Oh, you mean like The GIMP's various dialogs like "tool properties", "layers", "paths", and several others, which do exactly what you describe when you have multiple image windows open. Combine that with your window manager's "sticky" or "on all desktops" feature and you've got exactly what the patent covers.
How long have these actually existed? Isn't there some way someone can claim prior art?
Sorry, you're just wrong here. First of all, not all insulins are available in generic. Second of all, there are several different types of insulin, each with it's own benefits and cautions. Because some types have a different response curve than others, or different side effects, you can't always replace one with another. "Insulin is insulin" is definitely not the truth.
My husband used to take your basic 70/30 mix (generic). In order to improve his sugar control, his doctor eventually switched him to a combination of Lantus and Humalog (both still brand-name only from what I can tell). Unfortunately, we discovered some time after that that Lantus is hard on the kidneys. With his kidneys already declining in function (common in diabetics), the doctor switched out the Lantus for old-school NPH (generic) with Humalog.
The one who is wrong here is *you*, sir. Have you ever considered the moral and/or ethical reasons behind not charging someone for a service not fully rendered?
Let's put it this way: Give the choice between you and the person you replied to, assuming you two have equal skills, I'll go to the other guy because I know he'll treat me like a cusTomer, and not just a consumer. If he can't fix the problem, all I am out is a little of my time. If you can't fix it, I'm out both time AND money. Fuck that.
Sometimes I thank G*d I know how to repair my car and my computer if either fails.
One theory says that the Sea of Reeds didn't so much "part" as reach low tide at just the right time for the Jews to cross a land bridge that was exposed. By the time the Egyptians got there, the tide had already started to rise and eventually some of them drowned.
You know, it is possible for someone to forget a few things that are wrong with them when they're put on the spot by a doctor, or even just the usual first-visit paperwork. That she has the presence of mind to write down everything that happens, her list of medications (many hospitals explicitly request a list), and so on, says to me that she's smart enough to know how to get help. That the doctor isn't bothering to read the summary tells me the doctor is an idiot, regardless of how ill this person may or may not be.
"Impeached and removed from office" as my husband likes to say. Of course, in reality it should go beyond that (jail time, fines, or even exile) for a lot of people.
As someone who suffers from both chronic depression and the more acute or short-term version of it (yes, there are two different diagnoses), I can say with complete confidence that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Yes, changing your situation can sometimes help, but the root cause is not environmental, it's something physical in the brain. Unlike a lot of medicines, anti-depressants actually try to treat the cause of the problem rather than just the symptoms. It's just that this is the brain we're talking about, and we all know the brain is a tricky bastard to tinker with.
I feel more "stable" when I take my meds than I do otherwise, and if you were to ask my husband, he would tell you that it's like night and day. No, I don't walk around all smiles, but I'm not exactly crying all the time either. Depression sucks as bad as any other major disease. If I could get some kind of implant put in that could fix the depression in a permanent manner, I'd jump on it in a heartbeat, if only to be able to give up the pills (I have problems remembering to take them).
What makes matters the worst for a depression sufferer is if their triggers happen to be something that themselves are either long-term or essentially unsolveable problems which the sufferer is stuck with. In those cases, pills simply aren't enough, and so you're back to feeling like hell all the time. That's where I stand (two such conditions), and I hate it worse than the most rabid Linux user hates Microsoft.
We're all supposed to be cvilized people who are supposed to take care of one another. Why don't these agencies, or for that matter anyone else in power, ever seriously consider those of us who really had no choice but to let our credit slip?
My husband and I are disabled, and until a few years ago were not able to get on top of our bills. During the years leading up to my husband's disability declaration (I was denied), our credit had gradually fallen, with no way to recover. Today we're doing better, but our credit is still hosed. We'd like to pay off those old debts and fix our credit, but according to someone in the credit industry whom I spoke with about a week ago, even if we could pay them off, there would be no point because the debts are too *old* to matter! All that paying them would do is remove certain 'flags' from our credit reports. The debts would remain listed (as "paid") and it would most certainly NOT improve our Beacon scores, he says. To raise that score, we were told, we have to find some way to get a line of credit from someone who reports to the credit agencies, and few companies (if any) want to give anyone a line of credit if their score is too low.
It's the ultimate catch-22. Basically, to get a line of credit, you have to fix your credit first, and to fix your credit, you have to get a line of credit first. So if for any reason, your credit drops below a certain score, you're too much of a 'risk' for further credit, and you're fucked for the rest of your life if you're disabled, unless you're particularly lucky anyway.
It's as though your worth as a human being has been distilled down to a single, three-digit number, and it is truly disgusting that we-the-people allow this kind of crap.
If it drives across the rim at anything other than a direct, 90-degree angle, it can easily take far more than rover's own length to get all six wheels past the edge.
It's been my experience, having owned both an AiW (128 pro) and now a BT848-based card, that the BT848 has a bit better quality, plus of course the ATI was problematic from the get-go (because of the closed-source drivers, thanks goes to the GATOS team back then for figuring most of that out).
Plus, the BT848 doesn't conflict with my nVidia 6800, and it's drivers have been open-source and in-kernel for ages.
The only thing I would raise a flag about is you actually have to have something worthwhile; if you hand customers (and non-customers) bloated, cpu-hogging bugware, no amount of good will can counter the negative effects of the software itself.
Shhh... Don't let Microsoft hear you say that, next thing you know they'll actually release something trustworthy!
At the risk of sounding like a TV commercial, and ignoring the fact that pre-paid cell phones exist all over the country and can save money if you're careful with your usage, there's a service in California, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, and Texas called MetroPCS. They don't have long-term contracts, and you buy your own phone (only from them, it seems). Charges work like a land-line, in that you can shut it off any time you want without early-cancellation fees, and you pay a fixed price per month for the features you want. They sell most of the features either as packages or a la carte. The basic unlimited-local-calls plan runs $30/mo and you can add unlimited long distance for $10/mo. MetroPCS main page
Disclaimer: This info is from their ads. I am neither affiliated with, nor a customer of MetroPCS.
Games help me avoid reality, honest! Sadly, I can only do so for brief periods of time. Of course, when your reality consists of munching on calorie-free chocolate while watching pink elephants dancing around.... ehh...maybe I better go back to working on DNF for the C64.
...is holy shit. This exploit even works in opera, and with xinerama yet (it takes over both of my screens). Oh well, that was enough for me to just turn java off entirely.
...and this begs the question: What does GCC's license have to do with your code's license?
There are already exceptions written into the license that expressly allows you to link against other programs without fear of those programs' licenses tainting yours. The FAQ mentions libstdc++ as an example. Furthermore, does not the GPLv3 explicitly state that an end user does not have to accept the license in order to use the software?
Frankly, I think all this noise about GPLv3 is nothing more than FUD.
Sorry if this comment wanders, but there is a point to it, honest.
I probably fall into that "casual gamer" category like a lot of others do. Casual enough that I don't own any consoles - not even a classic NES. I just play a couple of games that come with my distro. But your comment reminded me of the movie Impromptu. In it, Chopin criticizes a play that several characters are acting out as being "impertinent", among other adjectives, and generally done at the expense of their hosts, and withdraws his background music services. In response to this, Alfred screams, after a few choice words, that "art does not apologize!!" (followed by an ear-shattering explosion set up by some kids, that unintentionally punctuates his comment).
I'm reminded of this because the various forms of art depicted in the movie, including Chopin's and Liszt's music, were written for their own pleasure and those who they expected would enjoy it. That is to say, the artists deliberately avoided trying to gain the favor of the masses, as this would have meant rewriting or watering-down their works to some extent, and possibly losing the emotion or imagery the works were meant to convey. In doing so, it could be seen as art apologizing - for insulting someone, for not appealing to the masses, or some other generally meaningless thing. Whether you like their movies or not, MGM's slogan still says it well, "ars artis gratis" which was supposed to translate to "art for art's sake" (apparently, the word should have been "gratia", but I digress).
Whether you classify video games as "art" or not is your call of course, and whether or not they have to make gobs of money is up to the producers of those games, but you can't blame a game's author(s) for writing something *they* would enjoy. The same holds true for Hollywood as well as the recording industry; what shows up on the marquee or in the music stores is mostly their call, not yours.
It probably sounds a little ironic, but if it were left up to the masses, we'd have nothing but pop, rap, and maybe one or two other categories of "music" for sale these days, because those sell the most right now. Instead, we have dozens of styles from hundreds of authors, spanning several decades, because other stuff still sells. The same would hold true with games too, I'm pretty sure. Leave it up to the masses and there'd only be one moderately-powered console like Gamecube, with just a couple of varieties of games (probably FPS's and platform/scrollers like Super Mario Bros.). Ok, that's an exaggeration, but you get my point, I hope.
I've seen a lot of piss-poor arguements in Windows' favor in my time, but this one just takes the cake. According to Microsoft, Vista requires a minimum of 15GB of disk space (I suspect it's actual needs are less). Linux requires a minimum of about 1.5GB, and about 7.5GB if you have a full system with all the eye candy, all the trimmings, and a handful of third-party apps like OpenOffice. That's a difference of 6.5GB or so from Vista's minimum requirement, and 6.5GB of disk space is just plain pocket change by any reasonably modern metric.
Just FYI, according to Pricewatch, a 160GB notebook disk goes for about $90 and 1GB DDR2 to fit an Inspiron 1420 will set you back about $53. According to Microsoft, you'll have to shell out $99.99 for Vista Home Basic.
At the very least, if you price two machines with identical hardware specs, and you don't come out at least a little cheaper without Vista, you are getting RIPPED OFF, plain and simple. This holds true whether the two machines are base models or fully-upgraded-to-the-gills gaming rigs. If they're identical hardware-wise, they should be significantly cheaper without Vista.
What you do with the disk space beyond what your OS needs is generally entirely up to you - not your OS. It's not like you're just storing a bunch of backup copies of Vista or something - you'll fill it with music, movies, photos, p0rn, third-party software, whatever. Same stuff everyone else fills their boxes with - you just have 6-7GB less space to work with if you choose Vista, at least if the vendor did the right thing and offered the same hardware upgrades to the non-Vista customer, at the same prices/differences.
I realize there are people here who need that extra disk space for high-end stuff (Oracle springs to mind), but the majority of people who get one of these boxes will do so with something else in mind besides maintaining a multi-million-record database for a large corporation. Hell, I'd only use one for watching movies, listening to music, or coding.
Sorry to ramble on, it's 9:13am and I haven't slept yet.
I would just like to extend a genuine THANK YOU to you, NewYorkCountryLawyer, for being here on Slashdot and keeping the record straight. You're just the sort of person this site needs more of. Please keep up the good work.
If you had read the entire license, you'd have seen the part near the end where it says that you can simply state which version(s) of the GPL, past present or future, that you wish to use. I.e. something like "(C) 2007 Joe Q. Schmoe - Licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License" would be sufficient, under the GPL's terms, to avoid even touching GPLv3.
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How long have these actually existed? Isn't there some way someone can claim prior art?
My husband used to take your basic 70/30 mix (generic). In order to improve his sugar control, his doctor eventually switched him to a combination of Lantus and Humalog (both still brand-name only from what I can tell). Unfortunately, we discovered some time after that that Lantus is hard on the kidneys. With his kidneys already declining in function (common in diabetics), the doctor switched out the Lantus for old-school NPH (generic) with Humalog.
Let's put it this way: Give the choice between you and the person you replied to, assuming you two have equal skills, I'll go to the other guy because I know he'll treat me like a cusTomer, and not just a consumer. If he can't fix the problem, all I am out is a little of my time. If you can't fix it, I'm out both time AND money. Fuck that.
Sometimes I thank G*d I know how to repair my car and my computer if either fails.
Speaking of extra parts, someone please give the GP a few periods, commas, and other punctuation. For G*d sakes...
...and Mythbusters (for science content as well as just plain cool stuff).
One theory says that the Sea of Reeds didn't so much "part" as reach low tide at just the right time for the Jews to cross a land bridge that was exposed. By the time the Egyptians got there, the tide had already started to rise and eventually some of them drowned.
You know, it is possible for someone to forget a few things that are wrong with them when they're put on the spot by a doctor, or even just the usual first-visit paperwork. That she has the presence of mind to write down everything that happens, her list of medications (many hospitals explicitly request a list), and so on, says to me that she's smart enough to know how to get help. That the doctor isn't bothering to read the summary tells me the doctor is an idiot, regardless of how ill this person may or may not be.
"Impeached and removed from office" as my husband likes to say. Of course, in reality it should go beyond that (jail time, fines, or even exile) for a lot of people.
I feel more "stable" when I take my meds than I do otherwise, and if you were to ask my husband, he would tell you that it's like night and day. No, I don't walk around all smiles, but I'm not exactly crying all the time either. Depression sucks as bad as any other major disease. If I could get some kind of implant put in that could fix the depression in a permanent manner, I'd jump on it in a heartbeat, if only to be able to give up the pills (I have problems remembering to take them).
What makes matters the worst for a depression sufferer is if their triggers happen to be something that themselves are either long-term or essentially unsolveable problems which the sufferer is stuck with. In those cases, pills simply aren't enough, and so you're back to feeling like hell all the time. That's where I stand (two such conditions), and I hate it worse than the most rabid Linux user hates Microsoft.
My husband and I are disabled, and until a few years ago were not able to get on top of our bills. During the years leading up to my husband's disability declaration (I was denied), our credit had gradually fallen, with no way to recover. Today we're doing better, but our credit is still hosed. We'd like to pay off those old debts and fix our credit, but according to someone in the credit industry whom I spoke with about a week ago, even if we could pay them off, there would be no point because the debts are too *old* to matter! All that paying them would do is remove certain 'flags' from our credit reports. The debts would remain listed (as "paid") and it would most certainly NOT improve our Beacon scores, he says. To raise that score, we were told, we have to find some way to get a line of credit from someone who reports to the credit agencies, and few companies (if any) want to give anyone a line of credit if their score is too low.
It's the ultimate catch-22. Basically, to get a line of credit, you have to fix your credit first, and to fix your credit, you have to get a line of credit first. So if for any reason, your credit drops below a certain score, you're too much of a 'risk' for further credit, and you're fucked for the rest of your life if you're disabled, unless you're particularly lucky anyway.
It's as though your worth as a human being has been distilled down to a single, three-digit number, and it is truly disgusting that we-the-people allow this kind of crap.
If it drives across the rim at anything other than a direct, 90-degree angle, it can easily take far more than rover's own length to get all six wheels past the edge.
Plus, the BT848 doesn't conflict with my nVidia 6800, and it's drivers have been open-source and in-kernel for ages.
Shhh... Don't let Microsoft hear you say that, next thing you know they'll actually release something trustworthy!
Disclaimer: This info is from their ads. I am neither affiliated with, nor a customer of MetroPCS.
Games help me avoid reality, honest! Sadly, I can only do so for brief periods of time. Of course, when your reality consists of munching on calorie-free chocolate while watching pink elephants dancing around.... ehh...maybe I better go back to working on DNF for the C64.
Klinger wasn't a drag queen, he was crossdressing in an attempt to make himself look mentally unfit (and hence 'earn' a section-8 discharge).
...is holy shit. This exploit even works in opera, and with xinerama yet (it takes over both of my screens). Oh well, that was enough for me to just turn java off entirely.
There are already exceptions written into the license that expressly allows you to link against other programs without fear of those programs' licenses tainting yours. The FAQ mentions libstdc++ as an example. Furthermore, does not the GPLv3 explicitly state that an end user does not have to accept the license in order to use the software?
Frankly, I think all this noise about GPLv3 is nothing more than FUD.
...and if you're a developer and don't like GPL v3, then don't fucking use it. The existance of it does not mean GPL v2 suddenly becomes unavailable.
I probably fall into that "casual gamer" category like a lot of others do. Casual enough that I don't own any consoles - not even a classic NES. I just play a couple of games that come with my distro. But your comment reminded me of the movie Impromptu. In it, Chopin criticizes a play that several characters are acting out as being "impertinent", among other adjectives, and generally done at the expense of their hosts, and withdraws his background music services. In response to this, Alfred screams, after a few choice words, that "art does not apologize!!" (followed by an ear-shattering explosion set up by some kids, that unintentionally punctuates his comment).
I'm reminded of this because the various forms of art depicted in the movie, including Chopin's and Liszt's music, were written for their own pleasure and those who they expected would enjoy it. That is to say, the artists deliberately avoided trying to gain the favor of the masses, as this would have meant rewriting or watering-down their works to some extent, and possibly losing the emotion or imagery the works were meant to convey. In doing so, it could be seen as art apologizing - for insulting someone, for not appealing to the masses, or some other generally meaningless thing. Whether you like their movies or not, MGM's slogan still says it well, "ars artis gratis" which was supposed to translate to "art for art's sake" (apparently, the word should have been "gratia", but I digress).
Whether you classify video games as "art" or not is your call of course, and whether or not they have to make gobs of money is up to the producers of those games, but you can't blame a game's author(s) for writing something *they* would enjoy. The same holds true for Hollywood as well as the recording industry; what shows up on the marquee or in the music stores is mostly their call, not yours.
It probably sounds a little ironic, but if it were left up to the masses, we'd have nothing but pop, rap, and maybe one or two other categories of "music" for sale these days, because those sell the most right now. Instead, we have dozens of styles from hundreds of authors, spanning several decades, because other stuff still sells. The same would hold true with games too, I'm pretty sure. Leave it up to the masses and there'd only be one moderately-powered console like Gamecube, with just a couple of varieties of games (probably FPS's and platform/scrollers like Super Mario Bros.). Ok, that's an exaggeration, but you get my point, I hope.
Looks nice, too bad it doesn't work in Kspread or OO.o.
Just FYI, according to Pricewatch, a 160GB notebook disk goes for about $90 and 1GB DDR2 to fit an Inspiron 1420 will set you back about $53. According to Microsoft, you'll have to shell out $99.99 for Vista Home Basic.
At the very least, if you price two machines with identical hardware specs, and you don't come out at least a little cheaper without Vista, you are getting RIPPED OFF, plain and simple. This holds true whether the two machines are base models or fully-upgraded-to-the-gills gaming rigs. If they're identical hardware-wise, they should be significantly cheaper without Vista.
What you do with the disk space beyond what your OS needs is generally entirely up to you - not your OS. It's not like you're just storing a bunch of backup copies of Vista or something - you'll fill it with music, movies, photos, p0rn, third-party software, whatever. Same stuff everyone else fills their boxes with - you just have 6-7GB less space to work with if you choose Vista, at least if the vendor did the right thing and offered the same hardware upgrades to the non-Vista customer, at the same prices/differences.
I realize there are people here who need that extra disk space for high-end stuff (Oracle springs to mind), but the majority of people who get one of these boxes will do so with something else in mind besides maintaining a multi-million-record database for a large corporation. Hell, I'd only use one for watching movies, listening to music, or coding.
Sorry to ramble on, it's 9:13am and I haven't slept yet.
I would just like to extend a genuine THANK YOU to you, NewYorkCountryLawyer, for being here on Slashdot and keeping the record straight. You're just the sort of person this site needs more of. Please keep up the good work.
If you had read the entire license, you'd have seen the part near the end where it says that you can simply state which version(s) of the GPL, past present or future, that you wish to use. I.e. something like "(C) 2007 Joe Q. Schmoe - Licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License" would be sufficient, under the GPL's terms, to avoid even touching GPLv3.
Dear GOD someone tell the website author to fix whatever he's configured that causes my speakers to emit LOUD WHITE NOISE when I visit his page!