Well, in the case of this particular Knoppix CD you'll be out of luck. QEMU, which this CD uses to boot the CD under Windows, is a full-system emulator, which means it's not very fast (under Linux there's a closed-source plugin that makes QEMU virtualize the hardware instead, making it substantially faster according to people who know these things; I've never tried it myself, but it doesn't exist for Windows anyway).
Anyway, a while ago I was playing with bochs and QEMU and I decided to try to boot Knoppix under them and it was annoyingly slow (think Windows on a crappy 486) just knockng around KDE on my three-year old Athlon 2100 box. Now that was an older version of Knoppix, but I don't think that QEMU's been updated since then. You certainly wouldn't be able to play tuxracer. I might be wrong about this, but I don't think Knoppix includes tuxracer (I don't know why tuxracer would be your test for whether Linux is worthy or not, but whatever). Or hardware rendering for that matter (at least on the version I have it doesn't seem to). But even if Knoppix includes hardware rendering you'd have to actually boot the disk instead of running it under QEMU to get anything resembling performance.
So, say there was a cocoa web browser and you were typing away in a form on the web. Would hitting ctrl-w in such a form delete a word instead of closing the fucking window?
I know old versions of Mozilla behaved that way. I don't know if new ones do, because I'm using FF right now and it doesn't, which makes me angry.
Yeah it would still be a crime, he broke into the fucking house.
Of course, how empty is the house? Devoid of all matter? Did he break into a vacuum? If so he might have more problems on his hand than the long arm of the law...
Perhaps one day they did. Perhaps one day that worked well. Perhaps these days I'd rather have to use wget to do all my web browsing than install the contents of the latest "SBC/Yahoo DSL" cd. Shortcuts to mail.yahoo.com all over my desktop and start menu, and unnecessary systray apps. Yuck.
And, frankly, if you can't include IE with Windows, why can you include ftp?
Yeah, and when you install Windows there can be a little dialog that asks "Do you really want to install Windows? How about another OS like GNU/Linux? 2.4 kernel or 2.6? Don't like GNU/Linux? How about BSD? Free, Net or Open? Dragonfly, perhaps? BeOS is pretty nice..."
Click here to ship your computer back to Microsoft and start over with a Sparc running Solaris or one of those shiny new Macintoshes (stylish!).
By deault firefox won't let you automatically install extensions from anywhere but I think mozdev.org or something.
It does make it pretty easy for the user to override that (every time a user tries to install an extension it gives the option to override), and I don't know if in the process somewhere there would be a noticeable warning sign.
And you could of course just download the xpi and load it into moz/ff/thunderbird/etc. off of your hd/ramdisk/usbdrive/mountedfilesystemofchoice if your browser was being a bitch about doing it automatically (which is what I'd probably do).
If you have a ton of angry people watching your every move you could (a) be damn careful about the language you use in the licensing agreements for the patents of your xml schemas or (b) simplify the whole matter by not patenting the schemas and thereby making your file formats truly open.
Now, sure, (b) allows people to fork their formats. But they're Microsoft! If some project uses a modified version of the schema which will die out, Microsoft, or some random project?
I guess I just don't understand why Microsoft would bother to get a patent for this.
Am I misreading this license or does it not allow you to license the patent if you're writing an office application (part ii under "Patent License"), or if there is a technically reasonable alternative? So it would not allow you, if I'm reading it correctly, to write a program for Windows that would read/write these files because you could just buy Word?
Of course, if this is true then I don't think it's open enough to be any more useful than previous Word documents. Or I might just be reading it incorrectly because it's a fucking confusing paragraph. Is the fact that I'd need to call a lawyer to understand that agreement enough of a barrier that it's not really an "open" standard?
Yeah, if you grew up in typical suburban white neighborhood in a family for whom welfare was not a primary means of income, this number does seem a bit high.
And the number furthermore reminds you of how non-typical your "neighborhood" has been (neighborhood can function as a way to generalize people and to keep yoiurself from interacting with people outside your circle). People all tend to grow up thinking their situation is average and normal in every way, and realizing that there are so many people living differently helps us to act in ways that help all people and not just ourselves.
Take the gay marriage issue. Should this REALLY be a federal issue? Of course not and thank heavens that Sen. McCain pointed out that such a federal law would interfere with "state's rights".
Oh, yes, it's great that McCain pointed out that it would interfere with states' rights. But is that really why he objected? Or was he just trying to appeal to moderates by opposing a Federal gay marraige ban without supporting gay marraige? States' rights is a cop-out excuse for a Senator that felt it necessary to be the Federal spokesperson on Major League Baseball's steroid-testing policy. If he can't even leave a business to govern itself, how can he really believe in leaving the states?
Another example of the great "states' rights" cop-out is Rick Santorum. When the Federal Government wants to strike down a Texas sodomy law he's all for the rights of states to pass sodomy laws. But when a gay marraige ammendment comes up he jumps to support it and thus take rights away from the states. Most politicians will use the idea of "states' rights" to dodge politically-sensitive issues. I hope that people see through this.
Interesting that you mention law offices. Law offices were one of the last business environments to really shift from Word Perfect to MS Word, because many legal documents require precise formatting and the lawyers had all been trained to produce good documents in Word Perfect (there are probably many that could still make better-looking docs in WP4.2 than WordXP) / MS Word's auto-formatting features frequently made a mess of their documents. I'm neither a lawyer nor an OO.o user, but I can't imagine OO.o would be any better for legal documents now than Word was in the late 90s.
(Throw them lawyers into vi and have'em write some TeX. They'll get their formatting... muahaha)
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I've always wondered about that... would it be legal for somebody to take the Qt/X11 code or the Qt/Mac code and make a GLP'd Qt/Win version? If Qt/X11 and Qt/Mac are GPL one would think it should be legal, anyhow.
Not that it would be easy, or any more necessary than the Windows port of GTK+ (which is nice sometimes but certainly not necessary to have a running Windows system), just possible.
Had you not posted that I'd have posted just about the exact same thing. A few months ago I was playing around with the MAF extension for Moz-based browsers, and it turns out that for one of its features to work it installs a binary program on your system. If you're running FF as an Administrator on Windows or as root on *n*x, I'm pretty sure that an XPI will gladly install a file anywhere on your system without your knowledge.
There's a difference between being involved in a child's life and being able to observe every purchase made by a child until some arbitrary state-defined age is reached. And you know it. Say I'm 14, my dad is making dinner (he's makes the best pancakes in the world), and we want to watch a nice family-oriented movie. Why can't ride my bike to the video store and get it? If I want to get a book for a school project, why can't I go to the damn library/bookstore myself?
That or I have to make the pancakes while he does my research and rents the movie, and I don't make the best pancakes in the world.
Are you saying that someone under the magic age can't buy any media whatsoever? That's what it sounds like... and if that's what you mean it's absolutely insane. Parents can't be at the point of purchase for everything that their kids see that might qualify as media. It's just not practical.
If you're talking about media that's rated in some way... that's the way it already is with movies and by this law with games. There's no real rating system for books, newspapers, etc., except that stores won't sell porn to minors, and to implement one would be difficult because of the amount of literature in existence and because it would create a LOT of controversy among readers because of certain ideas and philosophies in many books.
Well, right. The architectures are different so they crash and burn in hilariously different ways.
On a Windows machine I used to use at work if I printed to a printer that was down from MS-Word the computer would completely lose it to the point where explorer.exe had to be killed (actually it would pop up the alert saying that explorer.exe is not responding, would I like to end task, so I clicked yes). I've actually never seen a Windows computer that ran smoothly after killing explorer.exe, every time I've done it I've had to do a restart to make it work well (that's probably because there was something else going wrong too). At least you can still save documents, etc., after killing explorer.
On this here Linux box, if I ssh to University Solaris machines and use -X instead of -Y and start a remote X app, my system goes to a grinding halt. To get out of that I have to switch to the console (which takes about 10 seconds) and kill ssh, because X is completely unresponsive (keystrokes in the console are slow as well, but it's at least usable). Although once I kill ssh it runs perfectly well, and I remember to use -Y next time. I've never had my Linux box crash to the point where it had to be restarted, but I don't run KDE or Gnome, so if those can really take a computer down I wouldn't know.
However, we do seem to have in common that our/. handles are our names. Which is quite rare...
Maybe it's not such a good idea that I can be linked to my/. posts, but hey, if anyone now tries to pin anything I've said here on me I know there's an Al Dimond from Oakland, CA that I can blame it on! Thanks!
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Well, in the case of this particular Knoppix CD you'll be out of luck. QEMU, which this CD uses to boot the CD under Windows, is a full-system emulator, which means it's not very fast (under Linux there's a closed-source plugin that makes QEMU virtualize the hardware instead, making it substantially faster according to people who know these things; I've never tried it myself, but it doesn't exist for Windows anyway).
Anyway, a while ago I was playing with bochs and QEMU and I decided to try to boot Knoppix under them and it was annoyingly slow (think Windows on a crappy 486) just knockng around KDE on my three-year old Athlon 2100 box. Now that was an older version of Knoppix, but I don't think that QEMU's been updated since then. You certainly wouldn't be able to play tuxracer. I might be wrong about this, but I don't think Knoppix includes tuxracer (I don't know why tuxracer would be your test for whether Linux is worthy or not, but whatever). Or hardware rendering for that matter (at least on the version I have it doesn't seem to). But even if Knoppix includes hardware rendering you'd have to actually boot the disk instead of running it under QEMU to get anything resembling performance.
Yeah, who doesn't love mob justice?
Even if it's pretty clear that they are guilty of copyright infringement, they still deserve their due process.
An instruction set like move backward and forward so many squares...
For some reason, this reminds me of Brainfuck.
Brainfuck would probably not be the best teaching example for young'uns.
So, say there was a cocoa web browser and you were typing away in a form on the web. Would hitting ctrl-w in such a form delete a word instead of closing the fucking window?
I know old versions of Mozilla behaved that way. I don't know if new ones do, because I'm using FF right now and it doesn't, which makes me angry.
Yeah it would still be a crime, he broke into the fucking house.
Of course, how empty is the house? Devoid of all matter? Did he break into a vacuum? If so he might have more problems on his hand than the long arm of the law...
The juxtaposition of comment and signature is excellent.
Actually... this would be a great excuse^H^H^H^H^H^Hdefense for anyone being prosecuted for creating damaging viruses.
"MS/Blaster just evolved from the primordal soup of my browser cache (slashdot posts and midget porn)!"
Perhaps one day they did. Perhaps one day that worked well. Perhaps these days I'd rather have to use wget to do all my web browsing than install the contents of the latest "SBC/Yahoo DSL" cd. Shortcuts to mail.yahoo.com all over my desktop and start menu, and unnecessary systray apps. Yuck.
And, frankly, if you can't include IE with Windows, why can you include ftp?
Yeah, and when you install Windows there can be a little dialog that asks "Do you really want to install Windows? How about another OS like GNU/Linux? 2.4 kernel or 2.6? Don't like GNU/Linux? How about BSD? Free, Net or Open? Dragonfly, perhaps? BeOS is pretty nice..."
Click here to ship your computer back to Microsoft and start over with a Sparc running Solaris or one of those shiny new Macintoshes (stylish!).
The world is 99% idiots and 1% slashdotters.
However, idiocy and slashdot usership are unrelated.
99% of slashdotters are idiots.
99% of non-slashdotters are idiots.
I am an idiot.
You are an idiot.
Amen.
By deault firefox won't let you automatically install extensions from anywhere but I think mozdev.org or something.
It does make it pretty easy for the user to override that (every time a user tries to install an extension it gives the option to override), and I don't know if in the process somewhere there would be a noticeable warning sign.
And you could of course just download the xpi and load it into moz/ff/thunderbird/etc. off of your hd/ramdisk/usbdrive/mountedfilesystemofchoice if your browser was being a bitch about doing it automatically (which is what I'd probably do).
If you have a ton of angry people watching your every move you could (a) be damn careful about the language you use in the licensing agreements for the patents of your xml schemas or (b) simplify the whole matter by not patenting the schemas and thereby making your file formats truly open.
Now, sure, (b) allows people to fork their formats. But they're Microsoft! If some project uses a modified version of the schema which will die out, Microsoft, or some random project?
I guess I just don't understand why Microsoft would bother to get a patent for this.
Am I misreading this license or does it not allow you to license the patent if you're writing an office application (part ii under "Patent License"), or if there is a technically reasonable alternative? So it would not allow you, if I'm reading it correctly, to write a program for Windows that would read/write these files because you could just buy Word?
Of course, if this is true then I don't think it's open enough to be any more useful than previous Word documents. Or I might just be reading it incorrectly because it's a fucking confusing paragraph. Is the fact that I'd need to call a lawyer to understand that agreement enough of a barrier that it's not really an "open" standard?
It means that after they graduate from college with their degrees in music performance they'll go work for insurance companies, just like they do now.
Yeah, if you grew up in typical suburban white neighborhood in a family for whom welfare was not a primary means of income, this number does seem a bit high.
And the number furthermore reminds you of how non-typical your "neighborhood" has been (neighborhood can function as a way to generalize people and to keep yoiurself from interacting with people outside your circle). People all tend to grow up thinking their situation is average and normal in every way, and realizing that there are so many people living differently helps us to act in ways that help all people and not just ourselves.
Take the gay marriage issue. Should this REALLY be a federal issue? Of course not and thank heavens that Sen. McCain pointed out that such a federal law would interfere with "state's rights".
Oh, yes, it's great that McCain pointed out that it would interfere with states' rights. But is that really why he objected? Or was he just trying to appeal to moderates by opposing a Federal gay marraige ban without supporting gay marraige? States' rights is a cop-out excuse for a Senator that felt it necessary to be the Federal spokesperson on Major League Baseball's steroid-testing policy. If he can't even leave a business to govern itself, how can he really believe in leaving the states?
Another example of the great "states' rights" cop-out is Rick Santorum. When the Federal Government wants to strike down a Texas sodomy law he's all for the rights of states to pass sodomy laws. But when a gay marraige ammendment comes up he jumps to support it and thus take rights away from the states. Most politicians will use the idea of "states' rights" to dodge politically-sensitive issues. I hope that people see through this.
Interesting that you mention law offices. Law offices were one of the last business environments to really shift from Word Perfect to MS Word, because many legal documents require precise formatting and the lawyers had all been trained to produce good documents in Word Perfect (there are probably many that could still make better-looking docs in WP4.2 than WordXP) / MS Word's auto-formatting features frequently made a mess of their documents. I'm neither a lawyer nor an OO.o user, but I can't imagine OO.o would be any better for legal documents now than Word was in the late 90s.
(Throw them lawyers into vi and have'em write some TeX. They'll get their formatting... muahaha)
I've always wondered about that... would it be legal for somebody to take the Qt/X11 code or the Qt/Mac code and make a GLP'd Qt/Win version? If Qt/X11 and Qt/Mac are GPL one would think it should be legal, anyhow.
Not that it would be easy, or any more necessary than the Windows port of GTK+ (which is nice sometimes but certainly not necessary to have a running Windows system), just possible.
I believe he's turning the volume up to 14, a la Spinal Tap.
Had you not posted that I'd have posted just about the exact same thing. A few months ago I was playing around with the MAF extension for Moz-based browsers, and it turns out that for one of its features to work it installs a binary program on your system. If you're running FF as an Administrator on Windows or as root on *n*x, I'm pretty sure that an XPI will gladly install a file anywhere on your system without your knowledge.
Great, now when can we pre-emptively invade redmond?
There's a difference between being involved in a child's life and being able to observe every purchase made by a child until some arbitrary state-defined age is reached. And you know it. Say I'm 14, my dad is making dinner (he's makes the best pancakes in the world), and we want to watch a nice family-oriented movie. Why can't ride my bike to the video store and get it? If I want to get a book for a school project, why can't I go to the damn library/bookstore myself?
That or I have to make the pancakes while he does my research and rents the movie, and I don't make the best pancakes in the world.
Are you saying that someone under the magic age can't buy any media whatsoever? That's what it sounds like... and if that's what you mean it's absolutely insane. Parents can't be at the point of purchase for everything that their kids see that might qualify as media. It's just not practical.
If you're talking about media that's rated in some way... that's the way it already is with movies and by this law with games. There's no real rating system for books, newspapers, etc., except that stores won't sell porn to minors, and to implement one would be difficult because of the amount of literature in existence and because it would create a LOT of controversy among readers because of certain ideas and philosophies in many books.
Well, right. The architectures are different so they crash and burn in hilariously different ways.
On a Windows machine I used to use at work if I printed to a printer that was down from MS-Word the computer would completely lose it to the point where explorer.exe had to be killed (actually it would pop up the alert saying that explorer.exe is not responding, would I like to end task, so I clicked yes). I've actually never seen a Windows computer that ran smoothly after killing explorer.exe, every time I've done it I've had to do a restart to make it work well (that's probably because there was something else going wrong too). At least you can still save documents, etc., after killing explorer.
On this here Linux box, if I ssh to University Solaris machines and use -X instead of -Y and start a remote X app, my system goes to a grinding halt. To get out of that I have to switch to the console (which takes about 10 seconds) and kill ssh, because X is completely unresponsive (keystrokes in the console are slow as well, but it's at least usable). Although once I kill ssh it runs perfectly well, and I remember to use -Y next time. I've never had my Linux box crash to the point where it had to be restarted, but I don't run KDE or Gnome, so if those can really take a computer down I wouldn't know.
I'm Al Dimond from Illinois.
/. handles are our names. Which is quite rare...
/. posts, but hey, if anyone now tries to pin anything I've said here on me I know there's an Al Dimond from Oakland, CA that I can blame it on! Thanks!
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