"Making Available" was tried (in the 1950's?) to justify shoplifting from supermarkets who "piled it high and sold it cheap". It was laughed out of court, as it was pointed out that if acceptable, it would have excused boys stealing from market barrows.
Or, to put it another way,
If I have something, and anyone who sees it can steal it, claiming I have "made it available" how many cars would not be stolen in New York?
Perhaps someone should ask the RIAA this question.
sexism and societies uncaring attitudes towards men
In the UK, men are generally portrayed as a problem. Yes it does have
highly negative consequences. For example, its very hard to get men to teach in primary school,
as they would be facing a huge risk of being attacked as paedophiles because they are "in the playground with children".
This means that many children grow up with a very negative image of men, and hence a viscious circle.
Anti-male propaganda is probaby causing a considerable amount of pain and death, but the women's movement
can not be confronted publicly.
Thought crime is a major problem in the UK. Especially if judged by the amount of resources
which are spent on investigating it. Knife crime in the steets is far less of a problem of course, because far fewer people commit it.
You should consider buying a congressman or two - they are very cheap, and could pass a bill requiring everyone to burn a real oil lamp so that the terrorists can see who they are killing.... oh, wait...
businesses still have a significant number of MS Windows 2000 machines running.
MS seems to have found a way of killing them. I have just upgraded the last of our Win2k server edition machines to XP. Following a HD crash, WInt2k refused to work after all the updates were installed. I suspect MS fowl play - but the chickens are coming home to roost on this one. We no longer have any windows servers - they are all OpenBSD except an experimental Ubuntu one. Ubuntu takes less than a third of the time to install than WinXP, and that is exclusing the time to install video drivers and applications - an extra day wasted. And it does not pester you with popups.
TCO: Even if WIndows was free it would still be a bad deal.Yes the CEO and CTO (me) knows this
Please OpenSource community, can we have a replacement for Exchange Server? Til then where can I get one that runs of OpenBSD for under £500 and no "per seat" license?
the file "rape.avi" - is it an actual video of someone being raped?
No, its actually a typo, and should have been ripa.avi - its a training film about the Regulation Investigatory Powers Act. However, if you download it, you are likely to be the first to be investigated by various Powers, probably including Austin, and no bail, think of the children!
But I have a nice line in tinfoil hats available from my eBay shop for just this kind of situation.
how would one explain the "Autism/Vaccination" fiasco?
This should be within the grasp of all/.ers:
The media are, by enlarge, run by people who had "arts degrees" - ie a very limited grasp of reality, but endorsed by "experts" - unlike Wikipedia readers, who do atleast understand that the way to knowledge is to look for yourself.
These people realise that science does not agree with them, but have no grasp of "science" or, in fact, logic. They have limited means to establish a concept of reality, since they do not have any grasp of "scientific method", and assume that he who shouts loudest must be right, like the people on the Maury show (but, at least in some cases, with a larger vocabulary). They need to promote the idea that if they and science disagree, then science must be wrong. The great unwashed plebean masses are quite happy to go along with "he who shouts loudest is right", and shouting with the support of daytime TV is quite loud.
The message that "science is wrong" appears pretty well supported by people who actually have not the slightest idea what science is. many of them claim to be Christians too, despite a complete lack of understanding of what the Bible actually means:
John's Gospel beings "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God" This gospel was originally written in Greek (no, not King James' English, but the language spoken in Greece). The Greek word used for word here is logos, which also means logic and this piece of text actually means, in modern language, "Right from the start, The laws of physics (and maths) are the one aspect of God, and indivisible from God. In other words, the new testament teaching is that the laws of the universe were created at or before the physical creation of the universe, and extend to the ends of the universe, both knowable and beyond". While not all cosmologists agree with this, very few dispute it in public. Any dispute between "Christians" and "science" is there because if ignorance of the Bible is merged with ignorance of science.
In short, there is a major problem of ignorance. The cure is education - and Wikipedia is more likely to achieve that than daytime TV.
Who would you perfer to amputate your limb? the person who read "how to amputate a limb" in Wikipedia, or the person who watched an amputaion on daytime TV?.
The real reason we have raster, is because more computers spend more hours rendering Word docs than rendering games images, by at least a factor of 100,000.
Worse than that, people like me would be quite happy using our 4MB ISA graphics cards, if some sod hadn't gone and invented PCI.
In fact, 3/4 of all computer users would probably be happy using text mode and printing in 10 pitch courier if it wasnt for the noise those damned daisy-wheel printers made.
NVidia are about to get shafted, and, as someone who cannot get his NVidia card to work properly in FreeBSD, or Win2k, I say "good riddance". (It works with Ubuntu 7.10 if anyone actually cares)
Yeah, that'll last. I'll give it a week before someone finds a manual and migrates their "expertise" to their new operating system
The evidence is in that it will take a bit more than a week. Most universities have used Unix for the college computers since about 1978, and hacking incidents have been few and far between. Its not like Unix is the new kid on the block. It was there and stable before Windows was a glint in Bill Gates' glasses. (as was sharing of fixes to source code)
. Like... nearly all your software won't work, including your accounting software won't run on it at all, period. Or the minefield of setting up dual screens or wifi, or getting your shiny new blackberry or iphone to sync contacts with outlook... oh wait... no outlook...
Hold on there cowboy, my sister-in-law and my 11 year old niece do not have blackberries or run accounting software. They do have Vista, and are unable to access there web-mail provider, cope with the Word2007 interface, or get the laptop to talk to the wireless hub for more than 10 minutes a day. My son has a Mac, and it just works.
My win2k mahine's HD failed last Sunday. I put in a new HD, and spent 12 hours trying to reinstall WIn2k. Then I tried an XBuntu CD someone gave me. It just worked. It can access the hub, run OpenOffice (Which my sister in law can't tell from Word2000 after a couple of brandies), and the webmail software works fine with Firefox and Opera. Of course it wont open those.docx files, but Word2009 probably won't either.
Only by a few months. ME was released as the "home edition" and marketed as an upgrade path from Win95/98. Win2k was marketed as an upgrade path from NT, which, until then had been about five times the price of Win9x, and not widely pirated because it would not run the majority of stuff a home user would want anyway.
At first, Win2k did not run quite a lot of "home" stuff, but when ME was evidently not going to fly, Win2k and/or the applications were fixed. Without the fixing, ME might have dragged along for a while longer. As it was, everyone went back to 98 or forward to 2k.
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OTOH, I would consider lethal injection to be on the lenient side for Viagra spam, and porno ads to 10 million childen - think of the senators!
In legalese "He shall be taken from hence to a place of intoxication, where he hshall be tiddled until he winks!"
Sorry, that was from Monty Python. I mean
"He shall be taken from hence to a place of execution, where he shall be hung until dead, and then buried in unconsecrated ground."
Or, to put it another way, If I have something, and anyone who sees it can steal it, claiming I have "made it available" how many cars would not be stolen in New York?
Perhaps someone should ask the RIAA this question.
In the UK, men are generally portrayed as a problem. Yes it does have highly negative consequences. For example, its very hard to get men to teach in primary school, as they would be facing a huge risk of being attacked as paedophiles because they are "in the playground with children". This means that many children grow up with a very negative image of men, and hence a viscious circle.
Anti-male propaganda is probaby causing a considerable amount of pain and death, but the women's movement can not be confronted publicly.
Thought crime is a major problem in the UK. Especially if judged by the amount of resources which are spent on investigating it. Knife crime in the steets is far less of a problem of course, because far fewer people commit it.
The problem here in the UK is Government by the Devil, for the Devil as you appear to have realised.
The correct spelling is "instability". Consult your local grammar nazi.
Or get an SE p1i, if its a smart phone you want.
A lot of Africa is still using DDT.
I suspect DDT in the UK of causing my diabetes.
Its called Ferric Oxide, Fe2O3, or RUST!
Do you measure nostalgia in compressed elephants? or does that get your goat.se?
You should consider buying a congressman or two - they are very cheap, and could pass a bill requiring everyone to burn a real oil lamp so that the terrorists can see who they are killing.... oh, wait...
They don't use a lot of imported oil, but a horse eats like, well, a horse!
Even a Winnebago does more miles to the dollar, if you don't happen to own a farm, but then, if you owned an oil well...
You obviously don't read enough "Fat Freddy's cat and the Furry Freak Brothers" comics. You have no future as a geek or nerd. Go elsewhere.
While he was in the Texas School Book Suppository, I was on the Grassy Knoll.
You mean like more confusing menus, and file formats that are less interchangeable with your friends?
MS "features" are noamally things you are better off without!
MS seems to have found a way of killing them. I have just upgraded the last of our Win2k server edition machines to XP. Following a HD crash, WInt2k refused to work after all the updates were installed. I suspect MS fowl play - but the chickens are coming home to roost on this one. We no longer have any windows servers - they are all OpenBSD except an experimental Ubuntu one. Ubuntu takes less than a third of the time to install than WinXP, and that is exclusing the time to install video drivers and applications - an extra day wasted. And it does not pester you with popups.
TCO: Even if WIndows was free it would still be a bad deal.Yes the CEO and CTO (me) knows this
Please OpenSource community, can we have a replacement for Exchange Server? Til then where can I get one that runs of OpenBSD for under £500 and no "per seat" license?
I have yet to see a fluffy kitten sex video that turned me on - am I going to the wrong web sites?
No, its actually a typo, and should have been ripa.avi - its a training film about the Regulation Investigatory Powers Act. However, if you download it, you are likely to be the first to be investigated by various Powers, probably including Austin, and no bail, think of the children!
But I have a nice line in tinfoil hats available from my eBay shop for just this kind of situation.
Hmm? Ahh, Doughnuts!
There have been several air accidents due to fake aircraft parts, not to mention fake Titanic rivets.
This should be within the grasp of all /.ers:
The media are, by enlarge, run by people who had "arts degrees" - ie a very limited grasp of reality, but endorsed by "experts" - unlike Wikipedia readers, who do atleast understand that the way to knowledge is to look for yourself.
These people realise that science does not agree with them, but have no grasp of "science" or, in fact, logic. They have limited means to establish a concept of reality, since they do not have any grasp of "scientific method", and assume that he who shouts loudest must be right, like the people on the Maury show (but, at least in some cases, with a larger vocabulary). They need to promote the idea that if they and science disagree, then science must be wrong. The great unwashed plebean masses are quite happy to go along with "he who shouts loudest is right", and shouting with the support of daytime TV is quite loud.
The message that "science is wrong" appears pretty well supported by people who actually have not the slightest idea what science is. many of them claim to be Christians too, despite a complete lack of understanding of what the Bible actually means:
John's Gospel beings "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God" This gospel was originally written in Greek (no, not King James' English, but the language spoken in Greece). The Greek word used for word here is logos, which also means logic and this piece of text actually means, in modern language, "Right from the start, The laws of physics (and maths) are the one aspect of God, and indivisible from God. In other words, the new testament teaching is that the laws of the universe were created at or before the physical creation of the universe, and extend to the ends of the universe, both knowable and beyond". While not all cosmologists agree with this, very few dispute it in public. Any dispute between "Christians" and "science" is there because if ignorance of the Bible is merged with ignorance of science.
In short, there is a major problem of ignorance. The cure is education - and Wikipedia is more likely to achieve that than daytime TV.
Who would you perfer to amputate your limb? the person who read "how to amputate a limb" in Wikipedia, or the person who watched an amputaion on daytime TV?.
Worse than that, people like me would be quite happy using our 4MB ISA graphics cards, if some sod hadn't gone and invented PCI.
In fact, 3/4 of all computer users would probably be happy using text mode and printing in 10 pitch courier if it wasnt for the noise those damned daisy-wheel printers made.
NVidia are about to get shafted, and, as someone who cannot get his NVidia card to work properly in FreeBSD, or Win2k, I say "good riddance". (It works with Ubuntu 7.10 if anyone actually cares)
The best solutions to this behavour involve rocket propelled grenades.
The evidence is in that it will take a bit more than a week. Most universities have used Unix for the college computers since about 1978, and hacking incidents have been few and far between. Its not like Unix is the new kid on the block. It was there and stable before Windows was a glint in Bill Gates' glasses. (as was sharing of fixes to source code)
Hold on there cowboy, my sister-in-law and my 11 year old niece do not have blackberries or run accounting software. They do have Vista, and are unable to access there web-mail provider, cope with the Word2007 interface, or get the laptop to talk to the wireless hub for more than 10 minutes a day. My son has a Mac, and it just works.
My win2k mahine's HD failed last Sunday. I put in a new HD, and spent 12 hours trying to reinstall WIn2k. Then I tried an XBuntu CD someone gave me. It just worked. It can access the hub, run OpenOffice (Which my sister in law can't tell from Word2000 after a couple of brandies), and the webmail software works fine with Firefox and Opera. Of course it wont open those .docx files, but Word2009 probably won't either.
Only by a few months. ME was released as the "home edition" and marketed as an upgrade path from Win95/98. Win2k was marketed as an upgrade path from NT, which, until then had been about five times the price of Win9x, and not widely pirated because it would not run the majority of stuff a home user would want anyway.
At first, Win2k did not run quite a lot of "home" stuff, but when ME was evidently not going to fly, Win2k and/or the applications were fixed. Without the fixing, ME might have dragged along for a while longer. As it was, everyone went back to 98 or forward to 2k.