It also makes no sense to deny inexperienced users to become experienced. The way I learned was by doing things wrong over and over again. That is how people learn.
Yes it would. It is _MY_ PC and _I_ decide what I want to run on it. If I want to run OpenOffice, Firefox, Skype, some game, Apache, MySQL,... on my PC, that is something I should decide, not somebody else.
I do not care if it is enough for most. 640K will be enough for most. Please stop treating me like a baby. I should not pay for the stupidity of others and with the current PCs, does it really matter if you have 20 programs open?
If that is the case, then they should start looking at that and how to solve it. The only reason they want this is to force people to spend more.
You must be working for Microsoft or a games company or the like. Almost all the programmers I know do not rely on copyright laws. They rely on quality they give the company and whether that is closed or open source is irrelevant to them (or to the company they work for).
Where I work with closed source for whatever reason and I want some minor change, the copyright is a hinder not something that helps me. e.g. Sorry, but you bought the IE6 version, so in IE7 the icons will not show. The solution was a minor change in the code the product produced. Copyright was used to take us hostage.
So if you rely on it, I am sure you use it as an unfair leverage system as well.
Fun is that in those tiny homogeneous European countries you have much more choice to whom you want to elect then in your huge friggin' landmass with diverse wants and needs.
Do you remember how you learned to read? I did it by reading out loud with everybody in my class. So once everybody has stopped to learn how to read, no books can be sold anymore and nobody can get sued anymore. So perhaps that is what they want.
Either that or it is a very sneaky way to show that the copyright system is broken.
Although my guess will be that they will try to bargain to have copyright to "just" eternity +1 year and be able to say: well we were nice, we were intending to do much more, but we are nice.
I would say techies and law (and many other things) do not go well together. I have noticed that many (if not most) techies think binary. So true or false. Guilty/not guilty. The law does not work that way, although tv shows like to say so.
Most of what the law deals with is not murder amd even there each case will no be completely true/false.
I try always to explain to a techie that things are not always OR/OR, often they are AND/AND.
Open source software is like any report in an academic journal.
With closed source you must believe the producer that all is well and he says all is well. Bit like a lot of people say that the bible is true, because the bible says so. So Closed Source is like New Design and Open Source is like Darwinism. OK, perhaps not a very good argument in many parts of the world. Sorry.:-/
And until you can give me a reason why we should metaphorically bury the giants upon who's shoulders we collectively stand, I will resist this utterly foolish idea.
For example "mad money" becomes "M@d;m0n3y". Good luck guessing stuff like that.
The fact that almost everybody replaces the a with @ and the o with 0 and e with 3 makes it very much easier to guess. What would be a lot harder would be ",sf,pmru". Still pretty easy for the user to type in or "jqe j9h36". (hint, one is to the right the other is just above "mad money")
I told my friends, if I should go missing, I don't answer the phone, and I'm not showing somewhere I should be, that's a good place to start looking for me.
If this happens so often that you need an app for it, perhaps you should start looking at why this happens. The last time my friends where unable to locate me, I woke up somewhere I rather not think about. "She was ugly" is all I want to say about it and I am happy my friends did not find me. Now if I got seriously lost somewhere, my cellphone signal will be something the police will pay attention to.
If you don't depend on highly specific KDE3.5 customisations, or if you're ready to spend time re-tuning everything again in a slightly different way, then KDE4.2 is definitely worth giving a try.
And in openSUSE and most likely other distributions as well, it is pretty easy to have KDE 3.5 and KDE 4.x (and GNOME, XFCE,...) running next to each other.
That way when you want to work, you use your fine tuned 3.5 and when you feel like learning, start something else.
Tried XFCE for about three months and found that it was a bit unfinished for my tasting. So I keep on using WindowMaker. I use openSUSE.
openSUSE also has the easier option (when you use the DVD or the network install) to select KDE3.5, KDE4.1, GNOME or a bit hidden, XFCE, Basic GUI or CLI.
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It also makes no sense to deny inexperienced users to become experienced. The way I learned was by doing things wrong over and over again. That is how people learn.
Yes it would. It is _MY_ PC and _I_ decide what I want to run on it. If I want to run OpenOffice, Firefox, Skype, some game, Apache, MySQL, ... on my PC, that is something I should decide, not somebody else.
I do not care if it is enough for most. 640K will be enough for most. Please stop treating me like a baby. I should not pay for the stupidity of others and with the current PCs, does it really matter if you have 20 programs open?
If that is the case, then they should start looking at that and how to solve it. The only reason they want this is to force people to spend more.
They are not interested in your good will. They are interested in your wallet.
You must be working for Microsoft or a games company or the like. Almost all the programmers I know do not rely on copyright laws. They rely on quality they give the company and whether that is closed or open source is irrelevant to them (or to the company they work for).
Where I work with closed source for whatever reason and I want some minor change, the copyright is a hinder not something that helps me. e.g. Sorry, but you bought the IE6 version, so in IE7 the icons will not show. The solution was a minor change in the code the product produced. Copyright was used to take us hostage.
So if you rely on it, I am sure you use it as an unfair leverage system as well.
Fun is that in those tiny homogeneous European countries you have much more choice to whom you want to elect then in your huge friggin' landmass with diverse wants and needs.
Not only do they need space. I heard that they also need to be near water to be used for cooling. A paper mill will have access to water.
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Yeah, but you forget that Cuba hosts a camp where people are tortured called "Guantanamo Bay". UH, oh, never mind.
Why not add another dimension to the stories and let them go from 1 dimension to 2 dimensions. (and 1 dimension is even a stretch for some movies)
Do you remember how you learned to read? I did it by reading out loud with everybody in my class. So once everybody has stopped to learn how to read, no books can be sold anymore and nobody can get sued anymore. So perhaps that is what they want.
Either that or it is a very sneaky way to show that the copyright system is broken.
Although my guess will be that they will try to bargain to have copyright to "just" eternity +1 year and be able to say: well we were nice, we were intending to do much more, but we are nice.
I would, but won't they sue me for copyright infringement of using their address?
I would say techies and law (and many other things) do not go well together. I have noticed that many (if not most) techies think binary. So true or false. Guilty/not guilty. The law does not work that way, although tv shows like to say so.
Most of what the law deals with is not murder amd even there each case will no be completely true/false.
I try always to explain to a techie that things are not always OR/OR, often they are AND/AND.
With closed source you must believe the producer that all is well and he says all is well. Bit like a lot of people say that the bible is true, because the bible says so. :-/
So Closed Source is like New Design and Open Source is like Darwinism.
OK, perhaps not a very good argument in many parts of the world. Sorry.
I have http://hackme.houghi.org/ (Bit of a mind fuck)
Thanks for the feedback. I know now what to do when I don't feel like working. Just plug in the phone twice and no work can be done anymore by me.
Package Manager? I go to the website and click on what I want to install with openSUSEs one-click-install.
Yes, you can still use YaST.
Why would that be confused with a beer brewery?
The fact that almost everybody replaces the a with @ and the o with 0 and e with 3 makes it very much easier to guess. What would be a lot harder would be ",sf ,pmru". Still pretty easy for the user to type in or "jqe j9h36". (hint, one is to the right the other is just above "mad money")
If this happens so often that you need an app for it, perhaps you should start looking at why this happens.
The last time my friends where unable to locate me, I woke up somewhere I rather not think about. "She was ugly" is all I want to say about it and I am happy my friends did not find me.
Now if I got seriously lost somewhere, my cellphone signal will be something the police will pay attention to.
Hello, this is your boss. This is a phone you get from us. You are not allowed to change the settings.
And in openSUSE and most likely other distributions as well, it is pretty easy to have KDE 3.5 and KDE 4.x (and GNOME, XFCE, ...) running next to each other.
That way when you want to work, you use your fine tuned 3.5 and when you feel like learning, start something else.
Tried XFCE for about three months and found that it was a bit unfinished for my tasting. So I keep on using WindowMaker. I use openSUSE.
openSUSE also has the easier option (when you use the DVD or the network install) to select KDE3.5, KDE4.1, GNOME or a bit hidden, XFCE, Basic GUI or CLI.
I just use http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
They are. They vote.