So let me get this straight. You had enough of tinkering with your OS (your statement remember) and what did you do? You bought yourself a BSD derivative.... Amen was not the right word to use. "The power of Christ compels you" was, as if there is one thing you need, that is an exorcism.
Oh It's easy when you don't have neighbouring countries your home has been at odds with for millenia. It's easy to play "democratic" and "humanitarian" and other bullshit when your country does not have to have an army to protect itself from both its enemies and its friends. I speak of "friends" that don't hesitate to support a military junta or fuel (or even take part) in a civil war. It's easy when your country has a population in the hundreds or even several tens of millions. It's easy when your country plays the world-wide sheriff and goes about bombing, invading, "liberating" and "helping" countries but cries foul when its force is met with unorthodox tactics.
Don't get me wrong. Military service is a waste of time. You're wasting your life, often right in the middle of your most productive years. But. I will never regret having been trained to kill to protect myself, family and country.
Spectral efficiency measures the ability of a wireless system to deliver information within a given amount of radio spectrum and is directly related to system capacity. It determines the amount of radio spectrum required to provide a given service (e.g., 10 kbps voice service, 100 kbps data service) and the number of base stations required to deliver that service to end users. In the latter years of deployment, when subscriber penetration is high, it becomes one of the primary determinants of system economics.
Spectral efficiency is measured in units of bits/second/Hertz/cell (b/s/Hz/cell). It determines the total throughput each base station (cell or sector) can support in a network in a given amount of spectrum.
There's a million places I could point you to. So to say that capacity and frequency are not related is simply wrong, if not ignorant. The same definition stands for all wireless communications schemes, regardless of whether they use cells or not. All operators, whether it's Telephony or Networking deploy their networks and offer services based on spectral efficiency and power needed to achieve that efficiency. Nothing else. Bit rates, Frequency and all the rest of it are just byproducts...
Konq to Moz? Not a fair comparison. Moz is a beast. Maybe FireBird without the FileManager and the 101 other things and you're half-way there... GiMP is beyond anything and everything, no challenge. AbiWord sucks. It has sucked since the very first version I tried some 4 years ago and has consistently kept doing so. OpenOffice had better not be Gnomified-uglyfied. It's ugly enough. KOffice, the world has no need for IMO. Gaim is very good. And ugly as hell. Ever tried Kopete? Does the same things. Looks better too.
Not only what you've mentioned, but the need of owning something physical will always be there. Nevermind if it's pirated or original. If people can't have something that's theirs for keeps then well, whoever's trying to make a buck this way will be sorely disapppointed... I guess noone has explained the concept of trade to the author...because the customer in this case would be buying nothing.
C++ overkill? Yeah of course. Why would you want a compiled and well-designed-in-code binary running on your limited hardware when you could run all the bloat that comes with java virtual machines and interpreted perl....
Except that when you enroll, the first thing they have you sign is to hand-over that copyright and resign of the right of making any future possible claims.
Most colleges/universities specify that the IP of _any_ work associated with college work (say an idea you had based on something else, when that "else" was shown/taught at the college. That "idea" and that "something else" must be of the same nature/science/field) belongs to them or whatever the declaration was saying when you signed it during enrollment.
So if you have any work totally unrelated with your unni/college work, then it has nothing to do with them and the IP is all yours.
All College/University material, regardless of whether it was lectures/notes given or work sumbitted by students is IP of the University, so it can decide what and when to do with it. At least that's the reality I've encountered so far from all the places I've been to
The fairest policy I've seen (and that is by no means fair IMO) was to declare all work joint IP of the student-College, but the College handles it and decides what to do. The student only has "advisory" rights and gets a share of any of the possible profits arising from the IP.
This means that "His Original Work" is a euphemism and if he doesn't like it, well he should have checked what he was signing when he enrolled. I certainly did.
Because managers have taken over from engineers. The real problem is that if the masters of saying nothing by saying a lot, like the Economist is, don't understand what these IT heavyweights are saying, there must not really be much behind the terms...
I had to work with Lineo Linux and a cross compiler (from a British company, the name of which I can't remember right now) on porting Apache (of all things...) on a MIPS/RISC board. I have to say I was fairly underwhelmed by the whole experience and the quality of linux-related knowledge and support out there. Mind you that was 3 years ago.
Just because he sacrificed his life for a principle, regardless of how important that principle is, it does not mean that everything else he ever said or done is wiped out. Some people prefer to live and remember, occasionaly to forgive too, rather than sacrifice their lives for either a principle or at the altar of posthumous fame. Very few principles are worth sacrificing a life for. Seems to me, Socrates needed to have been taught the most important lesson. Life is sacred. Then he might have considered events under a different light. Anyway...
considering the support and work SuSE put in KDE in the past, it'd be a shame to become Ximian-centric. Now, all that's left is for SuSE to integrate with Ximian as well as it does with KDE. And then, well frankly, there will be no opponent to SuSE domination on desktops.
Now if only SuSE were to have a ports-like package management tool and taking NDS from Novell for granted, there will be no competition, from the Linux world or otherwise...
Hmm. With most of the quotes you have posted I agree with; I may have to even retract my statement about that possibly being the only statement I agree with. The reason I dislike Plato, or at least I disliked so far, was because a) he never stood up to Socrates, even when Socrates was at his whingeing worst and b) Plato does not propose solutions. He tends to say something is wrong, very often in a highly quotable manner, but does very little say anything about solutions. I know, some would call that chewing one's food, but hey if you're going to critique, you might as well offer some help.
Just about any University in a seismically active country, has at least one team or a scientist claiming to have created/discovered an x% accurate method of predicting when, where and how earthquakes will happen. Unfortunately either that x is too low, or the method questioned, or worse discredited, by fellow seismologists.
You see this field of science is quite possibly the one where most backstabbing for funding takes place. The stakes are very high and so is the money and the fame if someone gets it right. Right now, the world's most advanced state in seismic/disaster protection and planning, Japan, is looking at at least 3 schemes I've heard of... So the question is. What's so special about just another possibly valuable, higly unlikely to be accurate prediction scheme?
It's MIT. What do you expect? They are not friends and get so much funding from mega-corps to stab them in the back. Not when iTunes has shown the way to corps like HP...
And on another note. Everything is politcs. Plato said so. Quite possibly the only view of his I agree with.
This is a way to make the Windows 85% desktop share vanish overnight. Just compile the most expansive possible kernel. Package it and "sell" it to cnet as the p2p app to have. Include boot loader. No one reads warnings/lisenses anyway... And voila! 85% linux on the world's desktops overnight! And what a night it will be! I pity Dell support and the Indians....
I just stopped reading there. This was the last thing I will ever read OSNews. Until I hear they have got rid of their dogmatisms and their heads out of their respective asses.
Hi there. Thanks for your words. I checked your site out briefly; further surfing pending. As far as my comment is concerned, I have to admit I was mildly irritated for receiving such moderation. On the other hand it is the most convenient, to humans, response, to block what they don't like. That, naturally, does not mean that my comment deserved exposure by default. There are comments out there that are indeed "Insightful" and some of them have even been moderated as such. What is boils down to is this: There may be thousands disagreeing with, in my opinion, very valid point of view I expressed. What comforts me is what Aristotle said. Just because they are the majority, it doen't mean they are right. Just that they are more.
We don't want you and your slimey troops.
Who the fuck told you we want the world to be made safer by you? Who the fuck gave you the authority to judge what's safe and what's not.
That's your big mistake. For every peace/democracy/safety bringing operation, you create a million suicide bombers. And a million voices of anger by people that although no transgression against them has occured, they are angered to see this meddling into others' affairs by the Yanks and their lackeys.
Make no mistake. America is cornering itself into a corner it won't be able to fight of out of. And it's happening even faster since Bush Jr. stole the elctions.
Well. I just hope he gets a fair and open IN Iraq. Then the world will see the US, British, French and Russian governments for what they are. Looters of the world's resources. Remember. The Brits are responsible for setting the political background in the whole middle eastern area. A background that allowed people like Hussein to rise to power. The Yanks that sold him military equipment and weaponry to stay in power. The French for getting the contracts for the country's infrastructure. The Russians for the oil trade with Iraq...
Fair trial my ass. He will be silenced as quickly as possible. There's even talk of the trial being able to hand out a death penalty.
I guess I can just keep on dreaming for these things to come out. I guess I can keep on dreaming that Iraq will not be the operations centre of the Yanks' greedy fingers getting into the Syrian, Lebanes, Kuweitian, Saudi and Persian pies....
One other thing. What's with the cheering by those people allegedly being journalists. Are there no real journalists coming out of the US anymore? Or have they been deprived of their right to speak out because they are "unpatriotic"?
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So let me get this straight.
You had enough of tinkering with your OS (your statement remember) and what did you do? You bought yourself a BSD derivative....
Amen was not the right word to use. "The power of Christ compels you" was, as if there is one thing you need, that is an exorcism.
This guy needs to pull his head out of his arse...
The digital watch wishes it were as useful or stylish as the analogue.
Some people prefer their watches to tell the time and the time only you know. Maybe the date too.
Oh It's easy when you don't have neighbouring countries your home has been at odds with for millenia.
It's easy to play "democratic" and "humanitarian" and other bullshit when your country does not have to have an army to protect itself from both its enemies and its friends. I speak of "friends" that don't hesitate to support a military junta or fuel (or even take part) in a civil war.
It's easy when your country has a population in the hundreds or even several tens of millions.
It's easy when your country plays the world-wide sheriff and goes about bombing, invading, "liberating" and "helping" countries but cries foul when its force is met with unorthodox tactics.
Don't get me wrong. Military service is a waste of time. You're wasting your life, often right in the middle of your most productive years. But. I will never regret having been trained to kill to protect myself, family and country.
please refrain from posting.
. htm
Spectral efficiency measures the ability of a wireless system to deliver information within a given amount of radio spectrum and is directly related to system capacity. It determines the amount of radio spectrum required to provide a given service (e.g., 10 kbps voice service, 100 kbps data service) and the number of base stations required to deliver that service to end users. In the latter years of deployment, when subscriber penetration is high, it becomes one of the primary determinants of system economics.
Spectral Efficiency = Channel Throughput/Channel Bandwidth
Spectral efficiency is measured in units of bits/second/Hertz/cell (b/s/Hz/cell). It determines the total throughput each base station (cell or sector) can support in a network in a given amount of spectrum.
Copied from: http://www.arraycomm.com/pcct/spectral_efficiency
There's a million places I could point you to. So to say that capacity and frequency are not related is simply wrong, if not ignorant. The same definition stands for all wireless communications schemes, regardless of whether they use cells or not. All operators, whether it's Telephony or Networking deploy their networks and offer services based on spectral efficiency and power needed to achieve that efficiency. Nothing else. Bit rates, Frequency and all the rest of it are just byproducts...
Konq to Moz? Not a fair comparison. Moz is a beast. Maybe FireBird without the FileManager and the 101 other things and you're half-way there...
GiMP is beyond anything and everything, no challenge.
AbiWord sucks. It has sucked since the very first version I tried some 4 years ago and has consistently kept doing so. OpenOffice had better not be Gnomified-uglyfied. It's ugly enough. KOffice, the world has no need for IMO.
Gaim is very good. And ugly as hell. Ever tried Kopete? Does the same things. Looks better too.
Not only what you've mentioned, but the need of owning something physical will always be there. Nevermind if it's pirated or original. If people can't have something that's theirs for keeps then well, whoever's trying to make a buck this way will be sorely disapppointed...
I guess noone has explained the concept of trade to the author...because the customer in this case would be buying nothing.
C++ overkill? Yeah of course. Why would you want a compiled and well-designed-in-code binary running on your limited hardware when you could run all the bloat that comes with java virtual machines and interpreted perl....
Except that when you enroll, the first thing they have you sign is to hand-over that copyright and resign of the right of making any future possible claims.
Most colleges/universities specify that the IP of _any_ work associated with college work (say an idea you had based on something else, when that "else" was shown/taught at the college. That "idea" and that "something else" must be of the same nature/science/field) belongs to them or whatever the declaration was saying when you signed it during enrollment.
So if you have any work totally unrelated with your unni/college work, then it has nothing to do with them and the IP is all yours.
All College/University material, regardless of whether it was lectures/notes given or work sumbitted by students is IP of the University, so it can decide what and when to do with it.
At least that's the reality I've encountered so far from all the places I've been to
The fairest policy I've seen (and that is by no means fair IMO) was to declare all work joint IP of the student-College, but the College handles it and decides what to do. The student only has "advisory" rights and gets a share of any of the possible profits arising from the IP.
This means that "His Original Work" is a euphemism and if he doesn't like it, well he should have checked what he was signing when he enrolled. I certainly did.
Because managers have taken over from engineers.
The real problem is that if the masters of saying nothing by saying a lot, like the Economist is, don't understand what these IT heavyweights are saying, there must not really be much behind the terms...
I had to work with Lineo Linux and a cross compiler (from a British company, the name of which I can't remember right now) on porting Apache (of all things...) on a MIPS/RISC board.
I have to say I was fairly underwhelmed by the whole experience and the quality of linux-related knowledge and support out there.
Mind you that was 3 years ago.
It's km/h, not kph.
If you're going to use units you're not familiar with, maybe you ought to have a look at how to use them properly first.
Since when did Pinky and Brain got on the Debian board?
Maybe they should look at having a stable modern distro first, before farking the rest of the world's distros...
Just because he sacrificed his life for a principle, regardless of how important that principle is, it does not mean that everything else he ever said or done is wiped out.
Some people prefer to live and remember, occasionaly to forgive too, rather than sacrifice their lives for either a principle or at the altar of posthumous fame.
Very few principles are worth sacrificing a life for. Seems to me, Socrates needed to have been taught the most important lesson. Life is sacred. Then he might have considered events under a different light.
Anyway...
considering the support and work SuSE put in KDE in the past, it'd be a shame to become Ximian-centric.
Now, all that's left is for SuSE to integrate with Ximian as well as it does with KDE. And then, well frankly, there will be no opponent to SuSE domination on desktops.
Now if only SuSE were to have a ports-like package management tool and taking NDS from Novell for granted, there will be no competition, from the Linux world or otherwise...
Hmm. With most of the quotes you have posted I agree with; I may have to even retract my statement about that possibly being the only statement I agree with.
The reason I dislike Plato, or at least I disliked so far, was because a) he never stood up to Socrates, even when Socrates was at his whingeing worst and b) Plato does not propose solutions. He tends to say something is wrong, very often in a highly quotable manner, but does very little say anything about solutions. I know, some would call that chewing one's food, but hey if you're going to critique, you might as well offer some help.
Just about any University in a seismically active country, has at least one team or a scientist claiming to have created/discovered an x% accurate method of predicting when, where and how earthquakes will happen.
Unfortunately either that x is too low, or the method questioned, or worse discredited, by fellow seismologists.
You see this field of science is quite possibly the one where most backstabbing for funding takes place. The stakes are very high and so is the money and the fame if someone gets it right.
Right now, the world's most advanced state in seismic/disaster protection and planning, Japan, is looking at at least 3 schemes I've heard of...
So the question is. What's so special about just another possibly valuable, higly unlikely to be accurate prediction scheme?
It's MIT. What do you expect? They are not friends and get so much funding from mega-corps to stab them in the back.
Not when iTunes has shown the way to corps like HP...
And on another note. Everything is politcs. Plato said so. Quite possibly the only view of his I agree with.
This is a way to make the Windows 85% desktop share vanish overnight.
Just compile the most expansive possible kernel. Package it and "sell" it to cnet as the p2p app to have. Include boot loader.
No one reads warnings/lisenses anyway...
And voila! 85% linux on the world's desktops overnight! And what a night it will be!
I pity Dell support and the Indians....
I just stopped reading there. This was the last thing I will ever read OSNews. Until I hear they have got rid of their dogmatisms and their heads out of their respective asses.
Or. Dude. Nearly Finished.
Most likely Dude. Never. Forget it....
Hi there. Thanks for your words. I checked your site out briefly; further surfing pending.
As far as my comment is concerned, I have to admit I was mildly irritated for receiving such moderation. On the other hand it is the most convenient, to humans, response, to block what they don't like. That, naturally, does not mean that my comment deserved exposure by default. There are comments out there that are indeed "Insightful" and some of them have even been moderated as such.
What is boils down to is this: There may be thousands disagreeing with, in my opinion, very valid point of view I expressed. What comforts me is what Aristotle said. Just because they are the majority, it doen't mean they are right. Just that they are more.
We don't want you and your slimey troops.
Who the fuck told you we want the world to be made safer by you?
Who the fuck gave you the authority to judge what's safe and what's not.
That's your big mistake. For every peace/democracy/safety bringing operation, you create a million suicide bombers. And a million voices of anger by people that although no transgression against them has occured, they are angered to see this meddling into others' affairs by the Yanks and their lackeys.
Make no mistake. America is cornering itself into a corner it won't be able to fight of out of. And it's happening even faster since Bush Jr. stole the elctions.
Well. I just hope he gets a fair and open IN Iraq.
Then the world will see the US, British, French and Russian governments for what they are. Looters of the world's resources.
Remember. The Brits are responsible for setting the political background in the whole middle eastern area. A background that allowed people like Hussein to rise to power. The Yanks that sold him military equipment and weaponry to stay in power. The French for getting the contracts for the country's infrastructure. The Russians for the oil trade with Iraq...
Fair trial my ass. He will be silenced as quickly as possible. There's even talk of the trial being able to hand out a death penalty.
I guess I can just keep on dreaming for these things to come out.
I guess I can keep on dreaming that Iraq will not be the operations centre of the Yanks' greedy fingers getting into the Syrian, Lebanes, Kuweitian, Saudi and Persian pies....
One other thing. What's with the cheering by those people allegedly being journalists. Are there no real journalists coming out of the US anymore? Or have they been deprived of their right to speak out because they are "unpatriotic"?