Thanks for citing all of your sources for this information! I've memorized the URL to this post so that I may refer people to it. The wealth of information that you provide to back your premise that "Neither Oil nor Nuclear fissionable materials are 'running out'.," is truly staggering. And you'll never know how comforting it is to know that 'There's far more oil in the USA then in all of the middle east," and if I ever find one of those luddites you're talking about (the ones that won't let us pump the massive oil stores that so swell the United States that it's about to burst like an over fed tick), I'll be sure to write down this URL for them also.
Expect more product placements. Expect flashing graphics overlayed on top of billboards during baseball games. The time for commercials still exists, unfortunately it coincides perfectly with the time for the programming...;(
I never understood the fear linux users had of showing their OS to other people. "What if they can't use it and they go buy Windows?" Didn't happen to me. Have some faith in the product.
"Your biggest problems will come when everyone and their dog wants to install their personal stuff (screensavers, wallpaper, P2P apps, etc...) on their new Linux machines, then get mad when you tell them it won't work."
Screensavers? Have you SEEN the latest full Gnome install? I could spend an hour browsing through the stock screen savers! As for wallpaper, that's cross platform. A jpeg is a jpeg is a jpeg. P2P apps would be a problem if it wasn't for wine and people like Frank, who've figured it out for you. Closed formats are really the only thing that Microsoft apps can read that Linux apps can't. Even that barrier is crumbling.
"...Linux simply cannot read some of the MS formats (Access DB, oddities in Excel/Word files), you still need to keep some MS products around"
I really meant:
"...Linux apps capable of reading all of the MS formats (Access DB, oddities in Excel/Word files), do not exist yet, you still need to keep some MS products around."
This is the correct solution for the majority of configurations. Since there is NOT a one-to-one coorespondence between MS and Linux apps, and because Linux simply cannot read some of the MS formats (Access DB, oddities in Excel/Word files), you still need to keep some MS products around.
Unfortunately, introducing another Operating System into your (until now) heterogenous network can cause some headaches. Most notably (at least in my case), backups can become a problem. We use AMANDA here for our backups and haven't had a problem. YMMV. File serving is a breeze (and FAST) with samba so you shouldn't run into any problems there.
Expect to spend a significant amount of time explaining "Windows Equivalents" to your users. Cut and Paste for example, can be a PITA.
It can be done. Don't let anyone tell you it can't.
Murder isn't about morality so much as order. It's hard to have an orderly society when murder is legal. Same with the Speed Limit laws. Legislation has nothing to do with morality. Nothing.
I'm not a grammar nazi, but when I read your post I had the strangest image of the winter olympics luge competitors desperately trying to navigate through your living room.
You ass. He's doing this for free. Not to mention, that his site is not 'horribly out of date,' it's quite navigable, and obviously took a great deal of time. When someone does the community a favour like this, it's best not to throw about unfounded criticisms and flames. Ungrateful troll (I suppose that IS the only variety).
bestbookbuys.com is a meta-price-comparison site and has the lowest price listed at 28 and change (with shipping). The half.com price was about a buck more. (I only know this because I'm WAY too tight with money.)
Make sure that the companies that subscribe to BSA services KNOW that you're going over to an all-open-source campus because of the BSA. I can't imagine the BSA being so bold if this threat were realized more than once on large enough campuses.
Couldn't care less about political correctness. (As an aside, I live with a school teacher who loathes the word 'retarded'. I refuse to stop using this word, as it accurately describes the condition of my ignition timing, and the learning ability of some people.) Initially, I pointed out, and I thought quite clearly, that you used a word that could be interpreted to be a racially motivated slight. I attached no ethical value to that statement. I didn't call you a bigot.
Everything and anything one says could be construed as being offensive; I refuse to allow myself to care.
A person who didn't allow themselves to care wouldn't bother with a reply, no? Well, that is neither here nor there.
It's forgotten, but I would suggest that you take the Overly Defensive hat off, it is annoying.
I never implied that you hadn't read the Merchant of Venice. I implied that it was possible that you didn't understand what the word 'Shylock' meant. I don't equate being cheap with being Jewish and I resent your implication as much as, I'm sure, you resented my perceived insinuation that you do. I didn't call you an anti-semite, I didn't insinuate that you correlate 'being a cheap ass Shylock to being Jewish.' What you read into my reply was a gross misinterpretation. Please re-read my post with a less cynical eye. I was attempting to correct, what I perceived to be, a mis-spoken, unintentionaly insensitive comment. Maybe the word 'Shylock' is not derogatory where you are, but it is most definately a perjorative here, connoting as much spite and intolerance as the word 'kike' or 'nigger.'
From m-w.com
Main Entry: shylock
Pronunciation: 'shI-"läk
Function: noun
1 capitalized : the Jewish usurer and antagonist of Antonio in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
I often wondered how much disclaimers actually meant. A good Reductio ad absurdum argument seems to disprove the validity of disclaimers. If a disclaimer can relieve the responsibility of telling the truth, then any outrageous claim can be made without fear, so long as there is a disclaimer. For example,
"If you sleep with me you will be taken to plains of libidinous pleasure hitherto unkown to you."
Disclaimer: "These claims are unsubstantiated. In fact, claims to the contrary have been substantiated on numerous occasions, including one incident that involved a giraffe stuffed with whipped cream and a cactus bloom."
The government does NOT legislate morality. It could care less about morality. The government cares about maintaining order, and collecting more power. Criminal laws have nothing to do with morality. Robbery, theft, and murder are illegal because they contribute to the decay of ORDER, not morality. It's why there is a speed limit, and why jaywalking is illegal, and why you can't park wherever the hell you want. People need to feel protected. Our government does this by bringing order.
Why not have a.kids tld? Or.safe tld or some such tld that indicates "Hey, there's no pictures here of anyone who recently rammed a cantelope up their ass!" It would be easier to have a list of accessible sites rather than maintain a list of unacceptable ones. Wouldn't it?
Re:My vote for Fair Use.
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I love this, but it's a goddamn pipe dream. There is every indication that the RIAA/MPAA has a copy of this list and is systematically invalidating all of these rights through questionable legislation and barratry. According to them, any official ratification of this bill will put them out of business and take the entire economy of the world with them. In reality, they stand to gain by selling shifting technology that's easier to use than what's out there now or producing multiple inexpensive (disposable even) formats of their content.
I saw this posted earlier, but can't find the original. Basically, an existing idea (the Cisco Token Bucket) was proposed as being a solution to the ISP's problems. Each Token in the bucket would represent a certain number of 'bytes' that you were allowed to download. This bucket starts full and is constantly being filled. The rate of fill is up to the ISP. This provides most users with a very fast internet connection. Those who tend to use a ton of bandwidth get throttled, as they're using more tokens than they are being furnished with (at first their connection seems fast, but after they've used all of their tokens, they see a drop in speed). There would be a bottom bandwidth level which your connection would never drop below (say 56k). I hope I've explained this adequately. The original poster had a much more succinct description, but brevity is not one of my virtues.
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Thanks for citing all of your sources for this information! I've memorized the URL to this post so that I may refer people to it. The wealth of information that you provide to back your premise that "Neither Oil nor Nuclear fissionable materials are 'running out'.," is truly staggering. And you'll never know how comforting it is to know that 'There's far more oil in the USA then in all of the middle east," and if I ever find one of those luddites you're talking about (the ones that won't let us pump the massive oil stores that so swell the United States that it's about to burst like an over fed tick), I'll be sure to write down this URL for them also.
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Whoo Ha! ;) Not QUITE as sweet as Cash, but that sounds great!
Thanks
Expect more product placements. Expect flashing graphics overlayed on top of billboards during baseball games. The time for commercials still exists, unfortunately it coincides perfectly with the time for the programming... ;(
I never understood the fear linux users had of showing their OS to other people. "What if they can't use it and they go buy Windows?" Didn't happen to me. Have some faith in the product.
"Your biggest problems will come when everyone and their dog wants to install their personal stuff (screensavers, wallpaper, P2P apps, etc...) on their new Linux machines, then get mad when you tell them it won't work."
Screensavers? Have you SEEN the latest full Gnome install? I could spend an hour browsing through the stock screen savers! As for wallpaper, that's cross platform. A jpeg is a jpeg is a jpeg. P2P apps would be a problem if it wasn't for wine and people like Frank, who've figured it out for you. Closed formats are really the only thing that Microsoft apps can read that Linux apps can't. Even that barrier is crumbling.
erm. When I said:
"...Linux simply cannot read some of the MS formats (Access DB, oddities in Excel/Word files), you still need to keep some MS products around"
I really meant:
"...Linux apps capable of reading all of the MS formats (Access DB, oddities in Excel/Word files), do not exist yet, you still need to keep some MS products around."
This is the correct solution for the majority of configurations. Since there is NOT a one-to-one coorespondence between MS and Linux apps, and because Linux simply cannot read some of the MS formats (Access DB, oddities in Excel/Word files), you still need to keep some MS products around.
Unfortunately, introducing another Operating System into your (until now) heterogenous network can cause some headaches. Most notably (at least in my case), backups can become a problem. We use AMANDA here for our backups and haven't had a problem. YMMV. File serving is a breeze (and FAST) with samba so you shouldn't run into any problems there.
Expect to spend a significant amount of time explaining "Windows Equivalents" to your users. Cut and Paste for example, can be a PITA.
It can be done. Don't let anyone tell you it can't.
That was a Great Point(tm).
Murder isn't about morality so much as order. It's hard to have an orderly society when murder is legal. Same with the Speed Limit laws. Legislation has nothing to do with morality. Nothing.
Hey, at least he didn't leave the caps lock key on again.... I had a headache for that entire week...
I'm not a grammar nazi, but when I read your post I had the strangest image of the winter olympics luge competitors desperately trying to navigate through your living room.
This can only mean that I need more coffee.
You ass. He's doing this for free. Not to mention, that his site is not 'horribly out of date,' it's quite navigable, and obviously took a great deal of time. When someone does the community a favour like this, it's best not to throw about unfounded criticisms and flames. Ungrateful troll (I suppose that IS the only variety).
bestbookbuys.com is a meta-price-comparison site and has the lowest price listed at 28 and change (with shipping). The half.com price was about a buck more. (I only know this because I'm WAY too tight with money.)
[screaming] SHILL! [/screaming]
;)
kidding.
Make sure that the companies that subscribe to BSA services KNOW that you're going over to an all-open-source campus because of the BSA. I can't imagine the BSA being so bold if this threat were realized more than once on large enough campuses.
Couldn't care less about political correctness. (As an aside, I live with a school teacher who loathes the word 'retarded'. I refuse to stop using this word, as it accurately describes the condition of my ignition timing, and the learning ability of some people.) Initially, I pointed out, and I thought quite clearly, that you used a word that could be interpreted to be a racially motivated slight. I attached no ethical value to that statement. I didn't call you a bigot.
Everything and anything one says could be construed as being offensive; I refuse to allow myself to care.
A person who didn't allow themselves to care wouldn't bother with a reply, no? Well, that is neither here nor there.
It's forgotten, but I would suggest that you take the Overly Defensive hat off, it is annoying.
Ahem...
I never implied that you hadn't read the Merchant of Venice. I implied that it was possible that you didn't understand what the word 'Shylock' meant. I don't equate being cheap with being Jewish and I resent your implication as much as, I'm sure, you resented my perceived insinuation that you do. I didn't call you an anti-semite, I didn't insinuate that you correlate 'being a cheap ass Shylock to being Jewish.' What you read into my reply was a gross misinterpretation. Please re-read my post with a less cynical eye. I was attempting to correct, what I perceived to be, a mis-spoken, unintentionaly insensitive comment. Maybe the word 'Shylock' is not derogatory where you are, but it is most definately a perjorative here, connoting as much spite and intolerance as the word 'kike' or 'nigger.'
From m-w.com
Main Entry: shylock
Pronunciation: 'shI-"läk
Function: noun
1 capitalized : the Jewish usurer and antagonist of Antonio in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
2 : an extortionate creditor : Loan Shark
Andrew
fwiw: "Shylock" (in addition to being a character in a Bill Shakespeare play) is a derogatory term found insulting by most jewish people. Just fyi.
I often wondered how much disclaimers actually meant. A good Reductio ad absurdum argument seems to disprove the validity of disclaimers. If a disclaimer can relieve the responsibility of telling the truth, then any outrageous claim can be made without fear, so long as there is a disclaimer. For example,
;)
"If you sleep with me you will be taken to plains of libidinous pleasure hitherto unkown to you."
Disclaimer: "These claims are unsubstantiated. In fact, claims to the contrary have been substantiated on numerous occasions, including one incident that involved a giraffe stuffed with whipped cream and a cactus bloom."
Any takers?
Opteron? Wasn't he an Autobot? ;)
Slashdot told me to stop paying taxes! Hail Slashdot!
The government does NOT legislate morality. It could care less about morality. The government cares about maintaining order, and collecting more power. Criminal laws have nothing to do with morality. Robbery, theft, and murder are illegal because they contribute to the decay of ORDER, not morality. It's why there is a speed limit, and why jaywalking is illegal, and why you can't park wherever the hell you want. People need to feel protected. Our government does this by bringing order.
Why not have a .kids tld? Or .safe tld or some such tld that indicates "Hey, there's no pictures here of anyone who recently rammed a cantelope up their ass!" It would be easier to have a list of accessible sites rather than maintain a list of unacceptable ones. Wouldn't it?
I love this, but it's a goddamn pipe dream. There is every indication that the RIAA/MPAA has a copy of this list and is systematically invalidating all of these rights through questionable legislation and barratry. According to them, any official ratification of this bill will put them out of business and take the entire economy of the world with them. In reality, they stand to gain by selling shifting technology that's easier to use than what's out there now or producing multiple inexpensive (disposable even) formats of their content.
I saw this posted earlier, but can't find the original. Basically, an existing idea (the Cisco Token Bucket) was proposed as being a solution to the ISP's problems. Each Token in the bucket would represent a certain number of 'bytes' that you were allowed to download. This bucket starts full and is constantly being filled. The rate of fill is up to the ISP. This provides most users with a very fast internet connection. Those who tend to use a ton of bandwidth get throttled, as they're using more tokens than they are being furnished with (at first their connection seems fast, but after they've used all of their tokens, they see a drop in speed). There would be a bottom bandwidth level which your connection would never drop below (say 56k). I hope I've explained this adequately. The original poster had a much more succinct description, but brevity is not one of my virtues.