The guy is analysing a legal agreement, in particular its Limitation of Liability section. Nitpicking is required and, in fact, is the important thing.
There is no reason why those that need something can finance a developer to come up with what they need. Open source does not necessarily means that you'll get it for free.
In practice (that is, unless you have lots and lots of money), you will not be able to buy Vista: you'll only be able to buy a licence to use a copy of the software.
See, I've lived all my life in a country in which an administration decided to ignore elections and in which essentially guerrilla warfare was played for quite a while. I can tell you with the weight of experience that you have a rather idealized view of how things work in such situations.
Well, the fact that a big part of the US population believes strongly in something does not seem to be a great indicator of that something's veracity, as recent history amply shows. Hopefully by now the number of people that think Hussein has something to do with the World Trace Center event has dropped to below 50%; who nows whether we should wait some more time until they finally understand that "American" is a rather bad choice?
As an American, I am disappointed in this story. If it's true, then we in the USA are not much different when compared to folks in third world countries.
As a citizen of a third world country: are you really, honestly surprised?
I would say that, in that case, potential employers using your list should be the ones to blame there: there is no more reason in discriminating people according to lists published by random list-compilers that in discriminating people according to skin color.
By the way, if you read a little bit on computational linguistics, you'll find that even the mapping from "Have a sandwich" to "Eat" is part of common knowledge among the people in the know.
This whole thing is just comical. Sun bought this sweetheart policy, various crews of open-source fanboys cheerlead for it, but heaven forbid anyone should have thought of this issue beforehand or lifted a finger to address it since.
That is simply false. In any GNOME desktop, go to System -> Preferences -> Accesibility -> Assitive Technology Support in the panel menu, turn on the checkbox, log out and back in. Try the screen reader, or the braille reader (which has a nice `simulator' so that you can see what a blind person using a real blind reader would see, or, say, dasher.
Believe me: more than fingers have had to be lifted in order to do this, and it pretty much works.
I am quite sure KDE has similar infrastructure and user apps.
Can you explain what a `bingo card making software' exactly is supposed to do? If you provide a good enough description, and it is not way too hard, someone could volunteer...
I would imagine most people with the skills and inclinations to write a FOSS bingo card making app, whatever that may be, do not even know there is a need for that...
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The guy is analysing a legal agreement, in particular its Limitation of Liability section. Nitpicking is required and, in fact, is the important thing.
What have you done to shorten the wait?
Well, that might well be the best thing for F/OSS OS adoption.
There is no reason why those that need something can finance a developer to come up with what they need. Open source does not necessarily means that you'll get it for free.
In practice (that is, unless you have lots and lots of money), you will not be able to buy Vista: you'll only be able to buy a licence to use a copy of the software.
See, I've lived all my life in a country in which an administration decided to ignore elections and in which essentially guerrilla warfare was played for quite a while. I can tell you with the weight of experience that you have a rather idealized view of how things work in such situations.
So, they are not fronting for the crazy backwoods militias, but for having people arm to prepare for when the British come?
Well, the fact that a big part of the US population believes strongly in something does not seem to be a great indicator of that something's veracity, as recent history amply shows. Hopefully by now the number of people that think Hussein has something to do with the World Trace Center event has dropped to below 50%; who nows whether we should wait some more time until they finally understand that "American" is a rather bad choice?
wow.
As a citizen of a third world country: are you really, honestly surprised?
You should get your sarcasm detector checked... it seems to be malfunctioning.
Why would his thinking that the theory of evolution is wrong invalidate the theory?
I would say that, in that case, potential employers using your list should be the ones to blame there: there is no more reason in discriminating people according to lists published by random list-compilers that in discriminating people according to skin color.
The people you want to be accountable are the mail admins that choose to filter using Spamhaus' list, not Spamhaus who simply publishes a list.
You might want to read up on what DRI is.
You want this link.
By the way, if you read a little bit on computational linguistics, you'll find that even the mapping from "Have a sandwich" to "Eat" is part of common knowledge among the people in the know.
Why not? Why would you want CPU power to just sit there, unused?
It is quite clear that this is not going to fix the browser. It is going to babysit it. That's a different thing.
It is not amazing at all: it is simply just another instance of the market deciding...
From this post, it is not hard to see why Linux is not friendly to you...
That period was intended, clearly. And correct.
I imagine you've never read Finnegans Wake...
So, you really believe that?
unconscionable?!?
That is simply false. In any GNOME desktop, go to System -> Preferences -> Accesibility -> Assitive Technology Support in the panel menu, turn on the checkbox, log out and back in. Try the screen reader, or the braille reader (which has a nice `simulator' so that you can see what a blind person using a real blind reader would see, or, say, dasher.
Believe me: more than fingers have had to be lifted in order to do this, and it pretty much works.
I am quite sure KDE has similar infrastructure and user apps.
Can you explain what a `bingo card making software' exactly is supposed to do? If you provide a good enough description, and it is not way too hard, someone could volunteer...
I would imagine most people with the skills and inclinations to write a FOSS bingo card making app, whatever that may be, do not even know there is a need for that...