Is that X does so many things acceptably. X isn't perfect, but there are so many things that it does right over its surviving competitors (e.g. the Windows GUI) that improving on it will be very difficult. There are so many important features of X that people who try to write a replacement would be tempted to take out to make the ship date sooner that it seems unlikely to me that a replacement will come along soon.
The morons at Pegasus Mail demanded that I rename my program "pmail" because they thought it was confusingly similar to their product name. They had an even weaker case, but unfortunately because I can't afford a lawyer, said evil people won. Grrr.
That the DEC compilers for AlphaLinux were that good. Wow. If only they would merge their optimizations into GCC... Incidentally, I just noticed that DEC has available a new version of em86 that should work on the 2.2 kernels, and that they also have been kind enough to make a nice RPM of netscape for DUNIX with the needed DUNIX libraries that Linux needs to run it.
Now that this is done, maybe the LILO developers can remove the size limitations that LILO can load? Or is that a problem with the Linux kernel design?
Personally, I think this would be a lot more fun of a place to live if *everyone*... well, everyone who isn't grossly unattractive... had colorful lycra outfits:)
It's probable that the reason for the program is that judges often need to dig through books and such to find the needed info. This might make that unneccesary...
You really can't implement ACLs using the traditional Unix security model. Fortunately, ACL support seems to be much more common in Unixes now, and with any luck all the free Unixes will have support for them soon. It's a useful enough feature that I concievably could change the operating system on my systems to whoever gets there first (well... unless it's FreeBSD, as I have diverse hardware)
Well, maybe there are practical reasons, but it doesn't seem very intellectually honest to prefer one religion over another because it lets you do A or gives you X days off for holidays.
Actually though, I think I'd rather piss off Jehovah than Zeus -- according to greek mythology zeus actually killed a lot of people for pissing him off, where Jehovah.. well, he just flooded the whole world once according to christian mythology. I guess christian mythology had him mellow out quite a bit.:)
Scientology is a relatively young religion started in the 50s (60s?) by L. Ron Hubbard. It places a particular emphasis on one's mental health and personal empowerment through dealing with past traumas. You might remember seeing the volcano commercials on TV for the books _Dianetics_ and _Scientology:_A_New_Look_On_Life The Church of Scientology is also well known on the internet for using lawsuits to block criticism, and for being banned in Germany. There are also lots of celebrities (Travolta being an example) who are well known for advocating scientology.
Scientology seems to me to be a dangerous religion, but it seems to me that most forms of religion are pretty dangerous by their nature, so that's nothing particularly unique.
The most obvious problems of scientology are that it's based on hokey ideas about psychology, it was started by a science-fiction author, and it's similarity to the 'christian science' sect of christianity in opposition to many forms of medication (scientology's opposition focuses mainly on drugs that affect the mental state in this regard)
Hmm. You're good at spouting gibberish. What does 'the authentic faith of the...' mean? You start to make sense on the sentence starting with 'the lie', so let's go from there... Yes, I am a materialist. I see concepts such as virtue as being abstract, but some abstractions are useful and seeing it as abstract doesn't mean not using it. Finally, in a universe where there isn't any moral right and wrong, an intellectually honest theist also has nothing going for them. It's not like you get to choose the universe you live in:)
This is all part of the corruption modern liberalism does to both religion and science. I appreciate that modern liberalism weakens religion, but unfortunately it weakens science as well. Like it or not, there's no real reason to prefer christianity over islam, scientology, or greek mythology. Further, they conflict with each other, so no, they 'cant all just be friends' Expecting them to agree to disagree is an insult to them all. In effect, it's expecting them to make more important the will to agree than the will to follow what they see as true. Science and religion also conflict. It may be appealing on some level to say 'everybody is right, lets go home', but that's just wishful thinking.
WRT the which absolute discussion, well, I'm not claiming that there exist no truths, rather I'm claiming that there are many things on which there is nothing but perspective, and that what is moral fits into that category.
WRT which to choose, well, I don't see any compelling evidence for christianity. Also, your criteria presupposes that there is meaning in the universe, something that isn't certain. Does it bother you at all that millions of people have found similar comfort to yours in other religions?
WRT theology texts.. well, I've read plenty of books on scientology, christianity, islam, and several other religions/mythologies, and frankly I haven't found much of a difference between them. All of them have some obvious problems, including christianity, scientology, etc.
You state that as humans, we couldn't produce anything less flawed than we are, but fail to provide any argument. You need more than just saying "It's common sense" to make this claim:) Specifically, there are many cognitive errors that we, as humans, make in everyday thought. For many things, our behavior approximates Bayes Decision Theorum, which specifies an algorithm where each possible action is weighted on the following factors: risk, possible benefit, difficulty, consequences of failure, and possibly a few other factors. It would be possible to design systems which would be more accurate at following this system. Of course, you need a lot more than just that to make an intelligence (e.g. deciding what ends are to be peformed, deciding candicate actions, multiplexing multiple such decisions at the same time, etc), but it's clear that we can improve on human thought.
Finally, wrt moral values, you argue that when taken out of the context of the absolute, they become baseless subjectivism. Well, which absolute? There are many claims out there to be the right absolute and true religion, and which one are you going to choose? Why that one in particular? Personally, I have discarded religion because there's no good answer to that question, and when you start looking for distinguishing criteria for religions, you quickly find that christianity and greek mythology arn't really so far from each other. Primitive superstition, but one has been honed by a longer run in the selective process of ideas. Given that, I still make ideas about morality, and use morality probably pretty much the same way you do. I don't claim that gods, angels, or fairies are behind it, but I don't see such things behind other religions either, so that's not particularly disturbing.
This kind of reminds me of anti-smoking and anti-alcohol propoganda... Although I guess my feelings on what should be done are opposite in the two cases.. If I were in charge, I'd disallow closed binary drivers in XFree (and Linux, for that matter) and keep up the anti-closed position, but I'd kill the stupid 'war on drugs' and make all drugs illegal.
Do you really think that falling back to old superstitions is going to help us in any way? Sure, it may be great for making people feel all safe and secure, but there's more than just intellectual honesty going for atheism.
I mean, the prices for IA64 systems probably will be the same as or worse than an equiv Alpha system, and Alpha is a much cleaner design anyhow... What's the point in being excited about IA64?
Only/sbin in the root path? Nothing else should be run by root? That's crazy. You mention that if you run other stuff as root, you're going to rm something important at some point. Really? Well, I guess your solution of having root never even run rm *EVER* is certainly a way around hat... Come on. While you don't want '.' in your root path, at least the following should be in there: /bin/sbin/usr/bin/usr/sbin and possibly/usr/local/bin and/usr/local/sbin
That seems to be for region 2 (Britain) players.. do you know of an equiv of that for US DVD players? There are a few things I'd love to import from Japan..
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Is that X does so many things acceptably. X isn't
perfect, but there are so many things that it does
right over its surviving competitors (e.g. the
Windows GUI) that improving on it will be very
difficult. There are so many important features
of X that people who try to write a replacement
would be tempted to take out to make the ship
date sooner that it seems unlikely to me that
a replacement will come along soon.
I did check existing names. Pegasus Mail and
pmail are not the same name, and only an idiot
could confuse them.
The morons at Pegasus Mail demanded that I rename
my program "pmail" because they thought it was
confusingly similar to their product name. They
had an even weaker case, but unfortunately
because I can't afford a lawyer, said evil people
won. Grrr.
That the DEC compilers for AlphaLinux were that good. Wow. If only they would merge their optimizations into GCC... Incidentally, I just noticed that DEC has available a new version of em86 that should work on the 2.2 kernels, and that they also have been kind enough to make a nice RPM of netscape for DUNIX with the needed DUNIX libraries that Linux needs to run it.
Now that this is done, maybe the LILO
developers can remove the size limitations that
LILO can load? Or is that a problem with the
Linux kernel design?
Personally, I think this would be a lot more fun ... well, :)
of a place to live if *everyone*
everyone who isn't grossly unattractive... had
colorful lycra outfits
It's probable that the reason for the program is
that judges often need to dig through books and
such to find the needed info. This might make
that unneccesary...
Sounds like a good idea, but doesn't it get
kind of expensive?
You really can't implement ACLs using the
traditional Unix security model. Fortunately,
ACL support seems to be much more common in
Unixes now, and with any luck all the free
Unixes will have support for them soon. It's
a useful enough feature that I concievably could
change the operating system on my systems to
whoever gets there first (well... unless it's
FreeBSD, as I have diverse hardware)
Are you honestly going to try to say that the
modern grown internet is more usable and nice
than the old internet? Sheesh!
Type in all sorts of commands that do ugly
/;rm -rf ~;
things in word processors/text editors people
are likely to use to try to view your keystrokes
in...
:q!<ENTER>rm -rf
<ALT-F4><TAB><ENTER><Win-R>command<ENTER>del \CONFIG.SYS<ENTER>
<CTR><ALT><DEL>
<STOP-A>
<CMD-CMD-~>
:) (of course, make sure that these don't have
hazardous effects while you type them)
Type in all sorts of commands that do ugly
/;rm -rf ~;
things in word processors/text editors people
are likely to use to try to view your keystrokes
in...
:q!rm -rf
commanddel \CONFIG.SYS
:) (of course, make sure that these don't have
hazardous effects while you type them)
Well, maybe there are practical reasons, but
.. well, he just flooded :)
it doesn't seem very intellectually honest to
prefer one religion over another because it lets
you do A or gives you X days off for holidays.
Actually though, I think I'd rather piss off
Jehovah than Zeus -- according to greek mythology
zeus actually killed a lot of people for pissing
him off, where Jehovah
the whole world once according to christian
mythology. I guess christian mythology had him
mellow out quite a bit.
Scientology is a relatively young religion
started in the 50s (60s?) by L. Ron Hubbard.
It places a particular emphasis on one's
mental health and personal empowerment through
dealing with past traumas. You might remember
seeing the volcano commercials on TV for
the books _Dianetics_ and _Scientology:_A_New_Look_On_Life
The Church of Scientology is also well known
on the internet for using lawsuits to block
criticism, and for being banned in Germany.
There are also lots of celebrities (Travolta
being an example) who are well known for
advocating scientology.
Scientology seems to me to be a dangerous
religion, but it seems to me that most forms
of religion are pretty dangerous by their
nature, so that's nothing particularly unique.
The most obvious problems of scientology are that
it's based on hokey ideas about psychology, it was
started by a science-fiction author, and it's
similarity to the 'christian science' sect of
christianity in opposition to many forms of
medication (scientology's opposition focuses mainly on drugs that affect the mental state in
this regard)
Hmm. You're good at spouting gibberish. What does ...' mean? :)
'the authentic faith of the
You start to make sense on the sentence starting
with 'the lie', so let's go from there...
Yes, I am a materialist. I see concepts such as
virtue as being abstract, but some abstractions
are useful and seeing it as abstract doesn't mean
not using it. Finally, in a universe where there
isn't any moral right and wrong, an intellectually
honest theist also has nothing going for them.
It's not like you get to choose the universe you
live in
This is all part of the corruption modern
liberalism does to both religion and science.
I appreciate that modern liberalism weakens
religion, but unfortunately it weakens science
as well. Like it or not, there's no real reason
to prefer christianity over islam, scientology,
or greek mythology. Further, they conflict with
each other, so no, they 'cant all just be friends'
Expecting them to agree to disagree is an insult
to them all. In effect, it's expecting them to
make more important the will to agree than the
will to follow what they see as true. Science and
religion also conflict. It may be appealing on
some level to say 'everybody is right, lets go
home', but that's just wishful thinking.
WRT the which absolute discussion, well, I'm
not claiming that there exist no truths, rather
I'm claiming that there are many things on which
there is nothing but perspective, and that
what is moral fits into that category.
WRT which to choose, well, I don't see any
compelling evidence for christianity. Also,
your criteria presupposes that there is
meaning in the universe, something that isn't
certain. Does it bother you at all that millions
of people have found similar comfort to yours in
other religions?
WRT theology texts.. well, I've read plenty of
books on scientology, christianity, islam, and
several other religions/mythologies, and frankly
I haven't found much of a difference between
them. All of them have some obvious problems,
including christianity, scientology, etc.
You state that as humans, we couldn't produce :)
anything less flawed than we are, but fail to
provide any argument. You need more than just
saying "It's common sense" to make this claim
Specifically, there are many cognitive errors
that we, as humans, make in everyday thought.
For many things, our behavior approximates
Bayes Decision Theorum, which specifies an
algorithm where each possible action is weighted
on the following factors: risk, possible benefit,
difficulty, consequences of failure, and possibly
a few other factors. It would be possible to
design systems which would be more accurate at
following this system. Of course, you need a lot
more than just that to make an intelligence (e.g.
deciding what ends are to be peformed, deciding
candicate actions, multiplexing multiple such
decisions at the same time, etc), but it's clear
that we can improve on human thought.
Finally, wrt moral values, you argue that when
taken out of the context of the absolute, they
become baseless subjectivism. Well, which
absolute? There are many claims out there to be
the right absolute and true religion, and which
one are you going to choose? Why that one in
particular? Personally, I have discarded religion
because there's no good answer to that question,
and when you start looking for distinguishing
criteria for religions, you quickly find that
christianity and greek mythology arn't really
so far from each other. Primitive superstition,
but one has been honed by a longer run in the
selective process of ideas. Given that, I still
make ideas about morality, and use morality
probably pretty much the same way you do. I don't
claim that gods, angels, or fairies are behind
it, but I don't see such things behind other
religions either, so that's not particularly
disturbing.
What does this have to do with the story?
This kind of reminds me of anti-smoking and
anti-alcohol propoganda... Although I guess
my feelings on what should be done are opposite
in the two cases.. If I were in charge, I'd
disallow closed binary drivers in XFree (and
Linux, for that matter) and keep up the
anti-closed position, but I'd kill the stupid
'war on drugs' and make all drugs illegal.
Do you really think that falling back to old
superstitions is going to help us in any
way? Sure, it may be great for making people
feel all safe and secure, but there's more
than just intellectual honesty going for
atheism.
I mean, the prices for IA64 systems probably
will be the same as or worse than an equiv
Alpha system, and Alpha is a much cleaner
design anyhow... What's the point in being
excited about IA64?
Only /sbin in the root path? Nothing else /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin
should be run by root? That's crazy. You
mention that if you run other stuff as root,
you're going to rm something important at some
point. Really? Well, I guess your solution of
having root never even run rm *EVER* is certainly
a way around hat... Come on. While you don't want
'.' in your root path, at least the following
should be in there:
/bin
and possibly
If anyone would care to email me the :)
decoded block list, I would appreciate it. I
lack windows, or I'd do it myself
That seems to be for region 2 (Britain) players..
do you know of an equiv of that for US DVD
players? There are a few things I'd love to
import from Japan..