In my case, surfing FB would probably have made me aggressive. Mainly because I don't have a Facebook account and would have been in the white screen group.
Try to find an active site or mailing list outside of the freedesktop wiki telling you where to submit patches for new keyboards. And all the links on the freedesktop wiki point to 404 or NXDOMAIN.
At least I didn't get a bounce when sending my patch to the ML(?). No idea where or if that reached human eyes, though.
Up to now, I took keyboard settings for granted, as well.
As happy as I am not to have anything to do with Windows any more, I would _love_ to have proper data types on the shell.
And more than STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR.
I fear that a STDOBJ is in the long, long distant future, though.
On the other hand, keeping everything text-based allowed programs with absolutely no regard for old techniques. The objects of any STDOBJ would need to be very very very well thought out.
> equally likely that earth simply formed them on its own
I don't claim to understand the exact science behind it, but apparently this is not as likely. And, also apparently, it happened too fast for many people's liking.
I am not saying it's that way, mind. Just that, from what I know, external seeding solves the problem in a nicer way.
Effectiveness: Look at the calculations that were done hundreds of year ago, disproving this theory. The outer planets were found because people simply calculated the orbits of the other planets, saw that they were off and then went to calculate where the influence should sit. Eh, presto.
Once again, the US storms in behind good ol' Europe, I guess.
It's a pity that said Senator didn't read the law he questions, though. It mandates a _level of efficiency_, not a _technology_.
By 2014, no one will care about CFL any more, either way. LED all the way, baby.
And, with the right incentives, this might even be a net plus for the US economy _if_ they get onto the the LED train "early". As it is, we Germans seem to share the world market with Asia. Osram, Luxeon & Cree. No one else comes close.
> GNOME would get _nothing at all_ from ubuntu users
It has been shown time and time again that humans prefer to default to having nothing over being treated unfairly. IMO, this is one of the strongest built-in social regulation tools our evolutionary path equipped us with.
It ensures that a majority will try to strive towards perceived(!) fairness.
That local customs, prejudices and whatnot influence this perception is a given.
Obviously, FLOSS licenses allow me to modify stuff. That's their whole point.
Still, I don't have to accept changes made by others as morally OK, fair or anything other than insane.
Strong-arming people into submission is one of the things I consider unacceptable. Period. It's bad enough that Apple, MS and, to some extent, Google, abuse this newfound gatekeeping status that is app stores and pre-installed software.
It's worse that Canonical wants to abuse the basically open system of Linux, once again.
> Shakespear was published under a regime of perpetual copyright.
That's pretty interesting. Especially since he adapted heavily and "stole" more or less complete works from others.
At a time where most people could not read or write and actual scarcities like actors, venues, costumes, lighting, good audio, what-have-you were the barriers to distribution, copyright was a _lot_ less "useful" as it is today.
Fair enough. At least you didn't simply disappear without comment.
Kudos to you:)
As an aside, as I see things right now, the only chance Nokia has would be to push Meego on all front except the uttermost basic phones which would work fine with S40. But then, Elop seems to be calling more and more MS people into Nokia.
Let's just hope Qt will not stagnate. There's the KDE clause which ensures that Qt can't die completely, but...
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In my case, surfing FB would probably have made me aggressive. Mainly because I don't have a Facebook account and would have been in the white screen group.
Try to find an active site or mailing list outside of the freedesktop wiki telling you where to submit patches for new keyboards. And all the links on the freedesktop wiki point to 404 or NXDOMAIN.
At least I didn't get a bounce when sending my patch to the ML(?). No idea where or if that reached human eyes, though.
Up to now, I took keyboard settings for granted, as well.
> My favorite part was recompiling the kernel to get mouse support.
I had forgotten that.
> I miss RHL 6.2. That was as stable and clean an OS as I've used.
Oh, you... ;)
As happy as I am not to have anything to do with Windows any more, I would _love_ to have proper data types on the shell.
And more than STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR.
I fear that a STDOBJ is in the long, long distant future, though.
On the other hand, keeping everything text-based allowed programs with absolutely no regard for old techniques. The objects of any STDOBJ would need to be very very very well thought out.
Even the USA themselves freely admit that this list is pure, grade A bullshit.
If you _have_ to accept the yearly Special 301 story, at least make sure it's one pointing this out and moking the practice properly.
Interesting, thanks.
Though I don't get where the loan thing is coming from.
> equally likely that earth simply formed them on its own
I don't claim to understand the exact science behind it, but apparently this is not as likely. And, also apparently, it happened too fast for many people's liking.
I am not saying it's that way, mind. Just that, from what I know, external seeding solves the problem in a nicer way.
Correct. Also, we kinda have enough Nitrogen ourselves.
Who would'a thought?!
Also, misleading semi-troll topic to garner attention is misleading semi-troll topic to garner attention.
> i just figured that altruism involves not an interest in the object of this altruism, but a feeling of personal control over their fate. ...
> you're more charitable than i.
Yes, yes I am.
> this kind of thought leads folks to (shudder) "objectivism".
"I will help you if you let me dominate you" leads to a lot of things, none of which are part of objectivism.
Efficiency: check Wikipedia.
Effectiveness: Look at the calculations that were done hundreds of year ago, disproving this theory. The outer planets were found because people simply calculated the orbits of the other planets, saw that they were off and then went to calculate where the influence should sit. Eh, presto.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Execution is everything.
Also, TIL that in the USA, you can hog what your employees do in their free time. Amazing.
Once again, the US storms in behind good ol' Europe, I guess.
It's a pity that said Senator didn't read the law he questions, though. It mandates a _level of efficiency_, not a _technology_.
By 2014, no one will care about CFL any more, either way. LED all the way, baby.
And, with the right incentives, this might even be a net plus for the US economy _if_ they get onto the the LED train "early". As it is, we Germans seem to share the world market with Asia. Osram, Luxeon & Cree. No one else comes close.
Or you could just use what the people who prefer KDE 3's Amarok came uo with. It's basically Amarok 1, but ported to Qt & KDE 4.
http://www.clementine-player.org/
> GNOME would get _nothing at all_ from ubuntu users
It has been shown time and time again that humans prefer to default to having nothing over being treated unfairly. IMO, this is one of the strongest built-in social regulation tools our evolutionary path equipped us with.
It ensures that a majority will try to strive towards perceived(!) fairness.
That local customs, prejudices and whatnot influence this perception is a given.
Obviously, FLOSS licenses allow me to modify stuff. That's their whole point.
Still, I don't have to accept changes made by others as morally OK, fair or anything other than insane.
Strong-arming people into submission is one of the things I consider unacceptable. Period. It's bad enough that Apple, MS and, to some extent, Google, abuse this newfound gatekeeping status that is app stores and pre-installed software.
It's worse that Canonical wants to abuse the basically open system of Linux, once again.
On the open sea and before a court of law....
The move is ballsy, but this action might turn out to be a problem for him down the road.
Not right now, but I will read it.
The research I read on this suggested the opposite.
> Shakespear was published under a regime of perpetual copyright.
That's pretty interesting. Especially since he adapted heavily and "stole" more or less complete works from others.
At a time where most people could not read or write and actual scarcities like actors, venues, costumes, lighting, good audio, what-have-you were the barriers to distribution, copyright was a _lot_ less "useful" as it is today.
I wouldn't, as heat already is a form of energy.
Meanwhile, in Finland.... ;)
Very well said.
I notice no one objected to the use of a smiley button in the movie. Most people will not even be able to tell you if a cat was in it or not.
In the US, ripping the spine out of people and whipping baby seals to death with it is acceptable, showing a nipple is not.
News at 11.
Fair enough. At least you didn't simply disappear without comment.
Kudos to you :)
As an aside, as I see things right now, the only chance Nokia has would be to push Meego on all front except the uttermost basic phones which would work fine with S40. But then, Elop seems to be calling more and more MS people into Nokia.
Let's just hope Qt will not stagnate. There's the KDE clause which ensures that Qt can't die completely, but...