If the government has less power, there is less for the corporations to corrupt.
The power the government has over people, small businesses, farmers, etc., is what attracts people who seek to get legislation favorable to them passed.
Searching for the funniest joke in the world seems to be such a fruitless endeavor because jokes are subjective & cultural. Outside of a certain cultural understanding most jokes would be plain dumb. (Try telling a dumb blonde jokes to a group of tall blonde amazon women. You'd likely be beat down, if not killed.)
What is funny to the British is often completely over the head of Americans simply because our culture is different from theirs and visa-versa.
Part of it is because even though we all speak English, the everyday language, the slang, is very different. If you ask someone for a 'fag' in England, you'll get a cigarette. If you ask the same thing in America, you might get beat up because someone thought you called them homosexual.
Sounds like they are looking for a non-existant Holy Grail. It still may be interesting to see what they come up with, though.
Mozilla lets someone develop a custom application without writing C++.
So, I now understand why it has taken them so long.
OTOH, Konqueror is pretty good at what it does as well. But, it's not really close to being the same thing. Konqueror is a web browser/file manager/embedding frame.
Well, I just searched linux-kernel, to no avail. I can find nothing where the problem with merging XFS is explained.
I have heard that it has to do with the fact that XFS changes some other things in the kernel outside of the actual filesystem code, but I don't know if that's actually the problem.
I just hope we don't end up with one or more forks of the kernel because of this.
One solution is what OS/2 did. It had EAs in the filesystem, and there were various actions one could do on a particular object.
On a.c file, for instance, you would have a "C Source Code" filetype defined in the EA, and a right click in the GUI would display a number of possible actions, each of which may well invoke a different program.
In the abstract, copyright recognizes this scarcity by granting the author certain limited rights.
You are correct. I would suggest, however, that the copyright "compromise" is increasingly being tilted in one direction. Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing depends on your circumstance.
Regardless, I would suggest that the increasingly "extreme" view of copyright is what is likely driving the corresponding "extreme" anti-copyright advocates.
After reading your comment, I did a little poking around the Zope community web site. It looks like Zope only allows ODBC connectivity on Win32. Is that correct?
I'm currently using PHP on Linux, with unixODBC, for most development.
In this whole article/comment section, you seem to be the only one that has asked the relevant question.
What the heck do I want "web services" for, anyhow?
Until that question is sufficiently answered, this whole question is moot.
When it is answered, legions of open source programmers will solve the problem swiftly.
They always do. Fear not.
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There seems to be some confusion here.
Yes. I'm entirely confused now. If I start konsole, with anti-aliasing on, and I do (right-click) -> Font -> Custom, I see a list of fonts. misc-fixed is not among these.
If I start konsole with QT_XFT=0, I see a different, much smaller, list of fonts. misc-fixed *is* in this list.
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This is a very good point. I suspect the issue has to do with QT, as if I start something with QT_XFT=0, the non-anti-aliased fonts are available (only).
It seems a rather strange way to handle the fonts. Certainly, both types are displayable on the screen, so why not allow both?
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Yes. That's how I do it, too. Nevertheless, what he is talking about sounds like a handy feature, and probably wouldn't be very hard to implement.
While this used to be true (70s-80s), I disagree that it is still the case.
I have a Chevy Lumina (3.1 V-6) that has 170,000 miles on it, and is still going strong, other than a TCC solenoid that I need to replace one of these days.
But Japanese cars are good, too. I got 270,000 out of a Nissan diesel.
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That gives those states authority to take action against the company.
Huh? My ID hasn't changed, and neither has yours, from what I see.
It's really not that complicated.
If the government has less power, there is less for the corporations to corrupt.
The power the government has over people, small businesses, farmers, etc., is what attracts people who seek to get legislation favorable to them passed.
Repeal the power, and the incentive fades.
In the parent comment, I had posted a comment about President Bush and slashdot bias. The excellent slashcode rendered into what you see above.
Searching for the funniest joke in the world seems to be such a fruitless endeavor because jokes are subjective & cultural. Outside of a certain cultural understanding most jokes would be plain dumb. (Try telling a dumb blonde jokes to a group of tall blonde amazon women. You'd likely be beat down, if not killed.)
What is funny to the British is often completely over the head of Americans simply because our culture is different from theirs and visa-versa.
Part of it is because even though we all speak English, the everyday language, the slang, is very different. If you ask someone for a 'fag' in England, you'll get a cigarette. If you ask the same thing in America, you might get beat up because someone thought you called them homosexual.
Sounds like they are looking for a non-existant Holy Grail. It still may be interesting to see what they come up with, though.
Mozilla lets someone develop a custom application without writing C++.
So, I now understand why it has taken them so long.
OTOH, Konqueror is pretty good at what it does as well. But, it's not really close to being the same thing. Konqueror is a web browser/file manager/embedding frame.
He's talking about Trusted Solaris, not regular Solaris.
I really am very impressed with XFS; it seems like solid, proven code. I think XFS has the best chance at being the heavy-duty file system for Linux.
I have heard that it has to do with the fact that XFS changes some other things in the kernel outside of the actual filesystem code, but I don't know if that's actually the problem.
I just hope we don't end up with one or more forks of the kernel because of this.
On a .c file, for instance, you would have a "C Source Code" filetype defined in the EA, and a right click in the GUI would display a number of possible actions, each of which may well invoke a different program.
Please?
BTW, people can get more information about XFS, or download patches or kernel source from the SGI Linux XFS site. CVS is also available.
I didn't know that. I have XFS running on all partitions including root on five machines (4 debian, 1 mandrake).
I've had no problems, either. XFS is awesome!
I wish Linus would put it into 2.5, and I wish Alan would then backport it to 2.4. I think it's proven itself.
I've switched to debian unstable and I'm not looking back.
I had already switched my servers to debian, because of the better security practices I see in the debian world.
Now, I'm using it on the desktop, and it's absolutely brainless to keep updated.
And when a new version of debian comes along:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
It don't get much easier than that. And I can do it remotely.
You are correct. I would suggest, however, that the copyright "compromise" is increasingly being tilted in one direction. Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing depends on your circumstance.
Regardless, I would suggest that the increasingly "extreme" view of copyright is what is likely driving the corresponding "extreme" anti-copyright advocates.
Well said. I, too, have experienced NFS nightmares under Solaris.
I'm currently using PHP on Linux, with unixODBC, for most development.
What the heck do I want "web services" for, anyhow?
Until that question is sufficiently answered, this whole question is moot.
When it is answered, legions of open source programmers will solve the problem swiftly.
They always do. Fear not.
Yes. I'm entirely confused now. If I start konsole, with anti-aliasing on, and I do (right-click) -> Font -> Custom, I see a list of fonts. misc-fixed is not among these.
If I start konsole with QT_XFT=0, I see a different, much smaller, list of fonts. misc-fixed *is* in this list.
It seems a rather strange way to handle the fonts. Certainly, both types are displayable on the screen, so why not allow both?
Yes. That's how I do it, too. Nevertheless, what he is talking about sounds like a handy feature, and probably wouldn't be very hard to implement.
I have a Chevy Lumina (3.1 V-6) that has 170,000 miles on it, and is still going strong, other than a TCC solenoid that I need to replace one of these days.
But Japanese cars are good, too. I got 270,000 out of a Nissan diesel.
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
Sweet!
Gee, how unusual. I suppose the average corporate drone is handed a Windows CD and an Optiplex?
Huh? I have a copy of Quake III for Linux at home.