Microsoft should give up the ghost on desktop/consumer OSes and just port their office suite over to *nix.
Yes, Microsoft should throw out 67% of their money-making operations and port the other 33% to another OS. That makes lots of sense from a business point of view.
The/. editors don't write the titles or summaries. The submitter, Elektroschock in this case, did.
Which part do you consider sensationalized? The title "Thunderbird in Crisis?" I'm sorry, but the two lead developers no longer playing a role in how the project is led, with no indication of who is going to lead the project from now on is a crisis.
The only other part that isn't fact (or reasonable conclusions drawn from facts) is "What happened to Mozilla? Is it a case of pauperization through donations?" This is a legitimate concern. Mozilla Foundation founded Mozilla Corporation as a money making operation, with Google as its main client. Mozilla Corp. then kicked out Thunderbird to focus on the development of Firefox.
Merriam Webster has the following as part of the definition of pauper: "a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity." I'm assuming this is what the poster meant.
Enforcing the SysV copyrights that Novell owns (see other comments) would be tricky, since Novell has contributed code to several key open source projects, including the Linux kernel.
As a side note, avoid the amd64/ia64 version of Ubuntu if you want to install WINE from the repository. It isn't present in 7.04. Instead, you get a little note saying that the maintainers have not released a version of WINE for this platform.
Who knows, maybe it'll be in the amd64 version of 7.10 due out later this month.
I hate to say it, but I think most people, when they say "remove the shadow" mean as if the lighting itself were changed. I hate to say it, but that's not responsive to anything I said.
You explicitly mentioned deleting the shadow and/or object here:
e.g. "it's the shadow that's making them look different!", you can keep deleting things from the image that you think are causing the illusion,
I'd say pretty well. They managed to get slightly more than half the P-members to vote yes (2/3 required) and 74% of all members to vote yes (75% required). If that isn't pretty well I don't know what is. There will be a new vote in February, and they will probably manage to ram it through then. They just need some more time "convincing" (read: bribing) the right representatives to vote yes.
That second statistic is wrong. Microsoft got 26% of all members to vote no, when they needed less than 25% to vote no. This is different than 74% yes, because any abstained votes are not Yes or No votes.
Some members in the first vote also voted "Yes, with comments" (According to sources, this is an irregularity. Votes are usually Yes; No; or No, with comments) meaning that their votes could turn to No votes at a later time..
Groklaw's articles following the SCO lawsuits are second to none. Okay, the lawyers and judges involved might have better seats, but otherwise you want to go with Groklaw. A bit of bias, sure, the odd bit of self-referential hyperbole, but generally things are well done.
I hate to say it, but I think most people, when they say "remove the shadow" mean as if the lighting itself were changed.
I can tell you right now if I set out a black and white chess board in real life, put something that casts a shadow near it, then moved the light so that no shadows were being cast on it, the light squares would all be one color and the dark squares would all be one color (but not the same color as the light squares).
Too bad I wasn't in that discussion. I would have recommend using FTP over SSL/TLS. I know proftpd server and Filezilla client (and presumably server) support it.
Of course, that causes a problem if the service in question needs to listen on a port < 1024, on only root can bind those... which makes me wonder why non-essential services such as httpd have low port numbers.
You can get around that by having it listen on a higher port number and having the kernel reroute packets, but that gets messy if you have to do it for a bunch of services.
You could do it by providing a bloom filter the browser, and then when there is a match, the browser could download a certain subset of the blacklist to verify that the match is not a false positive.
Then why haven't you started working on it already? Firefox is open source, after all!
even though you can be sued for libel in the UK, if just one person in Britain views your website based anywhere in the world - so slashdot better not libel me!
You know, I'd probably just ignore any summons you send me if I'm not a citizen of the UK and my website is hosted in a country other than the UK.
You see, since neither myself or my web host are located in the UK, we're not subject to the UK's laws.
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Yes, Microsoft should throw out 67% of their money-making operations and port the other 33% to another OS. That makes lots of sense from a business point of view.
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Which part do you consider sensationalized? The title "Thunderbird in Crisis?" I'm sorry, but the two lead developers no longer playing a role in how the project is led, with no indication of who is going to lead the project from now on is a crisis.
The only other part that isn't fact (or reasonable conclusions drawn from facts) is "What happened to Mozilla? Is it a case of pauperization through donations?" This is a legitimate concern. Mozilla Foundation founded Mozilla Corporation as a money making operation, with Google as its main client. Mozilla Corp. then kicked out Thunderbird to focus on the development of Firefox.
Merriam Webster has the following as part of the definition of pauper: "a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity." I'm assuming this is what the poster meant.
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If you have an anti-virus program that Windows recognizes, the Windows Security Center will nag you if it's out of date.
Enforcing the SysV copyrights that Novell owns (see other comments) would be tricky, since Novell has contributed code to several key open source projects, including the Linux kernel.
I haven't done any research, but are you sure Redhat has never made a deal with the BSD groups?
As a side note, avoid the amd64/ia64 version of Ubuntu if you want to install WINE from the repository. It isn't present in 7.04. Instead, you get a little note saying that the maintainers have not released a version of WINE for this platform.
Who knows, maybe it'll be in the amd64 version of 7.10 due out later this month.
I agree, it's quite hard to apply slime to software.
Wait, you meant slimming down? Never mind, then.
You explicitly mentioned deleting the shadow and/or object here:
Here's a tip: Don't advocate stooping to their level. It makes you no better than they are.
My intent wasn't to draw parallels to Nazis... it just turns out when I looked it up that the original quote was about nazis.
That second statistic is wrong. Microsoft got 26% of all members to vote no, when they needed less than 25% to vote no. This is different than 74% yes, because any abstained votes are not Yes or No votes.
Some members in the first vote also voted "Yes, with comments" (According to sources, this is an irregularity. Votes are usually Yes; No; or No, with comments) meaning that their votes could turn to No votes at a later time..
I'm glad I'm not the only who noticed that.
Oh, that must have been some other CEO at MacWorld with Mr. Gates on the big screen then?
No wait, that was Steve Jobs!
One trick that works a lot of the time is to not visit a page that has no link to a Google Cache in the index results.
Most legitimate sites don't put the code to disable Google's Cache option, but most of the spam sites do for some reason...
I hate to say it, but I think most people, when they say "remove the shadow" mean as if the lighting itself were changed.
I can tell you right now if I set out a black and white chess board in real life, put something that casts a shadow near it, then moved the light so that no shadows were being cast on it, the light squares would all be one color and the dark squares would all be one color (but not the same color as the light squares).
Too bad I wasn't in that discussion. I would have recommend using FTP over SSL/TLS. I know proftpd server and Filezilla client (and presumably server) support it.
"You think Windows is better, just because there isn't a public record of every chair Microsoft's heads throw at their employees?"
Fixed that for you.
Of course, that causes a problem if the service in question needs to listen on a port < 1024, on only root can bind those... which makes me wonder why non-essential services such as httpd have low port numbers.
You can get around that by having it listen on a higher port number and having the kernel reroute packets, but that gets messy if you have to do it for a bunch of services.
Objection, assuming facts not in evidence!
Then why haven't you started working on it already? Firefox is open source, after all!
Do you understand the words that are comin' out of my keyboard?
Does Simon still work there?
I think Buffy would be better in this case, since we're dealing with Counts.
You know, I'd probably just ignore any summons you send me if I'm not a citizen of the UK and my website is hosted in a country other than the UK.
You see, since neither myself or my web host are located in the UK, we're not subject to the UK's laws.
I can't. I'm contractually obligated to be a living skeleton until my contract expires.