What the root issue here seems to me is honesty. Corporate types are so used to lying that it is just second nature to them to do so, and they don't understand the brutal honesty of open source type developers, nor do they appreciate it.
Honesty is in fact repellent and repulsive to the corporate developer/management/marketing team.
People thought of it a long time ago. A clean desktop with only icons for the programs you run.
some terminal based apps had some very intuitive interfaces.
Gui's seem to work well for folks who can quickly make connections between like things, but for the rest of them, well, I don't know if we can really help them aside from limiting their choices.
- Software companies release buggy software on purpose
- Software companies bundle new features (and hence bugs) in with bug fixes, all but guaranteeing that the software will never work properly.
These are two practices which Free Software developers abhor. There is no similarity.
Yes, it is an 'effort filter' but the wrong kind, and in the wrong place. Obviously no one could keep up with email - that's not the point. But the handwritten letter thing is just an excuse.
Like I said, how difficult would it be to solve this problem by web forms and a database?
The fact that they "pay more attention" to handwritten letters just shows how absolutely out of touch these people are.
Of course they can't keep up with email, that's absurd. They can't keep up with snail mail. "Oh, now it's too easy for my constituents to get in touch with me". Bullshit. This overlooks the real problem: YOU HAVE TOO MANY CONSTITUENTS. 1:50,000 I believe, was the original ratio.
However, how damn hard would it be for each representative to have a web page with a questionaire to gage their constituents opinions on bills that are on the floor? Then all they would have to do is check the report.
There is the problem of ballot stuffing to work out, but neither snail nor email is immune to that either.
That said, the real problem is, of course, that they don't give a flying fuck anyway, so the whole point is moot.
Thank you, the first informed post about this yet.
You will find very few atheists who will say "there is no god". Rather the strongest position is "god is irrelevant, because there is nothing we can know about it". Some of you might call this view "agnostic", but agnosticism is a subset of atheism. I do not call myself agnostic for the sole reason that it confers a sort of wishy-washiness. Most people who call themselves 'agnostic' are really just undecided.
It is true, however, that the "hard" atheist position ("there is NO god") requires faith and is unscientific itself. This alone does not, in any way, however, qualify it as a 'religeon', as some believers will attest.
I fail to see why this is the problem of strict firewall rules... it is Microsoft's reaction in this case that is stupid. If.NET used port 3592 then admins would open that port up if they were using.net. How hard was that?
It's developers doing lazy stupid things, this time.
... that's already been won. Apache will never have such nonsense built into it, and no one is going to buy such crapware, at least no one with a site worth going to.
This is hardly possible, since AFAIK, IIS is the only server which can parse asp scripts, which is why these morons are running IIS. There are thrid party options to run asp on Apache, but they are exorbitantly expensive.
What? Uh, Apache (99% of apache servers are unix) has THREE TIMES the market share that Windows IIS has, and there haven't been any apache worms floating around.
Q: If someone wanted to bring down web servers, why are they attacking the one with smaller market share?
A: Because it is a piece of crap and easily cracked
The primary rationale I see bandied about is that during wartime every populace has to give up certain rights or to allow the governement the ability to infringe on those rights if need be.
The "drug war" gives a good precedent. Because wars give the government excuse for tremendous rollback of liberties, what the government seeks is an endless war. But the drug war just isn't good enough I guess. A war against 'terrorism' or 'drugs' cannot be won (face it, the only way to eradicate 'terrorism' is to change our foreign policy, which will never happen). The US will be a thoroughly facist state within a few years if this trend is not opposed.
Anyone who cooks knows that different types of vegetables have different purposes in cooking. One would not use creole tomatoes on a pizza, they're to watery. Likewise you wouldn't use roma tomatoes in shrimp creole.
Anyone who cooks knows this. Different types of potatoes (or anything else) have vastly different qualities WRT cooking. Some types of corn or potatoes are starchier than others and can greatly change the flavor of some dish.
I have nothing against GM food, and this is most likely GM food. The problem, as with software, is patents.
Many GM seeds come with "terminator" genes and so forth and cause the same sort of "forced upgrades" and other nonsense that programmers and IT folks despise about software.
This I think is the main fury of the anti-GM crowd, not that GM food is unhealthy (though it's quite possible for it to be unhealthy).
albeit crap cars and crap mpg,
My Saturn cost about $12k four years ago, and has averaged between 40-45 MPG, depending on season. It is a solid car, and hasn't needed any repairs in the (almost) 100k miles so far, just oil, tires, and plugs. It is quiet and smooth.
Just to add something. Cars are more expensive now than they have ever been in history (relative to incomes), they don't last as long as they used to, you generally cannot work on them yourself (so you have to pay more for service), and they are more neccessary to own than ever before.
In 1970, you could buy a beetle for about $1500, about 6% of your average americans annual income. Now the cheapest cars cost roughly 30% of the average persons annual income.
SUV's are very popular, expensive and are tremendous gas guzzlers.
I don't see any reason why sourceforge and freshmeat or other sites like it could not handle donations, or rather tips for certain projects.
I know that if it was as simple as putting my credit card # in and selecting a project, and tipping $5, i'd have already done it many times. This could all be very easy.
Actually, it was the ancient Celts that came up with the damascening technique, and it made it's way to asia minor from there. This was around 150BC IIRC. Chain mail was another celtic invention. They were not so great with stone, but as far as mettalurgy goes, the celts far surpassed anyone else at the time.
you've obviously never worked as a sysadmin, 99% of users are not even remotely interested in exploring their system or anything else. They just want to run the apps they are used to, and that's it.
If anything, it's the "power" windows users who are the bane of sysadmins, because they are constantly trying to install all sorts of garbage on their machines, and ruining them.
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What the root issue here seems to me is honesty. Corporate types are so used to lying that it is just second nature to them to do so, and they don't understand the brutal honesty of open source type developers, nor do they appreciate it.
Honesty is in fact repellent and repulsive to the corporate developer/management/marketing team.
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People thought of it a long time ago. A clean desktop with only icons for the programs you run.
some terminal based apps had some very intuitive interfaces.
Gui's seem to work well for folks who can quickly make connections between like things, but for the rest of them, well, I don't know if we can really help them aside from limiting their choices.
You blithely ignore two facts:
- Software companies release buggy software on purpose
- Software companies bundle new features (and hence bugs) in with bug fixes, all but guaranteeing that the software will never work properly.
These are two practices which Free Software developers abhor. There is no similarity.
Yes, it is an 'effort filter' but the wrong kind, and in the wrong place. Obviously no one could keep up with email - that's not the point. But the handwritten letter thing is just an excuse.
Like I said, how difficult would it be to solve this problem by web forms and a database?
The fact that they "pay more attention" to handwritten letters just shows how absolutely out of touch these people are.
Of course they can't keep up with email, that's absurd. They can't keep up with snail mail. "Oh, now it's too easy for my constituents to get in touch with me". Bullshit. This overlooks the real problem: YOU HAVE TOO MANY CONSTITUENTS. 1:50,000 I believe, was the original ratio.
However, how damn hard would it be for each representative to have a web page with a questionaire to gage their constituents opinions on bills that are on the floor? Then all they would have to do is check the report.
There is the problem of ballot stuffing to work out, but neither snail nor email is immune to that either.
That said, the real problem is, of course, that they don't give a flying fuck anyway, so the whole point is moot.
You will find very few atheists who will say "there is no god". Rather the strongest position is "god is irrelevant, because there is nothing we can know about it". Some of you might call this view "agnostic", but agnosticism is a subset of atheism. I do not call myself agnostic for the sole reason that it confers a sort of wishy-washiness. Most people who call themselves 'agnostic' are really just undecided.
It is true, however, that the "hard" atheist position ("there is NO god") requires faith and is unscientific itself. This alone does not, in any way, however, qualify it as a 'religeon', as some believers will attest.
No
You'll need new modutils, ppp among others. Probably everything will break.
For debian though, someone was kind enough to provide 2.4 friendly versions of everything, apt-gettable and all.
I fail to see why this is the problem of strict firewall rules ... it is Microsoft's reaction in this case that is stupid. If .NET used port 3592 then admins would open that port up if they were using .net. How hard was that?
It's developers doing lazy stupid things, this time.
... that's already been won. Apache will never have such nonsense built into it, and no one is going to buy such crapware, at least no one with a site worth going to.
Aqua is pretty, I'll give them that. But it doesn't wear well. It's too slick for me. And I'm just looking at screenshots.
Most people in the long run would prefer something simple, like KDE's platinum or GTK thin ice.
This is hardly possible, since AFAIK, IIS is the only server which can parse asp scripts, which is why these morons are running IIS. There are thrid party options to run asp on Apache, but they are exorbitantly expensive.
no, but then I didn't do anything. I have a hard enough time feeling guilty about fucked up shit I do, let alonme fucked up shit other people do.
I wonder if Bush Sr or Clinton are overwhelmed with feeling of guilt over tens of thousands of East Timorese being slaughtered with US weapons.
This sounds a little like Progeny's Linux NOW project (unfortunately put on hold), it seems like MS is playing catch up now.
What? Uh, Apache (99% of apache servers are unix) has THREE TIMES the market share that Windows IIS has, and there haven't been any apache worms floating around.
Q: If someone wanted to bring down web servers, why are they attacking the one with smaller market share?
A: Because it is a piece of crap and easily cracked
OK, a lot of people died. People die by the thousands EVERY DAY.
If some foriegn nation invaded, and tried to set up a totalitarian system here, what would you do, roll over and give up?
It's the same thing. But the worst enemy of the constitution is the US government itself.
Go to Singapore, China or Saudi Arabia for a while then come back and spout this nonsense.
The "drug war" gives a good precedent. Because wars give the government excuse for tremendous rollback of liberties, what the government seeks is an endless war. But the drug war just isn't good enough I guess. A war against 'terrorism' or 'drugs' cannot be won (face it, the only way to eradicate 'terrorism' is to change our foreign policy, which will never happen). The US will be a thoroughly facist state within a few years if this trend is not opposed.
Well this is a culinary disaster.
Anyone who cooks knows that different types of vegetables have different purposes in cooking. One would not use creole tomatoes on a pizza, they're to watery. Likewise you wouldn't use roma tomatoes in shrimp creole.
Anyone who cooks knows this. Different types of potatoes (or anything else) have vastly different qualities WRT cooking. Some types of corn or potatoes are starchier than others and can greatly change the flavor of some dish.
I have nothing against GM food, and this is most likely GM food. The problem, as with software, is patents.
Many GM seeds come with "terminator" genes and so forth and cause the same sort of "forced upgrades" and other nonsense that programmers and IT folks despise about software.
This I think is the main fury of the anti-GM crowd, not that GM food is unhealthy (though it's quite possible for it to be unhealthy).
Just to add something. Cars are more expensive now than they have ever been in history (relative to incomes), they don't last as long as they used to, you generally cannot work on them yourself (so you have to pay more for service), and they are more neccessary to own than ever before.
In 1970, you could buy a beetle for about $1500, about 6% of your average americans annual income. Now the cheapest cars cost roughly 30% of the average persons annual income.
SUV's are very popular, expensive and are tremendous gas guzzlers.
sendmail doesn't give users any "access" to their mail ... do you mean that it runs a pop/imap server as well? I imagine it well could
I don't see any reason why sourceforge and freshmeat or other sites like it could not handle donations, or rather tips for certain projects.
I know that if it was as simple as putting my credit card # in and selecting a project, and tipping $5, i'd have already done it many times. This could all be very easy.
Actually, it was the ancient Celts that came up with the damascening technique, and it made it's way to asia minor from there. This was around 150BC IIRC. Chain mail was another celtic invention. They were not so great with stone, but as far as mettalurgy goes, the celts far surpassed anyone else at the time.
you've obviously never worked as a sysadmin, 99% of users are not even remotely interested in exploring their system or anything else. They just want to run the apps they are used to, and that's it.
If anything, it's the "power" windows users who are the bane of sysadmins, because they are constantly trying to install all sorts of garbage on their machines, and ruining them.