The EU is a beurocratic nightmare. We got some things right, but we also have a lot of nonsense happening here - like the whole software patent thing, with some organs of the EU trying to use undemocratic means of getting their swpat directive passed. We have a by-law regulating the import of toffee - with more than 25.000 words. Go figure.
I'm quite happy that I was taught about the "replace democratic governments with dictators" thing in school - which I don't exactly take for granted. I was also taught that German history didn't start in 1928 and end in 1945, so I guess my teachers were not of the usual kind.
maybe computer controls to limit the trottle that can be used? Maybe only allowing a certain rate of throttle increase at a time.
of course, that'd be sort of dangerous.:)
Driver: "Accelerate faster, dammit!"
Car: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that..."
And after the war you'll be using your oh-so reliable car as a makeshift home while I'll be cruising the wasteland in my Chrysalis Highwayman. Nothing can stop a Highwayman, they say.
Heck, this sounds like an infinite money scheme: You fly an airplane from airport A to airport B. After landing you reboot with the last known good configuration, which involves a full tank and completely functional parts.
Zing! You have just eliminated all refueling and maintenance costs for your airplane. Tomorrow I'll show you how you can get a real flying saucer from Area 51 using scp.
Yes, but Nintendo is a corporation, while the OSS crowd is not. Since in court Corporations Are Always Right, the Linux crowd obviously violated Nintendo's patent on graphical depictions of penguins in any form, before Nintendo even had it.
With so many text editors to choose from, I'd like to know which offers the combination of high-powered text editing features, syntax highlighting and extensibility required of today's demanding editor, while keeping the suits happy. Please include extensive discussions of how much vi beeps and how long it takes Emacs to load.
ed. ed is the default text editor. If it's the default it has to be good, right? BHPs can't argue with that logic, they'll love you for installing it on each and every system in their department (replacing all other text editors/word processors).
With so many software licenses available, I'd like to know which offers the high-powered legal mumbo-jumbo and strong ambiguities that are the hallmark of the professionally produced amateur computing project. Please phrase your BSD advocacy in the form of an insult to RMS, and include "Response to a question aksed by demi" in any replies and advertising materials.
Copy the text off of the back of a box of cereals. Use Google to translate it to Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese and back to English. Randomly replace part of it with a lorem ipsum. Ask a lawyer for important sounding but meaningless phrases like: "The user (hereafter referred to as USER) of this product (hereafter referred to as PRODUCT) agrees, that he will not, under any circumstances, sue or in any other form hold the author of this software (hereafter referred to as AUTHOR) accountable for anything, including but not limited to damage (including, but not limited to, actual, consequential, or punitive), liability, claim, or other injury or cause related to or resulting from using, not using, abusing, knowing, not knowing or being in the same room as PRODUCT. (Void where prohibited or in violation of common sense.)"
Make sure to force your customers to agree to the license before actually reading it.
You know that's not true because had they actually be pounding a few at the office their software would probably be better and MSFT as a whole wouldn't be wound so tight.
I don't know, it would explain a lot: Gates: "Y-yaknow, I, I, I... HATE those opensawrcepeople, those communist... hippies, yeah." Ballmer: "Yeah, le'ss just KILLemall. with, with, with... stuff."
*silence* Gates: "...I pro-, por-, propose a patent on being drunk." Ballmer: "Killemwith, paten's... Bill, you 're a... genius." Gates: "Kill who?" Ballmer: "The opensu--, opensau--... the, the commies."
I'm sure that SCO and NGCSB can be explained in a similar fashion.
That's why water is not ready for mission-critical drinking, as it's development model is fundamentally flawed and it's lacking a single 'drink-on system'. Because of that Microsoft has been forcing it's employees to only drink Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey since 1984.
Could you please explain to me why exactly my source is wrong any yours is not? All I see is two excerpts from two different dictionaries who differ in one detail. Without further information from a source that knows more about this topic than a dictionary it's pretty tough to call one source right and the other one wrong.
Also, the source you cite points to two definitions, one of which says the same as my source. Given that your argument as to why agnostics are athists is based on a certain interpretation of the first definition given by your source, having the second one contradict you might prove bad for your argument.
Agnostics don't believe that the answer is "no" either. (Over-generalization is fun.) Depending on your definition of atheism that might or might not mean that they are atheists.
If you define an atheist as someone who doesn't assume that there is a God then agnostics are atheists. If you define an atheists as someone who assumes that there is no God then agnostics are not atheists.
All atheists I have met so far belong into the second category.
Hmm, I'll have to look up stuff like this more often. By the way, this is depressing for us, too - the strong Euro and the weak Dollar are screwing up our export business.
I've bought a 12" iBook and I'm pretty happy with it. It was either that or an x86 laptop from a brand which is known to run Linux without any problems, because I really don't want to do my work with Windows.
Turns out that all laptops who are known to be Linux friendly are either slower or more expensive than the iBook (~1000 EUR if you're a student). Plus I've been told that iBooks can take a lot of abuse before malfunctioning. Plus OS X. Plus it's an Apple.
Now I'm pretty happy. The user interface puts everything I've ever seen to shame and the thing is extremely silent. Unless you put a CD into the drive, that is.
I've got some good hardware with a sexy OS for a decent price... Which might not have been the cause with an x86.
PS: If Apple would fix the handling of non-ASCII characters in their terminal application I'd be completely happy.
Now an entry level iBook is around 1200Euro, so it can't match in price.
*bzzzt* Wrong. If your cousin is a student, he can go to Apple's online store and get an 12" iBook for about 1000 Euros. Even if you consider the lack of AirPort in student offer iBooks you still get a decent machine for under 1200 (which is what I paid for one with AirPort and an 80G harddrive).
Isn't it just possible that the guy happens to have an opinion that differs with yours? Frankly, I'm getting tired of people here resorting to this kind of petty "attack" every time someone disagrees with them.
You are clearly getting paid by Microsoft, SCO, the GNAA, the CCCP, PETA and the tobacco industry or else you wouldn't make up such a ridiculous claim!
Total BS. Agnostics simply say that there's been no definitive proof of whether or not (a) God(s)/Goddess(es)/It(s) exist, and it's really pointless to claim that such (a) being(s) exist (and to try to describe their characteristics) without such proof. Just because a lot of people happen to believe the same unverifiable set of opinions does NOT make that opinion fact.
Exactly. Just to make clear why agnostic != atheist: Agnosticism implies that
(a) the existence of a [G|g]od has not been proven and that
(b) it has't been disproven either, which means that
(c) we can't really make a statement.
There's also "hard agnosticism" which assumes that it's actually impossible to prove/disprove the existance of a [G|g]od.
So, an agnostic definitely is not an atheist, because the assumption that there is no [G|g]od violates (b).
Well, actually it only requires that the technology be capable of substantial non-infringing uses.
Such as the distribution of the World of Warcraft open beta client, which was available via Blizzard's downloader, which turned out to be a BT client? Then there's that Fedora Core 3 ISO I got via BT - with the.torrent file coming from RedHat.
The low number for mail is because there may be lots of spam, but it's not that big a part of the total amount of data. Download a movie, >1 GB. traffic, and you can watch the content in an hour and a half. A single e-mail is maybe just a couple or tens of KB's, but may keep you busy for a while. And like IM, mostly text-based.
With services like Gmail the size of spam mails can finally be significantly improved. I'm excited to find out when I'm getting the first pr0n spam mail with the text replaced with an embedded movie.
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The EU is a beurocratic nightmare. We got some things right, but we also have a lot of nonsense happening here - like the whole software patent thing, with some organs of the EU trying to use undemocratic means of getting their swpat directive passed. We have a by-law regulating the import of toffee - with more than 25.000 words. Go figure.
I'm quite happy that I was taught about the "replace democratic governments with dictators" thing in school - which I don't exactly take for granted. I was also taught that German history didn't start in 1928 and end in 1945, so I guess my teachers were not of the usual kind.
What's a "tabloid computer"? A Sun Workstation?
maybe computer controls to limit the trottle that can be used? Maybe only allowing a certain rate of throttle increase at a time. of course, that'd be sort of dangerous. :)
Driver: "Accelerate faster, dammit!"
Car: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that..."
Do NOT even consider fuel injections! Gasoline is not meant to be administered intravenously, even if you're using a digital syringe!
And after the war you'll be using your oh-so reliable car as a makeshift home while I'll be cruising the wasteland in my Chrysalis Highwayman. Nothing can stop a Highwayman, they say.
Heck, this sounds like an infinite money scheme: You fly an airplane from airport A to airport B. After landing you reboot with the last known good configuration, which involves a full tank and completely functional parts.
Zing! You have just eliminated all refueling and maintenance costs for your airplane. Tomorrow I'll show you how you can get a real flying saucer from Area 51 using scp.
Especially with Just System.
Yes, but Nintendo is a corporation, while the OSS crowd is not. Since in court Corporations Are Always Right, the Linux crowd obviously violated Nintendo's patent on graphical depictions of penguins in any form, before Nintendo even had it.
With so many text editors to choose from, I'd like to know which offers the combination of high-powered text editing features, syntax highlighting and extensibility required of today's demanding editor, while keeping the suits happy. Please include extensive discussions of how much vi beeps and how long it takes Emacs to load.
ed. ed is the default text editor. If it's the default it has to be good, right? BHPs can't argue with that logic, they'll love you for installing it on each and every system in their department (replacing all other text editors/word processors).
With so many software licenses available, I'd like to know which offers the high-powered legal mumbo-jumbo and strong ambiguities that are the hallmark of the professionally produced amateur computing project. Please phrase your BSD advocacy in the form of an insult to RMS, and include "Response to a question aksed by demi" in any replies and advertising materials.
Copy the text off of the back of a box of cereals. Use Google to translate it to Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese and back to English. Randomly replace part of it with a lorem ipsum. Ask a lawyer for important sounding but meaningless phrases like: "The user (hereafter referred to as USER) of this product (hereafter referred to as PRODUCT) agrees, that he will not, under any circumstances, sue or in any other form hold the author of this software (hereafter referred to as AUTHOR) accountable for anything, including but not limited to damage (including, but not limited to, actual, consequential, or punitive), liability, claim, or other injury or cause related to or resulting from using, not using, abusing, knowing, not knowing or being in the same room as PRODUCT. (Void where prohibited or in violation of common sense.)"
Make sure to force your customers to agree to the license before actually reading it.
Nintendo DS vs PSP, anyone?
The GP32 runs Linux, so neither of them.
Now that you mention it... I should've checked for bad speling.
Hmm, "it's lacking" appears right to me. Care to educate me on how that one is wrong?
You know that's not true because had they actually be pounding a few at the office their software would probably be better and MSFT as a whole wouldn't be wound so tight.
I don't know, it would explain a lot:
Gates: "Y-yaknow, I, I, I... HATE those opensawrcepeople, those communist... hippies, yeah."
Ballmer: "Yeah, le'ss just KILLemall. with, with, with... stuff."
*silence*
Gates: "...I pro-, por-, propose a patent on being drunk."
Ballmer: "Killemwith, paten's... Bill, you 're a... genius."
Gates: "Kill who?"
Ballmer: "The opensu--, opensau--... the, the commies."
I'm sure that SCO and NGCSB can be explained in a similar fashion.
This is a strawman argument: the supplier of your Linux distro takes responsibliity and you should use a distro from a supplier that you trust.
Yeah, but what about LFS? Think of all those businesses wanting to use LFS for their Linux desktops!
That's why water is not ready for mission-critical drinking, as it's development model is fundamentally flawed and it's lacking a single 'drink-on system'. Because of that Microsoft has been forcing it's employees to only drink Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey since 1984.
Could you please explain to me why exactly my source is wrong any yours is not? All I see is two excerpts from two different dictionaries who differ in one detail. Without further information from a source that knows more about this topic than a dictionary it's pretty tough to call one source right and the other one wrong.
Also, the source you cite points to two definitions, one of which says the same as my source. Given that your argument as to why agnostics are athists is based on a certain interpretation of the first definition given by your source, having the second one contradict you might prove bad for your argument.
atheist noun a person who believes that God does not exist -- compare AGNOSTIC
agnostic noun a person who is not sure whether or not God exists or who believes that we cannot know whether God exists or not -- compare ATHEIST
-- Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, sixth edition (2001)
Either the OALD is wrong or I am right - or this is yet another area where the definitions depend on who you ask.
Agnostics don't believe that the answer is "no" either. (Over-generalization is fun.) Depending on your definition of atheism that might or might not mean that they are atheists.
If you define an atheist as someone who doesn't assume that there is a God then agnostics are atheists. If you define an atheists as someone who assumes that there is no God then agnostics are not atheists.
All atheists I have met so far belong into the second category.
Hmm, I'll have to look up stuff like this more often. By the way, this is depressing for us, too - the strong Euro and the weak Dollar are screwing up our export business.
1 EUR = 1.20 US$.
I've bought a 12" iBook and I'm pretty happy with it. It was either that or an x86 laptop from a brand which is known to run Linux without any problems, because I really don't want to do my work with Windows.
Turns out that all laptops who are known to be Linux friendly are either slower or more expensive than the iBook (~1000 EUR if you're a student). Plus I've been told that iBooks can take a lot of abuse before malfunctioning. Plus OS X. Plus it's an Apple.
Now I'm pretty happy. The user interface puts everything I've ever seen to shame and the thing is extremely silent. Unless you put a CD into the drive, that is.
I've got some good hardware with a sexy OS for a decent price... Which might not have been the cause with an x86.
PS: If Apple would fix the handling of non-ASCII characters in their terminal application I'd be completely happy.
Now an entry level iBook is around 1200Euro, so it can't match in price.
*bzzzt* Wrong. If your cousin is a student, he can go to Apple's online store and get an 12" iBook for about 1000 Euros. Even if you consider the lack of AirPort in student offer iBooks you still get a decent machine for under 1200 (which is what I paid for one with AirPort and an 80G harddrive).
Isn't it just possible that the guy happens to have an opinion that differs with yours? Frankly, I'm getting tired of people here resorting to this kind of petty "attack" every time someone disagrees with them.
You are clearly getting paid by Microsoft, SCO, the GNAA, the CCCP, PETA and the tobacco industry or else you wouldn't make up such a ridiculous claim!
Total BS. Agnostics simply say that there's been no definitive proof of whether or not (a) God(s)/Goddess(es)/It(s) exist, and it's really pointless to claim that such (a) being(s) exist (and to try to describe their characteristics) without such proof. Just because a lot of people happen to believe the same unverifiable set of opinions does NOT make that opinion fact.
Exactly. Just to make clear why agnostic != atheist: Agnosticism implies that
(a) the existence of a [G|g]od has not been proven and that
(b) it has't been disproven either, which means that
(c) we can't really make a statement.
There's also "hard agnosticism" which assumes that it's actually impossible to prove/disprove the existance of a [G|g]od.
So, an agnostic definitely is not an atheist, because the assumption that there is no [G|g]od violates (b).
Well, actually it only requires that the technology be capable of substantial non-infringing uses.
.torrent file coming from RedHat.
Such as the distribution of the World of Warcraft open beta client, which was available via Blizzard's downloader, which turned out to be a BT client? Then there's that Fedora Core 3 ISO I got via BT - with the
The low number for mail is because there may be lots of spam, but it's not that big a part of the total amount of data. Download a movie, >1 GB. traffic, and you can watch the content in an hour and a half. A single e-mail is maybe just a couple or tens of KB's, but may keep you busy for a while. And like IM, mostly text-based.
With services like Gmail the size of spam mails can finally be significantly improved. I'm excited to find out when I'm getting the first pr0n spam mail with the text replaced with an embedded movie.