Hee, hee good point about what is essentially a snapshot taken before a restart. Well, leave it to Microsoft to take a good idea that has been used in the Unix/UNIX/Linux for ages and screw it up. The *nix world has been capable of restarting just about everything without a reboot. IIRC there is a method to restart the kernel without the traditional 3 finger salute in Linux. But I'm to lazy right now to look it up.
Good, I hope they do walk away. Then they can be replaced with open source software, primarily GLPed code so there will be transparency in how votes are counted, registered, etal. Closing the voting process with proprietary software has been an asinine action from the git go.
Your right to a point and I should have been more clear. The Supreme Court decisions over the years have established that the right to privacy is a basic human right, and as such is protected by virtue of the 9th Amendment.
Except your obvious ignorance goes against the grain of the US Constitution. Your should try reading it sometime. There's an interesting part in there about right to privacy and it makes no distinction about having anything to hide. Get it moron?
Ah yes. To troll thinking for a birthday present lets see who can make the prettiest splash screen. I know for the next one, lets see who can make the most realistic image of crate paper. That's worth the hype.
Well duh. I never said there was any similarity between a splash screen and coding. It's just you were to quick on the trigger or only have half a brain.
And just how do they propose to certify their certifications process? So they are saying they know how to detect every possible way to detect a virus, trojan and rootkit there is? That's laughable at the least and very very misleading.
This is nothing but a bogus marketing attempt to lull ignorant users. If you are stupid enough and there are boat loads of Windows users out there that are, to download software from places other than the vendor. Then you should have your PC confiscated.
Computers should go back to being analog.... then there would not be the extra step of converting to DC. And since the high fidelity folks swear by analog audio systems, just think how much better it would be if a computer used the same.
IMV, it means a lot fewer Ximian folks were hit and a lot more KDE folks were hit. If memory serves correctly, wasn't Suse primarily a KDE desktop distro? Yes I know they had gnome but I have always had the understanding they preferred KDE.
Lol. I think this sentence sums up what Novell refuses to acknowledge, plans to do, has made the decision which desktop they will officially support and why Hubert left;
"I'm very confident the Novell management will find a competent successor very quickly. After all, there are lots of extremely skilled people over there in the Ximian division."
But... but Google has promised to do no evil. So what's to fear? Yeah I've heard that crap or similar before. No company has managed to weave it's way through the greed, underhanded manipulation and all the temptations being in a powerful position offers. Yeah right now they may be holding to their word but give it time.
Reverse psychology or so Microsoft thinks. Microsoft approaches their product like it is crack or some other highly addictive substance that no one can do without. So in that respect I consider it so.
Why shouldn't S. Korea want an operating system that "spoke their language"? Or for that matter why is it unreasonable to ask for ODF without the usual monkey shines Billy likes to throw into "standards"? Microsoft has already on several occasion shown they could care less about providing such things, even though "a relatively" large section of their customer based has asked for it.
While the old saw of it coming down to money is often tossed into the argument. Compared to the huge amount of money and I mean in the billions Billy has handed over to brush numerous lawsuits for infringement and other activities under the rug. What S. Korea is asking for is literally a drop in the bucket.
Frankly the argument their demands are to expensive or time consuming is the ol' look at the wookie syndrome.
Well sure Linspire is making a money grab and I don't hold that against them. But don't you think Microsoft is attempting the same thing with their threats? Sauce for the gander I say.
Lets see, fashion designers would be a good group to ask... you know. Paint a pile of crap and that's what you got..... a painted pile of crap.
Or, how about garbage men, erm waste removal technicians. They deal with handling undesirable material everyday.
Then again perhaps the best thing to do is let the *committee* that decided to ask the WI spend 3 months living in close proximity to 50,000 of nuclear waste and let them decide.
It has nothing to do with any perceived *short comings of ODF* and everything to do with the fact Microsoft refuses to adopt a standard that threatens their monopoly.
Well as the ol' addage goes.... there is no security by obscurity. Obviously since the article does not say what those attempted patent filings are about. No one can say for certainty just how much or little they truly effect "national security".
Btaim I would have to say that effect is little to none. Since 9/11 our government has gone off the deep end in many ways and this is just another example. Way back when radar was first developed and used during WWII. The simple notion of an electronic feedback circuit was classified knowledge. Based on the same faulty criteria our government is using now.
The electronic feedback circuit is such a fundamental concept as ohms law. Now I am not saying the proposed patent requested by the NSA fall in the same category. I am saying it would make little to no difference if the rest of the world knew it's content. Of course there is no way to prove me wrong since you would have to use classified material as evidence.
The article does not say where the negotiations have broken down but my suspicion is Roche is probably trying to gouge money. Having caveatted that, lets see. Choose not to violate a law, wait on the legalities meander through what ever twists and turns it may take and watch who knows how many people die. Or short circuit the process............., well I think the choice is obvious. The health of the people win out.
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Geez. If you can't figure that out or need a slashdotter to tell you, then you don't need to be using a computer.
Hee, hee good point about what is essentially a snapshot taken before a restart. Well, leave it to Microsoft to take a good idea that has been used in the Unix/UNIX/Linux for ages and screw it up. The *nix world has been capable of restarting just about everything without a reboot. IIRC there is a method to restart the kernel without the traditional 3 finger salute in Linux. But I'm to lazy right now to look it up.
Good, I hope they do walk away. Then they can be replaced with open source software, primarily GLPed code so there will be transparency in how votes are counted, registered, etal. Closing the voting process with proprietary software has been an asinine action from the git go.
Your right to a point and I should have been more clear. The Supreme Court decisions over the years have established that the right to privacy is a basic human right, and as such is protected by virtue of the 9th Amendment.
Except your obvious ignorance goes against the grain of the US Constitution. Your should try reading it sometime. There's an interesting part in there about right to privacy and it makes no distinction about having anything to hide. Get it moron?
My question is, who supported the research?
Ah yes. To troll thinking for a birthday present lets see who can make the prettiest splash screen. I know for the next one, lets see who can make the most realistic image of crate paper. That's worth the hype. Well duh. I never said there was any similarity between a splash screen and coding. It's just you were to quick on the trigger or only have half a brain.
Oh? Because I called a splash screen silly. What bunch of immature pimply ass twits, including you asshat.
What a bunch of retards. Modding to a troll because version 2.2.9 doesn't support 16 bit tiff's. Losers.
You know instead of worrying about some silly splash screen. How about making it support 16 bit tiffs and saving at that. AFAIK 2.2.9 don't.
So the big question is.... who is financing these guys?
And just how do they propose to certify their certifications process? So they are saying they know how to detect every possible way to detect a virus, trojan and rootkit there is? That's laughable at the least and very very misleading. This is nothing but a bogus marketing attempt to lull ignorant users. If you are stupid enough and there are boat loads of Windows users out there that are, to download software from places other than the vendor. Then you should have your PC confiscated.
Computers should go back to being analog.... then there would not be the extra step of converting to DC. And since the high fidelity folks swear by analog audio systems, just think how much better it would be if a computer used the same.
IMV, it means a lot fewer Ximian folks were hit and a lot more KDE folks were hit. If memory serves correctly, wasn't Suse primarily a KDE desktop distro? Yes I know they had gnome but I have always had the understanding they preferred KDE.
"I'm very confident the Novell management will find a competent successor very quickly. After all, there are lots of extremely skilled people over there in the Ximian division."
I don't think your the only one that sees that.
But... but Google has promised to do no evil. So what's to fear? Yeah I've heard that crap or similar before. No company has managed to weave it's way through the greed, underhanded manipulation and all the temptations being in a powerful position offers. Yeah right now they may be holding to their word but give it time.
Why shouldn't S. Korea want an operating system that "spoke their language"? Or for that matter why is it unreasonable to ask for ODF without the usual monkey shines Billy likes to throw into "standards"? Microsoft has already on several occasion shown they could care less about providing such things, even though "a relatively" large section of their customer based has asked for it.
While the old saw of it coming down to money is often tossed into the argument. Compared to the huge amount of money and I mean in the billions Billy has handed over to brush numerous lawsuits for infringement and other activities under the rug. What S. Korea is asking for is literally a drop in the bucket.
Frankly the argument their demands are to expensive or time consuming is the ol' look at the wookie syndrome.
Well sure Linspire is making a money grab and I don't hold that against them. But don't you think Microsoft is attempting the same thing with their threats? Sauce for the gander I say.
Or, how about garbage men, erm waste removal technicians. They deal with handling undesirable material everyday.
Then again perhaps the best thing to do is let the *committee* that decided to ask the WI spend 3 months living in close proximity to 50,000 of nuclear waste and let them decide.
It has nothing to do with any perceived *short comings of ODF* and everything to do with the fact Microsoft refuses to adopt a standard that threatens their monopoly.
I wonder if this guy was one of the MIT scientists The SCO group claimed found all of their precious code in Linux. Ahahahahahaha.
Btaim I would have to say that effect is little to none. Since 9/11 our government has gone off the deep end in many ways and this is just another example. Way back when radar was first developed and used during WWII. The simple notion of an electronic feedback circuit was classified knowledge. Based on the same faulty criteria our government is using now.
The electronic feedback circuit is such a fundamental concept as ohms law. Now I am not saying the proposed patent requested by the NSA fall in the same category. I am saying it would make little to no difference if the rest of the world knew it's content. Of course there is no way to prove me wrong since you would have to use classified material as evidence.
eh? Proprietary OSS?
The article does not say where the negotiations have broken down but my suspicion is Roche is probably trying to gouge money. Having caveatted that, lets see. Choose not to violate a law, wait on the legalities meander through what ever twists and turns it may take and watch who knows how many people die. Or short circuit the process............., well I think the choice is obvious. The health of the people win out.