It's a shame that isn't one of the ballot choices, but the next best thing is to cast a protest vote - I feel it's better to do that than to abstain. Even if I care it really doesn't matter. With the "winner take all" electoral system, and living in a state that is dead certain to go for Gore, my vote for Gore or for Bush just won't matter. So I plan to vote (as I have a number of times in the past) for the Libertarian ticket, the party with which I find myself most in accord.
If you are unhappy with the two major candidates, go and vote anyway. Pick the minor party you like best, and use it to vote "NONE OF THE ABOVE"!!
Yeah, I had a Mattel Intellivision once, found it still down the cellar a couple of years back, but it didn't work anymore. Burger Time, Astrosmash, a bunch of others, I had legal bought and paid for copies. If I could find an emulator for the Intellivision and copies of those games to download, I would feel TOTALLY JUSTIFIED in doing so. I don't care who owns the copyrights, I paid for the right to play those games, use of an emulator ("repair" for the defunct console) and downloaded "backup" copies is NOT violating anything.
Tried to read the story and the link just gets me a blank page. But I did find it by:
1. editing the "location" down to their main page
2. using their "search" (look carefully, it's a VERY small tab)
Interesting story, just wanted to post this in case others have problems finding it. And, by the way, I LIKE Red Hat!
"Plus, it doesn't require Gnome or KDE." That's the best reason I can think of NOT to use it. Both Gnome and KDE are available, and highly visible, when you install any recent Red Hat, or many other distros. I don't even KNOW if I have Motif, and the lst time I looked into it a couple of years back, Motif cost real money (like, over $100). Maybe there is a free version now, but even so making it a prereq is a downer - I'd much rather get something Gtk+ or Qt based since I have both easily available.
I've used, and still use, lots of editors. Vi's user interface sucks, but it's handy for some jobs (EMACS I have never even tried to learn). Windoze style editors are OK, I like gEdit. And for some work I still use a DOS line-based editor called TinyEdit which comes as a 10K exe file and beats out some editors 100 times as big. I can adapt to many editors, the MAIN thing is it has to be easy to get to, already installed or VERY EASY to install. Because of the Motif requirement, I don't plan to even TRY Nedit.
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It's a shame that isn't one of the ballot choices, but the next best thing is to cast a protest vote - I feel it's better to do that than to abstain. Even if I care it really doesn't matter. With the "winner take all" electoral system, and living in a state that is dead certain to go for Gore, my vote for Gore or for Bush just won't matter. So I plan to vote (as I have a number of times in the past) for the Libertarian ticket, the party with which I find myself most in accord.
If you are unhappy with the two major candidates, go and vote anyway. Pick the minor party you like best, and use it to vote "NONE OF THE ABOVE"!!
Yeah, I had a Mattel Intellivision once, found it still down the cellar a couple of years back, but it didn't work anymore. Burger Time, Astrosmash, a bunch of others, I had legal bought and paid for copies. If I could find an emulator for the Intellivision and copies of those games to download, I would feel TOTALLY JUSTIFIED in doing so. I don't care who owns the copyrights, I paid for the right to play those games, use of an emulator ("repair" for the defunct console) and downloaded "backup" copies is NOT violating anything.
Tried to read the story and the link just gets me a blank page. But I did find it by:
1. editing the "location" down to their main page
2. using their "search" (look carefully, it's a VERY small tab)
Interesting story, just wanted to post this in case others have problems finding it. And, by the way, I LIKE Red Hat!
"Plus, it doesn't require Gnome or KDE." That's the best reason I can think of NOT to use it. Both Gnome and KDE are available, and highly visible, when you install any recent Red Hat, or many other distros. I don't even KNOW if I have Motif, and the lst time I looked into it a couple of years back, Motif cost real money (like, over $100). Maybe there is a free version now, but even so making it a prereq is a downer - I'd much rather get something Gtk+ or Qt based since I have both easily available.
I've used, and still use, lots of editors. Vi's user interface sucks, but it's handy for some jobs (EMACS I have never even tried to learn). Windoze style editors are OK, I like gEdit. And for some work I still use a DOS line-based editor called TinyEdit which comes as a 10K exe file and beats out some editors 100 times as big. I can adapt to many editors, the MAIN thing is it has to be easy to get to, already installed or VERY EASY to install. Because of the Motif requirement, I don't plan to even TRY Nedit.
There is NO SUCH THING as UNJUSTIFIED Micro$oft bashing. They deserve every last little bit of it!!!