Who used LessTif? GTK was invented by the GIMP guys (early versions used Motif).
Back in the day before GTK, just about everybody used LessTif. No way were they gonna pay big time beaucoup bucks for Motif to run some GPL 1.x code. There was even a Linux wm that ran off LessTif. Linky for those interested in what we hadda deal with back in the day...
I already have QT and such installed on my LXDE machine due to a couple of KDE apps I fell in love with. They work fine under Openbox/LXDE, so shouldn't be much of a problem to convert over to the new QT based DE.
Great idea. Not gonna happen. They already looted our childhood fairy tales and locked them in the vaults under eternal copyright and there was nothing left for them to do except buy Lucasfilms to get Star Wars.
Keep in mind that us old fossils (and I put my self in that category, I'm pushing 60 hard) remember when the US government tried to NOT do illegal and immoral things to its citizens.
So he probably violated laws in the process. There are enough laws on the books right this minute in the US to put anybody behind bars. Want to stop a whistleblower from outting your illegal actions? Cloak it in 'national security' blankets, that way, any whistleblower is automatically a traitor. You can do the character assassinations all you want once you throw the 'national security' card.
The difference between the Infernal Revenue 'Service' and the No Such Agency is, IRS is out in the open and up front. They tell you from jump street they're out to take every nickel and dime from you they can finagle away from you and there's not a lot you can do about it. Yeah, they can haul you into taxpayer court, but the records are open and easily accessible, no FoI request needed.
NSA, on the other tentacle, work in the dark, damned little oversight, and if their 'evidence' makes you a suspected terrorrorrorrist, you can be disappeared, no trial, no warrant, nothing but a black piece of paper after you file a dozen FOI requests.
Ah, the original babelfish link, http://babelfish.altavista.com./ I used it long after I started using Google for searches. Agreed, the translations were head and shoulders above everybody else.
People are 'wanting a king' to rule them for the last decade or so because the media tells them that's what they want, a government run by a strong man who will take care of them. We're told if we have nothing to hide, why should we fear surveillance? After all, as long as Jersey Shore is on at its regular time and uninterrupted, who cares, so we're told.
My solution to the 'cockpit problem' is weld a bulkhead across the fuselage and have entry to the cockpit from a hatch forward of the bulkhead, no access from inside the passenger area. I believed that to be the solution back in the late 60's/early 70's when it seemed that every other day a plane got hijacked to Cuba. And yeah, back in the day, they used to put an air marshal or 2 on every flight. Not sure when they stopped.
Not sure when it happened, but it seems we don't teach 'The tree of liberty must occaisionally be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants; that is its natural manure' anymore. Freedom is a bit messy, and sometimes blood must be spilled. It's an imperfect world, and to believe otherwise seems to be wishful thinking at best. History is full of instances where people believed that all you had to do was put down your sword and paradise was at hand. It was -- at the hands of the soldiers killing the pacifists. Great idea, but I don't think humanity has evolved that far yet...
Not if the Supreme Court disagrees with you that a particular statute is unconstitutional.
Unenforcable, I think you mean. SCOTUS has upheld several decisions later struck down as unconstitutional when the court swung the other way and somebody got a case in front of them. In the meantime, said unconstitutional laws are very much enforceable.
Remember that the lawyers own what's left of SCO, they have nothing to lose.
and they want their payday. Since there's nothing left of SCO, they'll have to file nuisance suits from now til the Second Coming of Elvis to get even some of the money they're "owed" via settlements. They've shown they were willing to ride it out to the bitter end.
If one assumes that this is the solution for electric cars, then a logical extension is that everybody will adopt it. Intercity truck hauling is the low hanging fruit so that is where you start. Then it cascades down to everybody. In 20 years half the cars driving would use the technology.
Initially costs would have to be subsidized by the taxpayers, but as usage grows then subsides would disappear with costs being recouped by charging for the electricity.
It’s a long shot but there could be huge wins. That is how I would evaluate it.
I can see a couple of 'gotchas' already.
First, those are conductors embedded in the road. They'll be exposed to the weather and climate. What happens when a snow plow drives over it scraping snow away from the road bed? Won't the blade short out the strip? Can it get all the snow and ice off the conductors? Will there be shorts when a vehicle activates a strip? What happens if a strip goes dead for a bit? Are they going to be designed short enough that momentum will take the vehicle to the next strip?
How are you going to power this sucker?
This is an interesting concept, though, a way to get engineers thinking outside the box. But why use strips embedded in a road surface when you can build maser towers and beam power to a rectenna installed on the vehicle?
..a highly ingenious way to warn us about something that has close to a zero chance of happening. I guess it's like the rest of Homeland Security's efforts, just without the ingenious part.
Not to mention, a highly ingenious way to keep the hype of the 'danger' of dirty bombs fresh in our minds. THANK YOU, DHS. It's been proven a few times that dirty bombs are no real threat since they're just radioactive-packed conventional explosives, but the media kept hyping them as the 'Next And Future Most Dangerous Evil Terrorrorrorrorrorrist Weapon of Mass Destruction', even though the cleanup of the aftermath of a 'dirty bomb' has been mathematically proven to be trivial compared to cleaning up after a nuke.
Guess that's why the media gets such big bucks. They hype dirty bombs some more and citizens will demand this happen to 'save us all'.
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Who used LessTif? GTK was invented by the GIMP guys (early versions used Motif).
Back in the day before GTK, just about everybody used LessTif. No way were they gonna pay big time beaucoup bucks for Motif to run some GPL 1.x code. There was even a Linux wm that ran off LessTif. Linky for those interested in what we hadda deal with back in the day...
San Francisco has 8,000 homeless people. Those could help.
The problem is, where do you put them up? NIMBY ('Not In My Back Yard!!') is the watchword here.
I have a whole household full of IKEA products that have served me well for years, I see no reason why the same couldn't apply to these shelters too.
The difference, of course, is your Ikea furniture isn't exposed to the elements. A 3 year lifespan for a temporary shelter isn't bad...
I'd like to see all Linux projects standardize on Qt as a their Gui toolkit. I understand why everyone has their own but the war is won and Qt won it.
Because it was a commercial library for a long long time and people went with alternatives, similar to LessTif vs Motif back in the day.
Serious question, I'm assuming that there was a specific reason for going with QT and not GTK3; anyone know why?
Feeping creaturism and bloat? Per TFA, QT is getting to have a smaller footprint than GTK3.
I already have QT and such installed on my LXDE machine due to a couple of KDE apps I fell in love with. They work fine under Openbox/LXDE, so shouldn't be much of a problem to convert over to the new QT based DE.
Great idea. Not gonna happen. They already looted our childhood fairy tales and locked them in the vaults under eternal copyright and there was nothing left for them to do except buy Lucasfilms to get Star Wars.
Keep in mind that us old fossils (and I put my self in that category, I'm pushing 60 hard) remember when the US government tried to NOT do illegal and immoral things to its citizens.
Yes. Feel the anger. Let it course through your veins. Only then will you know the power of the dark side.
And least we forget, the Dark Side has cookies
So he probably violated laws in the process. There are enough laws on the books right this minute in the US to put anybody behind bars. Want to stop a whistleblower from outting your illegal actions? Cloak it in 'national security' blankets, that way, any whistleblower is automatically a traitor. You can do the character assassinations all you want once you throw the 'national security' card.
The difference between the Infernal Revenue 'Service' and the No Such Agency is, IRS is out in the open and up front. They tell you from jump street they're out to take every nickel and dime from you they can finagle away from you and there's not a lot you can do about it. Yeah, they can haul you into taxpayer court, but the records are open and easily accessible, no FoI request needed.
NSA, on the other tentacle, work in the dark, damned little oversight, and if their 'evidence' makes you a suspected terrorrorrorrist, you can be disappeared, no trial, no warrant, nothing but a black piece of paper after you file a dozen FOI requests.
Ah, the original babelfish link, http://babelfish.altavista.com./ I used it long after I started using Google for searches. Agreed, the translations were head and shoulders above everybody else.
Couple things, really...
People are 'wanting a king' to rule them for the last decade or so because the media tells them that's what they want, a government run by a strong man who will take care of them. We're told if we have nothing to hide, why should we fear surveillance? After all, as long as Jersey Shore is on at its regular time and uninterrupted, who cares, so we're told.
My solution to the 'cockpit problem' is weld a bulkhead across the fuselage and have entry to the cockpit from a hatch forward of the bulkhead, no access from inside the passenger area. I believed that to be the solution back in the late 60's/early 70's when it seemed that every other day a plane got hijacked to Cuba. And yeah, back in the day, they used to put an air marshal or 2 on every flight. Not sure when they stopped.
Not sure when it happened, but it seems we don't teach 'The tree of liberty must occaisionally be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants; that is its natural manure' anymore. Freedom is a bit messy, and sometimes blood must be spilled. It's an imperfect world, and to believe otherwise seems to be wishful thinking at best. History is full of instances where people believed that all you had to do was put down your sword and paradise was at hand. It was -- at the hands of the soldiers killing the pacifists. Great idea, but I don't think humanity has evolved that far yet...
Aren't they violating the millennium act? I suppose that's only if they try to circumvent an encryption scheme....
It's the government doing this. That makes it legal, sorta. At least it is sorta legal if you wanna bag them terrorrorrorrorrists.
Personally, I think the terrorrorrorrorrists already won.
Unconstitutional laws are unenforceable
Not if the Supreme Court disagrees with you that a particular statute is unconstitutional.
Unenforcable, I think you mean. SCOTUS has upheld several decisions later struck down as unconstitutional when the court swung the other way and somebody got a case in front of them. In the meantime, said unconstitutional laws are very much enforceable.
Yeah, Google is big now. Back in the day, not so much. Back then, they really didn't have the juice to tell Uncle Sam to go piss up a rope.
Ah, but they own the dust that's left over. They'll try to recoup their "loses" by nuisance suits for quick settlement cash.
Remember that the lawyers own what's left of SCO, they have nothing to lose.
and they want their payday. Since there's nothing left of SCO, they'll have to file nuisance suits from now til the Second Coming of Elvis to get even some of the money they're "owed" via settlements. They've shown they were willing to ride it out to the bitter end.
WHAT assets? Darl et al already spent the assets. There's nothing left, not even dust under the desks.
They have some you can buy there, jackass.
Isn't what I'd call good coffee. Overpriced overly-flavored trendy shit.
I'll stick with the cheap shit I buy at Wallyworld, a 33 oz can for what they want for one cup at Starbucks.
If one assumes that this is the solution for electric cars, then a logical extension is that everybody will adopt it. Intercity truck hauling is the low hanging fruit so that is where you start. Then it cascades down to everybody. In 20 years half the cars driving would use the technology.
Initially costs would have to be subsidized by the taxpayers, but as usage grows then subsides would disappear with costs being recouped by charging for the electricity.
It’s a long shot but there could be huge wins. That is how I would evaluate it.
I can see a couple of 'gotchas' already.
First, those are conductors embedded in the road. They'll be exposed to the weather and climate. What happens when a snow plow drives over it scraping snow away from the road bed? Won't the blade short out the strip? Can it get all the snow and ice off the conductors? Will there be shorts when a vehicle activates a strip? What happens if a strip goes dead for a bit? Are they going to be designed short enough that momentum will take the vehicle to the next strip?
How are you going to power this sucker?
This is an interesting concept, though, a way to get engineers thinking outside the box. But why use strips embedded in a road surface when you can build maser towers and beam power to a rectenna installed on the vehicle?
Profanity is the crutch of inarticulate motherfuckers.
what are you trying to say?
Beats the shit outta me...
When the fuck did corporations get constitutional rights? THEY AIN'T PEOPLE, PEOPLE!!!!
..a highly ingenious way to warn us about something that has close to a zero chance of happening. I guess it's like the rest of Homeland Security's efforts, just without the ingenious part.
Not to mention, a highly ingenious way to keep the hype of the 'danger' of dirty bombs fresh in our minds. THANK YOU, DHS. It's been proven a few times that dirty bombs are no real threat since they're just radioactive-packed conventional explosives, but the media kept hyping them as the 'Next And Future Most Dangerous Evil Terrorrorrorrorrorrist Weapon of Mass Destruction', even though the cleanup of the aftermath of a 'dirty bomb' has been mathematically proven to be trivial compared to cleaning up after a nuke.
Guess that's why the media gets such big bucks. They hype dirty bombs some more and citizens will demand this happen to 'save us all'.
Humans will be obsolete. You think they'll be kept around after obsolescense?