Indeed this is just a random number series associated with various FOSS apps.
I mean really, are they going to claim that outbreak's calendar integration is patentable, I can think of 15 mailers that do calendar integration, no bother and that covers the 15 breaches of their patent.
As for UI/Menus really guys do you think you'll get "Heirarchical menus" past a wide awake patent court?
Don't Sun have a cross licensing deal over Star Office, so there go those
And if your trying to tell me that the Linux kernel infringes, where, in the drivers?
SMB/NET Bios was an IBM technology from '84
vfat, I heard you intend suing camera/flash card manufacturers for this too, but do you really want to start a war with (the much derided) Sony, they're also part of the OIN
Look I could go on playing guessing games but unless you are willing to stand up a case why in the name of Xenu should I take you at all seriously?
A more frustrating case is tar GNU tar has support for long pathnames whereas Posix/Solaris tar only supports 99 chars.
This can be an irritant if, for example you're installing tomcat on a client's vanilla Solaris box.
Yes Solaris has some truly fantastic features, however the GNU userland is just an easier place to inhabit.
Possibly but it has been remarked that the non-english forums on Ubuntu forums have very different threads. The english language forums tend to be more technical. Whereas the other languages, particularly eastern European languages, tend to be more about OpenOffice use, email setup and general application use questions.
I could be wrong but I think this points to a userbase that MS traditionally held onto.
Hence the reason you concentrate the salicylic acid from the willow bark by making a tea out of it.
Sorry to burst your bubble but water doesn't magically increase/decrease the concentration of active ingredients in the bark.
An infusion made from an unknown quantity of active ingredient is still an unknown quantity, unless you have an extraction/purification method that returns a known concentration of the active ingredient you still don't know how much is there.
From the text of the IPRED 2 directive
"Article 3
Offences
Member States shall ensure that all intentional infringements of an intellectual property right on a commercial scale, and attempting, aiding or abetting and inciting such infringements, are treated as criminal offences."
emphasis mine
Unfortunately it is not just those who are taking commercial from copyright infringement but those who do so on a scale which is considered commercial, file sharers for example, the notion that inciting copyright infringement is a crime means that Slashdot is now a criminal enterprise;)
From an outside perspective you generally appear to have a choice between two extreme right God-loving options. American politics is so far to the right of sane that, from the outside, I don't see how you can claim to have a centerist never mind left wing option.
This is not an alternative to anything, this is a chemical which can be found in yew bark. Do you consider Asprin an alternative remedy? it can be harvested from willow bark after all. As yew is a highly toxic plant I don't recommend chewing on it in the hope of a cure, similarly the concentration of salicylic acid in willow bark is variable and chewing on willow bark will give you ulcers as a result.
Bayer managed to patent not Asprin itself but the process of synthesising it. As I don't believe you can patent discoveries even in the US.
We use a bought in solution for this from Criticalpath, it gives us a web (Tomcat) based front end but also complies with RFC2445 so it can be used from applications and can sync to user's mobile phones from the web interface via sms gateway.
As a result you have to remember what's going on in 20 odd threads or scroll like the afore-mentioned loon
Of course my colleagues and clients top post also
In fact you don't have to scroll up and down to get the sense of what is being said otherwise
This means that judiciously snipped mail threads are legible in a single mail
Thunderbird post-posts by default
Assume the creative force that spawned our universe was a sentient being
Assume this sentient being is eternal
Assume that this eternal sentient being is interested in the activities of a species that evolved on one planet in this universe
Assume that this interest is primarily in the ethics of this species
Assume that mating and possesive ethics of this species are the primary interest of an eternal being with the ability to wield forces capable of creating a universe
Assume that the individual beings that evolved on this particular rock have a continuation of conciousness after death
Assume that the Eternal being decides to reward and punish those who behaved in a fashion that It found ethical
...
After this add your prefered theology's creation myth, revelation myth and demons with pitchforks (optional)
Alternatively shit happend and it's fascinating to try and work out how, I'm not a great fan of assumptions in explainations
I'm not sure why adoption in US is so low, but looking at the countries with high adoption rates in Europe, Finland, Poland, Germany, Estonia and even Ireland have large IT sectors relative to the userbase. This could mean that more nieces, sons, sisters et al are setting up their less clueful uncle's, parent's, brother's machines with the resulting prejudice's of the technical community in favour of quality and security being given free rein on what would, without their intervention, be "as supplied" OEM machines.
The Open CD is available to purchase or download. Lots of lovely OS apps for Windows and it comes with Pictures rather than marker, have a look through the site, distribute it to your friends and neighbours.
I'm sure there's ways or perhaps equivalents to Active Directory (OpenLDAP?), Exchange, WSUS/SMS and all that (and things like Samba for serving files), but I doubt it's easy to get it all up and working. It's deceivingly simple to get all this working under windows (especially with Small Business Server).
Emphasis mine, when a sysadmin has installed OpenLDAP and OpenExchange in a corporate environment they have accopmplished a task, rather than clicking on Next> Next> Finish>, however once they have been through this, not entirely arduous process, they have an understanding of what is happening, they can solve problems on the system more efficiently because they know what's happening under the hood. If the problem is beyond their ken they can ask intelligent questions about the problem.
The approach is different and perhaps for a small business in a non technical field Windows is a better fit but in almost every other case Linux is cheaper, and more efficient, and I include here the famed TCO. As competent (U|Li)nux admin can script themselves into idleness whereas a Windows admin, in my experience, is always frazzled and chasing their tail
Not quite a total "and me too" post though I agree with you more than I disagree.
I don't like the company they keep and while I have used SuSE since 6.3 because everything was on the discs I am a convert to Ubuntu at home and RedHat at work these days. I love Ubuntu as a hobyist, it's like the old days but there's fscking thousands of newbies some of them really surprising "What, you're using Linux?" cases, people who never read an INI file or lost their temper with RegEdit's clumsiness are diving in to Linux via Ubuntu and they're coping fine.
Then there's work, my own machines are an amalgam of CentOS, Debian and the beloved Slackware,(Colin even has a Gentoo box on the network somewhere) but the large clients are almost universaly RedHat people (one on Mandriva), funding our fun and games the lot of them and getting reliable, supported unix servers at a cost that is reasonable for what they demand.
It's late I've been drinking and I should stop ranting now so I'll finish by saying that Novell will never sell me a disc again but for some corporate clients the ease of use of sled and it's comfort with ActiveDirectory make it fit for their purpose, and if they are funding our fun and games let them at it, but personally I won't be giving Novell another penny
To wander totally off topic for a moment, (as I am wont to do), Top Gear started out pretending to be public service broadcasting, you know the sort of thing, consumer advocacy. But Clarkson et. al. have turned it into a juvenile pissing contest. Yes it's fun to see articles on ridiculous cars such as the Evo and the Veyron but it needs more coverage of the real world. More on keeping a 15 year-old Toyota going (not difficult) and less on the relative styling merits of the latest unaffordable McLaren Mercedes V's the BMW Mid-Life Crisis.
they do still do the motoring satisfaction survey, but one quiz a year on new cars is hardly investigative jounalism
What kind of fucking crack are you smoking? The date system here is the exact same. The only people who choose DD/MM/YYYY are the French.
We need an "-1 Uninformed insular idiot" mod. All European countries use the more rational DD/MM/[YY]YY format though the ISO YYYY-MM-DD is obviously the best, alphabetic sorting is equivalent to chronological and all that.
The frankly bizarre [M]M/[D}D/[YY]YY format is a PITA to deal with.
No, no other English-speaking nation in the world is on your side in this.. well, maybe Ireland.)
Nope, In Ireland football is a game played with 15 players a side and run by the GAA
Soccer is something played by delicate flowers who fall in a breeze and generally bring disgrace upon themselves and their nation and shouldn't be confused with sport being more in the realm of performance art.
Though footie as played in Oz seems suited to a bunch of ex-crims, they really shouldn't be allowed abroad to perpetrate International rules on others;)
Agreed Perl is at it's most useful for quick one line fixes, however when writing something *slightly* larger it can be useful to write the comments first, then add the code. I've written a few fairly involved scripts for internal use and other people have been able to maintain them because code:comment
You are not obliged to obfuscate and the speed gains rarely match the long-term inconvenience, I don't run Gentoo either;)
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I mean really, are they going to claim that outbreak's calendar integration is patentable, I can think of 15 mailers that do calendar integration, no bother and that covers the 15 breaches of their patent.
As for UI/Menus really guys do you think you'll get "Heirarchical menus" past a wide awake patent court?
Don't Sun have a cross licensing deal over Star Office, so there go those
And if your trying to tell me that the Linux kernel infringes, where, in the drivers?
- SMB/NET Bios was an IBM technology from '84
- vfat, I heard you intend suing camera/flash card manufacturers for this too, but do you really want to start a war with (the much derided) Sony, they're also part of the OIN
Look I could go on playing guessing games but unless you are willing to stand up a case why in the name of Xenu should I take you at all seriously?You should look at you kernel parameters ulimit -a As shipped Solaris is intended for big iron in a way that most Linux distros aren't
A more frustrating case is tar GNU tar has support for long pathnames whereas Posix/Solaris tar only supports 99 chars.
This can be an irritant if, for example you're installing tomcat on a client's vanilla Solaris box. Yes Solaris has some truly fantastic features, however the GNU userland is just an easier place to inhabit.
Sadly as the Month of Active X Bugs blog is illustrating this is true across all MS'Active X applications
I could be wrong but I think this points to a userbase that MS traditionally held onto.
An infusion made from an unknown quantity of active ingredient is still an unknown quantity, unless you have an extraction/purification method that returns a known concentration of the active ingredient you still don't know how much is there.
BTW a more informed (and partisan) view is available from CopyCrime.eu
From the text of the IPRED 2 directive "Article 3 Offences Member States shall ensure that all intentional infringements of an intellectual property right on a commercial scale, and attempting, aiding or abetting and inciting such infringements, are treated as criminal offences." emphasis mine ;)
Unfortunately it is not just those who are taking commercial from copyright infringement but those who do so on a scale which is considered commercial, file sharers for example, the notion that inciting copyright infringement is a crime means that Slashdot is now a criminal enterprise
From an outside perspective you generally appear to have a choice between two extreme right God-loving options. American politics is so far to the right of sane that, from the outside, I don't see how you can claim to have a centerist never mind left wing option.
Bayer managed to patent not Asprin itself but the process of synthesising it. As I don't believe you can patent discoveries even in the US.
Doh, forgot to check link, should have read Critical Path
We use a bought in solution for this from Criticalpath, it gives us a web (Tomcat) based front end but also complies with RFC2445 so it can be used from applications and can sync to user's mobile phones from the web interface via sms gateway.
As a result you have to remember what's going on in 20 odd threads or scroll like the afore-mentioned loon
Of course my colleagues and clients top post also
In fact you don't have to scroll up and down to get the sense of what is being said otherwise
This means that judiciously snipped mail threads are legible in a single mail
Thunderbird post-posts by default
- Assume the creative force that spawned our universe was a sentient being
- Assume this sentient being is eternal
- Assume that this eternal sentient being is interested in the activities of a species that evolved on one planet in this universe
- Assume that this interest is primarily in the ethics of this species
- Assume that mating and possesive ethics of this species are the primary interest of an eternal being with the ability to wield forces capable of creating a universe
- Assume that the individual beings that evolved on this particular rock have a continuation of conciousness after death
- Assume that the Eternal being decides to reward and punish those who behaved in a fashion that It found ethical
...
After this add your prefered theology's creation myth, revelation myth and demons with pitchforks (optional)Alternatively shit happend and it's fascinating to try and work out how, I'm not a great fan of assumptions in explainations
I'm not sure why adoption in US is so low, but looking at the countries with high adoption rates in Europe, Finland, Poland, Germany, Estonia and even Ireland have large IT sectors relative to the userbase. This could mean that more nieces, sons, sisters et al are setting up their less clueful uncle's, parent's, brother's machines with the resulting prejudice's of the technical community in favour of quality and security being given free rein on what would, without their intervention, be "as supplied" OEM machines.
Presumably someone who read the page and clicked on the vote link
The Open CD is available to purchase or download. Lots of lovely OS apps for Windows and it comes with Pictures rather than marker, have a look through the site, distribute it to your friends and neighbours.
The approach is different and perhaps for a small business in a non technical field Windows is a better fit but in almost every other case Linux is cheaper, and more efficient, and I include here the famed TCO. As competent (U|Li)nux admin can script themselves into idleness whereas a Windows admin, in my experience, is always frazzled and chasing their tail
I don't like the company they keep and while I have used SuSE since 6.3 because everything was on the discs I am a convert to Ubuntu at home and RedHat at work these days. I love Ubuntu as a hobyist, it's like the old days but there's fscking thousands of newbies some of them really surprising "What, you're using Linux?" cases, people who never read an INI file or lost their temper with RegEdit's clumsiness are diving in to Linux via Ubuntu and they're coping fine.
Then there's work, my own machines are an amalgam of CentOS, Debian and the beloved Slackware,(Colin even has a Gentoo box on the network somewhere) but the large clients are almost universaly RedHat people (one on Mandriva), funding our fun and games the lot of them and getting reliable, supported unix servers at a cost that is reasonable for what they demand.
It's late I've been drinking and I should stop ranting now so I'll finish by saying that Novell will never sell me a disc again but for some corporate clients the ease of use of sled and it's comfort with ActiveDirectory make it fit for their purpose, and if they are funding our fun and games let them at it, but personally I won't be giving Novell another penny
Psst wanna buy a bit of Jane Eyre, into something a bit harder, I've got Ripley here, try her and tell me what you think
they do still do the motoring satisfaction survey, but one quiz a year on new cars is hardly investigative jounalism
We need an "-1 Uninformed insular idiot" mod. All European countries use the more rational DD/MM/[YY]YY format though the ISO YYYY-MM-DD is obviously the best, alphabetic sorting is equivalent to chronological and all that.
The frankly bizarre [M]M/[D}D/[YY]YY format is a PITA to deal with.
Nope, In Ireland football is a game played with 15 players a side and run by the GAA
Soccer is something played by delicate flowers who fall in a breeze and generally bring disgrace upon themselves and their nation and shouldn't be confused with sport being more in the realm of performance art.
Though footie as played in Oz seems suited to a bunch of ex-crims, they really shouldn't be allowed abroad to perpetrate International rules on others ;)
Agreed Perl is at it's most useful for quick one line fixes, however when writing something *slightly* larger it can be useful to write the comments first, then add the code. I've written a few fairly involved scripts for internal use and other people have been able to maintain them because code:comment You are not obliged to obfuscate and the speed gains rarely match the long-term inconvenience, I don't run Gentoo either ;)
Yes but it can be difficult to get all the bugs into the system (with due homage to T.P.)