Cute. Should we then discuss any issue "that matters"? Let's talk about the 9 Democrat Presidential candidates. Let's talk about the good progress made in Iraq's reconstruction. Let's talk about the Middle East conflicts between Isreal and the Palestinians. It's all stuff that matters, right? Excuse me for thinking that Slashdot was for geek (read: "technical in nature") "stuff that matters".
I actually watch more TV now (well, not now since it's all re-runs) but I do it in less time. Besides watching a 1 hour show in 40 minutes, I can watch when I have the time rather then when the show is on. A PVR was bar none the BEST consumer electronics purchase that I've ever made...
The problem with sales tax is that while Mr. Millionaire might buy more things than you do, he doesn't buy *proportionally* more things -- a man can only drink so much beer, after all.
Yeah, but you're thinking too short term. All income is eventually spent. Thus, in the long run all income, rich or poor, will eventually be taxed.
As for x86 needs to die once and for all, it's hacked, hacked again, and hacked yet again. x86 was and is a 16bit system. And now AMD wants to hack it yet again. Can anyone doubt that 80% of the silicon is for supporting legacy apps at this point? Are people that damn lazy they can't type 'make' on a new system? It's not like anyone uses "int" anymore and assumes it's N bits long.
Legacy X86 is dying. But really, how much die space does the 386 real mode take up? A few hundred thousand transistors? That's nothing these days so it's worth keeping it around even if only 0.001% of your customers make use of it simply from a marketing perspective.
Then, from the article:
When AMD's engineers started looking for legacy x86 features to jettison, the first thing to go was the segmented memory model. Programs written to the x86-64 ISA will use a flat, 64-bit virtual address space. Furthermore, legacy x86 applications running in long mode's compatibility sub-mode must run in protected mode. Support for real mode and virtual-8086 mode are absent in long mode and available only in legacy mode. This isn't too much of a hassle, though, since, except for a few fairly old legacy applications, modern x86 apps use protected mode.
In the follow-up thread to Miguel's email, Havoc Pennington wrote this:
I hope your mail won't land on Slashdot or some other web
site. Slashdot (= shorthand for all similar sites) is the most evil
influence possible if we really want to do what it takes for Linux (or
UNIX) to succeed on the desktop.
I would tend to agree with his assessment. Unfortunately the submitter either didn't read the thread or chose to ignore it...
If you sold the stock for $1,000,000, no one would ever pay any capital gains tax on that increase in the stock value.
You could argue that grandpappy paid something for the stock in the first place, and presumably paid taxes when he made that money, or that IBM has had to pay corporate income tax all the way along. These are essentially subspecies of the argument that investment income shouldn't be taxed at all, which is interesting but I don't buy it.
Actually, I don't think that income (investment or otherwise) should be taxed at all. From the (very rare) case you outlined and all of the ways that one can declare what is "income" it makes an income tax totally subjective.
The one fair tax is a sales tax. It affects everybody. A broad tax base is a good thing. Also, it takes care of the inheritance stuff that so many people seem concerned about since eventually all income is spent.
I stand corrected. Apparently one of the XP patches/updates/service packs fixed the FW device removal problem. I hadn't tried it in months. Sorry for the bad info.
I got my FW to IDE bridgeboard here. Not exactly the $35/board you're looking for, but it does indeed do master/slave so you'd only need two. It works great under Linux (RH8.0) and is fine under XP. The only problem that I have is that with XP, I can't unmount the devices so there is no way for me to do a hot-unplug of the device. Not a huge issue, but it's kind of annoying.
No, that's not quite correct. You get the DirecTV PVR service for free with the "Total Choice Premiere" package which is something like $85/month.
Otherwise it's $5 per month for up to 8 PVRs or some other ungodly number of DirecTV enabled TiVos.
The reason that you don't pay is that I suspect your lifetime subscription on the Phillips unit is tied to your account and as such, you're exempt. I could be wrong about that though.
Mario Bros. was an arcade game released in 1983. The Commodore and Atari versions of the game you refer to are adaptations of that. IIRC, the C-64 version was very good.
Uh-huh. We have. You regain control of the government by taking it's power and instituting limits on it's involvement in citizen's lives. The rest of your comment didn't make much sense w.r.t. my prior post.
You want to curtail extenal influence in politics?
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It's simple. Reduce the power of the government. The money will always find a way to buy influence no matter what is done. If you really want to stop it, you simply make the influence not worth purchasing...
Now, I know that's not going to happen so what I personally advocate is no limits but *FULL* disclosure of who gave the funds.
Did they get permission from all of the authors to
approve the license change of their code?
I never heard anything. Granted, my contributions were minor and happened years ago but it would still have been nice to be notified before reading about the license change on slashdot...
First there was the issue of the removal of the "About KDE" item in all KDE app help menus. From Redhat's point of view, they're trying to make a Redhat-branded desktop, so seeing "About KDE" in some of the apps might be confusing to the user. From KDE's point of view, if Redhat "de-brands" the desktop, then the about box is really their only chance to let the user know about the app's authorship. It *really* makes it seem like Redhat is, if not trying to take credit for the apps themselves, then at least trying remove credit from where it's due (the KDE devs).
Um, "About KDE" is an advertisement for KDE. The "About App" was NEVER removed by RedHat. It is the "About App" menu item that tells the user who the authors of the app are. Removing the "About KDE" menu item is a total non-issue.
however it is not Redhat's place to undertake this.
It is RedHat's place to undertake this. What is the Gnome camp's motivation to make their desktop look like KDE and vice versa? People who install Gnome from tarballs are going to expect Gnome. Likewise for KDE. Meanwhile, RedHat is in the business of making things easy for users. They want to be able to present "best of breed" software to their users be it AbiWord, OpenOffice, KWord, Evolution, KMail, etc... They only way that they can do this is if they make Mozilla, OpenOffice, Xmms, Gnome and KDE look and act the same.
If Redhat is to take this on, then other distributions of Linux will suffer due to their newfound 'inconsistency'
Oh please... Last I checked, all of RedHat's work on the desktop is GPL'd. Nothing will stop them from doing the same thing and basing their efforts on RedHat's if they so desire.
and while this may be a reasonable approach for Redhat, it is something to be avoided from the perspective of the Redhat and Gnome projects since their software is provided with virtually all Linux distributions so in order to gain the greatest market penetration they should be acting in support of all distributions.
Since when was RedHat responsible for the well being and actions of Suse, Mandrake, Gentoo, Debian, etc.? Being the leading distribution does not make them the shepherd for all the smaller distributions in the market.
Unfortunately, all of the formats that you mentioned are lossless. This makes coversion trivial. For MP3 I would suspect that a great many files that people have, they do not have the original CD. Thus, transition to Ogg Vorbis will be more difficult.
I don't think they should need to be chmod'ed to 666. My PAM configuration changes them upon login to the correct UID according to the/etc/security/console.perms on my RedHat box.
Besides, it's funny how this doesn't mention anything like, the OpenSSL trojan/crack, or the fact Konquerer was affected by the same SSL bug as IE some times ago and why not mention the recent Apache bugs as well?
While this article doesn't mention those problems, they were covered rather extensively here and here?
It's easy to completely hose your dependencies by installing the wrong.rpm.
That's totally false unless you're forcing the install (after RPM told you that dependencies were not satisfied -- duh!)
If you want to install anything other than the RPMs RedHat provided, then build the RPM yourself. If you can't figure that out, then perhaps you shouldn't be installing non-RedHat RPMs...
As for the lots of 100, read the auction -- are they lots of 100 or 25? The description is very confusing, and these are not for auction, they're for Buy Now.
I didn't think it was that hard to understand. They have 25 lots of 100 CueCats each. Am I missing something?
Actually this, the United States of America, is a representative republic. It's not a democracy. If it were a democracy, then yeah, if over half of the population thought it okay to break a law, then the law could cease to exist if a vote were taken.
However as this is a representative republic, the rule of law as established by our legislative branch and enforced by our executive branch is what we are bound by. As crappy as it may be, distributing content that is copyrighted is illegal under that law.
You are right on about the law needing to change, or at least be a bit better defined with respect to personal/not for profit/fair use vs. copyright enforcement.
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Cute. Should we then discuss any issue "that matters"? Let's talk about the 9 Democrat Presidential candidates. Let's talk about the good progress made in Iraq's reconstruction. Let's talk about the Middle East conflicts between Isreal and the Palestinians. It's all stuff that matters, right? Excuse me for thinking that Slashdot was for geek (read: "technical in nature") "stuff that matters".
What exactly does this have to do with "News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters"?
reiserfs-utils-3.6.4-5 is part of RedHat 9. However, I don't think that you can make use of ReiserFS currently via Anaconda.
no lvm
RedHat 8.0 had LVM support and so does RedHat 9.
I actually watch more TV now (well, not now since it's all re-runs) but I do it in less time. Besides watching a 1 hour show in 40 minutes, I can watch when I have the time rather then when the show is on. A PVR was bar none the BEST consumer electronics purchase that I've ever made...
Funny, it's working on 3 sets right now in my house and two inputs are going into my DirectTivo. Perhaps you're not aware of multi-switches? :-)
Yeah, but you're thinking too short term. All income is eventually spent. Thus, in the long run all income, rich or poor, will eventually be taxed.
Legacy X86 is dying. But really, how much die space does the 386 real mode take up? A few hundred thousand transistors? That's nothing these days so it's worth keeping it around even if only 0.001% of your customers make use of it simply from a marketing perspective.
Then, from the article:
When AMD's engineers started looking for legacy x86 features to jettison, the first thing to go was the segmented memory model. Programs written to the x86-64 ISA will use a flat, 64-bit virtual address space. Furthermore, legacy x86 applications running in long mode's compatibility sub-mode must run in protected mode. Support for real mode and virtual-8086 mode are absent in long mode and available only in legacy mode. This isn't too much of a hassle, though, since, except for a few fairly old legacy applications, modern x86 apps use protected mode.
So the X86-64 mode will be fairly cruft free.
Pat
I hope your mail won't land on Slashdot or some other web site. Slashdot (= shorthand for all similar sites) is the most evil influence possible if we really want to do what it takes for Linux (or UNIX) to succeed on the desktop.
I would tend to agree with his assessment. Unfortunately the submitter either didn't read the thread or chose to ignore it...
Yes, but you conveniently ignored my point that for rich or poor, all savings/income is eventually spent and taxed. Thus, it's a wash.
You could argue that grandpappy paid something for the stock in the first place, and presumably paid taxes when he made that money, or that IBM has had to pay corporate income tax all the way along. These are essentially subspecies of the argument that investment income shouldn't be taxed at all, which is interesting but I don't buy it.
Actually, I don't think that income (investment or otherwise) should be taxed at all. From the (very rare) case you outlined and all of the ways that one can declare what is "income" it makes an income tax totally subjective.
The one fair tax is a sales tax. It affects everybody. A broad tax base is a good thing. Also, it takes care of the inheritance stuff that so many people seem concerned about since eventually all income is spent.
I stand corrected. Apparently one of the XP patches/updates/service packs fixed the FW device removal problem. I hadn't tried it in months. Sorry for the bad info.
I got my FW to IDE bridgeboard here. Not exactly the $35/board you're looking for, but it does indeed do master/slave so you'd only need two. It works great under Linux (RH8.0) and is fine under XP. The only problem that I have is that with XP, I can't unmount the devices so there is no way for me to do a hot-unplug of the device. Not a huge issue, but it's kind of annoying.
Otherwise it's $5 per month for up to 8 PVRs or some other ungodly number of DirecTV enabled TiVos.
The reason that you don't pay is that I suspect your lifetime subscription on the Phillips unit is tied to your account and as such, you're exempt. I could be wrong about that though.
Mario Bros. was an arcade game released in 1983. The Commodore and Atari versions of the game you refer to are adaptations of that. IIRC, the C-64 version was very good.
Uh-huh. We have. You regain control of the government by taking it's power and instituting limits on it's involvement in citizen's lives. The rest of your comment didn't make much sense w.r.t. my prior post.
Now, I know that's not going to happen so what I personally advocate is no limits but *FULL* disclosure of who gave the funds.
Did they get permission from all of the authors to approve the license change of their code? I never heard anything. Granted, my contributions were minor and happened years ago but it would still have been nice to be notified before reading about the license change on slashdot...
Um, "About KDE" is an advertisement for KDE. The "About App" was NEVER removed by RedHat. It is the "About App" menu item that tells the user who the authors of the app are. Removing the "About KDE" menu item is a total non-issue.
It is RedHat's place to undertake this. What is the Gnome camp's motivation to make their desktop look like KDE and vice versa? People who install Gnome from tarballs are going to expect Gnome. Likewise for KDE. Meanwhile, RedHat is in the business of making things easy for users. They want to be able to present "best of breed" software to their users be it AbiWord, OpenOffice, KWord, Evolution, KMail, etc... They only way that they can do this is if they make Mozilla, OpenOffice, Xmms, Gnome and KDE look and act the same.
If Redhat is to take this on, then other distributions of Linux will suffer due to their newfound 'inconsistency'
Oh please... Last I checked, all of RedHat's work on the desktop is GPL'd. Nothing will stop them from doing the same thing and basing their efforts on RedHat's if they so desire.
and while this may be a reasonable approach for Redhat, it is something to be avoided from the perspective of the Redhat and Gnome projects since their software is provided with virtually all Linux distributions so in order to gain the greatest market penetration they should be acting in support of all distributions.
Since when was RedHat responsible for the well being and actions of Suse, Mandrake, Gentoo, Debian, etc.? Being the leading distribution does not make them the shepherd for all the smaller distributions in the market.
Unfortunately, all of the formats that you mentioned are lossless. This makes coversion trivial. For MP3 I would suspect that a great many files that people have, they do not have the original CD. Thus, transition to Ogg Vorbis will be more difficult.
I don't think they should need to be chmod'ed to 666. My PAM configuration changes them upon login to the correct UID according to the /etc/security/console.perms on my RedHat box.
While this article doesn't mention those problems, they were covered rather extensively here and here?
That's totally false unless you're forcing the install (after RPM told you that dependencies were not satisfied -- duh!)
If you want to install anything other than the RPMs RedHat provided, then build the RPM yourself. If you can't figure that out, then perhaps you shouldn't be installing non-RedHat RPMs...
I didn't think it was that hard to understand. They have 25 lots of 100 CueCats each. Am I missing something?
Actually this, the United States of America, is a representative republic. It's not a democracy. If it were a democracy, then yeah, if over half of the population thought it okay to break a law, then the law could cease to exist if a vote were taken.
However as this is a representative republic, the rule of law as established by our legislative branch and enforced by our executive branch is what we are bound by. As crappy as it may be, distributing content that is copyrighted is illegal under that law.
You are right on about the law needing to change, or at least be a bit better defined with respect to personal/not for profit/fair use vs. copyright enforcement.