How do you know how plagiarised who? Things I wrote have been plagiarised on Wikipedia. The plagiarist could have claimed that I plagiarised Wikipedia, and it would have taken a fair amount of work to find out the truth.
If I buy a new car, when I first put the key in the ignition, does a notice pop up saying: "you must agree to the terms of use of the engine before you can start it"?
Only some SF has ever been about technology. A lot of the brilliant writers have always had a focus on social issue: Ursula Le Guin, for example. The same is true for most non SF writers who write some SF (Kingsley Amis, Dorris Lessing, CS Lewis - although the latter two are only just SF, and in Lewis case in only one book) or who write a lot of both (Iain Banks).
The point of SF has never been primarily prediction. Its a vehicle a lot of writers have used to say whatever they want.
May be they could use the skills base the university provides to attract businesses that need it - like Cambridge (England, not Massachusetts) has done.
I would like to know what the currently missing features are. When this has come up previously people have mentioned colour separation (there is now a plugin for that), bit depth (still a problem:, but you could use the CinePaint fork), adjustment layers (does this address it: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/forums/thread1259.htm?), colour management (I assume there are specific missing features within this, as the GIMP has colour management) and the lack of Panatone colours (no FOSS software will ever have that because of the licensing fee).
What else is still missing?
Its a pity Cinepaint development seems to have slowed: if it got a bit more resources we would have a FOSS competitor that had a sufficient colour depth and a name taht is nt an embarrassment.
Kubuntu is the worst KDE distro I have tried. Mandriva or Mepis is FAR better.
It may be worse than you think. Not only has KDE suffered relative to Gnome, but I suspect many users whose first experience of Linux was Kubuntu will have been disappointed as well.
Ubuntu should drop support for Kubuntu, or do it properly.
The EU has mechanisms for enforcing one states judgements in another state. I assume the US has too: I am guessing that you could not escape a judgement against you is California because you are in Texas. I am not quite sure how EU rules will apply in this case, but the do have things like EU wide arrest warrants.
And, of course, most modern religions (and in particular, most modern people pushing it) are out there trying to convince people that if you question their interpretation of the "facts," that you'll burn in hell for eternity.
The religion in question does not claim that. In fact I know of no major religion that claims that.
The church shouldn't even be having this argument. Science points towards an almost certainty of intelligent alien life out there, even if we never meet it face-to-face
RTFA. The Vatican is having a conference on astro-biology. The "debate" is spin added by journalists and Slashdot "editors".
A biblical reference to God making man in his own image doesn't mean that the god they worship literally looks like we do.
As God has no form, except when incarnate as Jesus, God does not look like anything (except in the limited sense that God incarnate looks like bearded Jewish guy).
I have a proof that satisfies me, unfortunately as it lies partly in my experiences not all of it can be demonstrated to you (the rest of it lies in the enormous numbers of sane people, from different times and cultures, who have experienced God, and, least importantly, how convicing biblical eye-witness accounts are (he gospel of St John in particular.
There is some absolute rubbish in the article
Among other things, extremely alien-looking aliens would be hard to fit with the idea that God 'made man in his own image
That is taking it far too physically. Made in Gods image means freewill, creativeness, the ability to love, etc.
Furthermore, Jesus Christ’s role as saviour would be confused: would other worlds have their own, tentacled Christ-figures, or would Earth’s Christ be universal?
No way of knowing until we meet aliens. It could also be that they are saved in other ways. Some people have even suggested they could be sinless (I doubt it, its not in that nature of evolution for perfection at that level to emerge from it: there are too many ways it is advantagous to be evil). It could even by a mixture of all three/
There ought to be an automated way of doing this: if you keep copies of everything from the likes of Sourceforge, Google code, etc. and the full source of all Debian packages and all FreeBSD source, you would have most of the open source code out there. You then need a tool that can identify similar code in spite of simple obfuscations (e.g. search and replace names).
It ought to be trivial of you have MS's resources and you already own a search engine (not quite the same problem: it ought to be simpler).
You are making lots of invalid assumptions. One is that the only way to make money off software.
Also, remember that open source software is generally as good as or better than proprietary alternatives, despite having a much smaller user-base. I am sure you can find examples where the proprietary alternative is better, but if the open source version had the same user base (and the extra funding that implies) how good would it be then?
Lots of people including myself, do not find the proprietary alternatives for what we do better: in fact they are usually worse (except Excel, and the extra features are ones I would use rarely, it at all these days).
Incidentally, Blender seems to have a lot of professional users for "crap".
I'm a self employed software developer and make a living off a program I created all on my own
So your argument comes down to: I need government created monopolies for my business to be profitable, so they are a good thing. From your point of view yes, but some of us prefer a free market economy.
Incidentally I am in favour of sensible copyright (say 20 years, and no protection for encryption, and no criminal offenses), but not for software.
Obviously said by someone who's never put a lot of work into a program, video, script, or anything else that requires creative work, then wondered why he wasn't making money on it.
Whether someone makes money from their work or not is not anyone else's problem. Lots of people put money into things that fail. Its called free market capitalism. Should every small business that fails get a subsidy from society?
A reasonable point of view, except that I would say you should think in terms of who you are and what you would be willing to do when faced with God rather than rewards and punishments (CS Lewis's "The Great Divorce" is a nice parable of this idea). Hell is not a punishment but the state that people who refuse the ultimate good.
God cannot possibly want people to be dishonest by believing when they have not been presented with a good reason to: better an honest atheist than a pretend, or brainwashed, Christian.
I am teaching the 6 year old to install software, not something I would dare do on Windows - installing stuff with Synaptic is not going to cause security problems.
Not all OSes are suitable for naive users, and no OS is suitable for naive users to have root on any OS unless they are willing to do what they are told and stick to rules.
Try a few more searches. WA was the best for "uk time" and Bing the worst. Google UK was the best for "glaxo share price" (and the only one that gave me what I wanted), and again Bing was the worst. Wolfram gave the right answer in the wrong currency (the primary listing in London, so the price should be in GBP pence.
So what? Google only makes money from advertising, MS only makes money from softwarel licensing. I see no reason to think eaither revenue stream is going to disappear in a hurry.
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How do you know how plagiarised who? Things I wrote have been plagiarised on Wikipedia. The plagiarist could have claimed that I plagiarised Wikipedia, and it would have taken a fair amount of work to find out the truth.
I thought Mint has always been Ubuntu based? Mepis switched between from Debian to Ubuntu and back, but that is not that drastic.
If I buy a new car, when I first put the key in the ignition, does a notice pop up saying: "you must agree to the terms of use of the engine before you can start it"?
Only some SF has ever been about technology. A lot of the brilliant writers have always had a focus on social issue: Ursula Le Guin, for example. The same is true for most non SF writers who write some SF (Kingsley Amis, Dorris Lessing, CS Lewis - although the latter two are only just SF, and in Lewis case in only one book) or who write a lot of both (Iain Banks).
The point of SF has never been primarily prediction. Its a vehicle a lot of writers have used to say whatever they want.
May be they could use the skills base the university provides to attract businesses that need it - like Cambridge (England, not Massachusetts) has done.
I realize that it's limited in comparison
I would like to know what the currently missing features are. When this has come up previously people have mentioned colour separation (there is now a plugin for that), bit depth (still a problem:, but you could use the CinePaint fork), adjustment layers (does this address it: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/forums/thread1259.htm?), colour management (I assume there are specific missing features within this, as the GIMP has colour management) and the lack of Panatone colours (no FOSS software will ever have that because of the licensing fee).
What else is still missing?
Its a pity Cinepaint development seems to have slowed: if it got a bit more resources we would have a FOSS competitor that had a sufficient colour depth and a name taht is nt an embarrassment.
The thing is that Linux does not require the root password to do everything. The commonest task that requires it is installing software.
From what I understood of the complaints about Vista, it required the root password a lot more than Linux does.
What do you mean by "100% native suite" and why does it matter?
I always use some KDE/QT apps with XFCE and I used to use some Gtk apps with KDE.
Kubuntu is the worst KDE distro I have tried. Mandriva or Mepis is FAR better.
It may be worse than you think. Not only has KDE suffered relative to Gnome, but I suspect many users whose first experience of Linux was Kubuntu will have been disappointed as well.
Ubuntu should drop support for Kubuntu, or do it properly.
May be they can apply that to internet censorship and treating refugees as criminals as well!
A scan by whom, practised on whom. The founders of Christianity and Buddhism did not exactly benefit by founding a religion.
What do you mean by a better life. None of the major religions promise a better life in this life, only the next.
The other problem is that you are assuming that there is no God. If so, then theistic religions are clearly a waste of time.
Yes, but you know that before you join.
Anyone can find out exactly what the Mormon's believe, and they would be quite happy to explain it more fully if you are interested.
The CoS wants you to pay first, before you decide whether what they believe is credible. Given what they belive there is a good reason for that....
Xeros Alto to ?????
Visicalc to ????
Someone actually has to come up with new ideas.
The EU has mechanisms for enforcing one states judgements in another state. I assume the US has too: I am guessing that you could not escape a judgement against you is California because you are in Texas. I am not quite sure how EU rules will apply in this case, but the do have things like EU wide arrest warrants.
And, of course, most modern religions (and in particular, most modern people pushing it) are out there trying to convince people that if you question their interpretation of the "facts," that you'll burn in hell for eternity.
The religion in question does not claim that. In fact I know of no major religion that claims that.
The church shouldn't even be having this argument. Science points towards an almost certainty of intelligent alien life out there, even if we never meet it face-to-face
RTFA. The Vatican is having a conference on astro-biology. The "debate" is spin added by journalists and Slashdot "editors".
A biblical reference to God making man in his own image doesn't mean that the god they worship literally looks like we do.
As God has no form, except when incarnate as Jesus, God does not look like anything (except in the limited sense that God incarnate looks like bearded Jewish guy).
I have a proof that satisfies me, unfortunately as it lies partly in my experiences not all of it can be demonstrated to you (the rest of it lies in the enormous numbers of sane people, from different times and cultures, who have experienced God, and, least importantly, how convicing biblical eye-witness accounts are (he gospel of St John in particular.
There is some absolute rubbish in the article
Among other things, extremely alien-looking aliens would be hard to fit with the idea that God 'made man in his own image
That is taking it far too physically. Made in Gods image means freewill, creativeness, the ability to love, etc.
Furthermore, Jesus Christ’s role as saviour would be confused: would other worlds have their own, tentacled Christ-figures, or would Earth’s Christ be universal?
No way of knowing until we meet aliens. It could also be that they are saved in other ways. Some people have even suggested they could be sinless (I doubt it, its not in that nature of evolution for perfection at that level to emerge from it: there are too many ways it is advantagous to be evil). It could even by a mixture of all three/
There ought to be an automated way of doing this: if you keep copies of everything from the likes of Sourceforge, Google code, etc. and the full source of all Debian packages and all FreeBSD source, you would have most of the open source code out there. You then need a tool that can identify similar code in spite of simple obfuscations (e.g. search and replace names).
It ought to be trivial of you have MS's resources and you already own a search engine (not quite the same problem: it ought to be simpler).
You are making lots of invalid assumptions. One is that the only way to make money off software.
Also, remember that open source software is generally as good as or better than proprietary alternatives, despite having a much smaller user-base. I am sure you can find examples where the proprietary alternative is better, but if the open source version had the same user base (and the extra funding that implies) how good would it be then?
Lots of people including myself, do not find the proprietary alternatives for what we do better: in fact they are usually worse (except Excel, and the extra features are ones I would use rarely, it at all these days).
Incidentally, Blender seems to have a lot of professional users for "crap".
I'm a self employed software developer and make a living off a program I created all on my own
So your argument comes down to: I need government created monopolies for my business to be profitable, so they are a good thing. From your point of view yes, but some of us prefer a free market economy.
Incidentally I am in favour of sensible copyright (say 20 years, and no protection for encryption, and no criminal offenses), but not for software.
Obviously said by someone who's never put a lot of work into a program, video, script, or anything else that requires creative work, then wondered why he wasn't making money on it.
Whether someone makes money from their work or not is not anyone else's problem. Lots of people put money into things that fail. Its called free market capitalism. Should every small business that fails get a subsidy from society?
A reasonable point of view, except that I would say you should think in terms of who you are and what you would be willing to do when faced with God rather than rewards and punishments (CS Lewis's "The Great Divorce" is a nice parable of this idea). Hell is not a punishment but the state that people who refuse the ultimate good.
God cannot possibly want people to be dishonest by believing when they have not been presented with a good reason to: better an honest atheist than a pretend, or brainwashed, Christian.
Surely any code could have code copied in breach of copyright in it?
Same with my wife and daughter using Linux.
I am teaching the 6 year old to install software, not something I would dare do on Windows - installing stuff with Synaptic is not going to cause security problems.
Not all OSes are suitable for naive users, and no OS is suitable for naive users to have root on any OS unless they are willing to do what they are told and stick to rules.
kdesu and gksu do most of it, and, as someone pointed out above, Policykit does all of it.
Try a few more searches. WA was the best for "uk time" and Bing the worst. Google UK was the best for "glaxo share price" (and the only one that gave me what I wanted), and again Bing was the worst. Wolfram gave the right answer in the wrong currency (the primary listing in London, so the price should be in GBP pence.
So what? Google only makes money from advertising, MS only makes money from softwarel licensing. I see no reason to think eaither revenue stream is going to disappear in a hurry.