A true replacement for the car?? It is still a car.. you just have less choice of where you want to go because once you leave your house, you can only ride on the tracks and only go where the tracks lead.. this doesn't seem like a good thing imho..
Finally, someone said it (and is above my threshold);)
Normal people don't want their freedom taken away. "Solutions" that restrict us to the narrow routes the planners want us to take are no good.
Public transit is a religion for some though, so we're wasting our breath here;)
Why do I never see anyone say the obvious? Right or wrong, I feel less liable if I only dl, not ul. Yeah, I doubt anyone would go after me for sharing a few songs on gnutella. But I really doubt they'll go after me for grabbing a few songs from gnutella.
I'd be glad to share all day long. Sorry, just can't take the risk. I don't want to have to explain to my wife that we lost our broadband, or got fined, or are getting sued or something because I wanted to play nice on gnutella.
Use the third link in the story if you just want to get the book. I didn't even see how to get there from the "first incarnation" link the story poster provided.
It seemed like most of those who thought Napster was in the Constitution also opposed gun ownership, at least on/. They thought it was more important to be able to copy music than to defend themselves.
Since U.S. schools aren't adeqately funded by the government, they gobble up as much of the private-sector "technology money" as they can possibly gorge themselves on; a signifigant chunk of which comes in the form of discounted licenses for Microsoft software.
Sigh. Many "failing" US schools spend enough per student they could hire them tutors and take them to lunch at fine restaurants by limo, if they wanted to. They aren't inadequately funded.
European schools (at least in the three countries mentioned above) are supported wholly by the state, and as such don't require outside funding. This means that, for the most part, the software and hardware are chosen to fit the needs of the instructors and students, rather than to fit the discounts, freebies, and funding-with-strings requirements assigned by the technology companies.
So, European schools choose free software because they have better funding? I don't follow you here.
These, among other reasons, are why the U.S. imports its computer engineers from Europe and southeast Asia.
No, US companies do that because they work cheaper, and have less job mobility (which is part of why they work cheaper). I'm sure they'd love to deport citizen employees who quit too, if they could figure out how.
We are raising a generation of Americans that won't know the difference between a verb and a posessive pronoun, but they'll be able to use the Word grammar-checker, so it all works out in the end, right?
That's more likely the result of abandoning the three Rs than the choice of non-free vs. free software.
So is eminent domain, but without it we wouldn't have any cables (or utilities) reaching our homes at all. If we're already granting corporate monopolies based on one socialist theory, why stop there?
Now, I doubt that. Most of us like having utilities, after all. "Excuse me, may I dig up your yard to provide service to your neighbor? If you say no, I'm afraid we can't provide it to you, either". I think most people would cooperate. Utilities would form agreements to share conduits, etc. Eminent domain isn't actually irreplaceable.
If he really wants to preserve african wildlife, he can do it much more easily by offering to fund the anti poaching forces in tanzania and kenya, as well as solving rural african poverty that means many in poorer outlying areas must hunt for bushmeat which goes for a high price in Nairobi.
Or he could set up a huge ranch in Africa, and charge admission to people who want to see these creatures. Or charge people to come hunt them. Or accept donations from those who wish to preserve them.
Before the Internet, most people were dumb,
passive consumers. Let me just buy things and
watch TV, and let others produces things, let
others make decisions, let others tell me what
my opinions are.
Is that really how you see your fellow human? How sad.
You, of course, have a consumer role as well; you just think that the things you choose to consume are better than the things I choose to consume. You also think your decision to consume them was made oh-so-much more intelligently than my decisions. Whoop-de-do.
Today, like years ago, we are told that the masses are meant to be all-consuming pac-men, and the few are meant to produce, lead, and make decisions.
Who is telling you these things? Why are you listening? Oh that's right, you aren't, just your "dumb, passive" fellow human.
Silent Spring was more or less successful -- DDT is now banned for most uses in the U.S., and the book had great effect in raising environmental awareness, but overall, environmental quality has continued to suffer.
Silent Spring was successful at condemning millions to death from malaria.
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"Discount usability" is a term Jakob uses for a specific method of usability testing.
I'm not a big fan, but I wouldn't discount his whole approach just because he puts that term in his site keywords.
It is simpler because a SOCKS server dynamically forwards whichever ports it needs to, based on the protocol. Any SOCKSified client can connect to ssh on the local listening port, and the remote part (sshd) will forward the request to the appropriate remote port.
Even simpler - the latest version of ssh/sshd can act as a socks4 server. Use the -D attribute (read the man page for ssh). Then sshd (running at your house) will do the forwarding automagically, based on the protocol.
ssh -D8000 server.at.my.house
Note - configure your browser to use a SOCKS v4 server, not v5.
Most adults today have the perception that it's ok to just be a member of society, work, save, have a family, and die, and that's it!
Despite the snideness, you have described, in outline terms, human life. There is nothing wrong with it, and it holds all the richness and wisdom of human experience in it. Doing those things is where wisdom comes from. Its harder than you think, and worthy of respect.
If used intelligently, yes.
First of all, we've never sued Microsoft, Novell, etc. and we never will. That is a bogus argument, and you know it.
Secondly, changing the software is useful. I've changed the source for our intranet search engine a couple of times, for good reasons, that couldn't be achieved without it. Similar functionality (according to the management/committee that looked at it) would be about $300,000 in licensing commercially. And we'd be tweaking, testing, configuring, supporting anyway. That is what IT departments DO.
This will make lynx work better. it will improve access for the disabled. Maybe you could read the links before posting.
The problem is not old browsers per se, it is the buggy, partial implementations of NS4. Web pages written to current standard degrade gracefully in merely old browsers, that ignore tags and css which they can't handle. The problem is that NS4.* thinks it can handle, say, css positioning, and mungs it up horribly. Or crashes if you put a radio button inside a div with a solid border. Sometimes.
Thanks to NS4, we have pages laid out with tables, which confuse the shit out of assistive technology. We have visual effects achieved with blockquote tags and such, because that is the only safe thing that works. Accessibility is going to go way up when we can write standards based web pages.
It is going to greatly improve access for disabled people.
The problem is not old browsers per se, it is the buggy, partial implementations of NS4. Web pages written to current standard degrade gracefully in merely old browsers, that ignore tags and css which they can't handle. The problem is that NS4.* thinks it can handle, say, css positioning, and mungs it up horribly. Or crashes if you put a radio button inside a div with a solid border. Sometimes.
Thanks to NS4, we have pages laid out with tables, which confuse the shit out of assistive technology. We have visual effects achieved with blockquote tags and such, because that is the only safe thing that works. Accessibility is going to go way up when we can write standards based web pages.
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A true replacement for the car?? It is still a car.. you just have less choice of where you want to go because once you leave your house, you can only ride on the tracks and only go where the tracks lead.. this doesn't seem like a good thing imho..
Finally, someone said it (and is above my threshold) ;)
Normal people don't want their freedom taken away. "Solutions" that restrict us to the narrow routes the planners want us to take are no good.
Public transit is a religion for some though, so we're wasting our breath here ;)
I must have my filter set too high.
Why do I never see anyone say the obvious? Right or wrong, I feel less liable if I only dl, not ul. Yeah, I doubt anyone would go after me for sharing a few songs on gnutella. But I really doubt they'll go after me for grabbing a few songs from gnutella.
I'd be glad to share all day long. Sorry, just can't take the risk. I don't want to have to explain to my wife that we lost our broadband, or got fined, or are getting sued or something because I wanted to play nice on gnutella.
You simply can't design an algorithm which will make all inputs smaller, and have it be reversable.
Um, you don't need college to know that. I know that, and I have no student loans! ;)
... it was the FUD.
So the bust doesn't seem to fundamentally change the use of Linux in the enterprise, either way. Or maybe the two effects balance each other out.
The author doesn't like GM food. Wow.
What the hell does that have to do with PCBs?
... that your IT director is "jealous" of you.
What exactly is he supposed to be jealous of?
Fortunately, with five years of professional experience you probably have some savings to fall back on ... ;)
Use the third link in the story if you just want to get the book. I didn't even see how to get there from the "first incarnation" link the story poster provided.
It seemed like most of those who thought Napster was in the Constitution also opposed gun ownership, at least on /. They thought it was more important to be able to copy music than to defend themselves.
Since U.S. schools aren't adeqately funded by the government, they gobble up as much of the private-sector "technology money" as they can possibly gorge themselves on; a signifigant chunk of which comes in the form of discounted licenses for Microsoft software.
Sigh. Many "failing" US schools spend enough per student they could hire them tutors and take them to lunch at fine restaurants by limo, if they wanted to. They aren't inadequately funded.
European schools (at least in the three countries mentioned above) are supported wholly by the state, and as such don't require outside funding. This means that, for the most part, the software and hardware are chosen to fit the needs of the instructors and students, rather than to fit the discounts, freebies, and funding-with-strings requirements assigned by the technology companies.
So, European schools choose free software because they have better funding? I don't follow you here.
These, among other reasons, are why the U.S. imports its computer engineers from Europe and southeast Asia.
No, US companies do that because they work cheaper, and have less job mobility (which is part of why they work cheaper). I'm sure they'd love to deport citizen employees who quit too, if they could figure out how.
We are raising a generation of Americans that won't know the difference between a verb and a posessive pronoun, but they'll be able to use the Word grammar-checker, so it all works out in the end, right?
That's more likely the result of abandoning the three Rs than the choice of non-free vs. free software.
>Fair is a socialist concept.
So is eminent domain, but without it we wouldn't have any cables (or utilities) reaching our homes at all. If we're already granting corporate monopolies based on one socialist theory, why stop there?
Now, I doubt that. Most of us like having utilities, after all. "Excuse me, may I dig up your yard to provide service to your neighbor? If you say no, I'm afraid we can't provide it to you, either". I think most people would cooperate. Utilities would form agreements to share conduits, etc. Eminent domain isn't actually irreplaceable.
If he really wants to preserve african wildlife, he can do it much more easily by offering to fund the anti poaching forces in tanzania and kenya, as well as solving rural african poverty that means many in poorer outlying areas must hunt for bushmeat which goes for a high price in Nairobi.
Or he could set up a huge ranch in Africa, and charge admission to people who want to see these creatures. Or charge people to come hunt them. Or accept donations from those who wish to preserve them.
Nah, you're right. Just have a "war on poaching".
Before the Internet, most people were dumb, passive consumers. Let me just buy things and watch TV, and let others produces things, let others make decisions, let others tell me what my opinions are.
Is that really how you see your fellow human? How sad.
You, of course, have a consumer role as well; you just think that the things you choose to consume are better than the things I choose to consume. You also think your decision to consume them was made oh-so-much more intelligently than my decisions. Whoop-de-do.
Today, like years ago, we are told that the masses are meant to be all-consuming pac-men, and the few are meant to produce, lead, and make decisions.
Who is telling you these things? Why are you listening? Oh that's right, you aren't, just your "dumb, passive" fellow human.
Silent Spring was more or less successful -- DDT is now banned for most uses in the U.S., and the book had great effect in raising environmental awareness, but overall, environmental quality has continued to suffer.
Silent Spring was successful at condemning millions to death from malaria.
"Discount usability" is a term Jakob uses for a specific method of usability testing.
I'm not a big fan, but I wouldn't discount his whole approach just because he puts that term in his site keywords.
It is simpler because a SOCKS server dynamically forwards whichever ports it needs to, based on the protocol. Any SOCKSified client can connect to ssh on the local listening port, and the remote part (sshd) will forward the request to the appropriate remote port.
Look at the man page for ssh. The example I gave was using ssh with the -D parameter, not sshd.
It is also a very recent feature - make sure you have updated openssh.
Even simpler - the latest version of ssh/sshd can act as a socks4 server. Use the -D attribute (read the man page for ssh). Then sshd (running at your house) will do the forwarding automagically, based on the protocol.
ssh -D8000 server.at.my.house
Note - configure your browser to use a SOCKS v4 server, not v5.
Now I know somebody has too much time on their hands.
It's TV for pity's sake. If you want to see cinematic glory, watch it on video or DVD.
I can see individual complaints, but an organization? Your life is way too empty if this is a cause for you.
Most adults today have the perception that it's ok to just be a member of society, work, save, have a family, and die, and that's it!
Despite the snideness, you have described, in outline terms, human life. There is nothing wrong with it, and it holds all the richness and wisdom of human experience in it. Doing those things is where wisdom comes from. Its harder than you think, and worthy of respect.
If used intelligently, yes. First of all, we've never sued Microsoft, Novell, etc. and we never will. That is a bogus argument, and you know it. Secondly, changing the software is useful. I've changed the source for our intranet search engine a couple of times, for good reasons, that couldn't be achieved without it. Similar functionality (according to the management/committee that looked at it) would be about $300,000 in licensing commercially. And we'd be tweaking, testing, configuring, supporting anyway. That is what IT departments DO.
Home Depot carries every type of freakin' screw ... way more types than the little hardware store does.
Large telcos are the only reason most of us have ever seen a pay phone in the first place. Hardly a failure of business.
I'm Canadian and we always get a kick out of laughing at you silly people south of us.
We don't mind. 99 percent of you live within about 1 mile of the border, so we know you really like us ;)
This will make lynx work better. it will improve access for the disabled. Maybe you could read the links before posting.
The problem is not old browsers per se, it is the buggy, partial implementations of NS4. Web pages written to current standard degrade gracefully in merely old browsers, that ignore tags and css which they can't handle. The problem is that NS4.* thinks it can handle, say, css positioning, and mungs it up horribly. Or crashes if you put a radio button inside a div with a solid border. Sometimes.
Thanks to NS4, we have pages laid out with tables, which confuse the shit out of assistive technology. We have visual effects achieved with blockquote tags and such, because that is the only safe thing that works. Accessibility is going to go way up when we can write standards based web pages.
It is going to greatly improve access for disabled people.
The problem is not old browsers per se, it is the buggy, partial implementations of NS4. Web pages written to current standard degrade gracefully in merely old browsers, that ignore tags and css which they can't handle. The problem is that NS4.* thinks it can handle, say, css positioning, and mungs it up horribly. Or crashes if you put a radio button inside a div with a solid border. Sometimes.
Thanks to NS4, we have pages laid out with tables, which confuse the shit out of assistive technology. We have visual effects achieved with blockquote tags and such, because that is the only safe thing that works. Accessibility is going to go way up when we can write standards based web pages.