as this has already be done in the past (the elections I mean). In fact, you might as well put this as a dependency for every package. So once one upgrades/installs a package, the vote has to be made:P
I don't think this statement makes any sense. The only people that vote for the debian project leader are the developers. You could be right, if everybody could vote, AND if it resulted in a Low Voter Turnout, but not in this case.
Of course I'm assuming that the developers care about debian...
It depends on your contract. I'll give you an example. In Portugal, the mobile operator TMN doesn't send any promotion SMS (aka spam) by default. However, when adhering to their free mytmn service (where you can send free sms with some restrictions), you're accepting the terms of that contract where it specifically says that they may send you any "selected" junk sms they want!
It seems that there are a lot of people starting to defend the use of the debian package for the easiness of dependencies treatment (and I'm not talking about debian folks like myself). So one might ask: will distros like Redhat/Fedora change the package manager in the future?
Since I don't use a RPM-based distro for a long time, I also feel the urge to ask: how is the dependencies treated nowdays?
If one can decide on several encoding formats (including lossless formats like FLAC), *and* one can also listen to it as many times as one wishes, I'm in!
The real danger is that if Apple prevails (and while I am a fan of Apple's, I don't think this is a good move on their part), then anonymous sources will dry up -- not just for Apple "leaks", but for more important things, like government corruption and abuse.
For important things like government corruption and abuse you have the duty to report to authorities. It's not the same thing to report an illegal act to the authorities, or go to the press and leak company secrets. They're totally different things.
Sure, but for those that still want to live in it like North Korea, it has to be made clear to them that there will be retaliation and accountability for any nuclear attacks on the US.
I understand what you are saying, but it seems odd (to say the least), that the US wants NK to stop the development of nuclear power, yet, they do exacly the same thing...
I have no doubt the US government is working on 'better' war techonology. So what? Do you expect them to lay down and die for the world? When you say people in the US 'talk talk talk' what exactly are you talking about?
I'm expecting they stand out as an example for the rest of the world. They do have that responsability, in my point of view. When I say people in the US 'talk talk talk', I mean they have great ideals, but then they just don't follow them...
Nice Anti-American rant, but the US policy (Any nuclear attack on the US will lead to retaliation) is pretty much the same policy all of the nuclear powers have. So if you are looking at a reason to hate the US, look somewhere else.
I have to say I got carried away there, but that's just to tempting to have those thoughts:P . I don't hate the US, I just think they should first clean their own home (solve your problems first), instead of giving hunchs on several subjects, and oh yeah, invade other people's country...
I'd suggest trying to watch some of our television.:)
I do watch american TV as much as the next guy here in Europe. I dont have the that's-american-so-I-don't-watch/buy-it attitude.;-)
Retaliation!? Isn't everyone trying to put an end to the nuclear era? People in the US talk, talk, talk, but they probably have nuclear power, are working on anti-matter bombs (much worse that nuclear ones, despite no radiation consequences), and don't follow the human rights (e.g. Guatemala) they impose on other countries! Damn, u americans are arrogants...
Where's the new stuff? Every now and then we see a new PDA, with Bluetooth, WiFi, and all...
But where is the innovation? I want a few-gigas-hardrive (those I hear from toshiba might do the trick...), a nice-to-have-640x480-screen, decent battery, GSM/GPRS or UMTS, and even an integrated projector to do some presentations... I want a real personal assistant that makes me use it, or I will (again) leave my PDA at home and just bring along my cellular.
It seems the PDAs that come out simply don't have anything really new, besides an extra Mhz from a new Intel processor.
Since it would take so litle time to get to Mars, isn't the time and space correlation an issue. I mean, one could go there (making a 3 months trip to Mars and back), and then suddenly be very surprised 'cause his son is now older than he is! The time just "went faster" for the people that stayed home!
Actually FreeBSD has the BSD license that's probably better to sell some customized stuff. On the other hand, you can just do it, without making it publicly, so I think there are probably some companies that do use it, they just simply don't shout it out.
Linux is getting more attention, which *could* imply that it just develops faster. From this point of view it's probably understandable all the fuss about it
... there's no coherency! It seems that the globalization is only useful for some things - to make the companies get a broader market (e.g. revenues) - so they tend to manipulate the market to give them only the advantages of it.
I just don't see the prices going down (for most articles) whenever they're affected by the euro/dollar relation in one way, but I do see prices going up whenever it happens the other way around...
It's like the deficit problem in the european countries. Germany,France and Greece seem to be unable to bring their country's budget deficit below a European Union limit, altough only Greece will be penalized! The rules are only for some, and that always favours who needs them the less.
It seems that this kind of news keeps appearing everywhere. I'm tired of this kind of publicity. Really, aren't these stories made up to create a hype around this technology? Everyone seems to be focused on pushing this to the market nowadays. It's like everyone wants to put an ID sticker in your passport, ID card, teeth, under the skin, clothes,... Enough already!
I think we can do interesting things with RFID, but don't make use it, if I don't want to. Let's not give away too much tools to Big Brother!
Regarding the bandwidth, I have an 512kbps ADSL connection. Not much, but enough for me. I'm not into filling my hard drives with too much emule/kazza/whatever junk, anyway. So, I think I can manage to provide free access if it means reaching your email, checking newsgroups, browsing your favorites sites, or even downloading small amounts of data, when I'm not needing the bandwidth. Of course that, if I do need it, I'll claim it...
I'm aware that, there are some guys that pass by, check the access to the internet using my AP, and probably think: "This guy is such a looser! He can't even manage to modify the default setup from his ISP...". But rather than annoying, the idea amuses me!
Regarding taking the blame for legal matters, I do keep logs of Wireless Activity, and I could provide the evidences needed to show someone else did something. I think that would suffice as helping the authoritie here in Portugal. I think you have a point here though, as it might get ugly.
In the end, rare are the ocasions my AP is used by someone else. Oh, and if I realized my neighbors were using my internet access regularly, I would probably ask them if they would like to share the bills.
But why not allow anonymous access, not to your network (isolated throught a firewall), but to the internet? As soon as one sees someone abusing (like runing Kazaa or Emule on it), you just disconnect them.
I really enjoy having wi-fi everywhere, just to browse the net, or checking my mails...
That simply won't happen for several reasons. One of them being the fact that all the user experience with MacOS is related to hardware gui. If there was a port of MacOS X to x86 with no apple hardware involved, responsivity would suck. All those great, neat effects apple has would take ages, and everybody would just change the preferences of the eye-candy stuff as they (somethimes) do with KDE/Gnome...
Besides, apple has always based their sales in hardware...
Answering the question, I would probably try, but expectations wouldn't be that high, though.
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as this has already be done in the past (the elections I mean). In fact, you might as well put this as a dependency for every package. So once one upgrades/installs a package, the vote has to be made :P
Of course I'm assuming that the developers care about debian...
It depends on your contract. I'll give you an example. In Portugal, the mobile operator TMN doesn't send any promotion SMS (aka spam) by default. However, when adhering to their free mytmn service (where you can send free sms with some restrictions), you're accepting the terms of that contract where it specifically says that they may send you any "selected" junk sms they want!
Since I don't use a RPM-based distro for a long time, I also feel the urge to ask: how is the dependencies treated nowdays?
It isn't. OTOH you can check the debian-based distro familiar for embedded devices (for PDAs such as the HP ipaq for example).
There's also emdebian, but I don't know if it'll change its different arch support after the mainstream Debian decides to drop some of them.
If one can decide on several encoding formats (including lossless formats like FLAC), *and* one can also listen to it as many times as one wishes, I'm in!
For important things like government corruption and abuse you have the duty to report to authorities. It's not the same thing to report an illegal act to the authorities, or go to the press and leak company secrets. They're totally different things.
I understand what you are saying, but it seems odd (to say the least), that the US wants NK to stop the development of nuclear power, yet, they do exacly the same thing...
I have no doubt the US government is working on 'better' war techonology. So what? Do you expect them to lay down and die for the world? When you say people in the US 'talk talk talk' what exactly are you talking about?
I'm expecting they stand out as an example for the rest of the world. They do have that responsability, in my point of view. When I say people in the US 'talk talk talk', I mean they have great ideals, but then they just don't follow them...
Nice Anti-American rant, but the US policy (Any nuclear attack on the US will lead to retaliation) is pretty much the same policy all of the nuclear powers have. So if you are looking at a reason to hate the US, look somewhere else.
I have to say I got carried away there, but that's just to tempting to have those thoughts :P . I don't hate the US, I just think they should first clean their own home (solve your problems first), instead of giving hunchs on several subjects, and oh yeah, invade other people's country...
I'd suggest trying to watch some of our television. :)
I do watch american TV as much as the next guy here in Europe. I dont have the that's-american-so-I-don't-watch/buy-it attitude. ;-)
Retaliation!? Isn't everyone trying to put an end to the nuclear era? People in the US talk, talk, talk, but they probably have nuclear power, are working on anti-matter bombs (much worse that nuclear ones, despite no radiation consequences), and don't follow the human rights (e.g. Guatemala) they impose on other countries! Damn, u americans are arrogants...
But where is the innovation? I want a few-gigas-hardrive (those I hear from toshiba might do the trick...), a nice-to-have-640x480-screen, decent battery, GSM/GPRS or UMTS, and even an integrated projector to do some presentations... I want a real personal assistant that makes me use it, or I will (again) leave my PDA at home and just bring along my cellular.
It seems the PDAs that come out simply don't have anything really new, besides an extra Mhz from a new Intel processor.
Linux is getting more attention, which *could* imply that it just develops faster. From this point of view it's probably understandable all the fuss about it
I just don't see the prices going down (for most articles) whenever they're affected by the euro/dollar relation in one way, but I do see prices going up whenever it happens the other way around...
It's like the deficit problem in the european countries. Germany,France and Greece seem to be unable to bring their country's budget deficit below a European Union limit, altough only Greece will be penalized! The rules are only for some, and that always favours who needs them the less.
Well, you can already type using your eyes (http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/)...
Aren't these just angry clients? :P
Anyone?
How long will the will they take to check on all Slashdotters that clicked on the link? I think we just made their job just grew up a bit! :)
I think we can do interesting things with RFID, but don't make use it, if I don't want to. Let's not give away too much tools to Big Brother!
I'm aware that, there are some guys that pass by, check the access to the internet using my AP, and probably think: "This guy is such a looser! He can't even manage to modify the default setup from his ISP...". But rather than annoying, the idea amuses me!
Regarding taking the blame for legal matters, I do keep logs of Wireless Activity, and I could provide the evidences needed to show someone else did something. I think that would suffice as helping the authoritie here in Portugal. I think you have a point here though, as it might get ugly.
In the end, rare are the ocasions my AP is used by someone else. Oh, and if I realized my neighbors were using my internet access regularly, I would probably ask them if they would like to share the bills.
I really enjoy having wi-fi everywhere, just to browse the net, or checking my mails...
...by this feature. They just might feel kinda relaxed about it. Like: 'If I do fall asleep, i will be waken up'
Besides, apple has always based their sales in hardware...
Answering the question, I would probably try, but expectations wouldn't be that high, though.