I visited the US a few months ago. I arrived in Boston and had no trouble at all. Just a simple "business or pleasure" question. A black female student, clearly a US national, was asked about where she grew up (Miami), where she went to high school (Miami), where her parents lived (Miami), where she was returning to after her visit to Boston (Miami) etc. etc. Seemed to me it's only the land of the free if your face fits.
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Answer; A shitload of hospitals. Hey, I can dream can't I?
How prophetic. As I read this cruise missiles are being rained down on Kabul. Those people are already suffering at the hands of the fascist Taliban and are now being bombed to shit by the very power who put them in power - the fascist US. Now for the second time today I've had to watch the innocent die.
Just for the record, my BeOS partition boots in under 17 seconds. My Win2k partition takes around 60 seconds. But then it's precisely because BeOS shows up Windows' shortcomings that MS moved so hard against it.
If you read the article the author explains quite clearly why this evidence wasn't used.
"The burning question, of course, is why Boies and Klein didn't want Gassée to testify on the bootloader issue, especially when it could have substantially helped their case? The answer provided to Gassée was that the case was by then already too well established. Including the bootloader issue would have meant rewriting many of the arguments and calling in a new collection of witnesses. In other words, it wasn't convenient for the U.S. government to get to the meat of the matter.... In addition, no PC OEM was willing to testify on bootloader issues...... Finally, Be didn't have the brand recognition that Netscape did; Netscape made for a much better poster child. "
"If it smells, it's Chemistry, if it moves, it's Biology, and if it doesn't work, it's Physics"
Bryan Pfaffenberger does himself a disservice with the uncalled-for sideswipes at the BSD license.
"If Linux had been released under the BSD license, Microsoft would have probably already released a version of Linux,Linux++ or Linux# or L-Nux"
Interestingly, there is no FreeBSD++ or FreeBSD# or FeeBSD, and there never will be, but because of the distribution model, not the license. You're not really supporting your case here Bryan.
"There should be free software that we can appropriate and modify--we just love BSD stuff--as well as Microsoft software"
Ok, so now I'm beginning to think you have an axe to grind against the BSD license. The BSD license applies to everyone who wants to use the code. It means some distinctly unpleasant people get to benefit from it, but so do others. People who release code under BSD do so in the full knowledge that Microsoft, or Apple, or Sun, or even Linux developers may use, modify, adapt, sell it or whatever. Really, truly free code in fact. *BSD has not been embraced into non-existence because of its license.
So I guess your pissed off because MS have incorporated the *BSD TCP/IP stack. Well, good. At long last they're using a quality code base, recognised universally as being fast, stable and seceure. That is generally to be considered a Good Thing. Linux is perfectly entitled to do the same thing, as is any competing OS. At long last it seems that we're seeing the adoption of a standard based on solid code. And you have to bitch about it? Keep your eyes on the enemy, not on your allies.
hmm, I seem to remember an identical posting a couple of months ago. You are the laziest troll I've ever come across if you have to copy and paste your contributions.
An excellent contribution, but I'm curious to know where Marx talked of "replacing one tyranny with another". If you're by aany chance referring to the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' that was actually Lenin. I suspect that like many people you're going by what other people have said about old Charlie Marx, rather than reading him for yourself. That's not meant as critically as it may sound. Seriously, try reading more of the original Marx, you may enjoy it more than you suspect.
These are perhaps the most spurious statistics I've seen since the US 'election'. There is absolutely no basis for your assumption that there is a simple correlation between Usenet posts and users. Furthermore, extrapolating from the 80% figure would only be valid if you were working from the same data as Theo was (assuming his data was valid of course). Far from facing facts and looking at numbers, you are making both up to fit your argument. Also, declaring an OS as dead when it is clearly being updated at a very regular pace and runs the busiest web-servers in the World (Yahoo and mp3.com) is a strange definition of 'dead'. Instead of posting bollocks try installing it for yourself and maybe even use it to calculate valid statistics.
Not trying to be funny at all, but this kind of accident tends not to leave much in the way of a body. If the story is true, then these men were extremely brave and deserve the same sort of recognition that other test pilots who died in the space race were given.
And next time you're on a demo, or a picket line, or doing anything the Government of the day might dislike, how will you feel about your image being carefully catelogued, cross-referenced and filed? If these cameras were only used for the stated propaganda purposes, all well and good. However, they're not. You're living in a fool's paradise.
The idea that Be just dropped PPC support out of spite or using them as a scapegoat is utterly ludricous. It couldn't possibly have hurt Apple for a competitor to drop out of sight. Secondly, Apple has never given so much as a hint of denial to the accusations theat they wouyldn't turn over certain specs to Be, or the accusation that they deliberately broke the ability of BeOS to run on G3 PPCs. It is absolutely clear that Be Inc is not welcome anywhere near a Mac as far as Jobs and Apple are concerned. Furthermore, all the OS's that you quote that have been ported to the G3 are free. According to the compatible hardware list over at QNX none of their OS's support the G3/G4 processors. Try to get a commercial OS on a Mac and Apple will fight you all the way.
As for x86 users, accusing us of 'flittering' between OS's is a cheap shot. We do it basically because we have to. In the search for an OS that runs x86 half decently some of managed to stumble on the BeOS, and that's where we stay. If the worst case happens and Be folds, I would reckon most of us would go to OSX if we could afford a new box, reserving our 86 for playing windows games or running as gateway servers with freebsd. Eazel looks promising as well. All of us would mourn the loss of what most BeOS users believe to be the best OS in the world.
This has been known for several months. FYI the worst case scenario the company is putting forward is that they will have to lose some staff. In the current economic climate this is hardly unusual for US companies. So they have a funding problem. They've still got a couple of months before hard decisions have to be made, and that's a long time in IT.
Same old fud about PPC support I see. There is no way that Apple were going to help Be. The BeOS showed up the woeful inadaquacies of MacOS, and Apple hated that, especially as Jobs wanted to get NeXt (sorry, OSX) as Apples next system. BeOS was running fine on the G3 until Apple broke it. They didn't release the needed specs to fix it and no, Be couldn't have reversed engineered the code anyway because they have a commercial product and Apple would have sued their asses off.
As for the alleged lack of loyalty of the 'new user base' I challenge you to go over to http://www.benews.com/ , state the same thing and not get the flaming of your life.
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If you can't play God on your computer what's the point of having one?
Religion kills. Period. It is a sickness and the cause of more misery and murder committed by man against
man than any other human intellectual construct in history.
While agreeing that Scientology is not alone in having some really weird tenets of faith and not wanting to lessen the bloody record of most religions, I think that nationalism has been responsible for a lot more death and destruction, and will be in the future as well. It is also much harder for most people to break from the ideas of patriotism and nationalism than religion. Of course, when nationalism mixes with religion you have the most dangerous mixture of all.
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Neither W2k nor Linux are particularly impressive with 2+ cpu's. Use BeOS if you want to see what a dual processor machine is really capable of speed wise.
Before I get flamed to a crisp, I'll state right now that I would always recommend a non MS solution. However, I have run an Apache/php/mysql solution on an NT box for months now as our Intranet server at work. Granted, there are one or two difficulties (such as user authorisation) but in the most part they are easy to work around. There is the added bonus that our intellectually-challenged sysadmin (and MS thrall) is able to cope with it.
If MySQL/PHP is capable of what you want it to do, then My advice is to sell the same package but running on NT. The major advantages for the Company are that it is cheap to install, very fast to setup, and very fast in performance. For me the absolute killer blow was that it took so little time to deliver really_useful_results. I have also been able to gradually demonstrate the shortcomings of MS products for what has been asked for by management, thus making a FreeBSD box a question of when, not if.
It could easily have been otherwise! Not at all. It was intellectually bereft and demonstrably so.
There is nothing wrong with measuring skull sizes etc.
and trying to correlate it with race and things like intelligence
Yes there is. For a start 'intelligence' is itself ill-defined. Secondly, trying to correlate race with intelligence is absolutely wrong, precisely because it is actively seeking to establish a basis for racial superiority. And although many 19th century books took the theory of race as a given, it was also questioned at the time and massively rejected during the 20th century.
I just want to point out racism is a question of science
No, it isn't. And it never was. The racists had a theory and then set out to prove it. They never set out to disprove it. That is in itself unscientific. For in depth explanations try looking at the work of Stephen J Gould who nails their kind of pseudo science to wall.
It doesn't surprise me because the very idea that there is such a thing as different races has never been actually proved, and is now definitively disproved.
The true meaning of the word 'racism' is the belief that there is such a thing as different races (and strictly speaking, racialism is the belief in the superiority of a so-called race). This theory, first propounded at the height of 19th Century imperialism as a justification for opression, has always been condemned and challenged since its inception by academics, intellectuals, scientists and others. Nevertheless there have been those who have worked extremely hard at defending the theory of racism. Hence the numerous studies of peoples skull measurements, nose sizes, skin pigmentation etc carried out by the Nazis. People knew Nazi science as bogus then, and it's no different now.
There's only one race - the Human Race.
The reason why there are 'fewer than expected' genes in the human genome is because over the last few years there has been a lot of bogus science claiming that all human behaviour is governed by our genes. Thus we saw claims that criminality, sexuality, poverty, being rich and even unemployment were somehow connected to genes. Strangely there was no-one postulating a 'right-wing bigot gene' or 'bogus scientist' gene. Although many challenged these claims on the basis of formal logic, research based on what has now proved to be erroneous (and in some cases fraudulent) assumptions still went on. Many were indeed getting concerned that the old Nazi 'science' of eugenics was making a comeback. One of the 'surprises' of the results of the mapping was that there is no difference between so-called races. Well, IANAG but I could have told them that.
Perhaps people will now have to look at other causes for aggression, crime, unemployment, poverty et al, such as socio-political forces. But then again that might turn out to be just a little uncomfortable for some people.
It can also happen that older workers with knowledge and experience can find themselves treated with little or no respect when they are working somewhere with mostly young people, so if you're unlucky you could find it hapening to you all over again!
The point is that colleagues should behave with respect to each other, no matter what their age, gender, race, creed etc. That said, respect is something that has to be earned.
"Experience is something you get right after you actually needed it"
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I visited the US a few months ago. I arrived in Boston and had no trouble at all. Just a simple "business or pleasure" question. A black female student, clearly a US national, was asked about where she grew up (Miami), where she went to high school (Miami), where her parents lived (Miami), where she was returning to after her visit to Boston (Miami) etc. etc. Seemed to me it's only the land of the free if your face fits.
Answer; A shitload of hospitals. Hey, I can dream can't I?
Apaprently I was wrong, as the US has just denied involvement. My apologies for shooting from the lip
How prophetic. As I read this cruise missiles are being rained down on Kabul. Those people are already suffering at the hands of the fascist Taliban and are now being bombed to shit by the very power who put them in power - the fascist US. Now for the second time today I've had to watch the innocent die.
Just for the record, my BeOS partition boots in under 17 seconds. My Win2k partition takes around 60 seconds. But then it's precisely because BeOS shows up Windows' shortcomings that MS moved so hard against it.
If you read the article the author explains quite clearly why this evidence wasn't used.
"The burning question, of course, is why Boies and Klein didn't want Gassée to testify on the bootloader issue, especially when it could have substantially helped their case? The answer provided to Gassée was that the case was by then already too well established. Including the bootloader issue would have meant rewriting many of the arguments and calling in a new collection of witnesses. In other words, it wasn't convenient for the U.S. government to get to the meat of the matter.... In addition, no PC OEM was willing to testify on bootloader issues...... Finally, Be didn't have the brand recognition that Netscape did; Netscape made for a much better poster child. "
"If it smells, it's Chemistry, if it moves, it's Biology, and if it doesn't work, it's Physics"
But let's not forget Three Mile Island. Oh, wait, that was American wasn't it? Best not to mention that though.
Bryan Pfaffenberger does himself a disservice with the uncalled-for sideswipes at the BSD license.
"If Linux had been released under the BSD license, Microsoft would have probably already released a version of Linux,Linux++ or Linux# or L-Nux"
Interestingly, there is no FreeBSD++ or FreeBSD# or FeeBSD, and there never will be, but because of the distribution model, not the license. You're not really supporting your case here Bryan.
"There should be free software that we can appropriate and modify--we just love BSD stuff--as well as Microsoft software"
Ok, so now I'm beginning to think you have an axe to grind against the BSD license. The BSD license applies to everyone who wants to use the code. It means some distinctly unpleasant people get to benefit from it, but so do others. People who release code under BSD do so in the full knowledge that Microsoft, or Apple, or Sun, or even Linux developers may use, modify, adapt, sell it or whatever. Really, truly free code in fact. *BSD has not been embraced into non-existence because of its license.
So I guess your pissed off because MS have incorporated the *BSD TCP/IP stack. Well, good. At long last they're using a quality code base, recognised universally as being fast, stable and seceure. That is generally to be considered a Good Thing. Linux is perfectly entitled to do the same thing, as is any competing OS. At long last it seems that we're seeing the adoption of a standard based on solid code. And you have to bitch about it? Keep your eyes on the enemy, not on your allies.
hmm, I seem to remember an identical posting a couple of months ago. You are the laziest troll I've ever come across if you have to copy and paste your contributions.
In a country that has such a ridiculous phenomenon as "Food Libel" can you really be so surprisec?
An excellent contribution, but I'm curious to know where Marx talked of "replacing one tyranny with another". If you're by aany chance referring to the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' that was actually Lenin. I suspect that like many people you're going by what other people have said about old Charlie Marx, rather than reading him for yourself. That's not meant as critically as it may sound. Seriously, try reading more of the original Marx, you may enjoy it more than you suspect.
These are perhaps the most spurious statistics I've seen since the US 'election'. There is absolutely no basis for your assumption that there is a simple correlation between Usenet posts and users. Furthermore, extrapolating from the 80% figure would only be valid if you were working from the same data as Theo was (assuming his data was valid of course). Far from facing facts and looking at numbers, you are making both up to fit your argument. Also, declaring an OS as dead when it is clearly being updated at a very regular pace and runs the busiest web-servers in the World (Yahoo and mp3.com) is a strange definition of 'dead'. Instead of posting bollocks try installing it for yourself and maybe even use it to calculate valid statistics.
Not trying to be funny at all, but this kind of accident tends not to leave much in the way of a body. If the story is true, then these men were extremely brave and deserve the same sort of recognition that other test pilots who died in the space race were given.
And next time you're on a demo, or a picket line, or doing anything the Government of the day might dislike, how will you feel about your image being carefully catelogued, cross-referenced and filed? If these cameras were only used for the stated propaganda purposes, all well and good. However, they're not. You're living in a fool's paradise.
The idea that Be just dropped PPC support out of spite or using them as a scapegoat is utterly ludricous. It couldn't possibly have hurt Apple for a competitor to drop out of sight. Secondly, Apple has never given so much as a hint of denial to the accusations theat they wouyldn't turn over certain specs to Be, or the accusation that they deliberately broke the ability of BeOS to run on G3 PPCs. It is absolutely clear that Be Inc is not welcome anywhere near a Mac as far as Jobs and Apple are concerned. Furthermore, all the OS's that you quote that have been ported to the G3 are free. According to the compatible hardware list over at QNX none of their OS's support the G3/G4 processors. Try to get a commercial OS on a Mac and Apple will fight you all the way.
As for x86 users, accusing us of 'flittering' between OS's is a cheap shot. We do it basically because we have to. In the search for an OS that runs x86 half decently some of managed to stumble on the BeOS, and that's where we stay. If the worst case happens and Be folds, I would reckon most of us would go to OSX if we could afford a new box, reserving our 86 for playing windows games or running as gateway servers with freebsd. Eazel looks promising as well. All of us would mourn the loss of what most BeOS users believe to be the best OS in the world.
This has been known for several months. FYI the worst case scenario the company is putting forward is that they will have to lose some staff. In the current economic climate this is hardly unusual for US companies. So they have a funding problem. They've still got a couple of months before hard decisions have to be made, and that's a long time in IT.
Same old fud about PPC support I see. There is no way that Apple were going to help Be. The BeOS showed up the woeful inadaquacies of MacOS, and Apple hated that, especially as Jobs wanted to get NeXt (sorry, OSX) as Apples next system. BeOS was running fine on the G3 until Apple broke it. They didn't release the needed specs to fix it and no, Be couldn't have reversed engineered the code anyway because they have a commercial product and Apple would have sued their asses off.
As for the alleged lack of loyalty of the 'new user base' I challenge you to go over to http://www.benews.com/ , state the same thing and not get the flaming of your life.
If you can't play God on your computer what's the point of having one?
Religion kills. Period. It is a sickness and the cause of more misery and murder committed by man against
man than any other human intellectual construct in history.
While agreeing that Scientology is not alone in having some really weird tenets of faith and not wanting to lessen the bloody record of most religions, I think that nationalism has been responsible for a lot more death and destruction, and will be in the future as well. It is also much harder for most people to break from the ideas of patriotism and nationalism than religion. Of course, when nationalism mixes with religion you have the most dangerous mixture of all.
Neither W2k nor Linux are particularly impressive with 2+ cpu's. Use BeOS if you want to see what a dual processor machine is really capable of speed wise.
Before I get flamed to a crisp, I'll state right now that I would always recommend a non MS solution. However, I have run an Apache/php/mysql solution on an NT box for months now as our Intranet server at work. Granted, there are one or two difficulties (such as user authorisation) but in the most part they are easy to work around. There is the added bonus that our intellectually-challenged sysadmin (and MS thrall) is able to cope with it.
If MySQL/PHP is capable of what you want it to do, then My advice is to sell the same package but running on NT. The major advantages for the Company are that it is cheap to install, very fast to setup, and very fast in performance. For me the absolute killer blow was that it took so little time to deliver really_useful_results. I have also been able to gradually demonstrate the shortcomings of MS products for what has been asked for by management, thus making a FreeBSD box a question of when, not if.
It could easily have been otherwise!
Not at all. It was intellectually bereft and demonstrably so.
There is nothing wrong with measuring skull sizes etc.
and trying to correlate it with race and things like intelligence
Yes there is. For a start 'intelligence' is itself ill-defined. Secondly, trying to correlate race with intelligence is absolutely wrong, precisely because it is actively seeking to establish a basis for racial superiority. And although many 19th century books took the theory of race as a given, it was also questioned at the time and massively rejected during the 20th century.
I just want to point out racism is a question of science
No, it isn't. And it never was. The racists had a theory and then set out to prove it. They never set out to disprove it. That is in itself unscientific. For in depth explanations try looking at the work of Stephen J Gould who nails their kind of pseudo science to wall.
It doesn't surprise me because the very idea that there is such a thing as different races has never been actually proved, and is now definitively disproved.
The true meaning of the word 'racism' is the belief that there is such a thing as different races (and strictly speaking, racialism is the belief in the superiority of a so-called race). This theory, first propounded at the height of 19th Century imperialism as a justification for opression, has always been condemned and challenged since its inception by academics, intellectuals, scientists and others. Nevertheless there have been those who have worked extremely hard at defending the theory of racism. Hence the numerous studies of peoples skull measurements, nose sizes, skin pigmentation etc carried out by the Nazis. People knew Nazi science as bogus then, and it's no different now.
There's only one race - the Human Race.
The reason why there are 'fewer than expected' genes in the human genome is because over the last few years there has been a lot of bogus science claiming that all human behaviour is governed by our genes. Thus we saw claims that criminality, sexuality, poverty, being rich and even unemployment were somehow connected to genes. Strangely there was no-one postulating a 'right-wing bigot gene' or 'bogus scientist' gene. Although many challenged these claims on the basis of formal logic, research based on what has now proved to be erroneous (and in some cases fraudulent) assumptions still went on. Many were indeed getting concerned that the old Nazi 'science' of eugenics was making a comeback. One of the 'surprises' of the results of the mapping was that there is no difference between so-called races. Well, IANAG but I could have told them that.
Perhaps people will now have to look at other causes for aggression, crime, unemployment, poverty et al, such as socio-political forces. But then again that might turn out to be just a little uncomfortable for some people.
It can also happen that older workers with knowledge and experience can find themselves treated with little or no respect when they are working somewhere with mostly young people, so if you're unlucky you could find it hapening to you all over again!
The point is that colleagues should behave with respect to each other, no matter what their age, gender, race, creed etc. That said, respect is something that has to be earned.
"Experience is something you get right after you actually needed it"