I would just like to note that Freenet is one of the only project who's goals are ideoligically essential. As such, I say we never cut and run. We MAKE it work. The alternative is to allow censorship, because it can and does occur.
Well, someone wrote a compiler which lets regular apps use the Graphics Card for abitrary matrix mathematics, but you most likely won't end up using that very much.
On the one hand, Java is Sun's big remaining product, so they need to keep it theirs. On the other, the less it is used the less they can make off it, and loosening the grip will make more people use it.
Also, they need to keep an eye on the open-source implementations. If they squeeze too hard, many people will jump onto the GCJ project and possibly cut them out entirely (just like GCC really cut-out a lot of C compilers).
They either loose their revenue source, devalue their revenue source, or destroy their revenue source. There's no good thing for Sun to do here.
I'm a US citizen, and I write a letter to my senator every month asking him what the hell he's doing, and he still won't give me a straight answer. These last three years have been the most depressing political years ever.
And the terrorist attacks were not the low point, which is really hard to pull off.
I wish I knew which/.er or K5er I was quoting when they said that Bush was trying to prevent terrorism by removing all those rights the terrorists envied.
Slackware has been 2.6 ready since 9.1 Just install 2.6 and your good to go. Mandrake 10 may be the first major distro to ship with 2.6 included, but that's just because Slackware's release schedule was ahead of the kernel, so it added proactive support, as any good distro would do.
In the US, such laws are on a state-by-state basis.
In Michigan, any recording is only admissible if you were involved in what you recorded. There can be exceptions, such as wiretaps, but they require a warrant in advance.
Last time it came up, I was told (by a police officer) that it was in regards to all recordings, although I have only personally checked that this is true in regards to audio recordings.
This is interesting because, at least where I live, you can make a recording (audio or video) of any exchange of which you were a part.
If I have a conversation, I can record it. If two other people do, and I am just nearby, I cannot. I suspect the owners of those cameras were not involved in the activity, so it would not be legally admissible evidence, at least if it were taken by a civilian.
If I understand correctly, it might even be indirect enough to invalidate a warrant based on it, in which case the authorities would have little interest in it.
Of course, NorthEastern is not making legal judgements, so it can use them, and some videos might have been by people in the crowd, so they would be useable by the police.
I find it interesting the way that the station was designed due to politicol reasons as much as technical reasons. Also, I think it makes Clinton shine for what I always complimented him for.
Clinton decided to sacrifice a lot of technical advantage to stick the station over Russia, which seriously aided international relations. I've always said that Clinton did wonders for international relations.
Bush, by contrast, pushes a mars mission with the idea of a jump from the moon which the experts say is crap. Bush is clearly only pushing his plans as a way to vitalize the populace. Not that this is unimportant, I just think he should have done it in a technologically realistic manner, or at least plausibly accomplishable manner.
It's actually quite important, especially for diplomatic documents. Times is far more readable than courier, and causes less strain on the eyes after prolonged reading. If you are sending these things to people to convince them, you want them to enjoy the experience as much as possible.
Also, they might not have sat around and argued that long. They might have just decided and done it.
Lets see, they have 52,000,000,000 in reserve and are getting fine 100,000,000.
So, lets say you have 5200 dollars in reserve. Having over five-thousand in liquid assets isn't exactly rare. So, with your five-thousand in the bank, do you enjoy a hundred dollar fine? Sure, you can pay it, but it still hurts.
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"That's just my ignorant opinion (I've never lived in America) but I suspect my ignorant opinion is not unique and not far off the mark."
You're quite right. American society has moved much in the direction of defining everything, and I do mean everything, in monetary terms. However, this has recently started to change. People still worry about as much about money, but there have been many reports lately about how people have been overrating money.
Several studies involve why women haven't advanced more into the marketplace, and they seem to show that women in the US care more about families than jobs, and as such tend to suck at jobs a bit more. What is different from the past is that the press about this has been portraying this as a positive thing about women, when it was previously portrayed as a negative.
"If you want to change it then there's probably something wrong with the default configuration"
I'd have to say there are actually good odds that you are an INDIVIDUAL. That means things like, you have personal tastes, you don't think identically to the teaming masses, you are in some manner unique.
The problem with GNOME is, it aims for the lowest common denominator. And, guess what, that's only hitting about 40% of the population. I'm not saying KDE is better at the moment. However, in the long run it can be better, because it can hit each of the other 6 groups of 10% of the population, as well as that 40%.
What it needs are a few better defaults, but at least it has the ABILITY to be better, which is what I always find lacking in GNOME. (And don't tell me I needed to look harder. That's not the way it works. If I look hard, and it can't be found, it needs to be easier to do. Once again KDE sucks as well, just marginally less)
I beg to differ. In my experience, GNOME apps and KDE apps start at fairly similar rates, and I use BlackBox. That is, however, assuming they are comparable apps. Konqueror outpaces Galeon or Epiphany. KWord and Abiword have almost identical start times. GNumeric outdoes KSpread very marginally.
In general, KDE apps start very marginally slower if I have NO KDE apps started. If even one is started, it's pretty much on par.
"LOL! So that's the reason why there are still so many discussions about missing consistency in gnome? Besides, you obviously don't know it, but with kde-apps a lot of consistency is provided by qt and kde, so it's not a matter of the developer of a certain application sticking to the HIG or not."
If you knew more about what HIGs are about, you would know that a toolkit and back-end libraries don't count for shit, its a design issue.
That being said, the GNOME HIGs are bad and their apps break them in even worse ways. KDE isn't better, but it isn't worse, either. Also, since KDE has more power in many of its tools, if is easier to move it to a good interface.
They state that: "Staffing expenses were 33.5% better."
According to that study, they have a chart rating Linux staffing at ~80,000 and Windows staffing at ~58,000.
Now, better refers to an improvement. Therefore, they are refering to the improvement of Windows from Linux. This is ~27.5%.
To say that the report says staffing expenses on Linux are 33.5% worse might be accurate, but the reverse is not right.
I know it's a bit pedantic, but it bugs me. I don't know if they did that more than once, because I only check the first line on the page. I'd bet others are too.
This research doesn't show that, it just points it out for those who couldn't see it on their own. And, seeing as its frickin' obvious to anyone who looks, this research still tells me basically nothing.
Your entire example, pulled from this research, could just as easily have been pulled out of your ass at any moment.
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I would just like to note that Freenet is one of the only project who's goals are ideoligically essential. As such, I say we never cut and run. We MAKE it work. The alternative is to allow censorship, because it can and does occur.
Well, someone wrote a compiler which lets regular apps use the Graphics Card for abitrary matrix mathematics, but you most likely won't end up using that very much.
Actually, Red Hat's market cap is almost as much as Sun's. According to finance.yahoo.com:
Sun's Market Cap = 4.51B
Red Hat's Market Cap = 3.21B
Not as big of a difference there as you imply, especially when you consider that Red Hat is so much younger than Sun.
That's trademark, not copyright. They could do that anyway.
On the one hand, Java is Sun's big remaining product, so they need to keep it theirs. On the other, the less it is used the less they can make off it, and loosening the grip will make more people use it.
Also, they need to keep an eye on the open-source implementations. If they squeeze too hard, many people will jump onto the GCJ project and possibly cut them out entirely (just like GCC really cut-out a lot of C compilers).
They either loose their revenue source, devalue their revenue source, or destroy their revenue source. There's no good thing for Sun to do here.
I'm looking forward to the day we can slashdot the entire other planet.
Dead on accurate.
/.er or K5er I was quoting when they said that Bush was trying to prevent terrorism by removing all those rights the terrorists envied.
I'm a US citizen, and I write a letter to my senator every month asking him what the hell he's doing, and he still won't give me a straight answer. These last three years have been the most depressing political years ever.
And the terrorist attacks were not the low point, which is really hard to pull off.
I wish I knew which
Damn. And Nike was always one of my favorite gods. Then some shoe-boys have to go and rain on my parade, wrecking the name for the little-guys.
www.bushlies.com
If you can't distinguish between actual lies and honest mistakes, then you're hopeless.
www.bushlies.com
Look around a bit. He's pretty damn bad.
"As voters you chose bush and must live with that untill Novemember."
Don't make such broad statements. Over half of Americans voted for Gore. Bush won the presidency, but I sure as hell didn't vote for him.
Slackware has been 2.6 ready since 9.1 Just install 2.6 and your good to go. Mandrake 10 may be the first major distro to ship with 2.6 included, but that's just because Slackware's release schedule was ahead of the kernel, so it added proactive support, as any good distro would do.
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In the US, such laws are on a state-by-state basis.
In Michigan, any recording is only admissible if you were involved in what you recorded. There can be exceptions, such as wiretaps, but they require a warrant in advance.
Last time it came up, I was told (by a police officer) that it was in regards to all recordings, although I have only personally checked that this is true in regards to audio recordings.
This is interesting because, at least where I live, you can make a recording (audio or video) of any exchange of which you were a part.
If I have a conversation, I can record it. If two other people do, and I am just nearby, I cannot. I suspect the owners of those cameras were not involved in the activity, so it would not be legally admissible evidence, at least if it were taken by a civilian.
If I understand correctly, it might even be indirect enough to invalidate a warrant based on it, in which case the authorities would have little interest in it.
Of course, NorthEastern is not making legal judgements, so it can use them, and some videos might have been by people in the crowd, so they would be useable by the police.
I find it interesting the way that the station was designed due to politicol reasons as much as technical reasons. Also, I think it makes Clinton shine for what I always complimented him for.
Clinton decided to sacrifice a lot of technical advantage to stick the station over Russia, which seriously aided international relations. I've always said that Clinton did wonders for international relations.
Bush, by contrast, pushes a mars mission with the idea of a jump from the moon which the experts say is crap. Bush is clearly only pushing his plans as a way to vitalize the populace. Not that this is unimportant, I just think he should have done it in a technologically realistic manner, or at least plausibly accomplishable manner.
It's actually quite important, especially for diplomatic documents. Times is far more readable than courier, and causes less strain on the eyes after prolonged reading. If you are sending these things to people to convince them, you want them to enjoy the experience as much as possible.
Also, they might not have sat around and argued that long. They might have just decided and done it.
Not really.
Lets see, they have 52,000,000,000 in reserve and are getting fine 100,000,000.
So, lets say you have 5200 dollars in reserve. Having over five-thousand in liquid assets isn't exactly rare. So, with your five-thousand in the bank, do you enjoy a hundred dollar fine? Sure, you can pay it, but it still hurts.
"That's just my ignorant opinion (I've never lived in America) but I suspect my ignorant opinion is not unique and not far off the mark."
You're quite right. American society has moved much in the direction of defining everything, and I do mean everything, in monetary terms. However, this has recently started to change. People still worry about as much about money, but there have been many reports lately about how people have been overrating money.
Several studies involve why women haven't advanced more into the marketplace, and they seem to show that women in the US care more about families than jobs, and as such tend to suck at jobs a bit more. What is different from the past is that the press about this has been portraying this as a positive thing about women, when it was previously portrayed as a negative.
"If you want to change it then there's probably something wrong with the default configuration"
I'd have to say there are actually good odds that you are an INDIVIDUAL. That means things like, you have personal tastes, you don't think identically to the teaming masses, you are in some manner unique.
The problem with GNOME is, it aims for the lowest common denominator. And, guess what, that's only hitting about 40% of the population. I'm not saying KDE is better at the moment. However, in the long run it can be better, because it can hit each of the other 6 groups of 10% of the population, as well as that 40%.
What it needs are a few better defaults, but at least it has the ABILITY to be better, which is what I always find lacking in GNOME. (And don't tell me I needed to look harder. That's not the way it works. If I look hard, and it can't be found, it needs to be easier to do. Once again KDE sucks as well, just marginally less)
I beg to differ. In my experience, GNOME apps and KDE apps start at fairly similar rates, and I use BlackBox. That is, however, assuming they are comparable apps. Konqueror outpaces Galeon or Epiphany. KWord and Abiword have almost identical start times. GNumeric outdoes KSpread very marginally.
In general, KDE apps start very marginally slower if I have NO KDE apps started. If even one is started, it's pretty much on par.
"LOL! So that's the reason why there are still so many discussions about missing consistency in gnome? Besides, you obviously don't know it, but with kde-apps a lot of consistency is provided by qt and kde, so it's not a matter of the developer of a certain application sticking to the HIG or not."
If you knew more about what HIGs are about, you would know that a toolkit and back-end libraries don't count for shit, its a design issue.
That being said, the GNOME HIGs are bad and their apps break them in even worse ways. KDE isn't better, but it isn't worse, either. Also, since KDE has more power in many of its tools, if is easier to move it to a good interface.
They state that:
"Staffing expenses were 33.5% better."
According to that study, they have a chart rating Linux staffing at ~80,000 and Windows staffing at ~58,000.
Now, better refers to an improvement. Therefore, they are refering to the improvement of Windows from Linux. This is ~27.5%.
To say that the report says staffing expenses on Linux are 33.5% worse might be accurate, but the reverse is not right.
I know it's a bit pedantic, but it bugs me. I don't know if they did that more than once, because I only check the first line on the page. I'd bet others are too.
This research doesn't show that, it just points it out for those who couldn't see it on their own. And, seeing as its frickin' obvious to anyone who looks, this research still tells me basically nothing.
Your entire example, pulled from this research, could just as easily have been pulled out of your ass at any moment.
...Science Tells Us What We Already Know.
I just read the article (skimmed bits). They managed to determine that people don't like to release embarrasing information or break societal taboos.
No Shit.