These are mainly about metal-bashing plus some landscape pix - see, if you want,
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richard.smith.met/
about which I have been complimented that the information is there and the site is uncluttered.
With a simple stylesheet, in the case of it not being operative such as because the browser doesn't support them, the LDP's would look like they do now.
I thoroughly agree with stylesheets because "content" and "its presentation" are rightly kept separate (the HTML doc. is the content and the CSS is its presentational instructions)
Monoculture with "high yield" strains occurs only on the most favourable land, with irrigation, fertilizers, pesticides, etc. Some GM's are to make them resistant to broad-spectrum herbicide, for instance, so that you douse the land and only the GM crop remains. Commercially convenient. Not a quality for success if you are anywhere but on the Prairies of the US.
Contrast to traditional farming...
Typically there are a huge variety of strains, running into three figures (base 10), chosen for natural resistance to disease, drought or whatever local hardships. The fear is that contamination by GM crops may weaken local strains and immerse an area into lasting entrenched famine.
Mexico has apparently seen local maize(?) strains contaminated by GM's.
Regarding political shenanighans, I refer you to all the other excellent comments made by other contributors
So correct - wish I could see things as clearly as you:-)
However it seems a pity that the economic advancement (steady and about as sustainable as it gets) has been thrown out with this new ability to know right and wrong.
The late 90's into 2000 brought a new successful economy, including the Free Software revolution, which one felt sad to see discarded. It needed seemless global cooperation. Of course we were so naive then not being able to understand how we were being duped by the Chinese, rogered by the Russians, etc:-)
For the loss of economic opportunity, one wonders whether it would have been better to remain naive;-)
Is this conversation about WIMPs (Windows Icons Mouse Point), which are a very poor instance of the general concept of a GUI? Is the discussion about trying to extend the utility of an evolutionary dead-end?
It became a standard way of getting things thrown at you here in Cambridge, UK at the Linux group - a project such as, well, the CLUG   3-D GUI   project...
(we never seriously got around to it, BTW...)
The idea is a "console" with two joysticks and two footpedals. The screen shows the file system hanging like a chandelier and voice recognition is used to speak unix command lines which act on the file or directory tree which the "crosshairs" are pointing at.
You would swoop around the virtual 3-D space as if in a spaceship and could "fly" down networks to be working inside distant servers.
To get work done such as writing a document, a virtual head-up display (ie a virtual-virtual!) would flip up say the emacs front end.
One imagines sweeping through your workspace "flying" the computer, no longer being at all aware of the interface as the whole thing becomes instinctive.
I think unix is a strong powerful platform which invites a much more powerful interface than the WIMPs which "grace" the systems which they match, such as the "Windows" family of systems and the pre-OSX Mac-OS's
The inspiration for the 3-D virtual interface concept and "flying" the computer obviously belongs to the novel "Neuromancer" and its author William Gibson. I am suggesting that the unix platform and the power of hardware now is enough to realise the vision. Add virtual reality goggles so that you can "look around" as you navigate and that takes the computer interface into a new generation.
Time to move on from Intel?
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OS X on x86?
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Is the question whether the Free Software community should move on from overwhelmingly Intel platforms?
From what I gather, the AppleMac "PowerPC" platform is devastatingly powerful, far better RISC processor - and the price is not so bad (well, if you look at the iMac). Damn' shame the "Cube" can only be hooked-up to a proprietary expansive monitor, otherwise you would have a totally silent supercomputer on/by/under your desk. According to what I have been told, these things are at least three times as fast per clock tick as the Intel range for "floats".
Is this right or what? (seriously - I'm asking...)
Then there's other platforms like the "Alpha" - though it looks like Apple is going to get the volume/price at the moment...
I strongly disagree with the direction and slant of Michael Chaney's post.
Now, Slashdot would not be the forum it is without a free range of views. Having said that, here are my points. I hope these paint a bigger single unified picture in when you bring them together.
Kerberos is not Microsoft's to GPL or bestow any other copyright upon. I am sure it has its own copyright right now and what that is remains the decision of the contributors to it
I do not agree with the implicit slant that this issue (M$, Kerberos and the nastygram to/.) is a big misunderstanding. To me, it looks like a well-thought-out campaign hatched from the earliest days when it was becoming clear that free software was going to be the biggest threat to to a dominance based on commercial monopolistic practice. If it is the case that M$ were (a large part of) the money behind lobbying in the 1998 period which caused the DCMA to be brought into being, that fits in with the time scale I am portraying.
The battle is in progress now, and it has taken a lot of courage for the owners of the group which hosts/. to draw a deep breath, weigh-up the purposefully assembled legal firepower (one assumes to be in place for this "move" (in the chess-game sense of the meaning)) and declare M$'s "claim" to be bogus and a toothless bluff. The die is cast and M$ must end up with a blooding which terminates any further attempts along this line of attack. And yes; M$ will come all hurt and misunderstood afterwards!
Right now is a good time to see off this attack. M$ have been put in a "use it or lose it" position after a long time of preparation - and good fortune has it that they are presently mired by the consequences of other separate shenanigans. The shafting of their customers in very recent memory with "ILOVEYOU" virus vulnerability (all of which they bear no liability for via the shrink-wrap agreement) should prevent them easily gaining widespread public support by loud and well-funded media misrepresentation. "Up on Capitol Hill" (if I understand the general gist of US politics correctly) I don't think ANYONE(!) will recall benefiting from M$ largesse or ever having supported legislation benefiting an organisation which was at the time abusing monopolistic power at the expense of the electoral base they serve!
I sincerely hope M$ ends up with egg on its face and the DCMA is rendered inoperable in one fell swoop.
Anyway - one last point. Slashdot and forums like it on the internet are not "broadcasters", and should not be treated as such. People come to it, can follow an interest in what they like and leave when they like. Good point to make for the inoperability of the recent Act?
Can (any company including) M$ take "public property" (in this case, the Kerberos protocol), make one or a small number of detailed changes to it then claim the "offshot" as their own? Is their "variant" not Kerberos itself and subject to exactly the same rights of access, distribution, copyright, etc? Is not the ownership and accessibility of the parent inherited irrespective of eg. the Free Software GPL., etc, etc.
Is any court (surely the ultimate logic test when you think of telling M$ that their claims are not well-founded and their demands not acceptable) going to allow itself to be bound by a piece of "trying it on logic" of the type which one is well used to with a line of kids on the back seat (of a car)?
In all cases, I wish you well and send my best wishes to assist you along your choosen path in dealing with this problem.
Love HTML, so that when working on sys., can be viewing it with the "w3" browser in emacs in one window while doing the configs, etc. in the other window - and can copy examples across and use as the basis of own config.
Can search source HTML with unix tools (eg. grep - a point others have made)
Printed -- is what you have to say worth sitting back in an armchair with for an hour or so at a time? Sometimes yes - then you have your niche for a lovely printed book.
Slashdot Mirror
One simple CSS for all documents would be good.
This stylesheet:
BODY{margin-left:8em; margin-right:8em}
H1{text-align:center}
does for most of my websites!
These are mainly about metal-bashing plus some landscape pix - see, if you want,
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richard.smith.met/
about which I have been complimented that the information is there and the site is uncluttered.
With a simple stylesheet, in the case of it not being operative such as because the browser doesn't support them, the LDP's would look like they do now.
I thoroughly agree with stylesheets because "content" and "its presentation" are rightly kept separate (the HTML doc. is the content and the CSS is its presentational instructions)
Contrast to traditional farming...
Typically there are a huge variety of strains, running into three figures (base 10), chosen for natural resistance to disease, drought or whatever local hardships. The fear is that contamination by GM crops may weaken local strains and immerse an area into lasting entrenched famine.
Mexico has apparently seen local maize(?) strains contaminated by GM's.
Regarding political shenanighans, I refer you to all the other excellent comments made by other contributors
However it seems a pity that the economic advancement (steady and about as sustainable as it gets) has been thrown out with this new ability to know right and wrong.
The late 90's into 2000 brought a new successful economy, including the Free Software revolution, which one felt sad to see discarded. It needed seemless global cooperation. Of course we were so naive then not being able to understand how we were being duped by the Chinese, rogered by the Russians, etc :-)
For the loss of economic opportunity, one wonders whether it would have been better to remain naive ;-)
It became a standard way of getting things thrown at you here in Cambridge, UK at the Linux group - a project such as, well,
the CLUG   3-D GUI   project...
(we never seriously got around to it, BTW...)
The idea is a "console" with two joysticks and two footpedals. The screen shows the file system hanging like a chandelier and voice recognition is used to speak unix command lines which act on the file or directory tree which the "crosshairs" are pointing at.
You would swoop around the virtual 3-D space as if in a spaceship and could "fly" down networks to be working inside distant servers.
To get work done such as writing a document, a virtual head-up display (ie a virtual-virtual!) would flip up say the emacs front end.
One imagines sweeping through your workspace "flying" the computer, no longer being at all aware of the interface as the whole thing becomes instinctive.
I think unix is a strong powerful platform which invites a much more powerful interface than the WIMPs which "grace" the systems which they match, such as the "Windows" family of systems and the pre-OSX Mac-OS's
The inspiration for the 3-D virtual interface concept and "flying" the computer obviously belongs to the novel "Neuromancer" and its author William Gibson. I am suggesting that the unix platform and the power of hardware now is enough to realise the vision. Add virtual reality goggles so that you can "look around" as you navigate and that takes the computer interface into a new generation.
From what I gather, the AppleMac "PowerPC" platform is devastatingly powerful, far better RISC processor - and the price is not so bad (well, if you look at the iMac). Damn' shame the "Cube" can only be hooked-up to a proprietary expansive monitor, otherwise you would have a totally silent supercomputer on/by/under your desk. According to what I have been told, these things are at least three times as fast per clock tick as the Intel range for "floats".
Is this right or what? (seriously - I'm asking...)
Then there's other platforms like the "Alpha" - though it looks like Apple is going to get the volume/price at the moment...
Now, Slashdot would not be the forum it is without a free range of views. Having said that, here are my points. I hope these paint a bigger single unified picture in when you bring them together.
- Kerberos is not Microsoft's to GPL or bestow any other copyright upon. I am sure it has its own copyright right now and what that is remains the decision of the contributors to it
- I do not agree with the implicit slant that this issue (M$, Kerberos and the nastygram to
/.) is a big misunderstanding. To me, it looks like a well-thought-out campaign hatched from the earliest days when it was becoming clear that free software was going to be the biggest threat to to a dominance based on commercial monopolistic practice. If it is the case that M$ were (a large part of) the money behind lobbying in the 1998 period which caused the DCMA to be brought into being, that fits in with the time scale I am portraying. - The battle is in progress now, and it has taken a lot of courage for the owners of the group which hosts
/. to draw a deep breath, weigh-up the purposefully assembled legal firepower (one assumes to be in place for this "move" (in the chess-game sense of the meaning)) and declare M$'s "claim" to be bogus and a toothless bluff. The die is cast and M$ must end up with a blooding which terminates any further attempts along this line of attack. And yes; M$ will come all hurt and misunderstood afterwards!
Right now is a good time to see off this attack. M$ have been put in a "use it or lose it" position after a long time of preparation - and good fortune has it that they are presently mired by the consequences of other separate shenanigans. The shafting of their customers in very recent memory with "ILOVEYOU" virus vulnerability (all of which they bear no liability for via the shrink-wrap agreement) should prevent them easily gaining widespread public support by loud and well-funded media misrepresentation. "Up on Capitol Hill" (if I understand the general gist of US politics correctly) I don't think ANYONE(!) will recall benefiting from M$ largesse or ever having supported legislation benefiting an organisation which was at the time abusing monopolistic power at the expense of the electoral base they serve!I sincerely hope M$ ends up with egg on its face and the DCMA is rendered inoperable in one fell swoop.
Anyway - one last point. Slashdot and forums like it on the internet are not "broadcasters", and should not be treated as such. People come to it, can follow an interest in what they like and leave when they like. Good point to make for the inoperability of the recent Act?
Is not the ownership and accessibility of the parent inherited irrespective of eg. the Free Software GPL., etc, etc.
Is any court (surely the ultimate logic test when you think of telling M$ that their claims are not well-founded and their demands not acceptable) going to allow itself to be bound by a piece of "trying it on logic" of the type which one is well used to with a line of kids on the back seat (of a car)?
In all cases, I wish you well and send my best wishes to assist you along your choosen path in dealing with this problem.
Love HTML, so that when working on sys., can be viewing it with the "w3" browser in emacs in one window while doing the configs, etc. in the other window - and can copy examples across and use as the basis of own config.
Can search source HTML with unix tools (eg. grep - a point others have made)
Printed -- is what you have to say worth sitting back in an armchair with for an hour or so at a time? Sometimes yes - then you have your niche for a lovely printed book.