This comment might be more applicable if it were Max that was flying around in a jet meeting with MS. However it's Red Hat, not Fedora. Yes, Red Hat plays a huge role in the Fedora project, but it's still the Fedora Project itself that is as "open" as you are suggesting, not the for-profit company Red Hat. They choose to be open source, but have a responsibility to their shareholders and customers to do what's best for the health of their company.
Why do people mod things up just because they're anti-US?
Most of the world's major maritime powers agree with the US position that this is an international strait. If anything, it's Canada here that is acting unilaterally.
Although the OP is correct; the Canadians who depend on the US for their defense do not have the means to defend their claim even if they wanted to. That's reality for you I guess.
True.:-) However, I've been using Gran Paradiso for the last 3 or 4 months now as my primary browser. It does crash once in a while, but the session recovery works very well and the new Gecko engine is just much speedier (especially for large tables) than Firefox 1.5.x/2.x. Worth it for me.
This must be Putin/Russia's way of attempting to stay relevant somehow? It seems pretty obvious to me (and must be also to the Russian military) that any sort of US missile shield would have no chance in heck of stopping a nuclear barrage from Russia. The system is just not good enough. It's really only capable of taking out a smaller strike by only a few missiles. This in no way would be able to offset a "mutual destruction" type scenario...
I just don't see how this is a threat to Russia at all.
It's just gotta be a tantrum aimed at riling up the Russian's old foe for old time's sake.
Because the crucifix in the jar of urine was art, and the Koran in the toilet was torture. If you put a Koran in a toilet in the middle of a museum, it would be art, and therefore okay.
Except half the muslim world would want to kill you....
There IS a huge double standard when it comes to criticizing Christianity. Probably a good thing. I wish other religions (Islam, Scientology in specific in this context) would learn to be a little less "sensitive".
Uhm, he works in IT, which means system administration in the US, doesn't it? Why would he be qualified to teach CS?
Hah, excellent point I think.:-) It does depend on what he does of course. In general I know I don't know too many Windows admins who could even teach Intro to Programming....
Unix Admins typically have a little more theory under their belt if not a degree.
Maybe teaching CIS or some application classes though. Teaching is definitely not for everyone though.
I mean, they do a lot of development, and they are the OSS company most trusted by Fortune 500's, but I think they lost their leadership position to Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu. Not trying to start a flamewar here, but they seem to be fresh out of ideas at present, and this seems to be grasping at straws.
I'm not sure how you measure this... If you just went by/. stories and such you'd definitely think that Linux == Ubuntu. However, in the revenue generating department, large-ish companies, Ubuntu has a long way to go to build up the trust that RH has. Mine still gives their money to RH/SuSE for the most part and I'm pretty sure most others are in the same boat.
Yeah, RH may not be the leader among the hobbiests, but they don't really try to be.:)
The reasons you list initially are sound ones. Alternatives are always better, and certainly should help spur some healthy competition. Rarely is monopoly beneficial for everyone.
However, the rest of your post is pure and simple off-topic Bush bashing that really has no bearing on the discussion at hand, nor on any decision making made by current EU leadership. In fact, both the US and the EU came to an agreement in 2004 on GPS and Galileo frequencies helping to preserve a military advantage for both sides and also making both systems compatible with each other.
You may hate Bush, but while he certainly looks out for his own country's interests first and foremost (as he should), it can't be said that he and his administration have not been working with the EU on this one.
Seems all that is really known is the girl's side of the story and whatever hearsay and sensatiolism can be drummed up stemming from the fact that this may involve MySpace.
This statement seems to imply that there were a lot of other factors involved. Lies? Maybe. Who knows. I'm confident the court proceedings will bring the truth out though.
Since/. has gotten us all hyped up about this and most automatically assume the school is in the wrong, I do hope they'll follow-up later--especially if the facts show that perhaps the school was in the right on this.
Besides being utterly off-topic, what the heck kind of self-righteous rant is this? Who has ever made a claim that the constitution of the US would compel people to behave appropriately and to follow its guidelines 100% of the time?
I would argue that the cases you mention above would be far FAR more prevalent were it not for a document like the constitution or the equivalent in other free societies. These events are typically widely discussed/debated once exposed, and taken care of if they are indeed found to be in violation of the laws/constitution. This would not be possible in a society where these rights were not guaranteed.
Does it ensure that rights will never be violated? Of course not. But pointing out infrequent failures of a system that for the most part works as well as can be hoped for in a world filled with bickering and fickle people with countless agendas--and generalizing it into a cheap shot against Americans and their "blah blah" constitution is pretty pathetic.
This is not some big conspiracy theory as I'm sure many people here will immediately cry out about.
Far too easy to give away something that could compromise the security of a unit or a mission -- even if unintentionally. Taking this sort of precaution just makes common sense. The military is likely far more concerned with this type of a scenario than some soldier giving away some horrible conspiracy that everyone in the military is in on (in most part because these types of things would be impossible to hide and if they do come out are fringe exceptions rather than the rule). Most of the blogs out there from troops are of a personal nature or in fact shed light on the fact that things are really not going as badly as is portrayed in our media here.
However, as someone else mentioned, it's probably not going to be too realistic to enforce in the long run.
This is an absurd over-dramatized take on the situation.
Clearly Kevin underestimated the response he'd receive from digg'ers, but I seriously doubt his intent from the get-go was to "flip off his users". How would that be to his benefit? It's generally in the interest of any businessman to do all he can to keep the majority of his 'customers' around. He likely thought this would go away with out so much of the hubbub it caused.
In the end, digg would have become nearly useless had he not changed his position, and this risk outweighed the one presented by the HD-DVD patent-holders' threats. From a business standpoint, maybe not the greatest of places to be, but it made his choice easy.
It seems to me, this is a guy trying to protect his creation and ensure that it's able to keep on running. He misjudged "customer" response and the marketplace helped him correct this mis-read.:)
I switched to beryl from a plain'ol xfce setup. Very cool eye candy, and I actually did find the layered transparency on my terminals very helpful. Beyond the fact that co-workers would stop by to ooh and ahh from time to time, I eventually decided to just stick with plain 'ol xfce. The cube was a neat idea as well, but not that much superior (imo) than plain ol virtual desktops.
Everything ends up taking a little longer waiting for animations of windows to explode or swish away, or for the cube to zoom out and switch around.:) Cool looking like I said, but it didn't make my desktop a more efficient workplace.
Maybe I missed something that would have tilted the usability in beryl's favor.
I know the intent is mainly to look great, and it definitely does that!
Uh, this does happen in other countries. And it's not really fair to compare a tiny culturally non-diverse country like Switzerland to the giant melting pool we have here.
Seriously, how does stuff like this get modded up? Let's not let our hate for the US turn silly over-simplifications into pearls of wisdom...
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Absurd. Obviously Red Hat is going to demand the removal of their trademarks. The fact of the matter is that RH is very helpful towards the open source community. I see plenty of RH devs and employees participating in Fedora. And there is a lot of bleed-over as far as package development and work on bugs between CentOS and Fedora. It's all connected and RH has been nothing but supportive.
They're a clear force for 'good' in the world of Linux in my mind.
This works great -- most of the time. However, there are many occasions in which I am confronted with a URL that is "multiline" or needs edited in some way. Pretty common if you use mutt or use IRC in an xterm. In Windows it's actually not that bad to highlight, ALT-TAB, ALT-D, CTRL-V, then jump back and copy the remaninding bit and repeat. With this type of scenario, the middle-click-somewhere-in-the-browser method doesn't work and we're back with the original problem of wiping out your paste buffer accidentally.:-)
Not a huge deal; I've certainly gotten used to it, but each time it's still kind of annoying.
Well said. Coming from more of a corporate environment, I was genuinely surprised (OK, I really shouldn't have been) to read some of the comments here poking fun at Red Hat as irrelevant. In the business world, the de facto standard is still RHEL, and likely is going to continue that way. RH has been around long enough that even the suits are willing to trust its name (and to a lesser extent, SuSE)... RH is far from irrelevant, and are still the #1 private company contributing to the Linux kernel.
Used to work at an ISP that did VoIP (wirelessly in fact). If you could tweak the baud rate on your security system and drop it down to say 1200bps, it would typically work. It was still fairly hit and miss though. Add to that that many customers had no clue how to do this and alarm companies didn't care enough to try and help them.
Modem-type communications expect timing to be near exact (something the PSTN can guarantee) and just don't work well with the random delays (caused by 'net conditions, jitter buffering, etc) that are inherent with VoIP. T38 helps with faxing, but any sort of modem connection is going to cause problems.
We made sure our customers knew that burglar alarms were _not_ something we supported over VoIP. In fact it's a downright silly idea tying your home protection in with your Internet connection in most cases anyways. You can often get a phone line specifically for burglar alarms for less than you'd pay for a line used for talking on as well, so this is typically what we'd advise customers to do.
To the contrary. He's been a tremendous voice of sanity against the ever increasing "church" of global warming. Of course, he's labeled a buffoon by those who prefer to run around like chickens with their heads cut off.
An article on a topic like this just lends credence to the fact that this is a thoughtful man who does his research -- better than many "scientists" out there who are simply going where the government $$ is.
The Blog community certainly does have an effect. In Lieberman's case, it's likely to galvanize sane Americans into re-electing him as an Indepenant this November.
Personally I thank sites such as MoveOn for highlighting the insanity that is the American far left.
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This comment might be more applicable if it were Max that was flying around in a jet meeting with MS. However it's Red Hat, not Fedora. Yes, Red Hat plays a huge role in the Fedora project, but it's still the Fedora Project itself that is as "open" as you are suggesting, not the for-profit company Red Hat. They choose to be open source, but have a responsibility to their shareholders and customers to do what's best for the health of their company.
Why do people mod things up just because they're anti-US?
Most of the world's major maritime powers agree with the US position that this is an international strait. If anything, it's Canada here that is acting unilaterally.
Although the OP is correct; the Canadians who depend on the US for their defense do not have the means to defend their claim even if they wanted to. That's reality for you I guess.
True. :-) However, I've been using Gran Paradiso for the last 3 or 4 months now as my primary browser. It does crash once in a while, but the session recovery works very well and the new Gecko engine is just much speedier (especially for large tables) than Firefox 1.5.x/2.x. Worth it for me.
This must be Putin/Russia's way of attempting to stay relevant somehow? It seems pretty obvious to me (and must be also to the Russian military) that any sort of US missile shield would have no chance in heck of stopping a nuclear barrage from Russia. The system is just not good enough. It's really only capable of taking out a smaller strike by only a few missiles. This in no way would be able to offset a "mutual destruction" type scenario...
I just don't see how this is a threat to Russia at all.
It's just gotta be a tantrum aimed at riling up the Russian's old foe for old time's sake.
True, but somehow I doubt that the vast majority of LJ users want/need to post about incest.
We're talking about a small minority of the LJ community here.
Because the crucifix in the jar of urine was art, and the Koran in the toilet was torture. If you put a Koran in a toilet in the middle of a museum, it would be art, and therefore okay.
Except half the muslim world would want to kill you....
There IS a huge double standard when it comes to criticizing Christianity. Probably a good thing. I wish other religions (Islam, Scientology in specific in this context) would learn to be a little less "sensitive".
Uhm, he works in IT, which means system administration in the US, doesn't it? Why would he be qualified to teach CS?
:-) It does depend on what he does of course. In general I know I don't know too many Windows admins who could even teach Intro to Programming....
Hah, excellent point I think.
Unix Admins typically have a little more theory under their belt if not a degree.
Maybe teaching CIS or some application classes though. Teaching is definitely not for everyone though.
I mean, they do a lot of development, and they are the OSS company most trusted by Fortune 500's, but I think they lost their leadership position to Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu. Not trying to start a flamewar here, but they seem to be fresh out of ideas at present, and this seems to be grasping at straws.
/. stories and such you'd definitely think that Linux == Ubuntu. However, in the revenue generating department, large-ish companies, Ubuntu has a long way to go to build up the trust that RH has. Mine still gives their money to RH/SuSE for the most part and I'm pretty sure most others are in the same boat.
:)
I'm not sure how you measure this... If you just went by
Yeah, RH may not be the leader among the hobbiests, but they don't really try to be.
The reasons you list initially are sound ones. Alternatives are always better, and certainly should help spur some healthy competition. Rarely is monopoly beneficial for everyone.
However, the rest of your post is pure and simple off-topic Bush bashing that really has no bearing on the discussion at hand, nor on any decision making made by current EU leadership. In fact, both the US and the EU came to an agreement in 2004 on GPS and Galileo frequencies helping to preserve a military advantage for both sides and also making both systems compatible with each other.
You may hate Bush, but while he certainly looks out for his own country's interests first and foremost (as he should), it can't be said that he and his administration have not been working with the EU on this one.
Seems all that is really known is the girl's side of the story and whatever hearsay and sensatiolism can be drummed up stemming from the fact that this may involve MySpace.
/. has gotten us all hyped up about this and most automatically assume the school is in the wrong, I do hope they'll follow-up later--especially if the facts show that perhaps the school was in the right on this.
This statement seems to imply that there were a lot of other factors involved. Lies? Maybe. Who knows. I'm confident the court proceedings will bring the truth out though.
Since
Besides being utterly off-topic, what the heck kind of self-righteous rant is this? Who has ever made a claim that the constitution of the US would compel people to behave appropriately and to follow its guidelines 100% of the time?
I would argue that the cases you mention above would be far FAR more prevalent were it not for a document like the constitution or the equivalent in other free societies. These events are typically widely discussed/debated once exposed, and taken care of if they are indeed found to be in violation of the laws/constitution. This would not be possible in a society where these rights were not guaranteed.
Does it ensure that rights will never be violated? Of course not. But pointing out infrequent failures of a system that for the most part works as well as can be hoped for in a world filled with bickering and fickle people with countless agendas--and generalizing it into a cheap shot against Americans and their "blah blah" constitution is pretty pathetic.
This is not some big conspiracy theory as I'm sure many people here will immediately cry out about.
Far too easy to give away something that could compromise the security of a unit or a mission -- even if unintentionally. Taking this sort of precaution just makes common sense. The military is likely far more concerned with this type of a scenario than some soldier giving away some horrible conspiracy that everyone in the military is in on (in most part because these types of things would be impossible to hide and if they do come out are fringe exceptions rather than the rule). Most of the blogs out there from troops are of a personal nature or in fact shed light on the fact that things are really not going as badly as is portrayed in our media here.
However, as someone else mentioned, it's probably not going to be too realistic to enforce in the long run.
This is an absurd over-dramatized take on the situation.
:)
Clearly Kevin underestimated the response he'd receive from digg'ers, but I seriously doubt his intent from the get-go was to "flip off his users". How would that be to his benefit? It's generally in the interest of any businessman to do all he can to keep the majority of his 'customers' around. He likely thought this would go away with out so much of the hubbub it caused.
In the end, digg would have become nearly useless had he not changed his position, and this risk outweighed the one presented by the HD-DVD patent-holders' threats. From a business standpoint, maybe not the greatest of places to be, but it made his choice easy.
It seems to me, this is a guy trying to protect his creation and ensure that it's able to keep on running. He misjudged "customer" response and the marketplace helped him correct this mis-read.
I switched to beryl from a plain'ol xfce setup. Very cool eye candy, and I actually did find the layered transparency on my terminals very helpful. Beyond the fact that co-workers would stop by to ooh and ahh from time to time, I eventually decided to just stick with plain 'ol xfce. The cube was a neat idea as well, but not that much superior (imo) than plain ol virtual desktops.
:) Cool looking like I said, but it didn't make my desktop a more efficient workplace.
Everything ends up taking a little longer waiting for animations of windows to explode or swish away, or for the cube to zoom out and switch around.
Maybe I missed something that would have tilted the usability in beryl's favor.
I know the intent is mainly to look great, and it definitely does that!
Uh, this does happen in other countries. And it's not really fair to compare a tiny culturally non-diverse country like Switzerland to the giant melting pool we have here.
Seriously, how does stuff like this get modded up? Let's not let our hate for the US turn silly over-simplifications into pearls of wisdom...
Absurd. Obviously Red Hat is going to demand the removal of their trademarks. The fact of the matter is that RH is very helpful towards the open source community. I see plenty of RH devs and employees participating in Fedora. And there is a lot of bleed-over as far as package development and work on bugs between CentOS and Fedora. It's all connected and RH has been nothing but supportive.
They're a clear force for 'good' in the world of Linux in my mind.
Ah yes, the obligatory anti-US spiel. On-topic to _any_ Slashdot discussion.
So is this something "repressive" by the Chinese government? What would you say if your own government tried to impose something like this?
This works great -- most of the time. However, there are many occasions in which I am confronted with a URL that is "multiline" or needs edited in some way. Pretty common if you use mutt or use IRC in an xterm. In Windows it's actually not that bad to highlight, ALT-TAB, ALT-D, CTRL-V, then jump back and copy the remaninding bit and repeat. With this type of scenario, the middle-click-somewhere-in-the-browser method doesn't work and we're back with the original problem of wiping out your paste buffer accidentally. :-)
Not a huge deal; I've certainly gotten used to it, but each time it's still kind of annoying.
Anti-capitalist, anti-US post based on 'hearsay' by a 'friend'! Mod parent up!!
Well said. Coming from more of a corporate environment, I was genuinely surprised (OK, I really shouldn't have been) to read some of the comments here poking fun at Red Hat as irrelevant. In the business world, the de facto standard is still RHEL, and likely is going to continue that way. RH has been around long enough that even the suits are willing to trust its name (and to a lesser extent, SuSE)... RH is far from irrelevant, and are still the #1 private company contributing to the Linux kernel.
Used to work at an ISP that did VoIP (wirelessly in fact). If you could tweak the baud rate on your security system and drop it down to say 1200bps, it would typically work. It was still fairly hit and miss though. Add to that that many customers had no clue how to do this and alarm companies didn't care enough to try and help them.
Modem-type communications expect timing to be near exact (something the PSTN can guarantee) and just don't work well with the random delays (caused by 'net conditions, jitter buffering, etc) that are inherent with VoIP. T38 helps with faxing, but any sort of modem connection is going to cause problems.
We made sure our customers knew that burglar alarms were _not_ something we supported over VoIP. In fact it's a downright silly idea tying your home protection in with your Internet connection in most cases anyways. You can often get a phone line specifically for burglar alarms for less than you'd pay for a line used for talking on as well, so this is typically what we'd advise customers to do.
To the contrary. He's been a tremendous voice of sanity against the ever increasing "church" of global warming. Of course, he's labeled a buffoon by those who prefer to run around like chickens with their heads cut off.
An article on a topic like this just lends credence to the fact that this is a thoughtful man who does his research -- better than many "scientists" out there who are simply going where the government $$ is.
You can do this with mutt. :)
The Blog community certainly does have an effect. In Lieberman's case, it's likely to galvanize sane Americans into re-electing him as an Indepenant this November.
Personally I thank sites such as MoveOn for highlighting the insanity that is the American far left.
Off-topic.
Oh wait, this is Slashdot. Random USA bashing is on-topic for any thread!