, and a "catch-all" account for everything else.
So no, I don't have a mailserver. And I wouldn't really know how to write perlscripts to manage the email on that server. If I did, I'd be worried about introducing security holes (as I'm not an expert in mailserver programming)
So I use the bat. Or, I would if I used windows enough. I'm considering buying it for my parents, just so that I can encrypt mail to them.
Not all nerds run a server. And the comment was in response to somebody asking for an alternative to Outlook Express, which kind of implies that he's not a Perl-guru either.
I do hope they include an exception for games which can password-protect the bloodshed when the parent first installs it.
Example: something like MythII is a great game, eminently suitable for children, and you can set a password to replace dying soldiers with a twinkle of stars as the vanquished foe just disappears.
Some would argue that it would be more educational to show the deaths though; you'd be more wary of ordering people into battle if you have to watch the deaths. A lesson for those whose wars are fought abroad, perhaps?