It had a cool-looking black metallic case, but almost nobody owned one, so there were very few games available. If your reaction was "Memo-what?", it's about the same reaction I got back in the eighties, when it was on the heighth of it's popularity.
If you would have cared enough to RTFA and had the OP chosen to quote completely, you would notice TFA said "simple KDE text editor". More specifically, they were talking about KEdit. KEdit is not Emacs.
"This may sound like a trivial thing, but it isn't. It changes the entire dynamic from that of these guys pushing ahead with their agenda to them having to explain why they aren't pawns of a foreign country. The ordinary person on the street may not understand what a software patent is, but if you tell them it's being forced on them at the behest of foreign governments and corporations, they won't like it."
You make an interesting point, but I don't think you're taking into account the differences between the American and the European mindsets. Your tactics might work from an American point of view, but not from a European point of view. While the American Joe Average is very suspicious against any ideas coming from abroad (like the UN), the European Joe Average is criticising his American cousin for exactly this suspicious attitude. The European left is indeed quite suspicious against the US, but the European right is convinced that we need to adopt the entire American economic model, only on steroids, in order to finally free our people from such horrible burdens as free education, healthcare, social security and whatnot. Since the European right is pushing software patents, your tactics run a risk of backfiring.
Not that I really disagree, but it's a tricky issue. What we need to do is to get the European right to understand that it is shooting itself in the foot on this matter.
...for almost any post labled "Linux" on Slashdot is, of course, why is this labled "Linux"?
Granted, this is good news for the linux community, as much as it is good news for people who use lots of other operating systems which do not run certain proprietary programs. Most of all, it is good news for anybody interested in using an open format instead of a proprietary format, regardless of the platform which may or may not be proprietary.
"I think I'm going to stick with something I can really trust!
Maybe I'll try CERN httpd 2.14, I'm not sure if 3.0 has enough of a track record."
Running Debian stable, eh?
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"Free Software is a subset of Open Source Software, so to say that GCC is Open Source is absolutely correct, if perhaps more general than RMS would prefer."
I don't know if your American or not (I'm not), but would you say it is absolutely correct to describe the US as a country where people are not routinely put in jail without due process? Don't you think that most Americans would prefer to call it a free country? (And this goes for a lot of countries, but Americans tend to create most noise about it!;-)
"RMS is in error here, but not because he thinks that software designated Free Software ought not be referred to as Open Source software, but because he thinks that anyone cares."
No, I don't think RMS has any illusions about people caring. Quite the opposite. But he *wants* people to care and that can not be achieved by sitting at home doing nothing. I think the biggest problem is still that people don't *know* the difference, and RMS definitely recognises that.
I think you meant...
I, for one, welcome our new fearless rodent overlords.
I'd like to remind them as a trusted Slashdot poster, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground cheese caves.
"As Wikipedia tells us even the Nazis spreaded the drug among their Wehrmacht."
What do you mean, "even the Nazis"? A totalitarian government, emphasizing the military and denial of the individual, would be almost expected to do this. What is more scary, is that democracies, which we expect to respect and defend the rights of the individual, even to the point of restricting what the police and military can do, are chemically altering the bodies and minds of their soldiers.
"Did some one read the date wrong? 20/10/2005 is the 20th, not the 10th."
Argh... All these problems stemming from different systems. We non-US people always forget that the American year has 30 months (sometimes 31) and 12 days in a month.
In other news: Rest of world still waiting for America to adopt the metric system
Sure, mod me a trolling flamebait, you humourless twat.
"OK. I give. What is so amazing about Ubuntu? Do they compile thier stuff with special options or have some whiz-bang installation program?"
It seems to me that you're not familiar with Debian. (?) Debian is a Linux distro which has often been praised for having very good software package tools, ie. tools you use to install software packages. Debian's APT was the first really good package tool, which is nowadays mimicked by eg. Fedora's Yum, but APT is still very popular and holds it's own against the alternatives. (APT is also available for Fedora, which IMO proves it's worth and popularity.)
The long standing problem with Debian, however, has been a very slow release cycle for the stable branch, meaning that if you want to use the newest and coolest software, you need to use the testing or the unstable branch. Many users are reluctant to use these branches, because you can easily break your system by installing software versions that do not mix together well. Eg. installing a new version of a library (DLL) might break several software packages dependant on an earlier version of that library.
Ubuntu leverages all the benefits of APT, but eliminates the problem with long release cycles by having two releases per year, enabling you to use the newest and hottest versions of all your favourite software. You don't need to wait for a new version to come out for longer than six months. This only in the rare case that the new version is released just after the latest Ubuntu release.
Upgrading to the newest version of Ubuntu is also quite easy. You edit a config file to refer to the newest release, issue the commands apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade and Bob's your uncle! Editing a config file might not be everybody's cup of tea, but I think there might bee GUI tools for this. I don't know, because I have no problems with config files.
HBO is not attacking BitTorrent the program, they're attacking people misusing BitTorrent to share copyrighted material illegally.
Actually, HBO is not attacking the people sharing (or downloading) copyrighted material, they are only making it harder for people to download this copyrighted material. Although I sincerely hate the extremely draconian rules set up by the DMCA and EUCD, I have no problem with this method of protecting copyright. It does not trample upon my basic liberties and it does respect my privacy. Ok, so it does scramble my (potential) communication, but this communication is easily identifiable as an attempt to breech copyright. Of all the measures taken to protect copyright, this is easily the nicest.
"I think Ubuntu is a decent distro (have it on my laptop), but their "marketing" is unprofessional, to say the least. First it was the half naked and interracial menage-a-trois..."
Even though you might have problems with people of differently coloured skin mixing together, you will find that world has moved on. Many, *many* corporations use advertisements featuring people of both sexes and different skin colour.
If RMS could have fought against copyright protection, he would have--after all, "information wants to be free," right? Lacking that option, he used his own copyright protection to force others to willingly give up their own.
To quote RMS: you have been misinformed. Of course, to "force someone to do something willingly" is an obvious oxymoron, but that is not the main issue. RMS is not forcing anyone to give up their copyright, but, in order to incorporate code into a GNU project, he does require that you transfer the copyright to the FSF. If you don't, it's not incorporated, but you can still release your own version, with your own copyrights in addition to the ones already there.
RMS has clearly stated that the only way to enforce the GPL is by using copyrights. Try grepping the Linux kernel source for the string 'copyright' and you'll find lots that isn't the FSF.
Right now, Steve Ballmer is probably putting his fingertips together, smiling demonically and hissing "Excellent...". Of course Microsoft knew the OSDL is going to be skeptical (for the obvious reasons) and just wanted the opportunity to start FUDding with "Oh look! The OSDL is unwilling to objectively compare Linux to Windows, because they know that Windows is the obvious choice for any enterprise!"
On the one hand, it is very good that US-style software patents have not been forced down our throats with this directive. On the other hand, individual member countries are still free to legalise software patents, if they want to. For the pro-patent lobby, this is a much better result than a possibly amended directive that would explicitly outlaw software patents in the EU. The anti-patent lobby still has much to do.
One very good outcome of this is that the average European Joe Schmoe is now more aware of the issue and the MEPs are more aware of the sentiments within the industry. No more will the pro-patent lobby be able to sneak software patents in through the back door. That, in itself, is a huge victory.
A huge thanks to everybody who helped defeat the directive, be it with a single short e-mail to an MEP or actively spending hundreds of hours on the issue. Thank you!
Hold the phone... how can it be "manifestly irrational" to criticize someone's race (and what he REALLY means is culture, not race, and we all know it) and yet NOT the same to do so when its their religion.
No, he means race, not culture. And he said "criticise a person", not "criticise a race". What he means is that it is manifestly irrational to make a judgement about a persons quality, based on his race. I think you'll find that Mr Atkinson *does* reserve the right to criticise a culture, eg. a culture for mutilating a female child's genitalia.
Simply because that would be insane. For if you ever wrote a poem you'd have to pay for it, which sounds just crap
Not if you release it into the public domain, which would be for the public good. Also, this tax could only be practically (and ethically?) be levied if the poem is somehow published, so that others have a theoretical opportunity of copying it.
Finally, there's a career option as airport security officers, which would make it possible for slashdot dwellers to see a woman naked.
I'm all for it!
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That's "5...4...3...2...1...KO!!!", which you would've known if you'd stop worshipping the HIG for a while and start listening to the users!
It had a cool-looking black metallic case, but almost nobody owned one, so there were very few games available. If your reaction was "Memo-what?", it's about the same reaction I got back in the eighties, when it was on the heighth of it's popularity.
If you would have cared enough to RTFA and had the OP chosen to quote completely, you would notice TFA said "simple KDE text editor". More specifically, they were talking about KEdit. KEdit is not Emacs.
You make an interesting point, but I don't think you're taking into account the differences between the American and the European mindsets. Your tactics might work from an American point of view, but not from a European point of view. While the American Joe Average is very suspicious against any ideas coming from abroad (like the UN), the European Joe Average is criticising his American cousin for exactly this suspicious attitude. The European left is indeed quite suspicious against the US, but the European right is convinced that we need to adopt the entire American economic model, only on steroids, in order to finally free our people from such horrible burdens as free education, healthcare, social security and whatnot. Since the European right is pushing software patents, your tactics run a risk of backfiring.
Not that I really disagree, but it's a tricky issue. What we need to do is to get the European right to understand that it is shooting itself in the foot on this matter.
Granted, this is good news for the linux community, as much as it is good news for people who use lots of other operating systems which do not run certain proprietary programs. Most of all, it is good news for anybody interested in using an open format instead of a proprietary format, regardless of the platform which may or may not be proprietary.
Maybe I'll try CERN httpd 2.14, I'm not sure if 3.0 has enough of a track record."
Running Debian stable, eh?
I don't know if your American or not (I'm not), but would you say it is absolutely correct to describe the US as a country where people are not routinely put in jail without due process? Don't you think that most Americans would prefer to call it a free country? (And this goes for a lot of countries, but Americans tend to create most noise about it! ;-)
"RMS is in error here, but not because he thinks that software designated Free Software ought not be referred to as Open Source software, but because he thinks that anyone cares."
No, I don't think RMS has any illusions about people caring. Quite the opposite. But he *wants* people to care and that can not be achieved by sitting at home doing nothing. I think the biggest problem is still that people don't *know* the difference, and RMS definitely recognises that.
I think you meant...
I, for one, welcome our new fearless rodent overlords. I'd like to remind them as a trusted Slashdot poster, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground cheese caves.
What do you mean, "even the Nazis"? A totalitarian government, emphasizing the military and denial of the individual, would be almost expected to do this. What is more scary, is that democracies, which we expect to respect and defend the rights of the individual, even to the point of restricting what the police and military can do, are chemically altering the bodies and minds of their soldiers.
...or just plain stupid?
I don't believe it! Not until Netcraft confirms it!
The real irony is that they ban you from using a "military title", but are fine with you playing an "ass galore paladin"...
My reaction exactly!
Man... A new Quake version!!??
And I didn't even know they were making one...
GOD, I'm old...
Bartender! I'm having whatever this guy is drinking!
Argh... All these problems stemming from different systems. We non-US people always forget that the American year has 30 months (sometimes 31) and 12 days in a month.
In other news:
Rest of world still waiting for America to adopt the metric system
Sure, mod me a trolling flamebait, you humourless twat.
It seems to me that you're not familiar with Debian. (?) Debian is a Linux distro which has often been praised for having very good software package tools, ie. tools you use to install software packages. Debian's APT was the first really good package tool, which is nowadays mimicked by eg. Fedora's Yum, but APT is still very popular and holds it's own against the alternatives. (APT is also available for Fedora, which IMO proves it's worth and popularity.)
The long standing problem with Debian, however, has been a very slow release cycle for the stable branch, meaning that if you want to use the newest and coolest software, you need to use the testing or the unstable branch. Many users are reluctant to use these branches, because you can easily break your system by installing software versions that do not mix together well. Eg. installing a new version of a library (DLL) might break several software packages dependant on an earlier version of that library.
Ubuntu leverages all the benefits of APT, but eliminates the problem with long release cycles by having two releases per year, enabling you to use the newest and hottest versions of all your favourite software. You don't need to wait for a new version to come out for longer than six months. This only in the rare case that the new version is released just after the latest Ubuntu release.
Upgrading to the newest version of Ubuntu is also quite easy. You edit a config file to refer to the newest release, issue the commands apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade and Bob's your uncle! Editing a config file might not be everybody's cup of tea, but I think there might bee GUI tools for this. I don't know, because I have no problems with config files.
Actually, HBO is not attacking the people sharing (or downloading) copyrighted material, they are only making it harder for people to download this copyrighted material. Although I sincerely hate the extremely draconian rules set up by the DMCA and EUCD, I have no problem with this method of protecting copyright. It does not trample upon my basic liberties and it does respect my privacy. Ok, so it does scramble my (potential) communication, but this communication is easily identifiable as an attempt to breech copyright. Of all the measures taken to protect copyright, this is easily the nicest.
Even though you might have problems with people of differently coloured skin mixing together, you will find that world has moved on. Many, *many* corporations use advertisements featuring people of both sexes and different skin colour.
To quote RMS: you have been misinformed. Of course, to "force someone to do something willingly" is an obvious oxymoron, but that is not the main issue. RMS is not forcing anyone to give up their copyright, but, in order to incorporate code into a GNU project, he does require that you transfer the copyright to the FSF. If you don't, it's not incorporated, but you can still release your own version, with your own copyrights in addition to the ones already there.
RMS has clearly stated that the only way to enforce the GPL is by using copyrights. Try grepping the Linux kernel source for the string 'copyright' and you'll find lots that isn't the FSF.
"Oh look! The OSDL is unwilling to objectively compare Linux to Windows, because they know that Windows is the obvious choice for any enterprise!"
Hardly surprising.
One very good outcome of this is that the average European Joe Schmoe is now more aware of the issue and the MEPs are more aware of the sentiments within the industry. No more will the pro-patent lobby be able to sneak software patents in through the back door. That, in itself, is a huge victory.
A huge thanks to everybody who helped defeat the directive, be it with a single short e-mail to an MEP or actively spending hundreds of hours on the issue.
Thank you!
No, he means race, not culture. And he said "criticise a person", not "criticise a race". What he means is that it is manifestly irrational to make a judgement about a persons quality, based on his race. I think you'll find that Mr Atkinson *does* reserve the right to criticise a culture, eg. a culture for mutilating a female child's genitalia.
You are obviously too young to remember Boris Yeltsin, former president of Russia.
Not if you release it into the public domain, which would be for the public good. Also, this tax could only be practically (and ethically?) be levied if the poem is somehow published, so that others have a theoretical opportunity of copying it.
Finally, there's a career option as airport security officers, which would make it possible for slashdot dwellers to see a woman naked. I'm all for it!