Abortions are legal because murderers made it so...
Are you serious? You think if someone supports abortion, that they are murderers? That has to be one of the most immature/biased statements I have ever read in my life. So, I say abortion is Ok. Does that mean I should go to prison? Maybe just parole? Perhaps if I converted to your religion, I could be forgiven and no longer be termed a 'murderer'. oooooooh. Whatever.
Further from god?? Are you kidding? This nation is becoming more religious everyday. Not christian, mind you, but still more religious.
Please. Get over it. If you are pointing at school shootings, I will point to the crusades (albegensian, middle eastern, german, etc) as well as the jihad's, as well as the Inquisition. I could go on listing all the awful things people have done in the name of religion. Hitler is on the list, with the pope's blessing at that!
Believe what you want, don't push it on other people. That is exactly what is happening here. These assholes think abortion is wrong, and that no one should be allowed to practice it. That they killed people over this is wrong. And worse, they shout down abortion and shout up the death penalty! Both are murder, if I have read the bible correctly. Guess it depends on interpretation, eh?
Anytime religion is introduced into the picture, this kind of thinking becomes predominant. They claim to respect others' rights and only their 'god' can judge, them, but then those same people turn around and try to legislate their morality on everyone else.
They are the uncivilized ones. And this world will remain uncivilized until this mindset is removed.
This would be a great pickup for linux. Screw OpenOffice, GnomeOffice and KOffice. Give me MSOffice or WPOffice (with MSOffice extension support). I would PAY for this product.
MS is the number 1 OS because they own the hardware manufacturers. Thats it. No other reason. They do market well, but the marketing is not the reason they are where they are.
When I went to buy my first Pentium, I had one choice for OS: MS Windows.
If Be or RedHat or whoever else really wants to beat MS, they have to play this same game. And those OEMs have to be willing to put these OS's on computers that are actually SEEN at stores such as BestBuy or CompUSA or Sears, or where ever Joe User goes to buy his computer.
It is also the one area where they should be punished. Level the playing field. Then see who goes the farthest.
Those fucking assholes in MLB. First they refuse to lower ticket prices, and then fuck the tax payer for stadiums, and this! MLB is going in the toilet. It will die a sad death. Owners won't share revenue (as the NFL does) and won't institute a salary cap (as the other 3 major sports do). So, only the top 5 or 6 teams will be in the post season every year, making baseball that much more predictable and pathetic. This is stupid what they are doing. Hope it accelerates their death!
And yes, I was almost a fan before the 94 season. They fucked themselves and continue to do so.
I work on some of Sprint's websites, and I accidentally clicked the link before my browser loaded all the way up. Suddenly I am looking at this Sprint web site. I am thinking "damn! they are following me home now!" Scared the shit out of me.
Doesn't anyone else see this??? My dad, Mr I-know-nothing-about-computers, isn't ever EVER going to attempt to install an OS on his computer. He barely understands what he has. And when he has problems, he either calls me, his stepson, or his ISP. And most people are this way.
Linux may be ready for the desktop right now. That's right, it may now be ready right now. But it doesn't matter if it is the god damn best OS with the best GUI in the world, it will fail if my dad can't go to Best Buy, or Future Shop, or wherever, and see, touch and buy the damn thing preloaded on a PC.
This is the roadblock to future success of linux. Not KDE, GNOME, USB or anything else. It is getting linux preloaded on PCs and shoving them in the faces of the general public.
The site is down. linuxfocus.org is down for me completely.
I thought GNUStep was the api layer that allowed for a Next-ish type interface. I know that while WindowMaker was not written using GNUStep, it is compatible.
You/. editors and anyone else interested could go to the source to learn about GNUStep here.
I talked to Al Gore about this, and he said it was good to see the universities around the country adopting this technology. He says he envisioned this when he helped start the internet a scant 10 years ago.
It's nice to see some members of the government actually getting it.
I knew M$ would do something like this. They have decided that since they can't beat 'em, join 'em, and make 'em rotten from the inside. M$ will probably release.NET server side products for Linux, but they won't work as well as those on MS Windows. Big corporate people look at the numbers from netcraft, see how bad.NET performs on Linux vs how it performs on MS Win XP, and they will say no to linux, effectively killing linux off the corporate radar screen.
I could be wrong. But knowing how MS operates, I can see this as being a Very Bad Thing(TM). If they wanted to give a good show of faith to the linux faithful, they would port MS Office and be done with it.
The reason that you are comfortable with the windows interface, is because that is what you have been using for 5+ years. Once you can disengage yourself from that 'feel', then you can start to appreciate the look and feel of unix/linux/bsd - even BeOS. It is just a matter of what we are used to. I know mac guys who are completely lost in windows. They find that interface uncomfortable to deal with. Me? I have used windows 9x/nt for 4 years, and I still prefer WindowMaker. Why? It is ideal for what I need. And I took the time to break myself from the comfort of windows.
This is a bigger issue. How does the linux community get more windows users to switch? Do we give them a windows-type interface? Look at 1995. Everyone used a mac, OS/2 and win 3.1. Looked nothing like win95. Was it the hype that made people jump on it? Probably. I still found 3.1 more useful, and didn't switch for a year. Many users I know still are not comfortable with windows. So, I guess the only way to get people to switch, is to force them. Then they adjust. Linux needs the PC OEMs. Damn I can't believe I just said that.
While I was an NT admin, I used to watch over my servers like a hawk. I checked the log files daily, I checked my backups, I made sure only certified apps ran on those boxes. I basically babied those boxes. And you know what? They still came down on me every 4 -6 weeks. Nothing I could do. No TechNet, no web help, no registry tweaks, nothing could help me keep those boxes from having issues after a few weeks of uptime.
Now, I don't know W2K, but NT4 had issues with stability. Those problems made me switch to unix on the server end. Give me Unix/Linux on the back end, Windows on the desk (with expectations of frequent service calls), and I am happy.
Having had the wonderful opportunity to view this wonderful hack hosted on that wonderful hack, I must say that I may or may not ever actually get to see the damn thing!
You know, the one thing I love about linux working itself into the market, is that it inspires competition . Thank god companies like Sun and HP and IBM are moving away from CDE. I also am giving Linux mad props as it has forced Windows to be better. If Solaris 9 is this good, imagine what that will inspire linux and windows and other OSes to achieve. Go competition.
The last place I worked at, I had an Ultra5. It ran Solaris 7 and then 8 as I upgraded to keep up with the Joneses. Then a coworker and I found a Helix (Ximian) port of gnome available. So we downloaded that and installed it on the Ultra5. We tweaked the bpp and when it came up, I swear I got a woody from it! The desktop was so smooth and beautiful. I immediately pitched my RedHat for Sparc CD into a duffle bag, as I was thinking of installing it.
If this is all true (AND SOMEONE MOD THIS POST UP) then I am damn excited for Solaris 9. I've been using Solaris since 2.6 (and even 2.5.1 and 2.4 once in a while) and would love to see an interface update-- along with an update on everything else they offer. Course I would also like to see them offer security out of the box to their services, as by default Solaris leaves everything turned on. I also hope that Sun comes out with another version of Solaris for x86. While I am eyeing those Blade 100s, I am weary to pick one up as to get it configured decently would cost me around $4K! Just a bit high for someone with a small computer budget.
It's nice to see/. editors posting anonymously and pouring their hearts out into pieces that generate more hits than the release of a new kernel on ftp.kernel.org.
That is sweeeeet! I use grip on WindowMaker. After seeing all these new goodies, I may pull down KDE in order to run Konqueror. I just wish konq came as a seperate package.
Access chokes around 10 mb (in my experience). It is not a real DB platform. It is nothing more than a large spreadsheet application where you can design your own forms. Blah.
Even MSSQL can't scale as high as Oracle or DB2.
Plus, DB2 can run on many, many, many platforms. This gives it extra portability that other RDBs can't match.
In 1904, no one was concerned about a student walking into class one day and gunning down a dozen of his fellow students.
Perhaps, but students have always been aggressive and rebellious. Since Universities were started, some 800 or so years ago, students have always tried to get around the rules. There are records of riots and lynches of not only other students, but also on faculty and the campus itself. I don't have a link, but Oxford was half torched in one incedent.
This is nothing new. And it won't stop. Not as long as Universities exist in the current format that they do. What people forget, is that the world isn't getting worse, it is just getting 'smaller' with faster means of travel and communication. These universities will lessen restrictions down the road when the next 'internet' comes along and 'threatens' the status quo.
I dunno. I reinstalled my linux box a month ago and put mandrake 7.2 on it (I wanted ReiserFS support out of box) and the only problems I had were with XFdrake (read: why the hell don't they include XF86Setup?).
I do pull a few rpms down, but now I mostly compile any software I download. You are right, rpm's suck shit for dependencies, but if you can ignore these and compile your own shit, its all good.
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Are you serious? You think if someone supports abortion, that they are murderers? That has to be one of the most immature/biased statements I have ever read in my life. So, I say abortion is Ok. Does that mean I should go to prison? Maybe just parole? Perhaps if I converted to your religion, I could be forgiven and no longer be termed a 'murderer'. oooooooh. Whatever.
A-fucking-men. I couldn't have delivered that any better.
Please. Get over it. If you are pointing at school shootings, I will point to the crusades (albegensian, middle eastern, german, etc) as well as the jihad's, as well as the Inquisition. I could go on listing all the awful things people have done in the name of religion. Hitler is on the list, with the pope's blessing at that!
Believe what you want, don't push it on other people. That is exactly what is happening here. These assholes think abortion is wrong, and that no one should be allowed to practice it. That they killed people over this is wrong. And worse, they shout down abortion and shout up the death penalty! Both are murder, if I have read the bible correctly. Guess it depends on interpretation, eh?
They are the uncivilized ones. And this world will remain uncivilized until this mindset is removed.
This would be a great pickup for linux. Screw OpenOffice, GnomeOffice and KOffice. Give me MSOffice or WPOffice (with MSOffice extension support). I would PAY for this product.
It is also the one area where they should be punished. Level the playing field. Then see who goes the farthest.
I mean, what makes the most money for MS? Not Windows. It's office. I would buy a linux version of MSOffice. Just wish MS would see this.
Those fucking assholes in MLB. First they refuse to lower ticket prices, and then fuck the tax payer for stadiums, and this! MLB is going in the toilet. It will die a sad death. Owners won't share revenue (as the NFL does) and won't institute a salary cap (as the other 3 major sports do). So, only the top 5 or 6 teams will be in the post season every year, making baseball that much more predictable and pathetic. This is stupid what they are doing. Hope it accelerates their death! And yes, I was almost a fan before the 94 season. They fucked themselves and continue to do so.
That's all I have to say.
I thought GNUStep was the api layer that allowed for a Next-ish type interface. I know that while WindowMaker was not written using GNUStep, it is compatible.
You /. editors and anyone else interested could go to the source to learn about GNUStep here.
It's nice to see some members of the government actually getting it.
How is this going to effect international sales over the internet?
How is this going to effect purchases for items that you can download from the internet?
Who goes to the store, shops for an item, then goes home and purchases that item online for the distinct purpose of avoiding taxes?
I could be wrong. But knowing how MS operates, I can see this as being a Very Bad Thing(TM). If they wanted to give a good show of faith to the linux faithful, they would port MS Office and be done with it.
This is a bigger issue. How does the linux community get more windows users to switch? Do we give them a windows-type interface? Look at 1995. Everyone used a mac, OS/2 and win 3.1. Looked nothing like win95. Was it the hype that made people jump on it? Probably. I still found 3.1 more useful, and didn't switch for a year. Many users I know still are not comfortable with windows. So, I guess the only way to get people to switch, is to force them. Then they adjust. Linux needs the PC OEMs. Damn I can't believe I just said that.
Now, I don't know W2K, but NT4 had issues with stability. Those problems made me switch to unix on the server end. Give me Unix/Linux on the back end, Windows on the desk (with expectations of frequent service calls), and I am happy.
The last place I worked at, I had an Ultra5. It ran Solaris 7 and then 8 as I upgraded to keep up with the Joneses. Then a coworker and I found a Helix (Ximian) port of gnome available. So we downloaded that and installed it on the Ultra5. We tweaked the bpp and when it came up, I swear I got a woody from it! The desktop was so smooth and beautiful. I immediately pitched my RedHat for Sparc CD into a duffle bag, as I was thinking of installing it.
If this is all true (AND SOMEONE MOD THIS POST UP) then I am damn excited for Solaris 9. I've been using Solaris since 2.6 (and even 2.5.1 and 2.4 once in a while) and would love to see an interface update-- along with an update on everything else they offer. Course I would also like to see them offer security out of the box to their services, as by default Solaris leaves everything turned on. I also hope that Sun comes out with another version of Solaris for x86. While I am eyeing those Blade 100s, I am weary to pick one up as to get it configured decently would cost me around $4K! Just a bit high for someone with a small computer budget.
That is sweeeeet! I use grip on WindowMaker. After seeing all these new goodies, I may pull down KDE in order to run Konqueror. I just wish konq came as a seperate package.
Plus, DB2 can run on many, many, many platforms. This gives it extra portability that other RDBs can't match.
How can this get a +2? It doesn't even make sense!
Perhaps, but students have always been aggressive and rebellious. Since Universities were started, some 800 or so years ago, students have always tried to get around the rules. There are records of riots and lynches of not only other students, but also on faculty and the campus itself. I don't have a link, but Oxford was half torched in one incedent.
This is nothing new. And it won't stop. Not as long as Universities exist in the current format that they do. What people forget, is that the world isn't getting worse, it is just getting 'smaller' with faster means of travel and communication. These universities will lessen restrictions down the road when the next 'internet' comes along and 'threatens' the status quo.
I do pull a few rpms down, but now I mostly compile any software I download. You are right, rpm's suck shit for dependencies, but if you can ignore these and compile your own shit, its all good.