I have to agree with the parent, KDE does do it all very very well.
With that said the legions of us who wish to keep their machine gtk2 only, and the other windows guys out there still need a viable alternative.
I run thunderbird and firefox with the calendar integrated. There also is (was?) the separate application, Sunbird by mozilla; I am not sure what happened to it to be honest.
Lightning is very buggy in firefox and thunderbird for me including several segmentation fault errors I can raise consistently as well as just sheer rendering issues that make features unusable.
I wonder if the built-in calendars in FF and Thunderbird integrate nicely... I can't test them really because they are unusable on my FF 1.0.7 and TB 1.0.6...
Won't this just put us back at where the Mozilla Suite was, minus the irc program? Heh, funny how things go...
It seems that regardless of how many mistakes are made in scientific journalism that the root cause of the problem will never be addressed.
As long as money is the motivation for making and reporting discoveries, we will have skewed results (actual and/or reported) and our efforts may, more often than not, be focused in the wrong directions.
Are the days of curiosity forcing advances in science and eagerness to discover and learn promoting good journalism and sharing over with?
This shortly following the announcement of additional DRM in blu-ray. Maybe Sony has finally made a fatal mis-step. Obviously they haven't learned from history yet.
That's beautiful. So basically they have to determine your guilt without you there to defend yourself. I certainly hope you get a different judge all the time if you do choose to go to court later. Otherwise it sounds like they maybe a tad biased.
On top of that I don't see how some bittorrent connections prove you actually downloaded anything though it is pretty damning it seems too circumstantial for a court. Like there should be a need for hard evidence...
But that maybe asking too much of our judicial system. Ignorance was bliss:(
Is there some place where people get a list of who is being named in these suits? I assume it is public information since it's our public court system.
Just curious
I would complain about my tax money going to pay for these cases in court but you only ever hear of debt collection agencies calling those in the suits now...
I often wonder if computers will survive the inevitable backlash when we completely lose all privacy. Things always get a lot worse before they get better and we keep heading there. Professional politicians should have taught us enough about trust that we would not listen to these corporations too. Just like social security numbers and everything else to date, biometric data will be abused eventually, you can be sure of it. Just wait for the skeptical generation to die off.
Maybe global warming will get us all first though:P
Writing your own license may seem like a good idea until you need to step into court and defend it. If it were that simple would we have bi-weekly postings on slashdot about the legitimacy of the GPL in court?
Perens seems to fail at laying out a solid plan or alternative to the open source patent portfolio Torvalds and others are trying to accrue. While criticism is good, without proposed solutions it is only negative.
With that said nobody claimed this open-source patent portfolio they are developing would be the be-all end-all solution to patent problems but it is a step in the right direction. Sometimes you need many lines of defense. Lobbying our political leaders costs more money than most FLOSS supporters have save a select few companies (like IBM who still love to horde patents).
This patent portfolio is needed in the meantime and not meant to be a comprehensive defensive line anyways. So why such negativity without a solid alternative?
are we not discussing people's rights (United States citizen's rights at the very least) online?
Or am I the only one to construe "your rights online" as not pertaining to only civil liberties affecting the internet?
Slashdot Mirror
I have to agree with the parent, KDE does do it all very very well.
With that said the legions of us who wish to keep their machine gtk2 only, and the other windows guys out there still need a viable alternative.
I run thunderbird and firefox with the calendar integrated. There also is (was?) the separate application, Sunbird by mozilla; I am not sure what happened to it to be honest.
Lightning is very buggy in firefox and thunderbird for me including several segmentation fault errors I can raise consistently as well as just sheer rendering issues that make features unusable.
I wonder if the built-in calendars in FF and Thunderbird integrate nicely... I can't test them really because they are unusable on my FF 1.0.7 and TB 1.0.6...
Won't this just put us back at where the Mozilla Suite was, minus the irc program? Heh, funny how things go...
It seems that regardless of how many mistakes are made in scientific journalism that the root cause of the problem will never be addressed.
As long as money is the motivation for making and reporting discoveries, we will have skewed results (actual and/or reported) and our efforts may, more often than not, be focused in the wrong directions.
Are the days of curiosity forcing advances in science and eagerness to discover and learn promoting good journalism and sharing over with?
"StarOffice is based on the OpenOffice.org source code, and is very much like OpenOffice.org 2.0, with a few enhancements:"
Not to be overly-pedantic, but isn't OOo based On StarOffice...?
You do realize kernel 2.6 is not supposed to be stable since it is the development version, correct?
For more information see this link.
This shortly following the announcement of additional DRM in blu-ray. Maybe Sony has finally made a fatal mis-step. Obviously they haven't learned from history yet.
Your example is further flawed consider how many soldiers in harms way lack any body armor.
Declassify a few documents, and don't classify the ones that shouldn't be and maybe they would have that body armor though...
On top of that I don't see how some bittorrent connections prove you actually downloaded anything though it is pretty damning it seems too circumstantial for a court. Like there should be a need for hard evidence...
But that maybe asking too much of our judicial system. Ignorance was bliss :(
Just curious
I would complain about my tax money going to pay for these cases in court but you only ever hear of debt collection agencies calling those in the suits now...
I often wonder if computers will survive the inevitable backlash when we completely lose all privacy. Things always get a lot worse before they get better and we keep heading there. Professional politicians should have taught us enough about trust that we would not listen to these corporations too. Just like social security numbers and everything else to date, biometric data will be abused eventually, you can be sure of it. Just wait for the skeptical generation to die off.
:P
Maybe global warming will get us all first though
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Writing your own license may seem like a good idea until you need to step into court and defend it. If it were that simple would we have bi-weekly postings on slashdot about the legitimacy of the GPL in court?
Link
What good does all their research do if it's going to end up in half-assed implementations and closed to the world so we cannot benefit from it?
Perens seems to fail at laying out a solid plan or alternative to the open source patent portfolio Torvalds and others are trying to accrue. While criticism is good, without proposed solutions it is only negative.
With that said nobody claimed this open-source patent portfolio they are developing would be the be-all end-all solution to patent problems but it is a step in the right direction. Sometimes you need many lines of defense. Lobbying our political leaders costs more money than most FLOSS supporters have save a select few companies (like IBM who still love to horde patents).
This patent portfolio is needed in the meantime and not meant to be a comprehensive defensive line anyways. So why such negativity without a solid alternative?
Here is the first result from the new Martian Canibus...
Benjamin Franklin said:
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."
Not Mr. Washington, that I am aware of.
Lookie here:
http://www.wisdomquotes.com/000974.html
(I only used google so feel free to check a quote site you like more)
are we not discussing people's rights (United States citizen's rights at the very least) online? Or am I the only one to construe "your rights online" as not pertaining to only civil liberties affecting the internet?