you should not make blanket statements like this. that's just fear mongering.
to summarize: as far as i can tell this pnr agreement covers flights to/from the us and flights through us airspace
Sorry but your references actually support what the OP said: the agreement covers all flights, not just flights from/to/over the US. The articles say that the agreement applies to airlines operating flights between any of the 27 EU countries and the US. Taken literally, this means it applies to all flights (including internal EU flights) operated by airlines that have flights from/to the US. I see nothing in the articles you mention that suggests a different meaning.
Exactly. It's the old power vs freedom problem. Pursuing absolute freedom is stupid: when you increase someone's freedom at the expense of the freedom of someone else, you are not increasing freedom globally.
The freedom to harm others (physically or, in Stallman's view, by depriving them of the right to change the software they use) is better called "power", and that is not desirable in itself.
If damages are limited to actual damages, how could the RIAA get $220,000 out of this Thomas woman for 24 songs? Does the judge or jury or whatever actually believe that damages were indeed $220,000?
The most common form of hero is the person that actually goes about to get the hard parts done Like (co)developing a compiler (GCC), a debugger (GDB), a programer's editor (Emacs), which Stallman did. Not the most visible parts of a working system, but quite essential ones.
GNOME is not reattributing Google scholarships to women! The GNOME foundation received money from Google for participating in Google Summer of Code, this is a bonus which is not related to money given by Google to the students. Now the GNOME foundation decides to use its own money to create new "scholarships" for women, similar to Google SOC. See http://mces.blogspot.com/2006/06/gnome-summer-of-g als.html.
If you cared to click the link you could have seen that for each language, you have both developer-libs and desktop percentages. For example: Hindi: dev 99.84%, desktop 93.39% Tamil: dev 73.38%, desktop 65.81%
Now clicking on 'desktop' for Tamil you have the details for each app. Indeed, GAIM is not in there because it's not an official GNOME app, but you do have Epiphany and Nautilus (the GNOME equivalents to Konqueror), or Ekiga (previously Gnome-Meeting), or Totem (movie player),...
Of course the KDE stats don't take into account *all* apps written for KDE either...
The article is not quite clear, but the point is, Ubuntu will *ship* you CDs free of charge, in any quantity you desire. I don't think Yggdrasil did this...
What you say about your atheism seems a bit weird to me: whether I believe in God or not, or which point of view I choose, doesn't affect my reasoning principles. I mean, you have hypotheses upon which you build a reasoning, and this logic has nothing to do with your beliefs (which actually are hypotheses in the reasoning!).
Funny that the bug does not exist under Red Hat 5.2 and Gnome 1.0.
I should have written "there must be a bug in ubuntu which is triggered by your hardware in particular (but probably not exclusively)".
Anyway the first part of my post was just bad joke, sorry... (but still, what's at stake in this slashdot story are the UI design decisions in GNOME, so complaining about your problem in this context and saying that it contradicts their user-friendly philosophy was not fair, IMHO)
It took you 30 minutes of menu browsing to find Desktop -> Properties -> Resolution ? (or whatever it's called with an English locale)
Well as they say in the answers to Linus' post, GNOME is not made for idiots...
Now seriously, if you didn't get a good resolution at first there must have been a problem with your hardware, a bug, not the user experience intended. Bad luck. There still seem to be more success stories with ubuntu working out of the box than for other distributions... Maybe that's the reason for the awards.
Very informative... but are you sure jury nullification is such a blessing? It can of course have a very positive effect, but still, that a dozen random people can overturn a law which was established democratically... The wikipedia article talks about abuses:
during the Civil Rights era, all-white juries were known to refuse to convict white defendants for the murder of African-Americans
In this case the problem can be solved by having black people among the jury, but surely there are situations where it's not so easy to determine a priori what would be a good jury.
As for teaching this in US schools... I would teach it because it's interesting in itself, but as they put it in the wikipedia article, jury nullification is just a de facto power of the jury (ie. they can of course say "not guilty" even when it's obvious the defendant is guilty), they don't have a right according to the law which allows them to ignore it. It's not an all black or white situation...
The more serious issues of your post being already discussed by other people, I'll just point out one ridiculous claim:
In fact, there is KDE-Apps for independent apps built with the KDE/QT framework, while there is no such place to aggregate gnome apps.
Apart from the fact that the relevance of this is obscure to me, I have to wonder how you did your research... You could have typed "gnome-apps.org" and find a site with GNOME apps. Or you could have searched for "gnome apps" in Google, the 4th result has a quite informative title: "GnomeFiles - GNOME/GTK+ Software Repository". This is the well known GNOME counterpart to kde-apps.org.
This is an interesting project: developers will have the power of opensolaris tools, like DTrace (a very powerful tool to study the behaviour of programs - and optimize them) available for all debian packages...
I don't think you want to allow writing the numbers in other bases:
Of course if you write the number in base 11, it's not hard to find out whether it's divisible by 11: it is if and only if the number ends with a zero... (just like in our common base 10, a zero at the end means it's divisible by 10). This works for any number: if N ends with a zero in base n, then it's divisible by n. Is this what you meant?
I've never understood why people consider this an interesting paradox:
The common formulation is "All Cretans are liars". In this formulation, there is actually no paradox, since liars can sometimes tell the truth. (So the Cretan saying "All Cretans are liars" may be telling the truth, or a lie. In both cases we don't have any contradiction).
Seeing this, people change the formulation to "All Cretans always tell lies". We want to determine whether the Cretan saying this is telling the truth, or not. Let's consider these two hypothesis:
If the Cretan is telling the truth, it means the sentence is true, so according to it he's telling a lie, hence a contradiction.
If the Cretan is telling a lie, it means the sentence is false, ie. "it's not true that all Cretans always tell lies". Which means they at least sometimes tell the truth (but may also tell lies at other times). This is compatible with the hypothesis that the Cretan is telling a lie. This time there's no contradiction, so this hypothesis is the right one.
So the answer to the problem is that the Cretan is telling a lie.
Yeah people say "you can always add one more decimal, you'll never reach quite 1". This is how I use to explain it:
The notation 0.9_ is not "the number you get when you keep adding a 9 decimal for ever". This would be a bad definition: you're always adding something so you never "get" a number. The notation 0.9_ actually means "the number you're getting closer and closer to, when you keep adding a 9 decimal". This number is of course 1, so 0.9_ is just (by definition) another notation for the number 1. For the number 0.3_, we don't have an easy notation (like 1 for 0.9_), but we can use for example the notation 1/3.
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you should not make blanket statements like this. that's just fear mongering.
to summarize: as far as i can tell this pnr agreement covers flights to/from the us and flights through us airspace
Sorry but your references actually support what the OP said: the agreement covers all flights, not just flights from/to/over the US. The articles say that the agreement applies to airlines operating flights between any of the 27 EU countries and the US. Taken literally, this means it applies to all flights (including internal EU flights) operated by airlines that have flights from/to the US. I see nothing in the articles you mention that suggests a different meaning.
but shouldn't it still be accurate? No. The imprecision has nothing to do with Go. It comes from the mathematical algorithm used to approximate pi.
I don't get why the police forensics should not have access to a hard drive data when they have a warrant.
What's next, we should fight against the police right to enter a home with a warrant?
Seriously, people are fine with police carrying guns, but they should not have access to a hard drive because they could misuse the power?
I'd rather fight for sound rules on delivering warrants, and efficient checks on abuse of power.
Exactly. It's the old power vs freedom problem. Pursuing absolute freedom is stupid: when you increase someone's freedom at the expense of the freedom of someone else, you are not increasing freedom globally.
The freedom to harm others (physically or, in Stallman's view, by depriving them of the right to change the software they use) is better called "power", and that is not desirable in itself.
tried middle-click drag?
If damages are limited to actual damages, how could the RIAA get $220,000 out of this Thomas woman for 24 songs? Does the judge or jury or whatever actually believe that damages were indeed $220,000?
The most common form of hero is the person that actually goes about to get the hard parts done
Like (co)developing a compiler (GCC), a debugger (GDB), a programer's editor (Emacs), which Stallman did. Not the most visible parts of a working system, but quite essential ones.
No that would be like comparing Apple to Orange...
GNOME is not reattributing Google scholarships to women! The GNOME foundation received money from Google for participating in Google Summer of Code, this is a bonus which is not related to money given by Google to the students. Now the GNOME foundation decides to use its own money to create new "scholarships" for women, similar to Google SOC. See http://mces.blogspot.com/2006/06/gnome-summer-of-g als.html.
Does your linux distribution come with Sun's Java? No? Well once Java is open-sourced, it will.
Java out of the box, that's a big change.
If you cared to click the link you could have seen that for each language, you have both developer-libs and desktop percentages. For example:
...
Hindi: dev 99.84%, desktop 93.39%
Tamil: dev 73.38%, desktop 65.81%
Now clicking on 'desktop' for Tamil you have the details for each app. Indeed, GAIM is not in there because it's not an official GNOME app, but you do have Epiphany and Nautilus (the GNOME equivalents to Konqueror), or Ekiga (previously Gnome-Meeting), or Totem (movie player),
Of course the KDE stats don't take into account *all* apps written for KDE either...
The article is not quite clear, but the point is, Ubuntu will *ship* you CDs free of charge, in any quantity you desire. I don't think Yggdrasil did this...
You can hit Ctrl+L
You can hit '/' to start typing an absolute path
What you say about your atheism seems a bit weird to me: whether I believe in God or not, or which point of view I choose, doesn't affect my reasoning principles. I mean, you have hypotheses upon which you build a reasoning, and this logic has nothing to do with your beliefs (which actually are hypotheses in the reasoning!).
Looking at my GNOME menu:
Applications -> Graphics -> GIMP Image Editor
Applications -> Sound & Video -> Totem Movie Player
Seems quite easy to find the right application to me...
And as a bonus, the names are original for once.
Funny that the bug does not exist under Red Hat 5.2 and Gnome 1.0.
I should have written "there must be a bug in ubuntu which is triggered by your hardware in particular (but probably not exclusively)".
Anyway the first part of my post was just bad joke, sorry... (but still, what's at stake in this slashdot story are the UI design decisions in GNOME, so complaining about your problem in this context and saying that it contradicts their user-friendly philosophy was not fair, IMHO)
It took you 30 minutes of menu browsing to find Desktop -> Properties -> Resolution ? (or whatever it's called with an English locale)
Well as they say in the answers to Linus' post, GNOME is not made for idiots...
Now seriously, if you didn't get a good resolution at first there must have been a problem with your hardware, a bug, not the user experience intended. Bad luck. There still seem to be more success stories with ubuntu working out of the box than for other distributions... Maybe that's the reason for the awards.
Frederic Crozat did cite this reason, yet he did not make the decision. Contrast with the answer from Murray Cumming
Very informative... but are you sure jury nullification is such a blessing? It can of course have a very positive effect, but still, that a dozen random people can overturn a law which was established democratically... The wikipedia article talks about abuses:
during the Civil Rights era, all-white juries were known to refuse to convict white defendants for the murder of African-Americans
In this case the problem can be solved by having black people among the jury, but surely there are situations where it's not so easy to determine a priori what would be a good jury.
As for teaching this in US schools... I would teach it because it's interesting in itself, but as they put it in the wikipedia article, jury nullification is just a de facto power of the jury (ie. they can of course say "not guilty" even when it's obvious the defendant is guilty), they don't have a right according to the law which allows them to ignore it.
It's not an all black or white situation...
The more serious issues of your post being already discussed by other people, I'll just point out one ridiculous claim:
In fact, there is KDE-Apps for independent apps built with the KDE/QT framework, while there is no such place to aggregate gnome apps.
Apart from the fact that the relevance of this is obscure to me, I have to wonder how you did your research... You could have typed "gnome-apps.org" and find a site with GNOME apps. Or you could have searched for "gnome apps" in Google, the 4th result has a quite informative title: "GnomeFiles - GNOME/GTK+ Software Repository". This is the well known GNOME counterpart to kde-apps.org.
This is an interesting project: developers will have the power of opensolaris tools, like DTrace (a very powerful tool to study the behaviour of programs - and optimize them) available for all debian packages...
Rhmmmm... So what's the answer? :)
I don't think you want to allow writing the numbers in other bases:
Of course if you write the number in base 11, it's not hard to find out whether it's divisible by 11: it is if and only if the number ends with a zero... (just like in our common base 10, a zero at the end means it's divisible by 10). This works for any number: if N ends with a zero in base n, then it's divisible by n. Is this what you meant?
I've never understood why people consider this an interesting paradox:
The common formulation is "All Cretans are liars". In this formulation, there is actually no paradox, since liars can sometimes tell the truth. (So the Cretan saying "All Cretans are liars" may be telling the truth, or a lie. In both cases we don't have any contradiction).
Seeing this, people change the formulation to "All Cretans always tell lies". We want to determine whether the Cretan saying this is telling the truth, or not. Let's consider these two hypothesis:
If the Cretan is telling the truth, it means the sentence is true, so according to it he's telling a lie, hence a contradiction.
If the Cretan is telling a lie, it means the sentence is false, ie. "it's not true that all Cretans always tell lies". Which means they at least sometimes tell the truth (but may also tell lies at other times). This is compatible with the hypothesis that the Cretan is telling a lie. This time there's no contradiction, so this hypothesis is the right one.
So the answer to the problem is that the Cretan is telling a lie.
Am I missing something?
Yeah people say "you can always add one more decimal, you'll never reach quite 1".
This is how I use to explain it:
The notation 0.9_ is not "the number you get when you keep adding a 9 decimal for ever". This would be a bad definition: you're always adding something so you never "get" a number. The notation 0.9_ actually means "the number you're getting closer and closer to, when you keep adding a 9 decimal". This number is of course 1, so 0.9_ is just (by definition) another notation for the number 1. For the number 0.3_, we don't have an easy notation (like 1 for 0.9_), but we can use for example the notation 1/3.