I'm Canadian and live in Canada, and if you had any awareness of recent political history, you know know that the italicized comment above is frightenly accurate in describing the recent run of Liberal goverments. They screw us, get voted in again while promising not to screw us again, screw us again, ad nauseum.
To a Canadian, the above should be funny. Maybe funny like a trainwreck, but funny none-the-less, Unless, of course, the Canadian reading it happens to be a liberal supporter regardless of the bullshit politics they've inflicted on this country... if that is the case, thats for your contribution to beating Canada down, assclown =)
What do you expect of a country where everyone votes for the same party, regardless whether they messed up, promise to mess up or promise not to mess up again then mess up?
No system is infallible, having had a virus, vulnerability, or other issue does not logically invalidate criticism of recognition of a failure in another system.
Advice from the christian bible from a Microsoft employee? How much significance does religion play in BOTH sides of your reply? Religion is meaningless, come the debate with rationality and data, or stay home.
Any OS that keeps their users stupid should be rediculed. Figure out if this applied to Windows, then ponder if this is true. Linux, by your own description, deserves recognition for encouraging a savvy userbase. Microsoft, on the otherhand, deserves redicule if they do, in fact, encourage a gullible userbase. Of course, this doesn't imply that all users of either OS are savvy or gullible, respectively. I know plenty of cognitively challenged Linux users. There are, of course, plenty of clueful Windows users. Exceptions to the rule?
Finally some respectible specs for a hybrid vehicle. The Toyota and Honda products not only look like ass, as asserted above, but accelerate like ass. If a car can't do 0-60 in under 10 seconds, I don't care how good it is on gas.
Wouldn't it be fairer, in that case, to say "MTV pulled a Slashdot"?
And since the results were already public and the Slashdot article was posted without all the facts, much like most of the comments we all contribute, we should actually rename the post "Slashdot pulls a Slashdot, MTV still sucks and makes the world a dumber place just by existing"?
If you equate profit with evil, than you must logically equate much success as evil, such as the lion eating the wildebeast, a sports team defeating all others, and even the strokes of luck we all wish we could have like winning the lottery.
If you think that is the reason we have two sexes, you need to step away from your computer and... oops, I better stop before the "not all Slashdotters are men, not all Slashdotters are heterosexual" people come out to rant.
Ahem.
Not all species have two sexes. Species which are currently successful and feasible that have hermaphrodidic reproduction. Anyways, this is all off-topic.
To fend off those with Mod points that are having a case of the Mondays, I'll add some Linux relevant stuff:
IBM's dedicate to Linux is impressive. Sun, HP, other vendors pay what appears to be lip-service in comparison. IBM's culture does not suggest that one distribution will be their stance. Unless the whole central philosophy behind Global Services is redefined, I can see IBM supporting multiple distributions, with the solution matching the project. This could mean a mix of SuSE, Red Hat, Mandrake, Slackware (because its not dead, I don't need any more drooling Slackware-fanatics to flame me), etc.
That would kick all ass. Little stylized logo of red shorts with suspenders... polka music, inane facts about the Bavarian Pure Beer Laws, sausages, and wines from the Rheinpfalz during install.
This makes my inner-German all giddy. I think I'll go get some Bratwurst and a bottle of Schneider's Weisse for lunch.
He'd also need to pull off "20 or 30 years younger".
I completely disagree. Wolverine was an outdoorsman, and should carry a weathered, almost leathery, look. That does not imply youthfull. Wolverine is also not a youthful character. He's chronologically old, and though his healing factor keeps him around, there is no reason to trade youth for other, and in my view, more important characteristics for the character. Wolverine should always be seen as a grizzled adult among youths, he stands out from the rest of the young X-Men. He's been around, seen his share of strife, and can survive just about anything. I would never have cast a relatively slight Hugh Jackman in this role. He's too tall, too soft, and too young.
No, the fact that they filmed part of it in Canada has to do with the Evils of the Northern Peso. Lots of films are done up here because its cheap. For example Legends of the Fall, Exit Wounds (where Calgary stood in for Detroit of all places, I believe), and a collection of other flicks ranging from good to suck (those two examples pretty much encompase that range). Even most of the many years of X-Files were filmed in Canada.
This is a movie I want to see. Robin Williams is underrated as a serious actor. I, to this day, disagree with the casting of Hugh Jackman in X-Men. I think Williams would have made an amazing Wolverine. As long as he can pull off gruff, feral, and Canadian, that is. He is short, sturdy, and hella hairy. Perfert, IMO. I've been waiting for a flim that this that will put him in a serious dark role.
So, wanting to see this movie and hoping to have it contain a least a little suspense, I'm not actually going to read yet another artsiefartsie Katz review. I can get over Pacino playing the same character all the time because he is good at it. I can't wait to see how well Williams pulls off this role. I don't care if it is a remake, and if the original was better. Good stories deserve to be retold, its the core of the art of storytelling
I can't believe nobody has mentioned Microsoft in reponse to this. The drooling Open Source masses must be slipping or something.
As buggy as Mozilla may be, its still great to see this project hit version 1.0. I've long prefered Mozilla for my Linux web browser (that is until Galeon came along), so lets stop all the whining and arguing for a moment and remember to tip our hats (Red or otherwise) to the Mozilla team!
Consider for a moment that maybe there is some value to the various Microsoft products and features of their ever-advancing software, regardless of exorbitant licensing, lax security, or closed source.
The don't dominate the desktop market just because they provide easy solutions. So does Apple, but they are barely worth mentioning, big picture-wise. Is there hope due to the UNIX underpinings of Mac OS X? Maybe, that entirely depends on the market. The vast majority of consumers don't understand or care about the benefits of UNIX. Factors such as cost keep Apple far in the background. Low cost (relatively), features, and ease of use keep Microsoft far in the foreground.
The idea that "what these companies need to realize is that they can convert their old files into plain text files" might seem simple to the drooling UNIX masses, but it is an idea akin to suggesting that NIS is good enough for all your user authentication needs on your network. If you don't care about security, sure it might be. If you don't mind using technology from 1984-1987 because you just don't trust that newfangled technology in more recent technology, then maybe plain ol' text is the way to go. Unfortunately, the rest of the world has moved on, and plain ol' text is not good enough.
Where Linux will gain is in replacing Windows. If I could replace the gaming functions of Windows, I'd very much considering eliminating M$ from my world. Until I can replace those functions, i.e., DirectX, then Linux serves a role but can't meet every need. This is a victory for Linux.
Yes, USB2 support is getting common. Months ago when I bought my Abit KG7, you could get MSI mobos that supported USB2. Since that time it is showing up in all sorts of products, maybe not a guarantee feature, but one that you should expect to see
It is supported on the VIA P4X333 and KT333 chipsets, for example.
... cause that is what everybody calls it anyways. I'm glad Apple appears to have been cooperative and permissive about this, otherwise we'd see confusion about the burgeoning technology.
Perhaps the ability to support the product like a real vendor makes Red Hat the best distribution. By what qualitative analysis do you judge which distribution is better than others?
It can't be ease of use, that is not the point of UNIX-like operating systems. Some distros may get close to the ease of use of Windows, but is that really the primary goal of any distribution?
It can't be the prettiness of the desktop. Window managers are not tied to the distributions, although some prefer prefer certain desktop suites. However you look at it, there is a UNIX that takes the desktop beauty pageant hands down: Mac OS X.
Maybe you judge "best" by how much control you have over the operating system... does that require working with source in all cases, or is fine-grained package management good enough? They all give you incredibly control over the operating system, differences in the layout of/etc aside.
I could keep on going, but I'm sure you get the point. How much "better" a distribution is has to be looked at very subjectively and therefore the judgement lacks meaning. As long as a distro works, installs, is reliable, and essentially does what it claims to do, you have to give it the stamp of approval as a good distribution. Past that, everything is a matter of opinion.
Perhaps, for business, Red Hat simple is the best. Personally, that is the conclusion I've come to. I love Mandrake, prefer it, more or less, to Red Hat, however I've chosen Red Hat for the servers I build (and I build servers both for personal projects and for use by the large telecommunications company I work for) and for workstations. My workstation at the office is Red Hat, while at home I use Mandrake.
Each has their benefits. I've played with Debian, Storm Linux, Progeny (i.e., Debian+), Gentoo, and so on. Every distribution has something of value, some only as learning tools.
If we want to get very Darwin about the whole thing, then Red Hat is obviously the fittest distro. Its not the first, but it is the largest, most widely used, and has all but wiped out older "species" like Slackware, IMO.
You've heard it, you liked it, you even managed to get the mp3s in high-quality, cd quality even. You've probably already burnt it to cd audio for listen in your only stereo that won't play mp3s.
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So you were a shitty kid in your own right. Its naive to think that family life has no impact just because you sucked despite not having a lousy family.
1. @Home does not exist anymore, Comcast's service is no longer Comcast@Home. Excite@Home closed its doors at the end of February, a victim of gross mismanagement and (if you believe the theories on Dotcom Scoop) AT&T sabotage
2. Bell is already doing this in Canada, and other ISP/Telcos such as Telus, Shaw, Rogers, etc are considering taking similar steps to deal with the bandwidth hogs
It should be noted that the hogs are a small minority and that most of them are engaging in illegal activity. Given the current legal trend in Canada (placing of liability on ISPs, forcing them to report potentially illegal activity of a serious nature to the authorities, etc) I wouldn't be surprised if Canadian ISPs will be taking a more active role in stamping out piracy.
Thats not accurate, exchange of authentication information is important for machine-to-machine data transfer.
However, I'd be happy to accept: Humans are the weakest link. Without them all passwords would be strong. (assuming computers don't get lazy and start using their pet's name, birthdate, or password|secret|god|foo)
or Humans are the weakest link, good-bye
I deserve to be modded down for that last bit, I know it, and I repent. TV is an insidious evil. TV is the enemy. TV is the mind killer.
Sure, further litigation. What a nice waste of money.. thats the problem with dumb laws, it costs a lot to counter them. Common sense is free, but law != common sense.
Personally, I don't use DOS/Windows to access Internet all the time. Rather than "MS-Internet", I'd prefer it is we called it MS/GNU/BSD/SysV/MacOS/AmigaOS/QNX/Linux/Internet.
The threat to filesharing as a technology comes from the rights-holders and from the legal system. Precident is being set all the time which threatens ISPs with liability for illegal activities on their network that they are "made aware of", DMCA notice and takedown letter or not.
Its much more scary in the UK and in Canada. Canada just passed new legislation which will make ISPs vulnerable for distribution of child pornography on their network. SOCAN Copyright Tariff 22 was just it through the Court of Appeals and makes ISPs liable for infringing material stored on their "cache servers".
P2P technology may by-pass these, but it is only a matter of time before some powerful organization convinces some judges that ISPs should be held liable for allowing P2P on their network. Blocking of ports, account terminations, and worse are all coming if the rights-holders have their way... and technology such as swarmcast which acts to distribution free software will likely get lumped in with the Napter/Kazaa/Foo P2P technologies.
... but some went and saw it at midnight opening night anyways. We're tought buggers in Canada, its because of the cold and the non-sucky beer or something.
I'll be seeing it tonight with a sizable group of geeks, so I have yet to form an informed opinion of the movie. I'm not expecting much in the way of quality acting from Manequin Skywalker, but if the choice of R.A. Salvatore for the novelization is any indication, the fight scenes will be golden.
In these circumstances, Search Warrants are not used to allow law enforcement access to business premises to conduct a search, but to allow the disclosure of information. This disclosure, in the US at least, is a violation of privacy rights unless ordered by a Court.
The use of Search Warrants or subpoenas to order disclosure is similar in Canada, however PIPEDA seems to allow the disclosure of information without warrant when requested by the authorities. What would make more sense is an order simply mandating disclosure of information without being wrapped up in the auspices of a search warrant. The privacy policies of ISPs should reflect this type of scenario, which would, I'd think, invalidate concerns over unreasonable search and seizure.
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I'm Canadian and live in Canada, and if you had any awareness of recent political history, you know know that the italicized comment above is frightenly accurate in describing the recent run of Liberal goverments. They screw us, get voted in again while promising not to screw us again, screw us again, ad nauseum.
To a Canadian, the above should be funny. Maybe funny like a trainwreck, but funny none-the-less, Unless, of course, the Canadian reading it happens to be a liberal supporter regardless of the bullshit politics they've inflicted on this country... if that is the case, thats for your contribution to beating Canada down, assclown =)
Sounds like Canada!
Advice from the christian bible from a Microsoft employee? How much significance does religion play in BOTH sides of your reply? Religion is meaningless, come the debate with rationality and data, or stay home.
Any OS that keeps their users stupid should be rediculed. Figure out if this applied to Windows, then ponder if this is true. Linux, by your own description, deserves recognition for encouraging a savvy userbase. Microsoft, on the otherhand, deserves redicule if they do, in fact, encourage a gullible userbase. Of course, this doesn't imply that all users of either OS are savvy or gullible, respectively. I know plenty of cognitively challenged Linux users. There are, of course, plenty of clueful Windows users. Exceptions to the rule?
Computers should empower, not stupify.
Finally some respectible specs for a hybrid vehicle. The Toyota and Honda products not only look like ass, as asserted above, but accelerate like ass. If a car can't do 0-60 in under 10 seconds, I don't care how good it is on gas.
And since the results were already public and the Slashdot article was posted without all the facts, much like most of the comments we all contribute, we should actually rename the post "Slashdot pulls a Slashdot, MTV still sucks and makes the world a dumber place just by existing"?
If you equate profit with evil, than you must logically equate much success as evil, such as the lion eating the wildebeast, a sports team defeating all others, and even the strokes of luck we all wish we could have like winning the lottery.
Thats a pretty lame definition of evil.
Ahem.
Not all species have two sexes. Species which are currently successful and feasible that have hermaphrodidic reproduction. Anyways, this is all off-topic.
To fend off those with Mod points that are having a case of the Mondays, I'll add some Linux relevant stuff:
IBM's dedicate to Linux is impressive. Sun, HP, other vendors pay what appears to be lip-service in comparison. IBM's culture does not suggest that one distribution will be their stance. Unless the whole central philosophy behind Global Services is redefined, I can see IBM supporting multiple distributions, with the solution matching the project. This could mean a mix of SuSE, Red Hat, Mandrake, Slackware (because its not dead, I don't need any more drooling Slackware-fanatics to flame me), etc.
That would kick all ass. Little stylized logo of red shorts with suspenders... polka music, inane facts about the Bavarian Pure Beer Laws, sausages, and wines from the Rheinpfalz during install.
This makes my inner-German all giddy. I think I'll go get some Bratwurst and a bottle of Schneider's Weisse for lunch.
I completely disagree. Wolverine was an outdoorsman, and should carry a weathered, almost leathery, look. That does not imply youthfull. Wolverine is also not a youthful character. He's chronologically old, and though his healing factor keeps him around, there is no reason to trade youth for other, and in my view, more important characteristics for the character. Wolverine should always be seen as a grizzled adult among youths, he stands out from the rest of the young X-Men. He's been around, seen his share of strife, and can survive just about anything. I would never have cast a relatively slight Hugh Jackman in this role. He's too tall, too soft, and too young.
This is a movie I want to see. Robin Williams is underrated as a serious actor. I, to this day, disagree with the casting of Hugh Jackman in X-Men. I think Williams would have made an amazing Wolverine. As long as he can pull off gruff, feral, and Canadian, that is. He is short, sturdy, and hella hairy. Perfert, IMO. I've been waiting for a flim that this that will put him in a serious dark role.
So, wanting to see this movie and hoping to have it contain a least a little suspense, I'm not actually going to read yet another artsiefartsie Katz review. I can get over Pacino playing the same character all the time because he is good at it. I can't wait to see how well Williams pulls off this role. I don't care if it is a remake, and if the original was better. Good stories deserve to be retold, its the core of the art of storytelling
As buggy as Mozilla may be, its still great to see this project hit version 1.0. I've long prefered Mozilla for my Linux web browser (that is until Galeon came along), so lets stop all the whining and arguing for a moment and remember to tip our hats (Red or otherwise) to the Mozilla team!
Thanks guys!
The don't dominate the desktop market just because they provide easy solutions. So does Apple, but they are barely worth mentioning, big picture-wise. Is there hope due to the UNIX underpinings of Mac OS X? Maybe, that entirely depends on the market. The vast majority of consumers don't understand or care about the benefits of UNIX. Factors such as cost keep Apple far in the background. Low cost (relatively), features, and ease of use keep Microsoft far in the foreground.
The idea that "what these companies need to realize is that they can convert their old files into plain text files" might seem simple to the drooling UNIX masses, but it is an idea akin to suggesting that NIS is good enough for all your user authentication needs on your network. If you don't care about security, sure it might be. If you don't mind using technology from 1984-1987 because you just don't trust that newfangled technology in more recent technology, then maybe plain ol' text is the way to go. Unfortunately, the rest of the world has moved on, and plain ol' text is not good enough.
Where Linux will gain is in replacing Windows. If I could replace the gaming functions of Windows, I'd very much considering eliminating M$ from my world. Until I can replace those functions, i.e., DirectX, then Linux serves a role but can't meet every need. This is a victory for Linux.
So... can I borrow the GNU/Car keys?
It is supported on the VIA P4X333 and KT333 chipsets, for example.
... cause that is what everybody calls it anyways. I'm glad Apple appears to have been cooperative and permissive about this, otherwise we'd see confusion about the burgeoning technology.
It can't be ease of use, that is not the point of UNIX-like operating systems. Some distros may get close to the ease of use of Windows, but is that really the primary goal of any distribution?
It can't be the prettiness of the desktop. Window managers are not tied to the distributions, although some prefer prefer certain desktop suites. However you look at it, there is a UNIX that takes the desktop beauty pageant hands down: Mac OS X.
Maybe you judge "best" by how much control you have over the operating system... does that require working with source in all cases, or is fine-grained package management good enough? They all give you incredibly control over the operating system, differences in the layout of /etc aside.
I could keep on going, but I'm sure you get the point. How much "better" a distribution is has to be looked at very subjectively and therefore the judgement lacks meaning. As long as a distro works, installs, is reliable, and essentially does what it claims to do, you have to give it the stamp of approval as a good distribution. Past that, everything is a matter of opinion.
Perhaps, for business, Red Hat simple is the best. Personally, that is the conclusion I've come to. I love Mandrake, prefer it, more or less, to Red Hat, however I've chosen Red Hat for the servers I build (and I build servers both for personal projects and for use by the large telecommunications company I work for) and for workstations. My workstation at the office is Red Hat, while at home I use Mandrake.
Each has their benefits. I've played with Debian, Storm Linux, Progeny (i.e., Debian+), Gentoo, and so on. Every distribution has something of value, some only as learning tools.
If we want to get very Darwin about the whole thing, then Red Hat is obviously the fittest distro. Its not the first, but it is the largest, most widely used, and has all but wiped out older "species" like Slackware, IMO.
You bold-faced liar.
You've heard it, you liked it, you even managed to get the mp3s in high-quality, cd quality even. You've probably already burnt it to cd audio for listen in your only stereo that won't play mp3s.
So you were a shitty kid in your own right. Its naive to think that family life has no impact just because you sucked despite not having a lousy family.
2. Bell is already doing this in Canada, and other ISP/Telcos such as Telus, Shaw, Rogers, etc are considering taking similar steps to deal with the bandwidth hogs
It should be noted that the hogs are a small minority and that most of them are engaging in illegal activity. Given the current legal trend in Canada (placing of liability on ISPs, forcing them to report potentially illegal activity of a serious nature to the authorities, etc) I wouldn't be surprised if Canadian ISPs will be taking a more active role in stamping out piracy.
However, I'd be happy to accept:
Humans are the weakest link. Without them all passwords would be strong. (assuming computers don't get lazy and start using their pet's name, birthdate, or password|secret|god|foo)
or
Humans are the weakest link, good-bye
I deserve to be modded down for that last bit, I know it, and I repent. TV is an insidious evil. TV is the enemy. TV is the mind killer.
Sure, further litigation. What a nice waste of money.. thats the problem with dumb laws, it costs a lot to counter them. Common sense is free, but law != common sense.
Would that be acceptable?
The threat to filesharing as a technology comes from the rights-holders and from the legal system. Precident is being set all the time which threatens ISPs with liability for illegal activities on their network that they are "made aware of", DMCA notice and takedown letter or not.
Its much more scary in the UK and in Canada. Canada just passed new legislation which will make ISPs vulnerable for distribution of child pornography on their network. SOCAN Copyright Tariff 22 was just it through the Court of Appeals and makes ISPs liable for infringing material stored on their "cache servers".
P2P technology may by-pass these, but it is only a matter of time before some powerful organization convinces some judges that ISPs should be held liable for allowing P2P on their network. Blocking of ports, account terminations, and worse are all coming if the rights-holders have their way... and technology such as swarmcast which acts to distribution free software will likely get lumped in with the Napter/Kazaa/Foo P2P technologies.
I'll be seeing it tonight with a sizable group of geeks, so I have yet to form an informed opinion of the movie. I'm not expecting much in the way of quality acting from Manequin Skywalker, but if the choice of R.A. Salvatore for the novelization is any indication, the fight scenes will be golden.
The use of Search Warrants or subpoenas to order disclosure is similar in Canada, however PIPEDA seems to allow the disclosure of information without warrant when requested by the authorities. What would make more sense is an order simply mandating disclosure of information without being wrapped up in the auspices of a search warrant. The privacy policies of ISPs should reflect this type of scenario, which would, I'd think, invalidate concerns over unreasonable search and seizure.