Calling it GNU/Linux versus just "Linux" also lends itself to prejudice. It is Significant also that some Linux distributions, which include non-GNU packages(cough*redhat*cough), is NOT a pure distribution. This is where the prejudice comes in.
The siginificance of GNU/Linux, such as Debian, is that it is pure by default, and not just free-as-in-beer, free. So, the next logical step of Linux, whether GNU or not, is that it be united in such a way, or perhaps packaged in general, in such a way, that if you WANT to make the distiction between GNU and non-GNU distributions, then those vendors who want to be LSB compliant, should have a GNU-only distro and then their standard distro.
This would however, be quite a bit of work added on. So where does that leave us? Exactly the same state we're in now. Labels are sometimes important for formality, but in general, we just call Linux distributions Linux. We, the average, tend to say I drive a car(truck, SUV, whatever). Why distinguish like , I drive a subaru car, or a toyota truck. We generalize all the time. To get angry at people who do this(which is all of us) is futile to say the least. Let's put some good though to this, rally all those involved(in the issue), and get everyone to sort this issue out. We must continue to unite, a little more every day. If we do not, then we have lost all our battles already.
Well, the point here is that "Nerds are people too." So, someone might say, look at all those "Nerds", but they will KNOW that those "Nerds" are people fighting for something. Even if only some small percentage of the population is educated, that's more than was before. With each protest, more education is dispersed. This is the basic principle of open source anything. Be it politics, software, or just life in general. Beware saying "general population" too. The only thing that shows, is how close minded you are. I've met plenty of people who know nothing about computers, technology, or even own a car newer than 1970 cause it just works for them. These people, who you seem to think we should watch-out for or fear at some level because of what they might believe to be true, will, regardless of what they know, still ask questions to understand what they know.
It's called temperence, honesty, and accountability. Don't worry so much about the "general public", rather educate them so you need'nt fear them so much. It all takes time, and nothing happens over night, no matter how much you might want it to.
We, the open source community, need to learn temperence, and patience, so we can remain focused on our goals and execute our strategies properly. Let's learn some temperence, and patience, and roll with the punches. If you don't, you will end up taking the brunt of them instead. -SuperBug
With a company who has resources coming to the table to give yet another choice that has been missing for so long, both proprietary software and open software, together they can be very powerful.
Think of AcceleratedX when it was first available. It is faster and for some people, runs better than XFree, but it's a choice people are willing to make. Since Caldera wants to make money in a more "business like" manner, they can do it this way, without having to worry about a lot of "Service Offerings" the way RH and so many others do their business.
This new business model, if executed correctly can allow other businesses to perhaps contribute where they otherwise might not. OpenSource won't get hurt by this, (won't get helped either), but business viability[of linux] can be helped by this.
I for one am taking a wait and see opinion here, it could be a train wreck, or perhaps it will be hightly successful.
My only gripe is that it seems VERY Microsoft like. And if I recall, didn't MS give Caldera some investment money? Just a thought.
-SuperBug
With a company who has resources coming to the table to give yet another choice that has been missing for so long, both proprietary software and open software, together they can be very powerful. Think of AcceleratedX when it was first available. It is faster and for some people runs better than XFree, but it's a choice people are willing to make. Since Caldera wants to make money in a more "business like" manner, they can do it this way, without having to worry about a lot of "Service Offerings" the way RH and so many others do their business. This new business model, if executed correctly can allow other businesses to perhaps contribute where they otherwise might now. OpenSource won't get hurt by this, (won't get helped either), but business viability[of linux] can be helped by this. I for one am taking a wait and see opinion here, it could be a train wreck, or perhaps it will be hightly successful. My only gripe is that it seems VERY Microsoft like. And if I recall, didn't MS give Caldera some investment money? Just a thought.
-SuperBug
MS has a monopoly. MS would like to continue that monopoly in every facet they can. So here we have several things:
MS wants to control software distribution how it sees fit:
SharedSource
.NET
HailStorm
SmartTags
MS must keep the public from knowing it's overall plan if it is to succeed:
IIS hack issues
Calling attention to OpenSource v. SharedSource, etc.
Picking as many fights as they can, publicly.
MS must control the internet and it's content in order to monopolize this next frontier
If MS does monopolize this next frontier, marketing can be forced down the throat of every person on the planet.
If MS does monopolize the internet, they can even have control over the marketing which is done on the internet by using a dynamic pricing structure to attain their goals and keep control over what marketers can/can't do.
These are just things to think about, but if you analyze what they're doing from afar, you will begin to see a clear pattern and direction they are taking in the "cloud of dust". I don't respect MS because they have no integrity, and they don't care about integrity. This is proven because everytime they market something, and lie about things, they just call it marketing and make no amends. Honesty is the best policy now a days. The truth will set us all free. --SuperBug
The IE 6.0 implementation of P3P, as stated by Microsoft here, is basically unenforceable and IE 6.0 relies on those who are implementing the P3P policies to be honest and forthcoming for what their real privacy policy is. Also, there are several ways around even needing to USE P3P.
The simplest is for someone like DoubleClick or AdForce, or Mediaplex (here on slashdot), to just redirect the cookie data being sent back to their servers, to their clients' sites and have the first party site re-set the cookie so now it is simply first party, but is still globally available.
Then by changing the code which performs cookie operations on the clients' sites, it will then be a first party cookie, and the first party will then generate the call for the banner ad, etc, but with data popluated by the first party instead of cookies set by the third party. Just a tip. - SuberBug
In a word, it's called 'slaughtered'. In the market place in general, Intel and Sun own the street. Hell NASDAQ runs on DELL for most of it's operations, and DOW uses many platforms, but X86 is a good percentage there as well. SGI will get quite hurt in the marketplace in general if they don't change with the times, as will Sun. If you look Sun and SGI are very similar in the way they build hardware with their own OS, and ship it to the customer, configure it for them, etc. etc. HP used to do this as well, and they felt the burn early, and still are even today, but they strive to change with the times. Now that Intel has a 64bit Architecture that can do anything from build a 2.4.x mono kernel in less than 5 mins on a single proc to be kick-ass with SSL needing almost no acceleration at all. You can replace a lot of lowerend Sun/HP/IBM hardware with cheaper procs, less of them, and do the same or more work. I've run benchmarks against E10Ks vs Athlons vs Xeons, and there's only 1 box which is crap. Can you guess? E10Ks are good for some things, but I have a Dual Xeon box beating the crap out of it right now, doing the same thing the E10K is doing. Just watch what Intel/AMD can do.
Seemingly one would want to blame the school/faculty, anyone who had a hand in the decision making process in which the boy was involved, which led to such a ridiculous and harsh suspension. At that length, we hear those involved state it's not their fault he died. I disagree. The lawmakers and policy makers which shaped the environment to which those in this particular decision making process are accustomed to are also to blame. Our children should be, partially, a guage of the climate of the times. Not so much the fact that video games, movies, etc cause our children to be 'monsters' or 'miscreants' or even incredulous, but rather the allowance of the new environment which we allow to be formed around us. Laws come into affect and change our social climate, and ultimately us. There are some changes which we must resist, and those which defy our natural born intelligence are those. If it is not natural to snuff out freedom of choice, or we would not like something done to us, then we should strive not to do it to others. Mistake this not. I don't blame the parents for what happened, but I blame all of us for allowing such an oppressive environment to exist in so many facets of our life. School should be a democracy, or better. Changes which affect students need to be discussed with the students AND their parents. In turn, parents should not expect that the people who teach, know how to rule. Know how to create rules, or worse still, know how to enforce rules properly. A good example is Timothy McVeigh. This is someone who could indeed teach a lot of people a specific thing with the proper training. Be it math, science, social studies, or history. However, we would not let him attempt to create rules for our children to abide by. He killed. He's scarred, and he's hurt. Just because someone doesn't build a bomb to hurt people, doesn't make them a good person. It simply means they don't know how to build a bomb, or don't want to. Shaping our children's minds is OUR responsibility. The parents. To decide what is best for them, with them, is our responsiblity. To allow an autonomous group, in most cases, to decide what's right for our children is ludicrous. GET MORE INVOLVED. It takes time, and it's difficult, but without our guidance as parents and people, in society, neither our children nore those who teach them will learn the proper lessons in life. We all learn, we never stop. We must remember that and continue to improve our lives, but not at the sacrifice of our abilities, our individuality, or the right to be who we are. Nurture talent, don't garner it. Give guidance, and examples, not without. Learn what your children know, teach them how to learn, decide, and discriminate between good and bad. Never let them feel as though they are being oppressed. STAND UP for them, sometimes they don't know how to do it themselves! If you don't, this legacy will continue, until we destroy our heritage. We need no knee-jerk reactions from this, but well thought out reactions. We must, if we don't, someone else will hurt just as equally. I hope I raise my daughter right, talk to her, listen to her, be there for her, and teach her as much as I can about tolerance in the face of oppression. I don't need a statistic like this in my own life.
1. Why and how is a computer program expressive speech? What does it
express? 2600's lawyers are entirely familiar with Touretzky's Gallery, so
forget about those. Assume you have some C or perl staring at you, any
random block of code in any random print-out. What does it express? Why
should that code be protected expression?
A. It[code] is an expression of an idea someone had for a method of
accomplishing a task. A set of instructions for getting that task done. It
applies to both humans and machines, since a human cannot understand
it[idea behind the code] without reading the code to understand the idea being
conveyed.
2. What examples of fair uses absolutely require access to the work in its
most modern, digital, uncorrupted, un-macrovisioned form? The only one
that jumped out at me is making a backup copy in case the original is
destroyed. But perhaps there are others.
A. Would not the entire OpenSource Initiative and OpenSource community be
an example of what fair use is? A coder takes code from another coder, that
coder then reads that code, compiles the code, comes to terms with what is
being
accomplished, then tweaks that code to perform some kind of public
service, i.e. beautification of the code making it easier for others to read,
fixing bugs, etc. Every revision of the code creates a copy. Possibly in CVS,
on
a backup tape which contains a copy of that CVS repository to protect it
from possible disasters, etc.
XFS has a few things that Reiser doesn't. One of the biggest things I can think of is Syncrhonous/Asynchronous IO, Modifiable Journal sizes(at create time), and the journals are entirely different. So, while reiser is WAY kewl, XFS offers more in the way of the capabilities Veritas offers. This I like because it's more like having a FREE version of veritas. Most people don't use all the capabilities of that slow bloated beast anyway, so something which still journals like a champ, and a bit faster overall than reiserfs, is ok by me. I'd been using ReiserFS for several months now, and am running it on my oracle server. I recently reinstalled with the RedHat XFS install cd that SGI put out and I must say it is definitely faster in many respects than reiser. Also, the error instance boot time startup log checks are almost 'un-noticeable'. This I feel is a much needed change compared to that of reiserfs or ext3. I still await Tux2 However, to hopefully be an inline replacement to ext2. But for now, my systems will use both Reiserfs, and XFS for sure! Nothing but goodness so far!
Since DELL and several others, say they want to make Eazel part of the user desktop, why don't they buy or at least help eazel. Yes, it would mean spending money, but the respect Dell would earn if they did a really good job would go light years for them in the OS community. Something Dell is lacking.
It seems to me that there are several people who fit this description. But.... They are still nuts. Who the hell does apple think they are? Just another example of a company trying to control every aspect of their situation. Stupid Apple! Bad Apple! Bad Bad Bad!
Keep in mind that INTEL has a head start on IA-64 architecture, and that IA64 will be "incompatible" with x86-64 from AMD. So a rift is created. What happens after that? Who knows, but I vote that AMD and INTEL will both dominate and eventually work together. Sounds like a fairytale I know, but it's possible that INTEL will figure out that it's been bested in several areas, and that their feigning marketshare is due to their lack of trying to keep the customers they have versus only gaining new ones.
Who in their right mind would just go buy a P4, until after they've tested both an AMD and INTEL for the things they need it to do. Office tests, Linux tests, etc. Speed, etc. I try to find reviews, etc, before even thinking about it. Then I look at the price. Most of the time AMD is 1-2 hundred bucks cheaper than Intel, on their newer stuff. Just my $0.02.
I'm a new father. I don't want my child to EVER go to public school. I went to public school, and have been picked on, etc, but we all have. I got over it, I continued to do my work and become a good scholar, and move on to do other things in my life. The reason I did so was because my parents taught me to do so. Because I learned from those who came before me. I did not repeat history. With no mentors or even worse, mentors who teach kids the wrong way to be, hostility, anger, intolerance, lack of understanding or willingness to learn new things and look at different points of views, even if they may be inflamatory to the third party, children, our future, will continue to repeat history. They will not evolve into higher more intelligent beings.
If we want the best for our kids, we need not to shield them and let government into our homes, but to govern our homes and families ourselves. If we want to have a truly democratic society, then we must start by teaching our kids these simple things. In fact, they are simple. No one thinks twice when they buy a lottery ticket or gives donations to 'Good Will'. These are democratic decisions that we made on our own. We were shown some facts by a consensus, and we decided. Why did we make these decisions, usually because we figure if other people are doing it and it can yield good things, then we should do it too. (probably not the best example)
These problems we have today, with people needing instant gratification and 'satisfaction' comes from breeding this into our soceity. Video games contribute to this no more than going to church. I love video games, violent or not. They are an escape from reality and provide a much needed stress relief. I feel no wanting of instant gratification over things than if I got in an accident on the street. We must learn patience, tolerance, and understanding. It is hard to teach people this very thing when a goverment who breeds intolerance and impatience is attempting to preech these very things.
Moderation is the key, and not moderation of what other people say or do, but taking things in moderation. I dont' believe in bible, but I do believe all things in moderation will keep us healthy. Both mentally, morally, and physically. We need to not allow the government into our homes and let them 'moderate' us. We, the citizens of the United States of America deserve to be allowed to raise our children in a manner which will produce a person who is suitable to living, working, and being in a society which will tolerate differences. As much as people in the U.S. Government say they are all about tolerance, etc. I have yet to see this be a truth. No tolerance has been paid to ANY person, who believes differently than the government on governmental issues. Only moral issues, and even that seems to be in danger. Heed this as not only a warning, but as an alarm that we need to send the message to our Govt, and say 'Leave our children alone, Leave us alone, and we will raise them properly. And those who do not raise their childre properly, will have them taken away, or they will be put away.'
Ben Franklin said it best when he referred to a citizens rights ending at the tip of his fingers.
In a stunningly ignorant and revolting manner, Micorosft manages to beat themselves senseless patting themselves on the back again. It's a great thing to see a company who lack such core skills as abilities, like adhereing to programming standards and compliance, take aim for not just one OS which they consider a threat, but go so far as to call it a phenomenon. Rather than saying that widows is the phenomenon, since Unix and ALL unices were developed before there were ANY idea of DOS, or Windowz, or Macincrack.
This guy calls people shortsighted and stuff, but doesn't even try to make a claim that his technology is new, or innovative. Unfortunately, its not. Tough break there windows users. Stuck with the bluescreen-stranglehold until you decide to switch to an OS which doesn't suck. Even OS-X would be a great switch.
It's not about him. It's about the beliefs of those who surround him. The wolves have been waiting to ravage anyone who gets in their way, and now the new keeper agrees with the wolves. If you lived in texas under HIS thumb, you'd understand for sure. The schools here are terrible. Most High School seniors can't even read on a 10th grade level. Texas is the land of big trucks and small minds. No one who's grown up here and gone to PUBLIC school has done all that well until very late in their life. Late 30's early 40's. But elsewhere, California, Washington state, Oregon, Iowa, etc, you're talking about Mid 20's early 30's for success. The younger and more successful we are as a whole, the better we perpetuate new ideas and culture. The elders are important for tradition and history and helping to perpetuate that. Together we are whole. But to be combining tradition and technology, that is a culture clash. This Bush is an example of that gap in our society. It is better to beware than be late to the punch.
A fear of mine is that there will be many "crack-Downs" and "Busts" of technological people for doing "crimes" as deemed crimes by the govt. It's not that this doesn't happen already, but my fear is it will happen much more arbitrarily, fascistly, and casually. As thought only those in power matter. This administration is full of fanatics and technologically incompitent individuals who honestly believe that what they don't know or trust can't hurt us, the people.
They believe that technology is something only "Adults" should have/use/take part in. These people are the dangerous incompetents who attempt to "Teach/Lead" our society down a black hole of mistrust and self rightousness. My biggest fear is that the opression will get so bad, that finally a new "Civil War" erupts, the likes of which no people have ever seen. Both technologically and physically. I fear so much opression that people lay down their keyboards in exchange for guns, knives, sabotage, and more. If the direction we are heading for doesn't stop, it seems that is exactly what will happen. Look at the ammount of civil unrest, opression, and more that has occurred right before any war. The air feels like that.
We should exercise our rights as often as we possibly can. More marches, more assemblies, more pickets and protests. More shouting in the streets because it's not only our ideals that are being violated. It's our children's rights which are in serious trouble if things hold their course. A world call to arms needs to be issued and we must not let ourselves be opressed into the future. We must tread lightly, but towards a common goal. The right goal, one of freedom of speech and freedom to use our abilities to the fullest and let us not be held back by politics and social pressures. Be true to yourself, because unlike other people, there is only one "you". We are all Human beings and we are all alike. We know good from bad, right from wrong, and we must evolve into something new. Our government must evolve with us as must the politicians evolve to serve the new goverment.
I'm tired of being labled a miscreant just because I know more than they do. Just because they don't understand us, they fear us. They have not evolved and they don't want to either. Thanks to all who read this and "fight the power!"
-SB-
In the loosest most overhyped sense of the word, you MIGHT be able to say this is a cluster. With a maximum of only 2 computers / "cluster", it might as well be Wolfpack. You know, that NT Enterprise cluster. You have quorum devices, etc. What damn use is it. You can't even use it for a high performance High availability webfarm.
-SB-
....and bring prices down. Don't buy an HDTV. Build an HDTV to analog converter. The guy that makes this and provides the plans to the Cable companies will most likely go down in history! Nevermind the politics and such. Business wise, this could be a very good thing!
These artists wouldn't have to be on the road so damn much if RIAA would pay them what they're worth and stop lining their own pockets instead. Artists of all types are always "trying to make it big" even if it's Painting, sculpting, etc. Hell, all of us are all trying to make it big. Art is a perception. Code is art I think. So does that mean we need someone to approve our code before we release it to the world? Does that mean we need a governing body like CIAA, Coding Industry Artists Association. Right and let them take royalties for all the code we right, even though it doesn't belong to them.
The real point here is even though the CIAA doesn't exist, the RIAA does and they are NOT a good faction to be part of. They are NOT looking out for the artists. They have become a self serving group whose interests lie in making themselves fat off the sweat of good people like TRUE artists. This is the reality of things, not what is supposed to be. Sorry to burst any bubble you may have, but the truth hurts!
- SB -
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--SuperBug
Calling it GNU/Linux versus just "Linux" also lends itself to prejudice. It is Significant also that some Linux distributions, which include non-GNU packages(cough*redhat*cough), is NOT a pure distribution. This is where the prejudice comes in.
The siginificance of GNU/Linux, such as Debian, is that it is pure by default, and not just free-as-in-beer, free. So, the next logical step of Linux, whether GNU or not, is that it be united in such a way, or perhaps packaged in general, in such a way, that if you WANT to make the distiction between GNU and non-GNU distributions, then those vendors who want to be LSB compliant, should have a GNU-only distro and then their standard distro.
This would however, be quite a bit of work added on. So where does that leave us? Exactly the same state we're in now. Labels are sometimes important for formality, but in general, we just call Linux distributions Linux. We, the average, tend to say I drive a car(truck, SUV, whatever). Why distinguish like , I drive a subaru car, or a toyota truck. We generalize all the time. To get angry at people who do this(which is all of us) is futile to say the least. Let's put some good though to this, rally all those involved(in the issue), and get everyone to sort this issue out. We must continue to unite, a little more every day. If we do not, then we have lost all our battles already.
--SuberBug
>> ...I fail to see how they will get any attention other than "Hey, look at all the nerds."
Protests are all about immediate public education
Well, the point here is that "Nerds are people too." So, someone might say, look at all those "Nerds", but they will KNOW that those "Nerds" are people fighting for something. Even if only some small percentage of the population is educated, that's more than was before.
With each protest, more education is dispersed. This is the basic principle of open source anything. Be it politics, software, or just life in general. Beware saying "general population" too. The only thing that shows, is how close minded you are. I've met plenty of people who know nothing about computers, technology, or even own a car newer than 1970 cause it just works for them. These people, who you seem to think we should watch-out for or fear at some level because of what they might believe to be true, will, regardless of what they know, still ask questions to understand what they know.
It's called temperence, honesty, and accountability. Don't worry so much about the "general public", rather educate them so you need'nt fear them so much. It all takes time, and nothing happens over night, no matter how much you might want it to.
We, the open source community, need to learn temperence, and patience, so we can remain focused on our goals and execute our strategies properly.
Let's learn some temperence, and patience, and roll with the punches. If you don't, you will end up taking the brunt of them instead.
-SuperBug
With a company who has resources coming to the table to give yet another choice that has been missing for so long, both proprietary software and open software, together they can be very powerful.
Think of AcceleratedX when it was first available. It is faster and for some people, runs better than XFree, but it's a choice people are willing to make. Since Caldera wants to make money in a more "business like" manner, they can do it this way, without having to worry about a lot of "Service Offerings" the way RH and so many others do their business.
This new business model, if executed correctly can allow other businesses to perhaps contribute where they otherwise might not. OpenSource won't get hurt by this, (won't get helped either), but business viability[of linux] can be helped by this.
I for one am taking a wait and see opinion here, it could be a train wreck, or perhaps it will be hightly successful.
My only gripe is that it seems VERY Microsoft like. And if I recall, didn't MS give Caldera some investment money? Just a thought.
-SuperBug
With a company who has resources coming to the table to give yet another choice that has been missing for so long, both proprietary software and open software, together they can be very powerful.
Think of AcceleratedX when it was first available. It is faster and for some people runs better than XFree, but it's a choice people are willing to make. Since Caldera wants to make money in a more "business like" manner, they can do it this way, without having to worry about a lot of "Service Offerings" the way RH and so many others do their business.
This new business model, if executed correctly can allow other businesses to perhaps contribute where they otherwise might now. OpenSource won't get hurt by this, (won't get helped either), but business viability[of linux] can be helped by this.
I for one am taking a wait and see opinion here, it could be a train wreck, or perhaps it will be hightly successful.
My only gripe is that it seems VERY Microsoft like. And if I recall, didn't MS give Caldera some investment money? Just a thought.
-SuperBug
These are just things to think about, but if you analyze what they're doing from afar, you will begin to see a clear pattern and direction they are taking in the "cloud of dust".
I don't respect MS because they have no integrity, and they don't care about integrity. This is proven because everytime they market something, and lie about things, they just call it marketing and make no amends. Honesty is the best policy now a days. The truth will set us all free. --SuperBug
Remember these things, you'll find that MS has a track record for only helping themselves.
-SuperBug
The IE 6.0 implementation of P3P, as stated by Microsoft here, is basically unenforceable and IE 6.0 relies on those who are implementing the P3P policies to be honest and forthcoming for what their real privacy policy is. Also, there are several ways around even needing to USE P3P.
The simplest is for someone like DoubleClick or AdForce, or Mediaplex (here on slashdot), to just redirect the cookie data being sent back to their servers, to their clients' sites and have the first party site re-set the cookie so now it is simply first party, but is still globally available.
Then by changing the code which performs cookie operations on the clients' sites, it will then be a first party cookie, and the first party will then generate the call for the banner ad, etc, but with data popluated by the first party instead of cookies set by the third party. Just a tip.
- SuberBug
In a word, it's called 'slaughtered'. In the market place in general, Intel and Sun own the street. Hell NASDAQ runs on DELL for most of it's operations, and DOW uses many platforms, but X86 is a good percentage there as well. SGI will get quite hurt in the marketplace in general if they don't change with the times, as will Sun. If you look Sun and SGI are very similar in the way they build hardware with their own OS, and ship it to the customer, configure it for them, etc. etc. HP used to do this as well, and they felt the burn early, and still are even today, but they strive to change with the times. Now that Intel has a 64bit Architecture that can do anything from build a 2.4.x mono kernel in less than 5 mins on a single proc to be kick-ass with SSL needing almost no acceleration at all. You can replace a lot of lowerend Sun/HP/IBM hardware with cheaper procs, less of them, and do the same or more work. I've run benchmarks against E10Ks vs Athlons vs Xeons, and there's only 1 box which is crap. Can you guess? E10Ks are good for some things, but I have a Dual Xeon box beating the crap out of it right now, doing the same thing the E10K is doing. Just watch what Intel/AMD can do.
Seemingly one would want to blame the school/faculty, anyone who had a hand in the decision making process in which the boy was involved, which led to such a ridiculous and harsh suspension. At that length, we hear those involved state it's not their fault he died. I disagree. The lawmakers and policy makers which shaped the environment to which those in this particular decision making process are accustomed to are also to blame. Our children should be, partially, a guage of the climate of the times. Not so much the fact that video games, movies, etc cause our children to be 'monsters' or 'miscreants' or even incredulous, but rather the allowance of the new environment which we allow to be formed around us. Laws come into affect and change our social climate, and ultimately us. There are some changes which we must resist, and those which defy our natural born intelligence are those. If it is not natural to snuff out freedom of choice, or we would not like something done to us, then we should strive not to do it to others. Mistake this not. I don't blame the parents for what happened, but I blame all of us for allowing such an oppressive environment to exist in so many facets of our life. School should be a democracy, or better. Changes which affect students need to be discussed with the students AND their parents. In turn, parents should not expect that the people who teach, know how to rule. Know how to create rules, or worse still, know how to enforce rules properly. A good example is Timothy McVeigh. This is someone who could indeed teach a lot of people a specific thing with the proper training. Be it math, science, social studies, or history. However, we would not let him attempt to create rules for our children to abide by. He killed. He's scarred, and he's hurt. Just because someone doesn't build a bomb to hurt people, doesn't make them a good person. It simply means they don't know how to build a bomb, or don't want to. Shaping our children's minds is OUR responsibility. The parents. To decide what is best for them, with them, is our responsiblity. To allow an autonomous group, in most cases, to decide what's right for our children is ludicrous. GET MORE INVOLVED. It takes time, and it's difficult, but without our guidance as parents and people, in society, neither our children nore those who teach them will learn the proper lessons in life. We all learn, we never stop. We must remember that and continue to improve our lives, but not at the sacrifice of our abilities, our individuality, or the right to be who we are. Nurture talent, don't garner it. Give guidance, and examples, not without. Learn what your children know, teach them how to learn, decide, and discriminate between good and bad. Never let them feel as though they are being oppressed. STAND UP for them, sometimes they don't know how to do it themselves! If you don't, this legacy will continue, until we destroy our heritage. We need no knee-jerk reactions from this, but well thought out reactions. We must, if we don't, someone else will hurt just as equally. I hope I raise my daughter right, talk to her, listen to her, be there for her, and teach her as much as I can about tolerance in the face of oppression. I don't need a statistic like this in my own life.
1. Why and how is a computer program expressive speech? What does it express? 2600's lawyers are entirely familiar with Touretzky's Gallery, so forget about those. Assume you have some C or perl staring at you, any random block of code in any random print-out. What does it express? Why should that code be protected expression? A. It[code] is an expression of an idea someone had for a method of accomplishing a task. A set of instructions for getting that task done. It applies to both humans and machines, since a human cannot understand it[idea behind the code] without reading the code to understand the idea being conveyed. 2. What examples of fair uses absolutely require access to the work in its most modern, digital, uncorrupted, un-macrovisioned form? The only one that jumped out at me is making a backup copy in case the original is destroyed. But perhaps there are others. A. Would not the entire OpenSource Initiative and OpenSource community be an example of what fair use is? A coder takes code from another coder, that coder then reads that code, compiles the code, comes to terms with what is being accomplished, then tweaks that code to perform some kind of public service, i.e. beautification of the code making it easier for others to read, fixing bugs, etc. Every revision of the code creates a copy. Possibly in CVS, on a backup tape which contains a copy of that CVS repository to protect it from possible disasters, etc.
XFS has a few things that Reiser doesn't. One of the biggest things I can think of is Syncrhonous/Asynchronous IO, Modifiable Journal sizes(at create time), and the journals are entirely different. So, while reiser is WAY kewl, XFS offers more in the way of the capabilities Veritas offers. This I like because it's more like having a FREE version of veritas. Most people don't use all the capabilities of that slow bloated beast anyway, so something which still journals like a champ, and a bit faster overall than reiserfs, is ok by me. I'd been using ReiserFS for several months now, and am running it on my oracle server. I recently reinstalled with the RedHat XFS install cd that SGI put out and I must say it is definitely faster in many respects than reiser. Also, the error instance boot time startup log checks are almost 'un-noticeable'. This I feel is a much needed change compared to that of reiserfs or ext3. I still await Tux2 However, to hopefully be an inline replacement to ext2. But for now, my systems will use both Reiserfs, and XFS for sure! Nothing but goodness so far!
Since DELL and several others, say they want to make Eazel part of the user desktop, why don't they buy or at least help eazel. Yes, it would mean spending money, but the respect Dell would earn if they did a really good job would go light years for them in the OS community. Something Dell is lacking.
It seems to me that there are several people who fit this description. But.... They are still nuts. Who the hell does apple think they are? Just another example of a company trying to control every aspect of their situation. Stupid Apple! Bad Apple! Bad Bad Bad!
Keep in mind that INTEL has a head start on IA-64 architecture, and that IA64 will be "incompatible" with x86-64 from AMD. So a rift is created. What happens after that? Who knows, but I vote that AMD and INTEL will both dominate and eventually work together. Sounds like a fairytale I know, but it's possible that INTEL will figure out that it's been bested in several areas, and that their feigning marketshare is due to their lack of trying to keep the customers they have versus only gaining new ones.
Who in their right mind would just go buy a P4, until after they've tested both an AMD and INTEL for the things they need it to do. Office tests, Linux tests, etc. Speed, etc. I try to find reviews, etc, before even thinking about it. Then I look at the price. Most of the time AMD is 1-2 hundred bucks cheaper than Intel, on their newer stuff. Just my $0.02.
http://www.stp-gateway.de/Archiv/archiv199-e.html This is an accurate description of what negative index of refraction is and why it would be useful.
I'm a new father. I don't want my child to EVER go to public school. I went to public school, and have been picked on, etc, but we all have. I got over it, I continued to do my work and become a good scholar, and move on to do other things in my life. The reason I did so was because my parents taught me to do so. Because I learned from those who came before me. I did not repeat history. With no mentors or even worse, mentors who teach kids the wrong way to be, hostility, anger, intolerance, lack of understanding or willingness to learn new things and look at different points of views, even if they may be inflamatory to the third party, children, our future, will continue to repeat history. They will not evolve into higher more intelligent beings. If we want the best for our kids, we need not to shield them and let government into our homes, but to govern our homes and families ourselves. If we want to have a truly democratic society, then we must start by teaching our kids these simple things. In fact, they are simple. No one thinks twice when they buy a lottery ticket or gives donations to 'Good Will'. These are democratic decisions that we made on our own. We were shown some facts by a consensus, and we decided. Why did we make these decisions, usually because we figure if other people are doing it and it can yield good things, then we should do it too. (probably not the best example) These problems we have today, with people needing instant gratification and 'satisfaction' comes from breeding this into our soceity. Video games contribute to this no more than going to church. I love video games, violent or not. They are an escape from reality and provide a much needed stress relief. I feel no wanting of instant gratification over things than if I got in an accident on the street. We must learn patience, tolerance, and understanding. It is hard to teach people this very thing when a goverment who breeds intolerance and impatience is attempting to preech these very things. Moderation is the key, and not moderation of what other people say or do, but taking things in moderation. I dont' believe in bible, but I do believe all things in moderation will keep us healthy. Both mentally, morally, and physically. We need to not allow the government into our homes and let them 'moderate' us. We, the citizens of the United States of America deserve to be allowed to raise our children in a manner which will produce a person who is suitable to living, working, and being in a society which will tolerate differences. As much as people in the U.S. Government say they are all about tolerance, etc. I have yet to see this be a truth. No tolerance has been paid to ANY person, who believes differently than the government on governmental issues. Only moral issues, and even that seems to be in danger. Heed this as not only a warning, but as an alarm that we need to send the message to our Govt, and say 'Leave our children alone, Leave us alone, and we will raise them properly. And those who do not raise their childre properly, will have them taken away, or they will be put away.' Ben Franklin said it best when he referred to a citizens rights ending at the tip of his fingers.
In a stunningly ignorant and revolting manner, Micorosft manages to beat themselves senseless patting themselves on the back again. It's a great thing to see a company who lack such core skills as abilities, like adhereing to programming standards and compliance, take aim for not just one OS which they consider a threat, but go so far as to call it a phenomenon. Rather than saying that widows is the phenomenon, since Unix and ALL unices were developed before there were ANY idea of DOS, or Windowz, or Macincrack. This guy calls people shortsighted and stuff, but doesn't even try to make a claim that his technology is new, or innovative. Unfortunately, its not. Tough break there windows users. Stuck with the bluescreen-stranglehold until you decide to switch to an OS which doesn't suck. Even OS-X would be a great switch.
Ditto
It's not about him. It's about the beliefs of those who surround him. The wolves have been waiting to ravage anyone who gets in their way, and now the new keeper agrees with the wolves. If you lived in texas under HIS thumb, you'd understand for sure. The schools here are terrible. Most High School seniors can't even read on a 10th grade level. Texas is the land of big trucks and small minds. No one who's grown up here and gone to PUBLIC school has done all that well until very late in their life. Late 30's early 40's. But elsewhere, California, Washington state, Oregon, Iowa, etc, you're talking about Mid 20's early 30's for success. The younger and more successful we are as a whole, the better we perpetuate new ideas and culture. The elders are important for tradition and history and helping to perpetuate that. Together we are whole. But to be combining tradition and technology, that is a culture clash. This Bush is an example of that gap in our society. It is better to beware than be late to the punch.
In the loosest most overhyped sense of the word, you MIGHT be able to say this is a cluster. With a maximum of only 2 computers / "cluster", it might as well be Wolfpack. You know, that NT Enterprise cluster. You have quorum devices, etc. What damn use is it. You can't even use it for a high performance High availability webfarm. -SB-
....and bring prices down. Don't buy an HDTV. Build an HDTV to analog converter. The guy that makes this and provides the plans to the Cable companies will most likely go down in history! Nevermind the politics and such. Business wise, this could be a very good thing!
These artists wouldn't have to be on the road so damn much if RIAA would pay them what they're worth and stop lining their own pockets instead. Artists of all types are always "trying to make it big" even if it's Painting, sculpting, etc. Hell, all of us are all trying to make it big. Art is a perception. Code is art I think. So does that mean we need someone to approve our code before we release it to the world? Does that mean we need a governing body like CIAA, Coding Industry Artists Association. Right and let them take royalties for all the code we right, even though it doesn't belong to them. The real point here is even though the CIAA doesn't exist, the RIAA does and they are NOT a good faction to be part of. They are NOT looking out for the artists. They have become a self serving group whose interests lie in making themselves fat off the sweat of good people like TRUE artists. This is the reality of things, not what is supposed to be. Sorry to burst any bubble you may have, but the truth hurts! - SB -