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> Stichting Thuiskopie foundation
In fact Babelfish translates this as "foundation at home copy" !!
I did read your question carefully: however it is possible that my reply is not very clear !!
My reply was intended to answer a technical question about *skipping* past the nude scenes before the bill: there is nothing prohibiting you at the moment either skipping complete chapters, or from fast-forwarding through scenes, but I guess that after the bill a parent could buy a new player and press a "skip sex and violence" button and that would be it: the player would seamlessly *skip* past those scenes on all coded DVDs, as opposed to *fast-forwarding*. And the parent would not need to be present.
> Before the bill, what exactly was prohibiting DVD players from doing this?
- Sex and violence in the middle of a film: yes, you can press fast forward, but the kids still get the gist of it: I guess the controllers want a clean jump past some material.
- Adverts/warnings etc at the start (my pet hate): AFAIK it is in the DVD standards: material on the disk can be maked as unskippable.
> but in the English language constructs like this exist as well (e.g. railway consists of two nouns)
But the English ones are usually short. The problem I have (as an Englishmen stuggling to learn German in order to understand those who I now live amongst) is that the German ones can get so damn long.
(If I had one vote for a German grammer rule change I would struggle to choose between compulsory use of spaces and the dropping of the sexing of objects (der/die/das, aus, aus, aus:-)
>...who've been as effective as the League of Nations at preventing wars and fostering international peace and a sense of global community
I am not suggesting that the UN should take all (or even any) of the credit, nor am I denying the steady stream of wars in non-"Western" locations, but has not the world been quite peaceful since 1945 ? OK there was the *fear* of WW3, but it never happened.
1914: WW1, 1939: WW2, WW3 was due in 1964, WW4 in 1989. Where did they go (on that scale) ? When was the last war fought on US or European soil ?
As far as I can see, something has been going in the right direction !!
(Before you ask, I was not born until the year WW3 was due.)
One thing I do not get about the semantic web: it seems to be based on the idea of meta-data and then expands on this into how this data can be searched, indexed accessed etc. But I have not read anywhere how this meta-data will be verified: HTML already provides meta-data tags, but they are useless because that were abused in the past. (Googles success is partly based on the fact that they ignored the meta-data and tryed to get the real document content.) So how will the semantic web be any better ?
> But let's remember Firefox was not the primary goal of the Mozilla Project, but a fluke...
I agree: Firefox seems to have developed out of someones "itch", but it then somehow caught onto something. It is not revolutionary compared to Mozilla, but somehow caught first the developers and then the technically aware users imagination. And then with release 1.0 the audience widened.
IMHO I think any FLOSS project (especially large ones) that wants to expand it's user base would do well to try to work out what made Firefox take off. (IMHO the provision for plugins is a big plus: it effectively lowers the barrier for developers to participate and makes it easier for users to experiment with features.)
> disused chemical plant (a remake of Blake's Seven, anyone?)
By coincidence I watched an episode last night: surposedly on an alien planet it had both a chemical works and a quarry in the same episode. In some of the quarry shots you could see the regular, earth-like, trees in the background, around the rim:-)
> But whenever I visit a site that uses a theme I recognize, it always makes me cringe. It's like they can't be spared the time to make their own look and feel, or something.
Funny: I usually feel the opposite. I think that maybe they spent that extra time enhancing the *content*:-) Or maybe I am just an old fart ?
Firstly I agree that your personal philosophy should grow, and possibly change as your life develops.
BUT I think the point here is not that RMS thinks that Bill should stand still, but that he (Bill) has simply switched over because it suits his selfish ends. Bill has *not* developed into a new understanding that patents are good: he knows they are bad for small companys and individuals and good for large companys.
And I think it is valid for RMS, and all of us, to dig up Bills words from the past to emphasis the self-cenrteredness of his present position.
Beware of Logitech Quickcam Express. The old ones seem to have good Linux support, but they are now using a new detector (ICM532), whose support is only in it's infancy under Linux. I bought one a couple of months ago and found this out the hard way !!
(My camera is 0x46d/0x920 and I have not got it to work properly yet, thought others have).
Whilst I do not doubt the wonders that NASA can perform, perhaps you should spare a little credit: reading the article on the ESA website it looks like a joint undertaking: the signals came from US and Aus (parks). The science team is European (as an ESA project), and the data was "processed jointly by scientists from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL, USA) and the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE, The Netherlands) working within the DWE team."
Blimey: they are getting faster at updating their website, and Slashdot is getting more influential !!
(When I posted on Slashdot at 15:25 the page was definitly NOT there. But at 16:42 SuperBanana reports that the page is there again. And it is still there this morning.)
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Listen! And understand! The FUDers are out there. They can't be bargained with! They can't be reasoned with! They don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until GNU is dead!
> Stichting Thuiskopie foundation
In fact Babelfish translates this as "foundation at home copy" !!
> Stichting Thuiskopie foundation
Sounds like an NGO/lobby group: i.e. an organisation nothing to the goverment is suggesting maybe a tax...
(probably funded by the music industry to spread FUD)
> or you didn't read my question carefully
I did read your question carefully: however it is possible that my reply is not very clear !!
My reply was intended to answer a technical question about *skipping* past the nude scenes before the bill: there is nothing prohibiting you at the moment either skipping complete chapters, or from fast-forwarding through scenes, but I guess that after the bill a parent could buy a new player and press a "skip sex and violence" button and that would be it: the player would seamlessly *skip* past those scenes on all coded DVDs, as opposed to *fast-forwarding*. And the parent would not need to be present.
> Before the bill, what exactly was prohibiting DVD players from doing this?
- Sex and violence in the middle of a film: yes, you can press fast forward, but the kids still get the gist of it: I guess the controllers want a clean jump past some material.
- Adverts/warnings etc at the start (my pet hate): AFAIK it is in the DVD standards: material on the disk can be maked as unskippable.
> Parents may be more likely pay a bit more for these "pre-screened" DVDs
:-)
And others would pay more to be able to skip past those boring stories and get straight to the sex and violence
Because most people users/coders are happy with good-enough. It is simply not worth the amount of effort, unless you want to sell to Mac users :-)
Hell: we have a whole generation that thinks it is normal to keep re-booting the whole PC to perform simple tasks (eg installing new s/w).
> but in the English language constructs like this exist as well (e.g. railway consists of two nouns)
:-)
But the English ones are usually short. The problem I have (as an Englishmen stuggling to learn German in order to understand those who I now live amongst) is that the German ones can get so damn long.
(If I had one vote for a German grammer rule change I would struggle to choose between compulsory use of spaces and the dropping of the sexing of objects (der/die/das, aus, aus, aus
> If you follow some of the links from the article, it talks about productivity doubling since using BitKeeper.
:-)
I did, and it does. But also states that the reason is that Bitkeeper forced Linus to work differently and this turned out to be more efficient.
(i.e. the tool with *less* configurablity turned out to be better at getting the job done
>...who've been as effective as the League of Nations at preventing wars and fostering international peace and a sense of global community
I am not suggesting that the UN should take all (or even any) of the credit, nor am I denying the steady stream of wars in non-"Western" locations, but has not the world been quite peaceful since 1945 ? OK there was the *fear* of WW3, but it never happened.
1914: WW1, 1939: WW2, WW3 was due in 1964, WW4 in 1989. Where did they go (on that scale) ? When was the last war fought on US or European soil ?
As far as I can see, something has been going in the right direction !!
(Before you ask, I was not born until the year WW3 was due.)
> and MS products are known to always have correct and valid english.
:-)
Sorry: that is not true. Anyone familiar with the Queens English will know that Microsoft uses that bastardisation more correctly called US-English
IIRC W3 Schools measure the hits to their *own* website (I can not find a reference to it, but IIRC I read it on Slashdot, so it must be true :-)
One thing I do not get about the semantic web: it seems to be based on the idea of meta-data and then expands on this into how this data can be searched, indexed accessed etc.
But I have not read anywhere how this meta-data will be verified: HTML already provides meta-data tags, but they are useless because that were abused in the past. (Googles success is partly based on the fact that they ignored the meta-data and tryed to get the real document content.)
So how will the semantic web be any better ?
> But let's remember Firefox was not the primary goal of the Mozilla Project, but a fluke ...
I agree: Firefox seems to have developed out of someones "itch", but it then somehow caught onto something. It is not revolutionary compared to Mozilla, but somehow caught first the developers and then the technically aware users imagination. And then with release 1.0 the audience widened.
IMHO I think any FLOSS project (especially large ones) that wants to expand it's user base would do well to try to work out what made Firefox take off. (IMHO the provision for plugins is a big plus: it effectively lowers the barrier for developers to participate and makes it easier for users to experiment with features.)
> Um... where's England?
:-)
It is your unsinkable aircraft carrier just off the coast of continental Europe
> disused chemical plant (a remake of Blake's Seven, anyone?)
:-)
By coincidence I watched an episode last night: surposedly on an alien planet it had both a chemical works and a quarry in the same episode. In some of the quarry shots you could see the regular, earth-like, trees in the background, around the rim
> But whenever I visit a site that uses a theme I recognize, it always makes me cringe. It's like they can't be spared the time to make their own look and feel, or something.
:-) Or maybe I am just an old fart ?
Funny: I usually feel the opposite. I think that maybe they spent that extra time enhancing the *content*
> They could have easily dug their heels in and raged against the Linux tide.
I thought they were famous for *not* adopting Linux, and only now considered it due to customer pressure ?
Firstly I agree that your personal philosophy should grow, and possibly change as your life develops.
BUT I think the point here is not that RMS thinks that Bill should stand still, but that he (Bill) has simply switched over because it suits his selfish ends. Bill has *not* developed into a new understanding that patents are good: he knows they are bad for small companys and individuals and good for large companys.
And I think it is valid for RMS, and all of us, to dig up Bills words from the past to emphasis the self-cenrteredness of his present position.
> if people are wondering why the decision took so long
:-(
My understanding was that the worst case scenario was the loss of Mars Express itself, not just the radar
Beware of Logitech Quickcam Express. The old ones seem to have good Linux support, but they are now using a new detector (ICM532), whose support is only in it's infancy under Linux. I bought one a couple of months ago and found this out the hard way !!
(My camera is 0x46d/0x920 and I have not got it to work properly yet, thought others have).
Whilst I do not doubt the wonders that NASA can perform, perhaps you should spare a little credit: reading the article on the ESA website it looks like a joint undertaking: the signals came from US and Aus (parks). The science team is European (as an ESA project), and the data was "processed jointly by scientists from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL, USA) and the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE, The Netherlands) working within the DWE team."
> No, it's still there
Blimey: they are getting faster at updating their website, and Slashdot is getting more influential !!
(When I posted on Slashdot at 15:25 the page was definitly NOT there. But at 16:42 SuperBanana reports that the page is there again. And it is still there this morning.)
But her page has gone already :-)
But google cache has it: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:PX8f_tPqKOcJ: www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/bios/fiorina.html+fiori na&hl=en
(I am sure my employer could not co-ordinate a website update with a press release this fast :-)
> Merging solaris code into the linux kernel
IIRC the Solaris licence specifically *excludes* the merging of Solaris code into *any* GPL code.