We've grown up thinking that nobody can "own" a language. That's our culture. It's not impossible for a group of people to be brought up thinking that there is an owner of a particular language. If they grow up that way, their kids will, too. In other words, "people who don't know better," if you catch my drift.
I'm not saying that this is the case; in fact I'm certain it's not. The Maori believe(d) that a man (by the name of Maui) slowed the sun down to make the days longer by finding where it rises and catching it with a lasso, then beating it with his dead grandmother's jaw-bone until the sun promised to go slower.
To most people who have just learned this it sounds ridiculous. However so would the idea of language ownership. It's not impossible, that's what I'm trying to get at.
That would make you culturally insensitive if you don't believe a culture should be able to regulate its language.
Their beliefs are different to yours; and telling them they shouldn't really be able to regulate what they invented is similar to being a Christian telling a Buddhist that doctrine lineage is not important.
But in my opinion you're right nonetheless . . . they could and should just boycott it.
The latest ones might possibly have problems with the SD card readers . . . they've [Panasonic] released a new SD card standard, which in order to obtain a specification sheet, you have to sign an agreement (and pay a sum) saying that you will not use the specification sheet to provide an open-source driver.
It sucks that the major laptop manufacturers don't make it "easy" for you to install Linux, i.e. using proprietary protocols specifically optimised to run in a Windows environment etc. I work for Toshiba fixing laptops, and the number of tools that come "pre-loaded" on a "fresh install" is amazing. People can remove them if they wish, of course, but one case in particular was this customer came in complaining about the life of his battery. I noticed he uninstalled all of the Toshiba software. One critical component was Toshiba Power Management. Only this tool can dim the brightness of the LCD, and various other things. Without it, the battery won't last long at all. Most Toshiba notebooks have a very cut down BIOS which let software do the rest. It's a shame the software is proprietary.
Having said that, my boss said that the laptop they gave me (as a company asset) is mine to do what I want with, including installing Linux. Also, most Toshiba Satellites have a second partition on the hard drive which is quick to boot and is designed for playing DVDs only. Guess what? It's Linux. I've also heard (from where I used to work selling home electronics), most TV-HDD-DVD recorders run Linux, including Panasonic, Sony and Philips. So, they're getting there . . . but it will take a while.
Just to relieve the hyperbola, a War is a condition that results in mass destruction of life, culture and property for some arbritrary greater good. Brains and meat sprayed over the road, orphans, legless combatants. That is War. It is important to recognize the difference. Linux vs Microsoft is not War. Pick another word. Try not to be such a twit.
Have you tried Ctrl+Tab? I don't use GnuCash but Ctrl+Tab is very common for tab-switching in any application. Ctrl+Shift+Tab goes the other way usually, too.
Toshiba pride themselves in being a "genuine" Windows provider (I work for Toshiba). Although, quite a few laptops have a second partition on the hard drive which is a media player. Basically instead of booting to Windows it boots to this small OS that just plays DVDs so you don't have to wait for Windows to load . . . and guess what OS that might be? Yeah . . . Linux. And, for a very, very, very brief moment, you can see the words "Loading bzImage...".
That's funny because there is a music player (daemon/client model) called MPC (or MPD). I use MPD all the time. It runs as a daemon so if X stuffs up your music keeps playing while you login again. Even better, FVWM-Crystal uses the Alt + ZXCVB keys for back, play, pause, stop, next sort of thing (you can change the mapping). Brilliant if you don't want a GUI at all. No GUI = no advertising.
If the GPL and GNU licences are about "Freedom for the user," with software and source so licensed labeled free for all to use, then by definition, exclusion creates a contradiction.
The exclusions are there to increase freedom for the user. Someone mentioned above that if we could do absolutely anything, kidnapping would be legal or "allowed". If we remove the appropriate rights to "not allow" people to kidnap, are we allowing ourselves more freedom or less freedom?
From what I gather, RMS doesn't want people "kidnapping" code. He doesn't want people to kidnap code and profit from someone elses work. Furthermore, he doesn't want to associate anybody's free work with anything that subtracts from whatever freedom you currently have (i.e. DRM). Now . . . the question here is:
Do you have more freedom using free software mixed with DRM, or more freedom to use free software without DRM all together?
The question is not:
Does the software developer have more freedom if he choses to incorporate DRM into his software?
The question is:
Do you have more freedom using free software mixed with DRM, or more freedom to use free software without DRM all together?
In Wellington NZ, where I am from, the house I grew up in was never locked. I lived there until 18 and thought it was strange to lock the door, especially if someone is home. We wouldn't even lock it if we were going on holiday so that our neighbours could get in if they needed to (feed cats, get lawnmower + RCD, etc). It was commonplace for us to simply walk into each other's house as if it were ours.
For me, I'd much rather grow up like this, in a friendly neighbourhood, rather than lock my house knowing that my neighbours with guns can't get in. That's just me though.
As someone who writes ATC software for a living, I can tell you that a single faulty card in a router, or even an entire failed router, will not be bringing planes down. Redundancy is our life.
That's great to know that if an important guy like you suddenly drops dead, there's another ATC software writer that starts working straight away.
I was never a fan of books (I don't have a very good imagination) . . . but that's a good thing for me. All of my employers were the same so I was the only guy who stood out at all the interviews I've had. Now I'm fixing laptops for Toshiba for a generous salary, which is something I like doing. You don't need a good imagination to read a service manual! Thankfully I had four very boring English Studies teachers, or I might have had an interest in books.
Just out of curiosity, I always rip mine using DivX / MP3 (since I remember the ffmpeg options in my head); what sort of quality do you get with H.264/AAC, and what sort of file sizes do you get from an average length film (say . . . 1:30:00), and is the quality noticeably different?
I've always wanted to try another codec but my computer is quite slow (a DVD rip normally takes overnight and then some) so I don't want to waste time.
Do you mean that rediculous movie where the guy travels eight hundred thousand years into the future, where that one lady spoke English: "Do you understand my words . . . ?", and that holographic librarian Orlando Jones was still there? What on earth can power something for eight hundred thousand years?! The English language hasn't even been around for 800,000 years. Hell, 400 years ago people spoke significantly differently to how we speak today, but for some reason, it won't change for the next 800,000 years.
So to conclude, if what people are saying about this story matching the movie (or unless I'm thinking of some remake): people will divide into super and sub-par races, we will speak exactly how we do today, and sometime soon we will discover a perpetual energy device that will enslave a black man to tell us everything he knows.
Yep, I don't pronounce it toob, I pronounce it tyoob, some people would pronounce it chyoob, or simply choob. Not everyone has an American accent, just Americans; and Asians learning English, but for some reason American accents seem to suit Asian people . . .
You're meant to divide by 2^40, not 10^12, it yields a very different result on larger numbers . . . or unless you intended metric TB and not TiB (tebibytes).
No pigs don't eat everything, goats eat everything. I remember feeding a goat a gumboot once, had absolutely no idea how that works . . . it's like they eat everything, take what they need and pass the rest! I was also feeding the same goat some stale biscuits out of the original wrapping, and it seemed more interested in the wrapping!
Now, tasty fried bacon and eggs . . . or gumboot goat meat . . . your decision.
Consumers have a lot of protection in New Zealand. I'm quite sure it would be legal to do as you want to get it to work, otherwise you could argue that the disc cannot be used for the intended purpose for which it was sold for (viewing!), and under the NZ Consumer Guarantees Act, that either entitles you to your money back or a remedy.
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Yep! Lets all move to Debian Stable and run software that was really top notch 3 years ago.
And I bet a Gentoo-based live CD would load and run faster from the CD than Debian would from my hard drive . . .
Nothing against Debian, Stable is very stable, and reasonable package management, but gee . . . it's a bit slow and a bit dated.
That's not entirely true.
We've grown up thinking that nobody can "own" a language. That's our culture. It's not impossible for a group of people to be brought up thinking that there is an owner of a particular language. If they grow up that way, their kids will, too. In other words, "people who don't know better," if you catch my drift.
I'm not saying that this is the case; in fact I'm certain it's not. The Maori believe(d) that a man (by the name of Maui) slowed the sun down to make the days longer by finding where it rises and catching it with a lasso, then beating it with his dead grandmother's jaw-bone until the sun promised to go slower.
To most people who have just learned this it sounds ridiculous. However so would the idea of language ownership. It's not impossible, that's what I'm trying to get at.
That would make you culturally insensitive if you don't believe a culture should be able to regulate its language.
Their beliefs are different to yours; and telling them they shouldn't really be able to regulate what they invented is similar to being a Christian telling a Buddhist that doctrine lineage is not important.
But in my opinion you're right nonetheless . . . they could and should just boycott it.
The latest ones might possibly have problems with the SD card readers . . . they've [Panasonic] released a new SD card standard, which in order to obtain a specification sheet, you have to sign an agreement (and pay a sum) saying that you will not use the specification sheet to provide an open-source driver.
It sucks that the major laptop manufacturers don't make it "easy" for you to install Linux, i.e. using proprietary protocols specifically optimised to run in a Windows environment etc. I work for Toshiba fixing laptops, and the number of tools that come "pre-loaded" on a "fresh install" is amazing. People can remove them if they wish, of course, but one case in particular was this customer came in complaining about the life of his battery. I noticed he uninstalled all of the Toshiba software. One critical component was Toshiba Power Management. Only this tool can dim the brightness of the LCD, and various other things. Without it, the battery won't last long at all. Most Toshiba notebooks have a very cut down BIOS which let software do the rest. It's a shame the software is proprietary.
Having said that, my boss said that the laptop they gave me (as a company asset) is mine to do what I want with, including installing Linux. Also, most Toshiba Satellites have a second partition on the hard drive which is quick to boot and is designed for playing DVDs only. Guess what? It's Linux. I've also heard (from where I used to work selling home electronics), most TV-HDD-DVD recorders run Linux, including Panasonic, Sony and Philips. So, they're getting there . . . but it will take a while.
Most probably the squirting part.
I'd like to point out the following: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=war
Especially number 5.
I'd also like to point out that the word war is not a proper noun and it is grammatically incorrect to capitalise it the way you have.
Have you tried Ctrl+Tab? I don't use GnuCash but Ctrl+Tab is very common for tab-switching in any application. Ctrl+Shift+Tab goes the other way usually, too.
I say "Someone set up us the exploit!" . . . what you deaf? . . . Take off every headphones.
Someone set up us the exploit!
Toshiba pride themselves in being a "genuine" Windows provider (I work for Toshiba). Although, quite a few laptops have a second partition on the hard drive which is a media player. Basically instead of booting to Windows it boots to this small OS that just plays DVDs so you don't have to wait for Windows to load . . . and guess what OS that might be? Yeah . . . Linux. And, for a very, very, very brief moment, you can see the words "Loading bzImage...".
That's funny because there is a music player (daemon/client model) called MPC (or MPD). I use MPD all the time. It runs as a daemon so if X stuffs up your music keeps playing while you login again. Even better, FVWM-Crystal uses the Alt + ZXCVB keys for back, play, pause, stop, next sort of thing (you can change the mapping). Brilliant if you don't want a GUI at all. No GUI = no advertising.
The exclusions are there to increase freedom for the user. Someone mentioned above that if we could do absolutely anything, kidnapping would be legal or "allowed". If we remove the appropriate rights to "not allow" people to kidnap, are we allowing ourselves more freedom or less freedom?
From what I gather, RMS doesn't want people "kidnapping" code. He doesn't want people to kidnap code and profit from someone elses work. Furthermore, he doesn't want to associate anybody's free work with anything that subtracts from whatever freedom you currently have (i.e. DRM). Now . . . the question here is:
Do you have more freedom using free software mixed with DRM, or more freedom to use free software without DRM all together?
The question is not:
Does the software developer have more freedom if he choses to incorporate DRM into his software?
The question is:
Do you have more freedom using free software mixed with DRM, or more freedom to use free software without DRM all together?
(repeated twice for effect)
Well, after 18 years, evidently not.
In Wellington NZ, where I am from, the house I grew up in was never locked. I lived there until 18 and thought it was strange to lock the door, especially if someone is home. We wouldn't even lock it if we were going on holiday so that our neighbours could get in if they needed to (feed cats, get lawnmower + RCD, etc). It was commonplace for us to simply walk into each other's house as if it were ours.
For me, I'd much rather grow up like this, in a friendly neighbourhood, rather than lock my house knowing that my neighbours with guns can't get in. That's just me though.
That's great to know that if an important guy like you suddenly drops dead, there's another ATC software writer that starts working straight away.
I was never a fan of books (I don't have a very good imagination) . . . but that's a good thing for me. All of my employers were the same so I was the only guy who stood out at all the interviews I've had. Now I'm fixing laptops for Toshiba for a generous salary, which is something I like doing. You don't need a good imagination to read a service manual! Thankfully I had four very boring English Studies teachers, or I might have had an interest in books.
Just out of curiosity, I always rip mine using DivX / MP3 (since I remember the ffmpeg options in my head); what sort of quality do you get with H.264/AAC, and what sort of file sizes do you get from an average length film (say . . . 1:30:00), and is the quality noticeably different?
I've always wanted to try another codec but my computer is quite slow (a DVD rip normally takes overnight and then some) so I don't want to waste time.
Do you mean that rediculous movie where the guy travels eight hundred thousand years into the future, where that one lady spoke English: "Do you understand my words . . . ?", and that holographic librarian Orlando Jones was still there? What on earth can power something for eight hundred thousand years?! The English language hasn't even been around for 800,000 years. Hell, 400 years ago people spoke significantly differently to how we speak today, but for some reason, it won't change for the next 800,000 years.
So to conclude, if what people are saying about this story matching the movie (or unless I'm thinking of some remake): people will divide into super and sub-par races, we will speak exactly how we do today, and sometime soon we will discover a perpetual energy device that will enslave a black man to tell us everything he knows.
Can we predict the ending? http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zero_Wing
Congratulation!!
A.D. 2006
All mp3 player of McDonalds were recall.
It seems to be peaceful.
But it is incorrect.
McDonalds is still serve meal.
Customer must fight against McDonalds again.
And down with them completely!
Good Luck!
Play Zero Wing . . . home of the famous and never overdone: "Someone set up us the bomb", and the even more famous: "All your base are belong to us."
Yep, I don't pronounce it toob, I pronounce it tyoob, some people would pronounce it chyoob, or simply choob. Not everyone has an American accent, just Americans; and Asians learning English, but for some reason American accents seem to suit Asian people . . .
You're meant to divide by 2^40, not 10^12, it yields a very different result on larger numbers . . . or unless you intended metric TB and not TiB (tebibytes).
If I could see all of this in one go, I could use both my hands, instead of just one:
http://www.asciibabes.com/amy-halliday-01.php
No pigs don't eat everything, goats eat everything. I remember feeding a goat a gumboot once, had absolutely no idea how that works . . . it's like they eat everything, take what they need and pass the rest! I was also feeding the same goat some stale biscuits out of the original wrapping, and it seemed more interested in the wrapping!
Now, tasty fried bacon and eggs . . . or gumboot goat meat . . . your decision.
Consumers have a lot of protection in New Zealand. I'm quite sure it would be legal to do as you want to get it to work, otherwise you could argue that the disc cannot be used for the intended purpose for which it was sold for (viewing!), and under the NZ Consumer Guarantees Act, that either entitles you to your money back or a remedy.