This is a different situation. I'd feel fucking ashamed if someone didn't try to step in at my university - that was the first thing I thought of when watching that video. "Why isn't someone stepping in and restraining the policeman?"
I think American society has become too timid - thinking it's too perfect, that bad things will never happen near them, so they're not prepared.
Why would this patent deal mean that all code that Novell contributes to Linux suddenly falls under Microsoft patents? I don't think you've thought this through - it's a patent deal, nothing more.
That video shows someone getting tased for less than half a second as opposed to seven seconds by my count. Guess what? Recovery time depends on the length of time someone's been tased for! Not only this but they were asking him to stand up whilst being tased!
Bullshit. If that's the case you didn't watch the same video I did (or, evidently, read the eyewitness statements). TASERs are designed to drop someone and make it so they stay down (though some people can recover quite quickly, it takes others about 10 mins to recover, generally a few mins - I looked this up on Google). If he was continuing to fight after being TASERed four times then I'm very impressed.
On the contrary. I think this is a great tactic of dealing with Microsoft: Take a few hundred million dollars from them and at all the parties say "I'm not with him!" Lets face it, Novell's been paid a few hundred million dollars to give the impression that there are patent problems with Linux, yet they've spun around and said "We don't think there are patent problems in Linux" and started talking about how Microsoft got the better of the deal by licensing Novell's patents!
For some reason this really tickles my funny bone.
By comparison my own country (Australia) is almost athiestic, yet our constitution bars anybody who is not a member of the church of england becoming head of state.
That's a loaded way of saying that a now simply symbolic position which has pretty much just nominal power has to be affiliated with a church... In reality religion plays a much smaller part in the Australian government than the American government.
I agree. I got hooked to Tremulous a couple of months ago when it was added to the Debian servers and it's still happily sapping my time away (even though I could be also playing other games like Oblivion). It's a remarkably simple yet bloody addictive game. I'm curious as to how development will go in the next year or so - it'd be really cool to port it to a modern engine like Ogre to give this game some newer graphics techniques...
I hate it when people always dismiss things like this as paid for by Microsoft. That guy could very well just be a genuine idiot, and yet you're trying to insult him by saying he's corrupt as well.
I don't think he meant interoperability between operating systems, but rather applications and services. Active Directory integrates seamlessly with Exchange, Group Policy, DNS, all forms of ACLs, and allows easy authentication of Windows users and computers. Exchange connects and works great with Outlook and offers a feature set not yet matched by any open source solution. MS Office applications can simply and quickly communicate and transfer information back and forth. -- The significant thing is that it all just works together.
That's because they're all owned and marketed by Microsoft. I suppose that would be more intraoperability as opposed to interoperability.
The reason why I use firefox instead of konqueror is simple: In firefox I have all the toolbars and required info including menus, navagation buttons and a bar, in one toolbar up the top. Konqueror doesn't yet allow me to do this. I think Konqueror's KHTML is quite neat in programming, but its user interface could still use some work.
Easy. Just make a comment on the nature of evolution and how strange it is to think that dolphins, whales, hippos and deer share the same ancestor and you've won.
Receipts can be deniable. In other words you could get a receipt that you can verify using it that your vote was counted the right way, but you could also have it so you can pretend that you voted another way and only you can tell that that vote isn't authentic. Cryptography is fun.
That's why you have to do random spot checks and voter verification. If there's a public web site where a voter can verify his/her vote using a receipt of something similar then you would have some measure of security. You of course also need to have it deniable so people cannot sell their vote or force someone else to vote their way. Yes this is all possible.
I think that the difference is supposed to be that Google collects info only about the page you're visiting, while Microsoft are tracking individual users. That's my impression of this anyway.
Perhaps if it crashes every five minutes it's not the fault of Amarok but the fault of the sound system, your sound card or the software you're using alongside it. I use amarok on debian unstable and have been for years (since before its 1.0 days...) and have never *ever* actually had it crash. I use the xine engine. I've also never had it crash on Ubuntu. Not on normal or Kubuntu, not on Dapper, Breezy or Edgy (I used it as my main system for a while and I use it for my laptop now).
In other words, if you're trying to convince me not to use Amarok because it crashes you're definitely out of luck.
Don't get me wrong, I like VLC for playing videos but it's not really a competitor to Amarok or Winamp. A good jukebox type player needs a playlist with queueing, searching among other features.
I used to think that until I tried Amarok. It took a little getting used to (about 10 mins) but now a lack of a good enough player on Windows now is another reason I don't want to go back. Amarok is the biggest reason I want kdelib for Windows.
That said, if anyone *does* know of a player as good as Amarok on Windows then I'll be *very* interested.
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Where did you get that transcript? According to the witnesses he was in the process of leaving when the policeman grabbed him.
This is a different situation. I'd feel fucking ashamed if someone didn't try to step in at my university - that was the first thing I thought of when watching that video. "Why isn't someone stepping in and restraining the policeman?"
I think American society has become too timid - thinking it's too perfect, that bad things will never happen near them, so they're not prepared.
Why would this patent deal mean that all code that Novell contributes to Linux suddenly falls under Microsoft patents? I don't think you've thought this through - it's a patent deal, nothing more.
That video shows someone getting tased for less than half a second as opposed to seven seconds by my count. Guess what? Recovery time depends on the length of time someone's been tased for! Not only this but they were asking him to stand up whilst being tased!
Bullshit. If that's the case you didn't watch the same video I did (or, evidently, read the eyewitness statements). TASERs are designed to drop someone and make it so they stay down (though some people can recover quite quickly, it takes others about 10 mins to recover, generally a few mins - I looked this up on Google). If he was continuing to fight after being TASERed four times then I'm very impressed.
On the contrary. I think this is a great tactic of dealing with Microsoft: Take a few hundred million dollars from them and at all the parties say "I'm not with him!" Lets face it, Novell's been paid a few hundred million dollars to give the impression that there are patent problems with Linux, yet they've spun around and said "We don't think there are patent problems in Linux" and started talking about how Microsoft got the better of the deal by licensing Novell's patents!
For some reason this really tickles my funny bone.
Microsoft just wasted a few hundred million dollars? Congrats to Novell...
By comparison my own country (Australia) is almost athiestic, yet our constitution bars anybody who is not a member of the church of england becoming head of state.
That's a loaded way of saying that a now simply symbolic position which has pretty much just nominal power has to be affiliated with a church... In reality religion plays a much smaller part in the Australian government than the American government.
I agree. I got hooked to Tremulous a couple of months ago when it was added to the Debian servers and it's still happily sapping my time away (even though I could be also playing other games like Oblivion). It's a remarkably simple yet bloody addictive game. I'm curious as to how development will go in the next year or so - it'd be really cool to port it to a modern engine like Ogre to give this game some newer graphics techniques...
I hate it when people always dismiss things like this as paid for by Microsoft. That guy could very well just be a genuine idiot, and yet you're trying to insult him by saying he's corrupt as well.
I thought that was the point. For everyone the amount they gain is more than the amount they contribute, that's the beauty of open source.
I don't know, a lot of people might think that being able to seduce a neanderthal babe a plus.
Umm, and you can play games on it as well. (I'm waiting for UT2007 to come!)
I'm sure nVidia are just absolutely heartbroken that you might have to buy more of their stuff to regain your l33tness throne. Oh *darn*.
I don't think he meant interoperability between operating systems, but rather applications and services. Active Directory integrates seamlessly with Exchange, Group Policy, DNS, all forms of ACLs, and allows easy authentication of Windows users and computers. Exchange connects and works great with Outlook and offers a feature set not yet matched by any open source solution. MS Office applications can simply and quickly communicate and transfer information back and forth. -- The significant thing is that it all just works together.
That's because they're all owned and marketed by Microsoft. I suppose that would be more intraoperability as opposed to interoperability.
The reason why I use firefox instead of konqueror is simple: In firefox I have all the toolbars and required info including menus, navagation buttons and a bar, in one toolbar up the top. Konqueror doesn't yet allow me to do this. I think Konqueror's KHTML is quite neat in programming, but its user interface could still use some work.
Easy. Just make a comment on the nature of evolution and how strange it is to think that dolphins, whales, hippos and deer share the same ancestor and you've won.
Receipts can be deniable. In other words you could get a receipt that you can verify using it that your vote was counted the right way, but you could also have it so you can pretend that you voted another way and only you can tell that that vote isn't authentic. Cryptography is fun.
That's why you have to do random spot checks and voter verification. If there's a public web site where a voter can verify his/her vote using a receipt of something similar then you would have some measure of security. You of course also need to have it deniable so people cannot sell their vote or force someone else to vote their way. Yes this is all possible.
You could have just read the first few paragraphs of the article. Utube was first by about 10 years apparently.
It's actually either base 8.903013701291020728 or -9.903013701291020728. Try doing 6a^2 + 6a + 6.
I think that the difference is supposed to be that Google collects info only about the page you're visiting, while Microsoft are tracking individual users. That's my impression of this anyway.
Perhaps if it crashes every five minutes it's not the fault of Amarok but the fault of the sound system, your sound card or the software you're using alongside it. I use amarok on debian unstable and have been for years (since before its 1.0 days...) and have never *ever* actually had it crash. I use the xine engine. I've also never had it crash on Ubuntu. Not on normal or Kubuntu, not on Dapper, Breezy or Edgy (I used it as my main system for a while and I use it for my laptop now).
In other words, if you're trying to convince me not to use Amarok because it crashes you're definitely out of luck.
Don't get me wrong, I like VLC for playing videos but it's not really a competitor to Amarok or Winamp. A good jukebox type player needs a playlist with queueing, searching among other features.
I used to think that until I tried Amarok. It took a little getting used to (about 10 mins) but now a lack of a good enough player on Windows now is another reason I don't want to go back. Amarok is the biggest reason I want kdelib for Windows.
That said, if anyone *does* know of a player as good as Amarok on Windows then I'll be *very* interested.