The only argument put forth in this article is that "gosh, more people are coming to the parks."
Well, fuck you - what do we pay taxes for? What are the parks there for? People are going out and walking around instead of spending more time watching TV? The horror!
I've been watching this out of curiosity. I was curious about something
and looked it up today...SCO's current market capitalization is $43.3
million. Of course, that's based on a $4-per-share price...they've
been down to 60 cents over the last year (which would be a market cap of
about $10 million dollars).
If they really annoy IBM, IBM can just buy them and throw them away.
Your assumption is not correct, but that is probably due to my overly brief description of Oregon's voting procedures.
In Oregon, there are no polling places. If you want to vote, it must be by mail.
Every registered voter receives the kit in the mail. I think they also mail them to non-registered voters in the DMV database as a way of saying "see what you're missing out on by not voting".
If you're too late to mail your ballot, you can drop it off at various county election board drop boxes (libraries, etc.) But there are no polling places.
The only downsides to the system is that if there is some last-minute scandal that would sway your vote, you may have already voted. I don't know how the economics play out - it may be more expensive as well.
Don't be - it did. Mainframers have been doing this for years. No...decades. They just do it better - disk as a backup or as a staging area for later writing to tape.
The staging solution has been available (fully automated) in Unixland for at least ten years.
Disk backups are fine for on-site backups but you still need off-site copies, which is done either by tape or over-the-wire synchronizing. The latter gets real pricey real quick.
We have mail-in voting here in Oregon. It's ridiculously easy to vote. The government mails you the form and a voter guide, into which anyone can put a page of his two cents for some fee (I think $500 - candidates, etc. get free pages).
Mark, put in envelope, put in mail. Very easy. We still have low voter turnout. Even when the issue is beyond the normal election - e.g., "vote yes to raise your income taxes, vote no to not raise them" - we still don't see much participation.
I doubt whether voting on-line would change anything. It's marginally more convenient (no need to physically put the letter in the mailbox) but...
Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's executive vice president of software, was more
specific, saying that Sun hoped to be able to run the Red Hat Enterprise
Linux Advanced Server binaries as well as those from UnitedLinux on
commodity x86 hardware "as best we can."
Now if my goal is to run RedHat AS binaries on commodity x86 hardware...why do I need Sun? Because I'm so in love with Solaris x86? Hee...
Is there really a reason for the code names like Bamboo? I mean, you can refer to it as "Mandrake 9.1"? If you're working on the next version...you can refer to it as Mandrake 9.2!
how easy it is to code (yes, I write 99% of my stuff in perl or whatever, but you will need to script some day, mark my words...if nothing else, system startup scripts for Solaris, AIX, etc.)
how standard is it on what type of Unices you work on.
The candidates:
sh is too primitive in terms of user features, period. No one uses the Bourne shell if they can help it.
csh/tcsh...well, google for "csh Programming Considered Harmful" to see its many internal bugs. Also, most of the major Unices don't use it (Solaris, AIX, Linux - I guess *BSD might still) for their system stuff. If it's not considered a good scripting platform AND most Unices don't use it for their scripts...
zsh - From what I've read, a good shell, but very nonstandard. Do you really want to lug a shell around and install it (and set up/etc/shells or whatever each time, etc.) for every machine you log into?
ksh - sh scripting with all the good interactive features. A really solid shell and a very good choice. All the sh goodness with the t/csh interactive features added.
bash - I think bash is a little better than ksh because some of its interactive features are better. Tab-completion is better than ESC-\. The way the shell handles tab completion is better (X possibilities, do you want to see?) Lots of little things like that. Benefits greatly from reimplementing ksh. Installed by default on all Linux distros (except tiny niche players) and Solaris since Solaris 8...easy to build and install on AIX or *BSD (and HP-UX I'd guess, I don't know)
bash is the best shell in my opinion and I have no qualms about defending it. ksh is a reasonable second choice and some people prefer it. zsh may be in the running but never caught on widely. Everything else is inferior.
Back in the 2.5ish days, I submitted a detailed proposal to O'Reilly to write an OpenBSD book. Their answer was "not interested, no market". I knew they were wrong...
If someone was trying to sell me Locutus, I'd say "no thanks". It attempts to use technology to solve what is essentially a workflow issue.
The problem is not new - everyone keeps their work on their PC instead of using the central storage. Or if they use the central storatge, they keep it in their home directory. Locutus would just enable and promote this behavior.
If the data is on a workstation, admins can't back it up (or at least, shouldn't be backing it up - that's not workstations are for in most environments). They can't manage it, it's not version-controlled, it's not indexed, others can't use it, etc.
People who need Locutus need either a better technical architecture or better management.
Uh, revenge. He was probably horked off at his previous employer.
Not saying that it's right or that he should have done that (or that he shouldn't - maybe the employer was a bastard of legend, who knows). I'm just saying that it's not exactly unknown.
I agree with this sentiment, but...why does OpenBSD still ship with sendmail, uucp, etc.? I often don't need them. You can turn them off, sure, but why not instead make them admin-addable instead installed-by-default?
I've never had this answered to my satisfaction by the OpenBSD crowd;)
Here in Oregon we vote by postal mail. It's wildly popular and I doubt we'll ever go back.
All the privacy concerns, etc. mentioned are present in mail-in voting as well. Typically, the ballots sit for weeks in the county election boards' office, waiting to be counted.
Voting by Internet is the next step.
CNBC ran a show last night called "The Big Heist: How AOL Took Time Warner". Good one-hour program that went over the history of the deal and personalities involved, with interviews with leading industry figures. It's their first original content production so I'm sure it'll be on again.
GNU hello, which is a joke to begin with, has some funny code and constructs. As I remember, various little functions are tucked away so you don't see them until you suddenly come to "while (elvis the king lives)", and it compiles fine.
SunOS had at least one funny Dr. Suess joke in the public/usr/include headers, but I don't have a copy of SunOS any more so I don't remember it exactly;)
...several of the cool places I visited as a kid are now closed to tours: Kellogg's cereals, various Detroit factories, etc. I remember when Kellogg's closed (in Battle Creek, Michigan), they said it was to prevent corporate espionage. The car factory in my home town (Grand Rapids, Michigan) closed to tours due to liability concerns.
But I wish you will in your hunt;)
For back issues, the Internet is your friend. rec.arts.comics.marketplace and eBay. They're certainly the cheapest. Post a WTB (want to buy) in rec.arts.comics.marketplace. Comic book conventions are also a good place to check, though this is more like panning for gold. Now, I happen to like panning - flipping through those 50-cent long boxes to find something I would have paid $10 for to finish a run;)
Another resource is ComicFind which is a sort of Google for back issues...no really, check it out.
There are some big stores (e.g., Mile High) that sell back issues. I just dealt with Impulse Creations and was pleased. There's also Comic Link, which hooks up buyers and sellers - they are slanted towards Silver/Golden age.
As for selling, forget it. If you have some genuine key issues (hey, Fantastic Four #1 is always in demand) or a very limited number of hot issues, you may have something worth selling. The back issue market is dead, dead, dead and has been for many years.
Tangent:After the bubble of the late 80s (when stamp, coin, and trading card collecting also became hot as baby boomers reached nostalgic middle age and began spending their money on teenage memories), the market collapsed. And since the new comic book market was already in severe decline (as kids found video cames, computers, and a million other things were preferable to $2.50 comics), lots of shops closed and dumped their inventories on the market. End tangent.
Of course, the price guides are pure fantasy - check eBay's finished auctions or RACM for real values. As a collector, this is great for me - I buy and never sell;)
I would give the required pitch to support your local shops. I've lived in four cities in the US and in each one I found Ye Olde Comic Shoppe, with a veteran behind the counter who was happy to talk comics, suggest good titles, heck sometimes even let you try a book or two on a trial basis. I buy the few new books exclusively from the local shop. There's a store about a half-mile from my house that sells trading cards, Magic cards, games, and oh yeah a few comics...I'll gladly drive to the other side of town to go to the place run by the guy who loves comics. At least in his store I sometimes see kids;)
Oh, and re: back issue value, local shops also may be willing to take your back issues on store credit (trading) which will give you more value (if they have what you want, of course).
I admit it's been a while since I participated in the whole RFC->CFV process but four or five years ago, votes were much bigger. Heck, I think the hardcore of "always vote no" voters - who felt that by voting no they raised the bar - was more than 188.
Again prefacing by noting my ignorance of recent USENET trends, I ask: is USENET getting smaller? More traffic on web-site bulletin boards and less on USENET?
...you mean George didn't write out treatments/story outlines for all nine episodes before deciding to film 4, 5, and 6? You mean he's been making stuff up as he goes along? Gosh, I just can't believe it.
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Well, fuck you - what do we pay taxes for? What are the parks there for? People are going out and walking around instead of spending more time watching TV? The horror!
If they really annoy IBM, IBM can just buy them and throw them away.
In Oregon, there are no polling places. If you want to vote, it must be by mail.
Every registered voter receives the kit in the mail. I think they also mail them to non-registered voters in the DMV database as a way of saying "see what you're missing out on by not voting".
If you're too late to mail your ballot, you can drop it off at various county election board drop boxes (libraries, etc.) But there are no polling places.
The only downsides to the system is that if there is some last-minute scandal that would sway your vote, you may have already voted. I don't know how the economics play out - it may be more expensive as well.
The staging solution has been available (fully automated) in Unixland for at least ten years.
Disk backups are fine for on-site backups but you still need off-site copies, which is done either by tape or over-the-wire synchronizing. The latter gets real pricey real quick.
Mark, put in envelope, put in mail. Very easy. We still have low voter turnout. Even when the issue is beyond the normal election - e.g., "vote yes to raise your income taxes, vote no to not raise them" - we still don't see much participation.
I doubt whether voting on-line would change anything. It's marginally more convenient (no need to physically put the letter in the mailbox) but...
But what if they refuse to pay?
Now if my goal is to run RedHat AS binaries on commodity x86 hardware...why do I need Sun? Because I'm so in love with Solaris x86? Hee...
Is there really a reason for the code names like Bamboo? I mean, you can refer to it as "Mandrake 9.1"? If you're working on the next version...you can refer to it as Mandrake 9.2!
When picking a shell, you should consider:
The candidates:
sh is too primitive in terms of user features, period. No one uses the Bourne shell if they can help it.
csh/tcsh...well, google for "csh Programming Considered Harmful" to see its many internal bugs. Also, most of the major Unices don't use it (Solaris, AIX, Linux - I guess *BSD might still) for their system stuff. If it's not considered a good scripting platform AND most Unices don't use it for their scripts...
zsh - From what I've read, a good shell, but very nonstandard. Do you really want to lug a shell around and install it (and set up /etc/shells or whatever each time, etc.) for every machine you log into?
ksh - sh scripting with all the good interactive features. A really solid shell and a very good choice. All the sh goodness with the t/csh interactive features added.
bash - I think bash is a little better than ksh because some of its interactive features are better. Tab-completion is better than ESC-\. The way the shell handles tab completion is better (X possibilities, do you want to see?) Lots of little things like that. Benefits greatly from reimplementing ksh. Installed by default on all Linux distros (except tiny niche players) and Solaris since Solaris 8...easy to build and install on AIX or *BSD (and HP-UX I'd guess, I don't know)
bash is the best shell in my opinion and I have no qualms about defending it. ksh is a reasonable second choice and some people prefer it. zsh may be in the running but never caught on widely. Everything else is inferior.
Back in the 2.5ish days, I submitted a detailed proposal to O'Reilly to write an OpenBSD book. Their answer was "not interested, no market". I knew they were wrong...
The problem is not new - everyone keeps their work on their PC instead of using the central storage. Or if they use the central storatge, they keep it in their home directory. Locutus would just enable and promote this behavior.
If the data is on a workstation, admins can't back it up (or at least, shouldn't be backing it up - that's not workstations are for in most environments). They can't manage it, it's not version-controlled, it's not indexed, others can't use it, etc.
People who need Locutus need either a better technical architecture or better management.
Uh, revenge. He was probably horked off at his previous employer. Not saying that it's right or that he should have done that (or that he shouldn't - maybe the employer was a bastard of legend, who knows). I'm just saying that it's not exactly unknown.
I agree with this sentiment, but...why does OpenBSD still ship with sendmail, uucp, etc.? I often don't need them. You can turn them off, sure, but why not instead make them admin-addable instead installed-by-default? I've never had this answered to my satisfaction by the OpenBSD crowd ;)
Here in Oregon we vote by postal mail. It's wildly popular and I doubt we'll ever go back. All the privacy concerns, etc. mentioned are present in mail-in voting as well. Typically, the ballots sit for weeks in the county election boards' office, waiting to be counted. Voting by Internet is the next step.
CNBC ran a show last night called "The Big Heist: How AOL Took Time Warner". Good one-hour program that went over the history of the deal and personalities involved, with interviews with leading industry figures. It's their first original content production so I'm sure it'll be on again.
GNU hello, which is a joke to begin with, has some funny code and constructs. As I remember, various little functions are tucked away so you don't see them until you suddenly come to "while (elvis the king lives)", and it compiles fine. SunOS had at least one funny Dr. Suess joke in the public /usr/include headers, but I don't have a copy of SunOS any more so I don't remember it exactly ;)
...several of the cool places I visited as a kid are now closed to tours: Kellogg's cereals, various Detroit factories, etc. I remember when Kellogg's closed (in Battle Creek, Michigan), they said it was to prevent corporate espionage. The car factory in my home town (Grand Rapids, Michigan) closed to tours due to liability concerns. But I wish you will in your hunt ;)
Just out of curiosity - why is the FSF card booting Linux instead of the Hurd?
"A NASA-funded team..." These are the same idiots who will complain that their budget is shrinking.
...so that explains the probe nearing the earth right now, disabling all power grids in its path. Judging by the pollution count in the atmosphere...
Another resource is ComicFind which is a sort of Google for back issues...no really, check it out.
There are some big stores (e.g., Mile High) that sell back issues. I just dealt with Impulse Creations and was pleased. There's also Comic Link, which hooks up buyers and sellers - they are slanted towards Silver/Golden age.
As for selling, forget it. If you have some genuine key issues (hey, Fantastic Four #1 is always in demand) or a very limited number of hot issues, you may have something worth selling. The back issue market is dead, dead, dead and has been for many years.
Tangent: After the bubble of the late 80s (when stamp, coin, and trading card collecting also became hot as baby boomers reached nostalgic middle age and began spending their money on teenage memories), the market collapsed. And since the new comic book market was already in severe decline (as kids found video cames, computers, and a million other things were preferable to $2.50 comics), lots of shops closed and dumped their inventories on the market. End tangent.
Of course, the price guides are pure fantasy - check eBay's finished auctions or RACM for real values. As a collector, this is great for me - I buy and never sell ;)
I would give the required pitch to support your local shops. I've lived in four cities in the US and in each one I found Ye Olde Comic Shoppe, with a veteran behind the counter who was happy to talk comics, suggest good titles, heck sometimes even let you try a book or two on a trial basis. I buy the few new books exclusively from the local shop. There's a store about a half-mile from my house that sells trading cards, Magic cards, games, and oh yeah a few comics...I'll gladly drive to the other side of town to go to the place run by the guy who loves comics. At least in his store I sometimes see kids ;)
Oh, and re: back issue value, local shops also may be willing to take your back issues on store credit (trading) which will give you more value (if they have what you want, of course).
Excelsior!
...wouldn't it be slightly smaller if it returned a number smaller than 42? i.e., 1 or 0 or nothing?
I admit it's been a while since I participated in the whole RFC->CFV process but four or five years ago, votes were much bigger. Heck, I think the hardcore of "always vote no" voters - who felt that by voting no they raised the bar - was more than 188.
Again prefacing by noting my ignorance of recent USENET trends, I ask: is USENET getting smaller? More traffic on web-site bulletin boards and less on USENET?
I thought this was a funny read until I got to the part about there only being 1,100 pandas left in the wild.
...you mean George didn't write out treatments/story outlines for all nine episodes before deciding to film 4, 5, and 6? You mean he's been making stuff up as he goes along? Gosh, I just can't believe it.