No, not what distro to use but how should you choose a distro? Is it on the UI, install time, ease of maintaince, etc? Do you try to give the user a complete backup disk or a single CD and setup a net install program like apt-get or emerge?
Internationally speaking, what about distros that contain software that's illegal to have like encryption in China or deCSS in the US? Do you suggest rolling your own distro from say debian or gentoo?
They're not the only ones which begs the question: If EULAs are legal how could the GPL be illegal? Both put limits on how and what the recipient can do with what they've received so where's the difference that would make one illegal and the other not? After all, they're both contracts.
I hate putting the two in the same catagory since the GPL clearly protects the user while EULAs have mostly been used to oppress the user but legally I don't see the difference.
The optical scan aka "bubble sheet" ballot method works very well in many states but suffers from one major problem: flexibility. My idea is to redesign the currently used optical scanner container to contain a LED printer that would print each "bubble sheet" ballot as they are needed. On the printer there would be a few fixed buttons that would allow poll workers to print ballots in different languages, large print, disability access (except braille of course), etc. Each ballot would have the standard unique number and possibly an additional bar code for ballot tracking. The ballot template would be stored as a PostScript file and checksummed by the printer to insure against changes. These ps files would be tossed on a cf card and sent to towns. The printer and scanner would not have any kind of data connection.
The important part is that voters would vote on machine readable paper ballots that could be electronically counted and easily audited at any time. If the ballot template had been tampered with the audit will find it.
This seems to give voters a more flexible voting system than currently used, a much lower cost per seat than the currently proposed e-voting systems, simple for poll workers to setup, use and breakdown and a rock solid audit trail.
Live Phish is the offical live music site for Phish. Normally the prices are around $13USD for the FLACs and $10 for the MP3s and usally covers two sets and an encore. Pretty sweet for sound boards. They also give you hi res PDFs for the label and jacket.
Places like etree have long lists of bands (over 1k listed on etree) that are cool with trading (mostly live shows). There's some great legally free music downloads out there, start checking them out.
It remeinds me of the Gil Amelio days at Apple. Tons of different Macs competing with each other and not ever Apple employees knowing the difference between models.
Hey Palm: take a lesson from Jobs and cut back to three or four models max instead of seven. Focus on developement and not just marketing. Bring the prices down to something a little more reasonable like:
$100 for a Zire 31 with a 320x320 screen
$250 for a Tungsten C without the 802.11b
They also need to bring back something like the springboard for GSM, 802.11b, bluetooth, whatever.
IMO palm is a real mess compared to their early days.
Granted, there are those that question the morallity of doing so...
This is why I don't block Google ads; they're only text and don't overwhelm you as you read. As for everything else: blocked. Blame the clown who thought a 500k, 50 frame animated gif that only uses bright colors and takes over the entire screen was a good idea.
Some take the bible
For what it's worth
When it says that the meek
Shall inherit the Earth
Well, I heard that some sheik
Has bought New Jersey last week
'N you suckers ain't gettin' nothin'
Is Hare Rama really wrong
If you wander around
With a napkin on
With a bell on a stick
An' your hair is all gone...
(The geek shall inherit nothin')
You say yer life's a bum deal
'N yer up against the wall...
Well, people, you ain't even got no kinda
Deal at all
'Cause what they do
In Washington
They just takes care of NUMBER ONE
An' NUMBER ONE ain't YOU
You ain't even NUMBER TWO
Those Jesus Freaks
Well, they're friendly but
The shit they believe
Has got their minds all shut
An' they don't even care
When the church takes a cut
Ain't it bleak when you got so much nothin'
(So whaddya do? Hey!)
Eat that pork
Eat that ham
Laugh till ya choke
On Billy Graham
Moses, Aaron 'n Abraham...
They're all a waste of time
'N it's your ass that's on the line
(IT'S YOUR ASS THAT'S ON THE LINE)
Do what you wanna
Do what you will
Just don't mess up
Your neighbor's thrill
'N when you pay the bill
Kindly leave a little tip
And help the next poor sucker
On his one way trip...
SOME TAKE THE BIBLE...
(Aw gimme a half a dozen for the hotel room!)
Religion is fine until people insist there is a basis in reality. If I asked you to believe in a computer program that speeds up dialup connections 1000x what would you say? "Show me the code". Yet way, way too many accept religion with zero physical proof. Guess what kids: they won't find Noah's Ark because there is no Noah's Ark.
Look at what religion has done to the the US: Bush has wrapped himself in the bible and the flag and see what mess he's gotten us in. Without his money, flag and bible he'd be washing dishes at Dennys. I'll die fighting to support one's right to pray to whatever God or Gods they wish but please don't try to make me believe in your shared hallucinations.
And remember to kindly leave a little tip to help that next poor sucker on his one way trip...
SCOTUS Justice Louis Brandeis, 1928: "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachments by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
Drew Carey: "I'd burn him like a witch if I wasn't afraid of the fumes".
Bush really bothers me but Ashcroft is the stuff of nightmares. Where's Emma Goldman when we need her?
While it does sound like an interesting idea I suspect that the county and/or commonwealth will want you to pull somekind of permit. After they stall you for a year or two just to come up with the regulations they most likely want engineering data concerning possible damage to the riverbed and the generator's effect on river currents. Of course this really makes no sense but local politics never did.
Years ago my family spent a few years trying to get a 30' fix pier (that others on our street could use for free) built by our property. Between the hassles of the town, state and MEPA we gave up. Strangely a few years later a neighbor (and state senator) who opposed to our project build his own from our prints 100' away. I guess we didn't grease the right gears.
My advice, make it small, discrete, quite and easily removable. Be forward that running your own generator over a long period is probable cause for the DEA to search your house as a suspected grow-op. It sounds crazy but again it's all about politics.
I pray to almighty Jesus that all the gun-fighting and blood spray will be unaffected.
IFAIK Walmart is still selling "Vice City". Moral of the story: While saying "fuck" is bad it's ok to beat the shit out of a prostitute with a golf club.
Welcome to Amerika. Please leave your common sense ideas at the border.
WTF is up with that? I've heard this many times and still can't figure out why. Is it just Calicos or do Persians (the cats) or Tabbies also cause him to freak.
Ashcroft is one of the most evil people to come to power in US history since Harry J Anslinger (another truly fucked up human).
... will go as well as the war on drugs. I'm waiting for someone to get a two year MMS for selling an old copy of Hustler. "Honestly man, I was just holding".
Moral conservatives constantly say that liberals want to make the US into somekind of utopian society yet IMO it's the conservatives that want to make the US into the "United States of Jesus" or some other claptrap.
I have a great idea: Leave people the fuck alone. So long as all parties are adults and consenting let them be. Pray, fuck or smoke a joint, I really don't give a shit, it's your life not mine. Whatever happened to "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"? Oh, I forgot, AG Ashcroft believes dancing is a sin (no shit, he really believes this) so porn must become illegal.
I can't believe how fucked up this country has become. BTW, the Democrats have done their share to fuck things up too. Term limits people, that's the only way we'll get ourselves out of this mess.
Over a dozen brave US Marines died today holding their position in Iraq and the DOJ has the balls to bring this crap up? We are truly FUBAR.
pherris quietly puts on a fire retardant suit and watches his karma head south.
The only "software" I ever created from scratch was HyperCard-based.
It (I'm guessing) helped you become more computer literate and/or better teacher of computers to others. HC was about fun and exploring your mac (something I suspect you also know).
I also used to hand out a version of my resume as a browsable stack, which was kind of cool and helped me get a few Mac-related jobs as well.
Again, not programming jobs but (always assuming) jobs that required more than the average mac person.
It's a pity that HyperCard died when it did (really about 10 years ago), but it was always the "neither fish nor foul" of Apple products.
HC never made Apple money as a stand alone product but sold a ton of macs. It sucks they both killed and buried it. It was really fun. Thanks for reminding HC programmers of that. Great post. BTW, IMO HC on GNU/Linux would rock.
Apple should really think about releasing the source code and letting the OS community take it over.
One problem: Jobs wants HC dead which is really sad. When HC came out it blew me away. It was fun and mildly productive. People did some pretty cool stuff with it. People that never programmed before and many that haven't programmed since.
Because of all the low level XFCN stuff I don't know how well it would translate to cross platform life but allowing the open use of the langauge would be a good start.
Dumping it out under a BSD license (GPL would be better but that's a whole other war) would be sweet but IMO it will never, ever happen which, again, is sad. A lot of great stacks and hundreds of thousands of programming hours will be lost because Jobs wants it gone.
I love macs (I still use an eMac for video work) but everything else is on my gentoo box because of crap like this. You'd have a better chance of Apple bring back the Newton (what a sweet machine).
Maybe something like pythoncard might pan out some day but HC will never be replaced. RIP
I think half the people using Gentoo have no business using it. Most people don't understand gcc optimization flags...
I thought the gentoo folks did a pretty good job explaining what the
use flags are but I understand what you're saying. Just because it's explained doesn't mean people are using them.
I think half the people using Gentoo have no business using it.
I'm curious, what distro would you recommend instead? Maybe a meta distro of the GRP that defaults to prebuilt optimized packages?
I could just quote the entire article and say "Yes, you're right", but instead I'll pick on the one point of disagreement: content.
Current textbook companies will stall on porting to the digital world just like book, magazines and music did. Then they'll see the light and jump all over it because an outsider is pushing them out of their own market. Pushing bits is a lot cheaper than printing on dead trees. Textbook publisher's profits will soar.
IMO the best solution is to also use GPL textbooks created through a wiki system. Schools would save a ton of money. Add the ability for teachers to easily send students notes, allow anyone to create books and Sony will make a ton of money. Everyone wins. It's up to Sony to play this into a bigger profit center than the PS2 or to have it end up like their MagicLink (also a great device which I own).
Great post AllenChristopher.
They fardles bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life.
Find as many RFID tags you can (you'll need at least a couple of hundred). Now start walking in and out of your favorite store. Getting enough people doing this at one time and log files will seriously fucked.
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There are just some questions that should never be answered.
Internationally speaking, what about distros that contain software that's illegal to have like encryption in China or deCSS in the US? Do you suggest rolling your own distro from say debian or gentoo?
They're not the only ones which begs the question: If EULAs are legal how could the GPL be illegal? Both put limits on how and what the recipient can do with what they've received so where's the difference that would make one illegal and the other not? After all, they're both contracts.
I hate putting the two in the same catagory since the GPL clearly protects the user while EULAs have mostly been used to oppress the user but legally I don't see the difference.
And you can download a free prevention tool right here
crackshoe is right. It's kinda like Jussi Salonoja's $200,000USD speeding ticket.
The important part is that voters would vote on machine readable paper ballots that could be electronically counted and easily audited at any time. If the ballot template had been tampered with the audit will find it.
This seems to give voters a more flexible voting system than currently used, a much lower cost per seat than the currently proposed e-voting systems, simple for poll workers to setup, use and breakdown and a rock solid audit trail.
No looking for parts here and there, just "emerge mplayer" and BAM! It's all there, working great with all the codecs in one shot.
Fast and clean. Gentoo rocks.
I'm George W. Bush and I approved this message.
I'm glad they do this.
Places like etree have long lists of bands (over 1k listed on etree) that are cool with trading (mostly live shows). There's some great legally free music downloads out there, start checking them out.
Hey Palm: take a lesson from Jobs and cut back to three or four models max instead of seven. Focus on developement and not just marketing. Bring the prices down to something a little more reasonable like:
$100 for a Zire 31 with a 320x320 screen
$250 for a Tungsten C without the 802.11b
They also need to bring back something like the springboard for GSM, 802.11b, bluetooth, whatever. IMO palm is a real mess compared to their early days.
This is why I don't block Google ads; they're only text and don't overwhelm you as you read. As for everything else: blocked. Blame the clown who thought a 500k, 50 frame animated gif that only uses bright colors and takes over the entire screen was a good idea.
Some take the bible
For what it's worth
When it says that the meek
Shall inherit the Earth
Well, I heard that some sheik
Has bought New Jersey last week
'N you suckers ain't gettin' nothin'
Is Hare Rama really wrong ...
If you wander around
With a napkin on
With a bell on a stick
An' your hair is all gone
(The geek shall inherit nothin')
You say yer life's a bum deal ...
'N yer up against the wall
Well, people, you ain't even got no kinda
Deal at all
'Cause what they do
In Washington
They just takes care of NUMBER ONE
An' NUMBER ONE ain't YOU
You ain't even NUMBER TWO
Those Jesus Freaks ...
Well, they're friendly but
The shit they believe
Has got their minds all shut
An' they don't even care
When the church takes a cut
Ain't it bleak when you got so much nothin'
(So whaddya do? Hey!)
Eat that pork
Eat that ham
Laugh till ya choke
On Billy Graham
Moses, Aaron 'n Abraham
They're all a waste of time
'N it's your ass that's on the line
(IT'S YOUR ASS THAT'S ON THE LINE)
Do what you wanna ... ...
Do what you will
Just don't mess up
Your neighbor's thrill
'N when you pay the bill
Kindly leave a little tip
And help the next poor sucker
On his one way trip
SOME TAKE THE BIBLE
(Aw gimme a half a dozen for the hotel room!)
Religion is fine until people insist there is a basis in reality. If I asked you to believe in a computer program that speeds up dialup connections 1000x what would you say? "Show me the code". Yet way, way too many accept religion with zero physical proof. Guess what kids: they won't find Noah's Ark because there is no Noah's Ark.
Look at what religion has done to the the US: Bush has wrapped himself in the bible and the flag and see what mess he's gotten us in. Without his money, flag and bible he'd be washing dishes at Dennys. I'll die fighting to support one's right to pray to whatever God or Gods they wish but please don't try to make me believe in your shared hallucinations.
And remember to kindly leave a little tip to help that next poor sucker on his one way trip ...
Shit, hit the wrong button. What also meant to say was he should've been number one on this year's awards like last year.
SCOTUS Justice Louis Brandeis, 1928: "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachments by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
Drew Carey: "I'd burn him like a witch if I wasn't afraid of the fumes".
Bush really bothers me but Ashcroft is the stuff of nightmares. Where's Emma Goldman when we need her?
Opps, got to go, there's someone at my door ...
Years ago my family spent a few years trying to get a 30' fix pier (that others on our street could use for free) built by our property. Between the hassles of the town, state and MEPA we gave up. Strangely a few years later a neighbor (and state senator) who opposed to our project build his own from our prints 100' away. I guess we didn't grease the right gears.
My advice, make it small, discrete, quite and easily removable. Be forward that running your own generator over a long period is probable cause for the DEA to search your house as a suspected grow-op. It sounds crazy but again it's all about politics.
Bonne Chance.
IFAIK Walmart is still selling "Vice City". Moral of the story: While saying "fuck" is bad it's ok to beat the shit out of a prostitute with a golf club.
Welcome to Amerika. Please leave your common sense ideas at the border.
WTF is up with that? I've heard this many times and still can't figure out why. Is it just Calicos or do Persians (the cats) or Tabbies also cause him to freak.
Ashcroft is one of the most evil people to come to power in US history since Harry J Anslinger (another truly fucked up human).
Moral conservatives constantly say that liberals want to make the US into somekind of utopian society yet IMO it's the conservatives that want to make the US into the "United States of Jesus" or some other claptrap.
I have a great idea: Leave people the fuck alone. So long as all parties are adults and consenting let them be. Pray, fuck or smoke a joint, I really don't give a shit, it's your life not mine. Whatever happened to "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"? Oh, I forgot, AG Ashcroft believes dancing is a sin (no shit, he really believes this) so porn must become illegal.
I can't believe how fucked up this country has become. BTW, the Democrats have done their share to fuck things up too. Term limits people, that's the only way we'll get ourselves out of this mess.
Over a dozen brave US Marines died today holding their position in Iraq and the DOJ has the balls to bring this crap up? We are truly FUBAR.
pherris quietly puts on a fire retardant suit and watches his karma head south.
I would've guessed that someone in Japan had already had done what you've suggested.
It (I'm guessing) helped you become more computer literate and/or better teacher of computers to others. HC was about fun and exploring your mac (something I suspect you also know).
I also used to hand out a version of my resume as a browsable stack, which was kind of cool and helped me get a few Mac-related jobs as well.
Again, not programming jobs but (always assuming) jobs that required more than the average mac person.
It's a pity that HyperCard died when it did (really about 10 years ago), but it was always the "neither fish nor foul" of Apple products.
HC never made Apple money as a stand alone product but sold a ton of macs. It sucks they both killed and buried it. It was really fun. Thanks for reminding HC programmers of that. Great post. BTW, IMO HC on GNU/Linux would rock.
That and Pippin.
Don't forget the Newton.
One problem: Jobs wants HC dead which is really sad. When HC came out it blew me away. It was fun and mildly productive. People did some pretty cool stuff with it. People that never programmed before and many that haven't programmed since.
Because of all the low level XFCN stuff I don't know how well it would translate to cross platform life but allowing the open use of the langauge would be a good start.
Dumping it out under a BSD license (GPL would be better but that's a whole other war) would be sweet but IMO it will never, ever happen which, again, is sad. A lot of great stacks and hundreds of thousands of programming hours will be lost because Jobs wants it gone.
I love macs (I still use an eMac for video work) but everything else is on my gentoo box because of crap like this. You'd have a better chance of Apple bring back the Newton (what a sweet machine).
Maybe something like pythoncard might pan out some day but HC will never be replaced. RIP
I thought the gentoo folks did a pretty good job explaining what the use flags are but I understand what you're saying. Just because it's explained doesn't mean people are using them.
I think half the people using Gentoo have no business using it.
I'm curious, what distro would you recommend instead? Maybe a meta distro of the GRP that defaults to prebuilt optimized packages?
Current textbook companies will stall on porting to the digital world just like book, magazines and music did. Then they'll see the light and jump all over it because an outsider is pushing them out of their own market. Pushing bits is a lot cheaper than printing on dead trees. Textbook publisher's profits will soar.
IMO the best solution is to also use GPL textbooks created through a wiki system. Schools would save a ton of money. Add the ability for teachers to easily send students notes, allow anyone to create books and Sony will make a ton of money. Everyone wins. It's up to Sony to play this into a bigger profit center than the PS2 or to have it end up like their MagicLink (also a great device which I own).
Great post AllenChristopher.
They fardles bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life.
Shit, you deserve an extra +1 for that alone.
Maybe it's time to build a personal RFID jammer?