Great advice to give my mother or grandmother one day...
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I'm sick and tired of hearing about everyone's grandmothers, how their grandmothers can't use computers, how we should be thinking of grandmothers for every computer problem anyone deals with here. Grandmas can get their own goddamn website - this is slashdot, news for nerds, not news for grandmas. Why don't you go to grandma.com
to complain about how your grandma can't do a goddamn thing for herself. I don't give a shit about your grandma, and when I use a computer or develop software as a hobby, your grandma doesn't even enter into the equation
actually, GTK+ is "The Gimp Toolkit". www.gtk.org points this out. gtk was created after the original authors of the gimp got tired of Athena Widgets. after it was created, they branched it out, so others could use this toolkit.:) awfully nice of em, eh?
Actually, the toolkit they got tired of was Motif. This was back in the days of 0.5* (IIRC) which I used on Linux and Irix for a while.
Why isn't the Kernel development process properly accountable yet? Who do Linus and Cox answer to? Nobody, thats who. I'd like to see some sort of body set up that has soveriegnty over Linus and Cox, I am fed up of the screw ups over 2.4 that have been occurring all too frequently lately.
Jumping Jeebus on a Pogo Stick, what is the world coming to? Fork the code and release your own linux-derivitive operating system. You can slap any goddamn version number on it you want - just watch the marketshare coming pouring in.
I have no idea what your point about the air evacuating itself is. There is no probability, however small you think it may be, that the air from a room will somehow disappear.
Spoken like someone who has never taken Quantum Mechanics 101.
With transistors with dimensions on the order of a few atoms, I would think Intel would run into all kinds of problems with quantum effects, uncertainty, etc. I'm no quantum physicist, but I seem to remember that the properties (electric, thermal, electronic, whatever) of some substance only work as an statistical average for a substance, when you talk about a few atoms, all classical bets are off. Any given atom has at any given time a finite probability (although perhaps small) of jumping energy levels, spontaneously emitting electrons, decaying into something else, or other strange things. I guess it depends on how big the other two dimensions are (if they're not also 3 atoms). That would suck if 1/3 of the transistor suddenly split into some nitrogen or somthing
Several years ago, there was a project called Khoros that was being written by the university of New Mexico. One of the capabilities it provided was the ability to graphically create process flows: it was targeted at image and other data processing. You could have a source icon, draw lines to filters or other processing blocks. Each of these could have one or many inputs and outputs. You could do control statements graphically, write your own filters, etc.
I know the software was free, but I don't know what happened to it - I think UNM gave control to some company. I do remember it was X11 based, and pretty large. I havn't seen in over 5 years, but it might be something worth investigating.
I've finally achieved peace in this never ending war of limited mindshare - I've configured my desktop, which includes two monitors, two run Gnome and KDE simultaneously. That's right, I've got KDE running on one monitor, X display *:0.0, and Gnome running on the other *:0.1. This might seem like a huge waste of memory and resources to the casual reader, but this turns out to be the best solution I have found after over a year of flip-flopping between the two desktop environments.
If Only...
If only Gnome had a descent native web browser like konquerer - that kicks ass!
If only konquerer would remember how funking big I want the browser every time I start it up - this is an issue with a dual head setup
If only KDE would support multiple panels that weren't so clunky
If only KDE and Gnome would use the same sound daemon so I could use both at the same time - KDE uses kRTs (or similar), and Gnome uses esd - I have to blame KDE on this one esd is desktop independent
If only Gnome had a decent MUA - KDE had kmail which is passable, and a lot better than the Gnome equivalent
If only KDE didn't think they needed to reinvent every piece of software written for X under the sun - come on, do you really need to write your own screensaver, with both xscreensaver and xlockmore out there?
Why can't you guys just get a long?
In the meantime, I'll run two Desktops on two monitors - at least X support cut and past of text between the two - how's that for interoperability?
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Most of you haven't even touched Unix as a field--you've played with different distros of a _single_ variant of Unix (which very pedantically
isn't even Unix at all), which is about as significant as playing with the different versions of Win95. THERE'S A WHOLE SHITLOAD
MORE OUT THERE, and almost NONE of you posters have even seen it, let alone know enough to comment intelligently about it.
Anyone played with HP-UX? How about AIX (eek!)?
Tru64 is kinda different too. Then there's SCO Unix (if you can afford it), IRIX, and so on.
I don't know how you can know what most of slashdot readers or posters have seen, based on a rather small sampling of comments. I've done use/development/administration in various degrees on Irix, HP-UX, Solaris (and way back, SunOS), OSF/UNIX, AIX, Ultrix, Linux, and *BSD*. Somehow, I don't think I'm special around here - YMMV.
... solaris and most variations of UNIX won't even run on x86 will they?
There is an x86 solaris version.
HTH
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I don't know about where you live, but having a Driver's license is not required here to vote. All you need is some form of photo
ID
Hell, I wasn't even asked to provide an ID when I voted. They simple asked for my last name (coward), and then said my first name "(anonymous) is that you?" This was in Seattle - fraud would have been trivially easy.
I support the right of the president to get a hummer without going on trial. If you were smart, you would support the president's right, because your right to get a hummer might be the next against the wall after his falls.
Everyone should not be allowed to vote.. If you do not contribute to the system, you should not be allowed to have a say in the
system. Ie.. If you don't pay taxes, go home... NO one on welfare should be allowed to vote. Why should they be allowed to say
where my money goes when they are already getting enough of it.
What if you are so royally fucked by the system that you can't contribute - you then have no hope of changing it. Your ideal system is elitist swill - go crawl back under your rock.
Thanks to Ralph stealing votes, he has thus destroyed the economy by allowing Bush to win. Nader stole votes from Gore and
what is a bigger upset is the fact that he never even got the 5% they had hoped for. With Bush in office, we're one chicken bone
away from higher unemployment and a rotten economy. I can't believe anyone out there would have voted for a guy that looks like
the Queen Mother.
My god, I can't believe all the whining little twits complaining about how Nader stole votes from Gore and may have cost him the election. If you think you or Gore or any other fuckhead out there has any right to my vote just because I don't like Bush either, you are mistaken. If more people voted their hearts like (most) of the Nader supporters did, this country wouldn't be so fucked up with this two-party gridlock bullshit. Instead, the Dems, who haven't even lost yet, are already blaming supporters of Nader for their candidiates inablility to win the hearts and minds of an America split evenenly between tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum.
I think most Nader supporters would have "wasted" their vote on Gore if their was more at stake in this election, but there isn't really all that much at stake. Bush will do nothing over the next four years to turn a country split evenly down the middle away from him. Your opinion might differ, but fuck you for blaming me for your candidate's inabliity to win.
I would like to propose an addition to the slashdot moderation system such that any poster who introduces an "Al Gore Invented the Internet" article automatically gets a -1:Moron moderation. Give it a rest people, it's not funny or accurate or in any other way interesting.
"I think your demonstration is vastly oversimplified."
Of course, my example was simplified - I do not have time to present a full mathematical model in this forum. However, the prinicple I presented clearly demonstrate a problem with locally determined welfare systems. You bring many objections, only one of which is has any relevance:
"It completely ignores the fact that many wealthy individuals in County B may nave a greater
incentive, weather for business or social reasons to remain in County B, rather than move. By the same token the poor of County A
may have reasons to remain."
This is of course true. However, my omission of this fact has nothing to do with the validity of my claim. These other factors are completely independent of the pressure I described. As the saying goes, all other things being equal....
"It also ignores the fact that the poor of any region may be effectivly "trapped" there. By lacking the
basic necessities to survive, they would likely not have the fiscal means to move"
How can a person, who has no job, and no means of paying rent, be trapped in a county without welfare, when a day or two walking would take him to a county with a better welfare system?
"Also, this could turn out to be a self correcting system. As the wealthy move from B to A there will be a smaller economic base in
County B from which to provide welfare etc... to the poor of County"
This is your only potentially valid point. However, how can welfare recipients in county B move to County A where there is no welfare program? The answer is they can't. Sure, county B will soon lose enough income base to have a sufficient welfare system, and all residents who haven't moved will either find themselves working and losing most of it to taxes or now working and sharing a welfare pool that can't support them. County B becomes a wasteland - poverty stricken slums rife with crime (and criminals that venture to county A for sweeter spoils), etc.
"Likewise as the wealthy move to County A there is a larger
economic base to provide those same services"
However, the predominately wealthy or at least self-sufficient members of County A have no incentive under your system to provide for any welfare system at all. Moving to County A will do the poor no good.
"The main problems with a Federal program in this country, are inefficiency, as I already pointed out, and the imposition of a
"cookie-cutter" solution to many varied parts of the country. In a Federal program the poor in say, San Jose, CA receive the same
type of benefits that the poor in Ottumwa, IA, even though their economic situations may be vastly different."
Efficiency of the federal program could definitely be improved. But corruption and inefficiency can just as easily exist on the local level. Would a cost-of-living adjusted federally funded welfare system make you happy? Based on your first post, I would guess no, as it appeared then that you advocated that you shouldn't have to pay into any social welfare system if you don't want to, and that the generous hearts of your fellow Americans would be adequate to take care of the poor, hapless, unlucky, disabled, and/or lazy in this country. I, of course, disagree. YMMV.
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No offense to your grandmother, of course
Actually, the toolkit they got tired of was Motif. This was back in the days of 0.5* (IIRC) which I used on Linux and Irix for a while.
Jumping Jeebus on a Pogo Stick, what is the world coming to? Fork the code and release your own linux-derivitive operating system. You can slap any goddamn version number on it you want - just watch the marketshare coming pouring in.
Spoken like someone who has never taken Quantum Mechanics 101.
YMMV, IANMAQP, ETC
That's pretty damn funny - do you know where it came from, or did you make it up?
I know the software was free, but I don't know what happened to it - I think UNM gave control to some company. I do remember it was X11 based, and pretty large. I havn't seen in over 5 years, but it might be something worth investigating.
Or, for vi users:
kkjjhlhlba
Thank you very much
I've finally achieved peace in this never ending war of limited mindshare - I've configured my desktop, which includes two monitors, two run Gnome and KDE simultaneously. That's right, I've got KDE running on one monitor, X display *:0.0, and Gnome running on the other *:0.1. This might seem like a huge waste of memory and resources to the casual reader, but this turns out to be the best solution I have found after over a year of flip-flopping between the two desktop environments.
If Only...
If only Gnome had a descent native web browser like konquerer - that kicks ass!
If only konquerer would remember how funking big I want the browser every time I start it up - this is an issue with a dual head setup
If only KDE would support multiple panels that weren't so clunky
If only KDE and Gnome would use the same sound daemon so I could use both at the same time - KDE uses kRTs (or similar), and Gnome uses esd - I have to blame KDE on this one esd is desktop independent
If only Gnome had a decent MUA - KDE had kmail which is passable, and a lot better than the Gnome equivalent
If only KDE didn't think they needed to reinvent every piece of software written for X under the sun - come on, do you really need to write your own screensaver, with both xscreensaver and xlockmore out there?
Why can't you guys just get a long?
In the meantime, I'll run two Desktops on two monitors - at least X support cut and past of text between the two - how's that for interoperability?
I don't know how you can know what most of slashdot readers or posters have seen, based on a rather small sampling of comments. I've done use/development/administration in various degrees on Irix, HP-UX, Solaris (and way back, SunOS), OSF/UNIX, AIX, Ultrix, Linux, and *BSD*. Somehow, I don't think I'm special around here - YMMV.
If you had read the article in your link, you would know the answer is 13th.
HTH
There is an x86 solaris version.
HTH
Hell, I wasn't even asked to provide an ID when I voted. They simple asked for my last name (coward), and then said my first name "(anonymous) is that you?" This was in Seattle - fraud would have been trivially easy.
Yeah - you tell 'em - all Democrats are Evil and have no grasp or reality! Go 'pubs!!!!!
Take your Us Versus Them mentallity and shove it up your ass
What if you are so royally fucked by the system that you can't contribute - you then have no hope of changing it. Your ideal system is elitist swill - go crawl back under your rock.
My god, I can't believe all the whining little twits complaining about how Nader stole votes from Gore and may have cost him the election. If you think you or Gore or any other fuckhead out there has any right to my vote just because I don't like Bush either, you are mistaken. If more people voted their hearts like (most) of the Nader supporters did, this country wouldn't be so fucked up with this two-party gridlock bullshit. Instead, the Dems, who haven't even lost yet, are already blaming supporters of Nader for their candidiates inablility to win the hearts and minds of an America split evenenly between tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum.
I think most Nader supporters would have "wasted" their vote on Gore if their was more at stake in this election, but there isn't really all that much at stake. Bush will do nothing over the next four years to turn a country split evenly down the middle away from him. Your opinion might differ, but fuck you for blaming me for your candidate's inabliity to win.
In summary, piss off
All in favor?
All opposed?
The Aye's have it
There is your typical "new" democrat response. Who c
There is your typical republican response - make broad generalization that villianize your opponent
In the words of "Live" - this is not a black and white world
Of course, my example was simplified - I do not have time to present a full mathematical model in this forum. However, the prinicple I presented clearly demonstrate a problem with locally determined welfare systems. You bring many objections, only one of which is has any relevance:
- "It completely ignores the fact that many wealthy individuals in County B may nave a greater
incentive, weather for business or social reasons to remain in County B, rather than move. By the same token the poor of County A
may have reasons to remain."
- "It also ignores the fact that the poor of any region may be effectivly "trapped" there. By lacking the
basic necessities to survive, they would likely not have the fiscal means to move"
- "Also, this could turn out to be a self correcting system. As the wealthy move from B to A there will be a smaller economic base in
County B from which to provide welfare etc... to the poor of County"
- "Likewise as the wealthy move to County A there is a larger
economic base to provide those same services"
"The main problems with a Federal program in this country, are inefficiency, as I already pointed out, and the imposition of a "cookie-cutter" solution to many varied parts of the country. In a Federal program the poor in say, San Jose, CA receive the same type of benefits that the poor in Ottumwa, IA, even though their economic situations may be vastly different."This is of course true. However, my omission of this fact has nothing to do with the validity of my claim. These other factors are completely independent of the pressure I described. As the saying goes, all other things being equal....
How can a person, who has no job, and no means of paying rent, be trapped in a county without welfare, when a day or two walking would take him to a county with a better welfare system?
This is your only potentially valid point. However, how can welfare recipients in county B move to County A where there is no welfare program? The answer is they can't. Sure, county B will soon lose enough income base to have a sufficient welfare system, and all residents who haven't moved will either find themselves working and losing most of it to taxes or now working and sharing a welfare pool that can't support them. County B becomes a wasteland - poverty stricken slums rife with crime (and criminals that venture to county A for sweeter spoils), etc.
However, the predominately wealthy or at least self-sufficient members of County A have no incentive under your system to provide for any welfare system at all. Moving to County A will do the poor no good.
Efficiency of the federal program could definitely be improved. But corruption and inefficiency can just as easily exist on the local level. Would a cost-of-living adjusted federally funded welfare system make you happy? Based on your first post, I would guess no, as it appeared then that you advocated that you shouldn't have to pay into any social welfare system if you don't want to, and that the generous hearts of your fellow Americans would be adequate to take care of the poor, hapless, unlucky, disabled, and/or lazy in this country. I, of course, disagree. YMMV.