In Mexico we used to have regular power cuts, lets say one hour once a week. I can work that out but I am pretty sure that is less than the fabolous 99.949 you have so dutifuly calculated.
Well, in Mexico City there has never been during at least the last 40 years a single incident like the one just experienced in the US (blackout for several days).
SO I think this Mr Richardson is right on the money. Some third world countries would be ashamed of something like what happened last weekend.
Apart from the reasons given by others to your question, it is worth remembering how constrained political parties are in the UK regarding campaign money.
The corruptive power of campaign donations is far less damaging in the UK because political parties can't advertise on the mass media, this paired with strong regulation about who and how much money can be given to political parties makes more difficult for big companies to influence goverment decissions. This leaves politicians with only one main master: their electorate.
And at least in this instance it seems to work: privatization and deregulation of electricity and gas, telecoms is working wonders for the consumer. I came to the UK a few years ago and my bills for these items keep getting lower (you have to shop around, but that is your role as an informed consumer, isn't it?)
Not everything is rosy: the privatization of the rail industry has been a complete and utter disaster, with the benefit of hindsight one can't imagine a worst way of doing things (no competition, granted monopolies, disjoint competing responsibilities).
Hey you hippy! Lets bend your principles a bit here.
Hey and also a bit there, you have to allow that because it is the real world you know, those things called principles are a nuisance you know.
Those pesky principles of yours get on my way of doing things, so can you bend that other principle a bit as well please?
What do you mean you can't bend any principle anymore? What do you mean you are not willing to compromise[tm]?
You know what, you are a zealot, a radical, you should know that principles are there to be ignored, specially if they are your principles, because mine are uncorruptable, well not really, I can bend this one a little bit, and this one also....
And so on and so forth ad nauseam.
People with no understanding of what a principle is are repugnant.
It stinks of apathy and complacency; frankly apathetic and complacent people scare me.
All kidding aside about his often abrasive personality, he is way too idealistic to ever be happy with anything that is offered.
The pursuit of achieving that mythical point is good, but it isn't practical to demand it to happen. This is the real world, and there must be allowances for reality or you never move forward.
I see a Mr Mandela saying this: "lets interoperate, we need to keep interoperating until the ANC wins 50% of the vote in apartheid South Africa"
Sometimes you can't take compromises, specially if the compromise means to bend your principles.
Why so meany people fail to grasp this? I am not saying people should agree to these principles, they are of course debatable, what amazes me is how so many people fail to grasp the basic idea that somebody may have principles and be willing to live by them.
Show me your matter duplicator please, that one that duplicates stuff at almost no cost.
Now, show me the person that came with an invention completely out of the blue.
What the commercial companies want is that you can't write software, share it with others and impose the restrictions that you want on the use of that software. Don't believe me? What do you think this upsurge in ridiculous patent claims is all about? That is to price out of the system the small developper, you, I, anybody. What about GPL bein "unamerican"? Etc.etc. You are being surrounded by the enemy and you decide to have a go at the guy that is fighting in your side. What a clever strategy.
What RMS and many other hackers want is that you can share software with others without companies with big bucks making it illegal or prohibitive to do so.
Oh yes, and also that if you stood in the shoulders of giants to write your greatest application you also lend your shoulders if you want to distribute the results (hint, you can even make working applications like this site and be mega rich without ever giving anything back).
So I think Stallman understands more about the real world (Including physics I supposse) than some people around here, who see their freedom to create code being eroded away but do nothing but attack one of the few consistent voices in defense of their rigths and freedom in the IT field.
As an Spanish speaking person I find very refreshing to find project names based on non English words.
To the English speakers it gives a feeling of how it is to have to deal with English terminology all the time when English is your mother tongue, to others it gives the sense that open source is really open for all and not the playground of English speakers only.
OK, so English speaking people are making most of the technology available? Fair enough, but then if other people for whatever reason decide to use other languages for their own projects, that should not be reason for chauvinistic whining from English speaking people.
What sad, that like most tourists, some/.ers expect that an open IT world means a world all signalled in English only.
Because it is expensive to produce, high consumption has geopolitical consequences and we have only one planet to pollute before we choke in our own waste. Give me an infinite supply of planets were to live and I may change my mind.
... he will suck it up and install Linux since patching is not working (see the several reports on that on this thread) and since most probably MS has abandoned him if using "old" (as defined by MS) versions of Windows.
And sorry to bust your train of thought but I see very few people mocking Windows users, in general i see a fastidious "yet again" aimed more at the software manufacturer.
You are implying in you post that the designers of these worms and viruses are Linux "zealots" and I take issue with that.
The correct analogy would be to equate Linux proponents with users of a safe car saying "I told you so" to a motorbike driver, that is for the nth time in the hospital, after insisting to ride closing his eyes a motorbike of a manufacturer known for its cavalier attitude to safety and security. Oh yes, he was hit by a bad driver, and the bad driver deserves whatever he gets, but the motorbike guy is not doing himself any favours by driving in perilous conditions.
Linux and Stallman are staunch representatives of the freedom to code and share your code and have show this during many years with deeds, not words.
SCO, you know who they are, they are trying to hurt our freedom to code and share that code, with evil deeds, not only words.
Any contribution coming from anybody related to SCO should be seen with extreme paranoid suspicion and skepticism. This guy may be contributing on good faith, but the safety of GCC is owrth alienating one guy if you ask me.
You don't need to have contributed a single line of code to GCC in order to arrive to this conclussion.
.... because the expectations were unrealistically high before.
Most companies happily use free software to implement productive *internal* applications, that is where more development work has always been found.
I consider my time valuable, give away as much as I can to the proponents of FLOSS and make a living out of it. Maybe you should question the entreprenurial capacity of some people and not a model to produce software that has probed is perfectly good to enable people to earn a living.
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In Mexico we used to have regular power cuts, lets say one hour once a week. I can work that out but I am pretty sure that is less than the fabolous 99.949 you have so dutifuly calculated.
Well, in Mexico City there has never been during at least the last 40 years a single incident like the one just experienced in the US (blackout for several days).
SO I think this Mr Richardson is right on the money. Some third world countries would be ashamed of something like what happened last weekend.
I can also smoke weed and write cheap Sci-Fi.
I have been using only gas to cook as far as I can remember, I have lived in several countries so it seems odd you mention this as an "alternative".
Apart from the reasons given by others to your question, it is worth remembering how constrained political parties are in the UK regarding campaign money.
The corruptive power of campaign donations is far less damaging in the UK because political parties can't advertise on the mass media, this paired with strong regulation about who and how much money can be given to political parties makes more difficult for big companies to influence goverment decissions. This leaves politicians with only one main master: their electorate.
And at least in this instance it seems to work: privatization and deregulation of electricity and gas, telecoms is working wonders for the consumer. I came to the UK a few years ago and my bills for these items keep getting lower (you have to shop around, but that is your role as an informed consumer, isn't it?)
Not everything is rosy: the privatization of the rail industry has been a complete and utter disaster, with the benefit of hindsight one can't imagine a worst way of doing things (no competition, granted monopolies, disjoint competing responsibilities).
Hey you hippy! Lets bend your principles a bit here.
Hey and also a bit there, you have to allow that because it is the real world you know, those things called principles are a nuisance you know.
Those pesky principles of yours get on my way of doing things, so can you bend that other principle a bit as well please?
What do you mean you can't bend any principle anymore? What do you mean you are not willing to compromise[tm]?
You know what, you are a zealot, a radical, you should know that principles are there to be ignored, specially if they are your principles, because mine are uncorruptable, well not really, I can bend this one a little bit, and this one also....
And so on and so forth ad nauseam.
People with no understanding of what a principle is are repugnant.
It stinks of apathy and complacency; frankly apathetic and complacent people scare me.
... were not revolted by slavery.
All kidding aside about his often abrasive personality, he is way too idealistic to ever be happy with anything that is offered.
The pursuit of achieving that mythical point is good, but it isn't practical to demand it to happen. This is the real world, and there must be allowances for reality or you never move forward.
I see a Mr Mandela saying this: "lets interoperate, we need to keep interoperating until the ANC wins 50% of the vote in apartheid South Africa"
Sometimes you can't take compromises, specially if the compromise means to bend your principles.
Why so meany people fail to grasp this? I am not saying people should agree to these principles, they are of course debatable, what amazes me is how so many people fail to grasp the basic idea that somebody may have principles and be willing to live by them.
Writing and supporting in-house applications.
That is the way most programmers earn a living.
Show me your matter duplicator please, that one that duplicates stuff at almost no cost.
Now, show me the person that came with an invention completely out of the blue.
What the commercial companies want is that you can't write software, share it with others and impose the restrictions that you want on the use of that software. Don't believe me? What do you think this upsurge in ridiculous patent claims is all about? That is to price out of the system the small developper, you, I, anybody. What about GPL bein "unamerican"? Etc.etc. You are being surrounded by the enemy and you decide to have a go at the guy that is fighting in your side. What a clever strategy.
What RMS and many other hackers want is that you can share software with others without companies with big bucks making it illegal or prohibitive to do so.
Oh yes, and also that if you stood in the shoulders of giants to write your greatest application you also lend your shoulders if you want to distribute the results (hint, you can even make working applications like this site and be mega rich without ever giving anything back).
So I think Stallman understands more about the real world (Including physics I supposse) than some people around here, who see their freedom to create code being eroded away but do nothing but attack one of the few consistent voices in defense of their rigths and freedom in the IT field.
.... if you don't allow for the freedom of some people to enslave others.
Honestly, there are people around here that would not understand a principle if it hit them on their a@@.
As an Spanish speaking person I find very refreshing to find project names based on non English words.
/.ers expect that an open IT world means a world all signalled in English only.
To the English speakers it gives a feeling of how it is to have to deal with English terminology all the time when English is your mother tongue, to others it gives the sense that open source is really open for all and not the playground of English speakers only.
OK, so English speaking people are making most of the technology available? Fair enough, but then if other people for whatever reason decide to use other languages for their own projects, that should not be reason for chauvinistic whining from English speaking people.
What sad, that like most tourists, some
... or do the decent thing and pull it off the site.
Editors need some basic depth in the fields discussed at least to ensure they don't make a mockery target of themselves and the site in general.
You surely don;t know how most electricity is produced, otherwise you would not be so happy and unconcerned.
Because it is expensive to produce, high consumption has geopolitical consequences and we have only one planet to pollute before we choke in our own waste. Give me an infinite supply of planets were to live and I may change my mind.
That is WHY WHY WHY!!!!
Not a single word about changing your consumption habits.
PLease use the correct terms, we are suppossed to know the lingo.
Apache is the most popular web server. It gets hammered harder by the script kidiies than IIS.
Who installed the logic module in your brain?
Apache is mainstream, IIS gets trashed.
That should be enough to prove how deeply flawed is the "if it is mainstream you will be 0wn3d" mentality.
The fucking patch did not work. I have being awake all night trying a new version of the patch and appliyng work arounds...
... he will suck it up and install Linux since patching is not working (see the several reports on that on this thread) and since most probably MS has abandoned him if using "old" (as defined by MS) versions of Windows.
And sorry to bust your train of thought but I see very few people mocking Windows users, in general i see a fastidious "yet again" aimed more at the software manufacturer.
You are implying in you post that the designers of these worms and viruses are Linux "zealots" and I take issue with that.
The correct analogy would be to equate Linux proponents with users of a safe car saying "I told you so" to a motorbike driver, that is for the nth time in the hospital, after insisting to ride closing his eyes a motorbike of a manufacturer known for its cavalier attitude to safety and security. Oh yes, he was hit by a bad driver, and the bad driver deserves whatever he gets, but the motorbike guy is not doing himself any favours by driving in perilous conditions.
Linux and Stallman are staunch representatives of the freedom to code and share your code and have show this during many years with deeds, not words.
SCO, you know who they are, they are trying to hurt our freedom to code and share that code, with evil deeds, not only words.
Any contribution coming from anybody related to SCO should be seen with extreme paranoid suspicion and skepticism. This guy may be contributing on good faith, but the safety of GCC is owrth alienating one guy if you ask me.
You don't need to have contributed a single line of code to GCC in order to arrive to this conclussion.
That is a hughe ammount of money, in any terms.
I think a lot of people in the IT business have lost all sense of proportion and of the value of money.
.... because the expectations were unrealistically high before.
Most companies happily use free software to implement productive *internal* applications, that is where more development work has always been found.
I consider my time valuable, give away as much as I can to the proponents of FLOSS and make a living out of it. Maybe you should question the entreprenurial capacity of some people and not a model to produce software that has probed is perfectly good to enable people to earn a living.