(Disclaimer: this comes from an advocate of nuclear power. Add the appropriate block of salt.)
I've often wondered if your average anti-nuclear activist actually understands the physics involved. I'm not flaming, I'm genuinely curious. Through the media, I've seen many protests over the most trivial and safe use of nuclear technology (the Cassini launch comes to mind) but in all those news reports I've never seen an activist give a solid technical reason why they oppose nuclear power. Is that subtle filtering on the part of the media, or are these people genuinely clueless?
The frozen ham. Haven't you ever seen those movies where two enemy soldiers become lost or abandoned or marooned and have to rely on each other to get through numerous inexplicable disasters? Ham is food, and should sustain the two soldiers throughout all their wacky hijinx.
>Lawyers are actually a minority in Congress; there
>are more businessmen there now than lawyers.
But businessmen are easily intimidated by lawyers, since a lawsuit means a loss of money no matter who wins, and making money is what business is all about. Having more businessmen probably doesn't really change much, unfortunately.
And regarding Congress and its current crop of Representatives, here's a quick note to you Americans: If you're legally allowed to vote, and you don't, you don't deserve to celebrate the 4th of July. Shame on you.
Joe is a good console editor. You can define the commands yourself in a config file. It doesn't get any easier than that. The source comes with about a half-dozen prebuilt config files to get you started. It's very small, too, making it perfect over a ssh session. Newest version is 2.9.6, and it's under the GPL. It's available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/joe-editor/
Cooledit is a pretty nice X editor. It uses its own widget set, but it's fairly lightweight. It has lots of nice features like syntax highlighting and paragraph formatting. It comes with a companion program, Smalledit, which is just a very minimal X editor using the same widget set and commands as Cooledit. It even supports DND. And don't worry about the ugly default colours, they can be easily changed. Cooledit is also under the GPL, at http://cooledit.sourceforge.net/
Since I discovered NEdit, I haven't used Cooledit as often. For some perverse reason I like the Motif widgets.:)
It's not on *my* 'nix systems. The first thing I do after a new install of Linux or BSD is to rip out vi and install joe. Popular opinion can go fuck itself.
Personally, I like it when I don't have to re-read a sentence five times to figure out what the writer is saying. I don't call it dumbing-down, I call it clearly communicating ideas.
Yes, I did, unfortunately. I read about three sentences, then my brain fogged out. I don't hate Jon Katz, like some other slashdot users, but I do wish he'd stop using so many buzzwords. It's like reading a computer article in the business section of the National Post. Chock full of impressive sounding phrases that, in the end, don't really mean a goddamn thing and only serve to confuse the reader.
Please, Mr. Katz, don't use so many buzzwords. Write in plain english, and you might get some more readers, not people like me asking "What the fuck is that supposed to mean?"
Mr. Katz, how do you pick titles for your articles? Do you use Scrabble tiles and see what words you can make, or do you just flip through the dictionary and pick random words?
Are you on crack? When the average home user just wants a machine for the family to surf the web, email, and type school reports, they get a machine that doesn't cost an arm and a leg and one that they can get software for at the local Staples. When MacOSX runs on a $600 machine and there are a dozen racks of software for it at any given computer store, *then* Windows will be in trouble.
Exactly right. My first Linux experience was with Slack 3.4 on a 486 with limited disk space. I spent a lot of time scouring the system to free up space, and learned an awful lot about Linux and Unix in the process.
Amen. One of my family duties is turning old 486 and pentium boxes into cheap internet boxes. Usually I have little disk space and ram to work with, so I stick Zipslack on and compile anything else that machine needs.
I've gotten really good at optimizing binaries for speed and size, too.:)
Just this weekend I made of LAN of three 486s so my parents, little brother and little sister can all get DSL from their respective bedrooms. Minimal X with Windowmaker, Opera, and a few other things, and they're good to go. And I've had far fewer problems securing Slack than some other horrificly-insecure Lindows distros, such as Mandrake.
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(Disclaimer: this comes from an advocate of nuclear power. Add the appropriate block of salt.)
I've often wondered if your average anti-nuclear activist actually understands the physics involved. I'm not flaming, I'm genuinely curious. Through the media, I've seen many protests over the most trivial and safe use of nuclear technology (the Cassini launch comes to mind) but in all those news reports I've never seen an activist give a solid technical reason why they oppose nuclear power. Is that subtle filtering on the part of the media, or are these people genuinely clueless?
No, it's not money lost. I get sick and tired every time I hear someone say that since you're not making money, it's costing you. No.
You're simply not making money. Costing you money is if you had to actually pay someone. Positive, neutral, negative. Very basic concepts, folks.
Maybe that's what I miss most about MSDOS. It was crippled and badly designed and basically useless, but I never, ever saw it crash.
The frozen ham. Haven't you ever seen those movies where two enemy soldiers become lost or abandoned or marooned and have to rely on each other to get through numerous inexplicable disasters? Ham is food, and should sustain the two soldiers throughout all their wacky hijinx.
>Why do I need a 600MHz processor and 128MB of
>RAM just to run a simple desktop environment in Linux?
Because the gnome and kde developers are both more interested in making web browsers than in creating efficient desktop systems.
>Lawyers are actually a minority in Congress; there
>are more businessmen there now than lawyers.
But businessmen are easily intimidated by lawyers, since a lawsuit means a loss of money no matter who wins, and making money is what business is all about. Having more businessmen probably doesn't really change much, unfortunately.
And regarding Congress and its current crop of Representatives, here's a quick note to you Americans: If you're legally allowed to vote, and you don't, you don't deserve to celebrate the 4th of July. Shame on you.
After the recent distribution conflict, the battle of the languages, and the horrific Great Editor War, something comes along to completely unite all Slashdotters in mutual hatred against a single menace...
Elliot was always the better poet anyway.
/me ducks the rain of tomatos )
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That would be truly funny. A spin-off movie of a spin-off TV show of a movie. :)
That was a rant from one of the Lone Gunmen in the X-Files. Nice work,
moderator.
Joe is a good console editor. You can define the commands yourself in a config file. It doesn't get any easier than that. The source comes with about a half-dozen prebuilt config files to get you started. It's very small, too, making it perfect over a ssh session. Newest version is 2.9.6, and it's under the GPL. It's available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/joe-editor/
:)
Cooledit is a pretty nice X editor. It uses its own widget set, but it's fairly lightweight. It has lots of nice features like syntax highlighting and paragraph formatting. It comes with a companion program, Smalledit, which is just a very minimal X editor using the same widget set and commands as Cooledit. It even supports DND. And don't worry about the ugly default colours, they can be easily changed. Cooledit is also under the GPL, at http://cooledit.sourceforge.net/
Since I discovered NEdit, I haven't used Cooledit as often. For some perverse reason I like the Motif widgets.
I'm not a professional admin. I was talking about the various systems I have at home. I don't have to endear myself to anyone else. :)
It's not on *my* 'nix systems. The first thing I do after a new install of Linux or BSD is to rip out vi and install joe. Popular opinion can go fuck itself.
Personally, I like it when I don't have to re-read a sentence five times to figure out what the writer is saying. I don't call it dumbing-down, I call it clearly communicating ideas.
Yes, I did, unfortunately. I read about three sentences, then my brain fogged out. I don't hate Jon Katz, like some other slashdot users, but I do wish he'd stop using so many buzzwords. It's like reading a computer article in the business section of the National Post. Chock full of impressive sounding phrases that, in the end, don't really mean a goddamn thing and only serve to confuse the reader.
Please, Mr. Katz, don't use so many buzzwords. Write in plain english, and you might get some more readers, not people like me asking "What the fuck is that supposed to mean?"
Mr. Katz, how do you pick titles for your articles? Do you use Scrabble tiles and see what words you can make, or do you just flip through the dictionary and pick random words?
Lucas has to make a huge profit on each movie he does. He runs his own independant studio.
And Phantom Menace was only an introduction. Saying it's crap is like watching a third of a play and then complaining about how bad it was.
No! Don't bring Marcus back! His death was dramatic and potetic and downright beautiful! Bringing him back would only cheapen that.
Are you on crack? When the average home user just wants a machine for the family to surf the web, email, and type school reports, they get a machine that doesn't cost an arm and a leg and one that they can get software for at the local Staples. When MacOSX runs on a $600 machine and there are a dozen racks of software for it at any given computer store, *then* Windows will be in trouble.
The GPL isn't anti-business, it's non-business.
Okay, sure. And what about for computers not connected to the Internet?
Exactly right. My first Linux experience was with Slack 3.4 on a 486 with limited disk space. I spent a lot of time scouring the system to free up space, and learned an awful lot about Linux and Unix in the process.
Amen. One of my family duties is turning old 486 and pentium boxes into cheap internet boxes. Usually I have little disk space and ram to work with, so I stick Zipslack on and compile anything else that machine needs.
:)
I've gotten really good at optimizing binaries for speed and size, too.
Just this weekend I made of LAN of three 486s so my parents, little brother and little sister can all get DSL from their respective bedrooms. Minimal X with Windowmaker, Opera, and a few other things, and they're good to go. And I've had far fewer problems securing Slack than some other horrificly-insecure Lindows distros, such as Mandrake.
Uh, so why not just compile all the extras you need yourself? And in a horrible twist of fate, I had just downloaded 7.1 yesterday... Doh.
Relax, multiple xterms is the only reason Real Geeks run X anyway. ;)