You know, Nautilus does saved searches and Beagle is "fast, accurate and searches for files based on content and name at once". It's also available in Deskbar, the handy taskbar app, and I find Nautilus' saved searches to be rather more elegant than Finder's...
Since this device operates at a maximum temperature of 600 degrees Centigrade, could it not be brought into close proximity with nuclear reactors which operate at about 300 degrees? This would solve the inefficiencies of having water turning turbines. Dependent upon the amount of heat these things can actually convert (perhaps the refrigeration aspect of the chip could be used as a cooling system for excess heat), there would also be no need for large cooling towers, generators, and many other things associated with nuclear power stations.
Dvorak is clearly as clueless as Ballmer with respect to the GPL. If you want to link your software to GPL software (not LGPL e.g. GTK) then you must make your code GPL. Otherwise, you're fine. The only obstacle to Microsoft running proprietary code on Linux is that most Linux users wouldn't touch MS software with/dev/bargepole.
My secondary (11-16) school here in the UK banned contact sports a long time before I arrived in 2001. It seems to have worked somewhat, although the smoking chavs haven't yet been noticed...
Ubuntu Linux has better font antialiasing than Windows. Microsoft's distributable fonts are installable with about five clicks or typing "sudo apt-get install msfonts". Copying and pasting happens whether you're root or not. Linux can't include MP3 etc codecs because it's illegal for them to be distributed. The installer is as smooth as TinyXP's, and TinyXP's doesn't let you use the OS while installing it. Ubuntu opens PDFs. It even previews them. What version of what distro are you using that doesn't have PDF support? Red Hat 5?
Linux is not a project to replicate Windows, it's a project to create a decent OS. It operates precisely as expected, just not how Windows works. The bulk of the world can piss off if it's like you, but nobody will bear it any grudges when it finally wakes up.
Actually, that's because the BBC is funded through television licensing. If you haven't paid your TV license (which you must pay if you own a device capable of handling video) then you aren't permitted to watch the BBC's online videos.
Next case: RIAA versus Google; Google is accused of funding piracy
Next case: Google versus the United Kingdom; Google is accused of funding the manufacture of items useful to terrorism (as the Federation Against Copyright Theft tells us, piracy funds terrorism)
Next case: RIAA versus Canonical; Canonical is accused of supplying Azureus, a piracy tool, to people
Next case: RIAA versus GNOME Foundation; the GNOME Foundation is accused of supplying a GUI library to piracy tools
The $100 laptop uses this. It is less power-consumptive, or whatever, as it absorbs less light (by diffraction, rather than filtering) and thus needs a less powerful LCD backlight.
Hooray for gratuitous world-changing technological development!
Yes, Apache is more innovative than Linux: Linux is just a bog-standard UNIX-imitatory OS kernel (although admittedly an open-source one with the best features), while httpd is an innovatively modular and also innovatively free web server which has been probably the second most-used open-source product. And one mustn't forget non-httpd Apache projects, such as Forrest (a CMS) which is quite cool, certainly innovative in ways.
I had friend who used this. He tried to save it as HTML and it blocked it. The he tried saving it as plain-text and his compute locked up. He finally tried to save as a PDF, and clippy jumped out and stabbed him in the face. Wait, no, none of that happened. (I even made up the "I had a friend who used this" part.) Why license your stuff anyway? Who is going to have such a large volume of people trying to reproduce their material that getting emailed requests would be too burdensome? And in cases where it is, you might as well just do it manually, as it's obviously worth it to you. I only see this bloating documents unnecessarily with license text from the F/OSS crowd. I'm all for Open Source, and I think it's noble. I've used Linux, and I use it (Knoppix/DSL) often for fixing simple issues easily (fdisk, cfdisk, etc.) when the Windows way to do it would be a pain. I use OSX, and I love it. The truth is though, if you use Linux/OSX, I probably won't like you. Most of the F/OSS crowd is an angry, belligerent, and or annoying bunch, and I think that's holding them back. Imagine how many people would just be annoyed by the license text at the bottom of every document from that hairy guy from IT. "I reset your password. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Slovenia License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/si/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA." (Btw, the license is not copy/paste friendly at that link. They should link to legalese, and have a link at the top of that to "English")
Bollocks.
Please stop labelling all of us as Stallmen. It's incredibly annoying, and the simple truth is that except where it is reasonable to expect you to know the subject, Linux people mainly aren't like that any more.
You're right. They would have produced some great-big phones alright. Gargantuan no less. It would still be a rotaty phone, it would take three people to dial it, and for no good reason, it would disconnet your calls at random. And, it wouldn't work with any non-Microsoft phones. You'd need to talk to your friends in an obscure dialect of Swahili, but soon, everyone would be speaking that no-longer-obscure dialect, and pretending they loved it. Every few years, you'd need to buy a new great-big phone at great expense, as your old phone wouldn't be able to dial new phone numbers any more.
Actually, with the release of Microsoft PhoneXP, it only disconnects when both users are shouting; and it has touch-tone, but you need to undo a special catch to use it, and even then it's only sitting on the rotary dial. And it requires five people to dial it.
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You know, Nautilus does saved searches and Beagle is "fast, accurate and searches for files based on content and name at once". It's also available in Deskbar, the handy taskbar app, and I find Nautilus' saved searches to be rather more elegant than Finder's...
Hardly microscopic. About 5cm...
Linux is not freeware, you twat...
Since this device operates at a maximum temperature of 600 degrees Centigrade, could it not be brought into close proximity with nuclear reactors which operate at about 300 degrees? This would solve the inefficiencies of having water turning turbines. Dependent upon the amount of heat these things can actually convert (perhaps the refrigeration aspect of the chip could be used as a cooling system for excess heat), there would also be no need for large cooling towers, generators, and many other things associated with nuclear power stations.
Dvorak is clearly as clueless as Ballmer with respect to the GPL. If you want to link your software to GPL software (not LGPL e.g. GTK) then you must make your code GPL. Otherwise, you're fine. The only obstacle to Microsoft running proprietary code on Linux is that most Linux users wouldn't touch MS software with /dev/bargepole.
No, seriously. Without this fifth element, we're all doomed.
My secondary (11-16) school here in the UK banned contact sports a long time before I arrived in 2001. It seems to have worked somewhat, although the smoking chavs haven't yet been noticed...
Ubuntu Linux has better font antialiasing than Windows. Microsoft's distributable fonts are installable with about five clicks or typing "sudo apt-get install msfonts". Copying and pasting happens whether you're root or not. Linux can't include MP3 etc codecs because it's illegal for them to be distributed. The installer is as smooth as TinyXP's, and TinyXP's doesn't let you use the OS while installing it. Ubuntu opens PDFs. It even previews them. What version of what distro are you using that doesn't have PDF support? Red Hat 5?
Linux is not a project to replicate Windows, it's a project to create a decent OS. It operates precisely as expected, just not how Windows works. The bulk of the world can piss off if it's like you, but nobody will bear it any grudges when it finally wakes up.
In other words, this will fail. They'd be far better off rebranding OOo, as mentioned before.
I can't wait for the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines to adopt Windows Vista screenshots as examples of what not to do...
Actually, that's because the BBC is funded through television licensing. If you haven't paid your TV license (which you must pay if you own a device capable of handling video) then you aren't permitted to watch the BBC's online videos.
Next case: Google versus the United Kingdom; Google is accused of funding the manufacture of items useful to terrorism (as the Federation Against Copyright Theft tells us, piracy funds terrorism)
Next case: RIAA versus Canonical; Canonical is accused of supplying Azureus, a piracy tool, to people
Next case: RIAA versus GNOME Foundation; the GNOME Foundation is accused of supplying a GUI library to piracy tools
WHEN DOES IT END?
Of course, if you live anywhere other than the UK, you'll find it involves far more than you'd expect.
Hooray for gratuitous world-changing technological development!
Apart from these lawyers.
lol bolox
Just keep using it. WGA can't tell. If you buy a copy, WGA will only say it's pirated, so why spend the £90?
Yes, Apache is more innovative than Linux: Linux is just a bog-standard UNIX-imitatory OS kernel (although admittedly an open-source one with the best features), while httpd is an innovatively modular and also innovatively free web server which has been probably the second most-used open-source product. And one mustn't forget non-httpd Apache projects, such as Forrest (a CMS) which is quite cool, certainly innovative in ways.
...means "padding the crowbar" in this sense...
My name is Ben Goodger. People will likely just say "no, that's the lead developer".
Bollocks.
Please stop labelling all of us as Stallmen. It's incredibly annoying, and the simple truth is that except where it is reasonable to expect you to know the subject, Linux people mainly aren't like that any more.
"C'mon guys, we can get Inode in there if we work hard!"
2006. It's 2006.
Actually, with the release of Microsoft PhoneXP, it only disconnects when both users are shouting; and it has touch-tone, but you need to undo a special catch to use it, and even then it's only sitting on the rotary dial. And it requires five people to dial it.
Uh, APT is a package manager.