Look, the first problem is not with the pages alone. Its how the pages lined up with the holes.
I was able to track down a
picture
of this supposedly-confusing ballot.
I'm sorry, but if someone didn't notice that arrow pointing to the correct hole for each candidate, then they are either morons, or they should have put on their glasses, or they should have asked someone to help them.
I'm sick of hearing this crap about people thinking the second hole should have been for the Democrat. If they bothered to even glance at this ballot they would have noticed that every-other hole went to the other side of the ballot.
Point of fact - the alleged confusion is supposed to arise due to the placement of the Democrat and Reform party punches
I was able to track down a
picture
of this supposedly-confusing ballot.
I'm sorry, but if someone didn't notice that arrow pointing to the correct hole for each candidate, then they are either morons, or they should have put on their glasses, or they should have asked someone to help them.
According to that article the server market for this year in Japan is expected to be:
60.9% NT
18.3% Windows 2000
7.8% Linux
That leaves only 13% for all of Unix and Novell combined. Surely that can't be right.
Perhaps this number is based on purchases made during the year. Companies putting together
new servers are probably not buying Novell any more. Microsoft numbers could be inflated due to
the hardware having Windows pre-installed.
But then, the fact that Linux would show up at all
seems strange. Would that many people actually
buy Linux instead of downloading it (or copying
from someone else's CD)?
Unfortunately, the biggest beneficiaries of a economic system that the Libertarian Party envisions would be corporations and the rich, who would continue to become richer at the expense of all else.
Capitalism is working now, the way it is (for corporations.) Why would you want to extend the balance of power even MORE in the way of the well-to-do?
Ok, here's a question for you. When was the last time a poor person signed your paycheck? If everyone was made equal financially, who would be left with the ability to start new companies or invest in new companies? The answer - only the government. Now, if you believe that the government can make better decisions on what companies should exist, then this type of system
will make sense to you. I tend to believe that the government screws up most things.
And why do you believe that the rich get richer at your expense? It's not like there's a fixed amount of wealth in the world, and either you're going to get it or somebody else will. There are thousands upon thousands more people in the U.S. today that there were 200 years ago, and
even the people living below the poverty line today have luxuries that were unattainable to the
wealthy 200 years ago.
And you know how this happens? Someone has an idea that would make peoples' lives easier/better/safer/etc. He tells a few different rich people about it until one of them also believes it's a good idea. The rich guy funds development, and the idea turns into reality, and
everyone's lives become better.
Nope, I made no such assumption. I haven't the faintest idea why you would think so.
Because you implied that people who are outraged
have no clue that this currently happens. You
imply that they are happy with the system as it
currently stands, but unhappy with Nader's
suggestions.
Those of us who are truly outraged by this would vote Libertarian.
Some would, some wouldn't.
The Libertarian party appears to be the only one
that does not condone using the tax system for
social engineering. Do you know of another party
with the same view of the roll of federal taxes?
Funny. I though the article was about Nader. Silly me...
Well, when you learn to read past the first sentence of a paragraph, you'll find out that this
article is also about Gore and Bush:
Today we have Ralph Nader's -- or at least his staff's -- answers to your questions. And, as a little bonus, one Slashdot reader's question we sent over to WebWhite&Blue (at their request) was answered by both Gore and Bush, neither of whom has yet seen fit to answer Slashdot questions directly.
Mr. Browne has started answering some of the questions. You can go
straight to his replies by
clicking here.
Unfortunately, Kuro5hin isn't setup very well for looking at the parents of his comments - it shows you all the other comments at the same "level" in
the heirarchy. And for the top level, that takes
a long time to load for this story.
I like how they've set this up. You post questions as comments in the forum. Harry chooses to answer 5 of the question every day until Thursday. Because of the continuing nature of the interview, it will allow for follow-up questions.
Given the high volume of questions already, I think some people are going to be disappointed that their question won't be answered.
What he said was "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Which, if you bother to read the article and learn the facts, is a fairly truthful statement.
About as truthful as if Prince Leopold had stated that he took the initiative in creating Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.
Or if Ronald Reagan had stated that he took the initiative in creating the B2 bomber.
Sorry, Gore took credit for more than he should have. He helped get funding for it, but that was
all.
But short of downloading the whole SRPM, it's difficult if not impossible to determine exactly which patches were added.
I agree with you there. It would be nice to see
a list of the patches in some other format. I can't even examine the SRPM on my RH62 box, because the version of the RPM executable has
been updated.
However, I hope you see that your original complaint was badly mis-worded:
I have as of yet been unable to locate a definitive list of what these patches are.
It's like getting a Word document: you know it contains the information you want, but you don't have any convenient way of looking at it short of
installing a different operating system.
But how, for example, did RedHat get from the standard version of the kernel source to the version that they ship with their releases?
Ok, let me say this again - SRPMs contain both the
pristine sources, as well as a set of patches used
to compile each module.
For the RH70 kernel, there is an SRPM called kernel-2.2.16-22.src.rpm. If you install it (rpm -i kernel-2.2.16-22.src.rpm), you will see a bunch of files in/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES. One of these is the tar file containing the pristine kernel source code. All of the others are the patches that are applied before building.
Using appropriate rpm commands, you can then recreate the kernel RPM that redhat ships with the distribution.
The inclusion of heavily patched, alpha, non-standard components in RH7 was, in my humble opinion, a tragic mistake.
Say what!?!? I assume you're talking about gcc.
In case you haven't noticed, RedHat, as well as
every other distribution, often releases heavily
patched components. Have you looked at the
kernels included with your favorite distribution?
Often they include patches that have not yet been
accepted into the official kernel source tree. Yet nobody has complained about this.
Including alpha components??? If you think this is the first time that RedHat or any other distribution has included an alpha-quality component, then you haven't been paying attention.
Right now, I count 133 packages on my system with
version numbers starting with "0."!
Making your products accessable to Joe every day windows user by making it easier to use is great, but serves little use when it is done at the expense of those that brought your company to where it is today, the hard-core hackers.
They included a compiler that has much better C++ support. If anything, this was done precisely to
help developers, and "Joe every day windows user" will never even notice the difference.
You claim that you publish the source that your company creates; where is it?
Goodness, what world are you from? Go to their FTP site. They have these things called "source RPMs". They have instructions for installing them. When you install them, you will see not only the pristine source code for the component, but also the individual patches that they apply to them.
As I write this, I'm downloading the latest revision of Debian...
Am I the only one that read that as "VMS 2K?" Now there's a scary thought...
Please notice that joshwa
has already posted this SAME EXACT COMMENT, WORD-FOR-WORD in the previous article on VMSK (sorry, the article is too old, so slashdot doesn't have a URL to get to the
exact comment. It's near the top, and you know
what text to search for). It was more appropriate
then too, since the title said "VMSK/2".
Considering the previous posting of this comment
got a +4 score, I guess this makes
London Weatherman an official Kharma Whore(tm).
Look people, Student Visas are part of a foreign affairs agenda which believes that by helping other countries become better, that we become a better global society.
Screw that. I'd rather think that this is
actually a ploy to attract the world's best and
brightest away from their homelands and into the
U.S. It just makes the U.S. that much stronger
of a country.
Imagine if Einstein had remained in Germany and
was forced to work on the Atomic bomb under
Nazi rule...
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Would you mind telling me where you read/heard this?
I'm sorry, but if someone didn't notice that arrow pointing to the correct hole for each candidate, then they are either morons, or they should have put on their glasses, or they should have asked someone to help them.
I'm sick of hearing this crap about people thinking the second hole should have been for the Democrat. If they bothered to even glance at this ballot they would have noticed that every-other hole went to the other side of the ballot.
I'm sorry, but if someone didn't notice that arrow pointing to the correct hole for each candidate, then they are either morons, or they should have put on their glasses, or they should have asked someone to help them.
The Amiga VP seems to be equivalent to a Java VM. So why should I prefer to code in Amiga VP assembly code rather than in Java?
But then, the fact that Linux would show up at all seems strange. Would that many people actually buy Linux instead of downloading it (or copying from someone else's CD)?
And why do you believe that the rich get richer at your expense? It's not like there's a fixed amount of wealth in the world, and either you're going to get it or somebody else will. There are thousands upon thousands more people in the U.S. today that there were 200 years ago, and even the people living below the poverty line today have luxuries that were unattainable to the wealthy 200 years ago.
And you know how this happens? Someone has an idea that would make peoples' lives easier/better/safer/etc. He tells a few different rich people about it until one of them also believes it's a good idea. The rich guy funds development, and the idea turns into reality, and everyone's lives become better.
Wow. I didn't think two parties could possibly be any farther away from each other on the political spectrum than these two.
One wants to solve everything through government control, and the other wants to remove almost all government control.
I can only assume that you're a very complicated individual ;^) Take care!
Because you implied that people who are outraged have no clue that this currently happens. You imply that they are happy with the system as it currently stands, but unhappy with Nader's suggestions.
Some would, some wouldn't.The Libertarian party appears to be the only one that does not condone using the tax system for social engineering. Do you know of another party with the same view of the roll of federal taxes?
Those of us who are truly outraged by this would vote Libertarian.
Gore is a major investor in Occidental Petroleum. Likewise, Ocidental Petroleum is a contributor to Gore's campaign.
You can start reading all about it here.
Unfortunately, Kuro5hin isn't setup very well for looking at the parents of his comments - it shows you all the other comments at the same "level" in the heirarchy. And for the top level, that takes a long time to load for this story.
I like how they've set this up. You post questions as comments in the forum. Harry chooses to answer 5 of the question every day until Thursday. Because of the continuing nature of the interview, it will allow for follow-up questions.
Given the high volume of questions already, I think some people are going to be disappointed that their question won't be answered.
- You cannot own a
.com domain with the same name
- Otherwise, first come first served
BTW, I wonder how many times Chrysler has tried to sue the owners of www.dodge.com?Or if Ronald Reagan had stated that he took the initiative in creating the B2 bomber.
Sorry, Gore took credit for more than he should have. He helped get funding for it, but that was all.
However, I hope you see that your original complaint was badly mis-worded:
It's like getting a Word document: you know it contains the information you want, but you don't have any convenient way of looking at it short of installing a different operating system.For the RH70 kernel, there is an SRPM called kernel-2.2.16-22.src.rpm. If you install it (rpm -i kernel-2.2.16-22.src.rpm), you will see a bunch of files in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES. One of these is the tar file containing the pristine kernel source code. All of the others are the patches that are applied before building.
Using appropriate rpm commands, you can then recreate the kernel RPM that redhat ships with the distribution.
Including alpha components??? If you think this is the first time that RedHat or any other distribution has included an alpha-quality component, then you haven't been paying attention. Right now, I count 133 packages on my system with version numbers starting with "0."!
They included a compiler that has much better C++ support. If anything, this was done precisely to help developers, and "Joe every day windows user" will never even notice the difference. Goodness, what world are you from? Go to their FTP site. They have these things called "source RPMs". They have instructions for installing them. When you install them, you will see not only the pristine source code for the component, but also the individual patches that they apply to them. Debian is a wonderful distribution, so have fun! I certainly hope that the 2.2.17pre6 kernel that they provide doesn't give you any trouble!Maybe I should file this as a bug against Mozilla.
Notice that it's sending you to the entire article with all comments, NOT to the specific comment.
Considering the previous posting of this comment got a +4 score, I guess this makes London Weatherman an official Kharma Whore(tm).
Policing Slashdot since... well, 10am EST.
Can you show me the server-side code release for their fancy little Update-Agent?
The last time I checked, there was no code available (although the protocol used is documented).
I'm actually a RedHat user and have been quite happy with their releases. But since you issued the challenge, I couldn't resist answering it.
Imagine if Einstein had remained in Germany and was forced to work on the Atomic bomb under Nazi rule...