Much like the infamous Halloween documents of past years, it shows the Gnome developers where to really concentrate their efforts. The Halloween documents and other FUD from Microsoft has shown Linus where he needs to work on the Linux kernel -- this is much of the same thing. It is a cry to fix certain parts of Gnome that definitely needs to be improved and at the same time, might bring Gnome back to its original calling, to be a damn good interface for *nix users.
It all really comes down to one issue. Who is really responsible for the raising of our children? Is it the government's job to set the rules and standards by which our children are raised or is it up to the parents? That's the issue at stake in many, many things. A hundred years ago, the state stayed out of the role of raising children. The have at the same time taken away much of the responsibility of the parents to raise children. Giving information to parents on the violence levels of games is a good thing, but to keep the parents from having the right to choose what their children will play or do is wrong. Whenever possible, more freedom is better than less.
If someone makes you plug in a GPS system into your car, what's to stop you from disconnecting the antenna? Even if it's some type of closed loop system that required an electrical signal to go through it, just replace the antenna with a resistor....
To be honest, can you really blame New Orleans? They obviously have found that they really need to replace their antiquated system. At the same time, Microsoft offered to develop software and make sure it works for free for now. Yes, New Orleans might have to give money to Microsoft in the future, but given budgetary constraints, efficient use of taxpayer money and other concerns, it is probably a good deal for New Orleans. You have to realize that the politicians need to get something done in this current term of office.... money that must be spent two or three terms from now is not important.
So essentially you are saying that we should use only the most efficient weapons to kill people? That infers that we should only use nukes since they are by far the most efficient......
What is wrong with putting in a full 8 hours of work and then going home? The US has an 40 hour work week. This is what the high tech industry has truly forgotten. Companies can not expect people to work more than that for long periods of time withouit the productivity of workers to go so far downhill that they are actually behind. If a company is too cheap to higher more workers than that is not a place I want to work.
What in the world is world with taking code from one open source project to another? I thought that was one of the big points of open source software. If you don't like what is written, you take what you do like, and use it however you would like to.
The reason that space appears to be the next area of confrontation is because it is the one of a few next great economic development areas. Every economic development area throughout time has been fought over at some point. Oil, coal, religion, food, etc have all been fought over. Space will be an area where great development will occur in the next 20-50 years and there will be people who want to take advantage of investments the US have put into space. The Air Force has to position itself now for funding in 10-20 years to develop the weapons that take 10-15 years to build. This is just a document that was released a couple of years ago to get the Air Force leaders and current young officers and NCO's (Non-Commissioned Officers) to think about the future might hold. It is also kind of a power grab of the Air Force over the other forces for money. The Air Force is claiming Space as its domain. It is saying that if Congress wants to spend money on space, it should go to the Air Force because the Air Force has the best ideas for space and has a clear path towards developing US assets.
I hope this doesn't sound too much like flaimbait but this is just the way I see it....
The way that I see it though if they open the source and put a restrictive license around it, just move WINE development servers somewhere that licenses are unenforceable. Somewhere like Mongolia or anywhere else that has more liberal policies about software.
I've had a G-Shock for like 15 years now without ever replacing the battery. The rubber around the actual watch itself is slowly coming off. I think they are great.. and look tough. It's been banged around, ran over with a car, hit with a hockey puck playing broomball, smashed by lumber on a contruction job, you name it.. and it only has some scratches on the glass. I can't wait to get one of these mp3 watches!!
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Much like the infamous Halloween documents of past years, it shows the Gnome developers where to really concentrate their efforts. The Halloween documents and other FUD from Microsoft has shown Linus where he needs to work on the Linux kernel -- this is much of the same thing. It is a cry to fix certain parts of Gnome that definitely needs to be improved and at the same time, might bring Gnome back to its original calling, to be a damn good interface for *nix users.
It all really comes down to one issue. Who is really responsible for the raising of our children? Is it the government's job to set the rules and standards by which our children are raised or is it up to the parents? That's the issue at stake in many, many things. A hundred years ago, the state stayed out of the role of raising children. The have at the same time taken away much of the responsibility of the parents to raise children. Giving information to parents on the violence levels of games is a good thing, but to keep the parents from having the right to choose what their children will play or do is wrong. Whenever possible, more freedom is better than less.
If someone makes you plug in a GPS system into your car, what's to stop you from disconnecting the antenna? Even if it's some type of closed loop system that required an electrical signal to go through it, just replace the antenna with a resistor....
Why not just disconnect the antenna?
To be honest, can you really blame New Orleans? They obviously have found that they really need to replace their antiquated system. At the same time, Microsoft offered to develop software and make sure it works for free for now. Yes, New Orleans might have to give money to Microsoft in the future, but given budgetary constraints, efficient use of taxpayer money and other concerns, it is probably a good deal for New Orleans. You have to realize that the politicians need to get something done in this current term of office.... money that must be spent two or three terms from now is not important.
So essentially you are saying that we should use only the most efficient weapons to kill people? That infers that we should only use nukes since they are by far the most efficient......
Sorry.. but I have a feeling that there would be some upset individuals that might be a tad hostile......
What is wrong with putting in a full 8 hours of work and then going home? The US has an 40 hour work week. This is what the high tech industry has truly forgotten. Companies can not expect people to work more than that for long periods of time withouit the productivity of workers to go so far downhill that they are actually behind. If a company is too cheap to higher more workers than that is not a place I want to work.
What in the world is world with taking code from one open source project to another? I thought that was one of the big points of open source software. If you don't like what is written, you take what you do like, and use it however you would like to.
They use the Military Satellite network which civilians do not have access to.
The reason that space appears to be the next area of confrontation is because it is the one of a few next great economic development areas. Every economic development area throughout time has been fought over at some point. Oil, coal, religion, food, etc have all been fought over. Space will be an area where great development will occur in the next 20-50 years and there will be people who want to take advantage of investments the US have put into space. The Air Force has to position itself now for funding in 10-20 years to develop the weapons that take 10-15 years to build. This is just a document that was released a couple of years ago to get the Air Force leaders and current young officers and NCO's (Non-Commissioned Officers) to think about the future might hold. It is also kind of a power grab of the Air Force over the other forces for money. The Air Force is claiming Space as its domain. It is saying that if Congress wants to spend money on space, it should go to the Air Force because the Air Force has the best ideas for space and has a clear path towards developing US assets.
I hope this doesn't sound too much like flaimbait but this is just the way I see it....
How about just make an NFS share and share the files off of that? That would make sense to me. That's what I did with WordPerfect 8.0.
The way that I see it though if they open the source and put a restrictive license around it, just move WINE development servers somewhere that licenses are unenforceable. Somewhere like Mongolia or anywhere else that has more liberal policies about software.
I've had a G-Shock for like 15 years now without ever replacing the battery. The rubber around the actual watch itself is slowly coming off. I think they are great.. and look tough. It's been banged around, ran over with a car, hit with a hockey puck playing broomball, smashed by lumber on a contruction job, you name it.. and it only has some scratches on the glass. I can't wait to get one of these mp3 watches!!
I apologize to everyone that I spoke a little too soon. My mistake.. thousands of rotten apples thrown my way.