To be fair, our previous PM also bent over (what did he accomplish?). The only difference is this PM has decided to pick his battles, rather than venting a bunch of hot air when he has no intention of doing anything meaningful.
While we are still working out exactly how to distribute the final Player version to be as easy as possible for the typical end user...
No, they're not. The obvious way is to release the source code of the player under the GNU GPL and let the distros build and package it. That's probably not going to happen.
I imagine it's part of their DRM/TC/lock-in strategy. Right now, you can run VMware on Linux, and use tools like usbsnoop to reverse engineer drivers, create virtual devices, and generally prevent the guest OS from doing things it shouldn't be. With Xen being free software, it will be even easier. Microsoft has always wanted to control the platform, and this is yet another attempt to garner that control.
There was an episode of Atlantis where they basically had a catfight between Rodney McKay and Samantha Carter. McKay was telling Carter that he had been studying their mission logs, and that they had been ignoring countless status and warning messages that the stargate was emitting. Rather than having Carter be concerned about this legitimate (though rudely-delivered) criticism---as she would have been in SG-1---the clueless Atlantis writers instead had her get all defensive, which IMHO was massively out-of-character for her.
The only thing Atlantis has going for it is cooler technology. Beyond that, I'm becoming more and more convinced that it's just a weak knock-off of SG-1.
Then call it "GNU tar", not "GNU/tar". GNU/tar basically means you're running the GNU system on top of tar, which is nonsensical.
To understand the "GNU/Linux" naming suggestion, look at "TCP/IP" (read "TCP over IP"), and realize that it's not called "IP/TCP" or "TCP IP" for a reason.
I still use DPaint (in UAE) to draw schematics sometimes. The interface is sooo much more streamlined for drawing than the GIMP is (granted, the GIMP isn't a drawing program).
Your reading comprehension needs work. My point is that NVIDIA employees knew about the problem, and failed to fix it, not that the problem itself existed for a long time.
News flash: This wouldn't happened in an open-source driver:
NVIDIA has known about this bug in their binary driver for some time, "the link in the advisory is the earliest thread in which we could find an NVIDIA employee publicly acknowledging the bug, although it was reported back in 2004 and has probably existed even longer."
What is an open source logo? Since when do we compile images?
Both SVG and PostScript (as well as XCF, PSD, and any other preferred form of an image for making modifications to it) can be source code for an image. Furthermore, image source formats are often compiled into other, more opaque formats.
Are those examples not good enough for you? Well, how about fonts? They're copyrighted, but the typefaces they represent are cannot be (at least in the U.S.).
Of course, we'd avoid all this confusion if we talked about free software/logos/images/fonts, rather than "open source". On the other hand, it's largely irrelevant, because the Firefox logo thing is a trademark issue, which is generally considered beyond the scope of both free and open source software.
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If it's just the name you want, you should try the Firesomething extension.
I think it came out around the time that the Firebird -> Firefox announcement was made (only months after the Phoenix -> Firebird transition happened).
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To be fair, our previous PM also bent over (what did he accomplish?). The only difference is this PM has decided to pick his battles, rather than venting a bunch of hot air when he has no intention of doing anything meaningful.
No, they're not. The obvious way is to release the source code of the player under the GNU GPL and let the distros build and package it. That's probably not going to happen.
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No. Wrong. The grandparent is correct. It makes absolutely no difference. The system is flawed by design. Move along.
I imagine it's part of their DRM/TC/lock-in strategy. Right now, you can run VMware on Linux, and use tools like usbsnoop to reverse engineer drivers, create virtual devices, and generally prevent the guest OS from doing things it shouldn't be. With Xen being free software, it will be even easier. Microsoft has always wanted to control the platform, and this is yet another attempt to garner that control.
... as portrayed in SG-1, not in Atlantis.
There was an episode of Atlantis where they basically had a catfight between Rodney McKay and Samantha Carter. McKay was telling Carter that he had been studying their mission logs, and that they had been ignoring countless status and warning messages that the stargate was emitting. Rather than having Carter be concerned about this legitimate (though rudely-delivered) criticism---as she would have been in SG-1---the clueless Atlantis writers instead had her get all defensive, which IMHO was massively out-of-character for her.
The only thing Atlantis has going for it is cooler technology. Beyond that, I'm becoming more and more convinced that it's just a weak knock-off of SG-1.
Then call it "GNU tar", not "GNU/tar". GNU/tar basically means you're running the GNU system on top of tar, which is nonsensical.
To understand the "GNU/Linux" naming suggestion, look at "TCP/IP" (read "TCP over IP"), and realize that it's not called "IP/TCP" or "TCP IP" for a reason.
No. Dia has huge workflow issues. It's getting better, but I still prefer DPaint for simple schematics.
I still use DPaint (in UAE) to draw schematics sometimes. The interface is sooo much more streamlined for drawing than the GIMP is (granted, the GIMP isn't a drawing program).
Stop/being/a/moron.
Probably. There's been a GTK+ for Windows that doesn't depend on X11 for several years, so it's not like it isn't possible.
Okay, then. Look at all those expensive printers that are running embedded Windows, and not, say, a PostScript interpreter.
PHP. It was created by web developers for web developers, and it's a horrible language if you care about writing robust code.
Your reading comprehension needs work. My point is that NVIDIA employees knew about the problem, and failed to fix it, not that the problem itself existed for a long time.
News flash: This wouldn't happened in an open-source driver:
Whose missing?
So what? The great, great, great grandparent wrote:
Both SVG and PostScript (as well as XCF, PSD, and any other preferred form of an image for making modifications to it) can be source code for an image. Furthermore, image source formats are often compiled into other, more opaque formats.
Are those examples not good enough for you? Well, how about fonts? They're copyrighted, but the typefaces they represent are cannot be (at least in the U.S.).
Of course, we'd avoid all this confusion if we talked about free software/logos/images/fonts, rather than "open source". On the other hand, it's largely irrelevant, because the Firefox logo thing is a trademark issue, which is generally considered beyond the scope of both free and open source software.
www.whitehouse.com is great. It teaches people that not all TLDs are .com.
So it's okay if they're exploiting men? ;)
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PostScript, then?
If it's just the name you want, you should try the Firesomething extension.
I think it came out around the time that the Firebird -> Firefox announcement was made (only months after the Phoenix -> Firebird transition happened).
Is an IQ of 100 defined as the mean or median score on an IQ test?
0.9% of predicted replies: "WTF are you asking Slashdot? Hire yourself a real assassin."
"The straw that broke the camel's back". Also, "september" and "referring".
Why would using the CLI mean you know anything about copyright law?
Anyway, the point is that it's crappy user interface design.