Yeah, I always found that side of it a bit... creepy. My personality is inside my head. And brains look disguisting... Yet your body is nothing but a mere vehicle for your brain. We're just brains communicating... o.O *shrudder*
I don't believe there is any single entity enforcing the GPL. There's still some dispute to whether or not it's legally enforcable. To my knowledge it hasn't been tested in a court of law. I believe that organizations like the OSI, FSF and GNU are the closest you can get to official entities. Maybe someone else can contribute with some more insight?
You must have poor phone lines out there. I live in rural NORWAY, and I can at LEAST a decent 40-48k connection, even when doing dialup from my grandmother's house, and it's smack in the middle of an old farmer's field in a community of about 2-300 people. All of Norway's phone switches are digital, though...
I think someone's cross-posting other people's posts...... What the...?! To confirm I'm not a script, please type the text shown in this image? NOOOOOOOO!
Reasonable people actually mix the two. I'd never say "sequel" instead of "ess-que-ell", but everyone I know will say "eerrk" (not "erk", I live in Norway where we actually pronounce the letters properly, i.e. roughly like the Romans did). "Koomm port" for "COM port" is pretty common. "Ledd" for "LED" as well, or "Mooss-fett" for "MOSFET". I find that people generally treat pronouncable initialisms as acronyms, and I find it perfectly acceptable. I'd want to strangle someone if they went "dunaah" instead of DNA or "hittippp" instead of HTTP, but people don't do that, so I'm content.
Are you being sarcasting when you critisize the American two-party system? Outside of the states, we tend to find your system pretty weird. Two parties sounds like you're just pretending to have a democracy...
I'm not sure if you're trolling or if you're serious... "1984" is a book by George Orwell about a society where you are constantly controlled and certain thoughts are forbidden, basically. It was written back when the year 1984 seemed like a distant future.
I could never understand why PI has the value it as. Sounds like an arbitrary number to me. Putting a stick in the ground, attaching a rope to it and a stick to the other end and drawing a circle on the ground sounds like it's a consequence of physics. It's very linear, you just keep trying to keep the maximum distance from a point, constricted by a straight line. How does that produce the rather arbitrary fraction of PI? I just fail to understand it.
Okay. Had a look at Inkscape. It's a vector program. I don't use those very much. Corel Painter and openCanvas are bitmap-based painting programs. Got any of those?
Doctor 1: I just spoke with an uncle who is a surgeon and he said that this is the least dangerous of all the types of breast cancers out there. Good luck.
Doctor 2: I am a medical oncologist and wanted to clear up the fact that inflammatory breast cancer is the worst type of breast cancer to have. Very aggressive treatment can get it under control but it has a very high rate of relapse. I hate being the bearer of bad news, but your friend should make sure that she is receiving state of the art combined modality therapy.
Okay, I'm sure the grandparent poster is intelligent enough to not take medical advice from Slashdot, but I'm curious. Which one is it? Dangerous or harmless?
Nonono! You got it all wrong. You're talking about the *ground*... If that rule applied to walls, you'd be flying off in the other direction... *hgttg* *hgttg* "What are you doing?" "Oh, just laughing funny."
Or make it truly better. As much as I don't like Microsoft maybe there are situations where their software is best.
Agreed. Unfortunately, but this is true.
Yeah... This is a bit off-topic but: I work a *lot* with music, art and programming. Linux feels superior when it comes to programming. Win32/MFC can't beat GTK+ for GUI programming simplicity IMHO and Linux' way of treating almost all devices as files really simplifies the programming. To have several shell prompts instantly available to you on virtual terminals is priceless. I really enjoy it for that.
Then I'd like to draw. In Windows I'd normally use Corel Painter (super-realistic real-life artist tool emulations), openCanvas and maybe even Photoshop. Okay, so I try to be open-minded about this and I try for the umpteenth time to use GIMP. It's no match to Painter, of course. For fairness, sake neither is Photoshop. The user interface alone is a major MAJOR annoyance, and it doesn't go away. Photoshop and all other normal programs use multi-document interface. Even openOffice's primitive vector program Draw uses that! I mean... Come on! GIMP zealots please admit that although you love your GUI, it's just plain weird innit? Any decent OS should have at least, oh, I don't know, dozens of these packages? Every Linux zealot swears by GIMP and it's getting old. It's no replacement for anything in it's current state.
So, with drawing off the list over what I can use Linux for, I decide that I'd like to play some piano and... Oops! There's no Cakewalk Sonar 4 with SampleTank for Linux. Guess I better try MuSE or something... Okay, the newest version for Debian is apparently 15 versions behind... and has segmentation faults if you click the wrong button...
Linux feels like one big demo once you attempt to do anything un-geeky. It's driver tweaks here and special patches there. The few commercial programs that are out there have special restrictions on them like "only certified for RedHat" (that's the most common one).
The Linux world really *should* have a leader. It's nice to have everyone pulling to help a cause, but not if everyone's pulling in different directions. The makers of GNOME and KDE should combine their systems and make the KNOME GNU/Linux distribution. Maybe they should hook up with the Ubuntu guys and base it partly on Debian. Now *that's* what I'd call an OS.
Meh! I don't care much for children. They're unconsiderate, egoistic and rude, and for Pete's sake there's TOO MANY of them. As with everything there are exceptions, and they tend to get picked on in school because they can think independently.
Guru Meditation Error? I used to have an Amiga 500!:D I wish Microsoft would be as funny. How's about a blue screen with the heading "Haooooooooom..."? x)
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Yeah, I always found that side of it a bit... creepy. My personality is inside my head. And brains look disguisting... Yet your body is nothing but a mere vehicle for your brain. We're just brains communicating... o.O *shrudder*
This would explain a thing or two about flies and their ability to anoyyy...
I don't believe there is any single entity enforcing the GPL. There's still some dispute to whether or not it's legally enforcable. To my knowledge it hasn't been tested in a court of law. I believe that organizations like the OSI, FSF and GNU are the closest you can get to official entities. Maybe someone else can contribute with some more insight?
You must have poor phone lines out there. I live in rural NORWAY, and I can at LEAST a decent 40-48k connection, even when doing dialup from my grandmother's house, and it's smack in the middle of an old farmer's field in a community of about 2-300 people. All of Norway's phone switches are digital, though...
Since when is Slashdot a news site?
I think someone's cross-posting other people's posts... ... What the...?! To confirm I'm not a script, please type the text shown in this image? NOOOOOOOO!
Mmm... sounds pretty close to that battery powered Mac Mini...
Reasonable people actually mix the two. I'd never say "sequel" instead of "ess-que-ell", but everyone I know will say "eerrk" (not "erk", I live in Norway where we actually pronounce the letters properly, i.e. roughly like the Romans did). "Koomm port" for "COM port" is pretty common. "Ledd" for "LED" as well, or "Mooss-fett" for "MOSFET". I find that people generally treat pronouncable initialisms as acronyms, and I find it perfectly acceptable. I'd want to strangle someone if they went "dunaah" instead of DNA or "hittippp" instead of HTTP, but people don't do that, so I'm content.
Are you being sarcasting when you critisize the American two-party system? Outside of the states, we tend to find your system pretty weird. Two parties sounds like you're just pretending to have a democracy...
This isn't off topic, moronic moderators. It's Funny!
This'd get +1 Informative if I had mod points.
I'm not sure if you're trolling or if you're serious... "1984" is a book by George Orwell about a society where you are constantly controlled and certain thoughts are forbidden, basically. It was written back when the year 1984 seemed like a distant future.
I could never understand why PI has the value it as. Sounds like an arbitrary number to me. Putting a stick in the ground, attaching a rope to it and a stick to the other end and drawing a circle on the ground sounds like it's a consequence of physics. It's very linear, you just keep trying to keep the maximum distance from a point, constricted by a straight line. How does that produce the rather arbitrary fraction of PI? I just fail to understand it.
Of course there are. In the real world, even the biggest geeks have Windows.
Okay. Had a look at Inkscape. It's a vector program. I don't use those very much. Corel Painter and openCanvas are bitmap-based painting programs. Got any of those?
Ah, shit, I was going to point out that exact fact. I'm fully aware of that. Photoshop and GIMP are for photo touchups only.
Kids are worse than adults. At least with the adults, the majority of the population cares about politeness.
Doctor 2: I am a medical oncologist and wanted to clear up the fact that inflammatory breast cancer is the worst type of breast cancer to have. Very aggressive treatment can get it under control but it has a very high rate of relapse. I hate being the bearer of bad news, but your friend should make sure that she is receiving state of the art combined modality therapy.
Okay, I'm sure the grandparent poster is intelligent enough to not take medical advice from Slashdot, but I'm curious. Which one is it? Dangerous or harmless?
Nonono! You got it all wrong. You're talking about the *ground*... If that rule applied to walls, you'd be flying off in the other direction... *hgttg* *hgttg* "What are you doing?" "Oh, just laughing funny."
Agreed. Unfortunately, but this is true.
Yeah... This is a bit off-topic but: I work a *lot* with music, art and programming. Linux feels superior when it comes to programming. Win32/MFC can't beat GTK+ for GUI programming simplicity IMHO and Linux' way of treating almost all devices as files really simplifies the programming. To have several shell prompts instantly available to you on virtual terminals is priceless. I really enjoy it for that.
Then I'd like to draw. In Windows I'd normally use Corel Painter (super-realistic real-life artist tool emulations), openCanvas and maybe even Photoshop. Okay, so I try to be open-minded about this and I try for the umpteenth time to use GIMP. It's no match to Painter, of course. For fairness, sake neither is Photoshop. The user interface alone is a major MAJOR annoyance, and it doesn't go away. Photoshop and all other normal programs use multi-document interface. Even openOffice's primitive vector program Draw uses that! I mean... Come on! GIMP zealots please admit that although you love your GUI, it's just plain weird innit? Any decent OS should have at least, oh, I don't know, dozens of these packages? Every Linux zealot swears by GIMP and it's getting old. It's no replacement for anything in it's current state.
So, with drawing off the list over what I can use Linux for, I decide that I'd like to play some piano and... Oops! There's no Cakewalk Sonar 4 with SampleTank for Linux. Guess I better try MuSE or something... Okay, the newest version for Debian is apparently 15 versions behind... and has segmentation faults if you click the wrong button...
Linux feels like one big demo once you attempt to do anything un-geeky. It's driver tweaks here and special patches there. The few commercial programs that are out there have special restrictions on them like "only certified for RedHat" (that's the most common one).
The Linux world really *should* have a leader. It's nice to have everyone pulling to help a cause, but not if everyone's pulling in different directions. The makers of GNOME and KDE should combine their systems and make the KNOME GNU/Linux distribution. Maybe they should hook up with the Ubuntu guys and base it partly on Debian. Now *that's* what I'd call an OS.
Meh! I don't care much for children. They're unconsiderate, egoistic and rude, and for Pete's sake there's TOO MANY of them. As with everything there are exceptions, and they tend to get picked on in school because they can think independently.
I'm sure that if British schools start dropping Microsoft for Linux, all those British software houses are going to be busy porting their stuff over.
I figured you could just take it for a walk in the park...
OMG advanced? Oh My God!
Guru Meditation Error? I used to have an Amiga 500! :D I wish Microsoft would be as funny. How's about a blue screen with the heading "Haooooooooom..."? x)