It's a heckuva lot more than mass market research. Deregulation in 96 was pretty huge factor, which enabled Clear Channel to grow to some 1200+ stations. Cutting costs, and eating the competition (ala Microsoft, Enron, various airlines, many telcos...note the deregulatedness of the not-MS ones!) helped. Another funny thing about the media is that they control the media, which is the filter determining public opinion. friggin aye, our whole mode of operating as a country is creating this banal monster...giving businesses the rights of citizens, promoting the idea that it's okay to make gross sums of money and drive people on the other side of the world out of business to put in another Wal-Mart.
Anyway, I got off topic a bit, but the point is that as long as we're gonna let them give us only vanilla, we won't get super fudge chunk. I just subscribed to Sirius (XM competitor) and it rocks nicely. Make your journalists ask questions, read Robert McChesney, turn off lame-ass shock jocks with 22 minutes of commercials per hour and 20 minutes of talking!
Okay, to me this is a response to management...http is not the internet. There already a host of standard protocols. HTTP sits on top of TCP/IP. Don't worry about it...they're just trying to get you to think there's a problem. There's not. HTTP is convenient and powerful, and everyone knows it. But, it's not the internet. When MS starts advertising the New Internet, just remember: you read it here first. If you need new services, just have your admins open up a new port on the firewall. If they won't, you don't need it anyway.
The posts probably were moderated. Watch the nightly news, or read your locally published, distantly owned rag, you'll see how well real content fares. falala.
Have you done system administration? Pretty much all sysadmins I know have a pretty good grasp of the language and use it for a huge amount of tasks ranging from parsing password files to client-server apps for accomplishing remote admin tasks to throwing something together for the obfuscated competition.
First, I am not a debian developer, nor actively involved with debian, beyond having used their distribution for a few years and occasionally monitoring their groups.
That said, using the packages in debian's non-free section is generally fine, if you are using them for noncommercial uses, and don't repackage them.
For example, Pine's license requires that it not be redistributed in modified format. Thus, debian's installer distributes it in its original, unmodified format, then goes through and fixes it once it is on your computer. If you then packaged this and gave it to a friend, you would be in violation of their license.
MySQL is a cool program, which is free, and open source. BUT if you use it commercially, you are required to pay $200.
Debian's ideology is that their distribution is totally free...it can be used for development according to the GNU, BSD, etc. licenses that meet their standards of freeness. You don't need to be aware of a lot of nuances to do what you want with debian's distrobution...it's not going to bite you in the ass. Except for the nonfree grabbag.
And, there are tons of servers out there which provide these already, and you'll probably find many of the sites offering.deb's the same way RH people find RPM's.
found encoded in the Petium III architecture: moc.nsm@setagb liame emit doog a rof No security holes have been attributed to this. This may or may not be conrary to anything I said in the past.
This is something which causes me fear...once the politicos realize that joe user has broken into their old boy's network we will be seeing some fancy new regulations or technologies to prevent us from making it into positions of power. I just don't trust them to let the game be fair. Of course, it won't really be the politicos making those decisions anyway, but they are the figureheads. Rick Rezinas
This is different than Feynman's little demon, which was a molecular ratchet motor based on random collisions turning the wheel indefinitely. Supposedly in violation of the 3rd law of thermodynamics. Unfortunately it was shown that random jiggling of the system would cause it to roll backwards and not make any progress. So much for convenient perpetual motion. Rick Rezinas
Something else to keep in mind is that with computers, employers are able to track EVERYTHING a little better. And they do...
An employee at Powell's Books, a monstrous used book store observed to me once that they were changing the kind of people they were hiring from book people to computer people. These new types may be able to find a book, but they won't recognize many of the more obscure greats.
With NT it is possible to manage an employee's access privileges right down to whether they print landscape or portrait orientation. Employees know it, that they are being monitored. How does this affect morale? How many more managers become necessary to make observations, and to manage employees.
These computers also allow for more meetings and for more memos and for more tiers for efficiency to be stripped away. I had a TeX job with more managers than production...and so many meetings very little got done. I think that all of the production has been laid of or upgraded to management now.
So there may be a need for redefinition of productivity, and perhaps a new look at the Perotesque managerial facism which is becoming so popular in the corporate world. Rick Rezinas
I am happily typing on my HH keyboard now as well. I brought it in to my cube, and it get lots of fun questions. A plus. It also happens to be an exceptionally high quality keyboard. The loss of Caps Lock is a huge plus, no more unhPPY SUrpises. I pretty much never used the fancy keys, and basically the necessities remain, just swept under the rug a little.
And so far as desk space goes...I had to switch to a trackball because junk kept blocking the path of my leetle mouse. Rick Rezinas
Darwin experienced doubts regarding his conclusions. This is true, but these doubts were a result of the dogmatic world he lived in and the treament he received (uh, heretic). True innovations do take awhile to be accepted...quantum mechanics, for a recent example. And the scientific community has been guilty of this as well, but it is willing to take account of itself, and success in the scientific community is generally based more on competance than on charisma and telling people what they want to hear. Rick Rezinas
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looks like they learned a lot from the NeXT-inspired UIs like WindowMaker
It's a heckuva lot more than mass market research. Deregulation in 96 was pretty huge factor, which enabled Clear Channel to grow to some 1200+ stations. Cutting costs, and eating the competition (ala Microsoft, Enron, various airlines, many telcos...note the deregulatedness of the not-MS ones!) helped. Another funny thing about the media is that they control the media, which is the filter determining public opinion. friggin aye, our whole mode of operating as a country is creating this banal monster...giving businesses the rights of citizens, promoting the idea that it's okay to make gross sums of money and drive people on the other side of the world out of business to put in another Wal-Mart.
Anyway, I got off topic a bit, but the point is that as long as we're gonna let them give us only vanilla, we won't get super fudge chunk. I just subscribed to Sirius (XM competitor) and it rocks nicely. Make your journalists ask questions, read Robert McChesney, turn off lame-ass shock jocks with 22 minutes of commercials per hour and 20 minutes of talking!
cheers
rick
Okay, to me this is a response to management...http is not the internet. There already a host of standard protocols. HTTP sits on top of TCP/IP. Don't worry about it...they're just trying to get you to think there's a problem. There's not. HTTP is convenient and powerful, and everyone knows it. But, it's not the internet. When MS starts advertising the New Internet, just remember: you read it here first. If you need new services, just have your admins open up a new port on the firewall. If they won't, you don't need it anyway.
The posts probably were moderated. Watch the nightly news, or read your locally published, distantly owned rag, you'll see how well real content fares. falala.
My girlfriend knew about the new release before I did...good think I've got her hooked on debian.
Have you done system administration? Pretty much all sysadmins I know have a pretty good grasp of the language and use it for a huge amount of tasks ranging from parsing password files to client-server apps for accomplishing remote admin tasks to throwing something together for the obfuscated competition.
That said, using the packages in debian's non-free section is generally fine, if you are using them for noncommercial uses, and don't repackage them.
For example, Pine's license requires that it not be redistributed in modified format. Thus, debian's installer distributes it in its original, unmodified format, then goes through and fixes it once it is on your computer. If you then packaged this and gave it to a friend, you would be in violation of their license.
MySQL is a cool program, which is free, and open source. BUT if you use it commercially, you are required to pay $200.
Debian's ideology is that their distribution is totally free...it can be used for development according to the GNU, BSD, etc. licenses that meet their standards of freeness. You don't need to be aware of a lot of nuances to do what you want with debian's distrobution...it's not going to bite you in the ass. Except for the nonfree grabbag.
And, there are tons of servers out there which provide these already, and you'll probably find many of the sites offering .deb's the same way RH people find RPM's.
found encoded in the Petium III architecture: moc.nsm@setagb liame emit doog a rof No security holes have been attributed to this. This may or may not be conrary to anything I said in the past.
This is something which causes me fear...once the politicos realize that joe user has broken into their old boy's network we will be seeing some fancy new regulations or technologies to prevent us from making it into positions of power. I just don't trust them to let the game be fair. Of course, it won't really be the politicos making those decisions anyway, but they are the figureheads.
Rick Rezinas
This is different than Feynman's little demon, which was a molecular ratchet motor based on random collisions turning the wheel indefinitely. Supposedly in violation of the 3rd law of thermodynamics. Unfortunately it was shown that random jiggling of the system would cause it to roll backwards and not make any progress. So much for convenient perpetual motion.
Rick Rezinas
Now we don't have to worry about them showing up for just a little bit longer...
At least they have some clues about that weird cell aging that they found before.
Rick Rezinas
Something else to keep in mind is that with computers, employers are able to track EVERYTHING a little better. And they do...
An employee at Powell's Books, a monstrous used book store observed to me once that they were changing the kind of people they were hiring from book people to computer people. These new types may be able to find a book, but they won't recognize many of the more obscure greats.
With NT it is possible to manage an employee's access privileges right down to whether they print landscape or portrait orientation. Employees know it, that they are being monitored. How does this affect morale? How many more managers become necessary to make observations, and to manage employees.
These computers also allow for more meetings and for more memos and for more tiers for efficiency to be stripped away. I had a TeX job with more managers than production...and so many meetings very little got done. I think that all of the production has been laid of or upgraded to management now.
So there may be a need for redefinition of productivity, and perhaps a new look at the Perotesque managerial facism which is becoming so popular in the corporate world.
Rick Rezinas
I am happily typing on my HH keyboard now as well. I brought it in to my cube, and it get lots of fun questions. A plus. It also happens to be an exceptionally high quality keyboard. The loss of Caps Lock is a huge plus, no more unhPPY SUrpises. I pretty much never used the fancy keys, and basically the necessities remain, just swept under the rug a little.
And so far as desk space goes...I had to switch to a trackball because junk kept blocking the path of my leetle mouse.
Rick Rezinas
Darwin experienced doubts regarding his conclusions. This is true, but these doubts were a result of the dogmatic world he lived in and the treament he received (uh, heretic). True innovations do take awhile to be accepted...quantum mechanics, for a recent example. And the scientific community has been guilty of this as well, but it is willing to take account of itself, and success in the scientific community is generally based more on competance than on charisma and telling people what they want to hear.
Rick Rezinas