I personally don't expect payment from anyone if I paint a picture or write a song. I also expect no payment if I help a blind person across the street. The "open source" community are artists doing what they enjoy. Freely distributing the results helps the "artist" create better art and everyone wins. It is only a fortunate, though incidental, side issue that the medium these artists use allows other people to make bucket loads of money out of it. We don't need your economics here thank you. It only goes to confirm to me that anyone who follows Margaret Thatcher's philosophy is bound to end up, as she has, a mad bag.
I think you guys are being a bit harsh. I think remotely piloting a smallish chunk of metal across space to another planet is probably quite a tough job. The fact that it got there at all is quite amazing.
I work for an international bank and we've had at least 6 incidents, at least four of which could be considered major. Fortunately, we've not actually sent customers anything screwy but we've had to do a lot of work to fix things. I can't believe we are the only company to have this problem so I believe few companies are willing to put there hands up and admit to being idiots.
I've been using SuSe since 5.2 when I changed from using Red Hat. I find the way to keep SuSe under control is to use "ENABLE_SUSECONFIG=no" in /etc/rc.config. It still does has the annoying reading through rc.config twice during every single rc script though.
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You can turn off window resize animation in the Window manager properties config screen.
You can change your window placement policy to one of several different schemes in the same place.
It would be nice if KWM remembered window postions but presumably you can launch xemacs with "-geometry" specified.
Also, real programmers do not "copy con: file.exe" they go "dd if=/dev/tty of=/usr/bin/myfile"
As a brit who's spent a fair amount of time in both places I can vouch for that fact that Finland is indeed streets ahead of SV in actually using modern technology. Both are streets ahead of my native UK though.
Easiest thing to do is to stop science production completely by setting the percentage of gold that goes to science to 0% in the civ menu. When cities get really big, new populations just become entertainers because they have no tile to sit on. I'd like to see the range of a city increase as it gets really big. This could be quite fun as you could end up with massive sprawling cities, perhaps even engulfing enemy cities within them.
Though I found your post interesting I have to disagree that the slashdot moderation system provides a meritocracy. I think that promotion by the majority can only lead to the mainstream views rising to the top. Unusual or challenging views are more likely to end, unread at the bottom. As karma decreases for these views, the problem only gets worse.
It's not a big gripe I have though because I set my threshold to -1. It is the ability to do this and the fact that even first posters get to contribute that makes this forum great.
The questions don't necessarily have much to do with the documentary itself. Answering them may show if you are at least semi-literate and gives the BBC something to use for selection purposes. Little do they know, obviously, that we are all illiterate, spotty children with worryingly thick glasses and a morbid fear of daylight.
The Holocaust may well be Hitler most obnoxious "achievement" (though there is plently of evidence to suggest that Himmler should get the lions share of that little award) but not, I suspect the biggest impact he had on the last 100 years. Millions of Jews were killed but millions more Russians died and the general poulation decrease hasn't had that much impact either (at least on a global scale). The resulting map of Europe wasn't that much different than it was to start with either. However, Hitler has become part of western culture and European war (and therefore world war) is far less likely now than it was before Hitler. The United Nations, though not great, is infinitely better than the League of Nations which is also a direct result of Hitler's little pseudo-nationlistic ego trip. Finally, Hitler accidently succeeded in toppling the worst excesses of the old imperialist culture prevalent in Europe and beyond. These seemingly small changes have made the most significant impact on the world as far as I can see. Oh I guess he also made America top nation.
The Question is who made the biggest impact over the last 100 years not who was the nicest person or even who was the cleverest. I wouldn't agree that Sadam has made much long term impact but Hitler changed the face of Europe directly and the rest of the world indirectly. You can't give Hitler many points for being a nice guy but you could argue that Democracy is stronger in the world because of Hitler however ironic that would be.
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Mark
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Just for the record Santa Cruz Unix had C2 certification 10 years ago. I have worked on B2 certified Unix systems and those applying for B1 security.
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If after weeks of trying, you havn't been able to read a man page and go "chmod 6755/usr/sbin/pppd" then I guess it explains why you might think NT is a good way to run a serious computer sysem. After all, NT has all those lovely little pictures you can look at and sometimes, when you click your mouse on them they show nice boxes with funny wrinting in them.
However, the main thrust of this argument is Unix versus NT and not Linux. Unix is a real beast and had journaling file systems, SMP and all the pointy clicky bits when you where still drawing on your parents walls with a crayon.
I think your argument sounds very convincing but it just doesn't seem to be the case in practice. Look at KDE and GNOME as good examples. I certainly wouldn't have thought that geeks would be fired up enough to produce a professional, easy to use, clompletely configurable GUI for X but they have. We are also not so far from HTML based front end for all Unix/Linux administration and a whole host of other features deemed "unsexy" just two years ago. I think we must remember that most geeks are users first or at least have non geek friends nagging them.
It's so nice to see that the modern age has not yet managed to destroy the art of poetic literature. Even Shakespeare himself would be proud of such beautiful imagery, such subtle rhyme and such precise, yet thought provoking language.
Alas, as with the great Bard himself, I couldn't understand a word of it!
It's not a beeper. In fact, the psion 5 has three buttons on the back which are record,play and fast forward buttons and it has a microphone on the front. These allow you to use it as a dictating machine which is quite cool. The speaker is reasonable for a small machine and you can sample sounds and then use them as alarms.
I am a Linux user. I have also bought 4 linux distributions. Slackware, RedHat and SuSE (x2). I have installed these on four other people's machines and two at the office. All these machines were purchased with Windows already installed and therefore added 1 to the Windows installed base although they aren't running Windows. I think my ratio of licenses to actual users beats your ratio:)
With regard to the rest of your message, you really need to check out one of the modern linux desktop environments for your pointy clicky stuff.
Don't take the RedHat bashing too seriously as this is the Linux community and we are all stark raving mad. We do, however, work it out in the end.
On NT you can setup most things with a couple of clicks. On Unix systems you generally have to edit text files which is obviously more difficult for the less experienced.
The real difference, however, is shown when something goes wrong. If there is no NT button to click on and fix the problem you're stuck. With Unix, you can be "artistic" in the config files, you can see what's happening, you can fix things. At the very least, if you can't fix it you'll find a way to go around it instead:).
In a larger company you'll see Unix boxes working with NT boxes. Whenever something new is implemented it's the Unix admins that get things to work because they can change stuff whereas the NT guys can't.
NT is server smallfry. The back end, where the actual work gets done, is nearly exclusively Unix. You just can't run enterprise class applications that retain the ability to change with your business on NT.
Why does not running kwm defeat the object? Gnome doesn't have a window manager and KDE without kwm becomes the same thing. I never understood why people think KDE or GNOME looks better. In their default state they look pretty similar to me. I run both and find GNOME much more primitive than KDE though it is kinda cute for some reason I haven't quite fathomed yet.
You must ask yourself why does the US have the highest murder rate in the world when the UK has one of the lowest (in the UK, even the police don't carry guns).
The majority of people (even criminals) don't really want to shoot anybody and therefore probably wont. If you are going to rob a house, you will take the tools required to do the job. If that house is likely to contain someone carrying a gun, not only are you going to take a bigger gun but you're also going to shoot first.
In America, it would be hard to ban the gun but if it were done, you'll all still get robbed but fewer of you will be shot in the process. It just stands to reason. In general, the first people to get shot in any violent confrontation are the people carrying guns.
I'm not sure if I agree or not with what you said though I susepect i agree. While mindless and realistic violence (I can't see computer game violence in the same light as TV violence) may not make killers, perhaps it makes a life look cheap and easy to take. There is also some de-sensitising to brutal violence. Brutal violence for me is not loads of blood and guts flying all over the place, it's the casual merciless, thoughtless and trivial shooting of some poor trivial character on the screen. When I look back at what shocked a few years ago, it looks funny when compared with today and perhaps that isn't so much our being more "enlightened" but more de-sensitised.
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I personally don't expect payment from anyone if I paint a picture or write a song. I also expect no payment if I help a blind person across the street. The "open source" community are artists doing what they enjoy. Freely distributing the results helps the "artist" create better art and everyone wins. It is only a fortunate, though incidental, side issue that the medium these artists use allows other people to make bucket loads of money out of it. We don't need your economics here thank you. It only goes to confirm to me that anyone who follows Margaret Thatcher's philosophy is bound to end up, as she has, a mad bag.
I'm really starting to like these. Perhaps you should put a collection together and publish!
I think you guys are being a bit harsh. I think remotely piloting a smallish chunk of metal across space to another planet is probably quite a tough job. The fact that it got there at all is quite amazing.
Regards
I work for an international bank and we've had at least 6 incidents, at least four of which could be considered major. Fortunately, we've not actually sent customers anything screwy but we've had to do a lot of work to fix things. I can't believe we are the only company to have this problem so I believe few companies are willing to put there hands up and admit to being idiots.
Regards
Mark
I've been using SuSe since 5.2 when I changed from
using Red Hat. I find the way to keep SuSe under
control is to use "ENABLE_SUSECONFIG=no" in
/etc/rc.config. It still does has the annoying reading through rc.config twice during every single rc script though.
Regards
You can turn off window resize animation in the
Window manager properties config screen.
You can change your window placement policy to one
of several different schemes in the same place.
It would be nice if KWM remembered window postions but presumably you can launch xemacs with "-geometry" specified.
Also, real programmers do not "copy con: file.exe" they go "dd if=/dev/tty of=/usr/bin/myfile"
Regards
As a brit who's spent a fair amount of time in both places I can vouch for that fact that Finland is indeed streets ahead of SV in actually using modern technology. Both are streets ahead of my native UK though.
regards
Easiest thing to do is to stop science production completely by setting the percentage of gold that goes to science to 0% in the civ menu. When cities get really big, new populations just become entertainers because they have no tile to sit on. I'd like to see the range of a city increase as it gets really big. This could be quite fun as you could end up with massive sprawling cities, perhaps even engulfing enemy cities within them.
Regards
Though I found your post interesting I have to disagree that the slashdot moderation system provides a meritocracy. I think that promotion by the majority can only lead to the mainstream views rising to the top. Unusual or challenging views are more likely to end, unread at the bottom. As karma decreases for these views, the problem only gets worse.
It's not a big gripe I have though because I set my threshold to -1. It is the ability to do this and the fact that even first posters get to contribute that makes this forum great.
Regards
The questions don't necessarily have much to do with the documentary itself. Answering them may show if you are at least semi-literate and gives the BBC something to use for selection purposes. Little do they know, obviously, that we are all illiterate, spotty children with worryingly thick glasses and a morbid fear of daylight.
I was thinking more along geographical lines than political lines. Politically speaking, lots changed, which was the point of my argument.
Regards
Mark
The Holocaust may well be Hitler most obnoxious "achievement" (though there is plently of evidence to suggest that Himmler should get the lions share of that little award) but not, I suspect the biggest impact he had on the last 100 years. Millions of Jews were killed but millions more Russians died and the general poulation decrease hasn't had that much impact either (at least on a global scale). The resulting map of Europe wasn't that much different than it was to start with either. However, Hitler has become part of western culture and European war (and therefore world war) is far less likely now than it was before Hitler. The United Nations, though not great, is infinitely better than the League of Nations which is also a direct result of Hitler's little pseudo-nationlistic ego trip. Finally, Hitler accidently succeeded in toppling the worst excesses of the old imperialist culture prevalent in Europe and beyond. These seemingly small changes have made the most significant impact on the world as far as I can see. Oh I guess he also made America top nation.
Regards
Mark
The Question is who made the biggest impact over the last 100 years not who was the nicest person or even who was the cleverest. I wouldn't agree that Sadam has made much long term impact but Hitler changed the face of Europe directly and the rest of the world indirectly. You can't give Hitler many points for being a nice guy but you could argue that Democracy is stronger in the world because of Hitler however ironic that would be.
Regards
Mark
Just for the record Santa Cruz Unix had C2 certification 10 years ago.
I have worked on B2 certified Unix systems and those applying for B1 security.
If after weeks of trying, you havn't been able to read a man page and go "chmod 6755 /usr/sbin/pppd" then I guess it explains why you might think NT is a good way to run a serious computer sysem. After all, NT has all those lovely little pictures you can look at and sometimes, when you click your mouse on them they show nice boxes with funny wrinting in them.
However, the main thrust of this argument is Unix versus NT and not Linux. Unix is a real beast and had journaling file systems, SMP and all the pointy clicky bits when you where still drawing on your parents walls with a crayon.
Regards
I think your argument sounds very convincing but it just doesn't seem to be the case in practice. Look at KDE and GNOME as good examples. I certainly wouldn't have thought that geeks would be fired up enough to produce a professional, easy to use, clompletely configurable GUI for X but they have. We are also not so far from HTML based front end for all Unix/Linux administration and a whole host of other features deemed "unsexy" just two years ago. I think we must remember that most geeks are users first or at least have non geek friends nagging them.
Regards
It's so nice to see that the modern age has not yet managed to destroy the art of poetic literature. Even Shakespeare himself would be proud of such beautiful imagery, such subtle rhyme and such precise, yet thought provoking language.
Alas, as with the great Bard himself, I couldn't understand a word of it!
Regards
Mark
It's not a beeper. In fact, the psion 5 has three buttons on the back which are record,play and fast forward buttons and it has a microphone on the front. These allow you to use it as a dictating machine which is quite cool. The speaker is reasonable for a small machine and you can sample sounds and then use them as alarms.
Regards
I am a Linux user. I have also bought 4 linux distributions. Slackware, RedHat and SuSE (x2). I have installed these on four other people's machines and two at the office. All these machines were purchased with Windows already installed and therefore added 1 to the Windows installed base although they aren't running Windows. I think my ratio of licenses to actual users beats your ratio :)
With regard to the rest of your message, you really need to check out one of the modern linux desktop environments for your pointy clicky stuff.
Don't take the RedHat bashing too seriously as this is the Linux community and we are all stark raving mad. We do, however, work it out in the end.
Regards
On NT you can setup most things with a couple of clicks. On Unix systems you generally have to edit text files which is obviously more difficult for the less experienced.
:).
The real difference, however, is shown when something goes wrong. If there is no NT button to click on and fix the problem you're stuck. With Unix, you can be "artistic" in the config files, you can see what's happening, you can fix things. At the very least, if you can't fix it you'll find a way to go around it instead
In a larger company you'll see Unix boxes working with NT boxes. Whenever something new is implemented it's the Unix admins that get things to work because they can change stuff whereas the NT guys can't.
Regards
NT is server smallfry. The back end, where the actual work gets done, is nearly exclusively Unix. You just can't run enterprise class applications that retain the ability to change with your business on NT.
Why does not running kwm defeat the object? Gnome doesn't have a window manager and KDE without kwm becomes the same thing.
I never understood why people think KDE or GNOME looks better. In their default state they look pretty similar to me. I run both and find
GNOME much more primitive than KDE though it is kinda cute for some reason I haven't quite fathomed yet.
Regards
Absolutely right!
You must ask yourself why does the US have the highest murder rate in the world when the UK has one of the lowest (in the UK, even the police don't carry guns).
The majority of people (even criminals) don't really want to shoot anybody and therefore probably wont. If you are going to rob a house, you will take the tools required to do the job. If that house is likely to contain someone carrying a gun, not only are you going to take a bigger gun but you're also going to shoot first.
In America, it would be hard to ban the gun but if it were done, you'll all still get robbed but fewer of you will be shot in the process. It just stands to reason. In general, the first people to get shot in any violent confrontation are the people carrying guns.
Regards
I'm not sure if I agree or not with what you said though I susepect i agree. While mindless and realistic violence (I can't see computer game violence in the same light as TV violence) may not make killers, perhaps it makes a life look cheap and easy to take. There is also some de-sensitising to brutal violence. Brutal violence for me is not loads of blood and guts flying all over the place, it's the casual merciless, thoughtless and trivial shooting of some poor trivial character on the screen. When I look back at what shocked a few years ago, it looks funny when compared with today and perhaps that isn't so much our being more "enlightened" but more de-sensitised.
Just my 0.02 (insert local currency symbol here.
Mark