Why we tend to side with the ingrate in such situations is beyond me. First, when a man with a gun asks for your ID, consider it a blessing he doesn't use his gun. Secondly, a police officer also has authority to throw you in jail, nothing wrong with showing him your ID. Thirdly, making any person ask 11 times will tend to piss them off, even if they don't have a gun.
While police brutality may infact be real, I think the great majority of claims are complete BS.
Allow me to propose a situation, for any person who thinks the cop is wrong, even if the cop had beaten the crap out of the guy:
A buglar breaks into your house and holds a gun to your daughters head. Cop comes in, and asks, oh so politely for the assailant to drop his weapon. After the third worthless attempt the burglar pulls the trigger. What would you [those that feel for this guy], if the cop would respond while you stand over your daughters corpse, "I needed to ask one more time before I could do anything."
I myself don't want to play cop, I would opt to actually BE a cop. That's why I have no desire to try to become one. If people actually believe in the kind of crap they here on television in regards to police brutality, then all misfortunes that may befall upon them is well deserved.
What do normal users need with a compiler? If you want one you can get one here.
"get one here", oh and "get one there", oh look over there, there's a cuckoo singing in the tree. Look, I had a person a Linux CD, and another a Windows XP CD... Don't give me any of this "get one here" garbage, I'm talking about what you get when you install Windows XP.
of course it didn't, that's what Windows Server 2003 is for.
Why should I have to buy Windows Server 2003? We weren't talking about Windows Server 2003, so why did you even mention it? Unless, you're talking about the singing cuckoo bird again.
You can do basic graphics manipulation using Paint
"basic"!? What is your definition of "basic"? Don't be so naive, PhotoShop is a decent product and I would purchase it alongside Gimp if they had a port to Linux. I buy software that's worth buying, the problem is, Microsoft Paint doesn't do much of anything and is a joke. If viewing a file and screwing it up with a pencil mark is your idea of "basic" graphics editing you've got some perspective issues to deal with.
What kind of bizarre obscure hardware where you using? Windows XP properly detects alot more hardware then linux does currently.
Now, in reference to you implying I'm a troll, what we have here is the pot calling the prospective kettle black. I have an AMD motherboard with the nForce 2 chipset on it. Windows XP, out of the box, does not have a clue how to use the onboard NIC interface. but if you care, I can list alot of other hardware aswell.
Windows is so successful is that you CAN'T entirely change the GUI
This is bull, as there are plenty of examples demonstrating what your claiming is irrelevant to an Operating Systems prosperity.
Microsoft prevents you from killing critical system processes! What a shock! Oh no
Irony, see I saw it. To bad your sense of humor is but one way as you apparently haven't seen my own facetiousness.
Bottom line pal, if I'm root or administrator or whatever the computer better damn well do what I tell it to do and I don't care for a half-wit confirmation box. Do it, do it now. If I make a mistake, that's my ass. A lot of people write better with a pen, becuase they know that mistakes are less fogiven than with a pencil.
Windows XP is a desktop OS for every day users, not for supergeeks.
Here, I concur. So, why did you even argue? Windows XP out of the box has nowhere near the capabilities on many technologies as the typical RedHat CD or Mandrake CD.
It's of little use to argue here anyway... I have to remember this is/.
Last time I installed Windows XP from a CD, here's what I noticed.
1) It didn't have a compiler. 2) It had no INTENDED remote access services such as FTPD or SSHD. 3) I was unable to manipulate graphics. 4) I was unable to use my Network Card. 5) I was unable to optimally use my graphics card. 6) I was unable to optimally use any piece of hardware that didn't have Microsoft written on it. 7) It takes for ever to do anything in Notepad as compared to Vi. 8) I had practically no system logging to speak of. 9) I was unable to use multiple desktops. 10) I was unable to entirely change the appearance of the GUI. 11) I was unable to simply download much of the software needed to render Windows somewhat useful. Even though Gimp and OpenOffice run on Windows and GVIM, refer to number 4. 12) I kept getting "Access Denied" or something along the lines of insufficient permissions even though I believe I gave myself full rights over the system. On Windows 2000 this can be seen even if you are logged in as Administrator. 13) I had to reboot fifteen times, and four hours later while windowsupdate.microsoft.com told me I needed nearly a GB of updates. Many of which could only be installed one at a time. 14) Then another two hours and multiple reboots becuase of installing device drivers (refer to number 6) and then updating those from the old drivers that were on old disgarded discs in the closet. 15) I had next to nothing in regards to software and production....
Compared to what you get with the average Linux ISO image.... Windows, out of the box, is a pathetic quadriplegic whose wheel chair is missing a wheel.
Then, Microsoft goes and strips so much "functionality" from Windows XP to publicly admit it's "crippled"? What more can you take from it?
In America, this is absolutely not true. The GE (General Education) requirements in American institutions are nothing more than a recap of what you learned in high-school. There is nothing more advanced, or in depth. I've been listening to history teachers pound the table about slavery since the fifth grade, and again when I finished my history requirements in college.
My general sciences were well taken care of out of personal interest and the multitudes of geology, chemistry and biology requirements I had to take to graduate high-school.
I was well above calculus out of high-school, and that level of math well covers the majority of majors offered by nearly any given institution.
I didn't have to go to college to know learn classical art, Baroque being my favorite. Nor did I have to go to college to read Karl Marx, Thoreau or Shakespeare.
Humanities is such a joke, I'm American nothing more needs to be said. We are the most diverse nation on the planet, the possibility of you not knowing someone from elsewhere in the world is slim to none. This kind of first hand experience is much more useful than anything written in a book.
I work with many people who have degrees. Ontop of currently working on mine. Some from rather respectful American universities too. You know a EE had to take a lot of math, let's see if he could ace your math exam. He probably can't, the "EE" only means at one point he did good enough on a similar exam. Doesn't mean he retained the information.
It's my belief that the GE requirements in American schools are only there to milk more money from students. 2 years of GE, then another 2 years of your major for a Bachelors. Lets fool society to think the child spent 4 years of training to become a chemist when in reality it was really only two years of education ontop of general education every person got in high-school.
The 2 years of GE makes the student "well-rounded". BS, and not the degree!
Let's ignore the consumer level crap, Bose computer speakers, Sonic Foundry, Creative's Audigy 2 for a moment.
If you get into real audio production, professional quality: Mackie/JPL monitors, MOTU Digital Performer or Logic, and MOTU/M-Audio sound interfaces... it's best to have a Macintosh becuase your options are very limited without one.
Problem with that keyboard is that all the bells and whistles are going to raise the price through the roof. Professional musicians or sound engineers might want to take advantage of it's computer interface, and wish to run their favorite software; which likely only runs in MacOS X/Classic.
It's price tag is ~7k. http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/2003/Neko-64. html Making it nothing more than a super-expensive conglomerate of consumer level crap. Who's likely to buy it? A keyboardist would rather spend that money on a real keyboard that has all the keys, this one only has 60 keys. With that money, a real savvy person might buy a new G5, some MOTU equipment and have enough for a nice Yamaha keyboard and be assured he's got the beef for studio quality mixes.
I predict this machine, will become yet another obscure piece of equipment/technology for a slashdotter to refer to years from now. The only picture of one, then, being on Geocities.
The reason BSD can produce a secure OS for free and MS can't is because MS focuses on usability. There is a reason most people haven't heard of BSD much less use it, and that is because it is extremely hard for the average person to use. Hell, it's hard for somewhat knowledgable people to use.
When you get deep enough into the system, NT is no more easier than OpenBSD/FreeBSD etc. This might be obvious with programming, but I say it's the same with administration too.
Regardless if you would accept administration being just as difficult on Windows as it might be on BSD, looking at corporate requirements, to just fill a shift administrator's job, they demand a BS in CS or some other technical field.
Here's where the ease of use doesn't matter to me. A person who's got a BS in CS shouldn't have a problem with adopting or using OpenBSD! Whatever part he might be confused with, only goes to show for the quality of his education!
Also, there's a little aspect few IT managers will admit. With being a IT "professional" , comes the resolution that you should be impressively productive given ANY of myriad tools, just as well as a particular favorite. To a real IT professional who claims he can manage a web-server, platform is irrelevant to him. Netscape, IIS, Apache...
At school, the Systems Administrator thinks he holds that title becuase he knows about computers. I ask him about Linux, and his eyes glaze over and fear shines through. As if I just challanged how much he actually knows about computers ignoring the worthless CS diploma he has hanging on his wall. He spent all that money for that diploma, he figures it would be a cold day in hell before he has to realize he wasted his money and four years of his life. Some idiot granted him that document, and even though he can't back it up he'll make it look like he deserves it. Hence, the all windows network he manages.
Migrating to a proprietary OS huh? How bizarre, let's take Apple out too. Aqua is the part of OS X that is completely proprietary, but Darwin is an open sourced project.
You imply that OSS will not develop complex projects without gobs of cash. Without attacking your obvious inability to perceive complexity and size of projects, the irony of your statement, in reality, is in reverse. Seems to me, that OSS paid gobs of cash to opensource Blender.
Funny. Not only do OSS developers contribute for the greater good, but some will *PAY* for the opportunity to improve software.
*I contributed to help free Blender. If Blender could sing, it would sing 'Amazing Grace', with emphasis on 'I once was lost, but now I'm found"
Hotels in protest of losing the patent infringment with their numbering system, choose to open law suits against aparment, condominium and town house complexes. They might have a problem with the town houses, but there is money to be made with abusing the legal system.
While historically (as short as that may be), people ventured to America for myriad reasons; political, religious, economic, prosperity etc. Many of those things aren't really tangible except in the minds of the people. The first time in America's history, people migrate to Russia, Europe and China for technological freedom among other associative properties like jobs. I'm certainly keeping my options open, getting a CE degree what good is it in America when all the jobs are going overseas?
Maybe there is some use to the two years of foriegn language required in US academic institutions.
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Why did the US approve of Microsoft acquiring Connectix? Must be that Oracle isn't as big as Microsoft, so they have to play by the rules.
Why we tend to side with the ingrate in such situations is beyond me. First, when a man with a gun asks for your ID, consider it a blessing he doesn't use his gun. Secondly, a police officer also has authority to throw you in jail, nothing wrong with showing him your ID. Thirdly, making any person ask 11 times will tend to piss them off, even if they don't have a gun.
While police brutality may infact be real, I think the great majority of claims are complete BS.
Allow me to propose a situation, for any person who thinks the cop is wrong, even if the cop had beaten the crap out of the guy:
A buglar breaks into your house and holds a gun to your daughters head. Cop comes in, and asks, oh so politely for the assailant to drop his weapon. After the third worthless attempt the burglar pulls the trigger. What would you [those that feel for this guy], if the cop would respond while you stand over your daughters corpse, "I needed to ask one more time before I could do anything."
I myself don't want to play cop, I would opt to actually BE a cop. That's why I have no desire to try to become one. If people actually believe in the kind of crap they here on television in regards to police brutality, then all misfortunes that may befall upon them is well deserved.
What do normal users need with a compiler? If you want one you can get one here.
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"get one here", oh and "get one there", oh look over there, there's a cuckoo singing in the tree. Look, I had a person a Linux CD, and another a Windows XP CD... Don't give me any of this "get one here" garbage, I'm talking about what you get when you install Windows XP.
of course it didn't, that's what Windows Server 2003 is for.
Why should I have to buy Windows Server 2003? We weren't talking about Windows Server 2003, so why did you even mention it? Unless, you're talking about the singing cuckoo bird again.
You can do basic graphics manipulation using Paint
"basic"!? What is your definition of "basic"? Don't be so naive, PhotoShop is a decent product and I would purchase it alongside Gimp if they had a port to Linux. I buy software that's worth buying, the problem is, Microsoft Paint doesn't do much of anything and is a joke. If viewing a file and screwing it up with a pencil mark is your idea of "basic" graphics editing you've got some perspective issues to deal with.
What kind of bizarre obscure hardware where you using? Windows XP properly detects alot more hardware then linux does currently.
Now, in reference to you implying I'm a troll, what we have here is the pot calling the prospective kettle black. I have an AMD motherboard with the nForce 2 chipset on it. Windows XP, out of the box, does not have a clue how to use the onboard NIC interface. but if you care, I can list alot of other hardware aswell.
Windows is so successful is that you CAN'T entirely change the GUI
This is bull, as there are plenty of examples demonstrating what your claiming is irrelevant to an Operating Systems prosperity.
Microsoft prevents you from killing critical system processes! What a shock! Oh no
Irony, see I saw it. To bad your sense of humor is but one way as you apparently haven't seen my own facetiousness.
Bottom line pal, if I'm root or administrator or whatever the computer better damn well do what I tell it to do and I don't care for a half-wit confirmation box. Do it, do it now. If I make a mistake, that's my ass. A lot of people write better with a pen, becuase they know that mistakes are less fogiven than with a pencil.
Windows XP is a desktop OS for every day users, not for supergeeks.
Here, I concur. So, why did you even argue? Windows XP out of the box has nowhere near the capabilities on many technologies as the typical RedHat CD or Mandrake CD.
It's of little use to argue here anyway... I have to remember this is
Last time I installed Windows XP from a CD, here's what I noticed.
1) It didn't have a compiler.
2) It had no INTENDED remote access services such as FTPD or SSHD.
3) I was unable to manipulate graphics.
4) I was unable to use my Network Card.
5) I was unable to optimally use my graphics card.
6) I was unable to optimally use any piece of hardware that didn't have Microsoft written on it.
7) It takes for ever to do anything in Notepad as compared to Vi.
8) I had practically no system logging to speak of.
9) I was unable to use multiple desktops.
10) I was unable to entirely change the appearance of the GUI.
11) I was unable to simply download much of the software needed to render Windows somewhat useful. Even though Gimp and OpenOffice run on Windows and GVIM, refer to number 4.
12) I kept getting "Access Denied" or something along the lines of insufficient permissions even though I believe I gave myself full rights over the system. On Windows 2000 this can be seen even if you are logged in as Administrator.
13) I had to reboot fifteen times, and four hours later while windowsupdate.microsoft.com told me I needed nearly a GB of updates. Many of which could only be installed one at a time.
14) Then another two hours and multiple reboots becuase of installing device drivers (refer to number 6) and then updating those from the old drivers that were on old disgarded discs in the closet.
15) I had next to nothing in regards to software and production....
Compared to what you get with the average Linux ISO image.... Windows, out of the box, is a pathetic quadriplegic whose wheel chair is missing a wheel.
Then, Microsoft goes and strips so much "functionality" from Windows XP to publicly admit it's "crippled"? What more can you take from it?
In America, this is absolutely not true. The GE (General Education) requirements in American institutions are nothing more than a recap of what you learned in high-school. There is nothing more advanced, or in depth. I've been listening to history teachers pound the table about slavery since the fifth grade, and again when I finished my history requirements in college.
My general sciences were well taken care of out of personal interest and the multitudes of geology, chemistry and biology requirements I had to take to graduate high-school.
I was well above calculus out of high-school, and that level of math well covers the majority of majors offered by nearly any given institution.
I didn't have to go to college to know learn classical art, Baroque being my favorite. Nor did I have to go to college to read Karl Marx, Thoreau or Shakespeare.
Humanities is such a joke, I'm American nothing more needs to be said. We are the most diverse nation on the planet, the possibility of you not knowing someone from elsewhere in the world is slim to none. This kind of first hand experience is much more useful than anything written in a book.
I work with many people who have degrees. Ontop of currently working on mine. Some from rather respectful American universities too. You know a EE had to take a lot of math, let's see if he could ace your math exam. He probably can't, the "EE" only means at one point he did good enough on a similar exam. Doesn't mean he retained the information.
It's my belief that the GE requirements in American schools are only there to milk more money from students. 2 years of GE, then another 2 years of your major for a Bachelors. Lets fool society to think the child spent 4 years of training to become a chemist when in reality it was really only two years of education ontop of general education every person got in high-school.
The 2 years of GE makes the student "well-rounded". BS, and not the degree!
They are targetting musicians, with x86 hardware.
. html
Good luck.
Let's ignore the consumer level crap, Bose computer speakers, Sonic Foundry, Creative's Audigy 2 for a moment.
If you get into real audio production, professional quality: Mackie/JPL monitors, MOTU Digital Performer or Logic, and MOTU/M-Audio sound interfaces... it's best to have a Macintosh becuase your options are very limited without one.
Problem with that keyboard is that all the bells and whistles are going to raise the price through the roof. Professional musicians or sound engineers might want to take advantage of it's computer interface, and wish to run their favorite software; which likely only runs in MacOS X/Classic.
It's price tag is ~7k. http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/2003/Neko-64
Making it nothing more than a super-expensive conglomerate of consumer level crap. Who's likely to buy it? A keyboardist would rather spend that money on a real keyboard that has all the keys, this one only has 60 keys. With that money, a real savvy person might buy a new G5, some MOTU equipment and have enough for a nice Yamaha keyboard and be assured he's got the beef for studio quality mixes.
I predict this machine, will become yet another obscure piece of equipment/technology for a slashdotter to refer to years from now. The only picture of one, then, being on Geocities.
When you get deep enough into the system, NT is no more easier than OpenBSD/FreeBSD etc. This might be obvious with programming, but I say it's the same with administration too.
Regardless if you would accept administration being just as difficult on Windows as it might be on BSD, looking at corporate requirements, to just fill a shift administrator's job, they demand a BS in CS or some other technical field.
Here's where the ease of use doesn't matter to me. A person who's got a BS in CS shouldn't have a problem with adopting or using OpenBSD! Whatever part he might be confused with, only goes to show for the quality of his education!
Also, there's a little aspect few IT managers will admit. With being a IT "professional" , comes the resolution that you should be impressively productive given ANY of myriad tools, just as well as a particular favorite. To a real IT professional who claims he can manage a web-server, platform is irrelevant to him. Netscape, IIS, Apache...
At school, the Systems Administrator thinks he holds that title becuase he knows about computers. I ask him about Linux, and his eyes glaze over and fear shines through. As if I just challanged how much he actually knows about computers ignoring the worthless CS diploma he has hanging on his wall. He spent all that money for that diploma, he figures it would be a cold day in hell before he has to realize he wasted his money and four years of his life. Some idiot granted him that document, and even though he can't back it up he'll make it look like he deserves it. Hence, the all windows network he manages.
Migrating to a proprietary OS huh? How bizarre,
let's take Apple out too. Aqua is the part of
OS X that is completely proprietary, but Darwin
is an open sourced project.
They probably contacted their lawyers via cell phones.
... no matter how good it may be, the people here will accuse them [Microsoft] of doing it for some nefarious purpose.
If a drug dealer smiled and said "pardon me" to you, you would still think the same of him.
There comes a time, when so much harm has been done, that any further good doing is insulting.
You imply that OSS will not develop complex projects without gobs of cash. Without attacking
your obvious inability to perceive complexity and
size of projects, the irony of your statement, in
reality, is in reverse. Seems to me, that OSS
paid gobs of cash to opensource Blender.
Funny. Not only do OSS developers contribute for
the greater good, but some will *PAY* for the
opportunity to improve software.
*I contributed to help free Blender. If Blender
could sing, it would sing 'Amazing Grace', with
emphasis on 'I once was lost, but now I'm found"
"This should send the guys at SETI on a wild goose chase."
From NYT:
Linus - "Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect."
Oh, I love it!
"Everytime in my life a major accident kind of thing happened, I can go back and trace many, many things that could have "prevented" the accident."
But, hindsight is always 20/20.
Tired of the bored centerfolds that just sit there?
Hotels in protest of losing the patent infringment
with their numbering system, choose to open law
suits against aparment, condominium and town
house complexes. They might have a problem with
the town houses, but there is money to be made
with abusing the legal system.
The ability to sue anyone is legalized extortion.
While historically (as short as that may be), people
ventured to America for myriad reasons; political,
religious, economic, prosperity etc. Many of those
things aren't really tangible except in the minds of
the people. The first time in America's history,
people migrate to Russia, Europe and China for
technological freedom among other associative
properties like jobs. I'm certainly keeping my
options open, getting a CE degree what good is
it in America when all the jobs are going overseas?
Maybe there is some use to the two years of foriegn language required in US academic institutions.
You obviously weren't looking very hard.
Freshmeat may have many Open Source programs, but doesn't have them all.
http://ftp.arl.army.mil/brlcad/index.html
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