Comment: Re:Canonical swirling down to irrelevance. (Score 1) 354
Debian wiki on the subject http://wiki.debian.org/systemd
Also some extract from discussion http://lwn.net/Articles/452865/
Comment: Re:Dunno... (Score 1) 1110
I have used Windows 8 only so far as to install it, but in login menu the power and accessibility buttons were just flat.
GarageGames Starts IndieGoGo Campaign To Port Torque 3D To Linux 71
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timothy
from the if-you-want-it dept.
from the if-you-want-it dept.
Open source (as Torque 3D recently became) is one thing; cross-platform is another. Now, reader iamnothing writes "GarageGames is heading to IndieGoGo to port Torque 3D to Linux. The campaign is centered around hiring a dedicated developer or team to port Torque 3D to Linux. The primary target is Ubuntu 32bit with other flavors of Linux as stretch goals. All work will be done in the public eye under our Github repository under the MIT license."
Comment: Relations with upstream (Score 1) 319
What is the policy of Canonical regarding work with upstream projects, like GNOME? While some other parties are working quite closely with upstream (for example, RedHat is working very closely with GNOME, and GNOME is working closely with gstreamer), Canonical is inclined to make stuff in-house (SSO, online accounts, Unity etc.).
Comment: Re:Message to the intolerant (Score 1) 957
It's why every ideology seeks control of the education system. Hint... look up the Hitler Youth, or how communism took over education.
You don't need to look that far to see it in action. Look at scientific ideology taking over school system. Ideally every thing taught is scientific or at least not contrary to science of the time. Just because most on
Comment: Re:Google's own services as Advertisements? (Score 1) 292
In that case MS should be able to buy that advertisement space. If Google doesn't let them, then again it is a breach of EU rules.
Chicago Teachers Rip 'Big Money Interest Groups' 404
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Soulskill
from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.
from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.
theodp writes "The striking Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is holding a massive 'Wisconsin-style rally' Saturday as ongoing negotiations try to bring an end to the strike that has put education on hold for 350,000 of the city's schoolchildren. 'The 30,000 teachers, school social workers, clerks, vision and hearing testers, school nurses, teaching assistants, counselors, and other school professionals of the Chicago Teachers Union are standing strong to defend public education from test pushers, privatizers, and a national onslaught of big money interest groups trying to push education back to the days before teachers had unions,' explains the CTU web site. 'Around the country and even the world, our fight is recognized as the front line of resistance to the corporate education agenda.' Some are calling the strike — which has by most accounts centered on salary schedules (CPS salary dataset), teacher performance evaluations, grievance procedures, and which teachers get dibs on new jobs — a push-back to education reform that has possible Presidential election implications. The big winners in the school strike, Bloomberg reports, are the city's largely non-union 100+ charter schools, which remained open throughout the strike. Charter school enrollment swelled to 52,000 students this fall as parents worried by strike rumors sought refuge in schools like those run by the Noble Charter Network, which enjoys the deep-pocket support of many wealthy 'investors.'"
Comment: Re:To stop being sexist, stop being sexist (Score 1) 697
Seems to me that you are avoiding the question of WHY discriminiation is wrong. Simply stating that it is fundamentally wrong without a rationalization for why it is wrong isn't particularly useful. Sure, it is nice and simple to say that and ignore the whys, but it isn't really all that helpful to getting us to a place that fixes the problems that discrimination causes.
It's wrong because it violates the fundamental assumption that all people are born (or created, if you're a deist/theist) equal.
People are not born equal. That is a fact of life. Although USA is in high up in social mobility ratings, poor are still more likely stay poor and rich are more likely to stay rich. Ignoring reality and pretending that reality matches shouldland is silly at best.
Comment: Re:Maybe this is a US thing? (Score 1) 166
And your part of the world is?
Comment: Re:Too bad it's Affero (Score 0) 103
This is compelling but the use of Affero for the license makes onerous demands of the user. The implicit threat of a code audit is there.
What demands on the user?
Comment: Re:Atheism isn't a belief system (Score 1) 907
If the summary is correct, the guy is facing 5 years because of "God does not exist". This is a strong claim. And there are quite a lot of atheists in the strong sense of the word.
Comment: Re:Hopeless... (Score 1) 273
Closed votes can be worked around — company pays the party if the bill gets passed. If you want the money, vote for it and hope others will do the same.
Comment: Pentax Q (Score 1) 402
It really depends on what you want form the beast, but I would suggest looking into Pentax Q camera.
Strong side: really small (camera and lenses), solid, has controls of a DSLR.
Weak side: expensive, small sensor, not many lenses (without adapter at least).
Small sensor is not always a bad thing. It depends, if you want to fight with focusing.
Comment: Re:This has always confounded me (Score 1) 1319
You talk as if religion is some sort of appendix and anyone can easily put their belief away. That is hardly a religious person.
Comment: Re:GNOME Survey (Score 1) 315
What is the wrong with that exactly? If I want to run gnome-calculator, I don't type the whole thing, in my locale, all I do is press + k + a + . Four keys and I am done. With mouse and gnome panel it would be Applications (aim, click), Accessories (aim, click), Calculator (hunt, aim, click).