instally cygwin/python with a ton of extraneous packaging
If you like a vanilla-Python then try Portage for Cygwin and you'll have only packages you really need.
If you just need Zope (with Plone) then try Plone for Windows installer or Zope Windows installer, either way as far as I remember it has Python inside in a an exelent shape to run everything as complex as Zope and Plone.
That's happen before Zope became mature. Now the situation is turned for PHP. For example, the author of two famous PHP books and the original developer of the famous NeoBoard portal rewrote the whole thing from PHP to Zope.
Hmm, if downloading (and even sharing!) of music is expressivley legal in Canada then where all those URLs that I can download music in Canada? I am pretty new in this country, but I have enough free space on my harddisks to fill it out by MP3 if it's really legal.
Earth-orbiting satellites registered a surge of x-rays. Minutes later they were pelted by fast-moving solar protons.
So, they are saying that after 45,000 years of travelling the shock of protons is just few minutes behind of x-ray (in fact - photons)? Give me a break, that means those fast-moving protons are moving really fast - essentially with a speed virtually equal to a speed of light (the difference would just 4.23e-12 %).
Protons are pretty heavy particles. What would be the energy of such explosion to accelerate protons to such limits? Sounds like the parent is right: it may mean only we would have 2 large neutron stars (a neutron star and a anti-neutron star) colliding and annihilating here.
Exactly when has IBM in its +100 years history used patents on the offensive?
I don't want to trust IBM in such situation. If IBM would donate all software patents it keeps to the public domain - then I'll trust as there will no legal way for them sue me or anyonelese after that. Before that they have all legal means to sue people, small businesses and competitors. The fact that they don't do it now doesn't prove that they won't do it tomorrow.
Remember kids, patents don't sue people, people sue people.
That right. But companies are not equal people. IBM is not a person. Existing IBM management has its decision. Time will change and so will management. Ans so will decisions about patent sueing.
But can you come up with something better that would be accepted in the real world?
Yes: NO SOFTWARE PATENTS. The real world (of United States) already lived a whole decade (1972-1981) without software patents:
The United States Supreme Court ruled in 1972 that an algorithm, which it defined as a "procedure for solving a given type of mathematical problem," was not a "process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter" within the meaning of section 101 of the Patent Act, and thus was not patentable subject matter. Six years later, the Court reaffirmed this rule, holding that even if the applicant wanted to limit the claim to use of the algorithm in a specific application, it was still not within the allowable subject matter of section 101.
In 1981, however, a breakthrough Supreme Court decision paved the way for patent claims containing algorithms. The case, Diamond v. Dehr, involved an improved process for making rubber. The improvement centered on an algorithm used to treat the rubber at specified temperatures. The Court held that when an algorithm is part of an otherwise patentable process (which manufacturing rubber certainly was), the presence of the algorithm among the other elements of the claim did not push the claim outside the bounds of section 101.
While the Supreme Court was deciding these cases, a trio of appellate court decisions refined the rules regarding when and how an algorithm may be incorporated into a patent. The three cases, In re Freeman, In re Walter, and In re Abele, establish what the Federal Circuit refers to as the Freeman-Walter-Abele test for patentability when an algorithm is implicated in a patent claim. The test is stated as follows:
It is first determined whether a mathematical algorithm is recited directly or indirectly in the claim. If so, it is next determined whether the claimed invention as a whole is no more than the algorithm itself; that is, whether the claim is directed to a mathematical algorithm that is not applied to or limited by physical elements or process steps. Such claims are nonstatutory. However, when the mathematical algorithm is applied in one or more steps of an otherwise statutory process claim, or one or more elements of an otherwise statutory apparatus claim, the requirements of section 101 are met.
If you agree to see lobbying as a part of the real world then it can explain why you are for software patents. I don't.
vi VS emacs arguments are pointless and a waste of time.
vi is the best.
Microsoft fights only for their only rights, not agains software patents in general. That's why I am against Microsoft.
However it is not important which side I am for - I cannot change a thing in this particular case. But it is more important what is the goal of that patent owner. If he just wants money from Microsoft - dust of history on his RIP. But if he use this case to prove how software patents are bad in general - I apploud to him.
This case must be turned by Open source community and other liberal forces against software patents. Right now the most comment are about plugins and browser. Common people. Without software patents we would have much more time to figure it out - should we use plugins or not and of yes then which ones. But first things first - we have to find the way to abolish all software patents as a class.
Only reason I see to hack the thing is to play cracked games...
I see your problem -you are addicted to games, especially to cracked ones.
The world, my friend, is much bigger than a set of cracked games. And the life is more interesting than wasting your time on fighting games.
People are finding much more insightful feeling in something creative. Hacking the software code (don't confuse it with cracking someone's protection) is a very creative process and thus it brings very bright feelings.
I am not sure if you can understand it or not. It depends on how deep you are addicted to games (and thus - how seciously your mind is corrupted).
It's happened same weekend (august/18) right after August/14. In Georgia (not american state - the former Soviet republic in Caucasian mountains between Black and Caspian Seas) the separatists used the sniper rifle to hit few wires in the inter-regional grid lines. Boom. The whole country was without electricity for a couple of days.
I guess those georgian (or perhaps chechen) snipers used August/14 as an idea for their attacks. Or did they wait until their American brothers will do the job first?
So what was the reason of wire cuts in Ohio again? No sniper bullets found around yet? No traces of bullet on broken isolators? Keep looking - you may find some more food for your brains.
You won't lose your job if you know how to migrate from plugin-based to without-plugin content with minimum cost and as close to original content (functionaly) as possible.
For example, if the flash has been used for form-based input then you may consider some sort of program translator to translate source of all flash scripts in a way that it will generate functionally-equal HTML forms.
Something can be done to animation, if you would use SVG with javascript in Mozilla.
If it goes through your company willbe desperate looking for a way to convert the problem into the profit. And if you know how to help in it better than the new guy from the street - thye would rather give that coversion/migration job to yur than to randomly hired and not-trained-yet guy.
Personally, I hate plugins, and I hope Eola will win and browsers will run as HTML-based content browsers, not as plugin-starters.
And I know what's happened. Some moron has a java applet displaying something wonderfully important like the fucking time in their little corner of hell, and if I wait about thirty more seconds, I'm going to hear a little pop, and I just know the sound of that pop is like the sound of a dick popping out of my anus, cause I know that java has just ass raped me, my browser, and my machine.
Keep your paints off and someone will find the way into your ass. That's the Windows way.
I don't have such experience. In my Mozilla all javascripts, java applets and plugins are disabled by default (until I decide to enable when I really want it). Any content, which is not HTML (with images), gives me more hassle then it brings any useful information. 90% of information I need from the web is available in a plain HTML format. The rest is in pdf, ps, sxw and doc formats which I still read when I decide so - after mozilla downloads it to the disk and opens in an external application, like xpdf.
Keep your paints on and your ass will be safe. That's the Linux way.
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Both (1) and (2) are the price for a higher level of security of the system overall comparing to FreeBSD's jail.
However, when you don't need THAT level of isolation I would conside Plan-9's private namespaces, whose fine-grained control is far more superior to jail.
User-Mode Linux is a safe, secure way of running Linux versions and Linux processes. Run buggy software, experiment with new Linux kernels or distributions, and poke around in the internals of Linux, all without risking your main Linux setup.
User-Mode Linux gives you a virtual machine that may have more hardware and software virtual resources than your actual, physical computer. Disk storage for the virtual machine is entirely contained inside a single file on your physical machine. You can assign your virtual machine only the hardware access you want it to have. With properly limited access, nothing you do on the virtual machine can change or damage your real computer, or its software.
Use your logic skills: what would people tell you on the street in 1976 if you would ask the about Apple? And do you think that Steve was from another planet? He knew the value of then-days Apple trademark when he decided to used it.
Imagine I would make a smalle tiny company MicroSoft which business would be a transportation of small (micro) and soft (not hard) things. Then my company grows and grows, while Bill gates is selling his stock like crazy because... (we all can imagine many reasons). Now my company is an international, successfull corporation. And at some day I decide to license my transportation management software to other transportation companies in order to make our electronic transactions let say more compatible. So what do you think would Bill Gates do? That's right - sue me for the trademark violation. And what would you comment on/. that day? Will you again question if I used originally the trademark Microsoft intentionally or not?
Don't like Microsoft? Think about Windows. I could make a company selling frames for windows. And at some day I would decide to license my software for my production managent (also called Windows) to other frame makers.
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If you like a vanilla-Python then try Portage for Cygwin and you'll have only packages you really need.
If you just need Zope (with Plone) then try Plone for Windows installer or Zope Windows installer, either way as far as I remember it has Python inside in a an exelent shape to run everything as complex as Zope and Plone.
That's happen before Zope became mature. Now the situation is turned for PHP. For example, the author of two famous PHP books and the original developer of the famous NeoBoard portal rewrote the whole thing from PHP to Zope.
Why not we? Have you ever tried Zope?
And if yes, can Canadians download music only from Canada? And if no - why can't Canadians buy music from Apple store?
Hmm, if downloading (and even sharing!) of music is expressivley legal in Canada then where all those URLs that I can download music in Canada? I am pretty new in this country, but I have enough free space on my harddisks to fill it out by MP3 if it's really legal.
oops, the proton shower was from our sun.
So, they are saying that after 45,000 years of travelling the shock of protons is just few minutes behind of x-ray (in fact - photons)? Give me a break, that means those fast-moving protons are moving really fast - essentially with a speed virtually equal to a speed of light (the difference would just 4.23e-12 %).
Protons are pretty heavy particles. What would be the energy of such explosion to accelerate protons to such limits? Sounds like the parent is right: it may mean only we would have 2 large neutron stars (a neutron star and a anti-neutron star) colliding and annihilating here.
What's your phone number? Many of us wanna talk to you.
and what does it have to do with telemarketers?
The autoanswering machine is auto-answering my call. Well, let's flood their tapes :)
I don't want to trust IBM in such situation. If IBM would donate all software patents it keeps to the public domain - then I'll trust as there will no legal way for them sue me or anyonelese after that. Before that they have all legal means to sue people, small businesses and competitors. The fact that they don't do it now doesn't prove that they won't do it tomorrow.
Remember kids, patents don't sue people, people sue people.
That right. But companies are not equal people. IBM is not a person. Existing IBM management has its decision. Time will change and so will management. Ans so will decisions about patent sueing.
But can you come up with something better that would be accepted in the real world?
Yes: NO SOFTWARE PATENTS. The real world (of United States) already lived a whole decade (1972-1981) without software patents:
If you agree to see lobbying as a part of the real world then it can explain why you are for software patents. I don't.vi VS emacs arguments are pointless and a waste of time.
vi is the best.
Well, that explains a lot too :)
- No more plugins in any browser - I would enjoy whole Internet using only official and open web stabdards;
- No more software patents - no comments on that as such befits are two obvious for all normal people;
But I'm afraid that IBM will come up right at the last moment with something from their huge patent library and say:However it is not important which side I am for - I cannot change a thing in this particular case. But it is more important what is the goal of that patent owner. If he just wants money from Microsoft - dust of history on his RIP. But if he use this case to prove how software patents are bad in general - I apploud to him.
This case must be turned by Open source community and other liberal forces against software patents. Right now the most comment are about plugins and browser. Common people. Without software patents we would have much more time to figure it out - should we use plugins or not and of yes then which ones. But first things first - we have to find the way to abolish all software patents as a class.
Don't bring E17 here - it won't be finished before Hurd is done.
3Dwm is the most promising to really alterate our human-computer interaction.
There should be a way (even as a backdoor) to connect to him. It's 21st century. No way he is completely disconnected.
I see your problem -you are addicted to games, especially to cracked ones.
The world, my friend, is much bigger than a set of cracked games. And the life is more interesting than wasting your time on fighting games.
People are finding much more insightful feeling in something creative. Hacking the software code (don't confuse it with cracking someone's protection) is a very creative process and thus it brings very bright feelings.
I am not sure if you can understand it or not. It depends on how deep you are addicted to games (and thus - how seciously your mind is corrupted).
I guess those georgian (or perhaps chechen) snipers used August/14 as an idea for their attacks. Or did they wait until their American brothers will do the job first?
So what was the reason of wire cuts in Ohio again? No sniper bullets found around yet? No traces of bullet on broken isolators? Keep looking - you may find some more food for your brains.
For example, if the flash has been used for form-based input then you may consider some sort of program translator to translate source of all flash scripts in a way that it will generate functionally-equal HTML forms.
Something can be done to animation, if you would use SVG with javascript in Mozilla.
If it goes through your company willbe desperate looking for a way to convert the problem into the profit. And if you know how to help in it better than the new guy from the street - thye would rather give that coversion/migration job to yur than to randomly hired and not-trained-yet guy.
Personally, I hate plugins, and I hope Eola will win and browsers will run as HTML-based content browsers, not as plugin-starters.
Acorn comes before Apple - alphabetically. That time there was no any big name with "Acorn" in it.
Or perhaps "Nuts"?
And I know what's happened. Some moron has a java applet displaying something wonderfully important like the fucking time in their little corner of hell, and if I wait about thirty more seconds, I'm going to hear a little pop, and I just know the sound of that pop is like the sound of a dick popping out of my anus, cause I know that java has just ass raped me, my browser, and my machine.
Keep your paints off and someone will find the way into your ass. That's the Windows way.
I don't have such experience. In my Mozilla all javascripts, java applets and plugins are disabled by default (until I decide to enable when I really want it). Any content, which is not HTML (with images), gives me more hassle then it brings any useful information. 90% of information I need from the web is available in a plain HTML format. The rest is in pdf, ps, sxw and doc formats which I still read when I decide so - after mozilla downloads it to the disk and opens in an external application, like xpdf.
Keep your paints on and your ass will be safe. That's the Linux way.
However, when you don't need THAT level of isolation I would conside Plan-9's private namespaces, whose fine-grained control is far more superior to jail.
Imagine I would make a smalle tiny company MicroSoft which business would be a transportation of small (micro) and soft (not hard) things. Then my company grows and grows, while Bill gates is selling his stock like crazy because ... (we all can imagine many reasons). Now my company is an international, successfull corporation. And at some day I decide to license my transportation management software to other transportation companies in order to make our electronic transactions let say more compatible. So what do you think would Bill Gates do? That's right - sue me for the trademark violation. And what would you comment on /. that day? Will you again question if I used originally the trademark Microsoft intentionally or not?
Don't like Microsoft? Think about Windows. I could make a company selling frames for windows. And at some day I would decide to license my software for my production managent (also called Windows) to other frame makers.