Who gives a crap about that? People regularly make Nazi comparisons even in situations where they're patently moronic. Are you trying to make some kind of ludicrous argument that we're all going to accept GWB as president for life? The democratic (well, republican) tradition is still alive and well in this country, as can be witnessed daily in Congress or the upcoming elections.
"Suddenly religion is leaking into the government like blood out of a bullet-riddled Iraqi, and even more horrifically, most people seem to think that's okay."
Nobody's instituted a state religion. The ONLY thing that's happened is that you've got a religious president (wow, he says "GOD", obviously a zealot!) and some funding to religious charities being allowed. If you see this a direct precursor to a war on all non-Christians, I don't think you have a firm grasp on the reality of the situation.
"And despite vast technological superiority over all enemy nations, the U.S. continues to ramp up weapons development."
Did you think everyone in the world was just going to stop developing weapons? The US would be foolish not to try to KEEP ahead, rather than just waiting for the next weapons technology revolution to get the best of them. I'd prefer the US have the next big thing in weapons technology, rather than, say, Iran.
"Something is deeply wrong in the U.S."
Really? I suppose that most people on/. believe right and wrong are defined by UN vote these days, so maybe you're right. It could also be the very simple truth that many Europeans don't understand the US Republican party's views - can't understand them, perhaps, due to the very liberal traditions in those countries.
"Now, I may be wrong, but I am not insane. The comparison to space aliens is ridiculous."
Just as long as you can admit you might be wrong about this whole thing. I _really_ do not agree with your read of the US domestic situation, and feel that it doesn't have much basis in reality without develing into serious conspiracy theories.
The biggest possibility is that they're going to move to Ximianized GNOME as the desktop. They'd be foolish to throw away a major asset (Ximian GNOME, which is far easier to use than even SuSE's KDE) just because some of their new developers were fans of KDE. I would expect YAST to see some major revisions, too.
Lots of people will want to deny this because they know that it would be a huge blow to the KDE project. I really can't blame them. But Sun and RedHat are both using GNOME now, and Novell seems to be apt to move in that direction, too. Desktop consolidation arrives in the corporate market. We'll see if this changes anything...
This is the test release I'm talking about - the updated RC3.
There's no "paying customers first" paradigm anymore, since no one's paying. Just like with Debian, if the mirror is full, you're not getting the update, but you're usually fine. I've not had any issues yet (although this is still the beta).
The updater is built straight into their distribution. up2date now acts as simple front-end for yum. Yum is pretty nice, built in, and is almost exactly equivalent to apt-get. The syntax is a bit different, but the capabilities appear to be identical.
Obviously, it'll take a little while for the project to gain momentum, but from what I've seen so far, it's going to be a major success.
Use the mailing list, Luke. It gets "updated", oh, every 3 minutes.
Progress on Fedora is rapid, and the product itself is absolutely excellent. I would know - I'm using it right now. It's like getting the best of both RedHat (pretty config tools) and Debian (excellent updater).
The graphical boot option works like a charm, too. Doesn't start as early as I want, but the fact that it uses X has potential. Now let's see graphical shutdown!
Unfortunately, since SuSE isn't required to report earnings (at least last I checked), it's very difficult to make an intelligent statement as to how much they're worth.
You'd _think_ they weren't losing money hand over foot what with the German government ordering from them now. But then again, for all the awesome publicity and service contracts RedHat has, they've been losing goodly amounts of money up until very recently.
In other words, trying to predict whether SuSE is worth some amount is a tricky business for anyone who's not privy to their financial statements (ie, most of/.).
It's not like you can just go code iTunes++ for Linux. Most of the magic, so to speak, is not in the code (which I suspect is fairly straight forward), but rather in the deals they've gotten with the record companies.
There is plenty of innovating going on - but expecting Linux users to just ignore exciting developments on other platforms is idiotic. Why can't Linux innovate _and_ use other people's innovations? Total originality all the time is highly over-rated, if you ask me.
I could have sworn that Poindexter's program was called "Total Information Awareness", not "Terrorist Information Awareness".
Equally, I was under the impression that the aim of TIA wasn't total domestic surveillance of every bit of your life. But then again, on/., saying "information collection" and "government" in the same sentence automatically leads to a conclusion that the system is designed to take away every bit of your privacy for the NWO to exploit.
Two-kernel-monte (info here) will let you do that.
The problem is that it's unlikely you'd be able to do very much when this was going on anyways. Rebooting is probably not all that much worse a solution.
But it's possible. I do it all the time with my 19 and 17 inch monitors in dual head mode. OK, if your monitors are five feet apart, you can't, but if you're at a normal distance and your monitors are close (as they should be!), you can.
It's _NOT_ possible to glance at two virtual screens simultaneously on a single monitor.
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"This is the first time a company has offered money for information about the identity of the cybercriminals."
Is this really true? It seems kind of unlikely.
-Erwos
"Comparisons are being made to pre-war Germany."
/. believe right and wrong are defined by UN vote these days, so maybe you're right. It could also be the very simple truth that many Europeans don't understand the US Republican party's views - can't understand them, perhaps, due to the very liberal traditions in those countries.
Who gives a crap about that? People regularly make Nazi comparisons even in situations where they're patently moronic. Are you trying to make some kind of ludicrous argument that we're all going to accept GWB as president for life? The democratic (well, republican) tradition is still alive and well in this country, as can be witnessed daily in Congress or the upcoming elections.
"Suddenly religion is leaking into the government like blood out of a bullet-riddled Iraqi, and even more horrifically, most people seem to think that's okay."
Nobody's instituted a state religion. The ONLY thing that's happened is that you've got a religious president (wow, he says "GOD", obviously a zealot!) and some funding to religious charities being allowed. If you see this a direct precursor to a war on all non-Christians, I don't think you have a firm grasp on the reality of the situation.
"And despite vast technological superiority over all enemy nations, the U.S. continues to ramp up weapons development."
Did you think everyone in the world was just going to stop developing weapons? The US would be foolish not to try to KEEP ahead, rather than just waiting for the next weapons technology revolution to get the best of them. I'd prefer the US have the next big thing in weapons technology, rather than, say, Iran.
"Something is deeply wrong in the U.S."
Really? I suppose that most people on
"Now, I may be wrong, but I am not insane. The comparison to space aliens is ridiculous."
Just as long as you can admit you might be wrong about this whole thing. I _really_ do not agree with your read of the US domestic situation, and feel that it doesn't have much basis in reality without develing into serious conspiracy theories.
You are, of course, welcome to disagree.
-Erwos
"Does the U.S. really have anything to fear from any other country? I think not. Then why do we continue to develop such weapons?"
Obviously because we're afraid of space aliens. The better the weapons we have, the better equipped we'll be to fight them.
If they come, that is, which I doubt. But the situation seems pretty much as logical as the rest of your post.
Question: do you live in the US?
-Erwos
The biggest possibility is that they're going to move to Ximianized GNOME as the desktop. They'd be foolish to throw away a major asset (Ximian GNOME, which is far easier to use than even SuSE's KDE) just because some of their new developers were fans of KDE. I would expect YAST to see some major revisions, too.
Lots of people will want to deny this because they know that it would be a huge blow to the KDE project. I really can't blame them. But Sun and RedHat are both using GNOME now, and Novell seems to be apt to move in that direction, too. Desktop consolidation arrives in the corporate market. We'll see if this changes anything...
-Erwos
This is the test release I'm talking about - the updated RC3.
There's no "paying customers first" paradigm anymore, since no one's paying. Just like with Debian, if the mirror is full, you're not getting the update, but you're usually fine. I've not had any issues yet (although this is still the beta).
The updater is built straight into their distribution. up2date now acts as simple front-end for yum. Yum is pretty nice, built in, and is almost exactly equivalent to apt-get. The syntax is a bit different, but the capabilities appear to be identical.
Obviously, it'll take a little while for the project to gain momentum, but from what I've seen so far, it's going to be a major success.
-Erwos
Sorry, mate, that's two commands. You're just chaining them together. And being rather optimistic, at least from my experiences :).
-Erwos
Guaranteed legally? No one, except for maybe SuSE or Mandrake. Certainly not precious Debian or much-lauded Gentoo.
-Erwos
Actually "yum update" does. One command vs. two.
What distro is that? Oh, yes - Fedora!
-Erwos
Use the mailing list, Luke. It gets "updated", oh, every 3 minutes.
Progress on Fedora is rapid, and the product itself is absolutely excellent. I would know - I'm using it right now. It's like getting the best of both RedHat (pretty config tools) and Debian (excellent updater).
The graphical boot option works like a charm, too. Doesn't start as early as I want, but the fact that it uses X has potential. Now let's see graphical shutdown!
-Erwos
Try thinking before you post. Zachary Kessin is obviously an Israeli.
Moron.
-Erwos
You make a joke, but the corporate culture clash is something that should never be underestimated in a merger/buy-out.
How _would_ former SuSE employees take the new GNOME focus? Probably pretty well, but you never know.
-Erwos
Unfortunately, since SuSE isn't required to report earnings (at least last I checked), it's very difficult to make an intelligent statement as to how much they're worth.
/.).
You'd _think_ they weren't losing money hand over foot what with the German government ordering from them now. But then again, for all the awesome publicity and service contracts RedHat has, they've been losing goodly amounts of money up until very recently.
In other words, trying to predict whether SuSE is worth some amount is a tricky business for anyone who's not privy to their financial statements (ie, most of
-Erwos
Compared to the millions who die(d) in lower tech wars, I'd prefer the high tech kind over them any day.
-Erwos
Congratulations to the KDE team. Choice is the spice of life, and they've helped provide it!
-Erwos
Shameless plug: the O'Reilley book "Stopping Spam" has a good history of Sanford Wallace, the so-called "Spam King".
-Erwos
We landed a probe on an asteroid not too long ago. It's certainly doable.
-Erwos
Asteroids are roughly the last thing in the world I worry about destroying Earth. If one was going to hit us, we'd see it first, LONG before it came.
At that point, you launch a rocket filled with explosives to knock it off course. Problem solved. The solution is well within our technical grasp.
-Erwos
It's not like you can just go code iTunes++ for Linux. Most of the magic, so to speak, is not in the code (which I suspect is fairly straight forward), but rather in the deals they've gotten with the record companies.
There is plenty of innovating going on - but expecting Linux users to just ignore exciting developments on other platforms is idiotic. Why can't Linux innovate _and_ use other people's innovations? Total originality all the time is highly over-rated, if you ask me.
-Erwos
How the hell do you type nekudot (vowels) in OpenOffice 1.1? For the life of me, I've been unable to figure it out!
Otherwise, awesome work. Assuming you install the Hebrew fonts, Hebrew support is "out of the box" in RH9, and it even has the Culmus fonts!
-Erwos
I could have sworn that Poindexter's program was called "Total Information Awareness", not "Terrorist Information Awareness".
/., saying "information collection" and "government" in the same sentence automatically leads to a conclusion that the system is designed to take away every bit of your privacy for the NWO to exploit.
Equally, I was under the impression that the aim of TIA wasn't total domestic surveillance of every bit of your life. But then again, on
-Erwos
Two-kernel-monte (info here) will let you do that.
The problem is that it's unlikely you'd be able to do very much when this was going on anyways. Rebooting is probably not all that much worse a solution.
Still a nifty trick, though.
-Erwos
Ditto. Keep the tops of the monitors aligned and within a foot of each other, and it's great.
-Erwos
But it's possible. I do it all the time with my 19 and 17 inch monitors in dual head mode. OK, if your monitors are five feet apart, you can't, but if you're at a normal distance and your monitors are close (as they should be!), you can.
It's _NOT_ possible to glance at two virtual screens simultaneously on a single monitor.
-Erwos
Forever as in about 20 years, anyways.
-Erwos
No, that's a trademark that goes away if it goes unused. Patents, like diamonds, are forever... and often valuable.
-Erwos