Please don't use that old ignorant 'New Left' definition of 'fascist.' It really degenerates any discussion whe people start bandying around that timeworn and misapplied term. 'Fascism' is a formal political ideology, not some ruthless boogeyman label that you can slap on anybody who displeases you. Fascism was practiced in Italy. Study it sometime.
I'm not so sure it's correct to say 'Germans loved Hitler.' It's probably more safe to say that Hitler's organization was probably the first large scale state apparatus to take advantage of and exploit the power of modern communications technology and mass media. Study some of the propaganda of the period. They were embarking on a new age of progress, etc. etc. Hitler's propaganda people were pioneers in the field and very successful.
Most people wouldn't classify Orwell's '1984' as science fiction. It's not a narrow genre-bound work, Orwell didn't publish his stories in pulp SF magazines. And 1984 was about Stalinism. Orwell was a former Communist, and very disillusioned about the whole thing.
Revisionist historians might now make the claim that 'The Cathederal and the Bazaar' outlines the open source software creation process but when it was originally written, it was a polemic against the 'Cathederal' method of software development being practiced by the GNU Emacs development team.
As reference material for anybody who wants to follow up on this topic: the 'old timers' from the era of the original Jargon File still congregate in the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.computers. Many brilliant old-timers still participate. Not sure where else you can find a forum including mainframers from the 60's who can rightfully brand anything with a Microprocessor in it 'too new, off topic.' It's a great newsgroup. Check it out.
Actually, there are 1 and 2.2 Fahrad capacitors now. Commonly used as backup voltage sources for micro-current non-volatile memory and clock circuitry.
No. You should cripple your system down to a lowest-common-denominator. That's the Linux way.
If you have a Winmodem, you should pull it out of the machine and just not connect the machine to the Internet. If your display card only runs in a shitty 640x480 16 color mode in XFree86, then that's what you're required to use in Windows 2000 as well.
I can remember my zealot days. I had a realization one day, however. I had found a Vector-based drawing package that would run on my Linux desktop. But I thought about it a bit. It was actually working well, and I had about the same functionality as when I'd used Micrografx Designer 3 on a Windows 3.1 system a decade earlier. The 'wait-a-minute-here' realization came to me, and I was back on Windows desktop. And since then Exceed is my favored Window Manager, as there are a considerable number of UNIX tools I wouldn't be without. They reside on a headless box in the corner, however, where they belong.
It's about the hair shirt, dude. And the other zealot priests get pissed if you're hanging out there in your comfortable tweed.
(If you're reading this, Boss, don't worry I delete everything right after the test!)
Your boss apparently knows more about the inherent insecurity of email and email attachments than you do. Please put your personal effects in the provided box and the man from corporate security will take your badge and escort you to the parking lot.
I live in a town whose downtown has definitely 'shrunk' in some regards because of WalMart. It hasn't been 'killed', and it would spring back robustly if WalMart closed. All those people would need new jobs, and all the people who wanted merchandise would still be there wanting it.
This claim of 'decades needed to recover' sounds like bullshit. Most of the capitalization (buildings, etc.) is already there.
Since Linux and GNU are almost entirely a re-draft of someone else's original work, and make few claims of being anything else than that, GNU/Linux would already be in trouble if it were that simple.
I usually remove logos and tags from items of clothing I wear.
I do wonder why the people who pay extra for 'Coca-cola' merchandise, etc. aren't getting a payment from Coke for displaying the advertising.
We got a set of 'Coca-Cola' nested mixing bowls for our wedding. I have been gradually grinding off the glazed-on 'Coca-Cola' logos with a sharpening stone when I wash them. If and when my wife notices and asks, I'll tell her the payments from Coke weren't coming in regularly enough.
No need to get all complicated. We can just do away with the national minimum wage. Localities that want to drive away jobs can then institute their own minimum wage if they like.
The Union does NOT make Us Strong. It makes the Union Steward's powerboat strong.
Once all the other stores go out of business your economy will start to go down and walmart will pull up it's stores go elsewhere.
That doesn't sound like 'sucking it dry.'
Stores can and will reopen in the vacuum created when the WalMart goes away. Probably more stores than before, with new owners who aren't deadwood drags on the local economy.
Less dross. More stuff you're interested in. Sounds good?
You're forgetting that many anti-ad zealots feel they have no free will. The ad agency 'figures them out' and the mind-control-death-rays begin emanating from the billboards.......
I don't have to publish something for it to be copyrighted. Say I write a short story that I intend only for my children's enjoyment. I have the right to distribute it only to my children. I shouldn't have to 'publish' it to have that right.
You apparently like solutions where there's a big complicated bureacracy involved in registering and enforcing people's rights.
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Please don't use that old ignorant 'New Left' definition of 'fascist.' It really degenerates any discussion whe people start bandying around that timeworn and misapplied term. 'Fascism' is a formal political ideology, not some ruthless boogeyman label that you can slap on anybody who displeases you. Fascism was practiced in Italy. Study it sometime.
I'm not so sure it's correct to say 'Germans loved Hitler.' It's probably more safe to say that Hitler's organization was probably the first large scale state apparatus to take advantage of and exploit the power of modern communications technology and mass media. Study some of the propaganda of the period. They were embarking on a new age of progress, etc. etc. Hitler's propaganda people were pioneers in the field and very successful.
Most people wouldn't classify Orwell's '1984' as science fiction. It's not a narrow genre-bound work, Orwell didn't publish his stories in pulp SF magazines. And 1984 was about Stalinism. Orwell was a former Communist, and very disillusioned about the whole thing.
So you are implying that if Clarke had not thought up and depicted communications satellites in his fiction, they wouldn't have been designed?
I think the practical folk who came along after his fiction would have come up with it on their own.
Actually, if something stinks like shit you don't have to shit your own mound beside it before you're allowed to say that it stinks like shit.
Revisionist historians might now make the claim that 'The Cathederal and the Bazaar' outlines the open source software creation process but when it was originally written, it was a polemic against the 'Cathederal' method of software development being practiced by the GNU Emacs development team.
It does kind of get me that he complains about only getting a free economy class ticket for that ride from Phildalphia to Melborne.
Cripes.
ESR calls him 'mini-me'
Down the memory hole, you say?
Tut-tut. That won't do.
As reference material for anybody who wants to follow up on this topic: the 'old timers' from the era of the original Jargon File still congregate in the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.computers. Many brilliant old-timers still participate. Not sure where else you can find a forum including mainframers from the 60's who can rightfully brand anything with a Microprocessor in it 'too new, off topic.' It's a great newsgroup. Check it out.
The guy has serious issues.
Just the typical issues of someone who's read too much Heinlein. Nothing more.
one of the communities greatest single person assets
Geez. Not sure where to start on that one.
Eric is married, though. Or 'handfasted' or whatever the trendy term for it is this year.
Don't even think about Eric 'skyclad' though.
Please provide links to earlier versions of the Jargon File here, if you know where they are.
I found one awhile back, too.
(or are we just giving the historical-revisionists their targets by listning the URLs here??)
Raymond looks more and more like the introverted social-pigmy he is the more Linux and Open Source go mainstream.
Waitaminit. Makes me look and feel that way too. I guess it was inevitable.
Raymond won't ever leave his counter-culture, though. Growing up is hard to do. I'm only half grown up, and it's scary out there.
So let's just keep thumbing through Green Egg back issues and preen and cultivate our 'Traditions' in the neopagan backwash, 'kay?
Actually, there are 1 and 2.2 Fahrad capacitors now. Commonly used as backup voltage sources for micro-current non-volatile memory and clock circuitry.
Point well taken, of course.
No. You should cripple your system down to a lowest-common-denominator. That's the Linux way.
If you have a Winmodem, you should pull it out of the machine and just not connect the machine to the Internet. If your display card only runs in a shitty 640x480 16 color mode in XFree86, then that's what you're required to use in Windows 2000 as well.
I can remember my zealot days. I had a realization one day, however. I had found a Vector-based drawing package that would run on my Linux desktop. But I thought about it a bit. It was actually working well, and I had about the same functionality as when I'd used Micrografx Designer 3 on a Windows 3.1 system a decade earlier. The 'wait-a-minute-here' realization came to me, and I was back on Windows desktop. And since then Exceed is my favored Window Manager, as there are a considerable number of UNIX tools I wouldn't be without. They reside on a headless box in the corner, however, where they belong.
It's about the hair shirt, dude. And the other zealot priests get pissed if you're hanging out there in your comfortable tweed.
(If you're reading this, Boss, don't worry I delete everything right after the test!)
Your boss apparently knows more about the inherent insecurity of email and email attachments than you do. Please put your personal effects in the provided box and the man from corporate security will take your badge and escort you to the parking lot.
You have evidence to back up this claim?
I live in a town whose downtown has definitely 'shrunk' in some regards because of WalMart. It hasn't been 'killed', and it would spring back robustly if WalMart closed. All those people would need new jobs, and all the people who wanted merchandise would still be there wanting it.
This claim of 'decades needed to recover' sounds like bullshit. Most of the capitalization (buildings, etc.) is already there.
Since Linux and GNU are almost entirely a re-draft of someone else's original work, and make few claims of being anything else than that, GNU/Linux would already be in trouble if it were that simple.
I usually remove logos and tags from items of clothing I wear.
I do wonder why the people who pay extra for 'Coca-cola' merchandise, etc. aren't getting a payment from Coke for displaying the advertising.
We got a set of 'Coca-Cola' nested mixing bowls for our wedding. I have been gradually grinding off the glazed-on 'Coca-Cola' logos with a sharpening stone when I wash them. If and when my wife notices and asks, I'll tell her the payments from Coke weren't coming in regularly enough.
No need to get all complicated. We can just do away with the national minimum wage. Localities that want to drive away jobs can then institute their own minimum wage if they like.
The Union does NOT make Us Strong. It makes the Union Steward's powerboat strong.
Once all the other stores go out of business your economy will start to go down and walmart will pull up it's stores go elsewhere.
That doesn't sound like 'sucking it dry.'
Stores can and will reopen in the vacuum created when the WalMart goes away. Probably more stores than before, with new owners who aren't deadwood drags on the local economy.
Less dross. More stuff you're interested in. Sounds good?
You're forgetting that many anti-ad zealots feel they have no free will. The ad agency 'figures them out' and the mind-control-death-rays begin emanating from the billboards.......
I don't have to publish something for it to be copyrighted. Say I write a short story that I intend only for my children's enjoyment. I have the right to distribute it only to my children. I shouldn't have to 'publish' it to have that right.
You apparently like solutions where there's a big complicated bureacracy involved in registering and enforcing people's rights.