Problem is here that people almost ALWAYS fails to see danger from which way it comes. And you know - violence won't stop anything, it will create an circle, which will never stop. Until you will be dead.
If someone wants to kill you, appearantly you have done something wrong (if it is not because of criminal case). We don't answer about our decisions we make. If you done something wrong and something have hate for you - well, you screwed. You have to protect yourself, but you must understand why someone hates you.
Wait for next year. GNOME 2.14 will certainly contain Totem with it's plugin for Mozilla/Firefox/Ephihany, and by that, you could install plugin drivers for GStreamer to watch Quicktime/WMA. And by that time I guess all you will have to do is just click - enter your password - accept to install required packages (I don't know how far is Ubuntu another installer (not Synaptic), but it is very promising).
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AD domains = Novell, iPlanet stuff, which actually works much better. Group policies - you can get it now with 2.6 kernel and POSIX ACL support.
Microsoft *claims* to be user friendly, however, I better stick with Samba and it's console tools, because they simply *works*. Microsoft AD domains - Win2, Win2k3 - however, is another story. Sorry, but I have been sick of Microsoft error handling and "black box" mentality.
It is like claiming smoking is actually making you smarter. It is just matter of addiction when you will find a reasons why you want to stick with this and nothing else.
Your last idea is something I really would like to tested at least in prototype level - it is good one.
And it is not about "right or wrong" - there are so much very different user desktop expierences that there should be rules, not 'someone's expierence' to follow, otherwise then usability would be target which never could be reached.
About Desktop folder - sorry, but OS X and Windows XP lists Desktop folder as part of User home directory too, so it is how developers see that. I LOVE GNOME interpretation of Desktop folder icon. KDE also uses Desktop folder too, so my guess there are common agreement between desktop devs about that.
About system files - in theory, it would be good, in pratice, I don't see a point to invest something in such effort. When you work, actually first you can open is your home directory. So user will save all his content under his home directory, and won't have iniciative to mess with system. He also can't even read some of these directories, so - what's the deal, if permissions is set up right.
However, I would like to see more meaningful names of directories, but it doesn't really bother me - and most of specialists who needs to use them too. So I just guess it is not worth that.
Which actually wasn't failure totally at all, yeah, it was medicore, but somehow I like it. Its biggest flaw is sure that you can't understand not a hell what's happening on the screen, and only after three four views in your home screen you actually get it.
But there lays a problem - how to build and show a complex, difficult world, hero with dark past, and everything like that in the way that common watcher could understand?
AFAIK, they have evaluated both technical and legal issues, and technically formats are very close in functionality - so it is for calling off bluff from Microsoft about their 'superformats'. However, patent problems and resricted freedom played very big role in this case.
I wanted to post the same thing you have posted here, so it is really question which bugs me for quite of time - why no one, even commercial entity, tries to do that? My pick is that MANY govermental isntitutions would be VERY interested in that - if converter would be relyable, I guess OpenDocument would be used then as official format for inner workings.
Haven't you searched anywhere for such guys? If I have been a little bit richer, I would even donate some money for such thing.
First of all, I can be honest and true and yes, MS Office dominates, there is no doubt about that. However, I see *perfect legal* reasons to Massachusetts to choose open format. And Microsoft rethorics about 'how the real world deals with it' [tm] doesn't work.
It is nice to see goverment institutions which start to get it, that your IT infrastructure isn't video game - there should be REAL rules to follow. And there are no written in favor of some kind big business who wants it's format be main in goverment documentation.
For some reason, I'm really not surprised about reaction of Microsoft. What I am surprised about that they insist to their stubborness and stupidness in this topic. They just make their own grave in this situation.
PostgreSQL is best opensource database for serious, enterprise size applications, so MySQL is no match here. However, PostgreSQL had/still has serious issues about support - MySQL is much better supported in various apps, software, systems, etc. For example, I do programming now in Java/WebObjects, and I had problems to go with Postgres as database, using EnterpriseObjects. For now I stick with MySQL and still hope I can migrate to PostgreSQL later.
However, MySQL is superior is small and medium PHP based sites, because it is "good enough". They also working constantly on bringing new features and bug fixes, so for sake of both them I can say - competition is good in this case.
One of biggest problems about orbit that there is already too much garbage round around the globe. It is creating significant danger to any rocket with men going up there. So collecting of this garbage sure will be next big enterprise after opening civilian space flight.
Emmm...have you actually TRIED Blender3d? I guess you bashing it without knowing nor how it looks, how it works and what it is capable of. Legal DVD player? Google for it, there is some around. Fluendo makes another one, too.
Just please stop flaming without actually knowing something.
How about - don't want it, don't use it? No one FORCE you to use Google. Or Gmail. Or any kind of commercial product. So far, Google has been good citizen of the Net. If they will start to do nasty things, well, it will backfire.
Yeah, and I guess those who cares about privacy don't use email at all. Or use their own controled servers.
Or, if the name ends up showing up in a trademark search that LMI needs to do every once in a while just to protect the trademark....
Gosh. I thought I could be wrong, but as it seems to me you didn't even read what you posted. It says that if you have trademark with Linux in the name with it, you have to pay - it is trademark enforecement, it is simple as that.
Non-profit also means that you spend as much as you get.
But for correction please read Linus mail to lkml list, it provides lot of details and destroys this oversensational post and articles which caused that. It is simple - if you are non-profit and want to call your product 'My Linux Babe', you can do it - just you won't get ANY protection when someone also takes this title. BUT if you are sublicenser of trademark "Linux", then your title is also protected.
Good idea. However, it won't work, because lawyers and patent trolls won't allow it. Why and how? Well, they have money to buy some politicians. And you know how cheap they are these days...
No, DRM is not HERE. It is not in my computer. It won't be. It won't be in most computers. Because people don't care about which OS they use, but what about they DO care is their freedom to listen music and watch movies.
So, simply forget it. There is no fishes to fool in this pool. It is just hype of coorporative droids to create a market which RESISTS to exist.
Part down to comments and only have seen your sane one. What a 2£$%£@$ they (Sun appoligists, OpenSolaris fans, flame loving journalists) mean by word "Linux killer"? In such hostile way they won't make any friends in our community.
For me it is just turns me away to even try out OpenSolaris, not matter that technically I would like to.
Your arguments are good ones, I simply disagree with them, most with claim that Olympics is coroprate event. It NEVER have been, at least in the past. If it is now (My pick it would be news for various olympics organisations around the world), then IOC should say that way - it is commercial competitions. And should be treathed that way. Then spirit is all gone for good.
They SPONSOR it, not BUY it. If they BUY it, then, well, all this event is lost his source.
So...it must be reason why me, somewhere in the past most passionated watcher of olympics in my family, haven't seen enough of last two olympics. There must be some reasons for that. And those are politics and money.
Sorry, but I could be very over the top emotional, but to see that coorporations doesn't seem to get some common sense and don't draw the line how far they go to crush competition, even using such event like this...well...
It is simple - it is democracy or not. Calling it 'republic', 'constitutional monarchy' sounds like avoid concrete answer. And how do you know that majority of people support such things?
Not to sound too idealistic, I have to agree, there should be some protection for sponors and so far it have been sane. But last two times it has went totally downhill and now writing special law for that (trademark/copyright laws aren't enought?), it is called _corruption_. I simply don't see any sane reason for that. Laws should be set as stone and be very FEW, NO one should allowed to BUY law. Because if there will be more and more laws, not only coorporations, but also people will abuse them, because they will be tired of this concept. It is feodalism at it's best.
So back to pratical question - why trademark use isn't enough for sponsors and ISOC? Why abuse the whole "free world" system with such examples? I just don't get it. If they want to protect signs that they sponsor this event - fine. But this law have much bigger scope than that. I see some anticompetition signs.
I don't bash democracy. I just want to point out that such attitude torwards power and money will lead to slippery slope to coorporative elitism, modern feodalism and anarchy. I won't be good for all system.
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Temporary solution is always one - shoot. It won't solve problem why violence had to be used in the first place.
Problem is here that people almost ALWAYS fails to see danger from which way it comes. And you know - violence won't stop anything, it will create an circle, which will never stop. Until you will be dead.
If someone wants to kill you, appearantly you have done something wrong (if it is not because of criminal case). We don't answer about our decisions we make. If you done something wrong and something have hate for you - well, you screwed. You have to protect yourself, but you must understand why someone hates you.
Wait for next year. GNOME 2.14 will certainly contain Totem with it's plugin for Mozilla/Firefox/Ephihany, and by that, you could install plugin drivers for GStreamer to watch Quicktime/WMA. And by that time I guess all you will have to do is just click - enter your password - accept to install required packages (I don't know how far is Ubuntu another installer (not Synaptic), but it is very promising).
AD domains = Novell, iPlanet stuff, which actually works much better. Group policies - you can get it now with 2.6 kernel and POSIX ACL support.
Microsoft *claims* to be user friendly, however, I better stick with Samba and it's console tools, because they simply *works*. Microsoft AD domains - Win2, Win2k3 - however, is another story. Sorry, but I have been sick of Microsoft error handling and "black box" mentality.
It is like claiming smoking is actually making you smarter. It is just matter of addiction when you will find a reasons why you want to stick with this and nothing else.
Your last idea is something I really would like to tested at least in prototype level - it is good one.
And it is not about "right or wrong" - there are so much very different user desktop expierences that there should be rules, not 'someone's expierence' to follow, otherwise then usability would be target which never could be reached.
About Desktop folder - sorry, but OS X and Windows XP lists Desktop folder as part of User home directory too, so it is how developers see that. I LOVE GNOME interpretation of Desktop folder icon. KDE also uses Desktop folder too, so my guess there are common agreement between desktop devs about that.
:)
About system files - in theory, it would be good, in pratice, I don't see a point to invest something in such effort. When you work, actually first you can open is your home directory. So user will save all his content under his home directory, and won't have iniciative to mess with system. He also can't even read some of these directories, so - what's the deal, if permissions is set up right.
However, I would like to see more meaningful names of directories, but it doesn't really bother me - and most of specialists who needs to use them too. So I just guess it is not worth that.
But it is just my IMHO
Which actually wasn't failure totally at all, yeah, it was medicore, but somehow I like it. Its biggest flaw is sure that you can't understand not a hell what's happening on the screen, and only after three four views in your home screen you actually get it.
But there lays a problem - how to build and show a complex, difficult world, hero with dark past, and everything like that in the way that common watcher could understand?
AFAIK, they have evaluated both technical and legal issues, and technically formats are very close in functionality - so it is for calling off bluff from Microsoft about their 'superformats'. However, patent problems and resricted freedom played very big role in this case.
I wanted to post the same thing you have posted here, so it is really question which bugs me for quite of time - why no one, even commercial entity, tries to do that?
My pick is that MANY govermental isntitutions would be VERY interested in that - if converter would be relyable, I guess OpenDocument would be used then as official format for inner workings.
Haven't you searched anywhere for such guys? If I have been a little bit richer, I would even donate some money for such thing.
First of all, I can be honest and true and yes, MS Office dominates, there is no doubt about that. However, I see *perfect legal* reasons to Massachusetts to choose open format. And Microsoft rethorics about 'how the real world deals with it' [tm] doesn't work.
It is nice to see goverment institutions which start to get it, that your IT infrastructure isn't video game - there should be REAL rules to follow. And there are no written in favor of some kind big business who wants it's format be main in goverment documentation.
For some reason, I'm really not surprised about reaction of Microsoft. What I am surprised about that they insist to their stubborness and stupidness in this topic. They just make their own grave in this situation.
PostgreSQL is best opensource database for serious, enterprise size applications, so MySQL is no match here. However, PostgreSQL had/still has serious issues about support - MySQL is much better supported in various apps, software, systems, etc. For example, I do programming now in Java/WebObjects, and I had problems to go with Postgres as database, using EnterpriseObjects. For now I stick with MySQL and still hope I can migrate to PostgreSQL later.
However, MySQL is superior is small and medium PHP based sites, because it is "good enough". They also working constantly on bringing new features and bug fixes, so for sake of both them I can say - competition is good in this case.
Because we allow it to?
Hmmmm...how it would be legal for them, excuse me?
One of biggest problems about orbit that there is already too much garbage round around the globe. It is creating significant danger to any rocket with men going up there. So collecting of this garbage sure will be next big enterprise after opening civilian space flight.
Emmm...have you actually TRIED Blender3d? I guess you bashing it without knowing nor how it looks, how it works and what it is capable of.
Legal DVD player? Google for it, there is some around. Fluendo makes another one, too.
Just please stop flaming without actually knowing something.
Ohhhhh, you say it is sometimes too expensive to fight back to discover the truth?
Wonderful legalsystem you have there, I must say. The best for money you can buy.
Melting down ZDNET UK site, using slashdotting tehnique. Thanks guys for give me reason don't read this article and waste my time :)
How about - don't want it, don't use it?
No one FORCE you to use Google. Or Gmail. Or any kind of commercial product. So far, Google has been good citizen of the Net. If they will start to do nasty things, well, it will backfire.
Yeah, and I guess those who cares about privacy don't use email at all. Or use their own controled servers.
Or, if the name ends up showing up in a trademark search that LMI needs to do every once in a while just to protect the trademark....
Gosh. I thought I could be wrong, but as it seems to me you didn't even read what you posted. It says that if you have trademark with Linux in the name with it, you have to pay - it is trademark enforecement, it is simple as that.
non-profit != without money
Non-profit also means that you spend as much as you get.
But for correction please read Linus mail to lkml list, it provides lot of details and destroys this oversensational post and articles which caused that.
It is simple - if you are non-profit and want to call your product 'My Linux Babe', you can do it - just you won't get ANY protection when someone also takes this title. BUT if you are sublicenser of trademark "Linux", then your title is also protected.
It is clear I guess as that.
Good idea. However, it won't work, because lawyers and patent trolls won't allow it. Why and how? Well, they have money to buy some politicians. And you know how cheap they are these days...
No, DRM is not HERE. It is not in my computer. It won't be. It won't be in most computers. Because people don't care about which OS they use, but what about they DO care is their freedom to listen music and watch movies.
So, simply forget it. There is no fishes to fool in this pool. It is just hype of coorporative droids to create a market which RESISTS to exist.
Part down to comments and only have seen your sane one. What a 2£$%£@$ they (Sun appoligists, OpenSolaris fans, flame loving journalists) mean by word "Linux killer"? In such hostile way they won't make any friends in our community.
For me it is just turns me away to even try out OpenSolaris, not matter that technically I would like to.
Your arguments are good ones, I simply disagree with them, most with claim that Olympics is coroprate event. It NEVER have been, at least in the past. If it is now (My pick it would be news for various olympics organisations around the world), then IOC should say that way - it is commercial competitions. And should be treathed that way. Then spirit is all gone for good.
They SPONSOR it, not BUY it. If they BUY it, then, well, all this event is lost his source.
So...it must be reason why me, somewhere in the past most passionated watcher of olympics in my family, haven't seen enough of last two olympics. There must be some reasons for that. And those are politics and money.
Sorry, but I could be very over the top emotional, but to see that coorporations doesn't seem to get some common sense and don't draw the line how far they go to crush competition, even using such event like this...well...
it is dead end, at least it seems to me.
Two things.
It is simple - it is democracy or not. Calling it 'republic', 'constitutional monarchy' sounds like avoid concrete answer. And how do you know that majority of people support such things?
Not to sound too idealistic, I have to agree, there should be some protection for sponors and so far it have been sane. But last two times it has went totally downhill and now writing special law for that (trademark/copyright laws aren't enought?), it is called _corruption_. I simply don't see any sane reason for that. Laws should be set as stone and be very FEW, NO one should allowed to BUY law. Because if there will be more and more laws, not only coorporations, but also people will abuse them, because they will be tired of this concept. It is feodalism at it's best.
So back to pratical question - why trademark use isn't enough for sponsors and ISOC? Why abuse the whole "free world" system with such examples? I just don't get it. If they want to protect signs that they sponsor this event - fine. But this law have much bigger scope than that. I see some anticompetition signs.
I don't bash democracy. I just want to point out that such attitude torwards power and money will lead to slippery slope to coorporative elitism, modern feodalism and anarchy. I won't be good for all system.