Funny you like PDF viewer to be a plugin. I'd much prefer PDFs be opened in a separate application according to it's MIME type, so that I have access to all the menu items, toolbar buttons, and can resize it independent of the browser window.
So far all the comments are in support of Apple Computer, I don't know why, must be a Slashdot thing. I can't think of a good reason for Apple Corp not to sue Apple Computer, since the latter had the chance not to call themselves Apple, they had the chance to go to court to earn the right to call themselves Apple and do music business, however they chose to sign that agreement. Then they should abide by it, but nooooo, "so sue me". I have to say, Apple Computer is pretty low on business ethic in this case.
is it useful? See, the lawsuit is about a contract breach, i.e. whether it's legal for IBM (and possibly SGI?) to put UNIX Sys V code in Linux, not the name. It would be more useful to discuss the facts such as: the code was written by Sequent - now part of IBM; UNIX Sys V source came with a retarded license; etc. Exactly who owns the name "UNIX" is completely irrelevant.
You know, being funny aside, you just demonstrated one excellent point: Users should have enough rights to have work done, but not so much to easily screw up the system. Don't use root privilege in vain!
Um, dude, don't get too excited yet. SCO is lying, but they are good at it, and that's the problem. Don't you wonder why they only showed these easy to reject examples, but stuff they first named, like RCU and NUMA, are not in the slides? Do remember that the companies developed those did sign a very retarded license, and SCO still could win a court case based on that. My theory is: they are trying to save the best for the last, while what ever they showed on the slides was just to satisfy the curiosity of the audience. They didn't really care about it that much, just didn't expect it to be released publicly, that's all.
I have to say, M$ succeeded in their dirty strategy again. By luring developers into using DirectX, lots of games that would have been easily ported, had they used OpenGL and the like, are now very difficult to do so. DirectX does offer some features not available in OpenGL (yet?) mostly due to more manufacturers supporting it, but most games, given their shitty quality (want barbie games on linux?), didn't need to use them anyway, not to say DX is a bitch to code for.
But M$ shipped better SDK with better documentation for DirectX with their compiler (MSVC), and lame programers code with what is already there (Windows + DirectX). The problem is, those who write good games are basically in the same company as those who white bad games but outnumbered, and given the mentality as such ("we use DirectX by default"), virtually all games are in DirectX now. And when it turns out it's difficult to port, easiest solution is not to port it at all. This is kinda natural, except that M$ planned it this way from the very begining. Just another example how M$ use their "open" standard to grab market share.
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Ummm, I don't have a degree in art-technology, so I can't say what's art and what's not? Ok I am being difficult, but still.
As a result, the complete melting of the polar ice cap would result in, quite possibly, a slight reduction in sea levels, as the resultant water from the melting will take up less space than the ice did. However, since ice floats, some of it was above the waterline so it may end up a wash.
Whatever object that floats does it be repelling water of the same mass as itself, thus melting a piece of ice floating on a water body will result in the water level being exactly the same as before, not "less space" or "end up a wash". Seriously.
Microsoft? They opened a linux test lab recently, right? They have the money to pay the fee, they are in the fortune 500, and they are willing to pay the fee even though they don't have to. Not to mention SCO did not say which company it is.
Words printed on an apparel is only a matter of opinion, at best; a biography intended to obtain attention and money is often not quite true; and laws here (US) sometimes make sense, sometime don't.
You proof doesn't really stand. "Laogai" in Chinese means "correction with labor" (lao: work, gai: change, reform), and working is mandetory for inmates, but does that make it "slave labor" if working condition is not inhumane (note I am not saying the working condition is good, just not enough reliable evidence to say otherwise)? Or is it better for the prison to be more like a vacation resort, where prisoners ass-rape each other to kill time, like in the US of A?
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Funny you like PDF viewer to be a plugin. I'd much prefer PDFs be opened in a separate application according to it's MIME type, so that I have access to all the menu items, toolbar buttons, and can resize it independent of the browser window.
So far all the comments are in support of Apple Computer, I don't know why, must be a Slashdot thing. I can't think of a good reason for Apple Corp not to sue Apple Computer, since the latter had the chance not to call themselves Apple, they had the chance to go to court to earn the right to call themselves Apple and do music business, however they chose to sign that agreement. Then they should abide by it, but nooooo, "so sue me". I have to say, Apple Computer is pretty low on business ethic in this case.
is it useful? See, the lawsuit is about a contract breach, i.e. whether it's legal for IBM (and possibly SGI?) to put UNIX Sys V code in Linux, not the name. It would be more useful to discuss the facts such as: the code was written by Sequent - now part of IBM; UNIX Sys V source came with a retarded license; etc. Exactly who owns the name "UNIX" is completely irrelevant.
Um, I read the article, and doesn't it say clouds are made of elephants? Millions of them?
I can see how anxious you are to get the first post.
Newspaper is easily bio-degradable, I'm not sure about that of CDs. Plus you can wrap things with newspaper, but not with hard plastic.
You know, being funny aside, you just demonstrated one excellent point: Users should have enough rights to have work done, but not so much to easily screw up the system. Don't use root privilege in vain!
Um, dude, don't get too excited yet. SCO is lying, but they are good at it, and that's the problem. Don't you wonder why they only showed these easy to reject examples, but stuff they first named, like RCU and NUMA, are not in the slides? Do remember that the companies developed those did sign a very retarded license, and SCO still could win a court case based on that. My theory is: they are trying to save the best for the last, while what ever they showed on the slides was just to satisfy the curiosity of the audience. They didn't really care about it that much, just didn't expect it to be released publicly, that's all.
Does it mean people will play doom III on Xbox with a mouse?
But M$ shipped better SDK with better documentation for DirectX with their compiler (MSVC), and lame programers code with what is already there (Windows + DirectX). The problem is, those who write good games are basically in the same company as those who white bad games but outnumbered, and given the mentality as such ("we use DirectX by default"), virtually all games are in DirectX now. And when it turns out it's difficult to port, easiest solution is not to port it at all. This is kinda natural, except that M$ planned it this way from the very begining. Just another example how M$ use their "open" standard to grab market share.
Ummm, I don't have a degree in art-technology, so I can't say what's art and what's not? Ok I am being difficult, but still.
You sure you are thinking?
Microsoft? They opened a linux test lab recently, right? They have the money to pay the fee, they are in the fortune 500, and they are willing to pay the fee even though they don't have to. Not to mention SCO did not say which company it is.
Oh come on.
Words printed on an apparel is only a matter of opinion, at best; a biography intended to obtain attention and money is often not quite true; and laws here (US) sometimes make sense, sometime don't.
You proof doesn't really stand. "Laogai" in Chinese means "correction with labor" (lao: work, gai: change, reform), and working is mandetory for inmates, but does that make it "slave labor" if working condition is not inhumane (note I am not saying the working condition is good, just not enough reliable evidence to say otherwise)? Or is it better for the prison to be more like a vacation resort, where prisoners ass-rape each other to kill time, like in the US of A?
Who the hell modded parent insightful? Any proof for child or slave labor there?
- I was asking why there are more and more tech news about China, not why they would become #1 in laptop manufacturing
- Lots of businesses are not owned by the state in China, did you read the article where it says those laptop factories are run by Twainese?
- Biggest laptop market is probably not China (yet), so what's about that "Government prevent any other laptop from being sold" stuff?
Have a nice day, troll.Frequency of stories about Chinese tech stuff certainly picked up recently. What's going on there?