... I realized that they are trying
to defend theirselves legally from DRM module
suppliers' wraith...
I knew DRM was evil. Now companies using it are sending out their undead minions to enforce the EULA. If it was just zombies or even ghouls, we would be OK I suppose...
You can set the measurement units in the "Options" dialog. Tools->Options, under heading "general" of "Text Document". Not hard, but I suppose you have to have some clue where to look.
Even if you don't, and enter (say) "1.0in" for a page margin, OpenOffice will convert to the correct number of whatever measurement unit is set up.
I'm not at home just now to check what the OpenOffice printer settings look like in Linux, but I use CUPS and have not had any problems or any need to enter special options on the print command line. You may have a weird setup of course.
BTW, there are no such things as US inches. They are the same in the UK.
That's not to disparage the community of Mandrake users and developers, but Mandrake as a company have to do things that make money. A sub-project of Debian will succeed or fail depending only on the level of enthusiasm and interest in it.
Unfortunately, tanks and B2 bombers really have trouble looking like "something normal and harmless". For that matter, so do platoons of soldiers with M-16s
Unfortunately for whom? What you say is right, but I was only discussing infiltration.
Anyway, tanks and bombers are last century's way of getting what you want. Some dickheads haven't realised that yet *cough*dubya*cough*.
One principle of comoflage is that you don't have to be invisible. People just have to not actualy notice your presence.
So in fact you would be better off being in plain sight, looking like someone/thing normal and harmless.Since that can be done very cheaply and without fancy technology, I think it will remain the preferred method of infiltration.
Or use both: A delivery guy with a cardboard box and clipboard can walk past while guards surround the guy in the suspicious skin-tight chameleon suit.
I'm no lawyer either, but this smells as bad as Blizzard's bogus attack on bnetd.
Distributing a cracked version of someone else's software would be copyright violation. However, this is not being alleged here.
Distributing a patch for use on a legally-obtained copy of a program is only a violation of the DMCA if the patch circumvents a copy-prevention method. But in this case it doesn't. It merely circumvents one limitation of the functionality of the program.
It doesn't matter whether the limitation was intended to support a business plan - it's not about copy prevention so the DMCA does not apply.
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So as you type away, the system decides the set of words you are likely to type next includes "fuck".
How do you stop your eyes immediately jumping to the funniest or most surprising word visible instead of the one you really wanted?
I know I couldn't. Everything I typed would look like slashdot browsed at -1.
(Moderators: for supreme irony please mod this post down to -1)
1) Biodiversity. We can have 3 kinds of elephant instead of 2.
2) Economic value of a cold-weather elephant. Elephants as beasts of burden are a useful part of the economy in parts of India. Extending their range up to the temperate forests extends the total economic value of the species.
3) We probably ate all the mammoths in the first place. Maybe they taste good.
4) We are humans. We mess with things. It is good. Only very sad and negative people respond to every proposed endeavour with wails of "Why bother?" or "This doesn't help me!".
Moas next please, then some kind of unicorn or dragon:)
Exactly though. zilla doesn't mean godzilla either. If godzilla is the trademark, *zilla isn't.
But isn't the name of the fire-breathing monster actually GOJIRA? Japanese doesn't even have an L, for a start. So unless you spell Mozilla àç, you're probably OK.
In any case, NO NO NO NO NO. It's a cynical, bogus claim.
If Toho go after AOL Time/Warner I hope they (Toho) get slapped down hard in court rather than succeed in getting an juicy out-of-court settlement.
I sort of agree, but man, you just used a sentence containing the phrase "proactively respond" to justify a (hypothetical, admittedly) $20M IT expenditure.:)
One of the things you need to compete when budgets get tight is agility, and to some extent you can get that by picking flexible development tools like Python. It doesn't hurt that a lot of good stuff can be had for free of course.
But one of the things that will kill your competitive agility stone dead is not lack of technology but lack of skilled tecnologists who know your business. I'm just very glad that in a recent tight spot, the company I work for managed to hold onto its in-house programmers. Going back to the vendors for every little change would have hobbled them.
I suppose I'm saying that it's not what you spend, but what you spend it on. But that's so trite that I'm a little embarassed to post this now. Oh well.
No really, I am curious. To lose credibility merely by *comparing* PostgreSQL to Oracle or MS SQL? Hmm. Seems to me the original juxtaposition between MySQL and Oracle was purposefully intended to be a straw man - clearly MySQL is much less full-featured and aimed at a totally different set of applications.
OK, though. I'm sure you are not a troll but genuinely advocate the use of Oracle or MS SQL for all databases even in the low-mid range where PostgreSQL is (as far I have been able to tell) perfectly adequate. If so, the extra license money must be buying something truly wonderful. Care to share what that might be?
I'm not an expert, but since this is an area in which you are not 'clueless', perhaps you can explain.
I doubt they see it as a threat yet. But assuming they did:
FUD - everyone's heard it already. It's getting old.
Donations of software - thanks for the 100,000 free copies of your product A, Mr Gates. Now we can afford to get the free replacement for your product B working.
Patents - US software patents are irrelevant in the UK, and the threat of misusing them in that way just pushes the UK further from allowing US-style patents to be adopted.
Lobbying - Possibly. How effective it can be without large sums of money in brown paper bags, I don't know.
Embrace and extend - What, make new versions of MS software stop working with open standards? They'll just NEVER BUY the new software. Point gun at foot, take aim, pull trigger.
Criminal uses of monopoly status - Heh heh. That would make my day. The EU is already watching MS very carefully, and not likely to wuss out like the US DOJ. Attempting to use monopoly powers to interfere with competitive tendering in a member state? Oh yes, smart move.
Of course, it's a bit of a red herring judging the success of an open-source-related thing based on how much it will hurt Microsoft. The answer is nearly always "not at all, but so what?".
Yep, you want something that is simple enough to not overload your brain with details while you are trying to grasp the general principles.
Examples: Python's Tkinter module (from within IDLE or just a Python shell) FLUID, the almost unbelievably easy C++ IDE for libfltk).
There are richer IDEs with more features, but in their respective computer languages, these would be hard to beat for simplicity. I think there's a pretty cool Scheme one too, but I forget what it's called.
Palladium as a Microsoft controlled standard will never succeed if there is a superior and more openly controlled alternative.
There is such an alternative: NOTHING. That's right, hardware that just runs the bloody software that you tell it to. Superior, open, what more could you want?
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But can we have that "testing" feature in smbclient, please?
(Bwahahahahaaa!)
Too late for this report to be nominated for the CS section of the 2002 Ig Nobel awards.
What, deliberately kill another planet's biosphere to pre-empt a dangerous civilisation developing there?
Then when a ship of the law drops into Earth orbit, I think I'll want to be tried separately.
Note to moderators: don't bother, I know...
WTF, insightful? Hmm.
You can set the measurement units in the "Options" dialog. Tools->Options, under heading "general" of "Text Document". Not hard, but I suppose you have to have some clue where to look.
Even if you don't, and enter (say) "1.0in" for a page margin, OpenOffice will convert to the correct number of whatever measurement unit is set up.
I'm not at home just now to check what the OpenOffice printer settings look like in Linux, but I use CUPS and have not had any problems or any need to enter special options on the print command line. You may have a weird setup of course.
BTW, there are no such things as US inches. They are the same in the UK.
Mandrake is a company, Debian is a community.
That's not to disparage the community of Mandrake users and developers, but Mandrake as a company have to do things that make money. A sub-project of Debian will succeed or fail depending only on the level of enthusiasm and interest in it.
Indeed. Let's get back on topic: the dumbening of cell-phone users. Wait a minute - "dumbening?". That's not even a word!
Actually this could all be a good thing for mankind, if Lisa's graph of intelligence v. happiness is right.
Unfortunately for whom? What you say is right, but I was only discussing infiltration.
Anyway, tanks and bombers are last century's way of getting what you want. Some dickheads haven't realised that yet *cough*dubya*cough*.
So in fact you would be better off being in plain sight, looking like someone/thing normal and harmless.Since that can be done very cheaply and without fancy technology, I think it will remain the preferred method of infiltration.
Or use both: A delivery guy with a cardboard box and clipboard can walk past while guards surround the guy in the suspicious skin-tight chameleon suit.
My guess is it doesn't.
I'm no lawyer either, but this smells as bad as Blizzard's bogus attack on bnetd.
Distributing a cracked version of someone else's software would be copyright violation. However, this is not being alleged here.
Distributing a patch for use on a legally-obtained copy of a program is only a violation of the DMCA if the patch circumvents a copy-prevention method. But in this case it doesn't. It merely circumvents one limitation of the functionality of the program.
It doesn't matter whether the limitation was intended to support a business plan - it's not about copy prevention so the DMCA does not apply.
So as you type away, the system decides the set of words you are likely to type next includes "fuck".
How do you stop your eyes immediately jumping to the funniest or most surprising word visible instead of the one you really wanted?
I know I couldn't. Everything I typed would look like slashdot browsed at -1.
(Moderators: for supreme irony please mod this post down to -1)
Anyway, heavy "palm" users only need black and white for text plus 4094 skin tones.
1) Biodiversity. We can have 3 kinds of elephant instead of 2.
:)
2) Economic value of a cold-weather elephant. Elephants as beasts of burden are a useful part of the economy in parts of India. Extending their range up to the temperate forests extends the total economic value of the species.
3) We probably ate all the mammoths in the first place. Maybe they taste good.
4) We are humans. We mess with things. It is good. Only very sad and negative people respond to every proposed endeavour with wails of "Why bother?" or "This doesn't help me!".
Moas next please, then some kind of unicorn or dragon
Exactly though. zilla doesn't mean godzilla either. If godzilla is the trademark, *zilla isn't.
But isn't the name of the fire-breathing monster actually GOJIRA? Japanese doesn't even have an L, for a start. So unless you spell Mozilla àç, you're probably OK.
In any case, NO NO NO NO NO. It's a cynical, bogus claim.
If Toho go after AOL Time/Warner I hope they (Toho) get slapped down hard in court rather than succeed in getting an juicy out-of-court settlement.
I sort of agree, but man, you just used a sentence containing the phrase "proactively respond" to justify a (hypothetical, admittedly) $20M IT expenditure. :)
One of the things you need to compete when budgets get tight is agility, and to some extent you can get that by picking flexible development tools like Python. It doesn't hurt that a lot of good stuff can be had for free of course.
But one of the things that will kill your competitive agility stone dead is not lack of technology but lack of skilled tecnologists who know your business. I'm just very glad that in a recent tight spot, the company I work for managed to hold onto its in-house programmers. Going back to the vendors for every little change would have hobbled them.
I suppose I'm saying that it's not what you spend, but what you spend it on. But that's so trite that I'm a little embarassed to post this now. Oh well.
No really, I am curious. To lose credibility merely by *comparing* PostgreSQL to Oracle or MS SQL? Hmm. Seems to me the original juxtaposition between MySQL and Oracle was purposefully intended to be a straw man - clearly MySQL is much less full-featured and aimed at a totally different set of applications.
OK, though. I'm sure you are not a troll but genuinely advocate the use of Oracle or MS SQL for all databases even in the low-mid range where PostgreSQL is (as far I have been able to tell) perfectly adequate. If so, the extra license money must be buying something truly wonderful. Care to share what that might be?
I'm not an expert, but since this is an area in which you are not 'clueless', perhaps you can explain.
I doubt they see it as a threat yet. But assuming they did:
FUD - everyone's heard it already. It's getting old.
Donations of software - thanks for the 100,000 free copies of your product A, Mr Gates. Now we can afford to get the free replacement for your product B working.
Patents - US software patents are irrelevant in the UK, and the threat of misusing them in that way just pushes the UK further from allowing US-style patents to be adopted.
Lobbying - Possibly. How effective it can be without large sums of money in brown paper bags, I don't know.
Embrace and extend - What, make new versions of MS software stop working with open standards? They'll just NEVER BUY the new software. Point gun at foot, take aim, pull trigger.
Criminal uses of monopoly status - Heh heh. That would make my day. The EU is already watching MS very carefully, and not likely to wuss out like the US DOJ. Attempting to use monopoly powers to interfere with competitive tendering in a member state? Oh yes, smart move.
Of course, it's a bit of a red herring judging the success of an open-source-related thing based on how much it will hurt Microsoft. The answer is nearly always "not at all, but so what?".
Yep, you want something that is simple enough to not overload your brain with details while you are trying to grasp the general principles.
Examples:
Python's Tkinter module (from within IDLE or just a Python shell)
FLUID, the almost unbelievably easy C++ IDE for libfltk).
There are richer IDEs with more features, but in their respective computer languages, these would be hard to beat for simplicity. I think there's a pretty cool Scheme one too, but I forget what it's called.
I have only one thing to say...
(places tongue inside lower lip and rolls eyes) nuuuuh!
Sorry for being so abrasive. Best of luck finding something better. I hope you torpedo the bastards good and proper when you feel that you can.
Oh well.
My vote (if Dr Whos were elected, that is - a new system of cultural democracy?) would be for Eddie Izzard, or Paul Merton.
Richard O'Brien would make an excellent reincarnation of The Master, though.