It has been going on for a month now and in a couple of weeks the unions have no money left, and they have to go back to work (or it is actually close to the holiday season;). Luckily we have enough private daycare (right word? the danish word literally means kindergarden) and hospitals to take off the steam, even though a few have died in the process.
Seeing a few daycare workers at a few corners here in Aarhus (2nd biggest city in Denmark) doesn't look massive to me. Denmark have had huge conflicts in the 1980's and 1990's, which I would call massive (>10.000 on the streets protesting).
I would guess you live in France because of this system, but A Single European Country != EU. There is very different patterns around Europe.
In Denmark, companies are forced to save up five weeks of holiday for its workers, who have to use it within the next coming year, or else the government takes it. A company has to respect holidays within that year, but the current employer don't have to respect the worker's specific wishes (e.g. could be fixed holiday periods, or when there is nothing to do).
On the topic, many use the system to get payed for a holiday period and work unofficially elsewhere (or even at the same workplace). Not all people choose or forced to financially to have long holidays (or any).
Pretty easy case. You don't get him to court for inciting reactions, but the theater administration will get him to court for losing money that evening. That will keep idiots from doing it;)
On the other note, do you really trust other people that much, that if he shouts fire, you run? I would ignore him, or an employee will get him dragged out.
People are getting arrested for saying "bomb" in an airport at these times, which is clearly over exaggerated. Some people can get nervous at the airport, and therefore they relieve stress by making jokes or talking about it.
I didn't know that Sweden have taken over all of Europe, must have missed the memo.
Some countries in Europe have limits to the freedom of speech, some countries have none (even though racism isn't legal in any EU country, as far as I know). The only one I knew till today, was Germany, where Nazi-symbols and such are illegal, except in the use of education. The denial of the Nazi holocaust is though considered in many countries to be antisemitic, and therefore racism, also in my freedom loving country, Denmark.
a very good question. In Denmark (Europe, to the north;), we have had (and still have) a share of child-pornography. Several policemen and social workers, which were working on those cases, have been caught in it too. The media here does a great deal of showing of their private life, so they won't show their faces anywhere soon.
Somewhat unrelated, I have had friends and heard of others who have been accused of being child molesters, and getting sentences for it, even though no one (outside a courtroom) would believe that is the truth (but who knows, right?). Basically an ex-girlfriend or a hater just can make a call or put the word out in a local community, and people are labeled for life.
It is an old story that lacks proof. I live in Denmark (No. 3 peaceful country), where we actually don't have many restrictions on buying guns (basically you have to be 18 years of age and go to a police station and get a gun permit), but there are some limits to types of weapons to buy. Hunters are pretty common in most OECD countries, and mostly only the US have larger issues with criminal gun use. Guns doesn't commit crime, people do.
I don't know how strict the weapon-law is in Germany (I have read about one year checkup), but they also have a share of school shootings.
you know how to click on the link in his message, right? Graphical interfaces can be user-friendly, but so can a simple command in a terminal window. The page shows what to update, and you just have to copy/paste it into a terminal, if you are so frightened about it.
I more like metadistros like Gentoo Linux, which I chose after I got tired of dependency hell in Mandrake (also that I had to use Penguin Liberation Front to get mplayer and such) a couple of years ago. That is probably much better today, but I'll stick to Gentoo for now:)
I loved this part, so it is probably why I remember it so well (or maybe I don't, but this is how I remember it;):
The As and Cs told the Bs that the world where going to be destroyed by a giant space monster. They let them flee, without ever doing the same. The As and Cs lived happily together on the planet, until the supposedly invented space monster did in fact destroy them (love the irony:P). The Bs crash-landed on the planet, which we know as Earth.
Since when is Open Source == Democracy? You can do open source projects, where you are the sole power of where the project turns (some of them are actually popular) and you can do projects, where a commitee decides what to do (or not do). Open Source means that you share code with others and distribute it free. Some projects demand a return of added code (GPL) and some don't (BSD).
I was attending the Linux Forum in Copenhagen this spring (a Danish Linux conference), where Alan Cox was giving a speech on his work in the Linux kernel. They have had, and still have, a tremendous difficulty to keep up with the IDE-drivers, since many manufactors do their own thing.
And they can't "just continue" because "Trusted Computing" (as the software industry sees it) is going to be hardware locks to the OS. Think about a MS Windows EvenMoreVista as an embedded component (which you can only use with a specific signed compiler), which most hardware manufactors will produce, for the sake of marketshare. There will always be smaller (maybe if lucky, bigger) manufactors, which will sell bulk hardware to hobbiest, but a switch to Linux would be virtually impossible (worst case scenario).
not nearly as big, but Arla Foods in Denmark and Sweden has 10,600 milk producers, which equally have a share in the company (1 producer = 1 share is the rule). 140 shareholders are representing them in the "Board of representative", which is elected, and the Supervisory board is of 16 shareholders. But I guess, when you're working on "the common project", you don't have much time for milking cows;)
Exactly. I saw the "The Code Breakers" on BBC World the last couple of weeks, which was a show on this programme fra the United Nations. Their main goal is not to _just_ giving out laptops, but laptops with F/OSS. Another programme is busses in India that drives around poor areas to educate children in computers, the Internet and F/OSS.
I use VLC for my IPTV-provider, because RTSP sucks in mplayer (at least for me). For the rest, I am a mplayer-fan, with support for as many codecs as possible.
Eventhough, I don't think this mainly is about VLC vs. MPlayer. Both applications uses many of the same libraries, but with different implementation. MPlayer also gets its "hands dirty" with DeCSS and WMV "support" in *nix.
Richard Stallman believes in Free software, which is an ideology (though possible through the GPL). Open Source was founded by people, which weren't ideologist, like Eric S. Raymond, which likes the BSD-license a lot more.
Also, saying people shouldn't care about the difference, is the same as saying people shouldn't care about the difference in Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Rights (okay, I overreacted there;)
Go and ask that to Novell, Red Hat among other commercial Linux distributions, but what has Linux (or slashdot.org) to do with this?
How is it difficult to do task 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in a Linux distribution?
I guess Linux has a standard for graphics cards, or it would be hard for Nvidia or others to make drivers for the kernel.
Why don't you help making graphics for GAIM and others if it doesn't look good?
If some distributions want to have standards, fine with me, but this has nothing to do with hackers (appearently a slashdotter too) who likes Linux for its freedom. Call me an ideologist if you want, but this is why I choose Linux.
Others choose Linux because they want a gratis alternative to Windows. This is not what the most of the community including the developer's focus are on, so of course those people are anoyed and even frustrated. Somebody must have told them, that they can get a gratis OS, with free support. "Just download it on their site, ask questions on IRC/forums and you save a lot of money!", "they do it for free! use them! they don't care", "just annoy the hell out of them, and they will answer all your questions!" (which I read in comments some days ago here on slashdot)
I have seen many people leaving communities because they got abused again and again by freeloaders. It is really sad:(
EU is not a continent, it is a union of 25 nations. But it is true that it is not somewhat comparable, because those nations have different taxations (well, so does some US States). Many companies have, since the introduction of the internal market, seen EU as one market, instead of 12->15->25 different markets, which has created a much better and cheaper distribution of goods. On the other side, all nations in EU have different languages (and laws demanding documentation in the native language(s)), while the US market is mainly English.
What I am trying to say is that there always is a lot of parameters, that would change the GPs simplified picture (but it is a good indication none the less).
I found it pretty anoying, that everytime I wanted to set an away message manually, I had to create a new one. Now I just use a generic one, which is set automatically. I have about 30 different away messages, which I cannot choose from. Funny enough, I do have the ability to choose them, if I for example use BOTH MSN and ICQ, but not ICQ alone.
I simply love his stuff and it's a quite popular read at my workplace atm (I work at a callcenter, customer support in this fashion is a dream for most employees:)
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;). Luckily we have enough private daycare (right word? the danish word literally means kindergarden) and hospitals to take off the steam, even though a few have died in the process.
It has been going on for a month now and in a couple of weeks the unions have no money left, and they have to go back to work (or it is actually close to the holiday season
Seeing a few daycare workers at a few corners here in Aarhus (2nd biggest city in Denmark) doesn't look massive to me. Denmark have had huge conflicts in the 1980's and 1990's, which I would call massive (>10.000 on the streets protesting).
Already in production: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/ ... hopefully it will be done, since it seems a little shaky on that site.
I would guess you live in France because of this system, but A Single European Country != EU. There is very different patterns around Europe.
In Denmark, companies are forced to save up five weeks of holiday for its workers, who have to use it within the next coming year, or else the government takes it. A company has to respect holidays within that year, but the current employer don't have to respect the worker's specific wishes (e.g. could be fixed holiday periods, or when there is nothing to do).
On the topic, many use the system to get payed for a holiday period and work unofficially elsewhere (or even at the same workplace). Not all people choose or forced to financially to have long holidays (or any).
and don't forget MPlayer :)
Pretty easy case. You don't get him to court for inciting reactions, but the theater administration will get him to court for losing money that evening. That will keep idiots from doing it ;)
On the other note, do you really trust other people that much, that if he shouts fire, you run? I would ignore him, or an employee will get him dragged out.
People are getting arrested for saying "bomb" in an airport at these times, which is clearly over exaggerated. Some people can get nervous at the airport, and therefore they relieve stress by making jokes or talking about it.
I didn't know that Sweden have taken over all of Europe, must have missed the memo.
Some countries in Europe have limits to the freedom of speech, some countries have none (even though racism isn't legal in any EU country, as far as I know). The only one I knew till today, was Germany, where Nazi-symbols and such are illegal, except in the use of education. The denial of the Nazi holocaust is though considered in many countries to be antisemitic, and therefore racism, also in my freedom loving country, Denmark.
a very good question. In Denmark (Europe, to the north ;), we have had (and still have) a share of child-pornography. Several policemen and social workers, which were working on those cases, have been caught in it too. The media here does a great deal of showing of their private life, so they won't show their faces anywhere soon.
Somewhat unrelated, I have had friends and heard of others who have been accused of being child molesters, and getting sentences for it, even though no one (outside a courtroom) would believe that is the truth (but who knows, right?). Basically an ex-girlfriend or a hater just can make a call or put the word out in a local community, and people are labeled for life.
It is an old story that lacks proof. I live in Denmark (No. 3 peaceful country), where we actually don't have many restrictions on buying guns (basically you have to be 18 years of age and go to a police station and get a gun permit), but there are some limits to types of weapons to buy. Hunters are pretty common in most OECD countries, and mostly only the US have larger issues with criminal gun use. Guns doesn't commit crime, people do.
I don't know how strict the weapon-law is in Germany (I have read about one year checkup), but they also have a share of school shootings.
cute...
:)
you know how to click on the link in his message, right? Graphical interfaces can be user-friendly, but so can a simple command in a terminal window. The page shows what to update, and you just have to copy/paste it into a terminal, if you are so frightened about it.
I more like metadistros like Gentoo Linux, which I chose after I got tired of dependency hell in Mandrake (also that I had to use Penguin Liberation Front to get mplayer and such) a couple of years ago. That is probably much better today, but I'll stick to Gentoo for now
Could be a reference from Uncyclopedia, they really stir things up :P
I loved this part, so it is probably why I remember it so well (or maybe I don't, but this is how I remember it ;):
:P). The Bs crash-landed on the planet, which we know as Earth.
The As and Cs told the Bs that the world where going to be destroyed by a giant space monster. They let them flee, without ever doing the same. The As and Cs lived happily together on the planet, until the supposedly invented space monster did in fact destroy them (love the irony
HP won't do it for me. They told me that they haven't got the distribution rights. Oh, well, I am going to try the above, sounds interesting.
Since when is Open Source == Democracy? You can do open source projects, where you are the sole power of where the project turns (some of them are actually popular) and you can do projects, where a commitee decides what to do (or not do). Open Source means that you share code with others and distribute it free. Some projects demand a return of added code (GPL) and some don't (BSD).
pornotube.com (don't ask where I know it from ;)
...).
and it is NOT WORK SAFE, that's why I didn't link it. (I wish there were more of these tags on google video, youtube, break.com
I was attending the Linux Forum in Copenhagen this spring (a Danish Linux conference), where Alan Cox was giving a speech on his work in the Linux kernel. They have had, and still have, a tremendous difficulty to keep up with the IDE-drivers, since many manufactors do their own thing.
And they can't "just continue" because "Trusted Computing" (as the software industry sees it) is going to be hardware locks to the OS. Think about a MS Windows EvenMoreVista as an embedded component (which you can only use with a specific signed compiler), which most hardware manufactors will produce, for the sake of marketshare. There will always be smaller (maybe if lucky, bigger) manufactors, which will sell bulk hardware to hobbiest, but a switch to Linux would be virtually impossible (worst case scenario).
not nearly as big, but Arla Foods in Denmark and Sweden has 10,600 milk producers, which equally have a share in the company (1 producer = 1 share is the rule). 140 shareholders are representing them in the "Board of representative", which is elected, and the Supervisory board is of 16 shareholders. But I guess, when you're working on "the common project", you don't have much time for milking cows ;)
Exactly. I saw the "The Code Breakers" on BBC World the last couple of weeks, which was a show on this programme fra the United Nations. Their main goal is not to _just_ giving out laptops, but laptops with F/OSS. Another programme is busses in India that drives around poor areas to educate children in computers, the Internet and F/OSS.
both.
I use VLC for my IPTV-provider, because RTSP sucks in mplayer (at least for me). For the rest, I am a mplayer-fan, with support for as many codecs as possible.
Eventhough, I don't think this mainly is about VLC vs. MPlayer. Both applications uses many of the same libraries, but with different implementation. MPlayer also gets its "hands dirty" with DeCSS and WMV "support" in *nix.
Richard Stallman believes in Free software, which is an ideology (though possible through the GPL). Open Source was founded by people, which weren't ideologist, like Eric S. Raymond, which likes the BSD-license a lot more.
;)
Also, saying people shouldn't care about the difference, is the same as saying people shouldn't care about the difference in Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Rights (okay, I overreacted there
Go and ask that to Novell, Red Hat among other commercial Linux distributions, but what has Linux (or slashdot.org) to do with this?
:(
How is it difficult to do task 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in a Linux distribution?
I guess Linux has a standard for graphics cards, or it would be hard for Nvidia or others to make drivers for the kernel.
Why don't you help making graphics for GAIM and others if it doesn't look good?
If some distributions want to have standards, fine with me, but this has nothing to do with hackers (appearently a slashdotter too) who likes Linux for its freedom. Call me an ideologist if you want, but this is why I choose Linux.
Others choose Linux because they want a gratis alternative to Windows. This is not what the most of the community including the developer's focus are on, so of course those people are anoyed and even frustrated. Somebody must have told them, that they can get a gratis OS, with free support. "Just download it on their site, ask questions on IRC/forums and you save a lot of money!", "they do it for free! use them! they don't care", "just annoy the hell out of them, and they will answer all your questions!" (which I read in comments some days ago here on slashdot)
I have seen many people leaving communities because they got abused again and again by freeloaders. It is really sad
EU is not a continent, it is a union of 25 nations. But it is true that it is not somewhat comparable, because those nations have different taxations (well, so does some US States). Many companies have, since the introduction of the internal market, seen EU as one market, instead of 12->15->25 different markets, which has created a much better and cheaper distribution of goods. On the other side, all nations in EU have different languages (and laws demanding documentation in the native language(s)), while the US market is mainly English.
What I am trying to say is that there always is a lot of parameters, that would change the GPs simplified picture (but it is a good indication none the less).
I found it pretty anoying, that everytime I wanted to set an away message manually, I had to create a new one. Now I just use a generic one, which is set automatically. I have about 30 different away messages, which I cannot choose from. Funny enough, I do have the ability to choose them, if I for example use BOTH MSN and ICQ, but not ICQ alone.
Here is one of the stories: http://wiki.kaspersandberg.com/doku.php?id=misc:go oglesucks
I simply love his stuff and it's a quite popular read at my workplace atm (I work at a callcenter, customer support in this fashion is a dream for most employees :)
Damn, I wished I had some points atm, this is the best story ever.