My personal opinion is that welfare _is_ a huge waste of money if government doesn't provide decent education for the same category of people -- people that are poor and ignorant will remain poor if they will remain ignorant. It isn't hard to build a good government-sponsored (because certainly no one else will sponsor such a thing) educational system that can provide well-designed curriculum, and is open to all people that are capable of learning. I am doing just fine after studying in Russia where such a thing was implemented, and so can most of other people, poor or not. It only requires some smart teachers that write courses and teach students, and some smart politicians that write laws and allocate money for it... Oh, I forgot, we are in US -- now I see the problem.
BSD/OS is definitely not BSD licensed -- it's a derivative of 4.4BSD that in its turn is a mix of BSD-licensed and other code. BSD-licensed subset of 4.4BSD (known as 4.4BSD-Lite) was used as the starting point for FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, so all three are under BSD license now (to be formally correct I should add that they also contain utilities under GPL, X11, perl dual licensing and other Open Source licenses, however usable subset is under BSD license) while BSD/OS isn't.
First, "Nader and the rest of his Libertarians" sounds very funny considering that he is not Libertarian but Green. Second, why do you think that slashdot users are against poor people? Because some weirdo said few days ago that geeks are libertarians?
Sysadmin is a god of the system, whatever the system is. And if he is too stupid to replace any utility with a clone or wrapper, he is too stupid to be a sysadmin, too.
So, if a company doesn't trust a sysadmin it must hire one that it can trust, and he should rebuild everything -- there is no other way, be it something based on DOS, Windows, any Unix (closed or open source), or system developed in-house from the ground up, running on custom hardware. Anyone who doesn't realise that is deluding himself.
Having the power is the opposite of having freedom -- people who influence society have to go into either direction at the expense of the other. Cherokee Indians didn't have the option of using the power because they lacked one. Geeks are in the position where they have "power" (not as much as individuals but as the category of people who have means and desire to advance some set of ideas in the technology that is being widely used in society), yet current political system is not democratic enough to allow the advancement of the same ideas by applying the "freedom" beyond the most basic forms such as disseminating information (voting either way doesn't help because politicians that are on any ballot are all too stupid to understand them, and are too influenced by those ideas' enemies).
This doesn't mean that voting is useless, but at this moment in history it's purpose is purely defensive, as it allows at some extent to prevent massive abuse of government's power against existing freedoms, but beyond that it's insignificant compared to actual effect that technology has on society.
Draw the line where the medical community draws the line for the end of life. Brain waves. If brainwaves are present, it's a person.
This is completely un-scientific -- when a person dies brain waves reflect the state of something that is a person, and definitely was for long enough time to be recognized as one. However when brain is being formed, it starts from something not even remotely resembling conscious human being, so whatever definition of "brainwaves" you have, it can't be applied.
Why voting would make more difference than actually implementing the change? We are minority, and politicians won't listen to us until they are faced with something they can't ignore. Technology however is much harder to ignore than even a large bunch of people, as technology in large part determines how society operates. Guttenberg didn't vote, yet his technology produced more social change than whoever was in power at that time, and same applies to us -- the current situation around IP rights was created without a single vote, and without a single geek's speech in Congress, yet it has a chance to change society in a manner comparable to what printing did.
Do we care about our particular faces appearing in every newspaper and our time being filled with fundraising for re-election, when we can write code that no matter what politicians want to do with it, will end up implementing our ideas? Society will adapt, politicians will adapt, but it's the development of technology that causes the change, not the other way around.
And, BTW, I am not libertatian at all -- libertarians are just one (and IMHO misguided) fraction of people who participate in this.IMHO it's a good thing that people are trying to understand what are the social and political implications of technology, and how basic ideas intuitively known to geeks translate into more strict and universally understandable forms.
HP-[s]UX is a very weird system, however I doubt that mklinux will be any better on HP-PA. I can offer just few tips that can make things easier.
Use gcc instead of native compiler, especially for C++ -- last time I have seen their native C++ compilers, they didn't work with HP-UX include files, returned "Assertion failed" and otherwise behaved in some braindamaged manner.
When writing for HP-UX look at the manual page for mallopt() function -- malloc() on HP-UX has very inefficient defaults, and I had horrible performance of C++ programs until I've set its limit for "small blocks".
Install your favorite shell, gnu tools, widgets library, etc. -- they will all compile on HP-UX, and you will need them.
Fix terminal settings if you don't like them, and put them into login scripts.
Use Linux box as X terminal with its own window manager and ssh, or compile your favorite window manager on HP-UX box -- CDE sucks.
...what some (or all) employees' feelings are, or what reasons do they have to behave like they do? They are nobody for me, they made their choice, and if results of their work hinder the development of good, useful products or coerce the rest of population into using shoddy software when better one is available, they ARE a conspiracy. I don't care what Rand or Libertarians say, coercion and conspiracies can exist in all societies, and this is one of examples.
Shut up, I am tired repeating to Americans that US participation in WWII in Europe was ridiculously insignificant compared to everyone else. At the moment when US attacked Nazi in Normandy, all former USSR territory was back in the hands of Russians, and Germany was doomed.
Oh, btw, no one in Europe cares what americans and Nazi did in places with a lot of sand and no people, or how much profit they got by selling weapons to fighting countries.
The problem is, after "easy" administration Windows works poorly, it remains insecure, inefficient and provides just enough functionality to keep its admin from getting fired. Unix actually works and with complex setp does complex things.
Pizza is more aerodynamically shaped than chicken, colonel with a beard, bell and chihuahua (aka rat-dog), so it's more positively associated with something flying;-)
I don't know, what was the first email or usenet spam, however I remember seeing MAKE.MONEY.FAST file (classic "chain letter" pyramide scheme) long ago in early 90's. It probably was already very old by then.
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It was Canter and Siegel, spammed Usenet (not email) with offer to "help" with submitting green card lottery entries. It was the time when usenet was relatively spam-clean, and I remember that my first reaction was to look for a bug in my nntp client, as it received huge number of duplicate messages.
Publish something especially absurd or scandalous about free software, and the odds are good that the article will get Slashdotted and a few hundred thousand geeks will make life easy for the ZD marketing department.
The obviously funny part is that those users are unlikely to pay any noticeable attention to advertisements on ZDNet pages.
Compaq => unnaturally-shaped cases (containing nonstandard components) Packard Bell => cheap white plastic (containing absolutely the most shitty components available on Earth).
xpaint has a great functionality for "pixel-image drafting", as opposed to traditional vector drafting (xfig, xcircuit), pixel-image drawing (gimp, at some extent xpaint) and image processing with effects (gimp, at some extent xv). I won't use gimp to draw a image map for navigational diagram for a web page that consists of few boxes and lines, to combine few images, etc., just like I won't use xpaint for a circuit diagram (xcircuit), some block diagram (xfig), "fancy" buttons for the same web page (gimp) or photo retouching (gimp).
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Mainsoft has been working on Windows-to-Unix solutions for some time
And its "solutions" sucked all that time even more than Windows.
My personal opinion is that welfare _is_ a huge waste of money if government doesn't provide decent education for the same category of people -- people that are poor and ignorant will remain poor if they will remain ignorant. It isn't hard to build a good government-sponsored (because certainly no one else will sponsor such a thing) educational system that can provide well-designed curriculum, and is open to all people that are capable of learning. I am doing just fine after studying in Russia where such a thing was implemented, and so can most of other people, poor or not. It only requires some smart teachers that write courses and teach students, and some smart politicians that write laws and allocate money for it... Oh, I forgot, we are in US -- now I see the problem.
That's Buchanan and Reform Party, not Nader and Green Party.
BSD/OS is definitely not BSD licensed -- it's a derivative of 4.4BSD that in its turn is a mix of BSD-licensed and other code. BSD-licensed subset of 4.4BSD (known as 4.4BSD-Lite) was used as the starting point for FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, so all three are under BSD license now (to be formally correct I should add that they also contain utilities under GPL, X11, perl dual licensing and other Open Source licenses, however usable subset is under BSD license) while BSD/OS isn't.
First, "Nader and the rest of his Libertarians" sounds very funny considering that he is not Libertarian but Green. Second, why do you think that slashdot users are against poor people? Because some weirdo said few days ago that geeks are libertarians?
No one cares about desktop applications -- typists' work is not critical.
Sysadmin is a god of the system, whatever the system is. And if he is too stupid to replace any utility with a clone or wrapper, he is too stupid to be a sysadmin, too.
So, if a company doesn't trust a sysadmin it must hire one that it can trust, and he should rebuild everything -- there is no other way, be it something based on DOS, Windows, any Unix (closed or open source), or system developed in-house from the ground up, running on custom hardware. Anyone who doesn't realise that is deluding himself.
Having the power is the opposite of having freedom -- people who influence society have to go into either direction at the expense of the other. Cherokee Indians didn't have the option of using the power because they lacked one. Geeks are in the position where they have "power" (not as much as individuals but as the category of people who have means and desire to advance some set of ideas in the technology that is being widely used in society), yet current political system is not democratic enough to allow the advancement of the same ideas by applying the "freedom" beyond the most basic forms such as disseminating information (voting either way doesn't help because politicians that are on any ballot are all too stupid to understand them, and are too influenced by those ideas' enemies).
This doesn't mean that voting is useless, but at this moment in history it's purpose is purely defensive, as it allows at some extent to prevent massive abuse of government's power against existing freedoms, but beyond that it's insignificant compared to actual effect that technology has on society.
Draw the line where the medical community draws the line for the end of life. Brain waves. If brainwaves are present, it's a person.
This is completely un-scientific -- when a person dies brain waves reflect the state of something that is a person, and definitely was for long enough time to be recognized as one. However when brain is being formed, it starts from something not even remotely resembling conscious human being, so whatever definition of "brainwaves" you have, it can't be applied.
Why voting would make more difference than actually implementing the change? We are minority, and politicians won't listen to us until they are faced with something they can't ignore. Technology however is much harder to ignore than even a large bunch of people, as technology in large part determines how society operates. Guttenberg didn't vote, yet his technology produced more social change than whoever was in power at that time, and same applies to us -- the current situation around IP rights was created without a single vote, and without a single geek's speech in Congress, yet it has a chance to change society in a manner comparable to what printing did.
Do we care about our particular faces appearing in every newspaper and our time being filled with fundraising for re-election, when we can write code that no matter what politicians want to do with it, will end up implementing our ideas? Society will adapt, politicians will adapt, but it's the development of technology that causes the change, not the other way around.
And, BTW, I am not libertatian at all -- libertarians are just one (and IMHO misguided) fraction of people who participate in this.IMHO it's a good thing that people are trying to understand what are the social and political implications of technology, and how basic ideas intuitively known to geeks translate into more strict and universally understandable forms.
HP-[s]UX is a very weird system, however I doubt that mklinux will be any better on HP-PA. I can offer just few tips that can make things easier.
...what some (or all) employees' feelings are, or what reasons do they have to behave like they do? They are nobody for me, they made their choice, and if results of their work hinder the development of good, useful products or coerce the rest of population into using shoddy software when better one is available, they ARE a conspiracy. I don't care what Rand or Libertarians say, coercion and conspiracies can exist in all societies, and this is one of examples.
Shut up, I am tired repeating to Americans that US participation in WWII in Europe was ridiculously insignificant compared to everyone else. At the moment when US attacked Nazi in Normandy, all former USSR territory was back in the hands of Russians, and Germany was doomed.
Oh, btw, no one in Europe cares what americans and Nazi did in places with a lot of sand and no people, or how much profit they got by selling weapons to fighting countries.
Digital Research. And the particular CP/M port/clone that was bought by Microsoft was QDOS by Seattle Computer.
The problem is, after "easy" administration Windows works poorly, it remains insecure, inefficient and provides just enough functionality to keep its admin from getting fired. Unix actually works and with complex setp does complex things.
Three months ago I have paid a shitload of taxes -- I should make a press release about my active participation in everything that US government does.
Pizza is more aerodynamically shaped than chicken, colonel with a beard, bell and chihuahua (aka rat-dog), so it's more positively associated with something flying ;-)
I don't know, what was the first email or usenet spam, however I remember seeing MAKE.MONEY.FAST file (classic "chain letter" pyramide scheme) long ago in early 90's. It probably was already very old by then.
It was Canter and Siegel, spammed Usenet (not email) with offer to "help" with submitting green card lottery entries. It was the time when usenet was relatively spam-clean, and I remember that my first reaction was to look for a bug in my nntp client, as it received huge number of duplicate messages.
QT uses various licenced code from other vendors
Hello?
Ones that your junkbuster filtered out.
Publish something especially absurd or scandalous about free software, and the odds are good that the article will get Slashdotted and a few hundred thousand geeks will make life easy for the ZD marketing department.
The obviously funny part is that those users are unlikely to pay any noticeable attention to advertisements on ZDNet pages.
Probably just as much as if it was "Fuck Microsoft!!!" or "Fuck AOL!!!", and less than, say "Fuck Buffy!!!".
Compaq => unnaturally-shaped cases (containing nonstandard components)
Packard Bell => cheap white plastic (containing absolutely the most shitty components available on Earth).
xpaint has a great functionality for "pixel-image drafting", as opposed to traditional vector drafting (xfig, xcircuit), pixel-image drawing (gimp, at some extent xpaint) and image processing with effects (gimp, at some extent xv). I won't use gimp to draw a image map for navigational diagram for a web page that consists of few boxes and lines, to combine few images, etc., just like I won't use xpaint for a circuit diagram (xcircuit), some block diagram (xfig), "fancy" buttons for the same web page (gimp) or photo retouching (gimp).