It's not "functionality" it's crippling. Copiers should have to do this either. The treasury should have to make the bills uncopyable, not the copiers unable to copy it (if you can follow this logic you bet a bozo button).
Doing things this way simply gives a false sense of security, it will cause counterfeiting to be rampant due to self build copiers and systems.
That same open is in the photoshop open file dialog box as well? I didn't realize you meant in terms of photoshop vs gimp. Both products include the ability to create a new folder in the open dialog.
Although perhaps photoshop on mac doesn't. EVERY windows application includes this in the open dialog.
didn't see any pop-up ad's and I'm fairly sure no spyware was installed. Thanks to mozilla I just saw a black website with absolutely no content whatsoever.
And you don't consider blowing it on a shit canidate you is throwing it away? At least if you don't vote as he performs all the evil he will put forth in office you can know you didn't support his being there.
I'm a registered voter. Haven't voted even once so far, but you can be sure the minute there is a candidate that I support I'll be right there voting.
Hmmm can you have multiple wives in belgium? I was going to move to Utah after hearing about their new pipe, but if belgium can match the multiple wife thing, I'm on my way!
There is an easier way, simply write a trivial program, link the QT GPL'd lib to it and distribute it under the BSD license (which is gpl compatible, the gpl doesn't require you redistribute under the gpl, only under a license which gives the same rights). Have a friend download the source under this license, have the friend in turn make a small change and redistribute his "fork" under the BSD license back to you. Now you have QT under the BSD license and can close the source.
Easy as pie. (Believe it or not this just occured to me, I'm going to go back and read the gpl and find out where they've put something in that would prevent this).
As an end user, of a CLOSED SOURCE application which is linked to gtk. How exactly are you going to recompile your application linking it with qt?
It's not something the end user of a closed source application can do, you need the source to do it. This question could only be relevant if you are the producing the closed source app.
"Why don't we get rid of political parties, too ? Surely it just confuses and spreads energy across various different parties?"
That's true, but since all the political parties have the same agenda (to fsck the citizens for own personal gain) I don't see where it benefits us to help them accomplish it by pooling their resources. We want them divided.
"Why don't we just have one single government that tells us what to do ? Because choice is a bad thing, right?"
We have one, the US government. It certainly tells everyone in the US what to do of course, and it has been shown time and time again that it tells the rest of the world what to do or else. At bombpoint if needbe.
No but I sure remember those co-processor chips that DID magically make your 386 into a 486. I also remember those magic drills with which you could drill a hole in a single sided floppy and magically turn it into a double sided.
They have a binary driver, that driver may or may not load. Nvidia has an installer, which will detect your kernel version and compile an interface for it regardless of what linux version you use.
The net result is ATI's drivers won't run on 70% of linux systems out there, whereas Nvidias will run on everything including the 2.6 series kernels before they even became stable.
On the other hand the actual performance of nvidia's drivers have been going downhill with each and every release.
It makes less difference than that, there isn't even ONE game out there which gains any sort of benefit from the past THREE generations of cards from both ati and nvidia.
Yes the cards are faster, but they already rendered the game at perfect speed 3 generations ago. A Geforce 4 will run any game out there perfectly... won't hold up in the benchmarks but you won't get a single visible frame faster performance on any actual game with a radeon 9800 pro;)
"Revenue loss from slashdotters who value their time much less than their money: $ NOT MUCH"
None really, after all, how many slashdotters who might have bought an ATI card might buy the second most expensive card nvidia makes now? They wouldn't sell the 5900 if they didn't make money of it. They will make a profit on every fringe overclocker who jumps on the bandwagon.
I am amazed someone could managed to get through my entire post and respond without pondering or even comprehending a word of it Mr. Anonymous Coward.
Blacks on average get paid a smaller amount and on average fill lower end jobs because blacks on average have significantly poorer education. This certainly isn't for lack of availablity. The have the same opportunity that the average white american has, if they have a chip on their shoulder over something they themselves have never experienced and don't take advantage of it, that is certainly nobody's fault but their own. There are no small number of black american's not living in ghettos, and even ghettos have publically funded schools just like the ones that your average white citizen goes to.
If a black american and a white american apply for a job, and both are equally qualified, the black american will get the job because there are financial incentives for the company to hire them first. THAT is discrimination, not imagined (or even real) suspicious glances when walking in a convience store. The only disadvantage here is that not as many black americans are taking advantage of the educations available to them and therefore there aren't as many with equal qualifications. Only black americans can solve that problem, nobody else.
Another very important point, this applies to women as well. Equal rights and equal civil liberties is a relatively new idea. So I'm assuming you are excluding anyone with over 20yrs experience justifying thier high position and payrate from your numbers right? After all, since women and black americans (as well as other minorities really haven't been in an open equal opportunity environment for 20yrs yet there won't be any who are qualified to hold those positions.
Also someone actually has to vacate a high position for someone else to fill it, it takes a long time for numbers to shift significantly there in a perfectly fair and racism free environment.
"Obviouly they're not quite African, because they haven't been there in so long they've lost touch."
If you had actually bothered to READ my post you would have seen that what I was saying is that most DON"T HAVE A SINGLE ROOT IN AFRICA. It's not a matter of losing touch if they were never in touch with it to begin with!!! South American natives are BLACK and are not nor have they ever been African.
"Are you fucking stupid? The term is "Chinese", not "chink". The term is "African", or "African-American", not "nigger". You actually think "chink" or "nigger" makes me proud of my culture?"
It's becoming more and more apparent you are one of those who has not taken advantage of education. Or perhaps you have and it simply failed to actually stimulate your brain (you can after all coast to a master's without having much of a brain). Both of the terms you mentioned are synonymous, respectively for black and chinese. They mean the exact same thing. So why exactly is it one is okay and one is not? Because you consider one derogatory? Why do you consider it derogatory? And assuming it is derogatory, what the hell makes you think you've more right to call me "fucking stupid" than I have to call you by one of those terms?
"Maybe you've experienced a lot of counter-racism and you experience is skewed, but I think you should take a look at the larger picture around you. Racism is still alive. Most white people just wish it would go away. And I understand why: who likes to feel accused and guilty? Then again, we have to look at the larger picture: if racism ended, there wouldn't even be an issue."
Oh I've known a few racists it's true. But few of them have been white.
Do you believe that problem isn't solved until the trolls on slashdot become silent in terms of racial slurs. This will never happen, get over it. Do you believe the problem isn't solved until other races hold as many jobs, make as much, etc etc. Well if you want to improve the numbers for your race, go to school, or study yourself, work
I was under the impression the problem was that people had to submit their claims directly.
Do you mean to tell me that there was a limit to the NUMBER of claims so that not even the full sum of the settlement could be claimed? And so that not everyone who was a legitimate victim could actually make their claim?
Well no, but you could put in into a rocket which flys millions of miles to Mars through the vaccum of space, then pops out a lander which holds the camera and crashes into mars landing safely then parts droping the digital camera on the surface. Just like this one.
What? Anyone can set up a stand and start selling things perfectly legitimately. I for instance could setup a stand and sell all my old cd's. I could even pay $100 and get a tax idea and purchase cd's from a distributor in small quantities and sell them from a small stand on the street because I don't have enough money to pay $2000+/month for a storefront. Let alone money for to keep it up to firecodes, etc,etc etc.
Don't assume simply because someone isn't rolling in money they must be an illegitimate thief.
In 100 days when it takes (according to the time listed by the nasa jpl site) 20mins to get a picture, you'd think they could snap at least one picture which humanity can enjoy. After all, so far they've wasted lots of redundant pictures just taking shots of the landing site over and over again.
"This part is somewhat debatable, and opens you up to all kinds of attacks which would otherwise find less fertile grounds."
All of that is statistically correct actually. Really though, perhaps the post was a bit a flamebait, but I really should have been modded out of the picture as offtopic. *shrugs* I had something to say and karma to burn.
"Ok, I've got some problems with that. First, why isn't Lindows a criminal now? They have been convicted of abusing the settlement. Now don't get technical with all that nonsense about the class of law they have broken and the terms applied to the ones who have broken which... Oh, and have you ever gone faster than the posted speed limit? If so, I think you'd better give me all of your money, you scummy criminal you."
Give me a break, this isn't grabbing every penny microsoft has, this is simply about them actually paying the token penalty for breaking the law.
You aren't actually saying, but are strongly implying that what Microsoft has done doesn't fall into the illegal class, but merely the unfair class. What microsoft has done AND IS DOING is ILLEGAL not merely unfair. You act as if they are two seperate things, and normally they are, in microsoft's case they are actually so extremely unfair that what they are doing is illegal.
The courts have not merely found microsoft to be engaged in an unfair business practice. The court found Microsoft to be engaging in ILLEGAL monopoly practices, initially the courts ordered a halfway decent settlement, so microsoft bribed an appeals court and put some very powerful political entities on it's payroll and had that overturned. They commited purjury more times than I care to count throughout the course of the trial.
I have never said anything about agreeing with a court. I never even said I agree with every law on the books. I merely said that someone who is breaking the law is a criminal. That's what defines a criminal. Arguing about timelines doesn't come into play here because microsoft continues to engage in practices which are according to the law books and constitution of the united states of america, ILLEGAL. You could argue a criminal could reform and that if someone once broke a law it would be unfair to call them a criminal forever, but certainly you wouldn't claim that someone who persists at the present moment in flaunting the law is not a criminal!
The law books define the law, congress makes the law (or a certain portion of the states in the case of the Constitution)... courts however do NOT make the law, they merely decide whether or not the law is being violated according to themselves and what punishment. Someone who lies in court HAS broken the law, someone who is lying in court this very moment cannot be disputed to be a criminal. Whether or not they are ever determined to break the law by a judge does not change those facts.
"Guess what: you don't get to decide."
Guess what, I and every other american DO get to decide.
As for Lindows, they merely established a website to help people collect the penalty that had been ordered against microsoft for their illegal practices. They did nothing underhanded or shady, they hid in no shadows. As it turns out there is a clause in the settlement that doesn't allow you to use an intermediary (something micrsoft of course made sure was there so that it would be as difficult as possible to collect, since even a lawyer could be argued an intermediary) as a result the judge determined that the claims would not be accepted. Yay for microsoft.
But lindows has certainly NOT be convicted of anything, nor have they even been accused of a crime or breaking ANY law on the books! That part is for your benefit. For my own, there no law on the books which they are in reality breaking by doing this either.
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It's not "functionality" it's crippling. Copiers should have to do this either. The treasury should have to make the bills uncopyable, not the copiers unable to copy it (if you can follow this logic you bet a bozo button).
Doing things this way simply gives a false sense of security, it will cause counterfeiting to be rampant due to self build copiers and systems.
That same open is in the photoshop open file dialog box as well? I didn't realize you meant in terms of photoshop vs gimp. Both products include the ability to create a new folder in the open dialog.
Although perhaps photoshop on mac doesn't. EVERY windows application includes this in the open dialog.
No I agree with you completely, it makes no logical sense at all.
It is however extremely useful I use it all the time as well as the ability to rename files in the open file window.
Yes that's true it does work, they've been successfully fscking us since before the ink dried on the Constitution!
didn't see any pop-up ad's and I'm fairly sure no spyware was installed. Thanks to mozilla I just saw a black website with absolutely no content whatsoever.
And you don't consider blowing it on a shit canidate you is throwing it away? At least if you don't vote as he performs all the evil he will put forth in office you can know you didn't support his being there.
I'm a registered voter. Haven't voted even once so far, but you can be sure the minute there is a candidate that I support I'll be right there voting.
a google search for this enzyme and for amyloid beta
yields slews of not so new results relating it to the disease.
According to some of what I read green tea is known to inhibit the enzyme.
Hmmm can you have multiple wives in belgium? I was going to move to Utah after hearing about their new pipe, but if belgium can match the multiple wife thing, I'm on my way!
There is an easier way, simply write a trivial program, link the QT GPL'd lib to it and distribute it under the BSD license (which is gpl compatible, the gpl doesn't require you redistribute under the gpl, only under a license which gives the same rights). Have a friend download the source under this license, have the friend in turn make a small change and redistribute his "fork" under the BSD license back to you. Now you have QT under the BSD license and can close the source.
Easy as pie. (Believe it or not this just occured to me, I'm going to go back and read the gpl and find out where they've put something in that would prevent this).
As an end user, of a CLOSED SOURCE application which is linked to gtk. How exactly are you going to recompile your application linking it with qt?
It's not something the end user of a closed source application can do, you need the source to do it. This question could only be relevant if you are the producing the closed source app.
"Why don't we get rid of political parties, too ? Surely it just confuses and spreads energy across various different parties?"
That's true, but since all the political parties have the same agenda (to fsck the citizens for own personal gain) I don't see where it benefits us to help them accomplish it by pooling their resources. We want them divided.
"Why don't we just have one single government that tells us what to do ? Because choice is a bad thing, right?"
We have one, the US government. It certainly tells everyone in the US what to do of course, and it has been shown time and time again that it tells the rest of the world what to do or else. At bombpoint if needbe.
How about voting for none of the above?
No but I sure remember those co-processor chips that DID magically make your 386 into a 486. I also remember those magic drills with which you could drill a hole in a single sided floppy and magically turn it into a double sided.
They have a binary driver, that driver may or may not load. Nvidia has an installer, which will detect your kernel version and compile an interface for it regardless of what linux version you use.
The net result is ATI's drivers won't run on 70% of linux systems out there, whereas Nvidias will run on everything including the 2.6 series kernels before they even became stable.
On the other hand the actual performance of nvidia's drivers have been going downhill with each and every release.
It makes less difference than that, there isn't even ONE game out there which gains any sort of benefit from the past THREE generations of cards from both ati and nvidia.
;)
Yes the cards are faster, but they already rendered the game at perfect speed 3 generations ago. A Geforce 4 will run any game out there perfectly... won't hold up in the benchmarks but you won't get a single visible frame faster performance on any actual game with a radeon 9800 pro
"Revenue loss from slashdotters who value their time much less than their money: $ NOT MUCH"
None really, after all, how many slashdotters who might have bought an ATI card might buy the second most expensive card nvidia makes now? They wouldn't sell the 5900 if they didn't make money of it. They will make a profit on every fringe overclocker who jumps on the bandwagon.
I am amazed someone could managed to get through my entire post and respond without pondering or even comprehending a word of it Mr. Anonymous Coward.
Blacks on average get paid a smaller amount and on average fill lower end jobs because blacks on average have significantly poorer education. This certainly isn't for lack of availablity. The have the same opportunity that the average white american has, if they have a chip on their shoulder over something they themselves have never experienced and don't take advantage of it, that is certainly nobody's fault but their own. There are no small number of black american's not living in ghettos, and even ghettos have publically funded schools just like the ones that your average white citizen goes to.
If a black american and a white american apply for a job, and both are equally qualified, the black american will get the job because there are financial incentives for the company to hire them first. THAT is discrimination, not imagined (or even real) suspicious glances when walking in a convience store. The only disadvantage here is that not as many black americans are taking advantage of the educations available to them and therefore there aren't as many with equal qualifications. Only black americans can solve that problem, nobody else.
Another very important point, this applies to women as well. Equal rights and equal civil liberties is a relatively new idea. So I'm assuming you are excluding anyone with over 20yrs experience justifying thier high position and payrate from your numbers right? After all, since women and black americans (as well as other minorities really haven't been in an open equal opportunity environment for 20yrs yet there won't be any who are qualified to hold those positions.
Also someone actually has to vacate a high position for someone else to fill it, it takes a long time for numbers to shift significantly there in a perfectly fair and racism free environment.
"Obviouly they're not quite African, because they haven't been there in so long they've lost touch."
If you had actually bothered to READ my post you would have seen that what I was saying is that most DON"T HAVE A SINGLE ROOT IN AFRICA. It's not a matter of losing touch if they were never in touch with it to begin with!!! South American natives are BLACK and are not nor have they ever been African.
"Are you fucking stupid? The term is "Chinese", not "chink". The term is "African", or "African-American", not "nigger". You actually think "chink" or "nigger" makes me proud of my culture?"
It's becoming more and more apparent you are one of those who has not taken advantage of education. Or perhaps you have and it simply failed to actually stimulate your brain (you can after all coast to a master's without having much of a brain). Both of the terms you mentioned are synonymous, respectively for black and chinese. They mean the exact same thing. So why exactly is it one is okay and one is not? Because you consider one derogatory? Why do you consider it derogatory? And assuming it is derogatory, what the hell makes you think you've more right to call me "fucking stupid" than I have to call you by one of those terms?
"Maybe you've experienced a lot of counter-racism and you experience is skewed, but I think you should take a look at the larger picture around you. Racism is still alive. Most white people just wish it would go away. And I understand why: who likes to feel accused and guilty? Then again, we have to look at the larger picture: if racism ended, there wouldn't even be an issue."
Oh I've known a few racists it's true. But few of them have been white.
Do you believe that problem isn't solved until the trolls on slashdot become silent in terms of racial slurs. This will never happen, get over it. Do you believe the problem isn't solved until other races hold as many jobs, make as much, etc etc. Well if you want to improve the numbers for your race, go to school, or study yourself, work
I was under the impression the problem was that people had to submit their claims directly.
Do you mean to tell me that there was a limit to the NUMBER of claims so that not even the full sum of the settlement could be claimed? And so that not everyone who was a legitimate victim could actually make their claim?
Well no, but you could put in into a rocket which flys millions of miles to Mars through the vaccum of space, then pops out a lander which holds the camera and crashes into mars landing safely then parts droping the digital camera on the surface. Just like this one.
What? Anyone can set up a stand and start selling things perfectly legitimately. I for instance could setup a stand and sell all my old cd's. I could even pay $100 and get a tax idea and purchase cd's from a distributor in small quantities and sell them from a small stand on the street because I don't have enough money to pay $2000+/month for a storefront. Let alone money for to keep it up to firecodes, etc ,etc etc.
Don't assume simply because someone isn't rolling in money they must be an illegitimate thief.
In 100 days when it takes (according to the time listed by the nasa jpl site) 20mins to get a picture, you'd think they could snap at least one picture which humanity can enjoy. After all, so far they've wasted lots of redundant pictures just taking shots of the landing site over and over again.
Who knows, they might even use it to land a rover on mars.
"This part is somewhat debatable, and opens you up to all kinds of attacks which would otherwise find less fertile grounds."
All of that is statistically correct actually. Really though, perhaps the post was a bit a flamebait, but I really should have been modded out of the picture as offtopic. *shrugs* I had something to say and karma to burn.
"Ok, I've got some problems with that. First, why isn't Lindows a criminal now? They have been convicted of abusing the settlement. Now don't get technical with all that nonsense about the class of law they have broken and the terms applied to the ones who have broken which... Oh, and have you ever gone faster than the posted speed limit? If so, I think you'd better give me all of your money, you scummy criminal you."
Give me a break, this isn't grabbing every penny microsoft has, this is simply about them actually paying the token penalty for breaking the law.
You aren't actually saying, but are strongly implying that what Microsoft has done doesn't fall into the illegal class, but merely the unfair class. What microsoft has done AND IS DOING is ILLEGAL not merely unfair. You act as if they are two seperate things, and normally they are, in microsoft's case they are actually so extremely unfair that what they are doing is illegal.
The courts have not merely found microsoft to be engaged in an unfair business practice. The court found Microsoft to be engaging in ILLEGAL monopoly practices, initially the courts ordered a halfway decent settlement, so microsoft bribed an appeals court and put some very powerful political entities on it's payroll and had that overturned. They commited purjury more times than I care to count throughout the course of the trial.
I have never said anything about agreeing with a court. I never even said I agree with every law on the books. I merely said that someone who is breaking the law is a criminal. That's what defines a criminal. Arguing about timelines doesn't come into play here because microsoft continues to engage in practices which are according to the law books and constitution of the united states of america, ILLEGAL. You could argue a criminal could reform and that if someone once broke a law it would be unfair to call them a criminal forever, but certainly you wouldn't claim that someone who persists at the present moment in flaunting the law is not a criminal!
The law books define the law, congress makes the law (or a certain portion of the states in the case of the Constitution)... courts however do NOT make the law, they merely decide whether or not the law is being violated according to themselves and what punishment. Someone who lies in court HAS broken the law, someone who is lying in court this very moment cannot be disputed to be a criminal. Whether or not they are ever determined to break the law by a judge does not change those facts.
"Guess what: you don't get to decide."
Guess what, I and every other american DO get to decide.
As for Lindows, they merely established a website to help people collect the penalty that had been ordered against microsoft for their illegal practices. They did nothing underhanded or shady, they hid in no shadows. As it turns out there is a clause in the settlement that doesn't allow you to use an intermediary (something micrsoft of course made sure was there so that it would be as difficult as possible to collect, since even a lawyer could be argued an intermediary) as a result the judge determined that the claims would not be accepted. Yay for microsoft.
But lindows has certainly NOT be convicted of anything, nor have they even been accused of a crime or breaking ANY law on the books! That part is for your benefit. For my own, there no law on the books which they are in reality breaking by doing this either.
how is this +5 informative when the ask slashdot poster specifically said he is aware of knoppix and he's not looking for a livecd?