Even though different distros may have different internal solutions to configuration, I see no good reason why a consistent front end can't (or shouldn't) be provided.
That's very true. In fact, Webmin already achieves that for a lot of stuff - it can auto-detect which OS or distribution it's installed on. It should be very easy for the Gnome team to do the same.
I agree that the security is not important news, but I am bothered by the party itself. It seems that since Gates is rich, he is able to buy the support of politicians using fancy parties. That doesn't seem fair to me.
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure the discovery itself could not be patented. They could probably only patent the technology they used to make the discovery and any technology they developed using the discovery. Though I could be completely wrong...
It's almost as if they don't think of the people visiting their site as customers
That's because they don't. They were referring to the people who pay them to place their ads; the people who click on the ads would be Doubleclick's customers' customers.
I agree, this sort of thing has an effect on many people other than the intended victim; as someone who works for a hosting company (admittedly a small one, but hey) I can tell you how annoying it is when your chosen datacenter is taken down by this kind of thing.
but the 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour are from the base-60 Babylonian numbering system.
As a side note, if the Earth's orbit was a perfect circle (or the Sun's orbit around the Earth, as the Babylonian's probably thought was the case) then our system for measuring time would fit perfectly with measuring angles in circles. There'd be 360 days in a year, so each degree of orbit would be one day. Each of the 12 months would be 30 days in length, which again relates nicely to the Babylonian number system and the use of the number 12 that you mentioned before.
It's simply beautiful. It's just a shame the Earth's orbit is an Ellipse...
In 1893, Congress adopted the metric standards, the official meter and kilogram bars supplied by BIPM, as the standards for all measurement in the U.S. This didn't mean that metric units had to be used, but since that time the customary units have been defined officially in terms of metric standards. Currently, the foot is legally defined to be exactly 0.3048 meter and the pound is legally defined to equal exactly 453.59237 grams.
That really depends if your server is running any kind of system which could be dangerous; if your server is defective, for example, and is in control of a rail signaling system, it could easily send a train hurtling out of control.
At least, the makers of proprietary software should be (not just Microsoft specifically), since if you can see the source you can check it yourself so it's as much your fault if it goes wrong.
As an example of why software makers should be held liable, imagine a nuclear power plant being run by some OS. Now imagine that OS has a bug which causes it to crash if certain conditions are met. Now imagine those conditions are met one day, causing the cooling system in the reactor to stop working as it should. I think we all know what happens next...
Realistically we should let people get used to the easier things to change first, browser, email client, Office suite, then when they are convinced, go for the OS.
That's true, if I remember correctly (or could be bothered checking) the city government of Munich is doing a similar thing.
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They (Warner Bros) do that with every domain they mention. Another example is ThingsThatAreWrong.com, used in the west wing.
Even though different distros may have different internal solutions to configuration, I see no good reason why a consistent front end can't (or shouldn't) be provided.
That's very true. In fact, Webmin already achieves that for a lot of stuff - it can auto-detect which OS or distribution it's installed on. It should be very easy for the Gnome team to do the same.
what sort of moron would let a webpage run code on his machine anyway?
The average user.
Yes, but I don't have the option of also influencing the policy makers with money.
Nothing wrong there.
How does it do it in a day? Easy
Do you seriously believe that you as an individual have as much power as those individuals with millions (or billions) of dollars? I certainly don't.
I never said Gates is unique, they're all just as bad.
I agree that the security is not important news, but I am bothered by the party itself. It seems that since Gates is rich, he is able to buy the support of politicians using fancy parties. That doesn't seem fair to me.
Am I the only one who thinks there should be a yearly limit to the number of applications one company/person can file? 3000 seems excessive.
Would you care to provide links to information on this? Or are you just flamebaiting?
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure the discovery itself could not be patented. They could probably only patent the technology they used to make the discovery and any technology they developed using the discovery. Though I could be completely wrong...
It wasn't that I missed your 'joke', I just didn't find it funny and felt the need to correct you.
It's almost as if they don't think of the people visiting their site as customers
That's because they don't. They were referring to the people who pay them to place their ads; the people who click on the ads would be Doubleclick's customers' customers.
I agree, this sort of thing has an effect on many people other than the intended victim; as someone who works for a hosting company (admittedly a small one, but hey) I can tell you how annoying it is when your chosen datacenter is taken down by this kind of thing.
I agree, adblock is very useful.
As a side note, if the Earth's orbit was a perfect circle (or the Sun's orbit around the Earth, as the Babylonian's probably thought was the case) then our system for measuring time would fit perfectly with measuring angles in circles. There'd be 360 days in a year, so each degree of orbit would be one day. Each of the 12 months would be 30 days in length, which again relates nicely to the Babylonian number system and the use of the number 12 that you mentioned before.
It's simply beautiful. It's just a shame the Earth's orbit is an Ellipse...
That's from here.
I know you were joking, but I just had to point that out.
Did you consider exporting as PDF?
Exactly, how long do you think it'll be before we hear about 'terrorists' trading secret government documents over P2P?
That really depends if your server is running any kind of system which could be dangerous; if your server is defective, for example, and is in control of a rail signaling system, it could easily send a train hurtling out of control.
At least, the makers of proprietary software should be (not just Microsoft specifically), since if you can see the source you can check it yourself so it's as much your fault if it goes wrong.
As an example of why software makers should be held liable, imagine a nuclear power plant being run by some OS. Now imagine that OS has a bug which causes it to crash if certain conditions are met. Now imagine those conditions are met one day, causing the cooling system in the reactor to stop working as it should. I think we all know what happens next...
That's true, if I remember correctly (or could be bothered checking) the city government of Munich is doing a similar thing.
If people don't like the software we have on offer, we can make different software that they do like.
But now we're getting off-topic.
Or in cases in which the defendant has a lot of money...