And then what? If the power of the government is limited further, institutions in which the people as a whole do not have a direct policy voice become more powerful.
When the government gets out of the tax-regulate-and-subsidize business, and sticks to preventing and punishing theft, injury, etc., then it will be performing its proper role. As long as a corporation can buy an advantage in the marketplace -- including shielding itself from liability -- then there will be a place for lobbying, bribes, etc.
Would you prefer a corporation, with no obligation to listen to you, make important choices for you
Absolutely not. I'm in favor of stripping corporations of their legal personhood, actually.
I believe that campaign finance reform is in itself at least a start to solving many of these sorts of problems.
Hmmm. Not really. It just stirs the pot a little. Strip corporations of their personhood, so they have no first amendment rights, and prohibit them from engaging in any political activity. I.e., make it the way things used to be.
Collectivism is not the answer, just as slavery is not freedom.
Putting everything under the control of "one person, one vote" is simply mob rule. Democracy should have limits, as should every form of government.
Having an all-powerful central government, but making it "democratic," does not change the fact that it's still an all-powerful central government. It just means there's more people to bribe.
The only truly effective Campaign Finance Reform is to reduce the power of the federal government. As long as the turnip remains large, and growing larger, every goat on the planet will be fighting for a piece of it.
If the Federal government were actually limited in scope (refer to Constitution here), then there would be a lot less to lobby for, to "contribute soft money" for, etc.
I would like to not only limit the power of the government, but prevent lawyers from holding office.
Simple question: Why the split?
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From the Mosix home page:
Only Prof. Amnon Barak is authorized to represent MOSIX.
How do we not know they're just implementing a web cache to save money and provide better service? Lots of ISPs do this. Why page to get the pictures from the homepage of cnn.com 458,765 times an hour when once will do?
This allows them to monitor and change (or insert ads into) what you read.
Posh. Fear-mongering. Come back with some evidence -- and I'll be as against it as the next guy. And if they are actually inserting ads, then they'll probably be in court with CNN, Disney, etc, so forth, for modifying and distributing copyrighted material.
Interestingly, regardless of what IP you address the packet to, the Inktomi Traffic-Server reads the Host: field to determine where to send the packet. I sent several packets from my home machine to one of my office machines, inside the packet was "Host: www.comcast.net". Comcast illegally intercepted, misinterpreted and altered this packet, and sent it to www.comcast.com. So, you might say there's a bug in this evil Inktomi Traffic-Server thing.
Oh, shut up. That's how a transparent proxy works. I suppose the Linux facilities for transparent proxing -- available for years now -- are also evil?
I thought that the preempt patch was quite a way from being part of the linus tree. On the other hand, early in a development kernel is probably the right place to integrate it, so that all those device drivers with problems with the preempt stuff (like NE2000, I think) can get fixed.
The first article that i wrote about the processor architecture was approximately five years ago in order to estimate the present situation for the 64 bit processor market. At those days, the name "Willamette" was implicitly whispered on the sites, which were close to the chip giant, Intel. Intel had bought the production sites of Digital Corp. which was a firm with its product lines beyond its time. On the same period, we were discussing the upcoming announcement of the exciting chip K6-2. And the dream of a 64 bit desktop was even existent on the minds of IT market. I just wrote my first processor article on a 486 DX-2. At that time I was discussing the nonexistent and superior processors when measured with the glorious benchmark criteria of those days, Spec95 than my computer; lots of our crew, were just asking "... why do we need that much processing power on a desktop" scornfully. Now, I can barely put up hauling myself back from laughing, when I looked back to those swirling and blazingly fast years for processor market.
The American Senate voted against the treaty under Clinton. I.e., Bush didn't kybosh it, it already was. No other nation has ratified it. Kyoto is, simply, not good treaty.
The government enforces contracts. "Congress shall make no law restricting freedom of speech, or of the press." Ergo, congress can make no law enforcing a contract that restricts freedom of speech, or of the press.
Maybe Sun will make a new x86 system that has improved I/O -- like, using UPA rather than (or in addition to) PCI.
Since Sun will not be worrying about Windows support, they can extend the architecture a bit. Still use x86 processors, but enhance the surrounding systems to make it less PC-like and more big-server-like.
Use the Jabber protocol for client <-> server communications, or even server <-> communications. You even get chat for free, then, and you could potentially use a standard Jabber client to inspect the server's state, and send administrative commands. All communications are in XML, so it's easy to see what's going on, and there's fewer endianness problems (even if it's more chatty). You can probably use SOAP or XMLRPC via Jabber.
Speaking as a person involved with developing a filesystem for Windows 2000, the IFS is required. There is not enough information in the publically available DDKs. You need extra headers to actually build a FS for Win2k. There's a GPL ntifs.h out there, but it is not complete.
It is fairly obvious that MSFT doesn't really want people developing alternative filesystems for Windows. They don't make it impossible, but they do put unnecessary barriers in the way of the developer.
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He's not shutting out all Windows email clients. Only Outlook Express.
Poeple not Lookout Express can still read his email, even if they are using Windows.
Just as glibc and gtk are LGPL and not GPL, switching the license for the class libraries to a license that allows commercial software to be used with Mono is a good move.
I would have preferred the LGPL, but an X-style license is better than a lot of alternatives.
Of course,.Net may fizzle or end up being a bridge for viruses from Windows, which will make the choice of license less important, as no one will be using it. If it does work out, it might mean that you can finally buy Linux software at CompUSA.
I'm not sold on the whole clone-MS thing. On the one hand, it could lessen MSFT's grip on the market. On the other, MSFT will probably maintain incompatibilities with Mono, making Mono much less relevant. For instance, I doubt that they will ship a ".Net clean" version of Office that would run on Mono. Ditto for other cash-cow programs. However, I'll bet that Minesweeper.NET will be one of the first successes for Mono.;)
What pisses me off is that Fox went to all the trouble to pay for Futurama and The Simpsons, and then they keep running the "NFL Postgame" over the Groening time slots. Sometimes they "join the program already in progress," i.e., roll the last scene and credits for the show that "Howie" has blathered over for 25 minutes. Retarded. Shut up, Howie. We all saw the game already.
The one hour of TV I want to see during the week, and they fill it with redundant lip-flapping that contains no new information. Fucking football.
Pazuzues should have written "I found something that you could say piqued my interest. It seems that Symantec (which purchased now-defunct Quarterdeck years ago) has released into the public domain binary versions of DesqView/X. DesqView/X was a GUI and DOS extender that installed over DOS very much like MS Windows did. This little GUI can run X-Windows and MS Windows 3.x software and can even act as gateway to serve MS Windows applications to remote X terminals. It was way ahead of its time and is still a pretty decent toy to play with. It can load X and rexec X apps with 16MB of RAM, for Pete's sake! All it needs is an old 486. A petition has been started to urge Symantec to release the source code under an Open Source license. I think this is a really good idea, as it could possibly help a number of projects, such as WINE. DesqView/X is available for download now."
How much "editing" does being an "editor" involve, anyway? 8^D
I had the firmware fail in a mylex controller in a database server. Of course, the busier, and therefore more important, databases were the ones with the most garbage written over their files. This was on NT.
I know of no good raid controllers. Look for a scsi-to-scsi setup rather than pci-to-scsi, though.
What I'm saying is that a strict libertarian shouldn't believe in it.
Well, if by "strict" you mean "dogmatic," then you may be right. Jefferson and Franklin did not believe in it, but allowed it to exist for practical reasons. I agree with those reasons. But I still think Sonny Bono (yay, tree!) was an idiot and that Disney pisses in the common well.
I think that's bullshit, and perhaps even laziness and plain whining. How did they *ever* get their work done when typing text into XyWrite in an amber terminal! The horror! Oh yeah, the quality of journalism has gone up a lot since those days, all thanks to Microsoft and their glorious Word Processor! Not. Each new version just keeps improving journalism! Not. One day Microsoft will take us all to Planet Blisstonia! All hail The Leader!
Really. I've worked for newspapers. Back in the Varityper, gang-halftoning, xacto and wax-machine, Macintosh II and XyWrite on an amber terminal days. If you need "revision marks" to do your job, then your editors are morons.
End rant.
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Until you can install Linux on 99% of the desktops and laptops out there and not have to spend a week getting your network card, sound, and video configured properly, Windows is still going to be the OS of choice for most people.
It's actually more difficult and time-consuming to install Windows than Linux.
What will make the difference is when Linux comes pre-installed like Windows does.
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And then what? If the power of the government is limited further, institutions in which the people as a whole do not have a direct policy voice become more powerful.
When the government gets out of the tax-regulate-and-subsidize business, and sticks to preventing and punishing theft, injury, etc., then it will be performing its proper role. As long as a corporation can buy an advantage in the marketplace -- including shielding itself from liability -- then there will be a place for lobbying, bribes, etc.
Would you prefer a corporation, with no obligation to listen to you, make important choices for you
Absolutely not. I'm in favor of stripping corporations of their legal personhood, actually.
I believe that campaign finance reform is in itself at least a start to solving many of these sorts of problems.
Hmmm. Not really. It just stirs the pot a little. Strip corporations of their personhood, so they have no first amendment rights, and prohibit them from engaging in any political activity. I.e., make it the way things used to be.
Collectivism is not the answer, just as slavery is not freedom.
Putting everything under the control of "one person, one vote" is simply mob rule. Democracy should have limits, as should every form of government.
Having an all-powerful central government, but making it "democratic," does not change the fact that it's still an all-powerful central government. It just means there's more people to bribe.
The only truly effective Campaign Finance Reform is to reduce the power of the federal government. As long as the turnip remains large, and growing larger, every goat on the planet will be fighting for a piece of it.
If the Federal government were actually limited in scope (refer to Constitution here), then there would be a lot less to lobby for, to "contribute soft money" for, etc.
I would like to not only limit the power of the government, but prevent lawyers from holding office.
From the Mosix home page:
Only Prof. Amnon Barak is authorized to represent MOSIX.
...???
What's the story here, Moshe?
How do we not know they're just implementing a web cache to save money and provide better service? Lots of ISPs do this. Why page to get the pictures from the homepage of cnn.com 458,765 times an hour when once will do?
This allows them to monitor and change (or insert ads into) what you read.
Posh. Fear-mongering. Come back with some evidence -- and I'll be as against it as the next guy. And if they are actually inserting ads, then they'll probably be in court with CNN, Disney, etc, so forth, for modifying and distributing copyrighted material.
Interestingly, regardless of what IP you address the packet to, the Inktomi Traffic-Server reads the Host: field to determine where to send the packet. I sent several packets from my home machine to one of my office machines, inside the packet was "Host: www.comcast.net". Comcast illegally intercepted, misinterpreted and altered this packet, and sent it to www.comcast.com. So, you might say there's a bug in this evil Inktomi Traffic-Server thing.
Oh, shut up. That's how a transparent proxy works. I suppose the Linux facilities for transparent proxing -- available for years now -- are also evil?
Where's my clue-by-four...
I thought that the preempt patch was quite a way from being part of the linus tree. On the other hand, early in a development kernel is probably the right place to integrate it, so that all those device drivers with problems with the preempt stuff (like NE2000, I think) can get fixed.
Woof! Someone help that guy get his GRE...
The American Senate voted against the treaty under Clinton. I.e., Bush didn't kybosh it, it already was. No other nation has ratified it. Kyoto is, simply, not good treaty.
The government enforces contracts. "Congress shall make no law restricting freedom of speech, or of the press." Ergo, congress can make no law enforcing a contract that restricts freedom of speech, or of the press.
Seems simple.
Maybe Sun will make a new x86 system that has improved I/O -- like, using UPA rather than (or in addition to) PCI.
Since Sun will not be worrying about Windows support, they can extend the architecture a bit. Still use x86 processors, but enhance the surrounding systems to make it less PC-like and more big-server-like.
Use the Jabber protocol for client <-> server communications, or even server <-> communications. You even get chat for free, then, and you could potentially use a standard Jabber client to inspect the server's state, and send administrative commands. All communications are in XML, so it's easy to see what's going on, and there's fewer endianness problems (even if it's more chatty). You can probably use SOAP or XMLRPC via Jabber.
Maybe they'll be so serious about security that ".EXE" will not mean "load and execute" to the operating system.
But I doubt it.
It looks like they are breathing more life into MPEG2, then. "Use fee" for a data format? That's supposedly a standard? Right.
Speaking as a person involved with developing a filesystem for Windows 2000, the IFS is required. There is not enough information in the publically available DDKs. You need extra headers to actually build a FS for Win2k. There's a GPL ntifs.h out there, but it is not complete.
It is fairly obvious that MSFT doesn't really want people developing alternative filesystems for Windows. They don't make it impossible, but they do put unnecessary barriers in the way of the developer.
He's not shutting out all Windows email clients. Only Outlook Express.
Poeple not Lookout Express can still read his email, even if they are using Windows.
Just as glibc and gtk are LGPL and not GPL, switching the license for the class libraries to a license that allows commercial software to be used with Mono is a good move.
.Net may fizzle or end up being a bridge for viruses from Windows, which will make the choice of license less important, as no one will be using it. If it does work out, it might mean that you can finally buy Linux software at CompUSA.
;)
I would have preferred the LGPL, but an X-style license is better than a lot of alternatives.
Of course,
I'm not sold on the whole clone-MS thing. On the one hand, it could lessen MSFT's grip on the market. On the other, MSFT will probably maintain incompatibilities with Mono, making Mono much less relevant. For instance, I doubt that they will ship a ".Net clean" version of Office that would run on Mono. Ditto for other cash-cow programs. However, I'll bet that Minesweeper.NET will be one of the first successes for Mono.
What pisses me off is that Fox went to all the trouble to pay for Futurama and The Simpsons, and then they keep running the "NFL Postgame" over the Groening time slots. Sometimes they "join the program already in progress," i.e., roll the last scene and credits for the show that "Howie" has blathered over for 25 minutes. Retarded. Shut up, Howie. We all saw the game already.
The one hour of TV I want to see during the week, and they fill it with redundant lip-flapping that contains no new information. Fucking football.
Oh, hell, I made a typo. How embarassing.
Which "English" should we be using, oh great arbitrator of language?
Any english would do. I don't think that news article would be considered well written by any english speaker from any century.
"Peaked"
"Pete sake"
Fonicks. Good when you're in elementary school, but not meant to eb the end of one's education.
Pazuzues should have written "I found something that you could say piqued my interest. It seems that Symantec (which purchased now-defunct Quarterdeck years ago) has released into the public domain binary versions of DesqView/X. DesqView/X was a GUI and DOS extender that installed over DOS very much like MS Windows did. This little GUI can run X-Windows and MS Windows 3.x software and can even act as gateway to serve MS Windows applications to remote X terminals. It was way ahead of its time and is still a pretty decent toy to play with. It can load X and rexec X apps with 16MB of RAM, for Pete's sake! All it needs is an old 486. A petition has been started to urge Symantec to release the source code under an Open Source license. I think this is a really good idea, as it could possibly help a number of projects, such as WINE. DesqView/X is available for download now."
How much "editing" does being an "editor" involve, anyway? 8^D
Mylex and DPT are both crap.
I had the firmware fail in a mylex controller in a database server. Of course, the busier, and therefore more important, databases were the ones with the most garbage written over their files. This was on NT.
I know of no good raid controllers. Look for a scsi-to-scsi setup rather than pci-to-scsi, though.
What I'm saying is that a strict libertarian shouldn't believe in it.
Well, if by "strict" you mean "dogmatic," then you may be right. Jefferson and Franklin did not believe in it, but allowed it to exist for practical reasons. I agree with those reasons. But I still think Sonny Bono (yay, tree!) was an idiot and that Disney pisses in the common well.
Maybe journalists have some special needs.
I think that's bullshit, and perhaps even laziness and plain whining. How did they *ever* get their work done when typing text into XyWrite in an amber terminal! The horror! Oh yeah, the quality of journalism has gone up a lot since those days, all thanks to Microsoft and their glorious Word Processor! Not. Each new version just keeps improving journalism! Not. One day Microsoft will take us all to Planet Blisstonia! All hail The Leader!
Really. I've worked for newspapers. Back in the Varityper, gang-halftoning, xacto and wax-machine, Macintosh II and XyWrite on an amber terminal days. If you need "revision marks" to do your job, then your editors are morons.
End rant.
Until you can install Linux on 99% of the desktops and laptops out there and not have to spend a week getting your network card, sound, and video configured properly, Windows is still going to be the OS of choice for most people.
It's actually more difficult and time-consuming to install Windows than Linux.
What will make the difference is when Linux comes pre-installed like Windows does.
I bought Alpha Centauri for Linux.
So have I, but it's somehow "backordered." Who, exactly, would Loki be backordering it from?
Sigh.