The diseases are very real and can cleary be seen. The problem is that people use these diseases as crutches. By that I mean while there is a small percentage of people who do have to deal with these very serious diseases, there are a plethora of people who get misdiagnosed through incompetent or unqualified medical personnel or by exaggerating their own symptoms. They use this as an excuse as to why they, their kids, or whatever aren't doing well in school, work, socially, what have you.
While this may be true, the following may also very well apply:
1) These people have 'mild' versions. They may indeed be exaggarating or not saying they have a mild form but you either have a disorder or you don't! Also, it may be very well you who's exaggerating, not them. 2) Don't forget that there are people walking around with disorders unknowingly. E.g. kids, but even also young adolesents + older. Other people may say or have said: "you have X or Y" which they'd easily believe given they're fully aware something is wrong with them (speaking from 1st hand experience here). 3) Hypochondriacs, they must have some kind of lack of attention or a lot of self-pity, hmmm? I'd love to analyze them.;^) 4) In the end, who are you kidding when you say reason X, which you know is untrue, is why you do not perform like others are expecting you to? Yourself.
I like a post somewhere in this thread where the author revealed some sound advice he got from his psychiatrist and at the end of the post he says he won't tell anyone if he's autistic or not.
FLAC remains the easy choice primarily because it is free software. It might not compress best (but it compresses better than Shorten), but it works well enough and its inherent freedom offers a compelling case for long-term archiving.
Any data on this? I mean. Lots of posts here. People who argue for FLAC mostly. Some who sth like i quote from you here, but: where is the actual data? I'd love to read an authentic benchmark. Not only for size, but also encoding and decoding time.
Hmm well i have no problems with my good ol' SB Live! but i remember something like this on my cheap, onboard ES1371. IIRC a software mixer daemon solves it (such as aRTs, ESD). I think we need consensus on aspects such as these so we have 1 sound (framework) workable for all DEs in the same sense as FD.o. OTOH, RealPlayer is a GTK application and for GNOME rather than for QT / KDE which has its own players.
Or windows: go to realplayer website. click download. double click the realplayer icon that magically appears. Wait, this isn't the program!? Oh, it just wants me to keep clicking next for like 30 times. Let's see, oh, here we go, click on the link on the website and it loads the program and starts playing it. It works! Back to knitting socks!
All (mostly) agreed and such. I hope software such as Autopackage solves the problem.
What you failed to mention though is that Windows its RealPlayer comes with all kind of settings wrong, used to be with spyware, regform et al. Not sure if those latter 2 are stil true. Now, the Linux version has a much cleaner interface and doesn't have all these kind of odd settings by default.
Oh and last time i checked, Red Hat and SUSE are adopting RealPlayer in their distribution in favor of alternatives. If they're currently included then your example is IMO bogus. Leaves room for other ones though.
Because of OSDL's greed, now no one gets to have a free version of BK. Thanks for nothing, assholes!
Really? Thats an interesting view on cause/effect. So, because a contractor of OSDL decided to work on that alternative in his free time, there is no free license anymore?
Is untrue and an oversimplified statement! Untrue, because Larry states the other reasons (gets too expensive) in the press statement. Oversimplified, because the cause/effect is obviously more complex and the authority of the decision lies at Bitmover in the end! He always had the power to pull the plug; now he used that power due to an event but don't tell us there were no other options available. E.g. just because one corporation infringes a license doesn't mean the software shouldn't be available anymore.
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Nero may have its fans in the Windows world, but NeroLinux is not going to win many in the Linux domain. NeroLinux is just not worth the time to learn how to use or even download while K3b is still around.
Huh? He probably speaks for KDE users only here since he compared a GTK1 app with a QT app. Its debatable why one would run a GTK1 app on a GNOMEv2 or KDEvX desktop. Or why would one run a QT application on GNOMEvX? Simply: its undesirable. He should have taken GNOME's CD application into account as well. Although i must add here that i use GNOME and use a Tk frontend called cdrtoaster which works perfect for me.
Wtf is your point? Then you callone butter-chocolate and the other one soy-chocolate.
The thing is that the food industry is in constant movement. Nowadays, in 2005, the definition of chocolate got changed. So many other definitions got changed too! Its still hard to believe what they call a 'steak' in the supermarket, while its more than 50% water. However, go live with it and read the ingredients instead of whining. You don't hear me whining McDonald's may not be called 'food', do you?
As for what that last line meant. My native language is not English and the sentence is clear to me so you have to be more specific.
that the name chocolate would be allowed for products containing other vegetal oils than cocoa butter (i.e. soy bean, etc).
Yes, and? I say 'duh, look at the ingredients'. If i buy soy-chocolate without wanting milk in it (which i do as vegan) and it tastes like chocolate -- then its choclate, isn't it? I don't see the problem. Just look at the ingredients, thats something you should do anyway. If a story declines you that or declines to answer the percentages then they're not worth your money.
The interview is roughly 50 minutes. The other 40 minutes are part of episode 71 of 'The Linux Link Text Show', a Linux/FOSS radio show, which was the host.
Calm down, its just one of the few Linux/FOSS-related radio shows. If you want to know what he talked about: reading Nat Friedman's blog basically gives you the very same information! In the interview he spoke about: Evolution, Hula, SUSE / KDE and XGL. However, the interview is from 14 february which means its more than a week old. Comapre this to his blog which has a post from 22 february with interesting Hula news!
Also of interest is the last LugRadio had an interview with Miguel de Icaza. To you, i say: just read Miguel or Nat's blog. You really won't miss much from there. The added value of it to me, is that its both informative and fun to hear. The informative part is, for me, mostly a repeat while the fun part is used instead of background music.
Who you refer to with 'you guys'? Not Novell or Nat Friedman, i hope, since its beyond their control. Just e-mail the authors and explain it to them. The authors are The Linux Link Tech Show (TLLTS) and their e-mail is at the 'Contact' button of that website.
Yep. Not only to get it listed which arguably is not that much and stops certain mechanisms (e.g. spammers, last minute pull-outs). You also have to pay a % of the price for which you are selling the article. IIRC this was recently raised.
My major problem with eBay is that there is no major competitor to eBay. Especially no international one. Let alone competitor to Paypal. No major competitor means they have all the freedom to raise prices, with no decline of customers (aka monopoly). Because, a website where almost nobody puts products on and/or where almost nobody sees what you have to sell or bids just doesn't work! Paypal competition suffers from the same problem!
They have no major competitor i'm aware off. There is only 1 local one which is just starting up here locally (speurders.nl) the other got bought for ridiculous amount of money (marketplaats.nl). None of which are international and the latter is not an actual auction site.
Basically, for 2+nd hand hardware which is what i'm hunting for, eBay.de is my only option. I can use eBay to see the text in English. Its (roughly) pretty cheap -- but unfortunately i support a huge multinational and IMO monopoly by buying over there. Sad, really.
Heh, i remember the corporation which ported games to Linux/x86: Loki - The Games That Linux People Play. Or was it Pay? Cause they're gone too, unfortunately. Due to deception? I don't see why.
Seems he really was arrested according to that article (in German). There was even a Swiss or German newspaper mentioning that as well, but i don't have the link handy.
What you remember is a conspiracy theory which may or may not be true. Here's it. Judge for yourself. Me, i think its fairly easy as *AA (or local variant) to get such 'rumors' started, which may or may not be partly true, and which may or may not be part of a deal. But who am i, and how can i proof...
I don't get it why you compare these 2 systems. Your compare is not based on either equal price or equal performance. Instead, its an old model Sun workstation system which is compared to a new model Sun server. Different cost, different performance, different age, different architecture, different purpose. About the only similarity is that they're both from Sun.
As you say: reading is one, understanding is two. Often related to each other, but not by definition.
What if you haven't read (for example) the GPL but understand it well enough to know: 1) the most important implications/rights to your work or the work you're using? 2) the very details? 3) what someone who's a lawyer explained to you in laymen terms? and all this due to translations of license (e.g. done with GPLv2, but not legally binding) or brief explanation in laymen terms (e.g. done with Creative Commons).
There are other paths than reading the actual license. They may cost more or less time, money, energy and may or may not be useful depending on situation (e.g. the license). Really depends. For example, reading the CC short explanation really saves time and i trust the author of it (Lawrence Lessig).
PS: GPLv3 will be translated to multiple licenses which versions will are legally binding. This was posted about in decembre or january at/. iirc with a link to eWeek.
God comfirms: Life on earth in the form of humanity started in what is currently known as Africa. Since we have to thank 'the people of Africa' for being alive right now, an African organisation should have control over breeding-related issues of our current humanity. After all, they handled humanity for years, with care, in much less easy circumstances.
Irony aside, your statement also is very similar as the pro-patent argument and even nationalistic. Why don't you please also stop basing anything new based on research from non-US countries? This includes e.g. James Watt. Luckily, it doesn't work like that, yes?
You bring an interesting point. I've seen websites being taken off because of different reasons than merely trademark-related. Basically, examples such as misleading. In the sense of (but not a true example) 'googlr.cctld'.
Now think about what would happen when there has been ruled on a certain domain, and/or with subdomain(s)? If its a defamation effort in which the name means more than the website (or actually means everything) then some websites. In short, DNS could be used for subjective matters. Think about kids who use 'vhosts' on IRC for a second. Now, i'm getting to your censorship point. Don't you think governments wouldn't want to or try to censor some opinions absolutely? Hate speech, for example? Think futher, something like: earn-1000-for-killing-president-X.org? That'd mean involvement with the rootservers or corporations behind the DNS hosting.
Seriously. I think it would have been better if the USA just used.us and after which every country just managed their own rootservers and own domains. Futhermore we could still have e.g. news.cctld, net.cctld. If so, we'd unfortunately have a major backwards compatibility problem... (IOW: too late)
What I do know is that none of those 13+ organizations you rattled off has been able to stop genocide in Yugoslavia or Rwanda nor have they been able to prevent the UN from being a money launderer for Saddam.
You never hear the small, positive stories. The media want to see blood. It sells.
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1) These people have 'mild' versions. They may indeed be exaggarating or not saying they have a mild form but you either have a disorder or you don't! Also, it may be very well you who's exaggerating, not them.
2) Don't forget that there are people walking around with disorders unknowingly. E.g. kids, but even also young adolesents + older. Other people may say or have said: "you have X or Y" which they'd easily believe given they're fully aware something is wrong with them (speaking from 1st hand experience here).
3) Hypochondriacs, they must have some kind of lack of attention or a lot of self-pity, hmmm? I'd love to analyze them.
4) In the end, who are you kidding when you say reason X, which you know is untrue, is why you do not perform like others are expecting you to? Yourself.
Agreed. And it was funny, too!
Hmm well i have no problems with my good ol' SB Live! but i remember something like this on my cheap, onboard ES1371. IIRC a software mixer daemon solves it (such as aRTs, ESD). I think we need consensus on aspects such as these so we have 1 sound (framework) workable for all DEs in the same sense as FD.o. OTOH, RealPlayer is a GTK application and for GNOME rather than for QT / KDE which has its own players.
I sence bad English.
What you failed to mention though is that Windows its RealPlayer comes with all kind of settings wrong, used to be with spyware, regform et al. Not sure if those latter 2 are stil true. Now, the Linux version has a much cleaner interface and doesn't have all these kind of odd settings by default.
Oh and last time i checked, Red Hat and SUSE are adopting RealPlayer in their distribution in favor of alternatives. If they're currently included then your example is IMO bogus. Leaves room for other ones though.
Is untrue and an oversimplified statement! Untrue, because Larry states the other reasons (gets too expensive) in the press statement. Oversimplified, because the cause/effect is obviously more complex and the authority of the decision lies at Bitmover in the end! He always had the power to pull the plug; now he used that power due to an event but don't tell us there were no other options available. E.g. just because one corporation infringes a license doesn't mean the software shouldn't be available anymore.
Wtf is your point? Then you callone butter-chocolate and the other one soy-chocolate.
The thing is that the food industry is in constant movement. Nowadays, in 2005, the definition of chocolate got changed. So many other definitions got changed too! Its still hard to believe what they call a 'steak' in the supermarket, while its more than 50% water. However, go live with it and read the ingredients instead of whining. You don't hear me whining McDonald's may not be called 'food', do you?
As for what that last line meant. My native language is not English and the sentence is clear to me so you have to be more specific.
Yes, and? I say 'duh, look at the ingredients'. If i buy soy-chocolate without wanting milk in it (which i do as vegan) and it tastes like chocolate -- then its choclate, isn't it? I don't see the problem. Just look at the ingredients, thats something you should do anyway. If a story declines you that or declines to answer the percentages then they're not worth your money.
What if he worked for Halliburton?
The interview is roughly 50 minutes. The other 40 minutes are part of episode 71 of 'The Linux Link Text Show', a Linux/FOSS radio show, which was the host.
Calm down, its just one of the few Linux/FOSS-related radio shows. If you want to know what he talked about: reading Nat Friedman's blog basically gives you the very same information! In the interview he spoke about: Evolution, Hula, SUSE / KDE and XGL. However, the interview is from 14 february which means its more than a week old. Comapre this to his blog which has a post from 22 february with interesting Hula news!
Also of interest is the last LugRadio had an interview with Miguel de Icaza. To you, i say: just read Miguel or Nat's blog. You really won't miss much from there. The added value of it to me, is that its both informative and fun to hear. The informative part is, for me, mostly a repeat while the fun part is used instead of background music.
Who you refer to with 'you guys'? Not Novell or Nat Friedman, i hope, since its beyond their control. Just e-mail the authors and explain it to them. The authors are The Linux Link Tech Show (TLLTS) and their e-mail is at the 'Contact' button of that website.
Ah bah, i should have added marktplaats.nl got bought by eBay .
Yep. Not only to get it listed which arguably is not that much and stops certain mechanisms (e.g. spammers, last minute pull-outs). You also have to pay a % of the price for which you are selling the article. IIRC this was recently raised.
My major problem with eBay is that there is no major competitor to eBay. Especially no international one. Let alone competitor to Paypal. No major competitor means they have all the freedom to raise prices, with no decline of customers (aka monopoly). Because, a website where almost nobody puts products on and/or where almost nobody sees what you have to sell or bids just doesn't work! Paypal competition suffers from the same problem!
They have no major competitor i'm aware off. There is only 1 local one which is just starting up here locally (speurders.nl) the other got bought for ridiculous amount of money (marketplaats.nl). None of which are international and the latter is not an actual auction site.
Basically, for 2+nd hand hardware which is what i'm hunting for, eBay.de is my only option. I can use eBay to see the text in English. Its (roughly) pretty cheap -- but unfortunately i support a huge multinational and IMO monopoly by buying over there. Sad, really.
Heh, i remember the corporation which ported games to Linux/x86: Loki - The Games That Linux People Play. Or was it Pay? Cause they're gone too, unfortunately. Due to deception? I don't see why.
Seems he really was arrested according to that article (in German). There was even a Swiss or German newspaper mentioning that as well, but i don't have the link handy.
What you remember is a conspiracy theory which may or may not be true. Here's it. Judge for yourself. Me, i think its fairly easy as *AA (or local variant) to get such 'rumors' started, which may or may not be partly true, and which may or may not be part of a deal. But who am i, and how can i proof...
Marvelous, thanks for reminding me that one. One of the best quotes of that episode. And IMO one of the better episodes as well. British_humor++ !
I don't get it why you compare these 2 systems. Your compare is not based on either equal price or equal performance. Instead, its an old model Sun workstation system which is compared to a new model Sun server. Different cost, different performance, different age, different architecture, different purpose. About the only similarity is that they're both from Sun.
The GPL is not an EULA afaik.
/. iirc with a link to eWeek.
As you say: reading is one, understanding is two. Often related to each other, but not by definition.
What if you haven't read (for example) the GPL but understand it well enough to know: 1) the most important implications/rights to your work or the work you're using? 2) the very details? 3) what someone who's a lawyer explained to you in laymen terms? and all this due to translations of license (e.g. done with GPLv2, but not legally binding) or brief explanation in laymen terms (e.g. done with Creative Commons).
There are other paths than reading the actual license. They may cost more or less time, money, energy and may or may not be useful depending on situation (e.g. the license). Really depends. For example, reading the CC short explanation really saves time and i trust the author of it (Lawrence Lessig).
PS: GPLv3 will be translated to multiple licenses which versions will are legally binding. This was posted about in decembre or january at
God comfirms: Life on earth in the form of humanity started in what is currently known as Africa. Since we have to thank 'the people of Africa' for being alive right now, an African organisation should have control over breeding-related issues of our current humanity. After all, they handled humanity for years, with care, in much less easy circumstances.
Irony aside, your statement also is very similar as the pro-patent argument and even nationalistic. Why don't you please also stop basing anything new based on research from non-US countries? This includes e.g. James Watt. Luckily, it doesn't work like that, yes?
You bring an interesting point. I've seen websites being taken off because of different reasons than merely trademark-related. Basically, examples such as misleading. In the sense of (but not a true example) 'googlr.cctld'.
.us and after which every country just managed their own rootservers and own domains. Futhermore we could still have e.g. news.cctld, net.cctld. If so, we'd unfortunately have a major backwards compatibility problem... (IOW: too late)
Now think about what would happen when there has been ruled on a certain domain, and/or with subdomain(s)? If its a defamation effort in which the name means more than the website (or actually means everything) then some websites. In short, DNS could be used for subjective matters. Think about kids who use 'vhosts' on IRC for a second. Now, i'm getting to your censorship point. Don't you think governments wouldn't want to or try to censor some opinions absolutely? Hate speech, for example? Think futher, something like: earn-1000-for-killing-president-X.org? That'd mean involvement with the rootservers or corporations behind the DNS hosting.
Seriously. I think it would have been better if the USA just used
You never hear the small, positive stories. The media want to see blood. It sells.