after all, IBM and AMD are two very powerful constituents in his state, and Orrin Hatch is quite a bit more powerful now.
it's amazing how obsessed right wing conservative men are with women's vaginas. well, not that amazing, i guess, when all things are considered.
i'm a little in favor of school vouchers...i actually think private schools could do a better job. well, not better than this high school. I definately would demand any voucher program force all teachers be CBEST certified (or some other reasonable standard), and that the school have some type of certification as well.
I'd hate to see tax dollars getting funneled off to a bunch of religious schools.
Err, my prediction is : more interference in our private lives, more taxes (they'll probably raise a bunch of fees to compensate for tax cuts, or some other revenue enhancing scheme, so we pay more overall). There will be another huge feed by right wingers in either the insurance or banking industries. Once again, the DOJ will be told to "look the other way" while Bush's cronies rob us blind.
First off, there is nothing wrong with electric cars. They are no more inefficient than gas or diesel when fossil fuels are used to create the energy.
Indeed, you get lower emissions and cleaner air because you can install better filters, scrubbers and cleaner generation facilities at the point of burn. Not to mention that you get a superior tourque curve from an electric motor.
we'll leave the obvious issues regarding the low energy densities of current batterie technologies behind for now, it's an overworked issue.
As far as nuclear power, I disagree. Fission is a very poor way to convert nuclear energy to heat. It has dangerous, toxic, long-lived contaminants that are extremely difficult to dispose of. France, Germany and Japan have no choice.
Japan had a incident about a year ago...someone mismeasured reactants, and a small explosion and release of material occurred in neighborhood around a processing plant. Hold your nose!!
Fusion -- I would be all for fusion. Hopefully we can make some advances in that area.
Coal plants and radioactivity...good point. I have heard coal plants generate slag that is nearly as toxic as spent control rods. Any links or people want to comment?
i am confused about this issue...i have heard this is just a bunch of BS made up by eco frauds wanting to keep their juicy government grants (they have to find something, right?)
OTOH, i have heard that major portions of the ice under the north pole has melted (from underneath) since initial measurements were made by the first nuclear subs.
the subs (from what i heard) took deep core samples, and found that the ice had been solid for millions of years. now that ice is gone -- not just in a small area, either -- major areas of undersea ice, after millions of years, are gone in just a few decades.
if anyone has links, or is otherwise familiar with the sub studies, please post about this. it seems like fairly definitive evidence, if it is really widespread.
there should really be a lgpl libssh around, but i guess they never made one.
no, you can't wrap gpl code in a shared library, lgpl it, and say "whoopee, i did it". you would be lowering the license level of the code, which you cannot do.
this is one of the drawbacks of the gpl -- if the fundamental architecture isn't properly thought out, it makes life pretty difficult for *users* of gpl code, which is what you want to do...*use* some gpl code.
maybe that would be a cool thing to do...take the bsd code, and make a nice libssh. you can't lgpl that, though, i don't think, but you could be nice and give it away under the bsd/autistic license.
nononononono, i didn't say anything about "licensing your server".
my concern is that having one or two large entities controlling all comms from end-to-end, via proprietary protocols, could (for example) enable some kind of "cut off" or "tracing" that would be applied to those who disagree with the status quo, while those espousing "support" would be emphasized.
this is my concern w/ having a minority of large players controlling the wire.
Let's hope Microsoft and AOL/TW don't become America's Isvestya (sp?) and Pravda.
There was a time when the FCC used the law to make sure there was a plurality of news and information sources available to the public, from a variety of platforms (paper, radio, TV) and a variety of vendors.
Presumably, this was to prevent any single entity from controlling the media (and therefore public opinion) the way Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini did before WWII.
Given the Microsoft proprietary strategies for information exchange (Exchange,.net), as well as the AOL/TW merger, does anyone care about the problems with concentrated media anymore, or has America just decided "it can't happen here"?
After all, the FCC regulated signalling and protocols between TVs, radios, and broadcasters for ages...it was all specified and open...yet the FCC appears to have turned its back entirely on enforcing cross platform protocols on the net.
Can you foresee a future where proprietary products and protocols could be used to concentrate information in such a way that our fundamental rights to speak and publish could be easily throttled by a single powerful entity? Or am I just paranoid? Personally, I am increasingly concerned with this possibility.
go get some therapy...after they run about 50 grams of that stuff through your veins over a two year period or so...ahhhhh. things will be much mo betta.
All you ACs out there, go down to the public or school library and sneak your way onto a browser.
Wear a disguise, since they all have time lapse video now. Shave your legs so they are smooth and sexy, and wear a cheerleader outfit or something. Practice singing "We got spirit, yes we do, we got spirit, how about you".
Email an anonymous tip to the FBI, Microsoft and the SPI (or whatever that place is) stating that you are a sysadmin for Pillsbury, and your boss made you do 250 illegal installs of Office and NT last Wednesday in the Legal Dept. of the Pillsbury Corporate Offices.
As MS tries to increase revenue by making sure every CPU has a licensed copy of their products running on it, we'll b able to count on Democratic countries like Germany (and other in Europe) to take a stand for freedom.
The USA? HaHaHaHaHa...a thin veil of democracy over a steaming turd of a coporate dollar fest.
I am already a member, but I must say that I think the jump from low income/student to regular member is a bit stiff.
$65 may not be that much to a sysadmin or programmer, but to Jolene Sixpack it might be confusing why it's three times the cost of, say, her favorite magazine subscription.
Sometimes an org can grow very rapidly if they remember "economy of scale".
On the other hand, freedom is never free. Corporations like Microsoft and Seagrams have masses of attorneys in Washington looking out for their shareholders...which means maximizing profits by any means necessary...even if this takes away your right to code.
The EFF and ACLU are taking brave steps towards protecting our freedom to code. Power to the Programmers!
it really is sad that MS has become so powerful in the wake of a slew of superior products.
geez, the motorola 68000. that was so far ahead of anything intel.
i mean, windows 3.1 was like $30 for an oem pack. MacOS was free, but ran only on macs. Unix cost a fortune, and even the cheapo versions (like coherent) had an aging X interface (no motif). X apps were 25-50K for a site license. MS Office was $200 or so.
Well, I hope OSX raises the bar for Linux. If there is a Intel release, Linux will undoubtedly take some ideas from it.
Being able to get Linux free may do to MS what MS did to Unix. Even a slightly inferior product, for a lot less $$, will win the market.
i know a couple people who leave 3x5's at the local techie hangouts (electronic parts/surplus places)
dunno where you are but you could look there.
you could also send a cover letter + resume to all your favorite companies. the response might be low or zero -- but if this is want you want to do, you'll have to get used to people saying "no"
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Apparently you don't recognize java when you see it.
Look, the movie was not very good on story or plot. But is is PG-13, and made in America. Those two restrictions make pretty much any movie bad.
There were a few funny lines.
There were some cool screenshots.
I thought the "Ted" character seemed a lot like most open source people I know. Emotional, gifted, etc.
In a way, it was unfair to Microsoft. AFAIK, they have never directly killed anyone. Some people committed suicide when their companies were destroyed, homes and families lost, but that happens during economic downturns, etc. as well.
I didn't expect much from this movie from the second I saw who the actors were. I figured it would have one-dimensional cutsie pie acting, and a story line that a drooling imbecile (IE, most Americans) could follow.
Therefore, I wasn't disappointed. I reccommend all geeks see it, but fer chrissakes let the criticism go for awhile -- it's a silly movie for kids. just let it go.
if they get x86 sorted out, how many people are going to want to buy expensive, slow macs instead of an athlon based peecee?
granted, the mac is a much better design (in the guts) but is that enough for people to "go proprietary"?
X86 compatibility, all the chipsets that gpl code runs on, would be a royal pain in the ass to support without looking at a lot of gpl'd code. remember, linux has no problem running on chipsets that were made years ago.
the reality is, if they support PC's, a lot of mac people might jump from their hardware...a lot of linux/bsd people won't pay $120.
in the meantime, linux will continue to improve on all architectures.
on the other hand, if it were priced at something like $30-$40 bucks, without copy protection, i bet there are a lot of linux people (and companies) who would jump for x86, just cuz it's exactly what people want -- an alternative to macs (peecee hardware) running an OS that isn't embarrassing or slimy to use, and is supported by a fairly reputable corporation.
for awhile, i had 5 linux machines running packets 24/7.
about the time i hit 1000 data packets processed, i learned that they were accepting money from the co founder of microsoft.
that's a little like taking maney from organized crime...so i pulled the plug/couldn't care less now.
but it was interesting to learn how to set up all the boxes, diald, etc., plus there was always the hope of something significant happening.
i checked over at distributed.net but it was looking pretty yawnish, and california was getting hit with a heat wave and was dipping low into the barrel, so i just packed it up.
if something interesting for distributed stuff comes up again, and energy sanity has returned to california, i might be interested in bringing everything back up.
some of the angrier homeless (and/or) junkies could be quite adamant with their demands for money, especially if one was alone, hoping the 'mark' (me) would cave in.
if you got agressive back at them they usually chilled out.
but it sucked when i was green about all that shit...my heart would get all pitter-patter and i'd have trouble sleeping if they were particularly threatening.
no offense, but if the shit hits the fan on this economy, the average person will jump at the chance to hold an open zip loc below some pooches ass for $14 an hour.
didnja ever read the grapes of wrath?
since most readers are american, and living in the "american century", you really have no idea what it's like to watch people you love get turned into REAL WHORES or watch members of your family starve, die of diseases or get shot and robbed for what little they have.
don't get me wrong, i certainly don't hope these things come to pass (again), but historically it's a fairly strong possibility.
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after all, IBM and AMD are two very powerful constituents in his state, and Orrin Hatch is quite a bit more powerful now.
it's amazing how obsessed right wing conservative men are with women's vaginas. well, not that amazing, i guess, when all things are considered.
i'm a little in favor of school vouchers...i actually think private schools could do a better job. well, not better than this high school. I definately would demand any voucher program force all teachers be CBEST certified (or some other reasonable standard), and that the school have some type of certification as well.
I'd hate to see tax dollars getting funneled off to a bunch of religious schools.
Err, my prediction is : more interference in our private lives, more taxes (they'll probably raise a bunch of fees to compensate for tax cuts, or some other revenue enhancing scheme, so we pay more overall). There will be another huge feed by right wingers in either the insurance or banking industries. Once again, the DOJ will be told to "look the other way" while Bush's cronies rob us blind.
But no sex scandals.
First off, there is nothing wrong with electric cars. They are no more inefficient than gas or diesel when fossil fuels are used to create the energy.
Indeed, you get lower emissions and cleaner air because you can install better filters, scrubbers and cleaner generation facilities at the point of burn. Not to mention that you get a superior tourque curve from an electric motor.
we'll leave the obvious issues regarding the low energy densities of current batterie technologies behind for now, it's an overworked issue.
As far as nuclear power, I disagree. Fission is a very poor way to convert nuclear energy to heat. It has dangerous, toxic, long-lived contaminants that are extremely difficult to dispose of. France, Germany and Japan have no choice.
Japan had a incident about a year ago...someone mismeasured reactants, and a small explosion and release of material occurred in neighborhood around a processing plant. Hold your nose!!
Fusion -- I would be all for fusion. Hopefully we can make some advances in that area.
Coal plants and radioactivity...good point. I have heard coal plants generate slag that is nearly as toxic as spent control rods. Any links or people want to comment?
i am confused about this issue...i have heard this is just a bunch of BS made up by eco frauds wanting to keep their juicy government grants (they have to find something, right?)
OTOH, i have heard that major portions of the ice under the north pole has melted (from underneath) since initial measurements were made by the first nuclear subs.
the subs (from what i heard) took deep core samples, and found that the ice had been solid for millions of years. now that ice is gone -- not just in a small area, either -- major areas of undersea ice, after millions of years, are gone in just a few decades.
if anyone has links, or is otherwise familiar with the sub studies, please post about this. it seems like fairly definitive evidence, if it is really widespread.
there should really be a lgpl libssh around, but i guess they never made one.
no, you can't wrap gpl code in a shared library, lgpl it, and say "whoopee, i did it". you would be lowering the license level of the code, which you cannot do.
this is one of the drawbacks of the gpl -- if the fundamental architecture isn't properly thought out, it makes life pretty difficult for *users* of gpl code, which is what you want to do...*use* some gpl code.
maybe that would be a cool thing to do...take the bsd code, and make a nice libssh. you can't lgpl that, though, i don't think, but you could be nice and give it away under the bsd/autistic license.
nononononono, i didn't say anything about "licensing your server".
my concern is that having one or two large entities controlling all comms from end-to-end, via proprietary protocols, could (for example) enable some kind of "cut off" or "tracing" that would be applied to those who disagree with the status quo, while those espousing "support" would be emphasized.
this is my concern w/ having a minority of large players controlling the wire.
Let's hope Microsoft and AOL/TW don't become America's Isvestya (sp?) and Pravda.
There was a time when the FCC used the law to make sure there was a plurality of news and information sources available to the public, from a variety of platforms (paper, radio, TV) and a variety of vendors.
.net), as well as the AOL/TW merger, does anyone care about the problems with concentrated media anymore, or has America just decided "it can't happen here"?
Presumably, this was to prevent any single entity from controlling the media (and therefore public opinion) the way Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini did before WWII.
Given the Microsoft proprietary strategies for information exchange (Exchange,
After all, the FCC regulated signalling and protocols between TVs, radios, and broadcasters for ages...it was all specified and open...yet the FCC appears to have turned its back entirely on enforcing cross platform protocols on the net.
Can you foresee a future where proprietary products and protocols could be used to concentrate information in such a way that our fundamental rights to speak and publish could be easily throttled by a single powerful entity? Or am I just paranoid? Personally, I am increasingly concerned with this possibility.
"...all the needs of the real world"
:-)
I guess those people expect a working raid subsystem (one that actually works after rebooting) must be living in some kind of alternate reality
Microsoft's new keyboard kicks ass.
the first thing I thought was "how on earth can Sun and Sega get past all the trolltech licensing issues"...
then i read it and realized it has nothing to do with trolltech or KDE.
(j++)vm...
all this crud was designed before the internet existed (as far as the general public was concerned).
it's gonna get superseded big time by streaming, high bandwidth internet access and video on demand.
the whole idea was improving TV -- which I don't even watch anymore. not even cable. just dvds and the internet for me.
this thing will rot.
go get some therapy...after they run about 50 grams of that stuff through your veins over a two year period or so...ahhhhh. things will be much mo betta.
mod it up, boyz
Finally, a use for anonymous cowards.
All you ACs out there, go down to the public or school library and sneak your way onto a browser.
Wear a disguise, since they all have time lapse video now. Shave your legs so they are smooth and sexy, and wear a cheerleader outfit or something. Practice singing "We got spirit, yes we do, we got spirit, how about you".
Email an anonymous tip to the FBI, Microsoft and the SPI (or whatever that place is) stating that you are a sysadmin for Pillsbury, and your boss made you do 250 illegal installs of Office and NT last Wednesday in the Legal Dept. of the Pillsbury Corporate Offices.
Hee, Hee, Hee.
As MS tries to increase revenue by making sure every CPU has a licensed copy of their products running on it, we'll b able to count on Democratic countries like Germany (and other in Europe) to take a stand for freedom.
The USA? HaHaHaHaHa...a thin veil of democracy over a steaming turd of a coporate dollar fest.
I am already a member, but I must say that I think the jump from low income/student to regular member is a bit stiff.
$65 may not be that much to a sysadmin or programmer, but to Jolene Sixpack it might be confusing why it's three times the cost of, say, her favorite magazine subscription.
Sometimes an org can grow very rapidly if they remember "economy of scale".
On the other hand, freedom is never free. Corporations like Microsoft and Seagrams have masses of attorneys in Washington looking out for their shareholders...which means maximizing profits by any means necessary...even if this takes away your right to code.
The EFF and ACLU are taking brave steps towards protecting our freedom to code. Power to the Programmers!
it really is sad that MS has become so powerful in the wake of a slew of superior products.
geez, the motorola 68000. that was so far ahead of anything intel.
i mean, windows 3.1 was like $30 for an oem pack. MacOS was free, but ran only on macs. Unix cost a fortune, and even the cheapo versions (like coherent) had an aging X interface (no motif). X apps were 25-50K for a site license. MS Office was $200 or so.
Well, I hope OSX raises the bar for Linux. If there is a Intel release, Linux will undoubtedly take some ideas from it.
Being able to get Linux free may do to MS what MS did to Unix. Even a slightly inferior product, for a lot less $$, will win the market.
i know a couple people who leave 3x5's at the local techie hangouts (electronic parts/surplus places)
dunno where you are but you could look there.
you could also send a cover letter + resume to all your favorite companies. the response might be low or zero -- but if this is want you want to do, you'll have to get used to people saying "no"
Apparently you don't recognize java when you see it.
Look, the movie was not very good on story or plot. But is is PG-13, and made in America. Those two restrictions make pretty much any movie bad.
There were a few funny lines.
There were some cool screenshots.
I thought the "Ted" character seemed a lot like most open source people I know. Emotional, gifted, etc.
In a way, it was unfair to Microsoft. AFAIK, they have never directly killed anyone. Some people committed suicide when their companies were destroyed, homes and families lost, but that happens during economic downturns, etc. as well.
I didn't expect much from this movie from the second I saw who the actors were. I figured it would have one-dimensional cutsie pie acting, and a story line that a drooling imbecile (IE, most Americans) could follow.
Therefore, I wasn't disappointed. I reccommend all geeks see it, but fer chrissakes let the criticism go for awhile -- it's a silly movie for kids. just let it go.
...my pop was owner of a company and got several calls a day requesting donations.
he finally started saying "Oh, you need to talk to the corporate office, and ask for Mr. Wolf."
Of course, he gave them the ph. number of the local zoo...
...because you can't kill outlook as long as the exchange protocol is closed.
our server is run by microserfs...meaning forwarding is disabled, IMAP and POP are closed.
NO non-microsoft mail client will ever work with our exchange server.
IMHO, exchange and outlook are a better example of Microsoft's antitrust behavior than the browser wars.
if they get x86 sorted out, how many people are going to want to buy expensive, slow macs instead of an athlon based peecee?
granted, the mac is a much better design (in the guts) but is that enough for people to "go proprietary"?
X86 compatibility, all the chipsets that gpl code runs on, would be a royal pain in the ass to support without looking at a lot of gpl'd code. remember, linux has no problem running on chipsets that were made years ago.
the reality is, if they support PC's, a lot of mac people might jump from their hardware...a lot of linux/bsd people won't pay $120.
in the meantime, linux will continue to improve on all architectures.
on the other hand, if it were priced at something like $30-$40 bucks, without copy protection, i bet there are a lot of linux people (and companies) who would jump for x86, just cuz it's exactly what people want -- an alternative to macs (peecee hardware) running an OS that isn't embarrassing or slimy to use, and is supported by a fairly reputable corporation.
for awhile, i had 5 linux machines running packets 24/7.
about the time i hit 1000 data packets processed, i learned that they were accepting money from the co founder of microsoft.
that's a little like taking maney from organized crime...so i pulled the plug/couldn't care less now.
but it was interesting to learn how to set up all the boxes, diald, etc., plus there was always the hope of something significant happening.
i checked over at distributed.net but it was looking pretty yawnish, and california was getting hit with a heat wave and was dipping low into the barrel, so i just packed it up.
if something interesting for distributed stuff comes up again, and energy sanity has returned to california, i might be interested in bringing everything back up.
...the ghetto i lived in whilst at university.
some of the angrier homeless (and/or) junkies could be quite adamant with their demands for money, especially if one was alone, hoping the 'mark' (me) would cave in.
if you got agressive back at them they usually chilled out.
but it sucked when i was green about all that shit...my heart would get all pitter-patter and i'd have trouble sleeping if they were particularly threatening.
no offense, but if the shit hits the fan on this economy, the average person will jump at the chance to hold an open zip loc below some pooches ass for $14 an hour.
didnja ever read the grapes of wrath?
since most readers are american, and living in the "american century", you really have no idea what it's like to watch people you love get turned into REAL WHORES or watch members of your family starve, die of diseases or get shot and robbed for what little they have.
don't get me wrong, i certainly don't hope these things come to pass (again), but historically it's a fairly strong possibility.
...when cooled below 1K become superconducting?