I'm no Ubuntu fan really, but I find it quite funny how the GNOME devs are famous for not giving a fuck about their users opinions, and still they're somehow outraged when someone doesn't give a fuck about theirs.
Banshee isn't developed by GNOME. It's a 3rd party application but its developers chose to support the GNOME Foundation and Canonical is – as usual – ignoring the upstream developers. And – again as usual – Canonical put the gun on the devs' chest: Either give up 75% of the revenue or have the default music store disabled entirely. Same happened before with the Ubuntu Indicators in GNOME and later GNOME Shell: Canonical demanded that everyone followed Canonical's way despite not even supporting a substantial part of the overall GNOME development
Canonical takes 75% and it's OK but when Apple announced to take a mere 30% in the App Store the "free" world became outraged.
No, Canonical taking 75% is not OK. Heck, Canonical doesn't even host any of the MP3 files. The Ubuntu Music Store is just a 7digital.com music store with custom branding. Heck, Canonical doesn't even pay license fees for the MP3 decoder – Canonical uses the freeware MP3 decoder from Fluendo.
If Canonical ran its own Vorbis/FLAC music download store, I'd even fully understand if it removed the Amazon store support completely and took 100% revenue. But in this case Canonical does nothing. Canonical neither developed Banshee, nor did Canonical even develop the Amazon store plugin – only the affiliate code is changed.
MS monopoly is based on closed formats. They will not allow any royalty free standards which would allow for example linux usage.
The whole set of MPEG codecs as well as Microsoft's VC-1 can perfectly played back on Linux. Funny story: VC-2 is based on Dirac and totally royalty-free.
Yeah, because some random religious blog certainly contains facts... Next thing you try to convince me is that the already disproved "intelligent design" hypothesis is fact and that evolution is not the best tested scientific theory of all (in fact evolution is actually understood while gravity is not and no religious nutjob actually tries to convince everyone that "intelligent falling" is the true attractive force of planetary bodies....)
Just be happy that I counter antisemitic rantings and spare me of your religious hokum. I the unlikely case that there is an actual god, he can punish me after death and deny me the eternal life promised in the bible for my non-religious strong stance against antisemitism and other forms of racism...
Rabbis are not scientists. A Rabbi would also tell me that the Exodus is a fact. I'm sorry if I hurt your religious feelings but I don't trust any mumbo jumbo just because the book that says it is old. Psalm 82 was just an example I had in my head. There is strong scientific evidence that today's Judaism grew out of a polytheistic religion and that early "Jews" did not completely abandon that belief.
If you are a Jew: Fine. Be happy with your religion (just as I'm happy without any superstitious belief system). But don't bitch at people who counter antisemitic rants with actual arguments.
When you say that Muslims (in general) agree then it's the same racist bullshit as the other AC's antisemitic claim that Jews are troublemakers since 3,700 years.
The nutjobs of a religion are not representative of the whole religious community.
(I don't originally have my info from Wikipedia but I honestly cannot recall where I got it from -- some mixture of books, articles, and TV documentaries. So I did quick searches on Wikipedia to get at least a few links.)
(The main purpose of my post was obviously to debunk the AC who posted antisemitic claims. One can't accuse the Jews to be troublemakers for 3,700 years if there were no Jews for that long.)
The currently known scientific evidence points to the conclusion that monotheism developed gradually. I'm abbreviating now because I don't want to get into a mile-long discussion that is only partially related to TFA: Monotheism probably started in Egypt when at some point only one of their ancient gods was praised. That probably later transformed into the commandment that only one god must be praised (while not claiming that there are no other gods but just forbidding to pray to them). However, some early proto Jew sects also believed that YHWH had a goddess as wife (a branch of that later developed in to the gnostic "pantheon" belief with Sophia as higher goddess and an evil lower god, the demiurge, as the one described in the Old Testament). The early orthodox movement then worked to purge any traces of polytheism and transformed the system to the belief that there is only one god.
Personally, I feel it's save to say that it's that point were actual Judaism begins.
Um, there were no Jews 3,700 years ago. A monotheistic religion that would later become Judaism was just getting started. Even the first "proto Jews" weren't strictly monotheistic (the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament contains fragments of polytheism, eg. Psalm 82) which -- at least by today's standards -- would not qualify them as Jews...
As for your Pharaoh comment: There is not a single piece of archeological evidence that hundreds of thousands of people migrated away from Egypt and wandered through the desert for 40 years. So either the Exodus never happened and the story is just made up or the ancient people of Israel were the cleanest people ever by not leaving any pottery, weapons, etc. behind....
And I guess Hitler killing millions of Jews was their fault too, eh?
If you ask an ultra orthodox Jew, you might even get a Yes as answer. A minority opinion among them is that European Jews were punished by god for not living orthodox. (Just to be clear: I don't agree with that. I merely wanted to answer your question.)
Sure, SGU is not perfect. When they started to use the communication stones extensively the series' original premise of isolation, claustrophobia and actually concentrating on the characters, the series lost its touch a bit. But when they backpedaled on that aspect and no longer let half the episode play on earth, SGU became good again.
But hey... why am I bitching? Ever since the very definition of science fiction crap (Andromeda) ran for over five years and people watched that shit, I know that most other sci fi fans are retards. Now the same retards watch Clone Wars. Apparently you can have any bullsh*t TV series on air -- it just needs to be either called "Star Wars" of have the "Gene Roddenberry" label...
Tracking users without their consent is just evil. In no other medium are ad recipients tracked: Not in TV, not in print magazines, not on billboards. If they are tracked in other marketing efforts (eg. loyalty cards), the consumers gave their consent first.
KDE SC 4.5 didn't include KMail. Seems Canonical didn't do a good job packaging Kontact 4.4. SC 4.6 will officially include Kontact again, this time featuring KMail 2.0.
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I'm no Ubuntu fan really, but I find it quite funny how the GNOME devs are famous for not giving a fuck about their users opinions, and still they're somehow outraged when someone doesn't give a fuck about theirs.
Banshee isn't developed by GNOME. It's a 3rd party application but its developers chose to support the GNOME Foundation and Canonical is – as usual – ignoring the upstream developers.
And – again as usual – Canonical put the gun on the devs' chest: Either give up 75% of the revenue or have the default music store disabled entirely.
Same happened before with the Ubuntu Indicators in GNOME and later GNOME Shell: Canonical demanded that everyone followed Canonical's way despite not even supporting a substantial part of the overall GNOME development
Canonical takes 75% and it's OK but when Apple announced to take a mere 30% in the App Store the "free" world became outraged.
No, Canonical taking 75% is not OK. Heck, Canonical doesn't even host any of the MP3 files. The Ubuntu Music Store is just a 7digital.com music store with custom branding. Heck, Canonical doesn't even pay license fees for the MP3 decoder – Canonical uses the freeware MP3 decoder from Fluendo.
If Canonical ran its own Vorbis/FLAC music download store, I'd even fully understand if it removed the Amazon store support completely and took 100% revenue.
But in this case Canonical does nothing. Canonical neither developed Banshee, nor did Canonical even develop the Amazon store plugin – only the affiliate code is changed.
MS monopoly is based on closed formats. They will not allow any royalty free standards which would allow for example linux usage.
The whole set of MPEG codecs as well as Microsoft's VC-1 can perfectly played back on Linux.
Funny story: VC-2 is based on Dirac and totally royalty-free.
Completely separate? MPEG-LA handles licensing MPEG patents.
MPEG LA handles also VC-1 patents which has no relation to ISO MPEG
No problem. Private investors would outsource the service work to India and/or China anyway.
Private enterprises would never ever sacrifice security to cut costs
Then delete Mono.
I have no problems with ALSA.
From time to time I try PulseAudio but it always gives me stuttering sound.
Mod parent correct AND reasonable.
No, he's not as someone explained here: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1969946&cid=35030186
There are a number of pieces of evidence. http://considertheevidence.wordpress.com/
Yeah, because some random religious blog certainly contains facts...
Next thing you try to convince me is that the already disproved "intelligent design" hypothesis is fact and that evolution is not the best tested scientific theory of all (in fact evolution is actually understood while gravity is not and no religious nutjob actually tries to convince everyone that "intelligent falling" is the true attractive force of planetary bodies....)
Just be happy that I counter antisemitic rantings and spare me of your religious hokum.
I the unlikely case that there is an actual god, he can punish me after death and deny me the eternal life promised in the bible for my non-religious strong stance against antisemitism and other forms of racism...
Rabbis are not scientists. A Rabbi would also tell me that the Exodus is a fact.
I'm sorry if I hurt your religious feelings but I don't trust any mumbo jumbo just because the book that says it is old.
Psalm 82 was just an example I had in my head. There is strong scientific evidence that today's Judaism grew out of a polytheistic religion and that early "Jews" did not completely abandon that belief.
If you are a Jew: Fine. Be happy with your religion (just as I'm happy without any superstitious belief system). But don't bitch at people who counter antisemitic rants with actual arguments.
When you say that Muslims (in general) agree then it's the same racist bullshit as the other AC's antisemitic claim that Jews are troublemakers since 3,700 years.
The nutjobs of a religion are not representative of the whole religious community.
The Hebrew Bible as complete book is relatively new. The some of canonization even took place at the same time as the canonization of the New Testament. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_the_Jewish_Bible_canon and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_the_New_Testament_canon
Before the canonization (and then unaltered copying) texts were likely in some cases heavily modified: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_hypothesis
When I was talking about polytheistic proto Jews, I meant the time before the canonization. Strong monotheism was likely developed during the Babylonian captivity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotheism#Hebrew_Bible
That development was likely a measure to counter the growing cult about YHWH heaving a wife (Asherah): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah#In_Israel_and_Judah
(I don't originally have my info from Wikipedia but I honestly cannot recall where I got it from -- some mixture of books, articles, and TV documentaries. So I did quick searches on Wikipedia to get at least a few links.)
(The main purpose of my post was obviously to debunk the AC who posted antisemitic claims. One can't accuse the Jews to be troublemakers for 3,700 years if there were no Jews for that long.)
The currently known scientific evidence points to the conclusion that monotheism developed gradually.
I'm abbreviating now because I don't want to get into a mile-long discussion that is only partially related to TFA:
Monotheism probably started in Egypt when at some point only one of their ancient gods was praised. That probably later transformed into the commandment that only one god must be praised (while not claiming that there are no other gods but just forbidding to pray to them). However, some early proto Jew sects also believed that YHWH had a goddess as wife (a branch of that later developed in to the gnostic "pantheon" belief with Sophia as higher goddess and an evil lower god, the demiurge, as the one described in the Old Testament).
The early orthodox movement then worked to purge any traces of polytheism and transformed the system to the belief that there is only one god.
Personally, I feel it's save to say that it's that point were actual Judaism begins.
Um, there were no Jews 3,700 years ago. A monotheistic religion that would later become Judaism was just getting started. Even the first "proto Jews" weren't strictly monotheistic (the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament contains fragments of polytheism, eg. Psalm 82) which -- at least by today's standards -- would not qualify them as Jews...
As for your Pharaoh comment: There is not a single piece of archeological evidence that hundreds of thousands of people migrated away from Egypt and wandered through the desert for 40 years.
So either the Exodus never happened and the story is just made up or the ancient people of Israel were the cleanest people ever by not leaving any pottery, weapons, etc. behind....
And I guess Hitler killing millions of Jews was their fault too, eh?
If you ask an ultra orthodox Jew, you might even get a Yes as answer. A minority opinion among them is that European Jews were punished by god for not living orthodox.
(Just to be clear: I don't agree with that. I merely wanted to answer your question.)
No, they run Windows 3.11 because they require that "for Workgroups" feature.
Oh no, I was just about to insert the first of my Win3.0 720Kb setup floppies to give ClamAV a spin.
An anti virus application for Windows 3.0
Sure, SGU is not perfect. When they started to use the communication stones extensively the series' original premise of isolation, claustrophobia and actually concentrating on the characters, the series lost its touch a bit. But when they backpedaled on that aspect and no longer let half the episode play on earth, SGU became good again.
But hey... why am I bitching? Ever since the very definition of science fiction crap (Andromeda) ran for over five years and people watched that shit, I know that most other sci fi fans are retards. Now the same retards watch Clone Wars.
Apparently you can have any bullsh*t TV series on air -- it just needs to be either called "Star Wars" of have the "Gene Roddenberry" label...
Tracking users without their consent is just evil. In no other medium are ad recipients tracked: Not in TV, not in print magazines, not on billboards.
If they are tracked in other marketing efforts (eg. loyalty cards), the consumers gave their consent first.
As an option, yes, but not as the default
But mentioning it equally Unity in the sentence makes it sound as if Wayland was default in Natty which is ridiculous.
I don't think so...
KDE SC 4.5 didn't include KMail.
Seems Canonical didn't do a good job packaging Kontact 4.4.
SC 4.6 will officially include Kontact again, this time featuring KMail 2.0.
If you like KDE 3.5 so much, just use Trinity: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/