Tanenbaum was interviewed by a stooge from the " Alex De Tocqueville " "institute". The purpose of the interview was to get Tanenbaum to say Linus did not write the original Linux kernel.
Tanenbaum though said other things. He said Linus wrote the original Linux kernel. Tanenbaum was critical of some of Linus's design decisions. Tanenbaum thought Linux should have done it his way!
We need to reduce the cost of political ads on *our* public airwaves.
I think political ads leave the viewer less informed than before they say the ad.
I think we need to increase instead of decrease the cost of political ads -- and I have a modest proposal on how to do this.
Political advertisers should be required to pay for some extra time. This time is to be used by others for one purpose. It should be used to expose who contributed money that went towards the ad and what they really hope to get with they money they spent.
Gates testified in the most recent U. S. antitrust trial that it was impossible to remove WMP from the OS. This would break the OS according to GAtes. We have him under oath here.
Did anyone besides the Judge believe him when he said this? It was a lie so bold only a lawyer would believe it.
So the effect is the same as being able to uninstall WMP
Most users do not go around downloading and installing software [ at least not intentionally ]. For the croud that follows the path of least resistance this puts WMP on a level playing field.
But
Why would an OEM load a computer with this version? If I had a chouce between 2 boxes - both with the same price - I would go with the one with the media player already installed.
He does a pretty good job of answering a lot of hard questions.
I do not this so.
Here are a vew examples:
-The interviewer asked about Microsoft's practice of copying the inventions of other companies and bunding these copies with the OS, the interviewer called this practice by Microsoft "Innovation"!
-He lets Gates tell Big Lies - Such as OS X has as bad a security problem as Windows.
- He let Gates dodge the "Did you underestimate the security problems?" The fact that Windows is just now doing things that have been done for decades in the Unix world show that Gates did underestemate the security problem.
Most of the answers were the usual spin that has been coming out of Redmond for years.
Convergence is where one box does it all. It is a computer, it is a PVR, it is a media player, it is a phone, it is a radio and a TV.
Divergence is where we move to seperate boxes to do all those things. We have one box for a media player, another for a PVR, another for email and internet. etc.
With the cost of electronics getting cheaper and cheaper, I think we will see divergence.
When it comes right down to it, they probably figured they had two choices: quit, as the difference between them and their competitors was no longer worth the effort; or make desktops with PPC chips running their own optimized version of Linux.
If IBM were to make PPC Linux boxes, they would get shafted by Microsoft. Once they get rid of their PC business, there is no way for Micorosoft to shaft them. Maybe they are selling disktop to finally get Microsoft out of their shorts.
PPC linux desktops would be a low volume business with a moderate probability of success. But who knows, maybe they will take the risk.
The 1GHz pentium III we got years ago is still fast enough for email, web browsing and word processing. No need to up grade.
This box did get some upgrades: -Did put Windows 2000 because the Windows Me would crash every 3 hours. -Increased memory -- I think to 3/8ths of a GiG. No need for more.
Mainstream journalism has not served us very well the past few years. They just uncritically parrot press releases. Consider this list of things not reported or reported very late in mainstream media.
- The purging of voter roles in Florida in the 2000 election. This was reported in Europe far more than in the U.S.
- Dead people writting letters to state Attorneys General in support of Microsoft.
- Salam Pax wrote about all the weapons and explosives unguarded and available in Iraq after the Iraq army was defeated. Stuff like this that was common knowledge in Iraq takes years hit the radar screens of our "journalists".
- Salam Pax - again - wrote about the inhabitants of Sadr City. Our journalists were way behind the learning curve on this one.
- eVoting Machines. This was covered on Slashdot for over a year before the mainsteam media caught on to this problem.
With this track record of failure people are finding they have to look elsewhere to get the news. The fact is we do not have mainsteam journalism that is worthy of respect any more.
I did this with my simplyMepis desktop. It works!! It warks!!
But I have to use a USB. Does anyone know how to get gnomad2 to connect with the firewire? After modprobe ohci1394 I could see the Zen thing with the KDE GUI but gnomad2 could only find it with a USB connection.
Regardless of how you try to justify your vote, a vote for a major candidate is a statement that you:
* Approve of that candidate
* Endorse that candidate's position(s)
* Want that candidate to be the next President of the United States!
Normally I would agree. But in this case we are doing an emergency apendectomy with the only tool available - a rusty penknife. If we do not remove the dangerous and incompetent regeme, the results will be disasterous.
Maybe that is why many of Bush's answers were long winded dodges of the questions. They were just stock campaign positions on issues somewhat related to the question.
Kerry dodged a few questions too. But he had some short concise answers -- and these short answers actually answered the question!
The shorter the answer, the more likely it answered the question.
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Tanenbaum was interviewed by a stooge from the " Alex De Tocqueville " "institute". The purpose of the interview was to get Tanenbaum to say Linus did not write the original Linux kernel. Tanenbaum though said other things. He said Linus wrote the original Linux kernel. Tanenbaum was critical of some of Linus's design decisions. Tanenbaum thought Linux should have done it his way!
Live CD with links to porn sites! Have it able to play quicktime -- Does porn come on quicktime?
I think political ads leave the viewer less informed than before they say the ad.
I think we need to increase instead of decrease the cost of political ads -- and I have a modest proposal on how to do this.
Political advertisers should be required to pay for some extra time. This time is to be used by others for one purpose. It should be used to expose who contributed money that went towards the ad and what they really hope to get with they money they spent.
Consumer Reports puts a Price per Page figure in their articles.
The product did have a copywrited "song" that had to be there for the product to work.
Did anyone besides the Judge believe him when he said this? It was a lie so bold only a lawyer would believe it.
Most users do not go around downloading and installing software [ at least not intentionally ]. For the croud that follows the path of least resistance this puts WMP on a level playing field.
But
Why would an OEM load a computer with this version? If I had a chouce between 2 boxes - both with the same price - I would go with the one with the media player already installed.
There is something about the spin and half-truths that just gets me going. Is Bill trying to motivate people to oppose Microsoft?
I do not this so.
Here are a vew examples:
-The interviewer asked about Microsoft's practice of copying the inventions of other companies and bunding these copies with the OS, the interviewer called this practice by Microsoft "Innovation"!
-He lets Gates tell Big Lies - Such as OS X has as bad a security problem as Windows.
- He let Gates dodge the "Did you underestimate the security problems?" The fact that Windows is just now doing things that have been done for decades in the Unix world show that Gates did underestemate the security problem.
Most of the answers were the usual spin that has been coming out of Redmond for years.
This Linus seems to take on some RMS personality traits!
And to think this was the man who defeated the evil empire of IBM -- way back when IBM was the evil empire!
They package religion as science but say they are not doing this.
I think these religionists just do not have enough faith to do the right thing.
Convergence is where one box does it all. It is a computer, it is a PVR, it is a media player, it is a phone, it is a radio and a TV.
Divergence is where we move to seperate boxes to do all those things. We have one box for a media player, another for a PVR, another for email and internet. etc.
With the cost of electronics getting cheaper and cheaper, I think we will see divergence.
scipy comes with gnuplot. It lacks a lot but you should try it.
>>from scipy import gplt
>>gplt.plot(xlist,ylist)
Scipy.org
If IBM were to make PPC Linux boxes, they would get shafted by Microsoft. Once they get rid of their PC business, there is no way for Micorosoft to shaft them. Maybe they are selling disktop to finally get Microsoft out of their shorts.
PPC linux desktops would be a low volume business with a moderate probability of success. But who knows, maybe they will take the risk.
We need a better term. "Intellectual monopoly privilege" maybe. This is more accurate but it does not roll off the tongue. I am open for suggestions.
The 1GHz pentium III we got years ago is still fast enough for email, web browsing and word processing. No need to up grade.
This box did get some upgrades:
-Did put Windows 2000 because the Windows Me would crash every 3 hours.
-Increased memory -- I think to 3/8ths of a GiG. No need for more.
If you do a lot of damage to a few people or a little bit of damage to to a lot of people, it is still a lot of damage.
That is the BEST NEWS EVER! How come he didn't tell us about this before?
For the election we were supposed to be in fear of terror. There is no way Bush could get elected unless we were in fear.
Now that the election is over, we do not have to be in fear any more.
Mainstream journalism has not served us very well the past few years. They just uncritically parrot press releases. Consider this list of things not reported or reported very late in mainstream media.
- The purging of voter roles in Florida in the 2000 election. This was reported in Europe far more than in the U.S.
- Dead people writting letters to state Attorneys General in support of Microsoft.
- Salam Pax wrote about all the weapons and explosives unguarded and available in Iraq after the Iraq army was defeated. Stuff like this that was common knowledge in Iraq takes years hit the radar screens of our "journalists".
- Salam Pax - again - wrote about the inhabitants of Sadr City. Our journalists were way behind the learning curve on this one.
- eVoting Machines. This was covered on Slashdot for over a year before the mainsteam media caught on to this problem.
With this track record of failure people are finding they have to look elsewhere to get the news. The fact is we do not have mainsteam journalism that is worthy of respect any more.
I did this with my simplyMepis desktop. It works!! It warks!!
But I have to use a USB. Does anyone know how to get gnomad2 to connect with the firewire? After modprobe ohci1394 I could see the Zen thing with the KDE GUI but gnomad2 could only find it with a USB connection.
The slogan at the top: "Helping shape American History for over one hundred years" is too rich.
This makes me think of the quote attributed to Joseph Stalin:
"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes."
* Approve of that candidate
* Endorse that candidate's position(s)
* Want that candidate to be the next President of the United States!
Normally I would agree. But in this case we are doing an emergency apendectomy with the only tool available - a rusty penknife. If we do not remove the dangerous and incompetent regeme, the results will be disasterous.
I like the way The Economist put it: " The incompetent or the incoherent?"
Kerry dodged a few questions too. But he had some short concise answers -- and these short answers actually answered the question!
The shorter the answer, the more likely it answered the question.