well then the answer is not a seperate gizmo. but support for more RAM in linux. that way standard users can use it. partition it and mount it as a disk partition and you got yourself a flying flash file storage.
aside, would you call flying+flash a superflash (ie. superman + flash)?
This let's you use the current slots for memory (after all, we can put in a couple of Gs of memory into those slots.) and the bandwidth is higher than a PCI slot. latency issue is gone since it's RAM after all.
The one issue that remains is 'flushing' in the event of a powerdown. for that we could put in a daemon that gets a signal from upsd and makes a copy of it onto a hdd. on power-up the same daemon reads from the hard-disk and creates that ram-drive (or partition i should say).
no need to shell out bucks for that capability. it's already here. just a daemon that needs writing.
If you need to cut down on your access time to files.. consider This
essentially, from what i understand, this gives you a virtual filesystem on the RAM instead of the harddrive. once you create your ext2 (and i'm sure there's a way to create ext3 on there as well) you're off to the races as long as you have a UPS running to make sure your boxen dont' power down and lose all of it. you might consider to implement a 'oh shit, UPS says time to power down is 5min -- better make a copy of the 'RAM-disk' onto a real disk partition' routine in one of your programs and you've solved all your problems.
if MS is at fault (or even attempting further monopolizing the market) we (the linux folks) are in deep shit indeed. we don't even let people switch printer with the lpr command if the user don't know how to -P. cvs seemes to be illegally tied to vi (unless you change the $EDITOR or something silimar) and the list goes on and on...
get a grip. if you don't know enough to change a setting you don't deserve to change it. ie. you're better off being spoonfed. at least MS let's you be spoonfed.
as long as MS let's apps like real-player change the file associations when they are installed i don't smell a foul play. if MS hadn't allowed any application to change the associations, then scott's arguement would hold water.
this 2 page article in one sentence is "MS is furthering it's monopoly and killing is't competition in the process by providing a *default* setting that points back to it's own application." that sound foolish if said in those words, doesn't it? the interface is there to change it. he argues that it's 'hidden' deep down. but then, even if MS were to comply, couldn't we argue about every registry entry the same way? what then? bring up 10000+ item menu on a right click to access every entry in the registry?
if you can't make heads or tails of what's inside the hood of a car, much less change the engine, are you going to call a car a 'bundled' product? after all, you can't simply switch the default engine that comes with it without going thru major pains.
Look at most countries of the world (the Taliban-government Afghanistan comes to mind, but there are countless others) and look at the history of the world and you'll realize just how much freedom you have.
You mean, since there are many starving people in the world, i should not just be thankful but be completely satisfied with just one meal. after all that's better than much of the world.
You have more freedom than most people in the history of the world, and more freedom than most people living the world today.
that's exactly my point. America is not about the being the best anymore. it's about being 'good enough'. and simply put, 'good enough' is not good enough.
go whereever you want, do whatever you want.
next time i travel abroad with my laptop (on which i spent $3000+ of my very hard earned money) and fancy watching DVDs i buy there i will remember the freedom you mention. especially if i want to continue to be a lawful citizen. as of right now, my laptop hardware (the DVD player) tells me i can't travel more than 3 times. at least that's how many times i can switch regions. so either 1) i'm missing something. 2) i'm only expected to travel 3 times in my life. or 3) i dont' 'own' the hardware that i paid $3000 for.
if it's '1' someone please educate me. if it's '2' -- there goes my 'freedom' to go where i want however many times i want. or if it's '3' someone just took my money away as a form of tax. freedom indeed.
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I'm an athiest. or rather, i believe in humanity more than i do on something i believe to be fictitious. prez bush senior has been quoted a number of times saying that athiests are not citizens of this god loving country. you seem to know what the prez of the US of A doesn't. hmmm... maybe you better call him and let him know that there is such a thing called freedom of worship.
Those acts are not the equivalent of inventing flight. Sorry.
The whole theory of flight is based on bournelle's principle. ie. bournelle's IP by todays standards. i bet if flight was to be invented today, bournelle and his posse *wouldn't* go after wright brothers for 'hacking' on that IP.
Um, Gnutella hasn't really needed any money to florish. But anyway...
wait till it hits a critical mass and hits RIAA and MPAA's radar.
If you feel so strongly about this that you think it's worth making drastic changes in your life, devote yourself to fighting it.
That's my point. I feel strongly about it. But i'd rather fight logic, coding, computers, hacking etc.. than 'fight' politics. i'd like to think of myself as a computer scientist. i'm good at that. i'll leave politics to those that are good at it -- the politicians. i want to use 100% of my time and energy on what i'm good at thereby realizing my fullest potential. and that's the extent of my 'marketoid' speak.
i have linux on a computer with a 20incher. i'm not sure that's the largest but that sure is pretty big. wait till i connect that to the company projector...
seriously, i have linux on 7 machines. one laptop (desktop use full time). one file-print server. 2 web-servers. and the rest are used by developers thru VNC software on their windows machines. do those count?
turns out, australia has the equivalant of the DMCA + net censorship. that's one worse than the US. but it's legal to reverse engineer. so i guess i won't be a 'terrorist' if i move there. but i'm sure there are "fair-use.. what's that?" type hidden clauses in there. so i guess it's time to form my own country or move to sealand
i can relate. i'm considering moving to australia (pending some research regarding their laws.)
i came to US looking for the 'land of the free' and 'land of opportunities'. well, i've had some success. i make a *nice* living. but lately, i've been reflecting on the laws that are being passed (DMCA comes to mind). the whole IP shabang.. now this. i know, it probably won't make it to becoming a law but knowing that my future as a lawful resident depends on the hands of some clueless lawmakers that take thousands and thousands of dollars (soft-money or otherwise) from coorporations that are intent on taking control of everything short of the oxygen i breathe i fail to see the free in 'the land of the free'. it's become 'the land of cartels' (explain RIAA and MPAA) and 'the land of bought politician' and 'the land of how much justice can you afford' and the land of just about everything but freedom.
granted you don't see my name on any of the change-logs on any opensource/GNU projects, i have been contributing in other ways -- writing key components for an american company that services companies worldwide. i consider myself as an active contributer to the american economy. lately, i'm seeing deminishing returns on my contributions. Apart from salary, a lawful, contributing resident comes to expect certain niceties from the government. and freedom, it seems, is exactly that -- a nicity. not the essentials; just a nicity.
i'd rather live with lower wages as long as i can continue to do what i love without interference. without the chokehold on both my throat and my beanbags.
it seems, if i do come up with something revolutionary i better have the dough to back it up. P2P with napster comes to mind. of course some mega corp is going to take interest since they would want not just a piece of the action by *all of it*. and would resort to the one great mechanism at work in america -- the law suits. so i've been very, very careful *not* to come up with anything remotely useful for the general public. in fact i have been very, very careful not to think of any ideas even. i sure don't have the money, or the politicians to protect it.
no one cares about IPs. it's not about coming up with new IPs or at least encouraging or creating the environment for new IPs. it's about *protecting* them. a key difference. gone are the days where the likes of wright brothers invented flying in their bike-shop. if you do the equivalent of that today in the digital world, you will essentially become a 'terrorist' (a hacker == a terrorist as some very bright leader put it)
my IPs are going to either my grave, or to australia or any other country where it's still about trying to foster development of 'em. not just about *protecting* and hoarding every halfwit-incomplete-though under the name of IP.
(i'm not certain about australia. that's just the first country that came to mind.)
I'd pay a buck to overturn the DMCA, free Dimitri, outlaw spam, protest license problems, protect the GPL etc...
you can do all of that with a buck? man, you really know how to streach a dollar. Yeah yeah, the collective power of a community each with a dollar. you put 10,000 peeps with a dollar each but you're still left with $10,000. that might just pay for dimitri's bail. hardly enough to pay for all of the things you've mentioned.
Money is hardly the solution here. the beast north-west has the edge there. we need the collective power to give Linux (and the idea of software freedom) a 'marketing' competitiveness. and i think that's where the collective efforts should go. i'm not talking about beast-bashing [like i'm doing here..;)] and the typical anti-MS slant but a legit presentation in the general public about the advantages of open-source/GNU software. i'm sure taxpayers are very happy to fork over millions of dollars to pay for systems at public offices so that when they go there to patronize the service they paid for, the 'systems are down'. I think we need to recruit writers to write columns in local newspapers, about success stories (the city in florida etc.) TCO comparisions, uptimes, at least in a way that would make it clear to the general public that they are paying way more than they should (it's a gross mis-appropriation of funds) and counter at least one of the two strong suites of MS and other closed-source vendors: marketing. (the other being the dough to *contribute* to politicians where it'll be hard to match 'em). so stop thinking like a typical american -- it's not all about money. where i agree with you tho is getting some people mobilized as a coherent front to check and balance bills that affect technology. IBM is doing some of that but it's one multination vs. the other. hardly the true representation for linux or other Open-Source/GNU software... but then you are entitled to yours and me, mine.
maybe that should be a standard service? add the ports exploited to tarpit.rc..
of course that wouldn't solve much but it would be something to start with.
then maybe watch for the originating server, and bring those suckers down thru an exploit (likes of back-orifice). but then you would have to be armed with something that can do that which means that a script kiddie can get their hands on it too. s/he then brings you down. we bring each other down. the entire internet is down. we have no problem. no worm propogation... 'it is one of those n square problem' -- well no more!!
israelies this israelies that... stop it. i have a friend of a friend of a... (a palestenian) who has a house on the west bank. by law he isn't allowed to sell it to another palentenian. if he sells it to an israelie tho, he will be killed by the palestenians. he's stuck with raising his family amidst all the violence with his life in constant danger. danger if he stays, danger if he sells to an israelie and danger if he sells to a palestenian. is this the kind of society we want to follow the example of?
shouldn't we be more concerned about how isreal got to this point? ie.. the things that isreal has done is exactly what the US shouldnt' be doing. even with all the security in the world, you might be able to stop them 99 out of the 100 times but that 1 time they actually get thru, we'll be looking at the *remains* of another american symbol: much like the WTC.
i mean, wake up people... the arabs didn't strike the US because we're the 'beacon of freedom'. that's pure propoganda. we americans really need to wake up and really understand what's going on. our foreign policy with regard to the middle east is not something to be proud of. i know our upper brass in the government knows this. the 'beacon' is propoganda. we need to figure out why the arabs hate us so much. it's so ironic that all of the US-arab conflicts involves some arbic leader that CIA used to supply arms to. think kaddafi, think saddam hussain and even the afghans... one minute we're buddies and we supply arms to them. next minute we're fighting them. am i too dumb to understand this or is someone pulling a fast one on the american public?
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i know i'm going to be modded down but i had to get this out...
what we saw on 9/11 was a *very* misguided act in the name of religion. i know that bin ladin deep down knows exactly what he's doing: manipulating people's vaulnrability towards religion. i know bin ladin knows that that's no way to heaven. but he's got others convinced it is. all thanks to 'religion'.
religion allows our minds to be ok with not raision questions. trust god. trust allah. or trust whoever... once you can convince a person to cross into this 'trust' phase, as we saw, you can get him to do anything... just trust god.
granted that a lot of people find comfort in religion among other things. it seems to me that religion also has a very dark side. the side we saw on 9/11. i have concluded that religion is the psylogical equivalent of nuclear material. can be used for good. but can be put to devastating use.
we need to regulate the 'religion' nuts regardless of faith. they have the psycological equivalent of uranium on their hands. just because it's got good use don't mean it's not supposed to be regulated. when's the last time you bought uranium at your local convenience store? after we power our cities/towns with it don't we?
once again we see something evolve out of a community and then profited upon by a large multinational. it's going to be ironic to see VA Linux (and a bunch of others fail) but IBM come up smelling like a rose.
VA and redhat and a lot of others sucked in a lot of investment for development and polishing up linux to bring it to where it is. now they are gone (some are almost gone and some are hinting towards it.) IBM jumps in and saves the day. interesting. nothing against IBM of course. after all, linux isn't just for the underpriviledged or any one particular group for that matter. but a very 'interestingly' timed move on IBMs part.
and for all those nay sayers: i guess linux is ready for prime-time now that IBMs in the game?
what happens when you live right on the equator? more precisely, if you install a shitter right on the eq-line? does half of the bowl spin one way and the other half the other? or does it all go down without a hint of spiraling...
well, my shit can't tell mouse from a pig that's eatin' it. bet if i put all my crap (literally speaking) on the web it'll acquire some intelligence to tell the difference between not just the type of mammel that's eating it but also the difference between which ones are just sniffing it vs. the ones actually eating it.
the author is correct: IT folks don't understand 'users' needs. I surely don't if 'users' equate MS Office (or any replacement) as 'productivity suites'. 60-70% of the office files (ok, excel files) i've dealt with come to me as tab delimited files, i run my utilities on it, shove it into databases after some serious message to the data typically not possible on excel (at least not by the same type of 'user' the author is talking about) and then extracted from the database into a tab delimited file and sent back for importing into excel. the reason excel has a place here is that we don't have proper tools for users to access and use databases. in other words, those files (created with office) are what i call dead documents. they have no life of their own. they are created merely for creating those documents. the data in those files have a life elsewhere (ie. a database where that data can be used by others, by other application etc..).
unless you are in the business of creating and managing tons of.doc or.xls or whatever extension, that's not the right place to put your data if your data is worth putting anywhere.
i mean, how on earth are you going to keep track of which document has what after a couple of years. are you going to be able to query/search thru them?
but the most important of all, how are you going to 'import' that data into other 'live' applications? how's that for automation? how's that for integration? if you change your quotes in one of the spreadsheets, you're going to have to change many other spreadsheets manually. how's that for productivity?
Office has been a 'toy'. a toy to use with your printer. it wasn't possible for average users to print nicely formatted documents so there it was. apart from printing, what good is word? data exchange? well, nicely formatted XML with XSL goes much further. even better, if it's got any data that's worth anyone's time, it should be live... in a database (or XML, or...) and prefrebly with an access-application so that people see the 'live' data with the proper tools.
are we still printing? if yes, why? why do we need printed copies? (i know there are a few cases where it's handy but really...) even a lawyer shouldn't have to print paper copies. somebody in the courts just ends up retyping it back into word. to print it out and send it to someone else. who in turn retypes it back into word.. then prints it out; sends it to someone else who... (hey, endless loop detected. aborting.) how's that for productivity?
well, keep typing and retyping and print every once in a while and call yourself productive. i don't wanna understand you.
IMHO, i think they *knew* what to do with it. they thought that their market position (and thus their power) translated into a general idea of acceptance of microsoft technology. they really thought they would be able to convince people that it was a good idea. i think they started questioning themselves with the latest barrage of criticisms (sp?) and the exposure of the security issues with MS technology.
they got carried away with a utopian view of the internet and the possibilities.
with the flack they're getting and with the sudden 'viability' or open-source (in the face of changing terms for MS liscencing) they are uncertain about the 'bet-the-farm' strategy. they don't want to push it too far.
it's interesting to see how Big corps can make bucks out of linux while the small companies who where there from the start are faltering. is this another form of corporate buyout..? it's along the same lines as the local bookstore never making it while has no trouble finding customers..
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well then the answer is not a seperate gizmo. but support for more RAM in linux. that way standard users can use it. partition it and mount it as a disk partition and you got yourself a flying flash file storage.
aside, would you call flying+flash a superflash (ie. superman + flash)?
but then isn't 640k enough for everyone?
This let's you use the current slots for memory (after all, we can put in a couple of Gs of memory into those slots.) and the bandwidth is higher than a PCI slot. latency issue is gone since it's RAM after all.
The one issue that remains is 'flushing' in the event of a powerdown. for that we could put in a daemon that gets a signal from upsd and makes a copy of it onto a hdd. on power-up the same daemon reads from the hard-disk and creates that ram-drive (or partition i should say).
no need to shell out bucks for that capability. it's already here. just a daemon that needs writing.
essentially, from what i understand, this gives you a virtual filesystem on the RAM instead of the harddrive. once you create your ext2 (and i'm sure there's a way to create ext3 on there as well) you're off to the races as long as you have a UPS running to make sure your boxen dont' power down and lose all of it. you might consider to implement a 'oh shit, UPS says time to power down is 5min -- better make a copy of the 'RAM-disk' onto a real disk partition' routine in one of your programs and you've solved all your problems.
welcome to linux.
i measured my video card, it's a six incher. is that big?
if MS is at fault (or even attempting further monopolizing the market) we (the linux folks) are in deep shit indeed. we don't even let people switch printer with the lpr command if the user don't know how to -P. cvs seemes to be illegally tied to vi (unless you change the $EDITOR or something silimar) and the list goes on and on... get a grip. if you don't know enough to change a setting you don't deserve to change it. ie. you're better off being spoonfed. at least MS let's you be spoonfed. as long as MS let's apps like real-player change the file associations when they are installed i don't smell a foul play. if MS hadn't allowed any application to change the associations, then scott's arguement would hold water. this 2 page article in one sentence is "MS is furthering it's monopoly and killing is't competition in the process by providing a *default* setting that points back to it's own application." that sound foolish if said in those words, doesn't it? the interface is there to change it. he argues that it's 'hidden' deep down. but then, even if MS were to comply, couldn't we argue about every registry entry the same way? what then? bring up 10000+ item menu on a right click to access every entry in the registry? if you can't make heads or tails of what's inside the hood of a car, much less change the engine, are you going to call a car a 'bundled' product? after all, you can't simply switch the default engine that comes with it without going thru major pains.
You mean, since there are many starving people in the world, i should not just be thankful but be completely satisfied with just one meal. after all that's better than much of the world.
You have more freedom than most people in the history of the world, and more freedom than most people living the world today.
that's exactly my point. America is not about the being the best anymore. it's about being 'good enough'. and simply put, 'good enough' is not good enough.
go whereever you want, do whatever you want.
next time i travel abroad with my laptop (on which i spent $3000+ of my very hard earned money) and fancy watching DVDs i buy there i will remember the freedom you mention. especially if i want to continue to be a lawful citizen. as of right now, my laptop hardware (the DVD player) tells me i can't travel more than 3 times. at least that's how many times i can switch regions. so either 1) i'm missing something. 2) i'm only expected to travel 3 times in my life. or 3) i dont' 'own' the hardware that i paid $3000 for. if it's '1' someone please educate me. if it's '2' -- there goes my 'freedom' to go where i want however many times i want. or if it's '3' someone just took my money away as a form of tax. freedom indeed.
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I'm an athiest. or rather, i believe in humanity more than i do on something i believe to be fictitious. prez bush senior has been quoted a number of times saying that athiests are not citizens of this god loving country. you seem to know what the prez of the US of A doesn't. hmmm... maybe you better call him and let him know that there is such a thing called freedom of worship.
Those acts are not the equivalent of inventing flight. Sorry.
The whole theory of flight is based on bournelle's principle. ie. bournelle's IP by todays standards. i bet if flight was to be invented today, bournelle and his posse *wouldn't* go after wright brothers for 'hacking' on that IP.
Um, Gnutella hasn't really needed any money to florish. But anyway...
wait till it hits a critical mass and hits RIAA and MPAA's radar.
If you feel so strongly about this that you think it's worth making drastic changes in your life, devote yourself to fighting it.
That's my point. I feel strongly about it. But i'd rather fight logic, coding, computers, hacking etc.. than 'fight' politics. i'd like to think of myself as a computer scientist. i'm good at that. i'll leave politics to those that are good at it -- the politicians. i want to use 100% of my time and energy on what i'm good at thereby realizing my fullest potential. and that's the extent of my 'marketoid' speak.
leads me to believe that the developed worlds have reached a saturation point of inventiveness.
i have linux on a computer with a 20incher. i'm not sure that's the largest but that sure is pretty big. wait till i connect that to the company projector...
seriously, i have linux on 7 machines. one laptop (desktop use full time). one file-print server. 2 web-servers. and the rest are used by developers thru VNC software on their windows machines. do those count?
turns out, australia has the equivalant of the DMCA + net censorship. that's one worse than the US. but it's legal to reverse engineer. so i guess i won't be a 'terrorist' if i move there. but i'm sure there are "fair-use.. what's that?" type hidden clauses in there. so i guess it's time to form my own country or move to sealand
i can relate. i'm considering moving to australia (pending some research regarding their laws.)
i came to US looking for the 'land of the free' and 'land of opportunities'. well, i've had some success. i make a *nice* living. but lately, i've been reflecting on the laws that are being passed (DMCA comes to mind). the whole IP shabang.. now this. i know, it probably won't make it to becoming a law but knowing that my future as a lawful resident depends on the hands of some clueless lawmakers that take thousands and thousands of dollars (soft-money or otherwise) from coorporations that are intent on taking control of everything short of the oxygen i breathe i fail to see the free in 'the land of the free'. it's become 'the land of cartels' (explain RIAA and MPAA) and 'the land of bought politician' and 'the land of how much justice can you afford' and the land of just about everything but freedom.
granted you don't see my name on any of the change-logs on any opensource/GNU projects, i have been contributing in other ways -- writing key components for an american company that services companies worldwide. i consider myself as an active contributer to the american economy. lately, i'm seeing deminishing returns on my contributions. Apart from salary, a lawful, contributing resident comes to expect certain niceties from the government. and freedom, it seems, is exactly that -- a nicity. not the essentials; just a nicity.
i'd rather live with lower wages as long as i can continue to do what i love without interference. without the chokehold on both my throat and my beanbags.
it seems, if i do come up with something revolutionary i better have the dough to back it up. P2P with napster comes to mind. of course some mega corp is going to take interest since they would want not just a piece of the action by *all of it*. and would resort to the one great mechanism at work in america -- the law suits. so i've been very, very careful *not* to come up with anything remotely useful for the general public. in fact i have been very, very careful not to think of any ideas even. i sure don't have the money, or the politicians to protect it.
no one cares about IPs. it's not about coming up with new IPs or at least encouraging or creating the environment for new IPs. it's about *protecting* them. a key difference. gone are the days where the likes of wright brothers invented flying in their bike-shop. if you do the equivalent of that today in the digital world, you will essentially become a 'terrorist' (a hacker == a terrorist as some very bright leader put it)
my IPs are going to either my grave, or to australia or any other country where it's still about trying to foster development of 'em. not just about *protecting* and hoarding every halfwit-incomplete-though under the name of IP.
(i'm not certain about australia. that's just the first country that came to mind.)
i bet it was emacs. not vi. who uses vi? ;)
I'd pay a buck to overturn the DMCA, free Dimitri, outlaw spam, protest license problems, protect the GPL etc... you can do all of that with a buck? man, you really know how to streach a dollar.
;)] and the typical anti-MS slant but a legit presentation in the general public about the advantages of open-source/GNU software. i'm sure taxpayers are very happy to fork over millions of dollars to pay for systems at public offices so that when they go there to patronize the service they paid for, the 'systems are down'. I think we need to recruit writers to write columns in local newspapers, about success stories (the city in florida etc.) TCO comparisions, uptimes, at least in a way that would make it clear to the general public that they are paying way more than they should (it's a gross mis-appropriation of funds) and counter at least one of the two strong suites of MS and other closed-source vendors: marketing. (the other being the dough to *contribute* to politicians where it'll be hard to match 'em). so stop thinking like a typical american -- it's not all about money. where i agree with you tho is getting some people mobilized as a coherent front to check and balance bills that affect technology. IBM is doing some of that but it's one multination vs. the other. hardly the true representation for linux or other Open-Source/GNU software... but then you are entitled to yours and me, mine.
Yeah yeah, the collective power of a community each with a dollar. you put 10,000 peeps with a dollar each but you're still left with $10,000. that might just pay for dimitri's bail. hardly enough to pay for all of the things you've mentioned.
Money is hardly the solution here. the beast north-west has the edge there. we need the collective power to give Linux (and the idea of software freedom) a 'marketing' competitiveness. and i think that's where the collective efforts should go. i'm not talking about beast-bashing [like i'm doing here..
maybe that should be a standard service? add the ports exploited to tarpit.rc ..
of course that wouldn't solve much but it would be something to start with.
then maybe watch for the originating server, and bring those suckers down thru an exploit (likes of back-orifice). but then you would have to be armed with something that can do that which means that a script kiddie can get their hands on it too. s/he then brings you down. we bring each other down. the entire internet is down. we have no problem. no worm propogation... 'it is one of those n square problem' -- well no more!!
never said the palestanians are any better. but why does the US keep wanting to join the pissing contest?
israelies this israelies that... stop it. i have a friend of a friend of a ... (a palestenian) who has a house on the west bank. by law he isn't allowed to sell it to another palentenian. if he sells it to an israelie tho, he will be killed by the palestenians. he's stuck with raising his family amidst all the violence with his life in constant danger. danger if he stays, danger if he sells to an israelie and danger if he sells to a palestenian. is this the kind of society we want to follow the example of?
shouldn't we be more concerned about how isreal got to this point? ie.. the things that isreal has done is exactly what the US shouldnt' be doing. even with all the security in the world, you might be able to stop them 99 out of the 100 times but that 1 time they actually get thru, we'll be looking at the *remains* of another american symbol: much like the WTC.
i mean, wake up people... the arabs didn't strike the US because we're the 'beacon of freedom'. that's pure propoganda. we americans really need to wake up and really understand what's going on. our foreign policy with regard to the middle east is not something to be proud of. i know our upper brass in the government knows this. the 'beacon' is propoganda. we need to figure out why the arabs hate us so much. it's so ironic that all of the US-arab conflicts involves some arbic leader that CIA used to supply arms to. think kaddafi, think saddam hussain and even the afghans... one minute we're buddies and we supply arms to them. next minute we're fighting them. am i too dumb to understand this or is someone pulling a fast one on the american public?
i know i'm going to be modded down but i had to get this out...
.. just trust god.
what we saw on 9/11 was a *very* misguided act in the name of religion. i know that bin ladin deep down knows exactly what he's doing: manipulating people's vaulnrability towards religion. i know bin ladin knows that that's no way to heaven. but he's got others convinced it is. all thanks to 'religion'.
religion allows our minds to be ok with not raision questions. trust god. trust allah. or trust whoever... once you can convince a person to cross into this 'trust' phase, as we saw, you can get him to do anything.
granted that a lot of people find comfort in religion among other things. it seems to me that religion also has a very dark side. the side we saw on 9/11. i have concluded that religion is the psylogical equivalent of nuclear material. can be used for good. but can be put to devastating use.
we need to regulate the 'religion' nuts regardless of faith. they have the psycological equivalent of uranium on their hands. just because it's got good use don't mean it's not supposed to be regulated. when's the last time you bought uranium at your local convenience store? after we power our cities/towns with it don't we?
once again we see something evolve out of a community and then profited upon by a large multinational. it's going to be ironic to see VA Linux (and a bunch of others fail) but IBM come up smelling like a rose.
VA and redhat and a lot of others sucked in a lot of investment for development and polishing up linux to bring it to where it is. now they are gone (some are almost gone and some are hinting towards it.) IBM jumps in and saves the day. interesting. nothing against IBM of course. after all, linux isn't just for the underpriviledged or any one particular group for that matter. but a very 'interestingly' timed move on IBMs part.
and for all those nay sayers: i guess linux is ready for prime-time now that IBMs in the game?
what happens when you live right on the equator? more precisely, if you install a shitter right on the eq-line? does half of the bowl spin one way and the other half the other? or does it all go down without a hint of spiraling...
well, my shit can't tell mouse from a pig that's eatin' it. bet if i put all my crap (literally speaking) on the web it'll acquire some intelligence to tell the difference between not just the type of mammel that's eating it but also the difference between which ones are just sniffing it vs. the ones actually eating it.
I guess the 3 remaining employees will work 'behind closed doors'? hmm... wonder what they're up to?
can we switch from 'suck' to 'blow'?
is it 'draining' clockwise or counter-clockwise?
the author is correct: IT folks don't understand 'users' needs. I surely don't if 'users' equate MS Office (or any replacement) as 'productivity suites'. 60-70% of the office files (ok, excel files) i've dealt with come to me as tab delimited files, i run my utilities on it, shove it into databases after some serious message to the data typically not possible on excel (at least not by the same type of 'user' the author is talking about) and then extracted from the database into a tab delimited file and sent back for importing into excel. the reason excel has a place here is that we don't have proper tools for users to access and use databases. in other words, those files (created with office) are what i call dead documents. they have no life of their own. they are created merely for creating those documents. the data in those files have a life elsewhere (ie. a database where that data can be used by others, by other application etc..).
.doc or .xls or whatever extension, that's not the right place to put your data if your data is worth putting anywhere.
...) even a lawyer shouldn't have to print paper copies. somebody in the courts just ends up retyping it back into word. to print it out and send it to someone else. who in turn retypes it back into word.. then prints it out; sends it to someone else who... (hey, endless loop detected. aborting.) how's that for productivity?
unless you are in the business of creating and managing tons of
i mean, how on earth are you going to keep track of which document has what after a couple of years. are you going to be able to query/search thru them?
but the most important of all, how are you going to 'import' that data into other 'live' applications? how's that for automation? how's that for integration? if you change your quotes in one of the spreadsheets, you're going to have to change many other spreadsheets manually. how's that for productivity?
Office has been a 'toy'. a toy to use with your printer. it wasn't possible for average users to print nicely formatted documents so there it was. apart from printing, what good is word? data exchange? well, nicely formatted XML with XSL goes much further. even better, if it's got any data that's worth anyone's time, it should be live... in a database (or XML, or...) and prefrebly with an access-application so that people see the 'live' data with the proper tools.
are we still printing? if yes, why? why do we need printed copies? (i know there are a few cases where it's handy but really
well, keep typing and retyping and print every once in a while and call yourself productive. i don't wanna understand you.
IMHO, i think they *knew* what to do with it. they thought that their market position (and thus their power) translated into a general idea of acceptance of microsoft technology. they really thought they would be able to convince people that it was a good idea. i think they started questioning themselves with the latest barrage of criticisms (sp?) and the exposure of the security issues with MS technology.
they got carried away with a utopian view of the internet and the possibilities.
with the flack they're getting and with the sudden 'viability' or open-source (in the face of changing terms for MS liscencing) they are uncertain about the 'bet-the-farm' strategy. they don't want to push it too far.
IOW, they are scared of pushing things too far.
it's interesting to see how Big corps can make bucks out of linux while the small companies who where there from the start are faltering. is this another form of corporate buyout..? it's along the same lines as the local bookstore never making it while has no trouble finding customers..