"it's somewhat insulting to elections officials and volunteers," he said to the idea that elections officers would tamper with vote results."
Um... Mr. Bear... Just who do you think has been responsible for vote tampering under previous methods for counting votes ???
Elections officials and their state & county government underlings are the only people with access needed to tinker with vote counts under ANY scheme of balloting present or past. Katherine Harris for example in her elections oversight capacity as Florida Secretary of State was an "elections official." We're supposed to take the word of such people implicitly, and not to question their stewardship over elections to avoid the possibility of that they might take offence? To spare their feelings? The vanity of elections officials is more important than the integrity of democratic elections...wow, who knew?
Mr. Bear doth protest a bit too much over the good name of elections officials. While most poll workers are well intentioned citizens just trying to make their democracy work, some like Chief Justice William Rehnquist have a history of intimidating minority voters and trying to keep them from voting. But even the bad apples among poll workers are out of the loop when it comes to truly systematic, large scale election fraud. Only elections officials can do that. Lumping elections officials who can and sometimes have rigged elections with poll workers, who with a few exceptions are truly public spirited people without any prospect of determining electoral outcomes, is a deliberate trick Bear uses to confuse the issue. The issue though isn't to make a thorogh accounting of who's trustable and who isn't.
The point of any improved system of balloting would be to remove as far as possible ANY reliance upon trust in fallible humans. An improved system would replace blind faith in the word of individuals in power individuals who have a stake in the outcome, and who work out of sight, with visible, unalterable and repeatable processes. And likewise, an improved system would remove reliance and trust as far as possible in any processes where the votes are "handled" out of sight. What a computer does to data on a CPU is as far out of sight as it is possible to get. By contrast, a mechanical system is hard and timeconsuming to change (the key to integrity is the proper collection and custody of the paper ballots, but that is something that is fully visible and thus monitor-able) A fully computerized system on the other hand, can be changed in order to fudge the results, then changed back invisibly in the blink of an eye. Hardcore forensics would be required to even get a sense that something untowards might have happened.
E-balloting as offered by Diebold, ES&S and others, therefore, is the greatest invitation to rigged elections since the invention of standing armies. In that sense, voting technology can be said to be some making scientific progress.I'd rather scratch my candidate's name on rock with a nail than toss my vote into the ether with e-balloting.
Science fiction movies, huh? Well, today's soldier resembles something out of a horror movie (or a ww2 movie--the side that wore gray)... I guess I'm wondering "Does a shift to science fiction represent progress?" Or will it be like "Alien", where, instead of torturing you with glowsticks and batons, they'll just bite your face off with titanium teeth?
it also had a calendar/scheduler ! It was the "do everything in one place" suite, as the stardivision slogan put it. My employer advised me against shitting where I eat, though.
MSN is a money loser as well. But it's important to undertand that Microsoft doesn't "get paid" through direct revenues so much as through the valuation of their stock. And the price of their stock hinges on the perception that they control everything that touches the areas of computing and the internet--and that they will extend that control in the future by leveraging the monopoly. Even today their stock valuation is all out of proportion to their revenues and share price is how the company principals are paid. Everyone who buys MSFT at this point is buying the idea of an unstoppable monopoly that will roll up any competitor or partner in the long run. So it doesn't matter if AOL is a longterm money loser, they are the visible competition and the competition has to be seen being absorbed by MS, or ruined, in order for the MS mythology to sustain itself. Like a shark, MSFT has to continually swim, kill and eat or it will die.
(im talking about full Windows GUI like control panels...
actually nvidia has this feature already worked out for Linux. Called 'nvidia-settings' it was in their Beta driver set 1-0.4260. What you saw was a fully fledged gui for controlling card options very reminiscent of the control panel on Windows, if not identical. Why they don't include it in their official releases is a mystery. When I was using the beta drivers, it seemed to work perfectly.
The structural problems include lack of backwards compatibility provisions in glibc versions and higher level libraries. This is a basic feature/flaw of Linux and makes the porting of applications to the Linux platform very problematic. Nobody seems to give a damn if software published last year will run this year. The unspoken assumption is it will be recompiled or if that isn't enough, it will be rewritten. I would say this is even more pernicious as a factor in retarding the Linux desktop than the sound driver problem. Everything library-wise is always changing. If you code for profit like game creators do, instead of for the hell of it, constant change without backwards compatibility is prohibitive. And it isn't much better from the paying customer's perspective either -- what's the point of having a "games distro" if the games which you paid money for are going to break just 6 - 9 months from the day you bought the distribution cd ?
Anybody have any Loki games that still work ? I don't !
I should have added that there already is a shortcut to/home/user in the file selector: just type ~ [TAB] and, voila, you're in your home directory even if you were starting out from/usr/local/subdir/subdir/subdir, or wherever.
It's a shortcut-just not a graphical shortcut of the sort people used to other systems are expecting to see. But if you're used to the BASH shell on your linux system, this will click for you and provide that "consistent ui experience" people are always talking about. For those with toplevel floppy and zip directories like in Debian, or those who've made symlinks from the toplevel to the floppy and zip directories within/mnt (like you might do on a RedHat system), accessing those directories from the standard gimp file selector would also be pretty quick, eg:/fl [TAB] and, presto, you're in the floppy's filesystem. or/z [TAB] to access the zip (supposing it's (super)mounted).
"File management is a horror, with stale motif-like file manager widgets that lack sensible defaults, and don't remember where you are."
You didn't tap its power. Yes it looks like ass, and it seems really braindead, but looks can be deceiving. If you come from Windows, you'll have a hard time guessing what the dialog can do.
Say you have an image that you want to reopen and edit to create a totally new image. You can't remember its exact name, though, because you initially added this file to your home directory months ago and since that time you've made several versions of images derived from this original already --always keeping part of the name of the original in the names of its derived images. Let's say the file has "cat" somewhere in its name. So there are several maybe a dozen and a half "cat" images that are associated with this original all jumbled in your home. And some of these are.jpgs some are.pngs, and some are "master images" in Gimp's native xcf format that have color tinting or have been cropped. And these files are all mixed up among a thousand or so other files in your home dir. You don't want any jpegs or processed.xcf's --just the original. How to find the one you want?
Well this apparently stupid looking file selector actually has some powerful tools to help you find that one desired file very quickly. Down in the file name text area you can type *cat*.xcf and hit TAB and then the listing of files in the right pane of the dialog will change. Only those master images with "cat" and suffix.xcf will appear now. Instead of a rightpane list of 987 filenames, now there's maybe only six files to choose from. (I am basing this description off of an example I am trying out as i write this). Let's say you can't tell at a glance which.xcf file out of these six filenames is the one that you wanted to start with. Clicking once on each of these filenames will give you a graphic preview of the file to the right of the 'selection' text area.
So the GIMP fileselector is actually a shitload faster than many people think.
I long for "shortcut" buttons in the Gnome/GTK+ fileselector dialog (Ximian has long had these and I can't understand why Gnome hasn't incorporated them already). Basically a "home" shortcut would satisfy me. Others pine for a shortcut to removable media. But I also wonder how many of the people who piss and moan for that kind of feature are still unaware of how fast you can use TAB autocompletion to navigate directories in the file selection dialog?
Once you learn that you can do this, and get some practice using it, I can't imagine that you'd believe that poking through a visual tree of directories and subdirectories could ever be as fast. TAB completion rules. Of course it assumes you know something about your filesystem. But then, UNIX was created for intelligent professionals unafraid of a keyboard, not porn surfers who always need one hand free.
Acually what Congress (and a runaway Executive of the same political party) can do is IGNORE the Constitution. Which if you read it (the USC together with the article at the top of this thread) is basically what the Executive (FBI) is already doing.
Yes, I think this is a clear case of a 4th amendment violation, indeed a whole policy intended to VOID and break it, and so clear a violation that it breaks the category. Don't need a court order to go rifling through a citizen's bank accts? Shit then why did we bother having a Constitution at all if its rules against unwarranted searches can be ignored at a whim?
I think the Constitution's Framers knew ALL ABOUT about the possibility of "seditious" forces or "terrorism" or whatever you want to call it: after all they THEMSELVES were armed revolutionaries against their legitimate government. Arguments that "the Constitution isn't a suicide pact" and therefore Mrs. John Asscleft shall be allowed to paw through citizen's private information at will simply because it's expedient is the most breathtakingly cynical perversion of this country's committment to liberty in its history. I've seen the Constitution violated before, but the perps eventually were called to account. The other branches did their job or at least faked it. The perps didn't always go to jail, but they suffered disgrace and the fear of being caught. Never before -NEVER- have I seen the Constitution dispensed with in broad daylight --simply WAIVED-- with breezy arguments that "everything's changed: that was then, but this is now" and "the Dear Leader needs your civil liberties melted down in order to fight terra."
Change the Constitution? They don't have to change it when they can just use the compliant and ignorant corporate media to convince the public that if the gummint does it, it can't be illegal. They just leave the Constitution's words in place and pretend the meanings have changed. Done deal, and oh yeah you're Un-goddamn-American if you dare protest what they're doing.
These things should make the ideal no-footprint, low-wattage, low-noise, high performance thinclient for LTSP. Build it right into the back of a TFT panel.
Transmeta: why can't I get them this way? Don't tell me there's no market for thinclients --I know better.
UserLinux doesn't even *exist* yet. That's a far cry from having a monopolist's power to "persuade" 90plus percent of the market to switch over to using Internet Destroyer instead of Netscape more or less overnight (as they upgrade from windose95 to 98 or 2000). There are no grounds to make an MS - UserLinux comparison. In fact it's ludicrous.
I think they might have done even better to say "let a million desktops etherboot"
Seriously, with LTSP they could save a pantload on hardware alone. Re-use your old desktops, China, and buy some Opteron-Linux servers from Sun to serve up the X desktop.
Exactly, and thank you! You took the words right out of my mouth.
Well, actually I was going to say something more like "Who the fuck cares if it doesn't run on a PDA!" PDAs are not the target. They have postage stamp screens and are no good for desktop applications. Let 'em eat Java.
E-voting is essentially a scheme by corporations to privatize the counting of votes, to make it invisible and changeable, and thus to assume for themselves a new measure of control.
Most e-voting companies I'm aware of, like Diebold, are highly ideological, very partisan affiliated, and not neutral actors at all.
The President of Diebold has vowed to personally deliver the state of Ohio (where Diebold is from) to the Republicans. I'd say he's off to a good start.
E-voting? I'd rather scratch my vote on a rock with a metal pin than "trust" the untrustable, the instantly changeable, the never can traceable electromagnetic "record".
It's sad to hear about the new cluelessness at HD. I don't mean about not using Linux --I couldn't give a damn one way or another-- but their drive to shed their really important asset: the employees.
HD employees make that place different from other large supply megalostaurs. Trying to convert half the workforce into temp slaves is going to turn the HD experience and franchise into shit.
I logged in to see if I had any mod points to give your post --unfortunately none as yet.
America can have the best schools in the world anytime we decide that's what we really want. It's all a matter of the value we place on education. We seem to have a surplus of cash: funding pointless or redundant weapons systems for example is something we do all the time (with an accumulated value to society at below zero. Will anything we learned building the B-1 bomber, an obsolete system before the first copy rolled out the hangar door, pay dividends to America over and above the tens of billions wasted on it? How about the more extravagant but possibly even more useless B2 bomber program @ $1.3 billion a copy, a weapon system even the Pentagon said we didn't need. Then there's Son of Star Wars, the pinnacle of Mankind's folly with a cost slated eventually to reach the Trillions. All weapons systems made conceptually obsolete by the low low tech cruise missile --both our own and those our enemies will design and deploy)
A country that has raked trillions of dollars into a pile and set fire to them knowing full well at the top of its decision making bodies the inanity of these purchases doesn't deserve to complain a second about its public education system when it has left it chronically underfunded.
These people who clamor for more and more war toys so their friends and future employers can get rich sucking the lifeblood of our civil society are a hundred times more of a threat to us and our way of life than Al-Quaeda or tinhorn dictators like Iraq's Hussein could ever hope to be.
Like others say, it's not new. I think the Cyrix C3 started out at 500Mhz --like a year and half a ago or so. Maybe 2 years now... The neat thing about C3s is the temperature: an X86 compatible chip that costs peanuts, runs in common inexpensive socket 370 boards and the little f*ers run so cool they can actually dispense with FANS. (especially when mildly underclocked)
They are the perfect thinclient CPU, given the need for X86 compatibility out there in the world.
Does Microsoft give Office technical support for WINE installs? No of course not. And you won't be missing anything not having it.
Why run it in an emulator at all when you could run the real thing? You will be able to run Office from a central app server thanks to X, with one installation for multiple users. This is already possible with Codeweavers for a fee. Soon it will be free.
-why aren't you willing to buy or use the OS?
Lock in ?
Reboots?
Horrendous fucking Licensing Terms and Costs?
Nazi auditors tossing your MIS offices upside down?
I think those are all the reasons any sane person would ever need.
Good - you noticed something is really odd, as in goofy, about that the last frames of Matrix. Most people probably don't. The reasons the Wachowskis chose to end it that way have nothing to do with plotting or with blutz. The reason can be heard in the lyrics of the song editted over the scene :
Wake Up (first stanza)
-by Rage Against the Machine
Come on!
Uggh!
Come on, although ya try to discredit
Ya still never edit
The needle, I'll thread it
Radically poetic
Standin' with the fury that they had in '66
And like E-Double I'm mad
Still knee-deep in the system's shit
Hoover, he was a body remover
I'll give ya a dose
But it'll never come close
To the rage built up inside of me
Fist in the air, in the land of hypocrisy
As Neo flies up into the sky -that's out at the screen and the audience- with his fist leading the way, the movie closes on the last bars of Wake Up, and Zach DeLa Rocha screaming WAKE UP !!!
Unfortunately, despite the fist and the screaming they rarely do.
But I don't have to worry about it like the rest of you Linux using lusers cause I only use OpenBSD, the world's ONLY secure-by-default, completely auditted operati--
oh wait.
Oh yeah, that's a fine way to thank Intel for all the support they have given Linux and yourself over the years.
Can't you just maintain neutrality, as Intel has done publicly with respect to the Microsoft/Linux struggle?
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Um... Mr. Bear... Just who do you think has been responsible for vote tampering under previous methods for counting votes ???
Elections officials and their state & county government underlings are the only people with access needed to tinker with vote counts under ANY scheme of balloting present or past. Katherine Harris for example in her elections oversight capacity as Florida Secretary of State was an "elections official." We're supposed to take the word of such people implicitly, and not to question their stewardship over elections to avoid the possibility of that they might take offence? To spare their feelings? The vanity of elections officials is more important than the integrity of democratic elections...wow, who knew?
Mr. Bear doth protest a bit too much over the good name of elections officials. While most poll workers are well intentioned citizens just trying to make their democracy work, some like Chief Justice William Rehnquist have a history of intimidating minority voters and trying to keep them from voting. But even the bad apples among poll workers are out of the loop when it comes to truly systematic, large scale election fraud. Only elections officials can do that. Lumping elections officials who can and sometimes have rigged elections with poll workers, who with a few exceptions are truly public spirited people without any prospect of determining electoral outcomes, is a deliberate trick Bear uses to confuse the issue. The issue though isn't to make a thorogh accounting of who's trustable and who isn't.
The point of any improved system of balloting would be to remove as far as possible ANY reliance upon trust in fallible humans. An improved system would replace blind faith in the word of individuals in power individuals who have a stake in the outcome, and who work out of sight, with visible, unalterable and repeatable processes. And likewise, an improved system would remove reliance and trust as far as possible in any processes where the votes are "handled" out of sight. What a computer does to data on a CPU is as far out of sight as it is possible to get. By contrast, a mechanical system is hard and timeconsuming to change (the key to integrity is the proper collection and custody of the paper ballots, but that is something that is fully visible and thus monitor-able) A fully computerized system on the other hand, can be changed in order to fudge the results, then changed back invisibly in the blink of an eye. Hardcore forensics would be required to even get a sense that something untowards might have happened.
E-balloting as offered by Diebold, ES&S and others, therefore, is the greatest invitation to rigged elections since the invention of standing armies. In that sense, voting technology can be said to be some making scientific progress.I'd rather scratch my candidate's name on rock with a nail than toss my vote into the ether with e-balloting.
it also had a calendar/scheduler !
It was the "do everything in one place" suite, as the stardivision slogan put it. My employer advised me against shitting where I eat, though.
MSN is a money loser as well. But it's important to undertand that Microsoft doesn't "get paid" through direct revenues so much as through the valuation of their stock. And the price of their stock hinges on the perception that they control everything that touches the areas of computing and the internet--and that they will extend that control in the future by leveraging the monopoly. Even today their stock valuation is all out of proportion to their revenues and share price is how the company principals are paid. Everyone who buys MSFT at this point is buying the idea of an unstoppable monopoly that will roll up any competitor or partner in the long run. So it doesn't matter if AOL is a longterm money loser, they are the visible competition and the competition has to be seen being absorbed by MS, or ruined, in order for the MS mythology to sustain itself. Like a shark, MSFT has to continually swim, kill and eat or it will die.
actually nvidia has this feature already worked out for Linux. Called 'nvidia-settings' it was in their Beta driver set 1-0.4260. What you saw was a fully fledged gui for controlling card options very reminiscent of the control panel on Windows, if not identical.
Why they don't include it in their official releases is a mystery. When I was using the beta drivers, it seemed to work perfectly.
The structural problems include lack of backwards compatibility provisions in glibc versions and higher level libraries. This is a basic feature/flaw of Linux and makes the porting of applications to the Linux platform very problematic. Nobody seems to give a damn if software published last year will run this year. The unspoken assumption is it will be recompiled or if that isn't enough, it will be rewritten. I would say this is even more pernicious as a factor in retarding the Linux desktop than the sound driver problem. Everything library-wise is always changing. If you code for profit like game creators do, instead of for the hell of it, constant change without backwards compatibility is prohibitive. And it isn't much better from the paying customer's perspective either -- what's the point of having a "games distro" if the games which you paid money for are going to break just 6 - 9 months from the day you bought the distribution cd ?
Anybody have any Loki games that still work ? I don't !
It's a shortcut-just not a graphical shortcut of the sort people used to other systems are expecting to see. But if you're used to the BASH shell on your linux system, this will click for you and provide that "consistent ui experience" people are always talking about. For those with toplevel floppy and zip directories like in Debian, or those who've made symlinks from the toplevel to the floppy and zip directories within
You didn't tap its power. Yes it looks like ass, and it seems really braindead, but looks can be deceiving. If you come from Windows, you'll have a hard time guessing what the dialog can do.
Say you have an image that you want to reopen and edit to create a totally new image. You can't remember its exact name, though, because you initially added this file to your home directory months ago and since that time you've made several versions of images derived from this original already --always keeping part of the name of the original in the names of its derived images. Let's say the file has "cat" somewhere in its name. So there are several maybe a dozen and a half "cat" images that are associated with this original all jumbled in your home. And some of these are .jpgs some are .pngs, and some are "master images" in Gimp's native xcf format that have color tinting or have been cropped. And these files are all mixed up among a thousand or so other files in your home dir. You don't want any jpegs or processed .xcf's --just the original. How to find the one you want?
Well this apparently stupid looking file selector actually has some powerful tools to help you find that one desired file very quickly. Down in the file name text area you can type *cat*.xcf and hit TAB and then the listing of files in the right pane of the dialog will change. Only those master images with "cat" and suffix .xcf will appear now. Instead of a rightpane list of 987 filenames, now there's maybe only six files to choose from. (I am basing this description off of an example I am trying out as i write this). Let's say you can't tell at a glance which .xcf file out of these six filenames is the one that you wanted to start with. Clicking once on each of these filenames will give you a graphic preview of the file to the right of the 'selection' text area.
So the GIMP fileselector is actually a shitload faster than many people think.
I long for "shortcut" buttons in the Gnome/GTK+ fileselector dialog (Ximian has long had these and I can't understand why Gnome hasn't incorporated them already). Basically a "home" shortcut would satisfy me. Others pine for a shortcut to removable media. But I also wonder how many of the people who piss and moan for that kind of feature are still unaware of how fast you can use TAB autocompletion to navigate directories in the file selection dialog? Once you learn that you can do this, and get some practice using it, I can't imagine that you'd believe that poking through a visual tree of directories and subdirectories could ever be as fast. TAB completion rules. Of course it assumes you know something about your filesystem. But then, UNIX was created for intelligent professionals unafraid of a keyboard, not porn surfers who always need one hand free.
Acually what Congress (and a runaway Executive of the same political party) can do is IGNORE the Constitution. Which if you read it (the USC together with the article at the top of this thread) is basically what the Executive (FBI) is already doing.
Yes, I think this is a clear case of a 4th amendment violation, indeed a whole policy intended to VOID and break it, and so clear a violation that it breaks the category. Don't need a court order to go rifling through a citizen's bank accts? Shit then why did we bother having a Constitution at all if its rules against unwarranted searches can be ignored at a whim?
I think the Constitution's Framers knew ALL ABOUT about the possibility of "seditious" forces or "terrorism" or whatever you want to call it: after all they THEMSELVES were armed revolutionaries against their legitimate government. Arguments that "the Constitution isn't a suicide pact" and therefore Mrs. John Asscleft shall be allowed to paw through citizen's private information at will simply because it's expedient is the most breathtakingly cynical perversion of this country's committment to liberty in its history.
I've seen the Constitution violated before, but the perps eventually were called to account. The other branches did their job or at least faked it. The perps didn't always go to jail, but they suffered disgrace and the fear of being caught. Never before -NEVER- have I seen the Constitution dispensed with in broad daylight --simply WAIVED-- with breezy arguments that "everything's changed: that was then, but this is now" and "the Dear Leader needs your civil liberties melted down in order to fight terra."
Change the Constitution? They don't have to change it when they can just use the compliant and ignorant corporate media to convince the public that if the gummint does it, it can't be illegal. They just leave the Constitution's words in place and pretend the meanings have changed. Done deal, and oh yeah you're Un-goddamn-American if you dare protest what they're doing.
These things should make the ideal no-footprint, low-wattage, low-noise, high performance thinclient for LTSP. Build it right into the back of a TFT panel.
Transmeta: why can't I get them this way? Don't tell me there's no market for thinclients --I know better.
We don't have any work that something like a 386 or mk68000 cpu is appropriate for at this time, sorry. You can check back with us next year, though.
Yeah you keep using that 20 MHz ppc cpu and be cool, cool guy.
I'll keep my 2GHz Opterons thanks.
UserLinux doesn't even *exist* yet. That's a far cry from having a monopolist's power to "persuade" 90plus percent of the market to switch over to using Internet Destroyer instead of Netscape more or less overnight (as they upgrade from windose95 to 98 or 2000).
There are no grounds to make an MS - UserLinux comparison. In fact it's ludicrous.
you mean like this: /usr/local/j2re1.4.1_02/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavap lugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
ln -s
That's the way it works with Sun's JRE.
Well, actually I was going to say something more like "Who the fuck cares if it doesn't run on a PDA!" PDAs are not the target. They have postage stamp screens and are no good for desktop applications. Let 'em eat Java.
E-voting is essentially a scheme by corporations to privatize the counting of votes, to make it invisible and changeable, and thus to assume for themselves a new measure of control. Most e-voting companies I'm aware of, like Diebold, are highly ideological, very partisan affiliated, and not neutral actors at all. The President of Diebold has vowed to personally deliver the state of Ohio (where Diebold is from) to the Republicans. I'd say he's off to a good start. E-voting? I'd rather scratch my vote on a rock with a metal pin than "trust" the untrustable, the instantly changeable, the never can traceable electromagnetic "record".
It's sad to hear about the new cluelessness at HD. I don't mean about not using Linux --I couldn't give a damn one way or another-- but their drive to shed their really important asset: the employees.
HD employees make that place different from other large supply megalostaurs. Trying to convert half the workforce into temp slaves is going to turn the HD experience and franchise into shit.
America can have the best schools in the world anytime we decide that's what we really want. It's all a matter of the value we place on education. We seem to have a surplus of cash: funding pointless or redundant weapons systems for example is something we do all the time (with an accumulated value to society at below zero. Will anything we learned building the B-1 bomber, an obsolete system before the first copy rolled out the hangar door, pay dividends to America over and above the tens of billions wasted on it? How about the more extravagant but possibly even more useless B2 bomber program @ $1.3 billion a copy, a weapon system even the Pentagon said we didn't need. Then there's Son of Star Wars, the pinnacle of Mankind's folly with a cost slated eventually to reach the Trillions. All weapons systems made conceptually obsolete by the low low tech cruise missile --both our own and those our enemies will design and deploy)
A country that has raked trillions of dollars into a pile and set fire to them knowing full well at the top of its decision making bodies the inanity of these purchases doesn't deserve to complain a second about its public education system when it has left it chronically underfunded.
These people who clamor for more and more war toys so their friends and future employers can get rich sucking the lifeblood of our civil society are a hundred times more of a threat to us and our way of life than Al-Quaeda or tinhorn dictators like Iraq's Hussein could ever hope to be.
Like others say, it's not new.
I think the Cyrix C3 started out at 500Mhz --like a year and half a ago or so. Maybe 2 years now...
The neat thing about C3s is the temperature: an X86 compatible chip that costs peanuts, runs in common inexpensive socket 370 boards and the little f*ers run so cool they can actually dispense with FANS. (especially when mildly underclocked)
They are the perfect thinclient CPU, given the need for X86 compatibility out there in the world.
No of course not. And you won't be missing anything not having it.
Why run it in an emulator at all when you could run the real thing?
You will be able to run Office from a central app server thanks to X, with one installation for multiple users. This is already possible with Codeweavers for a fee. Soon it will be free.
-why aren't you willing to buy or use the OS?
- Lock in ?
- Reboots?
- Horrendous fucking Licensing Terms and Costs?
- Nazi auditors tossing your MIS offices upside down?
I think those are all the reasons any sane person would ever need.Wake Up (first stanza) -by Rage Against the Machine
Come on!
Uggh!
Come on, although ya try to discredit
Ya still never edit
The needle, I'll thread it
Radically poetic
Standin' with the fury that they had in '66
And like E-Double I'm mad
Still knee-deep in the system's shit
Hoover, he was a body remover
I'll give ya a dose
But it'll never come close
To the rage built up inside of me
Fist in the air, in the land of hypocrisy
As Neo flies up into the sky -that's out at the screen and the audience- with his fist leading the way, the movie closes on the last bars of Wake Up, and Zach DeLa Rocha screaming WAKE UP !!!
Unfortunately, despite the fist and the screaming they rarely do.
oh wait.