When was the last time you called you Congressman or Senator? When was the last time you wrote them? I did both this month what about you? Like I said. If you didn't vote then STFU.
I vote, and I in fact have called my congressman and senator both this month. Not written recently, but I have before.
However, that's irrelevant. I don't see voting as a prerequisite for free speech, as you seem to. And I don't even see "contact your elected officials" as one. There are many significant and meaningful things one can do as a member of democracy, and complaining is in and of itself one of the most important. There are also many other things one can do as an activist that have great actual real-world impact. Voting is nice, but it's only a part of the whole.
It was less than 50%, but it gets lower every election year so we'll reach 30% soon enough I'm sure.
What? No, it was 67.5% of registered voters, which is 51.3% of the voting-age population. Probably slightly higher actually, since about 2% of people vote but skip the presidential question. And this is actually *higher* than the last election (although the general trend is still down.)
This is all available online, and took me 30 seconds to find with Google.
Which brings me to the real problem: people are too lazy to educate themselves on the real issues. They take things -- "compassionate conservative", "the education president" -- at face value. And they take face value at face value -- we all know that Kerry doesn't stand a chance in 2004 simply because of that hair. Basically, elections are won by mass mind-control. Guess why the current administration is so friendly to the mega-media corporations?
If that how you feel and you don't vote don't complain then. I voted, I get to complain, if you didn't STFU.
That doesn't make any sense. If the options are meaningless, why insist that one must go through a charade? It's all well and good to cast a symbolic third (or fourth or fifth or sixth) party vote, but all it is symbolic -- and not even a very meaningful symbol, since no one pays attention.
Look at what happened with Nader -- instead of looking to see what Gore did wrong, and why those people chose to vote for someone else, the mainstream Democratic reaction was that those votes somehow stole something from them. The actual point of their vote was totally missed.
And it's pretty rare that you have a chance to make a non-Republocrat vote be as noticable as those were -- usually, you're just relegated to the pile with the dimpled chads and illegible markings.
So, you voted, and you feel like you did something and that it gives you this great privilege. That's nice -- but if you stop there, you've been completely duped.
I think the role you are talking about is better termed a "Tinkerer." No negative connotations, and no limitations.
Too many syllables. And it *does* have negative connotations, and doesn't get the right sense -- tinker implies unskilled or even crackpot. Plus, as I said, we've already got a perfectly good word.
I'm not trying to control the language. I don't see any need to. I also don't see why we ought to give up the word hacker. Look at the term "geek" -- something that has aways had negative connotations, now taken as a term of pride by many. It doesn't really bother me that it may still have negative connations to some -- either they can deal, or I don't care what they think.
(As an aside: interfere comes from older words meaning "to strike or collide". The "negative" connotation isn't some modern corruption of some Scientific original. And it still has positive connotations too -- "to run interference", for example. Likewise, accelerate comes from Latin meaning "to quicken". The scientific usage is jargon.)
"Coder" is a word which is pretty similar (same number of syllables, same intended meaning) without any of the associated negatives.
Except it's more specific. A hacker _might_ be just a little bit of a coder, and more of a clever integrator.
In any case, I don't see why we should have to give up our word just because other people use it in a different way. I've never seen a non-geek have a negative reaction to a simple explanation like: "A hacker isn't just someone who breaks into computers. It's a more general word meaning anyone who does particularly clever tech things. Sure, breaking into computers *can* fall into that category, but usually it's giving those people too much credit. I try to be a hacker in a *good* way, like the guys who started Apple Computer."
Um, or something shorter even, or longer if the person you're talking to isn't bored.
In any case, just because language changes doesn't mean it doesn't have room for more than one concept.
OK, they haven't stopped it, they stoped the support for it. Those who don't need support, don't need Red Hat to begin with.
I haven't ever used Red Hat support services, yet make great use of their distribution. You'll find this to be true for a great many Linux users.
We'll see a mass migration to Mandrake, Suse and Debian in that order. Fedora is MUCH worse that any of those.
Well, if that premise were *true*, that conclusion would follow. Fedora is actually a much better release than Red Hat Linux 9, and people seemed to like that okay.
Would you consider riding a donkey just because because you car manufacturer stopped support for your car? No, you go to another, more responsible one.
That doesn't even make sense. It's not a "donkey" -- it's a better model of the same "car".
The BBB doesn't handle any kind of litigation or action against a company. They try to facilitate a resolution between an individual and a corporation.
Remember, the BBB works *for* businesses, not for consumers. What they try to do is make complaints go away. Sometimes that means doing something for the customer, but usually it means trying to shut them up.
Spoken like someone who really hasn't kept up. The last few releases of RHL have tended towards stripping more and more things *out*. 'Course, everyone complained about that too.
They will be rendering the window system and applying it as a texture so that the DPI of the monitor is irrelevant.
That sounds like a terrible idea. Knowing exact real pixel positions is *key* for rendering font hinting properly. Fixing the problems you're talking about *require* DPI-specific knowledge. Rendering text in the abstract and then scaling it down (or, eek, up) to fit will be pure ugliness.
Red Hat made public its end of life plans at the end of last year. Slashdot's big hoopla the other day was a leeetle delayed. See the original announcement. Anyone paying even a slight bit of attention shouldn't have been surprised -- there was even relatively-widespread analysis in the geek press.
Novell could be half a year behind and still have time for "months of negotiations". And it's a big company, so it's not suprising for something like this to take that long.
Well, for example, in embedded systems, you *download* from a workstation to the littler computer connected to it by a cable. You're *exporting* -- sending data to another computer -- via a *download*.
I agree, the common usage is what you say, but I think the other one is older.
Check out the definition of download. Apparently, there's some sorta bizarre historical usuage of the term that was lost on us kids growing up with BBS systems....
Veritas can't even keep up the arrangements it already has. Where's the Netbackup client for Red Hat Linux 9? What's that? Out this summer sometime, huh? Okay.
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When was the last time you called you Congressman or Senator? When was the last time you wrote them? I did both this month what about you? Like I said. If you didn't vote then STFU.
I vote, and I in fact have called my congressman and senator both this month. Not written recently, but I have before.
However, that's irrelevant. I don't see voting as a prerequisite for free speech, as you seem to. And I don't even see "contact your elected officials" as one. There are many significant and meaningful things one can do as a member of democracy, and complaining is in and of itself one of the most important. There are also many other things one can do as an activist that have great actual real-world impact. Voting is nice, but it's only a part of the whole.
"STFU" or not.
It was less than 50%, but it gets lower every election year so we'll reach 30% soon enough I'm sure.
What? No, it was 67.5% of registered voters, which is 51.3% of the voting-age population. Probably slightly higher actually, since about 2% of people vote but skip the presidential question. And this is actually *higher* than the last election (although the general trend is still down.)
This is all available online, and took me 30 seconds to find with Google.
Which brings me to the real problem: people are too lazy to educate themselves on the real issues. They take things -- "compassionate conservative", "the education president" -- at face value. And they take face value at face value -- we all know that Kerry doesn't stand a chance in 2004 simply because of that hair. Basically, elections are won by mass mind-control. Guess why the current administration is so friendly to the mega-media corporations?
If that how you feel and you don't vote don't complain then.
I voted, I get to complain, if you didn't STFU.
That doesn't make any sense. If the options are meaningless, why insist that one must go through a charade? It's all well and good to cast a symbolic third (or fourth or fifth or sixth) party vote, but all it is symbolic -- and not even a very meaningful symbol, since no one pays attention.
Look at what happened with Nader -- instead of looking to see what Gore did wrong, and why those people chose to vote for someone else, the mainstream Democratic reaction was that those votes somehow stole something from them. The actual point of their vote was totally missed.
And it's pretty rare that you have a chance to make a non-Republocrat vote be as noticable as those were -- usually, you're just relegated to the pile with the dimpled chads and illegible markings.
So, you voted, and you feel like you did something and that it gives you this great privilege. That's nice -- but if you stop there, you've been completely duped.
As long as the papers say things like "Hackers Wage Cyberwar On Yahoo," you haven't got a perfectly good word.
Why not? Do all words with multiple senses confuse you this much? Your life must be hard. Difficult, I mean.
I think the role you are talking about is better termed a "Tinkerer." No negative connotations, and no limitations.
Too many syllables. And it *does* have negative connotations, and doesn't get the right sense -- tinker implies unskilled or even crackpot. Plus, as I said, we've already got a perfectly good word.
I'm not trying to control the language. I don't see any need to. I also don't see why we ought to give up the word hacker. Look at the term "geek" -- something that has aways had negative connotations, now taken as a term of pride by many. It doesn't really bother me that it may still have negative connations to some -- either they can deal, or I don't care what they think.
(As an aside: interfere comes from older words meaning "to strike or collide". The "negative" connotation isn't some modern corruption of some Scientific original. And it still has positive connotations too -- "to run interference", for example. Likewise, accelerate comes from Latin meaning "to quicken". The scientific usage is jargon.)
"Coder" is a word which is pretty similar (same number of syllables, same intended meaning) without any of the associated negatives.
Except it's more specific. A hacker _might_ be just a little bit of a coder, and more of a clever integrator.
In any case, I don't see why we should have to give up our word just because other people use it in a different way. I've never seen a non-geek have a negative reaction to a simple explanation like: "A hacker isn't just someone who breaks into computers. It's a more general word meaning anyone who does particularly clever tech things. Sure, breaking into computers *can* fall into that category, but usually it's giving those people too much credit. I try to be a hacker in a *good* way, like the guys who started Apple Computer."
Um, or something shorter even, or longer if the person you're talking to isn't bored.
In any case, just because language changes doesn't mean it doesn't have room for more than one concept.
That word -- I do not think it means what you think it means.
Philips 15" LCD Television.
Fedora is actually 100%. Even stuff with borderline licenses, like pine, is out.
OK, they haven't stopped it, they stoped the support for it. Those who don't need support, don't need Red Hat to begin with.
I haven't ever used Red Hat support services, yet make great use of their distribution. You'll find this to be true for a great many Linux users.
We'll see a mass migration to Mandrake, Suse and Debian in that order. Fedora is MUCH worse that any of those.
Well, if that premise were *true*, that conclusion would follow. Fedora is actually a much better release than Red Hat Linux 9, and people seemed to like that okay.
Would you consider riding a donkey just because because you car manufacturer stopped support for your car? No, you go to another, more responsible one.
That doesn't even make sense. It's not a "donkey" -- it's a better model of the same "car".
And also, it's not a car.
ReiserFS is in the kernel. And supported at install time via an undocumented boot option.
Notice that they *haven't* stopped. It's just called Fedora now, and has a more open developement process.
The BBB doesn't handle any kind of litigation or action against a company. They try to facilitate a resolution between an individual and a corporation.
Remember, the BBB works *for* businesses, not for consumers. What they try to do is make complaints go away. Sometimes that means doing something for the customer, but usually it means trying to shut them up.
I've come to the conclusion that some if not most slashdotter's [sic] are too riled by minor details.
Oh, the irony that forces me to make this post....
Spoken like someone who really hasn't kept up. The last few releases of RHL have tended towards stripping more and more things *out*. 'Course, everyone complained about that too.
1. it's VRAM, not your precious other RAM.
Are you saying that top reports VRAM status mixed in with the rest of its information? What leads you do this conclusion?
They will be rendering the window system and applying it as a texture so that the DPI of the monitor is irrelevant.
That sounds like a terrible idea. Knowing exact real pixel positions is *key* for rendering font hinting properly. Fixing the problems you're talking about *require* DPI-specific knowledge. Rendering text in the abstract and then scaling it down (or, eek, up) to fit will be pure ugliness.
Red Hat made public its end of life plans at the end of last year. Slashdot's big hoopla the other day was a leeetle delayed. See the original announcement. Anyone paying even a slight bit of attention shouldn't have been surprised -- there was even relatively-widespread analysis in the geek press.
Novell could be half a year behind and still have time for "months of negotiations". And it's a big company, so it's not suprising for something like this to take that long.
I don't see how it's a bad situation -- it's an improvement in every way over the previous arragement, except maybe for in name.
Well, for example, in embedded systems, you *download* from a workstation to the littler computer connected to it by a cable. You're *exporting* -- sending data to another computer -- via a *download*.
I agree, the common usage is what you say, but I think the other one is older.
Check out the definition of download. Apparently, there's some sorta bizarre historical usuage of the term that was lost on us kids growing up with BBS systems....
Didja notice the sub-heading that that quote is under? "Critics mistaken", it says. Pretty unbiased, huh?
This will be very handy for warning us of impending doom from the sky.
Veritas can't even keep up the arrangements it already has. Where's the Netbackup client for Red Hat Linux 9? What's that? Out this summer sometime, huh? Okay.