Before they're going to get people to switch to XP, Vista needs to stop sucking. People will pirate XP before they'll switch to Vista. Talk about a "bet the company" plan....
Ugh. What a thoughtless comment. How do you create good policy? By having one set of smart people in the federal government? No (how could that POSSIBLY work?). No, you create good policy by creating many different policies at the state level, and seeing what works. Then, the smart states adopt those good policies.
Out in the real world, it costs a $10 bribe to get a driver's license in India. No exam, no test, no proof of anything needed. And yet their accident rate is comparable to ours.
Regulation is *always* created to give somebody an advantage over somebody else. It's *never* created to protect against the incompetent. The real incompetents don't know how to drive, and DON'T drive. That's the law.
It's about fricking time that the federal government realizes that this is the United STATES, and that it's run BY the states, FOR the states. And if the DHS doesn't like it, they can go screw themselves.
Please start tracking me... I am a firm believer in the non-violent overthrow of the United States Government. Politicans need to be changed like diapers, and often for the same reason.
If somebody has enabled their router to be open to all connections, THAT IS ALL THE AUTHORIZATION NEEDED. If my handheld sends a request for association with their router, and their router accepts my request, THAT IS ALL THE AUTHORIZATION NEEDED. If somebody leaves the door of their store open, I should expect to be able to enter the store. If they lock the door, then, that lets me know that I shouldn't enter.
Wow. You know absolutely NOTHING about economics, do you? In centrally-controlled societies like the socialists used to ask for (until they found out they don't work) the planners would simply ask for more seamless containment units to be built. In free market societies, factories which produce seamless containment units which are suddenly in much greater demand get to charge a much higher price. This is acceptable because the people who built such factories as exist planned well, and deserve their profits. Yet if they did not build enough factories, they won't make as much money. They will make more money if they build new factories, and that is exactly what will happen.
Same thing for laptop batteries. The price system communicates in real time, and flood-fills the marketplace with information about what should, and what should not be built.
How can science avoid talking about political agendas when most research funding comes from the political arena? That would kinda point to the solution to THAT problem, now wouldn't it? Separation of science and state would seem to be a requirement. It's worked great for religion, speech, the press, assembly, &etc.
In early 2007, I was consulting in India, when a bunch of superstitious idiots tasted the (polluted) water coming from Mahim Creek into the ocean. It tasted sweet, not salty! Of course that was probably due to contamination from some chemical like antifreeze or something. Yet there are these idiots, proclaiming a miracle by one of India's gods. Some Indian scientist looked at the water and said "Holy fucking gods, you morons are DRINKING THIS STUFF??" or something like that. Did that stop them? Nope. The only thing that stopped them was when the pollution disappated and the water turned salty again.
I don't blame Indians for this, of course. There are a-scientific morons everywhere. Some of them even post on Slashdot.
If I lived in a warm climate where I commuted, I would DEFINITELY BUY an Aptera Hybrid. But I wonder about the performance of such a vehicle in the snow / slush / mud of Northern New York. I expect that I'll be buying a Subaru Hybrid, which you can bet Subaru is working on feverishly.
If you're learning a different language to broaden your horizons, then learn something like assembly, or a stack-based language like Postscript or FORTH. If you're learning another language because you need better tools, then learn Python.
I have yet to encounter a single piece of nontrivial Python code that didn't work as its author claimed nor any that required debugging before actually being used.
Maybe you need to hang out with better programmers, TheRaven64?
Anybody ever notice that The Who's "Who are you?" tune contains the phrase "Who the fuck are you?" towards the end? I can't say that I've ever heard it bleeped, or omitted. It's just there, every time the song is played over the public "censored" airwaves.
The checks and balances don't exist anymore. The theory behind the US government is that the federal government was going to have a STRICTLY limited set of functions. A VERY SMALL set of functions. Read the Constitution. Everything else was to be done by the states, with the citizens controlling the state governments by voting, and if necessary, the ultimate freedom of exit. A state government that misbehaves would find itself with no citizens.
That system doesn't function anymore, ever since we allowed the federal government to expand beyond its remit. The "checks and balances" of splitting power between three branches of government were a backup system. Defense in depth. They were never meant to be the primary protection against corruption and tyranny.
Yes, Wikipedia should sell advertising, to cover its costs. After all, the many people who take a copy of wikipedia and republish it with advertisements are making money -- why shouldn't wikipedia itself?
Gnash 0.8.2 was just released on Wednesday morning. Binaries will take a bit of time to produce, but they'll be available from http://www.getgnash.org/ and eventually through your distro.
Do you think that if you repeat nonsense enough, it will become true? Try claiming that microsoft doesn't mean the same thing as Microsoft. Good luck convincing a judge of that. "But your honor, I was just referring to small software! A Redmond-based corporation cannot take two words like "micro" and "soft" out of the language just because they use them in conjunction".
Sheesh. And to think... you probably get to vote. It turns the stomach.
the feet of OSI who took a popular meaningful IT term "Popular" is a wild exaggeration. A few people had used it for its current meaning (software you are free to modify and share) previous to 1998. Nobody used it differently (that we can find, but please, introduce facts to back up your groundless opinion).
Rick, please stop disseminating your confusion. When you don't know what you're talking about, stay silent. "Open Source" is the adjective. It is a trademark. "software" is the generic noun. Thus, you apply the trademark "Open Source" to the noun, "software" to produce "Open Source software". "OSIA" is the Open Source Industry Alliance. Software is only Open Source if it is licensed under an OSI Approved Open Source license.
Errrr, nobody honestly believes that Open Source means that you can see the source. The people who SAY that it has that meaning are either Free Software Zealots, or proprietary software shills. Which one are you?
BTW, even RMS understands that Open Source means that use, modification, and sharing must be open. He simply prefers Free Software because he wants people to keep the word "Free" in their heads.
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#e70073 FTW
You think the Free Republic is on the side of the government? Do, please, go back to your universe ... you aren't welcome here.
Before they're going to get people to switch to XP, Vista needs to stop sucking. People will pirate XP before they'll switch to Vista. Talk about a "bet the company" plan....
Ugh. What a thoughtless comment. How do you create good policy? By having one set of smart people in the federal government? No (how could that POSSIBLY work?). No, you create good policy by creating many different policies at the state level, and seeing what works. Then, the smart states adopt those good policies.
Out in the real world, it costs a $10 bribe to get a driver's license in India. No exam, no test, no proof of anything needed. And yet their accident rate is comparable to ours.
Regulation is *always* created to give somebody an advantage over somebody else. It's *never* created to protect against the incompetent. The real incompetents don't know how to drive, and DON'T drive. That's the law.
It's about fricking time that the federal government realizes that this is the United STATES, and that it's run BY the states, FOR the states. And if the DHS doesn't like it, they can go screw themselves.
Bell Labs.
Please start tracking me ... I am a firm believer in the non-violent overthrow of the United States Government. Politicans need to be changed like diapers, and often for the same reason.
If somebody has enabled their router to be open to all connections, THAT IS ALL THE AUTHORIZATION NEEDED. If my handheld sends a request for association with their router, and their router accepts my request, THAT IS ALL THE AUTHORIZATION NEEDED. If somebody leaves the door of their store open, I should expect to be able to enter the store. If they lock the door, then, that lets me know that I shouldn't enter.
Wow. You know absolutely NOTHING about economics, do you? In centrally-controlled societies like the socialists used to ask for (until they found out they don't work) the planners would simply ask for more seamless containment units to be built. In free market societies, factories which produce seamless containment units which are suddenly in much greater demand get to charge a much higher price. This is acceptable because the people who built such factories as exist planned well, and deserve their profits. Yet if they did not build enough factories, they won't make as much money. They will make more money if they build new factories, and that is exactly what will happen.
Same thing for laptop batteries. The price system communicates in real time, and flood-fills the marketplace with information about what should, and what should not be built.
But you have to dilute it, and flavor it to make it palatable. 100% ethanol is a bit too poisonous.
In early 2007, I was consulting in India, when a bunch of superstitious idiots tasted the (polluted) water coming from Mahim Creek into the ocean. It tasted sweet, not salty! Of course that was probably due to contamination from some chemical like antifreeze or something. Yet there are these idiots, proclaiming a miracle by one of India's gods. Some Indian scientist looked at the water and said "Holy fucking gods, you morons are DRINKING THIS STUFF??" or something like that. Did that stop them? Nope. The only thing that stopped them was when the pollution disappated and the water turned salty again.
I don't blame Indians for this, of course. There are a-scientific morons everywhere. Some of them even post on Slashdot.
If I lived in a warm climate where I commuted, I would DEFINITELY BUY an Aptera Hybrid. But I wonder about the performance of such a vehicle in the snow / slush / mud of Northern New York. I expect that I'll be buying a Subaru Hybrid, which you can bet Subaru is working on feverishly.
If you're learning a different language to broaden your horizons, then learn something like assembly, or a stack-based language like Postscript or FORTH. If you're learning another language because you need better tools, then learn Python.
Is it too much to ask that people not comment in the middle of a stupid attack? Here, read:
for i in xrange(2000000000+1):
if i % 1000 == 0:
print "melted is a doo-doo head",i
It got up to 124 million doo-doo heads before I decided to see how fast a plain loop could go:
for i in xrange(2000000000+1):
pass
4m15s. Much faster than *I* could count up to 2 billion.
I have yet to encounter a single piece of nontrivial Python code that didn't work as its author claimed nor any that required debugging before actually being used.
Maybe you need to hang out with better programmers, TheRaven64?
Anybody ever notice that The Who's "Who are you?" tune contains the phrase "Who the fuck are you?" towards the end? I can't say that I've ever heard it bleeped, or omitted. It's just there, every time the song is played over the public "censored" airwaves.
The checks and balances don't exist anymore. The theory behind the US government is that the federal government was going to have a STRICTLY limited set of functions. A VERY SMALL set of functions. Read the Constitution. Everything else was to be done by the states, with the citizens controlling the state governments by voting, and if necessary, the ultimate freedom of exit. A state government that misbehaves would find itself with no citizens.
That system doesn't function anymore, ever since we allowed the federal government to expand beyond its remit. The "checks and balances" of splitting power between three branches of government were a backup system. Defense in depth. They were never meant to be the primary protection against corruption and tyranny.
Yes, Wikipedia should sell advertising, to cover its costs. After all, the many people who take a copy of wikipedia and republish it with advertisements are making money -- why shouldn't wikipedia itself?
Gnash 0.8.2 was just released on Wednesday morning. Binaries will take a bit of time to produce, but they'll be available from http://www.getgnash.org/ and eventually through your distro.
Do you think that if you repeat nonsense enough, it will become true? Try claiming that microsoft doesn't mean the same thing as Microsoft. Good luck convincing a judge of that. "But your honor, I was just referring to small software! A Redmond-based corporation cannot take two words like "micro" and "soft" out of the language just because they use them in conjunction".
... you probably get to vote. It turns the stomach.
Sheesh. And to think
Rick, please stop disseminating your confusion. When you don't know what you're talking about, stay silent. "Open Source" is the adjective. It is a trademark. "software" is the generic noun. Thus, you apply the trademark "Open Source" to the noun, "software" to produce "Open Source software". "OSIA" is the Open Source Industry Alliance. Software is only Open Source if it is licensed under an OSI Approved Open Source license.
Errrr, nobody honestly believes that Open Source means that you can see the source. The people who SAY that it has that meaning are either Free Software Zealots, or proprietary software shills. Which one are you?
BTW, even RMS understands that Open Source means that use, modification, and sharing must be open. He simply prefers Free Software because he wants people to keep the word "Free" in their heads.