I don't want 'file copy' utilities mucking around changing the content of the files I copy with them. It's really that plain and simple.
I use TextPad for my text editing purposes on Windows and it cleanly interprets UNIX or DOS newlines. There are small but powerful utilities I use in UNIX to do the newline conversion when it's necessary. "Invisible to the User" conversion might be fine for file viewing, but it's bad for file copying. The system should leave the files the way they were.
And, ummm, I can't think of a time when I have ever chosen to switch a command-line FTP client to 'text' mode because I happened to be transferring a file with 7 bit chars. Binary mode by default just makes more sense.
How are Linux packagaes hitting that point which say "We're professional software"??
I agree that Linux, and UNIX systems, have merit and are powerful tools.
I don't see how a certification process, which will 'certify' one binary distribution of Linux, validates Linux. It validates one binary distribution of Linux. You don't seriously believe that said certification will mean anything more than a single binary snapshot is certified, I hope.
People who 'travel internationally' are people who generally don't leave big metropolitan districts.
Sure, there are 'civic planners' hoping to solve the 'sprawl' problem by forcing people to move into high density housing, but many of us are happy to know they're blowing air.
But, it is a matter of maybe ten years before wireless broadband makes regular modems useless in the first world.
Yeah, for your sardines living in high density housing. The hell with that.
I like it out here a lot. It's quiet in the night, all I hear in the spring and summer is the bullfrogs and the crickets.
It sucks that all I can get is dialup internet, but I picked a provider who sold me an always-on 56K connection that connect a NetBSD NAT server to, so I can pretend all my boxes have a broadband connection....
I like file transfer protocols to not mess with the contents of the files. I think your suggestion of servers automagically modifying textfiles to some 'canonical format' would be a nightmare.
I would agree, except this isn't quite yet the 'globalized world' that the idealists are striving for. Therefore, heavily subsidiezed educational institutions should stop admitting high proportions of students who won't contribute to the subsidizing tax base after graduation.
The old saw about 'we as a people need to invest more in education' falls apart if 'we as an economy' are paying to subisdize the education of members of seperate economies. Sure, it funds those permanent denizens of the educational institutions (who, not surprisingly, are the loudest voices in the 'we as a people....' outcry) but it represents a knowledge drain on our culture.
I think it's important to ask how much Kitchen Waste is needed to operate one of these things. As food becomes more and more industrialized, i.e. pre-prepared there is less and less viable kitchen waste. So maybe technology like this will work well in less advanced kitchens, but those are the kitchens where it is least likely to be implemented. Also, does this mean people who are members of the 'clean plate club' don't get any energy from their fuel cell?
The CCIA counts Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Yahoo and Nokia among its members. The organisation said it had filed the new complaint in order to fight for customers.
Your tax dollars have probably paid for one third of one $600 wing nut on an F-15. Remember, your tax dollar is sliced into many tiny parts. You've spent more tax dollars on doughnuts for the weekly staff meetings of civil servants than you have on fighter jets.
Well, you can take DeSade's 'Pro-Sexual Prison Hell' if you like. Since Sex is about life, and DeSade, and in fact many of the 'pro-sex' advocates are advocates of a culture of death....
Why do you presume what I might or might not be ashamed of? Chastity does not equal shame, any more than disguist equals fear (though terms like 'homo-phobia' try to redefine things)
Well, the modern concept of Sexual Liberty was what I had in mind. You know, the culture war that started with Wollstonescroft, etc.
Your list of pagans is correct, but not in context with the discussion. There's a long disconnect in between the ancients and the 'Modern Era' we're the direct descendants of.
In 100 years, our descendents will be saying that 'Sexual Liberty' was a concept with precepts from it's ideologues, DeSade, Wollstonecroft, and probably a few 20th-century era people will be tacked on the list.
If it's a topic that anybody but a few obscure historians find interesting to talk about, of course.
'Sexual liberty' was a concept that came out of 'the enlightnement' and many of it's precepts and assumptions come from one of it's ideologues, a sexual degenerate called the Marquis DeSade. DeSade was a certified lunatic. He actually resided in an insane assylum for part of the period when he wrote the most degenerate of his literature.
The 'Enlightenment' was not a period of actual enlightenment, by the way. It was a period of terror, mob rule, and the collapse of many venerable and good aspects of culture.
You don't have to agree. Hell, you don't have to believe you'll get wet if you jump in a tank of water.
Just like Governments don't grant rights. Rights are natural, granted by God. Government is just prohibited from taking away rights. It doesn't give them.
Government isn't supposed to do a lot of things that people assume it's okay for it to do.
You also over look the fact that many support groups and forums online can provide filters for bad information and sources of information that for one reason or another might not have made it into printed book.
And you appear to be overlooking the well-established fact that online forums and internet 'support groups' are packed with people who are unqualified and whose advice is sometimes worse than no advice at all. That anybody would be proposing it as a 'protection' against bad advice in a published book is laughable.
No, but this is the 'classic hardware' equivalent of buying a mint vintage 1967 Beetle and using it to make a kit car out of.
Or coreing out an old Tube Radio to put a shiney new transistor AM radio into.
Things like that appear on eBay once in awhile. Acutally, what shows up on eBay is the nice old wooden radio case, at a far, far lower price than if the original radio works were still in it.
There are processors in your hard drive, your keyboard has processors at either end of the cable, there is a processor in your mouse. etc. etc.
Everybody knows that isn't what they meant. I'm not running SMP on my SparcStation (which would be a violation since it runs the free version of Solaris) because of the various embedded controllers throughout the hardware. Why do people insist on being ridiculous when it comes to Windows?
There is a long recorded history during the early years during the early years of the Soviet Union of the government executing people for being speculators.
Tracking people down for 'violating the communist way of doing things' has a long tradition.
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I don't want 'file copy' utilities mucking around changing the content of the files I copy with them. It's really that plain and simple.
I use TextPad for my text editing purposes on Windows and it cleanly interprets UNIX or DOS newlines. There are small but powerful utilities I use in UNIX to do the newline conversion when it's necessary. "Invisible to the User" conversion might be fine for file viewing, but it's bad for file copying. The system should leave the files the way they were.
And, ummm, I can't think of a time when I have ever chosen to switch a command-line FTP client to 'text' mode because I happened to be transferring a file with 7 bit chars. Binary mode by default just makes more sense.
When Linux advocates start 'thinking like a marketer' the revolution is over. It's just that plain and simple.
How are Linux packagaes hitting that point which say "We're professional software"??
I agree that Linux, and UNIX systems, have merit and are powerful tools.
I don't see how a certification process, which will 'certify' one binary distribution of Linux, validates Linux. It validates one binary distribution of Linux. You don't seriously believe that said certification will mean anything more than a single binary snapshot is certified, I hope.
People who 'travel internationally' are people who generally don't leave big metropolitan districts.
Sure, there are 'civic planners' hoping to solve the 'sprawl' problem by forcing people to move into high density housing, but many of us are happy to know they're blowing air.
But, it is a matter of maybe ten years before wireless broadband makes regular modems useless in the first world.
Yeah, for your sardines living in high density housing. The hell with that.
I like it out here a lot. It's quiet in the night, all I hear in the spring and summer is the bullfrogs and the crickets.
It sucks that all I can get is dialup internet, but I picked a provider who sold me an always-on 56K connection that connect a NetBSD NAT server to, so I can pretend all my boxes have a broadband connection....
I like file transfer protocols to not mess with the contents of the files. I think your suggestion of servers automagically modifying textfiles to some 'canonical format' would be a nightmare.
Perhaps we need to compile a 'do not donate list' for charities who persist in using phone calls to solicit.
What other personal information would they need to put you on the do-not-call list except your phone number, which they presumably already had?
This is like the Radio Shack thing (which apparently no longer is happening). You say your name is 'cash' repeatedly to all questions.
I would agree, except this isn't quite yet the 'globalized world' that the idealists are striving for. Therefore, heavily subsidiezed educational institutions should stop admitting high proportions of students who won't contribute to the subsidizing tax base after graduation.
The old saw about 'we as a people need to invest more in education' falls apart if 'we as an economy' are paying to subisdize the education of members of seperate economies. Sure, it funds those permanent denizens of the educational institutions (who, not surprisingly, are the loudest voices in the 'we as a people....' outcry) but it represents a knowledge drain on our culture.
Yes, but are they allowed to bring in items on their tool belt to use in the competition?
I think it's important to ask how much Kitchen Waste is needed to operate one of these things. As food becomes more and more industrialized, i.e. pre-prepared there is less and less viable kitchen waste. So maybe technology like this will work well in less advanced kitchens, but those are the kitchens where it is least likely to be implemented. Also, does this mean people who are members of the 'clean plate club' don't get any energy from their fuel cell?
Yeah. The way wolves fight for a rabbit.
So long as the projects are public domain, this is fine. If they start adopting restrictive licenses like the GPL, then it's problematic.
Your tax dollars have probably paid for one third of one $600 wing nut on an F-15. Remember, your tax dollar is sliced into many tiny parts. You've spent more tax dollars on doughnuts for the weekly staff meetings of civil servants than you have on fighter jets.
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Well, you can take DeSade's 'Pro-Sexual Prison Hell' if you like. Since Sex is about life, and DeSade, and in fact many of the 'pro-sex' advocates are advocates of a culture of death....
Why do you presume what I might or might not be ashamed of? Chastity does not equal shame, any more than disguist equals fear (though terms like 'homo-phobia' try to redefine things)
Well, the modern concept of Sexual Liberty was what I had in mind. You know, the culture war that started with Wollstonescroft, etc.
Your list of pagans is correct, but not in context with the discussion. There's a long disconnect in between the ancients and the 'Modern Era' we're the direct descendants of.
In 100 years, our descendents will be saying that 'Sexual Liberty' was a concept with precepts from it's ideologues, DeSade, Wollstonecroft, and probably a few 20th-century era people will be tacked on the list.
If it's a topic that anybody but a few obscure historians find interesting to talk about, of course.
Not a flamebait, just my thoughts....
'Sexual liberty' was a concept that came out of 'the enlightnement' and many of it's precepts and assumptions come from one of it's ideologues, a sexual degenerate called the Marquis DeSade. DeSade was a certified lunatic. He actually resided in an insane assylum for part of the period when he wrote the most degenerate of his literature.
The 'Enlightenment' was not a period of actual enlightenment, by the way. It was a period of terror, mob rule, and the collapse of many venerable and good aspects of culture.
You don't have to agree. Hell, you don't have to believe you'll get wet if you jump in a tank of water.
Governmental bodies don't have "rights".
Just like Governments don't grant rights. Rights are natural, granted by God. Government is just prohibited from taking away rights. It doesn't give them.
Government isn't supposed to do a lot of things that people assume it's okay for it to do.
Yeah, but man... those people looking at all that porn are expressing their political point of view.
Right?
You also over look the fact that many support groups and forums online can provide filters for bad information and sources of information that for one reason or another might not have made it into printed book.
And you appear to be overlooking the well-established fact that online forums and internet 'support groups' are packed with people who are unqualified and whose advice is sometimes worse than no advice at all. That anybody would be proposing it as a 'protection' against bad advice in a published book is laughable.
No, but this is the 'classic hardware' equivalent of buying a mint vintage 1967 Beetle and using it to make a kit car out of.
Or coreing out an old Tube Radio to put a shiney new transistor AM radio into.
Things like that appear on eBay once in awhile. Acutally, what shows up on eBay is the nice old wooden radio case, at a far, far lower price than if the original radio works were still in it.
It's a sad, sad thing.
They're talking about gutting the whole machine, and just salvaging the plastic shell.
To stick another bland x86 motherboard into.
They'll never be able to hang out with the Classic Hardware enthusiasts and live.
There are processors in your hard drive, your keyboard has processors at either end of the cable, there is a processor in your mouse. etc. etc.
Everybody knows that isn't what they meant. I'm not running SMP on my SparcStation (which would be a violation since it runs the free version of Solaris) because of the various embedded controllers throughout the hardware. Why do people insist on being ridiculous when it comes to Windows?
There is a long recorded history during the early years during the early years of the Soviet Union of the government executing people for being speculators.
Tracking people down for 'violating the communist way of doing things' has a long tradition.