No you underestimate the inherent limits of a structured language. The reasons you list are the reasons it might not be deciphered if it was a cryptographic language. If it is a natural language it would still fail.
Imagine attacking common words and phrases. If you read an english text, you would quickly notice words like "the" "a" "and", and it was a letter stuff like "you" and "me" Once you have a large set of common words and phrases you look at how they are placed and structured, and start making qualified guesses to their relationship.
Basically out cryptographica today, is so advanced that it now only can break most common encryptions, but it can infact break the differences between most langauges if guided by human sense.
Depends on how you read leading. If we refer to the largest user-base or developer-base, KDE is the leading desktop for *nix. If we talk about the most "innovative", or "best", anyone can make the claim.
Trolltech has always lied about the licenses. It's the only bad think I've ever seen them do.
Some of it is really blatent, like their claim that you need to commercial version to develop software, and if you dont have it you will need to release as GPL. It just mimicks Microsoft's GPL fud, and is not true. Anyone can use the GPL-version of Qt to develop software, they only need the commercial version to publish it as non-GPL.
Because by english teachers measurement, popular books cant be any good.
It not really a bad sentiment overall (imagine having to teach music by the most popular current music). Also while it is great book, and deep in detail, it really isnt that deep from an analytic point of view. Now why we dont read Kafka in literature, I dont understand. Maybe because he is ridiculing literature analytics.
Yes he is not only claiming that. He is right and you should look up your facts.
UTF-8 only uses non-ascii values to produce non-ascii characters. That's one of the things that make it really neat, and easy to convert to. It also means that you jump into an UTF-8 stream at any point without getting out of sync and receiving trash. this makes it more powerfull than UTF-16.
Debian has no default. You have to choose between GNOME and KDE.
Debian's KDE support today is superb, only rivaled by SuSE.
(I think the misunderstandment that Debian is a GNOME-dist comes from the the 2.2-time when they didnt distribute KDE at all, because of license issues)
Yes and no. Xine contains ffmpeg code, but they have removed the parts potentially covered by known patents (License is not the problem with ffmpeg, patents are).
MPlayer is kept out for personal reasons, but not the personal reasons of the Debian develops, but thoose of the mplayer team. They are the ones making a fuss, and keeping mplayer out. Look at how they bitch about SuSE who packaged mplayer, basically they do not want distributions to package their software.
D-BUS is better than DCOP and will most likely be used as the base for KDE 4.0, with a DCOP-wrapper for old applications. D-BUS is a system wide bus, that can talk to the kernel, other users and other desktops. DCOP is single user-single desktop only.
The largest problem is that the D-BUS developers are GNOME-bigots and tries to make KDE use GNOME-libraries. This will need to be fixed. (glib has been accepted by KDE, anything more will mean open war).
"Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock." - Will Rogers
Puts the british pre-WW2 diplomacy into context doesnt it?
(The germans had a strong military, the british didnt. The british made stupid diplomatic agreements while building a stronger military)
it is basically international law's version of the US Supreme Court.) Basically, the US refuses to recognize it because it is our legal belief that the US Supreme Court is the "highest law in the land," and we don't believe any other court elsewhere has the authority to compel or overrule decisions made by or reserved to the USSC.
This is a common misunderstandment about the international criminal court (strangely enough only common in the US). The international criminal court recides under all other courts. One of the ammendments the US got, was that court could try no cases tried in the country of the offender (US/EU citizens would always be tried at their national courts). The leaves the court effective only for newly conquerored/dissolved countries, or state-leaders who are immune in their home countries.
The question now, is what the US have against it, other than random UN bashing?
If the standards are same for everyone, the need to get ahead of competition would be the same. So companies would still spend a proportional part of their revenue on advertising.
Also observe that countries with thougher advertising rules, have no shortage of ad-based television. The only difference infact is that the television is much less obnoxious.
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No you underestimate the inherent limits of a structured language. The reasons you list are the reasons it might not be deciphered if it was a cryptographic language. If it is a natural language it would still fail.
Imagine attacking common words and phrases. If you read an english text, you would quickly notice words like "the" "a" "and", and it was a letter stuff like "you" and "me" Once you have a large set of common words and phrases you look at how they are placed and structured, and start making qualified guesses to their relationship.
Basically out cryptographica today, is so advanced that it now only can break most common encryptions, but it can infact break the differences between most langauges if guided by human sense.
Depends on how you read leading. If we refer to the largest user-base or developer-base, KDE is the leading desktop for *nix. If we talk about the most "innovative", or "best", anyone can make the claim.
Which makes sense since Azeri is a dialect of turkish (turkish language).
That it stinks of irony
So??
You still can't make use the GNOME libraries and make GNOME applications.
KDE libraries are licensed by LGPL.
But Windows can seemlessly change between SCSI-emulation and IDE, without requiring boottime option (allthough a reboot is required for installation).
Cable "theft" isn't stealing, it's not even borrowing.
Trolltech has always lied about the licenses. It's the only bad think I've ever seen them do.
Some of it is really blatent, like their claim that you need to commercial version to develop software, and if you dont have it you will need to release as GPL. It just mimicks Microsoft's GPL fud, and is not true. Anyone can use the GPL-version of Qt to develop software, they only need the commercial version to publish it as non-GPL.
Because by english teachers measurement, popular books cant be any good.
It not really a bad sentiment overall (imagine having to teach music by the most popular current music). Also while it is great book, and deep in detail, it really isnt that deep from an analytic point of view. Now why we dont read Kafka in literature, I dont understand. Maybe because he is ridiculing literature analytics.
Yes he is not only claiming that. He is right and you should look up your facts.
UTF-8 only uses non-ascii values to produce non-ascii characters. That's one of the things that make it really neat, and easy to convert to. It also means that you jump into an UTF-8 stream at any point without getting out of sync and receiving trash. this makes it more powerfull than UTF-16.
Ignoring the dummest half the opposite sex will only half your chances not eliminate them, but I guess _you_ would take anything?
Is that a super computer in your pocket, or are you just really glad to see me?
What do you mean "you cant actually drink beer on television"?
Then how do they censor "Cheers"?
Debian has no default. You have to choose between GNOME and KDE.
Debian's KDE support today is superb, only rivaled by SuSE.
(I think the misunderstandment that Debian is a GNOME-dist comes from the the 2.2-time when they didnt distribute KDE at all, because of license issues)
(Out of curiosity, does anyone know why /. doesn't allow the pound sterling symbol in posts?)
Slashdot doesnt allow anything unamerican in its posts. Try to write foreign names for example, or anything using letters other than a-z.
In the US it does. But these software/method-patents wont work with the new european rules on software patents.
Yes and no. Xine contains ffmpeg code, but they have removed the parts potentially covered by known patents (License is not the problem with ffmpeg, patents are).
MPlayer is kept out for personal reasons, but not the personal reasons of the Debian develops, but thoose of the mplayer team. They are the ones making a fuss, and keeping mplayer out. Look at how they bitch about SuSE who packaged mplayer, basically they do not want distributions to package their software.
D-BUS is better than DCOP and will most likely be used as the base for KDE 4.0, with a DCOP-wrapper for old applications. D-BUS is a system wide bus, that can talk to the kernel, other users and other desktops. DCOP is single user-single desktop only.
The largest problem is that the D-BUS developers are GNOME-bigots and tries to make KDE use GNOME-libraries. This will need to be fixed. (glib has been accepted by KDE, anything more will mean open war).
That's a feature, not a bug!
Far fewer how?
Germany has 80 million people, the US is somewhere around 240, or only 3 timer more.
Besides the system scales well, since the it is heriarchly.
"Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock." - Will Rogers
Puts the british pre-WW2 diplomacy into context doesnt it?
(The germans had a strong military, the british didnt. The british made stupid diplomatic agreements while building a stronger military)
it is basically international law's version of the US Supreme Court.) Basically, the US refuses to recognize it because it is our legal belief that the US Supreme Court is the "highest law in the land," and we don't believe any other court elsewhere has the authority to compel or overrule decisions made by or reserved to the USSC.
This is a common misunderstandment about the international criminal court (strangely enough only common in the US). The international criminal court recides under all other courts. One of the ammendments the US got, was that court could try no cases tried in the country of the offender (US/EU citizens would always be tried at their national courts). The leaves the court effective only for newly conquerored/dissolved countries, or state-leaders who are immune in their home countries.
The question now, is what the US have against it, other than random UN bashing?
According to Einstein: Energy either has or is mass, and so do photons (since they can't rest).
Please, take an economics class!
If the standards are same for everyone, the need to get ahead of competition would be the same. So companies would still spend a proportional part of their revenue on advertising.
Also observe that countries with thougher advertising rules, have no shortage of ad-based television. The only difference infact is that the television is much less obnoxious.
You mean there were some cheaply hacked together computers using Alphas - which still were more expensive than Macs at the time.
That, and faster than most later macs, up until G4.