Unfortunately, the law needs to be enforced according to how it's written, not on a case by case basis where every instance is sent to a judge to decide where the benefit to society lies. It's simply not possible to run a legal system that way.
This only says that there is the letter of the law and the spirit of the law.
Of course it's easier for a judge to rule by the letter but the intent of the law is in its spirit.
Am I the only one to question why all the laws are written in such a complicated language? The US constitution is a simlpe one, made to be comprehensible by anyone: why do we have now laws that are so complicated that we need a lawyer to interpret them for us?
I like these smart guys like you. Do you really belive there is a free market? That corporations produce what YOU want?
You dummy! The corporations produce X and shove into your head that you want it!
Look at drug commercials (TV/magazines), or any commercials for that matter: they don't inform you about the product - they persuade you that "X is the best thing since sliced bread"... and the next day or week you are sheepishly buying it.
This is not a free market, it is a herd of sheeps.
CAPITALISM means selling whatever is wanted? Right: I will sell drugs to your child and I will pay the police officer to look the other way. Is that cool with you?
And what judicial system? Such a good judicial system that I can sue you for the color of your roof until you have to sell it to pay your lawyers?
it's still not safe to have a major software paradigm shift occur abruptly
Why don't you let the free market forces to decide this.
I'd guess the world can still go'round with businesses using existing Micro$oft software. Or there is a fundamental feature missing from Word, Excel, Windows 9x/NT? Or do you need a new crop of bugs RSN?
Do you imagine if Micro$oft dissapeared tommorow you beloved copy of Word would cease functioning?
1: The joke: Let's see how long it will take until they update the/. ad. They were featuring SuSE 6.3 long after I bought 6.4 .
2: The question: Am I the only one who expects Kernel-2.4, Apache 2.0, TUX 1.0, GCC 3.0, KDE 2.0 in the next WhizBang Linux XX.00? What did _CHANGE_ between 6.4 and 7.0 to warrant a full version increase?
3: The fact: _Su_SE _Su_pport _Su_cks: I've bought 6.4 because I wanted to became aquainted with other Linux distributions (I am using RedHat since 4.1...). I wanted something that automatically installs reiserfs, UDMA 66... After install, my first thought was to configure sendmail. Well... I copied the appropriate lines from my old sendmail.cf into the new one, edited the SuSE specific configuration file and ran yast to update the whole thing. Lather, rinse, repeat. Nothing. I mailed their support. They answered that they don't provide support for mail configuration. ON THE BOX THEY SAY 30 DAYS OF SUPPORT except for some advanced customization: I don't consider envelope masquerading for redirecting my and my wife's mail _advanced customization_. They recommended me to buy support from Linuxcare. Of course, I've copied my whole sendmail.* from my old RedHat/etc, disabled the SuSE config file and never run their updater again.On a plus side, they did a wonderfull job at making Oracle8i installation painless on their distribution. The instructions on Oracle web site were refering to RedHat and didn't work. SuSE packages all aditional downloads into one file and provided easy to follow instructions.
On a slightly offtopic note, IMHO, the ports tree is superior to ALL linux packaging systems, even apt/dpkg.
Not intending to start a war here but how can you remove one package?
And if you wander why, think about upgrading: I want to put the new samba package but, it needs the new glibc package. Fine I upgrade both and oops... apache doesn't start anymore. So, remove the latest and greatest and go back to tried and true.
I like FreeBSD but I want to be able to remove things. And I like to be able to update system components piecewise (withoutmake world).
The real bitch of this, of course, is that just about every resolver in the world is programmed with the current roots in its hints file.
If the US inet is down, what stops me from to assign the old root IP addresses to my new DNS servers?
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Well... I don't want to stand out of the crowd (too much) but I have a Maxtor DiamondMax 20Gb 7200 RPM and I'm happy.
I didn't like Maxtor before... but I've got a deal at Staples (back in January): I bought the hard drive and they gave me a Promise UltraATA/66 controller. It works without a hitch.
It gets 18Mb/s in the 10 gigs in the middle, it is not noisy and doesn't heat up unreasonably.
How would you like to see Python 23451543543254353453425432543254325342543543252345 .33 ?
Python 3 sounds more reasonable.
[Maybe I'm a bit too conservative but is Coppermine faster than Klamath? Well, I can tell for sure that [GK]xxx 1.2 has more features and less bugs than [GK]xxx 1.1.2].
I would like to have 4 gigs of RAM in my machine. Then at boot do a burst transfer of the first two in memory (that's the OS) and then, every 5 minutes all my data to one of the two gigs left.
Imagine: all my data and the OS in memory. And a UPS capable to last until everything lands on disk.
It should be pointed out, however, that the existence of a community of dedicated, well-intentioned and sincere defenders of a cause is unrelated to the ethical value of that cause.
...simply a reminder that no idea can be justified on the basis of the quality of its supporters. The observation works the other way too: bad people can defend good causes.
And later on...
Eric Raymond, another of the leaders of the free software movement (who prefers the term "open source") uses his Web page to proselytize for gun rights.
So:
Richard Stallman doesn't have manners.
Richard Stallman is the head of FSF.
Eric Raymond is BAD because he plays with guns.
Eric Raymond is a advocate of "Open Source"
... but no idea can be justified on the basis of the quality of its supporters
From this premises you can get to one of the following conclusions:
Bertrand Meyer doen't think logical since it contradicts himself.
Bertrand Meyer does think logical but he skews the article in order to blame Free Software for the failure of his company.
Bertrand Meyer doesn't care about logic as long as he can get an article in this magazine.
Some notes:
I am an European living in US and I am against weapons, incidentally by the same reasoning as Dr. Meyer.
Dr. Meyer's language Eiffel was an interesting academic exercise but he had a MAJOR flaw (at least last time it checked it, two years ago): it didn't allow incremental compilations since the compiler have to decide which methods to make virtual and it had to scan the whole source of the project. Sorry Doc, this doesn't fly.
What we see here on/. are mostly postings from Young Male White Americans (and I said MOSTLY not ONLY).
The problem is that the population is not comprised of mostly Young Males (even among White Americans).
If YOU need a gun to protect yourself why a 10 year old boy doesn't need one? You know that the 4th grade environment is more violent that you office, don't you?
If YOU need a gun why an 80 year old lady doesn't need one?
How do you decide how much responsability a person has ?(aren't you afraid when you see the 80 year old lady who is shaking when she gets in her car is driving behind you on the highway).
How can you tell when the neighbour you know for a life goes beserk and kills whomever he can see?
Just this week in St. Paul a highschool kid was killes by two others? Without _ANY_ reason... They didn't rob him... They didn't know him...
THEY JUST DROVE BY AND SHOOT HIM.
Maybe he ned a gun too. And a helmet. And a buletproof vest. And an armored bicycle maybe...
Maybe if they didn't have a gun he would have been able to fight... or to run... or to scream for help.
Or the kids in the Columbine or Littleton? (sorry if they are the same) Shouldn't they carry a gun in the highschool library? To DEFEND themselves?
-- And "to protect against the government"... Another "macho" theory. The government IS ALREADY controlling you. And you neighbours too. It is too late...
It boils you like a frog. SLOWLY raising the temperature.
A few million people will not make any difference: for moving and coordinating a million people you need a communication infrastructure that is hard to aquire and maintain: you will march with your SUVs on the Interstate highway? You will use cell phones?
Geez: YOU NEED TO FEED A MILLION PEOPLE.
Too many macho guys...
It takes 9 months to make a baby no matter how many women you have.
Music artists put a lot of time and effort into producing a work of art which they then allow the general public to enjoy.
Well, well... First of all _MOST_ of the music in the latter years was FOR SALE. How do you explain then the fact that on each music CD (regardless of the genre) you find at most one good song?
It's like you would say that the doctors have chosen this profession in order to help the people. Ha. Less than 1% perhaps. The other are in business only to make money.
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Unfortunately, the law needs to be enforced according to how it's written, not on a case by case basis where every instance is sent to a judge to decide where the benefit to society lies. It's simply not possible to run a legal system that way.
This only says that there is the letter of the law and the spirit of the law.
Of course it's easier for a judge to rule by the letter but the intent of the law is in its spirit.
Am I the only one to question why all the laws are written in such a complicated language? The US constitution is a simlpe one, made to be comprehensible by anyone: why do we have now laws that are so complicated that we need a lawyer to interpret them for us?
Oops! I guess I answered my question.
I like these smart guys like you. Do you really belive there is a free market? That corporations produce what YOU want?
You dummy! The corporations produce X and shove into your head that you want it!
Look at drug commercials (TV/magazines), or any commercials for that matter: they don't inform you about the product - they persuade you that "X is the best thing since sliced bread"... and the next day or week you are sheepishly buying it.
This is not a free market, it is a herd of sheeps.
CAPITALISM means selling whatever is wanted? Right: I will sell drugs to your child and I will pay the police officer to look the other way. Is that cool with you?
And what judicial system? Such a good judicial system that I can sue you for the color of your roof until you have to sell it to pay your lawyers?
Geez... Wake up till is not too late.
good road system
Yeah... Like Americans decided "let's make highways" before they saw the German ones.
And then all those highways were made to sell more personal cars than to build a good transport infrastructure.
And this good road system brings a good ozone hole.
it's still not safe to have a major software paradigm shift occur abruptly
Why don't you let the free market forces to decide this.
I'd guess the world can still go'round with businesses using existing Micro$oft software. Or there is a fundamental feature missing from Word, Excel, Windows 9x/NT? Or do you need a new crop of bugs RSN?
Do you imagine if Micro$oft dissapeared tommorow you beloved copy of Word would cease functioning?
This is not the intent... it is for low cost notebooks. And possibly to extend my life of my AMD K6-2 380MHz to 550MHz.
... and I want a Beowulf cluster of these.
Geez!
1: The joke: Let's see how long it will take until they update the /. ad. They were featuring SuSE 6.3 long after I bought 6.4 .
/etc, disabled the SuSE config file and never run their updater again.On a plus side, they did a wonderfull job at making Oracle8i installation painless on their distribution. The instructions on Oracle web site were refering to RedHat and didn't work. SuSE packages all aditional downloads into one file and provided easy to follow instructions.
2: The question: Am I the only one who expects Kernel-2.4, Apache 2.0, TUX 1.0, GCC 3.0, KDE 2.0 in the next WhizBang Linux XX.00? What did _CHANGE_ between 6.4 and 7.0 to warrant a full version increase?
3: The fact: _Su_SE _Su_pport _Su_cks: I've bought 6.4 because I wanted to became aquainted with other Linux distributions (I am using RedHat since 4.1...). I wanted something that automatically installs reiserfs, UDMA 66... After install,
my first thought was to configure sendmail. Well... I copied the appropriate lines from my old sendmail.cf into the new one, edited the SuSE specific configuration file and ran yast to update the whole thing. Lather, rinse, repeat. Nothing. I mailed their support. They answered that they don't provide support for mail
configuration. ON THE BOX THEY SAY 30 DAYS OF SUPPORT except for some advanced customization: I don't consider envelope masquerading for redirecting my and my wife's mail _advanced customization_. They recommended me to buy support from Linuxcare. Of course, I've copied my whole sendmail.* from my old RedHat
Not intending to start a war here but how can you remove one package?
And if you wander why, think about upgrading: I want to put the new samba package but, it needs the new glibc package. Fine I upgrade both and oops... apache doesn't start anymore. So, remove the latest and greatest and go back to tried and true.
I like FreeBSD but I want to be able to remove things. And I like to be able to update system components piecewise (withoutmake world).
If the US inet is down, what stops me from to assign the old root IP addresses to my new DNS servers?
Well... I don't want to stand out of the crowd (too much) but I have a Maxtor DiamondMax 20Gb 7200 RPM and I'm happy.
I didn't like Maxtor before... but I've got a deal at Staples (back in January): I bought the hard drive and they gave me a Promise UltraATA/66 controller. It works without a hitch.
It gets 18Mb/s in the 10 gigs in the middle, it is not noisy and doesn't heat up unreasonably.
I am happy with it.
Actually they are paying Precision Insight to make and release drivers for XFree.
Where do you think the ATI Rage 128 drivers in XFree 4.0.1 comes from?
I have an ATI Xpert99 (Rage 128) and I am using XFree 4.0.1 and I am happy with it.
So I understand that you build your car, fridge, tv... You grow you own corn, wheat, pork...
Ah, those fanatics
Atually _THIS_ is ridiculous.
Why OSS?
GNU does not deserve a TLD after 15 years of work for the community and a pity attempt to get something from the corporations does?
Wake up, fella.
You are happy because of the freedom you have with Linux or because AT&T decided to give you Plan 9?
On a properly configured system the root file system is going to be around 500M.
Yeah? So you keep /usr in / ?
C'mon: make /usr /tmp /opt and /var separate partitions and / will need only 40 megs or so.
I guess because ftp.us.kernel.org didn't have the patch at 8:20 CST.
Well... I can answer that "Python 3000".
5 .33 ?
Where the heck is 3000 coming from?
How would you like to see Python 2345154354325435345342543254325432534254354325234
Python 3 sounds more reasonable.
[Maybe I'm a bit too conservative but is Coppermine faster than Klamath? Well, I can tell for sure that [GK]xxx 1.2 has more features and less bugs than [GK]xxx 1.1.2].
Well, not!
I would like to have 4 gigs of RAM in my machine.
Then at boot do a burst transfer of the first two in memory (that's the OS) and then, every 5 minutes all my data to one of the two gigs left.
Imagine: all my data and the OS in memory. And a UPS capable to last until everything lands on disk.
I WANT MORE RAM!
It should be pointed out, however, that the existence of a community of dedicated, well-intentioned and sincere defenders of a cause is unrelated to the ethical value of that cause.
And later on...
Eric Raymond, another of the leaders of the free software movement (who prefers the term "open source") uses his Web page to proselytize for gun rights.
So:
... but no idea can be justified on the basis of the quality of its supporters
From this premises you can get to one of the following conclusions:
Some notes:
- I am an European living in US and I am against weapons, incidentally by the same reasoning as Dr. Meyer.
- Dr. Meyer's language Eiffel was an interesting academic exercise but he had a MAJOR flaw (at least last time it checked it, two years ago): it didn't allow incremental compilations since the compiler have to decide which methods to make virtual and it had to scan the whole source of the project. Sorry Doc, this doesn't fly.
-------------------------------------------------The GNU and FSF view is that it is OK to sell anything except software.
I don't see any piece if information from GNU/FSF saying It's not OK to sell softwarethe long term cost of a software project is often in the testing, maintenance, and bug fixes
I have yet to see testing, maintenance, and bug fixing from certain companies...
What we see here on /. are mostly postings from
Young Male White Americans (and I said MOSTLY not ONLY).
The problem is that the population is not comprised of mostly Young Males (even among White Americans).
If YOU need a gun to protect yourself why a 10 year old boy doesn't need one? You know that the 4th grade environment is more violent that you office, don't you?
If YOU need a gun why an 80 year old lady doesn't need one?
How do you decide how much responsability a person has ?(aren't you afraid when you see the 80 year old lady who is shaking when she gets in her car is driving behind you on the highway).
How can you tell when the neighbour you know for a life goes beserk and kills whomever he can see?
Just this week in St. Paul a highschool kid was killes by two others? Without _ANY_ reason... They didn't rob him... They didn't know him...
THEY JUST DROVE BY AND SHOOT HIM.
Maybe he ned a gun too. And a helmet. And a buletproof vest. And an armored bicycle maybe...
Maybe if they didn't have a gun he would have been able to fight... or to run... or to scream for help.
Or the kids in the Columbine or Littleton? (sorry if they are the same) Shouldn't they carry a gun in the highschool library? To DEFEND themselves?
--
And "to protect against the government"... Another "macho" theory. The government IS ALREADY controlling you. And you neighbours too. It is too late...
It boils you like a frog. SLOWLY raising the temperature.
A few million people will not make any difference: for moving and coordinating a million people you need a communication infrastructure that is hard to aquire and maintain: you will march with your SUVs on the Interstate highway?
You will use cell phones?
Geez: YOU NEED TO FEED A MILLION PEOPLE.
Too many macho guys...
It takes 9 months to make a baby no matter how many women you have.
There are things that don't scale up.
And how about an old lady who forgot her glasses home and just buys the first can she can see?
That's simply stupid.
How about some aspirin in which you've got some 1,3 Paradicloxyfluorwhatevergarbage? You are in a hurry: do you buy it or go to another store?
Do onto others what you want them to do onto you.
Music artists put a lot of time and effort into producing a work of art which they then allow the general public to enjoy.
Well, well... First of all _MOST_ of the music in the latter years was FOR SALE. How do you explain then the fact that on each music CD (regardless of the genre) you find at most one good song?
It's like you would say that the doctors have chosen this profession in order to help the people. Ha. Less than 1% perhaps. The other are in business only to make money.
.No... Europe will just sit and wait for the American friend to throw whatever they don't need or already developed an antidote for...
Yes, it bothers me too.
There is a Romanian saying: "The locks are for honest people, not for burglars."
The corporations might be staling from us and we might not be able to stop them... However we can still build our free [software] world.