KOffice is nice, yes, but it's only KDE (or Mac OS).
OpenOffice is nice, yes, it's multiplatform.
OpenFormats are nice, yes, they are everywhere (or at least could be).
Therefore, even a dumbass can figure out they want OpenOffice rather than KOffice. I wish they would merge (or could merge), and wipe MS Office off the face of the planet.
Until then, we're stuck with two very talented development teams struggling for market share with very similar packages working against eachother rather than building a SuperOffice package together.
Ok, this sound like fun and games until someone gets hurt. When they wake up Godzilla, I think he might be pretty pissed off, kindof like Napolean returning from Alba or something!
Well, at the time, NetFlix was new and innovative with their business model. Therefore, the patents were reasonable at the time. Just because something seems obvious now doesn't mean that it has always been obvious.
IMHO, a time limit is needed for business model patents. I won't argue here how long they should be valid, just that they should have a reasonable expiration date. That way, the innovative company can cash in on their research and development for the time limit of their patent while still allowing competition in the market.
Naturally, companies (and I assume politicians as well) won't like the idea of time limited business model patents but I think that is what would be best for the consumer.
Not a hint of this story in Germany. However, the German Parliment is getting ready to enact new laws very similar to the US laws (if they haven't already). Actually, that might be an European Union thing. I don't really pay attention though.
I'm sure it will get worse once the new laws begin to be enforced.
I may be ignorant on this subject, but considering the speeds of non-overclocked hardware, is there really a human noticable difference when you overclock your hardware compared to if you don't?
I mean seriously, is the human eye capable of noticing a few more frames per second. I am almost certain that your keyboard, mouse and joystick cannot be overclocked. Therefore, if your input is limited by your input device speeds, does it make sense to increase your memory performance by 10% if it will burn out 50% sooner than if it were not overclocked?
No, this is not sarcasm, I really don't know the answers and am genuinely curious.
This would be a major problem. Many companies, whether US owned or not, don't care where their server farm is located as long as it is up and it's as cheap as possible.
If you're looking at segregation by language, why not.
If you're looking at segregation by physical location, forget it. Because then you would immediately say goodbye to a whole lot of porn, online gambling, online shopping, and so on. This would also affect me personally because I live in Germany even though I'm American. Would I no longer be able to communicate via email or chat clients with my family in the States?
Just my 2.... Damn! I just realized there is no cents key on my laptop!
It seems to me that Blizzard's claims of IP infringement have no basis whatsoever. He didn't reverse engineer their software. He made ownership of the TMs clear. He used images within copyright law.
Is this to say that a person can no longer play a game, or use any other piece of software should he lose this case, and compile a HowTo based on personal expierence with the game or software?
Will someone PLEASE publish a "DMCA for Idiots" book! I love the Yellow and Black covers!
Um...maybe not support, but a little tolerance might help. IMHO, the root of many social problems is the inability of many people to tolerate others.
That is why, just for example, some cultures literally hate Americans. They view us as arrogant and imperialistic. And I have to admit, as an American myself, not all of them are off the mark. Americans tend to believe that their way is the right way. There is not always necessarily a right or wrong when dealing with culture.
For example, some cultures practice (or used to practice) cannibalism. To me that seems utterly barbaric and sickening. But to them, it was a deeply religious practice. If I had grown up in New Guinea 50 years ago I probably would have thought burying your loved ones without sampling their flesh would have been unthinkable. Does that make them right or wrong?
The DboxII will connect to your PC (Suse 10 in my case), show your pics, play your movies via VLC, record with commercial skipping, play your mp3 files, check your email, receive news feeds, check the weather......blah blah blah
Well, from personal experience, I know that a 2 year sentence in Germany is a very big deal. My brother-in-law was beaten with a piece of wood, robbed, then set on fire and burned in a little cabin in the woods by two men.
Sentence: 10 years out in 7, and 7 years out in 5 for the perpetrators.
In comparison, 2 years shows the German Gov. is taking copyright infingement very seriously!
Ok, flamebait, but here goes. I by no means advocate the use of M$ products in any way. However, I have to say that M$ actually delaying the release has impressed me in a way. It looks as if they might actually be learning something after all.
Rather than push out a product that is simply not ready they decided to get their shit together and wait until they're convinced the products are good enough for the market. That is very atypical M$ for sure.
Of course the products may still not be what consumers are expecting even if they do wait. This is a very big rollout for the M$ crowd. They need to get this right or face even more market share loss to other OS's. They will probably continue to lose popularity anyway but overall, IMHO, I think it's a good move.
Some online real estate deals are, for the most part, safe.
For example, wilderness purchases if you should have the inclination to build a getaway cabin. Granted, there are no structures most of the time, it's just the land.
Another example would be buying fringe properties. If you believe that a company or a city will eventually want to expand into a particular area, you might want to buy the land if you have the chance to get in early enough. You would have to look out for potential immenent domain problems though. A friend of mine inherited basically a huge field when his parents died in a small town in central Arizona. About 3 years ago, some company wanted to build a retirement village with a golf course. They paid him 7 Million for a stupid field. Sweet!
Other potential online purchases would be castles. Yes, that's right, castles. There are dozens and dozens of mansions and castles that sit in what was formerly East Germany. The original owners have simply abandoned them and the local authorities auction off the properties. Many times they go relatively cheap, like a couple thousand dollars cheap, if you don't mind the renovation costs. They can make great vacation spots or quiet retirement villas.
Um.., for those of you who insist on posting links to screenshots, or, who are otherwise inclinded to be impressed by screenshots when discussing an OS, PLEASE STOP IT!
The look and feel have absolutley nothing to do with a Linux OS and are absolutely no indication of how well it will or will not work!
If you want to be dazzled by screenshots visit kde.org or gnome.org or any number of others. Being impressed by a picture of a desktop or start menu is very Microsoft and have no place in a Linux thread! IMHO
I play video games with my son all the time. I think it really helps me to stay involved in his life because of the conversations we have. We tend to talk a lot during play, not just smack, and I can usually keep in touch with what is going on in school, with his friends, trends amongst the teens, etc...
The only problem that I have is that, IMHO, most 20somethings and younger are button mashers and not actually skilled gamers. They like to think that they're good at games but, again IMHO, not really. They totally lack creativity, strategy and tactics.
For example, we usually play the football titles. When a new version comes out he'll spend a day or two experimenting with the offense until he finds a handfull of pass plays that he can use every time regardless of what defense is called. He'll practice only those plays until he gets the timing down just right so that no matter what you do his receiver will catch the ball 99% of the time. For the most part, he will totally disregard the running game because, at least I think, he can't time a pattern like you can with pass plays.
Whether that's a problem with the game or not can be debated. However, it just gets boring when it's the same thing over and over. Rather than try having fun with different alignments, different receivers, running the ball, or whatever, his one and only concern is winning even though, I believe, he sacrifices his pride with timing rather than actually becoming good as something.
I live in Germany and took Monday off so that I could stay up to watch the game in the middle of the night.
What I thought was kindof interesting, is that the broadcast of the game here was American commercial free. What they did was run spots promoting the carrying network instead, but no commercials.
Kindof too bad. The Superbowl commercials are usually pretty good.
Disclaimer: I hate grafitti. I hate crime. So don't pick out parts of sentences, (As Anonymous Coward no less), that I write and attack me. Read the entire commentary in context.
All I'm trying to say is that it's not the government's responsibility to control what you do in your own home. That should be left to parents, period!
If a game is violent, promotes gun use, promotes crime, grafitti, prostitution, gangs, etc..., etc...
SO F'ING WHAT!
If you don't want your kids to be affected by those types of influences, then do your job as a parent and monitor them! Simple!
Living in a free society, or relatively free, means that you have the right of choice. If you don't want your kids to learn violence, then sell your TV, don't buy newspapers or magazines, turn to home schooling, don't turn on the radio, and by no means allow them to go out in public. If you don't like something, don't buy it. If you don't want to display violence in your home, change the channel on the TV. If you don't like a song, change the station on the radio.
Um, wait, or maybe you could just teach them responsibility and citizenship. Yeah, that's a thought. Why didn't anyone think of that before.
But for fucks sake, don't count on government to do parenting!
You can run other software on an Xbox although limited. In the case of the PS2, there are hundreds of titles that you can run, most of which are homebrew projects similar to open source stuff. Don't know if there are any mods for Gamecube or not.
In the cases of Xbox and PS2, you need only install mod chips. Once installed and flashed, these systems are very similar to any PC with many of the same capabilities.
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I love KDE on my OpenSuse box, but.......
KOffice is nice, yes, but it's only KDE (or Mac OS).
OpenOffice is nice, yes, it's multiplatform.
OpenFormats are nice, yes, they are everywhere (or at least could be).
Therefore, even a dumbass can figure out they want OpenOffice rather than KOffice. I wish they would merge (or could merge), and wipe MS Office off the face of the planet.
Until then, we're stuck with two very talented development teams struggling for market share with very similar packages working against eachother rather than building a SuperOffice package together.
Ah, the benefits of OSS, FOSS and Linux!
Ok, this sound like fun and games until someone gets hurt. When they wake up Godzilla, I think he might be pretty pissed off, kindof like Napolean returning from Alba or something!
Well, at the time, NetFlix was new and innovative with their business model. Therefore, the patents were reasonable at the time. Just because something seems obvious now doesn't mean that it has always been obvious.
IMHO, a time limit is needed for business model patents. I won't argue here how long they should be valid, just that they should have a reasonable expiration date. That way, the innovative company can cash in on their research and development for the time limit of their patent while still allowing competition in the market.
Naturally, companies (and I assume politicians as well) won't like the idea of time limited business model patents but I think that is what would be best for the consumer.
Not a hint of this story in Germany. However, the German Parliment is getting ready to enact new laws very similar to the US laws (if they haven't already). Actually, that might be an European Union thing. I don't really pay attention though.
/sarcasm/
I'm sure it will get worse once the new laws begin to be enforced.
I guess it's time to move to Canada!
I may be ignorant on this subject, but considering the speeds of non-overclocked hardware, is there really a human noticable difference when you overclock your hardware compared to if you don't?
I mean seriously, is the human eye capable of noticing a few more frames per second. I am almost certain that your keyboard, mouse and joystick cannot be overclocked. Therefore, if your input is limited by your input device speeds, does it make sense to increase your memory performance by 10% if it will burn out 50% sooner than if it were not overclocked?
No, this is not sarcasm, I really don't know the answers and am genuinely curious.
I haven't noticed a shortage of any consoles or handhelds in Germany. They seem to be on the shelves in bulk.
Of course that could be a bi-product of a really shitty economic situation and people just can't afford them.
This would be a major problem. Many companies, whether US owned or not, don't care where their server farm is located as long as it is up and it's as cheap as possible.
If you're looking at segregation by language, why not.
If you're looking at segregation by physical location, forget it. Because then you would immediately say goodbye to a whole lot of porn, online gambling, online shopping, and so on. This would also affect me personally because I live in Germany even though I'm American. Would I no longer be able to communicate via email or chat clients with my family in the States?
Just my 2.... Damn! I just realized there is no cents key on my laptop!
It seems to me that Blizzard's claims of IP infringement have no basis whatsoever. He didn't reverse engineer their software. He made ownership of the TMs clear. He used images within copyright law.
Is this to say that a person can no longer play a game, or use any other piece of software should he lose this case, and compile a HowTo based on personal expierence with the game or software?
Will someone PLEASE publish a "DMCA for Idiots" book! I love the Yellow and Black covers!
Um...maybe not support, but a little tolerance might help. IMHO, the root of many social problems is the inability of many people to tolerate others.
That is why, just for example, some cultures literally hate Americans. They view us as arrogant and imperialistic. And I have to admit, as an American myself, not all of them are off the mark. Americans tend to believe that their way is the right way. There is not always necessarily a right or wrong when dealing with culture.
For example, some cultures practice (or used to practice) cannibalism. To me that seems utterly barbaric and sickening. But to them, it was a deeply religious practice. If I had grown up in New Guinea 50 years ago I probably would have thought burying your loved ones without sampling their flesh would have been unthinkable. Does that make them right or wrong?
Depends on your point of view I guess.
I'm doing this already I guess.
The DboxII will connect to your PC (Suse 10 in my case), show your pics, play your movies via VLC, record with commercial skipping, play your mp3 files, check your email, receive news feeds, check the weather......blah blah blah
Oh yeah, it also receives Cable or Sat TV too!
Compuserve
BBS
Encrypted communications in general
Fibre
DNS
just off the top of my head....
Well, from personal experience, I know that a 2 year sentence in Germany is a very big deal. My brother-in-law was beaten with a piece of wood, robbed, then set on fire and burned in a little cabin in the woods by two men.
Sentence: 10 years out in 7, and 7 years out in 5 for the perpetrators.
In comparison, 2 years shows the German Gov. is taking copyright infingement very seriously!
Ok, flamebait, but here goes. I by no means advocate the use of M$ products in any way. However, I have to say that M$ actually delaying the release has impressed me in a way. It looks as if they might actually be learning something after all.
Rather than push out a product that is simply not ready they decided to get their shit together and wait until they're convinced the products are good enough for the market. That is very atypical M$ for sure.
Of course the products may still not be what consumers are expecting even if they do wait. This is a very big rollout for the M$ crowd. They need to get this right or face even more market share loss to other OS's. They will probably continue to lose popularity anyway but overall, IMHO, I think it's a good move.
I believe it's because racism, bigotry, etc.. etc.. are generally fuled by fear. Therefore, cowards are the ones making the comments.
Some online real estate deals are, for the most part, safe.
For example, wilderness purchases if you should have the inclination to build a getaway cabin. Granted, there are no structures most of the time, it's just the land.
Another example would be buying fringe properties. If you believe that a company or a city will eventually want to expand into a particular area, you might want to buy the land if you have the chance to get in early enough. You would have to look out for potential immenent domain problems though. A friend of mine inherited basically a huge field when his parents died in a small town in central Arizona. About 3 years ago, some company wanted to build a retirement village with a golf course. They paid him 7 Million for a stupid field. Sweet!
Other potential online purchases would be castles. Yes, that's right, castles. There are dozens and dozens of mansions and castles that sit in what was formerly East Germany. The original owners have simply abandoned them and the local authorities auction off the properties. Many times they go relatively cheap, like a couple thousand dollars cheap, if you don't mind the renovation costs. They can make great vacation spots or quiet retirement villas.
Me Too! Germany is pretty restrictive in general but the US Government is completely out of control.
Um.., for those of you who insist on posting links to screenshots, or, who are otherwise inclinded to be impressed by screenshots when discussing an OS, PLEASE STOP IT!
The look and feel have absolutley nothing to do with a Linux OS and are absolutely no indication of how well it will or will not work!
If you want to be dazzled by screenshots visit kde.org or gnome.org or any number of others. Being impressed by a picture of a desktop or start menu is very Microsoft and have no place in a Linux thread! IMHO
I play video games with my son all the time. I think it really helps me to stay involved in his life because of the conversations we have. We tend to talk a lot during play, not just smack, and I can usually keep in touch with what is going on in school, with his friends, trends amongst the teens, etc...
The only problem that I have is that, IMHO, most 20somethings and younger are button mashers and not actually skilled gamers. They like to think that they're good at games but, again IMHO, not really. They totally lack creativity, strategy and tactics.
For example, we usually play the football titles. When a new version comes out he'll spend a day or two experimenting with the offense until he finds a handfull of pass plays that he can use every time regardless of what defense is called. He'll practice only those plays until he gets the timing down just right so that no matter what you do his receiver will catch the ball 99% of the time. For the most part, he will totally disregard the running game because, at least I think, he can't time a pattern like you can with pass plays.
Whether that's a problem with the game or not can be debated. However, it just gets boring when it's the same thing over and over. Rather than try having fun with different alignments, different receivers, running the ball, or whatever, his one and only concern is winning even though, I believe, he sacrifices his pride with timing rather than actually becoming good as something.
I live in Germany and took Monday off so that I could stay up to watch the game in the middle of the night.
What I thought was kindof interesting, is that the broadcast of the game here was American commercial free. What they did was run spots promoting the carrying network instead, but no commercials.
Kindof too bad. The Superbowl commercials are usually pretty good.
Oh well!
C'mon man, just because one lady was a little confused about licensing doesn't mean the whole island sucks!
I don't know where you're from but you don't have to look far in any society to find incompetent gov. worker bees.
My comment should have been modded Score:5 Funny. It was totally sarcastic but thanks for the clarification just the same.
Oh Crap! Does this mean that I can't use FrontPage 97 anymore for creating our company web site!? :-)
Disclaimer: I hate grafitti. I hate crime. So don't pick out parts of sentences, (As Anonymous Coward no less), that I write and attack me. Read the entire commentary in context.
All I'm trying to say is that it's not the government's responsibility to control what you do in your own home. That should be left to parents, period!
If a game is violent, promotes gun use, promotes crime, grafitti, prostitution, gangs, etc..., etc...
SO F'ING WHAT!
If you don't want your kids to be affected by those types of influences, then do your job as a parent and monitor them! Simple!
Living in a free society, or relatively free, means that you have the right of choice. If you don't want your kids to learn violence, then sell your TV, don't buy newspapers or magazines, turn to home schooling, don't turn on the radio, and by no means allow them to go out in public. If you don't like something, don't buy it. If you don't want to display violence in your home, change the channel on the TV. If you don't like a song, change the station on the radio.
Um, wait, or maybe you could just teach them responsibility and citizenship. Yeah, that's a thought. Why didn't anyone think of that before.
But for fucks sake, don't count on government to do parenting!
Again, another government stepping in where parents and society in general should be the authority.
Isn't it ironic though that the point of the game is to fight government corruption and promote freedom of expression.
Um, wrong about consoles!
You can run other software on an Xbox although limited. In the case of the PS2, there are hundreds of titles that you can run, most of which are homebrew projects similar to open source stuff. Don't know if there are any mods for Gamecube or not.
In the cases of Xbox and PS2, you need only install mod chips. Once installed and flashed, these systems are very similar to any PC with many of the same capabilities.