Adobes responses was on the limit of beeing hostile.
Don't take that the wrong way. Adobe is not necessarily being hostile to Linux in general. It's just that when they decide not to do something, that's that until they decide to reopen the discussion.
We had the same problem at USL/Novell trying to get them to port FM to UnixWare. They decided it wasn't worth the effort, and we couldn't convince them otherwise.
Sure, some places will do special ports if you pay them enough, but every software house has to decide for themselves whether they're doing product development or contract programming.
Here, we use FM+SGML 5.5 on HP-UX, which can export Word 6/7. Don't know how well that would be received by Word <newer>, since I've never had occasion to try.
This is a great illustration of just how much of a Black Art color calibration really is.
Another example. I bought an Epson Stylus Photo printer to go with my digicam. I did everything one normally does to calibrate my monitor, including putting finer control over room lighting. I then do everything the FAQs say to do to get color spaces consistent in (Windoze) Photoshop and in the printer driver. I bring the digicam photos into Photoshop, get everything looking right, and presto, my son turns green when I print him out, even though I know he didn't eat anything funny or spin around too many times before the photo was taken.
It's enough to make me go buy a Mac, just for this one application.
(Sidebar: good luck getting Pantone to go open source!)
What you're missing is that the same holds true for larger mismatches. Suppose in district one, 66 people vote for Bush and 34 people vote for Buchanan, and in district two 66 people vote for Gore and 34 people vote for Buchanan.
By most measures, a 2-to-1 vote is a very strong mandate; the people in each district have told Buchanan to take his Nazi arsch back to the beer hall. Yet Buchanan gets to take 50% of the electoral votes to the White House.
The problem is more likely to occur when, as in my example, people are clearly voting against someone rather than for someone. It would also be far less likely to happen in states that had just a couple more electoral votes than Maine does.
What would be MUCH better would be for all the states to split their EC votes ala Maine.
Maine's system isn't perfect either. They have four electoral votes and two congressional districts. Once vote goes to the winner of the first congressional district, one goes to the winner of the other, and the remaining two votes go the the statewide winner.
So far so good, but consider this: Suppose there are 100 people in each district. In district one, 51 people vote for Bush and 49 people vote for Buchanan. In district two, 51 people vote for Gore, and 49 people vote for Buchanan. Buchanan didn't win either district, yet he gets two electoral votes while Bush and Gore each get one.
The electoral college has a lot of advantages (can you imagine a nationwide had recount?), but it is also rife with ways to lose the election by not having exact change.
choke the root nameservers with 100% of the address space
Just as DNS sits above numeric IP addresses, why not have something sit above DNS? This sidesteps all the scaling problems like the one you mention, but it still presents to the user a saner namespace.
Ideally, it would not only get rid of.com/.net/.org confusion, but it could take you to the most relevant site among many run by a given entity, e.g., typing "yahoo" and getting yahoo.com or yahoo.co.uk, as appropriate.
By giving your children [...] to daycare, you are explicitly opting out of taking parental responsibility.
I don't want to use too much technical jargon here, but...
Bullshit.
My wife and I overlap our work schedules such that our son is in daycare 4.5 hours a day. This hardly qualifies as him being raised by someone else. He gets loads of attention every day from both of us, but while at daycare, he learns social skills he can't get at home (where there are no other children). Our daycare providers are loving parents themselves who care for their charges as if they were their own children.
There is absolutely no truth to the idea that your child will be unjustly deprived unless one or the other parent is supervising him or her at all times.
I suspect that at some point, DNS names will be as hidden from Joe User as numeric IP addresses are now. (Setting aside IPv6 for the moment...) With increasing use of dynamic IP addresses, as well as 192.168.*.* and NAT, the notion of mapping a single name to a single address gets muddier by the day.
I think the next zillionaire will be whoever comes up with something that sits above the whole DNS fray, and presents the internet as a more logical namespace. Think of something in between AOL keywords and Novell's NDS, along with language and locale preferences. The zillionaire part comes when you get every browser/client/OS to understand it.
If nothing like that ever happens, then we might as well turn DNS into a perfectly flat namespace, because there's a Second Law of TLD Thermodynamics that implies that all TLDs will lose their meaning over time.
Couldn't follow the broken link, but no, any system where a a majority vote does not guarantee a win is broken (and yes, it has happened in US presidential elections).
Technically it's closer to military authoritarian states than communism.
Sort of. It's actually "state capitalism", which is an economy that operates like market capitalism, except that the state is the only corporation.
The SU retained many capitalist artifacts like the separation of the producers from control of the means of production, insatiable capital accumulation, erection of artificial barriers to entry into any market, exploitation of monopolistic power, the corporation/state deciding what's best for you based solely on what's best for them, etc.
Remember, Stalin was originally a bureaucrat, not a general.
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People usually don't like a resume saying that you had a bunch of jobs that lasted 6months to a year in duration.
It depends. When someone's resume shows they've had a lot of jobs in the last few years, I usually look into the companies. If someone goes from job to job because their companies tanked, or got bought by other companies the candidate didn't want to work for, I can't fault them for that. I know a lot of people who work for startups knowing that a) the company might collapse, and b) when it does, their next job is only a couple phone calls away, which means that overall the risk is lower than it looks.
OTOH, if they did six months at IBM, three months at AT&T then nine months at Sun before applying here, I'd get a bit suspicious.
There seems to be a loophole in there somewhere that one of the local newspapers is exploiting. It boils down to whose do-not-call list.
The last time I got a call from them I told them I had repeatedly asked them to put me on their do-not-call list yet they kept calling me.
"*We* do not keep calling you," the supervisor said to me. He then told me that the newspaper contracts out their (massive) telemarketing to a large number of telemarketers, and that none of the databases are passed around. This means that even though they're working for the same client, I have to get on the do-not-call list of every one of the telemarketing firms before the calls will finally stop.
I find it hard to believe that the client is not ultimately responsible, but apparently as long as they tell the telemarketers, "Just get us the damn subscriptions," they're not.:(
IANAL, but I suspect it's done by writing contracts in each country. In the case of the IOC, it's probably a precondition of your country being recognized by the IOC that you agree to let the IOC control broadcast rights, protect its trademarks, etc.
So here's the real question: Are we talking about something as innocent as a "What I Did on My Summer Vacation" page, or does the IOC have a legitimate claim to what the athletes "produce" at the Games just as my employer owns what I produce on the job? After all, I can't say, "On my summer vacation, I wrote the following proprietary code..."
it's about how far are we going to let business control our physical, private space.
Anyone who "owns" a house knows how little they really own it. My gas meter is inside my garage, connected to pipes I own, but if I do anything to the meter, they start by cutting off my service, and then make me pay for damage to their property. A similar situation exsts for my cable box. Not to mention what would happen if I stopped paying my property taxes...
imagine what would have happened if 40, 50, 60 years ago, Henry Ford declared the engines of automobiles off limits.
Mail-order catalogs have been doing this for decades. Your catalog looks just like the one your next-door neighbor got, but all your prices are higher. Slimy, but common, and it'll get more common as consumer data-mining techniques get more refined. Jack it up a dollar if your income is over $100K, and another dollar if your past buying indicates a lack of price discrimination.
how many of these MS platform applications can't be ported to a different operating system, are unmaintained, or are running on a version of Windows that needs to be upgraded?
Probably a lot, but they still count towards the 70,000. Example: A lot of cash registers are old XT-class boxes running DOS.
If a company is developing for a platform, and the platform changes, don't they usually just [...] rewrite?
Not if they don't have to. Why drag your customers through upgrades they neither need nor want? The only time you might have to upgrade is if their hardware dies and can't be replaced with anything equivalent, but even DOS 6.22 still runs on modern PCs.
Of course, there aren't 70,000 apps the size and popularity of Office, but think about every little custom thingie cobbled together to control lab equipment, or catalog research data, or whatever, things we'll never really hear about.
Many Unices claim 10,000 applications or more written for them, so 70,000 written for M$ OSes doesn't seem out of line to me.
I don't think Unix was ever built to have a pretty interface.
I think it was. At the time Unix was invented, there was pretty much nothing as elegant as the shell for users of other OSs to interact with.
Most OSs still used punchcards, or "glass ttys" that translated what you typed into card images. Even so-called "interactive" systems where you typed at them character-by-character on a terminal had the thing that read your keystrokes hardwired into the OS--the shell as a replaceable user process was a pretty radical idea.
Stipulated: Most of what made Unix fun already existed in other OSs, notably Multics, but Unix was the first thing to bring it all together in an environment mere mortals might actually have access to.
In any case, if a well-defined GUI is prettier than a pure CLI, then the Unix CLI was at least as much prettier than its comtemporaries.
I wouldn't blame this solely on Mozilla. Before I upgraded from 64MB to 128MB, I didn't have to do much at all in my RH6.1/gnome environment before it was paging all the time, even without Moz running.
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Don't take that the wrong way. Adobe is not necessarily being hostile to Linux in general. It's just that when they decide not to do something, that's that until they decide to reopen the discussion.
We had the same problem at USL/Novell trying to get them to port FM to UnixWare. They decided it wasn't worth the effort, and we couldn't convince them otherwise.
Sure, some places will do special ports if you pay them enough, but every software house has to decide for themselves whether they're doing product development or contract programming.
Here, we use FM+SGML 5.5 on HP-UX, which can export Word 6/7. Don't know how well that would be received by Word <newer>, since I've never had occasion to try.
Another example. I bought an Epson Stylus Photo printer to go with my digicam. I did everything one normally does to calibrate my monitor, including putting finer control over room lighting. I then do everything the FAQs say to do to get color spaces consistent in (Windoze) Photoshop and in the printer driver. I bring the digicam photos into Photoshop, get everything looking right, and presto, my son turns green when I print him out, even though I know he didn't eat anything funny or spin around too many times before the photo was taken.
It's enough to make me go buy a Mac, just for this one application.
(Sidebar: good luck getting Pantone to go open source!)
By most measures, a 2-to-1 vote is a very strong mandate; the people in each district have told Buchanan to take his Nazi arsch back to the beer hall. Yet Buchanan gets to take 50% of the electoral votes to the White House.
The problem is more likely to occur when, as in my example, people are clearly voting against someone rather than for someone. It would also be far less likely to happen in states that had just a couple more electoral votes than Maine does.
Maine's system isn't perfect either. They have four electoral votes and two congressional districts. Once vote goes to the winner of the first congressional district, one goes to the winner of the other, and the remaining two votes go the the statewide winner.
So far so good, but consider this: Suppose there are 100 people in each district. In district one, 51 people vote for Bush and 49 people vote for Buchanan. In district two, 51 people vote for Gore, and 49 people vote for Buchanan. Buchanan didn't win either district, yet he gets two electoral votes while Bush and Gore each get one.
The electoral college has a lot of advantages (can you imagine a nationwide had recount?), but it is also rife with ways to lose the election by not having exact change.
Just as DNS sits above numeric IP addresses, why not have something sit above DNS? This sidesteps all the scaling problems like the one you mention, but it still presents to the user a saner namespace.
Ideally, it would not only get rid of .com/.net/.org confusion, but it could take you to the most relevant site among many run by a given entity, e.g., typing "yahoo" and getting yahoo.com or yahoo.co.uk, as appropriate.
Let's not leave this to the AOLs of the world.
I don't want to use too much technical jargon here, but...
Bullshit.
My wife and I overlap our work schedules such that our son is in daycare 4.5 hours a day. This hardly qualifies as him being raised by someone else. He gets loads of attention every day from both of us, but while at daycare, he learns social skills he can't get at home (where there are no other children). Our daycare providers are loving parents themselves who care for their charges as if they were their own children.
There is absolutely no truth to the idea that your child will be unjustly deprived unless one or the other parent is supervising him or her at all times.
I think the next zillionaire will be whoever comes up with something that sits above the whole DNS fray, and presents the internet as a more logical namespace. Think of something in between AOL keywords and Novell's NDS, along with language and locale preferences. The zillionaire part comes when you get every browser/client/OS to understand it.
If nothing like that ever happens, then we might as well turn DNS into a perfectly flat namespace, because there's a Second Law of TLD Thermodynamics that implies that all TLDs will lose their meaning over time.
Couldn't follow the broken link, but no, any system where a a majority vote does not guarantee a win is broken (and yes, it has happened in US presidential elections).
Those of us who would otherwise spend more at the chiropractor than we do on our computers and furniture combined.
How, at that particular moment, you could give her anything less than your full undivided attention, baffles me.
Sort of. It's actually "state capitalism", which is an economy that operates like market capitalism, except that the state is the only corporation.
The SU retained many capitalist artifacts like the separation of the producers from control of the means of production, insatiable capital accumulation, erection of artificial barriers to entry into any market, exploitation of monopolistic power, the corporation/state deciding what's best for you based solely on what's best for them, etc.
Remember, Stalin was originally a bureaucrat, not a general.
It depends. When someone's resume shows they've had a lot of jobs in the last few years, I usually look into the companies. If someone goes from job to job because their companies tanked, or got bought by other companies the candidate didn't want to work for, I can't fault them for that. I know a lot of people who work for startups knowing that a) the company might collapse, and b) when it does, their next job is only a couple phone calls away, which means that overall the risk is lower than it looks.
OTOH, if they did six months at IBM, three months at AT&T then nine months at Sun before applying here, I'd get a bit suspicious.
The last time I got a call from them I told them I had repeatedly asked them to put me on their do-not-call list yet they kept calling me.
"*We* do not keep calling you," the supervisor said to me. He then told me that the newspaper contracts out their (massive) telemarketing to a large number of telemarketers, and that none of the databases are passed around. This means that even though they're working for the same client, I have to get on the do-not-call list of every one of the telemarketing firms before the calls will finally stop.
I find it hard to believe that the client is not ultimately responsible, but apparently as long as they tell the telemarketers, "Just get us the damn subscriptions," they're not. :(
Hey, there's your application! Use STMs to make new STM probe tips!
So here's the real question: Are we talking about something as innocent as a "What I Did on My Summer Vacation" page, or does the IOC have a legitimate claim to what the athletes "produce" at the Games just as my employer owns what I produce on the job? After all, I can't say, "On my summer vacation, I wrote the following proprietary code..."
Anyone who "owns" a house knows how little they really own it. My gas meter is inside my garage, connected to pipes I own, but if I do anything to the meter, they start by cutting off my service, and then make me pay for damage to their property. A similar situation exsts for my cable box. Not to mention what would happen if I stopped paying my property taxes...
imagine what would have happened if 40, 50, 60 years ago, Henry Ford declared the engines of automobiles off limits.
"Warranty void if seal removed."
Don't we already do that and even pay for the privilege (Hilfiger, Swooshstika, etc.)?
Mail-order catalogs have been doing this for decades. Your catalog looks just like the one your next-door neighbor got, but all your prices are higher. Slimy, but common, and it'll get more common as consumer data-mining techniques get more refined. Jack it up a dollar if your income is over $100K, and another dollar if your past buying indicates a lack of price discrimination.
Probably a lot, but they still count towards the 70,000. Example: A lot of cash registers are old XT-class boxes running DOS.
If a company is developing for a platform, and the platform changes, don't they usually just [...] rewrite?
Not if they don't have to. Why drag your customers through upgrades they neither need nor want? The only time you might have to upgrade is if their hardware dies and can't be replaced with anything equivalent, but even DOS 6.22 still runs on modern PCs.
Many Unices claim 10,000 applications or more written for them, so 70,000 written for M$ OSes doesn't seem out of line to me.
What would COBOL look like if it was in Japanese?
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I think it was. At the time Unix was invented, there was pretty much nothing as elegant as the shell for users of other OSs to interact with.
Most OSs still used punchcards, or "glass ttys" that translated what you typed into card images. Even so-called "interactive" systems where you typed at them character-by-character on a terminal had the thing that read your keystrokes hardwired into the OS--the shell as a replaceable user process was a pretty radical idea.
Stipulated: Most of what made Unix fun already existed in other OSs, notably Multics, but Unix was the first thing to bring it all together in an environment mere mortals might actually have access to.
In any case, if a well-defined GUI is prettier than a pure CLI, then the Unix CLI was at least as much prettier than its comtemporaries.
I wouldn't blame this solely on Mozilla. Before I upgraded from 64MB to 128MB, I didn't have to do much at all in my RH6.1/gnome environment before it was paging all the time, even without Moz running.