Libertarian (from m-w.com): Date: 1789
1 : an advocate of the doctrine of free will
2 a : a person who upholds the principles of absolute and unrestricted liberty especially of thought and action b capitalized : a member of a political party advocating libertarian principles
libertarian capitalism (more properly known as minarchism) and libertarian socialiam (more properly known as anarchism) both advocate the fundamental doctrine of free will. the 2b definition is far more modern. The libertarian capitalist has as much of a justification to use the term as does the libertarian socialist.
The term libertaraian also refers to a metaphysical point-of-view, from which it could be argued that the other meanings of the term are derived, holding that humans have free will. I could just as easily say that the Libertatian Socialists stole the term from those metaphysicians.
As has been noted ad infinitum on/., the console business is based on the idea of losing money (or only breaking even) on the console to make money on the games (primarily through SDK's). Having a free SDK makes this difficult.
When the average gamer is shown the TuxBox, which in order to be competitive feature-wise with the Xbox, Cube, and PS2 will probably cost $300 plus, versus the $200 competition, he'll not be likely to buy a Tux Box.
About the only way that the TuxBox can survive is if a slew of good games are released for it that are significantly cheaper than their competition on other consoles. But commercial titles are unlikely to be significantly cheaper: the game makers will simply accept the higher margins. This could cause them to push the TuxBox version more, but that's anything but a given.
As to legions of developers around the world contributing free games for it, I say that the games are not likely to be competitive with their commercial brethren. With the possible exception of Tux Racer, there has not been a modern-style game released as free software. The reason is this: all you need are hackers to write a kernel, or a GUI, or even most apps. But games (especially modern ones) require the investment of artists (which are possible under free software), and legions of support people (motion-capture, sound effects, etc.) who aren't likely to get any benefit out of working on a free game unless they're paid (and they're not necessarily cheap).
The only serious compiler that I can think of that constructs C out of C++ is AT&T CFront (written by Stroustrup). GNU, Borland, and MS compilers all do direct C++ - Assembler compilation.
And at the CIA, IIRC, a lot of the hired help are blind, for security reasons
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The problem with indent is that it fscks up C++, especially when templates get into the picture (all those angle brackets mess it up). FOr me that makes it a definite nonstarter...
There's also Opera. The current Linux beta (5.0b7) has some occasional stability issues, but it handles everything but:
IE specific DHTML / JavaScript
Java
Plugins (except for Opera-specific plugins... Flash will be available as an Opera native plugin very soon)
It is adware, but for those who have a problem with that it's fairly easy to figure out how it does it: it retrieves XML files from a certain pair of servers in the opera.com domain which feature urls for the ads... set up your proxy to block anything to those servers and you're set.
Not to mention the fact that a large number of the early kernel hackers were MS-DOS coders. Linux is, in a very large sense, the MS-DOS of the Unix world, IMHO (and I don;t think that's a bad thing).
I've never been able to understand why unions are okay and striving to monopolize an industry or supply of a particular resource isn't.
The way I see it is thus: every human has an asset: their labor, which is finite because their time is finite. There are many consumers who have a use for labor, many of these consumers being businesses. Labor is therefore a necessary resource.
The implicit goal of labor unions is to raise the price of labor (for the benefit of their members). Compare this with, say OPEC, which seeks to raise the price of oil (for the benefit of its members).
It is not by accident that I used OPEC; the similarity reveals one thing: labor unions are cartels.
It is logically inconsistent to apply Antitrust law to corporations and not to unions. My personal view is that it (antitrust law) should not exist at all.
Okay, you can have your.22 and see how you fare against a professionally trained militant (PD, ATF, FBI, JTF (narcs), etc, etc) with a Heckler & Koch MP-5.
Thats not a rebellion, its a slaughter.
All I can say is: Duh!
Yes, against the military, you don't stand a chance. But in turn you make it a little more difficult for the military (ie: you might get a couple shots off). If a lot of people are owning guns in a close proximity, you'd have issues of covering fire and guerrilla war, which isn't exactly the military's idea of a good time.
The UK has a constitution. It's just not written and means essentially what Parliament says it means (no power of judicial review), which in turn equates into what the majority party says it means, which in turn equates to what Tony Blair says it means.
Unless a huge amount of drywall was put in, you could hear something from the other side. I'm assuming that most servers still come with the internal speaker (for beeps and such); how difficult can it possibly be to telnet into that server and run a script on it to beep every second?
In other news, I'm surprised that nobody seems to have come up with a Java Filter that is smart enough to just kill multiple and recursive popups and OnClose().
but popups and onClose aren't Java: they're JavaScript, which is something completely different...
Linus wasn't complainign about the lack of memory protection in OS X. He was saying that compatibilty problems would result because older Mac apps lack memory protection, much like DOS apps on NT.
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Libertarian (from m-w.com): Date: 1789
1 : an advocate of the doctrine of free will
2 a : a person who upholds the principles of absolute and unrestricted liberty especially of thought and action b capitalized : a member of a political party advocating libertarian principles
libertarian capitalism (more properly known as minarchism) and libertarian socialiam (more properly known as anarchism) both advocate the fundamental doctrine of free will. the 2b definition is far more modern. The libertarian capitalist has as much of a justification to use the term as does the libertarian socialist.
The term libertaraian also refers to a metaphysical point-of-view, from which it could be argued that the other meanings of the term are derived, holding that humans have free will. I could just as easily say that the Libertatian Socialists stole the term from those metaphysicians.
As has been noted ad infinitum on /., the console business is based on the idea of losing money (or only breaking even) on the console to make money on the games (primarily through SDK's). Having a free SDK makes this difficult.
When the average gamer is shown the TuxBox, which in order to be competitive feature-wise with the Xbox, Cube, and PS2 will probably cost $300 plus, versus the $200 competition, he'll not be likely to buy a Tux Box.
About the only way that the TuxBox can survive is if a slew of good games are released for it that are significantly cheaper than their competition on other consoles. But commercial titles are unlikely to be significantly cheaper: the game makers will simply accept the higher margins. This could cause them to push the TuxBox version more, but that's anything but a given.
As to legions of developers around the world contributing free games for it, I say that the games are not likely to be competitive with their commercial brethren. With the possible exception of Tux Racer, there has not been a modern-style game released as free software. The reason is this: all you need are hackers to write a kernel, or a GUI, or even most apps. But games (especially modern ones) require the investment of artists (which are possible under free software), and legions of support people (motion-capture, sound effects, etc.) who aren't likely to get any benefit out of working on a free game unless they're paid (and they're not necessarily cheap).
The only serious compiler that I can think of that constructs C out of C++ is AT&T CFront (written by Stroustrup). GNU, Borland, and MS compilers all do direct C++ - Assembler compilation.
AFAICT, this is a feature added in Opera 5.10 (or at least this is the first version to get this feature trumpeted).
I doubt that 3-D UI's will ever become big. There's a huge amount of interface overhead involved in simulating 3-D in 2-D.
And at the CIA, IIRC, a lot of the hired help are blind, for security reasons
The problem with indent is that it fscks up C++, especially when templates get into the picture (all those angle brackets mess it up). FOr me that makes it a definite nonstarter...
When I'm doing php, I do it like this: With the php code indented. Different strokes for different folks...
It is adware, but for those who have a problem with that it's fairly easy to figure out how it does it: it retrieves XML files from a certain pair of servers in the opera.com domain which feature urls for the ads... set up your proxy to block anything to those servers and you're set.
Not to mention the fact that a large number of the early kernel hackers were MS-DOS coders. Linux is, in a very large sense, the MS-DOS of the Unix world, IMHO (and I don;t think that's a bad thing).
Damn tag filters! replace the first step with:
Or this:
- You type "#include "
- Member of IBEW Local 667 comes over to press Enter
- You type void main()
- Member of IBEW Local 667 comes over to press Enter
And so on....What, the Jimmy Hoffa/Teamsters/Mafia connections never made that clear?
I've never been able to understand why unions are okay and striving to monopolize an industry or supply of a particular resource isn't.
The way I see it is thus: every human has an asset: their labor, which is finite because their time is finite. There are many consumers who have a use for labor, many of these consumers being businesses. Labor is therefore a necessary resource.
The implicit goal of labor unions is to raise the price of labor (for the benefit of their members). Compare this with, say OPEC, which seeks to raise the price of oil (for the benefit of its members).
It is not by accident that I used OPEC; the similarity reveals one thing: labor unions are cartels.
It is logically inconsistent to apply Antitrust law to corporations and not to unions. My personal view is that it (antitrust law) should not exist at all.
Yeah, but Excite @Home and Earthlink already support the new.net tlds... with enough cajoling from users, other isps wil probably add them...
44 fscking modpoints! This has to be a new record...
All I can say is: Duh!
Yes, against the military, you don't stand a chance. But in turn you make it a little more difficult for the military (ie: you might get a couple shots off). If a lot of people are owning guns in a close proximity, you'd have issues of covering fire and guerrilla war, which isn't exactly the military's idea of a good time.
The UK has a constitution. It's just not written and means essentially what Parliament says it means (no power of judicial review), which in turn equates into what the majority party says it means, which in turn equates to what Tony Blair says it means.
Unless a huge amount of drywall was put in, you could hear something from the other side. I'm assuming that most servers still come with the internal speaker (for beeps and such); how difficult can it possibly be to telnet into that server and run a script on it to beep every second?
Would the drywall qualify as a firewall?
This joke would almost certainly qualify as satire, so MasterCard will almost certainly get laughed out of court.
but popups and onClose aren't Java: they're JavaScript, which is something completely different...
I just put Mandrake on my mom's system, and, as far as I can tell, she uses KDE more the Win98 now.
Linus wasn't complainign about the lack of memory protection in OS X. He was saying that compatibilty problems would result because older Mac apps lack memory protection, much like DOS apps on NT.
Read the article, please.
DOes this mean the the Bonobo component project will fsck your hard drive at any time for any reason? ;o)
When did A'dam become independent?