How do you defend against an enemy living within your borders when that enemy has bombs, guns, and other firearms, and is desparate enough to resort to stones?
How do you defend against this enemy when the enemy has no clear plan other than chaos? no strategy, no easily identifiable clothed army to battle against?
Make no mistake, this is a war, and the enemy is recruiting their children for pawns. The enemy is willing to order their soldiers to commit suicide.
Israel is 200% larger than when it was recognized in 1948? Geez, I know they gave the Sinai desert to Egypt, effectively halving the country. What information do you have that says otherwise?
Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the
modern State of Israel.
Arab and Jewish Refugees In 1948 the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. Sixty-eight percent left without ever seeing an Israeli soldier.
The Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality, persecution and pogroms.
The number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948 is estimated to be around 630,000. The number of Jewish refugees from Arab lands is
estimated to be the same.
Arab refugees were INTENTIONALLY not absorbed or integrated into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the vast Arab territory. Out
of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the only refugee group in the world that has never been absorbed or integrated into their own peoples' lands. Jewish refugees were completely absorbed into Israel, a country
no larger than the state of New Jersey.
The Arab - Israeli Conflict; The Arabs are represented by eight separate nations, not including the Palestinians. There is only one
Jewish nation. The Arab nations initiated all five wars and lost.
Israel defended itself each time and won.
The PLO's Charter still calls for the destruction of the state of Israel. Israel has given the Palestinians most of the West Bank land, autonomy under the Palestinian Authority, and has supplied them with weapons.
The notion that Israel should even supply the enemy with weapons is ridiculous and it's still not enough to satisfy your ill-informed mind.
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USA and Israel are the biggest bullies in the Middle east. Stop listening to your biased internal news reporting!
Er, no. Our biased internal news reporting is CNN and NPR, who are biased in favor of Palestinian murderers. (Okay, I've reflected my own bias now.)
Knight-Ridder and AP follow the lead and are sometimes two days late reporting events that take place- I suspect because they have to figure out their spin on it.
Impartial news reporting is largely dead- it's only a matter of how thinly veiled the bias is.
You should change your.sig for greater justice.
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The ti99/4a WOULD say the bad words, and it wasn't a speech synthesis card, it was a module that plugged into a port on the right side of the keyboard/console.
I liked my ti99/4a, my mom ran a ti education center, and had a network of 14 of them with the BIG expansion cases.
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Just as much as their doing this encourages upgrading to current levels every 3 years, it gives me a chance to re-evaluate my needs and buy elsewhere.
If Office costs $500 and I'm only using 20% of the features, I could decide to not pay the 500 every three years, and look elsewhere.
Especially if Office isn't improving, only shifting the interface around, why should I sign up for the $1500 over three years plan?
Even if other suites go to this (Corel, Lotus (yes, I still count Corel)) they'll be cheaper overall and just as functional.
And if Star/OpenOffice improves in stability, speed, and compatibility, I'll be set anyways. (right now, star is unusable for me. too slow, and incompatible when saving to word with graphics in a document.)
AbiWord doesn't do badly either, but it has a ways to go- I'd like to see all of the menus activated, for one thing.
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DSL in many areas is a myth- an unsubstantiated rumour.
My co-op here was trying to get DSL- he signed up with Verizon, had them schedule the appt., asked at the time of the appt. to be sure they'd be able to install it- they came out, took one look-see and said that they couldn't install DSL there.
He signed up for cable. The best part is, after scheduling the appt., after being lied to about the availability, Verizon continues to bill him!
DSL would be a great, fast method of connecting, if more than 2% of the people who want fast access could use it. I'm well aware that cable's performance degrades as more users clog the pipes, but for now it's good.
I'm betting that the next big advance will occur right before cable gets so bogged down that I can't stand it any longer.
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But you've asked for a lot of features in one device- I prefer devices that do one thing well versus devices that do many things, but are master of none.
I think I'd much prefer such a device to display on the inside of a pair of eyeglasses, or a wearable head teleprompter, to the camera eyepiece you've mentioned.
If it has to be something non-wearable, let it be a clip on magnifier like those used on gameboys- I cant stand looking through a viewfinder for great lengths of time. It's great on my 35mm SLR, it's fine on my nikon 990, where I also use the LCD. It's lousy to look through the viewfinder on my Canon zr10 for great lengths at a time.
I recognize that you're talking about only having to look at the thing from time to time, but goshsakes, don't make it a viewfinder if you expect to look at it when you record while driving!
Wrecked limosines are no fun.
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If this article had been submitted to slashdot as a post, I would have had to moderate is as flamebait.
Others here have posted about how the APSL and BSD licenses are open-source, despite what the article claims.
according to the article:
The main reason TrueType isn't supported as well under free operating systems as it should be is that developers fear they might run afoul of Apple's patents on TrueType. The folks at Apple haven't offered any clarification to the FreeType project (which is trying to improve font handling on open source operating systems) or to anyone else. Because of this, TrueType support under Linux and FreeBSD lingers under a cloud of uncertainty.
This is mis-information. Concern over Apple's patents are different then expecting Apple to contribute to projects outside of the scope of Darwin.
Even if Apple wanted to help out Freetype with font support, it would be largely illogical- Apple's Darwin doesn't come with a graphical desktop. OS X isn't APSL-open source, and the font system of OS X isn't open source, it's proprietary and part of OS X.
Quicktime is quicktime, sorenson is sorenson. There were never any promises to give either of these to open source.
The reporter is mistaken about running Darwin on x86- Apple has no interest in running OS X on intel at this time. Apple has run Darwin on x86 out of scientific curiousity. Others have run Darwin on x86 out of their own interest. Having Darwin as open source is a great benefit for learning. (I ran it for the thrill of doing it!)
The article suggests that Apple won't port applications based on the Gnome or KDE libraries (GTK+ and QT). I submit that it was never Apple's intention to do so- Apple is quite happy writing iTunes, AppleWorks, and others to be worried about bringing in KWord or Gnotepad+.
The article writer also hints that it may be illegal to port GPL software to OS X.
This is nonsense. It would be illegal for Apple to profit from GPL software, although it's okay to profit from media or support costs. Any GPL software they distribute, they must also distribute the source code.
This isn't really a worry tho, I can download and recompile anything I like. XFree, Gimp (macgimp.org?) and others... Fire.app, an instant messenger application is GPL and works great- and it's only for OS X, for now.
All I can say is that I believe Evan did a poor job of researching his article, and an even poorer job of disguising it as anything other than an inflammatory editorial.
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Ihave the Bell&Howell Television Heathkit manuals.
My mother and father built the family TV from them in 1974.
I own a VW Beetle, 1971 pan, 1968 body and an engine I built up myself. (and it's gone 60,000 and 3 years without needing the engine to be opened up. simple valve adjustment and oil changes are all. and if I hadnt been cheap, I would have gone with hydraulic lifters for the valves.)
My other car is a 62 Chevy Impala.
I've owned hondas and others but I want the schematics.
I learned to read schematics from the Radio Shack/Tandy electronic kits that had a bunch of components with springs for terminals, so I could easily connect and disconnect wires and learn what the components did.
The last stereo we bought that came with schematics was a radio shack am/fm tape reciever, in 1987/88.
I want the schematics, not because I want to use them, but because I want the assurance that 10 years from now when a small part blows, that I'll have a guide for finding it and paying $1.97 to fix it instead of junking it for a $300 reciever.
I may not enjoy pulling out the 'scope (another of my father's heathkits- wish they still made those!) to fix another cap that's gone sick on a logic board, or a chip in the chrysler fm radio that loses a channel- but I want to be able to in the event that this happens.
A world of closed boxes is not desirable. I want the option of reading the schematics, I want books published on how to fix dvd players in your own home, I want to be able to service the tivo hardware not just the software.
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Security fixes are easier for os X.
Mac users have the Software Update tool, which can be run manually, or automatically scheduled to run.
Unlike the windows update, there's no website involved, and it hits up apple's servers and mirrors. (Maybe this is more like the ximian updater or mandrake update tools.)
As long as Apple's software update server isn't cracked, the Mac user has a brainless way to automate software updates which can include security fixes.
Many Mac users are quick to jump and get the latest update, so propagating security fixes isn't a problem. The only problem is the unclear channel for reporting them.
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IBM has a required number of languages to translate for: this grab-bag of distros includes the two IBM has contracts with (Caldera and RH), and includes the other two that support many other languages (SuSE = germany, Turbolinux = Chinese)
Now, when you charge $500 to $20,000 for Software (when I pay that much, the S is capitalized, and the 20,000 number comes from some of the WebSphere stuff) there darn well better be support.
If this means they have to rule out a few distros as being on the support list, so be it. EVERY IBM linux software goes through the IBM Linux compatibility testing, to see that it works on other distros, and what sys requirements and dependencies exist. These Software can probably be made to work on Debian and others, but if they don't, or if they break, don't expect support. If you're spending $500 on this, you probably can also spend the bucks on a machine to use just for that software with a supported distro, if you don't want to move your main machine to that distro.
This will probably dissolve into a good old fashioned distro flamewar on/. but I think it ought not to- there are four distros to choose from that are supported, if you can't pick one you like out of four just because it isn't your favorite one at home, lump it.
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Don't get the cheapest thing you can find, take the electrics coverplate off and see that you aren't buying plywood- buy a solid body electric, made of whole wood instead of plywood- You can see the plys as you look inside the electrics cavity.
Then, take it to the local guitar shop and have them put strings on it, adjust it, and tune it.
When you go to the pawn shop, take a friend who plays guitar with you. He can play it through an amp and you can decide if you like the sound of the guitar... and he can tell you if it's any good or not.
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Judges have been making their decisions based on what the social change will be since the 1920s.
Judges rule on many civil matters from a position of ignorance and redefine existing laws in the name of morality and social change. (They make a ruling as they see fit, and that ruling goes to precedent. Not many judges care to reverse the rulings of their collegues.)
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There is nobody out to get you. There is no "THEM". There is nobody trying to frame you for accidentally clicking on obscene porn links.
There isn't anyone out to get me- then why are there cameras on the streetlights? so they can capture my face or my license plate?
Why are there cameras at the sporting events? so they can photograph my face?
There's no one out to get me, or trying to frame me by my following links- until they try to do it. Employees get fired daily for clicking inappropriate links. Government targets people for sex crimes by what's on their hard drive browser cache.
The FBI requesting server logs is a step in the wrong direction.
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These are loose definitions but are used about this way in the software project I'm on... you can alter these somewhat, but they're close to correct.
Sev 1 bug:
This is a show stopper. You can't release software with this bug, the software just won't be usable.
Sev 2 bug: major functionality is broken. The software works in many ways, but you'd be embarrassed if you tried to present this (think win98 crashing on the day of its debut before hundreds- think of a billboard run by NT blue-screening in public.)
Sev 3 bug: can be handled by a workaround but really ought to be addressed. Can also be a documentation bug that needs to be fixed before docs can be shipped. (please don't ship docs after you've shipped the product.)
Sev 4 bug: works most of the time, but only under specific conditions. showed up in testing, can be addressed by a technote on the website.
Sev 5 bug: works most of the time, under most conditions, showed up in testing, can be addressed by a technote.
Any bug addressed by a technote must be fixed in the next release, or else. Any bug sev 1 or sev 2 bug must be fixed or you don't release. Sev three is one of those that you fix at the end of the release cycle, or handle with a technote and take care of it in a service release or next full release.
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I very often find myself taken to sites I had no intention of going to (disguised goatse links, anyone?) and don't want to be subject to inquisition by the FBI or other services for those clicks.
While I admit that I am responsible for my own actions, I submit that clicking on links is as risky as changing channels on a television- You never know what content you'll get unless you've targetted that channel before. If I pass over the sex channel or local-cable access showing paranoid survivalists, should I be held accountable because TiVo shows that I requested that channel for a few minutes before becoming bored and moving on?
I say that this is an imposition that we shouldn't have to suffer.
(donning flamesuit now to be ready for the replies)
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I appreciate your reply more than I do your mod points anyway.
I wasn't flaming him as much as mandrake.
What you consider a valid workaround, I consider not that hot a suggestion. As I said, it worked with Mandrake 7.2, so I could have stuck with a 2.2 kernel if I'd wanted to.
I did try the betas, and there is a bug open for this in Mandrake 8.0's bugzilla. Rather than submit a redundant bug and further swamp the Mandrake team, I added my comments to the bug saying that I had found a way to make it work - sort of, but that it's not a complete solution.
If you install using text mode instead of graphical mode (defeating one of Mandrake's advantages) and tell it repeatedly that you have a ps/2 mouse, on post-install reboot, it will work, as long as you don't allow kudzu to remove the ps/2 mouse configuration. If you casually press spacebar in anxiousness to get to the usable system, you've lost the mouse again and won't be able to get it back.
Denis' workaround is invalid, he blames the kernel, which even you say isn't at fault.
And I don't consider what I wrote to him to be a real big flame. My annoyance is directed at Mandrake, not Denis.
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Congratulations on your marriage, and getting your job at Linux-Mandrake.
One of Mandrake's goals has always been to produce the easiest to use Linux distribution available. By and large, they've succeeded.
I maintain that it is inexcusable to ship a distro where my thinkpad trackpoint ( a generic ps/2 device) does not work. I have used SuSE 7.1 on the same machine, and it does work with a 2.4.x kernel.
Advising me to use an older kernel is interesting advice, but not particularly exciting or appropriate advice- The linux community waited over a year to recieve the 2.4 kernel, and now you want to tell me that I can't use it?
This kind of advice, from a man working at a company that wants to attract Windows users? Shoot, I'll go back to Windows (shudder) or my Mac (mmmmmmm...) before being told I must downgrade, especially when I know the advice to be incorrect. Maybe I ought to become loyal to SuSE or another distro...
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The one reviewer that tried to install mandrake on a thinkpad noted that Mandrake doesn't work with the trackpoint, which is a generic ps/2 mouse
He dimisses this as an issue saying he prefers a USB mouse!!!
This is inexcusable, it ought to work with the hardware (esp. when 7.2 did), and making me drag a mouse around to plug into my 802.11b equipped laptop sucks big rocks.
It even worked right in redhat 5.1-7.0 dammit.
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First off,
the good things that people have mentioned about cell phones (triangulating position from signal strength to save lives) :
no longer necessary in the future--
The FCC's e911 regulation means that mobile phones will now give their location using GPS coordinates so that 911 call centers can locate the phone immediately and accurately. (unfortunately, this means that the MAN can locate you when you don't want it, as well.)
Two:
the article uses the number 900mhz.
We are WAY beyond 900mhz. 900 is giving way to 1800 for Europe/Middle East. In the states, we have as high as 1900mhz -- and it's gonna get higher.
Europe is largely GSM (which is like TDMA nested in CDMA) and America and Middle East is primarily CDMA and TDMA, with GSM gaining ground. Middle East GSM is that of Europe (900/1800) instead of 1900 (america.)
Middle east CDMA and TDMA are the same frequencies as America, but the roaming agreements will kill you...better to get another number put in...
If Claude Shannon could see us now!
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Be in the form of the HARP device, gets close to being able to do these things.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15912.htm l
It hasn't got the tuner or tivo functionality, but as Taco notes, there's nothing stopping anyone from adding that functionality. Adding the tuner and tivo functionality should be relatively easy for most hackers...
And, the interface work has been done.
The only thing it lacks are the magic slashdot words, GPL and Linux.
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Actually, that doesn't work well either- Non-US citizens have US rights. The rights claimed by the Bill of Rights aren't just for Americans, only originally asserted by them. Illegal Aliens get due process.
The way I understand it, since it's a US Law Enforcement agency, they're bound to uphold and respect US rights and procedure, whether their targets are US citizens or not.
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I used the web form at the school district website to express my displeasure over their handling of the matter. I mentioned that I'm planning on publishing an editorial on the matter, and that I plan to comment on the notion that schools in America, MISD schools in particular, seem to punish the victims of bullying and harrasment, rather than reprimand the instigators of most school discipline problems in the first place.
I recieved a response within 20 minutes. What this means is, either they are cutting and pasting the response, or not enough/.ers are using the web form.
I do plan to write an editorial and publish it.
The representative of the School system asked in her email where I intend to publish it so that they may copy it for their files.
*** JON KATZ *** copy your article to Diana Gulotta (dgulotta@mckinseyisd.com) as well.
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Here's a question than, AC:
How do you defend against an enemy living within your borders when that enemy has bombs, guns, and other firearms, and is desparate enough to resort to stones?
How do you defend against this enemy when the enemy has no clear plan other than chaos? no strategy, no easily identifiable clothed army to battle against?
Make no mistake, this is a war, and the enemy is recruiting their children for pawns. The enemy is willing to order their soldiers to commit suicide.
Israel is 200% larger than when it was recognized in 1948? Geez, I know they gave the Sinai desert to Egypt, effectively halving the country. What information do you have that says otherwise?
Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the
modern State of Israel.
Arab and Jewish Refugees In 1948 the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. Sixty-eight percent left without ever seeing an Israeli soldier.
The Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality, persecution and pogroms.
The number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948 is estimated to be around 630,000. The number of Jewish refugees from Arab lands is
estimated to be the same.
Arab refugees were INTENTIONALLY not absorbed or integrated into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the vast Arab territory. Out
of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the only refugee group in the world that has never been absorbed or integrated into their own peoples' lands. Jewish refugees were completely absorbed into Israel, a country
no larger than the state of New Jersey.
The Arab - Israeli Conflict; The Arabs are represented by eight separate nations, not including the Palestinians. There is only one
Jewish nation. The Arab nations initiated all five wars and lost.
Israel defended itself each time and won.
The PLO's Charter still calls for the destruction of the state of Israel. Israel has given the Palestinians most of the West Bank land, autonomy under the Palestinian Authority, and has supplied them with weapons.
The notion that Israel should even supply the enemy with weapons is ridiculous and it's still not enough to satisfy your ill-informed mind.
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Er, no. Our biased internal news reporting is CNN and NPR, who are biased in favor of Palestinian murderers. (Okay, I've reflected my own bias now.) Knight-Ridder and AP follow the lead and are sometimes two days late reporting events that take place- I suspect because they have to figure out their spin on it.
Impartial news reporting is largely dead- it's only a matter of how thinly veiled the bias is.
You should change your .sig for greater justice.
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Actually, Timothy got it wrong-
The ti99/4a WOULD say the bad words, and it wasn't a speech synthesis card, it was a module that plugged into a port on the right side of the keyboard/console.
I liked my ti99/4a, my mom ran a ti education center, and had a network of 14 of them with the BIG expansion cases.
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I'm not sure why MS thinks this will help them
Just as much as their doing this encourages upgrading to current levels every 3 years, it gives me a chance to re-evaluate my needs and buy elsewhere.
If Office costs $500 and I'm only using 20% of the features, I could decide to not pay the 500 every three years, and look elsewhere.
Especially if Office isn't improving, only shifting the interface around, why should I sign up for the $1500 over three years plan?
Even if other suites go to this (Corel, Lotus (yes, I still count Corel)) they'll be cheaper overall and just as functional.
And if Star/OpenOffice improves in stability, speed, and compatibility, I'll be set anyways. (right now, star is unusable for me. too slow, and incompatible when saving to word with graphics in a document.)
AbiWord doesn't do badly either, but it has a ways to go- I'd like to see all of the menus activated, for one thing.
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DSL in many areas is a myth- an unsubstantiated rumour.
My co-op here was trying to get DSL- he signed up with Verizon, had them schedule the appt., asked at the time of the appt. to be sure they'd be able to install it- they came out, took one look-see and said that they couldn't install DSL there.
He signed up for cable. The best part is, after scheduling the appt., after being lied to about the availability, Verizon continues to bill him!
DSL would be a great, fast method of connecting, if more than 2% of the people who want fast access could use it. I'm well aware that cable's performance degrades as more users clog the pipes, but for now it's good.
I'm betting that the next big advance will occur right before cable gets so bogged down that I can't stand it any longer.
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The comedian was seinfeld, and it was a comedy special, I believe his tour immediately following the end of his series.
On the other hand, I hope Robert Goddard smiles on this guy, and we get to see amatuer rocketry take a leap forward.
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Robin, I'm with you on wanting a small device-
But you've asked for a lot of features in one device- I prefer devices that do one thing well versus devices that do many things, but are master of none.
I think I'd much prefer such a device to display on the inside of a pair of eyeglasses, or a wearable head teleprompter, to the camera eyepiece you've mentioned.
If it has to be something non-wearable, let it be a clip on magnifier like those used on gameboys- I cant stand looking through a viewfinder for great lengths of time. It's great on my 35mm SLR, it's fine on my nikon 990, where I also use the LCD. It's lousy to look through the viewfinder on my Canon zr10 for great lengths at a time.
I recognize that you're talking about only having to look at the thing from time to time, but goshsakes, don't make it a viewfinder if you expect to look at it when you record while driving!
Wrecked limosines are no fun.
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Others here have posted about how the APSL and BSD licenses are open-source, despite what the article claims.
according to the article:
The main reason TrueType isn't supported as well under free operating systems as it should be is that developers fear they might run afoul of Apple's patents on TrueType. The folks at Apple haven't offered any clarification to the FreeType project (which is trying to improve font handling on open source operating systems) or to anyone else. Because of this, TrueType support under Linux and FreeBSD lingers under a cloud of uncertainty.
This is mis-information. Concern over Apple's patents are different then expecting Apple to contribute to projects outside of the scope of Darwin.
Even if Apple wanted to help out Freetype with font support, it would be largely illogical- Apple's Darwin doesn't come with a graphical desktop. OS X isn't APSL-open source, and the font system of OS X isn't open source, it's proprietary and part of OS X.
Quicktime is quicktime, sorenson is sorenson. There were never any promises to give either of these to open source.
The reporter is mistaken about running Darwin on x86- Apple has no interest in running OS X on intel at this time. Apple has run Darwin on x86 out of scientific curiousity. Others have run Darwin on x86 out of their own interest. Having Darwin as open source is a great benefit for learning. (I ran it for the thrill of doing it!)
The article suggests that Apple won't port applications based on the Gnome or KDE libraries (GTK+ and QT). I submit that it was never Apple's intention to do so- Apple is quite happy writing iTunes, AppleWorks, and others to be worried about bringing in KWord or Gnotepad+. The article writer also hints that it may be illegal to port GPL software to OS X. This is nonsense. It would be illegal for Apple to profit from GPL software, although it's okay to profit from media or support costs. Any GPL software they distribute, they must also distribute the source code.
This isn't really a worry tho, I can download and recompile anything I like. XFree, Gimp (macgimp.org?) and others... Fire.app, an instant messenger application is GPL and works great- and it's only for OS X, for now.
All I can say is that I believe Evan did a poor job of researching his article, and an even poorer job of disguising it as anything other than an inflammatory editorial.
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Ihave the Bell&Howell Television Heathkit manuals.
My mother and father built the family TV from them in 1974.
I own a VW Beetle, 1971 pan, 1968 body and an engine I built up myself. (and it's gone 60,000 and 3 years without needing the engine to be opened up. simple valve adjustment and oil changes are all. and if I hadnt been cheap, I would have gone with hydraulic lifters for the valves.)
My other car is a 62 Chevy Impala.
I've owned hondas and others but I want the schematics.
I learned to read schematics from the Radio Shack/Tandy electronic kits that had a bunch of components with springs for terminals, so I could easily connect and disconnect wires and learn what the components did.
The last stereo we bought that came with schematics was a radio shack am/fm tape reciever, in 1987/88.
I want the schematics, not because I want to use them, but because I want the assurance that 10 years from now when a small part blows, that I'll have a guide for finding it and paying $1.97 to fix it instead of junking it for a $300 reciever.
I may not enjoy pulling out the 'scope (another of my father's heathkits- wish they still made those!) to fix another cap that's gone sick on a logic board, or a chip in the chrysler fm radio that loses a channel- but I want to be able to in the event that this happens.
A world of closed boxes is not desirable. I want the option of reading the schematics, I want books published on how to fix dvd players in your own home, I want to be able to service the tivo hardware not just the software.
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Security fixes are easier for os X.
Mac users have the Software Update tool, which can be run manually, or automatically scheduled to run.
Unlike the windows update, there's no website involved, and it hits up apple's servers and mirrors. (Maybe this is more like the ximian updater or mandrake update tools.)
As long as Apple's software update server isn't cracked, the Mac user has a brainless way to automate software updates which can include security fixes.
Many Mac users are quick to jump and get the latest update, so propagating security fixes isn't a problem. The only problem is the unclear channel for reporting them.
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IBM has a required number of languages to translate for: this grab-bag of distros includes the two IBM has contracts with (Caldera and RH), and includes the other two that support many other languages (SuSE = germany, Turbolinux = Chinese)
/. but I think it ought not to- there are four distros to choose from that are supported, if you can't pick one you like out of four just because it isn't your favorite one at home, lump it.
Now, when you charge $500 to $20,000 for Software (when I pay that much, the S is capitalized, and the 20,000 number comes from some of the WebSphere stuff) there darn well better be support.
If this means they have to rule out a few distros as being on the support list, so be it. EVERY IBM linux software goes through the IBM Linux compatibility testing, to see that it works on other distros, and what sys requirements and dependencies exist. These Software can probably be made to work on Debian and others, but if they don't, or if they break, don't expect support. If you're spending $500 on this, you probably can also spend the bucks on a machine to use just for that software with a supported distro, if you don't want to move your main machine to that distro.
This will probably dissolve into a good old fashioned distro flamewar on
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Don't get the cheapest thing you can find, take the electrics coverplate off and see that you aren't buying plywood- buy a solid body electric, made of whole wood instead of plywood- You can see the plys as you look inside the electrics cavity.
Then, take it to the local guitar shop and have them put strings on it, adjust it, and tune it.
When you go to the pawn shop, take a friend who plays guitar with you. He can play it through an amp and you can decide if you like the sound of the guitar... and he can tell you if it's any good or not.
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Thank you for posting the correct quote with attribution. I was about to, but you got there first. I appreciate it.
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And it'd be nice if that were true:
Judges have been making their decisions based on what the social change will be since the 1920s.
Judges rule on many civil matters from a position of ignorance and redefine existing laws in the name of morality and social change. (They make a ruling as they see fit, and that ruling goes to precedent. Not many judges care to reverse the rulings of their collegues.)
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There isn't anyone out to get me- then why are there cameras on the streetlights? so they can capture my face or my license plate?
Why are there cameras at the sporting events? so they can photograph my face?
There's no one out to get me, or trying to frame me by my following links- until they try to do it. Employees get fired daily for clicking inappropriate links. Government targets people for sex crimes by what's on their hard drive browser cache.
The FBI requesting server logs is a step in the wrong direction.
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These are loose definitions but are used about this way in the software project I'm on... you can alter these somewhat, but they're close to correct.
Sev 1 bug:
This is a show stopper. You can't release software with this bug, the software just won't be usable.
Sev 2 bug: major functionality is broken. The software works in many ways, but you'd be embarrassed if you tried to present this (think win98 crashing on the day of its debut before hundreds- think of a billboard run by NT blue-screening in public.)
Sev 3 bug: can be handled by a workaround but really ought to be addressed. Can also be a documentation bug that needs to be fixed before docs can be shipped. (please don't ship docs after you've shipped the product.)
Sev 4 bug: works most of the time, but only under specific conditions. showed up in testing, can be addressed by a technote on the website.
Sev 5 bug: works most of the time, under most conditions, showed up in testing, can be addressed by a technote.
Any bug addressed by a technote must be fixed in the next release, or else. Any bug sev 1 or sev 2 bug must be fixed or you don't release. Sev three is one of those that you fix at the end of the release cycle, or handle with a technote and take care of it in a service release or next full release.
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I very often find myself taken to sites I had no intention of going to (disguised goatse links, anyone?) and don't want to be subject to inquisition by the FBI or other services for those clicks.
While I admit that I am responsible for my own actions, I submit that clicking on links is as risky as changing channels on a television- You never know what content you'll get unless you've targetted that channel before. If I pass over the sex channel or local-cable access showing paranoid survivalists, should I be held accountable because TiVo shows that I requested that channel for a few minutes before becoming bored and moving on?
I say that this is an imposition that we shouldn't have to suffer.
(donning flamesuit now to be ready for the replies)
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I appreciate your reply more than I do your mod points anyway.
I wasn't flaming him as much as mandrake.
What you consider a valid workaround, I consider not that hot a suggestion. As I said, it worked with Mandrake 7.2, so I could have stuck with a 2.2 kernel if I'd wanted to.
I did try the betas, and there is a bug open for this in Mandrake 8.0's bugzilla. Rather than submit a redundant bug and further swamp the Mandrake team, I added my comments to the bug saying that I had found a way to make it work - sort of, but that it's not a complete solution.
If you install using text mode instead of graphical mode (defeating one of Mandrake's advantages) and tell it repeatedly that you have a ps/2 mouse, on post-install reboot, it will work, as long as you don't allow kudzu to remove the ps/2 mouse configuration. If you casually press spacebar in anxiousness to get to the usable system, you've lost the mouse again and won't be able to get it back.
Denis' workaround is invalid, he blames the kernel, which even you say isn't at fault.
And I don't consider what I wrote to him to be a real big flame. My annoyance is directed at Mandrake, not Denis.
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Denis,
Congratulations on your marriage, and getting your job at Linux-Mandrake.
One of Mandrake's goals has always been to produce the easiest to use Linux distribution available. By and large, they've succeeded.
I maintain that it is inexcusable to ship a distro where my thinkpad trackpoint ( a generic ps/2 device) does not work. I have used SuSE 7.1 on the same machine, and it does work with a 2.4.x kernel.
Advising me to use an older kernel is interesting advice, but not particularly exciting or appropriate advice- The linux community waited over a year to recieve the 2.4 kernel, and now you want to tell me that I can't use it?
This kind of advice, from a man working at a company that wants to attract Windows users? Shoot, I'll go back to Windows (shudder) or my Mac (mmmmmmm...) before being told I must downgrade, especially when I know the advice to be incorrect. Maybe I ought to become loyal to SuSE or another distro...
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He dimisses this as an issue saying he prefers a USB mouse!!!
This is inexcusable, it ought to work with the hardware (esp. when 7.2 did), and making me drag a mouse around to plug into my 802.11b equipped laptop sucks big rocks.
It even worked right in redhat 5.1-7.0 dammit.
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First off,
the good things that people have mentioned about cell phones (triangulating position from signal strength to save lives) :
no longer necessary in the future--
The FCC's e911 regulation means that mobile phones will now give their location using GPS coordinates so that 911 call centers can locate the phone immediately and accurately. (unfortunately, this means that the MAN can locate you when you don't want it, as well.)
Two:
the article uses the number 900mhz.
We are WAY beyond 900mhz. 900 is giving way to 1800 for Europe/Middle East. In the states, we have as high as 1900mhz -- and it's gonna get higher.
Europe is largely GSM (which is like TDMA nested in CDMA) and America and Middle East is primarily CDMA and TDMA, with GSM gaining ground. Middle East GSM is that of Europe (900/1800) instead of 1900 (america.)
Middle east CDMA and TDMA are the same frequencies as America, but the roaming agreements will kill you...better to get another number put in...
If Claude Shannon could see us now!
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Look HERE for a picture of just such a device.
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Be in the form of the HARP device, gets close to being able to do these things.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15912.ht
It hasn't got the tuner or tivo functionality, but as Taco notes, there's nothing stopping anyone from adding that functionality. Adding the tuner and tivo functionality should be relatively easy for most hackers...
And, the interface work has been done.
The only thing it lacks are the magic slashdot words, GPL and Linux.
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Actually, that doesn't work well either- Non-US citizens have US rights. The rights claimed by the Bill of Rights aren't just for Americans, only originally asserted by them. Illegal Aliens get due process.
The way I understand it, since it's a US Law Enforcement agency, they're bound to uphold and respect US rights and procedure, whether their targets are US citizens or not.
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I used the web form at the school district website to express my displeasure over their handling of the matter. I mentioned that I'm planning on publishing an editorial on the matter, and that I plan to comment on the notion that schools in America, MISD schools in particular, seem to punish the victims of bullying and harrasment, rather than reprimand the instigators of most school discipline problems in the first place.
/.ers are using the web form.
I recieved a response within 20 minutes. What this means is, either they are cutting and pasting the response, or not enough
I do plan to write an editorial and publish it.
The representative of the School system asked in her email where I intend to publish it so that they may copy it for their files.
*** JON KATZ *** copy your article to Diana Gulotta (dgulotta@mckinseyisd.com) as well.
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