Damn straight. I actually miss the kernel update submissions and discussions from '98 - '01 or so. There were several good bits of information, or items that started me down a path that proved useful.
Well, I hope that I and the other cynics are quite wrong, that this will be a new book in American politics, not just a new chapter, and certainly not just a Bubba 2.0.
With that said, the cynics are cynical due to real cause. He did not become mentioned as a potential presidential candidate, before being sworn in as a Federal Senator, because he is outside the mainstream of the DNC. He certainly was not a keynote speaker at the DNC's 2004 convention, while an Illinois state senator, because he is independent of the DNC. He was chosen and groomed for the current role.
As many non-profit organizations, CCF is selective in its endorsements or support in order to maintain the integrity of its name and logo. We cannot lend our name to an event for which we have no involvement.
So, to roughly rephrase, quite possibly wrongly (keep in mind AD&D kept me out of trouble for a few years, good use for the imagination and all),
We have to be picky about who we endorse. We can not lend our name to an event we do not endorse. Therefore, we have to decline these generous contributions.
So, really nothing to see, say, or do here. It is a "Hey, thanks, but no, you can't use our logo, so we can't accept your cash".
Creating what seemed to be false alarms was once a common method for defeating car alarms. Eventually, the owner would think that the unit was too sensitive and disarm it.
So, you're saying that the OS is to the PC/laptop what gasoline/diesel fuel is to the vehicle; just a means of getting it to do something useful. Most people don't care about the brand of fuel, just that it doesn't cause a problem when they want to go somewhere.
While they are right not to care about the OS, only if their work is completed, it still is frustrating to those who like their machines.
Current OS's, either partitioned or VMed: OpenSuse 11, Slackware 12.1, XP SP3, Vista SP1, Ubuntu Hardy, Open BSD.
I prefer to deal with the physician, and then we work out the problem and cure/treatment. Anyone else is just in the way. The federal solutions that I have seen essentially create a nationalized HMO. I will not deal with an HMO, ever. My health care is mine, not something for someone else to manage. If I have a problem with a physician, there is no application for a new one, I just go. It is, in the end quite literally, my life.
Possibly, something like Social Security payments, where everyone pays in, would work to cover expensive items. Then again, we already have taxes. I say expensive items because, depending on how it is calculated, around 90% of the dollars spent on one's health care comes at the corners, the first years after birth and the last few before death. We should be able to afford the annual stuff. Those who could not afford routine care are already covered, sometimes poorly, by their state or county.
Maybe we need to define "Health Care" first before debating? Is Health Care all physical, and psychiatric care, or just care where recovery is 75% likely, 25%?, 5%?, or is it always required regardless of the likelihood of recovery? How about vanity/elective surgery? When we go national, these questions will have to be answered nationally and the answer applied consistently, not by each individual.
Initially, I just meant to reply about the sig. But, the sig. extends a bit more to the topic, OpenID being one signin for all websites that you choose to use it with, especially with Google forking it, more of one to rule them all. I know, it is a bit over the top, but it does make for some amusement.
Two significant positive economic events occurred during the Clinton presidency: Decreased DOD spending and huge Internet/technology growth and Y2K spending.
Neither series of events had anything to do with either party's politics or economics. Since presidency's are likely to never have the same historical events, broad comparisons are always flawed. Eisenhower also had several years of positive revenue.
The AC's post is correct, especially if the locations and race are removed from it. You proved a point that is, and will still be, missed by most; religion gives the extremist belief in life after their death but not cause for giving harm. The happy religious are no more likely to go blowing up stuff than the happy irreligious. They are no different from anyone else with strongly held beliefs of being right or just.
Two quotes from the Wikipedia on McVeigh:
He was picked on by bullies at school,[2] and took refuge in a fantasy world in which he retaliated against them; he would later come to regard the U.S. Government as the ultimate bully.[3]
McVeigh believed the universe was guided by natural law, energized by some universal higher power that showed each person right from wrong if they paid attention to what was going on inside them. He said, "Science is my religion."[14]
So, was it feeling unjustly oppressed that led to the explosion, or the some voice in his head?
Then again, how is terrorism defined in this discussion? The street gangs definitely deal in terror. That is how they control. Maybe there are quite literally a few million terrorists among us, and one just doesn't get the "terrorist" moniker until a triple digit body count.
That is the curious part, when it is signed in to law. That alone should be evidence of the one party system we currently suffer. Then there is the nationalizing of banks, again right before an administration change. It seems like these handover periods were always stall points, times of nothing being done, in D.C. before now. Now, big stuff happens just before the hand off.
Both parties are pro-business, and have voted to keep the consumers in line. I'm not sure where we are going.
This is partially related to Linux's slow adoption rate, the "Hacker" stereotype presented in movies and such. If "Hacker" was portrayed accurately as similar to say "Skilled Mechanic", would Linux have more adoption? A Hacker being the one who helps get more from the hardware/software like a skilled mechanic getting you 5 MPG more than stock, and a cracker (not mentioned due to USA racial concerns?) being the one who takes your car on joy rides and brings it back beat up.
I think that the true hackers need to new group moniker, something that we'll get and Hollywood will not touch.
Many thanks to Torvolds for the initial release and every DEVHEAD since then who has contributed code, bug reports, or word of mouth advertising.
Every file, every page, should have metadata listing any number of digital signatures. We should be able to easily see who created the data, who says that person is legit, and whether the data has been tampered with.
How would that work with regard to those who want anonymity? One of the strengths of the Internet is the ability to not be me. I may whistle-blow and not put my family in danger. Without a doubt, there would be far few flametards about if everyone had to present identification, but I do not see that gain being worth the loss of writing unpopular things without fear.
If components are interchangeable, they can be mass produced, and the price of them would fall.
With a standard design and interchangeable parts, they would also be open to third party vendors. Laptops right now nearly have Apple's hardware lock on consumers.
My desktop system has evolved over the last 10 years, since I last purchased a complete new system in 1998. The 1.44 MB floppy drive is the part left from the original. With a laptop, I'm thinking I would hit 100% new system every two or three years.
I've spent about $500 for the original and less than $1,000 over the last 10 years in upgrades, less than $1,500 total. I would have purchased at least three laptops in the last eight years, totaling around $3,000. And this assuming that we are paying in full, not financing. If you finance, by the time its paid off at the minimum payments, it is almost time to re-purchase.
That is what Best Buy and similar seem to want; consumers to lease the equipment, and not to own and upgrade/repair as necessary.
How many processes are running before you start any of your desktop applications? In desktop applications, I am not counting anything that automatically starts.
The reason I ask is that on my work laptop, company issued, 63 processes are running at boot before I start anything. This is on XP SP2, 1 GB RAM, 512MB ATI, 2 GHz Dual Core Lenovo. 1 GB is not enough with this load for XP now, not because of XP but because of the other apps. Clean boot to ready desktop, ready being no pauses due to the SATA HDD being thrashed, is about 10 minutes. +600 MB RAM is used before I launch a single app.
I'm just saying that you might have some junkware running on there, or like my work laptop, have a lot of "security" overhead. My home-assembled PC is far weaker by specs., but beats the Lenovo easily for desktop usability.
At home for comparison, quad boot, Solaris 10 (Java), XP SP3, Vista Home Premium SP1, Suse 11 (KDE 3 & 4). All the pretty effects are on for each desktop, all run just fine, and all are up in about 2-4 minutes. 2.4 GHz P4 with 1GB RAM, NVIDIA 6200 128MB. Vista and Solaris live on a PATA HDD. Suse gets the most use due to ease of administration and KDE's tweakability, but that is just my mileage.
I'm replying to your post just because it is the highest rated for this point in the thread. I mean this as an honest question as I have never found the concept humorous.
Why is male on male rape in a prison environment considered either funny? Why do some appear to view male anal rape as part of the punishment of being imprisoned?
I've not seen once the male to female or female to female rape shown in a humorous manner or as justifiable. Is it just the discomfort of the subject matter of male anal rape that gets the grins.
Interstate commerce links to federal highway funds and is used by the Federal Government to force agendas upon the States. I'll use laws regarding alcohol and speed limits for examples.
Rural states, like Montana, had a legal drinking age of 18 until 1987. Kentucky and several other states had a BAC limit of.10 until 2002-2003, when it changed to.08. In 1974 or so, the speed limit was changed to 55 MPH nationally. All of these changes were mandated, in a round about way, by the federal government to the states. The states made the changes if they wanted to receive federal highway funds, which they needed to build and repair highways in the states. I never heard of a serious effort to refuse the federal mandate and the state refuse to have its citizens pay that portion of federal tax. So, you would pay and then not receive if you did not change to the federal rule.
Whether these agendas are good or bad is not my point, only who controls them. Federal control of the electrical power grid could be good, or it could give more control over our lives to those who know nothing of them. Urban areas are not the same as suburban or rural, at least not for the small stuff like 55 MPH versus 65 MPH.
Should California, which pays a lot a federal tax and needs a lot of electricity, be able to control via congress what someone in North Dakota uses electricity for, or how much, or when?
That was why my wife chose to quit working. By the time the second car payment, insurance, and all those takeout meals were added up, we gained $50 a month net with her staying home and dropped those bills. Eating out 4-5 days per week for 5 people is expensive. Gasoline usage was halved. As for the reason my wife quit and not me, I made more money at the time.
I find it humorous when someone has to quit, work somewhere else for six months, just to be rehired for the same position that they left for a 10% increase in pay.
In 1994 I purchased a Mercury Tracer which had a spare key included in the owner's manual, contained within a credit card shaped plastic sheet. The idea was that this would be your backup key if you locked yourself out of the car, and you had it on you instead of in the owner's manual. It did work to open the door locks.
The statement in the article that no one has ever looked at using plastic for a key is incorrect.
Quite true. Our company's (not a software shop) plan is to cut staffing to the minimum to maintain the really important parts at their minimum levels, then use temporary contractors for anything else.
Offshore or outsourced, it doesn't matter. The work is done by an someone who is given absolutely no future with the company, no more than a day laborer seeking pick-up work in construction.
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Damn straight. I actually miss the kernel update submissions and discussions from '98 - '01 or so. There were several good bits of information, or items that started me down a path that proved useful.
Hehe, just wait another day, then dupe 'em. :)
Well, I hope that I and the other cynics are quite wrong, that this will be a new book in American politics, not just a new chapter, and certainly not just a Bubba 2.0.
With that said, the cynics are cynical due to real cause. He did not become mentioned as a potential presidential candidate, before being sworn in as a Federal Senator, because he is outside the mainstream of the DNC. He certainly was not a keynote speaker at the DNC's 2004 convention, while an Illinois state senator, because he is independent of the DNC. He was chosen and groomed for the current role.
My guess would be in the first two sentences:
So, to roughly rephrase, quite possibly wrongly (keep in mind AD&D kept me out of trouble for a few years, good use for the imagination and all),
So, really nothing to see, say, or do here. It is a "Hey, thanks, but no, you can't use our logo, so we can't accept your cash".
Creating what seemed to be false alarms was once a common method for defeating car alarms. Eventually, the owner would think that the unit was too sensitive and disarm it.
I do. /home belongs all by itself at the very least.
So, you're saying that the OS is to the PC/laptop what gasoline/diesel fuel is to the vehicle; just a means of getting it to do something useful. Most people don't care about the brand of fuel, just that it doesn't cause a problem when they want to go somewhere.
While they are right not to care about the OS, only if their work is completed, it still is frustrating to those who like their machines.
Current OS's, either partitioned or VMed: OpenSuse 11, Slackware 12.1, XP SP3, Vista SP1, Ubuntu Hardy, Open BSD.
I prefer to deal with the physician, and then we work out the problem and cure/treatment. Anyone else is just in the way. The federal solutions that I have seen essentially create a nationalized HMO. I will not deal with an HMO, ever. My health care is mine, not something for someone else to manage. If I have a problem with a physician, there is no application for a new one, I just go. It is, in the end quite literally, my life.
Possibly, something like Social Security payments, where everyone pays in, would work to cover expensive items. Then again, we already have taxes. I say expensive items because, depending on how it is calculated, around 90% of the dollars spent on one's health care comes at the corners, the first years after birth and the last few before death. We should be able to afford the annual stuff. Those who could not afford routine care are already covered, sometimes poorly, by their state or county.
Maybe we need to define "Health Care" first before debating? Is Health Care all physical, and psychiatric care, or just care where recovery is 75% likely, 25%?, 5%?, or is it always required regardless of the likelihood of recovery? How about vanity/elective surgery? When we go national, these questions will have to be answered nationally and the answer applied consistently, not by each individual.
Initially, I just meant to reply about the sig. But, the sig. extends a bit more to the topic, OpenID being one signin for all websites that you choose to use it with, especially with Google forking it, more of one to rule them all. I know, it is a bit over the top, but it does make for some amusement.
Way offtopic, but great sig. It even includes that the parties are not separate.
Here it is:
http://www.hex-rays.com/idapro/
Two significant positive economic events occurred during the Clinton presidency: Decreased DOD spending and huge Internet/technology growth and Y2K spending.
Internet growth + Y2K = economic growth = Increased tax revenue
End of Cold War = "Peace Dividend"
Neither series of events had anything to do with either party's politics or economics. Since presidency's are likely to never have the same historical events, broad comparisons are always flawed. Eisenhower also had several years of positive revenue.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy08/hist.html
The AC's post is correct, especially if the locations and race are removed from it. You proved a point that is, and will still be, missed by most; religion gives the extremist belief in life after their death but not cause for giving harm. The happy religious are no more likely to go blowing up stuff than the happy irreligious. They are no different from anyone else with strongly held beliefs of being right or just.
Two quotes from the Wikipedia on McVeigh:
So, was it feeling unjustly oppressed that led to the explosion, or the some voice in his head?
Then again, how is terrorism defined in this discussion? The street gangs definitely deal in terror. That is how they control. Maybe there are quite literally a few million terrorists among us, and one just doesn't get the "terrorist" moniker until a triple digit body count.
That is the curious part, when it is signed in to law. That alone should be evidence of the one party system we currently suffer. Then there is the nationalizing of banks, again right before an administration change. It seems like these handover periods were always stall points, times of nothing being done, in D.C. before now. Now, big stuff happens just before the hand off.
Both parties are pro-business, and have voted to keep the consumers in line. I'm not sure where we are going.
This is partially related to Linux's slow adoption rate, the "Hacker" stereotype presented in movies and such. If "Hacker" was portrayed accurately as similar to say "Skilled Mechanic", would Linux have more adoption? A Hacker being the one who helps get more from the hardware/software like a skilled mechanic getting you 5 MPG more than stock, and a cracker (not mentioned due to USA racial concerns?) being the one who takes your car on joy rides and brings it back beat up.
I think that the true hackers need to new group moniker, something that we'll get and Hollywood will not touch.
Many thanks to Torvolds for the initial release and every DEVHEAD since then who has contributed code, bug reports, or word of mouth advertising.
Every file, every page, should have metadata listing any number of digital signatures. We should be able to easily see who created the data, who says that person is legit, and whether the data has been tampered with.
How would that work with regard to those who want anonymity? One of the strengths of the Internet is the ability to not be me. I may whistle-blow and not put my family in danger. Without a doubt, there would be far few flametards about if everyone had to present identification, but I do not see that gain being worth the loss of writing unpopular things without fear.
If components are interchangeable, they can be mass produced, and the price of them would fall.
With a standard design and interchangeable parts, they would also be open to third party vendors. Laptops right now nearly have Apple's hardware lock on consumers.
My desktop system has evolved over the last 10 years, since I last purchased a complete new system in 1998. The 1.44 MB floppy drive is the part left from the original. With a laptop, I'm thinking I would hit 100% new system every two or three years.
I've spent about $500 for the original and less than $1,000 over the last 10 years in upgrades, less than $1,500 total. I would have purchased at least three laptops in the last eight years, totaling around $3,000. And this assuming that we are paying in full, not financing. If you finance, by the time its paid off at the minimum payments, it is almost time to re-purchase.
That is what Best Buy and similar seem to want; consumers to lease the equipment, and not to own and upgrade/repair as necessary.
This is the second Google hit, http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/enfuem/asap/abs/ef8004898.html
The link to the full text is below the abstract.
How many processes are running before you start any of your desktop applications? In desktop applications, I am not counting anything that automatically starts.
The reason I ask is that on my work laptop, company issued, 63 processes are running at boot before I start anything. This is on XP SP2, 1 GB RAM, 512MB ATI, 2 GHz Dual Core Lenovo. 1 GB is not enough with this load for XP now, not because of XP but because of the other apps. Clean boot to ready desktop, ready being no pauses due to the SATA HDD being thrashed, is about 10 minutes. +600 MB RAM is used before I launch a single app.
I'm just saying that you might have some junkware running on there, or like my work laptop, have a lot of "security" overhead. My home-assembled PC is far weaker by specs., but beats the Lenovo easily for desktop usability.
At home for comparison, quad boot, Solaris 10 (Java), XP SP3, Vista Home Premium SP1, Suse 11 (KDE 3 & 4). All the pretty effects are on for each desktop, all run just fine, and all are up in about 2-4 minutes. 2.4 GHz P4 with 1GB RAM, NVIDIA 6200 128MB. Vista and Solaris live on a PATA HDD. Suse gets the most use due to ease of administration and KDE's tweakability, but that is just my mileage.
I'm replying to your post just because it is the highest rated for this point in the thread. I mean this as an honest question as I have never found the concept humorous.
Why is male on male rape in a prison environment considered either funny? Why do some appear to view male anal rape as part of the punishment of being imprisoned?
I've not seen once the male to female or female to female rape shown in a humorous manner or as justifiable. Is it just the discomfort of the subject matter of male anal rape that gets the grins.
Interstate commerce links to federal highway funds and is used by the Federal Government to force agendas upon the States. I'll use laws regarding alcohol and speed limits for examples.
Rural states, like Montana, had a legal drinking age of 18 until 1987. Kentucky and several other states had a BAC limit of .10 until 2002-2003, when it changed to .08. In 1974 or so, the speed limit was changed to 55 MPH nationally. All of these changes were mandated, in a round about way, by the federal government to the states. The states made the changes if they wanted to receive federal highway funds, which they needed to build and repair highways in the states. I never heard of a serious effort to refuse the federal mandate and the state refuse to have its citizens pay that portion of federal tax. So, you would pay and then not receive if you did not change to the federal rule.
Whether these agendas are good or bad is not my point, only who controls them. Federal control of the electrical power grid could be good, or it could give more control over our lives to those who know nothing of them. Urban areas are not the same as suburban or rural, at least not for the small stuff like 55 MPH versus 65 MPH.
Should California, which pays a lot a federal tax and needs a lot of electricity, be able to control via congress what someone in North Dakota uses electricity for, or how much, or when?
That was why my wife chose to quit working. By the time the second car payment, insurance, and all those takeout meals were added up, we gained $50 a month net with her staying home and dropped those bills. Eating out 4-5 days per week for 5 people is expensive. Gasoline usage was halved. As for the reason my wife quit and not me, I made more money at the time.
I find it humorous when someone has to quit, work somewhere else for six months, just to be rehired for the same position that they left for a 10% increase in pay.
No, this is not surprising in the slightest.
In 1994 I purchased a Mercury Tracer which had a spare key included in the owner's manual, contained within a credit card shaped plastic sheet. The idea was that this would be your backup key if you locked yourself out of the car, and you had it on you instead of in the owner's manual. It did work to open the door locks.
The statement in the article that no one has ever looked at using plastic for a key is incorrect.
Quite true. Our company's (not a software shop) plan is to cut staffing to the minimum to maintain the really important parts at their minimum levels, then use temporary contractors for anything else.
Offshore or outsourced, it doesn't matter. The work is done by an someone who is given absolutely no future with the company, no more than a day laborer seeking pick-up work in construction.
Hey, maybe we'll at least be paid in cash daily.