Presidents' Day came about when Nixon combined Washington's birthday (originally the 11th, now the 22nd after the 11-day calender adjustment) with Abraham Lincoln's (the 12th) to be on the 3rd Monday of February, and it now commemorates all *past* presidents, living or dead. -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Hey, since some are suggesting that the EULA is between the OEM and the end user, then how could Microsoft uphold the anti-piracy aspects of the EULA? Shouldn't the OEMs be responsible for that as well? -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
GTKStep may be nice to some people (I don't like it myself), but we'll really have the chance for a well designed, completely open Destop Environment/GUI API in Warsaw and Moscow (parts of the Berlin project). I've taken a look at some of the design for Berlin and it looks really smooth; and it seems to have been properly designed *before* implementation (which may make it seem like development is going slow in the short run but in the long run it will benefit tremendously). Berlin's biggest obstacle will be getting people to think completely "outside the box" of X11. I wish them good luck. -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
What xanim really needs is a way to dynamically load relocatable codec objects so we don't have to recompile it to use the proprietary codecs. -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Did you go to their page? They are planning parallel, internal EIDE (which has supposedly shipped) and internal and external SCSI versions. Nowhere do they mention USB or Firewire versions. -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
You'd have a point, if the commercial world wasn't just as bogged down with lawsuits and battles over intellectual property. I'd say the FSF frustrated over a BSD-ish advertising clause is a little less severe than Microsoft being told to pull all Java products until the resolution of the Sun/MS trial. Go figure. -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
We need to make sure this works with Linux. I'd be the EIDE and the SCSI versions will work out of the box, but the parallel will probably require some reverse engineering. No matter, I already have a Zip disk on the parallel port; the internal EIDE would work fine for me. All I want to make sure is that I can get enough disks so that even if they go out of business (they are a startup, no?), I can still utilize the drive.
Very exciting stuff.... -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Why does everyone fear big government and yet not fear the oppression of the mob of society. Face it, government, even when large and tyrannical, does not influence your day-to-day life as much as your peers do. I fear a society which knows everything about me not so much because government will misuse the information (although I fear that too), but because my neighbors will misuse the information. One need only see the popularity of tabloid newspapers and television to see my point. -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Reminds me more of Brave New World society. Not only does everyone know what you are doing, but you are programmed to do it (ahem....commercial television). Perhaps thinking of our "transparent" future as being like Brave New World will help some of you understand the costs.
(And yes, a Star Trek future *is* unplausible; the Russians tried, the Cubans tried it, the Chinese tried it....they all failed [some just haven't admitted it yet].) -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
The problem is that the anti-abortion "activists" are, by any ordinary definition, criminally insane.
I know no definition of criminally insane which includes anti-abortionism; perhaps you'd like to clarify.
They murder people who disagree with them.
Since the U.S. is well divided between anti- and pro-abortionists, it stands to reason that there would be no one left in the U.S. if your statement was correct.
...This is not true of pro-choice people.
I bet one could scour some prisons and find quite a few pro-choice people who have murdered others.
Anti-choice people have an essentially totalitarian mindset. For them, practicing their beliefs means forcing other people to practice their beliefs, by violent means if necessary.
Wrong. The good citizen easily recognizes that every personal liberty is tempered by the liberty of others, and therefore personal choice is always limited. I can physically choose to go out in the street and kill people at random, yet would you call those who would prevent me from doing so totalitarians? The anti-abortionists, even the violent extremists, see themselves not as limiting the choices of the potential mothers, but rather as defending the right of the unborn children. They view the unborn child as a human life, and as a human life, the right to live supercedes the right of the potential mother to terminate pregnancy. Whether you agree with that position or not is irrelevant; the important thing is that you become capable of understanding the position, so that your arguments against it can be more rational and thus convincing.
The Christians do track people down and kill them from time to time (for the greater glory of the one of the most committed pacifists in human history:)
Just as the Bolsheviks slaughtered the Russian royal family, children and all. And they were Atheists (at least Lenin was). Does that indicate that Atheists slaughter children? Of course not! More interesting in your argument is that all Christians (that I know of!) are humans, therefore every transgression you ascribe to Christians you must also ascribe to humans. If it is Christiantity you want to attack, then talk about the religion and not the false prophets who blasphemize it.
The real problem here is that law-enforcement and government in general tend to be relatively benign with reference to anti-choice terrorism. Islamic terrorism requires stringent measures to combat it;
This is a paradox. Islamic fundamentalism is much more restrictive in terms of individualism than the anti-abortion movement. The difference in how we treat different forms of terrorism has nothing to do with how restrictive the philosophies behind them are and more to do with how much we relate to them. Islamic terrorism is perceived to be worse than Christian terrorism because as a society we cannot as easily relate to the Islamic terrorists. I imagine the situation is quite different in Arab countries.
A weak government is not a guarantee of freedom. It is a guarantee of chaos that will be followed by tyranny.
Yes, yes! Right on. (Yes, he says he may be wrong, and I say he and I both may be wrong -- but his examples are valid and IMHO very relevant.)
His examples are not valid, IMO, because he is talking about a different kind of weak government than libertarians talk about. What he is talking about is a government which cannot enforce law and order; libertarians talk about a government which does not extend beyond that point. Just as Brin's idea of the "good village" will be made up of people who can do things but don't, the libertarian idea of "good government" is one that can do things, but does not.
-- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Microsoft bundling stuff with Windows doesn't affect Linux. In fact, it'll help it, because whenever MS bundles one of their apps with Windows, it'll encourage the competitors to make their apps for another OS...say....Linux. =)
-- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Fermet's last theorem, which has now been proven (publicly), states that for integers x,y,z x^n + y^n = z^n is unsolvable when n > 2.
The modern proof (no-one knows Fermet's proof) is far beyond my comprehensions, but should be available in some math journal pretty easily.
BTW, the proof also invalidates a Star Trek: TNG episode, which refers to the theorem as unproved by the 23rd (or whatever) century. Maybe they just lost it again?;-)
Besides, since any "positive" proposition can become a "negative" proposition using the law of the double-negative, there is a multitude of provable negative statements. Also, propositions which are mutually exclusive imply an infinate number of negative statements. For instance,
2 + 2 = 4 therefore, 2 + 2 != 5, 2 + 2 != 6,.....
-- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
You need to be a bit more niggardly with your posts. This is Slashdot, not English class;-)
Ever thought that the guy didn't care about offending people. I mean, I thought he went out of his way to offend quite a number of people, including Americans, Hispanics (who, after all, had nothing to do with burritos as we gringos know them), Europeans....etc, etc. Alot of people use the terms "gay" and "queer" not even in the context of homosexuality or questioning of one's manhood. When I was growing up (which wasn't that long ago), I used "queer" to mean something odd or strange, and I'm only 20 so there were plenty of people who used "queer" to mean homosexual.
I'm not saying that some people shouldn't be offended by what he said, but sometimes you need to put things in context. The post was a rambling outrage, on par with Dennis Leary's tyrades, and I thought it was rather humorous. At no point did I think he was making fun of homosexuals; and for anyone that did, I'm sorry for them. Sometimes things are put the wrong way and sometimes they are taken the wrong way; and they aren't always meant to offend (remember the Seinfeld office incident). I think alot of times, people are on the lookout to be outraged, and so they find ways not to disappoint themselves. Over-sensitive political correctness is a bane on society. -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
I was under the impression that to take a ROM dump you needed some pretty sophisticated equiptment. So where are all these ROMS coming from? Couldn't Nintendo do better to attack the people making this equiptment...or if it's them, to stop giving them away so liberally?
Frankly, I don't know that using an emulated N64 is so much worth it. Unless you are a software pirate and plan on using the ROMS instead of paying for the game, you might as well just rent or borrow the game to try it out. For the old arcades there is more motivation, since everyone's not gonna put an arcade in their room; and many of the old arcades aren't even around anymore. -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
QDOS was based on CPM. In fact, the only major difference was the main drive letter (C: in DOS and something like A: in CPM). -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Merced is expected to be in the $2000 price range. I think it'll take significantly longer than 6-18 mos. for that price to drop down to a consumer level price.
Basically, Merced is meant to be Intel's first real expedition into high-performance enterprise computing. Whereas the consumer market thinks of Intel as the high end (compared to competitors like AMD and Cyrix), the enterprise market thinks of Intel as the low end and Intel wants to change that. -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
But local law will supercede this restriction (in fact, Microsoft's EULA explicitely states that the reverse engineering clause will be superceded by any applicable laws). I know many European countries have upheld the rights to reverse-engineering, and I'm fairly certain that the U.S. has too. -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
You joke, but seriously, the only reason Apple ever had a foothold in education had little to do with the quality of their computers and more to do with them all but giving them away to schools. That, coupled with the disproportionately high level of Mac-bigotry running through the vains of the upper echelons of school districts, explains that side of it.
At my high-school, the teachers (the ones who actually had to teach on and use the computers) practically begged for PCs because of all the problems we had with the Macs. But guess what got installed the next year (luckily I graduated before then)? -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
I'm not sure why you replied to my post, and I'm even more baffled as to why you took the time to quote it. What you replied with was completely irrelevant to what I said. I said I wonder how many people would jump *from* Linux *back* to a proprietary OS.
I recommend you take some time out next time to think about what you're going to write. "A closed mouth gaters no foot."
-- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
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Presidents' Day came about when Nixon combined Washington's birthday (originally the 11th, now the 22nd after the 11-day calender adjustment) with Abraham Lincoln's (the 12th) to be on the 3rd Monday of February, and it now commemorates all *past* presidents, living or dead.
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Hey, since some are suggesting that the EULA is between the OEM and the end user, then how could Microsoft uphold the anti-piracy aspects of the EULA? Shouldn't the OEMs be responsible for that as well?
--
Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
GTKStep may be nice to some people (I don't like it myself), but we'll really have the chance for a well designed, completely open Destop Environment/GUI API in Warsaw and Moscow (parts of the Berlin project). I've taken a look at some of the design for Berlin and it looks really smooth; and it seems to have been properly designed *before* implementation (which may make it seem like development is going slow in the short run but in the long run it will benefit tremendously). Berlin's biggest obstacle will be getting people to think completely "outside the box" of X11. I wish them good luck.
--
Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
What xanim really needs is a way to dynamically load relocatable codec objects so we don't have to recompile it to use the proprietary codecs.
--
Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
I wouldn't carry ORB disks around like that anyways...that's what Zip disks are for :-)
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Did you go to their page? They are planning parallel, internal EIDE (which has supposedly shipped) and internal and external SCSI versions. Nowhere do they mention USB or Firewire versions.
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
There is a solution to your problem, as highlighted by Linus:
"We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds."
Hope that helps.
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
You'd have a point, if the commercial world wasn't just as bogged down with lawsuits and battles over intellectual property. I'd say the FSF frustrated over a BSD-ish advertising clause is a little less severe than Microsoft being told to pull all Java products until the resolution of the Sun/MS trial. Go figure.
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Go to ftp.**.kernel.org. That's where I've found all the newer glibcs.
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
We need to make sure this works with Linux. I'd be the EIDE and the SCSI versions will work out of the box, but the parallel will probably require some reverse engineering. No matter, I already have a Zip disk on the parallel port; the internal EIDE would work fine for me. All I want to make sure is that I can get enough disks so that even if they go out of business (they are a startup, no?), I can still utilize the drive.
Very exciting stuff....
--
Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
You plan on dropping it to the floor?
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Why does everyone fear big government and yet not fear the oppression of the mob of society. Face it, government, even when large and tyrannical, does not influence your day-to-day life as much as your peers do. I fear a society which knows everything about me not so much because government will misuse the information (although I fear that too), but because my neighbors will misuse the information. One need only see the popularity of tabloid newspapers and television to see my point.
--
Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Reminds me more of Brave New World society. Not only does everyone know what you are doing, but you are programmed to do it (ahem....commercial television). Perhaps thinking of our "transparent" future as being like Brave New World will help some of you understand the costs.
(And yes, a Star Trek future *is* unplausible; the Russians tried, the Cubans tried it, the Chinese tried it....they all failed [some just haven't admitted it yet].)
--
Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
I know no definition of criminally insane which includes anti-abortionism; perhaps you'd like to clarify.
They murder people who disagree with them.
Since the U.S. is well divided between anti- and pro-abortionists, it stands to reason that there would be no one left in the U.S. if your statement was correct.
I bet one could scour some prisons and find quite a few pro-choice people who have murdered others.
Anti-choice people have an essentially totalitarian mindset. For them, practicing their beliefs means forcing other people to practice their beliefs, by violent means if necessary.
Wrong. The good citizen easily recognizes that every personal liberty is tempered by the liberty of others, and therefore personal choice is always limited. I can physically choose to go out in the street and kill people at random, yet would you call those who would prevent me from doing so totalitarians? The anti-abortionists, even the violent extremists, see themselves not as limiting the choices of the potential mothers, but rather as defending the right of the unborn children. They view the unborn child as a human life, and as a human life, the right to live supercedes the right of the potential mother to terminate pregnancy. Whether you agree with that position or not is irrelevant; the important thing is that you become capable of understanding the position, so that your arguments against it can be more rational and thus convincing.
The Christians do track people down and kill them from time to time (for the greater glory of the one of the most committed pacifists in human history
Just as the Bolsheviks slaughtered the Russian royal family, children and all. And they were Atheists (at least Lenin was). Does that indicate that Atheists slaughter children? Of course not! More interesting in your argument is that all Christians (that I know of!) are humans, therefore every transgression you ascribe to Christians you must also ascribe to humans. If it is Christiantity you want to attack, then talk about the religion and not the false prophets who blasphemize it.
The real problem here is that law-enforcement and government in general tend to be relatively benign with reference to anti-choice terrorism. Islamic terrorism requires stringent measures to combat it;
This is a paradox. Islamic fundamentalism is much more restrictive in terms of individualism than the anti-abortion movement. The difference in how we treat different forms of terrorism has nothing to do with how restrictive the philosophies behind them are and more to do with how much we relate to them. Islamic terrorism is perceived to be worse than Christian terrorism because as a society we cannot as easily relate to the Islamic terrorists. I imagine the situation is quite different in Arab countries.
Yes, yes! Right on. (Yes, he says he may be wrong, and I say he and I both may be wrong -- but his examples are valid and IMHO very relevant.)
His examples are not valid, IMO, because he is talking about a different kind of weak government than libertarians talk about. What he is talking about is a government which cannot enforce law and order; libertarians talk about a government which does not extend beyond that point. Just as Brin's idea of the "good village" will be made up of people who can do things but don't, the libertarian idea of "good government" is one that can do things, but does not.
--
Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Microsoft bundling stuff with Windows doesn't affect Linux. In fact, it'll help it, because whenever MS bundles one of their apps with Windows, it'll encourage the competitors to make their apps for another OS...say....Linux. =)
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Fermet's last theorem, which has now been proven (publicly), states that for integers x,y,z
;-)
.....
x^n + y^n = z^n is unsolvable when n > 2.
The modern proof (no-one knows Fermet's proof) is far beyond my comprehensions, but should be available in some math journal pretty easily.
BTW, the proof also invalidates a Star Trek: TNG episode, which refers to the theorem as unproved by the 23rd (or whatever) century. Maybe they just lost it again?
Besides, since any "positive" proposition can become a "negative" proposition using the law of the double-negative, there is a multitude of provable negative statements. Also, propositions which are mutually exclusive imply an infinate number of negative statements. For instance,
2 + 2 = 4
therefore, 2 + 2 != 5, 2 + 2 != 6,
--
Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Card-caryin' member of Microsoft! Sic 'em! Sic 'em!
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
You need to be a bit more niggardly with your posts. This is Slashdot, not English class ;-)
Ever thought that the guy didn't care about offending people. I mean, I thought he went out of his way to offend quite a number of people, including Americans, Hispanics (who, after all, had nothing to do with burritos as we gringos know them), Europeans....etc, etc. Alot of people use the terms "gay" and "queer" not even in the context of homosexuality or questioning of one's manhood. When I was growing up (which wasn't that long ago), I used "queer" to mean something odd or strange, and I'm only 20 so there were plenty of people who used "queer" to mean homosexual.
I'm not saying that some people shouldn't be offended by what he said, but sometimes you need to put things in context. The post was a rambling outrage, on par with Dennis Leary's tyrades, and I thought it was rather humorous. At no point did I think he was making fun of homosexuals; and for anyone that did, I'm sorry for them. Sometimes things are put the wrong way and sometimes they are taken the wrong way; and they aren't always meant to offend (remember the Seinfeld office incident). I think alot of times, people are on the lookout to be outraged, and so they find ways not to disappoint themselves. Over-sensitive political correctness is a bane on society.
--
Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
I was under the impression that to take a ROM dump you needed some pretty sophisticated equiptment. So where are all these ROMS coming from? Couldn't Nintendo do better to attack the people making this equiptment...or if it's them, to stop giving them away so liberally?
Frankly, I don't know that using an emulated N64 is so much worth it. Unless you are a software pirate and plan on using the ROMS instead of paying for the game, you might as well just rent or borrow the game to try it out. For the old arcades there is more motivation, since everyone's not gonna put an arcade in their room; and many of the old arcades aren't even around anymore.
--
Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
QDOS was based on CPM. In fact, the only major difference was the main drive letter (C: in DOS and something like A: in CPM).
--
Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Merced is expected to be in the $2000 price range. I think it'll take significantly longer than 6-18 mos. for that price to drop down to a consumer level price.
Basically, Merced is meant to be Intel's first real expedition into high-performance enterprise computing. Whereas the consumer market thinks of Intel as the high end (compared to competitors like AMD and Cyrix), the enterprise market thinks of Intel as the low end and Intel wants to change that.
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
But local law will supercede this restriction (in fact, Microsoft's EULA explicitely states that the reverse engineering clause will be superceded by any applicable laws). I know many European countries have upheld the rights to reverse-engineering, and I'm fairly certain that the U.S. has too.
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
I know X has its failings, I just wanted to make sure you weren't going to say "Motif is ugly" or something like that.
BTW, how many other windowing systems are network transparent?
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
You joke, but seriously, the only reason Apple ever had a foothold in education had little to do with the quality of their computers and more to do with them all but giving them away to schools. That, coupled with the disproportionately high level of Mac-bigotry running through the vains of the upper echelons of school districts, explains that side of it.
At my high-school, the teachers (the ones who actually had to teach on and use the computers) practically begged for PCs because of all the problems we had with the Macs. But guess what got installed the next year (luckily I graduated before then)?
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
I'm not sure why you replied to my post, and I'm even more baffled as to why you took the time to quote it. What you replied with was completely irrelevant to what I said. I said I wonder how many people would jump *from* Linux *back* to a proprietary OS.
I recommend you take some time out next time to think about what you're going to write. "A closed mouth gaters no foot."
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.