because postgres people come on every goddamn article about mysql and post things like that. so mysql users decide that all pgsql users are awful and run away from pgsql. see, that is the reason.
what's up with intel support in ubuntu ? i know opensuse-factory (development version) just hangs the local console if you try to start up x. if you had factory installed before the problem, then upgraded, you get a system that boots, then hangs. if you try to install, gui installer hangs. if that's crossdistro problem, i'd expect intel to be slightly annoyed and do something about it:)
i think your viewpoint is quite sad. 'we' want artists, authors and others to have a copyright. but those 'we' want this copyright to be reasonable. that includes reasonable terms on time and reuse restrictions. really, macaulay probably wasn't the first, but he put it the best, as far as we know. on copyright extension... in 1841.
At present the holder of copyright has the public feeling on his side. Those who invade copyright are regarded as knaves who take the bread out of the mouths of deserving men. Everybody is well pleased to see them restrained by the law, and compelled to refund their ill-gotten gains. No tradesman of good repute will have anything to do with such disgraceful transactions. Pass this law: and that feeling is at an end. Men very different from the present race of piratical booksellers will soon infringe this intolerable monopoly. Great masses of capital will be constantly employed in the violation of the law. Every art will be employed to evade legal pursuit; and the whole nation will be in the plot.
i'm not completely sure how true your comment is (as in, whether you work for gartner;> ), but i'd like to comment on something.
(and sadly, there's a IO bug in kernels after 2.6.18 that still hasn't been fixed IIRC)
would you mind linking to a kernel bugzilla report on it ? as a linux user i would be quite interested in a progress on such a seriously sounding bug, if only to upgrade once it's fixed.
No exchange client. No out of the box AD integration.
right. because microsoft provides native groupware and lotus notes clients and integration in novell edirectory.
plus all the postgres zealots that come over to any mysql related article and praise pgsql make me vomit on a printed pgsql logo. ok, not really, but could you (the aforementioned zealots) please try to understand that your offense in mysql articles just makes people reluctant to even try pgsql. if you feel such a huge need to pitch two opensource databases, go to pgsql threads and claim how bad mysql is there - then at least you don't pollute mysql related discussions with something i would classify offtopic at this point. thanks.
I did try open office at home. The word processor was ok, but not robust, and the spreadsheet module would crash whenever I tried opening anything beyond a basic invoice with only sum functions.
interesting. was that with the latest version ? if so,, i would suggest filing bugreports and attaching testcases to them. oo.org people tend to take most crashes seriously:)
that isn't right. you know what else isn't right ? ridiculous copyright terms of 95 or whatwasit years after author's death. ridiculous claims that users can't make a copy for their own, private use of purchased works. ridiculous patent claims. none of these helps to either advance arts or science. none of these helps to improve artist image.
"Just as the absurd acts which prohibited the sale of game were virtually repealed by the poacher, just as many absurd revenue acts have been virtually repealed by the smuggler, so will this law be virtually repealed by piratical booksellers. At present the holder of copyright has the public feeling on his side. Those who invade copyright are regarded as knaves who take the bread out of the mouths of deserving men. Everybody is well pleased to see them restrained by the law, and compelled to refund their ill-gotten gains. No tradesman of good repute will have anything to do with such disgraceful transactions. Pass this law: and that feeling is at an end. Men very different from the present race of piratical booksellers will soon infringe this intolerable monopoly. Great masses of capital will be constantly employed in the violation of the law. Every art will be employed to evade legal pursuit; and the whole nation will be in the plot. On which side indeed should the public sympathy be when the question is whether some book as popular as Robinson Crusoe, or the Pilgrim's Progress, shall be in every cottage, or whether it shall be confined to the libraries of the rich for the advantage of the great-grandson of a bookseller who, a hundred years before, drove a hard bargain for the copyright with the author when in great distress? Remember too that, when once it ceases to be considered as wrong and discreditable to invade literary property, no person can say where the invasion will stop. The public seldom makes nice distinctions. The wholesome copyright which now exists will share in the disgrace and danger of the new copyright which you are about to create. And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the works of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living"
that's quite correct, don't you agree ? so if artists have decided to screw everybody else with unreasonable claims (or maybe simply allowed somebody else to do that) - well, screw the artists. maybe it would be healthy to let them feel the pain of no copyright, so that unreasonability of a copyright standing for a hundred of years after they are friggin dead kicks in.
copyright isn't a basic right like right to own a physical unit. it's a privilege, put forth and allowed to be enjoyed with a single stated goal - to advance public good. it has been abused for a hundred years and made in the absolute opposite what was the stated goal. if you see such masses of people considering it unreasonable, maybe, just maybe you are wrong.
ps. it's also quite telling that wikipedia page has the following at the bottom... "This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago."
ps2. personally, i do not support complete abolishment of copyright. i believe the pirateparty program of 5 years and no restrictions on personal use is very, very reasonable. i would even support a slightly extended period of 14 years, which i have seen as an optimal lenght, coming out from some studies.
ok, but what about the isp not overselling the available bandwidth simply hoping that customers would not use it ? how about accepting that the consumer might want to actually _use_ what was promised in the contract ? somehow this seems to be a no-no discussion whenever an isp is involved.
...or plain and simple local language;) while i think such a clause should be enforced on any legislative document in any country, another choice would be to host such a site in another country. ok, only until they block it with some secret blocklist, where divulging information about what exactly is blocked can be a criminal ofense...
Er, sound business practice? It's much cheaper for TW to provide regular cable service because it is a multicast service. What that means is, when 1000 people want to watch HD show X, which requires 2gb total to send to their users, TW only has to send that 2gb once.
assuming they all watch it simultaneously. and don't pause. which, today, is - i wouldn't say stupid - but unreasonable.
that won't quite work - most likely, submitter does not want a particular list of packages to never update, but instead wants to evaluate individual patches, so decision is based on the exact patch, not made for all possibeel patchs to aa prticular package.
* If I buy an original potatoe at a store and I reproduce it and share copies with my friends, why isn't that called theft? Making that initial potatoe available can potentially cost the store thousands in lost potatoe sales.
when i first read the summary, i thought, "oh, it's quite expensive, but i thought americans had it even more expensive, so what's to bitch about". then i finished reading the summary and it dawned upon me that this is considered very cheap.
english is my 3rd language. even i spotted a few errors and they undermined your post. and that's with my english sucking quite a bit. sorry, but if you do not respect readers of your comment, they won't respect your comments.
wait, what ? they remove content from pages they link to ? that's scary. how do they achieve this ? buteforce password guessing ? using vulnerabilities in software ?
that all sounds quite sad. being a magic the gathering player (and owner of quite a large collection of cards) these moves reduce likelihood of me buying more of them. though mtg practices in last years also seem to be more milking of the players than providing value to them.
"russian peacekeepers". mwahaha. really, cut that crap. being occupied by russia for a good 50 years, and seeing what happens at it's borders after the period (georgia, anybody ?) we know quite well what their peacekeeping means.
we also have seen the financing from russia working to keep up such local "movements". stop. we don't want to be occupied by you anymore, we don't want to be deported to siberia, we don't want to suffer from your atrocities anymore. try to understand that, work hard, and maybe, maybe in 50 years you will be respected by your neighbours, as opposed to fear and hatred.
given that both china and russia backed north korea in the korean wars (if not for that, there probably would be no such an agressive country today there), such a plan would have to take into account possible (more than possible) counteraction from both china and russia. i'm sure intel agencies have considered this way more than/. readers:)
they probably would still have to keep fat for user exposed files, but those should be easily trimmable to 8.3. well, until industry gets strong enough to replace patent envumbered filesystems with something saner. maybe when btrfs is stable;>
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ChairSQL.
if you do things it doesn't like, it hurls a table at you, though.
because postgres people come on every goddamn article about mysql and post things like that.
so mysql users decide that all pgsql users are awful and run away from pgsql.
see, that is the reason.
you scare me
what's up with intel support in ubuntu ? :)
i know opensuse-factory (development version) just hangs the local console if you try to start up x. if you had factory installed before the problem, then upgraded, you get a system that boots, then hangs. if you try to install, gui installer hangs.
if that's crossdistro problem, i'd expect intel to be slightly annoyed and do something about it
i think your viewpoint is quite sad.
'we' want artists, authors and others to have a copyright. but those 'we' want this copyright to be reasonable.
that includes reasonable terms on time and reuse restrictions.
really, macaulay probably wasn't the first, but he put it the best, as far as we know. on copyright extension... in 1841.
At present the holder of copyright has the public feeling on his side. Those who invade copyright are regarded as knaves who take the bread out of the mouths of deserving men. Everybody is well pleased to see them restrained by the law, and compelled to refund their ill-gotten gains. No tradesman of good repute will have anything to do with such disgraceful transactions. Pass this law: and that feeling is at an end. Men very different from the present race of piratical booksellers will soon infringe this intolerable monopoly. Great masses of capital will be constantly employed in the violation of the law. Every art will be employed to evade legal pursuit; and the whole nation will be in the plot.
i'm not completely sure how true your comment is (as in, whether you work for gartner ;> ), but i'd like to comment on something.
(and sadly, there's a IO bug in kernels after 2.6.18 that still hasn't been fixed IIRC)
would you mind linking to a kernel bugzilla report on it ? as a linux user i would be quite interested in a progress on such a seriously sounding bug, if only to upgrade once it's fixed.
No exchange client. No out of the box AD integration.
right. because microsoft provides native groupware and lotus notes clients and integration in novell edirectory.
plus all the postgres zealots that come over to any mysql related article and praise pgsql make me vomit on a printed pgsql logo. ok, not really, but could you (the aforementioned zealots) please try to understand that your offense in mysql articles just makes people reluctant to even try pgsql.
if you feel such a huge need to pitch two opensource databases, go to pgsql threads and claim how bad mysql is there - then at least you don't pollute mysql related discussions with something i would classify offtopic at this point.
thanks.
in the best case. somehow i got reminded by the abstract of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitrust_(film), mentioned on /. recently ;)
you can disable all (as far as i know) autocorrection cases in oo.org - just see tools->autocorrect and unmark all options.
I did try open office at home. The word processor was ok, but not robust, and the spreadsheet module would crash whenever I tried opening anything beyond a basic invoice with only sum functions.
interesting. was that with the latest version ? if so,, i would suggest filing bugreports and attaching testcases to them. oo.org people tend to take most crashes seriously :)
that isn't right. you know what else isn't right ? ridiculous copyright terms of 95 or whatwasit years after author's death. ridiculous claims that users can't make a copy for their own, private use of purchased works. ridiculous patent claims.
none of these helps to either advance arts or science. none of these helps to improve artist image.
i recently saw a link to a speach, done in 1841.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Copyright_Law_(Macaulay).
"Just as the absurd acts which prohibited the sale of game were virtually repealed by the poacher, just as many absurd revenue acts have been virtually repealed by the smuggler, so will this law be virtually repealed by piratical booksellers. At present the holder of copyright has the public feeling on his side. Those who invade copyright are regarded as knaves who take the bread out of the mouths of deserving men. Everybody is well pleased to see them restrained by the law, and compelled to refund their ill-gotten gains. No tradesman of good repute will have anything to do with such disgraceful transactions. Pass this law: and that feeling is at an end. Men very different from the present race of piratical booksellers will soon infringe this intolerable monopoly. Great masses of capital will be constantly employed in the violation of the law. Every art will be employed to evade legal pursuit; and the whole nation will be in the plot. On which side indeed should the public sympathy be when the question is whether some book as popular as Robinson Crusoe, or the Pilgrim's Progress, shall be in every cottage, or whether it shall be confined to the libraries of the rich for the advantage of the great-grandson of a bookseller who, a hundred years before, drove a hard bargain for the copyright with the author when in great distress? Remember too that, when once it ceases to be considered as wrong and discreditable to invade literary property, no person can say where the invasion will stop. The public seldom makes nice distinctions. The wholesome copyright which now exists will share in the disgrace and danger of the new copyright which you are about to create. And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the works of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living"
that's quite correct, don't you agree ? so if artists have decided to screw everybody else with unreasonable claims (or maybe simply allowed somebody else to do that) - well, screw the artists. maybe it would be healthy to let them feel the pain of no copyright, so that unreasonability of a copyright standing for a hundred of years after they are friggin dead kicks in.
copyright isn't a basic right like right to own a physical unit. it's a privilege, put forth and allowed to be enjoyed with a single stated goal - to advance public good. it has been abused for a hundred years and made in the absolute opposite what was the stated goal. if you see such masses of people considering it unreasonable, maybe, just maybe you are wrong.
ps. it's also quite telling that wikipedia page has the following at the bottom... "This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago."
ps2. personally, i do not support complete abolishment of copyright. i believe the pirateparty program of 5 years and no restrictions on personal use is very, very reasonable. i would even support a slightly extended period of 14 years, which i have seen as an optimal lenght, coming out from some studies.
ok, but what about the isp not overselling the available bandwidth simply hoping that customers would not use it ? how about accepting that the consumer might want to actually _use_ what was promised in the contract ?
somehow this seems to be a no-no discussion whenever an isp is involved.
...or plain and simple local language ;)
while i think such a clause should be enforced on any legislative document in any country, another choice would be to host such a site in another country. ok, only until they block it with some secret blocklist, where divulging information about what exactly is blocked can be a criminal ofense...
assuming they all watch it simultaneously. and don't pause.
which, today, is - i wouldn't say stupid - but unreasonable.
that won't quite work - most likely, submitter does not want a particular list of packages to never update, but instead wants to evaluate individual patches, so decision is based on the exact patch, not made for all possibeel patchs to aa prticular package.
note that spacewalk currently requires oracle, which means it might not be the best solution.
* If I buy an original potatoe at a store and I reproduce it and share copies with my friends, why isn't that called theft? Making that initial potatoe available can potentially cost the store thousands in lost potatoe sales.
don't be so sure
when i first read the summary, i thought, "oh, it's quite expensive, but i thought americans had it even more expensive, so what's to bitch about".
then i finished reading the summary and it dawned upon me that this is considered very cheap.
maybe such actions will increase popularity of a certain political party ;)
english is my 3rd language. even i spotted a few errors and they undermined your post. and that's with my english sucking quite a bit. sorry, but if you do not respect readers of your comment, they won't respect your comments.
wait, what ? they remove content from pages they link to ?
that's scary. how do they achieve this ? buteforce password guessing ? using vulnerabilities in software ?
that all sounds quite sad. being a magic the gathering player (and owner of quite a large collection of cards) these moves reduce likelihood of me buying more of them.
though mtg practices in last years also seem to be more milking of the players than providing value to them.
"russian peacekeepers". mwahaha.
really, cut that crap. being occupied by russia for a good 50 years, and seeing what happens at it's borders after the period (georgia, anybody ?) we know quite well what their peacekeeping means.
we also have seen the financing from russia working to keep up such local "movements". stop. we don't want to be occupied by you anymore, we don't want to be deported to siberia, we don't want to suffer from your atrocities anymore. try to understand that, work hard, and maybe, maybe in 50 years you will be respected by your neighbours, as opposed to fear and hatred.
given that both china and russia backed north korea in the korean wars (if not for that, there probably would be no such an agressive country today there), such a plan would have to take into account possible (more than possible) counteraction from both china and russia. /. readers :)
i'm sure intel agencies have considered this way more than
as already mentioned at http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1181177&cid=27396305, all linux needs to boot is single kernel image file, then linux kernel can take over and use ext2, 3, 4 or whatever for it's internals, initrd etc.
they probably would still have to keep fat for user exposed files, but those should be easily trimmable to 8.3. ;>
well, until industry gets strong enough to replace patent envumbered filesystems with something saner. maybe when btrfs is stable