And how exacty is a computer going to prove this basic fact to you? Also if you have to ask somthing like this you are either dumb or have missed the 1st grade. Too bad for you in both cases. Oh yeah and 2+2=4 and that IS proven. There are some basic assumptions that people make and some statements are assumed to be true because there is no proof or disproof but this is not one of them.
like a lot of people pointed out RFID does not work at long distances at all and is almost unusable in open spaces like the highway. SO this won't ever happen. Plus it goes over several laws in the constitution like for one you can not legally put traching devices on people or vehicles without a court order. No judge is ever going to let this one fly. Right not you can track vehicles that have gps easy but you still need a court order to do that. So as far as cops tracking your vehicle goes, that won't ever happen. The big brother conspiracies are really starting to get old.
this is impossible. There is no way that you can track movements of files over the internet unless some govermental agaency decides to play big brother. The reason why it would be impossible to track pdf is that there is no way you can trach p2p networks and a lot of pdf files get distributed over p2p netowrks. Also even if some company decides to extend the pdf format so that the file will works kind of like a worm and send information back to the creator, pdf is an open format and soon after there will be a program that allows you to remove the tracker. Plus noone makes you use the pdf creator with the tracker if such a thing ever shows up.
Anyway, if this was a late April's Fool joke it is pretty dumb.
MS should have offered him a job rather than going after him (like they usually do). Can't wait until some guy from China or some other country thet does not follow US legislation gets pissed of at MS. That would be one great day. Instead of keeping 50 layers on staff they can kick some of them out an pay for developers to FINALLY fix the problems with windows or rewrite the damn thing. Windows is the longest going industry joke by far.
you can't hold it against Novell that they screwed up once. Novell has good products and while it may seem that they are ditching MS they are actually playing both fronts. The linux distro is mediocre at best and has bad hardware support but then again this is only their first entry in the distro market. What Novell has that msot other distros don't is the corporate look and a fresh start. If they manage to release a very stable and very feature full distribution then they will win the gaim and get a lot of love from both the corporate market and the linux community. However, so far there are no signs that any of this will happen and sadly enough Gnome 2.10 would be challenging to integrate into any distro without breaking the usability. The half finished menu system was one of the biggest mistaked in gnome's history and will be remembered for a long time. As far as I know many of the Gnome developers are working for Novell so it would be easy for Novell to improve the quality of the project. Also Novell has started to put together SDK for the system which is an essential part of any commercially supported OS. Novell is also pushing Mono and trying to speed up / improve gtk. All these are worthy causes and I respect the company for doing what thet do. After all this is the first company that has pretty much jumped head over heels in the OSS pool. I really want them to succeed because if they do this will bring a lot of other previously closed source companies and would mean that there is a bright future for linux and will mean better hardware support and a lot more drivers plus faster driver releases which is the weakest link in linux (no pun intended).
If they fail then linux will be pushed in the corner again. After all Novell is a big company but if their Linux project fails they will go under.
The day that debian dies would be a sad day for the OSS community and the linux community as a whole. Debian a very very nice distribution however for a while now it seems like it's lacking a stron leader and this results in insanelly long times between releases and very strange decisions from the development team. The notorious no java and no xorg thing are really hurting debian. And as a result Ubunty came arround a picked up a buck of the developers that were starting to get frustrated with debian. So it was right that the elections show that there is a serious problem with the way the project is going. But then again like I have said before OSS is about the best project surviving and this is exactly what's happening with Debian and Ubunty. After all in order for any project to survive you have to be devoted to it and not treat it as your 2nd hobby. Debians lack of release scedule has been hurting it for years now and the results are really showing now that there is actually a good alternative.
I don't like some of the decisions that the Ubuntu team makes (like jumping head over heals in new versions of project) however the truth is that Ubuntu has been the fastest growing linux distribution over the last year and things are looking really good for the project. They have finally gotten the debian things to work like they do in linux and despite the fact that they use sudo and Gnome 2.10 (which both are really pissing me off) Ubuntu is a very good distribution and a lot better option than runnig unstable Debian which breaks stuff a little bit too often for mu taste.
But don't count debian out just yet. There is a plan for speeding up the release schedule by dropping a lot of the architectures ( or turning them into sub projects) and other things like that. Debian has survived for a very long time and hopefully these elections will be a wakeup call for the dev team. If not I would have to switch to Ubuntu despite all the small *problems*.
This company NEEDS to get shut down. It is about time that people like them are told that GPL is no joke and just because there is no company behind the project doesn't make it right or legal to steal code.
All this could have been avoided if they just realsed the source like GPL requires. They can still sell the software and there would be just as manu people buying it because there are very very few windows users that would ever compile a software from source or even know how. So it's Maui's fault.
I thought there was a fund created exactly to the purpose that PearPC is collecting money? This whole thing is about a thousand times worst than MS badmouthing linux every chance they get. Wouldn't surprise me if that company's servers start to get dossed pretty soon just like SCO's did. They deserve it though.
Oh yeah and ther new company that should sue then Apple for encouraging piracy and violations of the apple agreement. That'll teach them.
If you believe this crap I have a piece of land you should look at but you need a swim suit and some other gear.
Do you honestly thing that Novell and IBM would have invested ANY money in linux after the SCO scam if there really was a problem? I don't think so. The truth is that in the future you will see a lot of changes in the biggest joke called patents. And this is all a good thing. Control of information is absolutelly a non democtaric measute and if you say that you have defeated communism how can you possibly still resort to pattents. Don't get me wrong I think that there should be registry of who created what but there is no way that anybody is supposed to have a say on what I cannot know about just because they make profit off of control of information. Sorry but this is actually worst than communism...
Last I checked Microsoft was ORDERED by a federal judge to stop distributing IE as a part of the OS. In order to comply with the rulling what did they do? They added the ability to remove the software only if you do so you no longer can use windows update. No call me crazy but how exactly is this even legal?
Oh yeah and I am sorry M$ but IE really sux and so do your developers if they can't come up with something better. How much did you say you pay them for that job?
This was on one of the talk shows tonight. As the host said, a compleate waste of research time at MIT. Instead they could have spend the time developing a solution to a real problem. Oh yeah and now instead of being late because you overslept you would be late because you were chasing Clocky. Plus, clocky??? who was the fag that came up with this dumb name... come to think about it I would really like to clock him on the head for this brilliant invention... beats even the silent alarm mode on some alarm clocks.
I know of people that have bought stuff through emails that they received aka spam and they all regretted it. Well there are dumb people all over the place and that's why advertisements still exist. Spam is only a name for cheap and nasty new way to distribute junk mail. Well at least I don't get as much junk mail in my real mail box.
last I checked every toolbar that adobe installs can be removed very easily and you can also setup the installer so that there are no toolbars if that's the way you like it. Also a tool bar has nothing to do with spyware. Stuff like Encarta and pretty much most other MS software installs things withot telling you all the time so you should be used to stuff like that by no if you are using windows.
how do post like this ever go through the editors? Come one this is no news. Everybody that uses Firefox knows about the update by now and if they don't then they should learn how to use firefox a little better.
The editors should really do a better job screening for worthless and repetitive posts. It's not cool fludding your own forum, you know...
so who's gonna decide which sites are in the block list and which ones are not? Or is that another mormon oversight? I don't support porn sites and their cause but it's about time to stop all this BS that has been going on in the US for whay too long. Probabition, sensored tv, politically correct language, controling that kids can and cannot watch and the list goes on. What happened to learn from your mistakes? Hell kids can't even hit each other anymore or they get send to therapy for aggresive behaviour. I say enough is enough!
This is great. I think that Apple should just offer him a job porting the software to linux. He would also be able to perfect the drm better than apple currently can. This whole thing would have never happened if Apple had decided to support linux as well as windows and mac os. After all there are more linux users that mac os users (all version of mac os combined). What is Apple gonna do now? Sue the guy for ruining the perfectly crappy business?
This must be one of the most expensive if not the most expensive notebook that I have ever seen. I retails for $3,500 from Sharp and the screen can't even do xvga+ in 2d. Shure it has 3d and stuff but I am not going to use a browser or do text editing in 3d and even if I was still I would like to have a higher resolution if I am spending that much money. Most notebooks with 17" screens cost less that this. As far as battery life goes this is a centrino computer (pentium 4 m) and the battery life would be decent enough even with 3d turned on. If you disable the 3d and use the screen as a regular notebook screen you will probably get well over 2 hours of battery life. Yeah this is a very high quality product and yes it does have technology that noone else other that sharp currently has but still 3,500 will buy you not one but 2 comprable notebooks. Sorry Sharp but it seems like you have another zaurus-like product on your hands... Oh yeah and most Centrino notebooks are fully supported under linux. Plus the sharp linux distros donot apeal at all to linux users.
This study is very inaccurate and very bias. Computer have deffinitelly reached the level of being helpful in some areas of studying and there is no reason why they could not be used as study tools. Yes a desktop could be both a study aid an an entertainment center and as such it will both save you time and waste a lot of your time playing Doom 3 or whatever else the student chooses to. Plus then there is the internet and it can REALLY kill your free and not so free time. (wait isn't that exactly what I am doing right now !?) The problem with the students is that now that computers are pretty much everywhere and can do so many different tasks students have to make wiser choises. And YES it does come down to having BAD work ethics and YES japanise students have access to computers all over the place but that doesn't make them perform poorly in school.
On the other hand there are the teachers. A computer is just as much of a distruction to the teacher as it is to the students. Most teachers feel intimidated by a piece of metal plastic and silicon which is just plain ridiculous. After all if you are a teacher you should know better. A teacher SHOULD NOT try to make the class more entertaining and attractive by using a computer but rather speed up the lerning process and present the students with more and *more useful* information. If there is no such computerized study aid then leave the computer alone for a while. Instead what happens is that you get barelly computer literate teachers struggling with a simple operating system as Windows and trying to learn something new while they are teaching something else. The quality of the educational process goes done a lot and no one wins at the end. Like a said if you are a teacher you should know BETTER. So don't do the classic mistake and blame human mistakes on computers. After all how is a computer going to do anything unless you make it? Last I checked they had neither free will nor a mind of their own...
I though linux already supports the controler. I am not sure if it works like it's supposed to but if it does then I really don't see why the OpenBSD team could not use the linux kernel code with some modifications so that it fits in their case. And as far as Adaptec is concerned they have no reason why they should ever provide the OpenBSD team with info if they don't want to. After all OpenBSD is really unpopular compared to other server/computer OSes (it is some of the best OSS codeing though).
You are seriously full of s*** if you believe that you have learned anything in 6 years out of those 3 languages. I am not sure about the 3rd one but both Latin and Egyptian are quite hard to learn an people spend 6 years on each of them before they make bold claims like you. Plus most people DONOT use software for learning a foreign language because all the software is incompleate and has a lot to be desired in terms of teaching principles and the information provided. While all printed material has gone through an editor (or many of them) software usually gets audited for programming errors and very little for content errors (compared to the time spent on programing ones). So while software might be the best way to build up a momentum in learing a foreign language it is by no means the way to go once you have passed the first couple of months and gained that momentum. The local library is there for a reason, you know...
if you believe that the gnome project is really respecting it's users you must be either very dumb or just not very well informed. I don't know of a version since 1.4 that hasn't broken some functionality. I hate to say it but KDE has a lot better management. For being such a large project Gnome seems to be run by a bunch of amature college kids and this never help. Also seems like gnome is lacking not only developers put testers as well. Oh yeah and I have also never heard of developers moving from KDE to Gnome but there are quite a few major ones that moved from Gnome to KDE. Plus it really doesn't help Gnome that they use C with a new objects class when they could have just used C++ with build in objects and error checking. But then again I like C++ better than C.
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what s dumb name. If I were the CEO of the company I would fire the creative director on the spot.
And how exacty is a computer going to prove this basic fact to you? Also if you have to ask somthing like this you are either dumb or have missed the 1st grade. Too bad for you in both cases. Oh yeah and 2+2=4 and that IS proven. There are some basic assumptions that people make and some statements are assumed to be true because there is no proof or disproof but this is not one of them.
like a lot of people pointed out RFID does not work at long distances at all and is almost unusable in open spaces like the highway. SO this won't ever happen. Plus it goes over several laws in the constitution like for one you can not legally put traching devices on people or vehicles without a court order. No judge is ever going to let this one fly. Right not you can track vehicles that have gps easy but you still need a court order to do that. So as far as cops tracking your vehicle goes, that won't ever happen. The big brother conspiracies are really starting to get old.
this is impossible. There is no way that you can track movements of files over the internet unless some govermental agaency decides to play big brother. The reason why it would be impossible to track pdf is that there is no way you can trach p2p networks and a lot of pdf files get distributed over p2p netowrks. Also even if some company decides to extend the pdf format so that the file will works kind of like a worm and send information back to the creator, pdf is an open format and soon after there will be a program that allows you to remove the tracker. Plus noone makes you use the pdf creator with the tracker if such a thing ever shows up. Anyway, if this was a late April's Fool joke it is pretty dumb.
this is getting really bad. Come on guys it's such a lame joke.
Ever heard of anti-reflective coating? Glare kills your eyes when you wear glasses and thats why anti-reflective coating is so nice.
MS should have offered him a job rather than going after him (like they usually do). Can't wait until some guy from China or some other country thet does not follow US legislation gets pissed of at MS. That would be one great day. Instead of keeping 50 layers on staff they can kick some of them out an pay for developers to FINALLY fix the problems with windows or rewrite the damn thing. Windows is the longest going industry joke by far.
you can't hold it against Novell that they screwed up once. Novell has good products and while it may seem that they are ditching MS they are actually playing both fronts. The linux distro is mediocre at best and has bad hardware support but then again this is only their first entry in the distro market. What Novell has that msot other distros don't is the corporate look and a fresh start. If they manage to release a very stable and very feature full distribution then they will win the gaim and get a lot of love from both the corporate market and the linux community. However, so far there are no signs that any of this will happen and sadly enough Gnome 2.10 would be challenging to integrate into any distro without breaking the usability. The half finished menu system was one of the biggest mistaked in gnome's history and will be remembered for a long time. As far as I know many of the Gnome developers are working for Novell so it would be easy for Novell to improve the quality of the project. Also Novell has started to put together SDK for the system which is an essential part of any commercially supported OS. Novell is also pushing Mono and trying to speed up / improve gtk. All these are worthy causes and I respect the company for doing what thet do. After all this is the first company that has pretty much jumped head over heels in the OSS pool. I really want them to succeed because if they do this will bring a lot of other previously closed source companies and would mean that there is a bright future for linux and will mean better hardware support and a lot more drivers plus faster driver releases which is the weakest link in linux (no pun intended). If they fail then linux will be pushed in the corner again. After all Novell is a big company but if their Linux project fails they will go under.
The day that debian dies would be a sad day for the OSS community and the linux community as a whole. Debian a very very nice distribution however for a while now it seems like it's lacking a stron leader and this results in insanelly long times between releases and very strange decisions from the development team. The notorious no java and no xorg thing are really hurting debian. And as a result Ubunty came arround a picked up a buck of the developers that were starting to get frustrated with debian. So it was right that the elections show that there is a serious problem with the way the project is going. But then again like I have said before OSS is about the best project surviving and this is exactly what's happening with Debian and Ubunty. After all in order for any project to survive you have to be devoted to it and not treat it as your 2nd hobby. Debians lack of release scedule has been hurting it for years now and the results are really showing now that there is actually a good alternative. I don't like some of the decisions that the Ubuntu team makes (like jumping head over heals in new versions of project) however the truth is that Ubuntu has been the fastest growing linux distribution over the last year and things are looking really good for the project. They have finally gotten the debian things to work like they do in linux and despite the fact that they use sudo and Gnome 2.10 (which both are really pissing me off) Ubuntu is a very good distribution and a lot better option than runnig unstable Debian which breaks stuff a little bit too often for mu taste. But don't count debian out just yet. There is a plan for speeding up the release schedule by dropping a lot of the architectures ( or turning them into sub projects) and other things like that. Debian has survived for a very long time and hopefully these elections will be a wakeup call for the dev team. If not I would have to switch to Ubuntu despite all the small *problems*.
can anyone ever explain stupidity ??? anyone?
This company NEEDS to get shut down. It is about time that people like them are told that GPL is no joke and just because there is no company behind the project doesn't make it right or legal to steal code. All this could have been avoided if they just realsed the source like GPL requires. They can still sell the software and there would be just as manu people buying it because there are very very few windows users that would ever compile a software from source or even know how. So it's Maui's fault. I thought there was a fund created exactly to the purpose that PearPC is collecting money? This whole thing is about a thousand times worst than MS badmouthing linux every chance they get. Wouldn't surprise me if that company's servers start to get dossed pretty soon just like SCO's did. They deserve it though. Oh yeah and ther new company that should sue then Apple for encouraging piracy and violations of the apple agreement. That'll teach them.
If you believe this crap I have a piece of land you should look at but you need a swim suit and some other gear. Do you honestly thing that Novell and IBM would have invested ANY money in linux after the SCO scam if there really was a problem? I don't think so. The truth is that in the future you will see a lot of changes in the biggest joke called patents. And this is all a good thing. Control of information is absolutelly a non democtaric measute and if you say that you have defeated communism how can you possibly still resort to pattents. Don't get me wrong I think that there should be registry of who created what but there is no way that anybody is supposed to have a say on what I cannot know about just because they make profit off of control of information. Sorry but this is actually worst than communism ...
Last I checked Microsoft was ORDERED by a federal judge to stop distributing IE as a part of the OS. In order to comply with the rulling what did they do? They added the ability to remove the software only if you do so you no longer can use windows update. No call me crazy but how exactly is this even legal? Oh yeah and I am sorry M$ but IE really sux and so do your developers if they can't come up with something better. How much did you say you pay them for that job?
This was on one of the talk shows tonight. As the host said, a compleate waste of research time at MIT. Instead they could have spend the time developing a solution to a real problem. Oh yeah and now instead of being late because you overslept you would be late because you were chasing Clocky. Plus, clocky??? who was the fag that came up with this dumb name ... come to think about it I would really like to clock him on the head for this brilliant invention ... beats even the silent alarm mode on some alarm clocks.
I know of people that have bought stuff through emails that they received aka spam and they all regretted it. Well there are dumb people all over the place and that's why advertisements still exist. Spam is only a name for cheap and nasty new way to distribute junk mail. Well at least I don't get as much junk mail in my real mail box.
last I checked every toolbar that adobe installs can be removed very easily and you can also setup the installer so that there are no toolbars if that's the way you like it. Also a tool bar has nothing to do with spyware. Stuff like Encarta and pretty much most other MS software installs things withot telling you all the time so you should be used to stuff like that by no if you are using windows.
how do post like this ever go through the editors? Come one this is no news. Everybody that uses Firefox knows about the update by now and if they don't then they should learn how to use firefox a little better. The editors should really do a better job screening for worthless and repetitive posts. It's not cool fludding your own forum, you know ...
ever heard of gaim? If not you should ...
so who's gonna decide which sites are in the block list and which ones are not? Or is that another mormon oversight? I don't support porn sites and their cause but it's about time to stop all this BS that has been going on in the US for whay too long. Probabition, sensored tv, politically correct language, controling that kids can and cannot watch and the list goes on. What happened to learn from your mistakes? Hell kids can't even hit each other anymore or they get send to therapy for aggresive behaviour. I say enough is enough!
This is great. I think that Apple should just offer him a job porting the software to linux. He would also be able to perfect the drm better than apple currently can. This whole thing would have never happened if Apple had decided to support linux as well as windows and mac os. After all there are more linux users that mac os users (all version of mac os combined). What is Apple gonna do now? Sue the guy for ruining the perfectly crappy business?
This must be one of the most expensive if not the most expensive notebook that I have ever seen. I retails for $3,500 from Sharp and the screen can't even do xvga+ in 2d. Shure it has 3d and stuff but I am not going to use a browser or do text editing in 3d and even if I was still I would like to have a higher resolution if I am spending that much money. Most notebooks with 17" screens cost less that this. As far as battery life goes this is a centrino computer (pentium 4 m) and the battery life would be decent enough even with 3d turned on. If you disable the 3d and use the screen as a regular notebook screen you will probably get well over 2 hours of battery life. Yeah this is a very high quality product and yes it does have technology that noone else other that sharp currently has but still 3,500 will buy you not one but 2 comprable notebooks. Sorry Sharp but it seems like you have another zaurus-like product on your hands ... Oh yeah and most Centrino notebooks are fully supported under linux. Plus the sharp linux distros donot apeal at all to linux users.
This study is very inaccurate and very bias. Computer have deffinitelly reached the level of being helpful in some areas of studying and there is no reason why they could not be used as study tools. Yes a desktop could be both a study aid an an entertainment center and as such it will both save you time and waste a lot of your time playing Doom 3 or whatever else the student chooses to. Plus then there is the internet and it can REALLY kill your free and not so free time. (wait isn't that exactly what I am doing right now !?) The problem with the students is that now that computers are pretty much everywhere and can do so many different tasks students have to make wiser choises. And YES it does come down to having BAD work ethics and YES japanise students have access to computers all over the place but that doesn't make them perform poorly in school. On the other hand there are the teachers. A computer is just as much of a distruction to the teacher as it is to the students. Most teachers feel intimidated by a piece of metal plastic and silicon which is just plain ridiculous. After all if you are a teacher you should know better. A teacher SHOULD NOT try to make the class more entertaining and attractive by using a computer but rather speed up the lerning process and present the students with more and *more useful* information. If there is no such computerized study aid then leave the computer alone for a while. Instead what happens is that you get barelly computer literate teachers struggling with a simple operating system as Windows and trying to learn something new while they are teaching something else. The quality of the educational process goes done a lot and no one wins at the end. Like a said if you are a teacher you should know BETTER. So don't do the classic mistake and blame human mistakes on computers. After all how is a computer going to do anything unless you make it? Last I checked they had neither free will nor a mind of their own ...
I though linux already supports the controler. I am not sure if it works like it's supposed to but if it does then I really don't see why the OpenBSD team could not use the linux kernel code with some modifications so that it fits in their case. And as far as Adaptec is concerned they have no reason why they should ever provide the OpenBSD team with info if they don't want to. After all OpenBSD is really unpopular compared to other server/computer OSes (it is some of the best OSS codeing though).
You are seriously full of s*** if you believe that you have learned anything in 6 years out of those 3 languages. I am not sure about the 3rd one but both Latin and Egyptian are quite hard to learn an people spend 6 years on each of them before they make bold claims like you. Plus most people DONOT use software for learning a foreign language because all the software is incompleate and has a lot to be desired in terms of teaching principles and the information provided. While all printed material has gone through an editor (or many of them) software usually gets audited for programming errors and very little for content errors (compared to the time spent on programing ones). So while software might be the best way to build up a momentum in learing a foreign language it is by no means the way to go once you have passed the first couple of months and gained that momentum. The local library is there for a reason, you know ...
if you believe that the gnome project is really respecting it's users you must be either very dumb or just not very well informed. I don't know of a version since 1.4 that hasn't broken some functionality. I hate to say it but KDE has a lot better management. For being such a large project Gnome seems to be run by a bunch of amature college kids and this never help. Also seems like gnome is lacking not only developers put testers as well.
Oh yeah and I have also never heard of developers moving from KDE to Gnome but there are quite a few major ones that moved from Gnome to KDE. Plus it really doesn't help Gnome that they use C with a new objects class when they could have just used C++ with build in objects and error checking. But then again I like C++ better than C.