The thing is that they -do-. In the online and offline communities where these pictures are created, it becomes acceptable for the creators and users of these pictures to think favorably about violence/pedophilia/etc. These communities become the primary outlet for the members of these communities and engulf their entire thought process, and soon their allegience is more to the community than to the rule of law, and they feel no remorse about perpetrating these acts in real life.
By their nature, terrorists and other criminals can't be expected to follow the terms of the license, yet if it is advantageous to, they will still use the software. Only proper Governments would disallow their armies from violating software licenses. For this reason, I posit that this license is pro-terrorist because it is designed to give them a tool while keeping it from state armies. Shame.
An IEEE-754 float (32 bits) can represent any integer value, exactly, that a short can hold. An IEEE-754 double (64 bits) can represent any integer value, exactly, that an integer can hold. If the programmer knows what (s)he is doing, this isn't a problem.
Microsoft announced their planned features for Longhorn years in advance. Some of the new features were obvious and would have ended up in both, no matter what. With others, Apple was able to beat them to market because of their faster release cycles. Points go to Apple, but nobody should be raising this FUD for either side.
I feel the need to remind you all that computer scientists do not study computers. Computer scientists study computation. There are plenty of computer jobs available to people without degrees, including programming positions (get your feet wet with open source), but more commonly system administration positions.
We already have a free democracy in the middle east. It's called "Israel". Or do you think that it doesn't count because it's run by Jews? Take your anti-semitism elsewhere, please.
You notice that your neighbor often leaves his patio door unlocked when he leaves for work, so you kindly leave him a note, so that in the future he may avoid being harmed. All is well.
90 days passes, and he STILL DOES IT. You are OUTRAGED that your advice does not go heeded, you tell EVERYONE that he leaves his patio door is unlocked. Word quickly passes to the seedier parts of town, and the next day, your neighbor is robbed.
A fucking moral hero of you ask me. You're not just screwing "Micro$oft" when you pull publicity stunts like this, you're screwing over real people.
It's 2010, and Debian has achieved total desktop dominance. Uh oh, the EU is saying that Debian is abusing its monopoly position by shipping a free media player and web browser with its distribution, edging competitors at Microsoft and Apple out of the market.
Do you think that people only load up programs at the beginning of the day, and keep them running at all times? Maybe on a Mac, but not on Windows and Linux where when you close a window, the program closes. If I told my secretary "take this down", and she said "Wait... wait... hold on... ok go" I would beat the shit out of her. Seven seconds is unacceptable. Not even Visual Studio takes this long to load. On Linux, KWord loads in under a second. Do you think a broad will be able to remember 7 or more seconds worth of complicated prose before she even starts typing?
PS3 is shaping out to be a true status symbol for those who are very well off. I earn a salary reaching 75k per year and that's without my annual bonus.
I'll be getting three PS3 systems (two for back up purposes). The games are rumoured to be locked $89 and upwards for each copy. The software price is expected to never go down over time ending the practise of consumers waiting for prices to fall. Each system can not play used, rented, or borrowed games.
Having said that, this is a dream come true. This is a true fan system for hardcore gamers only. No longer will I have to suffer being in the company of pretenders. Finally we'll have a system to be truly proud to say we own. Just like the Neo Geo, except successful.
For those poor people who cannot afford the ride, Microsoft and Nintendo will accommodate your needs.
For the rest of us that understand that you get what you pay for... I reckon we're going to be in for a ride of our life.
Actually, they can. Fluendo, the makers of GStreamer, paid for a license. Canonical could include the GStreamer plugin binary legally, but because of Canonical's ideology, they won't, because the license wouldn't apply if a user recompiled it from source ----- yet they still include nVidia and ATI binary drivers, where a user can't recompile them at all.
> To open firefox or openoffice or netbeans takes very long.
You shouldn't be using this as a metric for the quality of an operating system. Firefox and OpenOffice are the most bloated, shittiest open source programs around, and they're both as slow as molasses on any platform, including Win32 and GNU/Linux.
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Yawn. Wake me up when the motherboard has optical connections to the video card.
Pinwheel of death!
I really hope that they got rid of the awful, childish default "X" (for cancel buttons) icon. It just screamed "zonk".
I love chapter 13 of this book, which explains how to nest span tags to display tabular data. Finally, web 2.0 is here.
Sorry, we neither endorse nor use Windows XP Home. Our backups use rsync. You might want to try asking on www.noobhelp.com.
The thing is that they -do-. In the online and offline communities where these pictures are created, it becomes acceptable for the creators and users of these pictures to think favorably about violence/pedophilia/etc. These communities become the primary outlet for the members of these communities and engulf their entire thought process, and soon their allegience is more to the community than to the rule of law, and they feel no remorse about perpetrating these acts in real life.
By their nature, terrorists and other criminals can't be expected to follow the terms of the license, yet if it is advantageous to, they will still use the software. Only proper Governments would disallow their armies from violating software licenses. For this reason, I posit that this license is pro-terrorist because it is designed to give them a tool while keeping it from state armies. Shame.
An IEEE-754 float (32 bits) can represent any integer value, exactly, that a short can hold.
An IEEE-754 double (64 bits) can represent any integer value, exactly, that an integer can hold.
If the programmer knows what (s)he is doing, this isn't a problem.
Microsoft announced their planned features for Longhorn years in advance. Some of the new features were obvious and would have ended up in both, no matter what. With others, Apple was able to beat them to market because of their faster release cycles. Points go to Apple, but nobody should be raising this FUD for either side.
I feel the need to remind you all that computer scientists do not study computers. Computer scientists study computation. There are plenty of computer jobs available to people without degrees, including programming positions (get your feet wet with open source), but more commonly system administration positions.
We already have a free democracy in the middle east. It's called "Israel". Or do you think that it doesn't count because it's run by Jews? Take your anti-semitism elsewhere, please.
Analogy
You notice that your neighbor often leaves his patio door unlocked when he leaves for work, so you kindly leave him a note, so that in the future he may avoid being harmed. All is well.
90 days passes, and he STILL DOES IT. You are OUTRAGED that your advice does not go heeded, you tell EVERYONE that he leaves his patio door is unlocked. Word quickly passes to the seedier parts of town, and the next day, your neighbor is robbed.
A fucking moral hero of you ask me. You're not just screwing "Micro$oft" when you pull publicity stunts like this, you're screwing over real people.
It's 2010, and Debian has achieved total desktop dominance. Uh oh, the EU is saying that Debian is abusing its monopoly position by shipping a free media player and web browser with its distribution, edging competitors at Microsoft and Apple out of the market.
Still think antitrust laws are good?
OK. It's the part of you that goes to heaven or hell after your corporeal body breaks down.
When does someone stop being human, once we can replace their body with a machine? Is it just the brain? What of AI then? What of the soul?
Do you think that people only load up programs at the beginning of the day, and keep them running at all times? Maybe on a Mac, but not on Windows and Linux where when you close a window, the program closes.
If I told my secretary "take this down", and she said "Wait... wait... hold on... ok go" I would beat the shit out of her. Seven seconds is unacceptable. Not even Visual Studio takes this long to load. On Linux, KWord loads in under a second. Do you think a broad will be able to remember 7 or more seconds worth of complicated prose before she even starts typing?
Yeah, Communism is totally the exact-same fucking thing as Marxism. Nice strawman.
Here's a comparison I like to make, using an Athlon 64 3000+ with 2.0GiB of RAM on Windows:
Cold start for OpenOffice.org Writer 2: 9 seconds
Cold start for Microsoft Word: 1 second
Do we really want to make Government employees even less efficient?
Not really, because a passenger would automatically recognize a tense traffic situation and stop talking, or even warn you of it.
As long as any man has an ounce of empathy left for his fellow man.
PS3 is shaping out to be a true status symbol for those who are very well off. I earn a salary reaching 75k per year and that's without my annual bonus.
I'll be getting three PS3 systems (two for back up purposes). The games are rumoured to be locked $89 and upwards for each copy. The software price is expected to never go down over time ending the practise of consumers waiting for prices to fall. Each system can not play used, rented, or borrowed games.
Having said that, this is a dream come true. This is a true fan system for hardcore gamers only. No longer will I have to suffer being in the company of pretenders. Finally we'll have a system to be truly proud to say we own. Just like the Neo Geo, except successful.
For those poor people who cannot afford the ride, Microsoft and Nintendo will accommodate your needs.
For the rest of us that understand that you get what you pay for... I reckon we're going to be in for a ride of our life.
Count on it.
Why in the world would they need two web browsers?
Windows was never made to run on embedded devices like this (CE was never a server platform).
Actually, they can. Fluendo, the makers of GStreamer, paid for a license. Canonical could include the GStreamer plugin binary legally, but because of Canonical's ideology, they won't, because the license wouldn't apply if a user recompiled it from source ----- yet they still include nVidia and ATI binary drivers, where a user can't recompile them at all.
> To open firefox or openoffice or netbeans takes very long.
You shouldn't be using this as a metric for the quality of an operating system. Firefox and OpenOffice are the most bloated, shittiest open source programs around, and they're both as slow as molasses on any platform, including Win32 and GNU/Linux.
And NetBeans is Java.