Yeah, I already tried using wmf2x and the rest of the wmf2* programs I had, yet none of them could do anything with the WMFs. The WMFs are of course badly formed, so the *nix utilities fail gracefully. We were discussing this on SH/SC, but I didn't think it would become this huge...
Opera does have that significant advantage of being built using Qt instead of GTK, so that's a plus. However, unless all the sites you go to have shit-for-brains CSS that is filled with errors that not even a quirks mode could guess at, passing Acid2 is only a benchmark in how well you're supporting everything specified in the W3C Recommendations.
Sometimes I blame the lack of some features in vanilla Firefox due to Blake Ross or similar whose goal was to rid Mozilla of all the bloated shit it had to make a great browser.
I think he means the free as in speech as well. Monetarily free for a few months now, but still closed source. Firefox is dual-licensed under the MPL and GPL. If Opera goes the way of open source eventually, us FOSS advocates can finally be happy with Opera.
I'm guessing that it's because they two companies actually went to court over this instead of just settling. Patents don't really prove to be legally useful until you can prove that your patent is valid in court when suing someone over infringement.
text-decoration: blink; is in the CSS specs (forget which), so it's still here. marquee, however, is not, so it is done via an XBL binding in Firefox at least.
ODF will probably be supported sometime in the future since it's just an XML format. I doubt it'll support PDF considering how bloated that is in the first place. PDF, PS, DVI, etc., are usually made for printed materials, while webpages are made to be viewed on a screen most of the time.
With the idea of your protocol, RAR might be the best way to go so you can bypass the RAR patents as well! Fuck intellectual property altogether in an illegal manner! I'd recommend that you take a GPL'd P2P program and release only binaries (proprietary) of it as well. Call it "Safari" because you're surfing the high seas. That way you'll be protesting over all forms of IP in one single program!
Maybe if Congress stopped outlawing new technology all the time, people might actually want to try IT or CS more often. Right now there's patent minefields, outsourcing to incompetents in India, alleged DMCA-violations up the ass, and increasingly annoying companines like SCO trying to pick on the little guys just to name a few. It becomes more and more illegal to actually work in IT or CS, and they wonder why nobody wants to do it anymore...
According to TFA, it seems that this will basically be providing patent enforcement at a much quicker level. Of course, this could also lead to the realisation that patents are bullshit and enforcing anticompetitive monopolies based on patents is, dare I say, socialistic and not at all capitalistic.
sbin is where all the binaries that require root to run go in. Besides, your path should be set up to include/bin,/sbin,/usr/bin,/usr/sbin, etc., so there's no need to worry.
RMS wants it to be referred to as GNU/Linux because Linux is the kernel and GNU provides the rest of the tools needed for a Unix OS. LT would rather it be referred to as GNU Linux (similar to how GNU Hurd is named) if RMS were to have the GNU acronym in it at all. RMS does seem to have a bit of OCD when it comes to, well, a lot of things.
One of the big issues I'd assume with newbies adopting KDE is that nearly every KDE program's name is a pun on something usually involving the letter "K" or "Q". Although, they at least make more sense sometimes (i.e. when that program was C&D'd by a corp that produces a program with the name very similar to it).
A 1080p video would probably be something you would stream. It's only unrealistic due to the upstream bandwidth requirements to distribute such massive files.
I'm thinking the main reason that clients like aMSN, Psi, Xchat, etc., can become so much better than the Gaim version is that Gaim concentrates on a broad range of clients while aMSN can concentrate on only the MSN protocol. Better focus and whatnot.
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Yeah, I already tried using wmf2x and the rest of the wmf2* programs I had, yet none of them could do anything with the WMFs. The WMFs are of course badly formed, so the *nix utilities fail gracefully. We were discussing this on SH/SC, but I didn't think it would become this huge...
Opera does have that significant advantage of being built using Qt instead of GTK, so that's a plus. However, unless all the sites you go to have shit-for-brains CSS that is filled with errors that not even a quirks mode could guess at, passing Acid2 is only a benchmark in how well you're supporting everything specified in the W3C Recommendations.
Sometimes I blame the lack of some features in vanilla Firefox due to Blake Ross or similar whose goal was to rid Mozilla of all the bloated shit it had to make a great browser.
I think he means the free as in speech as well. Monetarily free for a few months now, but still closed source. Firefox is dual-licensed under the MPL and GPL. If Opera goes the way of open source eventually, us FOSS advocates can finally be happy with Opera.
I'm guessing that it's because they two companies actually went to court over this instead of just settling. Patents don't really prove to be legally useful until you can prove that your patent is valid in court when suing someone over infringement.
Judging by the way CmdrTaco and Zonk seem to ignore each other's articles, they probably don't even know how many times we've talked about ID...
text-decoration: blink; is in the CSS specs (forget which), so it's still here. marquee, however, is not, so it is done via an XBL binding in Firefox at least.
ODF will probably be supported sometime in the future since it's just an XML format. I doubt it'll support PDF considering how bloated that is in the first place. PDF, PS, DVI, etc., are usually made for printed materials, while webpages are made to be viewed on a screen most of the time.
You mean an "entrocapitalist", commonly referred to as an "economist", right?
With the idea of your protocol, RAR might be the best way to go so you can bypass the RAR patents as well! Fuck intellectual property altogether in an illegal manner! I'd recommend that you take a GPL'd P2P program and release only binaries (proprietary) of it as well. Call it "Safari" because you're surfing the high seas. That way you'll be protesting over all forms of IP in one single program!
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Seconded. You do get RSS feeds with it!
Disclaimer: I am a WebSVN developer.
Uh, your aggregator is caching the RSS files. You're just looking at old news. ;)
Oh man, I am so sorry about that.
Maybe if Congress stopped outlawing new technology all the time, people might actually want to try IT or CS more often. Right now there's patent minefields, outsourcing to incompetents in India, alleged DMCA-violations up the ass, and increasingly annoying companines like SCO trying to pick on the little guys just to name a few. It becomes more and more illegal to actually work in IT or CS, and they wonder why nobody wants to do it anymore...
According to TFA, it seems that this will basically be providing patent enforcement at a much quicker level. Of course, this could also lead to the realisation that patents are bullshit and enforcing anticompetitive monopolies based on patents is, dare I say, socialistic and not at all capitalistic.
sbin is where all the binaries that require root to run go in. Besides, your path should be set up to include /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, etc., so there's no need to worry.
Or you could use "dpkg -r" to remove and "dpkg -P" to purge. Easier to type! :)
Dude, a gnu is an animal. Doy...
Well, the letter "x" (so widely not used in the first place) always has a hard "z" sound if it starts a word. Hmm...
"gimp" (rhymes with "pimp") and "zine" (rhymes with "fine"). I'm sure there are people who say "Xine" like "zeen" (rhymes with "lean") as well.
RMS wants it to be referred to as GNU/Linux because Linux is the kernel and GNU provides the rest of the tools needed for a Unix OS. LT would rather it be referred to as GNU Linux (similar to how GNU Hurd is named) if RMS were to have the GNU acronym in it at all. RMS does seem to have a bit of OCD when it comes to, well, a lot of things.
One of the big issues I'd assume with newbies adopting KDE is that nearly every KDE program's name is a pun on something usually involving the letter "K" or "Q". Although, they at least make more sense sometimes (i.e. when that program was C&D'd by a corp that produces a program with the name very similar to it).
Good job bastardising that joke.
A 1080p video would probably be something you would stream. It's only unrealistic due to the upstream bandwidth requirements to distribute such massive files.
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I'm thinking the main reason that clients like aMSN, Psi, Xchat, etc., can become so much better than the Gaim version is that Gaim concentrates on a broad range of clients while aMSN can concentrate on only the MSN protocol. Better focus and whatnot.