At the moment, its just too easy to pop the CD in, or download something you only want to use this one time.
If that one time _really_ did cost you the $400, its suddenly not the package for you, is it?
Example - The missus complains that she doesn't want to use or understand Linux, so what do we have to do, we have to install that nasty stuff - but we shouldn't fork out the list price of $900 for the software - O no. You're in IT aren't you, you can easily grab a copy from work.....
'I was cleaning the horse early one sunday - a really hot sunday, so i took off my pants. Then I found I needed to clean the horses back, from behind. So I got on a chair. It was about then that the horse bolted, propelling me and the chair through our living room window onto the machine'.
Or something. Definately the pants round the ankle bit though - thats crucial to getting the audience buy-in you need.
Hmm - given enough recordings, we can find sections without the 'chatter' and reconstruct the entire song.
Unless of course they actively distort the songs audio at start and end (think vocoder or something), but then, that would come across as extremely strange wouldn't it.
I Believe Space Ship One will buy out the competition, and then dump the companies so only they can win, in about 15 years though, and open source space ship will be put into space
And they will re-shape SSO into a huge penguin, and give free space GNUNIX accounts to anyone who washes less than a week. O yeah, and Stallman becomes 'His Excellency Commander Stallman' and gets to strut around in zero gee in squeeky leather boots and open crotch cowboy pants.
Thats a bit of a double answer you've given there - you're saying that, yes, it's legal, but some of it isn't.
I am English myself, but having lived in Belgium (yes, I know, arse of Europe etc), I did get some perspective on 'The British Fear Of Sex'.
You do know that the rest of Europe laughs at the prudish english? The thing is, most pornography that you can pick up in Holland / Belgium / France would be impounded straight off the ferry - its just a little bit _too_ much for the UK taste buds. And lets not get started on the Germans.
So basically, knowing an ex-copper and having discussed this at length, it all falls down to what the judge and police themselves find 'obscene'. See here too.
My friend the ex-copper states that 'fingering' or 'digital manipulation of the vagina' is right out. Do not pass go.
It wouldn't suprise me - since in the UK hardcore porn _is_ actually illegal. They have a law that stipulates (and I'm not joking here) the maximum elevation an erect penis can be in porn flicks there.
Most full-frontal nudity is banned on television, and you can't really show acts of penetration.
So given that child porn is illegal, and what most mainland European's consider hardcore porn is illegal too - how long do you think........
P.S. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to get Google to find a link to 'UK erection laws'. I really tried. I did.
You ever tried different ps commands on AIX,Solaris,IRIX,HP-UX?
They don't all work the same. At all. Besides which, the things you are talking about are the user-space tools - that stuff is all GNU baby, and Gnus Not Unix.
Fair enough - lets take an analogy, they're always good for stirring up some controversy:
Hyundi car - sets of pedals, levers lights engine.
Ford car - sets of pedals, levers lights engine.
Just because the two things operate, or appear similar on the surface does not infer that one is based on the other or vice-versa - it simple means that both operate using similar principles.
Linux isn't Unix Based, it just happens to work like it. And by the way, it is mostly GNU tools that work like Unix!
... The operating system has made inroads in corporate data centers, gaining ground against the Unix operating system on which it is based and other operating systems.
Even Reuters seems to be falling for SCOs crap.
Sigh.
Xft and fontconfig use the same backends - whats that mean to you? - better fonts - everything GTK now plays the same game.
Fonts and character shapes can take a scripts 'hints' about a font into account - we win, the font creator wins - its about the best of everyones world.
Using bi-directional text is not forced by the application - it can be extracted or 'hinted' from the original source file itself.
GLIB:
GLIB update to use unicode 4.0 - many, many people benefit.
GLIB correctly recovers children processes.
GRandom is better at seeding. But not cryptographically secure. Yet.
The threading library with GLIB is now "operation or not" on integers and pointers.
There is a way to specify an OO 'singleton' or 'once initialisation'
Extra macros for GObject type writers
Properties can be added to interfaces (verbatim copied)
Private data within an instance can contain private data/references within and object (its not clean what this means in a C context, but I think they mean that it's not exposed).
GTK takes all of the above features, and uses those to make a fantastic release.
Lets give these people time,
They need it.
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Thanks for my first real laugh of my first working day.
> See Joe's head explode.
Please see The Oxford English Dictionary for correct spelling.
And that my PIST IS FRISTY? This one going out to the Sunday Night homies. And Ballmer.
At the moment, its just too easy to pop the CD in, or download something you only want to use this one time.
If that one time _really_ did cost you the $400, its suddenly not the package for you, is it?
Example - The missus complains that she doesn't want to use or understand Linux, so what do we have to do, we have to install that nasty stuff - but we shouldn't fork out the list price of $900 for the software - O no. You're in IT aren't you, you can easily grab a copy from work .....
Seriously weak explanation man.
You should have gone for the
'I was cleaning the horse early one sunday - a really hot sunday, so i took off my pants. Then I found I needed to clean the horses back, from behind. So I got on a chair. It was about then that the horse bolted, propelling me and the chair through our living room window onto the machine'.
Or something. Definately the pants round the ankle bit though - thats crucial to getting the audience buy-in you need.
Hmm - given enough recordings, we can find sections without the 'chatter' and reconstruct the entire song.
Unless of course they actively distort the songs audio at start and end (think vocoder or something), but then, that would come across as extremely strange wouldn't it.
Cmon, you'd pay to see that, wouldn't you.
You're not neccesarily the only one. But for sure, you're first in the queue.
We open at 9.15.
Dude, you totally missed the oppurtunity for:
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< 1+5e7 features
< drop dead architecture
< non-alcoholic stability
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> mcdonalds code bloat
> classic "big five" mail management broken
1527asuprise1729
> IMAP improvements
And this is a _geeks_ site????
Maximum respect on the first logged in post.
AC should be ashamed.
What the hell is with the mods today? This isn't a troll - its probably interesting, or at best overrated.....
Erm, I would of thought that this post was _informative_.
Thanks for the clarification Dusabre.
Thats a bit of a double answer you've given there - you're saying that, yes, it's legal, but some of it isn't.
I am English myself, but having lived in Belgium (yes, I know, arse of Europe etc), I did get some perspective on 'The British Fear Of Sex'.
You do know that the rest of Europe laughs at the prudish english? The thing is, most pornography that you can pick up in Holland / Belgium / France would be impounded straight off the ferry - its just a little bit _too_ much for the UK taste buds. And lets not get started on the Germans.
My friend the ex-copper states that 'fingering' or 'digital manipulation of the vagina' is right out. Do not pass go.
It wouldn't suprise me - since in the UK hardcore porn _is_ actually illegal. They have a law that stipulates (and I'm not joking here) the maximum elevation an erect penis can be in porn flicks there.
Most full-frontal nudity is banned on television, and you can't really show acts of penetration.
So given that child porn is illegal, and what most mainland European's consider hardcore porn is illegal too - how long do you think........
P.S. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to get Google to find a link to 'UK erection laws'. I really tried. I did.
> And what happens with French waste?
They go into politics.
A Czech man goes for his first western eye exam in Brussels.
Doctor: Ok, we a gonna start with the left eye, please tell me if you can read whats on the board:
A C J Y E W E N L K Q P Z
Man: Read it?, I went to school with the guy!
You ever tried different ps commands on AIX,Solaris,IRIX,HP-UX?
They don't all work the same. At all. Besides which, the things you are talking about are the user-space tools - that stuff is all GNU baby, and Gnus Not Unix.
- Hyundi car - sets of pedals, levers lights engine.
- Ford car - sets of pedals, levers lights engine.
Just because the two things operate, or appear similar on the surface does not infer that one is based on the other or vice-versa - it simple means that both operate using similar principles.Linux isn't Unix Based, it just happens to work like it. And by the way, it is mostly GNU tools that work like Unix!
Yeah, here it is:
at news dot com dot com.
From a design/philosophical perspective I'd agree - but being based from a design perspective is a bit different to just saying 'based on unix'.
Don't forget how much money you have to spend to be able to say 'based on unix'.
Didn't apple get in trouble over that not so long ago?
Dan
From the article:
... The operating system has made inroads in corporate data centers, gaining ground against the Unix operating system on which it is based and other operating systems.
Even Reuters seems to be falling for SCOs crap.
Sigh.
Yeah, I was trying to make it 'non-cs'. Atomic means something special to CS graduates, but very little to everyone else.
For anyone who has been following the good work that the gnome developers have been doing, its starting to look like vindication.
Ok, enough of the back slapping, lets see whats on offer: (PS - release notes for GTK at Gnome 2.6 update release notes
Font Changes:- Xft and fontconfig use the same backends - whats that mean to you? - better fonts - everything GTK now plays the same game.
- Fonts and character shapes can take a scripts 'hints' about a font into account - we win, the font creator wins - its about the best of everyones world.
- Using bi-directional text is not forced by the application - it can be extracted or 'hinted' from the original source file itself.
GLIB:- GLIB update to use unicode 4.0 - many, many people benefit.
- GLIB correctly recovers children processes.
- GRandom is better at seeding. But not cryptographically secure. Yet.
- The threading library with GLIB is now "operation or not" on integers and pointers.
- There is a way to specify an OO 'singleton' or 'once initialisation'
- Extra macros for GObject type writers
- Properties can be added to interfaces (verbatim copied)
- Private data within an instance can contain private data/references within and object (its not clean what this means in a C context, but I think they mean that it's not exposed).
GTK takes all of the above features, and uses those to make a fantastic release. Lets give these people time, They need it.