You system would work, except that trolls metamod in far greater numbers than subscribers.
It would be easier for you (and other like-minded subscribers) to set a +5 bonus for subscriber posts in your user prefs, and not screw up the moderation system for us non-subscribing peons.
...you can't force people off of them. As long as anyone has one single friend or relative who can't give up SMTP, everyone will keep using it.
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"Integrate OO.o into KDE" "Integrate OO.o into Gnome" "Integrate OO.o with the Windows desktop". Yuck. Who thinks this crap up?
Here's a better idea. Take that lame dog StarOffice out behind the barn and integrate it with a bullet through the skull, then implement the features you want into KOffice or Gnome-office. It'll be faster, more integrated, less ugly, and easier to use.
Nobody responding to your last post mentioned any so-called right to download music for free. Yet you brought it up again, just to muddy the waters about what the real complaint is here.
Words fail to describe how little I care about Comcast's cash flow. The point of the article is they are advertising unlimited use, when there are clearly limits. If they intend to cap users at a certain amount of data transfer per month, then they should do two things: stop calling the service unlimited, and tell the users what those limits are. It's that simple. To do anything else is dishonest at best, and false advertising at worst. Everyone understands that bandwidth costs money, and we don't really expect (or even want) Comcast to let a few people use it all, we just want them to come clean about the fact that there is a cap, and publicly tell us what that cap is.
Yes. There's been an unofficial patch available to compile(*) the nvidia drivers against 2.6 kernels since before the 2.6.0_test series.
* Yes, most of the nVidia driver is binary-only, but there is a small module that has to be compiled for your kernel. That is the part that had to be patched.
You mean you Brits can't agree among yourselves how many a billion is? That's it! You're not allowed to lecture us about adopting the metric system *any more*. We may still measure things in medieval units, but at least we can all agree on how to count!
Linus Torvalds: Uses blackbox on three monitors, all full of Xterms running vi. The background is a roll of toilet paper, edited in The Gimp to look like a roll of Transmeta, RedHat and VA Linux stock shares.
Bill Gates: Last night's build of longhorn. Has 5 monitors: one for the PowerPoint slideshow he's rehearsing, one for Outlook, and three for all the extra clocks, sliders, gizmos, icons, etc. that Longhorn puts on the desktop. His background is one of the default WinXP images.
George W. Bush: Cheney and Rumsfeld won't let him touch the "big kid computers", but he has an Etch-a-Sketch with a caricature of Saddam Hussein sitting on a canister of nerve gas.
Steve Jobs: 3 21" Apple Cinema displays. Beta build of OSX 10.4 ("Puma"). Only has one icon on the desktop, but damn if it doesn't look *really cool*.
"After reading the patent, it sounds like MS is trying to patent using XML to store WORD PROCESSING documents in a single file with an accompanying schema. Not just documents from MS Word, but ANY application."
If that is the case, then the patent is bogus, and we can safely ignore it. StarOffice/OpenOffice have been storing word-processing documents as XML for at least 4 or 5 years.
"you are required to log authorized and unauthorized access"
Glad to see that burdening people with unreasonable demands from government isn't limited to the U.S. anymore. Maybe after I set up logging of unauthorized access to my computers, I'll leave a notepad on my car, with a sign asking thieves to sign in before stealing my radio.
I was considering buying one of those a few weeks ago, but Kiss technologies is apparently violatinn the GPL. Their player uses a verion (or at least parts) of MPlayer and they have ignored severel requests by the MPlayer team to release the source to their version. (follow the link for an email-by-email account of the whole story) I'm waiting to see how that gets resolved before I buy one. If they come clean and release the source I'll probably buy, but if they try to stonewall or litigate their way out of it, I won't.
"Yes, I'm talking about humans on Mars, being casual and knocking about the place, kicking over rocks on a lazy day, sometime in my lifetime. It could be my son or daughter grown up."
Well, of course, it's the logical next place to colonize. All those cheaply-built colonies we tossed up on the moon in the 1970s are starting to show their age, and spacefare to the Lagrange-point stations is at an all time low, so anyone can afford to go! Pack the kids into your nuclear-powered flying cars and get to the local spaceport today, the martian homesteading rush is about to begin.
How long do you think it will take after this IPO for Microsoft to snap up enough shares to own google? I give them 4 days. A publicly traded company can't possibly last more than a week against takeover attempts by a company with *$4 billion* in the bank. The only real question is how much longer will we get to use google without needing a passport account and IE6-specific ActiveX controls?
Having a power brick that drops 110v wall current to 12VDC is a plus in a solar-powered house. It's common to have a 12V solar and battery system, so you could plug the monitor straight into the 12V system, and do away with the brick and put less load on your (always inefficient) 110VAC inverter. Less waste all around.
You're missing the fact that we have to buy Darl's (and the other execs) stock for this to work. They're still going to make a big profit. It's inevitable that the lawyers would get their 25%. There's no way legal hotshots like Boies and co. are going to be screwed out of billions by a bunch of IANAL open-source nerds.
Even in a distributed buyout, the scummiest people within SCO will make the most of money. IMHO it would be better to let IBM destroy them in court, and hope that once SCO's lack of a credible case is exposed the top executives are proseuted for fraud and stock manipulation.
SCO's lawyers will recieve 25% of any buyout. The upper execs have been hanging on to preferred stock, even while they dumped their common stock, so they are also assured a healthy profit if someone buys SCO out. IBM has the resources to take them over and not even miss the money, but if they pay off SCO now, every failing IT company in the world will sue IBM on claims of copyright infringment, hoping for the windfall that SCO got.
Of all the movies you mention, only The Mummy and Jumanji have what I would call good organic animation. The CG "characters" in Star Wars look like plastic action figures. Nothing touches Gollum for believability as a CG charater.
"because it is under the GPL, which is more free than LGPL"
Exactly true! It's like cars. If I give you a car, that's free. If I give you a car, but prohibit you from driving it to work, or from using it in your job, or driving it on toll roads, that's *more* free!
If you think KDE's interface is simpler than Gnome, you must still be using version 1.x of both desktops. Gnome is now stripped of many options, and KDE has more control panels, tabs, buttons, sliders, and checkboxes than any sane person could ever want.
It used to be KDE that got no coverage here and was flamed to death in every story about how great Gnome was. Now Slashdot has sensed a power shift. More companies are supporting Gnome development, and fewer distros are using KDE as the default GUI. Since Slashdot interprets accepting any commercial help as whoring out the ideals of free software, it's time for them to start supporting KDE.
Does anyone have real numbers to back this up? It's an article of faith among KDE users that they are in the majority, but I've never seen a survey about this on an independant (not affiliated with KDE or GNOME) web site.
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You system would work, except that trolls metamod in far greater numbers than subscribers.
It would be easier for you (and other like-minded subscribers) to set a +5 bonus for subscriber posts in your user prefs, and not screw up the moderation system for us non-subscribing peons.
When the latest internet worm runs rampant across the internet, nobody dies from it. Traffic accidents are a leading cause of death.
...you can't force people off of them. As long as anyone has one single friend or relative who can't give up SMTP, everyone will keep using it.
"Integrate OO.o into KDE" "Integrate OO.o into Gnome" "Integrate OO.o with the Windows desktop". Yuck. Who thinks this crap up?
Here's a better idea. Take that lame dog StarOffice out behind the barn and integrate it with a bullet through the skull, then implement the features you want into KOffice or Gnome-office. It'll be faster, more integrated, less ugly, and easier to use.
Nobody responding to your last post mentioned any so-called right to download music for free. Yet you brought it up again, just to muddy the waters about what the real complaint is here.
Call it a night, cowboy, you ARE trolling.
Words fail to describe how little I care about Comcast's cash flow. The point of the article is they are advertising unlimited use, when there are clearly limits. If they intend to cap users at a certain amount of data transfer per month, then they should do two things: stop calling the service unlimited, and tell the users what those limits are. It's that simple. To do anything else is dishonest at best, and false advertising at worst. Everyone understands that bandwidth costs money, and we don't really expect (or even want) Comcast to let a few people use it all, we just want them to come clean about the fact that there is a cap, and publicly tell us what that cap is.
Yes. There's been an unofficial patch available to compile(*) the nvidia drivers against 2.6 kernels since before the 2.6.0_test series.
* Yes, most of the nVidia driver is binary-only, but there is a small module that has to be compiled for your kernel. That is the part that had to be patched.
You mean you Brits can't agree among yourselves how many a billion is? That's it! You're not allowed to lecture us about adopting the metric system *any more*. We may still measure things in medieval units, but at least we can all agree on how to count!
You must be new here...
Linus Torvalds: Uses blackbox on three monitors, all full of Xterms running vi. The background is a roll of toilet paper, edited in The Gimp to look like a roll of Transmeta, RedHat and VA Linux stock shares.
Bill Gates: Last night's build of longhorn. Has 5 monitors: one for the PowerPoint slideshow he's rehearsing, one for Outlook, and three for all the extra clocks, sliders, gizmos, icons, etc. that Longhorn puts on the desktop. His background is one of the default WinXP images.
George W. Bush: Cheney and Rumsfeld won't let him touch the "big kid computers", but he has an Etch-a-Sketch with a caricature of Saddam Hussein sitting on a canister of nerve gas.
Steve Jobs: 3 21" Apple Cinema displays. Beta build of OSX 10.4 ("Puma"). Only has one icon on the desktop, but damn if it doesn't look *really cool*.
"After reading the patent, it sounds like MS is trying to patent using XML to store WORD PROCESSING documents in a single file with an accompanying schema. Not just documents from MS Word, but ANY application."
If that is the case, then the patent is bogus, and we can safely ignore it. StarOffice/OpenOffice have been storing word-processing documents as XML for at least 4 or 5 years.
"you are required to log authorized and unauthorized access"
Glad to see that burdening people with unreasonable demands from government isn't limited to the U.S. anymore. Maybe after I set up logging of unauthorized access to my computers, I'll leave a notepad on my car, with a sign asking thieves to sign in before stealing my radio.
I was considering buying one of those a few weeks ago, but Kiss technologies is apparently violatinn the GPL. Their player uses a verion (or at least parts) of MPlayer and they have ignored severel requests by the MPlayer team to release the source to their version. (follow the link for an email-by-email account of the whole story) I'm waiting to see how that gets resolved before I buy one. If they come clean and release the source I'll probably buy, but if they try to stonewall or litigate their way out of it, I won't.
"Yes, I'm talking about humans on Mars, being casual and knocking about the place, kicking over rocks on a lazy day, sometime in my lifetime. It could be my son or daughter grown up."
Well, of course, it's the logical next place to colonize. All those cheaply-built colonies we tossed up on the moon in the 1970s are starting to show their age, and spacefare to the Lagrange-point stations is at an all time low, so anyone can afford to go! Pack the kids into your nuclear-powered flying cars and get to the local spaceport today, the martian homesteading rush is about to begin.
How long do you think it will take after this IPO for Microsoft to snap up enough shares to own google? I give them 4 days. A publicly traded company can't possibly last more than a week against takeover attempts by a company with *$4 billion* in the bank. The only real question is how much longer will we get to use google without needing a passport account and IE6-specific ActiveX controls?
Having a power brick that drops 110v wall current to 12VDC is a plus in a solar-powered house. It's common to have a 12V solar and battery system, so you could plug the monitor straight into the 12V system, and do away with the brick and put less load on your (always inefficient) 110VAC inverter. Less waste all around.
You're missing the fact that we have to buy Darl's (and the other execs) stock for this to work. They're still going to make a big profit. It's inevitable that the lawyers would get their 25%. There's no way legal hotshots like Boies and co. are going to be screwed out of billions by a bunch of IANAL open-source nerds.
Even in a distributed buyout, the scummiest people within SCO will make the most of money. IMHO it would be better to let IBM destroy them in court, and hope that once SCO's lack of a credible case is exposed the top executives are proseuted for fraud and stock manipulation.
"no complications of gender"
Was this reviewer at the popcorn stand every single time Eowyn was on the screen?
SCO's lawyers will recieve 25% of any buyout. The upper execs have been hanging on to preferred stock, even while they dumped their common stock, so they are also assured a healthy profit if someone buys SCO out. IBM has the resources to take them over and not even miss the money, but if they pay off SCO now, every failing IT company in the world will sue IBM on claims of copyright infringment, hoping for the windfall that SCO got.
Of all the movies you mention, only The Mummy and Jumanji have what I would call good organic animation. The CG "characters" in Star Wars look like plastic action figures. Nothing touches Gollum for believability as a CG charater.
"because it is under the GPL, which is more free than LGPL"
Exactly true! It's like cars. If I give you a car, that's free. If I give you a car, but prohibit you from driving it to work, or from using it in your job, or driving it on toll roads, that's *more* free!
If you think KDE's interface is simpler than Gnome, you must still be using version 1.x of both desktops. Gnome is now stripped of many options, and KDE has more control panels, tabs, buttons, sliders, and checkboxes than any sane person could ever want.
It used to be KDE that got no coverage here and was flamed to death in every story about how great Gnome was. Now Slashdot has sensed a power shift. More companies are supporting Gnome development, and fewer distros are using KDE as the default GUI. Since Slashdot interprets accepting any commercial help as whoring out the ideals of free software, it's time for them to start supporting KDE.
2 seconds on Google could have given you the answer
Does anyone have real numbers to back this up? It's an article of faith among KDE users that they are in the majority, but I've never seen a survey about this on an independant (not affiliated with KDE or GNOME) web site.