Microsoft has already announced that the next version of Office (Office 10) will NOT support Win95, and that anyone who wishes to use the new Office suite will have to upgrade their OS. How's that for 'never happening'... it already has! *grin* ~wmaheriv
I find it hard to believe that we've both used Corel and had such completely different experiences with it!
When I instaled Corel, it not only detected my WINS and DNS servers automatically, it instaled Samba and joined my NT domain!
Then, when the video card in it died (8mb Diamond), I pulled it and slapped in a 2mb Cirrus Logic temporarily. It detected the card and kept my display settings exactly the way they were! I later pulled ^that^ card and stuck in an ATI 32mb card, and it did the same thing- retained my settings and didn't even tell me the card was different...
From an end-user stand-point, I don't think it can get any easier...
I found out the hard way that this is usually the result of poorly-written and poorly-rendered JavaScript. Whilst first learning the language, I created a re-director page the detected browser types. Since I made the mistake of placing it on a separate page, users could not get out. I found that Netscape was also far more susceptible to the problem as I attempted to tweak my code. Perhaps someone could post the source to a workable re-direct solution, and e-mail it to the webmasters of the offending sites? I'd hate to think that such an annoying effect was entirely accidental and/or caused by ignorance, and that we didn't say anything about it to ^them^ before we started complaining...
This is one of Katz's better pieces, partially for its brevity (I believe in being concise), and partly because this is one of my favourite subects. People seldom understand when I attack this Proud Nation of ours for its hypocrisy- 'Brazil' is coming true, and we're all marching happily to the Corporate Tune.
On the lighter side... Katz could use a better editor. No, I'm NOT a Troll! Criticism is the only way any of us can improve, right? Anyhoo, lines like, "He may well be a prophet as well." with its redundant and fragmentary failings, shouldn't be allowed to mar an otherwise excellent document.
Genesis is important, not just for its age, but for the influence it has had upon Judaism, and by extension, the rest of Western Civilisation.
It is still avidly discussed and studied, and will continue to be so long as there are Jews in the world.
Oh, and whilst I'm on the subject- Genesis is widely regarded by us Jews as being alegorical. Chances are very good that it was ^never^ taken literally. It certainly isn't now, save in the most extreme personalities.
For all of you who are bashing it as 'quaint mythology,' I challenge you to read it objectively and with an open mind. It is filled with valuable lessons, and thousands of books have been written expounding upon these lessons. Genesis is there to teach us things that few are patient or honest enough to hear...
I, for one, applaud their choice of Genesis. I only hope they include a good commentary with it, just in case our descendants don't "get it" any better than the average/.er *grin*
If you're going to post a link to Genesis, please post one that isn't so thoroughly flawed.;-)
The King James version of the Bible has been shown, time and again, to contain hundreds of translation and transcription errors. It's study should be relegated to historians and theologians, not average Christians.
Probably the cleanest Christian rendering is the New International Version. However, being Jewish, I'll stick with the Jewsih Publication Society's version! *grin*
Follow this link to an excellent translation of the Bible.
I'm currently using one of those SuperMicro boards for a new file server (Linux) at my plant. In combination with a DPT Millenium RAID w/128mb cache (64-bit, Ultra3), it's a pretty killer system.
I was a bit nervous about using SuperMicro for such a critical system, but I've actually been very impressed with its performance thus far.
By-the-by, that same server is using 74gb Cheetahs and I have to say, THEY ROCK! Cheetahs used to suffer from incredible heat problems, but with three fans mounted above them those babies are as cool as can be! I heartily recommend the whole combination.
I think the biggest problem we'll run into is that any potential hearing will be based upon the DMCA. In order for the real argument we have (id est, Free Speech) to become the issue, the DMCA must be successfully challenged in court as un-Constitutional.
Having looked over the text and provisions of the law more than once, I believe that there is a strong case for it being struck down. It wouldn't be the first nor the last time that a law has been rushed into effect, and people hurt by it, only to be withdrawn as illegal. I have strong opinions about the ethics involved, but they must remain secondary to the legal issues.
Of course, I don't mean the ethics is not of critical import to this issue. In fact, it is the sole reason that we are interested in this matter. We believe that we have the 'moral high-ground' and that we have an obligation to fight it, on the streets, in the press, in the courts, and on the battle-field if need be. Freedom is worth fighting for, under any circumstances.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin
Despite this, the courts do not look kindly on people spouting ethical rhetoric during legal proceedings. The courts are concerned only with the issue at hand and the facts related to it. The question they are asking is, is/. breaking the law as it stands by posting comments freely?
With this in mind, I am calling on you, my brothers and friends, to find a way to bring to trial the illegality of the DMCA. It has been said before and will be again- the DMCA lends itself to un-Constitutional abuse, and must be amended or struck down. We must find a way to do this or risk the continued, expensive harrasment that must surely follow from challenging Corporate America.
I agree on your point, but I'd also like to point out that they may be right in not mentioning the 2nd Amendment for another reason. Perhaps the reason they don't defend it is that it doesn't ^need^ defending!
Let me elaborate on this briefly. The 2nd Amendment protects the rights of citizens to bear arms for one reason- so that they may participate in militias. If someone wishes to organise a militia to protect his civil liberties or his country, he can do so (Constitutionally). Unfortunately, it is ^this^ right that is infringed.
The right of ordinary citizens to bear arms for hunting or other purposes is ^not^ Constitutionally protected, unless you read the text out of historical context. It is exactly this sort of reading that causes so very many of our problems with historical documents (the Bible springs to mind; leaving out the Jewish context in which it was written obfuscates the meaning of all of it!).
The Unix that we use now has little in common with the Unix of Thompson and Ritchie. It has been in a state of continual evolution and will remain thus until ^we^ stop caring about it.
Unix has transitioned from PDP-machine language to portable C, moved from minicomputers to microcomputers (and even to mainframes and PDAs), acquired thousands of tools and roles never dreamed of by its creators. The Unix user today has a choice of command line shells, a choice of GUIs, a choice of vendors, even a choice of fundamental architecture as the file systems and such have evolved quite differently amongst the different Unices.
I think we'll see changes in the coming years, but no greater change than we've seen in the last 30. Unix will continue to evolve until the Unix of our children is as unrecognisable to us as the Unix of our fathers. New hardware and new markets only create now opportunities for Unix to grow; it does ^not^ ring its death-knell.
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Microsoft has already announced that the next version of Office (Office 10) will NOT support Win95, and that anyone who wishes to use the new Office suite will have to upgrade their OS. How's that for 'never happening'... it already has! *grin*
~wmaheriv
Or the experiences....
~wmaheriv
I find it hard to believe that we've both used Corel and had such completely different experiences with it!
When I instaled Corel, it not only detected my WINS and DNS servers automatically, it instaled Samba and joined my NT domain!
Then, when the video card in it died (8mb Diamond), I pulled it and slapped in a 2mb Cirrus Logic temporarily. It detected the card and kept my display settings exactly the way they were! I later pulled ^that^ card and stuck in an ATI 32mb card, and it did the same thing- retained my settings and didn't even tell me the card was different...
From an end-user stand-point, I don't think it can get any easier...
~wmaheriv
I found out the hard way that this is usually the result of poorly-written and poorly-rendered JavaScript.
Whilst first learning the language, I created a re-director page the detected browser types. Since I made the mistake of placing it on a separate page, users could not get out.
I found that Netscape was also far more susceptible to the problem as I attempted to tweak my code.
Perhaps someone could post the source to a workable re-direct solution, and e-mail it to the webmasters of the offending sites?
I'd hate to think that such an annoying effect was entirely accidental and/or caused by ignorance, and that we didn't say anything about it to ^them^ before we started complaining...
~wmaheriv
Just a quick observation or two...
This is one of Katz's better pieces, partially for its brevity (I believe in being concise), and partly because this is one of my favourite subects.
People seldom understand when I attack this Proud Nation of ours for its hypocrisy- 'Brazil' is coming true, and we're all marching happily to the Corporate Tune.
On the lighter side... Katz could use a better editor. No, I'm NOT a Troll! Criticism is the only way any of us can improve, right? Anyhoo, lines like, "He may well be a prophet as well." with its redundant and fragmentary failings, shouldn't be allowed to mar an otherwise excellent document.
~wmaheriv
Yes, but are people still studying them?
Genesis is important, not just for its age, but for the influence it has had upon Judaism, and by extension, the rest of Western Civilisation.
It is still avidly discussed and studied, and will continue to be so long as there are Jews in the world.
Oh, and whilst I'm on the subject- Genesis is widely regarded by us Jews as being alegorical. Chances are very good that it was ^never^ taken literally. It certainly isn't now, save in the most extreme personalities.
For all of you who are bashing it as 'quaint mythology,' I challenge you to read it objectively and with an open mind. It is filled with valuable lessons, and thousands of books have been written expounding upon these lessons. Genesis is there to teach us things that few are patient or honest enough to hear...
I, for one, applaud their choice of Genesis. I only hope they include a good commentary with it, just in case our descendants don't "get it" any better than the average /.er *grin*
~wmaheriv
Hey, CmdrTaco:
If you're going to post a link to Genesis, please post one that isn't so thoroughly flawed. ;-)
The King James version of the Bible has been shown, time and again, to contain hundreds of translation and transcription errors. It's study should be relegated to historians and theologians, not average Christians.
Probably the cleanest Christian rendering is the New International Version. However, being Jewish, I'll stick with the Jewsih Publication Society's version! *grin*
Follow this link to an excellent translation of the Bible.Cheers!
~wmaheriv
My company attempted to implement Baan last year, and failed miserably. We're of the opinion that it isn't ^possible^ to successfully implement it!
If Tux takes this beast on, he's going to have his hands full... Baan is a mess.
Just my tupence....
~wmaheriv
I'm currently using one of those SuperMicro boards for a new file server (Linux) at my plant. In combination with a DPT Millenium RAID w/128mb cache (64-bit, Ultra3), it's a pretty killer system.
I was a bit nervous about using SuperMicro for such a critical system, but I've actually been very impressed with its performance thus far.
By-the-by, that same server is using 74gb Cheetahs and I have to say, THEY ROCK! Cheetahs used to suffer from incredible heat problems, but with three fans mounted above them those babies are as cool as can be! I heartily recommend the whole combination.
~wmaheriv
I think the biggest problem we'll run into is that any potential hearing will be based upon the DMCA. In order for the real argument we have (id est, Free Speech) to become the issue, the DMCA must be successfully challenged in court as un-Constitutional.
Having looked over the text and provisions of the law more than once, I believe that there is a strong case for it being struck down. It wouldn't be the first nor the last time that a law has been rushed into effect, and people hurt by it, only to be withdrawn as illegal. I have strong opinions about the ethics involved, but they must remain secondary to the legal issues.
Of course, I don't mean the ethics is not of critical import to this issue. In fact, it is the sole reason that we are interested in this matter. We believe that we have the 'moral high-ground' and that we have an obligation to fight it, on the streets, in the press, in the courts, and on the battle-field if need be. Freedom is worth fighting for, under any circumstances.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin
Despite this, the courts do not look kindly on people spouting ethical rhetoric during legal proceedings. The courts are concerned only with the issue at hand and the facts related to it. The question they are asking is, is /. breaking the law as it stands by posting comments freely?
With this in mind, I am calling on you, my brothers and friends, to find a way to bring to trial the illegality of the DMCA. It has been said before and will be again- the DMCA lends itself to un-Constitutional abuse, and must be amended or struck down. We must find a way to do this or risk the continued, expensive harrasment that must surely follow from challenging Corporate America.
~wmaheriv
I agree on your point, but I'd also like to point out that they may be right in not mentioning the 2nd Amendment for another reason. Perhaps the reason they don't defend it is that it doesn't ^need^ defending!
Let me elaborate on this briefly. The 2nd Amendment protects the rights of citizens to bear arms for one reason- so that they may participate in militias. If someone wishes to organise a militia to protect his civil liberties or his country, he can do so (Constitutionally). Unfortunately, it is ^this^ right that is infringed.
The right of ordinary citizens to bear arms for hunting or other purposes is ^not^ Constitutionally protected, unless you read the text out of historical context. It is exactly this sort of reading that causes so very many of our problems with historical documents (the Bible springs to mind; leaving out the Jewish context in which it was written obfuscates the meaning of all of it!).
Just my tupence on this issue....
~wmaheriv
Unix will adapt and grow- it always has.
The Unix that we use now has little in common with the Unix of Thompson and Ritchie. It has been in a state of continual evolution and will remain thus until ^we^ stop caring about it.
Unix has transitioned from PDP-machine language to portable C, moved from minicomputers to microcomputers (and even to mainframes and PDAs), acquired thousands of tools and roles never dreamed of by its creators. The Unix user today has a choice of command line shells, a choice of GUIs, a choice of vendors, even a choice of fundamental architecture as the file systems and such have evolved quite differently amongst the different Unices.
I think we'll see changes in the coming years, but no greater change than we've seen in the last 30. Unix will continue to evolve until the Unix of our children is as unrecognisable to us as the Unix of our fathers. New hardware and new markets only create now opportunities for Unix to grow; it does ^not^ ring its death-knell.
~wmaheriv