x2x is very cool. Easy to use and set up.
Another project that i think would be very cool,is the xdmx that tries to unite _different_ X Servers and their screens and make them behave as a single multihead Pc with Xinerama.
Yes, a country is free to select their own name and flag.
HOWEVER, they cannot alter history and claim symbols of othe civilizations as theirs.
What if my county adopted the Statue of Liberty in their flag and claimed that it was owr creation. Would your country react?
The problem here is not that they chose the name Macedonia per se, but that by doing so they claim the history of ancient Macedonians. (and the also alter history to present it so)
KDE referes to the country F.Y.R.O.M (Former Yougoslavic Republic of Macedonia) as simply Macedonia.
This is in contrast to UN decisions.
Microsoft respects the proper name, The US government respects the name , but the KDE folks think they know history better.
For those who do not know about it, F.Y.R.O.M some years ago decided that they are the descendants of Alexander the Great and named themselves Macedonia. This infuriated Greeks who after a heated period and an embargo later, settled for a temporary name of F.Y.R.O.M until the matter could be resolved better.
KDE, however, is filled with expert historians who know they should really call this place Macedonia (even though they speak a Slavic language for crying out loud!).
You are thinking "That's not a word!". But in the parallel universe of Stupidity where this movie was made, it's on word.
The only way this movie could have been made on planet Earth is:
The script was generated using: cat/dev/urandom >/home/director/scripts/starship_troopers2.txt
The actors were inmates of a mental institution, were paid monopoly money and were given the liberty to improvise greatly.
The money that was used to make the special effects was discovered one day in the directors bank account, after an old lady tried to used Web Banking and failed miserably.
The Movie was distributed in DVD after a virus hit the studio computers. The discs were originaly destined to contain skat Porn instead of Starship Poopers 2. The studio decided that,although it wasn't quality material like skat porn, there was surely someone who would see Starship Troopers.
They were right. I was on of them.
I agree.
In fact, as the Eolas case has showed us, Microsoft was ready to make significant changes to IE.
If Munich (or anyone) was depending on the way IE worked with plugins would find he would have to redo everything.
All because of a stupid patent.
A worst scenario (one more probable to have an impact on Munich) is not to difficult to imagine.
I don't see how they are more protected with MS (or any corporation) against patents.
An SVG plugin, given that SVG is a public standard, would have a free implementation within the Browser.
Flash is a proprietary plugin that cannot (without some business agreement) be included in a browser.
therefore, SVG would have *lower* customer support than Flash
Unless this was some kind of joke that i did not get:)
Well, my father is a long time fan of Italan cars. (not FIAT though)
So i can tell you that Lacia has been known to do amazing stuff. The clock never worked from the day it was bought (brand new car) , the windows would work one day and not the other day. The Air conditioner was also picky on the day it should work too.
Even the most expensive car of Alfa Romeo (Alpha 166) is flacky at best.
For some reason , even though he recognizes these problems, he will still buy an Italian car when time comes to replaces the existing one.
Something to do with excellent driving performance/behaviour and such, or so he claims.
God knows why, really...:)
Gentoo's portage does this type of checks too.
But it will not prompt you for confirmation in case of a bad/missing signature. It will not proceed at all.
I am here to destroy your life.:)
You can play for _free_ at fibs.org
kbackgammon has a fibs backend, and there are Java and native Windows clients (like BBGT)
There are some pretty good players over there.
No reboot in 6 years?
Hahaha....i have a computer that has not had a reboot in almost 10 years.
In fact it's still somewhere in the closet.
I should plug it in sometime....
Why is this Insightful?
Benny Hill was *really* funny, in a clever way.
You had to use your brain to understand a lot of the material, and he was certainly above
"American Pie" type of humor.
Benny Hill was not a clown. He was rather intelligent and this reflected in his humor.
I think the fact that all my posts in this thread have been moderated as flamebait (een though i try to be argumentative) should be enough of a hint of what people think in this issue.
Well, i don't live in the US.
I can't say what people there think of this , BUT what i DO know that after a heated debate on the bugzilla forum, the KDE project decided it should be caleld Macedonia. They even called Greeks nationalist propaganda. I mean, evn Microsoft decided to call them F.Y.R.O.M , but KDE decides that they know better.
I also know that the title in this thread clls them Macedonia, and apart from 2-3 posts, noone else seems to care about this issue.
No it's not.
Whether you say North Korea or Democratic People's Republic of Chine you refer to the same nation and there is no difference.
Same of UK and Greece.
Howeverm in the case of FYROM, they are claiming history and culture that does not belong to them with this name.
It would be like a chinese nation that settles next to the US about 1900, call their country Washington and claiming that George Washington was their descendant, that he spoke Chienese (and his English was only because English was popular) and have a general claim over American history and culture.
Now would you classify _THAT_ as a convenience, dude?
I don't normally reply to anonymous cowards, but here it is.
What are you talking about? This is not a problem of naming convention. It is a _real_ problem of naming and the history and culture tha accompanies it.
That would be the equivalent of having some chinese folks settle next to a region what used to belong to the US, and after some years they claim that George Washington was chinese or something.
But i would LOVE to be exlained this.
The Macedonians (eg with Macedonia.org) claim that Alexander the Great was a Slav.
And not only Greek but a Greek dialect unique to Macedonian territory (very common practice in Greece. Many dialects, even today).
I am mentioning the dialect because it rules out the "Greek was popular so he also spoke Greek" explanation. If hat was the case, he would speak a common dialect and not somethign unique to Macedonians.
FYROM has appropirated the Name and culture of Macedonia, and the rest of the world live in bliss not knowing history.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, here is the explanation.
Another project that i think would be very cool,is the xdmx that tries to unite _different_ X Servers and their screens and make them behave as a single multihead Pc with Xinerama.
http://dmx.sourceforge.net/
Have not tried it yet since it's quite a download for me. Has anyone tried it? Is it worth the effort?
Uhm, are you sure you know what the word "superset" means?
HOWEVER, they cannot alter history and claim symbols of othe civilizations as theirs.
What if my county adopted the Statue of Liberty in their flag and claimed that it was owr creation. Would your country react?
The problem here is not that they chose the name Macedonia per se, but that by doing so they claim the history of ancient Macedonians. (and the also alter history to present it so)
This is in contrast to UN decisions.
Microsoft respects the proper name, The US government respects the name , but the KDE folks think they know history better.
For those who do not know about it, F.Y.R.O.M some years ago decided that they are the descendants of Alexander the Great and named themselves Macedonia. This infuriated Greeks who after a heated period and an embargo later, settled for a temporary name of F.Y.R.O.M until the matter could be resolved better.
KDE, however, is filled with expert historians who know they should really call this place Macedonia (even though they speak a Slavic language for crying out loud!).
Starship Troopers 2
You are thinking "That's not a word!". But in the parallel universe of Stupidity where this movie was made, it's on word.
The only way this movie could have been made on planet Earth is:
cat
They were right. I was on of them.
In fact, as the Eolas case has showed us, Microsoft was ready to make significant changes to IE.
If Munich (or anyone) was depending on the way IE worked with plugins would find he would have to redo everything.
All because of a stupid patent.
A worst scenario (one more probable to have an impact on Munich) is not to difficult to imagine.
I don't see how they are more protected with MS (or any corporation) against patents.
So those who actually like the colors should mod you down?
OpenAl can be made to use 5.1 with something like:
(define devices '(alsa))
(define speaker-num 5)
(define alsa-out-device "surround51:0,0")
(define alsa-in-device "hw:0,0")
in your ~/.openalrc file.
Well Ron Gilbert said it best.
"the Web is the sum of all human knowledge plus porn."
http://www.grumpygamer.com/7615642
He is sriving man! He is sriving to provide a good story and all he gets are the spelling nazis.
man!
Or worse... ipv6!
Aaah.. yes
Now it's clear. thank you for clarifying everything with your arguments and explanations.
Idiot.
Flash is a proprietary plugin that cannot (without some business agreement) be included in a browser.
therefore, SVG would have *lower* customer support than Flash
Unless this was some kind of joke that i did not get :)
Except the men in black.
They already know.
You girlfriend translates games? :)
She didn't by any chance translate a game called Zero Wing, did she?
So i can tell you that Lacia has been known to do amazing stuff. The clock never worked from the day it was bought (brand new car) , the windows would work one day and not the other day. The Air conditioner was also picky on the day it should work too.
Even the most expensive car of Alfa Romeo (Alpha 166) is flacky at best.
For some reason , even though he recognizes these problems, he will still buy an Italian car when time comes to replaces the existing one. :)
Something to do with excellent driving performance/behaviour and such, or so he claims.
God knows why, really...
Gentoo's portage does this type of checks too. But it will not prompt you for confirmation in case of a bad/missing signature. It will not proceed at all.
I am here to destroy your life. :)
You can play for _free_ at fibs.org
kbackgammon has a fibs backend, and there are Java and native Windows clients (like BBGT)
There are some pretty good players over there.
No reboot in 6 years?
Hahaha....i have a computer that has not had a reboot in almost 10 years.
In fact it's still somewhere in the closet.
I should plug it in sometime....
Why is this Insightful?
Benny Hill was *really* funny, in a clever way.
You had to use your brain to understand a lot of the material, and he was certainly above "American Pie" type of humor.
Benny Hill was not a clown. He was rather intelligent and this reflected in his humor.
I think the fact that all my posts in this thread have been moderated as flamebait (een though i try to be argumentative) should be enough of a hint of what people think in this issue.
I can't say what people there think of this , BUT what i DO know that after a heated debate on the bugzilla forum, the KDE project decided it should be caleld Macedonia. They even called Greeks nationalist propaganda.
I mean, evn Microsoft decided to call them F.Y.R.O.M , but KDE decides that they know better.
I also know that the title in this thread clls them Macedonia, and apart from 2-3 posts, noone else seems to care about this issue.
Whether you say North Korea or Democratic People's Republic of Chine you refer to the same nation and there is no difference.
Same of UK and Greece.
Howeverm in the case of FYROM, they are claiming history and culture that does not belong to them with this name.
It would be like a chinese nation that settles next to the US about 1900, call their country Washington and claiming that George Washington was their descendant, that he spoke Chienese (and his English was only because English was popular) and have a general claim over American history and culture.
Now would you classify _THAT_ as a convenience, dude?
I don't normally reply to anonymous cowards, but here it is.
What are you talking about? This is not a problem of naming convention. It is a _real_ problem of naming and the history and culture tha accompanies it.
That would be the equivalent of having some chinese folks settle next to a region what used to belong to the US, and after some years they claim that George Washington was chinese or something.
But i would LOVE to be exlained this.
The Macedonians (eg with Macedonia.org) claim that Alexander the Great was a Slav.
And not only Greek but a Greek dialect unique to Macedonian territory (very common practice in Greece. Many dialects, even today). I am mentioning the dialect because it rules out the "Greek was popular so he also spoke Greek" explanation.
If hat was the case, he would speak a common dialect and not somethign unique to Macedonians.
FYROM has appropirated the Name and culture of Macedonia, and the rest of the world live in bliss not knowing history.