After learning your second language, each additional one you learn becomes easier. Yes, kids will be more interested in learning Sindarin because is fun, but they're still learning valuable cognative principles for future language study.
Tolkein's work is fabulious in terms of its depth. He was a great lanugage scholar and it shows in his attention to detail in the languages he created. I don't know if the same thing can be said for those who created Klingon...
Are there even any Baby Bells left? Last time I checked there were something like four big companies controlling telecommunitations nationwide. So much for the regional bells...
And see, I thought the only smelly, furry geeks on/. were the one's who never shave and only bathe once a month... Guess the dog's got you beat there, too, don't they?
IANAL. Hell, IAN even a software developer. I'm just an interested, educated computer user who likes to have a bit of variety in his life. I can clearly see the arguments on both sides of this issue. I have no personal problem with people seeking to make money off software they've written, so long as they don't force me into paying them if I don't want it. And yet I find the constant "How free is Free" argument within the FSS community to be extremely off-putting. Zealotry is never friendly to a new convert, and when even asking a simple question about the merits of KDE vs Gnome on an email list results in a flame war of epic proportions, what kind of impression is this supposed to leave upon those who view the movement from outside?
I think the real issue at stake here is the freedom of the developer to see what he or she chooses done with their own product. Some will choose to attempt to make a profit off of their hard work. I say, good luck. It's a tough market out there. Others will choose to release their products gratis. I say, good for you. You are giving back to the community from which you came. Yet others will choose to release their products completely, allowing other developers to take them off in new and perhaps interesting ways. I say, wonderful. You have done a brave thing in giving your creation completely over to the world.
Ultimately, the freedom which we are speaking of, and, in many cases, fighting for, is the freedom of a creator to choose the destiny of their creation. Should they be forced to accept one route by law, eschewing all other possibilities? I certainly don't think so. No matter what route might be forced upon the creator, legislating compulsory 'freedom' is contrary to the very meaning of the word.
Actually, the one thing that I've missed on linux is the seemless support for polytonic Greek Windows has. When I was studing classics at university, I used MS Office to do my homework all the time. In the last two years I've been running linux, I still haven't figured out how to get my browser to display the unicode properly, and there aren't (to my knowledge) any easily downloadable fonts to allow for display of accented characters.
Knoppix is what introduced me to Linux in the first place. And it's utility goes far beyond that of a simple "drop in and load" distro. The hd installer works quite well and it would allow anyone who can do so much as partition a hard drive to go from Windows to Debian based apt-getable goodness in one fell swoop. It is most certinally a distribution in its own right.
The Eweek story goes out of its way to make sure that it mentions that the source code appears to have come from a linux machine. Notice the sentence:
Clues to the source code's origin lie in a "core dump" file, which is left by the Linux operating system to record the memory a program is using when it crashes.
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I hear bathing in boiling bleach helps, too.
For starters, go here.
After learning your second language, each additional one you learn becomes easier. Yes, kids will be more interested in learning Sindarin because is fun, but they're still learning valuable cognative principles for future language study.
Tolkein's work is fabulious in terms of its depth. He was a great lanugage scholar and it shows in his attention to detail in the languages he created. I don't know if the same thing can be said for those who created Klingon...
How can a monopoly grow since, by definition, it is the only game in town?
Are there even any Baby Bells left? Last time I checked there were something like four big companies controlling telecommunitations nationwide. So much for the regional bells...
Clearly Microsoft objects to XF86's new license as being restrictive to the growth of Free Software worldwide!
Guess I shouldn't make any comments about the Cat-iline Conspiracy here, should I :-P
And see, I thought the only smelly, furry geeks on /. were the one's who never shave and only bathe once a month... Guess the dog's got you beat there, too, don't they?
IANAL. Hell, IAN even a software developer. I'm just an interested, educated computer user who likes to have a bit of variety in his life. I can clearly see the arguments on both sides of this issue. I have no personal problem with people seeking to make money off software they've written, so long as they don't force me into paying them if I don't want it. And yet I find the constant "How free is Free" argument within the FSS community to be extremely off-putting. Zealotry is never friendly to a new convert, and when even asking a simple question about the merits of KDE vs Gnome on an email list results in a flame war of epic proportions, what kind of impression is this supposed to leave upon those who view the movement from outside? I think the real issue at stake here is the freedom of the developer to see what he or she chooses done with their own product. Some will choose to attempt to make a profit off of their hard work. I say, good luck. It's a tough market out there. Others will choose to release their products gratis. I say, good for you. You are giving back to the community from which you came. Yet others will choose to release their products completely, allowing other developers to take them off in new and perhaps interesting ways. I say, wonderful. You have done a brave thing in giving your creation completely over to the world. Ultimately, the freedom which we are speaking of, and, in many cases, fighting for, is the freedom of a creator to choose the destiny of their creation. Should they be forced to accept one route by law, eschewing all other possibilities? I certainly don't think so. No matter what route might be forced upon the creator, legislating compulsory 'freedom' is contrary to the very meaning of the word.
What about the Jack Parsons[amazon.com] project?
Is DVD driver support under linux reliable enough to have this be a viable alternative to compressed CD filesystems? CD drives are ubiquitous.
Actually, the one thing that I've missed on linux is the seemless support for polytonic Greek Windows has. When I was studing classics at university, I used MS Office to do my homework all the time. In the last two years I've been running linux, I still haven't figured out how to get my browser to display the unicode properly, and there aren't (to my knowledge) any easily downloadable fonts to allow for display of accented characters.
90% of everything is crap...
But does it run on linux so it'll work on my hacked Xbox?
Knoppix is what introduced me to Linux in the first place. And it's utility goes far beyond that of a simple "drop in and load" distro. The hd installer works quite well and it would allow anyone who can do so much as partition a hard drive to go from Windows to Debian based apt-getable goodness in one fell swoop. It is most certinally a distribution in its own right.
I can run any software from the Debian ARM port on my Zaurus. Can your Palm do that?