Google beats the hell out of Yandex and Rambler where results relevance is concerned. It's just that people got used to these and don't bother to switch.
There's nothing wrong with paying per character or word. It's as simple as choosing to do business with those who do not "fill their output with unnecessary and redundant verbiage."
As much as I applaud the driver initiative by GregKH, this development approach is flawed, because a handful of developers has neither the throughput nor the expertise needed to write high-quality drivers for the great many devices of vastly different kinds that are released every day. The people who made a device know its ins and outs better than a kernel developer, because that's what they specialize in; they can squeeze more performance out of it. Therefore, drivers should be developed by the manufacturer of the device in consultation with kernel developers, not vice versa.
Still, even this kind of collaboration on the manufacturers' part is better than pretending that Linux doesn't exist at all.
Yes, what you describe is a very likely outcome. There already are some regional precedents to that effect (I believe exactly the same happened with ALTLinux in Volgograd).
Also, this may be simply a PR move before the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections which will be quickly forgotten after the elections are over.
I would if it weren't so limited and if it worked with DOC files and not merely faked the file extension. However, I must say that basics (such as lists and para indent setting) are implemented in AbiWord way better than in OOo, and unlike OOo, AbiWord has something resembling Word's Normal mode which I find essential for my work.
You're too optimistic. For the issues that I filed (being pretty important stuff like absence of Normal/Draft mode and shitty notes implementation), "a while" has already taken five years - and still counting.
And this is still not a full list. For example, one thing not mentioned there is that Word allows me to continue working while it autosaves. Writer does not, it just interrupts me suddenly and locks out of my work for this time. It wouldn't be a problem for me if saving were fast, but when the file in question is a moderately large DOC or RTF, saving may take several seconds. That annoys the hell out of me.
It's not definition, but rather an example of cowardice. A person who is afraid to admit s/he is wrong and tries to cover it up by shutting down the discussion under the Godwinian pretext is a coward.
As for growing up... I don't think it's a very grown-up thing to shut down a discussion by a keyword hit. One should probably grow up just a little bit more - to outgrow the Godwin's Law.
The meta-license you speak of is the dual license, so choosing one license is OK. However, you can phrase your dual license so the recipient is required to release code under both licenses - say, "all modifications to this code and the resultant derived works must be licensed under BSD and GPL". This was not the case - the situation was "either/or".
Moreover, merely removing license notice is not "removing a license" or "relicensing". The license still applies to the correspondent code. Say, some file was dual-licensed BSD+GPL. Person A made some significant GPL-only modification; now the file as a whole may only be distributed as GPL. Person B receives this file from person A under GPL - but then B is not bound by BSD and can remove license notices besides those that mention GPL. (Not that s/he should, because it would make licensing questions less clear, but s/he can.) If person C wants to take some parts from the resultant file that were also present in the original file, s/he can do it anyway and use these chunks as per BSD, because s/he effectively takes them from the original file.
No, this tradition is cowardly for completely different reasons. It happens that bringing up Nazi or Hitler helps to logically prove some point due to these being more or less universally agreed negative ethical constants, but some people dislike it very much because then they have no arguments against it. An example: a person of that sort says that all the laws should be obeyed, then you ask "what about laws about Jews that were passed in Nazi Germany?". Then s/he will readily cry Godwin law, but won't admit s/he is wrong. When such people are moderators, they like to kill valid arguments with the Godwin axe just because they don't like where the discussion heads.
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Well, the cost of a copy of Windows XP is the cost of a blank CD and the time to copy the image ;-)
Google beats the hell out of Yandex and Rambler where results relevance is concerned. It's just that people got used to these and don't bother to switch.
Those pesky just
Must have been "Those pesky bloggers, independent journalists, opposition etc. just..."
Forgot that Slashdot eats angle brackets.
There is no problem in publishing any information you want. If it's not loyal to the goverment - you may use right hosting..
Don't you see the contradiction in the above two sentences?
But usually it's all about trying to make our society unstable.
Yeah, that's what the state media would have you believe. It's their favorite mantra: "Those pesky just want to destabilize our country!"
Anyways, the article is indeed shitty.
He has put food in the belly of the Russian people
Oh puh-lease. It's certainly not Putin who did it. Yes, a correlation does exist, but there is very little causation in it.
There's nothing wrong with paying per character or word. It's as simple as choosing to do business with those who do not "fill their output with unnecessary and redundant verbiage."
...wholeheartedly agree with the Web creators on this subject. Here, only old people use the Internet.
The only quantum thing in quantum cryptography is key distribution, or key generation, to be more precise.
As much as I applaud the driver initiative by GregKH, this development approach is flawed, because a handful of developers has neither the throughput nor the expertise needed to write high-quality drivers for the great many devices of vastly different kinds that are released every day. The people who made a device know its ins and outs better than a kernel developer, because that's what they specialize in; they can squeeze more performance out of it. Therefore, drivers should be developed by the manufacturer of the device in consultation with kernel developers, not vice versa.
Still, even this kind of collaboration on the manufacturers' part is better than pretending that Linux doesn't exist at all.
Beware of anonymous cowards?
Yes, what you describe is a very likely outcome. There already are some regional precedents to that effect (I believe exactly the same happened with ALTLinux in Volgograd).
Also, this may be simply a PR move before the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections which will be quickly forgotten after the elections are over.
I will not call listings to expire in 2008. Whatever that means.
Made my day!
Do you by chance live in Transdnistria?
In the latter case, it's .ru that will be discontinued. On the other hand, .su will get a new life.
Easy and streamlined -- use AbiWord. Really.
I would if it weren't so limited and if it worked with DOC files and not merely faked the file extension. However, I must say that basics (such as lists and para indent setting) are implemented in AbiWord way better than in OOo, and unlike OOo, AbiWord has something resembling Word's Normal mode which I find essential for my work.
Mod parent insightful. This is my situation exactly. BTW I wonder how many bugs has this khanyisa filed...
You're too optimistic. For the issues that I filed (being pretty important stuff like absence of Normal/Draft mode and shitty notes implementation), "a while" has already taken five years - and still counting.
transitional -> transitive
With the introduction of Google Presentation, now you can collaborate a presentation online.
When did the verb "collaborate" become transitional?
Damn, you beat me to it :-)
Yeah, general negative statements tend to negate themselves.
I can back up this opinion as someone who deals with text processing 8 hours a day.
http://osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=17593&comment_id=226219
http://osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=17593&comment_id=226313
http://osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=17593&comment_id=226315
And this is still not a full list. For example, one thing not mentioned there is that Word allows me to continue working while it autosaves. Writer does not, it just interrupts me suddenly and locks out of my work for this time. It wouldn't be a problem for me if saving were fast, but when the file in question is a moderately large DOC or RTF, saving may take several seconds. That annoys the hell out of me.
It's not definition, but rather an example of cowardice. A person who is afraid to admit s/he is wrong and tries to cover it up by shutting down the discussion under the Godwinian pretext is a coward.
As for growing up... I don't think it's a very grown-up thing to shut down a discussion by a keyword hit. One should probably grow up just a little bit more - to outgrow the Godwin's Law.
The meta-license you speak of is the dual license, so choosing one license is OK. However, you can phrase your dual license so the recipient is required to release code under both licenses - say, "all modifications to this code and the resultant derived works must be licensed under BSD and GPL". This was not the case - the situation was "either/or".
Moreover, merely removing license notice is not "removing a license" or "relicensing". The license still applies to the correspondent code. Say, some file was dual-licensed BSD+GPL. Person A made some significant GPL-only modification; now the file as a whole may only be distributed as GPL. Person B receives this file from person A under GPL - but then B is not bound by BSD and can remove license notices besides those that mention GPL. (Not that s/he should, because it would make licensing questions less clear, but s/he can.) If person C wants to take some parts from the resultant file that were also present in the original file, s/he can do it anyway and use these chunks as per BSD, because s/he effectively takes them from the original file.
No, this tradition is cowardly for completely different reasons. It happens that bringing up Nazi or Hitler helps to logically prove some point due to these being more or less universally agreed negative ethical constants, but some people dislike it very much because then they have no arguments against it. An example: a person of that sort says that all the laws should be obeyed, then you ask "what about laws about Jews that were passed in Nazi Germany?". Then s/he will readily cry Godwin law, but won't admit s/he is wrong. When such people are moderators, they like to kill valid arguments with the Godwin axe just because they don't like where the discussion heads.