I agree with you 100% but I wanted to add something.
2000 was supposed to be what XP ended up being - the NT code base for the home user. When deadlines slipped at Microsoft and they realised that it wasn't ready they fiddled a bit with 98 to make ME and released that as a stop gap.
Thus it's easier to stick with the attribution for which everyone is familiar, rather than appending a long genealogy of usage at the end of the quote.
It's even easier (and better) to simply not attribute it to anyone at all if there is any doubt as to who coined the phrase.
Islam is a "big popular religion". Here's what they think:
Apostasy in Islam (Arabic: , irtidd or ridda) is commonly defined as the rejection of Islam in word or deed by a person who has been a Muslim.
All five major schools of Islamic jurisprudence agree that a sane male apostate must be executed. A female apostate may be put to death, according to some schools, or imprisoned, according to others.
It's already happened in Sweden. Around a year ago Laila Freivalds (minister of foreign affairs from The Social Democrats) used the Mohammad cartoons as a pretext to have a rival party's website (the Sweden Democrats) shutdown, but luckily she was found out and forced to resign.
As an atheist, I hope this declaration will not make it impossible to be critical of religion...
From the GPL FAQ, the Free Software Foundation thinks so, at least respecting the GPL. Quoting from the FAQ:
If the program dynamically links plug-ins, and they make function calls to each other and share data structures, we believe they form a single program, which must be treated as an extension of both the main program and the plug-ins. This means the plug-ins must be released under the GPL or a GPL-compatible free software license, and that the terms of the GPL must be followed when those plug-ins are distributed.
Yeah, I'd considered the FFII, along with EDRI, and some others whose names escape me at the moment. I'm not sure what EDRI does besides their newsletter though...
I would like to donate money to an EU-wide organisation that will fight this sort of thing. Does anyone know which of the numerous organisations is most deserving of my cash?
It is stupid to be critical of someone for their race, but IMHO we should be critical of religion, especially if, as in the case you point out, they are calling for the deaths of non-believers.
I wouldn't waste your time if I were you. Read FishWithAHammer's reply below - it is not generic functionality that "allows rss feeds and blog syndication", but functionality that integrates specifically with netscape.com (which these days is like Digg but worse (if such a thing is possible)).
What's loading up a Java applet vs. loading up a Flash one?
The term "native executable" comes to mind.
Umm, the JVM is a native executable, just like the Flash player, and both of them run a form of bytecode!
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2. ability to control window z-index. The window you are currently using isnt forced to be on top, again this may sound odd at first but imagine you are copy-pasting text line-by-line from one window to another, in windows you'd have to resize and move them around so you could always see both whichever was in focus just so you didn't give yourself an epliectic fit by switching back and forth constantly...
I've been able to do this with X11 since I first used it. I believe the feature has existed for as long as the platform has been available. You can achieve it with windows using any of a variety of focus management programs available. I believe there's one in the powertoys collection available from MS.
This is possible with some window managers (WindowLab and obviously AmiWM spring to mind) on X11, but by no means all. This cannot be done on Windows AFAIK, and believe me I've looked. Powertoys doesn't do it either but does allow "activation follows mouse (X-Mouse)" which is the X Window System's default policy (the Amiga's focus policy is sometimes called "click-to-focus but not raise-on-focus"). Since you cannot replace the window manager on Windows it seems unlikely that this will ever happen without Microsoft's support.
I love proper tea (IIRC it's called "English Breakfast" abroad), but then I never drink it without milk and sugar/sweetener. My favourite tea without milk is called Rooibos tea. I've only just noticed it in the shops so maybe it's new.
IMO, one of the best sections is "9.4. Scenarios" which starts on page 201. This will be very valuable when trying to explain to politicians why they should oppose software patents and any legislation that penalises the exchange of ideas.
But the Linux kernel can't move to the GPL v3 licence without the permission of everyone who has ever contributed to the project (or by stripping and rewriting code from people who won't or can't give permission).
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I agree with you 100% but I wanted to add something.
2000 was supposed to be what XP ended up being - the NT code base for the home user. When deadlines slipped at Microsoft and they realised that it wasn't ready they fiddled a bit with 98 to make ME and released that as a stop gap.
Does that mean Islam will be made ilegal too?
It's already happened in Sweden. Around a year ago Laila Freivalds (minister of foreign affairs from The Social Democrats) used the Mohammad cartoons as a pretext to have a rival party's website (the Sweden Democrats) shutdown, but luckily she was found out and forced to resign.
As an atheist, I hope this declaration will not make it impossible to be critical of religion...
C++, C#, Turbo Pascal and Delphi were all created by Danes.
Best post in the thread so far - that's a brilliant quote from the CSTB, and you can never go wrong with The Economist.
Serious question: How well would academia do?
Get it right. It's "Designed by Apple in California".
Yeah, I'd considered the FFII, along with EDRI, and some others whose names escape me at the moment. I'm not sure what EDRI does besides their newsletter though...
I would like to donate money to an EU-wide organisation that will fight this sort of thing. Does anyone know which of the numerous organisations is most deserving of my cash?
What's the difference? Age? Number of followers? Is Christianity or Islam or whatever somehow more "believable"?
It is stupid to be critical of someone for their race, but IMHO we should be critical of religion, especially if, as in the case you point out, they are calling for the deaths of non-believers.
Actually that should work fine. :P
IMO, one of the best sections is "9.4. Scenarios" which starts on page 201. This will be very valuable when trying to explain to politicians why they should oppose software patents and any legislation that penalises the exchange of ideas.
But the Linux kernel can't move to the GPL v3 licence without the permission of everyone who has ever contributed to the project (or by stripping and rewriting code from people who won't or can't give permission).