Little late now if the groundwork hasn't been laid, but I would recommend to all involved the format of the '03 Aussie linux conference CD.iso they put together for download. It is thoroughly awesome work.
You could say the phone company is giving me something for the added $.15/month occasionally compounded onto my bill but if it is a far suburb I haven't called in my 20 years in the area, it isn't buying me anything.
Interestingly enough, it looks to me like my local calling area is expanding at about the rate of inflation. Coincidence?
To routinely traffic with the moon, it would be nice to have a base outside the gravity well that means business. A _real_ space station, not the decaying cans we currently have glomped together.
To _build_ that space station, we need a reliable launch vehicle.
What _decade_ will he be talking about "getting around to this?" Unilaterally without UN participation, I assume?
"Kind of a scary thought with all the United States went through during the Bush/Gore election, imagine the theories should a Diebold product be used in a situation like that. "
You obviously haven't seen the documents. The most famous is:
I need some answers! Our department is being audited by the County. I have been waiting for someone to give me an explanation as to why Precinct 216 gave Al Gore a minus 16022 when it was uploaded. Will someone please explain this so that I have the information to give the auditor instead of standing here "looking dumb".
Lana Hires - Volusia County Florida - January 17, 2001 8:07 AM
The very point of releasing the documents is that a Diebold product helped _create_ a situation like that.
'The rollout of DVR-type technology... will reach critical mass with 11 percent penetration of U.S. television households by 2005 and 15 percent by 2006
Sure, a lot of people don't like Microsoft, but that's no reason to make it worse for the millions of people who are forced to use Microsoft products,
They just signed a contract with Sun for a million linux desktops. Maybe it is time _now_ for people to seriously consider whether spawning a monoculture has been a threat to our techno pool.
The slice of moon rock at the entrance to the Air and Space that you can touch must wear down like the steps to a medieval cathedral with all the people rubbing greasy fingerprints on it. Has that ever been replaced? And if so, who got the old bits of that germ-o-phobes worst nightmare?
I suppose it could be considered mean-spirited to forever hold one little battleship that has to be towed into dock against Microsoft because their NT BSODed, but this so seems like it fits the "Don't They Ever Learn" department.
At least the Army is developing heavy vehicles with linux. Maybe we all _should_ drive Humvees?
"Leviticus 25:44 states that I may buy slaves from the nations that are around us. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans but not Canadians. Can you clarify?"
From a popular list of things Leviticus found at http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/Leviticus1.ht ml
I'm pretty sure during the days of DOS, there was a "prolife" dude who was teaching people to hack DOS so it would say something like "Halt/Retry/Fail".
My ex-boss at an elitist, intelligensia nonprofit out east that shall remain unnamed inherited a cabin in Northern Idaho. Renter wasn't paying and several collectors didn't resolve the issue. Finally, she hired a retired FBI agent to evict him. Report came back, "Well, when I drove up, he was out back doing some target practice with his machine gun." True story.
Not sure why this is either off thread or funny when the main discussion seems to be game playing AI.
I have no doubt that the focus will move east after chess to tackled. The fact that Go challenges brute force is one of the things that makes it interesting.
With the "announcement de jour", RedHat doesn't enhance an image of corporate stability.
Ok, the plain truth seems to be that RedHat wants to get out of the free download cycle and sell name brand distros. They should have set a date for it, done it, and eaten the karma as a kinder, gentler MS-lite in one clean step earlier than now.
But no. Lately (as in about a year), I thought they'd decided to be an enterprise server company. No retail shrinkwrap. But the FTP downloads vs. server with support. Well, now post-9 downloads are going away apparently, but we fork by adding unstable Fedora, right? Well, yes. But now we will have "official" $25 workstations coming back before the FTP.ISOs are even cold? So is this a two-tined fork or a three-tined fork? Or a four-tined fork with people patching 9 with 3rd-party.rpms?
Build this drunken ramble on top of the shock of the one-year support cycle, and instability in a company's business plan can be almost as worrisome as instability in software. Makes my one Debian test machine look much more attractive.
I used StarOffice on OS/2 and Windows back when a native OS/2 version was current. Yet I didn't like OpenOffice 1.0 much. It would blink out quite often on my machine -- reinstalls and repairs notwithstanding. But I'm seriously bonding with OpenOffice 1.1.
Looks like Fedora is offering a similar experience. Here are hopes for a better 1.1.
Hardly a rousing endorsement of linux desktops. They are finally just trusting linux to take the place of OS/2 in ATMs and the like. Part of offering a "total solution" no doubt.
I ran OS/2 at home from '95-'00 and they were good about developing drivers and customer satisfaction in general. No motivation to talk trash about the IBM home experience. But expect the same enthusiasm on their part for popularizing a linux desktop that they had for OS/2.
The difference this time is that there are _other_ companies also promoting desktop linux.
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Well, I was thinking: Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
Things that should traditionally be kept out of the hands of minors. Is the RIAA sending a message that minors shouldn't consume music?
Everyone blasted Darl last week for his challenging use of the english language.
To be fair, I must say that Linus's piece is not very cogent, either.
Better than Darl's Finnish, I'd wager.
Many people would prefer not to have to submit their eyes for scanning in order to withdraw money from a cash dispenser.
Well, exactly. I don't want some _robber_ submitting my eye for scanning.
Pioneers get the arrows.
I know industrial robots have already killed people. Does anybody have a breakdown by OS?
Precisely my thought. Awful lot of people started with a Trash-80 though.
Picking the Sensation for multimedia is like picking the Commodore Plus/4 for integrated productivity software.
Little late now if the groundwork hasn't been laid, but I would recommend to all involved the format of the '03 Aussie linux conference CD .iso they put together for download. It is thoroughly awesome work.
http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2003/
You could say the phone company is giving me something for the added $.15/month occasionally compounded onto my bill but if it is a far suburb I haven't called in my 20 years in the area, it isn't buying me anything.
Interestingly enough, it looks to me like my local calling area is expanding at about the rate of inflation. Coincidence?
talk is cheap. Hey, his dad was going to mars!
To routinely traffic with the moon, it would be nice to have a base outside the gravity well that means business. A _real_ space station, not the decaying cans we currently have glomped together.
To _build_ that space station, we need a reliable launch vehicle.
What _decade_ will he be talking about "getting around to this?" Unilaterally without UN participation, I assume?
"Kind of a scary thought with all the United States went through during the Bush/Gore election, imagine the theories should a Diebold product be used in a situation like that. "
You obviously haven't seen the documents. The most famous is:
I need some answers! Our department is being audited by the County. I have been waiting for someone to give me an explanation as to why Precinct 216 gave Al Gore a minus 16022 when it was uploaded. Will someone please explain this so that I have the information to give the auditor instead of standing here "looking dumb".
Lana Hires - Volusia County Florida - January 17, 2001 8:07 AM
The very point of releasing the documents is that a Diebold product helped _create_ a situation like that.
is not documentation.
'Nuf said
'The rollout of DVR-type technology ... will reach critical mass with 11 percent penetration of U.S. television households by 2005 and 15 percent by 2006
Build your own at:
http://webvcrplus.sourceforge.net/howto.html
Sure, a lot of people don't like Microsoft, but that's no reason to make it worse for the millions of people who are forced to use Microsoft products,
They just signed a contract with Sun for a million linux desktops. Maybe it is time _now_ for people to seriously consider whether spawning a monoculture has been a threat to our techno pool.
The slice of moon rock at the entrance to the Air and Space that you can touch must wear down like the steps to a medieval cathedral with all the people rubbing greasy fingerprints on it. Has that ever been replaced? And if so, who got the old bits of that germ-o-phobes worst nightmare?
I suppose it could be considered mean-spirited to forever hold one little battleship that has to be towed into dock against Microsoft because their NT BSODed, but this so seems like it fits the "Don't They Ever Learn" department.
At least the Army is developing heavy vehicles with linux. Maybe we all _should_ drive Humvees?
Well, in the U.S. companies are obliged to give all information about you to the government if they ask and obliged _not_ to tell you about it.
That's why we're so "free".
"Leviticus 25:44 states that I may buy slaves from the nations that are around us. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans but not Canadians. Can you clarify?"
t ml
From a popular list of things Leviticus found at
http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/Leviticus1.h
I'm pretty sure during the days of DOS, there was a "prolife" dude who was teaching people to hack DOS so it would say something like "Halt/Retry/Fail".
My ex-boss at an elitist, intelligensia nonprofit out east that shall remain unnamed inherited a cabin in Northern Idaho. Renter wasn't paying and several collectors didn't resolve the issue. Finally, she hired a retired FBI agent to evict him. Report came back, "Well, when I drove up, he was out back doing some target practice with his machine gun." True story.
>>As the article says about lawyers, it 'turns out you can't leave Earth without them.'
>Unlike Kennedy, no one speaks of "returning [them] safely to the Earth."
But wouldn't they, like, _accumulate_?
And left to their own devices, hire clerks to build them the Death Star of all law offices?
Someday, the people who know how to use computers will rule over those who don't. And there will be a special name for them: secretaries.
--Dilbert (as if anybody here didn't know that)
Not sure why this is either off thread or funny when the main discussion seems to be game playing AI.
I have no doubt that the focus will move east after chess to tackled. The fact that Go challenges brute force is one of the things that makes it interesting.
With the "announcement de jour", RedHat doesn't enhance an image of corporate stability.
.ISOs are even cold? So is this a two-tined fork or a three-tined fork? Or a four-tined fork with people patching 9 with 3rd-party .rpms?
Ok, the plain truth seems to be that RedHat wants to get out of the free download cycle and sell name brand distros. They should have set a date for it, done it, and eaten the karma as a kinder, gentler MS-lite in one clean step earlier than now.
But no. Lately (as in about a year), I thought they'd decided to be an enterprise server company. No retail shrinkwrap. But the FTP downloads vs. server with support. Well, now post-9 downloads are going away apparently, but we fork by adding unstable Fedora, right? Well, yes. But now we will have "official" $25 workstations coming back before the FTP
Build this drunken ramble on top of the shock of the one-year support cycle, and instability in a company's business plan can be almost as worrisome as instability in software. Makes my one Debian test machine look much more attractive.
I used StarOffice on OS/2 and Windows back when a native OS/2 version was current. Yet I didn't like OpenOffice 1.0 much. It would blink out quite often on my machine -- reinstalls and repairs notwithstanding. But I'm seriously bonding with OpenOffice 1.1.
Looks like Fedora is offering a similar experience. Here are hopes for a better 1.1.
Ok, everybody on the Microsoft side of the room, in unison now, let's hear a loud and heartfelt:
"Thanks for the prod that competition brings!"
Hardly a rousing endorsement of linux desktops. They are finally just trusting linux to take the place of OS/2 in ATMs and the like. Part of offering a "total solution" no doubt.
I ran OS/2 at home from '95-'00 and they were good about developing drivers and customer satisfaction in general. No motivation to talk trash about the IBM home experience. But expect the same enthusiasm on their part for popularizing a linux desktop that they had for OS/2.
The difference this time is that there are _other_ companies also promoting desktop linux.