If I start up a web-site that abuses some company's trademarks, I'll be shut down within hours, and in court within days...
If I abuse children, or support and encourage the abuse of children by running a kiddie porn website, then they can't seem to find me? How convenient.
Hmmm... Is it just my "conspiracy senses" tingling, or is it just a incidence that the same politicians and law-makers that support a 14 year old "age of consent" (in Canada), just can't be bothered to enforce the existing child porn laws?
I think that the first 100 kiddie-porn website owners thrown in jail for 25 years as "Dangerous Offenders" (no chance of parole) would serve as a significant discouragement to the remainder.
Absolutely correct (although I can't confirm your percentages...)
I work with Linux and a multitude of other FOSS sofware every day, developing embedded solutions for a large company. Most will never see the light of day (they are pretty specific to our company/industry), but FOSS software makes it all possible. Any parts that are generic, I am making available as FOSS (under the GPL). WIthout FOSS, we would be using some crappy closed source solution, without a fraction of the capability of what we've been able to build on top of Linux, et. al.
Incidentally, we spend large amounts of money buying some "closed" solutions (that run on Linux) from other companies; I suspect that they enjoy the income! Linux doesn't seem to be destroying their economic model.
The only companies that are going to get hurt, and badly, are those companies that have stopped innovating, and are just trying to milk an existing position for all they can get out of it. Any company or individual that actually wants to innovate, can now enter the marketplace much, much more easily than they could before, by building on top of an ever larger foundation of FOSS.
I think we can all guess what type of entity doesn't want that to happen...
Attention "Duh! A computer costs $300!" posters..
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Open Source Hotspots
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· Score: 4, Informative
Remember...
Most poeple running Linux already have a computer...
What they don't have is a Wi-Fi hotspot...
You can pick up an used Prism 2.5 802.11b card (such as a Dlink DWL-520) for $30 (probably less, before this story hit!). That's it! You've got a wireless access point. Done. No extra hardware to "hide", not more crap to plug in. Just compile in the kernel "hostap" patches, and away you go!
Since you're running a firewall already (you know about Shorewall, right?), it is reasonably easy to set up a firewalled NAT subnet to contain your wireless LAN traffic. Don't bother with silly WEP, use ssh or ipsec for secure access, or just route access from unsecurable Windows boxes directly out to the open internet (use MAC filtering, if you feel vulnerable to losers driving by using your open AP to surf for porn...).
Your post begins with some promise, pointing out the dubious intellectual heritage of key AdTI fellows, but then... somehow makes the leap into generalisations about conservatives?
Not to belabour an obvious point, but... Not everyone who is stupid is a conservative, and not every conservative is stupid. You aren't helping your cause (whatever that is), by picking up some limp hack, and shaking him about as an example of the "Evil Neocon".
In an attempt to paint all conservatives with the AdTI brush, you have made the same error that AdTI makes -- taking a shallow understanding of a concept, and make inflamatory generalisations about a group.
As both a conservative and a supporter of software Libre, I find your persistent rantings both tiring, and comical. Surely all "liberals" can't be as shallow as you are? If you are going to continue searching for examples of "Neocon" evil, at least try to come up with some examples worthy of disdain, instead of derision.
If you think what AdTI is talking about in any way approximates "Conservatism", then you should read up.
Remember, Liberals: Just because someone is Stoopid, doesn't automatically mean that they are "Conservative"!
Anyone with more than a vague knowledge of "Capitalism" understands that Capital != Corporation. Nor does Capital == Money. Why do you think that, under Capitalism, a relatively poor person in a far away land can acquire something as valuable as a contract to provide Computer Programming services a group somewhere else in the world? Because they command Intellectual Capital. As much as you despise that, I will continue to protect your right (and their right) to acquire Capital, and use it to their own, and their family's, benefit.
Remember, under Capitalism, those who have Capital have ownership of the means of production. As much as you lib-lefties would love to take that away from people (such as, oh, say ME), the fact that we have Ownership, and the Rule Of Law by means of a strong police force, I can retain my Capital, and wield it whatever effect I DESIRE, without undue interference from YOU.
Remember -- Capitalism also makes it very likely that someone who is stoopid will not retain control over his or her Capital for long. They will invest it unwisely (such as in AdTI FUD), and lose it. It will then be re-deployed, to better effect, by those more able to use it efficiently.
So, rather than spouting laughable rhetoric about the evils of Corporations, and Capitalism, and Conservatives (although I applaud you for making it to the letter "C"), why don't you go out and acquire some Capital? Financial Capital would be a fine goal, but I suggest you start with Intellectual Capital first...
"If some punks run around town breaking windows, it will actually help the local economy (eg. the local shoe maker, etc.). This is because the home owners with broken windows will purchase new windows from the local Hardware store, and hence the hardware store owner will buy his children new shoes."
This fallacy is as old as time itself. It is provably false, trivially. (Breaking the windows increases entropy, reducing the total value in the system). The money going to buy the replacement windows would have been used on something else (eg. the shoes). The only winner is the company producing the windows. The loser is the community.
Microsoft is the maker of Windows, supplying all the local Hardware stores (the businesses producing software) with replacement Windows. Somehow, not being forced to buy new Windows every year or two will "hurt" industry. (Oddly enough, Microsoft gets to go around breaking its own Windows, and forcing you to upgrade...) The only loser will be those producers of proprietary software, who choose not to cooperate with, and take advantage of, those who produce FOSS. For example, Microsoft will lose, if I chose to use Debian for my next Enterprise project. Does that money vanish? No, it goes to my company's shareholders (via. Capital Gains or Dividends), or to my clients (due to lower prices), or to me (due to increased profits). It just doesn't go to Bill. Who loses? Bill. No one else. (Well, Tocqueville also loses, because Bill doesn't pay them to write stoopid articles any more, either...)
Take Apache, for example. Presumably, Apache hurts producers of Closed Source web servers. I cannot use the Apache code and re-brand it as "Joe's Web Server" (I think -- I haven't read the license, but I assume it is more like the GPL than the OpenBSD "free for any and all uses" license). However, this only hurts me if I (Joe) decide not to arrange my affairs to take advantage of Apache!
If I choose to fight Apache, then I am (probably) reducing the overall value in the system. If I have some non-trivial value to add, then I should quit wasting my time re-writing the same code that the Apache team is writing, I should encapsulate my super-duper value in some kind of an add-on to Apache, and I'll start marketing my company as "Joe's Super-Duper Valuable Enterprise Support For Apache, That You Just Gotta Buy, If You're A CTO!"
There! I (Joe) win, Apache wins, my client's win. Microsoft (IIS) loses. Who cares?
Just a note of caution if you are using the nForce2 motherboards with a 2.6 kernel. I just built up a new webserver/fileserver/wireless access point, using an ASUS A7N8X motherboard and Athlon 2600+, and wanted to run 2.6, reiser4 and software RAID. As soon as I did any disk I/O, it would hang solid.
Apparently, the 2.6.5 (and perhaps other) kernels trigger a bit of an nForce2 chipset problem; I needed to need to turn of APIC and Local APIC for them to work reliably at their rated speed. Here's how I did it using GRUB (my root partition is a mirrored RAID device). Note the "noapic nolapic" in the kernel specification. Using lilo, you would add an append="noapic nolapic" to your image=... stanza...
After this change, it's been running rock solid under heavy use for over a week. I am running Debian; perhaps the SUSE or other distributions have already patched their 2.6.X kernels for this problem, but I doubt it.
Ya, that evil Bush, he won't let us have any fun with fetusses! Damn right-wing religious nut-cases! We can't possible use stem cells from the donor's own bone marrow, because... uhhm... Well, just 'cause!
The international slaughter of Christians continues unabated, while the left implies to all that will listen that it is somehow their own fault... Furthermore, the primarily Christian aid associations worldwide bear the overwhelming burden of trying to care for, protect and feed the worlds impoverished. While the left yells and shakes fists at them for "pushing christianity" on... someone? Perhaps I'm dense, but I don't see whey you're so upset at all those evil, bible thumpin' christians who are out to take away your basic liberties by a-goin' to church on Sunday...
Please let us know precisely how anyone is trying to "push christianity" on you. Perhaps non-Christians whom you mistake for Christians are. Please be clear. "Well, just 'cause!" doesn't count as a cogent argument...
The fact is; God doesn't need anyone's help to "push" anything on you, or anyone. Perhaps there are a few who think so (their God is a bit feeble?), but they are generally harmless (how much damage can they do to you, yelling that the End Is Near from a street corner?)
Perhaps looking under rocks for christians is to avoid searching for some of the real causal agents behind the evil being wrought against innocents in our societies? Lock away all those evil christians; do you think you'll see a sudden, precipitous drop in rape, murder, and general carnage?
Jacobson said the identification process would not work on an encrypted network,...
Hmmm. Since I (and undoubtedly many others, I'm sure) use SSH for everything, I wonder how they plan to shut down even an insignificant fraction of any kind of sharing?
I hope you're not saying what I think you are saying... Unfortunately, you probably are, and you are in the majority...
"If the truth about someone/something is hurtful to them, or exposes harm they have knowingly and willfully done to the defenseless, or is simply not Politically Correct, then don't say it." Furthermore, label it an Ad-Hominem Attack, and label the sayer as a Red-Neck Good-'Ole-Boy Conservative War-Lovin' Baby-Killer. Or at the very least, that he/she "lacks honour and integrity".
I call Bull-Shit.
Unfortunately, telling the Truth in sales isn't wrong; it just doesn't work. There is a difference.
I was in the Financial Industry for many years. The biggest players in the industry play off people's fear of uncertainty, causing them to make financially suicidal decisions, which also happen to pay the Banking and Life Insurance industry grotesque profits [http://ul.blows.2y.net]. It's easier than taking candy from a baby!
By your (and most poeople's) logic, it is "wrong" to lead people to truly understand how bad what they have been sold really is, and how "not nice" it is that they were sold a steaming load of... garbage, instead of what mathematics and history indicates would have been the correct product.
Basically, the "nice salesmen" need to not say anything negative about anyone selling garbage to the people they love and care about, for fear that they will hurt the feelings of the poor "Sales Professional" just trying to reap a well-earned extra bit of profit off of the unwise.
GC == Garbage Collection. Certain features of the.NET CLR require extensions to the C++ language, and their implementation of GC is one of them. The other is "final" (I think that is the term) methods. There are undoubtedly others, but I have no interest in remembering them...
I just attended a 2-day C++ seminar hosted by Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter (at SD Expo, in Santa Clara). Herb gave a presentation of (some of) the.NET extensions to C++. Bjarne was present, and was very forthright about what he thought might have potential as part of the C++ Standard, and what was... silly.
Bjarne (and the rest of the C++ Standards Committee) seem to be pretty bright boys, and Herb is no patsy. I came away from the session with a lot of confidence that the C++ Standards Committee won't turn into a pack of Microsoft zombies, and ruin the language.
The.NET GC-specific extensions (the ^ and % operators, which are the GC-safe version of the * and & operators, for example) seem pretty silly (to me), and didn't seem to impress Bjarne too much, either. He seemed to indicate that it was unlikely that they would form part of the language. There are much more interesting directions that he would like to take the language...
Haven't looked at the video, but the first (and only) RPM I have to find after installing Red Hat, is:
APT!
Just go to rpmfind.net, look up apt, and select the correct version matching the version of Red Hat you have installed. Download it, and install it:
rpm -Uvh apt...
Congratulations, that's probably the last time you'll have to search for an RPM! After that, keeping Red Hat up-to-date, and finding and installing most programs, is:
apt-get update
apt-get -u upgrade
(and occasionally "apt-get -u dist-upgrade", for when a bunch of stuff changes)
or, to find and install some package:
apt-cache search program
(review available versions)
apt-get -u install program-version
Done! All except for blowing away Red Hat, and installing Debian instead. Then, you can access the rest of APT's powerful features, and really pick and chose between what Debian release you want to run (stable, testing, unstable, experimental).
I would be totally happy to pay the same amount for a supported Linux desktop, laptop or PDA, as for the Windows version. I would much rather give my money to a company willing to support me, than to Microsoft, who as never supported me, no matter how many copies of software I have bought.
I have worked with Windows since 2.0 (yes, you read that right). I've installed (and re-installed, and re-installed...) it on hundreds of computers -- for friends and family, not as my job! I've purchased several copies of Windows for our business -- not by choice, but because necessary software has required it.
Microsoft has had literally hundreds of chances to "win me over", by just giving a *shit*, JUST ONCE, about my experience. But, they don't even know I exist. So, I've used Linux since 1995. Through all the growing pains (ever installed Slackware from 36 floppies?). Through the infancy and adolesence of Open Office, KDE, Mozilla. Through the busted device drivers, developed by dedicated developers blindfolded by the hardware manufactures they are working to enrich -- who, in turn, are slobbering after Microsoft.
How many other people are willing to put up with just about ANY amount of annoyance, just to get some option OTHER THAN Microsoft? I'll bet there are a LOT of such people.
If Microsoft can't make Billions AND give a crap about their clientelle, then they deserve to get the crap kicked out of them by Linux. It's not a question of if, but when.
I cannot believe that there are still people that think a programmer or sysadmin type has some divine right to earn USD$80,000!
We live in a global economy. Deal with it. Every heard of that new-fangled thingy called the "In-Ter-Net?" Guess what? It reduces the effect of the "distance" variable to nearly zero in some equations!
If your only redeeming quality, to your employter, is that fact that you are "near", and some other person is "far", guess what -- maybe you can get a job as Grover on Sesame Street, after your boss cans your a**.
If you have chosen a lifestyle that demands a high income for commodity work, then get prepared to walk away from your house and car. The days of Trade Unions dicatating, and IT people demaning, high wages is almost over.
This is probably just the first of many security problems resulting from the fact that these PKI issuing authorities are more interested in Money and Marketing, than in actual security...
Material of this strength allows other methods of space access that may be more efficient.
Tether a platform just a few dozen or hundred kilometers up, supported by rigid hydrogen-filled inflatables. Access it by elevator (but now, the cables can be over-engineered by a factor of 100, for safety). Launch from there, either chemically (standard single stage to orbit), or electrically (linear accelerator). Either way, you are beyond the bulk of the energy stealing atmosphere.
It is possible to build a linear accelerator several hundred kilometers in length, moored to the platform, that would allow launch of living payloads, because the average acceleration would be survivable.
Owners of IBM Thinkpad X31's (and perhaps other IBMs, too; I don't know) cannot use this solution without a BIOS upgrade.
The reason is, IBM's BIOS actually checks that the Mini-PCI wireless card is one of several "acceptable" cards, and will refuse to boot if it is not. The acceptable ones are the Intel Centrino card, and a a Cisco card. With a BIOS upgrade, apparently an IBM sourced Atheros-based card (model number 31P9701) will work. (see http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0312.2/0147.html for a more complete explanation)
Would you tell someone with diabetes to stop taking insulin because you don't think it is a "disorder"?
OK, I've had it!!!
Where did you get that little quote from? A drug abstract? A training course? Where??
I've heard it -- almost word-for-word -- from several completely independent sources. 100% of my sample were told it by medical personnel. I smell a marketing rat, somewhere.
Evidently, the significant differences between diabetes and ADHD are insignificant, compared to the emotional impact of implying that witholding Ritalin from your child, is equivalent to condemning them to certain horifying death by a 100% lethal wasting disease...
How many great products of the past can you think of which have been sugarred up, dumbed down, and turned into bland pap? Why? Because the "Focus Group" said it "tasted better" that way. The little herd of Johnies and Suzies didn't squeeze their little vacant eyes and bawl, because the little pieces fit together just so...
And the MBAs smiled in unison, and checked their little boxes...
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If I start up a web-site that abuses some company's trademarks, I'll be shut down within hours, and in court within days...
If I abuse children, or support and encourage the abuse of children by running a kiddie porn website, then they can't seem to find me? How convenient.
Hmmm... Is it just my "conspiracy senses" tingling, or is it just a incidence that the same politicians and law-makers that support a 14 year old "age of consent" (in Canada), just can't be bothered to enforce the existing child porn laws?
I think that the first 100 kiddie-porn website owners thrown in jail for 25 years as "Dangerous Offenders" (no chance of parole) would serve as a significant discouragement to the remainder.
and put "xmodmap ~/.caps-to-ctrl" somewhere in your X customisation sequence:
I use KDE, so it is in
Absolutely correct (although I can't confirm your percentages...)
I work with Linux and a multitude of other FOSS sofware every day, developing embedded solutions for a large company. Most will never see the light of day (they are pretty specific to our company/industry), but FOSS software makes it all possible. Any parts that are generic, I am making available as FOSS (under the GPL). WIthout FOSS, we would be using some crappy closed source solution, without a fraction of the capability of what we've been able to build on top of Linux, et. al.
Incidentally, we spend large amounts of money buying some "closed" solutions (that run on Linux) from other companies; I suspect that they enjoy the income! Linux doesn't seem to be destroying their economic model.
The only companies that are going to get hurt, and badly, are those companies that have stopped innovating, and are just trying to milk an existing position for all they can get out of it. Any company or individual that actually wants to innovate, can now enter the marketplace much, much more easily than they could before, by building on top of an ever larger foundation of FOSS.
I think we can all guess what type of entity doesn't want that to happen...
Remember...
Most poeple running Linux already have a computer...
What they don't have is a Wi-Fi hotspot...
You can pick up an used Prism 2.5 802.11b card (such as a Dlink DWL-520) for $30 (probably less, before this story hit!). That's it! You've got a wireless access point. Done. No extra hardware to "hide", not more crap to plug in. Just compile in the kernel "hostap" patches, and away you go!
Since you're running a firewall already (you know about Shorewall, right?), it is reasonably easy to set up a firewalled NAT subnet to contain your wireless LAN traffic. Don't bother with silly WEP, use ssh or ipsec for secure access, or just route access from unsecurable Windows boxes directly out to the open internet (use MAC filtering, if you feel vulnerable to losers driving by using your open AP to surf for porn...).
Can't argue with that...!
Your post begins with some promise, pointing out the dubious intellectual heritage of key AdTI fellows, but then... somehow makes the leap into generalisations about conservatives?
Not to belabour an obvious point, but... Not everyone who is stupid is a conservative, and not every conservative is stupid. You aren't helping your cause (whatever that is), by picking up some limp hack, and shaking him about as an example of the "Evil Neocon".
In an attempt to paint all conservatives with the AdTI brush, you have made the same error that AdTI makes -- taking a shallow understanding of a concept, and make inflamatory generalisations about a group.
As both a conservative and a supporter of software Libre, I find your persistent rantings both tiring, and comical. Surely all "liberals" can't be as shallow as you are? If you are going to continue searching for examples of "Neocon" evil, at least try to come up with some examples worthy of disdain, instead of derision.
Is it "Jumpy Liberal" Day, or what?
If you think what AdTI is talking about in any way approximates "Conservatism", then you should read up.
Remember, Liberals: Just because someone is Stoopid, doesn't automatically mean that they are "Conservative"!
Anyone with more than a vague knowledge of "Capitalism" understands that Capital != Corporation. Nor does Capital == Money. Why do you think that, under Capitalism, a relatively poor person in a far away land can acquire something as valuable as a contract to provide Computer Programming services a group somewhere else in the world? Because they command Intellectual Capital. As much as you despise that, I will continue to protect your right (and their right) to acquire Capital, and use it to their own, and their family's, benefit.
Remember, under Capitalism, those who have Capital have ownership of the means of production. As much as you lib-lefties would love to take that away from people (such as, oh, say ME ), the fact that we have Ownership, and the Rule Of Law by means of a strong police force, I can retain my Capital, and wield it whatever effect I DESIRE, without undue interference from YOU.
Remember -- Capitalism also makes it very likely that someone who is stoopid will not retain control over his or her Capital for long. They will invest it unwisely (such as in AdTI FUD), and lose it. It will then be re-deployed, to better effect, by those more able to use it efficiently.
So, rather than spouting laughable rhetoric about the evils of Corporations, and Capitalism, and Conservatives (although I applaud you for making it to the letter "C"), why don't you go out and acquire some Capital? Financial Capital would be a fine goal, but I suggest you start with Intellectual Capital first...
"If some punks run around town breaking windows, it will actually help the local economy (eg. the local shoe maker, etc.). This is because the home owners with broken windows will purchase new windows from the local Hardware store, and hence the hardware store owner will buy his children new shoes."
This fallacy is as old as time itself. It is provably false, trivially. (Breaking the windows increases entropy, reducing the total value in the system). The money going to buy the replacement windows would have been used on something else (eg. the shoes). The only winner is the company producing the windows. The loser is the community.
Microsoft is the maker of Windows, supplying all the local Hardware stores (the businesses producing software) with replacement Windows. Somehow, not being forced to buy new Windows every year or two will "hurt" industry. (Oddly enough, Microsoft gets to go around breaking its own Windows, and forcing you to upgrade...) The only loser will be those producers of proprietary software, who choose not to cooperate with, and take advantage of, those who produce FOSS . For example, Microsoft will lose, if I chose to use Debian for my next Enterprise project. Does that money vanish? No, it goes to my company's shareholders (via. Capital Gains or Dividends), or to my clients (due to lower prices), or to me (due to increased profits). It just doesn't go to Bill. Who loses? Bill. No one else. (Well, Tocqueville also loses, because Bill doesn't pay them to write stoopid articles any more, either...)
Take Apache, for example. Presumably, Apache hurts producers of Closed Source web servers. I cannot use the Apache code and re-brand it as "Joe's Web Server" (I think -- I haven't read the license, but I assume it is more like the GPL than the OpenBSD "free for any and all uses" license). However, this only hurts me if I (Joe) decide not to arrange my affairs to take advantage of Apache!
If I choose to fight Apache, then I am (probably) reducing the overall value in the system. If I have some non-trivial value to add, then I should quit wasting my time re-writing the same code that the Apache team is writing, I should encapsulate my super-duper value in some kind of an add-on to Apache, and I'll start marketing my company as "Joe's Super-Duper Valuable Enterprise Support For Apache, That You Just Gotta Buy, If You're A CTO!"
There! I (Joe) win, Apache wins, my client's win. Microsoft (IIS) loses. Who cares?
Apparently, the 2.6.5 (and perhaps other) kernels trigger a bit of an nForce2 chipset problem; I needed to need to turn of APIC and Local APIC for them to work reliably at their rated speed. Here's how I did it using GRUB (my root partition is a mirrored RAID device). Note the "noapic nolapic" in the kernel specification. Using lilo, you would add an append="noapic nolapic" to your image=... stanza...
After this change, it's been running rock solid under heavy use for over a week. I am running Debian; perhaps the SUSE or other distributions have already patched their 2.6.X kernels for this problem, but I doubt it.
So, let me get this straight...
The parent post states something so preposterously stupid that it is almost inconcievable that someone would say it -- and gets a "+5, Insightful".
Then, I joke about his mistaken assumptions, and get a "-1, Flamebait"?
Ya, that evil Bush, he won't let us have any fun with fetusses! Damn right-wing religious nut-cases! We can't possible use stem cells from the donor's own bone marrow, because... uhhm... Well, just 'cause!
The international slaughter of Christians continues unabated, while the left implies to all that will listen that it is somehow their own fault... Furthermore, the primarily Christian aid associations worldwide bear the overwhelming burden of trying to care for, protect and feed the worlds impoverished. While the left yells and shakes fists at them for "pushing christianity" on ... someone? Perhaps I'm dense, but I don't see whey you're so upset at all those evil, bible thumpin' christians who are out to take away your basic liberties by a-goin' to church on Sunday...
Please let us know precisely how anyone is trying to "push christianity" on you. Perhaps non-Christians whom you mistake for Christians are. Please be clear. "Well, just 'cause!" doesn't count as a cogent argument...
The fact is; God doesn't need anyone's help to "push" anything on you, or anyone. Perhaps there are a few who think so (their God is a bit feeble?), but they are generally harmless (how much damage can they do to you, yelling that the End Is Near from a street corner?)
Perhaps looking under rocks for christians is to avoid searching for some of the real causal agents behind the evil being wrought against innocents in our societies? Lock away all those evil christians; do you think you'll see a sudden, precipitous drop in rape, murder, and general carnage?
Please, enlighten us.
Hmmm. Since I (and undoubtedly many others, I'm sure) use SSH for everything, I wonder how they plan to shut down even an insignificant fraction of any kind of sharing?
I hope you're not saying what I think you are saying... Unfortunately, you probably are, and you are in the majority...
... garbage, instead of what mathematics and history indicates would have been the correct product.
"If the truth about someone/something is hurtful to them, or exposes harm they have knowingly and willfully done to the defenseless, or is simply not Politically Correct, then don't say it." Furthermore, label it an Ad-Hominem Attack, and label the sayer as a Red-Neck Good-'Ole-Boy Conservative War-Lovin' Baby-Killer. Or at the very least, that he/she "lacks honour and integrity".
I call Bull-Shit.
Unfortunately, telling the Truth in sales isn't wrong; it just doesn't work. There is a difference.
I was in the Financial Industry for many years. The biggest players in the industry play off people's fear of uncertainty, causing them to make financially suicidal decisions, which also happen to pay the Banking and Life Insurance industry grotesque profits [http://ul.blows.2y.net]. It's easier than taking candy from a baby!
By your (and most poeople's) logic, it is "wrong" to lead people to truly understand how bad what they have been sold really is, and how "not nice" it is that they were sold a steaming load of
Basically, the "nice salesmen" need to not say anything negative about anyone selling garbage to the people they love and care about, for fear that they will hurt the feelings of the poor "Sales Professional" just trying to reap a well-earned extra bit of profit off of the unwise.
That's not the world I want to live in.
GC == Garbage Collection. Certain features of the .NET CLR require extensions to the C++ language, and their implementation of GC is one of them. The other is "final" (I think that is the term) methods. There are undoubtedly others, but I have no interest in remembering them...
I just attended a 2-day C++ seminar hosted by Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter (at SD Expo, in Santa Clara). Herb gave a presentation of (some of) the .NET extensions to C++. Bjarne was present, and was very forthright about what he thought might have potential as part of the C++ Standard, and what was ... silly.
.NET GC-specific extensions (the ^ and % operators, which are the GC-safe version of the * and & operators, for example) seem pretty silly (to me), and didn't seem to impress Bjarne too much, either. He seemed to indicate that it was unlikely that they would form part of the language. There are much more interesting directions that he would like to take the language...
Bjarne (and the rest of the C++ Standards Committee) seem to be pretty bright boys, and Herb is no patsy. I came away from the session with a lot of confidence that the C++ Standards Committee won't turn into a pack of Microsoft zombies, and ruin the language.
The
Haven't looked at the video, but the first (and only) RPM I have to find after installing Red Hat, is:
APT!
Just go to rpmfind.net, look up apt, and select the correct version matching the version of Red Hat you have installed. Download it, and install it:
rpm -Uvh apt...
Congratulations, that's probably the last time you'll have to search for an RPM! After that, keeping Red Hat up-to-date, and finding and installing most programs, is:
apt-get update
apt-get -u upgrade
(and occasionally "apt-get -u dist-upgrade", for when a bunch of stuff changes)
or, to find and install some package:
apt-cache search program
(review available versions)
apt-get -u install program-version
Done! All except for blowing away Red Hat, and installing Debian instead. Then, you can access the rest of APT's powerful features, and really pick and chose between what Debian release you want to run (stable, testing, unstable, experimental).
I would be totally happy to pay the same amount for a supported Linux desktop, laptop or PDA, as for the Windows version. I would much rather give my money to a company willing to support me, than to Microsoft, who as never supported me, no matter how many copies of software I have bought.
I have worked with Windows since 2.0 (yes, you read that right). I've installed (and re-installed, and re-installed...) it on hundreds of computers -- for friends and family, not as my job! I've purchased several copies of Windows for our business -- not by choice, but because necessary software has required it.
Microsoft has had literally hundreds of chances to "win me over", by just giving a *shit*, JUST ONCE, about my experience. But, they don't even know I exist. So, I've used Linux since 1995. Through all the growing pains (ever installed Slackware from 36 floppies?). Through the infancy and adolesence of Open Office, KDE, Mozilla. Through the busted device drivers, developed by dedicated developers blindfolded by the hardware manufactures they are working to enrich -- who, in turn, are slobbering after Microsoft.
How many other people are willing to put up with just about ANY amount of annoyance, just to get some option OTHER THAN Microsoft? I'll bet there are a LOT of such people.
If Microsoft can't make Billions AND give a crap about their clientelle, then they deserve to get the crap kicked out of them by Linux. It's not a question of if, but when.
Well, not to be a butt-head, but...
I cannot believe that there are still people that think a programmer or sysadmin type has some divine right to earn USD$80,000!
We live in a global economy. Deal with it. Every heard of that new-fangled thingy called the "In-Ter-Net?" Guess what? It reduces the effect of the "distance" variable to nearly zero in some equations!
If your only redeeming quality, to your employter, is that fact that you are "near", and some other person is "far", guess what -- maybe you can get a job as Grover on Sesame Street, after your boss cans your a**.
If you have chosen a lifestyle that demands a high income for commodity work, then get prepared to walk away from your house and car. The days of Trade Unions dicatating, and IT people demaning, high wages is almost over.
Bruce Schneier has a very interesting article about the "Scam" that is the Public Key Infrastructure.
Ten Risks of PKI: What You're Not Being Told About Public Key Infrastructure
This is probably just the first of many security problems resulting from the fact that these PKI issuing authorities are more interested in Money and Marketing, than in actual security...
Material of this strength allows other methods of space access that may be more efficient.
Tether a platform just a few dozen or hundred kilometers up, supported by rigid hydrogen-filled inflatables. Access it by elevator (but now, the cables can be over-engineered by a factor of 100, for safety). Launch from there, either chemically (standard single stage to orbit), or electrically (linear accelerator). Either way, you are beyond the bulk of the energy stealing atmosphere.
It is possible to build a linear accelerator several hundred kilometers in length, moored to the platform, that would allow launch of living payloads, because the average acceleration would be survivable.
At least, the employee agreement sounds like one that SCO would make you sign -- they claim to own everything else, anyway....
-- -pjk
Owners of IBM Thinkpad X31's (and perhaps other IBMs, too; I don't know) cannot use this solution without a BIOS upgrade.
2 .2/0147.html for a more complete explanation)
The reason is, IBM's BIOS actually checks that the Mini-PCI wireless card is one of several "acceptable" cards, and will refuse to boot if it is not. The acceptable ones are the Intel Centrino card, and a a Cisco card. With a BIOS upgrade, apparently an IBM sourced Atheros-based card (model number 31P9701) will work. (see http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/031
Would you tell someone with diabetes to stop taking insulin because you don't think it is a "disorder"?
OK, I've had it!!!
Where did you get that little quote from? A drug abstract? A training course? Where??
I've heard it -- almost word-for-word -- from several completely independent sources. 100% of my sample were told it by medical personnel. I smell a marketing rat, somewhere.
Evidently, the significant differences between diabetes and ADHD are insignificant, compared to the emotional impact of implying that witholding Ritalin from your child, is equivalent to condemning them to certain horifying death by a 100% lethal wasting disease...
Modern MBA programs are to blame, I think...
How many great products of the past can you think of which have been sugarred up, dumbed down, and turned into bland pap? Why? Because the "Focus Group" said it "tasted better" that way. The little herd of Johnies and Suzies didn't squeeze their little vacant eyes and bawl, because the little pieces fit together just so...
And the MBAs smiled in unison, and checked their little boxes...