I'll be sure to send a list. After all the cutbacks at work last year, I could use the money. Not to mention the fact that my home dialup received 1038 e-mails last month - out of which perhaps 2 dozen were desirable. I also have my mail archived back through May of last year.
It makes my day to discover that artists are getting their pay for doing some fairly skiklled and specialized kinds of work. I recall that when I was a practicing artist (oil and charcoal on canvas) my paintings, etc. were typically appraised in the $400 - $1000 range. Not that I ever got that much, despite the sheer cost of the raw materials and 4 years of art school.
Nowdays, I go to Broadway shows and the local philharmonic to support them, in addition to donations.
That is, the FSF wants to make it so you can't remove their soapbox rants from their documentation if you make a derived work.
Actually, I don't see any problems with this. After all, I use GPL'd software almost exclusively, and enjoy the benefit thereof. I also create a utility every now and then, derived from GPL'd software. Bearing in mind that the GPL is a distribution license, I am obliged to make available a copy of the GPL (and the source) whenever I distribute something under that license.
Frankly, I don't see why the relevant documentation should be any different. In that regard, it's OK with me to leave the soapbox rants in. I *am* wondering why the documentation couldn't be covered under the GPL itself, meaning that a "documentation" license itself may be -1, redundant.
Hrmmmm, that's news to me. Thanks for the info, I may stand corrected. I still have to wonder how many other areas these things apply to, however. Modern physics immediately comes to mind, along with a whole host of philosophies.
My whole standpoint (personally) is that our observation, logic, and response is a machine-in-itself (deus ex machina anyone?) and it needs to admit the possibility of being totally wrong, and this gets all tangled up in maintaining the status quo.
A good example would be the google findings you recently gave. I may have been totally wrong about the flat-earth thing (it was a convenient example) but it *is* what I remember from school.
On a related note, I don't really think we're all that clever in modern times. No, I can't substantiate any of that at the moment, but I seriously think that ancient people are not given enough credit for intelligence. I can see no reason to believe that somebody from 4000 years ago was more or less intelligent. Perhaps (I think) it all comes down to their tools and their means of expressing what they found. *IF their belief system supported it.* Do we have a language for these things, or many different languages? What are the limits of a language, and its interactions with minds?
Again, "Spirit-in-the-machine", anyone? What is the spirit that drives your mental machine?
I'm not trolling or anything here, I really think questions like these need to be dealt with. Thanks for the info again.
Thanks, I'm actually going to save and print this entire thread. I had a few examples in mind (mostly scientific) but I didn't mention them. The cool thing is how you explicitly came out with the *psychology* of the thing, which I didn't feel like getting into at the time (it's old news to me). The part about "the desire to belong... or gain approval" really struck a nerve with me for some reason. As a geek I very well remember getting beaten up and stuffed into my locker after the game by my own team, even after making a few winning saves. That was 20 years ago, and I still allow it to affect my thinking.
"willful suspension of disbelief" uncommon? How many times a day do we already do this, and why?
IMHO, it's a lot more common than many people are willing to admit; and the mental/philosophical "construct" we use every day is every bit as large and fascinating as the "construct" used in the movie.
Classical examples from science: At one time, the Earth was substantially flat. It also revolved around the Sun. QED.
It will be interesting to see if science per se can make anything of this, let alone go beyond its own limits. All I'm saying is that maybe the limits of science are actually the limits of the mind, given a material form.
Wait a minute on this... I'm a linux guy, never even touched BSD in my life. And now *I'm* saying "Huh?" Man, that sucks IMO. I hope it works out somehow.
Bummer, I *do* enjoy classical. Used to play it even (piano). Decent setup you have BTW, but I still prefer Klipsh horns and 2A3 triodes, fed by Teac (analog) tape. But that's just me.
and save money. That's what I normally do for major components. For example, a bit of digging showed me that my Envision 19" CRT has the same guts and the same specs as the ViewSonic AF90... at half the retail price.
Actually, I just looked closer at the spec sheet (pdf) and it mentions both unixware and SCO OpenLinux support. Not that I'd run either one of those on it. I bet Gentoo linux could do some interesting things on that, tho.
I have no idea either way ath the moment, but being "corporate-controlled" might just be a good thing for people who need video drivers. After all, video card manufacturers *are* corporations.
Actually, I *am* deaf. It would be nice to get tty service anywhere, but it depends on your provider. Verizon wants up to $500 for the equipment/service. No, you don't get a cash bonus from the gov't (or anyone else), you work 5 days a week like everyone else. Meanwhile, I'm reviewing some ways to do speech to text and text to speech, falling asleep reading commercial API's for my linux boxes. It's gonna be interesting to try and synthesize my own voice from memory. (thank you, sounblaster!)
I currently use hearing aids, but 120 dB of graphical EQ only goes so far, especially in a work environment. Implants were vetoed by the surgeon's evaluation team - I adapted too well by visual cues, and fake normal conversation well enough. Everybody thinks it's an obscure Brit accent, whan it's actually a deaf American accent.
You have *no* idea how frustrating it is when the whole world *assumes* you use the phone. Try to get someone close to you to call your bank on your behalf. You will end up giving power of attorney over you, because that's the only way they'll deal with it. This applies for most business scenarios.
For me the phone is a useless expense, except for data.
I'm quite happy with both of my SMP boxes. The older one has dual Pentium Pros with 1Mb of on-die cache (per cpu) and 128 Mb of EDO RAM. Thanks to the throughput of of onboard Adaptec 2940 SCSI, the end-user experience running mozilla and mplayer is similar to my Dad's brand-new 2.4 GHz P4, single processor.
My newer workstation has a Gigabyte mobo with dual P3 Coppermines at 1 GHz, 1 Gb PC133 SDRAM, and two 80 GB IBM Deskstar drives. (among others) I built it specifically for linux about a year ago, and saved maybe $1000 USD by supporting myself. Said support was easy; there aren't any problems with any of it.
Here's what I found out about shopping for SMP boards: Don't get the high-end stuff labeled "server" unless you have the cash and need it. I budgeted $300 maximum for my mobo. If it also supports Xeon, yer gonna pay a *lot*. My tactic is to fish on the lower end of CPU support, and throw lots of RAM on it. It's pretty quick when you can (for example) re-compile the kernel entirely in RAM and use disk only for writes. Likewise, it's not that hard to bind a process to a CPU, or to specify a maximum process count. Hope that helps.
By the way: I'm keeping both of my SMP machines, permanently. That's what their usable life is like for me, anyway.
3 dead HP's in 2 years. Meanwhile, the 1985 vintage Panasonic dot-matrix is still going strong. That's gor emergencies, tho - it's all metal so it's fairly heavy to move. My everyday printer now has been a Lexmark Z53. I've had it for a year now, and I'm happy with it. It's quiet, smooth, fast, and does photo quality under gimp-print.
The part that pisses me off is the fact that it's even necessary. It's a slap in the face to most librarians that they have to deal with such things, but they'll go through with it - most of their funding is from public sources after all.
How do I know this? Because I've had several librarians in my immediate family and friends. I can say for sure that you'd be amazed at the amount of passion and energy that goes into their work after hours (the public never sees it).
And yes, I read Fahrenheit 451:D tho I liked the book better.
Well, the NPTL seems to do wonderful things for my SMP boxes in terms of speed/responsiveness:D Of course, I tend to follow the latest advances in kernel scheduling too, looking for backports into the stable series.
Heh, by the time CD was invented, I already had most everything I could want on vinyl and cassette. A fair chunk of it now sits on my HDD. The 3 CD's I've owned were gifts, and I'm not really interested in the shit that passes for music nowdays. Instead, I buy tickets to Broadway shows and the Philharmonic, with the occasional bar band and big-name classic rock acts.
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I'll be sure to send a list. After all the cutbacks at work last year, I could use the money. Not to mention the fact that my home dialup received 1038 e-mails last month - out of which perhaps 2 dozen were desirable. I also have my mail archived back through May of last year.
All I can say is, "Come 'n get it!"
can I send Lance Bass' ashes to space?
It makes my day to discover that artists are getting their pay for doing some fairly skiklled and specialized kinds of work. I recall that when I was a practicing artist (oil and charcoal on canvas) my paintings, etc. were typically appraised in the $400 - $1000 range. Not that I ever got that much, despite the sheer cost of the raw materials and 4 years of art school.
Nowdays, I go to Broadway shows and the local philharmonic to support them, in addition to donations.
That is, the FSF wants to make it so you can't remove their soapbox rants from their documentation if you make a derived work. Actually, I don't see any problems with this. After all, I use GPL'd software almost exclusively, and enjoy the benefit thereof. I also create a utility every now and then, derived from GPL'd software. Bearing in mind that the GPL is a distribution license, I am obliged to make available a copy of the GPL (and the source) whenever I distribute something under that license. Frankly, I don't see why the relevant documentation should be any different. In that regard, it's OK with me to leave the soapbox rants in. I *am* wondering why the documentation couldn't be covered under the GPL itself, meaning that a "documentation" license itself may be -1, redundant.
Hrmmmm, that's news to me. Thanks for the info, I may stand corrected. I still have to wonder how many other areas these things apply to, however. Modern physics immediately comes to mind, along with a whole host of philosophies.
My whole standpoint (personally) is that our observation, logic, and response is a machine-in-itself (deus ex machina anyone?) and it needs to admit the possibility of being totally wrong, and this gets all tangled up in maintaining the status quo.
A good example would be the google findings you recently gave. I may have been totally wrong about the flat-earth thing (it was a convenient example) but it *is* what I remember from school.
On a related note, I don't really think we're all that clever in modern times. No, I can't substantiate any of that at the moment, but I seriously think that ancient people are not given enough credit for intelligence. I can see no reason to believe that somebody from 4000 years ago was more or less intelligent. Perhaps (I think) it all comes down to their tools and their means of expressing what they found. *IF their belief system supported it.* Do we have a language for these things, or many different languages? What are the limits of a language, and its interactions with minds?
Again, "Spirit-in-the-machine", anyone? What is the spirit that drives your mental machine?
I'm not trolling or anything here, I really think questions like these need to be dealt with. Thanks for the info again.
Thanks, I'm actually going to save and print this entire thread. I had a few examples in mind (mostly scientific) but I didn't mention them. The cool thing is how you explicitly came out with the *psychology* of the thing, which I didn't feel like getting into at the time (it's old news to me). The part about "the desire to belong... or gain approval" really struck a nerve with me for some reason. As a geek I very well remember getting beaten up and stuffed into my locker after the game by my own team, even after making a few winning saves. That was 20 years ago, and I still allow it to affect my thinking.
True, thanks for that insight. Mindset *is* really what I meant.
"willful suspension of disbelief" uncommon? How many times a day do we already do this, and why?
IMHO, it's a lot more common than many people are willing to admit; and the mental/philosophical "construct" we use every day is every bit as large and fascinating as the "construct" used in the movie.
Classical examples from science: At one time, the Earth was substantially flat. It also revolved around the Sun. QED.
It will be interesting to see if science per se can make anything of this, let alone go beyond its own limits. All I'm saying is that maybe the limits of science are actually the limits of the mind, given a material form.
Wait a minute on this... I'm a linux guy, never even touched BSD in my life. And now *I'm* saying "Huh?"
Man, that sucks IMO. I hope it works out somehow.
I was getting ready to have "Binford Special" tatooed across my back, below the penguin logo.
Makes me wonder what's really going on when I pet the cats. Even when they "milk" me with their claws out (thank god for leather jackets...)
All I know is, it's amazingly relaxing and we're all asleep soon enough. As long as they're not dumb enough to jump on the keyboard....
how this happens in the same week that they're supposed to file their 10-Q with the SEC. I'm going to have to check the stats on that in a bit.
Bummer, I *do* enjoy classical. Used to play it even (piano). Decent setup you have BTW, but I still prefer Klipsh horns and 2A3 triodes, fed by Teac (analog) tape. But that's just me.
and save money. That's what I normally do for major components. For example, a bit of digging showed me that my Envision 19" CRT has the same guts and the same specs as the ViewSonic AF90... at half the retail price.
Actually, I just looked closer at the spec sheet (pdf) and it mentions both unixware and SCO OpenLinux support. Not that I'd run either one of those on it. I bet Gentoo linux could do some interesting things on that, tho.
I have no idea either way ath the moment, but being "corporate-controlled" might just be a good thing for people who need video drivers. After all, video card manufacturers *are* corporations.
I honestly don't think that trusted computing will be possible or extant until there are trusted humans.
Actually, I *am* deaf. It would be nice to get tty service anywhere, but it depends on your provider. Verizon wants up to $500 for the equipment/service. No, you don't get a cash bonus from the gov't (or anyone else), you work 5 days a week like everyone else. Meanwhile, I'm reviewing some ways to do speech to text and text to speech, falling asleep reading commercial API's for my linux boxes. It's gonna be interesting to try and synthesize my own voice from memory. (thank you, sounblaster!)
I currently use hearing aids, but 120 dB of graphical EQ only goes so far, especially in a work environment. Implants were vetoed by the surgeon's evaluation team - I adapted too well by visual cues, and fake normal conversation well enough. Everybody thinks it's an obscure Brit accent, whan it's actually a deaf American accent.
You have *no* idea how frustrating it is when the whole world *assumes* you use the phone. Try to get someone close to you to call your bank on your behalf. You will end up giving power of attorney over you, because that's the only way they'll deal with it. This applies for most business scenarios.
For me the phone is a useless expense, except for data.
I'm quite happy with both of my SMP boxes. The older one has dual Pentium Pros with 1Mb of on-die cache (per cpu) and 128 Mb of EDO RAM. Thanks to the throughput of of onboard Adaptec 2940 SCSI, the end-user experience running mozilla and mplayer is similar to my Dad's brand-new 2.4 GHz P4, single processor.
My newer workstation has a Gigabyte mobo with dual P3 Coppermines at 1 GHz, 1 Gb PC133 SDRAM, and two 80 GB IBM Deskstar drives. (among others) I built it specifically for linux about a year ago, and saved maybe $1000 USD by supporting myself. Said support was easy; there aren't any problems with any of it.
Here's what I found out about shopping for SMP boards: Don't get the high-end stuff labeled "server" unless you have the cash and need it. I budgeted $300 maximum for my mobo. If it also supports Xeon, yer gonna pay a *lot*. My tactic is to fish on the lower end of CPU support, and throw lots of RAM on it. It's pretty quick when you can (for example) re-compile the kernel entirely in RAM and use disk only for writes. Likewise, it's not that hard to bind a process to a CPU, or to specify a maximum process count. Hope that helps.
By the way: I'm keeping both of my SMP machines, permanently. That's what their usable life is like for me, anyway.
3 dead HP's in 2 years. Meanwhile, the 1985 vintage Panasonic dot-matrix is still going strong. That's gor emergencies, tho - it's all metal so it's fairly heavy to move. My everyday printer now has been a Lexmark Z53. I've had it for a year now, and I'm happy with it. It's quiet, smooth, fast, and does photo quality under gimp-print.
The part that pisses me off is the fact that it's even necessary. It's a slap in the face to most librarians that they have to deal with such things, but they'll go through with it - most of their funding is from public sources after all.
:D tho I liked the book better.
How do I know this? Because I've had several librarians in my immediate family and friends. I can say for sure that you'd be amazed at the amount of passion and energy that goes into their work after hours (the public never sees it).
And yes, I read Fahrenheit 451
Well, the NPTL seems to do wonderful things for my SMP boxes in terms of speed/responsiveness :D Of course, I tend to follow the latest advances in kernel scheduling too, looking for backports into the stable series.
you may be correct; 1:4:9 was the proportions of the mysterious monolith described by Arthur C. Clarke in 2001: A Space Oddessey.
Strangely similar to the Golden Mean.
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Heh, by the time CD was invented, I already had most everything I could want on vinyl and cassette. A fair chunk of it now sits on my HDD. The 3 CD's I've owned were gifts, and I'm not really interested in the shit that passes for music nowdays. Instead, I buy tickets to Broadway shows and the Philharmonic, with the occasional bar band and big-name classic rock acts.