"could this climb to the top of the desktop distro ladder?"
Not without geek support, too. And Linspire has a poor reputation currently--no telling how long it will be before that goes away.
Still, it looks like at least a typical distribution for quality, though the boot times are somewhat worrying. (Four to five minutes? That's running full hardware detection each time, by the look of it--that's how long the Ubuntu installer takes, IIRC.) Still, that can be solved; the question is whether geeks think it's worth it to have proprietary codecs by default rather than simply apt-getting them. (And if they do, we'll soon see an alternative Ubuntu installer that does just that.)
But their whole business model for the product depends on them licensing Cider so that people can develop games with it, I thought. Is he saying that they're not going to seek new customers?
That might be a fair enough move at first, while they're still developing and stabilizing the technology. After all, if he already has the deepest pockets, he shouldn't be wasting his time (or rather, developers) for spare change (even if that measures in the millions). (I like parentheticals.)
Loudeye has worked with MSN quite often in the past, as well as Packard Bell and Coca Cola. Nothing with organizations known for music sales, but still a large portfolio.
Most home users aren't interesting enough to be targetted by keyloggers.:)
The keyboard would have to send its information by delaying packet transfer, so it'd have to have either software or add a connected intermediate to the ethernet cable. That's what's fishy about it.
The original deal was, the license is permanent, but new licenses wouldn't be offered after a certain date. So if you got it before the cutoff, you could use it forever.
Transgaming hasn't got a full, working reimplementation of the Windows API. My guess is, you need to write your game for a subset of Win32 API in order to get full results.
If not that, then you link to Cider rather than the Windows API. Then it would merely be a matter of recompiling--and thus not an option for end users. That implies that binary compatibility is lacking.
If you want to use WINE to run Windows applications, you'll need to use the command line. If you want to recompile your kernel for a speed increase (mainly at boot), you'll need to use the command line. Most other functions you'll need are available with a GUI, and all of them through the command line as well.
SUSE might be as good; I haven't tried it yet. But Ubuntu fulfills your requirements, I think.
This is a large problem. The GPL says little about what does or does not constitute a derivative work.
There's a good reason for that: the GPL is supposed to be portable. However, including a clause that says "The following do not constitute derivative works: [...] Licenses that differ only in this clause are considered to be fully compatible" might be a viable option.
The problem with that is, it's likely to confuse the bulk of users. You should see the confusion that results from WinXP default theme versus WinXP classic. If there are thirty different default Vista themes, then a lot of users will either get too flustered to use anyone else's computer or quickly learn to comprehend new interfaces--and the latter would make it much easier to switch operating systems.
Currently they're too busy reworking the internals of Windows to be somewhat maintainable to add features. This isn't a question of manpower--you don't want to add any features to unstable code.
Whether Microsoft will innovate once its codebase is stable and maintainable is debatable. The only innovation it's been providing so far, that I can see, is in DirectX. The original innovation there was speed--originally, OpenGL was slower than DirectX. Recently, though, OpenGL has become much faster than equivalent versions of DirectX. Add to that the fact that OpenGL is a higher level API, and you've got little reason to use DirectX, unless you actually need low-level access.
Access control lists in Windows seem more flexible than UNIX groups, but this is only useful in multiuser settings; and groups are a more orderly method except in exceptional circumstances.
So, no, there's been little recent innovation from Microsoft operating systems. But then, systems work is a matter of perturbing arrangements these days; what *can* Microsoft do? Create an entirely new OS paradigm?
Actually, even if they stayed in the same one and started a new OS series, that might be a good thing.
Free speech and freedom of the press mean that nobody can prevent you from speaking or writing what you wish. They don't mean that there are no repercussions. I can't hurt someone and get away with it just because of this. (I _can_ hurt someone and get away with it using the First Amendment if I'm only telling the truth, though; libel and slander don't apply in that case. Sedition still does, most likely.)
Considering that Moodle was demonstrated at least a year before Blackboard existed, it'll be listed as prior art in the trial. Worst case, Moodle moves offshore, but that doesn't do us any good; anyone using it would be caught for patent infringement, and we'd be left with BB in a monopoly.
Given the potential monopoly situation, a judge might decide to throw out the case regardless. I doubt it, though.
More importantly, you're in a situation where the prison guards control everything and the inmates have no privacy. Would I be willing to vote in such circumstances? Would I be allowed to vote against the nearest guard's party?
How about covering the internals with epoxy? The only difficulty then is updating the machine for the next election.
Still, once you've secured everything but the flash chip containing a list of candidates, there's little vulnerability short of replacing the entire machine. And here, hacking only results in useless results (ie, if you swap the names of Republican and Democratic candidates, someone will notice within the first hundred or so votes, meaning you have to invalidate those votes or perhaps hold a second election; you don't steal an election like that).
'Percent' is a noun. 'People' is also a noun. The semantic subject of that sentence was 'people'. The grammatical subject of that sentence was 'percent'. The word 'of' is a preposition that is subordinate to a noun and commands a noun. No noun that is subordinate to a preposition may be a grammatical subject.
You don't know anything about grammar if you believe that the sentence "99% of the CEO / CIO / Ballmer-esque level people I've electronically communicated with has had grammar just as bad in un-spun, non-PR whitewashed exchanges" has only one noun. Or only one subject, for that matter. Further, you know nothing about grammar if you believe that all nouns are subjects.
"So what about the case of two convicted paedophiles being arrested for videoing children in a local park? (appologies for lack of link) are thier rights being abused? the children or the paedophiles rights?"
So what about the case of two convicted rapists being arrested for videoing women in a local park? Are their rights being abused?
But convicted felons usually do not enjoy all the rights of ordinary citizens in the US. They're not allowed to serve on juries or to vote, for instance.
As for taping police in such circumstances, the responsible thing to do is not to release them to the general public, but to release copies to an appropriate jury. Inciting such a riot is certainly a crime; taping police officers is not.
I'm only an honorary girl, not a real one, but I generally don't cry. I came close in Deus Ex, when, due to my choices, Paul died. Even thinking about it now brings a tear to my eye.
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Since when did my user agent string identify me? Mine is:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060710 Firefox/2.0b1
Yep, we know exactly who I am now.
"could this climb to the top of the desktop distro ladder?"
Not without geek support, too. And Linspire has a poor reputation currently--no telling how long it will be before that goes away.
Still, it looks like at least a typical distribution for quality, though the boot times are somewhat worrying. (Four to five minutes? That's running full hardware detection each time, by the look of it--that's how long the Ubuntu installer takes, IIRC.) Still, that can be solved; the question is whether geeks think it's worth it to have proprietary codecs by default rather than simply apt-getting them. (And if they do, we'll soon see an alternative Ubuntu installer that does just that.)
But their whole business model for the product depends on them licensing Cider so that people can develop games with it, I thought. Is he saying that they're not going to seek new customers?
That might be a fair enough move at first, while they're still developing and stabilizing the technology. After all, if he already has the deepest pockets, he shouldn't be wasting his time (or rather, developers) for spare change (even if that measures in the millions). (I like parentheticals.)
http://www.loudeye.com/en/partners/stores.asp
Loudeye has worked with MSN quite often in the past, as well as Packard Bell and Coca Cola. Nothing with organizations known for music sales, but still a large portfolio.
Most home users aren't interesting enough to be targetted by keyloggers. :)
The keyboard would have to send its information by delaying packet transfer, so it'd have to have either software or add a connected intermediate to the ethernet cable. That's what's fishy about it.
The original deal was, the license is permanent, but new licenses wouldn't be offered after a certain date. So if you got it before the cutoff, you could use it forever.
Currently, though, there's no cutoff date listed.
Moreover, if someone releases a binary for RHEL, you'll find patches to make it work with any number of other distributions.
The communities support your software for you. Nice, isn't it?
Such as NeoOffice?
Transgaming hasn't got a full, working reimplementation of the Windows API. My guess is, you need to write your game for a subset of Win32 API in order to get full results.
If not that, then you link to Cider rather than the Windows API. Then it would merely be a matter of recompiling--and thus not an option for end users. That implies that binary compatibility is lacking.
Independent game developers can't afford to buy licenses from Microsoft.
Ubuntu, of course.
If you want to use WINE to run Windows applications, you'll need to use the command line. If you want to recompile your kernel for a speed increase (mainly at boot), you'll need to use the command line. Most other functions you'll need are available with a GUI, and all of them through the command line as well.
SUSE might be as good; I haven't tried it yet. But Ubuntu fulfills your requirements, I think.
This is a large problem. The GPL says little about what does or does not constitute a derivative work.
There's a good reason for that: the GPL is supposed to be portable. However, including a clause that says "The following do not constitute derivative works: [...] Licenses that differ only in this clause are considered to be fully compatible" might be a viable option.
The problem with that is, it's likely to confuse the bulk of users. You should see the confusion that results from WinXP default theme versus WinXP classic. If there are thirty different default Vista themes, then a lot of users will either get too flustered to use anyone else's computer or quickly learn to comprehend new interfaces--and the latter would make it much easier to switch operating systems.
Currently they're too busy reworking the internals of Windows to be somewhat maintainable to add features. This isn't a question of manpower--you don't want to add any features to unstable code.
Whether Microsoft will innovate once its codebase is stable and maintainable is debatable. The only innovation it's been providing so far, that I can see, is in DirectX. The original innovation there was speed--originally, OpenGL was slower than DirectX. Recently, though, OpenGL has become much faster than equivalent versions of DirectX. Add to that the fact that OpenGL is a higher level API, and you've got little reason to use DirectX, unless you actually need low-level access.
Access control lists in Windows seem more flexible than UNIX groups, but this is only useful in multiuser settings; and groups are a more orderly method except in exceptional circumstances.
So, no, there's been little recent innovation from Microsoft operating systems. But then, systems work is a matter of perturbing arrangements these days; what *can* Microsoft do? Create an entirely new OS paradigm?
Actually, even if they stayed in the same one and started a new OS series, that might be a good thing.
Libel and slander are crimes. So is sedition.
Free speech and freedom of the press mean that nobody can prevent you from speaking or writing what you wish. They don't mean that there are no repercussions. I can't hurt someone and get away with it just because of this. (I _can_ hurt someone and get away with it using the First Amendment if I'm only telling the truth, though; libel and slander don't apply in that case. Sedition still does, most likely.)
Considering that Moodle was demonstrated at least a year before Blackboard existed, it'll be listed as prior art in the trial. Worst case, Moodle moves offshore, but that doesn't do us any good; anyone using it would be caught for patent infringement, and we'd be left with BB in a monopoly.
Given the potential monopoly situation, a judge might decide to throw out the case regardless. I doubt it, though.
More importantly, you're in a situation where the prison guards control everything and the inmates have no privacy. Would I be willing to vote in such circumstances? Would I be allowed to vote against the nearest guard's party?
The Silly Party, of course.
Then *publishing* the photo could be lethal, but merely *taking* it isn't.
How about covering the internals with epoxy? The only difficulty then is updating the machine for the next election.
Still, once you've secured everything but the flash chip containing a list of candidates, there's little vulnerability short of replacing the entire machine. And here, hacking only results in useless results (ie, if you swap the names of Republican and Democratic candidates, someone will notice within the first hundred or so votes, meaning you have to invalidate those votes or perhaps hold a second election; you don't steal an election like that).
'Percent' is a noun.
'People' is also a noun.
The semantic subject of that sentence was 'people'.
The grammatical subject of that sentence was 'percent'.
The word 'of' is a preposition that is subordinate to a noun and commands a noun. No noun that is subordinate to a preposition may be a grammatical subject.
You don't know anything about grammar if you believe that the sentence "99% of the CEO / CIO / Ballmer-esque level people I've electronically communicated with has had grammar just as bad in un-spun, non-PR whitewashed exchanges" has only one noun. Or only one subject, for that matter. Further, you know nothing about grammar if you believe that all nouns are subjects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject_(grammar)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_phrase
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preposition
Free speech zone. Heh. All the US should be a free speech zone; why isn't it?
"So what about the case of two convicted paedophiles being arrested for videoing children in a local park?
(appologies for lack of link) are thier rights being abused? the children or the paedophiles rights?"
So what about the case of two convicted rapists being arrested for videoing women in a local park? Are their rights being abused?
But convicted felons usually do not enjoy all the rights of ordinary citizens in the US. They're not allowed to serve on juries or to vote, for instance.
As for taping police in such circumstances, the responsible thing to do is not to release them to the general public, but to release copies to an appropriate jury. Inciting such a riot is certainly a crime; taping police officers is not.
"99%...has had..."
That's accurate grammar, in my book.
I'm only an honorary girl, not a real one, but I generally don't cry. I came close in Deus Ex, when, due to my choices, Paul died. Even thinking about it now brings a tear to my eye.