On a side-note, my Microsoft intellimouse wouldn't work on my Windows 2000 and it even made some irreparable damage to that machine. (I know the MS mouse driver caused this, because according to CNET.com/download.com, 12% of the people who downloaded that driver had the same exact problem.) And yet, when I recycled the mouse on my linux box, Red Hat autodetected it without a hitch, and it has worked beautifully for two years (going on three).
In any case, I agree that there is a lot of FUD about Linux. It takes too much time and too much research to install anything. Often times, the precompiled binaries don't work, the make install instructions are oversimplified, and the glowing recommendations made by Linux zealouts are simply inaccurate.
To all the Windows people, my personal recommendation is to use Linux to recycle your old/"broken down" hardware. Who knows -- You might just get lucky. As to the people who try to replicate their Windows setup. Forget it, you're wasting your time if you think Linux can replicate your setup. Linux has some unique abilities itself. It will improve some aspects of your computing environment, but it will not be able to replace all the stuff your Windows machine can already do. Contrary to popular belief, Linux and Windows are not interchangeable -- they're complementary.
***prisons are agents of the state, and to tacitly permit rape, murder, and assault on people under the control of the state is hideously wrong*** "so what's wrong with implicitly permitting the above"
Permitting rape, assaults, and murder in the prison system is wrong because it goes against the principles of protection (protection of society), deterrence, rehabilitation, and vengeance. Those principles are the four cornerstones of punishment.
In the case of rape, there will be three kinds of inmates. The first kind will the ones who get raped. The second kind will be the ones who perform the rape. And the third kind will be ones who never get raped. So in the end, you end up punishing some, rewarding others, and inducing others still to seek the protection of a gang. And assuming you want all the felons to suffer as much as possible, especially the rapists, I don't think this is the most elegant solution.
"Besides, I have a family member who is a retired prison guard...(though it wasn't a maximum security facility)... trust me, they have enough to worry about without managing quality-of-life for felons,"
I realize the safety of the prison guard is important, and obviously any change to the system would take their safety into account. But if you're asking me to trust you, or if you're asking me to trust prison guards to do their job, don't count on it, I don't even trust postal workers to their job. I am certainly not going to trust prison guards to put my interests as a private citizen in front of their interests as governmental employees.
In my days, "terrorists" were people who killed people for political reasons.
Soon, the meaning of the word will be so dilutated, even the typical white American teenager will think it's cool to be called a "terrorist".
"Advertising agencies have still got it all wrong."
No, the consumers are the ones that get it all wrong. Most consumers make rash assumptions about things that they know nothing about.
Advertising agencies know what they're doing and more especially they know what we're doing. They know what we buy. They know when we buy it. They know where we bought it in the store. They know what other items we bought at the same time. They know what some of us buy on a regular basis. They can guess what we watched on TV. In other words, they know a lot more than you may realize.
And with that information, they can, and they do, test their assumptions. They can test the effectiveness of packaging, shelf position, ambient music, advertisements, product placements, public relation, slanted scientific studies, and the list goes on. I've seen this research, thousands of pages of research are produced for the launch of each product. And thousands of pages of research are produced after the launch of each product. And while the advertising agencies only represent a small component of the entire machinery -- I certainly wouldn't disparage the expertise they bring to the table.
The product will be available "early 2005". For all we know, they're using the "flying car"/ "disposable phone"/ cool idea gimmick to con money out of gullible investors.
I know one of the articles said they had a working prototype last year, but I wouldn't be surprised if both wow-com.com and pdacortex.com reprinted the company press release without checking any of the facts.
It may not matter that much, but it still may piss them off. You don't want to piss off people you need to win over. Posting a couple of digits was the minimum they could do to make their point. They can always post more info later on.
For $19.99, next week they can post their driving/medical records. For $4.99, the week after they can post details of their porn fat-fetish browsing habits. And so on...
I was only making a reference to this recent Slashdot story. I don't know if this example is typical, but out of
200+ companies lobbying your South Australian government, it seems there is only one that is actually Australian.
I don't know about the SSA, but I think anyone can flag their own credit report with a fraud warning. If you request it, I've read that they could also take off your file from the online database, but that would add a couple of weeks to any credit application you made because the credit checking would have to be done through the mail.
"It's probably a question of simply allocating resources- you can't flag everyone's SSN for followup, "
It's the same argument cops use for racial profiling. It's a sound argument if you're a cop, but it's a pain in the butt if you happen to be african-american.
"2> We're not talking about a courtroom, and matters of international legality are determined by whomever has the biggest guns and most money."
If logic doesn't need to be relevant, then you shouldn't have tried to use logic in the first place.
"Have you heard about the town where villagers looted an Iraqi army facility and are now dying of radiation sickness? Why do you suppose highly radioactive material was in that facility?
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As to the radioactive material and to the innuendos associated with them. Having radioactive material doesn't necessarily mean that you can make a nuclear bomb out of it. Otherwise the non-proliferation treaty wouldn't even allow light-water nuclear power plants and it wouldn't have allowed France to build a nuclear power plant in Iraq.
"Why is everyone siding with the subsidized competition?"
Other countries can invest in failing companies. Personally, I would invest only in successful companies. I'm sorry my logic escapes you.
You can give my bankrupt brother-in-law all the money in the world, that's not going to make him more successful -- in the end that's only going to make him less successful.
"I despise the WTO and how they have the power to to step in and tell our democratically elected government what to do..."
The WTO doesn't have any power our democratically elected officials didn't give them, so in that respect, the WTO is a democratic institution. For the record, the WTO doesn't enforce any rule our WTO representatives didn't previously agree to, and our WTO representatives represent and answer to the interests of our democratically elected officials.
Our WTO representatives may not obey the green party and the socialist party, but then again those two parties do not represent the interests of our democratic majority. If anything, the people protesting against the WTO are anti-democratic, and the American contingency of the WTO is just an instrument of our democracy (just like the SEC, the Post Office, the FCC, the FBI, etc.).
Personally, I don't want free trade. Most people don't want free trade.
I guess you're not too hot about free trade between the United States either. Or is that ok? I wonder when free trade is ok and when free trade is not ok.
Remember Linda Tripp, her first allegation was targeted at George Bush Senior for having an affair with someone at the White House and his son George Bush Jr. was the one who came out at the Press Conference and said those allegations were all lies.
"Iraq used nerve gas against the Kurds as late as 1993. "
Speaking of which, do you know who supplied this gas and who supported/assisted Saddam while he was committing this genocide. Don't you think that condeming someone for something we gave them, and assisted them with, is a bit of a contradiction.
"Nobody, not the French or Hans Blix or anyone else has any kind of coherent evidence that indicates that these weapons were destroyed. "
Proving a negative is tough. I know Fox News and Clever George make it sound like it's a really easy thing to do, but it's not. The burden of proof was on George Bush to prove that there were Weapons of Mass Destructions. That's the way courts work and that's the way international law works. You can't shift the burden of proof to make people prove their innocence. For all I know Mr. DuffBeer, you could have some weapons of mass destruction. Can you prove it to us that you don't have any? And if you can't prove this to us, I guess we'll have to go down to your place, start kicking some ass, and then take some of your most valuable possessions.
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You can kiss their ColdFusion and their J2EE Server good bye. But I'll agree with your general point, Macromedia is established enough and smart enough to maintain their lead the areas they're willing to fight for.
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Flash MX can easily convert all its content into readable/usable html content and/or it can be used to read the content or the navigation out loud to a blind person.
The only reason Flash is so hard on blind people is not because of the tool, it's because the human designer wanted it that way.
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The web is about content, not design.
Yep, when I see a flash-only web site, it's like a flag telling me, "There is no good content here, this web site was designed by an idiot, move along..."
the South Koreans are subsidizing the American Consumers.
If the South Koreans think no competitor will rise up after they stop dumping, then they're delusional. If on the other hand, the South Koreans believe they can subsidize my US lifestyle forever, then I wish them all the best.
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Another example of someone who read the /. headline, but not the article.
In any case, I agree that there is a lot of FUD about Linux. It takes too much time and too much research to install anything. Often times, the precompiled binaries don't work, the make install instructions are oversimplified, and the glowing recommendations made by Linux zealouts are simply inaccurate.
To all the Windows people, my personal recommendation is to use Linux to recycle your old/"broken down" hardware. Who knows -- You might just get lucky. As to the people who try to replicate their Windows setup. Forget it, you're wasting your time if you think Linux can replicate your setup. Linux has some unique abilities itself. It will improve some aspects of your computing environment, but it will not be able to replace all the stuff your Windows machine can already do. Contrary to popular belief, Linux and Windows are not interchangeable -- they're complementary.
Permitting rape, assaults, and murder in the prison system is wrong because it goes against the principles of protection (protection of society), deterrence, rehabilitation, and vengeance. Those principles are the four cornerstones of punishment.
In the case of rape, there will be three kinds of inmates. The first kind will the ones who get raped. The second kind will be the ones who perform the rape. And the third kind will be ones who never get raped. So in the end, you end up punishing some, rewarding others, and inducing others still to seek the protection of a gang. And assuming you want all the felons to suffer as much as possible, especially the rapists, I don't think this is the most elegant solution.
"Besides, I have a family member who is a retired prison guard...(though it wasn't a maximum security facility)... trust me, they have enough to worry about without managing quality-of-life for felons,"
I realize the safety of the prison guard is important, and obviously any change to the system would take their safety into account. But if you're asking me to trust you, or if you're asking me to trust prison guards to do their job, don't count on it, I don't even trust postal workers to their job. I am certainly not going to trust prison guards to put my interests as a private citizen in front of their interests as governmental employees.
In my days, "terrorists" were people who killed people for political reasons. Soon, the meaning of the word will be so dilutated, even the typical white American teenager will think it's cool to be called a "terrorist".
No, the consumers are the ones that get it all wrong. Most consumers make rash assumptions about things that they know nothing about.
Advertising agencies know what they're doing and more especially they know what we're doing. They know what we buy. They know when we buy it. They know where we bought it in the store. They know what other items we bought at the same time. They know what some of us buy on a regular basis. They can guess what we watched on TV. In other words, they know a lot more than you may realize.
And with that information, they can, and they do, test their assumptions. They can test the effectiveness of packaging, shelf position, ambient music, advertisements, product placements, public relation, slanted scientific studies, and the list goes on. I've seen this research, thousands of pages of research are produced for the launch of each product. And thousands of pages of research are produced after the launch of each product. And while the advertising agencies only represent a small component of the entire machinery -- I certainly wouldn't disparage the expertise they bring to the table.
I know one of the articles said they had a working prototype last year, but I wouldn't be surprised if both wow-com.com and pdacortex.com reprinted the company press release without checking any of the facts.
For $19.99, next week they can post their driving/medical records. For $4.99, the week after they can post details of their porn fat-fetish browsing habits. And so on...
Oh goody, another law that only applies to Congress members.
I was only making a reference to this recent Slashdot story. I don't know if this example is typical, but out of 200+ companies lobbying your South Australian government, it seems there is only one that is actually Australian.
I don't know about the SSA, but I think anyone can flag their own credit report with a fraud warning. If you request it, I've read that they could also take off your file from the online database, but that would add a couple of weeks to any credit application you made because the credit checking would have to be done through the mail.
It's the same argument cops use for racial profiling. It's a sound argument if you're a cop, but it's a pain in the butt if you happen to be african-american.
No, but their politicians can be bought by foreign companies. It's all good.
If logic doesn't need to be relevant, then you shouldn't have tried to use logic in the first place.
"Have you heard about the town where villagers looted an Iraqi army facility and are now dying of radiation sickness? Why do you suppose highly radioactive material was in that facility? "
As to the radioactive material and to the innuendos associated with them. Having radioactive material doesn't necessarily mean that you can make a nuclear bomb out of it. Otherwise the non-proliferation treaty wouldn't even allow light-water nuclear power plants and it wouldn't have allowed France to build a nuclear power plant in Iraq.
Other countries can invest in failing companies. Personally, I would invest only in successful companies. I'm sorry my logic escapes you.
You can give my bankrupt brother-in-law all the money in the world, that's not going to make him more successful -- in the end that's only going to make him less successful.
The WTO doesn't have any power our democratically elected officials didn't give them, so in that respect, the WTO is a democratic institution. For the record, the WTO doesn't enforce any rule our WTO representatives didn't previously agree to, and our WTO representatives represent and answer to the interests of our democratically elected officials.
Our WTO representatives may not obey the green party and the socialist party, but then again those two parties do not represent the interests of our democratic majority. If anything, the people protesting against the WTO are anti-democratic, and the American contingency of the WTO is just an instrument of our democracy (just like the SEC, the Post Office, the FCC, the FBI, etc.).
I guess you're not too hot about free trade between the United States either. Or is that ok? I wonder when free trade is ok and when free trade is not ok.
I know you were joking, but if it's only a matter of taste -- the american consumer can make up his own mind about which milk he prefers.
Remember Linda Tripp, her first allegation was targeted at George Bush Senior for having an affair with someone at the White House and his son George Bush Jr. was the one who came out at the Press Conference and said those allegations were all lies.
Speaking of which, do you know who supplied this gas and who supported/assisted Saddam while he was committing this genocide. Don't you think that condeming someone for something we gave them, and assisted them with, is a bit of a contradiction.
"Nobody, not the French or Hans Blix or anyone else has any kind of coherent evidence that indicates that these weapons were destroyed. "
Proving a negative is tough. I know Fox News and Clever George make it sound like it's a really easy thing to do, but it's not. The burden of proof was on George Bush to prove that there were Weapons of Mass Destructions. That's the way courts work and that's the way international law works. You can't shift the burden of proof to make people prove their innocence. For all I know Mr. DuffBeer, you could have some weapons of mass destruction. Can you prove it to us that you don't have any? And if you can't prove this to us, I guess we'll have to go down to your place, start kicking some ass, and then take some of your most valuable possessions.
You can kiss their ColdFusion and their J2EE Server good bye. But I'll agree with your general point, Macromedia is established enough and smart enough to maintain their lead the areas they're willing to fight for.
Flash MX can easily convert all its content into readable/usable html content and/or it can be used to read the content or the navigation out loud to a blind person. The only reason Flash is so hard on blind people is not because of the tool, it's because the human designer wanted it that way.
Yep, when I see a flash-only web site, it's like a flag telling me, "There is no good content here, this web site was designed by an idiot, move along..."
If the South Koreans think no competitor will rise up after they stop dumping, then they're delusional. If on the other hand, the South Koreans believe they can subsidize my US lifestyle forever, then I wish them all the best.
Long live South Korea !
Sincerely,
Selfish And Proud of It
((and I thought I was the one with too much time on my hands.))
No, I think we should use the Balmer approach. Sell 10% of our holdings every couple of months and hope noone will notice.