Or closed source proponents saying that you can't interoperate with their stuff because you don't know what's in the box. Like say autocad (open file format, yeah right, I bet you even they could not reimplement a 100% compatible reader/write from their own descriptions) or errr Microsoft for that matter. Oh Wait...
I know this will be a 'me too' comment, but I sincerely applaud your point of view.
I think that what is happening is that more and more similar 'unixes' are being built that will all dilute the amount of time spent on these systems in total (assuming it's a zero sum game).
It would be much better to either pool resources or to depart in a radically different direction.
Either way would be progress, in the first case because development for the winning 'contender' would speed up tremendously, in the second case because we'd start building in a new - and possibly revolutionary - direction.
I'm running a dual headed NVidia setup here, it's accelerated 3D for custom 3D cad stuff (airfoils and stuff like that) and it seems to work flawlessly. We're off the grid so the system gets shut down once every day, but a few months ago the system was on 24x7 for more than a week and never gave a glitch.
Windpower is one of the cleanest and possibly most decentralised forms of energy. This of course does not exactly mesh with the vision of plenty of large burocratic institutions on how we should be held on a short leash of dependence. Watch for more bs like this over time ! (including myths about bird slaughter and so on)
Why, sorry that must have happened when I was looking away then. The us is NOT a democracy, if it were you would have Nader leading a minority fraction in your governement courtesy of the large number of people that voted for him. Your so called democracy is 'winner takes all' legalized.
Check out some REAL democracies to see how the game is played (Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Switzerland and even Israel). Coalition forming, give and take in day to day government, something for everybody. Not quite as spectacular but working a whole lot better and creating a much healthier atmosphere.
In a real democracy the Kerry/Nader block would be sure to win the elections, in the US parody of a democracy votes for Nader go against Kerry and FOR Bush. The system is rotten at the core and as long as that isn't fixed there will be lots of trouble in years to come.
In fact there are third world countries that are more 'democratic' than the US at this point in time.
Dear Dorothy, we understand that you are hurt terribly by the aftermath of 9/11, probably not a single person in the world is going to ever feel the same after that very tragic day. But it was a starting signal for beginning to REALLY improve things, and like most problems it takes open eyes to begin to understand the problems, careful planning and meticulous execution to make it happen. The current kneejerk responses are leading us very far away from a possibly improved world.
Your observation that the world is larger than the US is correct in principle, but bankrupting the US is going to destabilize the whole world.
At this crossroads decisions are being made that will affect many generations to come, and I for one would like someone that does not shoot from the hip in the drivers seat.
The bad news is that neither Kerry nor Bush fit the bill. Even jerky Clinton was 5 times the statesman either of those will ever be.
I can't garuantee you a 'high paying IT job' but I might be able to help you stay afloat. send me a line to j@ww.com and put 'stjoes' somewhere in there to get past my whitelist.
No, really I have a fully functional self supporting 32 bit qnx clone sitting on my harddrive, including GNU tools, window manager and so on. The plan was to release it into the public domain.
But I also had a runin with Paul Vixie about me 'stealing' software from Chuck Forsberg (I rewrote zmodem from scratch because I needed it communicate with others on the project and my buddy Paul Jongsma released it on newsnet). In the end it boiled down to some definitions in an include file that I re-used, well within the accepted boundaries of fair use but Vixie ruled otherwise and I was too tired to continue the fight. What a witchhunt that was. I got so pissed about the whole thing (and my wife was about to deliver our firstborn) that I swore NEVER ever to release another piece of source code, and I haven't.
Instead, I decided to chase the $ and got quite (in fact very) lucky.
Three cheers for Paul Vixie & Chuck Forsberg, without them I'd probably be penniless and we'd have a free microkernel based os a la QNX.
Incidentally, the project was called 'Unite', and afaik there still isn't anything out there that can hold a candle to it.
But I really couldn't care less. This was back in mid 94, you can still find some newsgroup references to the whole thing.
It's way too late to save netscape as a company (and maybe a good thing too, their releases sucked), but ms is definitely on the skids judging by the access logs of the sites I run (not just the linux related ones).
I'm not aware of 'varilight', but I do know that a friend of mine used to tour with Genesis and did their first laser shows (they *built* their own stuff, hardware, software and so on, practically between gigs). This is way back when Gabriel was still in charge.
Peter Gabriel has always been one of the music scene's most technologically advanced members. For instance with Genesis he pioneered the use of lasers during concerts.
you were duped...
When you call 411 a voice response system guides you through the menu, but a human is listening in on the conversation and keys your request into a computer that then does the lookup, after they find the number they have the vrs tell you the answer.
There are several reasons why it is done this way, the most obvious ones are:
- people don't usually argue or get fresh with robots
- it saves man hours (many more processed requests per attendant per hour)
- it saves you time (because you now have a standard format, and never mind the smalltalk with the operator)
sorry to rain on your parade, but *any* software or service, trial period or none that requires a 'notarized copy of a common document' gets tossed before it gets a chance to be tested on its merits. This is absolutely insane. I run a website that allows a 'trial' too (ww.com), and we have our share of re-subscribers (that take the trial, cancel it and then take another trial), but overall the problem is really small. The majority of the users play fair.
about illegal guns: It's not the distinction between illegal/legal guns that matters, where there are many legal guns in circulation automatically there will also be many illegal guns in circulation. Illegal guns are not manufactured, but are legal guns turned illegal. (if not we could simply ask the manufacturers to stop manufacturing the illegal ones eh ?). So, by cutting down the TOTAL number of guns in circulation you cut down on the illegal ones as well. As it stands right now in the US it is pretty much irreversible, the number of illegal guns out there is so large that ordinary citizens really do need to 'equalize' the situation. Which is a really big problem because that fuels the amount of illegal guns that will exist in the future.
do you mean to imply that today we are so enlightened that absolutely no homosexual and / or lesbians commit suicide anymore because of their treatment at the hands of the 'others' ?
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that woman did more damage to HP than you can possibly imagine. Short term vision excellent, long term vision totally blind...
Or closed source proponents saying that you can't interoperate with their stuff because you don't know what's in the box. Like say autocad (open file format, yeah right, I bet you even they could not reimplement a 100% compatible reader/write from their own descriptions) or errr Microsoft for that matter. Oh Wait...
I think that what is happening is that more and more similar 'unixes' are being built that will all dilute the amount of time spent on these systems in total (assuming it's a zero sum game).
It would be much better to either pool resources or to depart in a radically different direction.
Either way would be progress, in the first case because development for the winning 'contender' would speed up tremendously, in the second case because we'd start building in a new - and possibly revolutionary - direction.
I'm running a dual headed NVidia setup here, it's accelerated 3D for custom 3D cad stuff (airfoils and stuff like that) and it seems to work flawlessly. We're off the grid so the system gets shut down once every day, but a few months ago the system was on 24x7 for more than a week and never gave a glitch.
Disclaimer: I'm Off Grid and loosely affiliated with an Alternative Energy Resource Site (btw, we could use some help !)
Also, I have designed and constructed a 2.4 KW Windmill
> the us is a stable democracy
Why, sorry that must have happened when I was looking away then. The us is NOT a democracy, if it were you would have Nader leading a minority fraction in your governement courtesy of the large number of people that voted for him. Your so called democracy is 'winner takes all' legalized.
Check out some REAL democracies to see how the game is played (Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Switzerland and even Israel). Coalition forming, give and take in day to day government, something for everybody. Not quite as spectacular but working a whole lot better and creating a much healthier atmosphere.
In a real democracy the Kerry/Nader block would be sure to win the elections, in the US parody of a democracy votes for Nader go against Kerry and FOR Bush. The system is rotten at the core and as long as that isn't fixed there will be lots of trouble in years to come.
In fact there are third world countries that are more 'democratic' than the US at this point in time.
Dear Dorothy, we understand that you are hurt terribly by the aftermath of 9/11, probably not a single person in the world is going to ever feel the same after that very tragic day. But it was a starting signal for beginning to REALLY improve things, and like most problems it takes open eyes to begin to understand the problems, careful planning and meticulous execution to make it happen. The current kneejerk responses are leading us very far away from a possibly improved world.
Your observation that the world is larger than the US is correct in principle, but bankrupting the US is going to destabilize the whole world.
At this crossroads decisions are being made that will affect many generations to come, and I for one would like someone that does not shoot from the hip in the drivers seat.
The bad news is that neither Kerry nor Bush fit the bill. Even jerky Clinton was 5 times the statesman either of those will ever be.
oops typo there, sorry guarantee :)
I can't garuantee you a 'high paying IT job' but I might be able to help you stay afloat. send me a line to j@ww.com and put 'stjoes' somewhere in there to get past my whitelist.
best,
Jacques
try ww.com, it will give you software and a page to watch your kid and a jpg you can poll with your cellphone...
actually I was...
No, really I have a fully functional self supporting 32 bit qnx clone sitting on my harddrive, including GNU tools, window manager and so on. The plan was to release it into the public domain.
But I also had a runin with Paul Vixie about me 'stealing' software from Chuck Forsberg (I rewrote zmodem from scratch because I needed it communicate with others on the project and my buddy Paul Jongsma released it on newsnet). In the end it boiled down to some definitions in an include file that I re-used, well within the accepted boundaries of fair use but Vixie ruled otherwise and I was too tired to continue the fight. What a witchhunt that was. I got so pissed about the whole thing (and my wife was about to deliver our firstborn) that I swore NEVER ever to release another piece of source code, and I haven't.
Instead, I decided to chase the $ and got quite (in fact very) lucky.
Three cheers for Paul Vixie & Chuck Forsberg, without them I'd probably be penniless and we'd have a free microkernel based os a la QNX.
Incidentally, the project was called 'Unite', and afaik there still isn't anything out there that can hold a candle to it.
But I really couldn't care less. This was back in mid 94, you can still find some newsgroup references to the whole thing.
guess what, I wasn't complaining, just extrapolating from current data.
Also, in fact I *am* doing something to make things better. But it will probably not be enough.
Ok, so we've been sold down the river, what else is new.
Call me cynical but really it will get a lot worse before it will get better.
errr... I operate ww.com...
It's way too late to save netscape as a company (and maybe a good thing too, their releases sucked), but ms is definitely on the skids judging by the access logs of the sites I run (not just the linux related ones).
thank you for making my day, in return you're on my friends list.
I'm not aware of 'varilight', but I do know that a friend of mine used to tour with Genesis and did their first laser shows (they *built* their own stuff, hardware, software and so on, practically between gigs). This is way back when Gabriel was still in charge.
Peter Gabriel has always been one of the music scene's most technologically advanced members. For instance with Genesis he pioneered the use of lasers during concerts.
When you call 411 a voice response system guides you through the menu, but a human is listening in on the conversation and keys your request into a computer that then does the lookup, after they find the number they have the vrs tell you the answer.
There are several reasons why it is done this way, the most obvious ones are:
- people don't usually argue or get fresh with robots
- it saves man hours (many more processed requests per attendant per hour)
- it saves you time (because you now have a standard format, and never mind the smalltalk with the operator)
that's a well known 16 bit rollover bug in the mayan calender, it got fixed in 2.0...
sorry to rain on your parade, but *any* software or service, trial period or none that requires a 'notarized copy of a common document' gets tossed before it gets a chance to be tested on its merits. This is absolutely insane. I run a website that allows a 'trial' too (ww.com), and we have our share of re-subscribers (that take the trial, cancel it and then take another trial), but overall the problem is really small. The majority of the users play fair.
about illegal guns: It's not the distinction between illegal/legal guns that matters, where there are many legal guns in circulation automatically there will also be many illegal guns in circulation. Illegal guns are not manufactured, but are legal guns turned illegal. (if not we could simply ask the manufacturers to stop manufacturing the illegal ones eh ?). So, by cutting down the TOTAL number of guns in circulation you cut down on the illegal ones as well. As it stands right now in the US it is pretty much irreversible, the number of illegal guns out there is so large that ordinary citizens really do need to 'equalize' the situation. Which is a really big problem because that fuels the amount of illegal guns that will exist in the future.
do you mean to imply that today we are so enlightened that absolutely no homosexual and / or lesbians commit suicide anymore because of their treatment at the hands of the 'others' ?
only in backward, non-democratic countries though.
actually, that in fact does make Ada the first programmer, Babbage would be a 'systems architect' :) She was just a lowly coder...