The 13th amendment did away with involuntary servitude. And as remote as that sounds, that does apply. Your employment is at-will, unless under contract. (Most contracts have exit clauses though. Note that you are completely free to contract into anything.) I do not think you are under contract.
You have every right to any vaction time you have aquired. Take your most recent salary, divide by 2080 and multiply by the # of hours in the bank. That is the amount that you are entilted to, plus any hours worked this payroll period.*
*Varies from state to state. It may be accounted for to the minute, to the day, or to the half-day, or even partial [half] day if you were late coming in one day.
Small claims court is your friend, here in MD it only costs $40 to file and you can get 3x what is actually due as punitiave damages.
NOT ADVICE: It could work in your favor to have a friend pose as an attorney and call your boss to "establish the facts" of the case and make him aware of the above facts. I do not know of any law that carries a penalty for posing as an attorney, unless you actually do it in a court of law. Hell you only have to mention names that sound like a law firm as where you are calling from and never make a claim, let *them assume* you are an attorney or a paralegal. I think compliance with your rights will go up tremendously.
If you have a paid-time-off policy, as nearly everyone does these days, that money is yours. You can't really take a "vacation" but assuming you had 80 hours in the PTO bank, you just walk out and you have every right to the time in the bank, which then is converted to a dollar amount based on your salary and the check gets mailed to you at the next payroll cycle. The effect is the same - you get 2 weeks paid off time.
I worked at a payroll place, so I know what I am talking about.
1) I do not have to worry about licensing and other issues when I install it for them.
2) I can get the program myself and test it without violating any license agreement.
3a) I can report bugs on their behalf, get answeres and get it fixed faster than commercial software. I use mailing lists and IRC, and sometimes real email. 3b) I can look at/fix the code myself if need be. Though this is rare, but it it realyl useful on detecting why it failed.
I bet the conversation falls apart really fast. The lack of creativeity should devolve the conversation to incomprehensible. garbage rather quickly.
Alice is out to convince someone she is NOT a bot, but what happens when you get two bots trying to convince the other they are not a bot.
The point where both can keep the conversation at the introduced level is credible that the truth or falsehoos of alice being a bot is random chance by the observer.
At the point where both convince each other that the other is not a bot you will have something.
Use two hashes MD-5 and say SHA-1 It is [nearly] mathematically impossible to create two files of the same size with the same two hashes, through two substantially different algorithms.
Only such collisions will occur at a "node" in "hash space". Such nodes are rare, and given the same file-size for both hashes, impossible to acheive.
You have a statement from a software company that makes money off of other people's insecurity.
And when I say that, it is 2-sided: Fear on the customers side, and Lack of security within the product
With commercial software this situation works very well for your sales. But enter open source....
Open Source: There are no secrets. From open code to a very liberal publication and release policy on breaches. What's more is the software isusually patched within hours of of pubication (at worst). The user derives MORE value from automatic updates than they ever would from buying a virus scanner.
OpenSource then becomes a pancea of trust. You are not bound by relesae cycles, everything is out in the open. You just don't need a virus scanner on Linux unless you're a file server looking for PC viruses.
If Linux takes, off, it is the end of McAffe. Expect this FUD.
A Java person talking abtout "lock in". How many JVM platforms are officially supported, like 3? Win, Linux(x86), and Solaris (Sparc). (Mac is provided by Apple) Compare this to how many are officially supported for python. I count 16 just in the OTHER catagory. So while "lock in" is not locked in to one platform, you are extremely limited in what platforms you can choose.
Python is also free; there is no controlling corporate body; no single source.
I often wonder why we aren't just distributing.pyc files instead of.java. I can only speculate that it was a lack of a standard windowing system and a browser plug in. But everything is better in python.
Since you are coming from Java, don't forget Jython. And if you are coming from.Net don't forget IronPython.
All in all, I have to recommend python for so many more reasons than vendor non-lock in.
Also for your new interface I would suggest the PyGame module.
The web (http) is a request-response protocol. You must first request it in order to get it. Http servers do not connect to clients to deliver content, it is the otherway round.
ANYONE that expects you to request something which you have no interested in (even though they do) is a nut. They make as much sense as talking to a wall.
If they want anykind of enforibility, or any kind of claim, reverse it. Let them send it to you, then they can claim at least that you thew it out.
Incedentally, I use the "gorilla hosts file" (google that) that maps an incredible amount of image-ad servers to localhost.
I've also written some replacement scripts that will handle redirection (sites like slickdeals.net run you through a 3rd tracking party, my scripts run you back through yourself.)
Now brooadcast TV is just that broadcast. At least they can send it to you. However in any broacast scheme, you do not know who is receiving it. You have no claim or control once it leaves the tower. Content coming from the tower may be copyright, but that only covers reproduction.
There is nothing wrong with not requesting, or just skipping, marketing materials.
I don't think I missed the point, because I've had the same problems that you do. We both agree Linux is superior.
Why won't she use it? Quantify that for me. If everything looks 99% the same could she even tell?
Maybe the icons are more colorful and the start button is a lizard, but in transferring the settings you'd also import the look and feel of windows. Like click-to-focus, double/single click etc.
ocusing on corporate desktops though is hard - they are well seated on Windows. Anything is an upheaval. We'll need to seed it into new companies. For existing companies, we need to find ways of mitigating (where WORTH mitigating) the others.
This reinforces my comments (for which I receiced flamage and praise) about Linux being Buhddism and Windows being some form of Christianity.
You can't expect a non-agressive operating system to overcome one that is willing to sign exclusivity deals and such.
If/when Linux takes over windows it will be one one way - the same way that windows got to be omnipresent - trickle-down from companies.
If we can get companies to adopt Linux on the corporate desktop, the home desktops will follow.
Focusing on corporate desktops is something we can do, one company at a time. Eventually we'll ahve critical mass and the rest will collapse in, with the home market to follow.
Focusing on corporate desktops though is hard - they are well seated on Windows. Anything is an upheaval. We'll need to seed it into new companies. For existing companies, we need to find ways of mitigating (where WORTH mitigating) the others. ( + XDMCP server anyone??)
Just think, of IBM had bought MINIX instead of DOS, we'd probably all be on Linux now. IT TRICKLES DOWN.
All this "zealoutry" and flame war is more analogous to fighting within the religion for control. When you market to outsiders (which is what the article is about) the internal struggles are hidden. In actuality, those outseides never need to paricipate in flame wars, which are wars of words that are quicktly forgotten.
In my old age, I realize that less and less of this OS zealoutry matters. You may be too young to understand, grasshopper, but the world will revolve around whatever OS is out there, regaurdless of how well it fits the customer's needs.
What we are dealing with in the article is a comparison between OSS and proprietary. How proprietary has remained dominant, and the short comings of OSS.
MOST IMPORTANTLY in my post I was referring only to the pressures on which USERS are put under. USERS are not subjected to exclusive bundling (made with with financial agreements) , unfair business practies, and a clamoring for their dollars when using Linux. In Linux they are FREE TO INSTALL OR REMOVE anything. Furthermore, it costs them nothing and they lose nothing if they install or remove Linux software.
In the end the point that I am trying to make, is until dollars are on the line, OSS will never have the same clamoring for users that commercial software has.
PS. Dollars are on the line for Christianity, this is why preists and Nuns cannot take wives, so they leave their property (particularly real estate) to the church. They used to be able to marry, but they changed all that. Compare this to buhddism, where want creates suffering, so one ends up trying to claim property.
PPS. It could be surmised that Linux is pacifist, despite members in the community, because it has no real teeth. [In terms of market power]
Your post is flaimbait. What makes you so arragant to believe that Christianity is forced on me? I freely accept God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Christianity is about a private and personal relationship with God. It is not about anything else.
God is the creator of the universe, he sent his Son to save us. When he created Adam and Eve, they lived with only one rule, not to eat from the tree of knowledge. Adam exersized his free will, he was tricked by Satan to eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. What does this mean? Adam now knew good and evil, and could judge for himself. Why is this bad? Because there is only one perfect judge, and that is God. Adam will judge badly, and that is the source of all unhappiness. We use intellect to judge, but we are not all knowing, we don't understand everything. This self-love of our self, the thoughts that we are smarter than everyone else leads to this false judgements. What we must do is turn over all judgement to God and live as he tells us to. Remember, he is God, he created everything, he gave us life, and he gave us Jesus so that we may be closer to Him.
No, your post is fail bait. Christianity was forced on you be cause of the Emperors and Kings of days past, the missionaries that delivered "the lords message" to so many other cultures (I do not know your heratige). You may not have been coerced, but someone in your family was coerced into it somehow.
Why Do we celebrate X-Mas in December? Jesus was born In late March/Early April. Could it be that Christianity changed the date to coincide with pegan traditions? (Why do we have a X-mas tree?) Your family was coerced at one poitn into believing.
Adam was not tricked into eating the apple, Eve was.
You can freely accept God and Jesus, that is your right, but it was not always so free and easy to accept or not to accept.
You miss the point. Yeah, there are people chatting about it, but no one is actually trying to deliver it to the masses. In otder to be a missionary, you have to get off your ass and get out there and talk to people, not just post about how great it is in some LiveJournal.
Look at WinZip's site. Probably the most poplular add-on aside from Winamp and FireFox. They actively sell their product through the website. Show me a website attempting to sell "Ark" for the Linux masses.
This gets to another point. Linux "missionaries" attempt to "sell" Linux as a whole. This is NOT what the article is talking about. The article is talking about promoting the *applications on Linux*.
I will claim that there is rarely such amovement, because there is no money on the line. Put money on the line, and you can really get many, many more people to promote it.
The "Get Firefox" campaign is the strongest OSS campiagn I've seen, yet it sucks in comparison to what a commercial company can do.
Now on a related note, I think that if we were to have an advertizing blitz, with Linux apps competing, that would attract more people to the platform just because it is worth fighting over. People would feel more "protected" (for lack of better word) because of the competition and other market forces. Linux development can stop at any time, but as long as there is competition, meaning a quest for money, means there is a Linux market they will know that the platform is staying current, cause it is good enough to fight over.
Don't dismiss the importance. Imagine replacing all the banner ads for software with banner ads for Linux software. What would one infer? 1) That Linux is worth having 2) That Linux is worth fighting over 3) That Linux (and other apps) are worth paying for 4) All the above.
There is a stigma in this country (usually real) that something that is free is not worth paying for. We know it not to be the case with Lnux, but the amerage person fails to grasp why it is free AND worth paying for. That causes suspicion. We can distract them from that if there is competition fighting for them to buy software. Note I said buy. Not just use.
To the OSS developer, he cares not, because he scratches his itch.. Maybe he has a little more prode and wants people to use his stuff, but for most people that will come as a back seat to feeding his face.
I really think that update of OSS would happen more if it were charged for. For the same reason why Starbucks can charge as much as they do for coffee. Generally, under normal conditions you try to save money.. but you'll pay more if you are given the impression that it is worth more, just for the mere fact that it costs an ass-load, and anything is an ass-load for gratis open source.
Rmember the GNU license does not prohibit one for charging for software.
Is there a linux-side import wizard where I can import XP settings into Linux? Everything from desktop to window colors and such?
XP has an app that will package your computer up and transfer it to another. I think if there was a way that we could attach linux to the other side (Without XP knowing it was actually talkign to a linux box) that would go a long way to easing the transition.
I prefer KDE, but I would be interested in knowing if there is one for GNOME too.
The vast majority of closed source apps are sold, marketed. Partnering gets them on the desktop.
If we were talking about religions, closed source is Chrisianity, with missionaries, and wars and such.
Open source is Buhddism, where one must go and seek out enlightenment himself. There are no wars fought, to missionaries spreading the word. One adpots buhddism dur to principal, and not because someone else tried to sell it to me.
Appropriately, I think the world population of Christians vs Buhddists resembles that of closed-source vs open source. The same goes for adotion rates.
You can bet the IRS will have a field day. They don't like to see huge drops in wages until retirement age. Being young I bet they will be flagged for suspicous activity and investigated.
Now I have been studying the tax sytem. I oppose the belief that there is an "income tax" on people at all. But this to too radical an approach. I have been called a "tax protestor" by people on the board. Let me ask this: Have the google founders avioded a "duty" to pau "their fair share"? Why does ones "fair share" (or their "duty") to the government increase or decrease on how many hours they punch on a clock? Does Bob the janitor owe the country more if he mops floors 2 hours extra a day? Why has he incurred additional liabilty to the government? Surely his mopping does not add and costs to the government
What has happened? Well, the IRS has been extremely effective at making people think that "wages are income" when in fact only wages from public service are "income". In order to read the 16th amendment you have tounderstand waht the word "income" in 1913 meant. It did not come to mean "everything that comes in" until 1942. What happened in 1942, well we had a var, a victory tax, and a duck. Why did it take Donald Duck to make all wages taxed? Does any of that change what "income" is defined as? No. But the IRS is very convicing and has several tricks up its seleve. In fact, in 1913 interpretaion of the term, I read court casea about people paying taxes on stuff that is not even income! The IRS doesn't care if your assesment is right, just that they get the most from you. After all they are hired agents whose mission it is to collect everything that they can.
Incentelly, we use a system of "self assessment". The crux of that is one only need to convince himself what is and what is not income. If a computer wereto do it, it would have to use the formal definition and many american's taxes would be much lower. It is completely in the poer of government with the advent of computers to eliminate April 15th. Why don't they? Well there's a huge tax industry for one, two, they oould loose money. ALL of your "income" recipts are eletronically transmitted. Why can't they just use those. Anyone awarding you "income" has to produce some recipt (1099, w2)
If you read the book in my sig, you'll find out starling truths. I have not even started the ligitimacy of the income tax debate.
The book below only talks about whether or not your wages are taxed (never mind the taxable issue) and how to overcome a w-2 or 1099 that is issued in error.
In the article the rechargibles lastes LONGER than the O-rides, by 5 flashes. Recharge these things 3 times and you've more than recouped the cost of recharbles.
Next up is the fact that they were 1800mh batteries. My budget rechargeables are 2300, up from 2250 the year before.
Plus batteryspace.com regularly has a sale, currently you can get 24 rechargables for $29!!!
Make the light hours "shorter" and the dark hours longer" Mutiply the seconds per hour by the cosine of the time. It'll result in a continuous shift, that really does save daylight! You'l have 18 light hours and only 4 dark ones.
Thanks for your replies, but questions remain. The event horizon is the point in which light (photons) cannot escape, due to force of GRAVITY. Photons are unpowered drifters of the universe. I am not aware of any polatiry with photons.
Electrons create magnetic fields and purturb space-time more than gravity. (Their force is stronger.)
Given charged particles falling into an event horizon to impart a force on (like a reverse-ripple) the polarity of the craft is altered to pull itself against the incoming particles. Sort of like a reverse ion drive.
You of course would need some source to pre-charge the particles coming in in an orderly fasion. Non-theoretical arguments not withstanding, given a reverse, ripple charge, you should be able to ride the waves out.
How do magnetic fields not "escape" an event horizon? There is space-time there. With electron energy being many many times gravitron energy, it would seem to me that magetic properties would still rule the event horizon.
As someone pointed out, a magnetic black hole would eventually neutral-out being a negative feed-back force. So I won't say these things exist in nature. (Unless a huge field collected particles, and motivated enough to acclerate inwards to the point that the kinetic energy allowed a charge to buildup. I am sure someone can do a calculation on the required speed for that to happen, and I am sure it is sufficiently large that it would exceed the mass/speed of light so as to never happen) But they would make great space-mines:-)
It could also be that a huge magnet is brought near (yet outside) the event horizon. Energy on the craft is converted to magnetic charge. You could chain these magnetic masses to an anchor point too.
This all assumes an easy/efficient way to make electrons and destroy them (or sheild their effects)
If the event horizon is a function of gravity, shouldn't it be easy to escape a black hole using a magetic drive? Last I checked magnatism was orders of magnitude stronger than gravity. This means there are 2 event horizons, one for gravity and the other for magnetism. It should be possible to escape a black hole up to the point of the magnetic event horizon. (I assume the black hole generates a magnetic field. If not then, using mag drives should allow one to navigate freely.)
This is not FUD at all. I leave it to the reader acusingmy of FUD to obtain and compare the licences between v3 and v4.
3 Allowed MySQL use where MySQL was used to fetch and organize data that was already availible through other means. Not only did we have a sequential text-log of all the data, but by running MySQL in parralell and doing some parsing and storing offsets of where the data was in the file, it greatly simplified searching.
v4 not only prohibited that, but it forbids use in any commercial environment. There is ONE exception. That is the PHP exception clause. PHP is (and commercial sites run on PHP) are permitted to use PHP. If they had not granted that, MySQL would eb effectively dead. It is short-sighted to assume that the only software interacting with MySQL is PHP. The client libraries are very often directly linked in.
Under the v3 license, this was the case. But the v4 license would require the app to be GPL as well.
IT IS ALL WELL DOCUMENTED. READ IT.
With PostgreSQL's BSD license, NONE of this crap happens.
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The 13th amendment did away with involuntary servitude. And as remote as that sounds, that does apply. Your employment is at-will, unless under contract. (Most contracts have exit clauses though. Note that you are completely free to contract into anything.) I do not think you are under contract.
You have every right to any vaction time you have aquired. Take your most recent salary, divide by 2080 and multiply by the # of hours in the bank. That is the amount that you are entilted to, plus any hours worked this payroll period.*
*Varies from state to state. It may be accounted for to the minute, to the day, or to the half-day, or even partial [half] day if you were late coming in one day.
Small claims court is your friend, here in MD it only costs $40 to file and you can get 3x what is actually due as punitiave damages.
NOT ADVICE: It could work in your favor to have a friend pose as an attorney and call your boss to "establish the facts" of the case and make him aware of the above facts. I do not know of any law that carries a penalty for posing as an attorney, unless you actually do it in a court of law. Hell you only have to mention names that sound like a law firm as where you are calling from and never make a claim, let *them assume* you are an attorney or a paralegal. I think compliance with your rights will go up tremendously.
If you have a paid-time-off policy, as nearly everyone does these days, that money is yours. You can't really take a "vacation" but assuming you had 80 hours in the PTO bank, you just walk out and you have every right to the time in the bank, which then is converted to a dollar amount based on your salary and the check gets mailed to you at the next payroll cycle. The effect is the same - you get 2 weeks paid off time.
I worked at a payroll place, so I know what I am talking about.
1) I do not have to worry about licensing and other issues when I install it for them.
2) I can get the program myself and test it without violating any license agreement.
3a) I can report bugs on their behalf, get answeres and get it fixed faster than commercial software. I use mailing lists and IRC, and sometimes real email.
3b) I can look at/fix the code myself if need be. Though this is rare, but it it realyl useful on detecting why it failed.
I bet the conversation falls apart really fast. The lack of creativeity should devolve the conversation to incomprehensible. garbage rather quickly.
Alice is out to convince someone she is NOT a bot, but what happens when you get two bots trying to convince the other they are not a bot.
The point where both can keep the conversation at the introduced level is credible that the truth or falsehoos of alice being a bot is random chance by the observer.
At the point where both convince each other that the other is not a bot you will have something.
Use two hashes
MD-5 and say SHA-1
It is [nearly] mathematically impossible to create two files of the same size with the same two hashes, through two substantially different algorithms.
Only such collisions will occur at a "node" in "hash space". Such nodes are rare, and given the same file-size for both hashes, impossible to acheive.
You have a statement from a software company that makes money off of other people's insecurity.
And when I say that, it is 2-sided:
Fear on the customers side,
and Lack of security within the product
With commercial software this situation works very well for your sales. But enter open source....
Open Source: There are no secrets. From open code to a very liberal publication and release policy on breaches. What's more is the software isusually patched within hours of of pubication (at worst). The user derives MORE value from automatic updates than they ever would from buying a virus scanner.
OpenSource then becomes a pancea of trust. You are not bound by relesae cycles, everything is out in the open. You just don't need a virus scanner on Linux unless you're a file server looking for PC viruses.
If Linux takes, off, it is the end of McAffe. Expect this FUD.
A Java person talking abtout "lock in". How many JVM platforms are officially supported, like 3? Win, Linux(x86), and Solaris (Sparc). (Mac is provided by Apple) Compare this to how many are officially supported for python. I count 16 just in the OTHER catagory. So while "lock in" is not locked in to one platform, you are extremely limited in what platforms you can choose.
.pyc files instead of .java. I can only speculate that it was a lack of a standard windowing system and a browser plug in. But everything is better in python.
.Net don't forget IronPython.
Python is also free; there is no controlling corporate body; no single source.
I often wonder why we aren't just distributing
Since you are coming from Java, don't forget Jython. And if you are coming from
All in all, I have to recommend python for so many more reasons than vendor non-lock in.
Also for your new interface I would suggest the PyGame module.
The web (http) is a request-response protocol.
You must first request it in order to get it. Http servers do not connect to clients to deliver content, it is the otherway round.
ANYONE that expects you to request something which you have no interested in (even though they do) is a nut. They make as much sense as talking to a wall.
If they want anykind of enforibility, or any kind of claim, reverse it. Let them send it to you, then they can claim at least that you thew it out.
Incedentally, I use the "gorilla hosts file" (google that) that maps an incredible amount of image-ad servers to localhost.
I've also written some replacement scripts that will handle redirection (sites like slickdeals.net run you through a 3rd tracking party, my scripts run you back through yourself.)
Now brooadcast TV is just that broadcast. At least they can send it to you. However in any broacast scheme, you do not know who is receiving it. You have no claim or control once it leaves the tower. Content coming from the tower may be copyright, but that only covers reproduction.
There is nothing wrong with not requesting, or just skipping, marketing materials.
I don't think I missed the point, because I've had the same problems that you do. We both agree Linux is superior.
Why won't she use it? Quantify that for me. If everything looks 99% the same could she even tell?
Maybe the icons are more colorful and the start button is a lizard, but in transferring the settings you'd also import the look and feel of windows. Like click-to-focus, double/single click etc.
At what point will she stop caring?
I would not waste your time.
Spend the time instead on a migration tool so that KDE/GNOME will pick up your data and settings (As I wrote about here
Just use the XP migration tool to generate a CD or whatever, and be able to open it up and suck it into Linux.
ocusing on corporate desktops though is hard - they are well seated on Windows. Anything is an upheaval. We'll need to seed it into new companies. For existing companies, we need to find ways of mitigating (where WORTH mitigating) the others.
(XLive CD +
XDMCP server anyone??)
This reinforces my comments (for which I receiced flamage and praise) about Linux being Buhddism and Windows being some form of Christianity.
You can't expect a non-agressive operating system to overcome one that is willing to sign exclusivity deals and such.
If/when Linux takes over windows it will be one one way - the same way that windows got to be omnipresent - trickle-down from companies.
If we can get companies to adopt Linux on the corporate desktop, the home desktops will follow.
Focusing on corporate desktops is something we can do, one company at a time. Eventually we'll ahve critical mass and the rest will collapse in, with the home market to follow.
Focusing on corporate desktops though is hard - they are well seated on Windows. Anything is an upheaval. We'll need to seed it into new companies. For existing companies, we need to find ways of mitigating (where WORTH mitigating) the others. ( + XDMCP server anyone??)
Just think, of IBM had bought MINIX instead of DOS, we'd probably all be on Linux now. IT TRICKLES DOWN.
There is a disctintion that I failed to make...
All this "zealoutry" and flame war is more analogous to fighting within the religion for control. When you market to outsiders (which is what the article is about) the internal struggles are hidden. In actuality, those outseides never need to paricipate in flame wars, which are wars of words that are quicktly forgotten.
In my old age, I realize that less and less of this OS zealoutry matters. You may be too young to understand, grasshopper, but the world will revolve around whatever OS is out there, regaurdless of how well it fits the customer's needs.
What we are dealing with in the article is a comparison between OSS and proprietary. How proprietary has remained dominant, and the short comings of OSS.
MOST IMPORTANTLY in my post I was referring only to the pressures on which USERS are put under. USERS are not subjected to exclusive bundling (made with with financial agreements) , unfair business practies, and a clamoring for their dollars when using Linux. In Linux they are FREE TO INSTALL OR REMOVE anything. Furthermore, it costs them nothing and they lose nothing if they install or remove Linux software.
In the end the point that I am trying to make, is until dollars are on the line, OSS will never have the same clamoring for users that commercial software has.
PS. Dollars are on the line for Christianity, this is why preists and Nuns cannot take wives, so they leave their property (particularly real estate) to the church. They used to be able to marry, but they changed all that. Compare this to buhddism, where want creates suffering, so one ends up trying to claim property.
PPS. It could be surmised that Linux is pacifist, despite members in the community, because it has no real teeth. [In terms of market power]
Your post is flaimbait. What makes you so arragant to believe that Christianity is forced on me? I freely accept God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Christianity is about a private and personal relationship with God. It is not about anything else.
God is the creator of the universe, he sent his Son to save us. When he created Adam and Eve, they lived with only one rule, not to eat from the tree of knowledge. Adam exersized his free will, he was tricked by Satan to eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. What does this mean? Adam now knew good and evil, and could judge for himself. Why is this bad? Because there is only one perfect judge, and that is God. Adam will judge badly, and that is the source of all unhappiness. We use intellect to judge, but we are not all knowing, we don't understand everything. This self-love of our self, the thoughts that we are smarter than everyone else leads to this false judgements. What we must do is turn over all judgement to God and live as he tells us to. Remember, he is God, he created everything, he gave us life, and he gave us Jesus so that we may be closer to Him.
No, your post is fail bait.
Christianity was forced on you be cause of the Emperors and Kings of days past, the missionaries that delivered "the lords message" to so many other cultures (I do not know your heratige). You may not have been coerced, but someone in your family was coerced into it somehow.
Why Do we celebrate X-Mas in December? Jesus was born In late March/Early April. Could it be that Christianity changed the date to coincide with pegan traditions? (Why do we have a X-mas tree?) Your family was coerced at one poitn into believing.
Adam was not tricked into eating the apple, Eve was.
You can freely accept God and Jesus, that is your right, but it was not always so free and easy to accept or not to accept.
You miss the point. Yeah, there are people chatting about it, but no one is actually trying to deliver it to the masses. In otder to be a missionary, you have to get off your ass and get out there and talk to people, not just post about how great it is in some LiveJournal.
Look at WinZip's site. Probably the most poplular add-on aside from Winamp and FireFox. They actively sell their product through the website. Show me a website attempting to sell "Ark" for the Linux masses.
This gets to another point. Linux "missionaries" attempt to "sell" Linux as a whole. This is NOT what the article is talking about. The article is talking about promoting the *applications on Linux*.
I will claim that there is rarely such amovement, because there is no money on the line. Put money on the line, and you can really get many, many more people to promote it.
The "Get Firefox" campaign is the strongest OSS campiagn I've seen, yet it sucks in comparison to what a commercial company can do.
Now on a related note, I think that if we were to have an advertizing blitz, with Linux apps competing, that would attract more people to the platform just because it is worth fighting over. People would feel more "protected" (for lack of better word) because of the competition and other market forces. Linux development can stop at any time, but as long as there is competition, meaning a quest for money, means there is a Linux market they will know that the platform is staying current, cause it is good enough to fight over.
Don't dismiss the importance. Imagine replacing all the banner ads for software with banner ads for Linux software. What would one infer?
1) That Linux is worth having
2) That Linux is worth fighting over
3) That Linux (and other apps) are worth paying for
4) All the above.
There is a stigma in this country (usually real) that something that is free is not worth paying for. We know it not to be the case with Lnux, but the amerage person fails to grasp why it is free AND worth paying for. That causes suspicion. We can distract them from that if there is competition fighting for them to buy software. Note I said buy. Not just use.
To the OSS developer, he cares not, because he scratches his itch.. Maybe he has a little more prode and wants people to use his stuff, but for most people that will come as a back seat to feeding his face.
I really think that update of OSS would happen more if it were charged for. For the same reason why Starbucks can charge as much as they do for coffee. Generally, under normal conditions you try to save money.. but you'll pay more if you are given the impression that it is worth more, just for the mere fact that it costs an ass-load, and anything is an ass-load for gratis open source.
Rmember the GNU license does not prohibit one for charging for software.
Is there a linux-side import wizard where I can import XP settings into Linux? Everything from desktop to window colors and such?
XP has an app that will package your computer up and transfer it to another. I think if there was a way that we could attach linux to the other side (Without XP knowing it was actually talkign to a linux box) that would go a long way to easing the transition.
I prefer KDE, but I would be interested in knowing if there is one for GNOME too.
Thanks.
The vast majority of closed source apps are sold, marketed. Partnering gets them on the desktop.
If we were talking about religions, closed source is Chrisianity, with missionaries, and wars and such.
Open source is Buhddism, where one must go and seek out enlightenment himself. There are no wars fought, to missionaries spreading the word. One adpots buhddism dur to principal, and not because someone else tried to sell it to me.
Appropriately, I think the world population of Christians vs Buhddists resembles that of closed-source vs open source. The same goes for adotion rates.
You can bet the IRS will have a field day. They don't like to see huge drops in wages until retirement age. Being young I bet they will be flagged for suspicous activity and investigated.
Now I have been studying the tax sytem. I oppose the belief that there is an "income tax" on people at all. But this to too radical an approach. I have been called a "tax protestor" by people on the board. Let me ask this: Have the google founders avioded a "duty" to pau "their fair share"? Why does ones "fair share" (or their "duty") to the government increase or decrease on how many hours they punch on a clock? Does Bob the janitor owe the country more if he mops floors 2 hours extra a day? Why has he incurred additional liabilty to the government? Surely his mopping does not add and costs to the government
What has happened? Well, the IRS has been extremely effective at making people think that "wages are income" when in fact only wages from public service are "income". In order to read the 16th amendment you have tounderstand waht the word "income" in 1913 meant. It did not come to mean "everything that comes in" until 1942. What happened in 1942, well we had a var, a victory tax, and a duck. Why did it take Donald Duck to make all wages taxed? Does any of that change what "income" is defined as? No. But the IRS is very convicing and has several tricks up its seleve. In fact, in 1913 interpretaion of the term, I read court casea about people paying taxes on stuff that is not even income! The IRS doesn't care if your assesment is right, just that they get the most from you. After all they are hired agents whose mission it is to collect everything that they can.
Incentelly, we use a system of "self assessment". The crux of that is one only need to convince himself what is and what is not income. If a computer wereto do it, it would have to use the formal definition and many american's taxes would be much lower. It is completely in the poer of government with the advent of computers to eliminate April 15th. Why don't they? Well there's a huge tax industry for one, two, they oould loose money. ALL of your "income" recipts are eletronically transmitted. Why can't they just use those. Anyone awarding you "income" has to produce some recipt (1099, w2)
If you read the book in my sig, you'll find out starling truths. I have not even started the ligitimacy of the income tax debate.
The book below only talks about whether or not your wages are taxed (never mind the taxable issue) and how to overcome a w-2 or 1099 that is issued in error.
This is the test to which I was referring
Sorry for the confusion.
In the article the rechargibles lastes LONGER than the O-rides, by 5 flashes. Recharge these things 3 times and you've more than recouped the cost of recharbles.
Next up is the fact that they were 1800mh batteries. My budget rechargeables are 2300, up from 2250 the year before.
Plus batteryspace.com regularly has a sale, currently you can get 24 rechargables for $29!!!
Make the light hours "shorter" and the dark hours longer" Mutiply the seconds per hour by the cosine of the time. It'll result in a continuous shift, that really does save daylight! You'l have 18 light hours and only 4 dark ones.
Thanks for your replies, but questions remain.
:-)
The event horizon is the point in which light (photons) cannot escape, due to force of GRAVITY. Photons are unpowered drifters of the universe. I am not aware of any polatiry with photons.
Electrons create magnetic fields and purturb space-time more than gravity. (Their force is stronger.)
Given charged particles falling into an event horizon to impart a force on (like a reverse-ripple) the polarity of the craft is altered to pull itself against the incoming particles. Sort of like a reverse ion drive.
You of course would need some source to pre-charge the particles coming in in an orderly fasion. Non-theoretical arguments not withstanding, given a reverse, ripple charge, you should be able to ride the waves out.
How do magnetic fields not "escape" an event horizon? There is space-time there. With electron energy being many many times gravitron energy, it would seem to me that magetic properties would still rule the event horizon.
As someone pointed out, a magnetic black hole would eventually neutral-out being a negative feed-back force. So I won't say these things exist in nature. (Unless a huge field collected particles, and motivated enough to acclerate inwards to the point that the kinetic energy allowed a charge to buildup. I am sure someone can do a calculation on the required speed for that to happen, and I am sure it is sufficiently large that it would exceed the mass/speed of light so as to never happen) But they would make great space-mines
It could also be that a huge magnet is brought near (yet outside) the event horizon. Energy on the craft is converted to magnetic charge. You could chain these magnetic masses to an anchor point too.
This all assumes an easy/efficient way to make electrons and destroy them (or sheild their effects)
If the event horizon is a function of gravity, shouldn't it be easy to escape a black hole using a magetic drive? Last I checked magnatism was orders of magnitude stronger than gravity. This means there are 2 event horizons, one for gravity and the other for magnetism. It should be possible to escape a black hole up to the point of the magnetic event horizon. (I assume the black hole generates a magnetic field. If not then, using mag drives should allow one to navigate freely.)
Just a thought...
I meant easy to setup. I made no claims to reliability :-)
This is not FUD at all. I leave it to the reader acusingmy of FUD to obtain and compare the licences between v3 and v4.
3 Allowed MySQL use where MySQL was used to fetch and organize data that was already availible through other means. Not only did we have a sequential text-log of all the data, but by running MySQL in parralell and doing some parsing and storing offsets of where the data was in the file, it greatly simplified searching.
v4 not only prohibited that, but it forbids use in any commercial environment. There is ONE exception. That is the PHP exception clause. PHP is (and commercial sites run on PHP) are permitted to use PHP. If they had not granted that, MySQL would eb effectively dead. It is short-sighted to assume that the only software interacting with MySQL is PHP. The client libraries are very often directly linked in.
Under the v3 license, this was the case. But the v4 license would require the app to be GPL as well.
IT IS ALL WELL DOCUMENTED. READ IT.
With PostgreSQL's BSD license, NONE of this crap happens.