It was the Serbs who executed his partner and were tryig to kill him as well, and not the Bosnians (they actually gave him a ride). I've just seen the movie last night - I remember very well.
Seems to me that our kids will be reading Orwell's 1984 and consider the government described in the book as the "good old days of freedom and democracy".
Re:Blech. Most of them are pretty bad.
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This is a stupid way of looking at it, IMNSHO.
I don't know of any IDE's, or indeed any off-the-shelf software in general, written in MS Visual Basic; yet, VB is undoubtedly one of the most popular development environments in the world, whether you like it or not. It's very simple: VB is not used for general purpose applications, it's used for bespoke in-house applications and is used very effectively, if I may add.
Now Java is taking its seat. Performance? How many *professional* developers work on machines with less than 700MHz/256MB? Secretaries have PCs with 128MB of memory nowadays...
Same site also hosts a petition to shutdown Bonsai Kitten - signed by 10,495 people as of 07:39GMT 29jul2001. No doubt you'll recall that Bonsai Kitten has been debunked long time ago as nothing but a tasteless joke.
My point? General population are sheep, hence the term sheeple (sp?). They can be made to believe anything you want (as Mr. Goebels could confirm to you, were he not long time dead). Big copyright holders (who have designed and financed the adoption of DMCA and its ilk) have huge coffers dedicated to exactly that, and their PR machines are doing a great job. Right now there are few to no efforts to get the attention of the general population to the unfairness and imbalance of DMCA and derivatives. You don't agree? Pray tell, then, how many anti-DMCA ads have you seen on prime time TV? On prominent billboards? Mainstream radiostations? Mainstream newspapers?
All this hoopla in the geek "community" is nothing but preaching to the choir: we mostly know and understand how bad this law is but we don't have a proper lobby and we don't wield the power of a real voting bloc. Hence the legislature can afford to ignore us.
Why is everyone so worked up about getting Linux into mainstream in the first place. Mainstream software (machines, devices, appliances, etc.) need to be dumbed down and when they are, they become unusable for the expert users. Hence I really don't want to see Linux in the mainstream.
Do we really need a horde of I-can-point-and-click-reaaaal-fast idiots^H^H^H^H^H^Hexperts (the certified ones only, of course:) ) in the Linux world? I don't... -----
Right, so you're saying that non-profit organisations are non-existent?
Your logic is flawed, and as my math professor used to say: start with an incorrect assumption and you can prove just about anything. I guess you just did that...
I'm pretty sure those God-fearing folk at Gracenote only did it to protect the children and the American Way! After all, we all know that Roxio is just a Lord's name spelled backwards and then encrypted using some Chinese satanic rituals.
You're dead on about FDA's recommendations: they specify quantities for bare survival and don't take into consideration body size, activity levels, etc. For instance, I'm 24 years old 6'4" and weigh 220 lbs and exercise heavily (lift weights) 4 times a week (how many geeks benchpress over 250 lbs?:) ) - my vitamin needs are waaaaaay above some teeny 5'5" 120 lbs teenager who spends all his waking hours playing Quake.
OTOH (I don't have any references handy so take this with a pinch of salt) consuming more than 8g of vitamin C a day can be detrimental to your health. I hope you don't evaluate your vitamin D needs the same way:) (if you didn't know: vitamin D can actually kill you if taken in sufficiently large qty) -----
US Surgeon General's Warning: The following post may cause serious health complications to persons whose humor glands have been surgically removed.
Being such a well thought-out law, DMCA probably restricts this kind of activity: you're using a circumvention device (phone tone keys) to "extract" the song, thus violating copyrights.
Of course, we all know that violating DMCA makes baby Jesus cry, incites lude behaviour, promotes drug abuse, provokes criminal acts, increases violence in schools (Columbine shooting took place only after Napster was invented), generally contributes to the decline of family values, and is the main cluprit behind the recent economic slowdown (economy was booming before Napster came along - see, there's your proof right there).
How can a company buy customers? It's a strange world we're living in...
Qwest's customers who do not wish to be MSN's customers should demand full refund of the equipment and/or remainder of lease contract, or a no-cost (to the user) transfer to another provider.
MSN should learn how to obtain and maintain a clientelle of their own and not resort to buying them off the market, like some comodity.
the perks are excellent! I mean, with all the "freebies", who needs salary anyway!
Jokes aside, recently there was an article on Advogato (use Google, will ya!?) about hypocrisy of some in the geek community, who turn their nose up when this guy said he codes for a porn site, yet probably spend most of their waking hours downloading smut.
I work in IT dept. of a major oil company and sometimes get a similar reaction from some tree-hugging hypocrites (say, is that your diesel 4WD pick-up truck there?), but learned to simply ignore them.
Moral issues aside (I don't give a shit, OK?), I'd personally work for a porn company. At least porn industry doesn't try to project some fake high-ground image of itself - they're all very honest about what they do and they do a good job.
In my.vimrc I have "set tabstop=4" and "set expandtab" so the tabs are 4 spaces wide but are converted to spaces. I'm sure those using Emacs have a similar solution. I also use NetBeans for Java and it can also be set to do same things.
In HTML and XML I like to use just 2 space indentation because nature of hierarchical ordering of the tags makes for a lot of wasted space if you use more than that. I've seen people use only 1 space indent, and it's not too bad either. -----
When walking down the street with no pants, you're exposing your body. With HailStorm, you're exposing your personal info. You tell me what's more indignant.
It may suit you, but it's not for me. Luckily, I'm not AmeriKKKan so I need not worry yet. Here in Europe, well-being of society is still more important than corporate profit. I hope most of my fellow Europeans will continue to vote NO to absolute corporatism that is taking AmeriKKKa down.
"[The public will] trade off aspects of personal information in order to get a benefit" --Craig Mundie (Senior VP, Microsoft)
The worst part is: he's absolutely right! We, the sheeple, will conveniently forego any traces of privacy and human dignity "to simplify online shopping, collaborating and communicating", as Seattle Times so eloquently put it.
If Microsoft is not an Evil Empire(TM), I don't think there ever was one!
SGI makes awsome machines, most of them being used in 2 industries: oil (exploration, GIS, etc.) and media (film, TV, etc.)
At least 2 of the 10 biggest oil companies in the world, Shell and Amerada Hess, use Linux clusters for their oil exploration stuff. Others are likely to follow them, considering the benefits this brings them (zero licensing costs, commodity hardware, terrific scalability of Beowulf clusters, etc.), so what remains is the media industry. If you have the likes of ILM going the Linux way (ILM is to the FX guys what Daimler-Chrysler is to car, or Shell to oil industry), I wonder how long will it be before Linux becomes the de facto standard - something that SGI enjoyed for all these years.
SGI's reaction to these developments will be interesting, as they already committed themselves somewhat to Linux, with XFS and the like. Recently they abandoned their participation in Apache project, so this could be symptomatic.
You guys don't seem to get, do you? The Samba team got so obsessed with MS simulation, they started thinking DoJ is out to get them too. It was long feared that DoJ wanted to separate the PDC and FS part of the team for the obvious illegal stranglehold they enjoyed on the Samba market together.
They simply pre-empted the split. After all, their only desire is to innovate and enrich the user's experience.
This sarcastic parody brought to you by the Guy Who Gave Up Caffeine(TM).
Let them sue, we need the publicity and any courtcase by MSFT is a sure-fire system of getting a lot of publicity from the general public.
As soon as they sue, Linus drops the the NTFS module from the main kernel and someone overseas "volunteers" to maintain a patch (not unlike the encryption patch).
The development continues, Linux gets a lot of free publicity, MSFT bites its own ass in anger for falling for it yet again...
They'll almost certainly win their litigation against DeCSS and Napster, respectively. They have the money and we all know you can buy yourself a nice piece of justice with a chunk of the green.
We, however, must not forget that winning in court is necessarily equal to winning in the real world. The facts:
Most of the World is connected through Internet (countries that are not have more existential problems than personal liberties)
CDs and movies are unreasonably expensive because of cartel control
People don't respect the laws they don't find appropriate
Technology for total anonimity as well as ultimate filesharing is here or is about to enter
With these in mind one doesn't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out the overall outcome of this unfortunate episode. Communism failed because it was impossible for the few to control the minds of the many. While they managed to hold on to the power for as much as 70 years in some countries, they ultimately were destroyed.
Sadly, today's industry cartels and monopolies failed to learn the lesson and are trying to do the same. The question is not whether we'll succeed in crushing our contemporary oppressing forces, but how long will it take and what the cost will ultimately be.
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I think this may be the best thing to have happened to Linux desktop development. Now the choice between the two best desktop environemts will be solely on quality, not ideology.
Who knows what might have happened if this decision was made just a month earlier (wrt GNOME Foundation)
Thank you, Troll Tech! You have just done what nobody could have done to push Linux further on the road to desktop domination.
What more can be said? I think you've done the Open Source community the biggest favour anyone could: you've proven our tools ARE INDEED enterprise-ready.
Betcha Ellison and Gates (oh, come on, couldn't you have figured that one out yet?) are gonna sweat over this one for a long time... Well, bwaaahaaaaaa loosers!
I'm not very clear on the numbers, though. They say PostgreSQL achieved 1127.8 transactions per second, or 6766.8 transactions per minute. Recent TPC-C benchmark shows IBM with DB/2 an absolute winner with 440879 transactions per minute, Compaq came next with MS SQL 2000 with "measly" 262243 transactions per minute.
I'm quite sure I'm getting something wrong here, just don't know what exactly. Any knowledgeable DBAs here to enlighten us, common mortals? -----
Agreed. Once the job of the LSB is done and all major distros agree on it, we can proceed with either creating new package manager, or refining the existing ones.
RPM *and*.deb are both great, but both have some serious shortcomings. What we need is a flexible, intelligent package manager that would work with source as well as binary packages (i.e. if you pick up a source package, it compiles it on your machine and then installs it transparently).
I use Red Hat and hence deal with RPM extensively and frankly think it's great.The only problem is that for performance reasons I like to have some things compiled on my machine (e.g. kernel, compiler, httpd...). That involves picking up a.src.rpm and, while it's no biggy for me (you sometimes have to adjust some parameters, make a few changes to the spec file), I understand it can be a daunting task to those who're not used to it.
Slashdot Mirror
...seem to be paid better than editors at Slashdot, probably because the interns are supposed to do some actual work.
I thought you were supposed to just spray the cat with a bit of water when it's bad, not soak it overnight...
It was the Serbs who executed his partner and were tryig to kill him as well, and not the Bosnians (they actually gave him a ride). I've just seen the movie last night - I remember very well.
Seems to me that our kids will be reading Orwell's 1984 and consider the government described in the book as the "good old days of freedom and democracy".
This is a stupid way of looking at it, IMNSHO.
I don't know of any IDE's, or indeed any off-the-shelf software in general, written in MS Visual Basic; yet, VB is undoubtedly one of the most popular development environments in the world, whether you like it or not. It's very simple: VB is not used for general purpose applications, it's used for bespoke in-house applications and is used very effectively, if I may add.
Now Java is taking its seat. Performance? How many *professional* developers work on machines with less than 700MHz/256MB? Secretaries have PCs with 128MB of memory nowadays...
Same site also hosts a petition to shutdown Bonsai Kitten - signed by 10,495 people as of 07:39GMT 29jul2001. No doubt you'll recall that Bonsai Kitten has been debunked long time ago as nothing but a tasteless joke.
My point? General population are sheep, hence the term sheeple (sp?). They can be made to believe anything you want (as Mr. Goebels could confirm to you, were he not long time dead). Big copyright holders (who have designed and financed the adoption of DMCA and its ilk) have huge coffers dedicated to exactly that, and their PR machines are doing a great job. Right now there are few to no efforts to get the attention of the general population to the unfairness and imbalance of DMCA and derivatives. You don't agree? Pray tell, then, how many anti-DMCA ads have you seen on prime time TV? On prominent billboards? Mainstream radiostations? Mainstream newspapers?
All this hoopla in the geek "community" is nothing but preaching to the choir: we mostly know and understand how bad this law is but we don't have a proper lobby and we don't wield the power of a real voting bloc. Hence the legislature can afford to ignore us.
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Why is everyone so worked up about getting Linux into mainstream in the first place. Mainstream software (machines, devices, appliances, etc.) need to be dumbed down and when they are, they become unusable for the expert users. Hence I really don't want to see Linux in the mainstream.
:) ) in the Linux world? I don't...
Do we really need a horde of I-can-point-and-click-reaaaal-fast idiots^H^H^H^H^H^Hexperts (the certified ones only, of course
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Right, so you're saying that non-profit organisations are non-existent?
Your logic is flawed, and as my math professor used to say: start with an incorrect assumption and you can prove just about anything. I guess you just did that...
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Perhaps his answer to the Question was 49, not 42... He was quite close, though.
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I'm pretty sure those God-fearing folk at Gracenote only did it to protect the children and the American Way! After all, we all know that Roxio is just a Lord's name spelled backwards and then encrypted using some Chinese satanic rituals.
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You're dead on about FDA's recommendations: they specify quantities for bare survival and don't take into consideration body size, activity levels, etc. For instance, I'm 24 years old 6'4" and weigh 220 lbs and exercise heavily (lift weights) 4 times a week (how many geeks benchpress over 250 lbs? :) ) - my vitamin needs are waaaaaay above some teeny 5'5" 120 lbs teenager who spends all his waking hours playing Quake. :) (if you didn't know: vitamin D can actually kill you if taken in sufficiently large qty)
OTOH (I don't have any references handy so take this with a pinch of salt) consuming more than 8g of vitamin C a day can be detrimental to your health. I hope you don't evaluate your vitamin D needs the same way
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US Surgeon General's Warning: The following post may cause serious health complications to persons whose humor glands have been surgically removed.
Being such a well thought-out law, DMCA probably restricts this kind of activity: you're using a circumvention device (phone tone keys) to "extract" the song, thus violating copyrights.
Of course, we all know that violating DMCA makes baby Jesus cry, incites lude behaviour, promotes drug abuse, provokes criminal acts, increases violence in schools (Columbine shooting took place only after Napster was invented), generally contributes to the decline of family values, and is the main cluprit behind the recent economic slowdown (economy was booming before Napster came along - see, there's your proof right there).
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How can a company buy customers? It's a strange world we're living in...
Qwest's customers who do not wish to be MSN's customers should demand full refund of the equipment and/or remainder of lease contract, or a no-cost (to the user) transfer to another provider.
MSN should learn how to obtain and maintain a clientelle of their own and not resort to buying them off the market, like some comodity.
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the perks are excellent! I mean, with all the "freebies", who needs salary anyway!
Jokes aside, recently there was an article on Advogato (use Google, will ya!?) about hypocrisy of some in the geek community, who turn their nose up when this guy said he codes for a porn site, yet probably spend most of their waking hours downloading smut.
I work in IT dept. of a major oil company and sometimes get a similar reaction from some tree-hugging hypocrites (say, is that your diesel 4WD pick-up truck there?), but learned to simply ignore them.
Moral issues aside (I don't give a shit, OK?), I'd personally work for a porn company. At least porn industry doesn't try to project some fake high-ground image of itself - they're all very honest about what they do and they do a good job.
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In my .vimrc I have "set tabstop=4" and "set expandtab" so the tabs are 4 spaces wide but are converted to spaces. I'm sure those using Emacs have a similar solution. I also use NetBeans for Java and it can also be set to do same things.
In HTML and XML I like to use just 2 space indentation because nature of hierarchical ordering of the tags makes for a lot of wasted space if you use more than that. I've seen people use only 1 space indent, and it's not too bad either.
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When walking down the street with no pants, you're exposing your body. With HailStorm, you're exposing your personal info. You tell me what's more indignant.
It may suit you, but it's not for me. Luckily, I'm not AmeriKKKan so I need not worry yet. Here in Europe, well-being of society is still more important than corporate profit. I hope most of my fellow Europeans will continue to vote NO to absolute corporatism that is taking AmeriKKKa down.
I honestly feel sorry for the people in the US.
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If Microsoft is not an Evil Empire(TM), I don't think there ever was one!
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SGI makes awsome machines, most of them being used in 2 industries: oil (exploration, GIS, etc.) and media (film, TV, etc.)
At least 2 of the 10 biggest oil companies in the world, Shell and Amerada Hess, use Linux clusters for their oil exploration stuff. Others are likely to follow them, considering the benefits this brings them (zero licensing costs, commodity hardware, terrific scalability of Beowulf clusters, etc.), so what remains is the media industry. If you have the likes of ILM going the Linux way (ILM is to the FX guys what Daimler-Chrysler is to car, or Shell to oil industry), I wonder how long will it be before Linux becomes the de facto standard - something that SGI enjoyed for all these years.
SGI's reaction to these developments will be interesting, as they already committed themselves somewhat to Linux, with XFS and the like. Recently they abandoned their participation in Apache project, so this could be symptomatic.
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You guys don't seem to get, do you? The Samba team got so obsessed with MS simulation, they started thinking DoJ is out to get them too. It was long feared that DoJ wanted to separate the PDC and FS part of the team for the obvious illegal stranglehold they enjoyed on the Samba market together.
They simply pre-empted the split. After all, their only desire is to innovate and enrich the user's experience.
This sarcastic parody brought to you by the Guy Who Gave Up Caffeine(TM).
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Let them sue, we need the publicity and any courtcase by MSFT is a sure-fire system of getting a lot of publicity from the general public.
As soon as they sue, Linus drops the the NTFS module from the main kernel and someone overseas "volunteers" to maintain a patch (not unlike the encryption patch).
The development continues, Linux gets a lot of free publicity, MSFT bites its own ass in anger for falling for it yet again...
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We, however, must not forget that winning in court is necessarily equal to winning in the real world. The facts:
- Most of the World is connected through Internet (countries that are not have more existential problems than personal liberties)
- CDs and movies are unreasonably expensive because of cartel control
- People don't respect the laws they don't find appropriate
- Technology for total anonimity as well as ultimate filesharing is here or is about to enter
With these in mind one doesn't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out the overall outcome of this unfortunate episode. Communism failed because it was impossible for the few to control the minds of the many. While they managed to hold on to the power for as much as 70 years in some countries, they ultimately were destroyed.Sadly, today's industry cartels and monopolies failed to learn the lesson and are trying to do the same. The question is not whether we'll succeed in crushing our contemporary oppressing forces, but how long will it take and what the cost will ultimately be.
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I think this may be the best thing to have happened to Linux desktop development. Now the choice between the two best desktop environemts will be solely on quality, not ideology.
Who knows what might have happened if this decision was made just a month earlier (wrt GNOME Foundation)
Thank you, Troll Tech! You have just done what nobody could have done to push Linux further on the road to desktop domination.
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Someone needs to put some life into that poor old company
Of course I'm talking about Novell, whaddaya think!?
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What more can be said? I think you've done the Open Source community the biggest favour anyone could: you've proven our tools ARE INDEED enterprise-ready.
Betcha Ellison and Gates (oh, come on, couldn't you have figured that one out yet?) are gonna sweat over this one for a long time... Well, bwaaahaaaaaa loosers!
I'm not very clear on the numbers, though. They say PostgreSQL achieved 1127.8 transactions per second, or 6766.8 transactions per minute. Recent TPC-C benchmark shows IBM with DB/2 an absolute winner with 440879 transactions per minute, Compaq came next with MS SQL 2000 with "measly" 262243 transactions per minute.
I'm quite sure I'm getting something wrong here, just don't know what exactly. Any knowledgeable DBAs here to enlighten us, common mortals?
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Agreed. Once the job of the LSB is done and all major distros agree on it, we can proceed with either creating new package manager, or refining the existing ones.
.deb are both great, but both have some serious shortcomings. What we need is a flexible, intelligent package manager that would work with source as well as binary packages (i.e. if you pick up a source package, it compiles it on your machine and then installs it transparently).
.src.rpm and, while it's no biggy for me (you sometimes have to adjust some parameters, make a few changes to the spec file), I understand it can be a daunting task to those who're not used to it.
RPM *and*
I use Red Hat and hence deal with RPM extensively and frankly think it's great.The only problem is that for performance reasons I like to have some things compiled on my machine (e.g. kernel, compiler, httpd...). That involves picking up a
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