"Come on, who doesn't want individual audio level settings for each program?"
Me. WTF do I need that for? My system sounds just fine, always has although audio is rarely used. Mostly just in connection with multimedia apps, and the login screen. That's it.
ALSA did everything I needed for years, and ESD/OSS before that. As a user I really don't give a rat's ass how the code looks behind it all, as long as it works, which it did.
As far as SysVinit, same idea - it worked, and worked very well for decades. I still have no use for fast booting since I rarely if ever reboot. And I fail to see what other use there is for tinkering with something that worked just fine - I liked the old scripts since they were very self-documenting and easily modifiable.
You can easily do this with a voice-enabled modem and getty on linux. I used to use my box for a PBX-maze to throw off everyone but family. The 256 "extensions" and options would piss off everyone except those who knew what buttons to push in order to actually reach me. Everything else was piped to/dev/null so I never had to hear any of it.
This is why I like science and nature shows. You learn some pretty amazing things that living things do. And, you can watch them screw. After enough decades, you have seen most things screw. And they are a LOT uglier than you...
I've been saying for years that we need to go back to Ronald Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform act. We could tax capital gains as regualr income, and do away with corporate tax altogether. That would eliminate the entire discussion. All sides of the debate would have to STFU since they got what they wanted. And there wouldn't be any more of this off-shoring and subsidiaries for tax purposes. It wouldn't matter how CxO's take their pay, because they will still be taxed - the same as everyone else. It wouldn't matter any more how the books get moved around. And the Occupy types wouldn't have anything more to bitch about. The only ones who would get truly shafted would be the greedy.
There was plenty of food before GMO crops were even thought of. And yes I was alive and cognizant back then. Oh wait, I just noticed you are all AC's... must be an astroturf campaign then.
Want to make this entire discussion go away? Then eliminate the corporate tax altogether and treat capital gains the same as ordinary income (ie, wages and salary).
At one stroke, this would make the whiners on all sides STFU. Both the Occupy people, and the CEO's would no longer be able to complain. The offshore accounting tricks would collapse, revenue would skyrocket, and companies would move back into the USA.
That's what nobody in the political right has pushed yet, even though it was a major component of Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform act. You know, the one that totally saved the economy back then and caused a long boom.
Sounds like a tyrany to me, when the government can act with impunity against its own people. Which these certainly could. Its only a short step to do so. Much like Austria in 1938...
being able to kill or maim is pretty useful sometimes. Especially when one is being attackes or assaulted.
Others prefer to hunt for their own meat, or target shoot for sport. No probs there.
Personally, I think the answer to violence is to restore God to His proper stature in the home and in society, and do away with the "Great Society". The idea that the government can do everything is vanity at its highest. No success in the world can make up for failure in the home, and that is exactly chat happened in these mass shootings.
Looks like my sarcasm tags got eatern in my earlier post... it doesn't carry well over the net.
The reason why they all bought it up is simple greed and believing the rating agencies. The same assclowns that downgraded the US debt. Its amazing how greed makes people willing to overlook risks. Especially when they're playing with other people's money.
You forget, that it was all the Liberal's fault due to the Fair Housing Act in the 1980's and guess who wrote that? Yep Chris Dodd and Barney Frank... I wonder who actually lobbied them for that Act? And were the banks actually required to write subprime loans? Under what sort of duress?
Huh, that's an interesting idea. Wish I had mod points inside my own story;)
Look overall at whats been going on tho. We just had a housing market bubble followed by a crash. I think we're heading into a bond market bubble. And when that one implodes its really gonna hurt. Like 1929 hurt, only without any fixes or bailouts like this time.
See that's what I was saying, or at least that's what I meant to convey: doing conversions in imperial is just as fast and easy for me, as metric is. The math is equally fast either way. But maybe its just me. The different bases mean nothing to me, they are so ingrained and habitual.
Actually *visualizing* a kilometer (for example) is the hard part for me. Whereas I can easily visualize a mile using known references (this many blocks to the store from my house, or that many minutes at this speed).
The question of being able to visualize things doesn't seem to affect me with scientific literature or engineering for that matter. It's the everyday stuff that gets you.
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"Come on, who doesn't want individual audio level settings for each program?"
Me. WTF do I need that for? My system sounds just fine, always has although audio is rarely used. Mostly just in connection with multimedia apps, and the login screen. That's it.
ALSA did everything I needed for years, and ESD/OSS before that. As a user I really don't give a rat's ass how the code looks behind it all, as long as it works, which it did.
As far as SysVinit, same idea - it worked, and worked very well for decades. I still have no use for fast booting since I rarely if ever reboot. And I fail to see what other use there is for tinkering with something that worked just fine - I liked the old scripts since they were very self-documenting and easily modifiable.
So, no. Keep it.
Dude, if you keep buying yourself you're gonna go BLIND!
You can easily do this with a voice-enabled modem and getty on linux. I used to use my box for a PBX-maze to throw off everyone but family. The 256 "extensions" and options would piss off everyone except those who knew what buttons to push in order to actually reach me. Everything else was piped to /dev/null so I never had to hear any of it.
breadboard - grew up doing things that way, still think faster that way
This is why I like science and nature shows. You learn some pretty amazing things that living things do. And, you can watch them screw.
After enough decades, you have seen most things screw. And they are a LOT uglier than you...
A little bit of scripting and you can goatse thousands all around the world...
I've been saying for years that we need to go back to Ronald Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform act. We could tax capital gains as regualr income, and do away with corporate tax altogether. That would eliminate the entire discussion. All sides of the debate would have to STFU since they got what they wanted. And there wouldn't be any more of this off-shoring and subsidiaries for tax purposes. It wouldn't matter how CxO's take their pay, because they will still be taxed - the same as everyone else. It wouldn't matter any more how the books get moved around. And the Occupy types wouldn't have anything more to bitch about. The only ones who would get truly shafted would be the greedy.
*cough* bullshit *cough* there was plenty of food before GMO was even thought of. Its all politics, and I call astroturf.
There was plenty of food before GMO crops were even thought of. And yes I was alive and cognizant back then. Oh wait, I just noticed you are all AC's... must be an astroturf campaign then.
It *is* illegal now. The NYS Legislature just outlawed it last week IRC.
Want to make this entire discussion go away? Then eliminate the corporate tax altogether and treat capital gains the same as ordinary income (ie, wages and salary).
At one stroke, this would make the whiners on all sides STFU. Both the Occupy people, and the CEO's would no longer be able to complain. The offshore accounting tricks would collapse, revenue would skyrocket, and companies would move back into the USA.
That's what nobody in the political right has pushed yet, even though it was a major component of Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform act. You know, the one that totally saved the economy back then and caused a long boom.
Kaypro 2 with CP/M and GEM in my case... the apples were cool tho.
Sounds like a tyrany to me, when the government can act with impunity against its own people. Which these certainly could. Its only a short step to do so. Much like Austria in 1938...
being able to kill or maim is pretty useful sometimes. Especially when one is being attackes or assaulted.
Others prefer to hunt for their own meat, or target shoot for sport. No probs there.
Personally, I think the answer to violence is to restore God to His proper stature in the home and in society, and do away with the "Great Society". The idea that the government can do everything is vanity at its highest. No success in the world can make up for failure in the home, and that is exactly chat happened in these mass shootings.
Looks like my sarcasm tags got eatern in my earlier post... it doesn't carry well over the net.
The reason why they all bought it up is simple greed and believing the rating agencies. The same assclowns that downgraded the US debt.
Its amazing how greed makes people willing to overlook risks. Especially when they're playing with other people's money.
Heh, looks like slashcode ate my sarcasm tags. Oh well, trolled ya anyhow!
Dunno about science, but a lot of management tends to move in "paradigm shifts".
The trouble arises when the shareholders *are* the executives, as is often the case...
Ahh, but corporations legally *are* people, as Mitt Romney reminded us....
You forget, that it was all the Liberal's fault due to the Fair Housing Act in the 1980's and guess who wrote that? Yep Chris Dodd and Barney Frank... I wonder who actually lobbied them for that Act? And were the banks actually required to write subprime loans? Under what sort of duress?
Actually you could just wait for the midterm elections. That's been my plan all along.
Huh, that's an interesting idea. Wish I had mod points inside my own story ;)
Look overall at whats been going on tho. We just had a housing market bubble followed by a crash. I think we're heading into a bond market bubble. And when that one implodes its really gonna hurt. Like 1929 hurt, only without any fixes or bailouts like this time.
Guess I just ruined your argument then. Ooops :D
Thx for the tip about the kilometer tho - I dunno how I'm ever going to get that one.
...coming in 3...2...1...
See that's what I was saying, or at least that's what I meant to convey:
doing conversions in imperial is just as fast and easy for me, as metric is. The math is equally fast either way. But maybe its just me. The different bases mean nothing to me, they are so ingrained and habitual.
Actually *visualizing* a kilometer (for example) is the hard part for me. Whereas I can easily visualize a mile using known references (this many blocks to the store from my house, or that many minutes at this speed).
The question of being able to visualize things doesn't seem to affect me with scientific literature or engineering for that matter. It's the everyday stuff that gets you.