actually my understanding was that the whole reason there was a new constitution in 1787 was because the federal gov't wasn't powerful enough. specifically two states had an argument and barring war there was no way to settle it. now the supreme court does that.
laws must be interpreted. someone has to stand up and make a judgment as to what is legal or illegal. if not the supreme court then who? it only seems reasonable that congress writes the laws, the executive enforces the laws, and the judges make judgements based on the laws. and if the laws conflict it seems like they should mention that and make a decision.
of all the things i dislike about bush it's that. here he is with his checkered past and does he have any compassion or understanding? no, he wants three-strikes, more prisons and tougher drug laws. what good would three-strikes have done him? i disagree with his politics but he seems like he's done a decent job at being a good parent - something that's hard to do from prison.
please name the top three issues you feel need to be addressed as president; state what your solutions would be; and finally, state what differentiates your solutions from those of three of your opponents.
for example if i was on the list my response might be:
i kevin lyda feel that these issues are important:
no, sorry. you need to learn your trade. i expect the folks building my house to know if there was a recall of any of the various bits used to build my house. i expect them to know which materials are appropriate to use in the climate i am in.
in other words i expect them to be skilled.
and for sysadmins of linux systems i expect that even more because they have a freely available os they can install on as many test boxes as they like. and there are docs up the wazzoo and tons of other resources.
in other words, *you* did something stupid, *you* need to take steps to fix it.
repeat until you understand. most cpu's do provide cpuids. it's used mainly for licensing - and there are ways around that. obviously if a company can't depend on a cpuid for locally running apps, they'd be foolish to depend on one for non-local apps.
i am not an intel fan. but the cpuid fiasco was a tempest in a teapot. a marketing person at intel made a stupid comment - stupid for techincal as well as non-technical reasons. but marketing people are *supposed* to be stupid in any company! but the complete and utter stupidity of harping on it by "privacy activists" makes that marketing droid look downright brilliant in comparison.
so enough already with the cpuids. sun has had them since the 80's. macs have them (or they should). aix boxes have them, hp/ux, etc. big deal. it's not an issue. this windmill has been tilted at enough, go find something real to work on.
i use redhat because it lets me get my work done. as a developer i don't have oodles of time to tweak configs and build every package from scratch. i have done it in the past - for both linux and sunos. it was fun. i used to find rattles fun too.
at the moment i'm more interested in getting my personal and work projects developed and running. that involves c, perl, php3, perl modules and i'm hoping someday to find a use for the Inline::C modules... ah...
anyway, quite the funny/snarky comment, but in relaity many people find redhat a great base for doing real development. therefore they need a good c compiler.
"a majority of 16-30 year olds take recreational drugs in europe."
now who is talking crap? are you counting alcohol/tobacco use? i've never seen an article describing that. i know us folk in ireland aren't up on the latest continental news but i'd think that would make the papers.
again, i think the war on drugs shit is crap. but i also think that people taking drugs are for the most part setting themselves up for a lot of pain and suffering. i've had friends who were "in control" and were not "losers" go out of control and become losers.
life is not safe. it throws all sorts of curves. the war on drugs people seem to think they can make it safe - they're wrong. drug advocates seem to think life *is* safe and it won't hurt them. they are also wrong.
sorry. i can't agree with you. i know too many people who self-destructed with drugs - from tobacco and alcohol onwards. there are physical realities about the ways our bodies are wired and all the cool talk of "i can handle it," rings a tad hollow to those of us who have parents, siblings, kids and friends who have wrecked their lives and maimed those around them.
i don't like the "war on drugs," in the states and like most liberals (before they got pressured into the "tough on crime" stance from the "law and order except in opponents hotel rooms") i protested against it at the time. however people in the states keep voting conservative so i suppose they get what they deserve.
however for the most part "recreational" drug use does far more to fuck up people's lives then it does to make them better. i'd be inclined to say the same about religion in many countries as well.
ok, let's say redhat buys adobe. goofy, yes, but let's say that happens. i would expect redhat/adobe to port adobe's suite of products to linux. i would expect them to maintain the mac an nt versions of their products. i wouldn't want them to drop any port - i'd just want them to add linux.
i have no problems with ms/bungie adding support for nt, but keep it's linux support.
did you read the link? did you miss the "mandatory for students to purchase" the textbooks? i'm not a big (usa style) libertarian fan, but i find eejits you don't even read before spouting off even worse...
i entered in over two dozen of my cd's into cddb back in it's early days. i did it with the intention of sharing that info with everyone. i'm not sure that there was a notice at the time saying that the data could be taken into a closed form, but maybe there was.
it certainly solidifies my resolve to publish my code under the gpl and not any other license. this kind of crap pisses me off and the leeches out there don't even get the moral equivilant of heartburn when they close off access to the very people that built their system. yet another reason to hate suits.
what is voting but expressing an opinion? many roadblocks have been put up against voters in the past - owning land, gender, religion, education, etc. voting is just a way to get a person with the voter's interests in a position of power.
in other words voting is a way of communicating.
what is software? in many respects it too is a way to communicate. email, news, the web, chat, etc. all of these must remain *free* if all people are to be able to use them to communicate freely. and in order for that to happen the people need to be able to *see* the software.
there's also an issue of civility. all these grandiose concepts of freedom are great, but for what? a society where corporations tell us what is moral? the act of sharing with a friend is deemed immoral and illegal?
is that what real and serious freedom is working for? if it is then sign me up for the cheapened and goofy form of freedom.
my understanding was that the "desktop" was the computer you used. formerly known as a workstation or the marketing-poor "your computer."
what i use to edit documents, edit code, send mail, browse the web, ftp, play music, rip cd's, keep todo lists on, play videos, download pix from my camera, upload music to my (usb) rio, automatically do certain tasks for me, and generally help me organise the digital side of my life.
is that what you mean by desktop? because bar netscape every single application is better then the windows apps people have shown me on windows. staroffice is tied with word in my book, i haven't seen a decent wp since writenow on the mac.
no apps comparable to windows? how wrong are you? name a windows app without a linux counterpart? name a windows counterpart that has the features of procmail, leafnode, cron, anacron and x? i use all of these things in my day to day work, and last i checked i couldn't accomplish any of those w/o serious scripting in apps that have no published roadmap, i have no access to their development teams plans and generally shift from release to release.
i think people who use windows desktops are shortsighted and using/learning skills that microsoft bases its business plan on making obsolete every few years. all the unix tools i used in college bar one have followed me to linux 10 years on (i can't get rn to build). i also chose to stop using xv because eog is faster (and licensing is better).
your post boils down to the fact that an admin can fuck up a box. "playing with your home machine" does not translate to "hosing the company mail server."
i work at a telco/financial company. most of our major money making systems have a linux component - in fact in several cases they're all linux. our admins understand the need for 24x7 uptime and the need for planning ahead when things go wrong (disk on fire for instance). our linux boxes, admined incorrectly could fuck us over. which is why we use rcs for config files, kickstart for box installs, documentation for inhouse software and mailman based mailing lists for communication. because the power that allows one to do bad things also allows us to do great things if we're responsible and keep our heads out of our asses.
scalpels can kill people, safety scissors probably can't. what do you want to see in a surgeon's hands?
"but I didn't think the Linux desktop market really existed yet."
well i dunno what os i've been using on the desktop for the past five years if the linux desktop market isn't happening. it sure seems like linux. and i've had over three dozen coworkers using linux desktops as well.
don't believe the hype about the number of windows users. it apparently takes two windows licenses to have one windows user in most companies. (and since they probably have a windows machine at home make that three per user.)
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3d projections onto a 2d surface... hm... where have i heard of that before? wait, i hear a voice... it's saying... "retina".
huh.
wonder what that means...
move to europe.
if the ballot's pretty fucking obvious, why did you get it wrong? there's a 5 next to gore's name, not a 3. the 3 is next to bush's name.
the sample ballot differed from the actual ballot.
the designer of the ballot regrets it.
several people asked before and afterwards for help and were refused.
actually my understanding was that the whole reason there was a new constitution in 1787 was because the federal gov't wasn't powerful enough. specifically two states had an argument and barring war there was no way to settle it. now the supreme court does that.
laws must be interpreted. someone has to stand up and make a judgment as to what is legal or illegal. if not the supreme court then who? it only seems reasonable that congress writes the laws, the executive enforces the laws, and the judges make judgements based on the laws. and if the laws conflict it seems like they should mention that and make a decision.
and this is different then the private sector?
you realise many people find dilbert's view of the world a step up, don't you?
of all the things i dislike about bush it's that. here he is with his checkered past and does he have any compassion or understanding? no, he wants three-strikes, more prisons and tougher drug laws. what good would three-strikes have done him? i disagree with his politics but he seems like he's done a decent job at being a good parent - something that's hard to do from prison.
yeah, sure, "thank you god." what about the engineer who designed the automatic parachute release or the people that built it?
for example if i was on the list my response might be:
i kevin lyda feel that these issues are important:
no, sorry. you need to learn your trade. i expect the folks building my house to know if there was a recall of any of the various bits used to build my house. i expect them to know which materials are appropriate to use in the climate i am in.
in other words i expect them to be skilled.
and for sysadmins of linux systems i expect that even more because they have a freely available os they can install on as many test boxes as they like. and there are docs up the wazzoo and tons of other resources.
in other words, *you* did something stupid, *you* need to take steps to fix it.
THE CPUID INSTRUCTION DOES NOT VIOLATE PRIVACY.
repeat until you understand. most cpu's do provide cpuids. it's used mainly for licensing - and there are ways around that. obviously if a company can't depend on a cpuid for locally running apps, they'd be foolish to depend on one for non-local apps.
i am not an intel fan. but the cpuid fiasco was a tempest in a teapot. a marketing person at intel made a stupid comment - stupid for techincal as well as non-technical reasons. but marketing people are *supposed* to be stupid in any company! but the complete and utter stupidity of harping on it by "privacy activists" makes that marketing droid look downright brilliant in comparison.
so enough already with the cpuids. sun has had them since the 80's. macs have them (or they should). aix boxes have them, hp/ux, etc. big deal. it's not an issue. this windmill has been tilted at enough, go find something real to work on.
yes.
i use redhat because it lets me get my work done. as a developer i don't have oodles of time to tweak configs and build every package from scratch. i have done it in the past - for both linux and sunos. it was fun. i used to find rattles fun too.
at the moment i'm more interested in getting my personal and work projects developed and running. that involves c, perl, php3, perl modules and i'm hoping someday to find a use for the Inline::C modules... ah...
anyway, quite the funny/snarky comment, but in relaity many people find redhat a great base for doing real development. therefore they need a good c compiler.
"a majority of 16-30 year olds take recreational drugs in europe."
now who is talking crap? are you counting alcohol/tobacco use? i've never seen an article describing that. i know us folk in ireland aren't up on the latest continental news but i'd think that would make the papers.
again, i think the war on drugs shit is crap. but i also think that people taking drugs are for the most part setting themselves up for a lot of pain and suffering. i've had friends who were "in control" and were not "losers" go out of control and become losers.
life is not safe. it throws all sorts of curves. the war on drugs people seem to think they can make it safe - they're wrong. drug advocates seem to think life *is* safe and it won't hurt them. they are also wrong.
sorry. i can't agree with you. i know too many people who self-destructed with drugs - from tobacco and alcohol onwards. there are physical realities about the ways our bodies are wired and all the cool talk of "i can handle it," rings a tad hollow to those of us who have parents, siblings, kids and friends who have wrecked their lives and maimed those around them.
i don't like the "war on drugs," in the states and like most liberals (before they got pressured into the "tough on crime" stance from the "law and order except in opponents hotel rooms") i protested against it at the time. however people in the states keep voting conservative so i suppose they get what they deserve.
however for the most part "recreational" drug use does far more to fuck up people's lives then it does to make them better. i'd be inclined to say the same about religion in many countries as well.
ok, let's say redhat buys adobe. goofy, yes, but let's say that happens. i would expect redhat/adobe to port adobe's suite of products to linux. i would expect them to maintain the mac an nt versions of their products. i wouldn't want them to drop any port - i'd just want them to add linux.
i have no problems with ms/bungie adding support for nt, but keep it's linux support.
did you read the link? did you miss the "mandatory for students to purchase" the textbooks? i'm not a big (usa style) libertarian fan, but i find eejits you don't even read before spouting off even worse...
i entered in over two dozen of my cd's into cddb back in it's early days. i did it with the intention of sharing that info with everyone. i'm not sure that there was a notice at the time saying that the data could be taken into a closed form, but maybe there was.
it certainly solidifies my resolve to publish my code under the gpl and not any other license. this kind of crap pisses me off and the leeches out there don't even get the moral equivilant of heartburn when they close off access to the very people that built their system. yet another reason to hate suits.
what? digital paper. there's a story or two on slashdot about it, go search.
what is voting but expressing an opinion? many roadblocks have been put up against voters in the past - owning land, gender, religion, education, etc. voting is just a way to get a person with the voter's interests in a position of power.
in other words voting is a way of communicating.
what is software? in many respects it too is a way to communicate. email, news, the web, chat, etc. all of these must remain *free* if all people are to be able to use them to communicate freely. and in order for that to happen the people need to be able to *see* the software.
there's also an issue of civility. all these grandiose concepts of freedom are great, but for what? a society where corporations tell us what is moral? the act of sharing with a friend is deemed immoral and illegal?
is that what real and serious freedom is working for? if it is then sign me up for the cheapened and goofy form of freedom.
because we're all wise enough to know you're too ignorant to appreciate it. sonny.
published by who? do you mean by the folks doing microsoft's docs or by the people reporting the vulnerability?
cat food. £4 a can. click here to buy.
what part of the above requires dhtml/css/etc? barring resume building by "desgin artists."
in fact i can think of a discussion site that supports thousands of people and it doesn't do (much/any) browser detection.
my understanding was that the "desktop" was the computer you used. formerly known as a workstation or the marketing-poor "your computer."
what i use to edit documents, edit code, send mail, browse the web, ftp, play music, rip cd's, keep todo lists on, play videos, download pix from my camera, upload music to my (usb) rio, automatically do certain tasks for me, and generally help me organise the digital side of my life.
is that what you mean by desktop? because bar netscape every single application is better then the windows apps people have shown me on windows. staroffice is tied with word in my book, i haven't seen a decent wp since writenow on the mac.
no apps comparable to windows? how wrong are you? name a windows app without a linux counterpart? name a windows counterpart that has the features of procmail, leafnode, cron, anacron and x? i use all of these things in my day to day work, and last i checked i couldn't accomplish any of those w/o serious scripting in apps that have no published roadmap, i have no access to their development teams plans and generally shift from release to release.
i think people who use windows desktops are shortsighted and using/learning skills that microsoft bases its business plan on making obsolete every few years. all the unix tools i used in college bar one have followed me to linux 10 years on (i can't get rn to build). i also chose to stop using xv because eog is faster (and licensing is better).
your post boils down to the fact that an admin can fuck up a box. "playing with your home machine" does not translate to "hosing the company mail server."
i work at a telco/financial company. most of our major money making systems have a linux component - in fact in several cases they're all linux. our admins understand the need for 24x7 uptime and the need for planning ahead when things go wrong (disk on fire for instance). our linux boxes, admined incorrectly could fuck us over. which is why we use rcs for config files, kickstart for box installs, documentation for inhouse software and mailman based mailing lists for communication. because the power that allows one to do bad things also allows us to do great things if we're responsible and keep our heads out of our asses.
scalpels can kill people, safety scissors probably can't. what do you want to see in a surgeon's hands?
"but I didn't think the Linux desktop market really existed yet."
well i dunno what os i've been using on the desktop for the past five years if the linux desktop market isn't happening. it sure seems like linux. and i've had over three dozen coworkers using linux desktops as well.
don't believe the hype about the number of windows users. it apparently takes two windows licenses to have one windows user in most companies. (and since they probably have a windows machine at home make that three per user.)