Libertarians are a political party. Like Republicans. Conservatism is a political philosophy.
Libratarians are conservative in many ways, but not in others. They are very isolationist, for instance, where the Conservative philosophy doesn't demand this. Many of us see the Conservative view as meaning a small but powerful central govt. whose only role is to do the things that 1) we cant do for ourselves, like national defense and highways, and 2) things that the states can't do, make treaties, international relations. I see conservatism as not isolationist, but more selective in who we "do business with".
ie: we do business with China, even tho they are terrible with human rights, its the only method to introduce rights to their people. We don't do business with Saudi Arabia because there is no hope of introducing human rights without going to war, so we go to war or dont do business. If you can't make a positive difference, you isolate yourself from that country. Not in anger, just as a choice. Thats my interpretation. One of the basic concepts of conservatism is "equality of opportunity", national or international. I could go on (and I am writing an article that does) but I won't here;)
While I have plenty of respect for Libratarians (they are more bound to a philosophy than the other parties) they have been labeled as the party that simply wants pot legalized. While this is a worthwhile goal (read my definition: anything that doesnt affect other adversely is ok) it is one tiny effect of conservatism. Conservatism would also demand strong penalties for driving while stoned or drunk, because it affects others.
Please dont confuse conservatives with republicans. As a conservative, my concern is the strict interpretation of the constitution. what Ashcroft is doing is not, by any standard, a scrict interpretation of the constitution.
REAL conservative believe that you should be able to do anything you want as long as it doesnt adversely affect others.
Republicanism is not the same as conservatism. No matter what the media tells you.
i wonder did anyone bother submitting this idea to the Mozilla people instead of to/. ?
I wonder if anyone bothered to ask GOOGLE if it was ok. They did just threaten to sue some guy for using the term GOOGLE as a verb on his website. Had an article on it here just 2 days ago.
I'm too lazy to look up the original link from 2 days ago. Just wait a day or two and read it then, I'm sure it will get duped;)
"There is going to be some lag time between the domain-name switch-over," one attorney said. "But the domain name isonews.com now belongs to the federal government."
Yea, we don't need no stinking "Due Process" Its theirs now, huh?
Out of curiosity, what applications do you NEED that run in Windows that you can't run under Linux?
Its more than just the programs. I have to use Quark, for example. I also use Photoshop. yes I have used Gimp, I strongly prefer Photoshop tho. Plus I have years worth of programs that I am simply used to. Forte Agent for usenet, all my 'network security' tools, games of course, Plus I use Macromedia's MX suite, Dreamweaver, Flash, etc. Some Illustrator.
Its not that I CANT use linux for some. I have a linux box next to my main workstation, and I am slowly integrating into Linux. Its not just a matter of can or can't, its a matter of productivity. I am more productive with Windows, primarily because I am more familiar with it. For now.
Now, on the server side, all I really know IS linux. Never used the GUI on servers tho, started with a shell account on a unix box 10 years ago. Im no expert by far, but I can setup servers for mail, dns, apache, ftp, and other basic services. I can build my own kernels, although I dont as much as I used to. I prefer RH7.2, but have worked with 5.0 to 8.0, and a few versions of Mandrake, which I like on the client side, and a couple flavors of BSD. I have a couple rack servers that I rent for web servers and special applications. I hack around with perl scripts, mainly carving up other peoples good work to simply get the job done.:)
Also, the company runs several programs that do not run well under Wine, not stable enough for production. I have tested. But then again, they don't run that well under Windows, but still better. I am trying very hard to convince them to move to new software this summer, linux based for sales/data. We are 2 years overdue for new software. Our network is so old, we are still running windows 95 as our file server (had hell installing it on that new server:) all the stations are 95. but those are different than my computers. We run different programs.
Keep in mind, I DO a little IT work only because I'm the guy who knows how. There is no commision structure for IT:) I actually run a marketing dept., so first priority is making the company money (and getting my cut), hense, most productive method, which will be mainly Windows on my client system for another year or so.
A freemarket requires winners and losers to drive competition in the market place.
While I respect your opinion in this matter, I think you are missing a few key points.
A free market place is where everyone has equal OPPORTUNITY. What you DO with that opportunity will decide your fate, but you have the same rights as I do to sell "widgets".
The only losers in a free market are the ones who do not have something of value to offer the market. For instance: I am not an painter. I have an equal opportunity to paint as Picasso did. So I quit my job, and become a painter. No one buys them, but they will pay big money for Picasso's. I go broke. I go back to my old job, which I was pretty good at, and got paid good money for.
The market place did not make Picasso a winner and me a loser. His talent made him a winner, and my lack of talent made me a loser.
The concept of equity is absolutely inherent in a freetrade/capitalistic society. Equity in opportunity, NOT equity in outcome. Socialism is based upon redistribution of wealth, thus equity of outcome. In America, the concepts of "Equity in Opportunity" and "Equity in Outcome" are constantly debated, and are the basis for the differences of the two primary parties.
As to free use, it fits capitalism fine. I create something, with the same opportunity as anyone else, and I choose what I want to do with it afterward. I can sell it. I can lease it. I can hold it. I can freely distribute it and let others do the same. It neither favors capitalism nor socialism, as long as the creator has the option. It is neutral in this respect.
It may "sound" more like socialism, because someone probably isn't making money. But free software is about "free speech" more than "free beer". As the GPL states, I can sell Linux for $1000 a copy or $10 a copy, or give it away (the free beer part). What I can't do is restrict YOUR right to use it as you see fit, and redistribute it as you see fit, the "free speech" part.
As to Communism as a Theory versus Communism as it has been practiced, I am deeply of the believe that Communisim as a Theory is just that, and it will never work the same in the real world as it does on paper because people are selfish. This type of selfishness is not bad. It is natural, normal, and necessary to our survival. If the stronger birds didn't push the weakest birds out of the nest, there would not be enough food for all. People will not work harder than the weakest worker if they are not rewarded better. To do otherwise may sound wonderful, and self sacrificing, but the fact is man's instinct to preserve self IS stronger than the instinct to preserve species. If you want a man to do more than minimum, to excell, you have to have a carrot in front of him. Capitalism under a democratic republic free market society offers that carrot to everyone, with a guarantee of opportunity, but not of outcome. Outcome is based upon your choices of profession, the amount of work you put into it, how adept you are at the profession, and even a little luck.
Communism as a Practice has been tried by several different countries, and we have seen the best it could possibly offer as a practice. The problem is: It doesn't work in practice the same as it works in theory.
Trying to make a utopian society based upon communistic ideals is like herding cats. You can show me how on paper, but you still can't do it in real life.
Supporting your troops and protesting a war are not mutually exclusive. Plus maybe she felt we had more reason to be in Bosnia than Iraq.
Except in Bosnia, we didn't go through the UN. No, I think its simply because she is very liberal, like many in the music and movie industry, and chooses to support based upon the political leanings of the person in charge. Yes, what you are saying is POSSIBLE, however, it is not PROBABLE.
And I agree that the race may not always go to the swiftest, but the smart money always bets that way.
I have that installed, but I have several old dos utilities that I have used for many many years, and hard pressed to change until I have to, so I still do most stuff in DOS shell (HOTDIR, Central's old FF - findfile.exe, etc)
I do use cygwin some, but Im one of those that learned DOS first, Windows next, then Linux. Then again, i have several linux servers, and usually SSH in with Putty when i have real work to do. The dos is just to do stuff like "move *.jpg \temp" or other stuff that the gui is too much a pain for. Oh yea, except i have a batch file mv.bat for move:)
Part of my reason for doing this is so i will get MORE used to using nix only commands, to break the habit of using "md, ren, dir" etc. I do relish the day when I CAN move off of M$.
Sorry, Linux guys - I appreciate Linux as a server platform (I have a dedicated Linux server). But it isn't ready on the desktop yet.
Im kind of in the same camp as you. Use linux for servers and some internet only stations. Use windows when i need to use photoshop, quark, flash mx, etc. I have high hopes that this will be remedied soon(because I hate MS), but until then, I gotta make a living and windows does it better for ME. But I have a question....
Do you find you have to make batch files named ls.bat (dir/w), pico.bat (edit), traceroute.bat, and similar? I kept getting frustated and figured the batch files were the easiest way. I also have a few scripts that correspond with DOS commands on my linux servers:) Lame, perhaps, but I get paid to get things done, not to be L33T.
Things were bought and sold over the internet 8 or 9 years ago, and ten years ago, and likely more than 15
What about the old BBS's? I have seen forms to buy premium access (usually to porn) that you would enter your credit card number, and you could page the sysop with questions, including about the purchase.
Yes, a BBS is not the internet, however many had usenet groups, fidonet and were an extention of an internet that didn't exist as widely as now. Back then, i could still email anyone in the world, for instance.
In this example: Purchasing online, talking with a rep about the purchase, the distiction between BBS and Internet is not substantial enough to excluse BBS's that did this as prior art.
Now you taint the ability for Governments to switch to linux and escape the Microsoft licenses propogating less freedom in the world.
As I read it, the GPL is politically neutral. it doesn't matter if you are a liberal, conservative, dicatator or saint, you have the same rights, and you can't take away those rights from others that use your code.
Its about bonified equality of use. It doesn't presume use, good or evil. The goal, it would seem, is to allow everyone to freely use the software to achieve their goals.
To put these "no war" use limitations is not only silly and purely politically motivated (its not anti-war, its anti-Bush. Even Sheryl Crow was doing USO tours in Bosnia when Clinton was in office, and now wears anti-military shirts. Hypocrite). Then its a matter of interpretation. What if the Govt. wanted to use it in the Bosnian conflict. Was that a war, a police action, or a rescue of Muslims from Christians? Depends on who you ask.
My favorite quote from the cnet article on Intuit's financial situation:
Bennett added that Intuit's share of the tax preparation software market stands at 69.3 percent, almost identical to its market share at the same point in the tax season last year. "While it's still too early to declare victory, all the signs are positive...and we're on track for another great consumer tax season," he said.
So, you implement this new technology because 2/3rds of the tax returns using your software may be from pirated copies. This new technology rapes peoples hard drives, (whether it causes damage or not, it "touches" in in private places.) So now that 2/3rds has to buy a copy or not use it.
And after all this effort, taking a risk of pissing off many many people, you didn't convert any market share? Did all the pirates buy something else? And you are on track?
Someone's head should roll. It nice to make a little more profit (they are) but if your going to rape the public, but the goal was to make more CUSTOMERS, too. More market share. A _LOT_ more money.
These morons screwed the public and couldn't squeek a single 1% more market share doing it.
emusic.com is $9.99 a month for unlimited downloads. the fine print is that they don't have the greatest selection of the big stuff.
Thanks for the tip, I had not seen them before. Actually, I am always looking for older blues and country. Biggest reason is music for the band, to make "learn" cds, and we do alot of older stuff. This may be the ticket for me. Of course, it would depend on download speed. I dont expect they would saturate my cable modem, but if it can get 128k downspeeds then its worth it.
Im getting them usenet now, at 256k (been with Airnet.net since 94 or 95) and paying $15 a month for 256k. This would be a better way, even at half the speed, since it was either there or not, dont have to keep searching, etc. My time is worth money too.
Yahoo had some music service, but holy crap, the thing was so conveluted and expensive, I looked at it for about 5 minutes, then laughed my ass off. They had newer stuff, but Im just old enough to think that new music is "that loud noise that kids listen to". Wasn't a good deal, even if that is what you want. Oh, and i believe it had the licensing crap that prevented you from playing it on more than one box.
Not only does he work for a chip maker, he's like totally obsessed with the i386 architecture. I guess it's what he cut his teeth and and he's going to stick with it. But to think that no-one else has a use for it is very short-sighted.
He works for a company that doesn't build chips with the i386 architecture. Its emulated in firmwear, "code morphing" is what they call it. Its slightly slower than hardware but its worth the trade for power consumption.
I am betting he has worked with plenty of morph code, creating virtual cpus, subsets of the i386 chip, or different completely. This is akin to designing hardware, in software.
I can't see how him working for Transmeta hurt his understanding of processors. Seems like it would actually enhance his understanding.
There's a auction site (a 'real world' auction site with real people bidding, etc.)
You're right, it makes so much sense they won't do it:)
Actually, I can see the benefit of teaching the kids to salvage some boxes to build up others, learning a bit about hardware. Getting them to install linux, to learn how to actually install an operating system. Then learn programming. These don't even have to be the same classes.
The reason I have done well with computers is similar. I have done lots of salvage. I ran a multiline bbs. I learned a fair amount from the ground up. Even when I run into something I have never run across before, I can usually figure it out. Its like car engines: if it doesn't start, its either mechanical, electrical or fuel. Has to be one of those.
But, it makes too much sense, and the kids would end up learning something, so most schools won't do it.
since linux is an os and not an architecture, 'linux' can not be given to schools in the same way. linux is a free os (assuming no professional support), but the machines to run it on are not free. and even if an oem donated machines to a school, chances are they would be shipped with windows.
This does, however, give them the chance to recycle some of their older boxes, since Linux generally requires less hardware to do similar tasks. The machines that were on win95 which is no longer supported (pentium 75-266) will run just fine with linux, especially if mainly terminals, and now you have another small unix lab worth of computers. Or you can buy a few less new computers with windows. Or you can buy more new computers with linux, since you just saved a wad on licensing.
Its ironic to go to read an article on how to rid your self of a Windows computer by compiling under GNU/Linux/Wine and the giant advertisement that pops up is for Microsoft Visual Studio.Net.
Sure, force me to cope with the cognitive dissonance of having a Rush subcriber as a/. fan.;)
hehe, well couldn't email you cause you dont list it, so now everyone knows. They are going to think you sit in your closet reading Walter Williams when no one is looking...
And the only reason I told people I subscribed to Rush is so all the irate Conservative haters would mark me as FOE, never see my comments, thus I wouldn't have to listen to their tirades. Ok, maybe not.:)
Again I don't see what a retail store brings to this market that a internet store wouldn't.
BTW there are really good listening music stores like "hear". They do so-so with stuff that doesn't get much radio exposure. But that means a small number of stores and only in fairly population concentrations.
Its like chocolate and peanut butter. Individually, each is quite pleasant. Combined, they make a Reeses, much better.
The company that I work for has done very well because its a true "click and mortar" business. Many years old, good infrastructure, and the capability to outservice our competition. The market is down bad, our sales are record breaking, which means the internet only and the catalog order only guys, are going under.
This points me to the fact that internet purchasing and kiosk purchasing COMPLIMENT each other. Just like how you can order a dvd player, and pick it up at your local Best Buy. Good business model, because its convenient (I can pick it up OR have it shipped) and people trust businesses with real buildings. The fact that some stores already use "listen stations" simply means we have market information to apply to this.
Sample online or instore. Put your CD together online, order it, and either have it shipped ($5) or pick it up ($0). Or put it together in the store and take it home. You pay for what you get. From my experience, this is really a big deal to many consumers. It would take a company that has locations everywhere, however. I could see WalMart doing this, if granted licensing. Of course, I would also see must music stores going out of business, mainly because this way would be more efficient. This system could co-exist with the current method of distribution, buy a full Korn CD with all the printed niceties, or make your own CD with a simple insert containing just the song list.
I work in marketing, I can't help but to see some possibilites:)
Stuff within your comfort zone makes less of an impact on your awareness than that which offends you a wee bit (or a lot).
...neutrality is constantly redefined and thus drifts itself to the current 50% mark.
So people generally want to read stuff they mostly agree with, but because that doesn't challenge them, they rarely remember it much.
Very interesting. You make some very good observations.
I like you. I can see that we disagree on many points, and agree on a few, but I respect your opinion and ability to express it intellegently. Because I am one of the few that LIKES to hear well thought out opinions that disagree with mine, I marked you as a friend.
Similarly with music. How can a store possibly compete on variety with ebay, amazon...?
Even tho the audiophile are gonna scream when I say this...
They could compete using the kiosk model, with several hard drives with very high quality mp3s, 256k or better, and an internet connection to their main office. If you want to HEAR a sample not in the current local library, it streams a 64k mp3 for listening. If you choose to burn that song, it downloads the 256k version to be converted to Red Book on your custom disk. It should cache songs, so if someone else wants that song in the next few days, there will be a copy in the cache. If you can actually fill up a cd with 74 minutes of music (instead of the typical 30 to 40 minutes) and choose the songs, then it would be worth a premium. I can EASILY see people paying 20 bucks for that, maybe more. They can still sell regular CD's like they do now, side by side with this new technology. Some will want the full CD with fancy jacket and information about that artist. Some wont.
The problem is: This model is not as profitable as the current business model USED TO BE. Thus, they are not likely to embrace it, insisting on staying with the current business model, which is losing them money ($132 million last year for Sony alone).
This is going down with the ship instead of jumping in a lifeboat, just because the ship is bigger.
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I thought that was Libertarianism?
;)
Libertarians are a political party. Like Republicans. Conservatism is a political philosophy.
Libratarians are conservative in many ways, but not in others. They are very isolationist, for instance, where the Conservative philosophy doesn't demand this. Many of us see the Conservative view as meaning a small but powerful central govt. whose only role is to do the things that 1) we cant do for ourselves, like national defense and highways, and 2) things that the states can't do, make treaties, international relations. I see conservatism as not isolationist, but more selective in who we "do business with".
ie: we do business with China, even tho they are terrible with human rights, its the only method to introduce rights to their people. We don't do business with Saudi Arabia because there is no hope of introducing human rights without going to war, so we go to war or dont do business. If you can't make a positive difference, you isolate yourself from that country. Not in anger, just as a choice. Thats my interpretation. One of the basic concepts of conservatism is "equality of opportunity", national or international. I could go on (and I am writing an article that does) but I won't here
While I have plenty of respect for Libratarians (they are more bound to a philosophy than the other parties) they have been labeled as the party that simply wants pot legalized. While this is a worthwhile goal (read my definition: anything that doesnt affect other adversely is ok) it is one tiny effect of conservatism. Conservatism would also demand strong penalties for driving while stoned or drunk, because it affects others.
Conservatives fucking take care of business.
Please dont confuse conservatives with republicans. As a conservative, my concern is the strict interpretation of the constitution. what Ashcroft is doing is not, by any standard, a scrict interpretation of the constitution.
REAL conservative believe that you should be able to do anything you want as long as it doesnt adversely affect others.
Republicanism is not the same as conservatism. No matter what the media tells you.
i wonder did anyone bother submitting this idea to the Mozilla people instead of to /. ?
;)
I wonder if anyone bothered to ask GOOGLE if it was ok. They did just threaten to sue some guy for using the term GOOGLE as a verb on his website. Had an article on it here just 2 days ago.
I'm too lazy to look up the original link from 2 days ago. Just wait a day or two and read it then, I'm sure it will get duped
"There is going to be some lag time between the domain-name switch-over," one attorney said. "But the domain name isonews.com now belongs to the federal government."
Yea, we don't need no stinking "Due Process" Its theirs now, huh?
Out of curiosity, what applications do you NEED that run in Windows that you can't run under Linux?
:)
:) all the stations are 95. but those are different than my computers. We run different programs.
:) I actually run a marketing dept., so first priority is making the company money (and getting my cut), hense, most productive method, which will be mainly Windows on my client system for another year or so.
Its more than just the programs. I have to use Quark, for example. I also use Photoshop. yes I have used Gimp, I strongly prefer Photoshop tho. Plus I have years worth of programs that I am simply used to. Forte Agent for usenet, all my 'network security' tools, games of course, Plus I use Macromedia's MX suite, Dreamweaver, Flash, etc. Some Illustrator.
Its not that I CANT use linux for some. I have a linux box next to my main workstation, and I am slowly integrating into Linux. Its not just a matter of can or can't, its a matter of productivity. I am more productive with Windows, primarily because I am more familiar with it. For now.
Now, on the server side, all I really know IS linux. Never used the GUI on servers tho, started with a shell account on a unix box 10 years ago. Im no expert by far, but I can setup servers for mail, dns, apache, ftp, and other basic services. I can build my own kernels, although I dont as much as I used to. I prefer RH7.2, but have worked with 5.0 to 8.0, and a few versions of Mandrake, which I like on the client side, and a couple flavors of BSD. I have a couple rack servers that I rent for web servers and special applications. I hack around with perl scripts, mainly carving up other peoples good work to simply get the job done.
Also, the company runs several programs that do not run well under Wine, not stable enough for production. I have tested. But then again, they don't run that well under Windows, but still better. I am trying very hard to convince them to move to new software this summer, linux based for sales/data. We are 2 years overdue for new software. Our network is so old, we are still running windows 95 as our file server (had hell installing it on that new server
Keep in mind, I DO a little IT work only because I'm the guy who knows how. There is no commision structure for IT
A freemarket requires winners and losers to drive competition in the market place.
While I respect your opinion in this matter, I think you are missing a few key points.
A free market place is where everyone has equal OPPORTUNITY. What you DO with that opportunity will decide your fate, but you have the same rights as I do to sell "widgets".
The only losers in a free market are the ones who do not have something of value to offer the market. For instance: I am not an painter. I have an equal opportunity to paint as Picasso did. So I quit my job, and become a painter. No one buys them, but they will pay big money for Picasso's. I go broke. I go back to my old job, which I was pretty good at, and got paid good money for.
The market place did not make Picasso a winner and me a loser. His talent made him a winner, and my lack of talent made me a loser.
The concept of equity is absolutely inherent in a freetrade/capitalistic society. Equity in opportunity, NOT equity in outcome. Socialism is based upon redistribution of wealth, thus equity of outcome. In America, the concepts of "Equity in Opportunity" and "Equity in Outcome" are constantly debated, and are the basis for the differences of the two primary parties.
As to free use, it fits capitalism fine. I create something, with the same opportunity as anyone else, and I choose what I want to do with it afterward. I can sell it. I can lease it. I can hold it. I can freely distribute it and let others do the same. It neither favors capitalism nor socialism, as long as the creator has the option. It is neutral in this respect.
It may "sound" more like socialism, because someone probably isn't making money. But free software is about "free speech" more than "free beer". As the GPL states, I can sell Linux for $1000 a copy or $10 a copy, or give it away (the free beer part). What I can't do is restrict YOUR right to use it as you see fit, and redistribute it as you see fit, the "free speech" part.
As to Communism as a Theory versus Communism as it has been practiced, I am deeply of the believe that Communisim as a Theory is just that, and it will never work the same in the real world as it does on paper because people are selfish. This type of selfishness is not bad. It is natural, normal, and necessary to our survival. If the stronger birds didn't push the weakest birds out of the nest, there would not be enough food for all. People will not work harder than the weakest worker if they are not rewarded better. To do otherwise may sound wonderful, and self sacrificing, but the fact is man's instinct to preserve self IS stronger than the instinct to preserve species. If you want a man to do more than minimum, to excell, you have to have a carrot in front of him. Capitalism under a democratic republic free market society offers that carrot to everyone, with a guarantee of opportunity, but not of outcome. Outcome is based upon your choices of profession, the amount of work you put into it, how adept you are at the profession, and even a little luck.
Communism as a Practice has been tried by several different countries, and we have seen the best it could possibly offer as a practice. The problem is: It doesn't work in practice the same as it works in theory.
Trying to make a utopian society based upon communistic ideals is like herding cats. You can show me how on paper, but you still can't do it in real life.
Supporting your troops and protesting a war are not mutually exclusive. Plus maybe she felt we had more reason to be in Bosnia than Iraq.
Except in Bosnia, we didn't go through the UN. No, I think its simply because she is very liberal, like many in the music and movie industry, and chooses to support based upon the political leanings of the person in charge. Yes, what you are saying is POSSIBLE, however, it is not PROBABLE.
And I agree that the race may not always go to the swiftest, but the smart money always bets that way.
No, its means I am from the south. We also use "yall, aint, momandem, fixing to, younto, aight, yonder, hellatious, wondermus" among others.
:)
bonified defined: Genuine article. Real deal. Certifiable. True.
Use in context:
Anyone who would make fun of the word "bonified" is a bonified yankee or foreigner.
Any more questions?
Cygwin provides all the basic commands
:)
I have that installed, but I have several old dos utilities that I have used for many many years, and hard pressed to change until I have to, so I still do most stuff in DOS shell (HOTDIR, Central's old FF - findfile.exe, etc)
I do use cygwin some, but Im one of those that learned DOS first, Windows next, then Linux. Then again, i have several linux servers, and usually SSH in with Putty when i have real work to do. The dos is just to do stuff like "move *.jpg \temp" or other stuff that the gui is too much a pain for. Oh yea, except i have a batch file mv.bat for move
Part of my reason for doing this is so i will get MORE used to using nix only commands, to break the habit of using "md, ren, dir" etc. I do relish the day when I CAN move off of M$.
Sorry, Linux guys - I appreciate Linux as a server platform (I have a dedicated Linux server). But it isn't ready on the desktop yet.
/w), pico.bat (edit), traceroute.bat, and similar? I kept getting frustated and figured the batch files were the easiest way. I also have a few scripts that correspond with DOS commands on my linux servers :) Lame, perhaps, but I get paid to get things done, not to be L33T.
Im kind of in the same camp as you. Use linux for servers and some internet only stations. Use windows when i need to use photoshop, quark, flash mx, etc. I have high hopes that this will be remedied soon(because I hate MS), but until then, I gotta make a living and windows does it better for ME. But I have a question....
Do you find you have to make batch files named ls.bat (dir
Things were bought and sold over the internet 8 or 9 years ago, and ten years ago, and likely more than 15
What about the old BBS's? I have seen forms to buy premium access (usually to porn) that you would enter your credit card number, and you could page the sysop with questions, including about the purchase.
Yes, a BBS is not the internet, however many had usenet groups, fidonet and were an extention of an internet that didn't exist as widely as now. Back then, i could still email anyone in the world, for instance.
In this example: Purchasing online, talking with a rep about the purchase, the distiction between BBS and Internet is not substantial enough to excluse BBS's that did this as prior art.
This would push prior art way into the 80s.
So why did they get the patent?
Ok, I will take a stab.
Because they had better (read: more expensive) lawyers and more money to pursue it?
Now you taint the ability for Governments to switch to linux and escape the Microsoft licenses propogating less freedom in the world.
As I read it, the GPL is politically neutral. it doesn't matter if you are a liberal, conservative, dicatator or saint, you have the same rights, and you can't take away those rights from others that use your code.
Its about bonified equality of use. It doesn't presume use, good or evil. The goal, it would seem, is to allow everyone to freely use the software to achieve their goals.
To put these "no war" use limitations is not only silly and purely politically motivated (its not anti-war, its anti-Bush. Even Sheryl Crow was doing USO tours in Bosnia when Clinton was in office, and now wears anti-military shirts. Hypocrite). Then its a matter of interpretation. What if the Govt. wanted to use it in the Bosnian conflict. Was that a war, a police action, or a rescue of Muslims from Christians? Depends on who you ask.
My favorite quote from the cnet article on Intuit's financial situation:
Bennett added that Intuit's share of the tax preparation software market stands at 69.3 percent, almost identical to its market share at the same point in the tax season last year. "While it's still too early to declare victory, all the signs are positive...and we're on track for another great consumer tax season," he said.
So, you implement this new technology because 2/3rds of the tax returns using your software may be from pirated copies. This new technology rapes peoples hard drives, (whether it causes damage or not, it "touches" in in private places.) So now that 2/3rds has to buy a copy or not use it.
And after all this effort, taking a risk of pissing off many many people, you didn't convert any market share? Did all the pirates buy something else? And you are on track?
Someone's head should roll. It nice to make a little more profit (they are) but if your going to rape the public, but the goal was to make more CUSTOMERS, too. More market share. A _LOT_ more money.
These morons screwed the public and couldn't squeek a single 1% more market share doing it.
emusic.com is $9.99 a month for unlimited downloads. the fine print is that they don't have the greatest selection of the big stuff.
Thanks for the tip, I had not seen them before. Actually, I am always looking for older blues and country. Biggest reason is music for the band, to make "learn" cds, and we do alot of older stuff. This may be the ticket for me. Of course, it would depend on download speed. I dont expect they would saturate my cable modem, but if it can get 128k downspeeds then its worth it.
Im getting them usenet now, at 256k (been with Airnet.net since 94 or 95) and paying $15 a month for 256k. This would be a better way, even at half the speed, since it was either there or not, dont have to keep searching, etc. My time is worth money too.
Yahoo had some music service, but holy crap, the thing was so conveluted and expensive, I looked at it for about 5 minutes, then laughed my ass off. They had newer stuff, but Im just old enough to think that new music is "that loud noise that kids listen to". Wasn't a good deal, even if that is what you want. Oh, and i believe it had the licensing crap that prevented you from playing it on more than one box.
thanks again, this looks like just the ticket!
Not only does he work for a chip maker, he's like totally obsessed with the i386 architecture. I guess it's what he cut his teeth and and he's going to stick with it. But to think that no-one else has a use for it is very short-sighted.
He works for a company that doesn't build chips with the i386 architecture. Its emulated in firmwear, "code morphing" is what they call it. Its slightly slower than hardware but its worth the trade for power consumption.
I am betting he has worked with plenty of morph code, creating virtual cpus, subsets of the i386 chip, or different completely. This is akin to designing hardware, in software.
I can't see how him working for Transmeta hurt his understanding of processors. Seems like it would actually enhance his understanding.
There's a auction site (a 'real world' auction site with real people bidding, etc.)
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You're right, it makes so much sense they won't do it
Actually, I can see the benefit of teaching the kids to salvage some boxes to build up others, learning a bit about hardware. Getting them to install linux, to learn how to actually install an operating system. Then learn programming. These don't even have to be the same classes.
The reason I have done well with computers is similar. I have done lots of salvage. I ran a multiline bbs. I learned a fair amount from the ground up. Even when I run into something I have never run across before, I can usually figure it out. Its like car engines: if it doesn't start, its either mechanical, electrical or fuel. Has to be one of those.
But, it makes too much sense, and the kids would end up learning something, so most schools won't do it.
since linux is an os and not an architecture, 'linux' can not be given to schools in the same way. linux is a free os (assuming no professional support), but the machines to run it on are not free. and even if an oem donated machines to a school, chances are they would be shipped with windows.
This does, however, give them the chance to recycle some of their older boxes, since Linux generally requires less hardware to do similar tasks. The machines that were on win95 which is no longer supported (pentium 75-266) will run just fine with linux, especially if mainly terminals, and now you have another small unix lab worth of computers. Or you can buy a few less new computers with windows. Or you can buy more new computers with linux, since you just saved a wad on licensing.
Now, just imagine a Beowulf of high schools...
(sorry, just couldn't pass that up)
Let's not kid ourselves, in 2-3 years time there's going to a *lot* of games toting the Doom III Engine badge.
I would settle for just ONE, which would be one more than we have now.
GNU/Build GNU/natively GNU/on GNU/a GNU/computer GNU/using GNU/a MS-Windows/compiler GNU/without GNU/a MS-Windows/computer!
Oh, should have read the article I guess, but I figured since no one else does....
Its ironic to go to read an article on how to rid your self of a Windows computer by compiling under GNU/Linux/Wine and the giant advertisement that pops up is for Microsoft Visual Studio .Net.
Sure, force me to cope with the cognitive dissonance of having a Rush subcriber as a /. fan. ;)
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hehe, well couldn't email you cause you dont list it, so now everyone knows. They are going to think you sit in your closet reading Walter Williams when no one is looking...
And the only reason I told people I subscribed to Rush is so all the irate Conservative haters would mark me as FOE, never see my comments, thus I wouldn't have to listen to their tirades. Ok, maybe not.
Again I don't see what a retail store brings to this market that a internet store wouldn't.
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BTW there are really good listening music stores like "hear". They do so-so with stuff that doesn't get much radio exposure. But that means a small number of stores and only in fairly population concentrations.
Its like chocolate and peanut butter. Individually, each is quite pleasant. Combined, they make a Reeses, much better.
The company that I work for has done very well because its a true "click and mortar" business. Many years old, good infrastructure, and the capability to outservice our competition. The market is down bad, our sales are record breaking, which means the internet only and the catalog order only guys, are going under.
This points me to the fact that internet purchasing and kiosk purchasing COMPLIMENT each other. Just like how you can order a dvd player, and pick it up at your local Best Buy. Good business model, because its convenient (I can pick it up OR have it shipped) and people trust
businesses with real buildings. The fact that some stores already use "listen stations" simply means we have market information to apply to this.
Sample online or instore. Put your CD together online, order it, and either have it shipped ($5) or pick it up ($0). Or put it together in the store and take it home. You pay for what you get. From my experience, this is really a big deal to many consumers. It would take a company that has locations everywhere, however. I could see WalMart doing this, if granted licensing. Of course, I would also see must music stores going out of business, mainly because this way would be more efficient. This system could co-exist with the current method of distribution, buy a full Korn CD with all the printed niceties, or make your own CD with a simple insert containing just the song list.
I work in marketing, I can't help but to see some possibilites
Stuff within your comfort zone makes less of an impact on your awareness than that which offends you a wee bit (or a lot).
...neutrality is constantly redefined and thus drifts itself to the current 50% mark.
So people generally want to read stuff they mostly agree with, but because that doesn't challenge them, they rarely remember it much.
Very interesting. You make some very good observations.
I like you. I can see that we disagree on many points, and agree on a few, but I respect your opinion and ability to express it intellegently. Because I am one of the few that LIKES to hear well thought out opinions that disagree with mine, I marked you as a friend.
Similarly with music. How can a store possibly compete on variety with ebay, amazon...?
Even tho the audiophile are gonna scream when I say this...
They could compete using the kiosk model, with several hard drives with very high quality mp3s, 256k or better, and an internet connection to their main office. If you want to HEAR a sample not in the current local library, it streams a 64k mp3 for listening. If you choose to burn that song, it downloads the 256k version to be converted to Red Book on your custom disk. It should cache songs, so if someone else wants that song in the next few days, there will be a copy in the cache. If you can actually fill up a cd with 74 minutes of music (instead of the typical 30 to 40 minutes) and choose the songs, then it would be worth a premium. I can EASILY see people paying 20 bucks for that, maybe more. They can still sell regular CD's like they do now, side by side with this new technology. Some will want the full CD with fancy jacket and information about that artist. Some wont.
The problem is: This model is not as profitable as the current business model USED TO BE. Thus, they are not likely to embrace it, insisting on staying with the current business model, which is losing them money ($132 million last year for Sony alone).
This is going down with the ship instead of jumping in a lifeboat, just because the ship is bigger.