I think you are missing the point, AstroDrabb. The user is saying that s/he doesn't magically know ifconfig eth0 inet 192.169.10.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.10.255 up to bring up a nic behind a router on a lan. Or does not know to look in/etc for the dhcp config file. Or does not know how to edit the files in the ppp dir to bring up a dial up connection. or resolv.conf. or. or...
If you are still required to do that, then I suggest you upgrade your version of Linux to Fedora, SuSE or Mandrake. These three have had nice GUI wizards for some time now. I cannot remember the last time I had to do manual configuration under Linux for my cable modem.
I hate using tired clichés but; power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely
How cliche. i am a content owner, and if I _allow_ you to _look_ at
my content, I am _not_ giving you "Fair Use" rights. I am just
letting you _look_ at the content! You should be glad that you are
given that many rights to _my_ works of art!
Just kidding. i am playing devils advocate here and I agree with you
100%. Tons of our rights have been stripped away in the USA.
However, we have to suck it up because the Dems and Repubs have a
monopoly on the voting system and prevent 3rd party candidates.
Our law makers pretty much just give in to whoever has the most cash
and let the courts (our tax dollars) pick the winner in disputes.
However, most of our judges are corrupted as well. Some supreme
judges ruled that corporations have "freedom of speech" and are
allowed to give bribes (campaign contributions), to the law makers.
It is really sad that a non-human (corporation) is given _MORE_ rights
in the USA then a US citizen. As a US Marine, I say it is time for a
revolution to take back what is ours.
And now, AOL is teaming up with Microsoft, at a time when IE's marketshare is definitely receding.
I agree. While the IE market share is not going down very fast, it is slipping and will continue to do so. What is needed is/. geeks to get firefox on their friends and loved ones computers. Be it MS Windows, Linux or Mac OS. I just reformatted a computer for a church friend who had _TONS_ of spyware thanks to IE. They are an older couple who know squat about a computer. I put Firefox on and put a big icon on their desktop labeled "Internet" and then put on Thunderbird and labeled it "Email". They now use those without problems. I installed the "IE View" plugin in Firefox and told them that if they hit a web page that doesn't work to "right-click" and select IE view. I also installed AdBlock and blocked some of the major ad sites. I then showed her how to add search links to the search bar and she just loved it. She added search for bible text, recipes, etc. When I showed her how to do tabs, she just loved it. I doubt many people will think Firefox is not a _major_ improvement over IE. All that is needed is spreading the word.
Dude are you kidding or just trolling? What in the world would make you turn off your firewall to use eBay? That is the dumbest thing in the world. So now your MS Windows box is vulnerable just to use eBay? Also, what crap are you spewing about "how to get online and interface with eBay" with Linux? Err, I just open up my browser under Linux (Firefox) and type in www.ebay.com. Wow. It works. Is that hard or something?
Your journal entry is way off base. It is like you are looking at the world through a straw. Let me address your 6 points to end MS software piracy.
1. Keep track of every one of those codes in a database
Don't you think MS already does this? Every company tracks their sales and customers information. MS makes their own stinkin database, they would be pretty silly to not use it!
2. Require that all Windows machines have an always on or "phone home" connection to the internet. No internet? No Windows.
This is just dumb. MS sells MS Windows around the world, not just in the USA. Not every user of MS Windows has an internet connection or can afford one. It would be pretty stupid to require an internet connection to just use an OS. What about people/companies that want to use MS Windows in a restricted kiosk? I developed a custom kiosk for the fortune 500 that I work for and we have a few thousand of these running Win2k out in the field. They are _only_ allowed to connect back to our network and cannot get out to the internet or MS. If MS required these 1,000's of kiosk we have to "phone home" to MS, we would have had to come up with a different, and most likely, non-MS solution.
3. Disable a Windows installation if any one of those codes was not generated by MS, thereby destroying all registration key generators
Huh? The software uses an algorithm to check if a code is valid. People reverse engineered that algorithm and can create tons of valid keys.
4. Disable multiple Windows installations if there are duplicate registration codes/software keys
And how can MS know which person with a dup key is the valid owner? Do you know how much it would cost MS to manually check every discrepancy with dup keys. I will address the rest of this one with the next response.
5. Get rid of Volume License Key versions of Windows
Have you every been a programmer or admin for any company with more then 500 or so employees? I have. I have worked at 3 fortune 500 companies and the current one I work for has 140,000+ employees. Without Volume Licening, MS on the desktop would _not_ be an option for big customers where MS makes tons of cash. I would like to see you go around and manually register 2,000 corporate MS Windows desktops, let alone 10,000+ desktops. It just won't happen. The volume license allows big customers to do big deployments without having to go around to 1,000's of desktops to do the stupid activation.
6. Require users with disabled copies of Windows to buy a new registration key at the full price of a new copy of Windows. This can be extended to people who originally had pirated copies so that they don't lose the data they have on that machine.
That could only encourage people to look for alternative and possibly drive business away from MS. A company can only be so restrictive to their customers before customers start looking elsewhere. Also, piracy has _HELPED_ MS. It helped them get to the monopoly status they have on the desktop and with MS Office. By looking the other way, MS allowed a critical mass of users to develop. Now they want to try to change that and get money from those users.
As a programmer, I do not agree with software "piracy". However, MS is making _tons_ of cash now. Getting extra revenue from "priates" may increase the bottom line a little, overall it would not have a big impact financially. Many of the "pirates" of MS Software only uses it because they can get it for free. If you take the the free out of it, they would look for something else. Most people in the world do not live as Americans do with so much disposable income. 2/3 of the world live on $2 USD a day or less. Having a computer is a luxury to those people. And the onse that do have a computer, certainly cannot afford the high prices of MS Windows and MS Office.
Release the codec under an Open Source license but one that will disallow forking or total appropriation (re: Not BSD or GPL).
Forking is very important with OSS. Not allowing forking would accomplish nothing. Imagine if Mozilla did not allow forking. We would be without Firefox, the best browser out there IMO.
Something close to what you are saying yet still allowing forking would be a license like the LGPL. You can fork and use it in proprietary work. However, the code to Dirac would always be Open and Free since the LGPL requires that. The GPL would be too restrictive IMO for a codec like Dirac and BSD would be too loose IMO and would not require changes made to the codec to be returned to the community. I think the LGPL would be perfect for Dirac. You can fork it, create proprietary works that use it, the only obligation would be changes to Dirac itself must be returned to the community.
I think enough people answered your post about the BBC being "out to make money". So I will address this one.
Furthermore, if and when the BBC has a working codec will they be held responsible for copywrited material translated into it? I'd like to see the outcome from a lawsuit between the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and the BBC reguarding thier codec being used as a good way to view movies.
Think about your question. Could the MPAA sue MS because someone violates a movie copyright and just happens to use MS's video codec? Of course not, that would be silly. It is no different with the BBC. If I distribute a movie encoded in Dirac and I do not have the rights to do so, then I am the one that would be liable for copyright violation, not the BBC.
Can you please list all of the Open and non patent encumbered codecs? I can only think of Theora. Of all the codecs out there just about every one is enbumbered by a patent or license fee or DRM which hinders thier usage for distribution of public content such as documentaries.
I live in Clermont (right at the four corners area) and work in Orlando. I don't know if there would be many programming jobs _in_ Clermont. However, it is about 26 miles to Orlando from my home which is not a bad commute. There should be a bunch of jobs in Orlando.
That is not too bad. However I prefer the apt-get system that Fedora has (even yum, but that is slooow compared to apt-get). I like apt-get with synaptic to allow me to get tons of software without compiling. I spent many years compiling with LFS and Gentoo and now like the ability to go into synaptic and click MPlayer and have it and all dependencies downloaded.
Are there a lot of 3rd party apps available for SuSE? What about dependency handling? Does SuSE include things like MPlayer and MP3 support that Red Hat/Fedora lack? If Fedora did not have apt-get, I would probably be using a different distro.
They say it only supports IE on windows platforms but they're looking at Mono and Linux.
The poster just said that to get this/. post approved. I RTFA and the site. This product is completely MS _ONLY_. It needs MS Visual Studio 2003.Net, MS.Net 1.1, MS Windows and MS IE. Nothing else will work. The bum who posted this topic is just looking to get his company bought out (by getting free/. advertising), so don't think he/they will ever develop this technology further to work on non-MS stuff.
(note, you just have to 'plan' on opening it up, you don't have to actually do it)
This is exactly what this post is doing. The product is MS Windows ONLY and will stay that way. However, to get a/. posting, the slime put this in the article:
We're also
investigating Mono and Java as possible development targets
Yup, and I am sure that "investigation" will turn into anything. The product only runs under MS Windows, and only works with IE. Even if they did get it to work with Mono/Java, what about the IE requirement? I cannot stand MS Windows only stuff, but MS Windows only stuff that only works on IE is bottom-of-the-barrel technology to me.
This is just some dude trying to hype his product (for free) so it gets bought out and he can cash in. Move along/. nothing interesting here.
IMO SuSE has always favored KDE. I personally like Gnome better. For example, this latest version of SuSE/Novell has the latest version of KDE (3.3), while it has an older version of Gnome (2.6) instead of the newest 2.8. Maybe 2.8 wasn't ready in time for the release? Gnome 2.8 has some really nice new features, so I probably won't be trying this version of SuSE. I have been using Fedora Core since it first came out and have kept my eye on SuSE to try it out. However I don't think that day will come if Novell/SuSE are always a version behind in Gnome.
Where did you get any of your information? It is all wrong. ATI has _more_ employees then NVidia. Also, the NVidia Linux drivers are the same as the MS Windows drivers. NVidia uses a common code base across all platforms the support. It was one of their best moves IMO.
nVidia is big enough to burn a few man hours doing so, although their linux drivers are nowhere near the Windows ones in terms of performance (IMO).
Did you even RTFA? The review said that _native_ Linux games that also have a native Windows version were a little faster under Linux. And from my experience this is true. I have seen a few extra FPS under Linux with native games then the MS Windows conterpart. I am not talking 30 extra FPS but around 5 FPS or so which can make the difference between 25 FPS (choppy) and 30 FPS (more smooth).
Another issue that we came across with ATI's was the lack of 64-bit Linux drivers. ATI has no 64-bit drivers for Linux, yet they have 64-bit Windows binaries. Thus, our
benchmarks are limited to 32-bit binaries only.
I do the same thing. However, I also switch my UA and get into the site to find the feedback form and let them know why I won't be comming back. I let them know that I use Mozilla/Firefox/Linux and about the UA switcher. 9 times out of 10, the site works fine if you have Firefox fake IE. However, I don't like to do that because it gives false stats to web site maintainer. If they only see IE then they are less willing to change.
I just googled for "requires IE" and all the sites on the first page worked with Firefox without faking the UA. So maybe more and more sites are getting the hint.
There is still a big IE problem in a lot of corporate intranet sites. The fortune 500 I work for is not too bad. However there are about two groups of VB-only/MS-only people that make me want to pull my hair out. I don't know how someone could be a "developer" and be so out of touch with current trends other then MS trends. Anytime they use JavaScript, everything is document.all, I keep sending them emails and telling them to use document.getElementById but it falls on deaf ears. Then there are the ones who mix client-side JavaScript with client-side VBScript because they couldn't figure out how to do something in JavaScript.
The update thingy also tells me that 1.0 PR is available and I should download it. The only problem is that I am already running 1.0 PR
Not the latest version. If you look at your User Agent (click Help -> About Mozilla Firefox), you will see Firefox/0.10 at the end of your UA. If you go and download the latest version that includes this fix, the new UA will be Firefox/0.10.1.
I ran into this same problem with the update under Linux. MS Windows users won't run into it since they are running as local Admin or have write permissions to the firefox directory. When I ran it as root, it worked fine so I take it the update needs to write to the root firefox directory it probably then updates your firefox profile. As a normal user you cannot run the update and it never writes to your profile. I think it was just a poor update design for this one update. Hopefully the firefox team will fix it or fix this issue for future updates.
You could grab the latest firefox tarball from here and just untar it into your current firefox installation folder and restart.
Actaully, down here in Flordia we use concrete blocks to build homes. I live 10 miles from Walt Disney. Usually the block work is only the first floor and if you have a two storey home like I do, then the second floor is wood construction.
We were lucky through Charley, Frances, Ivan missed us, and Jeanne. We did not lose a single shingle. Though we did lose power for 36 hours or so from Jeanne. That might not sound bad, however you need to remember the heat down here. Our home was just getting too hot, so we stay at a Disney resort for two nights.
I think this topic is just trying to scare people. There have never been this many hurricanes in Flordia so close together in one season in recorded history. I hope it doesn't happen again : )
It is kind of cool being in a hurricane. I went out to feel the power of the wind and it was pretty strong. However, once they get to upper cat-3 or cat-4 things get REAL scary. Our windows were rattling for hours, it sounded like our home was about to colapse on me and my family.
My take is that if you can't vote you have no rights, ergo the state has no obligation to defend your right to live.
That is the dumbest thing I have every heard in my life. What about someone who is very retarded or some other mental illness where they cannont vote like severe autism? Does that mean the state has no obligation to defend their right to live? Should it be OK to just go and kill anyone with a severe mental illness that cannot function or understand the concept of voting?
Here is one showing the number of jail inmates per 100,000 U.S by race. This other chart is very interesting. It shows that in 2000 white people accounted for about 69% of the US population and black people accounted for about 12% of the population. However, black people account for 44% of people in prison! 12% of the population doing 44% of the crime is pretty bad.
I am not saying any of this as a racist. I don't think the problem is the "white man" but instead a problem within the black community, specifically the poor family structure. According to planned parenthood
Each year, approximately 19 percent of black women, 13 percent of Hispanic women, and eight percent of white women aged 15-19 become pregnant
If you continue reading the Planned Parenthood link, you would see that only about 64% of teen girls who have children finish high school. 19% of black teen girls getting pregnant and only 64% of those finishing high shcool creates many under-educated black teen women. Another problem IMO, is the high percentage rate of unmarried black women having children. According to the CDC.
The proportion of all births that occurred to unmarried women
was 22.1 percent for white women, unchanged from
1999; it declined for black women from 69.1 to 68.7 percent.
Among births to Hispanic women, the proportion increased from
42.2 to 42.7 percent
68.7% of _all_ black children are born out of wedlock. That IMO is one of the major problems.
IMO, when the black community can fix these problems, they will experience the same success rate as anyone else. For example, according to the Census Bureau
Black households had the lowest median income. Their 2003 median
money income was about $30,000, which was 62 percent of the median for White households (about $48,000).
Median money income for Hispanic households was about $33,000 in
2003, which was 69 percent of the median for White households.
Asian households had the highest median income among the race
groups. Their 2003 median money income was about $55,500, 117 percent
of the median for White households.
To me this data says that race or being a minority has nothing to do with income in the USA, since Asian housholds are pulling in the highest average median income.
The above was not to start a flame or be racist. It is just MHO on what is causing the biggest issues in the black community; those being high crime percentage, high percentage of out of wedlock child births and poor family structure. Affirmative action won't fix these problems. No government social policy would fix these problems. Each Black American will need to make the change for themselves, and then they as a community can have unlimited success like any other American.
I'll have a guess and say _any_ color other than white. Since when did white stop being a color? I lean more toward Libertarian, though I do agree with a lot of what the Green's have to say. However, the Green party's racism against white people or "people of no color", makes me never willing to vote for them or help their cause (even though I agree with a lot of their positions).
I just don't understand the logic behind saying it is wrong to be racist against "people of color" but it is OK to be racist against "people of no color". To me the ultimate form of racism is showing favorites to "people of color". Racism is racism and not just white against black. As a white man I have had many black people be racist toward me just because of my skin color. I guess the Green party thinks that is OK or they look the other way?
I really want to see more parties in the presidential election, especially the Libertarians. However, it is hard to justify the Green party when they have very good positions on many current issues and then are way-out-in-left-field with things like Nuclear energy and racism against whites and favortism for blacks.
If you paid money for 3-rd party Java code that got hit by this problem, they you have a right to demand a quick fix or take your money somewhere else.
I still do not agree with you about "Enumeration enum". It never occured to you that Java might get a feature like that one day? Your post said to "think outside the box". To me developers should be "thinking outside the box" about future development. Things like making the code robust enough to add features and try for future language changes. Especially with a language like Java that is still having core changes made to it.
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Just kidding. i am playing devils advocate here and I agree with you 100%. Tons of our rights have been stripped away in the USA. However, we have to suck it up because the Dems and Repubs have a monopoly on the voting system and prevent 3rd party candidates.
Our law makers pretty much just give in to whoever has the most cash and let the courts (our tax dollars) pick the winner in disputes. However, most of our judges are corrupted as well. Some supreme judges ruled that corporations have "freedom of speech" and are allowed to give bribes (campaign contributions), to the law makers. It is really sad that a non-human (corporation) is given _MORE_ rights in the USA then a US citizen. As a US Marine, I say it is time for a revolution to take back what is ours.
I used my mod point up or I would mod this up very, very funny : )
Dude are you kidding or just trolling? What in the world would make you turn off your firewall to use eBay? That is the dumbest thing in the world. So now your MS Windows box is vulnerable just to use eBay? Also, what crap are you spewing about "how to get online and interface with eBay" with Linux? Err, I just open up my browser under Linux (Firefox) and type in www.ebay.com. Wow. It works. Is that hard or something?
Don't you think MS already does this? Every company tracks their sales and customers information. MS makes their own stinkin database, they would be pretty silly to not use it!
This is just dumb. MS sells MS Windows around the world, not just in the USA. Not every user of MS Windows has an internet connection or can afford one. It would be pretty stupid to require an internet connection to just use an OS. What about people/companies that want to use MS Windows in a restricted kiosk? I developed a custom kiosk for the fortune 500 that I work for and we have a few thousand of these running Win2k out in the field. They are _only_ allowed to connect back to our network and cannot get out to the internet or MS. If MS required these 1,000's of kiosk we have to "phone home" to MS, we would have had to come up with a different, and most likely, non-MS solution.
Huh? The software uses an algorithm to check if a code is valid. People reverse engineered that algorithm and can create tons of valid keys.
And how can MS know which person with a dup key is the valid owner? Do you know how much it would cost MS to manually check every discrepancy with dup keys. I will address the rest of this one with the next response.
Have you every been a programmer or admin for any company with more then 500 or so employees? I have. I have worked at 3 fortune 500 companies and the current one I work for has 140,000+ employees. Without Volume Licening, MS on the desktop would _not_ be an option for big customers where MS makes tons of cash. I would like to see you go around and manually register 2,000 corporate MS Windows desktops, let alone 10,000+ desktops. It just won't happen. The volume license allows big customers to do big deployments without having to go around to 1,000's of desktops to do the stupid activation.
That could only encourage people to look for alternative and possibly drive business away from MS. A company can only be so restrictive to their customers before customers start looking elsewhere. Also, piracy has _HELPED_ MS. It helped them get to the monopoly status they have on the desktop and with MS Office. By looking the other way, MS allowed a critical mass of users to develop. Now they want to try to change that and get money from those users.
As a programmer, I do not agree with software "piracy". However, MS is making _tons_ of cash now. Getting extra revenue from "priates" may increase the bottom line a little, overall it would not have a big impact financially. Many of the "pirates" of MS Software only uses it because they can get it for free. If you take the the free out of it, they would look for something else. Most people in the world do not live as Americans do with so much disposable income. 2/3 of the world live on $2 USD a day or less. Having a computer is a luxury to those people. And the onse that do have a computer, certainly cannot afford the high prices of MS Windows and MS Office.
MS knows
Something close to what you are saying yet still allowing forking would be a license like the LGPL. You can fork and use it in proprietary work. However, the code to Dirac would always be Open and Free since the LGPL requires that. The GPL would be too restrictive IMO for a codec like Dirac and BSD would be too loose IMO and would not require changes made to the codec to be returned to the community. I think the LGPL would be perfect for Dirac. You can fork it, create proprietary works that use it, the only obligation would be changes to Dirac itself must be returned to the community.
Can you please list all of the Open and non patent encumbered codecs? I can only think of Theora. Of all the codecs out there just about every one is enbumbered by a patent or license fee or DRM which hinders thier usage for distribution of public content such as documentaries.
I live in Clermont (right at the four corners area) and work in Orlando. I don't know if there would be many programming jobs _in_ Clermont. However, it is about 26 miles to Orlando from my home which is not a bad commute. There should be a bunch of jobs in Orlando.
Are there a lot of 3rd party apps available for SuSE? What about dependency handling? Does SuSE include things like MPlayer and MP3 support that Red Hat/Fedora lack? If Fedora did not have apt-get, I would probably be using a different distro.
This is just some dude trying to hype his product (for free) so it gets bought out and he can cash in. Move along /. nothing interesting here.
IMO SuSE has always favored KDE. I personally like Gnome better. For example, this latest version of SuSE/Novell has the latest version of KDE (3.3), while it has an older version of Gnome (2.6) instead of the newest 2.8. Maybe 2.8 wasn't ready in time for the release? Gnome 2.8 has some really nice new features, so I probably won't be trying this version of SuSE. I have been using Fedora Core since it first came out and have kept my eye on SuSE to try it out. However I don't think that day will come if Novell/SuSE are always a version behind in Gnome.
Where did you get any of your information? It is all wrong. ATI has _more_ employees then NVidia. Also, the NVidia Linux drivers are the same as the MS Windows drivers. NVidia uses a common code base across all platforms the support. It was one of their best moves IMO.
Did you even RTFA? The review said that _native_ Linux games that also have a native Windows version were a little faster under Linux. And from my experience this is true. I have seen a few extra FPS under Linux with native games then the MS Windows conterpart. I am not talking 30 extra FPS but around 5 FPS or so which can make the difference between 25 FPS (choppy) and 30 FPS (more smooth).I just googled for "requires IE" and all the sites on the first page worked with Firefox without faking the UA. So maybe more and more sites are getting the hint.
There is still a big IE problem in a lot of corporate intranet sites. The fortune 500 I work for is not too bad. However there are about two groups of VB-only/MS-only people that make me want to pull my hair out. I don't know how someone could be a "developer" and be so out of touch with current trends other then MS trends. Anytime they use JavaScript, everything is document.all, I keep sending them emails and telling them to use document.getElementById but it falls on deaf ears. Then there are the ones who mix client-side JavaScript with client-side VBScript because they couldn't figure out how to do something in JavaScript.
I ran into this same problem with the update under Linux. MS Windows users won't run into it since they are running as local Admin or have write permissions to the firefox directory. When I ran it as root, it worked fine so I take it the update needs to write to the root firefox directory it probably then updates your firefox profile. As a normal user you cannot run the update and it never writes to your profile. I think it was just a poor update design for this one update. Hopefully the firefox team will fix it or fix this issue for future updates.
You could grab the latest firefox tarball from here and just untar it into your current firefox installation folder and restart.
We were lucky through Charley, Frances, Ivan missed us, and Jeanne. We did not lose a single shingle. Though we did lose power for 36 hours or so from Jeanne. That might not sound bad, however you need to remember the heat down here. Our home was just getting too hot, so we stay at a Disney resort for two nights.
I think this topic is just trying to scare people. There have never been this many hurricanes in Flordia so close together in one season in recorded history. I hope it doesn't happen again : )
It is kind of cool being in a hurricane. I went out to feel the power of the wind and it was pretty strong. However, once they get to upper cat-3 or cat-4 things get REAL scary. Our windows were rattling for hours, it sounded like our home was about to colapse on me and my family.
I am not saying any of this as a racist. I don't think the problem is the "white man" but instead a problem within the black community, specifically the poor family structure. According to planned parenthood
If you continue reading the Planned Parenthood link, you would see that only about 64% of teen girls who have children finish high school. 19% of black teen girls getting pregnant and only 64% of those finishing high shcool creates many under-educated black teen women. Another problem IMO, is the high percentage rate of unmarried black women having children. According to the CDC. 68.7% of _all_ black children are born out of wedlock. That IMO is one of the major problems.IMO, when the black community can fix these problems, they will experience the same success rate as anyone else. For example, according to the Census Bureau
To me this data says that race or being a minority has nothing to do with income in the USA, since Asian housholds are pulling in the highest average median income.The above was not to start a flame or be racist. It is just MHO on what is causing the biggest issues in the black community; those being high crime percentage, high percentage of out of wedlock child births and poor family structure. Affirmative action won't fix these problems. No government social policy would fix these problems. Each Black American will need to make the change for themselves, and then they as a community can have unlimited success like any other American.
I'll have a guess and say _any_ color other than white. Since when did white stop being a color? I lean more toward Libertarian, though I do agree with a lot of what the Green's have to say. However, the Green party's racism against white people or "people of no color", makes me never willing to vote for them or help their cause (even though I agree with a lot of their positions).
I just don't understand the logic behind saying it is wrong to be racist against "people of color" but it is OK to be racist against "people of no color". To me the ultimate form of racism is showing favorites to "people of color". Racism is racism and not just white against black. As a white man I have had many black people be racist toward me just because of my skin color. I guess the Green party thinks that is OK or they look the other way?
I really want to see more parties in the presidential election, especially the Libertarians. However, it is hard to justify the Green party when they have very good positions on many current issues and then are way-out-in-left-field with things like Nuclear energy and racism against whites and favortism for blacks.
I still do not agree with you about "Enumeration enum". It never occured to you that Java might get a feature like that one day? Your post said to "think outside the box". To me developers should be "thinking outside the box" about future development. Things like making the code robust enough to add features and try for future language changes. Especially with a language like Java that is still having core changes made to it.