While this is obviously false, you've failed to make a point. Your previous two examples seemed aimed at downplaying US influence, while this one shows the importance of the US. Even though Bill Gates did not invent the Internet, it *was* Americans who did it.
Yes, people have told me that. It's irrelevant, since I cannot telnet into my computer when it's locked up (it's the computer I telnet *from*) and I do not own a serial terminal. So it's as good as locked up for me, even if technically it isn't. Either way it requires a reboot.
The point is that the crusaders believed they were Christians and believed that they were doing the work of God as much as you believe that you "know" God. That belief is what led to their various murderous crusades.
Also, it's not hard to see how they got their ideas. Have you read the entire Bible? Not just the New Testament and its turn the other cheek business, but the whole thing. Notice the part where God commands people to kill blasphemers? It's not too hard to see how that could provide a bit of inspiration to crusaders. Not to mention the part where an Angel murders the innocent first-born children of all the houses that didn't have (lamb's?) blood on their doors (since the Christians put blood on their doors to let the angel know not to kill their children).
I agree...this article shows what Katz is good at - analyzation of the social and political effects of technology. Even if his level of technical knowledge is below that of most slashdot readers, his understanding of the effects of that technology is much greater.
X is MUCH more inconsistent in its user interface. With billions of different widget sets and keyboard shortcut conventions and methods of cutting/pasting between apps, nothing is consistent. Every single app does nearly everything completely differently. If you want consistency, go for OS/2 or Mac OS, not Windows or X.
And before I get flamed - yes I know that X is not Linux. However, we're comparing the GUI of Windows to a Linux/GUI combination, and until somebody gets another working GUI that I can use with Linux, X is the only choice.
it's slow
Depends what you're talking about. For servers, yes it is, since you can run a Linux box for a server without a GUI, while Windows doesn't let you get rid of the GUI. However, for GUI programs, X is just as, if not more, slow than Windows. Try opening 15 Netscape windows on a Win95 box with 64 megs RAM, then try the same thing on a Linux/X box.
wastes disk space
Definitely have to agree with you there.
it's a hack ontop of hacks (ie: FAT32)
I thought "hacks" were generally considered a good thing? Linux is generally considered to be one big hack on top of a hack (UNIX being the original hack). In FAT32's case, it's a bad hack, which could be the distinguishing factor.
unreliable (frequent crashes)
No question there, although X could use a little more help in the reliability department too. I've managed to get XF86 to lock up the computer several times (due to incorrect video card configuration in XF86Setup). However, when finally set up properly, it definitely beats Windows in reliability, even if it is a bit clunky.
it's made by microsoft
That would be one of the major strikes against it. I'd have to agree with you there.
Yawn. Go run HURD. When you can manage to use slashdot from HURD, then come on back.
I didn't say there was anything wrong with the Linux kernel or that people shouldn't use it. However, they should use the proper terminology. Nobody says "I run the Win32 Operating System," so neither should theys ay "I run the Linux Operating System." The Linux kernel is just the final component of the GNU OS, an Operating System years in the making.
would most certainly object to it. Why? If I had a need for what you offer, I would search you out. I most certainly do not want to pay for you to send me unsolicited messages.
I don't object to targeted messaging like that, especially when it's not asking me to buy something. If somebody wants to give me free stuff, send away.
If, however, you want to pay my ISP bill every month...I guess I'd suffer through it.
What does the ISP bill have to do with this? Nearly every ISP nowadays offers unlimited (unmetered) service, so you don't pay your ISP by the minute. Therefore spam isn't increasing your ISP charges. If you live outside of the US in a country without free local calls, I suppose you could have a case for them increasing your phone bill, however.
Any unsolicited mass internet mailing should be considered malicious. Should you go to jail for it? Probably not. But if you do not bring that as an available sentence...what do you do to repeat offenders?
Just keep fining the repeat offenders. Increase the fines each time. Perhaps put in a clause to confiscate any assets gained through the spamming in addition to a fine.
FWIW, the "dangerous bug was found in GNU acronym" originally was written for segfault.org (it should still be in the archives there...search around a bit). Apparently one of the GNU people (not sure if it was RMS or one of the other GNU people) saw it and liked it and asked if he could use it on the gnu.org site, and naturally the segfault people agreed, so it's there now.
Hmm, the 300a (66x4.5) is typically overclocked to 450 MHz (100x4.5). the 100 MHz bus seems to be friendlier to some things than the 83 MHz one (if you have PC100 RAM), so why not do the same thing with the Celeron 400 (66x6), and up it to 600 MHz (100x6)?
Umm, what exactly is that? As far as I know, no Operating System exists with a name of "Linux." There's a kernel with such a name, but it's not any more of an Operating System than Mach or HURD are. Perhaps you're confusing it with the GNU Operating System, commonly used in conjunction with the Linux kernel (since the real GNU kernel, HURD, is not yet finished, most people replace that portion of the GNU OS with the Linux kernel).
I don't like this. Such anti-spam laws are *much* too subjective. What is a "malicious spammer"? If I collect a list of email addresses of Slashdot posters and send them a mail advertising my new Linux-oriented site, is that malicious spamming? What if I "spam" slashdot posters with offers for free beta versions of a car mp3 player? I'm sure very few would object to *that* spam, but could I still get thrown in jail for it?
Well, it would be nice if gcc would implement a "use KNI instructions" option. Hopefully it'll happen in less time than it took GNU to implement MMX instructions.
The logo you have is the G3 logo. The official Apple logo is still the colorful horizontally striped apple. That's the one that should be linked to "Apple."
It's satire. A joke. As in "Supposed to be funny." Laugh.
So Microsoft supporters do try to sow division...
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That's not the point. The point is that X's network functionality is unneeded bloat and inefficient for those who just want to run a single non-networked desktop. Writing directly to the monitor, as non-networked GUIs do, would be more efficient.
Also, X is getting really old and decrepit. Just to get decent fonts in it requires some pretty extensive patching.
Ahh, so that's what this is about. I didn't see that made clear in the article. From what I had read, I had thought that it was a complaint about monopolistic pricing of the retail Windows you buy in stores (i.e. the plaintiffs are claiming that $180 is too much for Windows). If it's about the pre-loaded Windows copies, then I can see why one of the LUGs would get involved.
Well, I agree that they aren't 1980s, but I wouldn't exactly call them "alive and well" either. I still call several local BBSs, but over half of the ones I used to call have shut down, including the last board running on an Amiga (that I know of) in the area. FidoNet is still the best of its kind though - webboards and UseNet simply cannot compare.
No, the forcing "good" values down people's throats is the fundamentalist Protestants' job. The Catholic Church used to do that, and would most likely love to again, but they seem to have lost some of their power. So it goes.
Yeah, well the entire logic system was largely laid out by Greek philosophers, and since computers use formal logic (AND/OR/XOR/NOT), computers are therefore largely Greek in origin. Or not.
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Hmm, so since he criticized the X Windowing System (which pretty much sucks for the reasons he mentioned) he's suddenly somebody on a secret mission from Microsoft?
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Let me guess, you work for the British military?
Also, non-Americans generally know that the world isn't flat, doesn't start at the Atlantic and end at the Pacific
If that's so, then why was it Europeans who thought that the world was flat and ended at the Atlantic?
You might want to research your examples a bit more prior to using them.
Bill Gates invented the Internet.
While this is obviously false, you've failed to make a point. Your previous two examples seemed aimed at downplaying US influence, while this one shows the importance of the US. Even though Bill Gates did not invent the Internet, it *was* Americans who did it.
Yes, people have told me that. It's irrelevant, since I cannot telnet into my computer when it's locked up (it's the computer I telnet *from*) and I do not own a serial terminal. So it's as good as locked up for me, even if technically it isn't. Either way it requires a reboot.
The point is that the crusaders believed they were Christians and believed that they were doing the work of God as much as you believe that you "know" God. That belief is what led to their various murderous crusades.
Also, it's not hard to see how they got their ideas. Have you read the entire Bible? Not just the New Testament and its turn the other cheek business, but the whole thing. Notice the part where God commands people to kill blasphemers? It's not too hard to see how that could provide a bit of inspiration to crusaders. Not to mention the part where an Angel murders the innocent first-born children of all the houses that didn't have (lamb's?) blood on their doors (since the Christians put blood on their doors to let the angel know not to kill their children).
I agree...this article shows what Katz is good at - analyzation of the social and political effects of technology. Even if his level of technical knowledge is below that of most slashdot readers, his understanding of the effects of that technology is much greater.
It's inconsistant in it's user interface
X is MUCH more inconsistent in its user interface. With billions of different widget sets and keyboard shortcut conventions and methods of cutting/pasting between apps, nothing is consistent. Every single app does nearly everything completely differently. If you want consistency, go for OS/2 or Mac OS, not Windows or X.
And before I get flamed - yes I know that X is not Linux. However, we're comparing the GUI of Windows to a Linux/GUI combination, and until somebody gets another working GUI that I can use with Linux, X is the only choice.
it's slow
Depends what you're talking about. For servers, yes it is, since you can run a Linux box for a server without a GUI, while Windows doesn't let you get rid of the GUI. However, for GUI programs, X is just as, if not more, slow than Windows. Try opening 15 Netscape windows on a Win95 box with 64 megs RAM, then try the same thing on a Linux/X box.
wastes disk space
Definitely have to agree with you there.
it's a hack ontop of hacks (ie: FAT32)
I thought "hacks" were generally considered a good thing? Linux is generally considered to be one big hack on top of a hack (UNIX being the original hack). In FAT32's case, it's a bad hack, which could be the distinguishing factor.
unreliable (frequent crashes)
No question there, although X could use a little more help in the reliability department too. I've managed to get XF86 to lock up the computer several times (due to incorrect video card configuration in XF86Setup). However, when finally set up properly, it definitely beats Windows in reliability, even if it is a bit clunky.
it's made by microsoft
That would be one of the major strikes against it. I'd have to agree with you there.
Hmm, I guess it's time to look into that liquid cooling :P
Yawn. Go run HURD. When you can manage to use slashdot from HURD, then come on back.
I didn't say there was anything wrong with the Linux kernel or that people shouldn't use it. However, they should use the proper terminology. Nobody says "I run the Win32 Operating System," so neither should theys ay "I run the Linux Operating System." The Linux kernel is just the final component of the GNU OS, an Operating System years in the making.
would most certainly object to it. Why? If I had a need for what you offer, I would search you out. I most certainly do not want to pay for you to send me unsolicited messages.
I don't object to targeted messaging like that, especially when it's not asking me to buy something. If somebody wants to give me free stuff, send away.
If, however, you want to pay my ISP bill every month...I guess I'd suffer through it.
What does the ISP bill have to do with this? Nearly every ISP nowadays offers unlimited (unmetered) service, so you don't pay your ISP by the minute. Therefore spam isn't increasing your ISP charges. If you live outside of the US in a country without free local calls, I suppose you could have a case for them increasing your phone bill, however.
Any unsolicited mass internet mailing should be considered malicious. Should you go to jail for it? Probably not. But if you do not bring that as an available sentence...what do you do to repeat offenders?
Just keep fining the repeat offenders. Increase the fines each time. Perhaps put in a clause to confiscate any assets gained through the spamming in addition to a fine.
FWIW, the "dangerous bug was found in GNU acronym" originally was written for segfault.org (it should still be in the archives there...search around a bit). Apparently one of the GNU people (not sure if it was RMS or one of the other GNU people) saw it and liked it and asked if he could use it on the gnu.org site, and naturally the segfault people agreed, so it's there now.
Hmm, the 300a (66x4.5) is typically overclocked to 450 MHz (100x4.5). the 100 MHz bus seems to be friendlier to some things than the 83 MHz one (if you have PC100 RAM), so why not do the same thing with the Celeron 400 (66x6), and up it to 600 MHz (100x6)?
Umm, what exactly is that? As far as I know, no Operating System exists with a name of "Linux." There's a kernel with such a name, but it's not any more of an Operating System than Mach or HURD are. Perhaps you're confusing it with the GNU Operating System, commonly used in conjunction with the Linux kernel (since the real GNU kernel, HURD, is not yet finished, most people replace that portion of the GNU OS with the Linux kernel).
I don't like this. Such anti-spam laws are *much* too subjective. What is a "malicious spammer"? If I collect a list of email addresses of Slashdot posters and send them a mail advertising my new Linux-oriented site, is that malicious spamming? What if I "spam" slashdot posters with offers for free beta versions of a car mp3 player? I'm sure very few would object to *that* spam, but could I still get thrown in jail for it?
Does gcc have a command-line option to produce 3dNow! inline instructions in the executable? If not, it should.
Well, it would be nice if gcc would implement a "use KNI instructions" option. Hopefully it'll happen in less time than it took GNU to implement MMX instructions.
The logo you have is the G3 logo. The official Apple logo is still the colorful horizontally striped apple. That's the one that should be linked to "Apple."
It's satire. A joke. As in "Supposed to be funny." Laugh.
That's not the point. The point is that X's network functionality is unneeded bloat and inefficient for those who just want to run a single non-networked desktop. Writing directly to the monitor, as non-networked GUIs do, would be more efficient.
Also, X is getting really old and decrepit. Just to get decent fonts in it requires some pretty extensive patching.
Ahh, so that's what this is about. I didn't see that made clear in the article. From what I had read, I had thought that it was a complaint about monopolistic pricing of the retail Windows you buy in stores (i.e. the plaintiffs are claiming that $180 is too much for Windows). If it's about the pre-loaded Windows copies, then I can see why one of the LUGs would get involved.
Well, I agree that they aren't 1980s, but I wouldn't exactly call them "alive and well" either. I still call several local BBSs, but over half of the ones I used to call have shut down, including the last board running on an Amiga (that I know of) in the area. FidoNet is still the best of its kind though - webboards and UseNet simply cannot compare.
read the site a bit. You'll notice that it's satire. The incessant references to buddylists should've tipped you off.
No, the forcing "good" values down people's throats is the fundamentalist Protestants' job. The Catholic Church used to do that, and would most likely love to again, but they seem to have lost some of their power. So it goes.
Yeah, well the entire logic system was largely laid out by Greek philosophers, and since computers use formal logic (AND/OR/XOR/NOT), computers are therefore largely Greek in origin. Or not.
Hmm, so since he criticized the X Windowing System (which pretty much sucks for the reasons he mentioned) he's suddenly somebody on a secret mission from Microsoft?