Bill Gates is notorious for saying that "640K ought to be enough for anybody." and "No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer."
Gates never said that. If you can provide a primary source, (not a list of unsourced "quotations") I'd be obliged, and amazed, to see it. See Wikiquote, update it when you find your source.
That is all well and good, and I am sure, no matter what happens, there will always be plenty of people out there who do not want to dumn anything down. The problem people have is that there is resistance to creating a 'simple' linux based distro.
So Linspire isn't simple enough for you? And WinXP and OSX are not at all simple under their GUIs either. Or by "simple" perhaps you mean something like Damn Small Linux, that gives you a desktop from a 50 MB installer. Or do you want to run from a floppy, like tomsrtbt?
Look at the response he got. Was it a, "Sorry you had trouble. Here's an article that might help?" No, it was a, "Idiot. It's on Google
The guy was anonymous, so he's probably not even reading the responses. He also said this happened years ago, so telling him how to do it isnt't going to help him anyway, but the first response DID give exactly the information needed. No one called him an idiot, though it was one of the most trivial things to do in Linux, which I worked out the first time I installed RedHat 6. And finally, this is Slashdot, not a Linux newsgroup or mailing list.
Joe 6pack cannot understand why a "config file" is needed.
The anonymous guy who couldn't install his hard disk DID manage to install Apache and PHPBB. I don't think he would really choke on editing fstab. I suspect this was a very long time ago, and/or he's trolling.
Yeah, if we talk about the past 60,000 years period this doesn't amaze me much. But if we talk about the present, I would say I doubt there's much evolution. Our society doesn't favor it.
Recently, in the Middle Ages, the Black Death wiped out something like 30% of the population of Europe. Some genes that seem to provide defence against that became much more prevalent. Currently in Africa where AIDS is infecting 30% or more of some countries there must be a fierce selection process.
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ot only a Mac-using Bush voter, but the editor of Slashdot's Mac section and and activist in the GOP.
And now any email I send to daddypants@slashdot.org to point out errors somehow is routed to him and bounces back with a very annoying message
<chris.nandor@osdn.com>: 12.152.184.162 failed after I sent the message. Remote host said: 550 This message scored 13.9 points. Congratulations!
Have I been singled out or is this more general?
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Well here you have stated my point quite well, that Marijuana truly is a "gateway drug". It drives people into a criminal lifestyle. Your experience with Marijuana isn't the same as mine. You have seen it at parties simply because of it's widespread use, but the people bringing it to the parties probably smoke it every day.
You must move in different circles than I. In mine there is a big dsitinction between "soft" and "hard" drugs, not chemically but socially. Most of the people I went to university with used pot, I don't know any that went through this gateway you keep on about.
The gateway drug argument has a lot of weight.
No it doesn't, see above. You want to blame pot smokers for your opiate problem.
But the political opinions of the people that have creative control does, and from what I can see, they're all liberals.
The studios finance those they think will make popular movies. If non-liberal movies (for want of a better term) were popular, they'd find someone to make them in a minute. Hollywood is full of unemployed talented people. If they can find "artists" to make porn, they can find people to make anything. But to me, nine out of ten popular movies have nothing to say at all, and the tenth is usually right wing, so it seems we have a radically different world view. Meanwhile, get some John Wayne DVDs.
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY, May 13, 2003--The Atlas Society is pleased to announce that a new project to film Atlas Shrugged has just been launched. Crusader Entertainment, LLC, a Beverly Hills-based production company, announced on May 12 that it had acquired the film rights to Ayn Rand's great novel. The company also announced that it has signed veteran screenwriter James V. Hart, whose film credits include the ambitious adaptation of Carl Sagan's science fiction novel Contact, to write the screenplay.
I used the word "pre-production" advisedly; lots of film projects never get further.
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If you are saying that I am rare in that I sought out so-called "harder" drugs after becoming accustomed to pot, and that it is more natural for people to find pot and stick with it, you are wrong.
Why am I wrong? Because you don't want to accept any personal responsibility?
the demand is there but the supply isn't.
I've been offered all kinds of drugs, I chose not to use them. I don't claim any moral strength, just lack of desire.
opium has the same effect on one's life [as pot]
So why use it then? I've known heroin users, and seen what it did to them. They tried to stop, they couldn't. I've known lots of pot users, it was mostly a thing to do at parties, not somethng they would steal or prostitute themsleves for (as heroin users did).
Hipocritical of you to sit there and say I have an addictive personality
From your testimony, it seems a safe characterisation.
Actually, I don't think opiates are inherently evil; alcohol and tobacco do immeasurably more harm. Unfortunately, opiate's illegality drives users into a criminal lifestyle, without that it might be more manageable.
Just for novelty's sake I'd love to see a movie or a comic about the triumph of free-market capitalism and individual liberty over group identity and power-hungry socialists.
So would I, but as long as Hollywood is controlled by liberals it's not going to happen.
WTF? Hollywood is controlled by giant corporations. What flaky actors do in their spare time has no impact on what movies get made. Any films about the "triumph of ___ism", whatever the ___ism, is going to be a preachy bore. But if it turns you on, Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead was filmed in 1949, and Atlas Shrugged is supposedly in pre-production. More abstractly, what do you think The Terminator and sequels was about (aside from the eye-candy, that is)?
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I guess you're a rare case. Marijuana led to opium and painkillers for me.
People who have addictive personalities are likely to use and abuse lots of different drugs. All the heroin addicts I've known have also been heavy cigarette smokers. I drink alcohol and occasionally smoke a joint. I've never been tempted to try anything else. Marijuana didn't "lead to opium", you were looking for somethng stronger.
we can then pass laws requiring such sites to be in the.xxx domain and this might provide easier law enforcement capabilities).
This is as likely to be successful as asking drug dealers to operate only in a certain part of town, to make it easier to prosecute them. Professional softcore sites might comply, the very ones you are most concerned with won't.
The paperback book, whose popularity took off as a result of pornographic novels.
Could you back that up?
See Paperback Books: "by the time of the American Revolution chapbooks fell into the following categories: 28% were religious works, 25% were fictional romances, 15% were biographical, 13% accounts of true crimes, and the remainders were joke books, and song books." But gore was popular: "Chapbooks drew the wrath of such men as preacher Jonathan Edwards who railed against them from pulpits and courthouses.... Beheadings were popular, as were dismembered arms and legs dripping blood." There's more here, but later paperbacks in the 19th and 20th C were mostly pulp fiction. Of course, it's possible that porn books went unrecorded, but in that case I'd even more like to know your source of information, or did you just make it up?
200 years ago, most of the USA was filled with people who could not read or write. Yet, they formed a country with great prosperity. And they believed in GOD. They thanked him for what they had.
I think you'll find that Jefferson, Franklin, Washington and the others who lead the revolution and formed the republic were all highly literate people.
I *did* know that. I was trying to imply that paying people after they return empties, as is done for beer cans and bottles, (at least in some places) is a more reliable way of recycling than this weird "prebate" method of Lexmark's, which will end up costing them far more for the return of far fewer cartridges, considering how many people will forget or neglect to return them as they've already got the money. As Lexmark aren't stupid, it implies that they really aren't interested in recycling them at all.
So supporting an international effort like Linux is OK but having off shore operations is not OK? No double standards here.
Nothing prevents anyone anywhere from working on, or selling services related to, Linux. If it had been proprietary, you'd have to move to Finland to work on it.
. Once they have my money and I've left the store with my new purchase, I'll do whatever I feel like with it.
Anything except sell it to a company that wants them to refill and resell. That's all Lexmark really wants to do is cut the refillers out. If it was really to get you to return the empty, they'd just pay you for them, whether they call it "refunding the deposit" or whatever. At $30/cartridge a cottage industry of cartridge collection services would be formed. Imagine if beer cans were sold this way, cheaper if you "promised" to return them to the shop when empty. That would work, wouldn't it?
This judgement says that you cannot engage in the business of refilling "one use only" cartridges, which apparently includes selling your used cartridges back to a refilling company.
If I understand it, the case refers to "prebate" cartridges, where you get $30 off by agreeing to return the used cartridge. So you theoretically have a choice of paying more if you want to sell the cartridge to someone else. (Refillers pay about $2 for empty cartridges.) This ends up being like "return your Windows install disk for a refund" if you don't want the preinstalled Windows on your new PC. In practice, you can't do it, the retailers won't stock the non-prebate ones, won't discount them the same, etc; but in law they've provided an alternative.
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Gates never said that. If you can provide a primary source, (not a list of unsourced "quotations") I'd be obliged, and amazed, to see it. See Wikiquote, update it when you find your source.
They still need to distribute the receivers in the dome, which the bureaucrats could prevent.
So Linspire isn't simple enough for you? And WinXP and OSX are not at all simple under their GUIs either. Or by "simple" perhaps you mean something like Damn Small Linux, that gives you a desktop from a 50 MB installer. Or do you want to run from a floppy, like tomsrtbt?
The guy was anonymous, so he's probably not even reading the responses. He also said this happened years ago, so telling him how to do it isnt't going to help him anyway, but the first response DID give exactly the information needed. No one called him an idiot, though it was one of the most trivial things to do in Linux, which I worked out the first time I installed RedHat 6. And finally, this is Slashdot, not a Linux newsgroup or mailing list.
The anonymous guy who couldn't install his hard disk DID manage to install Apache and PHPBB. I don't think he would really choke on editing fstab. I suspect this was a very long time ago, and/or he's trolling.
Recently, in the Middle Ages, the Black Death wiped out something like 30% of the population of Europe. Some genes that seem to provide defence against that became much more prevalent. Currently in Africa where AIDS is infecting 30% or more of some countries there must be a fierce selection process.
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What you want are perfect pangrams:
Blowzy night-frumps vex'd Jack Q.
Glum Schwartzkopf vex'd by NJ IQ.
New job: fix Mr. Gluck's hazy TV, PDQ!
Squdgy fez, blank jimp crwth vox!
Frowzy things plumb vex'd Jack Q.
J. Q. Vandz struck my big fox whelp.
Quartz glyph job vex'd cwm finks.
Phlegms fyrd wuz qvint jackbox.
Zing, vext cwm fly jabs Kurd qoph.
Cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz.
Jumbling vext frowzy hacks PDQ.
Mr. Jock, TV Quiz Ph.D, bags few lynx.
Junky qoph flags vext crwd zimb.
Yes there is. See Dan's Data which links to a few, such as Unicomp. I've got an original Model M, but you may need to modify it for recent mobos.
If opiates weren't a problem, what are you complaining about then?
And now any email I send to daddypants@slashdot.org to point out errors somehow is routed to him and bounces back with a very annoying message
Have I been singled out or is this more general?You must move in different circles than I. In mine there is a big dsitinction between "soft" and "hard" drugs, not chemically but socially. Most of the people I went to university with used pot, I don't know any that went through this gateway you keep on about.
The gateway drug argument has a lot of weight.
No it doesn't, see above. You want to blame pot smokers for your opiate problem.
The studios finance those they think will make popular movies. If non-liberal movies (for want of a better term) were popular, they'd find someone to make them in a minute. Hollywood is full of unemployed talented people. If they can find "artists" to make porn, they can find people to make anything. But to me, nine out of ten popular movies have nothing to say at all, and the tenth is usually right wing, so it seems we have a radically different world view. Meanwhile, get some John Wayne DVDs.
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I used the word "pre-production" advisedly; lots of film projects never get further.Why am I wrong? Because you don't want to accept any personal responsibility?
the demand is there but the supply isn't.
I've been offered all kinds of drugs, I chose not to use them. I don't claim any moral strength, just lack of desire.
opium has the same effect on one's life [as pot]
So why use it then? I've known heroin users, and seen what it did to them. They tried to stop, they couldn't. I've known lots of pot users, it was mostly a thing to do at parties, not somethng they would steal or prostitute themsleves for (as heroin users did).
Hipocritical of you to sit there and say I have an addictive personality
From your testimony, it seems a safe characterisation.
Actually, I don't think opiates are inherently evil; alcohol and tobacco do immeasurably more harm. Unfortunately, opiate's illegality drives users into a criminal lifestyle, without that it might be more manageable.
So would I, but as long as Hollywood is controlled by liberals it's not going to happen.
WTF? Hollywood is controlled by giant corporations. What flaky actors do in their spare time has no impact on what movies get made. Any films about the "triumph of ___ism", whatever the ___ism, is going to be a preachy bore. But if it turns you on, Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead was filmed in 1949, and Atlas Shrugged is supposedly in pre-production. More abstractly, what do you think The Terminator and sequels was about (aside from the eye-candy, that is)?
People who have addictive personalities are likely to use and abuse lots of different drugs. All the heroin addicts I've known have also been heavy cigarette smokers. I drink alcohol and occasionally smoke a joint. I've never been tempted to try anything else. Marijuana didn't "lead to opium", you were looking for somethng stronger.
This is as likely to be successful as asking drug dealers to operate only in a certain part of town, to make it easier to prosecute them. Professional softcore sites might comply, the very ones you are most concerned with won't.
Could you back that up?
See Paperback Books: "by the time of the American Revolution chapbooks fell into the following categories: 28% were religious works, 25% were fictional romances, 15% were biographical, 13% accounts of true crimes, and the remainders were joke books, and song books." But gore was popular: "Chapbooks drew the wrath of such men as preacher Jonathan Edwards who railed against them from pulpits and courthouses. ... Beheadings were popular, as were dismembered arms and legs dripping blood." There's more here, but later paperbacks in the 19th and 20th C were mostly pulp fiction. Of course, it's possible that porn books went unrecorded, but in that case I'd even more like to know your source of information, or did you just make it up?
Google cache (no images, and black background, so turn off styles or whatever in your browser to read it.)
I think you'll find that Jefferson, Franklin, Washington and the others who lead the revolution and formed the republic were all highly literate people.
I have no idea what your roads are like. I'm just telling you that it works in Australia.
I *did* know that. I was trying to imply that paying people after they return empties, as is done for beer cans and bottles, (at least in some places) is a more reliable way of recycling than this weird "prebate" method of Lexmark's, which will end up costing them far more for the return of far fewer cartridges, considering how many people will forget or neglect to return them as they've already got the money. As Lexmark aren't stupid, it implies that they really aren't interested in recycling them at all.
Nothing prevents anyone anywhere from working on, or selling services related to, Linux. If it had been proprietary, you'd have to move to Finland to work on it.
Anything except sell it to a company that wants them to refill and resell. That's all Lexmark really wants to do is cut the refillers out. If it was really to get you to return the empty, they'd just pay you for them, whether they call it "refunding the deposit" or whatever. At $30/cartridge a cottage industry of cartridge collection services would be formed. Imagine if beer cans were sold this way, cheaper if you "promised" to return them to the shop when empty. That would work, wouldn't it?
If I understand it, the case refers to "prebate" cartridges, where you get $30 off by agreeing to return the used cartridge. So you theoretically have a choice of paying more if you want to sell the cartridge to someone else. (Refillers pay about $2 for empty cartridges.) This ends up being like "return your Windows install disk for a refund" if you don't want the preinstalled Windows on your new PC. In practice, you can't do it, the retailers won't stock the non-prebate ones, won't discount them the same, etc; but in law they've provided an alternative.