Even though it's wrong target, you can still trace back to see to whom shop owner sold those cartridges. With out those fingerprints it's unlikely that you will be able to identify who sold them. Checking trade records might lead you to the correct target. If you're talking about a murder case or assassination such evidence is invaluable to resolve the case. It may have more value than the actual fingerprint of the shot man.
I don't even think RMS knew what wireless technology those PCs have. Since RMS never interested in content most of time. I remember once I passed a signed book to him of a writer friend of mine titled as "Linux-something", his first response was "I didn't like this book, where's GNU in it". And I'm not kidding.
Hey mister "Interesting" but the rate at which GNOME is including Microsoft's tech is zero. There's no critical part of the platform that's relying on Microsoft's tech even if you think mono is Microsoft tech.
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GNOME has user-configurable key shortcuts (GNOME has it's own term called keybinding or depending on what you mean accelerator keys), if it means you want to give "shortcuts" to menu items, just set/desktop/gnome/interface/can_change_accels gconf key to true. Then you can set accelerator key to whatever you want when you hover on a menu item.
Why all the clueless people speculate about Microsoft stating Microsoft can do X and Y but does not choose to do? I'm starting to think that people try to leverage their frustration about the "Al Mighty Cash Cow Microsoft" losing market share to Open Source software with this kind of assumptions. It's not like every software engineer can produce same products, and it's only Microsoft that can fund developers, who are very talented.
On which country on the earth these are totally free actions? That's not specific to China, they just want to control it, which is fine. Every country have their own regulations to protect their own sensitivity to a matter. In US it's racism, in Europe it's mostly ethnical discrimation of genocide. In China their worries are different due to their history. There's no such a country which would let people to do some action to broke nations unity. Yes it's censorship. Yes it is annoying to some. But that's the price of living whealty. That's the price of surviving with limited resources. If anyone thinking wars, which created those worries, are due to greed of people, then those are either fools or the ones behave like that. All wars are due to survival instincts of people. You might not have problems today, but you need to think your future as well, else our bodies won't store any energy, will it?
Fluendo is developing/selling (has to sell them due to royalties) MS codecs for Linux. Also they are working on legal DVD player. Morever gstreamer has DRM stack in it, for HD/BlueRay protection schemes. If any distribution put money to pay for licence fees for codecs, they can release those codecs bundled. There's nothing to stop them, however nobody would like to use DRM unless it's enforced, and with a typical Linux distribution you can't enforce that.
In past it was not possible for computer manufacturers to offer Linux because they were not enough consumers to choose Linux over Windows and Windows might charge them with higher oem licenses. However today they see that people would like to buy pre-installed Linux boxes, and computer manufacturers yet see that they can support them as well. Dell will soon bundle his own build of Fedora if I'm not mistaken. Maybe they will offer other distros as well. Then we'll see if Linux is already lost, or you're talking non-sense.
It's not time taking releasing the patch, it's the design decition done by a software company with its flagship product used by millions. You put a useless feature like handling.ani in HTML with your renderer, you also embed this renderer everywhere throughout your "OS", then for sure it would take lots of time to test for problems for such a single fix in.ani file handler. We saw same scenerio in past dozens of times.
Having millions of users might be an excuse, but having a bad design can't, if you claim to be developing best software.
I really find it just plain spreading FUD to compare open source software equivalent microsoft software with those metrics. Blah, blah, but it's used by millions, see what happens when open source is used by millions. Just wondering how many in those millions compare design decisions taken during software development of product they use. What's lame is not seeing how broken design of some parts of the software, not bashing due to these flaws.
Since you have evolution in both of the words, it does not mean they can be considered in same field. Human evolution is much more complex than single bacteria. How much years you count it or not, there're countless body parts or organs that has not help to vitality of specy. It should be too optimistic that homo something survived beacuse it had eyebrows and their genetic mutation was fittest for that time being. You can only explain survival of fittest with micro evolution, however if you want to explay why finger nails exists in humans with that exact shape, you need a *really* strong story.
Some may argue that ID is not scientific theory, but same one should also be against evolution. Because science can only progress if you can ask 'what if' and believing either of these theories you're getting out of what if questions.
Plant also produce carbondioxide at night. So cultivating plant is not a solution. Only solution would be a big pipes passing athmosphere and pump out the carbon dioxide outside the athmosphere. or a magic bacteria which consumes carbondioxide and produce diamond from it maybe.
I think this kind of action, and offer for help is needed by companies. I hope it will be touted enough. What I know is that, companies having really hard times finding skilled coders for developing Linux drivers. Most of them does not care about the specifications, as they have already patents pending for their works, but they can't actually find people to code for Linux and/or they don't willing to pay more than Windows developers for Linux developers for a smaller market.
Vast majority of distrobution of FireFox for Linux users is update systems of their distro. I never downloaded FireFox from www.mozilla.org, but I use it. So non-downloader is not a non-user anyways.
It's evident that there's a competition. But it's lack of knowledge that GNOME or KDE developers are trying to compete with propriatory software. It's different market. If you don't care about freedom, then you would not care philosophy behind the things. And you would use whatever feasable for you, either with paying for it or not. You can't ignore the development pace of Linux desktop environment, when windows xp released GNOME desktop was really lacking lots of functionality. However currently it's much more better than Windows XP, and will be better than Vista or Tiger with developers get idea of best user experience ideas (call it steal or whatever) and will try to improve them.
Don't forget that developers use the desktop, and they will rely on others feedback about desktop apart from their own use. If users complain about something they will get motivated to fix stuff or add new features. If they were motivated to compete with other desktops they would behave differently and try to mimic stuff from them. But that's not the case with Linux Desktop. It's all about making computer experience better for its users. It all boils down to personas using these environments. Currently, to say, GNOME users are not newbies. Once more adoption takes place you will see that it will be more user friendly -to newbies-.
There're also technical obstacles in front of developers of Desktop environments, and these obstacles are dissepearing by time. Remember you needed to be root to mount cd or usb stick? Thanks to HAL not that's not a necessity. Now desktop developers can eaily use shinny graphics into their applications thanks to cairo and accelerated desktops.
To judge Linux Desktop, you need to check the development pace. Then compare them with time scales. I'm pretty sure anyone doing some research about features and bugs fixed by Microsoft or Apple and Linux Desktop from year 2000 to 2006, will be really amazed with the amount.
Would it be better for spammer to compromise limited time open desktop computer with small bandwidth or some high-end server which is available full time w/ generous bandwidth? If latter is more feasible for spammers or ddos attacker, linux servers has more usage than windows servers. so your assumption is totally wrong.
First time I saw Eben Moglen in from-the-hawai shirt, I had no impression about he's a lawyer and also who's the one behind FSF's legal moves. Later on he started to talk about GPLv3 in a way that he's fighting with audience, then I had my first impression of his lawly background. And now with a suit. Luckily with pink shirt.
Why? Why not just spend the money and get competent Windows administraters?
Because competent hardware is much more expensive. Because Windows License costs are much more expensive. Because you need to get CALs for new users on your system. Because Windows is less secure even if Windows administer is very talented. On every deployment of Windows I see Linux based firewall is running in front of Internet connection.
And also competent even worse Windows administers are much more expensive than Linux administers. Since they have blinking MS Certificates they think that they worth more than they are.
Ignorance is a very big problem with Linux, which results in unsuccessful deployment and failure. It's not an easy job for making people to switch from one environment to another. Building similar GUI is not a resolution. Most computer users do not know what they use. And people should increase their knowledge if they want to use computer. Using windows is like learning driving on one car. Though you need to learn standards, you need to know what horn is and used for, instead of learning it like 'you push that place and it emit sound'.
We have to put Linux awareness on computer education. Else people would behave Linux as Windows and once they fail they would blame that on Linux. Administrators of Windows think that they know everything due to their computer training and once they encounter something different, they think its broken 'even though they did everything right'. Users thing applications 'do not work', or 'does not do something' because they can't see their familiar GUI in front of them. They don't even check other places, or don't even know where to look at it.
Technical personnel can't report bug reports, can't realize what causes the problem. They mostly get used to 'reinstall' or 'restart' to fix stuff never in need to knowing cause of previous problems.
And even worse, since they don't know deep working of some basic stuff, they design current systems platform specific. They don't use standards but rather using platform specific tools or ways to handle things due to their 'buggy training'. And when they need to change platforms they have to reinvent lots of other fixes they had before.
Summing all that up, they stay in the middle of vendor lock-in. if we can't educate people well on computers, and they think they are educated enough, they would not blame their knowledge but the products.
There's a discussion about having user space device drivers for usb wireless sticks and some other drivers as well for linux kernel. I hope this kind of attack vectors encourage kernel developers to go in this way. Keeping stuff in user space as much as it allows would again let Linux to be secure-by-design once again. Currently couple of tools (like wpa_supplicant) running in user space, and I wonder their situation in Windows kernel. If they are not (which I guess they are not -because microsoft is known to be putting huge code into kernel level) then that's a huge problem from security perspective.
FX extensions are backward compatible, its just that you state upper limit for firefox version on your extension and that's why they look incompatible. What do you expect, firefox to lie about its version number? If you want that you can do it by yourself via changing 'extensions.lastAppVersion' in about:config. Or wait for your extension developer to release new version of extension (Add-in for now on) testing it with new firefox version and changing upper limit for lastAppVersion. If firefox was not backward compatible for extensions at all, you won't see that quick updates for extensions right after firefox 2.0 get released.
And also there's no way to predict weather behaviour because there needs to be blah blah sensors and blah blah devices to detect infinate number of samples and also a model etc. etc. You should not need to be 100% exact for most of times. And that device is one of those. It might not be 100% exact, but even 70% or 60% prediction level might help you alot to earn horse sack of money. Just as in weather forecasts. It's not 100% exact, but you still know that it's better to carry an umbrella in a rainny reported forecast. Or you can ignore that and turn back home soaked keeping your 40% doubt for those measures.
If my ears won't catch a frequency played through the audio stream, or my eyes won't catch a color on an image, I would not care as a plain audience. That's why lossy compression algorithms are common, and more than enough for most people. If you need that fidelity you must be a professional and it's wise to pay for that content. Indeed it's ripping people off to sell lossy compressed audio or video. That's like demo of your original content.
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Even though it's wrong target, you can still trace back to see to whom shop owner sold those cartridges. With out those fingerprints it's unlikely that you will be able to identify who sold them. Checking trade records might lead you to the correct target. If you're talking about a murder case or assassination such evidence is invaluable to resolve the case. It may have more value than the actual fingerprint of the shot man.
I don't even think RMS knew what wireless technology those PCs have. Since RMS never interested in content most of time. I remember once I passed a signed book to him of a writer friend of mine titled as "Linux-something", his first response was "I didn't like this book, where's GNU in it". And I'm not kidding.
Hey mister "Interesting" but the rate at which GNOME is including Microsoft's tech is zero. There's no critical part of the platform that's relying on Microsoft's tech even if you think mono is Microsoft tech.
GNOME has user-configurable key shortcuts (GNOME has it's own term called keybinding or depending on what you mean accelerator keys), if it means you want to give "shortcuts" to menu items, just set /desktop/gnome/interface/can_change_accels gconf key to true. Then you can set accelerator key to whatever you want when you hover on a menu item.
Why all the clueless people speculate about Microsoft stating Microsoft can do X and Y but does not choose to do? I'm starting to think that people try to leverage their frustration about the "Al Mighty Cash Cow Microsoft" losing market share to Open Source software with this kind of assumptions. It's not like every software engineer can produce same products, and it's only Microsoft that can fund developers, who are very talented.
On which country on the earth these are totally free actions? That's not specific to China, they just want to control it, which is fine. Every country have their own regulations to protect their own sensitivity to a matter. In US it's racism, in Europe it's mostly ethnical discrimation of genocide. In China their worries are different due to their history. There's no such a country which would let people to do some action to broke nations unity. Yes it's censorship. Yes it is annoying to some. But that's the price of living whealty. That's the price of surviving with limited resources. If anyone thinking wars, which created those worries, are due to greed of people, then those are either fools or the ones behave like that. All wars are due to survival instincts of people. You might not have problems today, but you need to think your future as well, else our bodies won't store any energy, will it?
Fluendo is developing/selling (has to sell them due to royalties) MS codecs for Linux. Also they are working on legal DVD player. Morever gstreamer has DRM stack in it, for HD/BlueRay protection schemes. If any distribution put money to pay for licence fees for codecs, they can release those codecs bundled. There's nothing to stop them, however nobody would like to use DRM unless it's enforced, and with a typical Linux distribution you can't enforce that.
In past it was not possible for computer manufacturers to offer Linux because they were not enough consumers to choose Linux over Windows and Windows might charge them with higher oem licenses. However today they see that people would like to buy pre-installed Linux boxes, and computer manufacturers yet see that they can support them as well. Dell will soon bundle his own build of Fedora if I'm not mistaken. Maybe they will offer other distros as well. Then we'll see if Linux is already lost, or you're talking non-sense.
It's not time taking releasing the patch, it's the design decition done by a software company with its flagship product used by millions. You put a useless feature like handling .ani in HTML with your renderer, you also embed this renderer everywhere throughout your "OS", then for sure it would take lots of time to test for problems for such a single fix in .ani file handler. We saw same scenerio in past dozens of times.
Having millions of users might be an excuse, but having a bad design can't, if you claim to be developing best software.
I really find it just plain spreading FUD to compare open source software equivalent microsoft software with those metrics. Blah, blah, but it's used by millions, see what happens when open source is used by millions. Just wondering how many in those millions compare design decisions taken during software development of product they use. What's lame is not seeing how broken design of some parts of the software, not bashing due to these flaws.
You don't need driver for wireless? Theorically correct, however you need firmware anyways, which make it practically incorrect.
Since you have evolution in both of the words, it does not mean they can be considered in same field. Human evolution is much more complex than single bacteria. How much years you count it or not, there're countless body parts or organs that has not help to vitality of specy. It should be too optimistic that homo something survived beacuse it had eyebrows and their genetic mutation was fittest for that time being. You can only explain survival of fittest with micro evolution, however if you want to explay why finger nails exists in humans with that exact shape, you need a *really* strong story.
Some may argue that ID is not scientific theory, but same one should also be against evolution. Because science can only progress if you can ask 'what if' and believing either of these theories you're getting out of what if questions.
You should disable javascript, yet again.
Plant also produce carbondioxide at night. So cultivating plant is not a solution. Only solution would be a big pipes passing athmosphere and pump out the carbon dioxide outside the athmosphere. or a magic bacteria which consumes carbondioxide and produce diamond from it maybe.
I think this kind of action, and offer for help is needed by companies. I hope it will be touted enough. What I know is that, companies having really hard times finding skilled coders for developing Linux drivers. Most of them does not care about the specifications, as they have already patents pending for their works, but they can't actually find people to code for Linux and/or they don't willing to pay more than Windows developers for Linux developers for a smaller market.
Will they create Open Format, or use their propriatory format? I hope they would invent better one than their previous so-called formats.
Vast majority of distrobution of FireFox for Linux users is update systems of their distro. I never downloaded FireFox from www.mozilla.org, but I use it. So non-downloader is not a non-user anyways.
We call it iframes.
It's evident that there's a competition. But it's lack of knowledge that GNOME or KDE developers are trying to compete with propriatory software. It's different market. If you don't care about freedom, then you would not care philosophy behind the things. And you would use whatever feasable for you, either with paying for it or not. You can't ignore the development pace of Linux desktop environment, when windows xp released GNOME desktop was really lacking lots of functionality. However currently it's much more better than Windows XP, and will be better than Vista or Tiger with developers get idea of best user experience ideas (call it steal or whatever) and will try to improve them.
Don't forget that developers use the desktop, and they will rely on others feedback about desktop apart from their own use. If users complain about something they will get motivated to fix stuff or add new features. If they were motivated to compete with other desktops they would behave differently and try to mimic stuff from them. But that's not the case with Linux Desktop. It's all about making computer experience better for its users. It all boils down to personas using these environments. Currently, to say, GNOME users are not newbies. Once more adoption takes place you will see that it will be more user friendly -to newbies-.
There're also technical obstacles in front of developers of Desktop environments, and these obstacles are dissepearing by time. Remember you needed to be root to mount cd or usb stick? Thanks to HAL not that's not a necessity. Now desktop developers can eaily use shinny graphics into their applications thanks to cairo and accelerated desktops.
To judge Linux Desktop, you need to check the development pace. Then compare them with time scales. I'm pretty sure anyone doing some research about features and bugs fixed by Microsoft or Apple and Linux Desktop from year 2000 to 2006, will be really amazed with the amount.
Would it be better for spammer to compromise limited time open desktop computer with small bandwidth or some high-end server which is available full time w/ generous bandwidth? If latter is more feasible for spammers or ddos attacker, linux servers has more usage than windows servers. so your assumption is totally wrong.
First time I saw Eben Moglen in from-the-hawai shirt, I had no impression about he's a lawyer and also who's the one behind FSF's legal moves. Later on he started to talk about GPLv3 in a way that he's fighting with audience, then I had my first impression of his lawly background. And now with a suit. Luckily with pink shirt.
Why? Why not just spend the money and get competent Windows administraters?
Because competent hardware is much more expensive. Because Windows License costs are much more expensive. Because you need to get CALs for new users on your system. Because Windows is less secure even if Windows administer is very talented. On every deployment of Windows I see Linux based firewall is running in front of Internet connection.
And also competent even worse Windows administers are much more expensive than Linux administers. Since they have blinking MS Certificates they think that they worth more than they are.
Ignorance is a very big problem with Linux, which results in unsuccessful deployment and failure. It's not an easy job for making people to switch from one environment to another. Building similar GUI is not a resolution. Most computer users do not know what they use. And people should increase their knowledge if they want to use computer. Using windows is like learning driving on one car. Though you need to learn standards, you need to know what horn is and used for, instead of learning it like 'you push that place and it emit sound'.
We have to put Linux awareness on computer education. Else people would behave Linux as Windows and once they fail they would blame that on Linux. Administrators of Windows think that they know everything due to their computer training and once they encounter something different, they think its broken 'even though they did everything right'. Users thing applications 'do not work', or 'does not do something' because they can't see their familiar GUI in front of them. They don't even check other places, or don't even know where to look at it.
Technical personnel can't report bug reports, can't realize what causes the problem. They mostly get used to 'reinstall' or 'restart' to fix stuff never in need to knowing cause of previous problems.
And even worse, since they don't know deep working of some basic stuff, they design current systems platform specific. They don't use standards but rather using platform specific tools or ways to handle things due to their 'buggy training'. And when they need to change platforms they have to reinvent lots of other fixes they had before.
Summing all that up, they stay in the middle of vendor lock-in. if we can't educate people well on computers, and they think they are educated enough, they would not blame their knowledge but the products.
There's a discussion about having user space device drivers for usb wireless sticks and some other drivers as well for linux kernel. I hope this kind of attack vectors encourage kernel developers to go in this way. Keeping stuff in user space as much as it allows would again let Linux to be secure-by-design once again. Currently couple of tools (like wpa_supplicant) running in user space, and I wonder their situation in Windows kernel. If they are not (which I guess they are not -because microsoft is known to be putting huge code into kernel level) then that's a huge problem from security perspective.
FX extensions are backward compatible, its just that you state upper limit for firefox version on your extension and that's why they look incompatible. What do you expect, firefox to lie about its version number? If you want that you can do it by yourself via changing 'extensions.lastAppVersion' in about:config. Or wait for your extension developer to release new version of extension (Add-in for now on) testing it with new firefox version and changing upper limit for lastAppVersion. If firefox was not backward compatible for extensions at all, you won't see that quick updates for extensions right after firefox 2.0 get released.
And also there's no way to predict weather behaviour because there needs to be blah blah sensors and blah blah devices to detect infinate number of samples and also a model etc. etc. You should not need to be 100% exact for most of times. And that device is one of those. It might not be 100% exact, but even 70% or 60% prediction level might help you alot to earn horse sack of money. Just as in weather forecasts. It's not 100% exact, but you still know that it's better to carry an umbrella in a rainny reported forecast. Or you can ignore that and turn back home soaked keeping your 40% doubt for those measures.
If my ears won't catch a frequency played through the audio stream, or my eyes won't catch a color on an image, I would not care as a plain audience. That's why lossy compression algorithms are common, and more than enough for most people. If you need that fidelity you must be a professional and it's wise to pay for that content. Indeed it's ripping people off to sell lossy compressed audio or video. That's like demo of your original content.