Yeah, I'd put hardware installation into the "Backyard mechanics" group. It's not that hard to install a hard disk, flash the bios, install a video card, yada. All you need is instructions.
The "certified technicians" group would be like "knows and programs nibbles in BASIC." They have a knowlege of how the computer works to the point where they sorta emulate it in code.
Then further on you get guys that can program for JAVA, Delphi, C#. These guys can do sockets using the tools provided, write shell scripts, whatever.
The assembler / hardcore C programmers would be that specialized talent. Those are the ones that write the kernel, implement your basic libraries, write device drivers, etc. Somewhere in his analogy, he smudged the line between putting legos together and designing the cast & die that was used to press the lego.
Additionally law enforcement would save tons of money becuase no more marijuana related crime (i.e. sale/possesion) would have to be dealt with.
Money would still have to be spent on the enforcement of the regulation. As long as someone needs a license to sell liquor, for instance, the sale of alcohol in any unlicensed establishment is illegal. The same would go for marijuana. Now, if a pack of 20 joints cost $5, then you'd find the actual desire for distribution by the shady people diminishing. Weed could be a huge cash crop, bigger than tobacco. It grows in any climate, not having the restrictions in maintenance that tobacco has.
Only then would we not really have to be concerned with the enforcement of drug control.
Another good way to do it is to charge for institutions of higher learning for CA high school grads. Only a few actually do it, whereas any UC school gets you free education. Yes, this is progressive thought, but it's also an expensive pipe dream. Most the rest of the country charges an amount, albeit less than a private instution, for higher education.
Another good way to do it is to cut the pork in government. A lovely thing about beauracracy is it's ability to grow, yet do the same damn thing. Sure, it takes jobs away from those people in that federal building that keep the cubicle chairs warm, but perhaps those people would better serve the state doing a real job.
Lastly, I'd tax the hell out of the humongous media companies. I'd levy a fine for each shitty movie that comes out (heh... not really, but it'd be funny). That way, the MPAA would really feel the sting of something like Gigli, and the RIAA would feel the pain that is... the RIAA!
I'll lose my mod point, but I think this is worth it.
It's a prideful declaration that modern man knows more about what God wants from us than the authors of the Bible itself!
If you want to be serious about Christianity, as it seems you are, then you'd say that God himself wrote the Bible. This is the view of the Catholic church, as well as the majority of Lutheran synods. The thought that it wasn't God himself springs from Gnostic roots, something that is entirely un-Christian.
As a Christian, I believe that homosexuality is immoral. In a twist, however, I don't believe that it's the government's job of enforcing my values. I wouldn't vote for someone who promotes it, but I also wouldn't condemn them. The gay marriage that Georgy refers to is the marriage by the state, not marriage by the Church. These are different animals, as you may have noticed that you have to get a marriage license in order for the government to legally recognize you as married.
Another point of Christianity is that you are completely lost in sin, regardless of the kind of sin. Stealing, lying, cheating, fornication, murder, etc... there is no distinction between them in the eyes of God. Everyone sins every day. The Bible says that we were born into death through sin. Homosexuality is just another one of those things.
What I don't agree with the conservatives about is the judging that they levy. It is not my place to lay moral judgement on anyone. This is even elaborated in the Bible by the Man Himself... "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone," or "Before pointing out the speck in your brother's eye, concern yourself with the plank in your own."
The judgement of God lays with God himself, not I, and not the Government. I think the conservatives like to take bits and peices of the Bible to build their beliefs, but never bother to read the whole thing. For a religion that is centered on Love, there are a surprising number of hateful Christians
The board of directors for the major chain store 7-11 have decided to rename to 7-OneOne. In the press release, the press liaison for the company has declared, "One has become an integral part of an innovative brand name. We feel that we will march proudly into the future knowing that we have TWO ones in our name."
Other companies making the bow to "One" include Sun, Palm, and Be. They are all known as SunOne, palmOne, and Bone, respectively.
The reason for preserving a fetus is the same reason why you cherish the modification you made to your case, or why people think that artwork is so valuable. People would walk away in disgust if someone threw a chair through a Picasso. It's a unique peice of work, completely different from all the rest.
The embryo/fetus is a completely unique set of human genes. For this reason alone, it is worth preserving. It is as valuable to the parents as a painting was to Picasso, unless the parents are fucked in the head. From the moment of conception, a child is special, and ought to be saved. It may have a parasitic existance for the first 9 months, but there's no reason that being parasitic is bad. I could state that you are parasitic to the Earth, unnecessary (since you're just a pile of cells), and very eligible for removal.
Your argument lacks scope, and is rather self-centric.
advertised to work with 98/ME, and I bought it in July 2000.
You're running 98 or ME (not much difference), and you expect your machine not to crash? It sounds like you need a real operating system before you can start to get self-righteous about ATI.
So, now we know who's behind this Blaster thing. I imagine that you just like your name in the news. "There is a myriad of worms, trojans, and viruses out there..."
Last time I checked, it was wu_ftpd that had the vulnerability, not Linux. It doesn't matter if you were running it on Cygwin, *BSD, HURD, or Linux. Geesh. Stop calling everything OS Linux, because it isn't.
Heh. Not only can MS updates break things, there are other factors that come into play here. We have an http uploading control that we use in conjunction with a web application. It relied upon IIS's willingness to accept malformed HTTP headers (there was an extra null character appended to the end). It was a bug that was uncaught, because IIS accepted those headers.
MS released a patch about a month ago that tightened the security of IIS. I've got no problem with that. Instead of accepting malformed headers, it denied all of them. This broke the control that we were using, causing a down time for our production application.
It probably cost us a bit of money. It was not directly caused by a MS patch, I'm more inclined to blame the company that produced the control. The fact of the matter, however, was that a MS patch was applied without being tested in a production environment. Something broke. It's best to do some QA on your systems before updating, even if MS isn't the one at fault. It's just good practice, and can save your butt in the long run.
our best buddy, Billy G. was found the be the head of a convicted monopolist corporation. It just completely sucks that the government let them off easy (at least there is still hope for Europe).
Keep in mind that having a monopoly is not illegal. Being found "guilty" was not in regards to them being a monopoly, everyone knew that they were. They were found guilty for abusing their monopolistic powers. Government has a monopoly on writing law, but it's a rather benevolent monopoly, so no people complain.
Bill is ruthless, yes, but don't go shooting at him with the wrong bullets.
I'm impressed by some of the things you say in your blog, I really like that "how much you pay for a vote," type of thing. I was really wondering though...
Will you go out with me?
I know I'm some unknown geek out in cyberspace, but don't let that stand in the way. Hell, the question stands whether you win or loose.
First, you don't need to install anything that you don't want to. You won't get a beta version of the compiler unless you specifically ask for it.
Updates exist for all software that is listed in Portage. Every now an then, you could look at the package.mask file to see which programs are going extinct (and very few of them at that).
You have a variety of Kernel source packages to choose from. Each one is different in a way, but even then it's really up to you to make the decisions on what makes it in, and what doesn't. Yes, configuring and compiling a kernel is something that n00bs don't want to do, but I believe that Gentoo is actually providing an auto-compile option now.
X is configured by you for your machine. This can also be a pain in the ass, but seriously... running xf86config from the command line is not that difficult. I remember doing it for the first time, back when I was installing Red Hat 4. Sure, I thought it was odd that X needed the horizontal and vertical frequencies of my monitor, but that information wasn't terribly hard to get. If you can get X working with gentoo, which isn't that hard, it's more than likely that you won't suffer from unusual crashes and such (unless it truly is a hardware problem.)
Lastly, Gentoo user support is excellent. I once subscribed to the Gentoo-users mailing list, and noticed that though there were a pile of noobs asking questions, there was always someone there who replied with a quick solution. I unsubscribed after a couple days, mostly because I ended up with a folder that had a couple thousand messages in it (just from the mailing list). The forums are a good source of info too.
Yeah, it's a dastardly shameless plug of Gentoo. I'm not ashamed, though, because the whole organization offers those services that you usually have to pay for with other distros for free, and the support also doesn't suck.
Another method used in shorting is "Borrowing." This is where an investor can sell someone else's stock, buy it back later at a cheaper price, and give back to the person who originally owned it.
Interesting. If I purchase one share of SCO, then I would be in the "Co-Owner" group of people. If I'm a co-owner of SCO, then why would I have to pay licensing fees for a product that is produced by a company that I happen to "own" a part of?
Following this, I could plunck down $10-15, or whatever the cost is for a share and avoid having the $699 thrown at me. I don't think that SCO would benefit too much from me just buying one share...
Oh, wait. Then my portfolio would stink with the stench of evil. I guess I won't do that, and give SCO the finger instead. It's my $10 after all.:-)
I'm gonna say this for the millions of people around the globe that are in the know about this:
What the Fuck?
Doing dumb shit to the federal government is not going to get them out of the doghouse any sooner. What are they thinking? They have IP in embedded linux? Last time I checked, most embedded systems were On the chip. They also have no need of JFS. Lessee... The IP claims that SCO made were on SMP and JFS.
We put two and two together, and we get $39. I just want to give this Darl dude a set of major noogies.
And if the kernel is mostly hijacked code from SCO, why is it so much better than the SCO product? Oh, you say that SCO has rights to anything written by anyone who holds a SCO license?
Am I mistaken, but should not corporations have the same constitutional rights as individuals?
You are mistaken, and a fool if you believe this. The preamble starts off like this:
We, the people of the United States...
And not like this:
We the entities of the United States...
The constitution gaurantees the rights of every person of the United States, but not companies, dogs, cats, corporations, etc. Corporations are not people.
Um... More like 4 hours. That's about how long it takes to download and compile the GNU OS. Once that's done, you have a fully usable system.
If you want X installed, which is completely optional and unnecessary, it'll be another 8 hours or so. All in all, it just takes a good day to do, not weeks.
Gentoo's had the source available in portage since test 1 was released. It works too.
The only problem is that you need to use the open nvidia drivers, since the old drivers are not compatible. Who knows when Nvidia will release a version for this kernel.:sigh:
Notice that the article says "F-22 Prototype." This was an "X" plane still, and was destined to become the F-22. Lockheed Martin was in a stiff competition with Boeing for the contract on this plane, and both had produced a unique prototype.
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And you forgot that you had hot grits for breakfast.
heh. From "he who wishes to remain anonymous."
Don't worry, I won't tell her either. ;-)
Yeah, I'd put hardware installation into the "Backyard mechanics" group. It's not that hard to install a hard disk, flash the bios, install a video card, yada. All you need is instructions.
The "certified technicians" group would be like "knows and programs nibbles in BASIC." They have a knowlege of how the computer works to the point where they sorta emulate it in code.
Then further on you get guys that can program for JAVA, Delphi, C#. These guys can do sockets using the tools provided, write shell scripts, whatever.
The assembler / hardcore C programmers would be that specialized talent. Those are the ones that write the kernel, implement your basic libraries, write device drivers, etc. Somewhere in his analogy, he smudged the line between putting legos together and designing the cast & die that was used to press the lego.
Additionally law enforcement would save tons of money becuase no more marijuana related crime (i.e. sale/possesion) would have to be dealt with.
Money would still have to be spent on the enforcement of the regulation. As long as someone needs a license to sell liquor, for instance, the sale of alcohol in any unlicensed establishment is illegal. The same would go for marijuana. Now, if a pack of 20 joints cost $5, then you'd find the actual desire for distribution by the shady people diminishing. Weed could be a huge cash crop, bigger than tobacco. It grows in any climate, not having the restrictions in maintenance that tobacco has.
Only then would we not really have to be concerned with the enforcement of drug control.
Another good way to do it is to charge for institutions of higher learning for CA high school grads. Only a few actually do it, whereas any UC school gets you free education. Yes, this is progressive thought, but it's also an expensive pipe dream. Most the rest of the country charges an amount, albeit less than a private instution, for higher education.
Another good way to do it is to cut the pork in government. A lovely thing about beauracracy is it's ability to grow, yet do the same damn thing. Sure, it takes jobs away from those people in that federal building that keep the cubicle chairs warm, but perhaps those people would better serve the state doing a real job.
Lastly, I'd tax the hell out of the humongous media companies. I'd levy a fine for each shitty movie that comes out (heh... not really, but it'd be funny). That way, the MPAA would really feel the sting of something like Gigli, and the RIAA would feel the pain that is ... the RIAA!
I'll lose my mod point, but I think this is worth it.
It's a prideful declaration that modern man knows more about what God wants from us than the authors of the Bible itself!
If you want to be serious about Christianity, as it seems you are, then you'd say that God himself wrote the Bible. This is the view of the Catholic church, as well as the majority of Lutheran synods. The thought that it wasn't God himself springs from Gnostic roots, something that is entirely un-Christian.
As a Christian, I believe that homosexuality is immoral. In a twist, however, I don't believe that it's the government's job of enforcing my values. I wouldn't vote for someone who promotes it, but I also wouldn't condemn them. The gay marriage that Georgy refers to is the marriage by the state, not marriage by the Church. These are different animals, as you may have noticed that you have to get a marriage license in order for the government to legally recognize you as married.
Another point of Christianity is that you are completely lost in sin, regardless of the kind of sin. Stealing, lying, cheating, fornication, murder, etc... there is no distinction between them in the eyes of God. Everyone sins every day. The Bible says that we were born into death through sin. Homosexuality is just another one of those things.
What I don't agree with the conservatives about is the judging that they levy. It is not my place to lay moral judgement on anyone. This is even elaborated in the Bible by the Man Himself... "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone," or "Before pointing out the speck in your brother's eye, concern yourself with the plank in your own."
The judgement of God lays with God himself, not I, and not the Government. I think the conservatives like to take bits and peices of the Bible to build their beliefs, but never bother to read the whole thing. For a religion that is centered on Love, there are a surprising number of hateful Christians
In breaking news:
The board of directors for the major chain store 7-11 have decided to rename to 7-OneOne. In the press release, the press liaison for the company has declared, "One has become an integral part of an innovative brand name. We feel that we will march proudly into the future knowing that we have TWO ones in our name."
Other companies making the bow to "One" include Sun, Palm, and Be. They are all known as SunOne, palmOne, and Bone, respectively.
What a peice of flamebait.
The reason for preserving a fetus is the same reason why you cherish the modification you made to your case, or why people think that artwork is so valuable. People would walk away in disgust if someone threw a chair through a Picasso. It's a unique peice of work, completely different from all the rest.
The embryo/fetus is a completely unique set of human genes. For this reason alone, it is worth preserving. It is as valuable to the parents as a painting was to Picasso, unless the parents are fucked in the head. From the moment of conception, a child is special, and ought to be saved. It may have a parasitic existance for the first 9 months, but there's no reason that being parasitic is bad. I could state that you are parasitic to the Earth, unnecessary (since you're just a pile of cells), and very eligible for removal.
Your argument lacks scope, and is rather self-centric.
advertised to work with 98/ME, and I bought it in July 2000.
You're running 98 or ME (not much difference), and you expect your machine not to crash? It sounds like you need a real operating system before you can start to get self-righteous about ATI.
I was about to say...
I they've got them to stop development.
So, now we know who's behind this Blaster thing. I imagine that you just like your name in the news. "There is a myriad of worms, trojans, and viruses out there..."
Last time I checked, it was wu_ftpd that had the vulnerability, not Linux. It doesn't matter if you were running it on Cygwin, *BSD, HURD, or Linux. Geesh. Stop calling everything OS Linux, because it isn't.
Heh. Not only can MS updates break things, there are other factors that come into play here. We have an http uploading control that we use in conjunction with a web application. It relied upon IIS's willingness to accept malformed HTTP headers (there was an extra null character appended to the end). It was a bug that was uncaught, because IIS accepted those headers.
MS released a patch about a month ago that tightened the security of IIS. I've got no problem with that. Instead of accepting malformed headers, it denied all of them. This broke the control that we were using, causing a down time for our production application.
It probably cost us a bit of money. It was not directly caused by a MS patch, I'm more inclined to blame the company that produced the control. The fact of the matter, however, was that a MS patch was applied without being tested in a production environment. Something broke. It's best to do some QA on your systems before updating, even if MS isn't the one at fault. It's just good practice, and can save your butt in the long run.
our best buddy, Billy G. was found the be the head of a convicted monopolist corporation. It just completely sucks that the government let them off easy (at least there is still hope for Europe).
Keep in mind that having a monopoly is not illegal. Being found "guilty" was not in regards to them being a monopoly, everyone knew that they were. They were found guilty for abusing their monopolistic powers. Government has a monopoly on writing law, but it's a rather benevolent monopoly, so no people complain.
Bill is ruthless, yes, but don't go shooting at him with the wrong bullets.
I'm impressed by some of the things you say in your blog, I really like that "how much you pay for a vote," type of thing. I was really wondering though...
I know I'm some unknown geek out in cyberspace, but don't let that stand in the way. Hell, the question stands whether you win or loose.
Hmm... B&W image elevation abstraction. Pretty cool.
I've got more comments to add about Gentoo.
First, you don't need to install anything that you don't want to. You won't get a beta version of the compiler unless you specifically ask for it.
Updates exist for all software that is listed in Portage. Every now an then, you could look at the package.mask file to see which programs are going extinct (and very few of them at that).
You have a variety of Kernel source packages to choose from. Each one is different in a way, but even then it's really up to you to make the decisions on what makes it in, and what doesn't. Yes, configuring and compiling a kernel is something that n00bs don't want to do, but I believe that Gentoo is actually providing an auto-compile option now.
X is configured by you for your machine. This can also be a pain in the ass, but seriously... running xf86config from the command line is not that difficult. I remember doing it for the first time, back when I was installing Red Hat 4. Sure, I thought it was odd that X needed the horizontal and vertical frequencies of my monitor, but that information wasn't terribly hard to get. If you can get X working with gentoo, which isn't that hard, it's more than likely that you won't suffer from unusual crashes and such (unless it truly is a hardware problem.)
Lastly, Gentoo user support is excellent. I once subscribed to the Gentoo-users mailing list, and noticed that though there were a pile of noobs asking questions, there was always someone there who replied with a quick solution. I unsubscribed after a couple days, mostly because I ended up with a folder that had a couple thousand messages in it (just from the mailing list). The forums are a good source of info too.
Yeah, it's a dastardly shameless plug of Gentoo. I'm not ashamed, though, because the whole organization offers those services that you usually have to pay for with other distros for free, and the support also doesn't suck.
Yes. It is treason. As such, he should be put to death, since that is the penalty for treason. :shrug:
All in all, I think the guy is a dumbass. Why would you go for citizenship in a country that you are fighting against?
Another method used in shorting is "Borrowing." This is where an investor can sell someone else's stock, buy it back later at a cheaper price, and give back to the person who originally owned it.
I read this somewhere.
Interesting. If I purchase one share of SCO, then I would be in the "Co-Owner" group of people. If I'm a co-owner of SCO, then why would I have to pay licensing fees for a product that is produced by a company that I happen to "own" a part of?
Following this, I could plunck down $10-15, or whatever the cost is for a share and avoid having the $699 thrown at me. I don't think that SCO would benefit too much from me just buying one share...
Oh, wait. Then my portfolio would stink with the stench of evil. I guess I won't do that, and give SCO the finger instead. It's my $10 after all. :-)
I'm gonna say this for the millions of people around the globe that are in the know about this:
What the Fuck?
Doing dumb shit to the federal government is not going to get them out of the doghouse any sooner. What are they thinking? They have IP in embedded linux? Last time I checked, most embedded systems were On the chip. They also have no need of JFS. Lessee... The IP claims that SCO made were on SMP and JFS.
We put two and two together, and we get $39. I just want to give this Darl dude a set of major noogies.
And if the kernel is mostly hijacked code from SCO, why is it so much better than the SCO product? Oh, you say that SCO has rights to anything written by anyone who holds a SCO license?
pssht
Am I mistaken, but should not corporations have the same constitutional rights as individuals?
You are mistaken, and a fool if you believe this. The preamble starts off like this:
And not like this:
The constitution gaurantees the rights of every person of the United States, but not companies, dogs, cats, corporations, etc. Corporations are not people.
Um... More like 4 hours. That's about how long it takes to download and compile the GNU OS. Once that's done, you have a fully usable system.
If you want X installed, which is completely optional and unnecessary, it'll be another 8 hours or so. All in all, it just takes a good day to do, not weeks.
Gentoo's had the source available in portage since test 1 was released. It works too.
The only problem is that you need to use the open nvidia drivers, since the old drivers are not compatible. Who knows when Nvidia will release a version for this kernel. :sigh:
Notice that the article says "F-22 Prototype." This was an "X" plane still, and was destined to become the F-22. Lockheed Martin was in a stiff competition with Boeing for the contract on this plane, and both had produced a unique prototype.