I'd admit that some of the workarounds you have to make to cope with MySQL's munging of data are quite creative--though I don't know about professional.;)
Are you kidding, PHBs will be falling over themselves to pay MS for the ability to make documents that expire after a certain date; that can't be copied/forwarded; and that can't be edited, or even have text copied from the document to the cliboard. Microsoft's revolutionary new features make it easier than ever to conduct a dishonest business!:)
If you want unpaid volunteers to support an already aged/creaking system for a few more years, you had better come up with something more persuasive than that!
> Now that the European Council has passed the directive against their own rules > [ffii.org], the opinions of the european governments no longer have any real > power.
You've been tricked! I'm the first to admit that my understanding of the situation is not 100% correct, however I think it's more or less on target....
The European Council (of Ministers) is made up of members of the various European governments. You don't realise this because when your government addresses you at home, it always talks about the EU Council as a separate body that hands down laws that your government is forced to implement.
They never mention that they are the EU Council.
The British council members are democratically elected (though they are still in favour of the CIID because Labour is shite). I don't know about other countries, but I understand that some have very strange arrangements, like Denmark for instance, where the (elected) parliament have no control over the (unelected) ministers, who sit on the council, making the rules.
The problem is that the idea of the European Parliament seems to be a charade designed to trick the masses into thinking they have direct control over the pan-EU government. The EU Parliament is really very weak. Some say the EU Constitution may fix this, and others say it will make the problem worse. I don't know myself--I tried to read the Draft Treaty Establishing a Constitution of Europe, but I only got to page 25 out of 400 or so before giving up...
In practice, the unelected EU Commission (liberally greased by Big Business, and featuring crooks like Peter Mandelson) makes up shitty laws, and the partially-elected, but unaccountable, European Council of Ministers nods them through.
When the public complain about said shitty laws, the government ministers then turn around and place the blame upon the very same council which they sit on, that passed the laws in question.
Meanwhile the Parliament flaps around, unable to do anything, because to overrule or alter the adoption of a directive by the Council, they need an overwhelmingly large absolute majority (something like 70% I think) at the Second Reading of a directive. Oh, and absentees and abstentions count in favour of the council. So it's even money if enough MEPs will even turn up to make a difference on the second reading of the CIID in about a month's time.
Good grief, tell me you're not a sysadmin for any public webapps so I can breathe a sigh of relief. I don't want to be arrested for cracking into your system the next time I mis-type a URL!
Also your analogy is crap, because accessing an unsecured resource at a publicly-available URL is not the same as waltzing into an open bank vault and making off with the contents.
Perhaps if English was better, there would be an English word for Free-as-in-Freedom, and we wouldn't have to resort to determining meaning by looking at the capitalisation of the word 'free'; which is often overlooked in print (hence this sub-thread) and impossible to do at all in speech.
> You can define exactly wich system calls a program can use on wich files.
I think this is what SELinux does--SELinux adds "mandatory access control" to Linux. The traditional system Unix/Windows/etc use is "discretionary access control".
It's easy to sit down and say "let's clone the interface of Outlook", because everyone working on the UI then has something to work towards. It's a lot harder to write out an interface specification instead, and even harder again if you want to come up with an original interface/workflow design.
The other problem is that, if the coders do come up with an original take on, say, the email problem, they will be berated for not precicely copying Outlook's interface. There was a story on Openoffice.org on this site yesterday, one comment from which stated that Openoffice.org should use the same, blue 'W' icon that MS Word does, otherwise users would be too confused to even launch it!
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Not to mention a hard disk to install all that crap!
I'd admit that some of the workarounds you have to make to cope with MySQL's munging of data are quite creative--though I don't know about professional. ;)
Is the new Captcha that ineffective then?
Well that's only 540 lines at 25 fps. Any PC made in the last 5 years, or even more, should manage HL2 at 800x600 at 25 fps.
Typically? Bollocks. No one seems to care whether a series has been licensed or not.
PS, why is this story under the patents topic? It has nothing to do with patents?
PPS, why are there so many OT replies today? Are replies being attached to incorrect parent messages or something?
> If I make a text, book, memorandum with word
That's your mistake. You should have used LaTeX.
Often, Word can't manage it either.
Are you kidding, PHBs will be falling over themselves to pay MS for the ability to make documents that expire after a certain date; that can't be copied/forwarded; and that can't be edited, or even have text copied from the document to the cliboard. Microsoft's revolutionary new features make it easier than ever to conduct a dishonest business! :)
> what if there aren't comments on every single line saying who write what?
See cvs annotate or your favourite SCM system's equivalent.
So why aren't they in my (figurative) PSP?
File a bug.
I hope EA doesn't read this. Probably too late already.
What do you call a hundred dead lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A good start.
Not to mention donating hardware to, and hiring programmers to hack on, open source projects.
Hi Till,
If you want unpaid volunteers to support an already aged/creaking system for a few more years, you had better come up with something more persuasive than that!
Sam
I'm glad I didn't pay $800 for it!
> Now that the European Council has passed the directive against their own rules
:(
> [ffii.org], the opinions of the european governments no longer have any real
> power.
You've been tricked! I'm the first to admit that my understanding of the situation is not 100% correct, however I think it's more or less on target....
The European Council (of Ministers) is made up of members of the various European governments. You don't realise this because when your government addresses you at home, it always talks about the EU Council as a separate body that hands down laws that your government is forced to implement.
They never mention that they are the EU Council.
The British council members are democratically elected (though they are still in favour of the CIID because Labour is shite). I don't know about other countries, but I understand that some have very strange arrangements, like Denmark for instance, where the (elected) parliament have no control over the (unelected) ministers, who sit on the council, making the rules.
The problem is that the idea of the European Parliament seems to be a charade designed to trick the masses into thinking they have direct control over the pan-EU government. The EU Parliament is really very weak. Some say the EU Constitution may fix this, and others say it will make the problem worse. I don't know myself--I tried to read the Draft Treaty Establishing a Constitution of Europe, but I only got to page 25 out of 400 or so before giving up...
In practice, the unelected EU Commission (liberally greased by Big Business, and featuring crooks like Peter Mandelson) makes up shitty laws, and the partially-elected, but unaccountable, European Council of Ministers nods them through.
When the public complain about said shitty laws, the government ministers then turn around and place the blame upon the very same council which they sit on, that passed the laws in question.
Meanwhile the Parliament flaps around, unable to do anything, because to overrule or alter the adoption of a directive by the Council, they need an overwhelmingly large absolute majority (something like 70% I think) at the Second Reading of a directive. Oh, and absentees and abstentions count in favour of the council. So it's even money if enough MEPs will even turn up to make a difference on the second reading of the CIID in about a month's time.
Basically, the EU's a Banana Republic.
Good grief, tell me you're not a sysadmin for any public webapps so I can breathe a sigh of relief. I don't want to be arrested for cracking into your system the next time I mis-type a URL!
Also your analogy is crap, because accessing an unsecured resource at a publicly-available URL is not the same as waltzing into an open bank vault and making off with the contents.
You sound very defensive (not to mention rude)!
Perhaps if English was better, there would be an English word for Free-as-in-Freedom, and we wouldn't have to resort to determining meaning by looking at the capitalisation of the word 'free'; which is often overlooked in print (hence this sub-thread) and impossible to do at all in speech.
I would *love* to see Windows pass this test.
You will note that he said "Free Software", not "free software".
;)
Yes, English sucks, but Americans wouldn't accept it if we called it Software Libre.
> You can define exactly wich system calls a program can use on wich files.
I think this is what SELinux does--SELinux adds "mandatory access control" to Linux. The traditional system Unix/Windows/etc use is "discretionary access control".
But if you disable it, your Internet no longer gets the benefit of full Pentium accelleration!
> so what do you do when your software requires an Intel chipset because of the
:)
> DRM capabilities?
Blame yourself, and only yourself, for compromising your freedom with your choice of OS?
The problem is this:
It's easy to sit down and say "let's clone the interface of Outlook", because everyone working on the UI then has something to work towards. It's a lot harder to write out an interface specification instead, and even harder again if you want to come up with an original interface/workflow design.
The other problem is that, if the coders do come up with an original take on, say, the email problem, they will be berated for not precicely copying Outlook's interface. There was a story on Openoffice.org on this site yesterday, one comment from which stated that Openoffice.org should use the same, blue 'W' icon that MS Word does, otherwise users would be too confused to even launch it!
YOU are the problem with today's world.