Who gives a big rat's ass what this schlunk thinks? If he thinks. Sounds to me he just mouths the line is all. blah blah blah. Like the pinnacle of human endeavour is to make a buck. Spare me.
check out the stirling/sterling engine (i'm not sure of the spelling but you can find their web page) They have a heat exchange engine that runs on the heat from a cup of coffee. They've been around for years. Nobody has shown much interest until recently when GM laid a little money on them.
While I appreciate Mr. Torvald's writing the original kernel that ran one disk (kinda), the rest of the work has been done pretty much by the Community. I never used a computer until I was 40 (I'm 61 now) and so obviously am not a programmer, yet I use Linux exclusively on my desktop. From dos->win3.1->3.11->95->98->linux has been quite a trip.
How any one could think that linux isn't ready for the desktop amazes me. They obviously either haven't used it, or have Microsoft's source code etched on the neurons in their brains. Sadly, Windows seems to have become some kind of benchmark in that all other OSes are compared to it. Hello there? Linux is different and can't be compared to Windows. As a working envirenment it is infinitely richer and more varied and my machine hasn't crashed since I relegated windows to the void several months ago. Running linux as opposed to running windows is analogous to a go-cart driver operating the space shuttle. It takes a little learning but more importantly, it takes a fair amount of unlearning. It's the operating system we should be teaching our kids in school. I dont much worry about the numers of users but if you're the type that gets antsy about the size of the crowd you hang with think about this: The third world isn't gonna pay Microsofts outrageous license fees if there is a superiour free OS available. Desktops in China will have KDE and Gnome desktops up, running on Red Star Linux.
Windows releases have been simply bug fixes since 3.11 and the OS really has nowhere to go if it is to retain backward compatability, which is why Gates and Friends won't be unhappy to see Microsoft split. At least Billy won't. He's the new software honcho. Watch how fast the apps get ported to Linux after the split.
Windows always left me with the feeling that I'd been wrestling pigs in the mud. Linux lets be feel that I'm on the edge of something new, exciting and special. The folks that devote their time to advancing our OS have my undying admiration and my heartfelt thanks. In a world of really tawdry commercial bullshit, Linux is a standout. Computers are for folks. So is Linux. We've won. Its just to good to believe, sometimes.
and we don't have folks languishing in rat hole jails for 15-20 years for the possession of a little pot. And nobody gets the needle, which most of the rest of the world considers a fairly serious human rights vio;ation.
I'm a card carrying member of a political party other than NDP, but I have to say that your suggestion that the Unions run our present government is just plain stupid. Certainly the unions represent a large bloc of voters and are listened to. So does/ is the Fraser institute,,, and the press. You'll be suggesting that Connie Black, the Atilla of Fleet, doesn't have any influence next. Gimme a break.
So it sounds like the big hardware companies are tired of getting the double shuffle from Uncle Billy. Good. The more desktops the merrier. As long as the apps run, who cares what IBM, Sun et al consider to be standard. Them that like it will run it and the rest of us will use the desktop of our choice. That's what it's about, isn't it? Multiple desktops. Everybody who writes them does it as a labour of love and love is winning. This isn't about beating Microscruff, they're already a dead man walking... this is about choice and joy. The time is long past when we Linuxphiles have to feel threatened every time some one leaps onto the bandwagon. Relax folks. Enjoy.
Yeah. Linzip fer crissake. I've been waiting soooo long. Maybe it's time the distros discussed 'standards'. I don't think that standard is synonomous with slavery... the end of freedom... loss of the right to innovate and all that other gatesian bullshit. There's a group that controls the kernel and a good thing too. Maybe we need some kind of committee to kinda keep these distros running down the same track. Or maybe there's a way to do it without another bloody committee. Linzip. I'm waiting.
I'm not a coder but I do know that in writing novels and screenplays the trick is not to write yourself out. If one of my characters is engaged in an activity, I don't let him/her finish it in one session without starting another. The next day it gives me a place to start from that is already in motion, so to speak. This way you avoid the 'where do I go from here' syndrome and can easily get your head back in the place it was the day before. I know other writers that do the same. Several carvers and a sculptor I've talked to do this also. Don't 'finish' every day. Leave your project just a little unfinished and you'll be raging to get at it tomorrow and know exactly where to start and what to do. Good luck! You are definitely not alone.
While I'm bitterly unhappy with the carte blanche given the Canadian not so secret service as far as wire tapping is concerned, I at least have a little input here, in that I get to vote for the government. The thought that the FBI is perusing my email drives me into a white rage. But then what would you expect from an orginization that allowed a twisted dork like J. Edgar to man the helm all those years. I wonder if 'fuck the FBI' triggers their little animal?
yes indeed. It's comforting to know there are still those among us who feel that the forces of fascism presemtly rampaging around the earth are infinitely more desireable than those of communism, Red Hat, eh? Hmmm.
While you're at it think of the number of people put out of work in the last 50 years. We tend to forget the folks that have been judged redundant after having been replaced by computers... including bank tellers, file clerks, postal workers, industrial workers etc. The list is almost endless. Not to mention lowered standards of living as real wages drop. Not to mention the widening gap between the richest and the poorest. And nobody is going to, I hope, suggest the computer means diddly shit to my illiterate inlaws living on their subsistance farm in SE Asia. Their only metal is in their plow share, bolos and pots. Get real. Computers are toys for the relatively wealthy and seem to be turning us inward, not outward.
One can only suppose that the hackers of the world will spring to the aid of the beleaguered Chinese netcitzenry. Seems like a worthy endeavour. It is to all our collective good to ensure that NOBODY can use our net to piss on our shoes and tell us it's raining.
I suspect that almost anyone could write a decent haiku generator. The real test will come when there is a contest to encourage the writing of a program that will be able to discern as to whether the haiku in question was generated by a generator or by the human brain... And the real philosophical question hidden in all this is 'is a haiku generated by a piece of code more or less valuable than one generated by the human brain. Are things, being equal, equal to each other
Somehow we have to take control of this ourselves. I'm not much enamoured of the idea that the US should become the arbitrator of things netly. Being a Canadian and being innundated with American bullshit daily leads me to the conclusion that we, the folks that are the net, should be deciding exactly what the parameters are going to be. What's good for General Bullmoose is not necessarily good for the rest of us. A little less arrogance on the part of those posting from south of the 49th please, and a little more cooperation and perhaps some innovative suggestions..
C'mon folks, quit knocking AOL... they send us that endless supply of coasters. As for the folks that access the net through them... when I was 12 I thought the finest thing in the world was an ice cream soda. I hope that Transmeta's chip will run with super power in my old box and save me a pile of money when I upgrade. I don't understand this concern with 'what's good for linux'. I use it. You use it. Them that don't are the losers. Pity the poor folks stuck back there in 'Windows Wasteland'. The rest of us are out there, riding fast, ahead of the curve. Enjoy fer crissake.
Get real, Rev. Most of the known world knows nothing of the net. My inlaws in Kagbatung, Masbate, Philippines are more concerned about drought, floods and snakes in their grass roof then whether there will be sufficient band width for our future needs. Given how the net has changed in the last 3-4 years, I'm not sure that they're not better off. They really have no need for Amazon.com... they never learned to read. The nearest telephone is a day's travel away through the jungle. This net that we all know and love is widening the gap.
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Who gives a big rat's ass what this schlunk thinks? If he thinks. Sounds to me he just mouths the line is all. blah blah blah. Like the pinnacle of human endeavour is to make a buck. Spare me.
check out the stirling/sterling engine (i'm not sure of the spelling but you can find their web page) They have a heat exchange engine that runs on the heat from a cup of coffee. They've been around for years. Nobody has shown much interest until recently when GM laid a little money on them.
While I appreciate Mr. Torvald's writing the original kernel that ran one disk (kinda), the rest of the work has been done pretty much by the Community. I never used a computer until I was 40 (I'm 61 now) and so obviously am not a programmer, yet I use Linux exclusively on my desktop. From dos->win3.1->3.11->95->98->linux has been quite a trip. How any one could think that linux isn't ready for the desktop amazes me. They obviously either haven't used it, or have Microsoft's source code etched on the neurons in their brains. Sadly, Windows seems to have become some kind of benchmark in that all other OSes are compared to it. Hello there? Linux is different and can't be compared to Windows. As a working envirenment it is infinitely richer and more varied and my machine hasn't crashed since I relegated windows to the void several months ago. Running linux as opposed to running windows is analogous to a go-cart driver operating the space shuttle. It takes a little learning but more importantly, it takes a fair amount of unlearning. It's the operating system we should be teaching our kids in school. I dont much worry about the numers of users but if you're the type that gets antsy about the size of the crowd you hang with think about this: The third world isn't gonna pay Microsofts outrageous license fees if there is a superiour free OS available. Desktops in China will have KDE and Gnome desktops up, running on Red Star Linux. Windows releases have been simply bug fixes since 3.11 and the OS really has nowhere to go if it is to retain backward compatability, which is why Gates and Friends won't be unhappy to see Microsoft split. At least Billy won't. He's the new software honcho. Watch how fast the apps get ported to Linux after the split. Windows always left me with the feeling that I'd been wrestling pigs in the mud. Linux lets be feel that I'm on the edge of something new, exciting and special. The folks that devote their time to advancing our OS have my undying admiration and my heartfelt thanks. In a world of really tawdry commercial bullshit, Linux is a standout. Computers are for folks. So is Linux. We've won. Its just to good to believe, sometimes.
and we don't have folks languishing in rat hole jails for 15-20 years for the possession of a little pot. And nobody gets the needle, which most of the rest of the world considers a fairly serious human rights vio;ation.
I'm a card carrying member of a political party other than NDP, but I have to say that your suggestion that the Unions run our present government is just plain stupid. Certainly the unions represent a large bloc of voters and are listened to. So does/ is the Fraser institute,,, and the press. You'll be suggesting that Connie Black, the Atilla of Fleet, doesn't have any influence next. Gimme a break.
So it sounds like the big hardware companies are tired of getting the double shuffle from Uncle Billy. Good. The more desktops the merrier. As long as the apps run, who cares what IBM, Sun et al consider to be standard. Them that like it will run it and the rest of us will use the desktop of our choice. That's what it's about, isn't it? Multiple desktops. Everybody who writes them does it as a labour of love and love is winning. This isn't about beating Microscruff, they're already a dead man walking... this is about choice and joy. The time is long past when we Linuxphiles have to feel threatened every time some one leaps onto the bandwagon. Relax folks. Enjoy.
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Yeah. Linzip fer crissake. I've been waiting soooo long. Maybe it's time the distros discussed 'standards'. I don't think that standard is synonomous with slavery... the end of freedom... loss of the right to innovate and all that other gatesian bullshit. There's a group that controls the kernel and a good thing too. Maybe we need some kind of committee to kinda keep these distros running down the same track. Or maybe there's a way to do it without another bloody committee. Linzip. I'm waiting.
good luck. as soon as it appears for download from you for a fee it will appear on numerous sites for zip.
actually the law against posession of marijuana has just been found to be unconstitutional in Canada. Maybe there is some hope.
I'm not a coder but I do know that in writing novels and screenplays the trick is not to write yourself out. If one of my characters is engaged in an activity, I don't let him/her finish it in one session without starting another. The next day it gives me a place to start from that is already in motion, so to speak. This way you avoid the 'where do I go from here' syndrome and can easily get your head back in the place it was the day before. I know other writers that do the same. Several carvers and a sculptor I've talked to do this also. Don't 'finish' every day. Leave your project just a little unfinished and you'll be raging to get at it tomorrow and know exactly where to start and what to do. Good luck! You are definitely not alone.
While I'm bitterly unhappy with the carte blanche given the Canadian not so secret service as far as wire tapping is concerned, I at least have a little input here, in that I get to vote for the government. The thought that the FBI is perusing my email drives me into a white rage. But then what would you expect from an orginization that allowed a twisted dork like J. Edgar to man the helm all those years. I wonder if 'fuck the FBI' triggers their little animal?
yes indeed. It's comforting to know there are still those among us who feel that the forces of fascism presemtly rampaging around the earth are infinitely more desireable than those of communism, Red Hat, eh? Hmmm.
While you're at it think of the number of people put out of work in the last 50 years. We tend to forget the folks that have been judged redundant after having been replaced by computers... including bank tellers, file clerks, postal workers, industrial workers etc. The list is almost endless. Not to mention lowered standards of living as real wages drop. Not to mention the widening gap between the richest and the poorest. And nobody is going to, I hope, suggest the computer means diddly shit to my illiterate inlaws living on their subsistance farm in SE Asia. Their only metal is in their plow share, bolos and pots. Get real. Computers are toys for the relatively wealthy and seem to be turning us inward, not outward.
One can only suppose that the hackers of the world will spring to the aid of the beleaguered Chinese netcitzenry. Seems like a worthy endeavour. It is to all our collective good to ensure that NOBODY can use our net to piss on our shoes and tell us it's raining.
I suspect that almost anyone could write a decent haiku generator. The real test will come when there is a contest to encourage the writing of a program that will be able to discern as to whether the haiku in question was generated by a generator or by the human brain... And the real philosophical question hidden in all this is 'is a haiku generated by a piece of code more or less valuable than one generated by the human brain. Are things, being equal, equal to each other
Somehow we have to take control of this ourselves. I'm not much enamoured of the idea that the US should become the arbitrator of things netly. Being a Canadian and being innundated with American bullshit daily leads me to the conclusion that we, the folks that are the net, should be deciding exactly what the parameters are going to be. What's good for General Bullmoose is not necessarily good for the rest of us. A little less arrogance on the part of those posting from south of the 49th please, and a little more cooperation and perhaps some innovative suggestions..
C'mon folks, quit knocking AOL... they send us that endless supply of coasters. As for the folks that access the net through them... when I was 12 I thought the finest thing in the world was an ice cream soda. I hope that Transmeta's chip will run with super power in my old box and save me a pile of money when I upgrade. I don't understand this concern with 'what's good for linux'. I use it. You use it. Them that don't are the losers. Pity the poor folks stuck back there in 'Windows Wasteland'. The rest of us are out there, riding fast, ahead of the curve. Enjoy fer crissake.
Get real, Rev. Most of the known world knows nothing of the net. My inlaws in Kagbatung, Masbate, Philippines are more concerned about drought, floods and snakes in their grass roof then whether there will be sufficient band width for our future needs. Given how the net has changed in the last 3-4 years, I'm not sure that they're not better off. They really have no need for Amazon.com... they never learned to read. The nearest telephone is a day's travel away through the jungle. This net that we all know and love is widening the gap.