yes, well if you don't want Gnome AND you don't want KDE then... then... then... you're just hard too please. (Cue outraged Blackbox, Windowmaker etc. zealots....) ----------------------------------
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What you want, my friend, is Konqueror. I had Mozilla for ages and put up with its ugliness and slowness. (Check out my bug reports.)
Then I installed the latest beta of KDE2 (which allows you to run konqueror under normal KDE). I am not going back.
KDE just seems to have it sorted, and Mozilla just doesn't. All the features that don't work in Moz are there already in Konqueror. Plus, it doesn't slow my machine down to P75 speed. I wish Mozilla well, and I will download M17 for old times sake -certainly on my Windows partition, where its cookie-handling features surpass IE - but I do wonder if this is going to be a success. ----------------------------------
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The so-called peaceful protesters were really not so peaceful. The police (thanks to tips from the secret services) found all kinds of stuff, ranging from explosives, to lethal spiders, snakes, etc that the protesters were planning to release in the crowds. Not to mantion protesters were tying piano wire across roadways to try to trip horses (and potentially injure them). The list of outrageous things they did goes on and on.
<p> You saw all that did you? Protesters hurling Black Widows into crowds of old ladies? Special mutant explosive snakes in the hands of crazed black-clad anarchists? Or would that be what you heard on the mainstream media?<p>Hey, I'm not saying it's not true - but it sure sounds like the kind of "they eat babies, you know" propaganda the police usually put out. ----------------------------------
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There's a ton of information there on the protests and folks being arrested and mistreated. Of course there were extremists who deserved it...
<p>Never mind about the "Bush sucks" comment, which was maybe true but definitely inappropriate. What about this gem? "Extremists" do not "deserve" police maltreatment, and nor do paedophiles, murderers and terrorists, because noone deserves it. Shame on you, CmdrTaco. This is like pointing out Rodney King's violations as an excuse for the LAPD's treatment of him. ----------------------------------
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It's a small piece of irony that this scientist who published his manifesto of technology was seriously injured by another man who also published a manifesto. The Unabomber.
I thought the Unabomber was on a campaign against modern technology - not pseudo-intellectual media waffle. ---------------------------------- What are the weapons of happiness?
Re:Trying to Stop a Flood with a Bucket and a Towe
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You don't even need to throw away your Napster client, if Napster the company goes under. Just cruise to Napigator and you can connect to the open servers at imperialfleet.com, culvernap and a bunch of places. Or if you use gnapster, you can automatically connect to these servers, which have nothing to do with the Napster company. ---------------------------------- What are the weapons of happiness?
What Jefferson is saying is that "rights" are things that arise out of a social compact: that your "inherent" right to possessions such as owning land or owning your clothes, or your right to profit exclusively from ideas you create (such as writings, music, inventions, etc) doesn't exist.
Actually, he admits a natural right to possessions, but says that ownership is a right created by society: "By an universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common, is the property for the moment of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it." A common view since Grotius, I think, & maybe the scholastics before him.
a world where slavery was acceptable to many, where women were considered not to have an immortal soul and thus were no more spiritually valuable than a small dog....
I think that it was established Christian doctrine that women had souls long before Jefferson's time, indeed right from the start. But please feel free to tell me otherwise. ---------------------------------- What are the weapons of happiness?
High school isn't the best years of your life. It may be the best years of the sorry saps lives who are tormenting you, will never go to college, and will never get out of their sorry little town...
Gosh. Well it is nice to know that American teenagers are as horrible as English teenagers. I hated my teenage years, but I don't have the comfort of thinking that all the people I hated will be pathetic nobodies... I went to a posh school and they are all probably earning lots of cash in the city. Still, that is just a richer way of being a pathetic nobody.
How glad I am to grow old, to move away from those awful times.
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The people at halfbrain have a web-based powerpoint clone. Unfortunately it needs (duh) Internet Explorer on Windows to run, but they claim to be developing Netscape & Macintosh versions. Their applications are all written in DHTML, as I understand it, so in theory they should be able to write them completely cross-platform. Dave ---------------------------------- What are the weapons of happiness?
Re:More OSes = More standards = Good
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I support the introduction of more OSes into the marketplace, GPLed or not... If no OS has a definitive hold on the market (like Windows does now), then for any of them to survive they will need to have some sort of standardized, interchangeable file formats.
The problem is that the introduction of more OSes doesn't necessarily break Windows' hold. People are more likely to move from Linux/*BSD to Atheos (and whatever else turns up) than to move straight from Windows. Then, instead of a Windows majority and a substantial minority of (say) Linux users, you have a Windows majority and lots of other OSes, each with a tiny market share, so noone bothers to write apps/build chips et cetera for them. Result: more Windows dominance. ---------------------------------- What are the weapons of happiness?
Surely you think that guns should be *available* to police, even if they are not carried?
Yes, they do need to be available if criminals have guns. But the safeguards should be very strict. We have loosened those safeguards recently - for example, now there are some routine armed patrols. The inevitable result is that every few months, police marksmen shoot some poor lunatic dead because he was waving an airgun around, or carrying a table leg that "might have been" a shotgun (real case). ---------------------------------- What are the weapons of happiness?
I have to admit, I also wonder about the intelligence involved in putting up confidential material on the Web and then getting their knickers in a twist when it's spilled to the masses.
I don't think that is so stupid. The information is freely available to anyone, but any company who uses it (without abiding by the EULA) would get their asses sued. It is the same logic that applies to software piracy. John Doe can get Windows 2000 for $5, or free. But if a company does this they risk being put out of business. ---------------------------------- What are the weapons of happiness?
Then why don't we take them out of the hands of the government? After all, police guns do just one thing: KILL. Military guns do just one thing: KILL.
Actually in the UK the vast majority of police are unarmed. I believe that we are the only country in the world where this is true. It might surprise American/.ers, but many people in the UK are as proud of our unarmed policemen as Americans are proud of their armed citizenry.
Of course the army, and sometimes some police units, are armed. (& on the whole, I think this is A Bad Thing for internal freedom.) ---------------------------------- What are the weapons of happiness?
I have bought CDs made by Metallica, Celine Dion, Prodigy, Kid Rock, Nine Inch Nails, Cracker, etc, ad nauseum
No wonder you are nauseated.
In a typical radio station setting you are forced to listen to what radio directors think of as popular. They are not interested in playing what's "good", or diverse.
Well, with all due respect, you really aren't in a position to judge, are you? I mean, liking Celine Dion _and_ Nine Inch Nails takes some kind of sick genius. ---------------------------------- What are the weapons of happiness?
After your decision to take Napster to court, do you still see the 'Halls of justice painted green / Money talking'? Are Metallica 'exploiting their supremacy'?
As I would have to pay fifteen quid to buy a Metallica album, is it true that 'I can't believe the price you pay'?
And when Lars said of Napster 'I've never been to one of those websites', would you agree that 'Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand'?
---All rights reserved. Copying and swapping these quotes strictly forbidden.--- ---------------------------------- What are the weapons of happiness?
Bypass the endless wrangling about how you might get round the license by rewriting it, crossing state boundaries, reading it in a mirror at midnight by the New Jersey turnpike et cetera et cetera.
Just use the specs to develop a solution. Do it anonymously (anyone know who is developing Gnutella? thought not) Then distribute it. End of problem.
Dave ---------------------------------- What are the weapons of happiness?
Actually, the printing press was not originally an authoritarian technology. After its discovery in Europe there was an outpouring of literature. Ordinary people could read the Bible for the first time, and discovered the egalitarian ideas of the New Testament: this inspired the Levellers in England, among others. The English Civil War was saturated by propaganda pamphlets arguing the case on all sides. And the UK Government spent two centuries trying to censor radical printing presses.
TV is arguably much more authoritarian. At first, limited bandwidth meant that only a few views could be heard (in the UK we still only have five terrestrial free channels). Now that problem is disappearing. But fundamentally TV deals in images and emotions rather than words and thoughts. As such it is inherently an 'entertainment' medium. Whether images and entertainment can ever encourage social change I don't know, but I suspect Plato was right: they're just distractions from reality.
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On the contrary, Ogg Vorbis is clearly the coolest name for anything in the world, ever.
"what's that? Oh, an mp3 player. Nice, but I prefer... Ogg Vorbis."
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yes, well if you don't want Gnome AND you don't want KDE then... then... then... you're just hard too please. (Cue outraged Blackbox, Windowmaker etc. zealots....)
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"gee, imagine a Beowulf cluster of _those_."
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all together now:
learn to love me
assemble the ways
now, today, tomorrow and always
my only weakness is a list of crimes
my only weakness is, well, never mind....
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Then I installed the latest beta of KDE2 (which allows you to run konqueror under normal KDE). I am not going back. KDE just seems to have it sorted, and Mozilla just doesn't. All the features that don't work in Moz are there already in Konqueror. Plus, it doesn't slow my machine down to P75 speed. I wish Mozilla well, and I will download M17 for old times sake -certainly on my Windows partition, where its cookie-handling features surpass IE - but I do wonder if this is going to be a success.
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<p> You saw all that did you? Protesters hurling Black Widows into crowds of old ladies? Special mutant explosive snakes in the hands of crazed black-clad anarchists? Or would that be what you heard on the mainstream media?<p>Hey, I'm not saying it's not true - but it sure sounds like the kind of "they eat babies, you know" propaganda the police usually put out.
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<p>Never mind about the "Bush sucks" comment, which was maybe true but definitely inappropriate. What about this gem? "Extremists" do not "deserve" police maltreatment, and nor do paedophiles, murderers and terrorists, because noone deserves it. Shame on you, CmdrTaco. This is like pointing out Rodney King's violations as an excuse for the LAPD's treatment of him.
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I thought the Unabomber was on a campaign against modern technology - not pseudo-intellectual media waffle.
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You don't even need to throw away your Napster client, if Napster the company goes under. Just cruise to Napigator and you can connect to the open servers at imperialfleet.com, culvernap and a bunch of places. Or if you use gnapster, you can automatically connect to these servers, which have nothing to do with the Napster company.
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Actually, he admits a natural right to possessions, but says that ownership is a right created by society: "By an universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common, is the property for the moment of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it." A common view since Grotius, I think, & maybe the scholastics before him.
a world where slavery was acceptable to many, where women were considered not to have an immortal soul and thus were no more spiritually valuable than a small dog....
I think that it was established Christian doctrine that women had souls long before Jefferson's time, indeed right from the start. But please feel free to tell me otherwise.
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Gosh. Well it is nice to know that American teenagers are as horrible as English teenagers. I hated my teenage years, but I don't have the comfort of thinking that all the people I hated will be pathetic nobodies... I went to a posh school and they are all probably earning lots of cash in the city. Still, that is just a richer way of being a pathetic nobody.
How glad I am to grow old, to move away from those awful times.
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What are the weapons of happiness?
The people at halfbrain have a web-based powerpoint clone. Unfortunately it needs (duh) Internet Explorer on Windows to run, but they claim to be developing Netscape & Macintosh versions. Their applications are all written in DHTML, as I understand it, so in theory they should be able to write them completely cross-platform. Dave
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The problem is that the introduction of more OSes doesn't necessarily break Windows' hold. People are more likely to move from Linux/*BSD to Atheos (and whatever else turns up) than to move straight from Windows. Then, instead of a Windows majority and a substantial minority of (say) Linux users, you have a Windows majority and lots of other OSes, each with a tiny market share, so noone bothers to write apps/build chips et cetera for them. Result: more Windows dominance.
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Yes, they do need to be available if criminals have guns. But the safeguards should be very strict. We have loosened those safeguards recently - for example, now there are some routine armed patrols. The inevitable result is that every few months, police marksmen shoot some poor lunatic dead because he was waving an airgun around, or carrying a table leg that "might have been" a shotgun (real case).
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I don't think that is so stupid. The information is freely available to anyone, but any company who uses it (without abiding by the EULA) would get their asses sued. It is the same logic that applies to software piracy. John Doe can get Windows 2000 for $5, or free. But if a company does this they risk being put out of business.
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Actually in the UK the vast majority of police are unarmed. I believe that we are the only country in the world where this is true. It might surprise American /.ers, but many people in the UK are as proud of our unarmed policemen as Americans are proud of their armed citizenry.
Of course the army, and sometimes some police units, are armed. (& on the whole, I think this is A Bad Thing for internal freedom.)
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mmmm. Zimbabwe is a non-fascist nation?
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No wonder you are nauseated.
In a typical radio station setting you are forced to listen to what radio directors think of as popular. They are not interested in playing what's "good", or diverse.
Well, with all due respect, you really aren't in a position to judge, are you? I mean, liking Celine Dion _and_ Nine Inch Nails takes some kind of sick genius.
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As I would have to pay fifteen quid to buy a Metallica album, is it true that 'I can't believe the price you pay'?
And when Lars said of Napster 'I've never been to one of those websites', would you agree that 'Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand'?
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Bypass the endless wrangling about how you might get round the license by rewriting it, crossing state boundaries, reading it in a mirror at midnight by the New Jersey turnpike et cetera et cetera.
Just use the specs to develop a solution. Do it anonymously (anyone know who is developing Gnutella? thought not) Then distribute it. End of problem.
Dave
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This should be 4 (Funny). Actually, it's 4 (Insightful). Americans, you scare me.
Actually, the printing press was not originally an authoritarian technology. After its discovery in Europe there was an outpouring of literature. Ordinary people could read the Bible for the first time, and discovered the egalitarian ideas of the New Testament: this inspired the Levellers in England, among others. The English Civil War was saturated by propaganda pamphlets arguing the case on all sides. And the UK Government spent two centuries trying to censor radical printing presses.
TV is arguably much more authoritarian. At first, limited bandwidth meant that only a few views could be heard (in the UK we still only have five terrestrial free channels). Now that problem is disappearing. But fundamentally TV deals in images and emotions rather than words and thoughts. As such it is inherently an 'entertainment' medium. Whether images and entertainment can ever encourage social change I don't know, but I suspect Plato was right: they're just distractions from reality.
They clearly are using "Free" to mean libre, rather than gratis.
Would that be 'gratis comme du vin gratis' versus 'libre comme De Gaulle'?
'Been caught stealing...
once, when I was five....
I enjoy stealing. It's as simple as that. It's just a simple fact.'
A better band than Metallica will ever be.