> Yeah, but too many geeks say that "shiny" doesn't matter. It's "shiny" that sells.
You are probably right, and that makes me sad:-( Call be a bored old git, but when I look at my computer screen I want to see the *content*, not a load of bling.
(Of course with *nix I do have a choice: I can use simple window manager like FVWM2.)
> I'm still waiting for jbosh, the Jason BOurne SHell, to be released. I hear it can really kick some ass.
Only problem is it rarely follows instructions, and has a habit of disappearing for months and then popping up briefly to make you look stupid. Also its friend processes tend to wind up kill -9.
> Wrong direction, everyone should be riding the exact same bike.
FWIW the Tour de France tried it one year in the 30s or 40s (IIRC): standard bike from 1 manufacturer and no advertising on clothes etc. Did not work of course because a sport that can not charge people to watch can not survive without advertising revenues !!
I assume you mean the code, but you could also go a step higher and ask: where did the IP protocol stack itself come from ? The whole of the internet, WWW, email, HTML etc is built on Open Standards. That is why it is so successful. MS just added a proprietary front-end to it !
> This is why stealing a Britney Spears CD has a more serious penalty than payback of the $8 price tag.
Too right: it becomes a matter of public record, and so then you have to live with the shame that you wanted a copy !! (Saying it was for your kid sister will cut no ice !)
> It is, and in German they like really long sentences, too.
And really long *words* (just take 5 "normal" words and jam them together with no spaces, hyphens etc between them. Then pass them to a language-deficient Englishman (i.e. me) and ask him to parse and translate. Result: brain death).
> "The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool." -Unknown
Perhaps you are misquoting George Bernard Shaw:
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
> Why not go after the people who MAKE child porn? You know the ones ACTUALLY HURTING kids?
On reason is jurisdiction. There is not a lot a, say, US prosecutor can do to get the producer in, say, Russia, or China, or wherever, but they *can* go after someone accessing/possessing it in the US.
> the monarchy in the UK is there because the British rather enjoy tradition
I would say most people either enjoy the tradition, or do not care either way. I would side with the minority who would like to see the monarchy removed complete from the apparatus of power.
Being UK born, but lived in Germany for the last 11 years I still find it embarrassing to come from a country that still, in the 21st Century, has such an undemocratic process (ie include the house of lords). I am jealous of the fact that Germany (like most (all?) modern democratic states) has 2 elected houses, and a single, written constitution. Also, IIRC, if all the MPs turn up at the same time they can all sit down at the same time (!!), unlike in the Houses of Parliament. (But it does still amuse me that the Queen is more German than I am:-))
>....as the Bill in question has only been passed by the House of Commons. It's got to go before the House of Lords yet.
IANAPS, but IIRC the UK is still a Constitutional monarchy, in which case the Queen also has to sign the act after the Lords approve it (OK: it is a rubber-stamping job, but still...).
> According to the article, there are no plans for a scout merit badge in open source
Well you would not expect there to be one: it goes against the spirit of it.
If you feel the itch for an Open Source Merit badge then you just *make one for yourself*, either to your own design or one that you find on the web that is suitable licensed.
You could also make lots of copies for your fellow Scouts, you could even change for them, but you can not stop someone else seeing your design and making an identical one for themselves.
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> Yeah, but too many geeks say that "shiny" doesn't matter. It's "shiny" that sells.
You are probably right, and that makes me sad :-(
Call be a bored old git, but when I look at my computer screen I want to see the *content*, not a load of bling.
(Of course with *nix I do have a choice: I can use simple window manager like FVWM2.)
> I'm still waiting for jbosh, the Jason BOurne SHell, to be released. I hear it can really kick some ass.
Only problem is it rarely follows instructions, and has a habit of disappearing for months and then popping up briefly to make you look stupid. Also its friend processes tend to wind up kill -9.
In Soviet Britain no-one dares critisize the State, even in jest, even on an obscure tech. website, as you never know who will be listening in.
> Wrong direction, everyone should be riding the exact same bike.
FWIW the Tour de France tried it one year in the 30s or 40s (IIRC): standard bike from 1 manufacturer and no advertising on clothes etc. Did not work of course because a sport that can not charge people to watch can not survive without advertising revenues !!
> although they weigh about 3 kg more
I agree in general, however M5 Ligfietsen claim their M5 can be built to 8kg: is that light enough !!
> It is a popular misconception that population size causes poverty. Here are a couple of sources...
Sorry, but are these two references not just opinion pieces ? Certainly not peer-reviewed scientific or statistical analysis !!
> Hmm, where did that IP stack come from?
I assume you mean the code, but you could also go a step higher and ask: where did the IP protocol stack itself come from ? The whole of the internet, WWW, email, HTML etc is built on Open Standards. That is why it is so successful. MS just added a proprietary front-end to it !
> Release a CC song as good as any one by Britney Spears.
Which, of course, the average pub band could do in 1/4 hour :-)
> Yet here we are, on a web forum, and not on USENET.
I read Slashdot on a web forum for exactly *one* reason: I have *no choice* (AFAIK), there is no USENET interface :-(
(Before anyone suggests it I tried the GNUs extension nnslashdot but could not get it to work.)
Please can you all stop posting to this thread: have you forgotten the first and second rules ?
> This is why stealing a Britney Spears CD has a more serious penalty than payback of the $8 price tag.
Too right: it becomes a matter of public record, and so then you have to live with the shame that you wanted a copy !! (Saying it was for your kid sister will cut no ice !)
According to this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR CherryPal uses a Freescale MPC5121e CPU, and this page http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/brochure/FLYMPC5121ECON.pdf (PDF: 154kb) says that it alone uses up to 2 Watts.
> It is, and in German they like really long sentences, too.
And really long *words* (just take 5 "normal" words and jam them together with no spaces, hyphens etc between them. Then pass them to a language-deficient Englishman (i.e. me) and ask him to parse and translate. Result: brain death).
> "The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool." -Unknown
Perhaps you are misquoting George Bernard Shaw:
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
> but I'm not sure what Alaska was made up for...
Easy: Northern Exposure and Men In Trees.
> and now you Brits are trying to demote it to a mere "city"?
Maybe it is a joke on those Americans who think that Scotland is part of England !!
> Wine 1.0 -- Uncorked After 15 Years
Yikes; that is great news. Perhaps HURD will also be released soon ?
> Why not go after the people who MAKE child porn? You know the ones ACTUALLY HURTING kids?
On reason is jurisdiction. There is not a lot a, say, US prosecutor can do to get the producer in, say, Russia, or China, or wherever, but they *can* go after someone accessing/possessing it in the US.
> This is embarrassing, but two years ago I had surgery on my butt
:-(
>
Yikes: that was *way* to much detail for my lunchtime reading
> the monarchy in the UK is there because the British rather enjoy tradition
:-))
I would say most people either enjoy the tradition, or do not care either way. I would side with the minority who would like to see the monarchy removed complete from the apparatus of power.
Being UK born, but lived in Germany for the last 11 years I still find it embarrassing to come from a country that still, in the 21st Century, has such an undemocratic process (ie include the house of lords). I am jealous of the fact that Germany (like most (all?) modern democratic states) has 2 elected houses, and a single, written constitution. Also, IIRC, if all the MPs turn up at the same time they can all sit down at the same time (!!), unlike in the Houses of Parliament. (But it does still amuse me that the Queen is more German than I am
> ....as the Bill in question has only been passed by the House of Commons. It's got to go before the House of Lords yet.
IANAPS, but IIRC the UK is still a Constitutional monarchy, in which case the Queen also has to sign the act after the Lords approve it (OK: it is a rubber-stamping job, but still...).
Fellow dis-United Kingdommers: welcome to the 51st State.
> So rather than help with the X.org that's letting you look at this post right now, you're trying to get everyone to drop it?
I am at work, so I have to use Windows, you insensitive clod !!
(on my coffee break)
> According to the article, there are no plans for a scout merit badge in open source
Well you would not expect there to be one: it goes against the spirit of it.
If you feel the itch for an Open Source Merit badge then you just *make one for yourself*, either to your own design or one that you find on the web that is suitable licensed.
You could also make lots of copies for your fellow Scouts, you could even change for them, but you can not stop someone else seeing your design and making an identical one for themselves.
> A metre is a metre (well, a meter at least) but it's the same distance.
Unless you are a spacecraft engineer, and then a meter is the same as a foot !!