Well... George Orwell was after all an Englishman. A problem is that the same pols that decide to tape us publicly and save our genes in a bank are the ones that decide what constitutes a crime. When related to purse snatching it sounds OK... but who knows what these wonks will decide is a crime tomorrow You folks that feel comfortable with this should re-read 1984.
Years ago the City Fathers in LA were screaming that LA needed more water or else its growth would be curtailed. Some perceptive columnist suggested that the solution was really simple... don't giver LA any more water and it wouldn't grow. That it had reached its limit. That growth limits apply to cities as well as everything else. Looks like the same yardstick should be applied to California now. Time for industry to look at other places to locate. Time for people to consider other olaces to live. Time for California to stop acting like cancer. Time to start planning growth rather than encouraging it willy-nilly. Time to stop thinking that the rest of us have an obligation to feed the uncontrolled growth of California.
of your game there in the US of A. This is starting to spill over onto the rest of us and we will not be happy. I am gonna start to petition our Pols here in Canada to embargo any of these hard drives and prevent them from crossing the border. I suggest that the rest of you non-US./ folks do the same. I personally wouldn't be the slightest bit unhappy if the US recording industry and Hollywood refused to ship any of their trash north as we can generate our own no prob. Gonna be a hell of a short market ahead. Ride it Dubya.
Yesss! It drives all of us, I'm sure, mad. I just finished a screenplay using Word Perfect 8. In a screenplay the formatting is critical. Try to find a in another format that saves your macro formatting also. Good luck.
I remember nostalgically the good old days of Wordstar. It did a great job and fit on a 5 1/2" floppy. Since then we have Microshizen changing their wp every year just so they can flog new garbage that does the same old job. Will somebody please write a great word processor that saves in RTF and allows you to easily record macros. Period. And don't tell me StarOffice. It runs like it's made from recycled tin cans.
There was a time when, out of curiosity, I installed Corel Linux. I was curious to see what a Windows app. company did with the folk's own OS. What they did was a joke. They dumbed it down until it was boring boring boring and important parts of it didn't work. Service was a farce and most of the folks in the user groups seemed to be Corel shills. About all it did was allow us to run a few windows apps. Theirs. I struggled with it for a while but in essence it was a leaden distro. None of the flash and dash of Mandrake or Suse or any of the rest of OUR distros, no adventure and not many choices... but I'm sure that the Corel release turned some people on to Linux and those people went on to better distros after they'd gotten their feet wet. Microsoft will introduce even more folks to the creme de la creme of OSs and you can bet your boots that all they will do is add to our user base.
I also have profound confidence in the several million folks that make up our sometimes fractious community and am certain that we have a rock solid foundation. Microsoft, on the other hand, is made up of hired hands, lawyers and hustlers, led by meglomaniacs powered by greed. They don't have a chance. There's no way they can co-opt us against our will. They may own the suits but we are the techs and the users allied with the techs. Their people work for money and our community works for the pleasure that comes from sharing, the satisfaction of doing a brilliant job, and the excersising of rebellious natures. True adventurers all. What we have going here folks, is a techno/spiritual revolution and Messers Gates and Balmer are pretty small potatoes to be standing in the path of revolution. One more thing... Gates and Balmer have been incredibly lucky, not brilliant, and their kingdom is built on legal manipulation and hype, not great software. I've got a feeling that their string is about to run out and I'm confident that they'll inadvertantly do us some good on their way out through that door to oblivion. Buck up. The best is yet to come. Freedom always wins out in the end and that's what we're all about. Keep the faith for crissake.
So I tried out theindex.com by sticking in a reuest for fractal, fractals and fractal generators. What I got back was a few hits on used oil and bookmaking programs for horse racing fans. One hit on fractal generators. It certainly works wonderfully on weeding stuff out. It weeded out all the information on fractals. Maybe they're pornographic. Back to alltheweb.com and I'll do the weeding.
I had the same problen in RH 6.2 and 7. sndconfig said 'core dumped... segmentation fault' so I went back to my old SB16 which worked. I finally resolved it by installing Mandrake 7.2 and it was like opening the door to a new world. Great distro. 5 or 6 mouse clicks in sndconfig and the music played with my Sb 64... plus KDE 2 and a trillion apps. If you're a newbie you'll like it. I've been running linux since RH 5 and I do. $3.99 at cheapbytes.com
As I recall from my years living in the Philippines, just after the Revolution that brought Cory Aquino to power she handed the Telephone company to her brother Peping to run as he liked. I don't know who runs it now, but you probably don't have to look any farther than one of Estrada's friends to find out what powers this. Tong. Fair? Gimme a break. It used to take up to three years to get a phone, and that was if you paid three or four thousand pesos lagay.
I've been running Red Hat since 5 and have been a big supporter, buying releases as they became available. 7 was a downgrade. All it did was screw up my solid 6.2. I stuck in Mandrake 7.2 and was pleased to find it was a definite upgrade. It'll be a while before I bother to try Red Hat again. If I ever bother. I can understand a company having one eye on its revenue stream and one on its technology. Red Hat, like Microsoft, seems to have both eyes on its revenue. Too bad. Another release like 7 and they won't have any.
I may be missing something here, but it would seem that there must be millions of points where fingerprints could be similar. Yet most police forces are prepared to accept 8, 10, or twelve points of similarity as being conclusive. If so then there, by coralllary, must be millions of points that are dissimilar. It would seem, in fairness, that the courts, or at least defence lwyers, should be looking for dissimilar points not similar ones. If there are six milion possibilities and I only match nine and am convicted it would seem that justice is a joke. So what's new?
I see that you have, inadvertantly I hope, left the Bull Shitters of America off your list. They, of course, have to bull shit there way into your office and then bull shit you into allowing them to rummage through your software. After which, it follows, they bull shit you into paying for licenses you don't have, don't want and that due to bugs are virtually useless for anything except burning onto cd disks and using for coasters. Just say fuck off.
It really irritates me to think that I will have to pay more for my software or isp or a service because you have run out of ideas for perks. Why should I pay someone to look after your kids? I have four at home that I and my wife look after without your help.
The whirring sound we hear up here in Canada must be the framers of the American Constitution spinning in their graves. You folks seem to be on a long downward spiral civil rights wise. We, on the other hand, never had much in the way of protection and so probably don't notice the loss as much as you folks are gonna. The 'authorities' here tap our phones pretty much at will and I'm sure read our mail too. Reading the mail must be a trip for them, given the amount of unsolicited advertising garbage the post office encourages dickheads to send me. As I see it part of the problem is that we send these ass holes called politicians off to hang around our legislatures and to justify their existance they crank out new rules or subvert the old ones. We better actively do something about this. Maybe we need a giant defense fund. What we don't need is the aberrated goofs that we both have running in our current elections. Up the revolution! A curse on all politicians and may they be reborn with warts on their sexual organs!
It's pretty obvious that our governments have been reading our mail and tapping our phones whenever they felt like it, for years. After all, they own the post office and the phone companies own them. We'd be pretty naive to think that there hasn't been a lot of winking and nodding going on when it comes to spying on citizens. The recent use of the net to organize demonstrations against the World Bank and the IMF, not to mention corporate boycotts, has led us to the spot we're in. That and the fact that governments and police agencies see our net as a power tool, for them. I don't know what the answer is but we better come up with one quickly. One possibility is that we treat countries with regressive privacy laws as ill and quarrantine them. Refuse to communicate with their citizens. Drastic I know, but if we don't take dramatic action soon we will all be in quarrantine. We all know that the net was a force for good, enabling the exchange of ideas between citizens of the world, and we damn well better do something drastic to protect it or we'll lose it.
Sales aren't decreasing. The rate of GROWTH of sales is decreasing. Big difference. Aside form having no juice to run them, as one post suggests, there are a shitload of folks out there in the big world who have no use for these bloody contraptions. They're too busy planting rice or whatever, or dodging bullets from the local insurrection. I'm always amazed that computers and the net haven't widened horizons as regards the real world out there. The unwired one. The one that 99% of humanity hangs out in. The one that isn't attached to a keyboard and has nothing to do with writing code and trying to convince one of these contrary machines to do something it doesn't want to.
Contrary to geek philosophy, the unwired world is a very exciting place to hang out. I'm not sure we do the folks who hang out there a favour by innundating them in beige boxes. What the hell would they do with them? We can afford to avoid reality by immersing ourselves in video games. Those folks miss a minute they starve. Get real.
American and Canadian companies have been moving manufacturing jobs off shore for a long time now. I guess they finally realize that it's easier and cheaper to keep the capacity here and move the jobs. You want a simple answer? Here it is. Pass legislation prohibiting any politician from sitting on the board of a publicly traded company, or acting as a paid consultant or lobbyist to same for ten years after he has been unelected or has retired. Yesss.
Make them live on their gold plated pensions. This might encourage them to have the interests of the electorate at heart. Emphasis on the 'might'.
sorry pal. you're out 180 degrees when you say that Asians co-operate more generally than Westerners. Not true. I spent 15 years in Asia and It's dog eat dog. Used to watch folks like you get off the plane with your spiffy tropical suit, laptop, pocket full of money, preconceptions in place, and climb back on a month later picked clean. About the only time they co-operate is when they're gonna skin you. Then they're gonna fight over the pickings.
Family gtoups are tighter than here, and extended family groups, but most of what you claim is a dream. A delusion.
I wish somebody would do something. I'm sick and tired of chasing dependencies all over the map. By the time you've downloaded the program and then the dependencies you can blow off the day. There's gotta be a better way.
I am not a techie, but it seems to me that the indentifiers have to point to SOMEWHERE in your machine. So it seems to follow that you might use this particular part in compiling but remove and secrete it and replace it with a 'clean' part for recompiling.
No?
Slashdot Mirror
Well... George Orwell was after all an Englishman. A problem is that the same pols that decide to tape us publicly and save our genes in a bank are the ones that decide what constitutes a crime. When related to purse snatching it sounds OK... but who knows what these wonks will decide is a crime tomorrow You folks that feel comfortable with this should re-read 1984.
What's needed in a Free Market Economy is a level playing field. Don't let Corporations/Government gather/sell ANY personal data.
Years ago the City Fathers in LA were screaming that LA needed more water or else its growth would be curtailed. Some perceptive columnist suggested that the solution was really simple... don't giver LA any more water and it wouldn't grow. That it had reached its limit. That growth limits apply to cities as well as everything else. Looks like the same yardstick should be applied to California now. Time for industry to look at other places to locate. Time for people to consider other olaces to live. Time for California to stop acting like cancer. Time to start planning growth rather than encouraging it willy-nilly. Time to stop thinking that the rest of us have an obligation to feed the uncontrolled growth of California.
Bill Gates is follopwing the right path here. The one to oblivion.
of your game there in the US of A. This is starting to spill over onto the rest of us and we will not be happy. I am gonna start to petition our Pols here in Canada to embargo any of these hard drives and prevent them from crossing the border. I suggest that the rest of you non-US ./ folks do the same. I personally wouldn't be the slightest bit unhappy if the US recording industry and Hollywood refused to ship any of their trash north as we can generate our own no prob. Gonna be a hell of a short market ahead. Ride it Dubya.
Yesss! It drives all of us, I'm sure, mad. I just finished a screenplay using Word Perfect 8. In a screenplay the formatting is critical. Try to find a in another format that saves your macro formatting also. Good luck. I remember nostalgically the good old days of Wordstar. It did a great job and fit on a 5 1/2" floppy. Since then we have Microshizen changing their wp every year just so they can flog new garbage that does the same old job. Will somebody please write a great word processor that saves in RTF and allows you to easily record macros. Period. And don't tell me StarOffice. It runs like it's made from recycled tin cans.
There was a time when, out of curiosity, I installed Corel Linux. I was curious to see what a Windows app. company did with the folk's own OS. What they did was a joke. They dumbed it down until it was boring boring boring and important parts of it didn't work. Service was a farce and most of the folks in the user groups seemed to be Corel shills. About all it did was allow us to run a few windows apps. Theirs. I struggled with it for a while but in essence it was a leaden distro. None of the flash and dash of Mandrake or Suse or any of the rest of OUR distros, no adventure and not many choices... but I'm sure that the Corel release turned some people on to Linux and those people went on to better distros after they'd gotten their feet wet. Microsoft will introduce even more folks to the creme de la creme of OSs and you can bet your boots that all they will do is add to our user base. I also have profound confidence in the several million folks that make up our sometimes fractious community and am certain that we have a rock solid foundation. Microsoft, on the other hand, is made up of hired hands, lawyers and hustlers, led by meglomaniacs powered by greed. They don't have a chance. There's no way they can co-opt us against our will. They may own the suits but we are the techs and the users allied with the techs. Their people work for money and our community works for the pleasure that comes from sharing, the satisfaction of doing a brilliant job, and the excersising of rebellious natures. True adventurers all. What we have going here folks, is a techno/spiritual revolution and Messers Gates and Balmer are pretty small potatoes to be standing in the path of revolution. One more thing... Gates and Balmer have been incredibly lucky, not brilliant, and their kingdom is built on legal manipulation and hype, not great software. I've got a feeling that their string is about to run out and I'm confident that they'll inadvertantly do us some good on their way out through that door to oblivion. Buck up. The best is yet to come. Freedom always wins out in the end and that's what we're all about. Keep the faith for crissake.
So I tried out theindex.com by sticking in a reuest for fractal, fractals and fractal generators. What I got back was a few hits on used oil and bookmaking programs for horse racing fans. One hit on fractal generators. It certainly works wonderfully on weeding stuff out. It weeded out all the information on fractals. Maybe they're pornographic. Back to alltheweb.com and I'll do the weeding.
I had the same problen in RH 6.2 and 7. sndconfig said 'core dumped... segmentation fault' so I went back to my old SB16 which worked. I finally resolved it by installing Mandrake 7.2 and it was like opening the door to a new world. Great distro. 5 or 6 mouse clicks in sndconfig and the music played with my Sb 64... plus KDE 2 and a trillion apps. If you're a newbie you'll like it. I've been running linux since RH 5 and I do. $3.99 at cheapbytes.com
As I recall from my years living in the Philippines, just after the Revolution that brought Cory Aquino to power she handed the Telephone company to her brother Peping to run as he liked. I don't know who runs it now, but you probably don't have to look any farther than one of Estrada's friends to find out what powers this. Tong. Fair? Gimme a break. It used to take up to three years to get a phone, and that was if you paid three or four thousand pesos lagay.
Unificate eh? This is obviously a Dubya troll.
I've been running Red Hat since 5 and have been a big supporter, buying releases as they became available. 7 was a downgrade. All it did was screw up my solid 6.2. I stuck in Mandrake 7.2 and was pleased to find it was a definite upgrade. It'll be a while before I bother to try Red Hat again. If I ever bother. I can understand a company having one eye on its revenue stream and one on its technology. Red Hat, like Microsoft, seems to have both eyes on its revenue. Too bad. Another release like 7 and they won't have any.
I may be missing something here, but it would seem that there must be millions of points where fingerprints could be similar. Yet most police forces are prepared to accept 8, 10, or twelve points of similarity as being conclusive. If so then there, by coralllary, must be millions of points that are dissimilar. It would seem, in fairness, that the courts, or at least defence lwyers, should be looking for dissimilar points not similar ones. If there are six milion possibilities and I only match nine and am convicted it would seem that justice is a joke. So what's new?
I see that you have, inadvertantly I hope, left the Bull Shitters of America off your list. They, of course, have to bull shit there way into your office and then bull shit you into allowing them to rummage through your software. After which, it follows, they bull shit you into paying for licenses you don't have, don't want and that due to bugs are virtually useless for anything except burning onto cd disks and using for coasters. Just say fuck off.
It really irritates me to think that I will have to pay more for my software or isp or a service because you have run out of ideas for perks. Why should I pay someone to look after your kids? I have four at home that I and my wife look after without your help.
The whirring sound we hear up here in Canada must be the framers of the American Constitution spinning in their graves. You folks seem to be on a long downward spiral civil rights wise. We, on the other hand, never had much in the way of protection and so probably don't notice the loss as much as you folks are gonna. The 'authorities' here tap our phones pretty much at will and I'm sure read our mail too. Reading the mail must be a trip for them, given the amount of unsolicited advertising garbage the post office encourages dickheads to send me. As I see it part of the problem is that we send these ass holes called politicians off to hang around our legislatures and to justify their existance they crank out new rules or subvert the old ones. We better actively do something about this. Maybe we need a giant defense fund. What we don't need is the aberrated goofs that we both have running in our current elections. Up the revolution! A curse on all politicians and may they be reborn with warts on their sexual organs!
It's pretty obvious that our governments have been reading our mail and tapping our phones whenever they felt like it, for years. After all, they own the post office and the phone companies own them. We'd be pretty naive to think that there hasn't been a lot of winking and nodding going on when it comes to spying on citizens. The recent use of the net to organize demonstrations against the World Bank and the IMF, not to mention corporate boycotts, has led us to the spot we're in. That and the fact that governments and police agencies see our net as a power tool, for them. I don't know what the answer is but we better come up with one quickly. One possibility is that we treat countries with regressive privacy laws as ill and quarrantine them. Refuse to communicate with their citizens. Drastic I know, but if we don't take dramatic action soon we will all be in quarrantine. We all know that the net was a force for good, enabling the exchange of ideas between citizens of the world, and we damn well better do something drastic to protect it or we'll lose it.
or Canada.
Sales aren't decreasing. The rate of GROWTH of sales is decreasing. Big difference. Aside form having no juice to run them, as one post suggests, there are a shitload of folks out there in the big world who have no use for these bloody contraptions. They're too busy planting rice or whatever, or dodging bullets from the local insurrection. I'm always amazed that computers and the net haven't widened horizons as regards the real world out there. The unwired one. The one that 99% of humanity hangs out in. The one that isn't attached to a keyboard and has nothing to do with writing code and trying to convince one of these contrary machines to do something it doesn't want to. Contrary to geek philosophy, the unwired world is a very exciting place to hang out. I'm not sure we do the folks who hang out there a favour by innundating them in beige boxes. What the hell would they do with them? We can afford to avoid reality by immersing ourselves in video games. Those folks miss a minute they starve. Get real.
American and Canadian companies have been moving manufacturing jobs off shore for a long time now. I guess they finally realize that it's easier and cheaper to keep the capacity here and move the jobs. You want a simple answer? Here it is. Pass legislation prohibiting any politician from sitting on the board of a publicly traded company, or acting as a paid consultant or lobbyist to same for ten years after he has been unelected or has retired. Yesss. Make them live on their gold plated pensions. This might encourage them to have the interests of the electorate at heart. Emphasis on the 'might'.
sorry pal. you're out 180 degrees when you say that Asians co-operate more generally than Westerners. Not true. I spent 15 years in Asia and It's dog eat dog. Used to watch folks like you get off the plane with your spiffy tropical suit, laptop, pocket full of money, preconceptions in place, and climb back on a month later picked clean. About the only time they co-operate is when they're gonna skin you. Then they're gonna fight over the pickings. Family gtoups are tighter than here, and extended family groups, but most of what you claim is a dream. A delusion.
I wish somebody would do something. I'm sick and tired of chasing dependencies all over the map. By the time you've downloaded the program and then the dependencies you can blow off the day. There's gotta be a better way.
95% ,of the people say you're wrong. They're tired of the Corporations screwing the folks around.
I'm sorry. Didn't you know? He does suck his nuts.
I am not a techie, but it seems to me that the indentifiers have to point to SOMEWHERE in your machine. So it seems to follow that you might use this particular part in compiling but remove and secrete it and replace it with a 'clean' part for recompiling. No?