Are they going to contribute to the community, or are they just going to make a quick buck on everyone else's work without having to worry about NT licencing fee
I'm not sure we want to have IBM too heavily involved in the development process... their methdology is nothing like what has built the kernel so far.
Rather than ask them to develop Linux, which will only upset them (and upset other jagoffs like Michael Dell), let's ask them to really open up availability of hardware specs and info. Then the kernel hackers can do what they do best, on the best hardware, and Linux will be further entrenched.
Just my Christmas wish eleven months early... Please, Big Blue, use Debian, not Red Hat!
I doubt Schumer owns a computer. After all, it's tough to operate even a modern browser with one's head firmly lodged up one's a$$.
But let me ask you this: If it saves even one elf's life to raid citizens' homes, cause their wives to have miscarraiges, stomp their kittens to death, burn their children alive, piss on the Constitution, suspend the writ of habeas corpus, empower the FEMA, invade our privacy, beat us, humiliate us, and shoot our wives through a closed door while they hold our children, isn't it worth it?:)
...but it's been a lot of trouble, particularly the converter cards for my Slot 1 mobo. Oddly enough, when I took one of the procs off it seemed to do everything just as quickly, with the exception of RC5.
Therefore, I'd have to say that there's no reason for a normal Linux box to have dual processors. Come to think of it, my P-120s run WindowMaker pretty quickly.. maybe one of those is all most of us need.
Althought the Thinkpad 600 is a fine machine, and I know at least one Linux novice who is using one, the spirit of Linux (if such a thing exists) is better served when you make inexpensive equipment do the job. That's why I'm using a 701. Well, I'm using a 770 to read this, but it sucks.
Precisely what kind of rational exchange can you have with someone who looks on basic economics as a "fiction" that can change at any time?
Hmm... perhaps in the near future, people will stop trading goods and services. It is also entirely possible that they will all agree to stop breathing. Only a product of the welfare gift economy could believe that sort o' thing.
It's amazing what kind of tripe gets trotted out when harsh economic realities are discussed. The work you put in to get where you are is dismissed as unimportant because you are (presumably) white, while the children of government programs hide behind notions of entitlement and endeavor to take some false pride in a self-immolatory helplessness...
This individual, Mr. Isbell, doesn't believe in hard work, so he's not going to agree with you, no matter what. Let him go. If you and I work hard enough today, we can make up for him and ten other like him...
I have to hand it to these folks. A society now exists where it is impossible to ascertain race, sex, species, or planetary origin, and there are still people who want to whine about racial equality.
The inequality of the Web is not racial - it's economic. It's a good thing there is some sort of inequality, as well. Remember the "Shoe Event Horizon" in Hitchhiker's Guide, where everyone on the planet was making shoes? That could be us. Do we really want a world in which everyone thinks he should be a sysadmin or a programmer?
The reality of the modern economy is that more than a third of the population is limited by ability or gumption to working in the low-end service sector. We can't change that, and unless you want to make your own McFries, I humbly submit that we don't really want to. Let's keep the government and everyone else out of this and let the cream rise to the top naturally. Black, white, et al - who cares?
BZZZT - the vietcong would have defeated the US even with plastic spoons - they were willing to accept losses far greater than America was willing to accept. They won through attrition.
If there are 500,000 soldiers in the Army, and 100 million armed citizens in America, how is the Vietnamese analogy incorrect?
After all, we were willing to accept horrible losses in the Revolutionary War. In the *next* revolution, Americans will again be willing to die to preserve liberty. The cowards who regularly post hoplophobic hysteria on/. will not be among them, but it's okay. We'll fight for your freedom, too.
Right - because a few more handguns and they would have certainly defeated the German army.
The Jews in the Warsaw ghetto nearly defeated the SS with pitchforks. Give 'em a pistol and see what they could have done. And Israel defended itself in 1948 with small arms.
Didn't work at Waco. Wouldn't have worked in any of the instances you mentioned.
You cannot prove that negative statement.
Ask Randy Weaver how well guns protected his family against the government.
He was able to force a standoff long enough to preserve his life, if not the life of his family. Perhaps a more intelligent example would be the Viet Cong against the US military...
What everyone seems to be missing (probably due to an unreasonable hatred of Apple) is that these machines are designed to confuse customers into purchasing them instead of iMacs!
eMachines, Daewoo, and Future Power aren't trying to sell neat-looking PCs. That's perfectly legal. They are trying to mislead customers. That's not legal. Apple paid a LOT of money for the iMac design. These others are stealing it, plain and simple, just like Smith & Wesson did with Glock.
This is tantamount to Microsoft selling Win98 in boxes featuring penguins and "Open Source" stickers. If you disagree with that, disagree with the eMachines crap.
There's a lot of worse people to worry about than cops
Wrong. Dead wrong. Permit me to tell you why, you brownshirt-in-training.:
In about 45 states of the US (Massachusetts, Ohio, D.C. et al being exceptions) you can legally use a firearm to protect yourself from anyone who threatens you... except for a cop. If you are the subject of a police attack, you may not respond with force, even if those officers are trying to kill you. Force is *never* justified. Your only recourse is through the courts, which does you no good if you are dead.
I am not concerned about violence... unless it comes from the police. Armed citizens beat "goblins" nearly every time. And while I have defended myself successfully with a weapon, I have never benefited from police protection.
You, Sir, state that you would like your "rescuers" to have bizarre military technology. Accept responsibility for yourself, protect yourself, and you will be your own "rescuer." Si vis pacem, para bellum!
Is the range on any of these devices more than three hundred yards? Most ARs are sighted in at three hundred, and I get upset when I have to "hold high" when disposing of a threat. Plus, if it's effective through more than a quarter inch of steel I'll have to switch to SS109 ammo... and that's more expensive, so I hope not.
******************************************** You may fire when ready.
Two things:
Nostalgia is only human. Those of us who have only been involved for one year can "remember" a better community that what we have today, and those of us who start using RedHat tomorrow will no doubt bemoan the distintegration of "today's wonderful Linux community" next year. There have been some important benefits that go along with the community probs... otherwise we'd all be kernel hackers;-)
FLAME ON ---- 1f y0u th1nk m5 werd 15 1337 7hen y0u n3v37 u53d n0r70n t3x7r4, b17ch! In all seriousness, Norton Textra 2.0 was as easy to use as EMACS and as fast as MS Word. No, wait, maybe I've got it backwards.
The heck with RedHat---Debian is easier for all but the bandwidth-challenged to use. apt-get update; apt-get upgrade!
Iridium used launch sites all over the world.. including former USSR, China, and the US.
The fact that China was not the only launch site does not eliminate the fact that China was a launch site. So it's not funny... and there is truth to it.
The Long March rocket predates Iridium by quite a bit.
True enough. Anybody can build a big rocket. Guidance is the issue... and they didn't have that, until our future President, *shudder*, handed the guidance tech over.
Now they've got it. Iridium boosts fine... and so do MIRVs.
After heavy DNC contributions, the Vice President signs a waiver authorizing limited missile tech to China, so...
Iridium sats are launched, but...
China uses the same tech to create the "Long March", so...
they announce first-strike capability against the U.S., so...
Clinton does nothing, so...
now they can nuke us, and we did it all so that Iridium sats could launch, and now...
THEY'RE BANKRUPT?
That's fantastic. We've given our most probable major enemy first-strike capability just so the DNC can afford to re-elect Gore, and the company that paid everyone off can't even bother to stick around and provide decent service.
Tsk, tsk. It's time for you to join the circle of "tolerance", which can be most usefully defined as an attitude wherein I demand praise for my ignorance while undermining the worth of your learning and effort.
Take, for example, the dildo who previously responded to this post. He (she?) would prefer "her" to "they" because "they" sounds "wierd"(sic.) You should respect this individual's unwillingness to learn English. After all, if CmdrTaco and JonKatz don't bother with grammar, why should we?
That'd be a pretty good trick, considering that moderator access is chosen at mostly-random and none of the moderators know the identity of any of the others.
True enough on the surface, but let's take a look at part of the moderation guidelines:
5.Positive Contributors If you post comments that are regularly marked down, you will lose eligibility for moderator access.
In other words, play nice and you will get to encourage others to play nice. As a big Jew philosopher such as yourself is no doubt aware (btw, I am Jewish and despise whiners like you who equate the suffering of the chosen people with their inability to get decent corned beef at their local GoebbelsMart) Girard's "mirror of desire" concept tells us that people will subconsciously emulate attitudes that are only implied in the mass around them.
As time goes on, it has become increasing apparent what the "moderation community" wants. This leads people who obtain the moderation privilege to act in the fashion they believe to be expected of them, rather than to moderate as they would prefer. Couple this with the bland Darwinism of Rule #5, as quoted above, and it's easy to see why the moderators speak with one voice.
There is no conspiracy, no Bavarian Illuminati---simply a bunch of lonely people with low self-esteem who are too frightened to express an opinion or support the expression of same. So do me a favor. Next time you are burdened with those horrible, horrible moderation points - show some stones in that kosher sack of yours...
Once upon a time, the Atlantic Monthly published the work of Hemingway and Faulkner. Now, when you go to their website, you have the opportunity to click the fsckin monkey and win $20.
Given that the current readership of this rag consists entirely of people who don't even understand the free market (witness their panegyric to Keynes last year), I wouldn't worry too much about any script-kiddie generation as a result of this story. Oh, what's the use.
As I understand it, the best Win32 client for Hylafax is not free software. Something to think about if you are sensitive to that kind of thing. Not that I have a better idea..
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I'm not sure we want to have IBM too heavily involved in the development process... their methdology is nothing like what has built the kernel so far.
Rather than ask them to develop Linux, which will only upset them (and upset other jagoffs like Michael Dell), let's ask them to really open up availability of hardware specs and info. Then the kernel hackers can do what they do best, on the best hardware, and Linux will be further entrenched.
Just my Christmas wish eleven months early... Please, Big Blue, use Debian, not Red Hat!
We'll be up -
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However, I am bringing a NetWare system down for
a client today. Their AST Bravo 486s won't roll...
It sounds like the other driver is at fault...
he has requested that his (and the name of his,
er, "female companion") not be released.
The wrath of geeks aside, that is not the
action of an innocent man.
it's tough to operate even a modern browser
with one's head firmly lodged up one's a$$.
But let me ask you this: If it saves even :)
one elf's life to raid citizens' homes, cause
their wives to have miscarraiges, stomp their
kittens to death, burn their children alive,
piss on the Constitution, suspend the writ of
habeas corpus, empower the FEMA, invade our
privacy, beat us, humiliate us, and shoot our
wives through a closed door while they hold our
children, isn't it worth it?
Therefore, I'd have to say that there's no reason for a normal Linux box to have dual processors. Come to think of it, my P-120s run WindowMaker pretty quickly.. maybe one of those is all most of us need.
Althought the Thinkpad 600 is a fine machine, and I know at least one Linux novice who is using one, the spirit of Linux (if such a thing exists) is better served when you make inexpensive equipment do the job. That's why I'm using a 701. Well, I'm using a 770 to read this, but it sucks.
Hmm... perhaps in the near future, people will stop trading goods and services. It is also entirely possible that they will all agree to stop breathing. Only a product of the welfare gift economy could believe that sort o' thing.
It's amazing what kind of tripe gets trotted out when harsh economic realities are discussed. The work you put in to get where you are is dismissed as unimportant because you are (presumably) white, while the children of government programs hide behind notions of entitlement and endeavor to take some false pride in a self-immolatory helplessness...
This individual, Mr. Isbell, doesn't believe in hard work, so he's not going to agree with you, no matter what. Let him go. If you and I work hard enough today, we can make up for him and ten other like him...
The inequality of the Web is not racial - it's economic. It's a good thing there is some sort of inequality, as well. Remember the "Shoe Event Horizon" in Hitchhiker's Guide, where everyone on the planet was making shoes? That could be us. Do we really want a world in which everyone thinks he should be a sysadmin or a programmer?
The reality of the modern economy is that more than a third of the population is limited by ability or gumption to working in the low-end service sector. We can't change that, and unless you want to make your own McFries, I humbly submit that we don't really want to.
Let's keep the government and everyone else out of this and let the cream rise to the top naturally. Black, white, et al - who cares?
BZZZT - the vietcong would have defeated the US even with plastic spoons - they were willing to accept losses
/. will not be among them, but it's okay. We'll fight for your freedom, too.
far greater than America was willing to accept. They won through attrition.
If there are 500,000 soldiers in the Army, and 100 million armed citizens in America, how is the Vietnamese analogy incorrect?
After all, we were willing to accept horrible losses in the Revolutionary War. In the *next* revolution, Americans will again be willing to die to preserve liberty. The cowards who regularly post hoplophobic hysteria on
Right - because a few more handguns and they would have certainly defeated the German army.
The Jews in the Warsaw ghetto nearly defeated the SS with pitchforks. Give 'em a pistol and see what they could have done. And Israel defended itself in 1948 with small arms.
Didn't work at Waco. Wouldn't have worked in any of the instances you mentioned.
You cannot prove that negative statement.
Ask Randy Weaver how well guns protected his family against the government.
He was able to force a standoff long enough to preserve his life, if not the life of his family.
Perhaps a more intelligent example would be the Viet Cong against the US military...
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eMachines, Daewoo, and Future Power aren't trying to sell neat-looking PCs. That's perfectly legal. They are trying to mislead customers. That's not legal. Apple paid a LOT of money for the iMac design. These others are stealing it, plain and simple, just like Smith & Wesson did with Glock.
This is tantamount to Microsoft selling Win98 in boxes featuring penguins and "Open Source" stickers. If you disagree with that, disagree with the eMachines crap.
than cops
Wrong. Dead wrong. Permit me to tell you why, you brownshirt-in-training.:
In about 45 states of the US (Massachusetts, Ohio, D.C. et al being exceptions) you can legally use a firearm to protect yourself from anyone who threatens you... except for a cop. If you are the subject of a police attack, you may not respond with force, even if those officers are trying to kill you. Force is *never* justified. Your only recourse is through the courts, which does you no good if you are dead.
I am not concerned about violence... unless it comes from the police. Armed citizens beat "goblins" nearly every time. And while I have defended myself successfully with a weapon, I have never benefited from police protection.
You, Sir, state that you would like your "rescuers" to have bizarre military technology. Accept responsibility for yourself, protect yourself, and you will be your own "rescuer." Si vis pacem, para bellum!
Is the range on any of these devices more than three hundred yards? Most ARs are sighted in at three hundred, and I get upset when I have to "hold high" when disposing of a threat. Plus, if it's effective through more than a quarter inch of steel I'll have to switch to SS109 ammo... and that's more expensive, so I hope not.
Have to go now, the agents are closing in.
An inanimate carbon rod.
An Everex 386/12 running the fortune>Eliza loop.
The same Katz we have now, but without any fingers, or a tongue.
A large contingent of monkeys running vi on DEC VT102s.
A couple of inches of blank screen space on Slashdot every few days or so.
Any of these would be more useful to the so-called community than our current Katz iteration.
Without further ado, then, bring on the replacements!
You may fire when ready.
Two things:
Nostalgia is only human. Those of us who have only been involved for one year can "remember" a better community that what we have today, and those of us who start using RedHat tomorrow will no doubt bemoan the distintegration of "today's wonderful Linux community" next year. There have been some important benefits that go along with the community probs... otherwise we'd all be kernel hackers ;-)
FLAME ON ---- 1f y0u th1nk m5 werd 15 1337 7hen y0u n3v37 u53d n0r70n t3x7r4, b17ch! In all seriousness, Norton Textra 2.0 was as easy to use as EMACS and as fast as MS Word. No, wait, maybe I've got it backwards.
The heck with RedHat---Debian is easier for all but the bandwidth-challenged to use. apt-get update; apt-get upgrade!
The fact that China was not the only launch site does not eliminate the fact that China was a launch site. So it's not funny... and there is truth to it.
True enough. Anybody can build a big rocket. Guidance is the issue... and they didn't have that, until our future President, *shudder*, handed the guidance tech over.
Now they've got it. Iridium boosts fine... and so do MIRVs.
Iridium needs a cheap launch, so...
Motorola decides to launch in China, so...
China can't get their booster to work, so...
After heavy DNC contributions, the Vice President signs a waiver authorizing limited missile tech to China, so...
Iridium sats are launched, but...
China uses the same tech to create the "Long March", so...
they announce first-strike capability against the U.S., so...
Clinton does nothing, so...
now they can nuke us, and we did it all so that Iridium sats could launch, and now...
THEY'RE BANKRUPT?
That's fantastic. We've given our most probable major enemy first-strike capability just so the DNC can afford to re-elect Gore, and the company that paid everyone off can't even bother to stick around and provide decent service.
Aw, heck.
of "tolerance", which can be most usefully defined
as an attitude wherein I demand praise for my
ignorance while undermining the worth of your
learning and effort.
Take, for example, the dildo who previously
responded to this post. He (she?) would prefer
"her" to "they" because "they" sounds "wierd"(sic.)
You should respect this individual's unwillingness
to learn English. After all, if CmdrTaco and JonKatz
don't bother with grammar, why should we?
> Data is flowing again and the users in the real > world are actually getting work done now instead
> of waiting and waiting and waiting...
This is obviously false. Everyone knows that gnumacs has a better way of controlling rogue TV stations than vi...
M-x auto-television-control-mode RETURN
True enough on the surface, but let's take a look at part of the moderation guidelines:
5.Positive Contributors If you post comments that are regularly marked down, you will lose eligibility for moderator access.
In other words, play nice and you will get to encourage others to play nice. As a big Jew philosopher such as yourself is no doubt aware (btw, I am Jewish and despise whiners like you who equate the suffering of the chosen people with their inability to get decent corned beef at their local GoebbelsMart) Girard's "mirror of desire" concept tells us that people will subconsciously emulate attitudes that are only implied in the mass around them.
As time goes on, it has become increasing apparent what the "moderation community" wants. This leads people who obtain the moderation privilege to act in the fashion they believe to be expected of them, rather than to moderate as they would prefer. Couple this with the bland Darwinism of Rule #5, as quoted above, and it's easy to see why the moderators speak with one voice.
There is no conspiracy, no Bavarian Illuminati---simply a bunch of lonely people with low self-esteem who are too frightened to express an opinion or support the expression of same. So do me a favor. Next time you are burdened with those horrible, horrible moderation points - show some stones in that kosher sack of yours...
If you criticize Katz for being ignorant, it's "Flamebait".
If you criticize Katz for not having his facts right, it's "Troll".
If you criticize Katz for being simply boring, it's "Offtopic".
If you praise Katz without adding anything new, it's "Interesting".
If you praise Katz and add some personal anecdotes of no interest to anyone but yourself, it's "Informative".
Foutez les moderateurs!
Once upon a time, the Atlantic Monthly published the work of Hemingway and Faulkner. Now, when you go to their website, you have the opportunity to click the fsckin monkey and win $20.
Given that the current readership of this rag consists entirely of people who don't even understand the free market (witness their panegyric to Keynes last year), I wouldn't worry
too much about any script-kiddie generation as a result of this story. Oh, what's the use.
As I understand it, the best Win32 client for Hylafax is not free software. Something to think about if you are sensitive to that kind of thing. Not that I have a better idea..