Shouldn't IBM have the ability to sue SCO for damages or at least to force them to stop all lawsuits?
They can, and they will. Once SCO lose the current IBM case, we can expect to see them well and truly pounded into the dust by anyone and everyone with a bit of cash available.
I believe that a combination of SELinux and the support for filesystem metadata in the 2.6 kernel should allow this, but as yet I have not seen any distro announce that they are moving in this direction.
Well yes, that's partially because most of the time OSS "vendors" forego the testing procedures that commercial vendors do.
"It works on my box...bug must be fixed!"
This strategy doesn't hold water in the business world.
That is the difference between Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora Core (to take one distribution as an example).
They are worried that open source developers are too much "hacker" and too little "engineer," cobbling together solutions without going through a structured software engineering process (such as requirements, specification, and analysis).
A concern which will hold relevance once somebody produces a convincing proof that a "structured software engineering process", otherwise known as Software Creationism, actually produces better code.
OpenOffice.org is slower and heavier than MS Office. Firefox is slower and heaver than IE (not by a great deal, and it's still a superb browser).
Comparing the launch of Firefox on Linux with Explorer on Windows is not fair, since most of the functionality of IE is loaded when Windows starts up.
Office tends to work similarly, with a lot of the code being loaded at startup. This increases the Windows start time but decreases the time taken to start an Office application.
When was the last time you've heard somebody complain about the Window's Media Player Messaging Center popping up with ads and shit? Or the last time WMP decided that it should be the program that you view JPEGs in?
When was the last time that RealPlayer did either of these?
I don't know what the Win32 RealPlayer is like now, since I only use the Linux version, but if Real have genuinely improved their products it is unfair to judge them based on what their software did 5 years ago.
They can have whatever policy they want, but they are not going to impose fines on me for breaking it.
Incidentally, the "Mature Audiences" category includes "items that you have to be 18 or over to purchase", which would seem to include any 18-rated film whether pornographic or not.
But being able to copy and manage the data better is the only advantage digital media have over their analogue counterparts. If you take away the rights to copy them, there is no point in using digital media in the first place.
I don't think so. People starting buying CDs in the 1980s before CD writers were even available.
The superior quality of a CD is far more important than the ability to make a perfect copy.
I imagine that those values apply to the "typical" person with average hearing.
Somebody who already had sensitive hearing, such as by listening to loud music or playing in a band, might find that the tolerances are a lot lower. These people would not necessarily assume that a mobile phone was going to emit a noise that was over their pain threshold.
More to the point, however, is her recourse. If she truly wanted to make him pay for doing what he did, she could have reported him to the local police. A video of a 13-year-old girl masturbating is child pornography anywhere in the U.S., and by putting the video up on a P2P network, he's guilty of distribution, which is a felony offense
She is also guilty, of distributing and producing child pornography. The fact that she was the subject would be no defense.
Getting the police involved would be a seriously bad idea on her part.
I agree entirely. The most annoying thing in my day-to-day Linux use is that the column headings in GTK list boxes are a few pixels too tall, which looks clunky and wastes space.
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That is equivalent to saying "there's no point in buying a CD player, since we don't have any CDs".
Providing information is never pointless. Especially when the very lack of popularity you mention is due in no small part to the lack of beginner-oriented information.
Yes, this is a severe instance of the "correlation implies causation" fallacy.
1. An tribe has no words for numbers greater than two.
2. This tribe appears to have difficulty dealing with the concept of numbers greater than two.
THEREFORE
1 is the cause of 2.
This is absolute nonsense. 2 could be the cause of 1, or there could be some greater cause that effects both of them.
I ten to agree with the other posters - despite what everyone would like to believe, man and women *are* different. They like different things. For some stimuli different areas of a mans brain react than a woman. It is a fact that men and women's brains have evolved differently over the ages. We simply do not know enough about the brain to speculate at this point whether on average one brain is more optimized to certain types of tasks than another, although evidence would support this (women's communications centres are larger, men's spatial-relationship centres are larger).
While it is certainly true that there are biological/psychological differences, these are likely to be far less important than the social factors that indoctrinate girls, practically from birth, not to think for themselves or concern themselves with "boys' stuff". Society expects girls to worry about looking pretty in their pink dresses with their dolls and fashion magazines, rather than doing "geeky science stuff". These means that a girl who is interested in science or computers has far greater social barriers to overcome than a boy in a similar position, and will require a lot more independence to pursue her chosen path than the equivalent male.
Why the hell wouldn't you just use this for the title instead of dragging somebody else through all of this crap.
Yes, after all katieT.com is a great catchy memorable name that is easy to pronounce and will make the book fly off the shelves faster than the complementary magnifying glasses the bookstore will have to offer in order to convince people they are not going blind.
It also seems impossible to skip forward or back in a Real stream played with mplayer, unless you quit and restart with an adjusted URL ("http://wherever.ram?start=00:12").
I have not tried Helix yet, but this could be a godsend when playing back radio shows of the BBC websites. No more cutting and pasting the contents of RAM files into the command line to start mplayer.
Specially since Blair has been accused of letting Dubya have his way on one to many an issue.
Given that this is mostly a commercial issue (national or global security is hardly at stake), I have a feeling Blair and the Labour party will politely ask the Americans to go shove it where the sun don't shine and score with the masses on both sides of the pond.
Yes, because Blair has such a impressive track record for doing what the masses want and telling the Americans to go shove it.
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And IBM has a lot of cash available.
I believe that a combination of SELinux and the support for filesystem metadata in the 2.6 kernel should allow this, but as yet I have not seen any distro announce that they are moving in this direction.
At present this is a very debatable question.
Office tends to work similarly, with a lot of the code being loaded at startup. This increases the Windows start time but decreases the time taken to start an Office application.
I don't know what the Win32 RealPlayer is like now, since I only use the Linux version, but if Real have genuinely improved their products it is unfair to judge them based on what their software did 5 years ago.
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This is not an issue of fining just websites, it is an issue of fining users, as has been pointed out in other comments.
This is what makes it unacceptable and is why I have chosen to discontinue my use of PayPal.
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They can have whatever policy they want, but they are not going to impose fines on me for breaking it.
Incidentally, the "Mature Audiences" category includes "items that you have to be 18 or over to purchase", which would seem to include any 18-rated film whether pornographic or not.
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Convicting somebody because they look like they might be guilty is not a component of a civilised society.
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The superior quality of a CD is far more important than the ability to make a perfect copy.
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Somebody who already had sensitive hearing, such as by listening to loud music or playing in a band, might find that the tolerances are a lot lower. These people would not necessarily assume that a mobile phone was going to emit a noise that was over their pain threshold.
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Getting the police involved would be a seriously bad idea on her part.
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Providing information is never pointless. Especially when the very lack of popularity you mention is due in no small part to the lack of beginner-oriented information.
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1. An tribe has no words for numbers greater than two.
2. This tribe appears to have difficulty dealing with the concept of numbers greater than two.
THEREFORE
1 is the cause of 2.
This is absolute nonsense. 2 could be the cause of 1, or there could be some greater cause that effects both of them.
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Yes, after all katieT.com is a great catchy memorable name that is easy to pronounce and will make the book fly off the shelves faster than the complementary magnifying glasses the bookstore will have to offer in order to convince people they are not going blind.
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What, like a hypnotist's watch in the shape of a penis?
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I have not tried Helix yet, but this could be a godsend when playing back radio shows of the BBC websites. No more cutting and pasting the contents of RAM files into the command line to start mplayer.
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And just how long do you think that they would get away with that in an open-source project?
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I believe...
Your beliefs in a soul or spiritual component to human existence are only beliefs. They are not scientific fact and should not be presented as such.
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