Well, the IOU system was failed when we started it, EVERYONE lent to has defaulted. They want and take, but wont repay,
I am personally of the school we should go after our bad debts in the form of land or resource, england, russia, japan, etc. We SACRIFICED OUR BLOOD, for your people. Im an Isolationist too, so actuallly helping anyone is out of the question.
Youre correct, I apologize, I could tell from the speech pattern you were a UK'er, Canada, pretty much the same thing.
I like this "I dont know enough about either American party" Youre not a US citizen ????
GUESS WHAT your COMMENTARY on OUR politics is MOOT.
You have NO fundemental understanding of the Democratic proccess here in the United States. It has been like this and always will be, look up Jim Crow laws.
There is no glibness, everyone is equal, to a point, and can vote, even with a Internet voting system in place.
REDUCING everyone to equal IS COMMUNISM.
Actually the POOR DO VOTE, Sometimes more often than the rich, Apathy infests the rich, not so true with the poor. Clinton being elected twice in this country is proof, MOST educated, upper class people (with the exception of liberals, in our country a socalist). COULDNT STAND HIM, He won his fist election with LESS than the MAJORITY vote, only some 40% of people in the US.
So what you are saying is, you have NO understanding of either our system, or parties, and yet you offer a foriegn comment on OUR process..This is rich....
Go back to the pub...........The UK's Govt is in such perfect shape I know you have nothign better to do than critisize ours.......Let me remind you OUR govt saved Europes ass TWICE
Well....half of americans, %54 are on the internet.
The study has just been published. Noone said that would be the ONLY way to cast a vote either.
Now THAT in ITSELF is a larger percentage than voted in the last election. Demographics say more than HALF of that HALF is middle to lower income and minority.
Lemme guess, your either
Poor,
aCommunist
or a Democrat ?
If youre poor and have no car you already have to work harder to get to the polling place. So we make it easier and more accurate where we can. So that argument flies like a brick pig with wings.
How can more people voting cause "less political representation" ???? Just because the wealthy will vote for somethign YOU dont like dosent mean less representaiton, it means more people voting, more representation. Like I said Im guessing this was either a troll or...one of the above 3
WOW, Buzzwords galore on their website, no doubt they were trying to ride the DotCom bandwagon. I still cant figre out what it does, anytime I see, collaboration, enterprise content managment, Web content framework, Im assuming it something for people too stupid to write or autogen their own pages and automatically upload em, aka use rsync
This isnt the univeristy document system that was suppsed to handle 100'000 of thousands of technical papers, automatic updates etc is It ?
Why is redhat buying them ? Fixed assests ? All those juicy Oracle liscences ? Or the servers that refuse to be slashdotted ?...
Actually if you read the parent article , and his reply to my original post, he explictly asked me to tell hime, if he was in fact wrong, I was only be obliging:)
It is a covenent agreement, I i never agree, I cant be bound by the terms. It does in fact apply to OEM software, as if eveidnce by MS and the OEM refunding in case you DO not accept the EULA.
My point is let them try to enforce a licence on a piece of software I dont onw, It cannot be done, in a million years.
Nor would this prohibit me from making observations of another using the program, by standing behind and watching I have accepted the EULA ? I dont think so.
Now, if anythign in the end, technically, the user I am watching, or the persons computer Im using COULD be liable IF the clause in the EULA was upheld, very doubtfull.
I could as an independent entity OBSERVE and RECORD the results from an Oracle database being benchmarked, I am not liable for it being done however. Now as a Journalist I can publist those observations. Same goes for McAffes stuff. or Any other for that matter. We have Journalists going into brothels and crack houses, they arent charged with drugs or pandering. They are observer, and as such can report ANYTHING they see, If the Goverment couldnt get away with it (National Security is different) Trus me tneither can the companies. Read a EULA again, Implied my ass, it is between a SINGULAR entity, person OR corporation, If you neighbor accepts a EULA on his software, just because you live next to him if you see him using his computer are you bound by the EULA terms ? No way.
I have serious questions about both the accuracy AND the historical importance of the documents, they are some 20 years after the fact for one, and each give a different account.
ASIDE from that and from what can be seen in the threads above few of you seem to be German Military historians. Now, for the most part , nuclear physics was SEVERLY frowned on, Hitler, Goering, Himmler and Goebels, ALL reffered to it as ""JEW SCIENCE"" They INTENTIONALLY and DELIBERATLEY tried to dissuade people from approaching Hitler on the subject and in some circles even talk of it was forbidden. NOW that said, one of the few that had any vision in the matter was Doenitz, it is POSSIBLE that Nuclear programs were being conducted in seceret (From Hitler and Goering, and Himmler who knows about Goebels, he REALLY played both sides of the fence) Other programs were the MP44, when Hitler found out they went ahead with it after he forbade it he went nuts, they did produce a few , but under stipulations, like the ME262 must be carring bombs on take off. Hitler was a Maniac, his way or the highway, I cannot belive he knew of or allowed a Nuclear program under Germany with his consent.
What if you are not the OWNER of the machine, just someone that say USES a version of their software ON A PUBLIC computer, say at The Library or CompUSA. GUESS WHAT YOU ARE NOT Bound by the terms of the Eula, you got it.
If I never ACCEPT one of these agreements I am not bound by it.
Screensots posted online could for example be used to formulate an opinion on their interface design.
As well, publically accesable Oracle servers (yes there are some) Could be benchmarked.
WITHOUT ACCEPTANCE of the EULA
The deed to my mothers property says on it Negros, nor Asians may EVER reside on the property and if you purchase this property subsequently you agree never to allow that to happen, I live in the North too, Ohio, not exactly Dixie country. It cannot be easily removed from the Deed because of all the legal issues. This is obviously UNENFORCABLE , Because it quite obviously is an affront to Civil Rights, but its there, as a Title attorney sometimes whats on Deed, you would laugh you ass off, THIS is my opinion of 90% of EULA's all horeshit, they can say anything they want like Borlan, let em TRY to enforce it, Can you say RUBY RIDGE meets MCAFEE ?
Let em say whatever they want , Im just looking for one Juicy enough that someone tries to enforce on ME, Ill be a wealty man. Anyone know of any fis trying to enforce ILLEGAL covents in their EULA's ??
All lll allow this, C3 may not be a lll but theyre trying to appeal to the uper end of that segment.
C# allows you to write managed, OR unmanaged code as well, This is an option. As well as the coders ability to write "unsafe" code. YOU MUST INTENTIONALLY flag the code to be written as UNSAFE !
If you dont know what you are doing and choose to do this so frigging what ???
C# has the fundementals of a good language, forget its from MS, if it where from GNU, you;d be eating it up saying look how much better it is. I am looking forward to working with it, the.NET Visual Studio is written in C# itself , it should be pretty thouroughly debugged before its released.
Play with it for a week , if youre a beggining C programmer youll love it, if youre experienced, youll love it for the same reasons, My bet is most of the people bitching havent read or written a single line of C#, if have and dont like it Id like to know explicity WHY ?, Ms bashing aside.......
Germans, are typically speaking very detail oriented, as well very quality concious, and in all more technically astute. This has been my experience, I am 1/2 German and lived with a Prussian stepfather my whole life, I have traveled to Germany in youth and recently, extensivly, and entertained German clients in business dealings. So Im not talking out my ass, I actually am familiar with the "mindset" I actually would probably fall more into this than many of my American contemporaries.
I did NOT say usbablity was not important to you, I said, It may not be, trying to make a point to my american fellows that what we find important you may not, and trying to shove something down your throat geared to our market is not a good idea.
Yeah, mine is bigger than yours, Ill agree with that assesment of the American philosiphy on a products marketablity.
What I also reffered to, OK, in say about 85 , how many german computers were on the market and popular ? Ok now remeber back and look at the computers in the american market ? Were they meant to fill the same requirments ? No, Were they meant so any moron could use it , ? no....
Were they fuctional ? Absolutley, How long dod you hang on to CPM ? Longer than here, why ? It was better , not marketed better, just better to a point.
We have different needs, some cultural some a different way of approaching problems. The Germans, in business at least , make a decison based on the merits of a product than the marketing behind it. This is a good thing, why has this whole thread been taken as a troll ? Beacuse I said pseudo-democratic ?
If you read the original post what it quite clearly states to an American (its intended reading audience) is OUR need are NOT the SAME as YOURS. If that is untrue, please tell me and we can shove all the crap software that was designed for the american marketplace down your throats. No ? Why not ? OH, wait, ther German requirments, and need, as well as percetions of what important in a business and computer applicationa redifferent, imagine that.....
Actually, that is what I meant, NOT Cash , but indeed as you point out resources. We have had our economic woes, all overcomable because if nothing else our greatly varied and abundant natural resources.
That is EXACTLY the point Im tring to make. We have more than most places in the world, as a result we take things for granted, I am 30 years old and have land about 100 acres, Much of my family has the same or greater at my age, LAND in itsef , not to mention the resources contained (namley coal and oil on mine) , For some joe smoe 30 year old, paticuarly unexceptional in most aspects to have what I do is pretty uncommon overseas, (Europe, UK, etc.) NOW, not the value of that, forget that for a moment, but having what I do tend to make ME, Apathetic at times, they were going to build high dollar housing allotment near some of my property, I thought , who CARES, My land will still be there unmolested, then I thought hey itll probably raise the value, it did, but it made a pristine part of where I live look like beverly hills, when I ride my motorcycles there or shoot my guns they COMPLAIN !, GUESS WHAT Its a RURAL AREA ! Now Im pissed, but can do nothign partly due to my Apathy, If I tried I could have stopped it.
THAT my Friend is my point, and it does go to the point of the original article. Things are DIFFERENT here and in Germany, what is important to you is not neccesarily important to us and vice-verse. The POINT of this thead a it spun off was We, In the United States, have the power to do nearly anything we want with regards to changing every law on the books, we are typically just too, "fat and Happy" to give a shit. I dont know how things are at a local level of goverment in Germany now. But in the states, a town of say 25,000 people, is litteraly RUN by probably less that 50 individuals, NOT because there is room for no more voices, not because of some unssen elite ruling class, NOBODY CARES to RUN FOR OFFICE !, An intelligent person with a clean background (not an axe-murderer) can pretty much pick an office and run with a DAMM good chance of winning it give ANY effort.
The saddest part is we have freedoms and abilities to change any law we choose, Unfortunatley most choose to do NOTHING.......
I base that on the fact that the United States of America was the FIRST, MODERN democracy, It has remained unchanged for 220 years, not democracy with a king, not a republic (our definitions differ on this so ill leave it at that)
Germany and most all of Europe (UK being exceptional in this respect) Has been doing it for less than 60 year, many of those govt set up under Allied Rule(UK Included,:) To INTENTIONALLY PREVENT another European Situation Chamberlin and Roosevelt helped to create through Inaction. That said, I have NO idea what is going on in Scotland, I understand you have a Unique situation with regards to your mebership in the UK.
The Apathy that plagues this nation has little to do with a "Misguided sendse of cultural superiority" That singular item has more to do with our poor performance in the last 50 years on a Global stage. APATHY that is prevelant in this country comes from a Middle Class that make more money and owns more land than certainly anywhere in europe or elsewhere IN GERNERAL. Fat, and Content , these are the problems that lead to PATHETIC Voter turnout, Did you know only half of the registered voters bothered in the presidential election ?
The United States has been a Very Rich nation for a long while, without a war on our soil for over 125 years. Comfort, also has something to do with the apathy prevalant here. I dont want things to be any different on a socio-econoic scale than they are , but what I would like is fellow citizens that actually give a shit and do something about it even if I dont agree with them.
No actually not, I wrote code, quite a bit actually, on a project with a VERY similar liscence, I thought this a good thing at the time. BUT when that was wrapped and sold, ok well no big deal. BUT then 2 things happened, when the commercial package started to fail, and even before, people came to ME for suport finding I was the author. It was a port of a *nix only app at the time when the main branch was adding Win32 support, AND the commercial entity actually asked me to fix what I had writen !
The code I wrote, in the whole of the project was in EARLY beta when the took the tree and decided to commercialize it. You cannot imagine the headaches I endured. Im talking 20+ emails a day for over a YEAR ! Some downright nasty,
The code segments in question were even commented, "This is a cludge, at best for now, Things cannot be done the old way under Win32 and until a better understanding of the Win32 API calls in question can be resolved this will suffice for testing only" Now when MS relesed SP3 EVERTHING Broke.....Should I be RESPONSIBLE to support this shit ? To an entity that is making money off it ? AND then have them ACT LIKE IM OBLIGED TO ?
Not elitist, realist, I closed down that email acct shortly after.
Well, Ive gotten 2 comments on my use of the term pseudo-democratic, first let me clarify, Both statements below are fairly accurate, and to each his own, Right now the US consitution is being stretched to its limit. I speak on more of a spirit of law level. The US goverment at least gives us the oppurtunity to change govt as we see fit. I think that if things here dont change, heads will roll, thats my opinion. BUT the main problem in the US isnt its goverment most people both in and outside this country dont realize this fact, We the People, have the ULTIMATE autority when it comes to the actions of our Goverment. APATHY of the people is the cause of the Current situation here in the States BUT that can be changed at any single point in time. In an odd way I was actually hoping for a serious deppression in the US economy to become a catalyst for change. I am finacially secure as is my family and have diversified investments internationally. I could use it as a springboard into politics:)
Things are good here, and with that comes APATHY. I dont dislike the German govt. in the least. It works for you and it works well, the German people have shown throught history they NEED to be LED, That is OK. It really is for the Germans. I was speaking from an information point, 90% of ALL Americans think if you have a Democratic society you have the same freedoms as here, they do not understand we are Unique in our Unconditional Freedom of Speech and other Inalienable rights guarenteed under the constitution that cannot be revoked without a large amount of bloodshed. I am curious however what situations you speak of ? Increased airline security or the DCMA, that will be struck down soon enough just as the COPA was.
I think its important to know what "with some recent events I cannot disclose" is exactly. Wine is great stuff and its been getting better. I have not contributed to wine publically because of its current liscence. And for once, knowing the windows world as well as the linux I think I could actuallly make a decent contribution, but I dont want code I freely provide ending up in LinDows, or Transgamings WineX9I know it is different, for the moment but how long ?)
Any liscence change could not suoperceede the liscence under which the existing code tree was obtained, so development into a proprietary product could contine on those note, is a smart guy he knows this, thats what scares me, what does he know or see in the future of Wine that could endanger it at this point, Corel trying to say its all their code now because he is their employee (this is an example, dont spaz)
Its funny how most of the people wanting to "commercialize Wine, have ended up with their code avaiable, WHY ? Its just not ready for prime time as a proprietay product on its own they still NEED developemt beyoned their internal capabilities, Jeremy must know this too......
If you havent been to Germany, or If you havent worked with Germans in an IT related role. IT IS VERY different from here in the states. The mindset for one is completley different, I say that from experience, things that are the most important in the world to us mean little to them. Ive seen this first hand. Usablity many not even be anywhere on their list of issues, or something that we find indespensable, this is changing slowly, but if you bought or owned a computer in Germany say in the 80's on you know what I speak is the truth. I can actually see many of the monopolistic point we see as weakenesses, being strongpoints to those in German Parliment, the Goverment situation is VERY different from here, they live in pseudo-democratic goverment where, trade unions(they are VERY unlike here) still wield large amounts of power and freedom of speech isnt a freedom, or even an option of one. For people that dont know the situation in Germany, political, technical, or social, Pushing something on them isnt going to fly.
Same DRIVE family...lol, what a beast eh.
Gotta love em, I had a "cylinder" drive from an old mainframe I interfaced to my S-100 system, It was old in the early 80's I picked it up a surpluss store with the controller already hacked S-100 its about 2 1/2 feet long and under a glass curved dome, looks like a High tech edison cylinder record player. I think it was 5 meg , at the time, 8inch floppies were standard...
I know this is a technolgy implementation from a chip side. That said can you imagin what fun screwing with people would be at this level of connectivity, gives a whole new meaning to Ghost in the machine. Everyone connected everwhere.....I will change my Job Occupation to farmer and wait for the 50 megaton nuke in the atmosphere to create and EMP thatll take everyone offline. Can you Imagine how many more posers at Starbucks this'll create, if impleneted on a wide scale ?
Not to mention all the Geniuses in Govt, thinking they have the most important job in the free world and insisting they need to be connected all the time, this is the Armageddon , I can see it now.
This is pretty nifty , but until they integrate it directly to a proccesor an memory in the same package,....Just Imagine you could have a Beowulf cluster in your pocket,...lol
*Note, If you take me seriously you need more of some alkaloid, nicotene, caffiene, etc.
I did that 10 years ago with a Seagate 10 meg 5 1/2 MFM Hard drive, on my 386 ?
Admittedly and ALL clear hard drive would be cooler:)
I also split heads on the same drives (10 meg Seagate MFM, and set it up so 2 INDEPENDENT sets could be running on the same set of platters, 1 set was READ only , the other could read and write, the concept was 4 sets in the end (I never got there) for network transfers and reduced seek times,each set of heads had its own independent channel, and acted like its own drive. but RO in the case of th second set of heads, I MOLDED a clear top case half (they werent flat, on this drive, ou of plexi in the oven, overtop of a reverse mold I made of the orignial in plaster.
I spent a total of 2 month making all the mods, the clear was to show the seperate control on the seperate head arms, I choose the drive I did because it, and all the components were friggng HUE and tolerances were less than what they were even in other drives of the era. I still have it in storage somewhere.
Anyone wanna BUY it ???
I wanted to apply this to a CDROM at the time in parraled, several sets of heads, for speeding up archive retrieval on a cd juke. I thought several people could access different data simeltanous, OR run in parralel for GREATER than 2x spees, kind of a read ahead with another 3 heads doing the read ahead....
How much time does Linus have to dedicate to all these patches that get submitted ?
Would a seperate fork, with sections maintained by indiviudal groups be best ? 4 or 5 guys in charge of VM, 4 or 5 guys in charge of Hardware, they would only be responsible for review and merging.
I know ill get blasted for fork speak, but sometimes its a good thing, (While youre at it optimize for the x86...lol)
Linus is the all benevolent creator and Linux god granted, respect is due, We however are the users, the ones in need, Linux was intended to fill this need, if it reaches a point because of whatever reason, perhaps a branching, is best for it as a whole. I dont think anyone actually asked Linus if he wanted the development to consume his life (Maybe he does, I dont know, it dosent matter)
All this is an awful lot to ask of any one man, mortal or not. Perhaps Linus would welcome this as an oppurtunity to do other things.
I hope this will make Linus's life easier, Sometimes people continue on a path out of a feeling of obligation, does Linus do this now because, 1 He wants to, 2 He feels like he has to
3 Nobody else has stepped up to offer a solution.
It makes a big difference on loading the hell out of my woefully under memoried workstation at work. My home machine, used mostly for surfing has seen a dramatic imporvment in free memory and is no longer swappin , it has 512 meg, so it really shouldnt swap too much, but was constantly with the stock redhat kernel, as well as 2.4.17 plain vanilla, trhe 2.4.18 -rpma12a has been ROCK solid.
On my server however with 256 megs , the stock redhat roll has done nicley with the minimal load its under.
I am a little leary about using the rmap in prouction as of yet, it seems to be killing things each nigh, (no shit) that dont drop with 2.4.17 or 2.4.9
I would like to see an option at configure to select a VM, I think the preemptive added would be fun too, I know its a pain because of the way it all intergrates to the other code, but thats my desire, it seems to be alot of other peoples desire as well, its funny how I bitched and moaned about the Riel VM , that was in the kernel prior to AA's , but since then and all the patching that was done I think Riels would give it a run for its money.....
Actually I wasnt braggin it gets boring being pegged, I posted a couple of articles, sure to get modded down, what do you think happened, they get modded to a 4 and 5.......
Alright Im stuck at 50 for ever a week, this should change it, I hope.
This dipshit is the last guy we need as a linux evangelist, he is not very bright in general, complete to a nazi elitist midset . National ID cards, who the fuck is he to even think its a good Idea ?
Larry Ellison has time and time , and time again said thing so far from obvious reality it makes me wonder how he got where he did.
If SADDAM HUSSEIN , endorsed Linux would that be a good thing ? not in particular but it wouldnt be bad for business because people know hes a raving looney. NOW Ellison , in the minds of some unfortunate corprate executives is not. He "Appears" to know his stuff. Therein the danger lies.
Problems with ORACLE will now be BLAMED on LINUX if history repeats itself.
Besides, wanna know what the really bad part is ????
I was planning on hacking into the National ID system once in place and putting mickey mouse pictures on everyones ID, With WINDOWS that wouldnt have been a problem, NOW if they talk the Govt. into the Linux route, I wont be able to upload anythign new since its Linux and we all know how secure that is, I guess Ill just have to root around/usr/share/pixmaps for a nice image of TUX:)
I NEED NO MORE KARMA I HAVE BEEN STUCK AT 50 for a WEEK, PLEASE GIVE MOD POINTS TO THOSE MORE DESERVING !
**note:If you actually take ANYTHING I said above serious, you need a vacation, badly
Alright now all we need a plane you could fly this way:)
Seriously think of the plethora of military applications, Im sure they are. I wonder how much room for error or lingering thoughts there is .
Its esay , sometimes to think about something and not pysically execute that movement. WHAT HAPPENS when you JUST THINK and it happens, I could think of all kinds of scenarios this would be MUY bad, remember the end of the first ghostbusters movie:)
Typing in this manner or "mousing" would be pretty cool if they could come up with a completley exeternal device, having wires sewn into my brain sac dont sound like much fun. Hopefully this is a firt step in 2 way electronic to neural communication links, think about what a computer could teach a person who was say paralyzed, analyze neural paths and make calculated reccomndations for rerouting directly to the brain, that was your movement would be through EXISTING undamaged pathways, then again a glitch in the software might make you wet your pants every time you try to scratch you foot but hey its progress:)
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Well, the IOU system was failed when we started it, EVERYONE lent to has defaulted. They want and take, but wont repay,
I am personally of the school we should go after our bad debts in the form of land or resource, england, russia, japan, etc. We SACRIFICED OUR BLOOD, for your people. Im an Isolationist too, so actuallly helping anyone is out of the question.
Youre correct, I apologize, I could tell from the speech pattern you were a UK'er, Canada, pretty much the same thing.
I like this "I dont know enough about either American party" Youre not a US citizen ????
GUESS WHAT your COMMENTARY on OUR politics is MOOT.
You have NO fundemental understanding of the Democratic proccess here in the United States. It has been like this and always will be, look up Jim Crow laws.
There is no glibness, everyone is equal, to a point, and can vote, even with a Internet voting system in place.
REDUCING everyone to equal IS COMMUNISM.
Actually the POOR DO VOTE, Sometimes more often than the rich, Apathy infests the rich, not so true with the poor. Clinton being elected twice in this country is proof, MOST educated, upper class people (with the exception of liberals, in our country a socalist). COULDNT STAND HIM, He won his fist election with LESS than the MAJORITY vote, only some 40% of people in the US.
So what you are saying is, you have NO understanding of either our system, or parties, and yet you offer a foriegn comment on OUR process..This is rich....
Go back to the pub...........The UK's Govt is in such perfect shape I know you have nothign better to do than critisize ours.......Let me remind you OUR govt saved Europes ass TWICE
Well....half of americans, %54 are on the internet.
The study has just been published. Noone said that would be the ONLY way to cast a vote either.
Now THAT in ITSELF is a larger percentage than voted in the last election. Demographics say more than HALF of that HALF is middle to lower income and minority.
Lemme guess, your either
Poor,
aCommunist
or a Democrat ?
If youre poor and have no car you already have to work harder to get to the polling place. So we make it easier and more accurate where we can. So that argument flies like a brick pig with wings.
How can more people voting cause "less political representation" ???? Just because the wealthy will vote for somethign YOU dont like dosent mean less representaiton, it means more people voting, more representation. Like I said Im guessing this was either a troll or...one of the above 3
WOW, Buzzwords galore on their website, no doubt they were trying to ride the DotCom bandwagon. I still cant figre out what it does, anytime I see, collaboration, enterprise content managment, Web content framework, Im assuming it something for people too stupid to write or autogen their own pages and automatically upload em, aka use rsync
This isnt the univeristy document system that was suppsed to handle 100'000 of thousands of technical papers, automatic updates etc is It ?
Why is redhat buying them ? Fixed assests ? All those juicy Oracle liscences ? Or the servers that refuse to be slashdotted ?...
You a WRONG
:)
Actually if you read the parent article , and his reply to my original post, he explictly asked me to tell hime, if he was in fact wrong, I was only be obliging
You are wrong.
It is a covenent agreement, I i never agree, I cant be bound by the terms. It does in fact apply to OEM software, as if eveidnce by MS and the OEM refunding in case you DO not accept the EULA.
My point is let them try to enforce a licence on a piece of software I dont onw, It cannot be done, in a million years.
Nor would this prohibit me from making observations of another using the program, by standing behind and watching I have accepted the EULA ? I dont think so.
Now, if anythign in the end, technically, the user I am watching, or the persons computer Im using COULD be liable IF the clause in the EULA was upheld, very doubtfull.
I could as an independent entity OBSERVE and RECORD the results from an Oracle database being benchmarked, I am not liable for it being done however. Now as a Journalist I can publist those observations. Same goes for McAffes stuff. or Any other for that matter. We have Journalists going into brothels and crack houses, they arent charged with drugs or pandering. They are observer, and as such can report ANYTHING they see, If the Goverment couldnt get away with it (National Security is different) Trus me tneither can the companies. Read a EULA again, Implied my ass, it is between a SINGULAR entity, person OR corporation, If you neighbor accepts a EULA on his software, just because you live next to him if you see him using his computer are you bound by the EULA terms ? No way.
I have serious questions about both the accuracy AND the historical importance of the documents, they are some 20 years after the fact for one, and each give a different account.
ASIDE from that and from what can be seen in the threads above few of you seem to be German Military historians. Now, for the most part , nuclear physics was SEVERLY frowned on, Hitler, Goering, Himmler and Goebels, ALL reffered to it as ""JEW SCIENCE"" They INTENTIONALLY and DELIBERATLEY tried to dissuade people from approaching Hitler on the subject and in some circles even talk of it was forbidden. NOW that said, one of the few that had any vision in the matter was Doenitz, it is POSSIBLE that Nuclear programs were being conducted in seceret (From Hitler and Goering, and Himmler who knows about Goebels, he REALLY played both sides of the fence) Other programs were the MP44, when Hitler found out they went ahead with it after he forbade it he went nuts, they did produce a few , but under stipulations, like the ME262 must be carring bombs on take off. Hitler was a Maniac, his way or the highway, I cannot belive he knew of or allowed a Nuclear program under Germany with his consent.
ima-usa.com for some real high caliber fun....
What if you are not the OWNER of the machine, just someone that say USES a version of their software ON A PUBLIC computer, say at The Library or CompUSA. GUESS WHAT YOU ARE NOT Bound by the terms of the Eula, you got it.
If I never ACCEPT one of these agreements I am not bound by it.
Screensots posted online could for example be used to formulate an opinion on their interface design.
As well, publically accesable Oracle servers (yes there are some) Could be benchmarked.
WITHOUT ACCEPTANCE of the EULA
The deed to my mothers property says on it Negros, nor Asians may EVER reside on the property and if you purchase this property subsequently you agree never to allow that to happen, I live in the North too, Ohio, not exactly Dixie country. It cannot be easily removed from the Deed because of all the legal issues. This is obviously UNENFORCABLE , Because it quite obviously is an affront to Civil Rights, but its there, as a Title attorney sometimes whats on Deed, you would laugh you ass off, THIS is my opinion of 90% of EULA's all horeshit, they can say anything they want like Borlan, let em TRY to enforce it, Can you say RUBY RIDGE meets MCAFEE ?
Let em say whatever they want , Im just looking for one Juicy enough that someone tries to enforce on ME, Ill be a wealty man. Anyone know of any fis trying to enforce ILLEGAL covents in their EULA's ??
Uhh, and the problem with this is ???????
.NET Visual Studio is written in C# itself , it should be pretty thouroughly debugged before its released.
All lll allow this, C3 may not be a lll but theyre trying to appeal to the uper end of that segment.
C# allows you to write managed, OR unmanaged code as well, This is an option. As well as the coders ability to write "unsafe" code. YOU MUST INTENTIONALLY flag the code to be written as UNSAFE !
If you dont know what you are doing and choose to do this so frigging what ???
C# has the fundementals of a good language, forget its from MS, if it where from GNU, you;d be eating it up saying look how much better it is. I am looking forward to working with it, the
Play with it for a week , if youre a beggining C programmer youll love it, if youre experienced, youll love it for the same reasons, My bet is most of the people bitching havent read or written a single line of C#, if have and dont like it Id like to know explicity WHY ?, Ms bashing aside.......
The mindset is different, Ill start there.
Germans, are typically speaking very detail oriented, as well very quality concious, and in all more technically astute. This has been my experience, I am 1/2 German and lived with a Prussian stepfather my whole life, I have traveled to Germany in youth and recently, extensivly, and entertained German clients in business dealings. So Im not talking out my ass, I actually am familiar with the "mindset" I actually would probably fall more into this than many of my American contemporaries.
I did NOT say usbablity was not important to you, I said, It may not be, trying to make a point to my american fellows that what we find important you may not, and trying to shove something down your throat geared to our market is not a good idea.
Yeah, mine is bigger than yours, Ill agree with that assesment of the American philosiphy on a products marketablity.
What I also reffered to, OK, in say about 85 , how many german computers were on the market and popular ? Ok now remeber back and look at the computers in the american market ? Were they meant to fill the same requirments ? No, Were they meant so any moron could use it , ? no....
Were they fuctional ? Absolutley, How long dod you hang on to CPM ? Longer than here, why ? It was better , not marketed better, just better to a point.
We have different needs, some cultural some a different way of approaching problems. The Germans, in business at least , make a decison based on the merits of a product than the marketing behind it. This is a good thing, why has this whole thread been taken as a troll ? Beacuse I said pseudo-democratic ?
If you read the original post what it quite clearly states to an American (its intended reading audience) is OUR need are NOT the SAME as YOURS. If that is untrue, please tell me and we can shove all the crap software that was designed for the american marketplace down your throats. No ? Why not ? OH, wait, ther German requirments, and need, as well as percetions of what important in a business and computer applicationa redifferent, imagine that.....
Actually, that is what I meant, NOT Cash , but indeed as you point out resources. We have had our economic woes, all overcomable because if nothing else our greatly varied and abundant natural resources.
That is EXACTLY the point Im tring to make. We have more than most places in the world, as a result we take things for granted, I am 30 years old and have land about 100 acres, Much of my family has the same or greater at my age, LAND in itsef , not to mention the resources contained (namley coal and oil on mine) , For some joe smoe 30 year old, paticuarly unexceptional in most aspects to have what I do is pretty uncommon overseas, (Europe, UK, etc.) NOW, not the value of that, forget that for a moment, but having what I do tend to make ME, Apathetic at times, they were going to build high dollar housing allotment near some of my property, I thought , who CARES, My land will still be there unmolested, then I thought hey itll probably raise the value, it did, but it made a pristine part of where I live look like beverly hills, when I ride my motorcycles there or shoot my guns they COMPLAIN !, GUESS WHAT Its a RURAL AREA ! Now Im pissed, but can do nothign partly due to my Apathy, If I tried I could have stopped it.
THAT my Friend is my point, and it does go to the point of the original article. Things are DIFFERENT here and in Germany, what is important to you is not neccesarily important to us and vice-verse. The POINT of this thead a it spun off was We, In the United States, have the power to do nearly anything we want with regards to changing every law on the books, we are typically just too, "fat and Happy" to give a shit. I dont know how things are at a local level of goverment in Germany now. But in the states, a town of say 25,000 people, is litteraly RUN by probably less that 50 individuals, NOT because there is room for no more voices, not because of some unssen elite ruling class, NOBODY CARES to RUN FOR OFFICE !, An intelligent person with a clean background (not an axe-murderer) can pretty much pick an office and run with a DAMM good chance of winning it give ANY effort.
The saddest part is we have freedoms and abilities to change any law we choose, Unfortunatley most choose to do NOTHING.......
You are correct in your definitons,
:) To INTENTIONALLY PREVENT another European Situation Chamberlin and Roosevelt helped to create through Inaction. That said, I have NO idea what is going on in Scotland, I understand you have a Unique situation with regards to your mebership in the UK.
I base that on the fact that the United States of America was the FIRST, MODERN democracy, It has remained unchanged for 220 years, not democracy with a king, not a republic (our definitions differ on this so ill leave it at that)
Germany and most all of Europe (UK being exceptional in this respect) Has been doing it for less than 60 year, many of those govt set up under Allied Rule(UK Included,
The Apathy that plagues this nation has little to do with a "Misguided sendse of cultural superiority" That singular item has more to do with our poor performance in the last 50 years on a Global stage. APATHY that is prevelant in this country comes from a Middle Class that make more money and owns more land than certainly anywhere in europe or elsewhere IN GERNERAL. Fat, and Content , these are the problems that lead to PATHETIC Voter turnout, Did you know only half of the registered voters bothered in the presidential election ?
The United States has been a Very Rich nation for a long while, without a war on our soil for over 125 years. Comfort, also has something to do with the apathy prevalant here. I dont want things to be any different on a socio-econoic scale than they are , but what I would like is fellow citizens that actually give a shit and do something about it even if I dont agree with them.
No actually not, I wrote code, quite a bit actually, on a project with a VERY similar liscence, I thought this a good thing at the time. BUT when that was wrapped and sold, ok well no big deal. BUT then 2 things happened, when the commercial package started to fail, and even before, people came to ME for suport finding I was the author. It was a port of a *nix only app at the time when the main branch was adding Win32 support, AND the commercial entity actually asked me to fix what I had writen !
The code I wrote, in the whole of the project was in EARLY beta when the took the tree and decided to commercialize it. You cannot imagine the headaches I endured. Im talking 20+ emails a day for over a YEAR ! Some downright nasty,
The code segments in question were even commented, "This is a cludge, at best for now, Things cannot be done the old way under Win32 and until a better understanding of the Win32 API calls in question can be resolved this will suffice for testing only" Now when MS relesed SP3 EVERTHING Broke.....Should I be RESPONSIBLE to support this shit ? To an entity that is making money off it ? AND then have them ACT LIKE IM OBLIGED TO ?
Not elitist, realist, I closed down that email acct shortly after.
Well, Ive gotten 2 comments on my use of the term pseudo-democratic, first let me clarify, Both statements below are fairly accurate, and to each his own, Right now the US consitution is being stretched to its limit. I speak on more of a spirit of law level. The US goverment at least gives us the oppurtunity to change govt as we see fit. I think that if things here dont change, heads will roll, thats my opinion. BUT the main problem in the US isnt its goverment most people both in and outside this country dont realize this fact, We the People, have the ULTIMATE autority when it comes to the actions of our Goverment. APATHY of the people is the cause of the Current situation here in the States BUT that can be changed at any single point in time. In an odd way I was actually hoping for a serious deppression in the US economy to become a catalyst for change. I am finacially secure as is my family and have diversified investments internationally. I could use it as a springboard into politics :)
Things are good here, and with that comes APATHY. I dont dislike the German govt. in the least. It works for you and it works well, the German people have shown throught history they NEED to be LED, That is OK. It really is for the Germans. I was speaking from an information point, 90% of ALL Americans think if you have a Democratic society you have the same freedoms as here, they do not understand we are Unique in our Unconditional Freedom of Speech and other Inalienable rights guarenteed under the constitution that cannot be revoked without a large amount of bloodshed. I am curious however what situations you speak of ? Increased airline security or the DCMA, that will be struck down soon enough just as the COPA was.
I think its important to know what "with some recent events I cannot disclose" is exactly. Wine is great stuff and its been getting better. I have not contributed to wine publically because of its current liscence. And for once, knowing the windows world as well as the linux I think I could actuallly make a decent contribution, but I dont want code I freely provide ending up in LinDows, or Transgamings WineX9I know it is different, for the moment but how long ?)
Any liscence change could not suoperceede the liscence under which the existing code tree was obtained, so development into a proprietary product could contine on those note, is a smart guy he knows this, thats what scares me, what does he know or see in the future of Wine that could endanger it at this point, Corel trying to say its all their code now because he is their employee (this is an example, dont spaz)
Its funny how most of the people wanting to "commercialize Wine, have ended up with their code avaiable, WHY ? Its just not ready for prime time as a proprietay product on its own they still NEED developemt beyoned their internal capabilities, Jeremy must know this too......
Once agaian what looms on the horizon for Wine ?
If you havent been to Germany, or If you havent worked with Germans in an IT related role. IT IS VERY different from here in the states. The mindset for one is completley different, I say that from experience, things that are the most important in the world to us mean little to them. Ive seen this first hand. Usablity many not even be anywhere on their list of issues, or something that we find indespensable, this is changing slowly, but if you bought or owned a computer in Germany say in the 80's on you know what I speak is the truth. I can actually see many of the monopolistic point we see as weakenesses, being strongpoints to those in German Parliment, the Goverment situation is VERY different from here, they live in pseudo-democratic goverment where, trade unions(they are VERY unlike here) still wield large amounts of power and freedom of speech isnt a freedom, or even an option of one. For people that dont know the situation in Germany, political, technical, or social, Pushing something on them isnt going to fly.
Same DRIVE family...lol, what a beast eh.
Gotta love em, I had a "cylinder" drive from an old mainframe I interfaced to my S-100 system, It was old in the early 80's I picked it up a surpluss store with the controller already hacked S-100 its about 2 1/2 feet long and under a glass curved dome, looks like a High tech edison cylinder record player. I think it was 5 meg , at the time, 8inch floppies were standard...
I know this is a technolgy implementation from a chip side. That said can you imagin what fun screwing with people would be at this level of connectivity, gives a whole new meaning to Ghost in the machine. Everyone connected everwhere.....I will change my Job Occupation to farmer and wait for the 50 megaton nuke in the atmosphere to create and EMP thatll take everyone offline. Can you Imagine how many more posers at Starbucks this'll create, if impleneted on a wide scale ?
....Just Imagine you could have a Beowulf cluster in your pocket,...lol
Not to mention all the Geniuses in Govt, thinking they have the most important job in the free world and insisting they need to be connected all the time, this is the Armageddon , I can see it now.
This is pretty nifty , but until they integrate it directly to a proccesor an memory in the same package,
*Note, If you take me seriously you need more of some alkaloid, nicotene, caffiene, etc.
GOD i hope so !!!!
I am / was a S-100 Junkie, not the neatest and most compact, but in 81 I had a z80, a 8080 , and a 6502 all sharing the same backplane and devices....
God those days were good when the only thing that could ruin your day was the smell of toasting caps..
I have a hell of a time making a connection to the surface mount crap.
But back to the Bus, this is in my opinion The only way to fly, Ive been thinking about what it would take to ressurect a new S-100 standard,
I did that 10 years ago with a Seagate 10 meg 5 1/2 MFM Hard drive, on my 386 ?
:)
,each set of heads had its own independent channel, and acted like its own drive. but RO in the case of th second set of heads, I MOLDED a clear top case half (they werent flat, on this drive, ou of plexi in the oven, overtop of a reverse mold I made of the orignial in plaster.
Admittedly and ALL clear hard drive would be cooler
I also split heads on the same drives (10 meg Seagate MFM, and set it up so 2 INDEPENDENT sets could be running on the same set of platters, 1 set was READ only , the other could read and write, the concept was 4 sets in the end (I never got there) for network transfers and reduced seek times
I spent a total of 2 month making all the mods, the clear was to show the seperate control on the seperate head arms, I choose the drive I did because it, and all the components were friggng HUE and tolerances were less than what they were even in other drives of the era. I still have it in storage somewhere.
Anyone wanna BUY it ???
I wanted to apply this to a CDROM at the time in parraled, several sets of heads, for speeding up archive retrieval on a cd juke. I thought several people could access different data simeltanous, OR run in parralel for GREATER than 2x spees, kind of a read ahead with another 3 heads doing the read ahead....
Yes, I drink WAAYYYY too much coffee
How much time does Linus have to dedicate to all these patches that get submitted ?
Would a seperate fork, with sections maintained by indiviudal groups be best ? 4 or 5 guys in charge of VM, 4 or 5 guys in charge of Hardware, they would only be responsible for review and merging.
I know ill get blasted for fork speak, but sometimes its a good thing, (While youre at it optimize for the x86...lol)
Linus is the all benevolent creator and Linux god granted, respect is due, We however are the users, the ones in need, Linux was intended to fill this need, if it reaches a point because of whatever reason, perhaps a branching, is best for it as a whole. I dont think anyone actually asked Linus if he wanted the development to consume his life (Maybe he does, I dont know, it dosent matter)
All this is an awful lot to ask of any one man, mortal or not. Perhaps Linus would welcome this as an oppurtunity to do other things.
I hope this will make Linus's life easier, Sometimes people continue on a path out of a feeling of obligation, does Linus do this now because, 1 He wants to, 2 He feels like he has to
3 Nobody else has stepped up to offer a solution.
The rmap patch is nice.....
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It makes a big difference on loading the hell out of my woefully under memoried workstation at work. My home machine, used mostly for surfing has seen a dramatic imporvment in free memory and is no longer swappin , it has 512 meg, so it really shouldnt swap too much, but was constantly with the stock redhat kernel, as well as 2.4.17 plain vanilla, trhe 2.4.18 -rpma12a has been ROCK solid.
On my server however with 256 megs , the stock redhat roll has done nicley with the minimal load its under.
I am a little leary about using the rmap in prouction as of yet, it seems to be killing things each nigh, (no shit) that dont drop with 2.4.17 or 2.4.9
I would like to see an option at configure to select a VM, I think the preemptive added would be fun too, I know its a pain because of the way it all intergrates to the other code, but thats my desire, it seems to be alot of other peoples desire as well, its funny how I bitched and moaned about the Riel VM , that was in the kernel prior to AA's , but since then and all the patching that was done I think Riels would give it a run for its money
Actually I wasnt braggin it gets boring being pegged, I posted a couple of articles, sure to get modded down, what do you think happened, they get modded to a 4 and 5 .......
Oh well......
Alright Im stuck at 50 for ever a week, this should change it, I hope.
/usr/share/pixmaps for a nice image of TUX :)
This dipshit is the last guy we need as a linux evangelist, he is not very bright in general, complete to a nazi elitist midset . National ID cards, who the fuck is he to even think its a good Idea ?
Larry Ellison has time and time , and time again said thing so far from obvious reality it makes me wonder how he got where he did.
If SADDAM HUSSEIN , endorsed Linux would that be a good thing ? not in particular but it wouldnt be bad for business because people know hes a raving looney. NOW Ellison , in the minds of some unfortunate corprate executives is not. He "Appears" to know his stuff. Therein the danger lies.
Problems with ORACLE will now be BLAMED on LINUX if history repeats itself.
Besides, wanna know what the really bad part is ????
I was planning on hacking into the National ID system once in place and putting mickey mouse pictures on everyones ID, With WINDOWS that wouldnt have been a problem, NOW if they talk the Govt. into the Linux route, I wont be able to upload anythign new since its Linux and we all know how secure that is, I guess Ill just have to root around
I NEED NO MORE KARMA I HAVE BEEN STUCK AT 50 for a WEEK, PLEASE GIVE MOD POINTS TO THOSE MORE DESERVING !
**note:If you actually take ANYTHING I said above serious, you need a vacation, badly
Alright now all we need a plane you could fly this way :)
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Seriously think of the plethora of military applications, Im sure they are. I wonder how much room for error or lingering thoughts there is .
Its esay , sometimes to think about something and not pysically execute that movement. WHAT HAPPENS when you JUST THINK and it happens, I could think of all kinds of scenarios this would be MUY bad, remember the end of the first ghostbusters movie
Typing in this manner or "mousing" would be pretty cool if they could come up with a completley exeternal device, having wires sewn into my brain sac dont sound like much fun. Hopefully this is a firt step in 2 way electronic to neural communication links, think about what a computer could teach a person who was say paralyzed, analyze neural paths and make calculated reccomndations for rerouting directly to the brain, that was your movement would be through EXISTING undamaged pathways, then again a glitch in the software might make you wet your pants every time you try to scratch you foot but hey its progress