Damn Americans can be stupid... Why assume no-one else in the world can do anything?
20 years ago the Australian/Swedish consortium started building automated submarines, and everyone said the same things about them. Now the Los Angeles class is completely outclassed because someone else was a bit ambitious (the Virginia class doesn't do much better, BTW). And they have a complement less than one third of either American class.
Now admittedly the American boats are nuclear powered missile carrying submarines and the Collins is not, but the point has still been made pretty well.
I'd like to get up some legislation to ban murder. But how do we define murder? Is putting an axe in someone's head murder? I guess we can all agree on that. How about feeding someone poison? Yep, we agree on that, too. What about telling someone that something is safe to eat when it's really poisoned? What about leaving poison somewhere where someone is likely to eat it by accident? What about putting rat poison down and then someone accidentally eats it? What about when rats eat through the poison container, and then someone eats it by accident?
Ah, stuff it, let's just not legislate against murder. It's too hard to define. People'll all just do the right thing, right?
Actually there are more than four million government-controlled surveilance cameras in the UK - one for every fifteen people. That makes even this rabid right-winger a bit nervous...
You didn't actually try it did you? Come on, 'fess up...
Try any of the following:
1. Right click on the menu. Click "Enture Menu" -> "Add New Item To This Menu" 2. Open nautilus, go to "applications:///". Right click, click "Create Launcher". 3. Right click on the desktop, click "Create Launcher". Drag the resulting launcher to the panel. 4. Open the Applications menu, drag an item to your desktop (it would be nice if this worked the other way around, but it doesn't for me - YMMV).
Admittedly, 1 only works on launcher items in the menu, not items that are actually submenus. Even so, it would be nice if you could *try* the feature you're complaining about before you complain.
Note: The above works for me in GNOME 2.8, Debian/Sid edition. Not sure how much variation there is in other distros.
This is a basic misunderstanding. The GPL gives you rights in exchange for your agreement to follow certain conditions. Otherwise the GPL would be pointless; why not just put it in the public domain? That would grant the same rights without any conditions. If the GPL is a grant of rights without imposing any conditions, then why would anyone try to "enforce" the GPL?
To show that this is the case, consider what happens if you do not follow those conditions: You lose the rights granted to you. Failure to comply with the conditions imposed by the license can result in you losing the rights granted by the license. This shows that the GPL is a grant of rights in exchange for agreement to conditions, not a free grant of rights.
For some time now, I have been able to login to a Solaris box from a Linux box, start an Xterm on one and display it on the other. *Gasp* Interoperability! And these don't even have much common history (except, of course, the Solaris distros that use XFree86, before some pedant points it out). And you know what, the exact same thing works with Tru64 Unix... and NT X servers... gosh, just about the whole X11 world is interoperable! Conspiracy theorists, arise!
And these are only the ones that I've actually tried.
As for driver compatibility, do you expect Linux kernel drivers to work on BSD? Do you expect Dia plugins to work in OO.o? Of course not. They are parts of different projects. Saying this is going to confuse Joe User is ridiculous. What, one day Joe User just decides to download the source to an XFree86 video driver and compile it, and finds it doesn't work in his FD.O X server... I'm not seeing a realistic scenario here. As if some clueless user who can't tell the difference between a BMW and a Peugeot might try to install a BMW engine in his Mercedes...
Think before you post. I do it and, believe it or not, this post actually got a lot nicer to you after doing so.
Spammers don't need you the way a candidate does. Most spammers have already annoyed most people, and expect that their emails will get deleted/filtered by 99% of people. Candidates need a large percentage of the population to support them, so campaigning in a way that loses you more people than you gain (such as spamming them) is not a Good Thing (TM).
Thank God Australia hasn't gotten this far... yet...
Well... they find patent applications confusing enough that they just approve them, so it's a fair assumption that prior art filings would confuse them, too.
My comments can only be taken in the context of The University of Adelaide, but I think it is representative of other universities around the place.
1. Usually all teachers give out contact info besides email and ICQ. Telephones and such.
Yes, they are published in their lecture notes... which are online.
2.University Telephone Directory?
... which is online.
Call information?
The switchboard just uses the online 'phone directory.
3.Good old fashioned book learning?
Yes, using books found in the library catalogue... which is only available online.
4. Dont trust computers to keep vaulabe stuff you need for exams, copies should have been made at least 3 weeks before exam.
Come off it, I've just studied about 600 pages of lecture notes for three weeks, I am not going to make hard copies of them just so I can use them for those three weeks.
5. If you know the material, what difference if its a new exam? Unless you have one from a testbank and have only studied that instead of the answers. Besides if the exam burned, it is your teachers problem.
It makes a difference because lecturers are notorious for reusing past examinations and there is an established history of a large percentage of students failing when the exam is significantly different to previous years' exams. This is not exactly justification from the moral high ground, but you get the picture...
Like it or not, the network has become a crucial piece of infrastructure in many organisations around the world. There is no good reason why this shouldn't be so; the network is not intrinsically evil, such that it will corrupt us all if we rely on it. This particular network has suffered a catastrophic failure, but that fire could just as well have been in the telephone switchboard, denying all 'phone conversations, or indeed in the computer science building, which would have made all the lecturers inaccessable.
It is all very well to say, "But I went around, talked to my professors," but that is not really a scalable study method when 130 students want to review a semester long course.
3) You don't need to be 18 to buy many EULA products, and to have a contract valid, either a person 18 or older must agree to it, or the parent or guardian of that under-18 person must agree to have that person agree. When a 17 year old purchases an Xbox and takes it home, goes through the licensing agreements on his own, then starts playing, how can Microsoft say the EULA can still affect him?
IANAL, but I have done a contract law subject. Under Australian Common Law, a minor will be bound by:
Cash contracts (paid in physical tender),
(li>Contracts for the purchase of things necessary to the minor's station in life,
Contracts that are beneficial to the minor.
I think you would have a hard time arguing that most software was necessary to a minor, and it seems unlikely that a EULA would ever be considered beneficial...
What gives with the kneejerk reactions, guys? Someone suggests electronic voting, and everyone is keen to point out that flash cards can be reprogrammed, that we could have devices that arbitrarily modify the contents of memory, and any other niggling problems that might occur to you. Someone suggests that open source software would be a good way to go, and everyone jumps on that too. Sheesh.
The point of an electronic voting system is that it is better than the current system, not that it is perfect. You might be worried about whether someone has built the voting machines so they lie about the contents of their memory, but at least you won't have endless chat shows with "experts" pointing out the finer points of dangling pieces of paper.
And the point of an open source software is not that this somehow automagically produces better software, but that we at least know how it works. I suppose you would all rather have M$ providing the software, with all their usual assurances of (in)stability, (un)reliability, (in)security and little paper clips that dance at the bottom of the screen eating your processor.
Some of the responses here are like a man about to try jumping as a way of getting down a cliff refusing a rope because it might break.
My major objection to both of them is that my latest 'default install' of Oracle 9.0.1 was well over 1Gig. Go figure how that much stuff can be necessary.
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I don't think the shielding on the mobile phone is going to do much good... it's got this ANTENNA thing that is supposed to radiate energy.
Damn Americans can be stupid... Why assume no-one else in the world can do anything?
20 years ago the Australian/Swedish consortium started building automated submarines, and everyone said the same things about them. Now the Los Angeles class is completely outclassed because someone else was a bit ambitious (the Virginia class doesn't do much better, BTW). And they have a complement less than one third of either American class.
Now admittedly the American boats are nuclear powered missile carrying submarines and the Collins is not, but the point has still been made pretty well.
I'd like to get up some legislation to ban murder. But how do we define murder? Is putting an axe in someone's head murder? I guess we can all agree on that. How about feeding someone poison? Yep, we agree on that, too. What about telling someone that something is safe to eat when it's really poisoned? What about leaving poison somewhere where someone is likely to eat it by accident? What about putting rat poison down and then someone accidentally eats it? What about when rats eat through the poison container, and then someone eats it by accident?
Ah, stuff it, let's just not legislate against murder. It's too hard to define. People'll all just do the right thing, right?
You mean smitten, not smote. One is the past participle, to other is the past tense.
Ergo they are in mortal danger.
Actually there are more than four million government-controlled surveilance cameras in the UK - one for every fifteen people. That makes even this rabid right-winger a bit nervous...
What are you editors on?
*sigh*
You didn't actually try it did you? Come on, 'fess up...
Try any of the following:
1. Right click on the menu. Click "Enture Menu" -> "Add New Item To This Menu"
2. Open nautilus, go to "applications:///". Right click, click "Create Launcher".
3. Right click on the desktop, click "Create Launcher". Drag the resulting launcher to the panel.
4. Open the Applications menu, drag an item to your desktop (it would be nice if this worked the other way around, but it doesn't for me - YMMV).
Admittedly, 1 only works on launcher items in the menu, not items that are actually submenus. Even so, it would be nice if you could *try* the feature you're complaining about before you complain.
Note: The above works for me in GNOME 2.8, Debian/Sid edition. Not sure how much variation there is in other distros.
This is a basic misunderstanding. The GPL gives you rights in exchange for your agreement to follow certain conditions. Otherwise the GPL would be pointless; why not just put it in the public domain? That would grant the same rights without any conditions. If the GPL is a grant of rights without imposing any conditions, then why would anyone try to "enforce" the GPL?
To show that this is the case, consider what happens if you do not follow those conditions: You lose the rights granted to you. Failure to comply with the conditions imposed by the license can result in you losing the rights granted by the license. This shows that the GPL is a grant of rights in exchange for agreement to conditions, not a free grant of rights.
Hmmm, one of the fastest slashdottings in recent history, methinks. Google cache is here.
That's who, not whom. Who is on the jury? You are on the jury. You are asking for a subject for the sentence, so you should use who.
A small point, I know, so mod me down, go on. It's not like karma's a matter of life and death.
People, take note... someone apologised on Slashdot!
I salute you, sir. You are a man... person... whatever of courtesy and grace.
Blast anonymity. It makes genders so hard...
Hmmm, let's review a little history here...
For some time now, I have been able to login to a Solaris box from a Linux box, start an Xterm on one and display it on the other. *Gasp* Interoperability! And these don't even have much common history (except, of course, the Solaris distros that use XFree86, before some pedant points it out). And you know what, the exact same thing works with Tru64 Unix... and NT X servers... gosh, just about the whole X11 world is interoperable! Conspiracy theorists, arise!
And these are only the ones that I've actually tried.
As for driver compatibility, do you expect Linux kernel drivers to work on BSD? Do you expect Dia plugins to work in OO.o? Of course not. They are parts of different projects. Saying this is going to confuse Joe User is ridiculous. What, one day Joe User just decides to download the source to an XFree86 video driver and compile it, and finds it doesn't work in his FD.O X server... I'm not seeing a realistic scenario here. As if some clueless user who can't tell the difference between a BMW and a Peugeot might try to install a BMW engine in his Mercedes...
Think before you post. I do it and, believe it or not, this post actually got a lot nicer to you after doing so.
Ha, yes, well, no-one would ever pass judgement on anyone else in a Slashdot thread. *cough* Microsoft *cough* *cough* RIAA *cough*.
Spammers don't need you the way a candidate does. Most spammers have already annoyed most people, and expect that their emails will get deleted/filtered by 99% of people. Candidates need a large percentage of the population to support them, so campaigning in a way that loses you more people than you gain (such as spamming them) is not a Good Thing (TM).
Thank God Australia hasn't gotten this far... yet...
Well... they find patent applications confusing enough that they just approve them, so it's a fair assumption that prior art filings would confuse them, too.
My comments can only be taken in the context of The University of Adelaide, but I think it is representative of other universities around the place.
Yes, they are published in their lecture notes... which are online.
... which is online.
The switchboard just uses the online 'phone directory.
Yes, using books found in the library catalogue... which is only available online.
Come off it, I've just studied about 600 pages of lecture notes for three weeks, I am not going to make hard copies of them just so I can use them for those three weeks.
It makes a difference because lecturers are notorious for reusing past examinations and there is an established history of a large percentage of students failing when the exam is significantly different to previous years' exams. This is not exactly justification from the moral high ground, but you get the picture...
Like it or not, the network has become a crucial piece of infrastructure in many organisations around the world. There is no good reason why this shouldn't be so; the network is not intrinsically evil, such that it will corrupt us all if we rely on it. This particular network has suffered a catastrophic failure, but that fire could just as well have been in the telephone switchboard, denying all 'phone conversations, or indeed in the computer science building, which would have made all the lecturers inaccessable.
It is all very well to say, "But I went around, talked to my professors," but that is not really a scalable study method when 130 students want to review a semester long course.
When was DOS written? And we're still waiting for a secure version...
On the other hand, of course, you are sounding at least as stupid... you want palladium?
IANAL, but I have done a contract law subject. Under Australian Common Law, a minor will be bound by:
- Cash contracts (paid in physical tender),
- (li>Contracts for the purchase of things necessary to the minor's station in life,
- Contracts that are beneficial to the minor.
I think you would have a hard time arguing that most software was necessary to a minor, and it seems unlikely that a EULA would ever be considered beneficial...What gives with the kneejerk reactions, guys? Someone suggests electronic voting, and everyone is keen to point out that flash cards can be reprogrammed, that we could have devices that arbitrarily modify the contents of memory, and any other niggling problems that might occur to you. Someone suggests that open source software would be a good way to go, and everyone jumps on that too. Sheesh.
The point of an electronic voting system is that it is better than the current system, not that it is perfect. You might be worried about whether someone has built the voting machines so they lie about the contents of their memory, but at least you won't have endless chat shows with "experts" pointing out the finer points of dangling pieces of paper.
And the point of an open source software is not that this somehow automagically produces better software, but that we at least know how it works. I suppose you would all rather have M$ providing the software, with all their usual assurances of (in)stability, (un)reliability, (in)security and little paper clips that dance at the bottom of the screen eating your processor.
Some of the responses here are like a man about to try jumping as a way of getting down a cliff refusing a rope because it might break.
Tom
Oh no... it grabbed 94% of my CPU! Woe is me! My system's never been this bad before...
About as many people as I know who have been hit by a meteorite, viz, none.
Pizza produces better code, IMHO, but then that's just my HO.
Tom
My major objection to both of them is that my latest 'default install' of Oracle 9.0.1 was well over 1Gig. Go figure how that much stuff can be necessary.