The Nazis aren't left or right (in the American sense), but even so, they are leftists?
No. As I said, there are aspects of Nazi policies that are sort of like what today in the US we call left wing (government intervention in the economy over business interests, etc.). Similarly, there are aspects of Nazi policies that are sort of like what today in the US we call right wing (like blaming societal problems on an elitist urban bourgeoisie abandoning an alleged set of "traditional values").
Calling Nazi's "left wing" or "right wing" doesn't make sense the context of the US. American politics don't really mesh with European politics in that sense: in most European countries, for instance, the leftists are the hawks and the right wingers want to end military spending.
Naziism was socialist in fact, not just in name, in that the state controlled most of the means of production. So in that sense, they were leftist. Naziism gets associated with the right in America because their rhetoric of traditional blue-collar values as against the elitist urban bourgeois matches a lot of right-wing American rhetoric... the closest match to naziism in a lot of policies was the American Populist movement: people like Huey P. Long. Even then, it doesn't quite work because the Populists didn't rely so heavily on ceremony and ritual as a means of political control.
"U" is the class prefix for abstract nouns (eg. uganda, uhura, ujima). "buntu" is a southern form of the stem meaning "human".
My first critic was right in the sense that Kiswahili borrowed this form from either Xhosa or Zulu (I forget which), but the languages are so closely related that it's hard to say where one stops and another starts.
Incidentally, the name of the language family, "Bantu", is yet another form of that same stem (it seems every group of people calls their own language "what people speak" at some point).
Right.... because two languages, particularly two very closely related languages like Kiswahili and Zulu, don't share loanwords and cognates. So speaking Zulu means you can say for certain whether or not a given Zulu word is shared in Kiswahili.
Who is to die if the crops fail from something that a herbicide or pesticide could prevent ?
Who is to die when GM crops fail from a blight that the Genetic engineering opened up? Works both ways.
Incidentally, if you compare calories expended in farming and harvesting to calories obtained from the food, stone-age-tech farming is about 3 times as efficient as anything we do today. People are *better* able to feed themselves with traditional farming; it just makes multinationals *less* able to make a profit off of it.
People are not starving because there's a lack of food in the world. That's a huge myth from the ZPG crowd. People are starving because their corrupt and/or inept governments keep food from them and/or do not maintain the infrastructure to distribute it to them.
We don't need more food in the world, we need the food that exists to be distributed better. And we definitely don't need to introduce God-knows-how-many environmental, financial, political, and health problems by growing more and more GM crops.
There's no Constitutional requirement I know of that the states have to have a plebiscite to appoint their Electors; the Constitution just says the Electors will be appointed in such manner as the state legislature directs.
Simply appointing a body of electors would be a hard sell to the state's population, but it's not contrary to the Constitution and for that matter it's a step the Florida legislature contemplated in 2000.
So if I make music or a movie and wish to distribute it anonymously, I can't? (At least, I don't see anything in the article limiting the restriction to sharing of copyrighted material with limited redistribution licenses.)
Once again, RIAA/MPAA are trying to make new laws to legislate their outdated, un-needed roles as media distributers and make it harder on those of us who produce and distribute media independently. Somewhat more chillingly, this also would prevent people distributing their political protest songs or movies from doing so anonymously: and I think everyone can at least agree that's a problem.
Then again, that's why the proposed schemes for breaking up Microsoft were as brain-dead as the breakup of Ma Bell into the baby bells. In the Bell case, they broke up 1 National monopoly into 7 regional monopolies; instead of being shafted by Bell consumers were shafted by their local RBOC since it still didn't have to compete with anyone (think of GTE as the Firefox of the telco world at that time).
Similarly, people wanted to break Microsoft up into a company with a monopoly on operating systems and a company with a monopoly on office suites. Woo hoo. Sign me up for that...
Except, of course, if the company stops at step #2 and keeps it in-house. The GPL doesn't force them to submit the patches and they can keep it in-house all they want as long as they don't distribute it.
Yup, that's one of the rights the GPL protects. A company has the choice of either keeping its improvements to itself (which is perfectly fine) or returning them entirely to the community (which is also perfectly fine). I personally make my living writing the former kind of free software: applications internal to my clients' companies that will never see the light of day outside of their operations.
So, no problem there: the community isn't hurt (though it isn't particularly helped either), the company saves money (my time modding FOSS is still cheaper than the proprietary alternative), and I get paid.
And is ReiserFS profitable? or do the developers subsidize ReiserFS work with paychecks they get from other companies that are their day jobs?
Judging by the output of mkreiserfs, Hans and his core team can now afford to work on reiserfs full time thanks to the support of some parties who remain nameless. This is another good example of how free software can make money: companies are still better off with free software being written than with nothing, so it's worth it to them to pay a FOSS developer.
Time and time again I feel compelled to point this out:
In the context of a Linux distribution stable does not mean "reliable" or "vetted for bugs" or "unlikely to crash". It means a feature freeze: the packages are not going to be changed except for security updates. Red Hat and Debian are examples of groups that produce "stable" distributions (EL and Woody, respectively). Fedora and Gentoo come to mind as groups that seem to have no intention of producing "stable" distributions: implicit in their development model is the notion that packages may be added and removed rather rapidly in the future.
but I thought that if, say, OO.org develops their own version of features that M$ has, then it's not patent infringement (for software) if they didn't copy the source, reverse-engineer, or rip any data.
Nope, that's how trade secrets work. A patent is a state-granted artificial monopoly on a certain device/technique/whatever that applies regardless of how any other party develops it. This is why patents are not secret -- in fact, anything you patent must be published and available to the public (IIRC, this includes source code or at least pseudocode for software patents).
If I have a trade secret (which, along with copyright, were the "traditional" ways software IP was protected), I have legal protection against corporate espionage and certain types of reverse engineering. But, if someone develops a device or technique that duplicates my trade secret on his own, he can use it. This is in contrast to a patent, where I must give all of my competitors the specifications of my device or technique in return for legal protection from their implementing such a device or technique without a license from me.
My Gentoo boxes aren't significantly faster than my other boxes, and watching compiler warnings fly up the screen and editing config files haven't turned me into a guru (though now I at least know how/sbin/route works).
Forget speed or 1337ness. USE flags, rc-update, and dispatch-conf are absolutely brilliant and are the reason I stick with Gentoo.
X is multi-display out of the box. Do you ever get error messages about opening a window on 0:0? That first "0" is the display (keyboard/mouse/video card combo) in question; on PCs there is generally 1 display but X is designed to work with many displays natively. For all of X's flaws, it's handling of multiple displays is excellent: network transparency, good permissions control (man xhost sometime for a starter) based on host, display, and screen... years ahead of commodity windowing systems.
The second "0", if you're curious, is the screen on the given display.
For a modern equivalent we just use a cheap system with linux of *BSD and use it as an Xserver
FWIW, in X terminology the big central computer is the X client and the little terminals are X servers. (OK, even more pedantically, the processes on the big central computer are X clients and the processes on the little terminals are X servers.)
Karma is from a sanskrit root meaning "work" or "binding".It describes a person's attachment to the world and life.
As such, Slashdot and common usage aside, there is no such thing as "good" or "bad" karma, simply different attachments to the world that bring with them different sufferings for different patients.
And, I might say that in fact this has a lot to do with karma. Both RIAA and Altnet seem attached to this world in different ways, and the ways they have attached themselves play in to this lawsuit.
If I run an ISP, I am perfectly within my rights...
Maybe, but when our customers can't access legitimate sites, they head to another ISP. We can't even use spamhaus because it blocks too many networks with real users on them.
There are ISPs in the world that haven't already blocked all of Savvis at the router level?
Well, given that Savvis's customers (both their own and the ones they got from c&w) include people like Lycos and a few Federal agencies, that might not be such a good idea.
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*cough* AutoCAD *cough*
Come to think of it, any of the '70s & '80s commercial LISP environments, not to mention SmallTalk.
And anyways, "the first wholesale industrial use of OOP practices" isn't a result to brag about, it's just a practice.
I sure am glad I use emacs to surf...
No. As I said, there are aspects of Nazi policies that are sort of like what today in the US we call left wing (government intervention in the economy over business interests, etc.). Similarly, there are aspects of Nazi policies that are sort of like what today in the US we call right wing (like blaming societal problems on an elitist urban bourgeoisie abandoning an alleged set of "traditional values").
Calling Nazi's "left wing" or "right wing" doesn't make sense the context of the US. American politics don't really mesh with European politics in that sense: in most European countries, for instance, the leftists are the hawks and the right wingers want to end military spending.
Naziism was socialist in fact, not just in name, in that the state controlled most of the means of production. So in that sense, they were leftist. Naziism gets associated with the right in America because their rhetoric of traditional blue-collar values as against the elitist urban bourgeois matches a lot of right-wing American rhetoric ... the closest match to naziism in a lot of policies was the American Populist movement: people like Huey P. Long. Even then, it doesn't quite work because the Populists didn't rely so heavily on ceremony and ritual as a means of political control.
I think you mean creatd
"U" is the class prefix for abstract nouns (eg. uganda, uhura, ujima). "buntu" is a southern form of the stem meaning "human".
My first critic was right in the sense that Kiswahili borrowed this form from either Xhosa or Zulu (I forget which), but the languages are so closely related that it's hard to say where one stops and another starts.
Incidentally, the name of the language family, "Bantu", is yet another form of that same stem (it seems every group of people calls their own language "what people speak" at some point).
Right.... because two languages, particularly two very closely related languages like Kiswahili and Zulu, don't share loanwords and cognates. So speaking Zulu means you can say for certain whether or not a given Zulu word is shared in Kiswahili.
It's swahili for "humanity"
Who would have thought knowing Swahili would come in handy on slashdot?
I read it in a quaint text file written on a dead tree. Linky link.
But, a bit of googling did help me find a related study (sorry for the PDF).
Good idea, because where you are born determines your loyalty so accurately.
Who is to die when GM crops fail from a blight that the Genetic engineering opened up? Works both ways.
Incidentally, if you compare calories expended in farming and harvesting to calories obtained from the food, stone-age-tech farming is about 3 times as efficient as anything we do today. People are *better* able to feed themselves with traditional farming; it just makes multinationals *less* able to make a profit off of it.
People are not starving because there's a lack of food in the world. That's a huge myth from the ZPG crowd. People are starving because their corrupt and/or inept governments keep food from them and/or do not maintain the infrastructure to distribute it to them.
We don't need more food in the world, we need the food that exists to be distributed better. And we definitely don't need to introduce God-knows-how-many environmental, financial, political, and health problems by growing more and more GM crops.
There's no Constitutional requirement I know of that the states have to have a plebiscite to appoint their Electors; the Constitution just says the Electors will be appointed in such manner as the state legislature directs.
Simply appointing a body of electors would be a hard sell to the state's population, but it's not contrary to the Constitution and for that matter it's a step the Florida legislature contemplated in 2000.
So if I make music or a movie and wish to distribute it anonymously, I can't? (At least, I don't see anything in the article limiting the restriction to sharing of copyrighted material with limited redistribution licenses.)
Once again, RIAA/MPAA are trying to make new laws to legislate their outdated, un-needed roles as media distributers and make it harder on those of us who produce and distribute media independently. Somewhat more chillingly, this also would prevent people distributing their political protest songs or movies from doing so anonymously: and I think everyone can at least agree that's a problem.
Woo hoo!
Then again, that's why the proposed schemes for breaking up Microsoft were as brain-dead as the breakup of Ma Bell into the baby bells. In the Bell case, they broke up 1 National monopoly into 7 regional monopolies; instead of being shafted by Bell consumers were shafted by their local RBOC since it still didn't have to compete with anyone (think of GTE as the Firefox of the telco world at that time).
Similarly, people wanted to break Microsoft up into a company with a monopoly on operating systems and a company with a monopoly on office suites. Woo hoo. Sign me up for that...
Yup, that's one of the rights the GPL protects. A company has the choice of either keeping its improvements to itself (which is perfectly fine) or returning them entirely to the community (which is also perfectly fine). I personally make my living writing the former kind of free software: applications internal to my clients' companies that will never see the light of day outside of their operations.
So, no problem there: the community isn't hurt (though it isn't particularly helped either), the company saves money (my time modding FOSS is still cheaper than the proprietary alternative), and I get paid.
Judging by the output of mkreiserfs, Hans and his core team can now afford to work on reiserfs full time thanks to the support of some parties who remain nameless. This is another good example of how free software can make money: companies are still better off with free software being written than with nothing, so it's worth it to them to pay a FOSS developer.
Oh God no... just imagine what the trolls would do with an edit button. The mutable sig trolls are bad enough.
Time and time again I feel compelled to point this out:
In the context of a Linux distribution stable does not mean "reliable" or "vetted for bugs" or "unlikely to crash". It means a feature freeze: the packages are not going to be changed except for security updates. Red Hat and Debian are examples of groups that produce "stable" distributions (EL and Woody, respectively). Fedora and Gentoo come to mind as groups that seem to have no intention of producing "stable" distributions: implicit in their development model is the notion that packages may be added and removed rather rapidly in the future.
Nope, that's how trade secrets work. A patent is a state-granted artificial monopoly on a certain device/technique/whatever that applies regardless of how any other party develops it. This is why patents are not secret -- in fact, anything you patent must be published and available to the public (IIRC, this includes source code or at least pseudocode for software patents).
If I have a trade secret (which, along with copyright, were the "traditional" ways software IP was protected), I have legal protection against corporate espionage and certain types of reverse engineering. But, if someone develops a device or technique that duplicates my trade secret on his own, he can use it. This is in contrast to a patent, where I must give all of my competitors the specifications of my device or technique in return for legal protection from their implementing such a device or technique without a license from me.
My Gentoo boxes aren't significantly faster than my other boxes, and watching compiler warnings fly up the screen and editing config files haven't turned me into a guru (though now I at least know how /sbin/route works).
Forget speed or 1337ness. USE flags, rc-update, and dispatch-conf are absolutely brilliant and are the reason I stick with Gentoo.
X is multi-display out of the box. Do you ever get error messages about opening a window on 0:0? That first "0" is the display (keyboard/mouse/video card combo) in question; on PCs there is generally 1 display but X is designed to work with many displays natively. For all of X's flaws, it's handling of multiple displays is excellent: network transparency, good permissions control (man xhost sometime for a starter) based on host, display, and screen... years ahead of commodity windowing systems.
The second "0", if you're curious, is the screen on the given display.
FWIW, in X terminology the big central computer is the X client and the little terminals are X servers. (OK, even more pedantically, the processes on the big central computer are X clients and the processes on the little terminals are X servers.)
Not that it matters. Carry on.
Karma is from a sanskrit root meaning "work" or "binding".It describes a person's attachment to the world and life.
As such, Slashdot and common usage aside, there is no such thing as "good" or "bad" karma, simply different attachments to the world that bring with them different sufferings for different patients.
And, I might say that in fact this has a lot to do with karma. Both RIAA and Altnet seem attached to this world in different ways, and the ways they have attached themselves play in to this lawsuit.
Maybe, but when our customers can't access legitimate sites, they head to another ISP. We can't even use spamhaus because it blocks too many networks with real users on them.
Well, given that Savvis's customers (both their own and the ones they got from c&w) include people like Lycos and a few Federal agencies, that might not be such a good idea.