Not so much, I'd be afraid to live under a Kerry regime. Last time we had a democrat in office was a pretty bad 8 years of my life. A lot of senseless unconstitutional laws were passed, and we're still trying to recover from the economy that was on a serious downward spiral at the end of that 8 years. But then, Kerry's a "different" democrat right? Not likely, all politicians tend to stick to the platform stance on everything.
The democrats seem to favor: 1. move towards socialism
a. Raise taxes, especially on the wealthy, and businesses
b. We don't need businesses anymore anyway, increase government size, the government will run everything.
c. ok, nobody needs to work now, and there's no incentive to work anyway (they'll just tax you to death) Cool!
d. uh... where are we going to get taxes from now? (shh, ok don't tell anyone this part)
2. Take away your rights, a little at a time.
a. People shouldn't be able to protect themselves. You don't need guns. Trust us, we're your government *grin*
b. You really shouldn't be printing anything in the media that critisizes the government, it's bad for morale.
c. For that matter, individuals should really keep their opinions to themselves too, unless they are in line with what the government wants them to say.
The fuss is because evolution is inconsistant on several points with creation described in Genesis. There is a much deeper problem at work here though. The pseudoscience involved in bringing about the theory of evolution has spawned a new religion based upon the worship of the created (the earth, animals, humans, the human intellect) rather than the Creator. The lack of a higher authority appeals to many, as it dispenses with the notion of any moral oblibation and alleviates the necessity for guilt.
To put it a different way, "if there's nobody to answer to, nothing matters." Therfore, if by evolution, I'm nothing more than an animal that has learned to walk on two legs, I should not be inclined to behave differently. I should be driven only by self-preservation, hunger, and the desire to procreate. But humans are more complex than this. We're still made out the the same basic elements, we still have a genetic code embedded in dna (not the simplest, but not the most complex either), brain size seems to be irrelivant. Yet we ARE different. Why?
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
The fact is, creationism, and evolution share something very important in common. Neither can be proven. Both require some amount of faith. Where do you place your faith? If you place your faith in God, then you will understand what I am trying to say. There is a higher authority, there is a design, and what you do *does* matter. We are created in God's image, and are not like the other animals. This is why Jesus loved us enough to lay down his life for us, that we might, through him, find everlasting life.
I have to admit I'm a bit disturbed by the UN's interest in free software. These people seem to have a history of embracing things with seemingly good intentions, then twisting them into something grotesque. I don't trust them.
That being said, why do we need a free software day? Every day is free software day for me.:)
Oh, great. I bet they are also looking for people like me that sneak a $0.50 candy bar in bacause I don't want to pay $5.00 for it at the theater. That's where the real money is, I'm suprised the MPAA hasn't started cracking down on candy violators. They would make their money a lot faster at the concession stand!
The looking glass desktop from visix included in early CND was really cumbersome. After waiting an absurd amount of time to do basic operations I got fed up with it and replaced it with fvwm. It always seemed to me that some suit said "we need drag and drop support, and a graphical desktop" so they included it even though nobody would use the thing.
I got sick and tired of my previous cable company jacking up the rates every 3-6 months. It was never by a lot, but over time I realized that suddenly I was paying more than $60 a month for the _basic_ digital package (no movie channels or anything). Worse, I thought about switching to standard (non-digital) cable but they priced it such that it was only like $5 difference.
So, switched to dish network, now I'm getting pretty much the same channels, + PVR etc and I'm paying about $40. You'll probably want to make sure local channels are offered over the dish in your area. Usually it's just like an extra $5 or $7 and well worth it especially with the PVR. The weather can affect the signal in very extreme bad weather, but in my experience the cable usually went out under such conditions (and less) before too. I never thought that was a terribly effective FUD tactic on the part of cable companies.
None of this really matters since telemarketers are already using semantics to find their way around the current rules. I got a call a while back, and started to run through the junkbusters script.
tele-loser> "Wouldn't you like it if ?" me> "Is this a telemarketing call?" ...long pause... tele-loser> "No sir, this is a survey!"
See how the new scam works? It's just a survey, but if you really sound interested they transfer you to a sales person for your convenience.
Wow, very cool that they are modernizing this platform more to support this much memory. However, I gotta think that someday I'll look back and miss the days when I had apps on my pilot that would run in infinitesimal amounts of memory. I actually have one of the original Pilot PDAs (yeah, even before they caled them palm pilots). IIRC it had something like 256k of memory. Unfortunately, I don't think the thing even runs anymore.
Speaking of which, anyone interested in buy a legacy PDA?:)
I can buy an 8 pack of batteries at the store down the street for $1.99.
Honestly, is this the best the anti-war types can come up with now? Let's not be so quick to forget that we almost lost WWII because countries like the US didn't get involved soon enough. Now the US is getting ridiculed for this? Not to mention Britain and others (pretty much anyone but Germany/France). How quickly we forget our history...
Their prices are already so overinflated, they could sell everything for 90% off and still make a good profit.
It doesn't matter though... I wouldn't use their products if they sold them for $10 with a $50 rebate.
This is just a ploy by them to blame the suffering economy on OSS. If they can get the politicians to look unfavourably on oss, then maybe they'll be more symathetic to "struggling companies" like them who are beeing oppressed by the GPL.
I don't think opt out is viable for anybody. It certainly isn't for me. I like the opt in approach much better. You only get to call me if I say you can (unsolicited).
Suddenly I'm glad I didn't switch to broadband yet... Sure, apt-get is painful over 56k, but I'd hate to be doing an install and have it cut me off in the middle. "Please press continue... NEXT MONTH".
This sounds like an elitist attitude towards development... not surprising in today's competitive job market. Everyone has to start somewhere, and no developer can claim that they've never made mistakes (read bugs, poor design, etc).
The solution is not to be rid of "incompetent programmers". If you do that, then all the kids coming out of college, otherwise known as the ones who are in training today to become competent, will be shut out of the industry and become nice competent burger-flippers instead. When the so-called "competent" programmers reach retirement age, you'll be left with scrap.
The solution is easy, and well-know: code-review, and mentoring. This can and does work in a closed source environment, but it happens naturally in an open-source world.
These were the people that said they couldn't open source their software because their products were so flawed with security that it would be a threat to national defense. Could it be that they were actually telling the truth for once?
There will always be security problems, fix it and move on. But when a company knows about it, sits on it forever, tries to silence anyone else who finds it, and denies it... then way down the road writes a fix (finally) and says "Look at us, we're taking proactive steps to insure our customers security", that's absurd.
In fact the unmentioned product that his tool was for was illegal in his country because of such restrictions iirc. His tool actually made their product legal in his country.
Ok, I agree that blizzard handled the bnetd thing very poorly. I was just as disappointed in them as everyone else. But, blizzard has in my opinion, always been the guys doing certain things right in gaming.
Take Warcraft II for example (the first Blizzard game I played). Most networked games at the time required you to buy a copy for each machine that wanted to play. WC2 let you spawn copies though so that you only had to have 1 license for ever 3 people or so. Good move, and very gracious of them to not be so greedy as most.
Another thing that makes me mad is the mmorpg's of late that want me to pay $50 bucks for a game, then pay another $10/month to play it online (which is the only option for playing it). Considering that I probably won't have more than a few hours a month to play, I'm certainly never going to pay a monthly fee. I'll pay for the game but if I have to pay to use a product I already bought... that's just wrong. With Blizzards games, you can connect to battlenet without having to pay a monthly fee.
Personally, I think they are doing a lot of things right and I'm still hoping they'll come around on the bnetd issue. I've seen a lot of great games from them though and hope to see a lot more so I'll support Blizzard.
I'm a maintainer for a project on sourceforge where we currently have about 15 members listed *on* the project page. However, we really have many more developers working on the project that don't have an account because they don't want/need cvs commit access, they work on other parts of the project that don't require them to have an account, and many other reasons. Plus there are many more people who aren't consistant developers, but they contribute from time to time.
So, this is a poor way of tracking the number of developers working on projects and such a statement can't be made based only on this data.
There are plenty of books about things like structured programming (iirc there is even one with that exact title), Just about any book with the work "algorithms" in the title, or things like "The Tao of Objects". Those are all good resources that focus on methodology rather than language.
What your seeing here is not really so much a new standard as it is several distros finally agreeing to adhere to the LSB and divvy up the work of making that happen in all their separate distributions. This is a great thing for application developers and RedHat should seriously consider adhering to the LSB now too.
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Not so much, I'd be afraid to live under a Kerry regime. Last time we had a democrat in office was a pretty bad 8 years of my life. A lot of senseless unconstitutional laws were passed, and we're still trying to recover from the economy that was on a serious downward spiral at the end of that 8 years. But then, Kerry's a "different" democrat right? Not likely, all politicians tend to stick to the platform stance on everything.
The democrats seem to favor:
1. move towards socialism
a. Raise taxes, especially on the wealthy, and businesses
b. We don't need businesses anymore anyway, increase government size, the government will run everything.
c. ok, nobody needs to work now, and there's no incentive to work anyway (they'll just tax you to death) Cool!
d. uh... where are we going to get taxes from now? (shh, ok don't tell anyone this part)
2. Take away your rights, a little at a time.
a. People shouldn't be able to protect themselves. You don't need guns. Trust us, we're your government *grin*
b. You really shouldn't be printing anything in the media that critisizes the government, it's bad for morale.
c. For that matter, individuals should really keep their opinions to themselves too, unless they are in line with what the government wants them to say.
To put it a different way, "if there's nobody to answer to, nothing matters." Therfore, if by evolution, I'm nothing more than an animal that has learned to walk on two legs, I should not be inclined to behave differently. I should be driven only by self-preservation, hunger, and the desire to procreate. But humans are more complex than this. We're still made out the the same basic elements, we still have a genetic code embedded in dna (not the simplest, but not the most complex either), brain size seems to be irrelivant. Yet we ARE different. Why?
The fact is, creationism, and evolution share something very important in common. Neither can be proven. Both require some amount of faith. Where do you place your faith? If you place your faith in God, then you will understand what I am trying to say. There is a higher authority, there is a design, and what you do *does* matter. We are created in God's image, and are not like the other animals. This is why Jesus loved us enough to lay down his life for us, that we might, through him, find everlasting life.
I have to admit I'm a bit disturbed by the UN's interest in free software. These people seem to have a history of embracing things with seemingly good intentions, then twisting them into something grotesque. I don't trust them.
:)
That being said, why do we need a free software day? Every day is free software day for me.
'nuff said
Oh, great. I bet they are also looking for people like me that sneak a $0.50 candy bar in bacause I don't want to pay $5.00 for it at the theater. That's where the real money is, I'm suprised the MPAA hasn't started cracking down on candy violators. They would make their money a lot faster at the concession stand!
The looking glass desktop from visix included in early CND was really cumbersome. After waiting an absurd amount of time to do basic operations I got fed up with it and replaced it with fvwm. It always seemed to me that some suit said "we need drag and drop support, and a graphical desktop" so they included it even though nobody would use the thing.
I got sick and tired of my previous cable company jacking up the rates every 3-6 months. It was never by a lot, but over time I realized that suddenly I was paying more than $60 a month for the _basic_ digital package (no movie channels or anything). Worse, I thought about switching to standard (non-digital) cable but they priced it such that it was only like $5 difference.
So, switched to dish network, now I'm getting pretty much the same channels, + PVR etc and I'm paying about $40. You'll probably want to make sure local channels are offered over the dish in your area. Usually it's just like an extra $5 or $7 and well worth it especially with the PVR. The weather can affect the signal in very extreme bad weather, but in my experience the cable usually went out under such conditions (and less) before too. I never thought that was a terribly effective FUD tactic on the part of cable companies.
"Well I be done seen about ev-er-y-thing, when I see an elephant fly!"
See how the new scam works? It's just a survey, but if you really sound interested they transfer you to a sales person for your convenience.
Wow, very cool that they are modernizing this platform more to support this much memory. However, I gotta think that someday I'll look back and miss the days when I had apps on my pilot that would run in infinitesimal amounts of memory. I actually have one of the original Pilot PDAs (yeah, even before they caled them palm pilots). IIRC it had something like 256k of memory. Unfortunately, I don't think the thing even runs anymore.
:)
Speaking of which, anyone interested in buy a legacy PDA?
I can buy an 8 pack of batteries at the store down the street for $1.99.
Honestly, is this the best the anti-war types can come up with now? Let's not be so quick to forget that we almost lost WWII because countries like the US didn't get involved soon enough. Now the US is getting ridiculed for this? Not to mention Britain and others (pretty much anyone but Germany/France). How quickly we forget our history...
Their prices are already so overinflated, they could sell everything for 90% off and still make a good profit.
It doesn't matter though... I wouldn't use their products if they sold them for $10 with a $50 rebate.
This is just a ploy by them to blame the suffering economy on OSS. If they can get the politicians to look unfavourably on oss, then maybe they'll be more symathetic to "struggling companies" like them who are beeing oppressed by the GPL.
Bah...
I don't think opt out is viable for anybody. It certainly isn't for me. I like the opt in approach much better. You only get to call me if I say you can (unsolicited).
Suddenly I'm glad I didn't switch to broadband yet... Sure, apt-get is painful over 56k, but I'd hate to be doing an install and have it cut me off in the middle. "Please press continue... NEXT MONTH".
This sounds like an elitist attitude towards development... not surprising in today's competitive job market. Everyone has to start somewhere, and no developer can claim that they've never made mistakes (read bugs, poor design, etc).
The solution is not to be rid of "incompetent programmers". If you do that, then all the kids coming out of college, otherwise known as the ones who are in training today to become competent, will be shut out of the industry and become nice competent burger-flippers instead. When the so-called "competent" programmers reach retirement age, you'll be left with scrap.
The solution is easy, and well-know: code-review, and mentoring. This can and does work in a closed source environment, but it happens naturally in an open-source world.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
Mercury Interactive - www.mercuryinteractive.com has some products that will do this. I used them for a short while and they seemed pretty good.
These were the people that said they couldn't open source their software because their products were so flawed with security that it would be a threat to national defense. Could it be that they were actually telling the truth for once?
There will always be security problems, fix it and move on. But when a company knows about it, sits on it forever, tries to silence anyone else who finds it, and denies it... then way down the road writes a fix (finally) and says "Look at us, we're taking proactive steps to insure our customers security", that's absurd.
In fact the unmentioned product that his tool was for was illegal in his country because of such restrictions iirc. His tool actually made their product legal in his country.
Someone want to tell Dmitry Sklyarov that this is just a bunch of FUD and that the DMCA isn't really a threat?
Ok, I agree that blizzard handled the bnetd thing very poorly. I was just as disappointed in them as everyone else. But, blizzard has in my opinion, always been the guys doing certain things right in gaming.
Take Warcraft II for example (the first Blizzard game I played). Most networked games at the time required you to buy a copy for each machine that wanted to play. WC2 let you spawn copies though so that you only had to have 1 license for ever 3 people or so. Good move, and very gracious of them to not be so greedy as most.
Another thing that makes me mad is the mmorpg's of late that want me to pay $50 bucks for a game, then pay another $10/month to play it online (which is the only option for playing it). Considering that I probably won't have more than a few hours a month to play, I'm certainly never going to pay a monthly fee. I'll pay for the game but if I have to pay to use a product I already bought... that's just wrong. With Blizzards games, you can connect to battlenet without having to pay a monthly fee.
Personally, I think they are doing a lot of things right and I'm still hoping they'll come around on the bnetd issue. I've seen a lot of great games from them though and hope to see a lot more so I'll support Blizzard.
I don't own a cell phone... it's just one more way for "them" to spy on me.
I'm a maintainer for a project on sourceforge where we currently have about 15 members listed *on* the project page. However, we really have many more developers working on the project that don't have an account because they don't want/need cvs commit access, they work on other parts of the project that don't require them to have an account, and many other reasons. Plus there are many more people who aren't consistant developers, but they contribute from time to time.
So, this is a poor way of tracking the number of developers working on projects and such a statement can't be made based only on this data.
There are plenty of books about things like structured programming (iirc there is even one with that exact title), Just about any book with the work "algorithms" in the title, or things like "The Tao of Objects". Those are all good resources that focus on methodology rather than language.
What your seeing here is not really so much a new standard as it is several distros finally agreeing to adhere to the LSB and divvy up the work of making that happen in all their separate distributions. This is a great thing for application developers and RedHat should seriously consider adhering to the LSB now too.