What I meant was that the version in the ports tree (at least when I checked last) were several versions old (compared to the current Linux RPM version).
Having gone to FreeBSD.org and looked at the ports, it looks like they've updated them finally so that I'll be able to get the Linux-HA FreeBSD Port completed.
As for Linux-isms, Not in our case. We've gone out of our way to ensure portability.
Not always. Sometimes porting is tough. Right now, I'm the "Non-Linux" release engineeer for Linux HA ( High Availablity Clustering) and I've tested it on FreeBSD 4.7 (going to to upgrade one box to 4.8 and another to 5.1 ) . The only problem is that the tool chain requires versions that are NOT the standard ported versions (Automake and autoconf if my memory serves me right).
I want to get things working right so that I can release a Port version of Heartbeat but currently I cannot. Luckily it, by design, builds on FreeBSD and puts things into/usr/local/.../ and not/usr/... like on Linux.
This may be a factor why things aren't quite right (different versions of Automake/Conf/lib) .
The illiterate, or very low reading ability.
Replace "buttons" with pictures of the candidates.
People with limited sight.
Replace "buttons" with REALLY BIG pictures of the candidates.
People with limited or no english reading ability.
Replace "buttons" with pictures of the candidates.
People with no experience with electronic interfaces of any sort. Even touch screen, or simple buttons may be confusing for many.
Then the cities will need to have a "test" system hooked up at the main desk where the people who take your name/etc. are required to explain the system to all voters and get a signature that it was explained.
Those who distrust the computer system to accurately record their vote. Some kind of print-out system is a must.
Then for each bank of systems, it prints out a summary line for the most recent X (where X is the # of terminals) voters voted, then a running total
Nope. Sorry. tomatoes ARE a fruit.. they are classified as vegetables for tax purposes:
In 1893, the United States Supreme Court ruled the tomato was a "vegetable" and therefore subject to import taxes. The suit was brought by a consortium of growers who wanted it declared a vegetable to protect U.S. crop development and prices. Fruits, at that time, were not subjected to import taxes and foreign countries could flood the market with lower priced produce.
And they should well fed, by their parents and NOT BY ME !
You made the choice to have children, I chose not to
And were you forced to have children like I'm being forced to support them ? No. No one held a gun to your head and told you to procreate or else, right ?
I'm sorry.. Just because you are lower income doesn't mean you deserve my money to pay for your children. That's what charities are for (like your local churches). The government shouldn't be in the job of supporting people who can't keep their reproductive habits in check. If you can't afford them, you shouldn't be allowed to keep them (There is this wonderful thing called ADOPTION that puts the children you can't afford into homes with people who CAN afford them.)
Because income tax isn't all the taxes taken out of your check... remember that thing called Social Security? Or Medicare? Those are funded from a seperate tax from the federal withholding tax. The "negative credit" is basically refunding some of that money
That money is NOT "tax" . Those are specifically taken out for retirement (ok, it's taken out to pay for the people currently on Medicare/SSI). So, how come if they get a refund, the people who are collecting don't get a reduction (since there is less money for them to get) ?
I think that the problems that people like I have with this are:
1) Why do you get a "credit" for children ? I mean, children COST the system money, why do they deservie refunds/deductions for something that adds a burden to the system ? I don't have children (neither I nor my wife wants them) so I'm penalized for not sprogging ?
Thing is that wouldn't be anything new. I have an old RCA Victrola (yes a victrola). On the back is the most obscene statment of use. It essentially says that you can only use RCA needles, or an RCA needle cutter (they can use wooden needles) and only play RCA records. Obviously that got shot down at some point as being unfair to the consumer.
So now when I have kids, I should have to follow them around to make certain some pervert going to goatse doesn't expose them to that horrific image. Filters at some level are a good thing. And a library should be a place where a child(8-16) should be able to go wherever and read whatever
Yes. They are YOUR responsiblity to care for, not Mine or the Government.
So based on what you just said, you are against filters (because it doesn't let a child look at "whatever"
If you can't take the time to care for and be with your child to explain things they might see , DON'T REPRODUCE, EXPECTING ME TO DO YOUR JOB AS PARENT !
NOTE: I do not have children, do not want children and am married to a woman with the same opinion.
The article title is just alittle bit senstational... The senator's web designer didn't register *free* software (you have to pay for commerical use only). He was in violation of the software license.
And ?
This is no different from what he's claiming everyone else is. He IS a commercial site (He isn't someone doing their family web site). He is a "commercial" entity (in a broad sense). He's using it to promote his "business" (politics).
I would simply notify the creator of the JS stuff and have them get charges brought up on violating their IP (use the DMCA since it is act 1st, think later).
Why exactly does one need to run Windows at all? It seems Linux offers everything the average user would need.
Why ? How about corporate mandated use of Outlook and Exchange ? (Exchange 5.5 so I can't use Ximian Connector for Ximian Evolution).
And there are other reasons too, for me, its the ability to use the phone.com WML/HDML simulator for testing my WML and HDML code visually and PL/SQL Developer for (WH)Oracle.
Others probably have their resons (besides games since it doesn't support the higher versons of Direct X yet).
Perl was removed in favor of using the Perl from ports.
When they did a base install, Perl was/usr/bin/perl, when you install a new version via the ports it is/usr/local/bin/perl so that you would have 2 copies installed on your system.
I can't see implanted GPS's being compulsory anytime
I do. All the government needs to do is have a mandate that all hospitals implant new born infants AT BIRTH so that it is always there. They can make it a requirement for getting public education (To keep the Children Safe). It isn't going to be "that" huge of an incision (and they'll prolly have it so that it is implanted as an injection soon like the pet ID chip).
What I worry about is who they are going to have keeping track of all the ID information. This company is going to possibly have some of the most nasty law suits (They Caused my Divorce because they had the wrong tracking ID in their database and my wife thought I was having an affair or they did 2 chips with the same ID and I got arrested for a crime I didn't commit)
First off, if you do the math, it's about 700 megs per hour of footage, as opposed the 13 gig it'd take to losslessly compress it. In order to edit somebody in, the video'd have to be recompressed, and that would be noticable upon analysis.
Ok.. Why not have trunk mounted 8 CD CD-Burners ?
Each hour is burned to CD media and then at the end of the shift, the "technician" takes the 8 CD's and burns them onto a DVD, the CD's are then destroyed and the DVD placed into "evidence" ?
O'Reilly's gesture is a good and excellent thing of course, but most of their titles are computer books that will be obsolete in six months and useless in three years, so having it enter the public domain in 28 years isn't all that impressive:-)
As others have mentioned, what about books on programming techniques and style ? Those should not go out of "style" but be adapted to new languages/methodologies.
Another book example is K&R C Guide (sitting on the shelf next to me). That book is the definitive description of the C programming functions that is still as accurate today as 20 years ago. I wouldn't mind being able to get an EBook version of it so that I have a quick reference to it.
It doesn't say "Congress shall make no law except where corporations are concerned," it says "Congress shall make no law." Just because you don't agree with what they're saying doesn't mean they have no right.
Thing is a corporation is NOT a person and thusly are NOT intitled to "Free Speech". Corporations are a legal construct to prevent the PEOPLE who run a company from being held personally responsible for the actions of a company.
1) Prohibits monitary donations to individuals with voting rights (i.e. NO LOBBYS / Corporations / Associations ).
2) Put a cap on monitary donations to no more than $ 5000.00 total per year to any policitcal campain (Local, Federal, or State). This would force "individuals" to re-think how they donate monies.
3) ALL donations regardless of the amounts must appear on the donater's tax returns (any amount over the $ 5000 would be taxed at the maximum % as a penalty)
4) All donations must appear on the polititians "records" and NOT aggrigrated.
NOTE: Lobbiests could still violage #1 but would be severely limited by #2 and #3.
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I've almost never had a problem getting rebates done. Only once did I ever have to wait a really long time. The company lost its investment funding and didn't expect the huge response they got for the item. It took me over a year to get 75 bucks but they made good on it.
Also, how to prevent information from being sold ? You can't, but how do you deal with potential SPAM ? Each company gets their own rebate address. Also the only company that really seems to sell information is Staples.
I've gone out now 3 years now, and spent over 1500 and gotten 1200 of it back. (and I DO track my rebates).
What people are probably doing (not doing ?) is following the instructions EXACTLY so of course they get screwed.
The only products I won't buy now are Mad Dog (they keep screwing my rebates claiming a problem).
My point is that there's probably a technological way to get efficient inventory control and POS performance without losing privacy.
There is. Do Not have a "price" that can be just typed in. Force ALL items to be scanned in and there you have it. I mean, they receive the items in they easily can enter the product into inventory by UPC/ID and remove it from inventory at Point of Sale (POS). How tough is this ?
I agree. For the 1st 9 years of my carreer (I've been a software professional for almost 15 years) I was an embedded systems programmer. That is a very limited area, then at one company I started web programming and really enjoyed it and that's what I've been doing ever since).
However I've also been learning other areas (and am also able to do system administration and application management). If you learn one highly specialized skill, you are SOL the moment they develop a hardware solution for your job or your company changes technology.
Perhaps because it isn't universal ? Who would write the drivers for M$, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DecUnix, etc. ?
That alone may be reasons for NOT using it. They would prolly need something that has a file system that is ISO 9660 compliant so that it could read/loaded on the majority of systems.
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Having gone to FreeBSD.org and looked at the ports, it looks like they've updated them finally so that I'll be able to get the Linux-HA FreeBSD Port completed.
As for Linux-isms, Not in our case. We've gone out of our way to ensure portability.
I want to get things working right so that I can release a Port version of Heartbeat but currently I cannot. Luckily it, by design, builds on FreeBSD and puts things into /usr/local/.../ and not /usr/... like on Linux.
This may be a factor why things aren't quite right (different versions of Automake/Conf/lib) .
Replace "buttons" with pictures of the candidates.
People with limited sight.
Replace "buttons" with REALLY BIG pictures of the candidates.
People with limited or no english reading ability.
Replace "buttons" with pictures of the candidates.
People with no experience with electronic interfaces of any sort. Even touch screen, or simple buttons may be confusing for many.
Then the cities will need to have a "test" system hooked up at the main desk where the people who take your name/etc. are required to explain the system to all voters and get a signature that it was explained.
Those who distrust the computer system to accurately record their vote. Some kind of print-out system is a must.
Then for each bank of systems, it prints out a summary line for the most recent X (where X is the # of terminals) voters voted, then a running total
Oh no, wait, that was tomatoes... :o/
Nope. Sorry. tomatoes ARE a fruit.. they are classified as vegetables for tax purposes:
In 1893, the United States Supreme Court ruled the tomato was a "vegetable" and therefore subject to import taxes. The suit was brought by a consortium of growers who wanted it declared a vegetable to protect U.S. crop development and prices. Fruits, at that time, were not subjected to import taxes and foreign countries could flood the market with lower priced produce.
So use the toilet after you've put your papers in and odds are REALLY good that you'll get them all to flush then
You made the choice to have children, I chose not to
And were you forced to have children like I'm being forced to support them ? No. No one held a gun to your head and told you to procreate or else, right ?
I'm sorry.. Just because you are lower income doesn't mean you deserve my money to pay for your children. That's what charities are for (like your local churches). The government shouldn't be in the job of supporting people who can't keep their reproductive habits in check. If you can't afford them, you shouldn't be allowed to keep them (There is this wonderful thing called ADOPTION that puts the children you can't afford into homes with people who CAN afford them.)
That money is NOT "tax" . Those are specifically taken out for retirement (ok, it's taken out to pay for the people currently on Medicare/SSI). So, how come if they get a refund, the people who are collecting don't get a reduction (since there is less money for them to get) ?
I think that the problems that people like I have with this are:
1) Why do you get a "credit" for children ? I mean, children COST the system money, why do they deservie refunds/deductions for something that adds a burden to the system ? I don't have children (neither I nor my wife wants them) so I'm penalized for not sprogging ?
2) Tax Credit when No Taxes are paid ? See above.
Thing is that wouldn't be anything new. I have an old RCA Victrola (yes a victrola). On the back is the most obscene statment of use. It essentially says that you can only use RCA needles, or an RCA needle cutter (they can use wooden needles) and only play RCA records. Obviously that got shot down at some point as being unfair to the consumer.
Yes. They are YOUR responsiblity to care for, not Mine or the Government.
So based on what you just said, you are against filters (because it doesn't let a child look at "whatever"
If you can't take the time to care for and be with your child to explain things they might see , DON'T REPRODUCE, EXPECTING ME TO DO YOUR JOB AS PARENT !
NOTE: I do not have children, do not want children and am married to a woman with the same opinion.
If they don't trust their child (or have anought faith in them), then they shouldn't be unsupervised on the internet in the 1st place.
And ?
This is no different from what he's claiming everyone else is. He IS a commercial site (He isn't someone doing their family web site). He is a "commercial" entity (in a broad sense). He's using it to promote his "business" (politics).
I would simply notify the creator of the JS stuff and have them get charges brought up on violating their IP (use the DMCA since it is act 1st, think later).
Why ? How about corporate mandated use of Outlook and Exchange ? (Exchange 5.5 so I can't use Ximian Connector for Ximian Evolution).
And there are other reasons too, for me, its the ability to use the phone.com WML/HDML simulator for testing my WML and HDML code visually and PL/SQL Developer for (WH)Oracle .
Others probably have their resons (besides games since it doesn't support the higher versons of Direct X yet).
Their system has problems where one editor can reject a story and a nother can publish it.
Such is life...
Perl was removed in favor of using the Perl from ports. When they did a base install, Perl was /usr/bin/perl, when you install a new version via the ports it is /usr/local/bin/perl so that you would have 2 copies installed on your system.
I do. All the government needs to do is have a mandate that all hospitals implant new born infants AT BIRTH so that it is always there. They can make it a requirement for getting public education (To keep the Children Safe). It isn't going to be "that" huge of an incision (and they'll prolly have it so that it is implanted as an injection soon like the pet ID chip).
What I worry about is who they are going to have keeping track of all the ID information. This company is going to possibly have some of the most nasty law suits (They Caused my Divorce because they had the wrong tracking ID in their database and my wife thought I was having an affair or they did 2 chips with the same ID and I got arrested for a crime I didn't commit)
Ok.. Why not have trunk mounted 8 CD CD-Burners ? Each hour is burned to CD media and then at the end of the shift, the "technician" takes the 8 CD's and burns them onto a DVD, the CD's are then destroyed and the DVD placed into "evidence" ?
As others have mentioned, what about books on programming techniques and style ? Those should not go out of "style" but be adapted to new languages/methodologies.
Another book example is K&R C Guide (sitting on the shelf next to me). That book is the definitive description of the C programming functions that is still as accurate today as 20 years ago. I wouldn't mind being able to get an EBook version of it so that I have a quick reference to it.
I think it should be the MS BOATIITAYHNC EULA (MS Bend Over and Take it in the Ass EULA)
It doesn't say "Congress shall make no law except where corporations are concerned," it says "Congress shall make no law." Just because you don't agree with what they're saying doesn't mean they have no right.
Thing is a corporation is NOT a person and thusly are NOT intitled to "Free Speech". Corporations are a legal construct to prevent the PEOPLE who run a company from being held personally responsible for the actions of a company.
1) Prohibits monitary donations to individuals with voting rights (i.e. NO LOBBYS / Corporations / Associations ).
2) Put a cap on monitary donations to no more than $ 5000.00 total per year to any policitcal campain (Local, Federal, or State). This would force "individuals" to re-think how they donate monies.
3) ALL donations regardless of the amounts must appear on the donater's tax returns (any amount over the $ 5000 would be taxed at the maximum % as a penalty)
4) All donations must appear on the polititians "records" and NOT aggrigrated.
NOTE: Lobbiests could still violage #1 but would be severely limited by #2 and #3.
Also, how to prevent information from being sold ? You can't, but how do you deal with potential SPAM ? Each company gets their own rebate address. Also the only company that really seems to sell information is Staples.
I've gone out now 3 years now, and spent over 1500 and gotten 1200 of it back. (and I DO track my rebates).
What people are probably doing (not doing ?) is following the instructions EXACTLY so of course they get screwed.
The only products I won't buy now are Mad Dog (they keep screwing my rebates claiming a problem).
My point is that there's probably a technological way to get efficient inventory control and POS performance without losing privacy. There is. Do Not have a "price" that can be just typed in. Force ALL items to be scanned in and there you have it. I mean, they receive the items in they easily can enter the product into inventory by UPC/ID and remove it from inventory at Point of Sale (POS). How tough is this ?
But how long until it gets harassed by the RIAA for paying the music fees ?
However I've also been learning other areas (and am also able to do system administration and application management). If you learn one highly specialized skill, you are SOL the moment they develop a hardware solution for your job or your company changes technology.
That alone may be reasons for NOT using it. They would prolly need something that has a file system that is ISO 9660 compliant so that it could read/loaded on the majority of systems.