Just want to remind everyone that "apes" isn't one group and "humans" a different group. We are all apes.
(hope I got the English terms correct)
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I've used use 'unstable' since December. It has worked just fine all the time. And you get a nice surprise every day when you see what new packages and upgrades there have been since yesterday. Just beware when they change important stuff like perl and libc.
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He also like privacy, among other things. What if you were working on some spaghettilike pre-alpha code with GPL in it that you would be genuinly ashamed of if someone saw the source? RMS wouldn't want to force you to spread it around.
In Debian new packages get put on the menus. And self-extracting, well, the user who doubleclicks the new package doesn't see any difference. And executable packages would be harder to view.
What's kind of sad is that that's the same argument that's made AGAINST tv by most conservatives. And it holds true to a certain extent. If a child is raised by le ol tube, the kid might exhibit a different value system than the parents.
And in a way, they are right. TV might represent a differernt value system than the parents but it's still just ONE value system. So too much TV and too little else isn't good.
Should we remove parents from parenting?
Parents are (mostly) good for a child. Just don't let them (or anything else) get too much influence over them.
No, give them Mormonism. Give them Islam. Give them Hinduism. Give them all of them. After that, there is probably no need to give them Atheism, it will come all by it self...
Yes, children are very shapeable. You can raise a child to be, or do, almost everything you can think of. For most things however (such as the ethics in meat'farming' or the correctness of the major religion) this requires that most everyone around the child agrees with this. Or (as with the correctness of a minor religion) that the child is cut off from all sources of alternative information and opinions.
But in both cases, if the child gets confronted with conflicting information THEY CAN NOT AVOID TO START THINKING FOR THEMSELVES AND MAKE THEIR OWN OPINIONS! If they get enough different sources they will most likley end up with something nice and useful. (Same thing goes for adults by the way, but less so since they have already got their strong prejudices from childhood)
The Internet is hardly preaching one thing as the Truth but is afaik the most diversive source of information in the world. So not only is it 'not bad' but also good because it can PREVENT CHILDREN FROM INHERETING OLD PREJUDICES OF THIER PARENTS AND THEIR LOCAL SOCIETY. And that is, if I may guess, why some people wants to 'protect' children from the Internet.
They found a small rock a few square metres large in an oil field outside Britain. So they put a tent with a few people on it and said: This is Greenpeace country and don't you *dare* drill for oil in our territorial waters.:-)
They did make a virus from genes. And you can build custom DNA strings (If I don't remember completley wrong). So then it's all a matter of programming. Wich shouldn't be too damn hard either, viruses is usually only a couple of KB's large.
No, don't make China the Evil Ones of the Month! I don't like USA bombing the small and weak (or anyone att all for that matter) but rather that than something huge (*the largest*, in fact) and nukeequipped like China.
So at least please make the next country something small. Ok, maybe the Evil Arabs is too used now (so *stop* bombing Iraq, btw) but now when it seems to be time for the Even More Evil Communists again, take Cuba! (Economic too, the TV teams won't have to travel very far) Or use the Terrorist thing again and take some African country.
Don't risk starting WW3 before EU gets militarized and armed up, they don't want to miss all the fun!
The only difference I can think of between doubleclicking on a.deb (or rpm for that matter?) and an InstallShield.exe is that you can uninstall it afterwards wich is all too often not the case with the InstallShield stuff.
Why should that matter at all? I've never understood the point in outlawing child porn just for being child porn. If pedophiles wants to watch child porn, why should anybody care? As long as they don't rape children in order to produce it! Wich is definetly not the case with cartoons and computer animations.
This is what they did here in Sweden just a few months ago. They even changed the damn constitution so now we officially have censorship! (Even the so called liberal party voted for it. The only ones voting against it was the traditional right party. Just shows again (surprise) that all they care about is the power.)
If I understand things correctly they will just (re)release WinYY and NT. So we will have Windows 00 and Windows NT 5 but they will both be renamed Windows 2000.
Could be hard, I'd say there's a big risk the universe takes us with it (if it at all ends, that is). But now when you mention it I'm going to change my plan a little.
It was to live until 1. I get bored, or 2. The universe ends and destroys me too. (Not taking accidents into account)
Now I think that maybe instead of destroying all copies of me when I get bored I will set the alarm clock to the end of the universe (who knows, I could get a good last meal too:) just to see what it's like.
-- How? When I start to grow old and likely to die (or earlier if someone proves it works) I will conserve myself (some kind of freezing sounds doable) in a way that preserves the brain structure and memories. When finally someone can build artificial, electronic brains (or emulators) I will start to live again. And do backups every 'clockcycle' of the emulator to as many safe places at possible. Except (almost) immortality it also gives benefits such as: any kind of body, remote controlling, eating and breathing only when I like to, lightspeed traveling, live quake:), being able to switch off for a while when things get dull, harmless drugs and sleep speedup.
Debate, well, I don't know. This looks like RMS's dreams coming true. He does not take money himself for his work for FSF but all the time he's been struggling to get money into FSF so it could hire people to work on GNU.
And, just don't confuse people to think that (FSF- DFSG-) "Free Software" is not synonymous with "Open Source"...
It looks like free software has reached a critical mass. There is enough usable and successful source out there to make it more profitable to add to it than develop your own proprietary code.
This could explode.
This is one of the advantages of the GPL, with BSDish licenses they could just port it and include it and keep it as proprietary as before. If it should be possible to boot from XFS it would have to be in the kernel wich forces it to be GPL.
This is unfortunately also one of the disadvantages. SGI don't want Sun or MS to be able to use it and probably don't care at all for *BSD. So they will probably release it under GPL only wich means *BSD can't use it.
It was at least second after Redhat on the latest (?)(September) Slashdot poll on the subject. And I believe Debians popularity has increased a bit since then. Time for a new distropoll?
I don't think you can set up your own EQservers with new worlds and rules. Or build on the world(s). And you have to pay for time playing. (Problably why they only allow games on their servers)
No, keep it on the mirror and install, upgrade and install new packages over the net. That means no fiddling with CD's or waste of diskspace and quick, automatic upgrades and fixes.
Why? If you are prepared to pay Illiad for UF then by all means send him the money directly! What could be worse than encouraging him *not* to publish his comics online?
If he doesn't release a book at all: Pay. If he releases one with old cartoons: Pay. If he releases one with new cartoons: Pay. If he does not release them on the web: Think twice.
In any case: Don't buy a book if you don't absolutley want UF on paper.
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Just want to remind everyone that "apes" isn't one group and "humans" a different group. We are all apes.
(hope I got the English terms correct)
I've used use 'unstable' since December. It has worked just fine all the time. And you get a nice surprise every day when you see what new packages and upgrades there have been since yesterday. Just beware when they change important stuff like perl and libc.
He also like privacy, among other things. What if you were working on some spaghettilike pre-alpha code with GPL in it that you would be genuinly ashamed of if someone saw the source? RMS wouldn't want to force you to spread it around.
In Debian new packages get put on the menus. And self-extracting, well, the user who doubleclicks the new package doesn't see any difference. And executable packages would be harder to view.
What's kind of sad is that that's the same argument that's made AGAINST tv by most conservatives. And it holds true to a certain extent. If a child is raised by le ol tube, the kid might exhibit a different value system than the parents.
And in a way, they are right. TV might represent a differernt value system than the parents but it's still just ONE value system. So too much TV and too little else isn't good.
Should we remove parents from parenting?
Parents are (mostly) good for a child. Just don't let them (or anything else) get too much influence over them.
No, give them Mormonism. Give them Islam. Give them Hinduism. Give them all of them. After that, there is probably no need to give them Atheism, it will come all by it self...
Yes, children are very shapeable. You can raise a child to be, or do, almost everything you can think of. For most things however (such as the ethics in meat'farming' or the correctness of the major religion) this requires that most everyone around the child agrees with this. Or (as with the correctness of a minor religion) that the child is cut off from all sources of alternative information and opinions.
But in both cases, if the child gets confronted with conflicting information THEY CAN NOT AVOID TO START THINKING FOR THEMSELVES AND MAKE THEIR OWN OPINIONS! If they get enough different sources they will most likley end up with something nice and useful. (Same thing goes for adults by the way, but less so since they have already got their strong prejudices from childhood)
The Internet is hardly preaching one thing as the Truth but is afaik the most diversive source of information in the world. So not only is it 'not bad' but also good because it can PREVENT CHILDREN FROM INHERETING OLD PREJUDICES OF THIER PARENTS AND THEIR LOCAL SOCIETY. And that is, if I may guess, why some people wants to 'protect' children from the Internet.
They found a small rock a few square metres large in an oil field outside Britain. So they put a tent with a few people on it and said: This is Greenpeace country and don't you *dare* drill for oil in our territorial waters. :-)
They did make a virus from genes. And you can build custom DNA strings (If I don't remember completley wrong). So then it's all a matter of programming. Wich shouldn't be too damn hard either, viruses is usually only a couple of KB's large.
No, don't make China the Evil Ones of the Month! I don't like USA bombing the small and weak (or anyone att all for that matter) but rather that than something huge (*the largest*, in fact) and nukeequipped like China.
So at least please make the next country something small. Ok, maybe the Evil Arabs is too used now (so *stop* bombing Iraq, btw) but now when it seems to be time for the Even More Evil Communists again, take Cuba! (Economic too, the TV teams won't have to travel very far) Or use the Terrorist thing again and take some African country.
Don't risk starting WW3 before EU gets militarized and armed up, they don't want to miss all the fun!
The only difference I can think of between doubleclicking on a .deb (or rpm for that matter?) and an InstallShield .exe is that you can uninstall it afterwards wich is all too often not the case with the InstallShield stuff.
Why should that matter at all? I've never understood the point in outlawing child porn just for being child porn. If pedophiles wants to watch child porn, why should anybody care? As long as they don't rape children in order to produce it! Wich is definetly not the case with cartoons and computer animations.
This is what they did here in Sweden just a few months ago. They even changed the damn constitution so now we officially have censorship! (Even the so called liberal party voted for it. The only ones voting against it was the traditional right party. Just shows again (surprise) that all they care about is the power.)
First pumping them full of various drugs and then giving lethal doses of radiation. Uh.. pretty bad torture.
Remove government control from the output of Microsoft and they will die overnight.
If I understand things correctly they will just (re)release WinYY and NT. So we will have Windows 00 and Windows NT 5 but they will both be renamed Windows 2000.
Could be hard, I'd say there's a big risk the universe takes us with it (if it at all ends, that is). But now when you mention it I'm going to change my plan a little.
:) just to see what it's like.
:), being able to switch off for a while when things get dull, harmless drugs and sleep speedup.
It was to live until
1. I get bored, or
2. The universe ends and destroys me too.
(Not taking accidents into account)
Now I think that maybe instead of destroying all copies of me when I get bored I will set the alarm clock to the end of the universe (who knows, I could get a good last meal too
--
How? When I start to grow old and likely to die (or earlier if someone proves it works) I will conserve myself (some kind of freezing sounds doable) in a way that preserves the brain structure and memories. When finally someone can build artificial, electronic brains (or emulators) I will start to live again. And do backups every 'clockcycle' of the emulator to as many safe places at possible. Except (almost) immortality it also gives benefits such as: any kind of body, remote controlling, eating and breathing only when I like to, lightspeed traveling, live quake
Debate, well, I don't know. This looks like RMS's dreams coming true. He does not take money himself for his work for FSF but all the time he's been struggling to get money into FSF so it could hire people to work on GNU.
And, just don't confuse people to think that (FSF- DFSG-) "Free Software" is not synonymous with "Open Source"...
Why don't they declare pens, cameras and computers illegal while they're at it?
It looks like free software has reached a critical mass. There is enough usable and successful source out there to make it more profitable to add to it than develop your own proprietary code.
This could explode.
This is one of the advantages of the GPL, with BSDish licenses they could just port it and include it and keep it as proprietary as before. If it should be possible to boot from XFS it would have to be in the kernel wich forces it to be GPL.
This is unfortunately also one of the disadvantages. SGI don't want Sun or MS to be able to use it and probably don't care at all for *BSD. So they will probably release it under GPL only wich means *BSD can't use it.
Well, SAAB 39 *Gripen* (gryphon) or 'the most expensive plough in Sweden' Viggen (lightning) was the model before.
(btw 90000 was the Swedish emergency phone number and "dyr-grip" means "expensive thing")
It was at least second after Redhat on the latest (?)(September) Slashdot poll on the subject. And I believe Debians popularity has increased a bit since then. Time for a new distropoll?
I don't think you can set up your own EQservers with new worlds and rules. Or build on the world(s). And you have to pay for time playing. (Problably why they only allow games on their servers)
Sun hasn't shipped their compiler with their OS for quite some time.
Sounds dangerous with things like GCC/EGCS around. Or do they have problems with compiling for Solaris???
No, keep it on the mirror and install, upgrade and install new packages over the net. That means no fiddling with CD's or waste of diskspace and quick, automatic upgrades and fixes.
Why? If you are prepared to pay Illiad for UF then by all means send him the money directly! What could be worse than encouraging him *not* to publish his comics online?
If he doesn't release a book at all: Pay.
If he releases one with old cartoons: Pay.
If he releases one with new cartoons: Pay.
If he does not release them on the web: Think twice.
In any case: Don't buy a book if you don't absolutley want UF on paper.