The Piracy Party has stated that one of their goals is to get into EU, and to get there, they want to help out starting Piracy Parties all over Europe. So you (or other persons interested) should probably contact them if you want to start one in your country.
If the tools that has been written since has made quicksort such a simple task, why wouldn't parallell computing become such a simple task in a few years?
Could anyone care to tell me exactly what is new here?
I live in Sweden. Our busses (all our busses, a few cars) doesn't run on fossil fuel - they run on human shit. If anybody would care to go and pick up all the cow dung around, I'm sure it could be used in the shit-to-fuel-factory as well.
Up untill recently they did, however, use cows as fuel: they mixed the shit with animal fat from slaughter houses when they made the fuel.
No. He didn't force them off anything - he gave them a Free tool to use instead of a proprietary one. BitKeepers creator was the one who forced them off BitKeeper.
I want to make a car-comparison here, but it's been done too many times by now. Instead, I'm just gonna ask moderators to mod you down, troll.
Obviously, God created the Dodo just for fun, just as he created us and every other creature on earth. I mean; come on! A flightless bird? That is waaay too complex to have been created by itself. That gives us proof that God exists.
Actually, I just got of playing some Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on a Sega Mega Drive 2. Good stuff, however, a bit slow. I will not buy a bloody X-Box when I have sonic, and a NES with duckhunt and zelda. What more could there be to get for me?
No, you didn't. You either downloaded the release candidate (high probability), the preview release (low probability, a bit older), or the nightly build. The official release was less than 24 hours ago (I don't know what time it was/is at your place, so I can't say "today")
Actually, even though vista seems to require a horrific amount of hardware, it seems better than projected. Compared to that, Vista has lost a lot of weight. Of course, there are no features left, but hey!
Here is what my link says: "a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today."
It seems that the 2 gig RAM is no longer a minimum, and the CPU requirements has hopefully improved...
Yeah, it's what I've always dreamed of: I can watch (according to Apple) 25 000 "semester photos" on a display as big as my thumb nail.
Jupp, that's great news! No problems to see what you're looking at. Not at all...
I think this product is almost as stupid as the iPod Shuffle (the "feature" that you cannot decide which song you want to play is more stupid) How about a hybrid? A player without photo showing abilities (that only costs extra, takes space, and considering the screen it is stupid), but with a display and an interface that lets you decide what to listen to.
According to past Slashdot comments (to which I can't give you a link), the spreadfirefox.com figure does it's best not to count any single user twice. For instance, not counting any firefox-user.
Yes, it seems kind-of-cool, but it seems to be the least comfortable mouse ever. You can't control the velocity of the pointer, and you are using the device that created the term "Nintendo thumb", because it is really bad to use all day long. Regular mice, however, doesn't give you that kind of pain.
So.. If you hand out 5 million cell phones to the inhabitants in finland, and another 5 million to the inhabitants in usa, which country gets the highest amount of cell phones per inhabitant?
As this article states, IE7 will not support CSS2. But come on! Give MS some slack! The CSS2 standard is only 7 years old. You must give them some time to implement the thing..!
Even though it seems good at a first glance, that solution is just stupid. There is a reason people like Qt. There is a similar - but not identical - reason why people like GTK. Since the reasons they are being used aren't the same, they can't be combined into something all users will want. Some users actually have good reasons to either develop or use GTK, and others have other reasons to use/develop for Qt. At this stage, everyone can choose if they like Qt or GTK better - and they can even use both! This way, there is something to please all users.
The same thing goes for package managers. Some people find dpkg terrible broken, while others think rpm sucks beyond comparison. Some don't want to sit and compile programs all day long, while others want complete controll of exactly what deps their program should have. At the current state, while it is messy, everyone still can pick their favourite.
What would like to see, though, is a way of automate creation of all kind of packages from a autoconfigure-script or something... And (here is the twist) it should work. This means less time spent trying to package things.
Also, the efforts to make Qt and GTK look the same are more than welcome for some users.
When I want to access the WAP-version of a hompage (since that is what my phone supports), I try wap.domain.whatever, or domain.whatever/wap. These two almost never fails. I just don't understand why you want an additional domain for it.
Tim Berners Lee has a point. "When you print money, you devalue the money you already printed" is a very good comparison, actually.
There is a greasemonkey-script that automaticaly adds links to coral and mirrordot after every link in every news item on slashdot. You can get it Here. Works great, and makes sure karma-whoring like grandparrent useless.
The problem with patents is that noone outside of the safe haven nation is allowed to run the programs developed there. The same thing goes for writing the programs.
It's still a monopoly, but the difference is that (in theory) all profit goes back to the people. Say the government runs a very successful porno company. If enough people pay for it's porno, the renevues will be big enough for the government to cut taxes or pay for everyones medical treatment. That means everyone profit. If this guy start a porno company, all renevues goes to him, and the only one to profit is himself.
So while it's still technicaly a monopoly when the government runs it, it's ment to do the citizens good. If run by a single person, it's bad, because that company can screw the people over (which a state owned company can't - it IS the peoples). So there is a difference between monopoly and monopoly (if you are not a ultra-right wing person that is)
You should try out Kazehakase. Built on gecko, but using GTK2 instead of that horrible slow (and ugly!) XUL. It is also very configureable, but without the support for those unnecesary extentions. "But I could never use Firefox without Tab browser extention/preferences!" Well, Kazehakases support for tabs is quite good already. It has also support for mouse gestures, something hard-core Opera-users has always complained about when it comes to firefox. (I know about the extentions, but apparently they are not possible to use the exact same way)
Is that informative? In what way!? If you (and/or the moderators) would have actually RTFA:ed, you would already know that "The Indy concept originated from Ian Clarke, but was inspired by a number of other projects including iRate (neither Ian Clarke nor Indy is affiliated with the iRate project)."
DVD-Jon didn't get convicted for reverse enginering the CSS-encryption on DVDs. He was from Norway too, so these guys should be safe.
And now that the program is out, can you really get sued for using it? It's just another program, and I might be wrong, but is it really the users responsibility to examine how the software was written?
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The Piracy Party has stated that one of their goals is to get into EU, and to get there, they want to help out starting Piracy Parties all over Europe. So you (or other persons interested) should probably contact them if you want to start one in your country.
That's the point!
If the tools that has been written since has made quicksort such a simple task, why wouldn't parallell computing become such a simple task in a few years?
Could anyone care to tell me exactly what is new here?
I live in Sweden. Our busses (all our busses, a few cars) doesn't run on fossil fuel - they run on human shit. If anybody would care to go and pick up all the cow dung around, I'm sure it could be used in the shit-to-fuel-factory as well.
Up untill recently they did, however, use cows as fuel: they mixed the shit with animal fat from slaughter houses when they made the fuel.
No. He didn't force them off anything - he gave them a Free tool to use instead of a proprietary one. BitKeepers creator was the one who forced them off BitKeeper.
I want to make a car-comparison here, but it's been done too many times by now. Instead, I'm just gonna ask moderators to mod you down, troll.
You obviously haven't been paying attention...
Obviously, God created the Dodo just for fun, just as he created us and every other creature on earth. I mean; come on! A flightless bird? That is waaay too complex to have been created by itself. That gives us proof that God exists.
Actually, I just got of playing some Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on a Sega Mega Drive 2. Good stuff, however, a bit slow. I will not buy a bloody X-Box when I have sonic, and a NES with duckhunt and zelda. What more could there be to get for me?
No, you didn't. You either downloaded the release candidate (high probability), the preview release (low probability, a bit older), or the nightly build. The official release was less than 24 hours ago (I don't know what time it was/is at your place, so I can't say "today")
Actually, even though vista seems to require a horrific amount of hardware, it seems better than projected. Compared to that, Vista has lost a lot of weight. Of course, there are no features left, but hey!
Here is what my link says:
"a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today."
It seems that the 2 gig RAM is no longer a minimum, and the CPU requirements has hopefully improved...
Yeah, it's what I've always dreamed of: I can watch (according to Apple) 25 000 "semester photos" on a display as big as my thumb nail.
Jupp, that's great news! No problems to see what you're looking at. Not at all...
I think this product is almost as stupid as the iPod Shuffle (the "feature" that you cannot decide which song you want to play is more stupid) How about a hybrid? A player without photo showing abilities (that only costs extra, takes space, and considering the screen it is stupid), but with a display and an interface that lets you decide what to listen to.
I think it will be released right after Debian Sar... Oh, wait! Never mind...
I have to defend myself... :)
The second comment at the time when I posted that said Slashdoted, and thus I - mistakenly - assumed that was the case.
According to past Slashdot comments (to which I can't give you a link), the spreadfirefox.com figure does it's best not to count any single user twice. For instance, not counting any firefox-user.
It's great, but... Why!?
Yes, it seems kind-of-cool, but it seems to be the least comfortable mouse ever. You can't control the velocity of the pointer, and you are using the device that created the term "Nintendo thumb", because it is really bad to use all day long. Regular mice, however, doesn't give you that kind of pain.
So.. If you hand out 5 million cell phones to the inhabitants in finland, and another 5 million to the inhabitants in usa, which country gets the highest amount of cell phones per inhabitant?
As this article states, IE7 will not support CSS2. But come on! Give MS some slack! The CSS2 standard is only 7 years old. You must give them some time to implement the thing..!
Even though it seems good at a first glance, that solution is just stupid. There is a reason people like Qt. There is a similar - but not identical - reason why people like GTK. Since the reasons they are being used aren't the same, they can't be combined into something all users will want. Some users actually have good reasons to either develop or use GTK, and others have other reasons to use/develop for Qt. At this stage, everyone can choose if they like Qt or GTK better - and they can even use both! This way, there is something to please all users.
The same thing goes for package managers. Some people find dpkg terrible broken, while others think rpm sucks beyond comparison. Some don't want to sit and compile programs all day long, while others want complete controll of exactly what deps their program should have. At the current state, while it is messy, everyone still can pick their favourite.
What would like to see, though, is a way of automate creation of all kind of packages from a autoconfigure-script or something... And (here is the twist) it should work. This means less time spent trying to package things.
Also, the efforts to make Qt and GTK look the same are more than welcome for some users.
When I want to access the WAP-version of a hompage (since that is what my phone supports), I try wap.domain.whatever, or domain.whatever/wap. These two almost never fails. I just don't understand why you want an additional domain for it. Tim Berners Lee has a point. "When you print money, you devalue the money you already printed" is a very good comparison, actually.
You just said that the the Bank-ID system is NOT standards-based at all, and thus is just as bad as the australian app that this topic is about.
What kind of standard is Java..? Java is a platform, and that means it is developed for "one platform first".
There is a greasemonkey-script that automaticaly adds links to coral and mirrordot after every link in every news item on slashdot. You can get it Here. Works great, and makes sure karma-whoring like grandparrent useless.
Try it!
If you - like me - is running something which isn't Windows, you don't even have to try to try it out. It is Windows only at the moment.
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It do say that the extention have been compiled for linux, but isn't finnished. If I was him, I'd have my linux version Done when i submitted to
The problem with patents is that noone outside of the safe haven nation is allowed to run the programs developed there. The same thing goes for writing the programs.
It's still a monopoly, but the difference is that (in theory) all profit goes back to the people. Say the government runs a very successful porno company. If enough people pay for it's porno, the renevues will be big enough for the government to cut taxes or pay for everyones medical treatment. That means everyone profit. If this guy start a porno company, all renevues goes to him, and the only one to profit is himself.
So while it's still technicaly a monopoly when the government runs it, it's ment to do the citizens good. If run by a single person, it's bad, because that company can screw the people over (which a state owned company can't - it IS the peoples). So there is a difference between monopoly and monopoly (if you are not a ultra-right wing person that is)
You should try out Kazehakase. Built on gecko, but using GTK2 instead of that horrible slow (and ugly!) XUL. It is also very configureable, but without the support for those unnecesary extentions.
"But I could never use Firefox without Tab browser extention/preferences!"
Well, Kazehakases support for tabs is quite good already. It has also support for mouse gestures, something hard-core Opera-users has always complained about when it comes to firefox. (I know about the extentions, but apparently they are not possible to use the exact same way)
Is that informative? In what way!?
If you (and/or the moderators) would have actually RTFA:ed, you would already know that "The Indy concept originated from Ian Clarke, but was inspired by a number of other projects including iRate (neither Ian Clarke nor Indy is affiliated with the iRate project)."
DVD-Jon didn't get convicted for reverse enginering the CSS-encryption on DVDs. He was from Norway too, so these guys should be safe.
And now that the program is out, can you really get sued for using it? It's just another program, and I might be wrong, but is it really the users responsibility to examine how the software was written?