This is Germany, Europe, you cannot be forced to buy something, you have the right to return goods,...
I'm in Belgium, if somebody sends you something, then asks you to or send money or send it back, you can instead keep it and not send money. Equal laws exist for internet shopping.
On a sidenote, you can get azureus in Italy with some commercial shops in it luring you to buy download stuff there, and it was the top hit in google. I use linux and OSS since last century and was fooled in installing it for a friend (on windows of course, no apt-get). These things can look really legitimate. Let's hope the 'vote it down' possibility added to google makes these sites less prominent.
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Over my dead body. I can't stand KDE 4.0.
Can you send us your address?
I wonder if you ever had to develop new widgets based on GTK... This post should get developers quite excited.
I think the GP means that in order to get a quick return he uses eg python with some existing libraries, some BSD, some probably GPL.
You can perfectly defend this method to your employer (as it is a research institution not a software vendor).
Obviously you need consent of somebody higher up to actually contribute the code to upstream, but the fact that the code is already embedded in the OSS ecosystem makes your argumentation much better (like I could do it 50% faster due to the OSS I used, now I want to contribute that back).
Note that some projects you do might be confidential, and then publication is obviously not doable. Many core component of research code will be public domain or BSD licensed though, because the researcher is interested in citations, and having code nobody can use is not helping you much in that regard.
It's called 'Writing an abstract that can be accepted by the editors.' You should try it too. Anyway, sorry, I know it's sensationalism, but this is a good thread, and that's why we are here, no?
you forget the guy is also a famous contributor to FOSS, which is proof of the fact FOSS is made by dedicated people who want the best of the tools they use, and aren't happy with shitty products.
So he is not just an artist being liberated by FOSS, he is an artist that created FOSS in his drive for control over what he creates.
. The areas in which I find these environments still wanting are the following:
1: Let's be able to configure shares easily. Right now its a mess and as a matter of fact, KDE does not seem to have something to represent Microsoft's "Add network places."
Euh, Places --> remote places ?
Never had problems, all is available as far as I see.
2: Fonts still terrible on Linux. I will jump with joy the day fonts on a Linux machine will look beautiful bey default. Right now, one has to install Microsoft's TT fonts and/or do some compilation. This is a non starter.
Euh, compile fonts?? You download them, just as in windows, and install them in the appropriate place. If too difficult, check http://www.linux.com/feature/133559
3: Software installation is still a mess. The other day, I tried to get Adobe's Flash player installed on a Debian system and I was not that successful till I installed from source. I do not see Joe Six Pack going through this.
Install Adobe flash from source?? It is a closed source program! You download it and run whatever they say in the documentation to extract it and move it to the correct folders.
Anyway, Ubuntu has a package for that.
This is not true. The ban was instated because of harm being done to girls growing who where champions. That is, girls won at 12/13, and wanted to keep winning, but that was only possible by delaying the natural way of growing up.
So they started to take all kind of medicine to delay puberty.
One cannot delay puberty without bodily harm. Moreover, the high level of training during the growth process causes further harm.
The limit of 16 makes it so that puberty is mostly over (remember, we talk about girls). It is FUTILE for 12 year olds to train as hard as they did before the ban was imposed, because their body will grow and the automatisms learned will be useless when they are 16.
The result of starting competition at 16 means people of 25 can still compete. So no, there is no sad truth here as you put it.
You forget the developer community aspect. I code for project A, which is a GTK app, but I see it doesn't look ok in KDE, a bug with the GTK-KDE theme. What do I do, just complain or make it work? As I'm motivated in my project A, I get the code, browse it and fix it if not rocket science and time permits so, otherwise I make a clear bug report.
This is the strength of open source, we can all fix things in stuff that is not our project, and we do. Examples are everywhere, eg Linus patching the GNOME filebrowser,...
The bottom line is that GNOME is LGPL, so companies embrace it, whereas KDE is just open source, and apparently users embrace it (Shuttlework admits using it himself), but not companies.
With Nokia owning QT, QT could be relicensed as LGPL by Nokia, and then QT would appear to be the best toolkit at the moment to provide the richest user interface.
I can grok his explanation for the success of GNOME.
This really is great news. No more annoying users in linux, they are all using XP. Only developers and housewives.
Expect this to be the same here in western Europe. New users with no baggage go for easy linux, while experienced tech users (identified as 'geeks') use old and encumbered Windows.
Dude, the poster is CmdrTaco, the founder of slashdot, the one with a userid 255867 below yours. Where have you been hiding?
As to why this is slimey:
1/one page generates traffic to 10+ other sites
2/bandwidth usage on those sites is used up. Slashdot sees 6% of it!
3/Your address is now registered on all those sites as visiting (fortunately not in the cooking), also if those are sites with porn, malware, copy-infringing material,...
4/Suppose Google starts to offer this on their search results, or all other virus checkers do it too. Can you image that? 99% of the internet would be used up by stupid checks on trustworthy sites
5/If AVG wants to protect it's users, they should pay for it themselves: crawl the net like google (with rotating fake user agents), construct a black-list, mirror that list on server farms around the world, and have each link checked with those servers when loading a page. Ahh, what? Too costly? Off course, but now they use the money of the user, the provider and the ISP to offer this 'protection'. That is slimey!
Communal service? This is a minor offence after all. Most of those who burned cars in the suburbs of Paris also did not go to jail, you know.
Obviously, all punishments somehow affect the loved ones, but they can shield themself from it. My wife has eg a separate account, so a penalty won't affect her savings. As to a broadband connection, she needs one for her work.
People seem to think that the punishment here is fair because you get 3 warnings and can hence stop your behaviour. This is a false statement. If I am a repeat offender, the punishment should be such to correct my wrong attitude towards IP. A broadband connection however is a utility used by the whole household.
These GPS satellites are easy to destroy for powers like USA or China. Moreover, this system is for Asia only, so they will only be attacking Americans in Taiwan.
When people were complaining the EU was duplicating USA efforts for no good reason, well, we now know why they/we do it. It's no coincidence the EU, Russia and now also China are making their own GPS, just like they have their own nukes. Mark this: a consequence will be that India seeks more alliance with Gallileo (read: unofficial permission to build military grade systems on it), or starts to roll out it's own system.
A webcam and a script is all you need apparently. Tellico has a barcode recognition part to scan in barcode via the webcam. Check it out, some discussions on the mailing list, see eg nabble and search for the barcode patch
Cheer about the XBox as much as you want, but fact is it is mostly an American story. I have a Wii myself, but looking at the shops and their commercials, PS3 will reign in Europe in a couple of years. As HDef machine, they already rule in Japan. Last magazine I got from Carrefour (like Wallmart but in Europe), they even got no space to put the XBOX 360 in it. I suspect they use the PS3 as a way to move blu-ray disks, which I'm sure they have a nice fat margin on.
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I'm in Belgium, if somebody sends you something, then asks you to or send money or send it back, you can instead keep it and not send money. Equal laws exist for internet shopping.
On a sidenote, you can get azureus in Italy with some commercial shops in it luring you to buy download stuff there, and it was the top hit in google. I use linux and OSS since last century and was fooled in installing it for a friend (on windows of course, no apt-get). These things can look really legitimate. Let's hope the 'vote it down' possibility added to google makes these sites less prominent.
Over my dead body. I can't stand KDE 4.0.
Can you send us your address?
I wonder if you ever had to develop new widgets based on GTK ... This post should get developers quite excited.
+1 I need mod points urgently!
Obviously you need consent of somebody higher up to actually contribute the code to upstream, but the fact that the code is already embedded in the OSS ecosystem makes your argumentation much better (like I could do it 50% faster due to the OSS I used, now I want to contribute that back).
Note that some projects you do might be confidential, and then publication is obviously not doable. Many core component of research code will be public domain or BSD licensed though, because the researcher is interested in citations, and having code nobody can use is not helping you much in that regard.
It's called 'Writing an abstract that can be accepted by the editors.' You should try it too. Anyway, sorry, I know it's sensationalism, but this is a good thread, and that's why we are here, no?
His editor is really good, but some performance issue on my 64bit. I prefer it over Erik4 otherwise.
I think you can savely assume that if he is not happy with something, he just changes the source code and recompiles.
you forget the guy is also a famous contributor to FOSS, which is proof of the fact FOSS is made by dedicated people who want the best of the tools they use, and aren't happy with shitty products. So he is not just an artist being liberated by FOSS, he is an artist that created FOSS in his drive for control over what he creates.
link please! I can make up your statement in 1..2..3, why would I believe this?
. The areas in which I find these environments still wanting are the following:
1: Let's be able to configure shares easily. Right now its a mess and as a matter of fact, KDE does not seem to have something to represent Microsoft's "Add network places."
Euh, Places --> remote places ? Never had problems, all is available as far as I see.
2: Fonts still terrible on Linux. I will jump with joy the day fonts on a Linux machine will look beautiful bey default. Right now, one has to install Microsoft's TT fonts and/or do some compilation. This is a non starter.
Euh, compile fonts?? You download them, just as in windows, and install them in the appropriate place. If too difficult, check http://www.linux.com/feature/133559
3: Software installation is still a mess. The other day, I tried to get Adobe's Flash player installed on a Debian system and I was not that successful till I installed from source. I do not see Joe Six Pack going through this.
Install Adobe flash from source?? It is a closed source program! You download it and run whatever they say in the documentation to extract it and move it to the correct folders. Anyway, Ubuntu has a package for that.
So they started to take all kind of medicine to delay puberty.
One cannot delay puberty without bodily harm. Moreover, the high level of training during the growth process causes further harm.
The limit of 16 makes it so that puberty is mostly over (remember, we talk about girls). It is FUTILE for 12 year olds to train as hard as they did before the ban was imposed, because their body will grow and the automatisms learned will be useless when they are 16.
The result of starting competition at 16 means people of 25 can still compete. So no, there is no sad truth here as you put it.
This is the strength of open source, we can all fix things in stuff that is not our project, and we do. Examples are everywhere, eg Linus patching the GNOME filebrowser, ...
With Nokia owning QT, QT could be relicensed as LGPL by Nokia, and then QT would appear to be the best toolkit at the moment to provide the richest user interface.
I can grok his explanation for the success of GNOME.
As soon as we decide to work in C or C++, all should be clear. Who best to address this minor issue though?
Expect this to be the same here in western Europe. New users with no baggage go for easy linux, while experienced tech users (identified as 'geeks') use old and encumbered Windows.
As to why this is slimey: ...
1/one page generates traffic to 10+ other sites
2/bandwidth usage on those sites is used up. Slashdot sees 6% of it!
3/Your address is now registered on all those sites as visiting (fortunately not in the cooking), also if those are sites with porn, malware, copy-infringing material,
4/Suppose Google starts to offer this on their search results, or all other virus checkers do it too. Can you image that? 99% of the internet would be used up by stupid checks on trustworthy sites
5/If AVG wants to protect it's users, they should pay for it themselves: crawl the net like google (with rotating fake user agents), construct a black-list, mirror that list on server farms around the world, and have each link checked with those servers when loading a page. Ahh, what? Too costly? Off course, but now they use the money of the user, the provider and the ISP to offer this 'protection'. That is slimey!
You don't have a wife and children; you are a pirate.
If I'm a pirate, then it is one without flash.Obviously, all punishments somehow affect the loved ones, but they can shield themself from it. My wife has eg a separate account, so a penalty won't affect her savings. As to a broadband connection, she needs one for her work.
People seem to think that the punishment here is fair because you get 3 warnings and can hence stop your behaviour. This is a false statement. If I am a repeat offender, the punishment should be such to correct my wrong attitude towards IP. A broadband connection however is a utility used by the whole household.
Isn't that like in the Middle Ages?
Ah, windows user, are you now? A meteorite comes crashing down through the atmosphere, aimed straight at your head. How do you react?
Can't they spend the 'brightest' minds on new content instead?
When people were complaining the EU was duplicating USA efforts for no good reason, well, we now know why they/we do it. It's no coincidence the EU, Russia and now also China are making their own GPS, just like they have their own nukes. Mark this: a consequence will be that India seeks more alliance with Gallileo (read: unofficial permission to build military grade systems on it), or starts to roll out it's own system.
A webcam and a script is all you need apparently. Tellico has a barcode recognition part to scan in barcode via the webcam. Check it out, some discussions on the mailing list, see eg nabble and search for the barcode patch
Cheer about the XBox as much as you want, but fact is it is mostly an American story. I have a Wii myself, but looking at the shops and their commercials, PS3 will reign in Europe in a couple of years. As HDef machine, they already rule in Japan. Last magazine I got from Carrefour (like Wallmart but in Europe), they even got no space to put the XBOX 360 in it. I suspect they use the PS3 as a way to move blu-ray disks, which I'm sure they have a nice fat margin on.
It also works on XP, linux, Mac OS X, ... , and has the same capabilities as directX10, and is furhtermore used in cad, design, ... software.
I suppose I 'work' in a different sector than the window shops.