For the record, I'm no fan of the Democratic party, but the Republican party isn't the solution - it has a built-in nastiness all its own.
You hit the nail on the head there. Both main parties are pretty much controlled by people who just want popularity and power. They accomplish this by doing things like meeting celebrities in public and passing laws like "PATRIOT" that give them more power.
The people in the third parties are probably a lot more principled, because they know that their party robably won't become major, but they stick with it anyay.
GWB has just made the largest increase (15% !) in the military spending in twenty years. Guess where the money comes from? Correct. Public spending. His tax and spending cuts will put the US Government in deficit for the first time since 1997.
Yes, that'll bring US military spending up to about what it was in the Cold War. Of course, He'll keep on claiming that it's for "fighting terrorism" and that you're unpatriotic if you aren't as gung ho about it as he is. And they will still say that the Republicans favor "fiscal restraint". As I see it, the Democrats spend a lot of money and take a lot of taxes, while the Republicans spend a lot of money and don't charge a lot of taxes, thus exacerbating the federal debt. And people still fall for it.
If this is upheld in court, I don't understand what is stopping polic from just reading mail.
I do; it's because people set double standards. They think that reading people's mail is horribly wrong and unamerican, but then they equate letting police read people's email and IMs with "fighting terrorism".
I have come to the conlusion that all humans are insane. Beam me up, Kt'chork.
It is good that GNU/RMS have been acting rather reasonably lately. RMS said recently that the GNU project was missing a kernel for a long time, but now it has one: Linux. A bit different from what some people might expect, and I would say that's a good thing.
This isn't specifically directed at you; I've been wanting to say it for a long time now, flamebait though it may be.
NOT ALL PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 18 ARE UTTER IDIOTS!!! There are many of us who are quite able to seperate reality from Quake, we aren't all hormonally overstimulated jerks, some of us are actually capable of rational thought, most of us see "drugs are bad for you" school assemblies as redundant, and some of us are justified in looking down upon some of our teachers in terms of intelligence and rationality.
Perhaps a better standard would be to keep violent video games away from idiots, whatever their age. But these senators wouldn't like that. They wouldn't be able to see the games then, while some of the more intelligent teenagers in Georgia wouls be playing them.
No, they would never go for a policy that didn't assume that minors are idiots.
There are movie ratings, and that is good. The part that I'm complaining about is that the ratings aren't descriptive enough, and they are enforced. IMHO movie/game ratings are good for helping people make an informed decision about whether that want to watch or play something. When that decision is made for them, it is very annoying and stupid.
Without enforced movie ratings not all movies would suck. There would still be a lot of movies tailored for people who don't like lots of blood splattering everywhere and such, because that's what people would want.
If that's dirty GNU Hippiness, I like Dirty GNU Hippiness. It's a very sane position.
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The costs of platform migration, service, and especially user training might eat up those savings, however. In addition, the public, which is under the Desktop Monopoly's thumb, would demand interoperability with government agencies. ("I'm sorry, I can't read your.doc file. Could you reformat it to take out this feature which StarOffice can't handle?" "It's a freaking Word document! How hard does it have to be for you to read it?!")
It's better to get it all over with sometime, and then you'll be out from under MS's thumb for a long time. And if the government can afford to pay a billion dollars for a big airplane to drop bombs on people, surely they can cugh up some money so they wouldn't be supporting a monopoly!
As for document compatibility, hopefully StarOffice and friends can gracefully deal with features it can't use. And anyway, is it really that hard for people to save as HTML?
And as for government support of Open Source, is using open source stuff any worse than using MS software?
And Windows users laugh at how hard it is to install things on Linux. Ha!
To uninstall something properly, all you should have to use is a single RPM (or whatever you use) command. Typically that's all it takes. But with this crazy windows program you have to use an application that MS warns you never to use except in dire circumstances and use some poorly documented trick. Sheesh...
WTF goes through people's heads to make them say "Hell, no, I don't want other people to benefit from my stuff!" when you benefit more from sharing than from being a selfish bastard?
You're right. If we pool our resources into a sort of global timesharing system, we can all benefit. But some people are just predisposed toward being selfish bastards...
That's one of the best suggestions I've seen so far. All the tech toys in the world can't get you a girlfriend if you're the type who carries around a vacuum tube as a conversation starter. And she isn't, that is.
It's nice to see that there are some constants in life. Economies may falter, nations may fall, but people will tll want to blast aliens as realistically as possible.
Besides that, I'm glad that this will fuel the creation of more cool video games. More video games!
The acronym is ICFP, and it is a functional programming contest, the link is here, and it looks like Haskell isn't always the winner--the top two teams were both using O'caml this time.
In my view of how Beowulf clusterning is supposed to work, a master node breaks up a problem, gives chunks to a bunch of slave nodes, gets results back, and puts them together. At no point should the kernel mess with this data. If it is, something very screwy is going on, and something should be done about it forthrightly. Can anybody tell me why the kernel version should matter if the data format is going to be the same? After all, the internet works on countless kernels....
Let me tell a story about a Python script I wrote once that made me glad I wasn't connected to the internet.
It all began when I wanted to create a page that would copy any other page. It would retrieve the HTML from an URL and display it. Simple? Too simple. It worked very well for a while. I would tell it to get other files off localhost, and everything was happy. Then I decided to try to get something off the filesystem. file://something. It worked. I tried to get/etc/passwd. It worked.
Then I put in something to make sure that the URLs were HTTP URLs.
The moral: be paranoid, and never trust any data from your users. I hear Perl has a feature called "taint" to help keep track of insecure data; that would've been useful....
And it gives a bullshit argument: if you're using different versions of the linux kernel in the same cluster, very bad things will happen. Why should they happen? If your program is written well (as in, compatible with itself), shouldn't you only run into problems like that if you're using different network protocols or something?
I still don't understand how they thought that data from programs running under different kernels was automatically incomaptible.
Why not do some work once and save all the application developers a lot of work? This is a good idea.
This could be done without doing anything to your BIOS; youc could just dump all the memory allocated to a certain program to disk and put that process in a list of hibernating processes. What's so hard about that?
Yes, this can be very good. I sincerely hope that it works and people can go back to debating abortion instead.
Just think of the potential of this. You think a lot of people died on sep. 11? More could be saved by this.
Now to help make the abortion debate moot, we could use some good reliable birth control. I don't think abybody likes abortion. I mean, not as a recreational thing.
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Try Mandrake 7.1 or later (or some other distro, but I don't know about them). They have pretty fonts by default. That's what distros are for.
You hit the nail on the head there. Both main parties are pretty much controlled by people who just want popularity and power. They accomplish this by doing things like meeting celebrities in public and passing laws like "PATRIOT" that give them more power.
The people in the third parties are probably a lot more principled, because they know that their party robably won't become major, but they stick with it anyay.
Yes, that'll bring US military spending up to about what it was in the Cold War. Of course, He'll keep on claiming that it's for "fighting terrorism" and that you're unpatriotic if you aren't as gung ho about it as he is. And they will still say that the Republicans favor "fiscal restraint". As I see it, the Democrats spend a lot of money and take a lot of taxes, while the Republicans spend a lot of money and don't charge a lot of taxes, thus exacerbating the federal debt. And people still fall for it.
Don't worry. Windows is set to "idiot mode" every day, as are quite a few normal people. I didn't read the article either.
I do; it's because people set double standards. They think that reading people's mail is horribly wrong and unamerican, but then they equate letting police read people's email and IMs with "fighting terrorism".
I have come to the conlusion that all humans are insane. Beam me up, Kt'chork.
It is good that GNU/RMS have been acting rather reasonably lately. RMS said recently that the GNU project was missing a kernel for a long time, but now it has one: Linux. A bit different from what some people might expect, and I would say that's a good thing.
NOT ALL PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 18 ARE UTTER IDIOTS!!!
There are many of us who are quite able to seperate reality from Quake, we aren't all hormonally overstimulated jerks, some of us are actually capable of rational thought, most of us see "drugs are bad for you" school assemblies as redundant, and some of us are justified in looking down upon some of our teachers in terms of intelligence and rationality.
Perhaps a better standard would be to keep violent video games away from idiots, whatever their age. But these senators wouldn't like that. They wouldn't be able to see the games then, while some of the more intelligent teenagers in Georgia wouls be playing them.
No, they would never go for a policy that didn't assume that minors are idiots.
Without enforced movie ratings not all movies would suck. There would still be a lot of movies tailored for people who don't like lots of blood splattering everywhere and such, because that's what people would want.
If that's dirty GNU Hippiness, I like Dirty GNU Hippiness. It's a very sane position.
It's better to get it all over with sometime, and then you'll be out from under MS's thumb for a long time. And if the government can afford to pay a billion dollars for a big airplane to drop bombs on people, surely they can cugh up some money so they wouldn't be supporting a monopoly!
As for document compatibility, hopefully StarOffice and friends can gracefully deal with features it can't use. And anyway, is it really that hard for people to save as HTML?
And as for government support of Open Source, is using open source stuff any worse than using MS software?
To uninstall something properly, all you should have to use is a single RPM (or whatever you use) command. Typically that's all it takes. But with this crazy windows program you have to use an application that MS warns you never to use except in dire circumstances and use some poorly documented trick. Sheesh...
You're right. If we pool our resources into a sort of global timesharing system, we can all benefit. But some people are just predisposed toward being selfish bastards...
I still can't make it count to ten...
That's one of the best suggestions I've seen so far. All the tech toys in the world can't get you a girlfriend if you're the type who carries around a vacuum tube as a conversation starter. And she isn't, that is.
Wireless can be cool too, though...
And there certainly are a lot of assholes in any large group. That's what goes wrong.
Besides that, I'm glad that this will fuel the creation of more cool video games. More video games!
Just giving some more information...
In my view of how Beowulf clusterning is supposed to work, a master node breaks up a problem, gives chunks to a bunch of slave nodes, gets results back, and puts them together. At no point should the kernel mess with this data. If it is, something very screwy is going on, and something should be done about it forthrightly. Can anybody tell me why the kernel version should matter if the data format is going to be the same? After all, the internet works on countless kernels....
It all began when I wanted to create a page that would copy any other page. It would retrieve the HTML from an URL and display it. Simple? Too simple. It worked very well for a while. I would tell it to get other files off localhost, and everything was happy. Then I decided to try to get something off the filesystem. file://something. It worked. I tried to get /etc/passwd. It worked.
Then I put in something to make sure that the URLs were HTTP URLs.
The moral: be paranoid, and never trust any data from your users. I hear Perl has a feature called "taint" to help keep track of insecure data; that would've been useful....
To make gunpowder, you just have to look it up in Encarta (yeah, MS, I know) and put together the ingredients in the proportions they give.
And now I have them safely memorized, just in case.
I still don't understand how they thought that data from programs running under different kernels was automatically incomaptible.
This could be done without doing anything to your BIOS; youc could just dump all the memory allocated to a certain program to disk and put that process in a list of hibernating processes. What's so hard about that?
There was an article on slashdot a while back about these...
Just think of the potential of this. You think a lot of people died on sep. 11? More could be saved by this.
Now to help make the abortion debate moot, we could use some good reliable birth control. I don't think abybody likes abortion. I mean, not as a recreational thing.