they asked politely - I would assume they want to be able to defend the logo properly, so that Microsoft don't for example use modified parts of GAIM or anything. It seems a perfectly reasonable request, so that "evil" companies don't modify it.
In the UK at least, sex education is quite widely spread. The laws are there (generally) for the protection of children - that is the justification. I do not see exactly why it is necessary for a 12 year old to see the latest rambo film with blood and guts and nudity - if it is believed to be educational, then the parents can rent it out on video and let their children watch it.
I saw Southpark in America, and I wasn't impressed by the number of children under 10 there - I don't think Southpark is suitable for children. Obviously there are going to be people on either side of the (arbitary) limit over here, but that's the way it is - I did not think Southpark was suitable for 8 year olds - although if I had children over 13 or 14 I might let them watch it (and they'd probably get in anyway, when I was 13 we used to get into 15 movies all the time).
Our equivalent to your "R" rating is our 15 rating - nobody under 15 can go into the cinema, by law. Which I'm afraid, I would agree with. When I went to see Southpark I saw loads of 7 and 8 year olds, which I thought was pretty bad - those kids should not really have been watching it.
Kids will find these things out, but there's no need to make it ridiculously easy - the thing has got to be to make sure that it isn't made unavailable to those old enough (and mature enough) to see it.
In the GPL (as I understand it) you can code a commercial non-GPLed app as long as you don't distribute it. If you want to distribute it, you either have to GPL it, or cease using GPLed code.
don't ask me to explain the QPL:) It sounds too complicated. Perl is a lot easier license wise though (given that the artistic license is really lax)
Anyway, the Irish situation is a lot more complicated than most people understand. I don't think the British government would keep Ireland if there wasn't the problem that >50% of the population of Northern Ireland don't want to be part of a united Ireland. This causes problems for all concerned:|
I have enough diskspace to hold source for most of the Linux stuff I have. I want to compile it from scratch (I'm quite prepared to). Debian does not *need* to do what you are suggesting, if they fold source support properly into apt, as they've been talking about for long enough, then they will be able to support everybody, as those like us can simply do "make world" and rebuild the entire system, or even, with some work, allow all the systems to be easily supported - without the hassle of fiddling with code
The only thing that'd bother me is who would take over. I hope that Linus has put it into his will so that at least there wouldn't be squabbles, or just everybody releasing their own version..
Maybe they'll all gang together into a core team style thing, as that would be cool. Even so, I think Linus could nominate a maintainer, such as Alan, and then if he did get blown up, it'd be easier and save us a couple of weeks sorting it out
slashdot has it's moments. Some of the NT sites are very badly organised and setup. I dunno if that's NT or simply the administrator... since some NT servers seem okay, I think it's fair to blame the administrator in most cases...
mind you, Microsoft.com always runs like a piece of shit for me, slashdot is much faster.
the only slow thing are banner ads for me in slashdot
I find E very usable personally. I've also used AfterStep, KDE on occasion, although I dislike it, and some of the others out there, and E is (for me) the most usable. I like the way it works, and glitz can be nice sometimes - I don't like the idea of working using twm when I can have a desktop that makes me want to work.
I think raster has contributed a lot to gtk, particurly the themes stuff that he worked on - this is considered highly by several people and is useful, despite it's current rather weak uses, could come in very useful in a mixed environment.
There's no reason that a desktop should be ugly - I'ld find that very offputting (personally);)
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I hate to reply to what appears to be flame bait, however spam is a case of market failure, in the same way that pollution is (the spammers only find e-mail so cheap because others are footing the bill).
The market is not always perfect as there are things which cannot be accounted for by pricing products, and this is one such case.
This happens to all projects. The guy who used to do IDE stuff under Linux left under a similar cloud. So it's hardly a BSD problem. It's a people problem, and you're never going to solve them
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16 for tobacco (cigarettes) and age of consent
17 to drive
18 for alcohol and I think still for gay sex
The latter is being worked on, but our equivalent of your stupid right wing bounced it getting through, so it will go through in a year or so.
they asked politely - I would assume they want to be able to defend the logo properly, so that Microsoft don't for example use modified parts of GAIM or anything. It seems a perfectly reasonable request, so that "evil" companies don't modify it.
I'm probably not as old as you think I am ;>
In the UK at least, sex education is quite widely spread. The laws are there (generally) for the protection of children - that is the justification. I do not see exactly why it is necessary for a 12 year old to see the latest rambo film with blood and guts and nudity - if it is believed to be educational, then the parents can rent it out on video and let their children watch it.
I saw Southpark in America, and I wasn't impressed by the number of children under 10 there - I don't think Southpark is suitable for children. Obviously there are going to be people on either side of the (arbitary) limit over here, but that's the way it is - I did not think Southpark was suitable for 8 year olds - although if I had children over 13 or 14 I might let them watch it (and they'd probably get in anyway, when I was 13 we used to get into 15 movies all the time).
In the UK we have it a lot worse.
Our equivalent to your "R" rating is our 15 rating - nobody under 15 can go into the cinema, by law. Which I'm afraid, I would agree with. When I went to see Southpark I saw loads of 7 and 8 year olds, which I thought was pretty bad - those kids should not really have been watching it.
Kids will find these things out, but there's no need to make it ridiculously easy - the thing has got to be to make sure that it isn't made unavailable to those old enough (and mature enough) to see it.
In the GPL (as I understand it) you can code a commercial non-GPLed app as long as you don't distribute it. If you want to distribute it, you either have to GPL it, or cease using GPLed code.
:) It sounds too complicated. Perl is a lot easier license wise though (given that the artistic license is really lax)
don't ask me to explain the QPL
Wasn't Braveheart about Scotland? :)
:|
Anyway, the Irish situation is a lot more complicated than most people understand. I don't think the British government would keep Ireland if there wasn't the problem that >50% of the population of Northern Ireland don't want to be part of a united Ireland. This causes problems for all concerned
I have enough diskspace to hold source for most of the Linux stuff I have. I want to compile it from scratch (I'm quite prepared to). Debian does not *need* to do what you are suggesting, if they fold source support properly into apt, as they've been talking about for long enough, then they will be able to support everybody, as those like us can simply do "make world" and rebuild the entire system, or even, with some work, allow all the systems to be easily supported - without the hassle of fiddling with code
The only thing that'd bother me is who would take over. I hope that Linus has put it into his will so that at least there wouldn't be squabbles, or just everybody releasing their own version..
Maybe they'll all gang together into a core team style thing, as that would be cool. Even so, I think Linus could nominate a maintainer, such as Alan, and then if he did get blown up, it'd be easier and save us a couple of weeks sorting it out
slashdot has it's moments. Some of the NT sites are very badly organised and setup. I dunno if that's NT or simply the administrator... since some NT servers seem okay, I think it's fair to blame the administrator in most cases...
mind you, Microsoft.com always runs like a piece of shit for me, slashdot is much faster.
the only slow thing are banner ads for me in slashdot
I find E very usable personally. I've also used AfterStep, KDE on occasion, although I dislike it, and some of the others out there, and E is (for me) the most usable. I like the way it works, and glitz can be nice sometimes - I don't like the idea of working using twm when I can have a desktop that makes me want to work.
;)
I think raster has contributed a lot to gtk, particurly the themes stuff that he worked on - this is considered highly by several people and is useful, despite it's current rather weak uses, could come in very useful in a mixed environment.
There's no reason that a desktop should be ugly - I'ld find that very offputting (personally)
I hate to reply to what appears to be flame bait, however spam is a case of market failure, in the same way that pollution is (the spammers only find e-mail so cheap because others are footing the bill).
The market is not always perfect as there are things which cannot be accounted for by pricing products, and this is one such case.
This happens to all projects. The guy who used to do IDE stuff under Linux left under a similar cloud. So it's hardly a BSD problem. It's a people problem, and you're never going to solve them