The problem with your argument is that it's recursive. If the complexity of a single cell was Intelligently Designed by some kind of God, then who designed God? And who then designed the designer of God? Where does it end?
I prefer to think of life as an emergent phenomenon, a result of a system of rules known as "the laws of physics".
But whenever I visit a site that uses a theme I recognize, it always makes me cringe.
I completely agree. The first thing I said after looking at the new FSF for all of 10 seconds was "Plone", I scrolled down to the bottom to read the fine print and discovered that I was, in fact, correct.
I agree with the other poster that it's far worse when a website makes it difficult to find the information you want, but something about using stock themes just screams "I couldn't be bothered to put any effort into this site, so you shouldn't waste your time here".
I'll probably get flamed for this, but at least with OSS, if there's no documentation, you can at least read the code to see what it does. I know, that's no substitute for proper documentation, but with closed source, if there's no documentation, you're just fucked, plain and simple. In OSS, if there's no documentation, you can read the code.
Hey, if Enterprise was an open source show released under some kind of Creative Commons license, you could do just that without having to ask anybody's permission!
(just got my CC t-shirt in the mail, after months of waiting;)
How is that even possible? Copyright is a very specific law that covers things like recorded music or writing in novels. I, of course, am not a lawyer, but some part of me needs to believe that copyright has not been extended to cover "enormous hunks of metal".
If the work is in fact copyrighted, then you are correct, but it seems that copyright shouldn't even apply here.
Jumped onto the counter (a feat in and of itself, when you consider it is about 10 times his height. you try that!)
I don't like it when animals are compared to humans in this way, making humans look inadequate. My "favorite" example is how a flea can jump 50 times it's body length, which would be equivalent to a human jumping however many football fields it works out to. The fact is, a flea jumping 50 times it's body length is not that impressive, because fleas don't weigh 200 lbs!
Same thing with your cat. It's not impressive that your cat can jump 10 times his height, because he weighs very little and his legs were made for jumping like that.
The first time, I donated 45 of them to the invite spooler, and retained 5 "just in case". A couple days later, it was back at 50 again. So I donated another 45 to the spooler and kept another 5 "just in case".
I'm not providing a link to the invite spooler because it's been taken down due to being overwhelmed by gmail invites. He claimed he had about 3.5 million of them, his server couldn't take the load.
Only 21 of the 90 invites I submitted were used. Good thing I kept those 5...;)
What do you mean MINOR format? PNG alpha channels have lots of uses in web design.
Imagine your website has some kind of pattern as a background image, and you want to have an image with transparency. Currently, you have to do that by making a gif that's only got a 1-bit alpha channel (eg, every pixel is either fully opaque or fully transparent). PNG transparency allows you to have soft edges on your image that blend nicely into the background, no matter where on the background they're placed.
Perhaps you should inspect the PNG Alpha Demo. It's really quite impressive, but don't bother opening it in IE.
we're not arguing for "killing off" the directive. We're trying to change it so that instead of legalising software patents, it forbids them.
LOL, I love your phrasing here.
"Respectfully sir, we do like your proposal, but we'd like to make one small change to it. Instead of, say, legalizing software patents... yeah, instead of that, we'd like to have all software patenters drawn and quartered. Not a big change, really..."
The only anti-virus products that I'm aware of for linux actually scan for windows viruses (eg, for if you're running a mail server and you don't want to be propagating windows viruses with it).
I dunno, it'd probably hurt quite a lot to be standing on jupiter (choking in the poisonous atmosphere, not to mention getting crushed under your own weight by the the gravity...)
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sports-minded geeks should be flocking to apply for a job at the new facility.
You mean... nobody?
The problem with your argument is that it's recursive. If the complexity of a single cell was Intelligently Designed by some kind of God, then who designed God? And who then designed the designer of God? Where does it end?
I prefer to think of life as an emergent phenomenon, a result of a system of rules known as "the laws of physics".
Impressive... 25 million downloads, and they're all broken.
Yes, Open Source as a development model is a form of free-market capitalism.
Worked fine for me. I suppose that's because I have flash installed and not adblock ;)
I present to you: Cheesehenge!
But whenever I visit a site that uses a theme I recognize, it always makes me cringe.
I completely agree. The first thing I said after looking at the new FSF for all of 10 seconds was "Plone", I scrolled down to the bottom to read the fine print and discovered that I was, in fact, correct.
I agree with the other poster that it's far worse when a website makes it difficult to find the information you want, but something about using stock themes just screams "I couldn't be bothered to put any effort into this site, so you shouldn't waste your time here".
I'll probably get flamed for this, but at least with OSS, if there's no documentation, you can at least read the code to see what it does. I know, that's no substitute for proper documentation, but with closed source, if there's no documentation, you're just fucked, plain and simple. In OSS, if there's no documentation, you can read the code.
Hey, if Enterprise was an open source show released under some kind of Creative Commons license, you could do just that without having to ask anybody's permission!
;)
(just got my CC t-shirt in the mail, after months of waiting
How is that even possible? Copyright is a very specific law that covers things like recorded music or writing in novels. I, of course, am not a lawyer, but some part of me needs to believe that copyright has not been extended to cover "enormous hunks of metal".
If the work is in fact copyrighted, then you are correct, but it seems that copyright shouldn't even apply here.
Jumped onto the counter (a feat in and of itself, when you consider it is about 10 times his height. you try that!)
I don't like it when animals are compared to humans in this way, making humans look inadequate. My "favorite" example is how a flea can jump 50 times it's body length, which would be equivalent to a human jumping however many football fields it works out to. The fact is, a flea jumping 50 times it's body length is not that impressive, because fleas don't weigh 200 lbs!
Same thing with your cat. It's not impressive that your cat can jump 10 times his height, because he weighs very little and his legs were made for jumping like that.
Even better...
the InfoSoc directive
Why did that make me think of IngSoc? *shudder*
They can never stop this with any copy protection method. EVER.
True, but you lose quality in the digital->analog->digital conversion.
You only got 50? I was given 50 twice.
;)
The first time, I donated 45 of them to the invite spooler, and retained 5 "just in case". A couple days later, it was back at 50 again. So I donated another 45 to the spooler and kept another 5 "just in case".
I'm not providing a link to the invite spooler because it's been taken down due to being overwhelmed by gmail invites. He claimed he had about 3.5 million of them, his server couldn't take the load.
Only 21 of the 90 invites I submitted were used. Good thing I kept those 5...
Pffft, the constitution is SO 1993!
This is, of course, how it should be. Everybody knows that no successful author has ever read a book.
I get a 404.
LALALALALAA I hate slashdot's post delay timer dealies.... It's a fucking 404 ok? Do you want me to write an essay about it or what?
*n(i|u)x | *BSD
Why not just call them "the unixes"? It'd be a lot easier than typing that mess.
Then again, maybe you should create your own unix-like operating system and call it starniux...
What do you mean MINOR format? PNG alpha channels have lots of uses in web design.
Imagine your website has some kind of pattern as a background image, and you want to have an image with transparency. Currently, you have to do that by making a gif that's only got a 1-bit alpha channel (eg, every pixel is either fully opaque or fully transparent). PNG transparency allows you to have soft edges on your image that blend nicely into the background, no matter where on the background they're placed.
Perhaps you should inspect the PNG Alpha Demo. It's really quite impressive, but don't bother opening it in IE.
we're not arguing for "killing off" the directive. We're trying to change it so that instead of legalising software patents, it forbids them.
LOL, I love your phrasing here.
"Respectfully sir, we do like your proposal, but we'd like to make one small change to it. Instead of, say, legalizing software patents... yeah, instead of that, we'd like to have all software patenters drawn and quartered. Not a big change, really..."
The only anti-virus products that I'm aware of for linux actually scan for windows viruses (eg, for if you're running a mail server and you don't want to be propagating windows viruses with it).
YES! God only knows how frustrated I get when I'm lost at sea and I wash up next to a lighthouse and my cell phone doesn't work!
Your joke is of course funny, but you overlook the fact that this planet already IS the B-Ark... :(
I dunno, it'd probably hurt quite a lot to be standing on jupiter (choking in the poisonous atmosphere, not to mention getting crushed under your own weight by the the gravity...)