Try using a real source, like The Constitution, not some propaganda farm.
Preamble:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Article 1, Section 8:
To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Its supported just like the US Military is. Now please take your fascist BS to someplace more appropriate; if you don't like China, try Iran, or Saudi Arabia. They're all more to suited to you.
You ever eat food that didn't kill you ? (FDA), or drink water? How about housing the hard core criminals in prison?
Does it snow in your area? Plows are a nice thing to have.
I pay for all my food. Which in turn pays fee's to the FDA. I also pay for my water. Criminals should be shot and the family should be charged for the execution just like in China. I also paid for snow removal when I lived up North.
I'm pretty sure that over 50% of my federal income tax and SS is for worthless programs that benefit the lazy.
If you really believe this, and are against the Constitution, perhaps you should renounce your citizenship and relocate to China. We would all be happier.
2. Root is God. This must really be fixed. There should be a way for root to irrevocably divest its powers, and root does not need to access users file. A user should explicitly grant root permission to read his files. It will always be a major security issue because all one has to do is become root. Plan9 managed to do that.
root is God is the correct behavior. The fact the the Administrator is not God is a design flaw in Windows. Failing to properly administer your system is not a failure of the OS. If somebody can get root, then that can get another, unpriviledged account as well; without first getting root.
I am sure linux evangelists are going to propose (hack-filled) workarounds or reasons it can't work, but I don't buy it. That is why I left linux.
That's the beauty of Linux, if you don't like it, you're free to leave it.
1. Why is Linux blamed for configuration files that are written by application developers? Linux is a kernel and is not responsible for Sendmail. Further I fail to see how the point and click method of configuration is better than editing a text file than can be searched, backed up and version controlled.
The article's author apparently likes the Windows Registery.
I seem to remember the pundits saying that there weren't enough applications that could make use of the broadband connections and all that bandwidth was going to waste.
If what was being said were true, only us techies would be affected....and if that were true no one would care (including us techies) because we know how to protect ourselves.
Many power-users install only a minimal number of addons to do what we want. Stuff like flash-block along with flash. We don't need a dozen fool-bars or huge numbers of widgets.
As evidence, the may have released CLR as an open standard, but they never released the full API or associated libraries needed for actual development.
They have released the APIs - it's all there on msdn.microsoft.com.
Sure it is, just like they released the full Win32 API.
Really, Slashdot, I'm disappointed. You go for the knee-jerk "fuck Microsoft" when really we're looking at Microsoft's attempt to cede the Windows monopoly and rebuild the Win32 API lock-in that delivered that monopoly across the Internet? That's a much scarier prospect, especially seeing as.Net is the only product of theirs they haven't run into the ground yet.
Its not a knee-jerk reaction, MS has earned it.
MS has been shown in court, to be a predatory, criminal enterprise.
Silverlight will only be cross platform until is eliminated the competition, like Flash, on the Windows platform. Once it does that, MS will begin scaling back support for Linux and Mac so that the only version of the system is available for Windows.
As evidence, the may have released CLR as an open standard, but they never released the full API or associated libraries needed for actual development.
I don't think that they were saying that it's an outrage that HR workers don't make as much money as other professions. The outrage comes from the overall male vs female income, which female-dominated relatively-low-income professions like HR skews, and thus gives an inaccurate picture.
However even if I misinterpret the sentence starting with the word "outrage", one thing I'm sure I comprehend, and that they're correct on: The reason nobody gives a rat's ass about gender equality in those jobs is because nobody is envious of those job's salaries. Nobody cares about the gender gap in day laborers even though it's huge. If CS was a low-paying job, nobody would care about the gender gap in CS.
If the women wanted to make the same money as an engineer, they could tough it out through engineering school.
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no one in Hollywood would risk offending the "gay" mafia nor would they dare go up against the inevitable boycotts and protests.
I say leave Stallman alone and never give him any more attention. Give him credit for what he did. But now he is just trying to micromanage the process as best he can to try to meet his software Utopia. Universal Acceptance of Free and Open all the way software is impossible. There will be people who want to keep credit for their work, people who want to make money off of their work, and they do not want to make money supporting their software.
And make sure that you correct RMS every time he calls it GNU/Linux.
You're right. Because *everything* that a person needs to know about PDEs is taught in that undergrad class. This must be some sort of joke! The outrage!! We shall not stand for this!
Of course, the other option (even though it's completely ridiculous) is that--like most colleges--there is more than one level of PDE class, just as there is more than one calculus class. But I know, it's crazy (that's why we threw that out at the start!)
The material he is describing is what is covered in the undergrad PDE course. Its frequently given as both an undergrad course number and a graduate course number: same book, just more work for the grad level class.
Sales and marketing do not need to rely on technological supriority. It's one of many features to market, but genuine technological superiority can provide useful features, lower production costs, reduce maintenance, etc. Now Lisp made a lot of promises to elevate computing. Its great promises to understand the human mind, to deal with ever larger and more complex problems, seems to have not been borne out.
I never said technological superiority, I specified the opposite. I said newer, and revised.
Genuine technological superiority is nice; but in the real world, the product with the best marketing is usually what wins out. If the superior technology can survive long enough, it may win eventually. But the short-term victory belongs to S&M, and that's were next months revenue comes from.
On a mailing list you might not get a response back, or the response might not work and then they say sorry, can't help you. With a support contract, there's a method of escalation.
I'm not saying that it works all the time, but it can sometimes help.
Sounds to me like you're saying that they're both as uncertain as each other - but I can pay for one? Wow, I'm sold.
I guess issue escalation processes and NDAs aren't worth anything to you.
Is this very different from open source though? You can generally get good support from a mailing list if you ask the right questions. You could also buy some support at the developer's company or another OSS support firm.
The major difference is that for all the companies without enough clout to get something done at their software suppliers, support is generally nil, where anyone can ask questions on a mailing list or buy decent support.
On a mailing list you might not get a response back, or the response might not work and then they say sorry, can't help you. With a support contract, there's a method of escalation.
I'm not saying that it works all the time, but it can sometimes help.
In addition to the escalation process, there is frequently an NDA in place so that you can send support confidential information.
Then, if market performance and superior technology have nothing to do with each other, why should anyone invest their money in research?
Sales and marketing.
In a technology market if you don't do research to revise old products and create new ones, your sales and marketing people have nothing to sell and your technology will die. Technological superiority has little to do with this.
That's just a horrific, horrific name. I mean, I somewhat understand why the name, "The God Particle," was coined, because physicists kept looking and looking and not finding anything (for over thirty years), but no. It's got nothing whatsoever to do with what lay people think about when they think about God.
I suppose you would prefer to call it the Goatse Particle?
Come on, the LHC prove God? How exactly would it do that? Do people somehow think that a probability of producing some particle X has anything to say one way or another whether or not a god exists? What about particle Y? Or when you slam atoms together instead of protons?
The fact remains that no god concept has anything to say one way or another on these questions. I find it rather absurd that anybody would consider the LHC to have anything to say here.
As for whether or not a god can be proven, of course, that depends entirely upon the god. If you provide a specific definition that is testable, then it can be tested for. The problem is that most people who believe in one god or another refuse to do this. They stick only to words and phrases which are, by their very construction, completely untestable. I'm talking here about things like, "God is love," or, "God created the Universe." You just can't test these things. Sometimes, of course, they make very specific predictions, such as, "God heals as a response to prayer," or, "God will cause the world to end in 1922," which, once tested, invariably come out to be false. One wonders why they continue to believe that the existence of a deity is even reasonably likely.
I'm one of those American Right people you speak of, however I think we're so far off on the horizon you can't see us clearly. You see, we're being obscured by all those people to the Left of us that are constantly trying to take away the First and our guns. We usually blame the Left for all our ills, but I guess the problem is that our view is just as obscured as your view by that huge mass of selfish people in the Middle.
Oh and the Second is more important than the First: You don't need to yell if you're armed, or as Roosevelt said "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Taliban controlled Afghanistan was an example of an armed society without the First Amendment.
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I want to see liberals' heads explode when they realize that Socialized medicine is being used to buy people guns.
Real Liberals are For Personal Gun Ownership.
Try using a real source, like The Constitution, not some propaganda farm.
Preamble:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Article 1, Section 8:
To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Its supported just like the US Military is. Now please take your fascist BS to someplace more appropriate; if you don't like China, try Iran, or Saudi Arabia. They're all more to suited to you.
You ever eat food that didn't kill you ? (FDA), or drink water? How about housing the hard core criminals in prison?
Does it snow in your area? Plows are a nice thing to have.
I pay for all my food. Which in turn pays fee's to the FDA. I also pay for my water. Criminals should be shot and the family should be charged for the execution just like in China. I also paid for snow removal when I lived up North.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fy2008spendingbycategory.png
I'm pretty sure that over 50% of my federal income tax and SS is for worthless programs that benefit the lazy.
If you really believe this, and are against the Constitution, perhaps you should renounce your citizenship and relocate to China. We would all be happier.
2. Root is God. This must really be fixed. There should be a way for root to irrevocably divest its powers, and root does not need to access users file. A user should explicitly grant root permission to read his files. It will always be a major security issue because all one has to do is become root. Plan9 managed to do that.
root is God is the correct behavior. The fact the the Administrator is not God is a design flaw in Windows. Failing to properly administer your system is not a failure of the OS. If somebody can get root, then that can get another, unpriviledged account as well; without first getting root.
I am sure linux evangelists are going to propose (hack-filled) workarounds or reasons it can't work, but I don't buy it. That is why I left linux.
That's the beauty of Linux, if you don't like it, you're free to leave it.
1. Why is Linux blamed for configuration files that are written by application developers? Linux is a kernel and is not responsible for Sendmail. Further I fail to see how the point and click method of configuration is better than editing a text file than can be searched, backed up and version controlled.
The article's author apparently likes the Windows Registery.
I seem to remember the pundits saying that there weren't enough applications that could make use of the broadband connections and all that bandwidth was going to waste.
Many non-power-users don't use addons at all.
If what was being said were true, only us techies would be affected. ...and if that were true no one would care (including us techies) because we know how to protect ourselves.
Many power-users install only a minimal number of addons to do what we want. Stuff like flash-block along with flash. We don't need a dozen fool-bars or huge numbers of widgets.
They have released the APIs - it's all there on msdn.microsoft.com.
Sure it is, just like they released the full Win32 API.
Really, Slashdot, I'm disappointed. You go for the knee-jerk "fuck Microsoft" when really we're looking at Microsoft's attempt to cede the Windows monopoly and rebuild the Win32 API lock-in that delivered that monopoly across the Internet? That's a much scarier prospect, especially seeing as .Net is the only product of theirs they haven't run into the ground yet.
Its not a knee-jerk reaction, MS has earned it.
MS has been shown in court, to be a predatory, criminal enterprise.
Silverlight will only be cross platform until is eliminated the competition, like Flash, on the Windows platform. Once it does that, MS will begin scaling back support for Linux and Mac so that the only version of the system is available for Windows.
As evidence, the may have released CLR as an open standard, but they never released the full API or associated libraries needed for actual development.
Like the DoD actually cares, they still have Faux News and talk radio.
But they aren't going to be getting that kind of money in HR.
I don't think that they were saying that it's an outrage that HR workers don't make as much money as other professions. The outrage comes from the overall male vs female income, which female-dominated relatively-low-income professions like HR skews, and thus gives an inaccurate picture.
However even if I misinterpret the sentence starting with the word "outrage", one thing I'm sure I comprehend, and that they're correct on: The reason nobody gives a rat's ass about gender equality in those jobs is because nobody is envious of those job's salaries. Nobody cares about the gender gap in day laborers even though it's huge. If CS was a low-paying job, nobody would care about the gender gap in CS.
If the women wanted to make the same money as an engineer, they could tough it out through engineering school.
no one in Hollywood would risk offending the "gay" mafia nor would they dare go up against the inevitable boycotts and protests.
And I agree!
There's a reason why its called Hollyweird.
I say leave Stallman alone and never give him any more attention. Give him credit for what he did. But now he is just trying to micromanage the process as best he can to try to meet his software Utopia. Universal Acceptance of Free and Open all the way software is impossible. There will be people who want to keep credit for their work, people who want to make money off of their work, and they do not want to make money supporting their software.
And make sure that you correct RMS every time he calls it GNU/Linux.
You're right. Because *everything* that a person needs to know about PDEs is taught in that undergrad class. This must be some sort of joke! The outrage!! We shall not stand for this!
Of course, the other option (even though it's completely ridiculous) is that--like most colleges--there is more than one level of PDE class, just as there is more than one calculus class. But I know, it's crazy (that's why we threw that out at the start!)
The material he is describing is what is covered in the undergrad PDE course. Its frequently given as both an undergrad course number and a graduate course number: same book, just more work for the grad level class.
Because the poor SOB is going to go out and buy a new computer, and that new computer will come with a Vista license as well. So MS gets 2 sales.
Then Windows 7 is released ahead of schedule, and people buy an upgrade, or a new computer ahead of schedule. Its Win-Win for M$.
Sales and marketing do not need to rely on technological supriority. It's one of many features to market, but genuine technological superiority can provide useful features, lower production costs, reduce maintenance, etc. Now Lisp made a lot of promises to elevate computing. Its great promises to understand the human mind, to deal with ever larger and more complex problems, seems to have not been borne out.
I never said technological superiority, I specified the opposite. I said newer, and revised.
Genuine technological superiority is nice; but in the real world, the product with the best marketing is usually what wins out. If the superior technology can survive long enough, it may win eventually. But the short-term victory belongs to S&M, and that's were next months revenue comes from.
On a mailing list you might not get a response back, or the response might not work and then they say sorry, can't help you. With a support contract, there's a method of escalation. I'm not saying that it works all the time, but it can sometimes help.
Sounds to me like you're saying that they're both as uncertain as each other - but I can pay for one? Wow, I'm sold.
I guess issue escalation processes and NDAs aren't worth anything to you.
Is this very different from open source though? You can generally get good support from a mailing list if you ask the right questions. You could also buy some support at the developer's company or another OSS support firm.
The major difference is that for all the companies without enough clout to get something done at their software suppliers, support is generally nil, where anyone can ask questions on a mailing list or buy decent support.
On a mailing list you might not get a response back, or the response might not work and then they say sorry, can't help you. With a support contract, there's a method of escalation.
I'm not saying that it works all the time, but it can sometimes help.
In addition to the escalation process, there is frequently an NDA in place so that you can send support confidential information.
Then, if market performance and superior technology have nothing to do with each other, why should anyone invest their money in research?
Sales and marketing.
In a technology market if you don't do research to revise old products and create new ones, your sales and marketing people have nothing to sell and your technology will die. Technological superiority has little to do with this.
Find him a girl with a who likes geeks.
That's just a horrific, horrific name. I mean, I somewhat understand why the name, "The God Particle," was coined, because physicists kept looking and looking and not finding anything (for over thirty years), but no. It's got nothing whatsoever to do with what lay people think about when they think about God.
I suppose you would prefer to call it the Goatse Particle?
Come on, the LHC prove God? How exactly would it do that? Do people somehow think that a probability of producing some particle X has anything to say one way or another whether or not a god exists? What about particle Y? Or when you slam atoms together instead of protons? The fact remains that no god concept has anything to say one way or another on these questions. I find it rather absurd that anybody would consider the LHC to have anything to say here. As for whether or not a god can be proven, of course, that depends entirely upon the god. If you provide a specific definition that is testable, then it can be tested for. The problem is that most people who believe in one god or another refuse to do this. They stick only to words and phrases which are, by their very construction, completely untestable. I'm talking here about things like, "God is love," or, "God created the Universe." You just can't test these things. Sometimes, of course, they make very specific predictions, such as, "God heals as a response to prayer," or, "God will cause the world to end in 1922," which, once tested, invariably come out to be false. One wonders why they continue to believe that the existence of a deity is even reasonably likely.
God is a another name for the Higgs Boson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson
I mean, none of them are given by laws of nature. Mabye one backed by gold or similar would count as not virtual?
Why would gold not be virtual as well?
In the end its all just barter, and something is only worth what somebody is willing to exchange for it.
I'm one of those American Right people you speak of, however I think we're so far off on the horizon you can't see us clearly. You see, we're being obscured by all those people to the Left of us that are constantly trying to take away the First and our guns. We usually blame the Left for all our ills, but I guess the problem is that our view is just as obscured as your view by that huge mass of selfish people in the Middle. Oh and the Second is more important than the First: You don't need to yell if you're armed, or as Roosevelt said "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Taliban controlled Afghanistan was an example of an armed society without the First Amendment.