Yeah, but doesn't F-Spot do the same thing? It not only supports PicasaWeb, but it also supports flickr and SmugMug. Yeah, I know Picasa runs on Linux, but F-Spot loads faster, has more features and has the advantage of being offered under the GPL.
That's right, amazingly enough nobody is expected to know their municipal [laws] by heart...
Oh? Really? So you can claim ignorance of municipal and civil laws?
Try explaining that to the next cop who's about to write you a ticket for a civil infraction.
"Oh, but officer, I didn't know that you had to obey the speed limit! I thought that was just a guideline!
Or how about to the impound yard after you've parked your rotting hulk of a car on the street for more than 10 days without moving it. Yep, that's a municipal law.
The UK isn't entirely standardized on the metric system, but far more so than here in the U.S. We still use miles per hour, miles per gallon (that's a U.S. gallon, which is different than an Imperial Gallon), inches and feet, Fahrenheit temperature measurement, ounces and pounds and so on. The U.K. corporate world at least sells gasoline by the litre, measures distance in kilometers, sells food by the kilogram, etc.
OTOH, some things in the U.S. are standardized on the metric system. The bolts on our cars are all metric* (even if our gas tanks are measured in gallons), soda pop is sold in 0.5, 1 and 2 litre bottles, and illicit drugs are often sold by the kilo (ha!).
But, being firmly American, I still say we don't need the metric system. Damn those foreign rulers anyway.
* mostly. Sometimes bolts for trim and body are English. Go figure.
Standardized formats play a big role in this game. Those formats may be bad, dated, horribly insecure and a vendor lock-in, but they are standardized and thus compatible with the companies you deal with.
But standardized formats are meaningless when they cannot be implemented, not even by the company who bought and paid for the format to become a standard.
They are going to say that OOXML is an ISO standard, but their own products don't follow the ISO standard.
So OOXML is not compatible. Not even with Microsoft's own products.
Since ISO just approved an incompatible, useless standard, what does that make them?
Yeah, but while underrated gives karma, it's also not subject to metamod and some people also think that that is unfair.
Gaming the moderation system is somethign I used to do back when the karma score was given as a number. I don't do that anymore, but I still have the knowledge of how to.;)
It's not. It's just funny. Someone just decided he or she would rather mod me as insightful rather than funny since insightful gives karma, but funny does not.
Writing a monolithic Unix-style kernel from scratch is no big deal. Students do that as a project in universities.
OTOH, Linux is not some research project. Writing a monolithic Unix-style kernel from scratch may be no big deal, but writing that one that can be the kernel of a full-fledged commercially-viable enterprise class operating system is entirely a different feat altogether.
I know you were joking. But I thought I'd throw in what christians actually believe. The earth isn't destroyed in the rapture, directly anyway. In the rapture, the christians (from other humans' perspective) simply disappear. You non-christians are left to fend for yourselves.:-)
Source Mage is a source-based GNU/Linux distribution based on a Sorcery metaphor of "casting" and "dispelling" programs, which we refer to as "spells", and a package manager called "Sorcery".
*slaps forehead* Oh... my... Gods. You have got to be kidding me. Please tell me this is a parody site and nothing can really be downloaded from it. Please.
No, the problem is obviously Windows Vista, with it's new and improved AeroGlass user interface. "Sunspots are making changes to your system! [Allow] [Cancel]?"
But it is not free (as in libre) software. The APSL is a non-free license, albeit it does meet the OSI definition and hence is Open Source, but not Free Software.
Yeah. I find that a bit hard to swallow since the 'terribly hard work' of combining the Linux kernel and the GNU toolchain, which was initially done by Linus himself (yes, try reading the comp.os.minix and comp.os.linux archives), has mostly been and continues to be done by Linux distributors like Red Hat, the Debian project, Novell/SuSE, Slackware, Canonical, etc.
Also, the Linux kernel itself is no small feat. How many decades did it take FSF to produce a kernel? And how much of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD are and continue to be based on the original 4.4 BSD distribution, minus the infamous 4 files?
Writing an OS kernel from scratch is an arduous task. I don't envy those tasked with such a proposition.
Of course. We have to show everyone that global warming is caused by a lack of sunspots, rather than the more obvious problem of excessive greenhouse gases. After all, the Earth is about be destroyed in the Rapture anyways, so why do we care?
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Yeah, but doesn't F-Spot do the same thing? It not only supports PicasaWeb, but it also supports flickr and SmugMug. Yeah, I know Picasa runs on Linux, but F-Spot loads faster, has more features and has the advantage of being offered under the GPL.
Oh, sorry, Mr. Lewis. With apologies to Ray Parker, Jr., and Huey Lewis.
<sarcasm type="dripping">Yeah, because terrorists are actually concerned with obeying the law.</sarcasm>
Nope. You can't copyright something you didn't create. I'd reproduce the necessary sections of law, but they're probably copyrighted or something.
That's right, amazingly enough nobody is expected to know their municipal [laws] by heart...
Oh? Really? So you can claim ignorance of municipal and civil laws?
Try explaining that to the next cop who's about to write you a ticket for a civil infraction.
"Oh, but officer, I didn't know that you had to obey the speed limit! I thought that was just a guideline!
Or how about to the impound yard after you've parked your rotting hulk of a car on the street for more than 10 days without moving it. Yep, that's a municipal law.
With apologies to Ray Parker, Jr.:
If there's D-R-M, on your movie now,
Who ya gonna call?
The Pirate Bay!
If the U-S-B, key just died,
Who ya gonna call?
The Pirate Bay!
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I ain't afraid of no cops.
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I ain't afraid of no cops.
Um, what rock have you been hiding under?
Why the hell do we put up with this?
All you need to ask is: who is getting wealthy from this situation? Think about it for a minute.
And now you know the answer to your question.
The Bible didn't specifically say that Jesus wouldn't be arriving on an ELE-producing asteroid flipping the entire planet the bird now did it?
Pffft.
The UK isn't entirely standardized on the metric system, but far more so than here in the U.S. We still use miles per hour, miles per gallon (that's a U.S. gallon, which is different than an Imperial Gallon), inches and feet, Fahrenheit temperature measurement, ounces and pounds and so on. The U.K. corporate world at least sells gasoline by the litre, measures distance in kilometers, sells food by the kilogram, etc.
OTOH, some things in the U.S. are standardized on the metric system. The bolts on our cars are all metric* (even if our gas tanks are measured in gallons), soda pop is sold in 0.5, 1 and 2 litre bottles, and illicit drugs are often sold by the kilo (ha!).
But, being firmly American, I still say we don't need the metric system. Damn those foreign rulers anyway.
* mostly. Sometimes bolts for trim and body are English. Go figure.
Standardized formats play a big role in this game. Those formats may be bad, dated, horribly insecure and a vendor lock-in, but they are standardized and thus compatible with the companies you deal with.
But standardized formats are meaningless when they cannot be implemented, not even by the company who bought and paid for the format to become a standard.
They are going to say that OOXML is an ISO standard, but their own products don't follow the ISO standard.
So OOXML is not compatible. Not even with Microsoft's own products.
Since ISO just approved an incompatible, useless standard, what does that make them?
You got it.
Useless.
No, that's sooo last year. The new question is: But does it run Vista? Especially since for many things, the answer seems to be no.
In Soviet Russia, Helicopters teach YOU!!!!
Yeah, but while underrated gives karma, it's also not subject to metamod and some people also think that that is unfair.
Gaming the moderation system is somethign I used to do back when the karma score was given as a number. I don't do that anymore, but I still have the knowledge of how to. ;)
It's not. It's just funny. Someone just decided he or she would rather mod me as insightful rather than funny since insightful gives karma, but funny does not.
Actually, the majority of them are the ones who have to abide by the syntax of an existing language.
Unless you happen to be Guido van Rossum. In which case, you don't even have to abide by the syntax of your OWN language! :-P
(Note to humorless, Python programming mods: Guido is my personal hero and Python is my favorite interpreted language. Really.)
Writing a monolithic Unix-style kernel from scratch is no big deal. Students do that as a project in universities.
OTOH, Linux is not some research project. Writing a monolithic Unix-style kernel from scratch may be no big deal, but writing that one that can be the kernel of a full-fledged commercially-viable enterprise class operating system is entirely a different feat altogether.
You can lie, you know...
I know you were joking. But I thought I'd throw in what christians actually believe. The earth isn't destroyed in the rapture, directly anyway. In the rapture, the christians (from other humans' perspective) simply disappear. You non-christians are left to fend for yourselves. :-)
Oh, I know. I know. I simply can't wait!!!
Source Mage is a source-based GNU/Linux distribution based on a Sorcery metaphor of "casting" and "dispelling" programs, which we refer to as "spells", and a package manager called "Sorcery".
*slaps forehead* Oh ... my ... Gods. You have got to be kidding me. Please tell me this is a parody site and nothing can really be downloaded from it. Please.
No, the problem is obviously Windows Vista, with it's new and improved AeroGlass user interface. "Sunspots are making changes to your system! [Allow] [Cancel]?"
Darwin - the OS X kernel is opensource
But it is not free (as in libre) software. The APSL is a non-free license, albeit it does meet the OSI definition and hence is Open Source, but not Free Software.
The second person in Europe to own an Apple II (after his good friend Douglas Adams). Steve Jobs is also a personal friend, apparently.
No, he was the second person in Europe (supposedly) to own an Apple Macintosh, Douglas Adams being the first.
Yeah. I find that a bit hard to swallow since the 'terribly hard work' of combining the Linux kernel and the GNU toolchain, which was initially done by Linus himself (yes, try reading the comp.os.minix and comp.os.linux archives), has mostly been and continues to be done by Linux distributors like Red Hat, the Debian project, Novell/SuSE, Slackware, Canonical, etc.
Also, the Linux kernel itself is no small feat. How many decades did it take FSF to produce a kernel? And how much of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD are and continue to be based on the original 4.4 BSD distribution, minus the infamous 4 files?
Writing an OS kernel from scratch is an arduous task. I don't envy those tasked with such a proposition.
Of course. We have to show everyone that global warming is caused by a lack of sunspots, rather than the more obvious problem of excessive greenhouse gases. After all, the Earth is about be destroyed in the Rapture anyways, so why do we care?