I was not even aware Rodney had passed away. Did Apple acknowledge it at any way when it happened? If I was Steve I would do something special in his memory, the least of which would begin by mentioning him at the next MacWorld.
There's two sides to consider. The server side and the desktop side. Linux has made gains on the server side, and as such has changed the way the business world approaches corporate computing. But as for the everyday's joe shmoe, I'm certain he knows next to nothing, if anything at all, about free software, the GPL or Linux. Furthermore the software he will continue to use and buy will remain proprietary until an open source project is able to out market and out gloss their proprietary competitors.
Actually it IS an eccentric notion. Most people today couldn't care less about the whole free software issue and it will always be that way. I simply do not see in the future a higher proportion of tech litertate people who are knowledgeable enough on the issue to care than there are today.
The opposition to authority during the Vietnam war was anything but mindless. It was a bullshit war. It did not have the support of the people. Simply put, we should not have been there. Just the same as we should not have been in Korea. The excuses of containing communism were abused so that we could run roughshod over the sovergnity of foreign nations at will. As a citizen you have a responsibility and a DUTY to question the shady orders of your government and call them on it and RESIST them with every fiber of your being if you feel that is a just course of action and there's no way in hell you can argue that Vietnam was one of those "right vs. wrong, we've got to take them down or we're all in danger of losing our lives" kind of wars that WWI and WWII were.
Women have the right to have an abortion. It should not matter the age of the mother. It should not matter the circumstance. Whether its after a rape, or after a night with a guy she just doesn't want to have a kid with, her chocie is her choice. Its their body. Its extremely offensive to have someone else outside that body dictate to them what they can do to their own. Its not about saving the life of an unborn child. How exactly do you save such a life to begin with? To hand it over to an adoption clinic on the off chance that someone will pick it up? Are you ready to open your doors and your wallet to al the un-aborted children of the world and care for them until adulthood? Respect for life? Who's life? Are we supposed to disrespect the parent's lives for the child now? I don't see that as a net gain. The respect for life you mention IS maintained. Its a respect of one's OWN life that causes a woman to seek out an abortion so as not to burden herself with a child she simply does not want.
As for divorce, yes women and children suffer from divorce. But they also suffer from remaining in bad marriages. The bad thing here isn't divorce, its just the unpleasantness that occurs when relationships don't work out. You can't legislate or moralize that into non-existence. Its just something you'll have to learn to deal with. Norman Rockwell family settings just aren't as natural as some would have you to believe. The nuclear family of mom, dad, brother and sister...thats just one way of having a family. There's nothing optimal or right about it, its just one way. Single mom, single dad, two gay parents, raised by grandma......etc are all just as good. Financially there are differences but other than that nope. Sometimes I wonder if the conservatives can stop dreaming about the way "life is supposed to be" and start dealing with the way life IS today and stop holding everyone up to such harmful and useless standards.
The old morality was crap. The "Greatest Generation" was anything but. One could argue that the Baby Boomers were the worst generation to ever walk the earth but that has to say an awful lot about their parents now doesn't it? Clinging to what used to be the status quo just because it made you comfortable isn't "morality". Its just a desperate struggle to try to hold onto what you yourself has deemed as "right" and to hell with everyone else.
By the time OpenBEOS is ready both Windows and Linux will be everything everyone could ever possibly want or need them to be. You're just fighting too big of a grain man. Give it up.
There's more than just racial discrimination that was wrong with the old times. There was also discrimination and accepted violence on gays, and yes women. Just because your family didn't approve of wife beating doesn't mean your values were the norm. Birth control was largely unavailable meaning women had to have kids even if they did not want them to. Religious oppression was also rampant as every devout God fearing individual took it upon themselves to "preach" their own particular morals to everyone else.
Simply put, if the old days were so great and wonderful they would have never had led to the social revoultions that followed in the 60's and 70's.
Well of course you'd argue in support of piracy. You're morals are nonexistant and you have absolutely no respect for intellectual property. In short, your a unrepentant theif and or sympathsizer.
You can't dismiss morality by calling it a troll. Stop running away from the way of the moral lifestyle. Embrace the way of the light! Choose the side of the LAW ABIDING LIGHT!
Deactivate your rose colored glasses please. The boomers also grew up in times when racial discriminiation was accepted, beating your wife and keeping women from working as much as men was also accepted, and inner city problems were ignored because the people who lived there, minorities simply did not matter. Now there's your moral guidance and no wonder it was rejected. Thank GAWD it was rejected.
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Bah. Its not breaking down. It just so happens that our Legislative and Executive branches agree that we need to attack Iraq. Do you really think that in and of itself means the separation of powers has been usurped?
NDP = North Dorm Projects. TAL = My initials. 85 = My football jersey number.
Does Sony wage a war on freedom? No. Does Sony legally do all they can to protect their intellectual property? Yes. I'm a grownup. As a grownup I can realize that money does not grow on trees and that it not only takes money to produce/make things but it also takes money to maintain them, or the systems that run their distribution/revenue chains. I don't have a problem going thru a bit of inconvienence to use a DRM equipped piece of technology if I know that it is helping the author/artist and anyone he has decided to share future royalties with, collect those roylaties. Furthermore Sony makes really cool stuff and I refuse to boycott them for some icky geek political reason. I guess it has something to do with an age/maturity thing. As one gets older they are able to see things from both point of views and don't just rebel simply for the reason of rebelling.
For the questions that are sure to follow, yes I am an actual human being. No I have not been paid by the MPAA/RIAA to astroturff. Yes I actually do believe in the things I say. No I am not lying. No I won't give you any money. Yes I enjoy burgers. No I don't understand what those last two questions had to do with anything. Yes I will stop typing now.
Windows 98 came out in 1998/99. Windows 2000 came out in 2000/2001. RH 8.0 came out TODAY. Its competing product is Windows XP, the latest version of Windows. XP recommends a minimum of 256mb of RAM. So try to be a little fair in your Linux/Windows comparisons from now on. Thanks.
The "spirit" of Linux is to do whatever the hell you want with it as long as it obeys the GPL. That and also be as annoying and whinny about political issues that absolutely NO non-geek cares about as you can possibly be.
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Whats the difference between a passanger talking on his cellphone and two passangers talking to each other on the same plane?
LOL. Hahahah I guess those hick gun freaks are good for something, and what that something is is keeping icky Eurotrash concepts.....in Europe!
Lets get this straight right now.
PowerBooks and PowerMacs still have and always will have fans.
iBooks and iMacs do not.
The eMac? I dunno nor care.
I know this post is horribly off-topic but I thought this should be brought to the Slshdot community's attention.
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Dell computer has regained the #1 spot in marketshare that was temporarily taken away by the HP-Compaq merged company.
http://money.cnn.com/2002/10/17/technology/pc_m
So much for Carly's bright idea now eh?
I was not even aware Rodney had passed away. Did Apple acknowledge it at any way when it happened? If I was Steve I would do something special in his memory, the least of which would begin by mentioning him at the next MacWorld.
That picture is one of the most scariest things I've ever seen in my entire life.
The only problem is NT sucked. It had those features, they just didn't work too well. So one could say the OS still lacked them at that point.
There's two sides to consider. The server side and the desktop side. Linux has made gains on the server side, and as such has changed the way the business world approaches corporate computing. But as for the everyday's joe shmoe, I'm certain he knows next to nothing, if anything at all, about free software, the GPL or Linux. Furthermore the software he will continue to use and buy will remain proprietary until an open source project is able to out market and out gloss their proprietary competitors.
Actually it IS an eccentric notion. Most people today couldn't care less about the whole free software issue and it will always be that way. I simply do not see in the future a higher proportion of tech litertate people who are knowledgeable enough on the issue to care than there are today.
The opposition to authority during the Vietnam war was anything but mindless. It was a bullshit war. It did not have the support of the people. Simply put, we should not have been there. Just the same as we should not have been in Korea. The excuses of containing communism were abused so that we could run roughshod over the sovergnity of foreign nations at will. As a citizen you have a responsibility and a DUTY to question the shady orders of your government and call them on it and RESIST them with every fiber of your being if you feel that is a just course of action and there's no way in hell you can argue that Vietnam was one of those "right vs. wrong, we've got to take them down or we're all in danger of losing our lives" kind of wars that WWI and WWII were.
Women have the right to have an abortion. It should not matter the age of the mother. It should not matter the circumstance. Whether its after a rape, or after a night with a guy she just doesn't want to have a kid with, her chocie is her choice. Its their body. Its extremely offensive to have someone else outside that body dictate to them what they can do to their own. Its not about saving the life of an unborn child. How exactly do you save such a life to begin with? To hand it over to an adoption clinic on the off chance that someone will pick it up? Are you ready to open your doors and your wallet to al the un-aborted children of the world and care for them until adulthood? Respect for life? Who's life? Are we supposed to disrespect the parent's lives for the child now? I don't see that as a net gain. The respect for life you mention IS maintained. Its a respect of one's OWN life that causes a woman to seek out an abortion so as not to burden herself with a child she simply does not want.
As for divorce, yes women and children suffer from divorce. But they also suffer from remaining in bad marriages. The bad thing here isn't divorce, its just the unpleasantness that occurs when relationships don't work out. You can't legislate or moralize that into non-existence. Its just something you'll have to learn to deal with. Norman Rockwell family settings just aren't as natural as some would have you to believe. The nuclear family of mom, dad, brother and sister...thats just one way of having a family. There's nothing optimal or right about it, its just one way. Single mom, single dad, two gay parents, raised by grandma......etc are all just as good. Financially there are differences but other than that nope. Sometimes I wonder if the conservatives can stop dreaming about the way "life is supposed to be" and start dealing with the way life IS today and stop holding everyone up to such harmful and useless standards.
The old morality was crap. The "Greatest Generation" was anything but. One could argue that the Baby Boomers were the worst generation to ever walk the earth but that has to say an awful lot about their parents now doesn't it? Clinging to what used to be the status quo just because it made you comfortable isn't "morality". Its just a desperate struggle to try to hold onto what you yourself has deemed as "right" and to hell with everyone else.
By the time OpenBEOS is ready both Windows and Linux will be everything everyone could ever possibly want or need them to be. You're just fighting too big of a grain man. Give it up.
I derive my morals from the state therefore there is no distinction with me as far as I am concerned.
There's more than just racial discrimination that was wrong with the old times. There was also discrimination and accepted violence on gays, and yes women. Just because your family didn't approve of wife beating doesn't mean your values were the norm. Birth control was largely unavailable meaning women had to have kids even if they did not want them to. Religious oppression was also rampant as every devout God fearing individual took it upon themselves to "preach" their own particular morals to everyone else.
Simply put, if the old days were so great and wonderful they would have never had led to the social revoultions that followed in the 60's and 70's.
Well of course you'd argue in support of piracy. You're morals are nonexistant and you have absolutely no respect for intellectual property. In short, your a unrepentant theif and or sympathsizer.
Have a good day!
Yeah. Get another job so as to not piss off the whiney fucks whom you'll see in the theatre at most once a month.
Right.
You can't dismiss morality by calling it a troll. Stop running away from the way of the moral lifestyle. Embrace the way of the light! Choose the side of the LAW ABIDING LIGHT!
Yes it does.
Deactivate your rose colored glasses please. The boomers also grew up in times when racial discriminiation was accepted, beating your wife and keeping women from working as much as men was also accepted, and inner city problems were ignored because the people who lived there, minorities simply did not matter. Now there's your moral guidance and no wonder it was rejected. Thank GAWD it was rejected.
Bah. Its not breaking down. It just so happens that our Legislative and Executive branches agree that we need to attack Iraq. Do you really think that in and of itself means the separation of powers has been usurped?
I just took a look at your website and I can't figure something out. Are you a conservative or not?
If you subtract all the debt, cuz I don't like debt, then you've pretty much summed up the perfect lifestyle for me. It sounds pretty awesome.
It does not however, have a camera. Clearly not EVERYTHING that a PictureBook has.
NDP = North Dorm Projects. TAL = My initials. 85 = My football jersey number.
Does Sony wage a war on freedom? No. Does Sony legally do all they can to protect their intellectual property? Yes. I'm a grownup. As a grownup I can realize that money does not grow on trees and that it not only takes money to produce/make things but it also takes money to maintain them, or the systems that run their distribution/revenue chains. I don't have a problem going thru a bit of inconvienence to use a DRM equipped piece of technology if I know that it is helping the author/artist and anyone he has decided to share future royalties with, collect those roylaties. Furthermore Sony makes really cool stuff and I refuse to boycott them for some icky geek political reason. I guess it has something to do with an age/maturity thing. As one gets older they are able to see things from both point of views and don't just rebel simply for the reason of rebelling.
For the questions that are sure to follow, yes I am an actual human being. No I have not been paid by the MPAA/RIAA to astroturff. Yes I actually do believe in the things I say. No I am not lying. No I won't give you any money. Yes I enjoy burgers. No I don't understand what those last two questions had to do with anything. Yes I will stop typing now.
Windows 98 came out in 1998/99. Windows 2000 came out in 2000/2001. RH 8.0 came out TODAY. Its competing product is Windows XP, the latest version of Windows. XP recommends a minimum of 256mb of RAM. So try to be a little fair in your Linux/Windows comparisons from now on. Thanks.
The "spirit" of Linux is to do whatever the hell you want with it as long as it obeys the GPL. That and also be as annoying and whinny about political issues that absolutely NO non-geek cares about as you can possibly be.