Yep. In my college, this pseudo-assembly machine is used to introduce freshmen to computing. At the 3rd year, there is a Compilers course where actual assembly is taught.
Yeah, that's a problem with any Linux distro. Even between versions, they might not be compatible, much rather between them. And, they use different package formats, so some developers will generate for the X distro, others for Y, and most won't at all. Ubuntu may have a bigger community (and thus more packagers), but they don't have a silver bullet either.
Anyway, this isn't such a big problem as it once was. Novell provides Build Service which compiles stuff for the various processors and for various operating systems (not only distributions, but Windows too). I am not sure if it already packages it or not, but I think so... In any event, it makes it easier for a developer or packager to generate packages and for several systems. Closed software, like games, have some easy to use installers, similarly to those you find in Windows. I can tell you that for much of my surprise, Loki's Civilization CTP still installs fine (though the last Loki patch needs to be applied).
Btw, in case you may have not found it from the wiki, some OpenSuse packages search. I dunno if it has more in its data base than the repositories you can enable from yast, but give it a try.
Even easier. Fire Yast -> choose Community Repositories. On Gnome, you can find Yast under the Control Center. The gtk version is a bit buggy in this tool, in that you have to double-click to see repo descriptions (sorry about that; yast tools writers never test on yast-gtk:/). Dunno about KDE, but Yast was pretty visible as in the last version's kickoff.
Not an USAian, but I know California has strong employment laws (this depends from state to state however).
With regard to the European Union, I can tell you that Portuguese employment laws are weak. Or rather, I wouldn't know because the judicial system here is close to non-functional. It takes years to take a case to the end, so people just fall back for the unemployment subsidy. With regard to "strong social laws", American medics perform all the time trials for new drugs or procedures here because it takes too much time to have the permission of the FDA on the States.
Novell is a perfectly good choice. In fact, its go-oo network includes a lot of other people, including from Debian, Gentoo and Red Hat. All the slashdot articles around the MS-Novell deal are just sensationalist non-sense, just like this one. Go-oo will continue to operate as it as been, sending its usual patches upstream; this was more of a call to Sun for a change in the development/licensing model, not a change on go-oo. Novell doesn't have nearly close the resources Sun has.
He has further clarified that statement (see e.g. the Google interview) saying that he supports the principle of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", but not how it is being implemented, in that no-one should be asked for their sexual orientation, but no-one should be expelled for that reason either.
You might want to know that Konqueror was replaced by Dolphin, which feels basically like a Nautilus port. And KDE developers stated they wanted to cut on complexity (sounds like Gnome-speak).
As far as I understood it, you are free to hack on QNX, it just isn't royalty-free. If you make changes, and want to distribute them, you have to do so in the form of patches, and the recipient would of course need a copy of QNX. I can see QNX buying patches from the community to merge with the mainline. Could be a successful business model, and still close to the openness of free software (just not as in free beer).
Microsoft shared source is a difference beast. You couldn't compile the thing, you could just had a look at some of the components, it wasn't hackable. It was also damn expensive, while QNX source code comes along with a software license.
I believe StarOffice 5 (maybe even 4) already had auto-completion. Nowadays, Sun and Novell seem to get their funding from ISVs, which is why it has been bloated with Java, Mono, Python, Perl and others scripting languages support and extensions.
No. There is no built-in support on X11 (you can hack a magnifier, but the same is true on Windows, or pretty much any system). What is used here is the ATK library originally developed by Sun for GTK+ and that has been now adopted by Qt4, and will, in the future, be, as a result, extended to KDE.
Don't know much about Windows, but it also has some similar accessibility library that exposes some introspection into the layout and the widgets, and I doubt it is as rudimentary as you make it sound. I think you may be confusing the accessibility layer with accessibility tools -- yeah, Windows doesn't bundle as much a11y tools as Gnome.
What you are saying is not very accurate. OpenOffice does have better accessibility support for Gnome than Windows, but still the support is much more than zero. Where the support is effectively zero is for KDE (Qt4 implements ATK, so this situation will change with KDE4).
Here in Portugal its very common practice for cellulars to be locked into a carrier, and, in fact, the only places I see cellulars being sold is in the carrier shops.
I know the guy that started it off as a Summer of Code sponsored project. The reason is simple; time. It seems that three months wouldn't be enough to make a ZFS kernel module, at least for him, as he is not a kernel hacker. Can't really explain you why. Anyway, I'm sure you can get him, or someone else, to do it; just put your money where your mouth is.
Yep, this all thing is ludicrous. In Portugal, part of EU, a supreme court ruling doesn't have any say in any other case (not as an argument, not nothing), so this Finnish ruling would mean nothing here. I very much doubt this is applicable in any other foreign countries, that empower supreme court to rule out laws or otherwise.
(Btw, we have the Constitutional court where laws must pass through before getting enacted.)
Americans are no superior or inferior than the rest of the world. Astrology is spread to even tv news bulletins in my country, few people can point countries in a map, etc, etc. Stupid people exist in every nation, race, gender, whatever.
Okay, I have gone through the railway of the north of Spain the two times I have traveled by train in Europe to avoid having to travel to Lisbon. That might have been a mistake then:D. Really, in the coming train, the bed clothes didn't cross me over completely (and I'm not a fat guy:D).
Btw, for several years, from times to times, there are discussions to collaborate with Spain and build a TGV from Lisbon to Andorra, but no Portuguese cares about it. Instead the government has built many dozens of studiums on 2004 for the European soccer, which people like better.:P There wwere even news of hospitals that didn't have budget for the toilet paper.
Despite that, they have a fantastic rail service from Poland to Portugal.
You probably meant from France to Poland. Iberian train services, especially Portuguese, are terrible. Recently I did Porto (PT) -> Barcelona (ES), and it was more than 12 hours for each side in a very uncofortable train. This time was just from and to a Spanish station (Vigo, ES). On the way back, I had to wait half a day before having a train to Porto. I used to use train from my city to another of 25 km of distance, and now they have replaced the lines and the vehicles in favor of the ones used on subways because they are cheaper to maintain; from 20 mins, it goes for almost one fucking hour. And everybody uses car around here btw (you only see 5 bikes at most in my college).
But yes, I did Andorra, France, Belgium, Holland by train and it was splendid.
In the too many fascism years of my country (Portugal), there were still elections. There was even more than one party. That means shit. The votes were just not counted straight; it was even rumoured that they counted votes of dead people.
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No, they just monetize the debt. Of course, the dollar will get weaker and weaker.
Yep. In my college, this pseudo-assembly machine is used to introduce freshmen to computing. At the 3rd year, there is a Compilers course where actual assembly is taught.
What are we talking about? They need something to sell... like support contracts.
Yeah, that's a problem with any Linux distro. Even between versions, they might not be compatible, much rather between them. And, they use different package formats, so some developers will generate for the X distro, others for Y, and most won't at all. Ubuntu may have a bigger community (and thus more packagers), but they don't have a silver bullet either.
Anyway, this isn't such a big problem as it once was. Novell provides Build Service which compiles stuff for the various processors and for various operating systems (not only distributions, but Windows too). I am not sure if it already packages it or not, but I think so... In any event, it makes it easier for a developer or packager to generate packages and for several systems. Closed software, like games, have some easy to use installers, similarly to those you find in Windows. I can tell you that for much of my surprise, Loki's Civilization CTP still installs fine (though the last Loki patch needs to be applied).
Btw, in case you may have not found it from the wiki, some OpenSuse packages search. I dunno if it has more in its data base than the repositories you can enable from yast, but give it a try.
Even easier. Fire Yast -> choose Community Repositories. On Gnome, you can find Yast under the Control Center. The gtk version is a bit buggy in this tool, in that you have to double-click to see repo descriptions (sorry about that; yast tools writers never test on yast-gtk :/). Dunno about KDE, but Yast was pretty visible as in the last version's kickoff.
Not an USAian, but I know California has strong employment laws (this depends from state to state however).
With regard to the European Union, I can tell you that Portuguese employment laws are weak. Or rather, I wouldn't know because the judicial system here is close to non-functional. It takes years to take a case to the end, so people just fall back for the unemployment subsidy. With regard to "strong social laws", American medics perform all the time trials for new drugs or procedures here because it takes too much time to have the permission of the FDA on the States.
Novell is a perfectly good choice. In fact, its go-oo network includes a lot of other people, including from Debian, Gentoo and Red Hat. All the slashdot articles around the MS-Novell deal are just sensationalist non-sense, just like this one. Go-oo will continue to operate as it as been, sending its usual patches upstream; this was more of a call to Sun for a change in the development/licensing model, not a change on go-oo. Novell doesn't have nearly close the resources Sun has.
Let's invent a language every 14 days to counter that!
He has further clarified that statement (see e.g. the Google interview) saying that he supports the principle of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", but not how it is being implemented, in that no-one should be asked for their sexual orientation, but no-one should be expelled for that reason either.
He is talking of the Alabama judge.
You might want to know that Konqueror was replaced by Dolphin, which feels basically like a Nautilus port. And KDE developers stated they wanted to cut on complexity (sounds like Gnome-speak).
Did you miss the fact that the people complaining are the new developers joining the project you speak of (like Michael Meeks from Novell)?!
As far as I understood it, you are free to hack on QNX, it just isn't royalty-free. If you make changes, and want to distribute them, you have to do so in the form of patches, and the recipient would of course need a copy of QNX. I can see QNX buying patches from the community to merge with the mainline. Could be a successful business model, and still close to the openness of free software (just not as in free beer).
Microsoft shared source is a difference beast. You couldn't compile the thing, you could just had a look at some of the components, it wasn't hackable. It was also damn expensive, while QNX source code comes along with a software license.
I believe StarOffice 5 (maybe even 4) already had auto-completion. Nowadays, Sun and Novell seem to get their funding from ISVs, which is why it has been bloated with Java, Mono, Python, Perl and others scripting languages support and extensions.
Yep, they just found the moon. And obviously they are still studying it. ;)
No. There is no built-in support on X11 (you can hack a magnifier, but the same is true on Windows, or pretty much any system). What is used here is the ATK library originally developed by Sun for GTK+ and that has been now adopted by Qt4, and will, in the future, be, as a result, extended to KDE.
Don't know much about Windows, but it also has some similar accessibility library that exposes some introspection into the layout and the widgets, and I doubt it is as rudimentary as you make it sound. I think you may be confusing the accessibility layer with accessibility tools -- yeah, Windows doesn't bundle as much a11y tools as Gnome.
What you are saying is not very accurate. OpenOffice does have better accessibility support for Gnome than Windows, but still the support is much more than zero. Where the support is effectively zero is for KDE (Qt4 implements ATK, so this situation will change with KDE4).
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If they allow for an opt-out, it's because enough people care. Just because you don't, doesn't mean nobody does.
Here in Portugal its very common practice for cellulars to be locked into a carrier, and, in fact, the only places I see cellulars being sold is in the carrier shops.
I know the guy that started it off as a Summer of Code sponsored project. The reason is simple; time. It seems that three months wouldn't be enough to make a ZFS kernel module, at least for him, as he is not a kernel hacker. Can't really explain you why. Anyway, I'm sure you can get him, or someone else, to do it; just put your money where your mouth is.
Yep, this all thing is ludicrous. In Portugal, part of EU, a supreme court ruling doesn't have any say in any other case (not as an argument, not nothing), so this Finnish ruling would mean nothing here. I very much doubt this is applicable in any other foreign countries, that empower supreme court to rule out laws or otherwise.
(Btw, we have the Constitutional court where laws must pass through before getting enacted.)
Ahah. Check this out!
Americans are no superior or inferior than the rest of the world. Astrology is spread to even tv news bulletins in my country, few people can point countries in a map, etc, etc. Stupid people exist in every nation, race, gender, whatever.
Okay, I have gone through the railway of the north of Spain the two times I have traveled by train in Europe to avoid having to travel to Lisbon. That might have been a mistake then :D. Really, in the coming train, the bed clothes didn't cross me over completely (and I'm not a fat guy :D).
:P There wwere even news of hospitals that didn't have budget for the toilet paper.
Btw, for several years, from times to times, there are discussions to collaborate with Spain and build a TGV from Lisbon to Andorra, but no Portuguese cares about it. Instead the government has built many dozens of studiums on 2004 for the European soccer, which people like better.
Despite that, they have a fantastic rail service from Poland to Portugal.
You probably meant from France to Poland. Iberian train services, especially Portuguese, are terrible. Recently I did Porto (PT) -> Barcelona (ES), and it was more than 12 hours for each side in a very uncofortable train. This time was just from and to a Spanish station (Vigo, ES). On the way back, I had to wait half a day before having a train to Porto. I used to use train from my city to another of 25 km of distance, and now they have replaced the lines and the vehicles in favor of the ones used on subways because they are cheaper to maintain; from 20 mins, it goes for almost one fucking hour. And everybody uses car around here btw (you only see 5 bikes at most in my college).
But yes, I did Andorra, France, Belgium, Holland by train and it was splendid.
In the too many fascism years of my country (Portugal), there were still elections. There was even more than one party. That means shit. The votes were just not counted straight; it was even rumoured that they counted votes of dead people.