Given that Al and Tipper have a history of censorship (Tipper created the "Parental Advisory" stickers for music see here and here) and that Bush Jr. is a republican with strong ties to Ralph Reed, who should those who want freedom preserved on the internet vote for?
Though you are correct that many truetype fonts are copyrighted, there are many sources of "free" (beer not speech) fonts.
Font Foundry has loads of free fonts you can use (most of the fonts are the sort of thing you would use in the gimp as opposed to on the cover of your thesis). Between these and the fonts you mentioned, free softniks like us should be able to typeface till we go blue in the face.
The 8 Ball is, well, K-Rad
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Computer Companies can't inovate because the government doesn't let them. Every time a company inovates, be it integrating a web browser directly into the operating system, inventing the WIMP interface, the mouse, the internet, and multimedia, or creating valuable new productivity and educational paradigms, the government swoops in and calls it 'anti-trust' or 'a monopoly'.
HOGWASH! If you want better inovation - write the government and tell them to stop persecuting inovators like Bill Gates and Microsoft - the leading inovators of some of the most poserful computer systems around (see the recent benchmarks). After all, the free market system, the greatest economic system ever, has valued Bill at more money than all of the people who came before him. Who are you to compain?
Do I really have to subtitle for the humor impared?
I mean, really. If I were serious would I be so blatant? I used the word fornicate fer christ sake - this was obviously satire
People -- before you respond to something that offensive, self-righteous, and making fun of high ranking officers of the US army (and I may add, as did ethereal, a decorated war hero and honest-to-god POW) Bob Dole -- think twice. Maybe it isn't but rather its (I guess now I see) an all to subtle attempt at humor.
On a bed of Das Kapital and Origins? His agent, Liz Dole? Please.
I am unbelievably happy that a great American like Liz Dole (married to Grade-A war hero Bob Dole), has taken this step to protect out youth from bomb-making plans, satinism, wicca, and pornography.
Why, just the other day I saw a bunch of goth-bomb-throwing-commie punks fornicating (in ungodly, premarital couplings I might add) on a bed of Das Kapital and On the Origin of Species.
Only the saving power of our LORD, Jesus Christ, brought to earth via (dare I say it) his agent, Liz Dole, can save these children from the evil that is the library (Books? For Free? COMMIES!).
The anti-abortion site ("the nuremburg trials" or some such) posted wanted "dead or alive" posters, advocated the "remnoval" of the doctors for "war crimes", poster the doctors family info and celebrated the victory of a given doctors death.
All of that adds up to a very different climate than this. SpamCop is "report spam", not the abortion sites "kill these bad people".
Sure, thats all true now, but whats to stop the government from narrowly defining 'human' or 'person'?
Ala, "A person is one born from the coupling of a man and a woman". Clones aren't born that way, therefor they aren't human, therefore the rights that protect people from the treatment you spoke of don't apply.
Don't think they wont, btw, look at the narrow definition of marriage that is used to block same sex couples from getting right to adopt, pensions, health benifits, etc.
In the current system thre are two types of programers (with lots of overlap): hobbiests(who work on projects they like or patch programs they use) and in-house developers(who do what the PHBs ask).
The advantage of the Free Software Model is not cheap software, nor is it access to freelance programmers. Its GOOD software.
Under the current, and best, model, companies write programs, and then release them under an open source liscence, which then attracts hobbiests. Hobbiest may, and most do, act as in-house developers during the day, but when they leave they work on what they want.
This system is advantageous because:
1. PHBs get to get the programs they need writen and maintained by the in-house folks.
2. The code is improved/maintained/bug reported by the community.
So everyone gets what they want: Companies and the community get the programs that work; hobbiests work on programs they want to; and hobbiests get paid when they work as in-house developers during the day(or whatever).
Why change a system that works? Companies that need program X should hire programmers (even from the community using former work as part of the evaluation process)to write the program and then release the source (under, say, the GPL) and 'reap the whirelwind'.
I was going to upgrade my 5.2 system to Mandrake, but in Miguel's article he makes it sound as if ONLY Redhat and Debian are fully GPLed. I obviously won't upgrade to a less free system.
However, I always thought that Mandrake was 99.99% RedHat. Irespective of Mandrake 6's PowerPack application CD(I believe RH6 also has a CD of non-GPL stuff (Corel?)), is Mandrake as GPLed as RedHat(or Debian)?
Also, the word is that Mandrake6 is more stable than RH6. Is that true?
--Dante
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In defence of my earlier posting:
Lets say you have one computer with a blank hard drive (like I had). Lets even say it has normal hardware that both Linux and Windows can autodetect/use.
1. Put in the boot disk
2. Select English, US keyboard, Local CDROM.
3. Follow the manual to partition
4. Select Workstation, Server, or Custom(which will require extra work)
5. Drink Coffee
6. Set up X(tell it your moitor and card)
7. Your Off... AND you have everything you need to do anything (if you bought the RH box, you even have WordPerfect - but thats also a free download).
Lets say you have a windows OEM CD or a box:
1. Wait: You have no boot disk - you can't install.
2. Find some guy with Win/DOS and get a boot disk made.
3. Find CD-ROM Drivers. Install them, update your config.sys and autoexec.bat
4. If you don't want one big drive, you have to use DOS FDISK to partition (which you only have if its on the boot disk - and which is way less useful than either GNU fdisk or DiskDruid.
5. Now you install...and hope it can set up your hardware. Like I said above if it doesn't you have problems
6. Reeboot and Go. But you have nothing but freecell. So you have to install Explorer(I did have Win95 release 1 btw), and whatever else you want. And if you want a web server, or an FTP server, or the GIMP...tough
So which is easier? Red Hat.
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That is such FUD.
Recently, at work I've had to fight with a machine with a faulty hard drive so I installed both RH5.2 and Win95 several times (before we were sure the drive had failed).
RH5.2 installed far more easily, and reliably every time. It took less reboots(only 1) and everything was well explained. To boot the manual is easy to follow and well put together. It detected ALL of our hardware, every time.
Windows, on the other hand, has no boot disk(or an image) so you have to install your own CDROM drivers using your own boot disk just to start. It couldn't autoconfigure the NE2000 network card (linux did), and if you told windows the correct IRQ for the card during instillation, it hung on reboot.
Windows also comes with far less stuff the linux, no web browser for instatnce.
The only reason that people say that Windows is easier to install is because they don't have to do it, as it *comes* installed. If you compare Windows to Red Hat 5.2, Red Hat is the clear winner.
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what are the 'simple tools'? are they gpled?
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Though you are correct that many truetype fonts are copyrighted, there are many sources of "free" (beer not speech) fonts.
Font Foundry has loads of free fonts you can use (most of the fonts are the sort of thing you would use in the gimp as opposed to on the cover of your thesis). Between these and the fonts you mentioned, free softniks like us should be able to typeface till we go blue in the face.
I asked:
"Is x^n+xy+y^n factorable for n>2?"
I got:
"My response is no"
Thats one smart 8Ball.
The new Sleeman's steam is really good. Try it.
#define SARCASM TRUE
Computer Companies can't inovate because the government doesn't let them. Every time a company inovates, be it integrating a web browser directly into the operating system, inventing the WIMP interface, the mouse, the internet, and multimedia, or creating valuable new productivity and educational paradigms, the government swoops in and calls it 'anti-trust' or 'a monopoly'.
HOGWASH! If you want better inovation - write the government and tell them to stop persecuting inovators like Bill Gates and Microsoft - the leading inovators of some of the most poserful computer systems around (see the recent benchmarks). After all, the free market system, the greatest economic system ever, has valued Bill at more money than all of the people who came before him. Who are you to compain?
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I'm pretty sure it was Woody Allen.
See http://www.slip.net/~hsstern/maewest/w oody.htm.
Do I really have to subtitle for the humor impared?
I mean, really. If I were serious would I be so blatant? I used the word fornicate fer christ sake - this was obviously satire
People -- before you respond to something that offensive, self-righteous, and making fun of high ranking officers of the US army (and I may add, as did ethereal, a decorated war hero and honest-to-god POW) Bob Dole -- think twice. Maybe it isn't but rather its (I guess now I see) an all to subtle attempt at humor.
On a bed of Das Kapital and Origins? His agent, Liz Dole? Please.
I am unbelievably happy that a great American like Liz Dole (married to Grade-A war hero Bob Dole), has taken this step to protect out youth from bomb-making plans, satinism, wicca, and pornography.
Why, just the other day I saw a bunch of goth-bomb-throwing-commie punks fornicating (in ungodly, premarital couplings I might add) on a bed of Das Kapital and On the Origin of Species.
Only the saving power of our LORD, Jesus Christ, brought to earth via (dare I say it) his agent, Liz Dole, can save these children from the evil that is the library (Books? For Free? COMMIES!).
The cases are very different.
The anti-abortion site ("the nuremburg trials" or some such) posted wanted "dead or alive" posters, advocated the "remnoval" of the doctors for "war crimes", poster the doctors family info and celebrated the victory of a given doctors death.
All of that adds up to a very different climate than this. SpamCop is "report spam", not the abortion sites "kill these bad people".
_Dante_
Sure, thats all true now, but whats to stop the government from narrowly defining 'human' or 'person'?
Ala, "A person is one born from the coupling of a man and a woman". Clones aren't born that way, therefor they aren't human, therefore the rights that protect people from the treatment you spoke of don't apply.
Don't think they wont, btw, look at the narrow definition of marriage that is used to block same sex couples from getting right to adopt, pensions, health benifits, etc.
In the current system thre are two types of programers (with lots of overlap): hobbiests(who work on projects they like or patch programs they use) and in-house developers(who do what the PHBs ask).
The advantage of the Free Software Model is not cheap software, nor is it access to freelance programmers. Its GOOD software.
Under the current, and best, model, companies write programs, and then release them under an open source liscence, which then attracts hobbiests. Hobbiest may, and most do, act as in-house developers during the day, but when they leave they work on what they want.
This system is advantageous because:
1. PHBs get to get the programs they need writen and maintained by the in-house folks.
2. The code is improved/maintained/bug reported by the community.
So everyone gets what they want: Companies and the community get the programs that work; hobbiests work on programs they want to; and hobbiests get paid when they work as in-house developers during the day(or whatever).
Why change a system that works? Companies that need program X should hire programmers (even from the community using former work as part of the evaluation process)to write the program and then release the source (under, say, the GPL) and 'reap the whirelwind'.
I was going to upgrade my 5.2 system to Mandrake, but in Miguel's article he makes it sound as if ONLY Redhat and Debian are fully GPLed. I obviously won't upgrade to a less free system.
However, I always thought that Mandrake was 99.99% RedHat. Irespective of Mandrake 6's PowerPack application CD(I believe RH6 also has a CD of non-GPL stuff (Corel?)), is Mandrake as GPLed as RedHat(or Debian)?
Also, the word is that Mandrake6 is more stable than RH6. Is that true?
--Dante
In defence of my earlier posting:
Lets say you have one computer with a blank hard drive (like I had). Lets even say it has normal hardware that both Linux and Windows can autodetect/use.
1. Put in the boot disk
2. Select English, US keyboard, Local CDROM.
3. Follow the manual to partition
4. Select Workstation, Server, or Custom(which will require extra work)
5. Drink Coffee
6. Set up X(tell it your moitor and card)
7. Your Off... AND you have everything you need to do anything (if you bought the RH box, you even have WordPerfect - but thats also a free download).
Lets say you have a windows OEM CD or a box:
1. Wait: You have no boot disk - you can't install.
2. Find some guy with Win/DOS and get a boot disk made.
3. Find CD-ROM Drivers. Install them, update your config.sys and autoexec.bat
4. If you don't want one big drive, you have to use DOS FDISK to partition (which you only have if its on the boot disk - and which is way less useful than either GNU fdisk or DiskDruid.
5. Now you install...and hope it can set up your hardware. Like I said above if it doesn't you have problems
6. Reeboot and Go. But you have nothing but freecell. So you have to install Explorer(I did have Win95 release 1 btw), and whatever else you want. And if you want a web server, or an FTP server, or the GIMP...tough
So which is easier? Red Hat.
That is such FUD.
Recently, at work I've had to fight with a machine with a faulty hard drive so I installed both RH5.2 and Win95 several times (before we were sure the drive had failed).
RH5.2 installed far more easily, and reliably every time. It took less reboots(only 1) and everything was well explained. To boot the manual is easy to follow and well put together. It detected ALL of our hardware, every time.
Windows, on the other hand, has no boot disk(or an image) so you have to install your own CDROM drivers using your own boot disk just to start. It couldn't autoconfigure the NE2000 network card (linux did), and if you told windows the correct IRQ for the card during instillation, it hung on reboot.
Windows also comes with far less stuff the linux, no web browser for instatnce.
The only reason that people say that Windows is easier to install is because they don't have to do it, as it *comes* installed. If you compare Windows to Red Hat 5.2, Red Hat is the clear winner.