I mean that continent, which is drawn on our geographic maps for no longer than 512 years up to day, sorry if it hurts your pride some way.
Just because your ancestors didn't live here doesn't mean my ancestors didn't. calling it a "new continent" is about as backwards as anything i've heard in the last year, ignoring all the history that occured prior to Columbus "discovering" it.
yes, I am part native american. 1/64 if you want to trace it back. about as much as any other blood I have in me. I'm the proverbial melting pot.
To your question, I have an answer: YES. You cannot find a tibetan language localisation, nor nls tables in the linux kernel, because of political oposition of chinese government. Because of their denial of existence of tibetan nation and language at all. Same happend in Unicode project, as I remember.
and you are sure that it's because the Chinese government doesn't want it? What influence does the Chinese government hold over Linus? I think he'd laugh at the notion. Rather it's possible that it's either not production quality, or there aren't human resources to implement it.
Even if it *we're* rejected from the official source tree, you have all the power in your own self to release a patch for users to download and install. If you are in China, and they are repressing you and your technological developments, hopefully you can get yourself and the word out.
Imagine some government agency would be wanting a kernel patch to provide a back door to that cryptography api. It may even be forced by law in that country. I can easy imagine USA and China will be the first ones, exactly in that order.
How exactly can you have an effective back door in a Free Software project? Maybe in a binary only distribution... that doesn't distribute source code... But that isn't Free, and that doesn't describe Linux.
in any case, i fundamentally agree with you that technology can be tossed around like political tool. it shouldn't be, but I have to believe that those that are on the front lines of development are there to promote Good. mostly just Good Technology.
All I got when I was in the military was a gun, uncomfortable boots, and a pair of clean socks. Luckily, I didn't see any combat or I would have needed an extra pair of clean underwear too.
don't you know? you're supposed to use that gun to get better equipment. hasn't Doom, or any other video game from 1978 onward taught us anything?
That extra pair of underwear... I think that's in the Med Pack you get for blowing up a school bus.
they better be having one hell of a bake sale to make that kind of money...
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Apparently you need flash or some other equally crappy plugin (even for the text stuff(?!), minus the left nav). i refuse to install it. how do the french say... piss off?
Sure she was nailing my jock roomate, but I still think I came close to losing my virginity...
so while she was nailing your roommate you almost lost your virginity? you should stay on your half of the room when they are doing it, or preferably leave the room entirely.
now if only there was a way to flush the image cache in my brain. oh, there's a heavy book. that might work.
surely. but in a game of lasers-gophers-bottlecaps, lasers beat gophers. so try getting your enormous genetically engineered Earthquake Relieving Gophers past my lasers.
so obviously we should use bottlecaps. because they beat lasers. Hmm, but gopher beats bottlecaps... dilemas dilemas.
Don't forget, he's riding half the coat-tails of Windows and half the coat-tails of Linux. What if the name was completely unrelated to Windows. like, Linmoo or Lincow? He's playing off the popularity of Linux simply by creating this product.
Personally, I hope MS loses this case and Lindows drops out of the public eye. I don't feel like they are a good solid foundation for windows users migrating to linux.
The first rule of migration is "Pick a distribution that is widely supported." The fact that Walmart might have a boxed set does not mean it's widely supported.
Fear! Uncertainty! Doubt! Speculation! Oh My! The world is comming to an end! Maybe we should have a Giant Space Laser that reduces stress in the earth's plates! When will the world end? Today? Tommorow? Yesterday, and this is just the afterlife?...time for more coffee. Is this a slow news day, or what?
..what, like a crop duster that throws lawyers out of the plane onto the offending crops?
but seriously...
probably. if you can be sued for inadvertantly having these crops in your property, then fair use would seem to dictate that you have the right to reverse engineer the product. if you weren't, and only Monsanto were allowed to do so, then they could somehow promote the spreading of their product (the crop) to create a need for a RoundupReady Plant Killer. The situation would be like antivirus companies spreading new computer viruses, and you can only use their av software to eliminate their viruses.
Ok, so i'm liable if i use this seed, known use or without knowing.
But will Monsanto be liable if this genetically altered crop starts causing cancer, or contamination to the water supply, directly or indirectly (like it kills prarie dogs or something, and the prarie dogs carcasses spread disease)? Probably not, they'll litigate their way out of it somehow, I can see it. So if a flock of birds carries the crop seed over to my farm, i'm liable. any indirect harm caused by their seeds and they should be liable too.
people who made broad, sweeping, overreaching generalizations based on fear, anger, and lack of understanding. much like this country (the U.S.) is doing.
besides, i thought you were going to tell me something i didn't know. somethign recent, in terms of current events. although events from 3 years ago are wholey relevant, your three questions asking the obvious is less than insightfull.
the interesting thing will be to see the situation in NYC when the republican convention comes to town. not to mention the "die-in" that was supposed to take place today.
time to make a database of politicians likely to sell you're future to the highest bidder? i thought i recall something along these lines, but a web search isn't turing up anything. i'm possibly putting the wrongs words into google.
granted, most people don't know their representatives names. a search by zip code would be great. gives your representatives names on local, state, and federal level and where they are getting their money, what their criminal history is, where they own property, where they went on their last vacation, what bills they are for and against. that's a lot of hard work. if they can do it about us, why can't we do it about them? there are vastly more of us than them.
"they've got the guns but, we've got the numbers..." -Morrison.
Why? because this fall I can go vote for someone new. because today I can say that George W. Bush is a sneeky, secretive, religious, antagonistic "Good Ol Boy" bastard whose type should have died out with McCarthyism.
at first i wondered why i said "moto" in my head, instead of "motto", then i realized this is/. and no one proofreads anything. my post is a case in point... here i come "Submit" button. no "preview" for you this time!
now i just realized they said "who's" as well. doesn't this mean, "who is moto..."?
just print out every resulting page from a goodle search of GNU GPL Linux, including subsearches on images, groups, and froogle. also, print out any non english results by sending them through babelfish.
print all the results on 3x5 notecards, in 7 pt font. in binary. naw, binary would be too easy to scan and convert to digital with OCR. make it some crazy bubble letter font. any resulting images convert to ascii art. any froogle results, purchase them and have the sent Cost on Delivery to SCO Headquarters. Which by now is probably the backseat of a Pinto, about to blow up because they shut the door too hard.
besides letting the free software/open source community know what SCO is stooping to? maybe the FSF lawyers told them not to release the contents of the subpoena until they were certain of any legal actions they had to take.
Ok, I know nothing about SPARK, so forgive my ignorance.
me neither, me too...
my understanding is that the contract has hard requirements on specific input and specific output for results. all of which are defined prior to executing that code. something like "we require an incomming integer with a value that is between zero and fifteen. we gaurantee that an integer value will be returned that is either zero or one"
with a public class interface you can write a peice of code that does this, but it won't gaurantee anything. it's up to the developer to exhaustively test all situations and make sure that it happens. in a contract based language, i would guess that the program either won't compile, won't run, or will fail in obvious ways in the development stage if the requirements are not met. i'm not sure how they handle requirements that aren't met.
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I mean that continent, which is drawn on our geographic maps for no longer than 512 years up to day, sorry if it hurts your pride some way.
Just because your ancestors didn't live here doesn't mean my ancestors didn't. calling it a "new continent" is about as backwards as anything i've heard in the last year, ignoring all the history that occured prior to Columbus "discovering" it.
yes, I am part native american. 1/64 if you want to trace it back. about as much as any other blood I have in me. I'm the proverbial melting pot.
To your question, I have an answer: YES. You cannot find a tibetan language localisation, nor nls tables in the linux kernel, because of political oposition of chinese government. Because of their denial of existence of tibetan nation and language at all. Same happend in Unicode project, as I remember.
and you are sure that it's because the Chinese government doesn't want it? What influence does the Chinese government hold over Linus? I think he'd laugh at the notion. Rather it's possible that it's either not production quality, or there aren't human resources to implement it.
Even if it *we're* rejected from the official source tree, you have all the power in your own self to release a patch for users to download and install. If you are in China, and they are repressing you and your technological developments, hopefully you can get yourself and the word out.
Imagine some government agency would be wanting a kernel patch to provide a back door to that cryptography api. It may even be forced by law in that country. I can easy imagine USA and China will be the first ones, exactly in that order.
How exactly can you have an effective back door in a Free Software project? Maybe in a binary only distribution... that doesn't distribute source code... But that isn't Free, and that doesn't describe Linux.
in any case, i fundamentally agree with you that technology can be tossed around like political tool. it shouldn't be, but I have to believe that those that are on the front lines of development are there to promote Good. mostly just Good Technology.
All I got when I was in the military was a gun, uncomfortable boots, and a pair of clean socks. Luckily, I didn't see any combat or I would have needed an extra pair of clean underwear too.
don't you know? you're supposed to use that gun to get better equipment. hasn't Doom, or any other video game from 1978 onward taught us anything?
That extra pair of underwear... I think that's in the Med Pack you get for blowing up a school bus.
they better be having one hell of a bake sale to make that kind of money...
Apparently you need flash or some other equally crappy plugin (even for the text stuff(?!), minus the left nav). i refuse to install it. how do the french say... piss off?
what are you talking about? why bring politics into the Linux kernel at all?
Currently, it is not possible for major distro releasers from the new continent
what is this "new continent" you speak of?
is there any instance where a technically acceptable patch was rejected based on political ideology?
Sure she was nailing my jock roomate, but I still think I came close to losing my virginity...
so while she was nailing your roommate you almost lost your virginity? you should stay on your half of the room when they are doing it, or preferably leave the room entirely.
now if only there was a way to flush the image cache in my brain. oh, there's a heavy book. that might work.
surely. but in a game of lasers-gophers-bottlecaps, lasers beat gophers. so try getting your enormous genetically engineered Earthquake Relieving Gophers past my lasers.
so obviously we should use bottlecaps. because they beat lasers. Hmm, but gopher beats bottlecaps... dilemas dilemas.
Don't forget, he's riding half the coat-tails of Windows and half the coat-tails of Linux. What if the name was completely unrelated to Windows. like, Linmoo or Lincow? He's playing off the popularity of Linux simply by creating this product.
Personally, I hope MS loses this case and Lindows drops out of the public eye. I don't feel like they are a good solid foundation for windows users migrating to linux.
The first rule of migration is "Pick a distribution that is widely supported." The fact that Walmart might have a boxed set does not mean it's widely supported.
paper trail? it's the stuff stuck to your shoe when you leave the restroom.
how this applies to Linux, I have no idea. no need for the core dump jokes... we've seen em all.
Fear! Uncertainty! Doubt! Speculation! Oh My! The world is comming to an end! Maybe we should have a Giant Space Laser that reduces stress in the earth's plates! When will the world end? Today? Tommorow? Yesterday, and this is just the afterlife? ...time for more coffee. Is this a slow news day, or what?
..what, like a crop duster that throws lawyers out of the plane onto the offending crops?
but seriously...
probably. if you can be sued for inadvertantly having these crops in your property, then fair use would seem to dictate that you have the right to reverse engineer the product. if you weren't, and only Monsanto were allowed to do so, then they could somehow promote the spreading of their product (the crop) to create a need for a RoundupReady Plant Killer. The situation would be like antivirus companies spreading new computer viruses, and you can only use their av software to eliminate their viruses.
Ok, so i'm liable if i use this seed, known use or without knowing.
But will Monsanto be liable if this genetically altered crop starts causing cancer, or contamination to the water supply, directly or indirectly (like it kills prarie dogs or something, and the prarie dogs carcasses spread disease)? Probably not, they'll litigate their way out of it somehow, I can see it. So if a flock of birds carries the crop seed over to my farm, i'm liable. any indirect harm caused by their seeds and they should be liable too.
who is sponsoring it, what do they hope to gain, and hoe long until the bubble burts and the realize there aren't any gains?
is it a spectator event? do they get money from people logging on in some spectator mode?
this is silly.
What kind of ${CRAP} are you writing that need ${YOURLANGSUCKS} anyway?
${MYLANGROXORS}
${FSCKYOU}
people who made broad, sweeping, overreaching generalizations based on fear, anger, and lack of understanding. much like this country (the U.S.) is doing.
besides, i thought you were going to tell me something i didn't know. somethign recent, in terms of current events. although events from 3 years ago are wholey relevant, your three questions asking the obvious is less than insightfull.
the interesting thing will be to see the situation in NYC when the republican convention comes to town. not to mention the "die-in" that was supposed to take place today.
Have you talked to a doctor yet? sure it's nice to know other peoples personal experiences, but doctors are a good source.
if you have, then ignore this.
time to make a database of politicians likely to sell you're future to the highest bidder? i thought i recall something along these lines, but a web search isn't turing up anything. i'm possibly putting the wrongs words into google.
granted, most people don't know their representatives names. a search by zip code would be great. gives your representatives names on local, state, and federal level and where they are getting their money, what their criminal history is, where they own property, where they went on their last vacation, what bills they are for and against. that's a lot of hard work. if they can do it about us, why can't we do it about them? there are vastly more of us than them.
"they've got the guns but, we've got the numbers..."
-Morrison.
There is a big difference between tracking down Muslim extremists and the REds... been to New York City lately?
Yes, actually I live in brooklyn and work in manhattan. what's you're point about that?
I can.
Why? because this fall I can go vote for someone new. because today I can say that George W. Bush is a sneeky, secretive, religious, antagonistic "Good Ol Boy" bastard whose type should have died out with McCarthyism.
sweet f'ing christ. do people not see similarities to the Red Scare or McCarthyism? Are people really so dense?
save me jeebus.
"who's moto..."
/. and no one proofreads anything. my post is a case in point... here i come "Submit" button. no "preview" for you this time!
at first i wondered why i said "moto" in my head, instead of "motto", then i realized this is
now i just realized they said "who's" as well. doesn't this mean, "who is moto..."?
-i'm trolling, i'm trolling!
-keep trolling bob.
great! just what we need on TV, scripts from script kiddies!
just print out every resulting page from a goodle search of GNU GPL Linux, including subsearches on images, groups, and froogle. also, print out any non english results by sending them through babelfish.
print all the results on 3x5 notecards, in 7 pt font. in binary. naw, binary would be too easy to scan and convert to digital with OCR. make it some crazy bubble letter font. any resulting images convert to ascii art. any froogle results, purchase them and have the sent Cost on Delivery to SCO Headquarters. Which by now is probably the backseat of a Pinto, about to blow up because they shut the door too hard.
besides letting the free software/open source community know what SCO is stooping to? maybe the FSF lawyers told them not to release the contents of the subpoena until they were certain of any legal actions they had to take.
agendas maybe. not all agendas are bad.
Ok, I know nothing about SPARK, so forgive my ignorance.
me neither, me too...
my understanding is that the contract has hard requirements on specific input and specific output for results. all of which are defined prior to executing that code. something like "we require an incomming integer with a value that is between zero and fifteen. we gaurantee that an integer value will be returned that is either zero or one"
with a public class interface you can write a peice of code that does this, but it won't gaurantee anything. it's up to the developer to exhaustively test all situations and make sure that it happens. in a contract based language, i would guess that the program either won't compile, won't run, or will fail in obvious ways in the development stage if the requirements are not met. i'm not sure how they handle requirements that aren't met.