You're reading too much into the different syntax. In modern French, referring to wife as "sa femme" does not in any way indicate something lesser about the legal status of French women.
As a general rule, what you say is relevant. The Mesopotamian's had different legal categories than we do: wife, wife of lower social class (concubine), and slave girl versus wife, common law, girlfriend. However that's a different issue than the the one above, and I think translating their wife to ours is reasonably accurate.
While your skepticism of Bible Translators and Hebrew scholars maybe worthwhile, I don't think you should trust random slashdotters over the existing scholarship. As I noted elsewhere, in many languages, the normal way you say wife is "his woman" (for example, in French, "sa femme"). I believe it's the same in Hebrew.
I'm not an expert on Hebrew, but many languages do this, and the concept of wife is denoted with possessive (often same with husband too). So a translation to the word wife would be accurate.
Do you really want the government deciding when your prison term is up / "justice has been served" based on whether they think you have been rehabilitated or not?
That's a good point; I wish I had mod points for you. That said, "an eye for an eye" is just. It is, perhaps, the most fair retribution possible, but it is not the sort of thing we see, or want to see in our justice system. I think there needs to be some mix of justice and mercy.
No, jail is useless if it does not rehabilitate its convicts and keep them from re-offending. Punishment often helps to that end but it is not the same thing.
Stalin wasn't at the district conference. Note the line: "And in that obscure, small hall, unknown to the Leader, the applause went on—six, seven, eight minutes!"
Companies don't pay taxes. They pass them off to the customers.
You may be a troll, but I see this argument in real life so I will respond to it.
That is true, but does not help at all. In this case, Apple customers are getting cheaper products at the expense of the rest of the tax payers who pay for the public services that Apple takes advantage of. You see what happened? Tax evasion still costs money. It's just that it's the people who don't buy Apple products that end up paying the cost of Apple's tax evasion.
TL;DR: Tax evasion and government subsidies are functionally the same. I don't want the government subsidizing Apple.
This isn't the first time I've heard his name before. This is also the guy who declared Oracle's Java API's to be not copyrightable and the rangeCheck code they were crying over was something so simple he'd written 100 times before.
The GPL 3 was fleshed out well before the MS and Novell agreement. Nice troll.
Also, if your in a house, and the roof has a leak, you're better of patching it than fretting that it might spring another leak. It's not like the GPL is fundamentally broken. Even version 2 is a pretty good license, it just has a few loopholes.
I'm a professional who ought to about the dangers of proprietary data format. However, supporting open formats takes work and it might hurt my oh-so-dear reputation. So instead of that, I'm just going to sit around and leach of the reputation of those who really do care about the software industry. Besides, what users don't know won't hurt them, right?
You missed the point that Novell actually got money out of the deal (I think it was from Novell coupons). So basically Novell got money as compensation for alienating their customers.
As for what is wrong with GTK + C? Well nothing is wrong with it but it's not the only choice. One thing to keep in mind though is that graphical displays usually consist of conceptual objects "windows", "buttons", "listboxes", "textboxes", etc. These are all "things" which to be honest, creating code to describe "things" is what object oriented programming excels at.
To be fair, there is gtkmm and PyGTK which are both awesome ways to do GTK development.
This used to be a country that valued freedom, now people go whining to Big Brother to fix every little problem in their lives. Pathetic.
Why should Big Brother be limited to the government? When you look at corporations the government doesn't actually look so bad after all.
Corporations are essentially dictatorships or oligarchies. The power is focused among a few people at the top and there are precious few checks to that power (besides the law, of course).
Your government in the US is quite transparent (relatively speaking, I mean). Try to get any information about the internals of a corporation and you'll hit a brick wall pretty fast. Unless something massive happens, your government isn't getting Big Brotherish anytime soon because there's no good in snooping on everyone if everyone knows what you're up to.
Which has more impact on regular people's life. The government collects taxes, and enforces a few laws. They're important, but not too difficult to forget about them. For better or for worse, corporations are the way most people earn a living, if they lose that they aren't going anywhere very fast. They spend a large portion of there lives working for corporations.
Ultimately, all a corporations care about is more power (which usually takes the form of money). There is no exception. Laws are built so that gaining power at the expense of society is generally undesirable to them and we use the government to enforce that. Sometimes the government fails (e.g. Microsoft and anti-trust) and the corporation will continue its abuse.
The text config files are not the problem, the problem is that the users need to do system configuration in the first place. Unless you're running Gentoo, setting up a server, or installing the latest and greatest unstable program that will probably rape your computer anyways. In those cases, you're not a normal user, I'm pretty sure you can handle a text file.
Beauty is a difficult one to tackle, functional and usable are much clearer objectives. IMHO, I think Gnome addresses those two fairly well. It's certainly better than any version of Windows.
As for mail server installs, I've never done one and from what I know they could use some help. One problem is that I'm pretty sure that's not what's holding back Linux. Linux already has a very strong presence in the server market.
Finally, marketing requires money. Linux distros don't have a lot of money to through around. This is a good thing because it means they spend their resources on improving their software instead of convincing the Emperor that he really has clothes on.
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The license may have contributed to that by invigorating the developer base (a matter that's up for debate), but the GPL really has nothing to do with Linux's success — the success is a result of the hard work of developers, testers, documenters, and community volunteers that help spread the word.
I'm not quite sure what the GP was trying to get at, but this is a bit misleading. The chief innovation of Linux was not technical, it was social. It's not like Linus was the first decent OS architect, but he (and RMS) founded a great community which made a great operating system (and a compiler, text editor, and much, much more). It was the community that made the software, but it was the license that make the community possible. The GNU GPL still draws far more developers than any other open source license, and this isn't all due to RMS making zombies out of us:-)
To say that language is just a communication protocol is an oversimplification. Languages and culture are mutually dependant. If a language dies, the culture(s) of the people who spoke it will die too.
I think that saving a file to a name which has already been assigned is more of an edge case than saving to a directory that doesn't exist. However, I don't disagree with you. I think it's bad to intentionally limit software, especially when the features would be unobtrusive and consistent with the larger design. File management is probably the most obtuse part of the Gnome desktop (at least, from what's visible to the user).
On the GNOME front, I am not impressed by its inability to do basic file operations in the file dialog.
Those that argue that this functionality should be restricted to the file manager have never explained why one can still create a directory/folder within this same file dialog. With their argument, it should be removed. Period.
The Gnome file dialogue is not a thing of beauty, but there is a reason for the "New Folder" feature and not others. When you want to safe a file in a directory that doesn't exist yet, you need to create it. It's part of the same action. However, you wouldn't need to go delete or rename files. I agree it's inconsistent and could be better, but there is some rationale behind the design.
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You're reading too much into the different syntax. In modern French, referring to wife as "sa femme" does not in any way indicate something lesser about the legal status of French women. As a general rule, what you say is relevant. The Mesopotamian's had different legal categories than we do: wife, wife of lower social class (concubine), and slave girl versus wife, common law, girlfriend. However that's a different issue than the the one above, and I think translating their wife to ours is reasonably accurate.
While your skepticism of Bible Translators and Hebrew scholars maybe worthwhile, I don't think you should trust random slashdotters over the existing scholarship. As I noted elsewhere, in many languages, the normal way you say wife is "his woman" (for example, in French, "sa femme"). I believe it's the same in Hebrew.
I'm not an expert on Hebrew, but many languages do this, and the concept of wife is denoted with possessive (often same with husband too). So a translation to the word wife would be accurate.
Car insurance would still exist. Robot cars won't stop vandalism.
A 3 pound object falling 15 could easily kill someone without a helmet. Even with a helmet your chances aren't that stellar.
Old people usually need younger people to take care of them.
That's a good point; I wish I had mod points for you. That said, "an eye for an eye" is just. It is, perhaps, the most fair retribution possible, but it is not the sort of thing we see, or want to see in our justice system. I think there needs to be some mix of justice and mercy.
No, jail is useless if it does not rehabilitate its convicts and keep them from re-offending. Punishment often helps to that end but it is not the same thing.
Stalin wasn't at the district conference. Note the line: "And in that obscure, small hall, unknown to the Leader, the applause went on—six, seven, eight minutes!"
You may be a troll, but I see this argument in real life so I will respond to it.
That is true, but does not help at all. In this case, Apple customers are getting cheaper products at the expense of the rest of the tax payers who pay for the public services that Apple takes advantage of. You see what happened? Tax evasion still costs money. It's just that it's the people who don't buy Apple products that end up paying the cost of Apple's tax evasion.
TL;DR: Tax evasion and government subsidies are functionally the same. I don't want the government subsidizing Apple.
In some countries vending machines are people, and they walk out onto the road when you're stuck in traffic and try to sell you snacks.
This isn't the first time I've heard his name before. This is also the guy who declared Oracle's Java API's to be not copyrightable and the rangeCheck code they were crying over was something so simple he'd written 100 times before.
This isn't theft, it's (alleged) copyright infringement.
That just removes the icons, the program is still very much there.
The GPL 3 was fleshed out well before the MS and Novell agreement. Nice troll.
Also, if your in a house, and the roof has a leak, you're better of patching it than fretting that it might spring another leak. It's not like the GPL is fundamentally broken. Even version 2 is a pretty good license, it just has a few loopholes.
Translation:
I'm a professional who ought to about the dangers of proprietary data format. However, supporting open formats takes work and it might hurt my oh-so-dear reputation. So instead of that, I'm just going to sit around and leach of the reputation of those who really do care about the software industry. Besides, what users don't know won't hurt them, right?
You missed the point that Novell actually got money out of the deal (I think it was from Novell coupons). So basically Novell got money as compensation for alienating their customers.
To be fair, there is gtkmm and PyGTK which are both awesome ways to do GTK development.
Why should Big Brother be limited to the government? When you look at corporations the government doesn't actually look so bad after all.
Ultimately, all a corporations care about is more power (which usually takes the form of money). There is no exception. Laws are built so that gaining power at the expense of society is generally undesirable to them and we use the government to enforce that. Sometimes the government fails (e.g. Microsoft and anti-trust) and the corporation will continue its abuse.
The text config files are not the problem, the problem is that the users need to do system configuration in the first place. Unless you're running Gentoo, setting up a server, or installing the latest and greatest unstable program that will probably rape your computer anyways. In those cases, you're not a normal user, I'm pretty sure you can handle a text file.
Beauty is a difficult one to tackle, functional and usable are much clearer objectives. IMHO, I think Gnome addresses those two fairly well. It's certainly better than any version of Windows.
As for mail server installs, I've never done one and from what I know they could use some help. One problem is that I'm pretty sure that's not what's holding back Linux. Linux already has a very strong presence in the server market.
Finally, marketing requires money. Linux distros don't have a lot of money to through around. This is a good thing because it means they spend their resources on improving their software instead of convincing the Emperor that he really has clothes on.
I'm not quite sure what the GP was trying to get at, but this is a bit misleading. The chief innovation of Linux was not technical, it was social. It's not like Linus was the first decent OS architect, but he (and RMS) founded a great community which made a great operating system (and a compiler, text editor, and much, much more). It was the community that made the software, but it was the license that make the community possible. The GNU GPL still draws far more developers than any other open source license, and this isn't all due to RMS making zombies out of us :-)
To say that language is just a communication protocol is an oversimplification. Languages and culture are mutually dependant. If a language dies, the culture(s) of the people who spoke it will die too.
I think that saving a file to a name which has already been assigned is more of an edge case than saving to a directory that doesn't exist. However, I don't disagree with you. I think it's bad to intentionally limit software, especially when the features would be unobtrusive and consistent with the larger design. File management is probably the most obtuse part of the Gnome desktop (at least, from what's visible to the user).
The Gnome file dialogue is not a thing of beauty, but there is a reason for the "New Folder" feature and not others. When you want to safe a file in a directory that doesn't exist yet, you need to create it. It's part of the same action. However, you wouldn't need to go delete or rename files. I agree it's inconsistent and could be better, but there is some rationale behind the design.
Probably, but I wouldn't be surprised if it fails on 0.1