and how many more terrorists attacks will it take to tip things even further toward the 1984 vision?
Personally, I think it won't take many. For example, a well coordinated attack in the US that hit many cities at the same time, even if there were not many fatalities, would give the congress a free hand to make laws to "ferret out the terrorists". Then, it is only a matter of time befor these laws targeted at terrorists are used against us. You see, when the checks and balances on power (eg, court orders for wire taps, etc) are removed, there will be corruption. The only question is how much and how bad.
Richard, I tried twice. First, about 2 years ago, then last year. Both failed. I talked with someone in tech support (forget the name). He was responsive to email, but said he couldn't help until we purchased the product. I was reluctant to purchase until the conversion was done. Catch-22.
Currently, I'm going to wait and see if subversion comes out in a timely fashion (they are making milestones pretty well) and if the conversion process works. svn, as described on their project page seems very good. I'm hoping it is as good in practice. If not, I'll probably be contacting you again.
Many of us are in the same boat: GB repositories with untold value (in the revision history).
That means one thing: use CVS, something CVS compatible or something that can read and understand a CVS repository.
(Here I explain why Perforce didn't work for me.)
I tried to use Perforce, but I couldn't get my repository (CVS, started in 1990 with version 1.1 or 1.2) converted to a depot. There were two tools for doing it, both user contributed. They just didn't work.
I talked with the p4 staff and they said they would help me do it (tweaking the tools if need be, I assume). I was just a little too nervous, though, about not being able to try it before I committed all those $'s.
To be fair to the conversion tools, I believe since my repository is so old, that the format of the RCS files is slightly different than what would be created today by CVS. Back then, CVS actually used the external RCS programs to operate on the,v files.
I'm not saying you are wrong or right, but you contradict the Frontline story. To eleborate (according to the show, all from memory): in the last 5 years there has been great change in the meat production industry in that a few mega corps control a large percent of the production, and they are trying to squeeze out profits like never before. Feeding cattle corn is one such way. They say the cattle get fatter faster, when fed solely corn. Time to market is reduced and yield goes up. Quality also goes up, because the best tasting beef has more fat content.
A second way, unrelated to this subject, is they keep the cattle in feed lots, knee deep in their own shit, with little room to move around. The primary problem with this, according to experts bothered by this practice, is that whatever disease one of them has all of them will likely get. This is unlike previous times when cattle roamed and the likelyhood of disease transmission was significantly lower.
According to
this program, livestock being prepared for sale to be consumed by humans is fed corn, almost exclusively.
The program mostly dealt with big corporate farms, and was an interesting look at the modern meat producing industry. The focus of the program was health effects of current farming practices.
OK, how many of us have their TV connected to some gizmo (A/V receiver) that is hooked up to some other gizmo (VCR or TiVo), and there are 3 or 4 remote controls on the couch?
How many of you have a spouse that cannot change the channel on the "TV"? Any how many of you TiVO owners have had your spouse unknowingly cancel a program TiVO was recording because they wanted to watch (live) TV? How many of you TiVO owners have spouses that don't understand how TiVO works (the time-shifting part)?
Pathetic as it may sound, there are two problems here:
1. The UI of the typical TV setup is pathetic. The components are made by different companies that do not have any interest in making their stuff play well with others. Ozzy didn't have a chance, and he only had ONE REMOTE.
2. A great many people don't want to expend ANY mental energy on learning how to operate a gizmo. That means even if/when the problem in #1 is solved, you'll still have people complaining that the TV setup is too complex for them to understand.
My favorite is "Yes, Joe is here, hold on a sec while I get him." I then set the phone down and go about my business. My phone records the length of the phone call, and I often tie them up for minutes. I love that.
If the smarts are in the card to do panoramic then they did this intentionally to lock out other SmartMedia. If so, there was no reason to implement their system in this way, except to screw competitors.
Shockingly enough, I don't see that function enumerated ANYWHERE in the Constitution. I, of course, must be in error. Please, by all means, educate me as to where you found it stated that one of the government's roles is to "protect" us from corporations?
The constitution protects the people from the government. At the time it was written, big corporations, as such, did not exist.
I'm surprised that you would disagree with my original statement. There are lots of examples of the government protecting us. The EPA was created to make sure corporations do not pollute. In other words, the government protecting us and our land from people that would do us and it harm. The SEC, DOJ, police and numerous other government instituions and agencies are there to protect us. Sure, these organizations and agencies sometimes harm us, but the intent of their creation was to protect us.
Let's look at the SEC. If you watch the Frontline special on Enron, you will see the head of the SEC for many years saying that the government failed to protect us from rampant conflict of interest and the special interests of the CEOs. If they had been able to do their job, it is believed that Enron would never have been able to do what they did. Watch the program and judge for yourself. The problem is, congress, backed (or manipulated, depending on what you think of lobbyists) by the very CEO's that raped their investors, defanged the SEC.
I LOVE the way it's ALWAYS an AC that takes your point of view.
OK, let's start with Obvious Shit 101:
Corporate interests are not aligned with the people. For example, that chemical plant down the street from you would rather dump their toxic waste somewhere rather than dispose of it in a safe way. Why? Because it is more profitable for them to dump it. There are BILLIONS of examples of this type of stuff.
The government's role, among other things, is to protect the public from corporations. In this case, bullshit accounting has caused GREAT HARM to citizens of this country. Without RULES, corporations will continue to harm citizens and generally cause havoc. The current ecomonic downturn was made worse by Enron and others, and the responsibility for the creation of the Enron's rests squarely on the shoulders of our government. If you really want to know more, watch Bigger than Enron on PBS program. It explains how we got into our current state very well.
No, you are an idiot. Watch the Frontline special on this very topic. Just came out this week. The Republicans are head of the class when it comes to letting Big Business police themselves.
In the case of the G200-TV, beta drivers for Windows 2000 was all there was... for more than a year after the release of Windows 2000. I'm not kidding.
2. Three words: drivers, drivers, drivers. Or, should I have just said "software, software, software"? Putting out beta drivers and leaving them out there for over a year without a final release is par for the course at Matrox. OpenGL promises, you say? Yeah, been there, done that.
I won't trust Matrox ever again. I was screwed by two generations of cards. Yeah, yeah, shame on me for trusting them a second time.
I don't remember the API, but MS didn't give Netscape an API until it was released, but gave it to others before the release. This was part of the DOJ case against MS. There were also allegations during the same trial that MS withheld important APIs from competitors that their applications developers had access to. In other words, information passed between the OS and applications groups at MS that should have been public for other application developers to see.
The auto makers should share the codes for the same reason Microsoft should share the (internal) APIs: openness fosters fairness and competition, which is good for the consumer.
Hopefully, someone will point this out to the congress-critters, and the analogy might finally turn on the light in their heads about software.
I forgot to mention that the marketing of this CDwas completely different than the previous one, Play. Every single song on the last CD was licensed for use by companies in advertising. I remember reading an article before 18 came out that it would be handled very differently. The argument went like this: now that Moby is a big success, he can do things the "normal" way.
I just wish he had released a normally good CD.
To me, 18 is a bad ripoff of Play. I enjoyed Play very much, unlike a lot of other posters here.
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and how many more terrorists attacks will it take to tip things even further toward the 1984 vision?
Personally, I think it won't take many. For example, a well coordinated attack in the US that hit many cities at the same time, even if there were not many fatalities, would give the congress a free hand to make laws to "ferret out the terrorists". Then, it is only a matter of time befor these laws targeted at terrorists are used against us. You see, when the checks and balances on power (eg, court orders for wire taps, etc) are removed, there will be corruption. The only question is how much and how bad.
Richard, I tried twice. First, about 2 years ago, then last year. Both failed. I talked with someone in tech support (forget the name). He was responsive to email, but said he couldn't help until we purchased the product. I was reluctant to purchase until the conversion was done. Catch-22.
Currently, I'm going to wait and see if subversion comes out in a timely fashion (they are making milestones pretty well) and if the conversion process works. svn, as described on their project page seems very good. I'm hoping it is as good in practice. If not, I'll probably be contacting you again.
You can bet I'll try cvs2svn when it's ready! I am very much looking forward to subversion. It looks so nice on paper. I really am hoping it succeeds.
Many of us are in the same boat: GB repositories with untold value (in the revision history).
That means one thing: use CVS, something CVS compatible or something that can read and understand a CVS repository. (Here I explain why Perforce didn't work for me.)
I tried to use Perforce, but I couldn't get my repository (CVS, started in 1990 with version 1.1 or 1.2) converted to a depot. There were two tools for doing it, both user contributed. They just didn't work.
,v files.
I talked with the p4 staff and they said they would help me do it (tweaking the tools if need be, I assume). I was just a little too nervous, though, about not being able to try it before I committed all those $'s.
To be fair to the conversion tools, I believe since my repository is so old, that the format of the RCS files is slightly different than what would be created today by CVS. Back then, CVS actually used the external RCS programs to operate on the
here. My windows 2k needed to be reinstalled, and it wasn't easy finding the download, so I thought I'd post it.
I'm definitely not upgrading to QT 6 Pro, since I just got QT 5 Pro before the announcement of 6 Pro.
Ahhh, well, if you think Dubya is smart, you must be one stupid ass M.*F.*!
I'm not saying you are wrong or right, but you contradict the Frontline story. To eleborate (according to the show, all from memory): in the last 5 years there has been great change in the meat production industry in that a few mega corps control a large percent of the production, and they are trying to squeeze out profits like never before. Feeding cattle corn is one such way. They say the cattle get fatter faster, when fed solely corn. Time to market is reduced and yield goes up. Quality also goes up, because the best tasting beef has more fat content.
A second way, unrelated to this subject, is they keep the cattle in feed lots, knee deep in their own shit, with little room to move around. The primary problem with this, according to experts bothered by this practice, is that whatever disease one of them has all of them will likely get. This is unlike previous times when cattle roamed and the likelyhood of disease transmission was significantly lower.
According to this program, livestock being prepared for sale to be consumed by humans is fed corn, almost exclusively.
The program mostly dealt with big corporate farms, and was an interesting look at the modern meat producing industry. The focus of the program was health effects of current farming practices.
Total rubish, eh? Try this link in Mozilla 1.0.
OK, how many of us have their TV connected to some gizmo (A/V receiver) that is hooked up to some other gizmo (VCR or TiVo), and there are 3 or 4 remote controls on the couch?
How many of you have a spouse that cannot change the channel on the "TV"? Any how many of you TiVO owners have had your spouse unknowingly cancel a program TiVO was recording because they wanted to watch (live) TV? How many of you TiVO owners have spouses that don't understand how TiVO works (the time-shifting part)?
Pathetic as it may sound, there are two problems here:
1. The UI of the typical TV setup is pathetic. The components are made by different companies that do not have any interest in making their stuff play well with others. Ozzy didn't have a chance, and he only had ONE REMOTE.
2. A great many people don't want to expend ANY mental energy on learning how to operate a gizmo. That means even if/when the problem in #1 is solved, you'll still have people complaining that the TV setup is too complex for them to understand.
My favorite is "Yes, Joe is here, hold on a sec while I get him." I then set the phone down and go about my business. My phone records the length of the phone call, and I often tie them up for minutes. I love that.
If the smarts are in the card to do panoramic then they did this intentionally to lock out other SmartMedia. If so, there was no reason to implement their system in this way, except to screw competitors.
Hey folks, the tip that the parent poster knows NOTHING is that he called the right-wing CNN a liberal media outlet.
More AC idiots. Figures.
It should die because it is liberal? I see. You want no diversity of opinions. I can see how diversity would scare an stupid little AC like yourself.
When will people get it, that diversity of opinion is a good thing. Otherwise, the bullshit amplifies itself and all you get is bullshit.
The constitution protects the people from the government. At the time it was written, big corporations, as such, did not exist.
I'm surprised that you would disagree with my original statement. There are lots of examples of the government protecting us. The EPA was created to make sure corporations do not pollute. In other words, the government protecting us and our land from people that would do us and it harm. The SEC, DOJ, police and numerous other government instituions and agencies are there to protect us. Sure, these organizations and agencies sometimes harm us, but the intent of their creation was to protect us.
Let's look at the SEC. If you watch the Frontline special on Enron, you will see the head of the SEC for many years saying that the government failed to protect us from rampant conflict of interest and the special interests of the CEOs. If they had been able to do their job, it is believed that Enron would never have been able to do what they did. Watch the program and judge for yourself. The problem is, congress, backed (or manipulated, depending on what you think of lobbyists) by the very CEO's that raped their investors, defanged the SEC.
I LOVE the way it's ALWAYS an AC that takes your point of view.
OK, let's start with Obvious Shit 101:
Corporate interests are not aligned with the people. For example, that chemical plant down the street from you would rather dump their toxic waste somewhere rather than dispose of it in a safe way. Why? Because it is more profitable for them to dump it. There are BILLIONS of examples of this type of stuff.
The government's role, among other things, is to protect the public from corporations. In this case, bullshit accounting has caused GREAT HARM to citizens of this country. Without RULES, corporations will continue to harm citizens and generally cause havoc. The current ecomonic downturn was made worse by Enron and others, and the responsibility for the creation of the Enron's rests squarely on the shoulders of our government. If you really want to know more, watch Bigger than Enron on PBS program. It explains how we got into our current state very well.
No, you are an idiot. Watch the Frontline special on this very topic. Just came out this week. The Republicans are head of the class when it comes to letting Big Business police themselves.
In the case of the G200-TV, beta drivers for Windows 2000 was all there was... for more than a year after the release of Windows 2000. I'm not kidding.
However, there are always problems:
1. The hardware never lives up.
2. Three words: drivers, drivers, drivers. Or, should I have just said "software, software, software"? Putting out beta drivers and leaving them out there for over a year without a final release is par for the course at Matrox. OpenGL promises, you say? Yeah, been there, done that.
I won't trust Matrox ever again. I was screwed by two generations of cards. Yeah, yeah, shame on me for trusting them a second time.
I was waiting for someone to point this out. The article made me sick. Now we know Fortune doesn't care about journalism.
I don't remember the API, but MS didn't give Netscape an API until it was released, but gave it to others before the release. This was part of the DOJ case against MS. There were also allegations during the same trial that MS withheld important APIs from competitors that their applications developers had access to. In other words, information passed between the OS and applications groups at MS that should have been public for other application developers to see.
It's the classic little vs big guy.
The auto makers should share the codes for the same reason Microsoft should share the (internal) APIs: openness fosters fairness and competition, which is good for the consumer.
Hopefully, someone will point this out to the congress-critters, and the analogy might finally turn on the light in their heads about software.
I know, bad form to reply to your own post...
I forgot to mention that the marketing of this CDwas completely different than the previous one, Play. Every single song on the last CD was licensed for use by companies in advertising. I remember reading an article before 18 came out that it would be handled very differently. The argument went like this: now that Moby is a big success, he can do things the "normal" way.
I just wish he had released a normally good CD.
To me, 18 is a bad ripoff of Play. I enjoyed Play very much, unlike a lot of other posters here.