People on Slashdot act as if somehow things are getting worse and worse. Any look at history will show in many ways things are better now then in the past. For instance, take a look at the power that the robber barons had over the government, both local and federal. J.P. Morgan used to manipulate the stock market for is own personal gain. Other used to sent the police to kill union strikers. In terms of class turmoil the current troubles pale in comparrision to the past.
That said, people do need to become more politcally involved. The reasons the unions where able to get the power they have now was because they worked within the political arena. Something people in this day and age seem to be too lazy to do, other then complain about it.
Look folks. Not voting is a sure way to break the system. The reason that politicians don't listen to younger voters is because younger voters DON'T VOTE. They have no reason to court our vote. However, if they voted in droves, then you bet your ass they would be listening to us. No canidate can possible be you ideal. There will be differences that you have to decided if you can live with. But at least choose someone. Also, by not voting in the presidential election, your also not voting in your local election. These elections have an even more profound impact on your day to day life then you think. So, vote. That's what makes the system work. And Katz, I think Jefferson would be more upset by the idea of people not voting then of anything else.
I hate to break it everyone, but when I was a kid, the town that I was in passed a law that kept kids under 16 from playing arcade games in without being accompanied by a guardian. The idea behind this was that parents were concered that some kids where skipping school and stealing to play video games. While I hates the law when I was a kid, I don't think that this is all that unconstitutional. Stupid and ineffective, yes but not unconstitutional.
I live in Chicago and I got DSL from a small ISP called Phenoix. They use Northpoint as the DSL provider. I ordered the service in July and in less then a month I was up and running with no problems. Cheap too, 768/396 with static a IP address at $40 a month. Also, the equipment is all SDSL so I actuall think I'm getting 768/768. The other person at work who uses the same setup had the exact same experience.
One of the biggest misnomers in America is the press used to be about objectivity and independence. I'm sorry but that is a very moderm concept. In fact, the past has many different newspaper owner using there paper to promote their political ideals, the lst of these men was most likely Col. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune. So the control of media by the rich is not a new thing and never has been.
M17 is a LOT faster. I agree with previous posters that say it is close to IE. However, I still barfs on complex Javascript and it seem to be mangling cookies.
<Opinion>
I really had high hopes for Mozilla when it started that just grew bigger when Gecko was released. Over the last year however I have watched the project become something of a Frankenstiens monster. Two of my biggest problems with Mozilla is the fact that they created a brand new widget set and the fugly interface and sidebar. Oh, and I have to add all that extra stuff that comes along like and email client and HTML editor. Personally I think that they should have just focused on creating a fast functional browser, made it very modular and OO to add in porting to other platforms and released it. THe extra should have been added at a much later date. Oh well, that's just my $0.002.
</Opinion>
While I think that going after the people who are actually commiting piracy instead of Napster make much more sense (although Dr. Dre is going after them as well). Doing what he proposes sounds like an almost impossible task. There are just too many people to investigate, it would be like finding a needle in a stack of other needle.
While I always like watching Kevin Spacey, he was good in this film, the more I think about this movie, the more I dislike it.
Caution, mild spoilers:
My main problem with the movie is that all the characters are 1 dimensional, even Spacey's character. --The wife was a typical unhappy houswife. --The neighbor's father, the homophobic Marine who just happens to be a closet homosexual. --Spacey, the unhappey middle aged suburban father.
Also, I really find it insulting that Hollywood is trying to tell me that Americian life if vapid and materialistic. Gee, that's like Al Gore and George Bush calling for campaign finance reform. Also, I don't think that Americian life is vapid and materialistic. I might hate suburbia, but I think that most people who live there are fairly happy.
And finally there is the fact that the kid who has the camera, the one who films everything, find beauty everwhere, but only throught the lens of a camera. Gee, more Hollywood self validation.
All in all this movie left a bad taste in my mouth.
Linux has one major advantage over BSD in that Linux modifications happen faster then BSD modifications. The reasons I see for this is a different mindset between people who work on Linux and people who work on BSD and the difference between the GPL and BSD licenses.
In the Linux world, if a feature is needed, it is added pretty quickly and any problems that arise are fixed when they are found. People don't try to make the software perfect, they just try to make it do what they need it to do. Other people likely to take the isk of using the new feature, because with the source code, they can fix anything that causes a problem, then these fixes are given back to due to the GPL and all will benefit from them. Therefore.many features are more readlily adopted.
In BSD, things happen slowley because the people working on it are more concerned with sercurity and stability. While this allows them to create some very reliable systems, it slows the development of the OS so that it is always lagginf behind in features. Also, if someone does make a good change or add an important feature, they could always keep it and not share it, so these features will be adopted slowly.
The end result is that Linux, while more prone to problem when using the latest and greatest kernal/library/etc, it more quickely adopts features that user want and need.
For the desktop, I think that the Linux model is better, and for servers the BSD model is better. But that can be overcome by using an older and more stable versioin of Linux (most people with production Linux servers so this.)
It is no surprise that Sun is supporting Linux. They are a hardware company, so if the software is free, thats alright by them, so long as it helps them sell more high margin hardware. All in all, I do think that this is a good thing for Red Hat.
I got a different message from Gattaca
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I don't really think that Gattaca was some social critizism of genetic engineering. Genetic engineering was more of a tool used to tell a story about the human spirit and the adversity that it can overcome. There were many different thing that makers of that film could have used, race, gender, or whatever else has been used historically to hold people down. But in using a futuristic senrario, they are not tied by historical and politcal issues. Also, by using a currently popular topic like genetic engineering, they capture our imagination and draw us in. We are able to relate to the story, understand its message, without some social prejudice like race blinding us.
Also how the hell can Katz know that the movie is really a documentary of the early 21st century. I didn't know that he was an oracle.
Humanity will muddle through these isssues, just like it always has. This new knowledge will be used for good and evil purposes, just like any other technology. And in the end mankind will create a morality for it's use, just like it always has. And people will have debate about this stuff. And finally, religion may change but it will never go away, for it is also part of human nature.
Just a note, the names Sextus and Quintus were often used regardless of there place in birth. The daughters were named after the family name of the father. Thus the first son of Gaius Julius Ceaser might be named Sextus (more likely he would be named Gaius as well) and his first daughter was named Julia (or Julia Major), his second daughter named Jullilia or Julia Minor and the third daughter was named Julia Tertia.
I'll let Dostoevsky speak for himself. Numerous other philosophers (even atheists) have reached essentially the same conclusion. There is little difference of opinion between civilized societies about major points such as the wrongness of taking another's life.
Don't let Dostoevsky speak for himself, you only quoted one line of him. Its also something that I don't happen to believe. What that says is that you need God in order to create a morality. I don't believe that is true. Society can construct morality without "God". It might have to come up with some other justification, but it can be done. Also, be careful about your definition of "civilized societies". I again talk about Rome and it is often viewed as a "civilized society".
Infanticide has been practiced to some degree in all societies, as has other kinds of murder. I believe your timeline is backwards. It was rare in Rome until just before the decline and fall of the empire. I maintain that the moral decay brought on by such practices hastened the demise of Rome, thus my qualifier of "stable".
Throghout most of the existence Roman society, the head of the family, the paterfamilias (sp?) had absolute rights over his family, he could beat his wife and kill is children if he felt that they dishonored the family. This right of the paterfamilias was viewed as the conerstone for stability in the Roman family and ultiumatly in Roman society. This practice was more common in Romes early days and descreased as the empire gre in wealth and power. It was looked down on to do such a thing, but it was still regarded as a right. Also, the idea that the Roman Empire fell to immoraltiy is one of the biggest myths going around. Rome was most "immoral" at the hieght of its power. It was actaully very "moral" at the time of decline. Rome fell because to several factors. One, it was too big and communication from one end of the empire to the other was low, another was a devistating plague that decimated the population, and finally there was tremendous infighting and civil war that created a needless drain on the resources of the empire. Note, most societies fall to various factors of which "morality" has very little to do with it. Another example was the Asteczs. Until the Spanish came, they were a very stable and powerful society that practice what he would view as daily murder in the form of human sacrifice. I sure if I did some real research I could come up with many more.
The religious argument is quite appropriate here in light of the worldview conflict. Dostoevsky said it best: "If God does not exist, then all things are permissable." But we *know* deep down in our souls and bones, that right and wrong DO exist and all things are not permissable. And that in turn demands the existence of God. And if God exists, then perhaps we should listen to what He has to say about killing. (For those of you that ask, "Which god?", I suggest you search for the one which corresponds to truth - that one will be God, not god.)
I have a problem with your arugement here. I don't belive that if God doesn't exist then all things are permissable. Also, you might want to find out what different societies feel is "right and wrong". Trust me, its not universal, as much as we'd like it to be.
The killing of deformed infants, the infirm, the physically disabled, the elderly, the currently out-of-favor religious/ethnic group, and yes, even the unborn clearly do not fall into that category. Every stable (and that's a *very* important qualifier) society in history has proscribed such behavior. Many here dismiss the "slippery slope" arugument, but history shows that societies that start down it inevitably wind up at the bottom.
I can come up with a stable society that allowed for the killing of children. The Roman society allowed for this through most of its rise and into its high point. That practice did decline as the years passed but it was known to happen.
Or does the description of the device in the patents sound more like a computer then something like the Rio. I mean, it states that it would have a keyword, modem, hard-drive etc. These people are going to get creamed on prior art.
I might be wrong, but from what I understand is that the basic premise of J. Campells work is flawed, that he ignores examples that contradict the idea that all societies have the execpt same archtypes for all there stories. Also, I think that true folklore scholars think he is just plain wrong, and that he is popular mostly in mainstream society. If that is the case then Brins objections become moot, becasue then stories like Star Wars have NO primal pull.
I hope Campell fades from popularity. His ideas were a little too Jungian for my tastes.
Currently I'm in the middle of a rather large servlet (currently on the order of 10,000 LOC). While I'm sure it could have been done just as well in Perl, I don't think it would be nearly as maintainable or flexible....which is important since the requirements for the project often change a couple times per week.
Wow, I hope you broke it up into a lot of classes. Overly large classes are a bitch to mantain.
>In the case of NT's web server, each of those >ASP objects and ISAPI extensions is part of >the original process. If one of them chokes, the >whole web server (inetinfo.exe) will probably go >down with it. Transaction Server is supposed >to correct this, but it bugs me that I have to >install another piece of software just to improve >stability.
I don't think that this is a problem of threading as a problem of properly handling a thread death. Apache/Jserv handles this fairly well. One the Jserv process is seperate from the server processes, and the threading is done through there. And, I've never had an errent thread kill Jserv, it just loggs a message to the error log and keeps going.
NT does have a high overhead cost for processes. But in terms of threading, I think it might be better than Linux. In the web development that I do, Java servlets, this can make quite a difference. It might be a good idea to make the Linux kernal's mutithreading better. Maybe modeling it on the BeOS threading model
But RMS is trying to bully people into calling Linux what he feels it should be called. My freedom of speech says that I can call it anything I want. Trust me I think about freedom all the time, just not soley about software freedom.
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People on Slashdot act as if somehow things are getting worse and worse. Any look at history will show in many ways things are better now then in the past. For instance, take a look at the power that the robber barons had over the government, both local and federal. J.P. Morgan used to manipulate the stock market for is own personal gain. Other used to sent the police to kill union strikers. In terms of class turmoil the current troubles pale in comparrision to the past.
That said, people do need to become more politcally involved. The reasons the unions where able to get the power they have now was because they worked within the political arena. Something people in this day and age seem to be too lazy to do, other then complain about it.
Look folks. Not voting is a sure way to break the system. The reason that politicians don't listen to younger voters is because younger voters DON'T VOTE. They have no reason to court our vote. However, if they voted in droves, then you bet your ass they would be listening to us. No canidate can possible be you ideal. There will be differences that you have to decided if you can live with. But at least choose someone. Also, by not voting in the presidential election, your also not voting in your local election. These elections have an even more profound impact on your day to day life then you think. So, vote. That's what makes the system work. And Katz, I think Jefferson would be more upset by the idea of people not voting then of anything else.
I hate to break it everyone, but when I was a kid, the town that I was in passed a law that kept kids under 16 from playing arcade games in without being accompanied by a guardian. The idea behind this was that parents were concered that some kids where skipping school and stealing to play video games. While I hates the law when I was a kid, I don't think that this is all that unconstitutional. Stupid and ineffective, yes but not unconstitutional.
I live in Chicago and I got DSL from a small ISP called Phenoix. They use Northpoint as the DSL provider. I ordered the service in July and in less then a month I was up and running with no problems. Cheap too, 768/396 with static a IP address at $40 a month. Also, the equipment is all SDSL so I actuall think I'm getting 768/768. The other person at work who uses the same setup had the exact same experience.
One of the biggest misnomers in America is the press used to be about objectivity and independence. I'm sorry but that is a very moderm concept. In fact, the past has many different newspaper owner using there paper to promote their political ideals, the lst of these men was most likely Col. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune. So the control of media by the rich is not a new thing and never has been.
M17 is a LOT faster. I agree with previous posters that say it is close to IE. However, I still barfs on complex Javascript and it seem to be mangling cookies.
<Opinion>
I really had high hopes for Mozilla when it started that just grew bigger when Gecko was released. Over the last year however I have watched the project become something of a Frankenstiens monster. Two of my biggest problems with Mozilla is the fact that they created a brand new widget set and the fugly interface and sidebar. Oh, and I have to add all that extra stuff that comes along like and email client and HTML editor. Personally I think that they should have just focused on creating a fast functional browser, made it very modular and OO to add in porting to other platforms and released it. THe extra should have been added at a much later date. Oh well, that's just my $0.002.
</Opinion>
While I think that going after the people who are actually commiting piracy instead of Napster make much more sense (although Dr. Dre is going after them as well). Doing what he proposes sounds like an almost impossible task. There are just too many people to investigate, it would be like finding a needle in a stack of other needle.
While I always like watching Kevin Spacey, he was good in this film, the more I think about this movie, the more I dislike it.
Caution, mild spoilers:
My main problem with the movie is that all the characters are 1 dimensional, even Spacey's character.
--The wife was a typical unhappy houswife.
--The neighbor's father, the homophobic Marine who just happens to be a closet homosexual.
--Spacey, the unhappey middle aged suburban father.
Also, I really find it insulting that Hollywood is trying to tell me that Americian life if vapid and materialistic. Gee, that's like Al Gore and George Bush calling for campaign finance reform. Also, I don't think that Americian life is vapid and materialistic. I might hate suburbia, but I think that most people who live there are fairly happy.
And finally there is the fact that the kid who has the camera, the one who films everything, find beauty everwhere, but only throught the lens of a camera. Gee, more Hollywood self validation.
All in all this movie left a bad taste in my mouth.
All in all, that movie
Linux has one major advantage over BSD in that Linux modifications happen faster then BSD modifications. The reasons I see for this is a different mindset between people who work on Linux and people who work on BSD and the difference between the GPL and BSD licenses.
.many features are more readlily adopted.
In the Linux world, if a feature is needed, it is added pretty quickly and any problems that arise are fixed when they are found. People don't try to make the software perfect, they just try to make it do what they need it to do. Other people likely to take the isk of using the new feature, because with the source code, they can fix anything that causes a problem, then these fixes are given back to due to the GPL and all will benefit from them. Therefore
In BSD, things happen slowley because the people working on it are more concerned with sercurity and stability. While this allows them to create some very reliable systems, it slows the development of the OS so that it is always lagginf behind in features. Also, if someone does make a good change or add an important feature, they could always keep it and not share it, so these features will be adopted slowly.
The end result is that Linux, while more prone to problem when using the latest and greatest kernal/library/etc, it more quickely adopts features that user want and need.
For the desktop, I think that the Linux model is better, and for servers the BSD model is better. But that can be overcome by using an older and more stable versioin of Linux (most people with production Linux servers so this.)
It is no surprise that Sun is supporting Linux. They are a hardware company, so if the software is free, thats alright by them, so long as it helps them sell more high margin hardware. All in all, I do think that this is a good thing for Red Hat.
I don't really think that Gattaca was some social critizism of genetic engineering. Genetic engineering was more of a tool used to tell a story about the human spirit and the adversity that it can overcome. There were many different thing that makers of that film could have used, race, gender, or whatever else has been used historically to hold people down. But in using a futuristic senrario, they are not tied by historical and politcal issues. Also, by using a currently popular topic like genetic engineering, they capture our imagination and draw us in. We are able to relate to the story, understand its message, without some social prejudice like race blinding us.
Also how the hell can Katz know that the movie is really a documentary of the early 21st century. I didn't know that he was an oracle.
Humanity will muddle through these isssues, just like it always has. This new knowledge will be used for good and evil purposes, just like any other technology. And in the end mankind will create a morality for it's use, just like it always has. And people will have debate about this stuff. And finally, religion may change but it will never go away, for it is also part of human nature.
1999 IS a prime number. THis perl script confirms it.
:)
##############################################
print "Please enter in the number: ";
$test=;
chomp $test;
for($i=2;$i$test;$i++)
{
unless($test%$i)
{
print "$test is NOT a prime number. It is divisable by $i.\n";
exit;
}
}
print "$test IS a prime number.\n";
##############################################
Try it out. I guess today is an all prime day
Just a note, the names Sextus and Quintus were often used regardless of there place in birth. The daughters were named after the family name of the father. Thus the first son of Gaius Julius Ceaser might be named Sextus (more likely he would be named Gaius as well) and his first daughter was named Julia (or Julia Major), his second daughter named Jullilia or Julia Minor and the third daughter was named Julia Tertia.
I'll let Dostoevsky speak for himself. Numerous other philosophers (even atheists) have reached essentially the same conclusion. There is little difference of opinion between civilized societies about major points such as the wrongness of taking another's life.
Don't let Dostoevsky speak for himself, you only quoted one line of him. Its also something that I don't happen to believe. What that says is that you need God in order to create a morality. I don't believe that is true. Society can construct morality without "God". It might have to come up with some other justification, but it can be done. Also, be careful about your definition of "civilized societies". I again talk about Rome and it is often viewed as a "civilized society".
Infanticide has been practiced to some degree in all societies, as has other kinds of murder. I believe your timeline is backwards. It was rare in Rome until just before the decline and fall of the empire. I maintain that the moral decay brought on by such practices hastened the demise of Rome, thus my qualifier of "stable".
Throghout most of the existence Roman society, the head of the family, the paterfamilias (sp?) had absolute rights over his family, he could beat his wife and kill is children if he felt that they dishonored the family. This right of the paterfamilias was viewed as the conerstone for stability in the Roman family and ultiumatly in Roman society. This practice was more common in Romes early days and descreased as the empire gre in wealth and power. It was looked down on to do such a thing, but it was still regarded as a right. Also, the idea that the Roman Empire fell to immoraltiy is one of the biggest myths going around. Rome was most "immoral" at the hieght of its power. It was actaully very "moral" at the time of decline. Rome fell because to several factors. One, it was too big and communication from one end of the empire to the other was low, another was a devistating plague that decimated the population, and finally there was tremendous infighting and civil war that created a needless drain on the resources of the empire. Note, most societies fall to various factors of which "morality" has very little to do with it. Another example was the Asteczs. Until the Spanish came, they were a very stable and powerful society that practice what he would view as daily murder in the form of human sacrifice. I sure if I did some real research I could come up with many more.
The religious argument is quite appropriate here in light of the worldview conflict. Dostoevsky said it best: "If God does not exist, then all things are permissable." But we *know* deep down in our souls and bones, that right and wrong DO exist and all things are not permissable. And that in turn demands the existence of God. And if God exists, then perhaps we should listen to what He has to say about killing. (For those of you that ask, "Which god?", I suggest you search for the one which corresponds to truth - that one will be God, not god.)
I have a problem with your arugement here. I don't belive that if God doesn't exist then all things are permissable. Also, you might want to find out what different societies feel is "right and wrong". Trust me, its not universal, as much as we'd like it to be.
The killing of deformed infants, the infirm, the physically disabled, the elderly, the currently out-of-favor religious/ethnic group, and yes, even the unborn clearly do not fall into that category. Every stable (and that's a *very* important qualifier) society in history has proscribed such behavior. Many here dismiss the "slippery slope" arugument, but history shows that societies that start down it inevitably wind up at the bottom.
I can come up with a stable society that allowed for the killing of children. The Roman society allowed for this through most of its rise and into its high point. That practice did decline as the years passed but it was known to happen.
Or does the description of the device in the patents sound more like a computer then something like the Rio. I mean, it states that it would have a keyword, modem, hard-drive etc. These people are going to get creamed on prior art.
I might be wrong, but from what I understand is that the basic premise of J. Campells work is flawed, that he ignores examples that contradict the idea that all societies have the execpt same archtypes for all there stories. Also, I think that true folklore scholars think he is just plain wrong, and that he is popular mostly in mainstream society. If that is the case then Brins objections become moot, becasue then stories like Star Wars have NO primal pull.
I hope Campell fades from popularity. His ideas were a little too Jungian for my tastes.
Currently I'm in the middle of a rather large servlet (currently on the order of 10,000 LOC). While I'm sure it could have been done just as well in Perl, I don't think it would be nearly as maintainable or flexible....which is important since the requirements for the project often change a couple times per week.
Wow, I hope you broke it up into a lot of classes. Overly large classes are a bitch to mantain.
He supports the US gov.'s asinine encyption policies like the clipper clip.
>In the case of NT's web server, each of those >ASP objects and ISAPI extensions is part of >the original process. If one of them chokes, the >whole web server (inetinfo.exe) will probably go >down with it. Transaction Server is supposed >to correct this, but it bugs me that I have to >install another piece of software just to improve >stability.
I don't think that this is a problem of threading as a problem of properly handling a thread death. Apache/Jserv handles this fairly well. One the Jserv process is seperate from the server processes, and the threading is done through there. And, I've never had an errent thread kill Jserv, it just loggs a message to the error log and keeps going.
NT does have a high overhead cost for processes. But in terms of threading, I think it might be better than Linux. In the web development that I do, Java servlets, this can make quite a difference. It might be a good idea to make the Linux kernal's mutithreading better. Maybe modeling it on the BeOS threading model
But RMS is trying to bully people into calling Linux what he feels it should be called. My freedom of speech says that I can call it anything I want. Trust me I think about freedom all the time, just not soley about software freedom.