Minimums are needed because cross subsidisation is rather integral to having affordable healthcare for everyone. Meaning those who are in the stage of their life that don't need much medical care pay more, but those that do are able to afford it.
I definitely agree with the suggestion that you need to break the link between healthcare and employment. Because there's obviously a very strong link between unemployment and needing medical care. I love living in a country with universal healthcare funded by taxation. Sure it means that I end up paying a lot more than I otherwise would, but it provides a safety net for everyone - including me should I happen to get unlucky and end up sick and unemployed. People don't end up having to declare bankruptcy because of medical bills or go without life saving medical care. And everyone is able to access a reasonable standard of healthcare (and the wealthier are not restricted from getting gold plated service if they wish to pay for it). But hey I realise that for a lot of Americans that concept is just communism so it'll never happen
When she was asked to comment on her being the first female (Australian) PM she said in the press conference that she is probably the first redhead to be PM of Australia as well.
The earlier post is incorrect. The LSB supports x86, 32bit and 64bit powerpc, AMD64, and 32bit and 64 bit zSeries architectures. Neither is it commercial software only. LSB compliant versions of open source software are available.
The standard is open (FDL) and people are free (encouraged in fact) to participate and help build the standard and associated tools (eg test suites, example applications, etc).
/opt is not mentioned as far as I can see. I remember reading that it was deprecated.
/opt is not deprecated. In fact it is required that LSB compliant applications are installed under/opt
You can download the latest version of the FHS here and the LSB specification here.
>They specifically state that the patches are applicable to the English version. Does that mean none of the >patches work with the German version? I would think that the main differences between the versions >would be in seperate language files or something.
You probably will have problems with some of the patches - eg the ones that add new units or new user interface compenents to panels. You could keep track of which files change under the ctp_data directory (specifically those under the english directories and make the suitable changes in the corresponding files in the german directories).
Sorry, I did kind of think about it at the time, but given the time constraints and my total lack of any knowledge of the German language I didn't do any.
>Cows were in the original design. They worked like mobile farms, basically.
I was kind of surprised at how many features were in the code, but just commented out - eg it looked like there were gateways to teleport from one place to another. Did these just not pass play-testing or was it a time-thing? They looked like they could be lots of fun to play around with.
I'd heard (no I can't find any corroboration for this at all:-) that the reason it is spelt aluminum in America is that someone made a typo when doing a patent application. May well just be a UL, but for what its worth I heard it from some US academic speaking at a graduation dinner at an Australian university.
It might be illegal, but the gun lobby is also very resistant to laws which would make it possible to enforce these laws - eg they oppose compulsory background checks being performed on all gun sales instead of just those through a dealer.
Mechanisms need to be in place to detect illegal gun sales before they happen, instead of just after the murder.
It did seem to me that Bean was a whole lot smarter than Ender. In fact it gave me a whole different outlook on Ender's Game - a lot of things in Ender's Game which I saw as chance or skill on Ender's part were really setup by Bean in the background.
It definitely portrays Bean as a lot more influential in the outcome of the war than appears in Ender's Game.
Absolutely loved reading the book! (They say you don't need to have read Ender's Game before reading Ender's Shadow, but I think you get a lot more out of the story if you have read Ender's Game before).
I agree. Everytime I need to actually write a reasonable amount (eg a note in a B'day card) my hand gets _really_ tired, _really_ fast.
As for signing checks and credit card slips, well I'm lucky that most people don't even bother checking the signature these days:-)
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I think technology like the internet can exacerbate problems by making it easier for people to get access to information. Apparently the bombs they set in the school were pretty sophisticated. Yes, they probably could have got the same information from the public library, but it is a whole lot easier to just do a search on lycos.
Similarly with the proliferation of guns in the US. Banning guns would not have stopped them from trying to kill other students. However, if they were much more difficult/expensive to obtain and they had to resort to knives or baseball bats then a lot less people would have died and been injured. I'd suggest even if they still had pipe bombs but no guns, they wouldn't have been able to kill as many people.
Aiming for a society where `Everyone just gets along with each other' may seem like an unrealistic goal. But, hey, this is what happens and will continue to happen as long as people end up feeling isolated and hated by the rest of their community.
Debian and Redhat obviously make it too easy to install Linux - we should all go back to using SLS. CDROMs? Nah, From now on distributions will be on floppy so we can spend a whole afternoon putting floppies in and out of our computers? And delete all those FAQs and HOWTO's too. Anyone who can't be bothered to spend the time to learn a few programming languages and read the source code is just lazy and doesn't deserve to use Linux.
Geez! What really annoys me about posts like the one to the debian list is that they spring from arrogance - that everyone who knows less than me must be either stupid or lazy. Its like these people want to belong to an `elitist club' of cool linux users and once they know whats going on don't want anyone else to join!
The vast majority of computer users (of which/. is not a good cross-section of), don't want a learning experience when they use a computer. For them it is an appliance - something they use to read email, access web pages and write letters. Unlike most of the people around here they don't have the slightest interest at all in `how it works'. They just want it to work out of the box. Kind of like me when it comes to cars:-)
I think that Linux has a lot to offer in terms of stability and efficiency as well as a platform for further innovation. Unless you want it remain primarily in the domain of techies or computer hobbyists then it will have to made easier to use (incidentally I think that the work that Debian and Redhat have done in the previous few years has made it much easier to install and administrate. Too often however, writing reams of documentation is used as a substitue for poor interface design.
I agree - the main barrier to more people using or at least trying out Linux is the initial setup. If big vendors started shipping dual windows/linux boxes there'd be a lot more people out there willing to give Linux a go - and I believe finding that there is enough application functionality to meet most of their needs.
Installing new devices under windows can be a pretty frustrating experience too. A few weeks ago I had a cable modem installed - the techie spent around an hour trying to get the USB drivers installed (windows wouldn't allow the first cd of app software to be ejected to allow the install of the drivers). They eventually gave up and installed an internal ethernet card with the drivers from a floppy disk.
In comparison configuring it from Linux only took me less than half an hour, including the time taken to recompile the kernel to support the ethernet card and read the FAQ on dhcpcd.
When I tried this last night the gzipped file for linux was corrupt. From the date on the file in the ftp site it doesn't look like it has changed. Anyone else have any better luck?
So, to sum it up, I think that direct revenue capture works to the detriment of collaboration.
The problem with the lack of a direct revenue capture system is that it discourages commercial companies from investing large amounts of money into upfront research (for open source projects anyway).
How many companies are going to invest millions of dollars into research if the only revenue they can see in the future is from support? New companies coming in have the advantage of not having to recover the cost of developing the product in the first place.
Yes, its possible for companies to survive and propser by selling support for GPL'd products, but these companies are nearly always established after a lot of free time has been donated where the risk is a lot lower that a useful product is not eventually developed.
The lack of a direct revenue capture system may in fact discourage funding for new innovative development.
Unless someone could suggest reasonable technical reasons why this is a good idea and not just `political' ones it seems like a waste of time to me. I don't call it GNU/Linux (if only to save saying one syllable), but if other people want to, who cares?
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Minimums are needed because cross subsidisation is rather integral to having affordable healthcare for everyone. Meaning those who are in the stage of their life that don't need much medical care pay more, but those that do are able to afford it.
I definitely agree with the suggestion that you need to break the link between healthcare and employment. Because there's obviously a very strong link between unemployment and needing medical care. I love living in a country with universal healthcare funded by taxation. Sure it means that I end up paying a lot more than I otherwise would, but it provides a safety net for everyone - including me should I happen to get unlucky and end up sick and unemployed. People don't end up having to declare bankruptcy because of medical bills or go without life saving medical care. And everyone is able to access a reasonable standard of healthcare (and the wealthier are not restricted from getting gold plated service if they wish to pay for it). But hey I realise that for a lot of Americans that concept is just communism so it'll never happen
When she was asked to comment on her being the first female (Australian) PM she said in the press conference that she is probably the first redhead to be PM of Australia as well.
For those who are attending the conference there will also be a programming competition run during the conference.
Lots of fun was had by participants and observers at last year's competition.
The earlier post is incorrect. The LSB supports x86, 32bit and 64bit powerpc, AMD64, and 32bit and 64 bit zSeries architectures. Neither is it commercial software only. LSB compliant versions of open source software are available.
The standard is open (FDL) and people are free (encouraged in fact) to participate and help build the standard and associated tools (eg test suites, example applications, etc).
If you're building/packaging programs then following the guidelines in the LDPS will help maximise the portability of the binaries.
>They specifically state that the patches are applicable to the English version. Does that mean none of the
>patches work with the German version? I would think that the main differences between the versions
>would be in seperate language files or something.
You probably will have problems with some of the patches - eg the ones that add new units or new user interface compenents to panels. You could keep track of which files change under the ctp_data directory (specifically those under the english directories and make the suitable changes in the corresponding files in the german directories).
Sorry, I did kind of think about it at the time, but given the time constraints and my total lack of any knowledge of the German language I didn't do any.
>Cows were in the original design. They worked like mobile farms, basically.
I was kind of surprised at how many features were in the code, but just commented out - eg it looked like there were gateways to teleport from one place to another. Did these just not pass play-testing or was it a time-thing? They looked like they could be lots of fun to play around with.
I'd heard (no I can't find any corroboration for this at all :-) that the reason it is spelt aluminum in America is that someone made a typo when doing a patent application. May well just be a UL, but for what its worth I heard it from some US academic speaking at a graduation dinner at an Australian university.
It might be illegal, but the gun lobby is also very resistant to laws which would make it possible to enforce these laws - eg they oppose compulsory background checks being performed on all gun sales instead of just those through a dealer.
Mechanisms need to be in place to detect illegal gun sales before they happen, instead of just after the murder.
It did seem to me that Bean was a whole lot smarter than Ender. In fact it gave me a whole different outlook on Ender's Game - a lot of things in Ender's Game which I saw as chance or skill on Ender's part were really setup by Bean in the background.
It definitely portrays Bean as a lot more influential in the outcome of the war than appears in Ender's Game.
Absolutely loved reading the book! (They say you don't need to have read Ender's Game before reading Ender's Shadow, but I think you get a lot more out of the story if you have read Ender's Game before).
.... and 900Gb of porn :-)
I agree. Everytime I need to actually write a reasonable amount (eg a note in a B'day card) my hand gets _really_ tired, _really_ fast.
:-)
As for signing checks and credit card slips, well I'm lucky that most people don't even bother checking the signature these days
I think technology like the internet can exacerbate problems by making it easier for people to get access to information. Apparently the bombs they set in the school were pretty sophisticated. Yes, they probably could have got the same information from the public library, but it is a whole lot easier to just do a search on lycos.
Similarly with the proliferation of guns in the US. Banning guns would not have stopped them from trying to kill other students. However, if they were much more difficult/expensive to obtain and they had to resort to knives or baseball bats then a lot less people would have died and been injured. I'd suggest even if they still had pipe bombs but no guns, they wouldn't have been able to kill as many people.
Aiming for a society where `Everyone just gets along with each other' may seem like an unrealistic goal. But, hey, this is what happens and will continue to happen as long as people end up feeling isolated and hated by the rest of their community.
Debian and Redhat obviously make it too easy to install Linux - we should all go back to using SLS. CDROMs? Nah, From now on distributions will be on floppy so we can spend a whole afternoon putting floppies in and out of our computers? And delete all those FAQs and HOWTO's too. Anyone who can't be bothered to spend the time to learn a few programming languages and read the source code is just lazy and doesn't deserve to use Linux.
/. is not a good cross-section of), don't want a learning experience when they use a computer. For them it is an appliance - something they use to read email, access web pages and write letters. Unlike most of the people around here they don't have the slightest interest at all in `how it works'. They just want it to work out of the box. Kind of like me when it comes to cars :-)
Geez! What really annoys me about posts like the one to the debian list is that they spring from arrogance - that everyone who knows less than me must be either stupid or lazy. Its like these people want to belong to an `elitist club' of cool linux users and once they know whats going on don't want anyone else to join!
The vast majority of computer users (of which
I think that Linux has a lot to offer in terms of stability and efficiency as well as a platform for further innovation. Unless you want it remain primarily in the domain of techies or computer hobbyists then it will have to made easier to use (incidentally I think that the work that Debian and Redhat have done in the previous few years has made it much easier to install and administrate. Too often however, writing reams of documentation is used as a substitue for poor interface design.
I agree - the main barrier to more people using or at least trying out Linux is the initial setup. If big vendors started shipping dual windows/linux boxes there'd be a lot more people out there willing to give Linux a go - and I believe finding that there is enough application functionality to meet most of their needs.
Installing new devices under windows can be a pretty frustrating experience too. A few weeks ago I had a cable modem installed - the techie spent around an hour trying to get the USB drivers installed (windows wouldn't allow the first cd of app software to be ejected to allow the install of the drivers). They eventually gave up and installed an internal ethernet card with the drivers from a floppy disk.
In comparison configuring it from Linux only took me less than half an hour, including the time taken to recompile the kernel to support the ethernet card and read the FAQ on dhcpcd.
When I tried this last night the gzipped file for linux was corrupt. From the date on the file in the ftp site it doesn't look like it has changed. Anyone else have any better luck?
So, to sum it up, I think that direct revenue capture works to the detriment of collaboration.
The problem with the lack of a direct revenue capture system is that it discourages commercial companies from investing large amounts of money into upfront research (for open source projects anyway).
How many companies are going to invest millions of dollars into research if the only revenue they can see in the future is from support? New companies coming in have the advantage of not having to recover the cost of developing the product in the first place.
Yes, its possible for companies to survive and propser by selling support for GPL'd products, but these companies are nearly always established after a lot of free time has been donated where the risk is a lot lower that a useful product is not eventually developed.
The lack of a direct revenue capture system may in fact discourage funding for new innovative development.
So are you going to want to call it BSD/Linux? :-)
Unless someone could suggest reasonable technical reasons why this is a good idea and not just `political' ones it seems like a waste of time to me. I don't call it GNU/Linux (if only to save saying one syllable), but if other people want to, who cares?