Games, music, movies etc. play a significant social role - they generate topics for conversation. So, to "get into the club", you gotta have this game, album or movie. They may not be that valuable to one by themselves - just as a social ticket. Hence the unwillingness to pay much (trends come and go, stuff becomes obsolete ever so quickly) - you'd get broke pretty soon if you paid for every piece.
Bombing Gori and Poti is not legal even under this mandate. However, what Russians did in Tskhinvali was OK, provided that reports about shelling of Tskhinvali by Georgians are accurate.
And what is wrong with a ripoff from a moral point of view? I say let's copy the best from each other, and the world will get better. There's no such thing as a moral right to uniqueness.
1) Please take the file selector dialog to the XXI century by allowing copy/paste and displaying thumbnails for all files. 2) Teach Metacity to tile windows. 3) Create a pretty, functional, and non-resource intensive GTK+ theme with widgets that don't take so much screen real estate. For widget sizing, see Redmond theme. 4) Speed up GTK+. You already have quite a bit, so keep up the good work. 5) Allow setting all hotkeys in a human-readable way (no keycodes!).
It is as clear as possible. Don't reverse engineer the stuff that lies outside of their documentation. You automatically assume that means that you can't implement to spec because the referenced material MUST be required (although you don't bother to provide a single example).
No, it's not clear at all without - at the very least - the full list of related patents and further clarification about what constitutes "necessary claims" and "covered implementation" (implementing sub- and supersets of the spec). Also, you wanted an example - so what about OLE? They offer the compound binary file specification, but this covers storage only - and we'd like to do something more interesting with OLE objects, right? Like displaying them, for instance.
A+++ I'm glad, and not at all surprised, you were rated informative for trolling MS.
I wasn't "trolling MS," but Informative moderation is indeed out of place, since I was lazy to provide links.
You can't say it promises nothing if you haven't actually ATTEMPTED an implementation.
This does not make sense. Their promise or non-promise is in no way contingent on my actions. It's me who has to consider what they promise before acting. If I find ambiguities, I'd better not act until these are clarified. And there are plenty of ambiguities. If you really can't see what they are, there are links to the analysis on Groklaw.
I personally saw the ambiguities immediately when I read the CNS. And remember, it's non-lawyers who are going to implement the spec, so the covenant must be as clear as possible.
This has been dissected and shown to promise nothing - because it's impossible to clearly see what exactly the "necessary claims" are, and because useful implementation of the spec without the "merely referenced" stuff may be impossible.
to legislate Office out of existence (let's face it, that's what you're trying to do - it's not about freedom at all)
This is a lie, and you know it. The fight is not about legislating Office out of existence, but about removing format lock-in so that people who don't need features or productivity gains MS Office gives could use other office suites but stay compatible.
A pity that the author didn't review these two. Not only they are they compact and snappy, but they also include the full-featured KDE desktop environment. I couldn't believe how fast they are when I tried them as LiveCDs - and they can be installed on HD, too!
Regarding Gnome panel plugins in XFCE. Do you mean only tray plugins or others too? Specifically, I'm interested in the Quicklounge applet (Launcher List).
While parent fully deserves the -1 Flamebait mod, he does have the point in that sometimes you can be better off trading some security for productivity.
I agree to all your points, one moment though: instead of "neither a better or worse guide than," I would use "as unsuitable a guide as." Since we really cannot tell how both indicators relate to the reality, we cannot even say that they are equally valid.
Linux satisfies all my home desktop needs for quite some time. Work is another matter, and I can safely admit that we won't have MS Office, Trados, Reason or Photoshop, or other popular specialized GUI software (dealing flawlessly with de-facto standard formats) on Linux anytime soon. But this only proves the assertion about the eye of the beholder.
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So this means the javascript exploit of the week will be executed 20-40 times faster?
yeah, like before you could stop its execution in the middle before it's too late...
Games, music, movies etc. play a significant social role - they generate topics for conversation. So, to "get into the club", you gotta have this game, album or movie. They may not be that valuable to one by themselves - just as a social ticket. Hence the unwillingness to pay much (trends come and go, stuff becomes obsolete ever so quickly) - you'd get broke pretty soon if you paid for every piece.
It's not youPhone, it's iPhone. And so it phones.
Bombing Gori and Poti is not legal even under this mandate. However, what Russians did in Tskhinvali was OK, provided that reports about shelling of Tskhinvali by Georgians are accurate.
As a token of our apology, here's a nice big wooden horse. ... and a load of horseshit with it!
Exactly. That lousy strategy wouldn't work with somebody like me, who maims and kills unarmed resistor and capacitors on a daily basis and likes it!
I mean, I really don't want to see it, but then, I'd really love to know if it's really as bad as everyone who saw it says it is.
OK we got it. Admit it, you like really bad and tasteless porn.
And what is wrong with a ripoff from a moral point of view? I say let's copy the best from each other, and the world will get better. There's no such thing as a moral right to uniqueness.
1) Please take the file selector dialog to the XXI century by allowing copy/paste and displaying thumbnails for all files.
2) Teach Metacity to tile windows.
3) Create a pretty, functional, and non-resource intensive GTK+ theme with widgets that don't take so much screen real estate. For widget sizing, see Redmond theme.
4) Speed up GTK+. You already have quite a bit, so keep up the good work.
5) Allow setting all hotkeys in a human-readable way (no keycodes!).
covered implementation -> conforming implementation
It is as clear as possible. Don't reverse engineer the stuff that lies outside of their documentation. You automatically assume that means that you can't implement to spec because the referenced material MUST be required (although you don't bother to provide a single example).
No, it's not clear at all without - at the very least - the full list of related patents and further clarification about what constitutes "necessary claims" and "covered implementation" (implementing sub- and supersets of the spec). Also, you wanted an example - so what about OLE? They offer the compound binary file specification, but this covers storage only - and we'd like to do something more interesting with OLE objects, right? Like displaying them, for instance.
A+++ I'm glad, and not at all surprised, you were rated informative for trolling MS.
I wasn't "trolling MS," but Informative moderation is indeed out of place, since I was lazy to provide links.
You can't say it promises nothing if you haven't actually ATTEMPTED an implementation.
This does not make sense. Their promise or non-promise is in no way contingent on my actions. It's me who has to consider what they promise before acting. If I find ambiguities, I'd better not act until these are clarified. And there are plenty of ambiguities. If you really can't see what they are, there are links to the analysis on Groklaw.
I personally saw the ambiguities immediately when I read the CNS. And remember, it's non-lawyers who are going to implement the spec, so the covenant must be as clear as possible.
This has been dissected and shown to promise nothing - because it's impossible to clearly see what exactly the "necessary claims" are, and because useful implementation of the spec without the "merely referenced" stuff may be impossible.
Which refutes the points about Microsoft how?
No, I can't.
In principle, you can measure weight in minutes - by the time it takes for a body to freely fall from a certain altitude.
We do not know what lies are ahead in our nation's fight against radical Islamic extremists
There, that's closer to the truth.
to legislate Office out of existence (let's face it, that's what you're trying to do - it's not about freedom at all)
This is a lie, and you know it. The fight is not about legislating Office out of existence, but about removing format lock-in so that people who don't need features or productivity gains MS Office gives could use other office suites but stay compatible.
A pity that the author didn't review these two. Not only they are they compact and snappy, but they also include the full-featured KDE desktop environment. I couldn't believe how fast they are when I tried them as LiveCDs - and they can be installed on HD, too!
Regarding Gnome panel plugins in XFCE. Do you mean only tray plugins or others too? Specifically, I'm interested in the Quicklounge applet (Launcher List).
While parent fully deserves the -1 Flamebait mod, he does have the point in that sometimes you can be better off trading some security for productivity.
I agree to all your points, one moment though: instead of "neither a better or worse guide than," I would use "as unsuitable a guide as." Since we really cannot tell how both indicators relate to the reality, we cannot even say that they are equally valid.
Yes, of course.
You really cannot tell how many people are using Linux. Each Linux distro sale or download can result in dozens of installations.
Fuck You.
Linux satisfies all my home desktop needs for quite some time. Work is another matter, and I can safely admit that we won't have MS Office, Trados, Reason or Photoshop, or other popular specialized GUI software (dealing flawlessly with de-facto standard formats) on Linux anytime soon. But this only proves the assertion about the eye of the beholder.