I've never had the misfortune to use Vista, but of all I've read about its differences to XP, the only thing that appealed to me was better anti-aliased font rendering.
I was wondering the same, I saw Private Eye itself use 'injuncted', but I think this is another of those slightly fishy past-participle formations, like 'to gift' which some people use instead of 'to give'.
I believe the right verb is 'to enjoin', and so 'enjoined'. An act of joining things is a junction, and so an act of enjoining is an injunction (so the first letter changes, but apart from that it follows the rule).
Merriam-Webster also supports this.
Yes, I remember Cybersitter. Back in the day (1995ish) it used to block me from pages hosted at Oxford University and other random things. This was running on Windows 3.1 with Program Manager crippled so you couldn't start any programs apart from those already in the program groups. I got around it by opening winword.exe with Notepad and randomly changing a few bytes at the start of the file. Now, on trying to run Word, Windows would abruptly crash to a DOS prompt, where I could fix a few things.
Ahhh... those were the days...
most people, when they give away their work, have a common moral compass, and they share certain values about how they would like to see that work go out into the world. i.e. They would rather some 3rd party not get paid for what they did for free.
Well, at Apple's demand, at AT&T's demand, it amounts to the same thing - an app that consumers would like to run is being blocked. Consider Apple+AT&T as a single iPhone-offering entity if that helps.
(Don't forget tha
I don't think anyone is arguing against the convenience of having a single app store, or denying that Apple has made it easy to install the applications they approve of, or denying that a large number of such apps exist. But of course it would be possible to have all that without also going out of your way to stop people installing apps of their own choosing, even if Apple/AT&T don't like them.
Yes, it's easy to get an app for the iPhone... *provided it's an app that Apple wants you to run*.
If it's something that doesn't agree with Apple's corporate policies, such as a VoIP client (Google Voice was blocked, and Skype crippled at Apple's request so it works only over wifi connections), then you can't run it at all, except by jailbreaking your phone, at which point Apple will try their hardest to break your phone in a future software update.
This is not consumer-friendly. A consumer-friendly approach would be one that allows open competition, even for apps that might cause Apple or its telco partners to lose some potential revenues.
Goddammit, we can't have a situation where Linux (and Unix in general, if you count the iPhone's OS) are *less open* systems than Windows freaking Mobile!
What about Nokia's handheld devices? They're pretty cool, right? Can you make phone calls with them yet?
Sadly, I am completely serious. As far as I know Firefox doesn't use the native UI elements for anything much - all the window contents are drawn with XUL.
I could be completely wrong here and it might turn out that Firefox does use native Windows controls for things like menus and scrollbars; would any Firefox hacker care to comment?
The Ribbon is fully available to any application that doesn't compete with Office...
I very much doubt the Mozilla guys are planning to use any of Microsoft's code. They prefer to create their own user interface elements in XUL+Javascript.
Let's get one thing straight: a software patent, granted to Microsoft or anyone else, does not 'make it possible'. People are quite able to implement computer systems without getting a patent first. If anything, having software patents covering an idea makes it less likely to happen. (If the swpats are not really enforceable, then their effect is smaller, but they can still be used to harass.)
Elite has certainly been very influential on later games but it didn't appear out of nowhere. The authors were inspired by Star Raiders on the Atari 400. I also wonder if the earlier BBC Micro game Starship Command might have been an influence.
More to the point, it's not as if they give it the benefit of the doubt and allow people to download the app while they 'study' it further. It is assumed guilty unless proven innocent. So there is no difference between what Apple calls 'studying' and rejection, given that they can always change their mind later.
For all its inherent Redmond-flavoured lameness, Codeplex is at least an open source site. From their FAQ:
What licenses does CodePlex support?
Project coordinators can select from a list of the following OSI licenses: Apache License 2.0, Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), Eclipse Public License (EPL), GNU General Public License (GPL) v2, GNU Library General Public License (LGPL), Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL), Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL), Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL), New BSD License, and The MIT License. If your project requires a license that is not on the list, you can request a custom license using the contact us form.
All of these are open source licences (the two Microsoft ones are approved by the OSI here and here; the FSF also acknowledges them here as free licences, though not recommended).
A pity that GPLv3 isn't allowed, but maybe they'll add it if asked.
Thanks for clarifying this. In my opinion, a *defensive* use of software patents (to stop other people suing you with their swpats) is okay.
But I also thought that Microsoft was aggressively suing makers of digital cameras and other devices that use FAT, even when those companies had not first sued or threatened Microsoft. Is that so?
Are you really saying that ARM processors would have outperformed an UltraSPARC III? Which particular ARM chip were you thinking of? Indeed, back in the 1990s were there any 64-bit ARM chips available?
Firefox 3.0.x is still supported, so you could go back to that while the 3.5 series matures. But what platform are you running Firefox on? I hadn't noticed crashiness myself, on either Windows or Linux. If you are using Firefox included with your Linux distribution, perhaps the official binary release would work better, or vice-versa.
Indeed, in the UK there has been an absurd campaign for people to turn off open wireless access points, presenting all the usual bogeyman reasons (terrorists, paedophiles, and so on). Like the signs everywhere telling you not to chain your bicycle to railings, it seems to serve no purpose except to make life difficult.
I wonder if there is a 'Campaign for Open Wifi' that you can join?
I could understand if the Weekly World News mistakenly called it a '60-watt' bulb meaning that it's about as bright as an ordinary incandescent lightbulb, but this is meant to be news for nerds! According to the article, it uses only about an eighth of the power of an incandescent bulb, in other words about 7.5 watts.
They have attacked Linux (or more specifically, Linux distributors) using the FAT long filenames software patent. I would call that an 'attack'; those who are a bit more twitchy about such things also use the word 'attack' for FUD-laden marketing materials and other run-of-the-mill corporate tactics.
I have a Garmin eTrex Vista HCx, which costs about $200, but it has good accuracy and a colour screen you can display OpenStreetMap data on. (This GPS model is often recommended for OpenStreetMap contributors because it is able to pick up a signal even in areas with tall buildings.) However, a phone with built-in GPS is certainly cheaper and one less thing to carry. Usually the phone's GPS is not as accurate as a specialized unit, but some phones are better than others (I've heard that Blackberries have fairly good builtin GPS). Or you can get a small GPS device with no screen that connects via USB or Bluetooth. A USB 'GPS mouse' and a small Linux laptop, plus the software you mentioned, would be a neat combination. As long as it doesn't rain....
The divide is not between OS makers and hardware manufacturers; it's between (a subset of) computer users and the rest of the world, which includes most computer hardware makers.
After all there are exactly 1000 metres in a kilometre, exactly 1000000 joules in a megajoule, exactly 1000000000 watts in a gigawatt. And network interfaces have always quoted their speed as for example 'a hundred megabits per second' - meaning exactly 100 * 1000000 bits per second - without any complaint. Your SCSI orser
Historically, RAM has been sold in slightly oversized units because it is natural to manufacture it in power-of-two sizes (which doesn't apply to hard disks or network interface speeds). When a kibibyte was only 0.24% greater than a kilobyte, this didn't really matter, but as things approach terabyte sizes, the discrepancy is getting too big to wave away the difference. People should just say what they mean; if you mean SI prefixes (kilo, mega, etc), which are defined as powers of 1000, then use those; and if you mean to say a power-of-1024 based unit then either write it out in full, or use the unambiguous prefixes created for this purpose (kibi, mebi etc).
Copy files as you like, but don't copy and don't touch the.svn metadata folders. (So in particular don't just copy a whole directory and everything in it.) Regularly do 'svn status' to warn about files which are in your working copy but not known to the repository, files with changes that haven't been checked in, and so on. Then you should be fine. Optionally, set up 'svn ignore' to not warn about object files or other bits and pieces that may be in your working copy without needing to be checked in.
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I've never had the misfortune to use Vista, but of all I've read about its differences to XP, the only thing that appealed to me was better anti-aliased font rendering.
I was wondering the same, I saw Private Eye itself use 'injuncted', but I think this is another of those slightly fishy past-participle formations, like 'to gift' which some people use instead of 'to give'. I believe the right verb is 'to enjoin', and so 'enjoined'. An act of joining things is a junction, and so an act of enjoining is an injunction (so the first letter changes, but apart from that it follows the rule). Merriam-Webster also supports this.
Not idiot lawyers, very clever and competent (if evil) lawyers. Idiot judge, probably. Idiot laws, for sure.
Yes, I remember Cybersitter. Back in the day (1995ish) it used to block me from pages hosted at Oxford University and other random things. This was running on Windows 3.1 with Program Manager crippled so you couldn't start any programs apart from those already in the program groups. I got around it by opening winword.exe with Notepad and randomly changing a few bytes at the start of the file. Now, on trying to run Word, Windows would abruptly crash to a DOS prompt, where I could fix a few things. Ahhh... those were the days...
That's the 'moral compass' of free software? WTF?
Well, at Apple's demand, at AT&T's demand, it amounts to the same thing - an app that consumers would like to run is being blocked. Consider Apple+AT&T as a single iPhone-offering entity if that helps. (Don't forget tha I don't think anyone is arguing against the convenience of having a single app store, or denying that Apple has made it easy to install the applications they approve of, or denying that a large number of such apps exist. But of course it would be possible to have all that without also going out of your way to stop people installing apps of their own choosing, even if Apple/AT&T don't like them.
Yes, it's easy to get an app for the iPhone... *provided it's an app that Apple wants you to run*. If it's something that doesn't agree with Apple's corporate policies, such as a VoIP client (Google Voice was blocked, and Skype crippled at Apple's request so it works only over wifi connections), then you can't run it at all, except by jailbreaking your phone, at which point Apple will try their hardest to break your phone in a future software update. This is not consumer-friendly. A consumer-friendly approach would be one that allows open competition, even for apps that might cause Apple or its telco partners to lose some potential revenues.
Goddammit, we can't have a situation where Linux (and Unix in general, if you count the iPhone's OS) are *less open* systems than Windows freaking Mobile! What about Nokia's handheld devices? They're pretty cool, right? Can you make phone calls with them yet?
Do you have a reference for this?
Sadly, I am completely serious. As far as I know Firefox doesn't use the native UI elements for anything much - all the window contents are drawn with XUL. I could be completely wrong here and it might turn out that Firefox does use native Windows controls for things like menus and scrollbars; would any Firefox hacker care to comment?
I very much doubt the Mozilla guys are planning to use any of Microsoft's code. They prefer to create their own user interface elements in XUL+Javascript.
Let's get one thing straight: a software patent, granted to Microsoft or anyone else, does not 'make it possible'. People are quite able to implement computer systems without getting a patent first. If anything, having software patents covering an idea makes it less likely to happen. (If the swpats are not really enforceable, then their effect is smaller, but they can still be used to harass.)
Elite has certainly been very influential on later games but it didn't appear out of nowhere. The authors were inspired by Star Raiders on the Atari 400. I also wonder if the earlier BBC Micro game Starship Command might have been an influence.
More to the point, it's not as if they give it the benefit of the doubt and allow people to download the app while they 'study' it further. It is assumed guilty unless proven innocent. So there is no difference between what Apple calls 'studying' and rejection, given that they can always change their mind later.
Two requests for Codeplex to support GPLv3 are here and here.
All of these are open source licences (the two Microsoft ones are approved by the OSI here and here; the FSF also acknowledges them here as free licences, though not recommended).
A pity that GPLv3 isn't allowed, but maybe they'll add it if asked.
Thanks for clarifying this. In my opinion, a *defensive* use of software patents (to stop other people suing you with their swpats) is okay. But I also thought that Microsoft was aggressively suing makers of digital cameras and other devices that use FAT, even when those companies had not first sued or threatened Microsoft. Is that so?
Are you really saying that ARM processors would have outperformed an UltraSPARC III? Which particular ARM chip were you thinking of? Indeed, back in the 1990s were there any 64-bit ARM chips available?
Firefox 3.0.x is still supported, so you could go back to that while the 3.5 series matures. But what platform are you running Firefox on? I hadn't noticed crashiness myself, on either Windows or Linux. If you are using Firefox included with your Linux distribution, perhaps the official binary release would work better, or vice-versa.
Indeed, in the UK there has been an absurd campaign for people to turn off open wireless access points, presenting all the usual bogeyman reasons (terrorists, paedophiles, and so on). Like the signs everywhere telling you not to chain your bicycle to railings, it seems to serve no purpose except to make life difficult. I wonder if there is a 'Campaign for Open Wifi' that you can join?
I could understand if the Weekly World News mistakenly called it a '60-watt' bulb meaning that it's about as bright as an ordinary incandescent lightbulb, but this is meant to be news for nerds! According to the article, it uses only about an eighth of the power of an incandescent bulb, in other words about 7.5 watts.
They have attacked Linux (or more specifically, Linux distributors) using the FAT long filenames software patent. I would call that an 'attack'; those who are a bit more twitchy about such things also use the word 'attack' for FUD-laden marketing materials and other run-of-the-mill corporate tactics.
I have a Garmin eTrex Vista HCx, which costs about $200, but it has good accuracy and a colour screen you can display OpenStreetMap data on. (This GPS model is often recommended for OpenStreetMap contributors because it is able to pick up a signal even in areas with tall buildings.) However, a phone with built-in GPS is certainly cheaper and one less thing to carry. Usually the phone's GPS is not as accurate as a specialized unit, but some phones are better than others (I've heard that Blackberries have fairly good builtin GPS). Or you can get a small GPS device with no screen that connects via USB or Bluetooth. A USB 'GPS mouse' and a small Linux laptop, plus the software you mentioned, would be a neat combination. As long as it doesn't rain....
The divide is not between OS makers and hardware manufacturers; it's between (a subset of) computer users and the rest of the world, which includes most computer hardware makers. After all there are exactly 1000 metres in a kilometre, exactly 1000000 joules in a megajoule, exactly 1000000000 watts in a gigawatt. And network interfaces have always quoted their speed as for example 'a hundred megabits per second' - meaning exactly 100 * 1000000 bits per second - without any complaint. Your SCSI orser Historically, RAM has been sold in slightly oversized units because it is natural to manufacture it in power-of-two sizes (which doesn't apply to hard disks or network interface speeds). When a kibibyte was only 0.24% greater than a kilobyte, this didn't really matter, but as things approach terabyte sizes, the discrepancy is getting too big to wave away the difference. People should just say what they mean; if you mean SI prefixes (kilo, mega, etc), which are defined as powers of 1000, then use those; and if you mean to say a power-of-1024 based unit then either write it out in full, or use the unambiguous prefixes created for this purpose (kibi, mebi etc).
Copy files as you like, but don't copy and don't touch the .svn metadata folders. (So in particular don't just copy a whole directory and everything in it.) Regularly do 'svn status' to warn about files which are in your working copy but not known to the repository, files with changes that haven't been checked in, and so on. Then you should be fine. Optionally, set up 'svn ignore' to not warn about object files or other bits and pieces that may be in your working copy without needing to be checked in.