Good April Fools Joke!

http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030 … #doc_chap1
1. Gentoo News
Summary
* Portage 2.1 to adopt RPM format for LSB compliance
* Gentoo/PPC team restructuring
* Release schedule announced for Gentoo Linux 1.4_rc4
Portage 2.1 to adopt RPM format for LSB compliance
In what will likely prove to be a controversial decision, Portage 2.1 will adopt the RPM format for all packages moving forward. The use of ebuilds will be deprecated in favor of the defacto RPM standard. The primary driver for this decision was to ensure compliance with the Linux Standard Base specification, which mandates RPM support for package management.
The developers have been hard at work to make this migration as easy as possible. Already a proof-of-concept ebuild2rpm script is in place and being tested by a pilot group of developers. Unfortunately, because of the architectural differences between the two formats, some features will not be supported once Gentoo moves to RPM. USE variables are one such feature; sandbox security is another. However, the added benefit brought about by full LSB compliance should far outweigh the loss of these two minor features.
Additionally, because of LSB's required library support, the xfree86 package will move to become part of the base Gentoo Linux system, rather than an optional addition. Users interested in learning more about the Linux Standard Base should read the LSB FAQ or the full LSB 1.3 specification.

Anonymo wrote:
Sigi wrote:Yeah it's classic, literally: 2003-04-01... But it's a good one :-)
Sorry just found it today while reading the announcement:
http://www.gentoo.org/news/20080401-release-beta1.xml
Me too, that's why I saw it

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Hi everyone.
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BigDaddyLoveHandles wrote:
For starters, you can clean up equals with a helper method:
public boolean equals(Object obj) {
if (this == obj)
return true;
if (obj == null)
return false;
if (getClass() != obj.getClass())
return false;
Feedback other = (Feedback) obj;
return
equals(id, other.id) &&
equals(comment, other.comment) &&
equals(user, other.user) &&
equals(value, other.value);
public static boolean equals(Object a, Object b) {
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What is wrong the equal method, then?
Second, should equality depend on id?
Third, your equality depends on comment's id, not on comment's equality.
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New firmware update v20 for N95 8GB

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05-Apr-2008 01:46 AM
jericho wrote:
So let us all hope that the sensitivity is just right or we have to wait for a new release to fix it or settle for 3rd party apps.
So, V.20 for N95-2 isnt just an april fools joke?
no its not a april fools joke. It is real.
I hope it fixes the video stuttering as my phone does that too.
Message Edited by wah007 on 05-Apr-2008 02:28 PM

Bit confused about shipping practices...

Long story short: I was just told by FedEx that, although Apple had it shipped on Mar. 30, specified that it should be delivered on April 5.
Here's where I'm confused: That's five business days. I ordered two day shipping. How does that work?
In the FedEx rep's words, there was no chance of it being delivered before Weds. due to that and I should contact my "shipper" (i.e. Apple).
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HOW MANY PEOPLE HATE ADOBE NOW? raise your hands

How many of you love all this confusion and new pricing. I have used Adobe products since 1990!!!! This must be a late April fools joke.
[Edit: a portion of this post was removed. Please do not personally attack anyone, including Adobe employees.]

Ian C. Matthew wrote:
I have not posted on the Adboe forums for MONTHS as for one thing I don't like the new forum layout. And I used to be a fairly regula poster! Another reason, and I suppose this is good a thread to announce this, I have recently become ann EX-ADOBE user. That's right, no more mainstream Adobe programs for me, other than Flash Player.
Same for me here: long time Adobe user (since Photoshop v3), and nine months ago I decided to jump of the Adobe bandwagon. Funny thing is, I also only use the Flash plugin and that is the only software on my machine that crashes on a daily basis, often multiple times a day.
It is quite amazing how many loyal Adobe users have decided to leave for new pastures. I would have NEVER left, if not for the stupendously irrate and insane decisions by Adobe Corporate management in the last five years or so.
What do I use now? CorelDraw X6. I bought the upgrade at a good price and took advantage of Corel's CS4 or higher upgrade policy. What this shows I guess is that as much as Adobe thinks it's CC is a good idea, others such as Corel will will see this as an opportunity to poach former Adob users such as me.
For me, Photoline has been an eye-opener to me. None of the 3d or video bloat, and a strong focus on professional image editing features with a layer stack system that out-performs Photoshop in many ways. It's workflow is just better, in my opinion. Together with Anime Studio and Manga Studio I get superior painting and animation capabilities. For 3d work Blender and 3DCoat out-pace Photoshop by light years.
Honestly, Dreamweaver and Flash have been lacking and lagging compared to the competition for years now, and can easily be replaced by open source, free and commercial alternatives. Lightworks, Avid, Vegas: all great Premiere alternatives.
So do I HATE Adobe? Not really sure if hate is the right word. However, I do feel disapointed in them and indeed also a distinct lack of trust and goodwill towards them as a company and as a brand. If others feel the same, then this could be just as serious if not more so than just a matter of Dollars, Pounds, Euro, Yen, Rupees, Dinars, Rands and Rubles!
Long term, a loss of goodwill can do a lot of damage to a brand even if the business behind it is still doing well financially in the short term. People who use Adobe products may well feel less loyalty and as a result will jump ship as soon as a viable alternativepresents itself. I did with CD X6. Others may do the same with Xara, Gimp, Ikskape and so on.
Adobe's lack of a true justification or explaination of it's brave new world is also rapidly fuelling the anger and disquiet towards them. Not good.
Don't hate the brand name, or the hard-working developers and grunts of the company - the current negative mood is mostly caused by the corporate heads of Adobe and the shareholders. Their first allegiance is to the God of Money, not to Adobe's customers. This has caused Adobe to become a soulless glutonnous behemoth on a road to self-destruction.
There is no good or evil in this: it is the natural outcome of a wisdomless greed for more and more money. So the best approach to starve the "Beast" is to take away its source of power: money. Vote with your wallet, and invest in alternatives.
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Religious propaganda in JDK code?

Hello,
I have submitted a bug entry on the JDC bug database page, but have received no feedback so far...
I complained that the JDK source code as delivered by Sun contained politically incorrect religious references. I haven't verified yet, whether Oracle has taken any action to correct that.
Here are few example (from JDK 1.6.0_u17 (build 1410)'s source code):
package java.awt;
* Factory class for vending standard Border objects. Wherever possible, this factory will hand out references to shared Border instances. For further information and examples see How to Use Borders, a section in The Java Tutorial.
// "And thou shall follow Him, He who knows no border (Matthew, II,4.2)
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{code}package java.awt;
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I'm testing this forum for feedback, if the crowd joins I will escalate this issue at a lawful level.
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jwenting wrote:
sabre150 wrote:
jduprez wrote:
sabre150 wrote:
April the what?Of course I didn't expect I could fool contemporaries of Noah's Ark! ;o)
:-) Back in the late sixties or early seventies when I was into electronics in a big way, there was an item in one of the IEE journals for April under 'News' about a negative capacitor. The article described it's technical details, how it might be used and gave a sample output of the step response for a resistor in series with the negative capacitor. It showed the voltage across the capacitor increasing backwards in time from the point at which the step was applied. The article was so good that the 'manufacturer' kept getting genuine enquires from people wanting to market it.About 20 years ago here there was a major news story about a new fruit that had been grown that was a cross between an apple and an orange. All the TV and radio news programs carried it, major newspapers had articles.
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Today, my game center account just disappeared.
I started The Sandbox game app and it asked me to sign into Game Center. I noticed that there's something wrong so I close The Sandbox app and open Game Center app.
It also asked me to sign in. After I signed in, it asked me for my username. I noticed that there's something wrong at this point but there's nothing else I could do so I continue.
At the end, I got into my Game Center app, 0 Games, 0 Friends, 0 points.
The game tab still shows that game and points of the games that I still have on my iPad though.
Is this Apple's April Fools' joke or something?
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What should I do now?

PurpleJoe76 wrote:
I have only ever had one Apple ID. Therefore, I have no old Apple ID or new Apple ID.
That's not what you said in your original post:
"My Game Center account has been removed from my Apple ID and I was forced to create a new one."
Semantics aside: for the last time, sign in with your original Apple ID. If that does not work, then contact iCloud support:
http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/contact/

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