In that case, what elements of National Socialism do you find repugnant, and why? What, if anything, was reprehensible about the Confederacy's society at the time of the U.S. Civil War? On what basis do you say these things?
This article is nothing more than Hegel rehashed. This sort of thinking is the same thing that led to National Socialism, Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, and all the other despotic regimes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. rusty has fundamentally misunderstood Jefferson's words in the U.S. Declaration of Independence. If the rights of man exist purely as social construct, there is no reason at all to have any moral qualm with Nazism, the Gulag, the Laogai, or any other tyranny. Harry Wu is far better reading than this drivel.
This article has some glaring errors with respect to Tcl. Tcl has offered binary file I/O since release 8.0 (released in March '99; current release is 8.3). It also offers Unicode support, something not widely offered elsewhere, and a syntax that does not look like line noise.
Finally, Tcl is one of the few languages (on any platform) with a completely open source IDE,
including a debugger: TclPro! See SourceForge or Scriptics.
If you're looking at Europe (or anywhere else with astronomical costs for owning and driving a car, etc.), be sure that you can afford it. Better yet, insist that the employer pay for the car inspections, taxes, and fuel. In Germany, fuel prices are over double what they are in the States. Regular, stringent inspections on the cars can result in hefty repair bills. Taxes on cars are no picnic either.
The February 12, 1996, issue of
National Review, by far one of
the best periodicals available, was dedicated to
the war on drugs and even bore the title
"The War on Drugs is Lost". It is well worth
searching out this issue at the library (or via
back issue). It has much thoughtful
commentary about the drug war and the drug
problem.
That SAP wants to acknowledge that the information
in c't is correct, that SAP's SQL database
is going to be placed under the GPL
(that is, the LGPL). Up until now, the SAP
database came primarily in connection with the
Walldorf company's flagship product, SAP R3.
Above all, SAP R3 offers support for other
databases such as Informix, Oracle, and DB2.
With the SAP database, SAP, for the first
time, is freely releasing
source code.
Having been a Mac aficionado back in the early 90s (with a pair of PowerBooks), I still don't see why Apple is considered such the "nice guy" in these debates. Does anyone remember the look and feel lawsuits they brought against Microsoft, and anyone else who dared to use a WIMP interface? This was in the same vein as Lotus's successful look and feel lawsuits against competitors producing spreadsheets.
And one of Steve Jobs's first actions upon his
return to Apple was to get rid of the all the new
Mac clones from Power Computing and others. Apple is a tyranny no less offensive than Microsoft. I like the designs of the newest Macs (onboard and wireless Ethernet being chief among them), but the thought of seeing Apple rebuilt into their former image makes me ill.
Gelerntner is right, but he's basically stating the obvious. Only geeks like Slashdotters care about computers for the sake of computers. Everyone else is interested only because the computer gets something done -- communication, entertainment, etc.
But underneath all of this "getting it done", there's some kind of operating system, whether it's a simple program loader like MS-DOS or lilo or something more sophisticated. For many computer scientists, this low-level stuff is interesting, and it should continue to be so. Even the most interesting interfaces are reduced to pushing bits around on a bus at some level.
What's really happening is that the protocol is becoming the computer. The how not the what. To this end, Linux (and *BSD and all others that adhere to the protocol standards), promote the world Gelerntner is advocating. Microsoft's attempt to co-opt every protocol standard (through non-standard modifications) works counter to this. Common protocols build the foundation, however basic and "boring" it may be, upon which to construct all this interesting stuff.
Making a re-installable Windows CD
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I was excited when it came on my new laptop, because I would get the opportunity to try a Windows word processor other than Word.
What a surprise. WordPro was the worst experience with a word processor I've had in a long time. Even getting the darned thing to select only the text I wanted was a chore. I was so disgusted after composing a nine page article that I uninstalled the whole thing.
Don't look for Lotus to bring good apps to Linux. For commercial efforts, stick with WordPerfect. For open source, KOffice looks very promising.
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In that case, what elements of National Socialism do you find repugnant, and why? What, if anything, was reprehensible about the Confederacy's society at the time of the U.S. Civil War? On what basis do you say these things?
This article is nothing more than Hegel rehashed. This sort of thinking is the same thing that led to National Socialism, Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, and all the other despotic regimes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. rusty has fundamentally misunderstood Jefferson's words in the U.S. Declaration of Independence. If the rights of man exist purely as social construct, there is no reason at all to have any moral qualm with Nazism, the Gulag, the Laogai, or any other tyranny. Harry Wu is far better reading than this drivel.
You want to sign up for a Microsoft seminar (like their upcoming J2EE vs. .NET offering)? Gotta get a Passport. Guess I won't be going.
This article has some glaring errors with respect to Tcl. Tcl has offered binary file I/O since release 8.0 (released in March '99; current release is 8.3). It also offers Unicode support, something not widely offered elsewhere, and a syntax that does not look like line noise.
Finally, Tcl is one of the few languages (on any platform) with a completely open source IDE, including a debugger: TclPro! See SourceForge or Scriptics.
If you're looking at Europe (or anywhere else with astronomical costs for owning and driving a car, etc.), be sure that you can afford it. Better yet, insist that the employer pay for the car inspections, taxes, and fuel. In Germany, fuel prices are over double what they are in the States. Regular, stringent inspections on the cars can result in hefty repair bills. Taxes on cars are no picnic either.
Go read the National Review article on the subject. This is not caused by genuine deregulation.
The February 12, 1996, issue of National Review, by far one of the best periodicals available, was dedicated to the war on drugs and even bore the title "The War on Drugs is Lost". It is well worth searching out this issue at the library (or via back issue). It has much thoughtful commentary about the drug war and the drug problem.
You can read the title article by William F. Buckley, Jr., at http://www.worldpolicy.org/americas/usa/nr-drugwar .html.
That SAP wants to acknowledge that the information in c't is correct, that SAP's SQL database is going to be placed under the GPL (that is, the LGPL). Up until now, the SAP database came primarily in connection with the Walldorf company's flagship product, SAP R3. Above all, SAP R3 offers support for other databases such as Informix, Oracle, and DB2. With the SAP database, SAP, for the first time, is freely releasing source code.
Having been a Mac aficionado back in the early 90s (with a pair of PowerBooks), I still don't see why Apple is considered such the "nice guy" in these debates. Does anyone remember the look and feel lawsuits they brought against Microsoft, and anyone else who dared to use a WIMP interface? This was in the same vein as Lotus's successful look and feel lawsuits against competitors producing spreadsheets.
And one of Steve Jobs's first actions upon his return to Apple was to get rid of the all the new Mac clones from Power Computing and others. Apple is a tyranny no less offensive than Microsoft. I like the designs of the newest Macs (onboard and wireless Ethernet being chief among them), but the thought of seeing Apple rebuilt into their former image makes me ill.
Gelerntner is right, but he's basically stating the obvious. Only geeks like Slashdotters care about computers for the sake of computers. Everyone else is interested only because the computer gets something done -- communication, entertainment, etc.
But underneath all of this "getting it done", there's some kind of operating system, whether it's a simple program loader like MS-DOS or lilo or something more sophisticated. For many computer scientists, this low-level stuff is interesting, and it should continue to be so. Even the most interesting interfaces are reduced to pushing bits around on a bus at some level.
What's really happening is that the protocol is becoming the computer. The how not the what. To this end, Linux (and *BSD and all others that adhere to the protocol standards), promote the world Gelerntner is advocating. Microsoft's attempt to co-opt every protocol standard (through non-standard modifications) works counter to this. Common protocols build the foundation, however basic and "boring" it may be, upon which to construct all this interesting stuff.
See my Windows CD page.
I originally did it so I could see how Win98 runs in VMware.
I was excited when it came on my new laptop, because I would get the opportunity to try a Windows word processor other than Word.
What a surprise. WordPro was the worst experience with a word processor I've had in a long time. Even getting the darned thing to select only the text I wanted was a chore. I was so disgusted after composing a nine page article that I uninstalled the whole thing.
Don't look for Lotus to bring good apps to Linux. For commercial efforts, stick with WordPerfect. For open source, KOffice looks very promising.