there are plenty of non-Mormons who are wackos, too.
that's an argument from tu quoque... doesn't cut it my man. Nice try, though...
there is no Mormon conspiracy,
there was never any accusation of a conspiracy... just a statement that mormons are about as close to white suprem(ac)ists as one can get. Really, given that blacks were'nt allowed to hold the priesthood until the 60s and the belief that policy laid down by the prophet is infallible, one can only assume that mormons believe the will of god was exclusory of african americans for the first hundred or so years of the church's existence.
von Neumann/Turing white paper listed on the site. It is the stupidest thing I have ever read.
When I was 12 (yes, twelve) my dad got me the complete set of Time/Life books on computers. I admit that to this day (20 years on) I still cast my memory back to those glossy, 4-colour pages when I make an outrageous statement about the "conservative design of CDCs and the original Crays" or the "inherent, uh, complexity I s'pose, of vector processing, uh, chips? architecture?"
anyhoo, that von-neuman/turing article looks a heck of a lot like a photocopy from that time/life book.
In point of fact, it means you can run java on your pen now (don't ask me why you would want to... manual spell check perhaps?) This is a fascinating fact you could have learned by reading the article.
The man wrote (most of) an operating system. If his socks were any higher, he'd be wearing pantyhose.
Who do Linus and Cox answer to?
Themselves. I think you're forgetting that this is a free operating system. In the "Real World" we answer to whoever's writing the paycheque. It's mildly nauseating to see people download their free iso and then complain about release dates.
I'd like to see some sort of body set up that has soveriegnty over Linus and Cox,
Okay, these people, who are working for free, aren't meeting you're timeline. You're solution is not to write a cheque or organize some other funding effort to encourage the development process or to pitch in yourself, but rather to demand some sort of "linux police force".
If you want to complain about customer service, I suggest you call your Sun sales representative
it was possible to choose between different phone companies, you wouldn't have the problems you describe.
Um. The fact of the matter is that building a CO for a community of 180 isn't economic, regardless. If it was a free market situation, the only way that those users in rural areas could be serviced would be by charging them astronomically high fees.
eventually some bright guy will realize that they can steal all the other people's customers
if they stop.
If some guy steals rural customers by only charginf them $30, he'll go out of business in 6 months.
It's easy for people to go on about how the free market will make everything shiny and beautiful like a Roger's and Hammerstein show because the infrastructure has already been built. It's just not economical to service an entire community when you're working on the profit model.
The market and phone lines have traditionally had nothing to do with each other, Telcos have been regulated and (often) subsidized by municipal and provincial gov'ts since the get go (most telcos until recently were even Crown corporations). Let's look at what life would have been like without "inefficient" regulations on the telco:
rural charges of $120 a month for basic service
911 calls billed at $20
"This voice mail brought to you by Blockbuster, rent Die Hard 27 and get a free 500ml Pepsi..."
Like it or not, telephones are an essential service. The only way to ensure that they stay as such is via regulation.
In Alberta, our notoriously right wing government has initiated a program of mind-blowing foresight (foresight, btw, is a rare quality in the Klein regime) and will be subsidizing the installation of province-wide, rate-regulated broadband net access. They're taking the same model that gave us phone saturation and applying it to the internet.
I know. I keep the misspelling so that I can cite my poor spelling as a personality trait and trademark, rather than an indicator of wasted education and deficient brainpower.
If people did crazy stuff like that then there wouldn't be a need for XML and all it's buzzword-enabled incarnations. Remember, too, that once upon a time the blink tag was contextual as well.
just "I want this in a big font".
just make css tags <iwantthisinabigfong> </iwantthisinabigfont>
my philosophy is that if you have to use a GUI to config your system, maybe you shouldn't be config'ing it
No, that's bad thinking if for no other reason that it leads to a slippery slope ("if you can't run your computer by flipping those pdp11 console switches...").
I'm an XML skeptic (it's that damn buzzword allergy), but honestly, the gnu/linux config system is an utter shambles. About the only standard is the # comment. Here's an experiment: Go download sudo (a fine and useful program) and install and configure it. If doing that doesn't make you scream for a gui-based config standard then you have faaaar too much time on your hands or you just get off on being macho-geek.
You could have a plasma screen on your wall running four or five television channels simultaneously, and you could take the screen off the wall and walk around with it.
My parents had a TV in the 60's that worked on similar technology... apparently the image and sound were streamed to the this video-on-demand appliance using a protocol called UHF (or it's competitor VHF). In the same vein, I must note the my grandfather in fact built his own wireless audio streaming appliance back in the 30's! In fact, the appliance was called a "wireless" and was based on an Amplitude Modulation protocol called, simply, AM.
The tower commission showed he signed the Nov. 18th paper to sell tomahawk missles to the Iranians... The last time I remember a US citizen selling military capabilities to a country who's primary foreign policy was the destruction of the United States was the Rosenbergs...
Actually, I'm fast coming to the conclusion that the best of both worlds is going to be OS X.
no, seriously. OS 9 software running on demand, All-singing-all-dancing Aqua guiness on top and a crunchy BSD core (just remember ps -ax not ef. Write it on a sticky note. Chant it a hundred times in the shower every morning)
This is an honest opinion, not just blatant evangalizing.
I'm not advocating the abolishment of all anonymous communication. There's a big difference between posting as an anonymous coward and presenting yourself as nabisco.com when your really paul turcott of barrie ontario.
The argument for anonynimity is not an argument for impersonation.
Tansparency and openess is essential to a (socially) functioning internet, and that can only be acheived if the source of all information is public record. In British Columbia four or five years ago, it was uncovered (after a lot of investigative work) that a pro-forestry "citizens group" that did a lot of pro-job/anti-hippie lobbying of the government had in fact been set up, funded and controlled by a joint effort of Interfor and MacMillan Bloedell (two forestry companies). A massive abuse of public trust and gross misrepresentation to the public that put a whole pile of egg on both corporations faces.... the bottom line is that this organization masqueraded as a "citizen's group" for several years before being exposed, and only after a very exhaustive investigation by several media outlets and environmental groups...
... and I might be wrong, but I think they got 'em with a domain registration...
really? are you sure it's not just some fancy-schmancy jit at runtime? If you're right and the bin version really is as fast as C or derivatives, Im there
Slashdot Mirror
you can spell it either way
there are plenty of non-Mormons who are wackos, too.
that's an argument from tu quoque... doesn't cut it my man. Nice try, though...
there is no Mormon conspiracy,
there was never any accusation of a conspiracy... just a statement that mormons are about as close to white suprem(ac)ists as one can get. Really, given that blacks were'nt allowed to hold the priesthood until the 60s and the belief that policy laid down by the prophet is infallible, one can only assume that mormons believe the will of god was exclusory of african americans for the first hundred or so years of the church's existence.
I never thought I'd fondly remember the "Natalie Portman pours hot grits down my penis bird's pants" days...
I would like to apologize for not hitting the "No Score +1 Bonus" button on that previous post. Bad mouse-eye coordination day. Me bad.
When I was 12 (yes, twelve) my dad got me the complete set of Time/Life books on computers. I admit that to this day (20 years on) I still cast my memory back to those glossy, 4-colour pages when I make an outrageous statement about the "conservative design of CDCs and the original Crays" or the "inherent, uh, complexity I s'pose, of vector processing, uh, chips? architecture?"
anyhoo, that von-neuman/turing article looks a heck of a lot like a photocopy from that time/life book.
hm.
In point of fact, it means you can run java on your pen now (don't ask me why you would want to... manual spell check perhaps?) This is a fascinating fact you could have learned by reading the article.
The man wrote (most of) an operating system. If his socks were any higher, he'd be wearing pantyhose.
Who do Linus and Cox answer to?
Themselves. I think you're forgetting that this is a free operating system. In the "Real World" we answer to whoever's writing the paycheque. It's mildly nauseating to see people download their free iso and then complain about release dates.
I'd like to see some sort of body set up that has soveriegnty over Linus and Cox,
Okay, these people, who are working for free, aren't meeting you're timeline. You're solution is not to write a cheque or organize some other funding effort to encourage the development process or to pitch in yourself, but rather to demand some sort of "linux police force".
If you want to complain about customer service, I suggest you call your Sun sales representative
Um. The fact of the matter is that building a CO for a community of 180 isn't economic, regardless. If it was a free market situation, the only way that those users in rural areas could be serviced would be by charging them astronomically high fees.
eventually some bright guy will realize that they can steal all the other people's customers if they stop.
If some guy steals rural customers by only charginf them $30, he'll go out of business in 6 months.
It's easy for people to go on about how the free market will make everything shiny and beautiful like a Roger's and Hammerstein show because the infrastructure has already been built. It's just not economical to service an entire community when you're working on the profit model.
All that equipment was put in place while telcos were crown corporations. It's the taxpayer's/citizen's equipment. duh.
We are not living in a free for all Utopia
Only because we choose not to. Keep moving towards Utopia, that's supposed to be the goal fo humanity...
From Mr. The_Blade's home page:
the technophilic community fascinates me, and is at odds with my slightly technophobic tendencies
May I suggest the postal service then?
rural charges of $120 a month for basic service
911 calls billed at $20
"This voice mail brought to you by Blockbuster, rent Die Hard 27 and get a free 500ml Pepsi..."
Like it or not, telephones are an essential service. The only way to ensure that they stay as such is via regulation.
In Alberta, our notoriously right wing government has initiated a program of mind-blowing foresight (foresight, btw, is a rare quality in the Klein regime) and will be subsidizing the installation of province-wide, rate-regulated broadband net access. They're taking the same model that gave us phone saturation and applying it to the internet.
that's a hefty statement... makes you sound like the it's-my-treehouse zealot you purport to dislike.
I know. I keep the misspelling so that I can cite my poor spelling as a personality trait and trademark, rather than an indicator of wasted education and deficient brainpower.
If people did crazy stuff like that then there wouldn't be a need for XML and all it's buzzword-enabled incarnations. Remember, too, that once upon a time the blink tag was contextual as well.
just "I want this in a big font".
just make css tags <iwantthisinabigfong> </iwantthisinabigfont>
No, that's bad thinking if for no other reason that it leads to a slippery slope ("if you can't run your computer by flipping those pdp11 console switches...").
I'm an XML skeptic (it's that damn buzzword allergy), but honestly, the gnu/linux config system is an utter shambles. About the only standard is the # comment. Here's an experiment: Go download sudo (a fine and useful program) and install and configure it. If doing that doesn't make you scream for a gui-based config standard then you have faaaar too much time on your hands or you just get off on being macho-geek.
My parents had a TV in the 60's that worked on similar technology... apparently the image and sound were streamed to the this video-on-demand appliance using a protocol called UHF (or it's competitor VHF). In the same vein, I must note the my grandfather in fact built his own wireless audio streaming appliance back in the 30's! In fact, the appliance was called a "wireless" and was based on an Amplitude Modulation protocol called, simply, AM.
Isn't progress amazing?
The tower commission showed he signed the Nov. 18th paper to sell tomahawk missles to the Iranians... The last time I remember a US citizen selling military capabilities to a country who's primary foreign policy was the destruction of the United States was the Rosenbergs...
and they go the chair.
no, seriously. OS 9 software running on demand, All-singing-all-dancing Aqua guiness on top and a crunchy BSD core (just remember ps -ax not ef. Write it on a sticky note. Chant it a hundred times in the shower every morning)
This is an honest opinion, not just blatant evangalizing.
goodbye to:
-static routing
-life without dns
sigh
You're forgetting newton's 9th law of thermodynamics "what goes up must go down".
The argument for anonynimity is not an argument for impersonation.
Shouldn't you be off playing with yer new playstation 2 anyway?
Tansparency and openess is essential to a (socially) functioning internet, and that can only be acheived if the source of all information is public record. In British Columbia four or five years ago, it was uncovered (after a lot of investigative work) that a pro-forestry "citizens group" that did a lot of pro-job/anti-hippie lobbying of the government had in fact been set up, funded and controlled by a joint effort of Interfor and MacMillan Bloedell (two forestry companies). A massive abuse of public trust and gross misrepresentation to the public that put a whole pile of egg on both corporations faces.... the bottom line is that this organization masqueraded as a "citizen's group" for several years before being exposed, and only after a very exhaustive investigation by several media outlets and environmental groups...
really? are you sure it's not just some fancy-schmancy jit at runtime? If you're right and the bin version really is as fast as C or derivatives, Im there
It beats "monetizing transparent eyeballs" which was my first click...