If Linus somehow gets sick and overloaded then it will lead to a whole lot of mess with the development of the Linux Kernel which really would not be nice. So please Gnome people start behaving, be humble, accept the patches and do not upset Linus, we really need him, even if he isn't always the nicest person around;)
The way you put this, sounds like Torvals has some kind of severe autism.
Being a hard core Unix junkie and developer, with the switch to OS X, my ears perked up for sure.
The switch the Intel, even more so, so I picked up a Macbook.
Intel processor as a positive reason?
Are you sure you're a Unix guy?
This is not like food or medicine nobody *needs* Windows period.
You don't need knowing math in order to survive, you don't even need to know how to read. This education thing is worthless indeed.
If someone is only licensing their software/media for money you have choices, pay for it, infringe on it and take your chances, make your own, do without, or find a FOSS replacement.
I'm all for FOSS, I use it at home and at work half of the dept uses that too.
But, have you tried to replace Windows with FOSS, in a single department, for real? It's horribly hard, by still possible. Now try convincing all the private companies and the public sector to switch from Windows to FOSS simply because your school abolished Windows completely. -- Yeah, good luck.
Things like this are a left over from the Soviet era. If the Russian people were smart, they would learn to get over their bullshit nationalism and repudiate their "Soviet glory days" with a vengeance by hanging the Communists and abolishing all of the last traces of Communist rule from Russia.
What kind of suggestion is this? Are you some kind of frustrated fascist? People, when remember things of the past, usually take the good memories. No matter how bad it was during the USSR days, people had jobs, they were proud of their superpower-country and had a sense of purpose. Nowadays, you can't really say that.
The real issue, people, is that the Russian government has not fundamentally changed since the fall of the USSR. Why are people being sent to Siberia, especially for such a petty crime? I could understand violent crime, such as armed robbery, rape or murder, but simple theft or piracy?
If you really believe it's because of Russian government's will, you're very naive. Russia wants to join WTO since it's commercially convenient for them, western countries (heck, U.S.A. I mean) essentially blackmails them, forcing Russia to defend foreign companies' interests thus making the country to adopt measures draconian enough to be considered "sufficient". When bad things happen because of this, it was exclusively the country's fault. This is very common and happens not only to Russia.
You're assuming that a country can be completely sovereign thus being the only responsible by what happens inside it. That's simply not true.
1. Call Bar association
2. Get reference for lawyer who know stuff about your case
3. Talk to lawyer.
4. Counter sue <- I believe this is supposed to be "???" instead.
5. Profit!
Funny that you mentioned that.
We at work have several dual-Xeon Dells and a few desktop Dells too. Neither came with Windows licenses and all of them are running some flavor of Linux.
Incredible at it might seem, we did not pay the MS tax either (even the desktops would be slightly more expensive if we opted for OEM Windows licenses). But we're not in the US, what could explain something.
Well, one could also say that a virus is just a trojan which replicates itself. In the end, for most people, all those sames means pretty much the same. They understand that like "a program, which does something bad, and one I did not install".
The government is just making it harder for brazilians to have access to technology...
Yep, the government in Brazil is a blood-sucker indeed.
But in the specific case of Apple Brazil, the gov't looks very kind compared to that company's greed.
Everything Apple sells in Brazil is horribly-insanely expensive. For the price of their crappiest iMac you can buy 2 extremely good Dell computers:
No, iPod is not a reliable way to measure a country's economy.
And, mod me down brazilian you Apple fanbois: One who pay for Apple hardware is either rotten-rich, desperate or simply idiot.
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I think the real problem is that the court decided that it wasn't right to display that video, which was recorded in a public place.
I mean, c'mon, it's not like someone broke into her house to record some private sex.
The following actions were technically correct, but were made over a bad decision.
I find it damn funny that a foreign country seems to think that it has power over a US company.
I'm not sure of which part of the news you're referring to.
If you mean the fines, that's really weird indeed. Unless YouTube has a branch in Brazil (though I've never heard about such thing).
Regarding the dns.br blocking, that's perfectly within Brazilian juristiction.
ISPs are not going to pressure their users, Joe User could simply switch to another company, or feel abused and bring the case to justice, or something like that.
Universities, gov't institutions in general... There is politics everywhere you walk in those places. No tie-wearing person wants to burn him/herself forcing people to use non-Windows OSes, to prohibit usage of Outlook Express, to prohibit installation of junkware into their Windows boxes, even making the users liable for anything bad that happens when they do something stupid.
The users themselves usually do not even know on how stupid are the things they do. When those users are informed, they simply do not care and continue behaving like before.
In the specific case of SPAM, the governments are to blame too, by not creating/applying the laws against the ones responsible.
I've just checked. They did change indeed, I was not aware of this.
It's somewhat funny to hear people mentioning Yahoo so often, I accessed their main site 0 times that year.
I always preferred using something generic like Google or, years ago, Alta Vista (during the Digital days).
Although the content categorization provided by Yahoo (and many other sites) feels somewhat appealing, few years ago (back in '96 or '97) I realised that it provided a narrow way to access Internet content.
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Does it outlaw Christmas lights aswell? Those are filament-based too.
If Linus somehow gets sick and overloaded then it will lead to a whole lot of mess with the development of the Linux Kernel which really would not be nice. ;)
So please Gnome people start behaving, be humble, accept the patches and do not upset Linus, we really need him, even if he isn't always the nicest person around
The way you put this, sounds like Torvals has some kind of severe autism.
Being a hard core Unix junkie and developer, with the switch to OS X, my ears perked up for sure.
The switch the Intel, even more so, so I picked up a Macbook.
Intel processor as a positive reason?
Are you sure you're a Unix guy?
which can squeeze 67 cars in space that would otherwise hold only 24
The junk yards have been doing that for years.
This is not like food or medicine nobody *needs* Windows period.
You don't need knowing math in order to survive, you don't even need to know how to read.
This education thing is worthless indeed.
If someone is only licensing their software/media for money you have choices, pay for it, infringe on it and take your chances, make your own, do without, or find a FOSS replacement.
I'm all for FOSS, I use it at home and at work half of the dept uses that too.
But, have you tried to replace Windows with FOSS, in a single department, for real? It's horribly hard, by still possible.
Now try convincing all the private companies and the public sector to switch from Windows to FOSS simply because your school abolished Windows completely. -- Yeah, good luck.
Things like this are a left over from the Soviet era. If the Russian people were smart, they would learn to get over their bullshit nationalism and repudiate their "Soviet glory days" with a vengeance by hanging the Communists and abolishing all of the last traces of Communist rule from Russia.
What kind of suggestion is this? Are you some kind of frustrated fascist?
People, when remember things of the past, usually take the good memories. No matter how bad it was during the USSR days, people had jobs, they were proud of their superpower-country and had a sense of purpose. Nowadays, you can't really say that.
The real issue, people, is that the Russian government has not fundamentally changed since the fall of the USSR. Why are people being sent to Siberia, especially for such a petty crime? I could understand violent crime, such as armed robbery, rape or murder, but simple theft or piracy?
If you really believe it's because of Russian government's will, you're very naive.
Russia wants to join WTO since it's commercially convenient for them, western countries (heck, U.S.A. I mean) essentially blackmails them, forcing Russia to defend foreign companies' interests thus making the country to adopt measures draconian enough to be considered "sufficient".
When bad things happen because of this, it was exclusively the country's fault. This is very common and happens not only to Russia.
You're assuming that a country can be completely sovereign thus being the only responsible by what happens inside it. That's simply not true.
Excuse me sir...
1. Call Bar association
2. Get reference for lawyer who know stuff about your case
3. Talk to lawyer.
4. Counter sue <- I believe this is supposed to be "???" instead.
5. Profit!
Here is Ajax.
The rest are immitators.
"I just bought a Dell": Vista.
Funny that you mentioned that.
We at work have several dual-Xeon Dells and a few desktop Dells too. Neither came with Windows licenses and all of them are running some flavor of Linux.
Incredible at it might seem, we did not pay the MS tax either (even the desktops would be slightly more expensive if we opted for OEM Windows licenses). But we're not in the US, what could explain something.
huh?
"You may use any information in intangible form that you remember after accessing the software."
"huh?" indeed.
"intangible form"? What does that mean, in practice?
One willing to accept such license terms have no appreciation for his own neck.
Well, one could also say that a virus is just a trojan which replicates itself.
In the end, for most people, all those sames means pretty much the same. They understand that like
"a program, which does something bad, and one I did not install".
The government is just making it harder for brazilians to have access to technology...
Yep, the government in Brazil is a blood-sucker indeed.
But in the specific case of Apple Brazil, the gov't looks very kind compared to that company's greed.
Everything Apple sells in Brazil is horribly-insanely expensive. For the price of their crappiest iMac you can buy 2 extremely good Dell computers:
MA199LZ/A iMac (17"LCD/1.83GHz/512MB/160GB/SuperDrive/ATI Radeon X1600-128MB/AP/BT)
English -- Yeah, the Mac OS is not in Portuguese, what a joke!
R$ 6.499,00 (~3.050,00 USD) <--- HAHAHAHA!!! What a joke!
No, iPod is not a reliable way to measure a country's economy.
And, mod me down brazilian you Apple fanbois: One who pay for Apple hardware is either rotten-rich, desperate or simply idiot.
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I think the real problem is that the court decided that it wasn't right to display that video, which was recorded in a public place.
I mean, c'mon, it's not like someone broke into her house to record some private sex.
The following actions were technically correct, but were made over a bad decision.
Yes, I'm in Brazil and I can access youtube normally.
No problem, no need to worry.
Please provide me your IP and I'll gladly forward it to the authorities so they can fix that.
I find it damn funny that a foreign country seems to think that it has power over a US company.
I'm not sure of which part of the news you're referring to.
If you mean the fines, that's really weird indeed. Unless YouTube has a branch in Brazil (though I've never heard about such thing).
Regarding the dns.br blocking, that's perfectly within Brazilian juristiction.
By July or so, several million are expected to reach Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan, Thailand and the Palestinian territory.
Oh, fantastic... There goes my hard-earned taxpayer money.
Nothing like a populist solution for a stuctural problem.
I'm aware of that.
The problem when they take the whole team who maintains the project is that, in practice, is not exactly easy to simply fork.
The development of this new engine does not depend on Oracle.
Great technology knows no religion, it can come from anywhere. Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, et al
I mostly agree with you but... Microsoft?
C'mon, what great technology came from Microsoft? (the ones they bought don't count)
Oh... I guess I'm too naive.
From CNN
was the only politician who served as vice president and president but was never elected to either office
Are US citizens proud of this!?
My country had dozens of unelected presidents, each one worse that 10 Nixons combined!
US is far behind the rest of the world in this matter...
The sad cold truth is that nobody cares.
ISPs are not going to pressure their users, Joe User could simply switch to another company, or feel abused and bring the case to justice, or something like that.
Universities, gov't institutions in general... There is politics everywhere you walk in those places. No tie-wearing person wants to burn him/herself forcing people to use non-Windows OSes, to prohibit usage of Outlook Express, to prohibit installation of junkware into their Windows boxes, even making the users liable for anything bad that happens when they do something stupid.
The users themselves usually do not even know on how stupid are the things they do. When those users are informed, they simply do not care and continue behaving like before.
In the specific case of SPAM, the governments are to blame too, by not creating/applying the laws against the ones responsible.
Given Y!'s recent re-design, I an unsurprised.
I've just checked. They did change indeed, I was not aware of this.
It's somewhat funny to hear people mentioning Yahoo so often, I accessed their main site 0 times that year.
I always preferred using something generic like Google or, years ago, Alta Vista (during the Digital days).
Although the content categorization provided by Yahoo (and many other sites) feels somewhat appealing, few years ago (back in '96 or '97) I realised that it provided a narrow way to access Internet content.