The main reason I'm not using Redhat on my desktop right now as my main OS is that I can't paste large files from OpenOffice into Lotus Notes under Wine.
The main reason you aren't using Redhat on your desktop right now is because simple cut-and-paste operations are too hard for you. Go back to windows, and stay there.
Seriously, there are so many folks who just want to bitch and bitch and bitch about how Linux can't do this or that when it's OBVIOUS that they didn't take two seconds to fucking find out how. God only knows how they figured Windows out in the first place.
Just shut the fuck UP! Obviously people out there use Linux everyday, for everything they do. I am one. Yes, that's right, everyday for everything. And you can too!
And before you go "See, this is why normal people are scared of Linux, the users are so MEAN!" why don't you go and find out how easy it actually is to learn Red Hat/etc (seriously, Red Hat? The EASIEST FUCKING LINUX OUT THERE!), and how available information for Linux is on the web (google, god damnit!)
Then, maybe you'll understand why folks who've made the little investment needed to learn a new OS get so pissed at these Windows-using IDIOTS who do nothing but bitch and moan.
Downloading is legal... rather, it is as not illegal as possessing copyrighted works is not illegal.
If I have a huge bookshelf full of 100% stolen books (imagine I lifted them from the nearby bookstore) and the cops came in and saw my giant book collection, what does that mean?
NOTHING - they'd better have some evidence that I stole these books beyond the mere fact that I possess them!
Exactly, man. A voting application is maybe ONE step above the ubiquitous "Hello World". You present a list of choices, accept and record the input. Repeat.
How can this crash? Seriously! You can code up something in MINUTES that uses off-the-shelf hardware (say, a Dell box) to present a menu of choices 1,2,3. They send the results off to a server, too, so there's nothing to eat up the local memory. The most complicated part is validating the voter's registration, which is handled by human volunteers anyway.
We are stuck deep in the dark ages of computing, surely.
I wonder if the RIAA has charged or could charge people based on X amount per mp3 found on a particular computer?
They can't. Possession of copyrighted works wasn't illegal, last I checked. It's distribution that's naughty. Should they mysteriously know that you have X number of mp3s on your computer (they'd better conjure up a warrant for that info), the burden of proof is on them to show, NOT that you downloaded these mp3s "illegally", but that you have no right to possess them (very different).
This cowardly rolling over by the public needs to stop.
Their original quip was flawed, which I pointed out. More roads do not mean more congestion. More roads reduce congestion.
Read it again, slower this time.
original "quip":
"Building more roads to combat traffic congestion is like buying a bigger belt to combat obesity"
Increasing road capacity with no efforts to curtail ever increasing traffic volumes is in fact just like "buying a bigger belt to combat obesity." Perfectly legitimate statement.
Increasing unit traffic capacity (employing buses) is an act to curtail ever increasing traffic volumes while maintaining the same infrastructure, and would be akin to a statement like "going on a diet is a way to combat obesity without having to buy a bigger belt." A completely different logical statement.
The POINT of the original quip is to say that it is foolish to combat a growing problem by expanding your ability to tolerate the problem. You agreed with this point, saying that instead one should combat the growing problem. I fail to see how one point or the other is flawed.
In the general case, it is indeed foolish to try and accomodate a growing problem without also combatting the root cause of the problem. Foolish it is then to increase traffic capacity without also attempting to combat increasing traffic congestion.
And just what's wrong with a little elitism, eh? Linux is better. In countless ways. Am I using the 'other OS' just to be different and elitist, or could it possibly be that Linux really IS better?
Seriously - I can't think of a reason why you would be annoyed that folks who use Linux actually think it's better than Windows. They use it because they've found that to be true, and if they seem "elitist" to cubicle monkeys still fiddling with the latest security patch on their crippled Windows boxen, so what?
Maybe you should try and discover what all the fuss is about, then you can be elitist too.
I beleive that the ACTUAL way law works is that the PROSECUTION shows that the defendant does NOT have rights to the music in question, and the defendant is then free to refute the claims of the prosecution.
The burden is on the PROSECUTION to show that each and every 'voilation' is indeed a violation - that there's NO way that the defendant could be sharing that particular file legitimately.
All the defense has to do is rattle off their reasons for legitimately sharing... "I own the CD", "I encoded it myself", "it was a live recording", etc.
Granted, I am not so naive as to think that the world is ideal. Corps are crooked, the govt is inept regarding technology... basically, yeah, you don't want to get sued.
Genes are just sequences... they encode for proteins, which are just chemicals. It is perfectly logical that any particular gene could naturally occur in any species, in time. Modified plants with 'fish genes' would be the same plant with extra proteins from the new genes. Period. Nothing outrageous.
Damn, that looks kick ass! I was in the market for a Zaurus myself, but wow! So many cool products just come flying into the market these days, it's no WONDER my wallet's got this huge hole in it!
I uploaded 7.11 this morning, actually... and the differences are AMAZING! The rendering is VASTLY improved! Not giving up Mozilla completely, yet, but I'll be browsing with Opera for the next week to give it a fair shake.
First, you don't need to send your return-trip fuel with you from Earth's surface. You create it from Martian stuffs.
Also, it'd be much more efficient to construct a large vessel in Earth orbit, and design it ONLY for orbit, and docking with existing Earth->orbit vehicles (like the shuttle). This large craft would then carry your payload of a mars lander / supplies from Earth orbit to Mars orbit.
The problem with all this is really the mentality that you have to construct everything including the kitchen sink down here at the bottom of Earth's gravity well, and blast it up to orbit. Screw that, construct it in orbit. Send the junk up in small, efficient quantities. And don't waste engineering trying to make one Magical-Swiss-Army-Knife vehicle to do everything.
That's just a fun idea... plug in a second mouse, have a second, independant pointer appear. Plug in a second keyboard & monitor, restrict each keyboard & mouse to a specific monitor... that'd be great!
Could X support something like that? Anybody in the know?
The space in which those shipe manoievered has the properties of a torus:
Why a torus, and not a hypersphere? All throughout this article, folks have chimed in "Of course, it's a torus, duh" but nobody has said why a torus would be more fitting than a hypersphere. In either shape, you can travel in any direction and return to where you started, but the hypersphere certainly seems more intuitive to me.
Well, this sucks. Looks like I'll be flashing my Router soon...
All those single-computer use clauses are evil anyway. A DSL line gives you X bandwidth, so X bandwidth is what you use, regardless of how many machines you multiplex it to. Arbitrary fees for extra machines behind the connection are just more ways to rape^H^H^H^Hmilk the customer.
I weep for the personal losses of life, and the losses to the space program in general. What a tragic setback!! And especially when you look at all the budget constraints, the cuts, the shortcuts (faster, better, cheaper?), you say to yourself " Could this have been easily avoided?
I wonder how many times this has to happen before the aged Shuttle is redesigned, and NASA budgets are made more reasonable.
It will be very interesting to see how this unfolds...
To all who have replied who think I'm some kind of "fucking idiot" for posting a "m$ monopoly!" post:
When a company that is declared a monopoly uses cash on hand to purchase a competitor or a competitor's supplier, that is an ABUSE of their monopoly position, and clearly illegal.
Companies can purchase other companies when they have cash and it suits them, sure... UNLESS you are monopoly! Monopolies have to play by different rules, and Microsoft shows time and time again that they blatantly WON'T. I call it when I see it, maybe because I'm just a geek like that.
Not everybody knows that, and that's the point... this is one more bit of know-how that separates your typical/.er from the common sheep of the world. Knowledge is what gives you the ability to transcend the constraints society puts on the common man, and certain skills are more effective at circumventing society than others (for example, picking locks... or phreaking some free long distance... or electronically altering your bank account).
These empowering skills are so valuable in a large part because of their obscurity. When you flat out TELL your common man that "hey, your MasterLocks are no longer secure against me, I'm a 1337 hax()r!", then you are basically undermining the value of the knowledge (one could design a new type of lock to which lockpicking skills no longer apply).
I can't decide how I feel about this... on one hand, I of course want safe locks... but I'd sure love to learn how to circumvent them, even if I'd never put it to practice. I suppose you should view this info the same way you view gunpowder recipes... everybody should be able to download a copy, because if they can't then it puts too much know-how in the hands of a priveledged few.
Exactly... the first thing I thought when I read this article was "here's yet more proof that microsoft is an abusive monopoly". What does Microsoft have to do to get stopped, buy up all the Starbucks?
Worst case scenario, they buy up all the game devrs, Xbox sales start picking up while the other consoles drop, and Microsoft can go "we didn't force them out, we innovated! The people have chosen!"
Whatever... it'll just be more incentive to get Xbox emulation working smoothly.
a) he's someone who made something of himself, and wasn't just from a wealthy, powerful family
b) he's someone that has Vision and can seek it out (even if we might not agree with his Vision, he's definitely got it!)
c) he's arguably of above-average intelligence... try and say THAT of any of the other candidates!
If Nader wasn't running, I'd vote for Jobs just because I know that if Jobs won, he would make a decent go of it and maybe even get something real done.
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Really? Do you know if this has ever been challenged / upheld? If not, then it's just a worthless scare tactic.
What if I got into the game without purchasing a ticket, somehow? Maybe I came in with the band or something.
People can say anything they like. Whether it's legally binding is a different matter.
The main reason I'm not using Redhat on my desktop right now as my main OS is that I can't paste large files from OpenOffice into Lotus Notes under Wine.
The main reason you aren't using Redhat on your desktop right now is because simple cut-and-paste operations are too hard for you. Go back to windows, and stay there.
Seriously, there are so many folks who just want to bitch and bitch and bitch about how Linux can't do this or that when it's OBVIOUS that they didn't take two seconds to fucking find out how. God only knows how they figured Windows out in the first place.
Just shut the fuck UP! Obviously people out there use Linux everyday, for everything they do. I am one. Yes, that's right, everyday for everything. And you can too!
And before you go "See, this is why normal people are scared of Linux, the users are so MEAN!" why don't you go and find out how easy it actually is to learn Red Hat/etc (seriously, Red Hat? The EASIEST FUCKING LINUX OUT THERE!), and how available information for Linux is on the web (google, god damnit!)
Then, maybe you'll understand why folks who've made the little investment needed to learn a new OS get so pissed at these Windows-using IDIOTS who do nothing but bitch and moan.
Downloading is legal... rather, it is as not illegal as possessing copyrighted works is not illegal.
If I have a huge bookshelf full of 100% stolen books (imagine I lifted them from the nearby bookstore) and the cops came in and saw my giant book collection, what does that mean?
NOTHING - they'd better have some evidence that I stole these books beyond the mere fact that I possess them!
Exactly, man. A voting application is maybe ONE step above the ubiquitous "Hello World". You present a list of choices, accept and record the input. Repeat.
How can this crash? Seriously! You can code up something in MINUTES that uses off-the-shelf hardware (say, a Dell box) to present a menu of choices 1,2,3. They send the results off to a server, too, so there's nothing to eat up the local memory. The most complicated part is validating the voter's registration, which is handled by human volunteers anyway.
We are stuck deep in the dark ages of computing, surely.
They can't. Possession of copyrighted works wasn't illegal, last I checked. It's distribution that's naughty. Should they mysteriously know that you have X number of mp3s on your computer (they'd better conjure up a warrant for that info), the burden of proof is on them to show, NOT that you downloaded these mp3s "illegally", but that you have no right to possess them (very different).
This cowardly rolling over by the public needs to stop.
Communism: the belief that you are owed something that you did not earn.
Capitalism: the chance to provide for oneself and one's family in an environment where Man's natural greed is it's own check and balance.
Hrm... I'm going with Capitalism...
Read it again, slower this time.
original "quip": "Building more roads to combat traffic congestion is like buying a bigger belt to combat obesity"
Increasing road capacity with no efforts to curtail ever increasing traffic volumes is in fact just like "buying a bigger belt to combat obesity." Perfectly legitimate statement.
Increasing unit traffic capacity (employing buses) is an act to curtail ever increasing traffic volumes while maintaining the same infrastructure, and would be akin to a statement like "going on a diet is a way to combat obesity without having to buy a bigger belt." A completely different logical statement.
The POINT of the original quip is to say that it is foolish to combat a growing problem by expanding your ability to tolerate the problem. You agreed with this point, saying that instead one should combat the growing problem. I fail to see how one point or the other is flawed.
In the general case, it is indeed foolish to try and accomodate a growing problem without also combatting the root cause of the problem. Foolish it is then to increase traffic capacity without also attempting to combat increasing traffic congestion.
And just what's wrong with a little elitism, eh? Linux is better. In countless ways. Am I using the 'other OS' just to be different and elitist, or could it possibly be that Linux really IS better?
Seriously - I can't think of a reason why you would be annoyed that folks who use Linux actually think it's better than Windows. They use it because they've found that to be true, and if they seem "elitist" to cubicle monkeys still fiddling with the latest security patch on their crippled Windows boxen, so what?
Maybe you should try and discover what all the fuss is about, then you can be elitist too.
I beleive that the ACTUAL way law works is that the PROSECUTION shows that the defendant does NOT have rights to the music in question, and the defendant is then free to refute the claims of the prosecution.
The burden is on the PROSECUTION to show that each and every 'voilation' is indeed a violation - that there's NO way that the defendant could be sharing that particular file legitimately.
All the defense has to do is rattle off their reasons for legitimately sharing... "I own the CD", "I encoded it myself", "it was a live recording", etc.
Granted, I am not so naive as to think that the world is ideal. Corps are crooked, the govt is inept regarding technology... basically, yeah, you don't want to get sued.
Genes are just sequences... they encode for proteins, which are just chemicals. It is perfectly logical that any particular gene could naturally occur in any species, in time. Modified plants with 'fish genes' would be the same plant with extra proteins from the new genes. Period. Nothing outrageous.
Thanks, that totally worked! Yay, open source.
Damn, that looks kick ass! I was in the market for a Zaurus myself, but wow! So many cool products just come flying into the market these days, it's no WONDER my wallet's got this huge hole in it!
And the fun led indicator? geek toy heaven!
Here, now you'll have an idea...
220 pounds ~ 100 kilos
6'6" ~ 2 meters
So, you're right at 100 kilos and somewhat under 2 meters tall. Easy breezy, and as accurate as you need for day-to-day.
I uploaded 7.11 this morning, actually... and the differences are AMAZING! The rendering is VASTLY improved! Not giving up Mozilla completely, yet, but I'll be browsing with Opera for the next week to give it a fair shake.
First, you don't need to send your return-trip fuel with you from Earth's surface. You create it from Martian stuffs.
Also, it'd be much more efficient to construct a large vessel in Earth orbit, and design it ONLY for orbit, and docking with existing Earth->orbit vehicles (like the shuttle). This large craft would then carry your payload of a mars lander / supplies from Earth orbit to Mars orbit.
The problem with all this is really the mentality that you have to construct everything including the kitchen sink down here at the bottom of Earth's gravity well, and blast it up to orbit. Screw that, construct it in orbit. Send the junk up in small, efficient quantities. And don't waste engineering trying to make one Magical-Swiss-Army-Knife vehicle to do everything.
Just my three cents.
Bzzt. Let's have a look at Architecture, for example... style and engineering are equally important.
I award you no points.
So when can I get my blue laser pen?
Please, everybody, buy these drives! Drive the price down so I can get it three years from now.
That's just a fun idea... plug in a second mouse, have a second, independant pointer appear. Plug in a second keyboard & monitor, restrict each keyboard & mouse to a specific monitor... that'd be great! Could X support something like that? Anybody in the know?
Why a torus, and not a hypersphere? All throughout this article, folks have chimed in "Of course, it's a torus, duh" but nobody has said why a torus would be more fitting than a hypersphere. In either shape, you can travel in any direction and return to where you started, but the hypersphere certainly seems more intuitive to me.
Any thoughts?
Well, this sucks. Looks like I'll be flashing my Router soon...
All those single-computer use clauses are evil anyway. A DSL line gives you X bandwidth, so X bandwidth is what you use, regardless of how many machines you multiplex it to. Arbitrary fees for extra machines behind the connection are just more ways to rape^H^H^H^Hmilk the customer.
I weep for the personal losses of life, and the losses to the space program in general. What a tragic setback!! And especially when you look at all the budget constraints, the cuts, the shortcuts (faster, better, cheaper?), you say to yourself " Could this have been easily avoided?
I wonder how many times this has to happen before the aged Shuttle is redesigned, and NASA budgets are made more reasonable.
It will be very interesting to see how this unfolds...
To all who have replied who think I'm some kind of "fucking idiot" for posting a "m$ monopoly!" post:
When a company that is declared a monopoly uses cash on hand to purchase a competitor or a competitor's supplier, that is an ABUSE of their monopoly position, and clearly illegal.
Companies can purchase other companies when they have cash and it suits them, sure... UNLESS you are monopoly! Monopolies have to play by different rules, and Microsoft shows time and time again that they blatantly WON'T. I call it when I see it, maybe because I'm just a geek like that.
Not everybody knows that, and that's the point... /.er from the common sheep of the world. Knowledge is what gives you the ability to transcend the constraints society puts on the common man, and certain skills are more effective at circumventing society than others (for example, picking locks... or phreaking some free long distance... or electronically altering your bank account).
this is one more bit of know-how that separates your typical
These empowering skills are so valuable in a large part because of their obscurity. When you flat out TELL your common man that "hey, your MasterLocks are no longer secure against me, I'm a 1337 hax()r!", then you are basically undermining the value of the knowledge (one could design a new type of lock to which lockpicking skills no longer apply).
I can't decide how I feel about this... on one hand, I of course want safe locks... but I'd sure love to learn how to circumvent them, even if I'd never put it to practice. I suppose you should view this info the same way you view gunpowder recipes... everybody should be able to download a copy, because if they can't then it puts too much know-how in the hands of a priveledged few.
Exactly... the first thing I thought when I read this article was "here's yet more proof that microsoft is an abusive monopoly". What does Microsoft have to do to get stopped, buy up all the Starbucks?
Worst case scenario, they buy up all the game devrs, Xbox sales start picking up while the other consoles drop, and Microsoft can go "we didn't force them out, we innovated! The people have chosen!"
Whatever... it'll just be more incentive to get Xbox emulation working smoothly.
You know, he might not be a bad president...
a) he's someone who made something of himself, and wasn't just from a wealthy, powerful family
b) he's someone that has Vision and can seek it out (even if we might not agree with his Vision, he's definitely got it!)
c) he's arguably of above-average intelligence... try and say THAT of any of the other candidates!
If Nader wasn't running, I'd vote for Jobs just because I know that if Jobs won, he would make a decent go of it and maybe even get something real done.