Think of how many stupid wars will be fought when politicans don't have to risk US lives to kill other armies of people. That kind of power is right out of mainstream sci-fi for years now. Worse yet, what happens when corporations start owning armies of these things to "protect their interests" While I'm a robot lover and would love to work on such a machine, practically, it would increase human suffering 100x...while the people at home starve to pay for them...
It's true that nobody wants those jobs, but if there was significant wages paid out to entice people to work in them, improvements in farm conditions would be made...heck, normal american family farmers might actually be profitable again. Realize that allowing illegal immigrants to work reduces the fair wages of everybody else and stiffles innovation.
Without illegal workers, the market might require $15-20 per hour to get normal americans to leave their cubes and go farm...heck it might raise the price of farm goods to make it more profitable than sitting in a cube...but with this policy we'll never know. Wish Bush would do the same for downloading songs off the net!
That is an interesting point. It's time to remind the corps that they are publicly chartered by the govt. organizations to enjoy their protections and need to do good for the American Public. Such a law would be fair...if you wanted protections of corporation, you have to play by the govts. rules...fair is fair...
I get that the idea is to pull up bottom wages by greedy execs...when they want a raise they have to find one for everyone else. Think of it like salary caps in baseball...When the guy with the most money can buy the best team it ruins the game..as well as hurts the other 40 players that get fair pay taken away to buy "rockstars"...the same is true in most Executive positions. Remember too that Capitalism is a game, not an entitlement...it's in the states interest to keep players in the game, introduce certian ineffencies to keep the players on their toes...Think of the stats as a D&D GM when dealing with mega corps...or the state could just mind it's own business and remove the laws that allow megacorps to maintain control of their "empires"...that would allow them to crush under their own bureaocracy!
It may look bad, but YOU are supporting the economy by keeping wall street fat and happy. That money keeps the banks healthy, telecos operating, and pays for basic utilities we enjoy here. Not to mention the car payment keeps another banker fed, a car salesman fed, and other workers making cars. [remember used cars don't help the economy!]
People who think we should cut back please choose something to close down...TV, Telephone, hospital...take your pick...because that's where the money goes....Which is fine as long as the money stays in our economic system. When it starts really flowing OUT, or the bottom can't buy stuff, then we'll see more problems.
the point of OGG is that in the US most users aren't making "legal" mp3's due to the patents on the format encoding itself. Vorbis was a seperately developed and patented format that the creators willingly open sorced [because they came up with a new one to charge money for!] It's why you can't BUY a PC that can rip MP3's only play them...you always have to pay extra for the rippers...if more devices supported Ogg Vorbis we could easily distribue free software to rip CD's for personal use...and starve the patent hogs of MP3 for money in the process. MP3 may be cool, but with patents, it's redundant.. and apple uses ACC, windows uses wma... the only thing keeping it alive is monemtum...if something like the iPod could play Ogg files [perhaps even sneak some DRM into the iTunes/iPod combo to prevent swapping via iPod to keep suits happy] then MP3 would die pretty quickly.
That said, you have a point...Apple should rebrand more stuff. I'd love to see the Airport Extreme router pushed into the PC world as well...heck it's possible to build a "PC" with everything outside the beige box apple branded right now...they've got some cool stuff...Cinema displays, keyboard/mice [hey, i think they're cool], airport, iPod, etc...and as Apple slowly wins both commercial and OSS software, it's starting not to matter if you have a WinTel PC anymore...that next computer could be a MAC!
You seem to think that HP actually MAKES THINGS nowdays...ha,ha...
Most HP consumer hardware is simply outsourced from southeast asia...sure HP designs it, but they don't actually build much of anything consumer-oriented anymore like a good American mega corp. It's scary how much of our high tech design is done in taiwan nowdays...where do you think the Abits, Asus, and Fic's of the world came from...they design much more than they let on for american companies!
Actually this mirrors MS early software programs...in the early days of visual basic and Visual C++ as well as Mac Word, Excell, etc. MS really had the great tools...much like Apple does now...then they got greedy. MS problem is that they made their money playing the IP "middleman" pitting hardware makers like Intel & AMD against eachother as well as IBM, Compaq, & Dells of the world...they made their money by stiring the pot so that the MS solution was the only one gauranteed to work! Smart move, except that everyone is wise to them now...so now they want to have Apple's kind of control. to slashdotters it's old news, but the industry giants are rapidly seeing it so MS can't just make moves like apple without validating what the Linux crowd has been saying for years about open software...once MS gets locked hardware though....
not really, because MS controlls the license for the wma formats and other software in the players, and controls the server OS and server-side program licenses on that end. They have been heavily fighting to lock out other vendors fairly sucessfully. That's why MS has always "flown under the radar" of the anti-trust hounds...but the market itself has figured it out. realize that there is only Apple, MS, and real in this market...everybody else are just proxy manufactures.
The problem is that most people in the military have no trouble with things like the Patriot act because they don't live in a "free" society in the military...military justice is much different than civilian justice and deeply rooted in the honor system and in obeying your superiors...right or wrong. For a matter of fact most ex-military people I've talked to actually root for patriot act as bringing "order" to the country...they tend to miss the fact that civilian authorities and politicans are not bound by oaths or honor like military folk are.
number 1...don't open shop in silicon valley! real estate is way to expensive there. Try someplace in the midwest where they still have the auto infrastructure of schools and empty offices for cheap. And your employees can live nicely off 30K-50K!
most people are in too much of a hurry! There are LOTS of security features in US money if you know what to look for. From the flecks in the paper, feel of the paper [it's very unique if your paying attention] to micro print, watermarks, and security stripes. Also, there are special pens that color-change when they mark real bills...Lots of inside jokes on money [hidden details, "errors", etc] if you know what too look for...you just have to pay attention!!!! [Which is too expensive in corperate america...an MBA told me so.]
hey, look around at distrowatch if you need something really small. I wasn't ripping on Knoppix, just that it's pretty much a full-blown Linux distro with lots of eye candy...it's quite nice. There are ways to strip it down while running it, and there are derivitive distros that don't weigh in with such fat requirements for much older systems which you were talking about using....it the right tool for the job kind of thing.
That said, knoppix does have terninal server function which allows you to remote boot another PC, that requires a fat server, but can accept pretty thin clinets...If you haven't surfed the fourums at Knoppix.net, I'd suggest you do that first. There's lots of good help available...and chances that somebody already has better answers that you can use for your project...it's quite a helpful forum...better than most!!!
You have a great point...that the terrorists didn't break any laws [except perhaps planning] until they actually committed the act. It was a perfect evil genious attack, not some silly religous "drive-by". There's not a good defence against "evil genusies" in the Constitution...freedom of will and freedom of choice are fundamental principals!! It's still the basic generic argument about stopping crime...you can't stop criminals from committing crimes in a free land...only deter them thru harsh punishments. Right now the "war" on terror is just like the "war" on drugs...it's become about preventing "bad people", not preventing bad people from taking bad actions.
The only thing that can stop "bad people" is good people ready to act when things go wrong...or we can just let the govt. tell us where we can go and when, with whom, etc...they can even tell us how to vote too! get it, it's a slippery slope from the govt. holding our hands...to holding us under their fist!
Your Rsync idea has been tried, but it's a bit heavy because of the chloop compression that changes everthing for the smallest program change. Surf the Knoppix Forums for the scripts!
Note...Knoppix is not minimalist, use one of the variants like Morphix for that. Knoppix is very hard on a system in it's default startup. Don't even consider it if you don't have 128MB ram and the ability to let it use another 128MB on the HDD for swap. [swap is REALLY important for Knoppix to shine, little secret on slow systems] Less than that and it hurts. Note, it runs OK on a P3 350MHz if you keep the open apps down [2-3 at a time]...but it's really tweaked for 1GHz+ systems.
What they need to do is get together and re-roll a new meta-distro live CD distro...sort of the polar opposite of Gentoo. [one set of meta instructions to create LiveCDs for many computers rather than one set of sources to run optimally on just 1 pc] All the pieces are independantly in place, but need to be rolled into one spot so people can use them like the parent said. That would be a killer-app for sys admins...roll the CD from up-to-date source off the net with just what you want, then stash it on the PCs in all the usual ways...LiveCD, HDD, terminal server. Even MS couldn't keep up with that! Just a little more time!!!
My only problem is that the ClusterKnoppix patches always seem to slightly break some stuff [and being a live CD you can't just fix it] It was really cool, but just a bit fustrating to use once you got used to vanilla Knoppix. that said, now that Knoppix has slowed down a bit, maybe they've had a chance to catch up.
network card (3com 3c905)...that card seems to have lots of problem with linux...don't know why. But I've seen it come up all over the place as a problem child card...to bad it was [probably still is!] such a hot piece of hardware for sys admins back in the day.
The key is that Mepis may run into problems on the DVD and Nvidia issues...which Klaus was purposely trying to avoid...note there is much discussion of this on the Knoppix boards, and it comes down to the fact that Klaus is only 1 guy having fun and can't be bogged down with petty legal issues so he plays it safe.
That said, I've got Mepis lately and like it just a bit more than Knoppix...I like that it's designed to work as a live Cd + a repair CD for it's own install. The main reason Knoppix doesn't do that is that the hdd-installed distro is something Klaus doesn't really want to support [again the whole 1 guy thing] So it just sets up standard Debian and you go from there...but it could be a bit better at keeping the config data.
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Think of how many stupid wars will be fought when politicans don't have to risk US lives to kill other armies of people. That kind of power is right out of mainstream sci-fi for years now. Worse yet, what happens when corporations start owning armies of these things to "protect their interests" While I'm a robot lover and would love to work on such a machine, practically, it would increase human suffering 100x...while the people at home starve to pay for them...
Giant as it step on the other side...Wonder if the Japs have any hiding in their basements?
Without illegal workers, the market might require $15-20 per hour to get normal americans to leave their cubes and go farm...heck it might raise the price of farm goods to make it more profitable than sitting in a cube...but with this policy we'll never know. Wish Bush would do the same for downloading songs off the net!
They'll have to find money to pay them more too...that's capatilism...I'm sure it would work out.
I get that the idea is to pull up bottom wages by greedy execs...when they want a raise they have to find one for everyone else. Think of it like salary caps in baseball...When the guy with the most money can buy the best team it ruins the game..as well as hurts the other 40 players that get fair pay taken away to buy "rockstars"...the same is true in most Executive positions. Remember too that Capitalism is a game, not an entitlement...it's in the states interest to keep players in the game, introduce certian ineffencies to keep the players on their toes...Think of the stats as a D&D GM when dealing with mega corps...or the state could just mind it's own business and remove the laws that allow megacorps to maintain control of their "empires"...that would allow them to crush under their own bureaocracy!
People who think we should cut back please choose something to close down...TV, Telephone, hospital...take your pick...because that's where the money goes....Which is fine as long as the money stays in our economic system. When it starts really flowing OUT, or the bottom can't buy stuff, then we'll see more problems.
the point of OGG is that in the US most users aren't making "legal" mp3's due to the patents on the format encoding itself. Vorbis was a seperately developed and patented format that the creators willingly open sorced [because they came up with a new one to charge money for!] It's why you can't BUY a PC that can rip MP3's only play them...you always have to pay extra for the rippers...if more devices supported Ogg Vorbis we could easily distribue free software to rip CD's for personal use...and starve the patent hogs of MP3 for money in the process. MP3 may be cool, but with patents, it's redundant.. and apple uses ACC, windows uses wma... the only thing keeping it alive is monemtum...if something like the iPod could play Ogg files [perhaps even sneak some DRM into the iTunes/iPod combo to prevent swapping via iPod to keep suits happy] then MP3 would die pretty quickly.
That said, you have a point...Apple should rebrand more stuff. I'd love to see the Airport Extreme router pushed into the PC world as well...heck it's possible to build a "PC" with everything outside the beige box apple branded right now...they've got some cool stuff...Cinema displays, keyboard/mice [hey, i think they're cool], airport, iPod, etc...and as Apple slowly wins both commercial and OSS software, it's starting not to matter if you have a WinTel PC anymore...that next computer could be a MAC!
i'm sure steve jobs has enough money to buy their families away from them by now.
Most HP consumer hardware is simply outsourced from southeast asia...sure HP designs it, but they don't actually build much of anything consumer-oriented anymore like a good American mega corp. It's scary how much of our high tech design is done in taiwan nowdays...where do you think the Abits, Asus, and Fic's of the world came from...they design much more than they let on for american companies!
Actually this mirrors MS early software programs...in the early days of visual basic and Visual C++ as well as Mac Word, Excell, etc. MS really had the great tools...much like Apple does now...then they got greedy. MS problem is that they made their money playing the IP "middleman" pitting hardware makers like Intel & AMD against eachother as well as IBM, Compaq, & Dells of the world...they made their money by stiring the pot so that the MS solution was the only one gauranteed to work! Smart move, except that everyone is wise to them now...so now they want to have Apple's kind of control. to slashdotters it's old news, but the industry giants are rapidly seeing it so MS can't just make moves like apple without validating what the Linux crowd has been saying for years about open software...once MS gets locked hardware though....
not really, because MS controlls the license for the wma formats and other software in the players, and controls the server OS and server-side program licenses on that end. They have been heavily fighting to lock out other vendors fairly sucessfully. That's why MS has always "flown under the radar" of the anti-trust hounds...but the market itself has figured it out. realize that there is only Apple, MS, and real in this market...everybody else are just proxy manufactures.
The problem is that most people in the military have no trouble with things like the Patriot act because they don't live in a "free" society in the military...military justice is much different than civilian justice and deeply rooted in the honor system and in obeying your superiors...right or wrong. For a matter of fact most ex-military people I've talked to actually root for patriot act as bringing "order" to the country...they tend to miss the fact that civilian authorities and politicans are not bound by oaths or honor like military folk are.
yeah it's miserable, but other than the occasional tornado, we don't have earthquakes, hurricanes, or major flooding up here...it's pretty calm.
number 1...don't open shop in silicon valley! real estate is way to expensive there. Try someplace in the midwest where they still have the auto infrastructure of schools and empty offices for cheap. And your employees can live nicely off 30K-50K!
And if you go free you owe them for room and board too!!!
most people are in too much of a hurry! There are LOTS of security features in US money if you know what to look for. From the flecks in the paper, feel of the paper [it's very unique if your paying attention] to micro print, watermarks, and security stripes. Also, there are special pens that color-change when they mark real bills...Lots of inside jokes on money [hidden details, "errors", etc] if you know what too look for...you just have to pay attention!!!! [Which is too expensive in corperate america...an MBA told me so.]
That said, knoppix does have terninal server function which allows you to remote boot another PC, that requires a fat server, but can accept pretty thin clinets...If you haven't surfed the fourums at Knoppix.net, I'd suggest you do that first. There's lots of good help available...and chances that somebody already has better answers that you can use for your project...it's quite a helpful forum...better than most!!!
The only thing that can stop "bad people" is good people ready to act when things go wrong...or we can just let the govt. tell us where we can go and when, with whom, etc...they can even tell us how to vote too! get it, it's a slippery slope from the govt. holding our hands...to holding us under their fist!
Your Rsync idea has been tried, but it's a bit heavy because of the chloop compression that changes everthing for the smallest program change. Surf the Knoppix Forums for the scripts!
Note...Knoppix is not minimalist, use one of the variants like Morphix for that. Knoppix is very hard on a system in it's default startup. Don't even consider it if you don't have 128MB ram and the ability to let it use another 128MB on the HDD for swap. [swap is REALLY important for Knoppix to shine, little secret on slow systems] Less than that and it hurts. Note, it runs OK on a P3 350MHz if you keep the open apps down [2-3 at a time]...but it's really tweaked for 1GHz+ systems.
What they need to do is get together and re-roll a new meta-distro live CD distro...sort of the polar opposite of Gentoo. [one set of meta instructions to create LiveCDs for many computers rather than one set of sources to run optimally on just 1 pc] All the pieces are independantly in place, but need to be rolled into one spot so people can use them like the parent said. That would be a killer-app for sys admins...roll the CD from up-to-date source off the net with just what you want, then stash it on the PCs in all the usual ways...LiveCD, HDD, terminal server. Even MS couldn't keep up with that! Just a little more time!!!
My only problem is that the ClusterKnoppix patches always seem to slightly break some stuff [and being a live CD you can't just fix it] It was really cool, but just a bit fustrating to use once you got used to vanilla Knoppix. that said, now that Knoppix has slowed down a bit, maybe they've had a chance to catch up.
network card (3com 3c905)...that card seems to have lots of problem with linux...don't know why. But I've seen it come up all over the place as a problem child card...to bad it was [probably still is!] such a hot piece of hardware for sys admins back in the day.
That said, I've got Mepis lately and like it just a bit more than Knoppix...I like that it's designed to work as a live Cd + a repair CD for it's own install. The main reason Knoppix doesn't do that is that the hdd-installed distro is something Klaus doesn't really want to support [again the whole 1 guy thing] So it just sets up standard Debian and you go from there...but it could be a bit better at keeping the config data.