Seriously, if you kept yourself informed, you'd realise by now that Pat was _never_ self medicating, when he was on antibiotics it was always under perscription.
Yes, but imagin appliying this to modules, you could have a new module installed and compiled directly before insertion.
OK, no real use beyond geek factor and ease of tweaking, but it's still nice
I take your point there on Windows users being mostly copyright infringers who think they're 1334 because thay can download something off allofwarez.com, which is why I generally hand out copy's of the gnuwin32 CD as often as I can.
To come back to your question about Qt on Win32, I think the problem is that the Windows back end (that maps Qt system calls to Win32 ones, and which gives Qt apps on windows the same apperance that Win32 apps have) isn't GPL, only the Linux one is duel liscence (I could well be wrong though, since there is a KDE on Windows project, working under cygwin, but they might be using X).
There used to be a windows version that was free for non commercial use IIRC, but it was discontinued as of Qt3 because people weren't respecting the non commercial clause.
call me when you find them shipped in a format my non coding windows freinds can use, they'll be delighted after all this time...
btw: before you flame any more, most of my coding is done in Qt for speed of dev reasons.
When you look at the previews, you can see that the Gtk stuff is already there (try an Ximian build if you're not convinced) yet the Qt versuion is still in very early alpha.
And the Linux kernel is still in developpement, does that mean that Linux doesn't count as an OS?
1) Novell bought Ximian long before there was even talk of the suse purchase.
2) You can only get Free Qt library's for linux, the windows one's are commercial.
3) OOo 2.0 containes built in Gtk+ support, the Qt port is still far to young to be included.
Oh, and I've been using sevral Gtk+ apps on windows (gimp notably) and all I can say is don't blame the toolkit when it's the app to blame (old gimps couldn't handle stress too well).
OTOH, I'll hand you that Qt developpement is _much_ quicker than the Gtk+ equivalent, mainly due to the existance of KDevelop and extensive API documentation
I accept that your points are valid for medium to large companies, I was just pointing out that a large majority of companies are small, and because of that, your analysis of the way 'companies' behave doesn't hold for the stasticle majority
Most companies aren't medium to large, they're small, and therefor are bound by the EULA and everything that comes with it.
Also, if these companies _have_ a judicial department, they need it for more pressing matters than checking every shrink wrap license that comes through the door, and of which the boss generally has little if any knowledge....
And when things go boom, all they can say is 'Oh well' and try again, or go bust that is.
The point is that people only poor through the code they're interested in.
I'll go through idesk, or thr rox filer because their's stuff I want to do with it. OTOH I'm no kernel hacker and haven't even compiled moz or OOo, so I have very little interest in combing those pieces of code.
The same applies inside of a large project, the people who are going to audit a piece of code, are those who know it/can understand it the best.
Great, thanks for telling me that I have no life:)
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But seriously, Slackware can be a nightmare to set up if you don't know what you're doing (personnally, I'd already done an LFS up to compiling all of Gnome before moving to Slack).
That said, once you've got it tweeked, it 'just works' day in day out, no tweeking required (unless you want the latest uber package, and even then, things like dropline gnome really help).
First of all, their should be a new godwins law variant on the word 'terrorist'.
Seconde, after 9/11 we offered our aid in Afganistan, and lost people there.
Third, we aren't the ones who invaded a soverin nation, killing thousands of innocent civilians just becuase we didn't like their leader. Terrorisme indeed.
I suggest you do RTFA, or at least try, all these machines were in a buissness context, and the largest proportion of XPs were in firms that specialised in computer consultancy (SSII in French).
Therefor these machines were being used by people with more than just a 'clue', and were probably locked down to prevent spyware installation and the like.
You're right, the prisoner abuse scandals hadn't hit when F911 came out.
Moore seriously though, F911 is an opinion piece, and it'd be hard for people to take it otherwise, but it's an eye opening opinion piece, which, when combined with some _proper_ fact finding can be quite unnerving.
BTW: I agree with you that Kerry doesn't look much better, then again, it's not my country, so....:-)
which these days would almost necessarily be comprised primarily of countries not friendly to us and in many cases openly sympathetic to bin Laden's cause.
This is unfortunatly the reality the US faces today, and whilst I disagee that the French would go soft on OBL if we managed to get our hands on him (It's just Iraq we object to, which is another war entirly) we have to admit that a lot of countries don't hold the US in their hearts atm.
Now, back to the question, in a court of law, everyone (prosecution and defense asside) have to be independant for the accused to have a fair trile. This counts just as much for an international court of law, as for a US one.
The problem is this: For OBL's crimes, a jury trial would be de riggeur (unless you have military tribunerals for everything by then). How do you expect to find 12 Americans who would be able to cast an unbiasd opinion on 9/11
No, but you can improve the situation somewhat. Take water as an example (I'm using water because _everyone_ uses it, whereas power, x billion people don't have). In the west, we consume far more drinking water than we need to, it's used for everything from drinking (logical) to cleaning the streets. If some of the infrastructure used for this was instead set up in places where drinking water is in short supply, the water shortage problems would vanish over night.
I'm not going to go into the details of moving metric tones of H2O from one point on the plant to another, or discuss the relevance of tearing out infrastructure to move it elsewhere.
My point is that if everyone takes care about energy consumption, like you do, we may not solve our energy crises, but we sure will make them one hell of a lot easier to sort out.
What the world needs (or to be more precise, Europe and the USA) is to stop using energy like it's a limitless ressource. None of this would be necessary if people paid more attention to their energy consumption...
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See my other posts, Pat _NEVER_ self medicated, so go troll somewhere else
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=129902&cid=108 33936
Seriously, if you kept yourself informed, you'd realise by now that Pat was _never_ self medicating, when he was on antibiotics it was always under perscription.
One more to add to the list from a convinced Slacker...
Take good care fo yourself and get well soon.
Yes, but imagin appliying this to modules, you could have a new module installed and compiled directly before insertion. OK, no real use beyond geek factor and ease of tweaking, but it's still nice
I take your point there on Windows users being mostly copyright infringers who think they're 1334 because thay can download something off allofwarez.com, which is why I generally hand out copy's of the gnuwin32 CD as often as I can.
To come back to your question about Qt on Win32, I think the problem is that the Windows back end (that maps Qt system calls to Win32 ones, and which gives Qt apps on windows the same apperance that Win32 apps have) isn't GPL, only the Linux one is duel liscence (I could well be wrong though, since there is a KDE on Windows project, working under cygwin, but they might be using X).
There used to be a windows version that was free for non commercial use IIRC, but it was discontinued as of Qt3 because people weren't respecting the non commercial clause.
call me when you find them shipped in a format my non coding windows freinds can use, they'll be delighted after all this time... btw: before you flame any more, most of my coding is done in Qt for speed of dev reasons.
When you look at the previews, you can see that the Gtk stuff is already there (try an Ximian build if you're not convinced) yet the Qt versuion is still in very early alpha.
And the Linux kernel is still in developpement, does that mean that Linux doesn't count as an OS?
Yes, but the downloadable librarys for windows are where exactly?
Not to nitpick......
1) Novell bought Ximian long before there was even talk of the suse purchase.
2) You can only get Free Qt library's for linux, the windows one's are commercial.
3) OOo 2.0 containes built in Gtk+ support, the Qt port is still far to young to be included.
Oh, and I've been using sevral Gtk+ apps on windows (gimp notably) and all I can say is don't blame the toolkit when it's the app to blame (old gimps couldn't handle stress too well).
OTOH, I'll hand you that Qt developpement is _much_ quicker than the Gtk+ equivalent, mainly due to the existance of KDevelop and extensive API documentation
It'd be able to deduce the existance of rice pudding and income tax before anyone could get to a switch to turn it off!
I accept that your points are valid for medium to large companies, I was just pointing out that a large majority of companies are small, and because of that, your analysis of the way 'companies' behave doesn't hold for the stasticle majority
You've answered yourself.
Most companies aren't medium to large, they're small, and therefor are bound by the EULA and everything that comes with it.
Also, if these companies _have_ a judicial department, they need it for more pressing matters than checking every shrink wrap license that comes through the door, and of which the boss generally has little if any knowledge....
And when things go boom, all they can say is 'Oh well' and try again, or go bust that is.
The point is that people only poor through the code they're interested in. I'll go through idesk, or thr rox filer because their's stuff I want to do with it. OTOH I'm no kernel hacker and haven't even compiled moz or OOo, so I have very little interest in combing those pieces of code. The same applies inside of a large project, the people who are going to audit a piece of code, are those who know it/can understand it the best.
Read your EULAs recently? the vendors entire liability is a product refund, and only if they see fit...
Really on the hook yeah...
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#warning "joke intended"
Great, thanks for telling me that I have no life
#endif
But seriously, Slackware can be a nightmare to set up if you don't know what you're doing (personnally, I'd already done an LFS up to compiling all of Gnome before moving to Slack).
That said, once you've got it tweeked, it 'just works' day in day out, no tweeking required (unless you want the latest uber package, and even then, things like dropline gnome really help).
First of all, their should be a new godwins law variant on the word 'terrorist'.
Seconde, after 9/11 we offered our aid in Afganistan, and lost people there.
Third, we aren't the ones who invaded a soverin nation, killing thousands of innocent civilians just becuase we didn't like their leader. Terrorisme indeed.
Go ahead, flame me, mod me to hell, I don't care.
Check my e-mail addresse, I'm _from_ France.
And I wasn't complaining, just pointing out that these people know what they're doing wit their machines
Welcome to France, here, you need a special A level to work on a supermarket checkout.
Changing video cards on peoples machines requires a good degree.
Don't get me started on the diploma's you need to write code for a living.
Yet here we have the codeing shop's with the biggest proportion of XPs, and XP bugging out 12% of the time. These aren't cluless users here...
I suggest you do RTFA, or at least try, all these machines were in a buissness context, and the largest proportion of XPs were in firms that specialised in computer consultancy (SSII in French) .
Therefor these machines were being used by people with more than just a 'clue', and were probably locked down to prevent spyware installation and the like.
Yes, and Microsoft oh so very nicely pulled the plug when they saw Saffari in beta....
You're right, the prisoner abuse scandals hadn't hit when F911 came out.
:-)
Moore seriously though, F911 is an opinion piece, and it'd be hard for people to take it otherwise, but it's an eye opening opinion piece, which, when combined with some _proper_ fact finding can be quite unnerving.
BTW: I agree with you that Kerry doesn't look much better, then again, it's not my country, so....
which these days would almost necessarily be comprised primarily of countries not friendly to us and in many cases openly sympathetic to bin Laden's cause.
This is unfortunatly the reality the US faces today, and whilst I disagee that the French would go soft on OBL if we managed to get our hands on him (It's just Iraq we object to, which is another war entirly) we have to admit that a lot of countries don't hold the US in their hearts atm.
Now, back to the question, in a court of law, everyone (prosecution and defense asside) have to be independant for the accused to have a fair trile. This counts just as much for an international court of law, as for a US one.
The problem is this: For OBL's crimes, a jury trial would be de riggeur (unless you have military tribunerals for everything by then). How do you expect to find 12 Americans who would be able to cast an unbiasd opinion on 9/11
It would be much easier to find neutral countries
No, but you can improve the situation somewhat. Take water as an example (I'm using water because _everyone_ uses it, whereas power, x billion people don't have). In the west, we consume far more drinking water than we need to, it's used for everything from drinking (logical) to cleaning the streets. If some of the infrastructure used for this was instead set up in places where drinking water is in short supply, the water shortage problems would vanish over night.
I'm not going to go into the details of moving metric tones of H2O from one point on the plant to another, or discuss the relevance of tearing out infrastructure to move it elsewhere.
My point is that if everyone takes care about energy consumption, like you do, we may not solve our energy crises, but we sure will make them one hell of a lot easier to sort out.
What the world needs (or to be more precise, Europe and the USA) is to stop using energy like it's a limitless ressource. None of this would be necessary if people paid more attention to their energy consumption...