We should be able to have backup copies of content or be able to convert it to other formats that are playable by the hardware and/or software the consumer owns. It really pisses me of that i am in region 4 and i happen to like some content that just happens to be reguin 1, 2 or 6 that are not available in Australia.
I don't think slackware needs Gnome. I think (which means i could be wrong) use KDE. Gnome is a little behind with features that allow customization and if a little strange to work with. Slackware is an easy distro but, it's also a small as in not heard of by some. By that i mean that newbies are more likely to use fedora or mandrake, and the rest of use can install Gnome ourselves if we want to... Or use a other distro,based on Slackware with Gnome.
I understand restricting the ammount of connections on server software. It makes sence when some that MS SQL Server Developement can only handle a very limited nummber, but a client? That means that you can use a limited number of instances of a web browser and useng a browser like Opera does not provide any benefits.
What happens if Joe get's caught by American or any other authority that has no judistiction in Australia??? They can only trace the source and/or destination to the Isp. They report to the Isp which has to report to the police...Knock! Knock!
It makes sence to me... but, what worries me is that how do they know who is and isn't under age? You get older women dresing to look younger or underdeveloped who naturally look younger. How will the authorities know if she's underage or not?
Software Patents? Who needs them? Patents would/will (and maybe in some cases already do) only slow developement, software, hardware, doesn't matter.
Company A - Has an idea, patents it
then Company B - Get's cought and forced to pay up.
or Company B - Is forced to re-invent another way to do the some thing (re-inventing the wheel)
This is exacly what's holding us, the human species back. We could share ideas and/or methods and concentrate on support and improvement.
Company A - Invents, and releases to public
then Company B - Takes the idea and improves on it,
releases to public
then Company C - Takes the work of Company C and further improves on it. And releases it.
If the big companies didn't play this childish game (which they don't need to, they already have dominance/influence because they are big companies) we as species would be way ahead of where we are today.
Even if you didn't want someone to know how you did something. You could refuse to show your code. In this case companies would compete on better implementation of thesome idea.
Everone wants somethingm for nothing...but not at expense of keeping the little business out. IMHO...
Punishing the lesser polluters? Why, because they use less petro? "Reward" bigget polluters? I think this might have something to do with US and their control of some (if not all) oil rigs in Iraq. Because of that AND thought taxes and so on, they have a huge control on the price of petrol in the country. Now...it's hard to put pressure on the rest of the world because there are alternative oil sources however US can do whatever they want. They can get the oil from Iraq for cheap, undercut other provider's prices and get more money by increasing taxes on petrol and on it's usage. So i doesn't matter if you have a V8 or a 4 cylinder car. The difference is likely to be small to keep the car fueled. Four cyl may cost you less in petrol but the tax might even it out.
As many people pointed it out, this has nothing to do with pollution.
US wants to sell "their" oil and they want to control how much whey'll be selling it for. As they can't control the rest of the world they want to control their own people.
I think it's very abvious, it's all about the $$$.
Smart people are expected not to make mistakes and not to fail. We are all (even some of the smartest people) nothing but human, therefore we do make mistakes and sometimes fail. But, since you are smart people are likely to expect more from you.
"Let's see you get out of this.." "You are so smart, why can't you..."
What people need to understand is that sometimes even the best of us make the wrong judgement. This things happen.
Ok..Lets say you have some data bound to some configuration, and the program is modified (Let's say it is a virus). What do you do if you can't get thesome piece of software/configuration? What is some or no pieces of the source are not available.
Are you then locked you of your own data???
What if you get all the source and then compile it? Will it work then?
What if you get all the source but compile with different optimizations?
What's the point of standards, if there'll be veriations to them? Till now when im downloading packages all i have to worry about is what is my distribution based on. If it's debian based i get debian package. With one standard you get one package that can work on all distributions supporting that standard. Now we'll have "optional" extra bit and what's next? One standard for one thing another for something else. Now I'll have to worry about standards. Is my linux distro standard zyx or xyz, is there a difference and are they compatible. Maybe i got all this wrong...but, if i didn't. I don't think this is a good idea.
Good: It's the sort of point and click thing we're walking about. It also allows the entity to put their own spin adding a feel related to the product to the installer.
Bad: That installer (in my experience) totally ignores the package program. Almost as if you have compiled the program yourself. And I'm yet to figure out how to remove a program installed with such a installer.
Correct me if I'm wrong. Isn't Lindows Linspire? Lindows project changed their name along with their goals because they couldn't live up to what they made people believe they could do. Which was run Windows programs.
Ok, LiveCD... How is it a bad thing when you intend to install your linux distro? By looking at the profile i see that each operating system has an ALMOST even number of good and bad things about it. Now lets think of a "mum" or "dad", they are likely to just literaly count the number of good and/or bad things and make a decision based on that. That's assuming they even read Choice.
Although I'm reasonably happy with both telcos services (Telstra and Optus). I welcome more competition. I feel that Australia is a bit slow on improving their communication networks because of the cost of running cables on the street per signups. And Australian cities are not very dense, which means a lot of cables. I hope that a little extra competition will not only lower prices but also force telcos to compete for areas where their broadband is not yet available.
There must be a reason why more and more government agencies are adopting Open Source solutions. And i don't think it's all due to promotions. If must be worth the trouble for any organisation for any company to change something that's worked before for something else. Im interested in TOC, but it's hard to establish where the truth lies. I trust Microsofts comments about the cost of Windows vs Linux about as much as i trust the Open Source community.
Obvious point : This could help solve most of the compatibility problems between different Office suits. Your work document may one day open in your frineds OpenOffice word processor and look 100% thesome as in you MS Office.
The problem : Digital Rights Management. Ms might have or might open their XML document format. Other suits might open their format.
However, can a application be an owner of a license? You could have a DRM'ed document created using Ms Word that is in an "open format" but, only Ms Work is licensed to open it or you are only allowed to open it in Ms Word. Anything else is considered a hack and you could me prosecuted under DMCA.
With time, even that will me cracked... Remember, security is not really to stop anything from happening. It's only to discourage. If the time and worn to break in becomes too much, i'll won't be worth the effort. But a person with a skill, plan and a goal is likely to bypass any security.
Competition is good... All the current flash memory is pretty much the some. If M-flash will be everything it promises to be it should cause a drop in costs of flash storage.
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We should be able to have backup copies of content or be able to convert it to other formats that are playable by the hardware and/or software the consumer owns.
It really pisses me of that i am in region 4 and i happen to like some content that just happens to be reguin 1, 2 or 6 that are not available in Australia.
I don't think slackware needs Gnome. I think (which means i could be wrong) use KDE. Gnome is a little behind with features that allow customization and if a little strange to work with. Slackware is an easy distro but, it's also a small as in not heard of by some. By that i mean that newbies are more likely to use fedora or mandrake, and the rest of use can install Gnome ourselves if we want to... Or use a other distro,based on Slackware with Gnome.
I understand restricting the ammount of connections on server software. It makes sence when some that MS SQL Server Developement can only handle a very limited nummber, but a client? That means that you can use a limited number of instances of a web browser and useng a browser like Opera does not provide any benefits.
Netscape: Can't beat them, join them.
Not as pointless as you think...
What happens if Joe get's caught by American or any other authority that has no judistiction in Australia??? They can only trace the source and/or destination to the Isp. They report to the Isp which has to report to the police...Knock! Knock!
It makes sence to me... but, what worries me is that how do they know who is and isn't under age? You get older women dresing to look younger or underdeveloped who naturally look younger. How will the authorities know if she's underage or not?
To my knowledge, you can use memory footpring of cpu usage to identify a process. Maybe you can use them to identify a connection...
Software Patents? Who needs them?
Patents would/will (and maybe in some cases already do) only slow developement, software, hardware, doesn't matter.
Company A - Has an idea, patents it
then
Company B - Get's cought and forced to pay up.
or
Company B - Is forced to re-invent another way to do the some thing (re-inventing the wheel)
This is exacly what's holding us, the human species back. We could share ideas and/or methods and concentrate on support and improvement.
Company A - Invents, and releases to public
then
Company B - Takes the idea and improves on it,
releases to public
then
Company C - Takes the work of Company C and further improves on it. And releases it.
If the big companies didn't play this childish game (which they don't need to, they already have dominance/influence because they are big companies) we as species would be way ahead of where we are today.
Even if you didn't want someone to know how you did something. You could refuse to show your code. In this case companies would compete on better implementation of thesome idea.
Everone wants somethingm for nothing...but not at expense of keeping the little business out. IMHO...
IMHO
Punishing the lesser polluters? Why, because they use less petro? "Reward" bigget polluters? I think this might have something to do with US and their control of some (if not all) oil rigs in Iraq. Because of that AND thought taxes and so on, they have a huge control on the price of petrol in the country. Now...it's hard to put pressure on the rest of the world because there are alternative oil sources however US can do whatever they want. They can get the oil from Iraq for cheap, undercut other provider's prices and get more money by increasing taxes on petrol and on it's usage. So i doesn't matter if you have a V8 or a 4 cylinder car. The difference is likely to be small to keep the car fueled. Four cyl may cost you less in petrol but the tax might even it out.
As many people pointed it out, this has nothing to do with pollution.
US wants to sell "their" oil and they want to control how much whey'll be selling it for. As they can't control the rest of the world they want to control their own people.
I think it's very abvious, it's all about the $$$.
Smart people are expected not to make mistakes and not to fail. We are all (even some of the smartest people) nothing but human, therefore we do make mistakes and sometimes fail. But, since you are smart people are likely to expect more from you.
"Let's see you get out of this.."
"You are so smart, why can't you..."
What people need to understand is that sometimes even the best of us make the wrong judgement. This things happen.
Good news for all the slackers out there. Dispite recent issues surrounding slackware (Pats illness), Slackware has released 10.1.
I couldn't imagine Linux without Slackware. The most elegant, stable and yet simple linux i ever used. Makes me proud to say "I'm a Slacker!".
Ok..Lets say you have some data bound to some configuration, and the program is modified (Let's say it is a virus). What do you do if you can't get thesome piece of software/configuration? What is some or no pieces of the source are not available.
Are you then locked you of your own data???
What if you get all the source and then compile it? Will it work then?
What if you get all the source but compile with different optimizations?
Let me get this straight. Does that mean that i'll have to run binary releases of the kernel in orber for it to be trusted?
What if i compile my own kernel?
What if i change it (Bug fixes, clean ups)?
What if i patch it?
Will the kernel still be trusted?
What's the point of standards, if there'll be veriations to them? Till now when im downloading packages all i have to worry about is what is my distribution based on. If it's debian based i get debian package. With one standard you get one package that can work on all distributions supporting that standard. Now we'll have "optional" extra bit and what's next? One standard for one thing another for something else. Now I'll have to worry about standards. Is my linux distro standard zyx or xyz, is there a difference and are they compatible. Maybe i got all this wrong...but, if i didn't. I don't think this is a good idea.
That can be a good thing and a bad thing.
Good: It's the sort of point and click thing we're walking about. It also allows the entity to put their own spin adding a feel related to the product to the installer.
Bad: That installer (in my experience) totally ignores the package program. Almost as if you have compiled the program yourself. And I'm yet to figure out how to remove a program installed with such a installer.
That's all well but what about the more complex foods? I propose using a hierarchical ingredients list:
... ...
This m bar contains:
Apple 3.00% - Apple 99.90%
Agrotoxic 0.09%
Printer ink 0.01%
Sultanas 2.00% - Grapes 90.00
Fertiliser (brand name)0.4
Bug repellent/preservative (brand name) 0.6
Correct me if I'm wrong. Isn't Lindows Linspire?
Lindows project changed their name along with their goals because they couldn't live up to what they made people believe they could do. Which was run Windows programs.
Lindows = Linspire (Which was reviewed)
Ok, LiveCD... How is it a bad thing when you intend to install your linux distro? By looking at the profile i see that each operating system has an ALMOST even number of good and bad things about it. Now lets think of a "mum" or "dad", they are likely to just literaly count the number of good and/or bad things and make a decision based on that. That's assuming they even read Choice.
Although I'm reasonably happy with both telcos services (Telstra and Optus). I welcome more competition. I feel that Australia is a bit slow on improving their communication networks because of the cost of running cables on the street per signups. And Australian cities are not very dense, which means a lot of cables. I hope that a little extra competition will not only lower prices but also force telcos to compete for areas where their broadband is not yet available.
The fun guns, once again.
There must be a reason why more and more government agencies are adopting Open Source solutions. And i don't think it's all due to promotions. If must be worth the trouble for any organisation for any company to change something that's worked before for something else.
Im interested in TOC, but it's hard to establish where the truth lies. I trust Microsofts comments about the cost of Windows vs Linux about as much as i trust the Open Source community.
Obvious point : This could help solve most of the compatibility problems between different Office suits. Your work document may one day open in your frineds OpenOffice word processor and look 100% thesome as in you MS Office.
The problem : Digital Rights Management. Ms might have or might open their XML document format. Other suits might open their format.
However, can a application be an owner of a license? You could have a DRM'ed document created using Ms Word that is in an "open format" but, only Ms Work is licensed to open it or you are only allowed to open it in Ms Word. Anything else is considered a hack and you could me prosecuted under DMCA.
Ok, you got yours for cheap. Great, good on you.
I however live in Australia. these things aren't that cheap here.
"biometric security"
With time, even that will me cracked...
Remember, security is not really to stop anything from happening. It's only to discourage.
If the time and worn to break in becomes too much, i'll won't be worth the effort.
But a person with a skill, plan and a goal is likely to bypass any security.
It's only a matter of time...
Competition is good...
All the current flash memory is pretty much the some. If M-flash will be everything it promises to be it should cause a drop in costs of flash storage.
It was only a matter of time...