Of course not, because that would be an outright lie. It was produced in Napa Valley, USA not the Champagne, France, so of course you can't claim it came from Champagne, France.
I think you meant that you can't call California sparkling wine "Champagne", which is true for the reason you outlined.
The problem with that is that the average consumer says "Champagne" to mean sparkling wine (if they are slightly more sophisticated they mean sparkling wine produced using the methode Champenoise , so it is not really misleading to call it Champagne.
Not only is my six year old daughter quite happy with Linux, but one of her friends is bugging me to install Linux on his ageing Mac (what he says is "can you make it like hers")
The problem with all this is that it only looks at contributions to these organisations. It ignores contributions such as employing developers to work on these desktops, which we need to tell us what resources are actually available to develop these desktops.
You really only start caring about the UI when you code for others.
That is the KEY difference between FOSS and proprietary software, and it explains all the issues people have with FOSS right there. FOSS programmers are usually writing the program for themselves,
A lot of FOSS software is developed "for others". What do you think all the developers employed by Ubuntu, Suse and Mandriva to work on Gnome and KDE do? What do you think the people Sun employs to work on Open Office do?
Proprietary software programmers are -always- thinking about what other people might want or need, because they are NOT coding it for themselves
I tried to help a fired with a problem with Outlook the other day, and it is the most geeky GUI I have ever seen. It is powerful: for example, you can run SQL queries on the contacts database. My friend and her staff were completely confused by the terminology it used (like a database "view" - yes if get that if you know SQL, but most people do not).
Every time I use someone else's WIndows PC I come across some UI horror. The last time it was the network connection system tray icon keeping on disappearing on my sister's laptop.
On the other hand I use a Linux desktop with a far from mainstream setup (Mepis with XFCE, a non-default audio system (Pulse, Mepis uses ALSA), with very few problems - I get to use the software for work and leisure more, and deal with hassles less, than I ever did with Windows.
I live in a third world country and have only ever got "network" busy when something has happened (usually a bomb going off) and even that not for a long time. As far as I can remember, even the tsumani did not have much impact on telecomsoutside the directly affected areas.
Human beings are not native to anyway other than Africa.
It is usual to regard the surviving (in significant numbers) identifiable group that has been longest in a place as native - so we can regard the English as native to England, the Turks as native to Turkey, the Japanese as native to Japan etc.
I cannot think of anywhere that has not been overrun by invaders who have displaced a previous people at some point its its history.
As a general principle I agree with you, but not in this case.
If they were the administrators of the machines they must have knowingly installed FTP, and knowing used it (rather than something secure like ssh).
I suppose one could argue that FTP clients should warn users that their passwords are going out in plain text, as web browsers do (except that we all turn it off after the first time). Even that does not really let the administrators off the hook. If they do not know that FTP uses unencrypted passwords, they do not know enough to be running any kind of server.
In addition some file managers do (Nautilus, Dolphin,...), there are GUI tools that allow you to mount a Fuse sftp filsesystem, and you can use rsync over ssh on the command line or with a GUI and most ftp apps these days suppors sftp.
Note that these are not cheap shared web hosts, these are virtual or dedicated servers. The admins had the choice and decided to be lazy. If they were being paid to do this (some will be people running their own servers for fun or profit), they should be fired.
Only an idiot would claim that servers being compromised because admins choose to send passwords over the internet in plain text proves anything about how secure the software running on those servers is.
The more stuff I read about patent litigation the less I understand why the corporations don't come to the conclusion that it doesn't do them any good.
In a word: cross-licensing. Read the last paragraph of the page linked to.
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Marketing people are not idiots because they cant program a computer.
True, that is not why they are idiots.
Of course not, because that would be an outright lie. It was produced in Napa Valley, USA not the Champagne, France, so of course you can't claim it came from Champagne, France.
I think you meant that you can't call California sparkling wine "Champagne", which is true for the reason you outlined.
The problem with that is that the average consumer says "Champagne" to mean sparkling wine (if they are slightly more sophisticated they mean sparkling wine produced using the methode Champenoise , so it is not really misleading to call it Champagne.
The EU goes further and bans the use of the term méthode Champenoise. The point of this is not to stop consumers being mislead, it is to protect producers from competition.
1) Have you got any evidence for that
2) Who cares why it is safer. All that matters to me is that it is.
gay until graduation
What? Why? Can someone explain that one
I don't suggest Linux to kids anyway.
Why not?
Not only is my six year old daughter quite happy with Linux, but one of her friends is bugging me to install Linux on his ageing Mac (what he says is "can you make it like hers")
Their content may be (or have been) open access, but, as far as software goes, they require you to use Windows.
Given how badly IT has been run at some place I have worked, I would say lots of organisations cannot identify technical incompetence.
The problem with all this is that it only looks at contributions to these organisations. It ignores contributions such as employing developers to work on these desktops, which we need to tell us what resources are actually available to develop these desktops.
Very well put. It reminded me of one of my favourite short stories.
Is that you Steve? or is it the other Steve?
it doesn't support Windows.
That's not a bug, its a feature.
You really only start caring about the UI when you code for others.
That is the KEY difference between FOSS and proprietary software, and it explains all the issues people have with FOSS right there. FOSS programmers are usually writing the program for themselves,
A lot of FOSS software is developed "for others". What do you think all the developers employed by Ubuntu, Suse and Mandriva to work on Gnome and KDE do? What do you think the people Sun employs to work on Open Office do?
Proprietary software programmers are -always- thinking about what other people might want or need, because they are NOT coding it for themselves
I tried to help a fired with a problem with Outlook the other day, and it is the most geeky GUI I have ever seen. It is powerful: for example, you can run SQL queries on the contacts database. My friend and her staff were completely confused by the terminology it used (like a database "view" - yes if get that if you know SQL, but most people do not).
Every time I use someone else's WIndows PC I come across some UI horror. The last time it was the network connection system tray icon keeping on disappearing on my sister's laptop.
On the other hand I use a Linux desktop with a far from mainstream setup (Mepis with XFCE, a non-default audio system (Pulse, Mepis uses ALSA), with very few problems - I get to use the software for work and leisure more, and deal with hassles less, than I ever did with Windows.
linux has held pretty steadily at sub-1%
Steve Ballmer says otherwise
Violent images do not get employers sued.
I live in a third world country and have only ever got "network" busy when something has happened (usually a bomb going off) and even that not for a long time. As far as I can remember, even the tsumani did not have much impact on telecomsoutside the directly affected areas.
Human beings are not native to anyway other than Africa.
It is usual to regard the surviving (in significant numbers) identifiable group that has been longest in a place as native - so we can regard the English as native to England, the Turks as native to Turkey, the Japanese as native to Japan etc.
I cannot think of anywhere that has not been overrun by invaders who have displaced a previous people at some point its its history.
Very often the story is in the first few paragraphs. This way you can read the important bits without every leaving Google....
As a general principle I agree with you, but not in this case.
If they were the administrators of the machines they must have knowingly installed FTP, and knowing used it (rather than something secure like ssh).
I suppose one could argue that FTP clients should warn users that their passwords are going out in plain text, as web browsers do (except that we all turn it off after the first time). Even that does not really let the administrators off the hook. If they do not know that FTP uses unencrypted passwords, they do not know enough to be running any kind of server.
Given that KDE4 (and Amarok 2) can run on Windows and MacOS, a Haiku port seem impossible.
There are also plenty of other players that could be ported. I just switched from Amarok to Quod Libet (python and Gtk are multi-platform too).
No, browsers don't offer sftp:// support natively
Konqueror does!
In addition some file managers do (Nautilus, Dolphin,...), there are GUI tools that allow you to mount a Fuse sftp filsesystem, and you can use rsync over ssh on the command line or with a GUI and most ftp apps these days suppors sftp.
Note that these are not cheap shared web hosts, these are virtual or dedicated servers. The admins had the choice and decided to be lazy. If they were being paid to do this (some will be people running their own servers for fun or profit), they should be fired.
It also looks likely that the passwords were stolen from the admin's compromised windows desktops!
Only an idiot would claim that servers being compromised because admins choose to send passwords over the internet in plain text proves anything about how secure the software running on those servers is.
Ah.....OK, I expect LOTS of such claims.
The more stuff I read about patent litigation the less I understand why the corporations don't come to the conclusion that it doesn't do them any good.
In a word: cross-licensing. Read the last paragraph of the page linked to.
Not ALL bad. I would say about 99% bad.
You could say the same about adding content to website by leaving comments.......