*sigh*. No that's just wrong. Firefox is better because of its extra features, its compliance to the brilliant standards that have been proposed, its extensions and its security. Whoever made it has nothing to do with what's a superior product or not.
The Age is the second most popular newspaper in Melbourne (the second largest city). It is also publicised in the Sydney Morning Herald, which is the second most popular newspaper in Sydney (the largest city).
Seriously though, all you needed to do is hover your mouse over the link and read at the bottom "www.theage.com.au"
usually when you say "water-cooled" you mean "refrigerated". Though in this case it would have to be vaporchilled or using liquid nitrogen, because, of course, you can't cool a chip below 0 degrees with water...
*sigh* you say that as if everything is absolutely rosy over there. Remember over one and a half thousand american soldiers have died since America "won" the war, and who knows how many local innocent civilians - even if America were directly responsibly for all those things it came at a very very terrible cost, and I don't think you are right to judge its worth. People are rioting and bombing there. It's not as if everyone's wearing the american flag on their shirt chanting "USA USA" (if only because doing so would likely get them shot).
Besides, the other three occurances you mentioned most probably had little to do with the Iraqi war, other than the absolute terror it caused (oh isn't it nice George is acting the tyrant). Besides, the oil contracts supposedly promised you're assuming dictated france's diplomatic policies are now going into American hands. How does that look to everyone else?
Now I'm Australian and I'm not particularly anti-american, anti-european or whatnot (I just hate people talking crap, fud, and spin about politics, no matter what side they're on), but he has a right to his opinions, just as you have a right to yours. However I don't think you have a right to be an arsehole.
No karma because it's offtopic. Please don't mod me up even if you happen to agree with me.
must be an "any publicity is good publicity" because all it's telling me is to boycott cruise.com, and there are a lot of fellow slashdotters who would feel the same.
I'm not sure whether he is profiting from sueing spammers (don't care - even if he is he's still doing us all a good service) but good on him, and I hope that he gets through the frivolous lawsuit and counterclaims.
I don't know about America, isn't it illegal to make such lawsuits?
Of course they can't stop you. But then the port won't be QT anymore, and trolltech aren't going to update your port to correspond with their CVS, and KDE aren't going to wait for you to catch up, so you're going to get left behind very quickly. However even so porting a piece of software (read: porting *well*) isn't as easy as you make it out to be (you're obviously not a programmer, or at least not one who's attempted cross-platform code. This I find ironic, or at least hypocritical with your commenting on not ripping other's work but writing your own). You most definitely can't just copy-paste into VC++ and click compile like you seem to be implying in the great-grandparent post. Sorry mate but it doesn't work that way.
But why would anyone take the trouble? If they like KDE so much then they're quite obviously going to be content with using linux...
Not that you've got a point anyway - K3B is most probably never going to run through windows purely because it relies on CDRecord and the kernel interface, so porting it would be a lot harder than a normal program.
he means that their implimentation of java may be in trouble, at least in terms of the linux platform. If GJC becomes the standard on linux then even if they open source the compiler, noone will use it. Like NeroLinux, they could have taken control but it'd be just too late.
shit, I hate to be so critical of a comment like that but you are spreading the fud that is only making people afraid of trying linux.
I'll make things clear: in linux you *don't* have to edit conf files. You *don't* have to spend hours and hours on the command line or on the internet trying to figure out commands. That was several years ago. Admittedly several years doesn't seem like a long time, but it's an age in computing. Linux has gone huge distances in even the year since you used Knoppix (incidentely, using an entire operating system for a perhaps few days a year ago doesn't in my opinion give you a right to judge the full current version. That's why I keep my criticism of macs to a bare minimum.) I know Windows hasn't changed for four years, but linux has changed a *lot*.
The newest version of Mandrake for example, installs in 10 minutes. It Just Works (c). You don't have to install third party applications for word processing, programming (my area, incase you haven't guessed), CD/DVD burning/ripping/playing, educational software, pretty much everything is included. A vanilla install of linux comes with so much that I actually have been taking it for granted, coming to a Windows installation and finding that, though I could do it easily by just opening this program or that, you literally just *can't* do it on a vanilla install of Windows. Unless Longhorn has the capabilities of linux then I won't be even considering switching back.
please stop trolling someone else when you're so patently wrong. QT under linux has been GPLed for a long time. QT under Windows has only been GPLed for a month or two (can't remember the exact date of course).
Though this is off the specific topic, try singing Advance Australia Fair to the following songs:
Gilligans Island
Auld Lang Syne
Waltzing Matilda
Working Class Man (look for the Adam Hills routine)
The Darth Vadar Theme (think about it)
Vincent
ACDC's ThunderStruck. Funnily enough if you put in "Aussie" instead of "Thunder" and "Australia" instead of "Thunderstruck" it goes quite well.
a million others that are either less funny or I can't remember them.
Its got such a generic tune that it can be sung to pretty much half of the traditional songs.
That was the cut-and-paste method. The alternative method (assuming you have the mplayer plugin installed and you've told it to keep streamed videos like most people) is to just visit the site.
it's been only a week or two since release. IBM's "example" has taken several years. The legal world moves very slowly. I'd hardly expect legal issues to be finalised by now.
Anyway the "traditional" move is to ask politely first. Things have never moved beyond that step.
Usually in a case like this that doesn't matter. FOSS has grown large enough to have much power, and a case like this would threaten the entire FOSS world. The reason why this hasn't happened before is that no company has dared test this. Like IBM has made an example out of SCO, the free software world would make an example out of this company.
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Sometimes I'm just dumbfounded as to whether someone is being serious or not.
Just in case you are, the grandparent is talking about a type of artificial fish.
no he's not. He's talking about putting it on a seperate drive to reduce wear and tear.
*sigh*. No that's just wrong. Firefox is better because of its extra features, its compliance to the brilliant standards that have been proposed, its extensions and its security. Whoever made it has nothing to do with what's a superior product or not.
The Age is the second most popular newspaper in Melbourne (the second largest city). It is also publicised in the Sydney Morning Herald, which is the second most popular newspaper in Sydney (the largest city).
Seriously though, all you needed to do is hover your mouse over the link and read at the bottom "www.theage.com.au"
usually when you say "water-cooled" you mean "refrigerated". Though in this case it would have to be vaporchilled or using liquid nitrogen, because, of course, you can't cool a chip below 0 degrees with water...
This guy isn't made out of money mate - you can't expect him to go buy batteries for a joke review can you?
Sure the french fought in france plenty of times: World War 1, 2, Napolean, Alsace-Lorraine, plenty of others I'm sure.
They were even on the winning side (eventually) for four out of five.
*sigh* you say that as if everything is absolutely rosy over there. Remember over one and a half thousand american soldiers have died since America "won" the war, and who knows how many local innocent civilians - even if America were directly responsibly for all those things it came at a very very terrible cost, and I don't think you are right to judge its worth. People are rioting and bombing there. It's not as if everyone's wearing the american flag on their shirt chanting "USA USA" (if only because doing so would likely get them shot).
Besides, the other three occurances you mentioned most probably had little to do with the Iraqi war, other than the absolute terror it caused (oh isn't it nice George is acting the tyrant). Besides, the oil contracts supposedly promised you're assuming dictated france's diplomatic policies are now going into American hands. How does that look to everyone else?
Now I'm Australian and I'm not particularly anti-american, anti-european or whatnot (I just hate people talking crap, fud, and spin about politics, no matter what side they're on), but he has a right to his opinions, just as you have a right to yours. However I don't think you have a right to be an arsehole.
No karma because it's offtopic. Please don't mod me up even if you happen to agree with me.
must be an "any publicity is good publicity" because all it's telling me is to boycott cruise.com, and there are a lot of fellow slashdotters who would feel the same.
I'm not sure whether he is profiting from sueing spammers (don't care - even if he is he's still doing us all a good service) but good on him, and I hope that he gets through the frivolous lawsuit and counterclaims.
I don't know about America, isn't it illegal to make such lawsuits?
Of course they can't stop you. But then the port won't be QT anymore, and trolltech aren't going to update your port to correspond with their CVS, and KDE aren't going to wait for you to catch up, so you're going to get left behind very quickly. However even so porting a piece of software (read: porting *well*) isn't as easy as you make it out to be (you're obviously not a programmer, or at least not one who's attempted cross-platform code. This I find ironic, or at least hypocritical with your commenting on not ripping other's work but writing your own). You most definitely can't just copy-paste into VC++ and click compile like you seem to be implying in the great-grandparent post. Sorry mate but it doesn't work that way.
But why would anyone take the trouble? If they like KDE so much then they're quite obviously going to be content with using linux...
Not that you've got a point anyway - K3B is most probably never going to run through windows purely because it relies on CDRecord and the kernel interface, so porting it would be a lot harder than a normal program.
he means that their implimentation of java may be in trouble, at least in terms of the linux platform. If GJC becomes the standard on linux then even if they open source the compiler, noone will use it. Like NeroLinux, they could have taken control but it'd be just too late.
Not totally sure I agree with him though.
That would be because they are using anti-aliased small fonts with a low resolution desktop.
you're right. I should have read the press release I linked to!
Feel free to mod my grandparent post down - the next version of QT will be open source, but it currently isn't.
shit, I hate to be so critical of a comment like that but you are spreading the fud that is only making people afraid of trying linux.
I'll make things clear: in linux you *don't* have to edit conf files. You *don't* have to spend hours and hours on the command line or on the internet trying to figure out commands. That was several years ago. Admittedly several years doesn't seem like a long time, but it's an age in computing. Linux has gone huge distances in even the year since you used Knoppix (incidentely, using an entire operating system for a perhaps few days a year ago doesn't in my opinion give you a right to judge the full current version. That's why I keep my criticism of macs to a bare minimum.) I know Windows hasn't changed for four years, but linux has changed a *lot*.
The newest version of Mandrake for example, installs in 10 minutes. It Just Works (c). You don't have to install third party applications for word processing, programming (my area, incase you haven't guessed), CD/DVD burning/ripping/playing, educational software, pretty much everything is included. A vanilla install of linux comes with so much that I actually have been taking it for granted, coming to a Windows installation and finding that, though I could do it easily by just opening this program or that, you literally just *can't* do it on a vanilla install of Windows. Unless Longhorn has the capabilities of linux then I won't be even considering switching back.
QT has been GPLed on Windows. It happened a few weeks/a month ago. Don't have the URL but it was slashdotted...
Oh right, google, here it is.
please stop trolling someone else when you're so patently wrong. QT under linux has been GPLed for a long time. QT under Windows has only been GPLed for a month or two (can't remember the exact date of course).
Though this is off the specific topic, try singing Advance Australia Fair to the following songs:
Gilligans Island
Auld Lang Syne
Waltzing Matilda
Working Class Man (look for the Adam Hills routine)
The Darth Vadar Theme (think about it)
Vincent
ACDC's ThunderStruck. Funnily enough if you put in "Aussie" instead of "Thunder" and "Australia" instead of "Thunderstruck" it goes quite well.
a million others that are either less funny or I can't remember them.
Its got such a generic tune that it can be sung to pretty much half of the traditional songs.
Oktoberfest is the Germany's biggest import over here.
That was the cut-and-paste method. The alternative method (assuming you have the mplayer plugin installed and you've told it to keep streamed videos like most people) is to just visit the site.
it's been only a week or two since release. IBM's "example" has taken several years. The legal world moves very slowly. I'd hardly expect legal issues to be finalised by now.
Anyway the "traditional" move is to ask politely first. Things have never moved beyond that step.
remind me not to piss you off.
Nope OEM versions don't allow you to get NeroLINUX.
Usually in a case like this that doesn't matter. FOSS has grown large enough to have much power, and a case like this would threaten the entire FOSS world. The reason why this hasn't happened before is that no company has dared test this. Like IBM has made an example out of SCO, the free software world would make an example out of this company.
ah I see. Yes, you're right, I'm using Debian Linux.