Except that's not how the courts have interperated it in the past, or at least that's not how it has ever been used before. You'd have a hell of a uphill case to prove elsewise.
South Carolina is often rated as one of the states with most special interest groups.
It's also a member of dixiecrat block of states, which typically legislate in the interests of bussiness over the interests of people. Overall, it's very conservative. Since the fall of New England Republicans (ie. liberal-moderate Republicans), it has overwhelming become Republican (with some Democrats (mainly older) at the State level). Not surpisingly Senator Shelby (R-AL) purposed tough new legislation against goverment leaks. Typical dixiecrat voting patterns.
In conclusion, as party isn't as important in the south -- Democrats and Republicans are both very socially conservative. So special interests win. And that's not always a good thing.
It takes time to render graphics, css, font styles and the a like. It's far faster to render the page in a plain-ish fashion (no special colors / fonts / css), and then after that render it with everything (at least with a modem and a slow-ish machine).
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KDE 2.2 gives you the option to choose if you want to open or not open a window.open() with a dialog. Unforently it doesn't remember your choice yet, so everytime you go to that site, your prompted again. It also has problems with some JavaScripts, that will keep trying to open a window, while the window.open() yes/no dialog is on your screen -- and will create an indefinate loop of "A Javascript is trying to open a new window" dialogs..
I think computer games are just another source of information (and entertainment), and you can do whatever you want with it. You can view many movies (Easy Rider, The Graduate, One Flew Over the Cookos Nest, and half a dozen others), and only find commic value. Then again, the person next to you will see the anti-govermental, anti-traditional themes of these movies.
And some people will try to refute this movies, or try to have them banned, because it offends their senses. There are lots of things that offend my senses, but I don't neccessary go around trying to have them removed from society.
On the other hand, you wouldn't be watching those kinds of movies, playing those kind of computer games, reading those kind of books if it wasn't something that you had as a pre-existing interests.
Do you really think reading McGovern's "A Time of War, A Time of Peace", the was sole cause me registering as a democrat? No, I had to have some pre-existing interest in the topic, and some pre-existing bias, or I probably wouldn't have even picked up the book. I probably would have never seen "Easy Rider" (or known what it was about), if I wasn't interested in freedom loving counter-culture and prejudice.
In conclusion, your beliefs and ideas will make you predisposed to lean a certain way, even before you get propaganda that reinforces it. At any point you can change you mind, such as recent events happening around you, other propaganda getting you lean the other way, and other events.
The best way to deal with this, is be open, give equal information on all sides of the issue, and the let the person make the best decission possible.
You have not tried KDE 2.1.1 then. KDE 2.0 was a.0 release, so it contained lots of bugs, and roughness around te edges. KDE 2.1.1 crashes very rarely (WindowMaker in my experience crashes more often). Speed is much improved from KDE 2.0. Speed is even better with KDE 2.2-beta1 (eventhough the beta has lots of rough edges). It's not as fast as KDE 1.x, but that's not surpsing as they have added many new features.
It's decently fast (not fustratingly slow), on a PowerMac 4400/200 (200 MHz 603ev) with 96 MB of RAM. The slowest thing is app launching, and even that has improved dramatically since 2.0 (especially Konqueror). Once apps are started, I haven't noticed any thing slow about them. KDE 2.1 features a good spinning disk progress indicator in the taskbar while apps are starting, 2.2 additionaly has an (optional) flashing icon that follows your curser to let you know the apps starting. I know users who run KDE 2.1.1 on Pentium 166 with 64 MB without serious speed problems.
Before you complain, please give KDE 2.1.1 a shot. Also, please get more then 64 MB of RAM, it will help greatly. I don't forsee KDE memory requirements increasing from that number anytime in the near future -- as there no plans to add major new features that will slow things down -- just things like improvements on existing things, additional optional features, plugins, and the alike.
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I suspect SUV's probably don't hold up well either for city/suburban driving. Truck engines are meant to be high torque, and have all of the power at low speeds. They can also do highway driving pretty well at higher speeds (but with low fuel economy as your pushing the engine relatively hard doing a totally different job). Not mention the waste of 4 wheel drive in highspeeds. Also, pickup trucks (and SUVs) aren't neccessarly designed for stop and go -- which you find in suburbs and cities. This puts extra stress on the engine, brakes, and the alike doing a job they weren't engineered to do. Minivans are the same way with innercity driving -- they don't hold up. Some taxicab companies tried them out for a while, and found they just don't work out -- they fail at early rates compared to typical taxicab cars.
It does, but it doesn't. It basically makes you a legal unit of your parents, so in a sense, they can't deny bill of rights, unless your parents give approval. Or so I understand it...
You are assuming that there isn't free in beer solutions for privacy. A free market economy, can support free or OpenSource software quite well, you can see rigth now with stuff like OpenSSH, alot of crypto stuff extra. I trust free market crypto (and privacy), far more then stuff generated and controlled by the goverment.
<p>The goverment has a much larger conflict of interest, then most non-profits and for-profit organizations. The US goverment is very big, and they have hands into everything -- who says they would respect your privacy.
<p>Free-market, does not mean only greedy money bag faceless corperations. Non-Profits are an essentail part of Free-markets.
Linus' 2.4 doesn't even compile on the PowerPC. Even PowerPC trees that have 2.4 are quite on unstable. HFS is buggy, and HFS writes will cause kernel panics. Some iMacs randomly crash with Linux 2.4. And there are lots of other problems...
So waiting on 2.4 is probably the safest, and smartest thing to do. Linux 2.2.18 is still a better choice for the majority of users.
X wouldn't have any problems, AFAIK, it would just run in a slightly strange resolution (like 768x1124 or something). XFree86 doesn't have any problems with this, as I've seen it run fine in other strange Mac-only resolutions, such as 832x648 or whatever that is.;)
Mac OS goes for simpicity, and saving screen space, over speed. Remember, Mac OS was orginally designed for 512x384 Black and White screens, and it still shows it.
Mac OS is also designed for a simpler time, when only one process would be running, and you would only really want to do one thing at a time. Yes, Apple hacked multitasking in later, but it was more of an after thought then a core feature. Threading has became more popular as of the past 5 years, but many apps don't use it either.
Mac OS was designed, and works best for those of us with one track minds, who don't want a million different things going on at once. While they have hacked in the capcity to allow you to do multiple things at once (in some cases), it's not meant to be a core feature.
You need to use yaboot, and not BootX on your machine (I assume it's a new world machine). Finding documentation for yaboot is a bit challenging, mainly because the New World PowerMacs in the hands of people who document (like me and many others;) or design distros (like LinuxPPC) don't have them. So we have to guess, and go on what the man pages say, and what other users report.
Of course once you get it installed, please, please feel free to write up stuff on yaboot.
the OS 9 still doesn't use all the PowerPC features (sepcially the multitasking part!),
FWIW, that's a 68020 + MMU feature (or a 68030). So if you got your Mac after '88, it should be able to use it. Unforently, Mac OS still (12 years later) can't use it.
The problem is limits on the iMac logic board these systems use, and limits on how much memory PowerPC Linux can properly address. iMac's have limited RAM slots, that have a limited capcity per SIMM, that totals up to 512 MB maxium. PowerPC Linux is very experimental at addressing large amounts of memory (over 768 MB), it requires a special kernel compile in option, and Linux 2.4.
SCSI disks are not an option, as the iMac's logic board doesn't have SCSI. They may have firewire (if they are made from iMac DV's logic boards).
They also have the strenghs and limitations of the iMac board. For one they have video outputs from all of the machines. Concivably, as they are 8 discrete systems, you could have it hooked up to 8 different USB keyboards, mice and VGA montiors, and use it to power a full office. Then again, that would be more expensive, and pain then you would want. The limitations are in the RAM, and the 32-bit G3 proccessor, because these are what the iMac has.
Actually, LinuxPPC was based off of MkLinux. MkLinux was orginally sponsered by Apple, and was the first Linux to be ported to PowerMacs. If you are interested in running monolithic (standard) Linux on your Nubus PowerMac, you will be happy to know there is some support for these machines in 2.4. More can be found at nubus-pm ac.sourceforge.net</a>
KConfig, the KDE 2 config file cache thing used to read way to many files when starting apps. In general it has been improved quite a bit from older version, but it still has room for improvement. But hey, it's a.0 release.
Magic Numbers are a good idea, but they are far from perfect. Like it or not, every once and a while, the magic number will be the same for multiple type of the files. Or a single type of file will have many different magic numbers (as they start differently).
Another problem with magic numbers, is app's can't own a certain type of file. For example, if you created a file with GIFconverter, you would probably want that app to open it, and not another one (that might be selected as the default for that file system).
That said, Magic Numbers do work fairly well, but they aren't a be all end all solution to file to app matching.
Then again, the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper sounds were not all new. Many of the ideas were taken from Bob Dylan's Highway 61 (recorded in '65) and the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. Then again, Sgt. Pepper took these items to a new level, twisted them, made them stranger, and progressed society in general.
Sgt. Pepper in actually wasn't a big seller compared to later albums (namely the Beatles' Abbey Road, which sold far more copies).
Mac OS X isn't totally new, but it's totally different, and has some innovative sounds and ideas, that will change a generation. Apple probably won't get most of the benifits, but other OS's like Linux and Windows. Mac OS X is too alternative to for the mainstream, but some of it's alternativeness will make it into mainstream culture.
Newworld Macs (iMac and later) usually require a boot partition for Linux, too (to hold the txbi script that OpenFirmware loads to load the yaboot booter on a Linux paritition). Old World (Biege) Macs don't need a bootstrap, there booter, quik, can boot directly off of a Linux partition.
Actually in KDE 2.0, there are no sleeps in the startkde script. They existed in 1.1.x, to avoid having the computer "race" ahead and load compents too early (out of correct order). They over did the sleep a little bit. KDE 2.0 uses kdeinit to start these processes, and it loads them in the correct order.
"has anyone fixed that whole no DVD, USB, winmodem support problem yet."
<p>DVD drives seem to work fairly well in PowerPC Linux, at least as CD-ROMs, and if you compile in the UDF filesystem. USB also works pretty good on the PowerPC, it supports most keyboards and mice with Linux 2.2, and with the optional 2.4-USB backport, you can use many USB addons. Winmodem support really isn't a problem, as Apple has not shipped a machine with a Winmodem, in about 4 years now (the built in ones are pretty much standard hardware).
<p><i>"Why concentrate so much on all these great new things (don't get me
wrong this is good) when we can't even support the huge hardware base of our biggest competitor."</i>
<p>Who really gives a f?ck about our greatest competitor. They are free to do what they want. Not to mention PPC Linux is already getting far better.
<p><i>"Regular users don't want SMP support that want to be able to connect to the internet and type documents that there boss can read."</i>
<p>Well for many people SMP is more useful. Especially people with CPU intensive stuff. That other stuff can always be done some othertime.
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Except that's not how the courts have interperated it in the past, or at least that's not how it has ever been used before. You'd have a hell of a uphill case to prove elsewise.
Not like the ACLU and many members of the Democratic party have been preventing law enforcement from doing their jobs either. ;)
South Carolina is often rated as one of the states with most special interest groups.
It's also a member of dixiecrat block of states, which typically legislate in the interests of bussiness over the interests of people. Overall, it's very conservative. Since the fall of New England Republicans (ie. liberal-moderate Republicans), it has overwhelming become Republican (with some Democrats (mainly older) at the State level). Not surpisingly Senator Shelby (R-AL) purposed tough new legislation against goverment leaks. Typical dixiecrat voting patterns.
In conclusion, as party isn't as important in the south -- Democrats and Republicans are both very socially conservative. So special interests win. And that's not always a good thing.
It takes time to render graphics, css, font styles and the a like. It's far faster to render the page in a plain-ish fashion (no special colors / fonts / css), and then after that render it with everything (at least with a modem and a slow-ish machine).
KDE 2.2 gives you the option to choose if you want to open or not open a window.open() with a dialog. Unforently it doesn't remember your choice yet, so everytime you go to that site, your prompted again. It also has problems with some JavaScripts, that will keep trying to open a window, while the window.open() yes/no dialog is on your screen -- and will create an indefinate loop of "A Javascript is trying to open a new window" dialogs..
I think computer games are just another source of information (and entertainment), and you can do whatever you want with it. You can view many movies (Easy Rider, The Graduate, One Flew Over the Cookos Nest, and half a dozen others), and only find commic value. Then again, the person next to you will see the anti-govermental, anti-traditional themes of these movies.
And some people will try to refute this movies, or try to have them banned, because it offends their senses. There are lots of things that offend my senses, but I don't neccessary go around trying to have them removed from society.
On the other hand, you wouldn't be watching those kinds of movies, playing those kind of computer games, reading those kind of books if it wasn't something that you had as a pre-existing interests.
Do you really think reading McGovern's "A Time of War, A Time of Peace", the was sole cause me registering as a democrat? No, I had to have some pre-existing interest in the topic, and some pre-existing bias, or I probably wouldn't have even picked up the book. I probably would have never seen "Easy Rider" (or known what it was about), if I wasn't interested in freedom loving counter-culture and prejudice.
In conclusion, your beliefs and ideas will make you predisposed to lean a certain way, even before you get propaganda that reinforces it. At any point you can change you mind, such as recent events happening around you, other propaganda getting you lean the other way, and other events.
The best way to deal with this, is be open, give equal information on all sides of the issue, and the let the person make the best decission possible.
You have not tried KDE 2.1.1 then. KDE 2.0 was a .0 release, so it contained lots of bugs, and roughness around te edges. KDE 2.1.1 crashes very rarely (WindowMaker in my experience crashes more often). Speed is much improved from KDE 2.0. Speed is even better with KDE 2.2-beta1 (eventhough the beta has lots of rough edges). It's not as fast as KDE 1.x, but that's not surpsing as they have added many new features.
It's decently fast (not fustratingly slow), on a PowerMac 4400/200 (200 MHz 603ev) with 96 MB of RAM. The slowest thing is app launching, and even that has improved dramatically since 2.0 (especially Konqueror). Once apps are started, I haven't noticed any thing slow about them. KDE 2.1 features a good spinning disk progress indicator in the taskbar while apps are starting, 2.2 additionaly has an (optional) flashing icon that follows your curser to let you know the apps starting. I know users who run KDE 2.1.1 on Pentium 166 with 64 MB without serious speed problems.
Before you complain, please give KDE 2.1.1 a shot. Also, please get more then 64 MB of RAM, it will help greatly. I don't forsee KDE memory requirements increasing from that number anytime in the near future -- as there no plans to add major new features that will slow things down -- just things like improvements on existing things, additional optional features, plugins, and the alike.
I suspect SUV's probably don't hold up well either for city/suburban driving. Truck engines are meant to be high torque, and have all of the power at low speeds. They can also do highway driving pretty well at higher speeds (but with low fuel economy as your pushing the engine relatively hard doing a totally different job). Not mention the waste of 4 wheel drive in highspeeds. Also, pickup trucks (and SUVs) aren't neccessarly designed for stop and go -- which you find in suburbs and cities. This puts extra stress on the engine, brakes, and the alike doing a job they weren't engineered to do. Minivans are the same way with innercity driving -- they don't hold up. Some taxicab companies tried them out for a while, and found they just don't work out -- they fail at early rates compared to typical taxicab cars.
It does, but it doesn't. It basically makes you a legal unit of your parents, so in a sense, they can't deny bill of rights, unless your parents give approval. Or so I understand it...
Trust is an important key, but having the goverment force it upon us, is far from ideal.
You are assuming that there isn't free in beer solutions for privacy. A free market economy, can support free or OpenSource software quite well, you can see rigth now with stuff like OpenSSH, alot of crypto stuff extra. I trust free market crypto (and privacy), far more then stuff generated and controlled by the goverment.
<p>The goverment has a much larger conflict of interest, then most non-profits and for-profit organizations. The US goverment is very big, and they have hands into everything -- who says they would respect your privacy.
<p>Free-market, does not mean only greedy money bag faceless corperations. Non-Profits are an essentail part of Free-markets.
Linus' 2.4 doesn't even compile on the PowerPC. Even PowerPC trees that have 2.4 are quite on unstable. HFS is buggy, and HFS writes will cause kernel panics. Some iMacs randomly crash with Linux 2.4. And there are lots of other problems...
So waiting on 2.4 is probably the safest, and smartest thing to do. Linux 2.2.18 is still a better choice for the majority of users.
X wouldn't have any problems, AFAIK, it would just run in a slightly strange resolution (like 768x1124 or something). XFree86 doesn't have any problems with this, as I've seen it run fine in other strange Mac-only resolutions, such as 832x648 or whatever that is. ;)
Mac OS goes for simpicity, and saving screen space, over speed. Remember, Mac OS was orginally designed for 512x384 Black and White screens, and it still shows it.
Mac OS is also designed for a simpler time, when only one process would be running, and you would only really want to do one thing at a time. Yes, Apple hacked multitasking in later, but it was more of an after thought then a core feature. Threading has became more popular as of the past 5 years, but many apps don't use it either.
Mac OS was designed, and works best for those of us with one track minds, who don't want a million different things going on at once. While they have hacked in the capcity to allow you to do multiple things at once (in some cases), it's not meant to be a core feature.
You need to use yaboot, and not BootX on your machine (I assume it's a new world machine). Finding documentation for yaboot is a bit challenging, mainly because the New World PowerMacs in the hands of people who document (like me and many others ;) or design distros (like LinuxPPC) don't have them. So we have to guess, and go on what the man pages say, and what other users report.
Of course once you get it installed, please, please feel free to write up stuff on yaboot.
the OS 9 still doesn't use all the PowerPC features (sepcially the multitasking part!),
FWIW, that's a 68020 + MMU feature (or a 68030). So if you got your Mac after '88, it should be able to use it. Unforently, Mac OS still (12 years later) can't use it.
The problem is limits on the iMac logic board these systems use, and limits on how much memory PowerPC Linux can properly address. iMac's have limited RAM slots, that have a limited capcity per SIMM, that totals up to 512 MB maxium. PowerPC Linux is very experimental at addressing large amounts of memory (over 768 MB), it requires a special kernel compile in option, and Linux 2.4.
SCSI disks are not an option, as the iMac's logic board doesn't have SCSI. They may have firewire (if they are made from iMac DV's logic boards).
They also have the strenghs and limitations of the iMac board. For one they have video outputs from all of the machines. Concivably, as they are 8 discrete systems, you could have it hooked up to 8 different USB keyboards, mice and VGA montiors, and use it to power a full office. Then again, that would be more expensive, and pain then you would want. The limitations are in the RAM, and the 32-bit G3 proccessor, because these are what the iMac has.
Actually, LinuxPPC was based off of MkLinux. MkLinux was orginally sponsered by Apple, and was the first Linux to be ported to PowerMacs. If you are interested in running monolithic (standard) Linux on your Nubus PowerMac, you will be happy to know there is some support for these machines in 2.4. More can be found at nubus-pm ac.sourceforge.net</a>
KConfig, the KDE 2 config file cache thing used to read way to many files when starting apps. In general it has been improved quite a bit from older version, but it still has room for improvement. But hey, it's a .0 release.
Magic Numbers are a good idea, but they are far from perfect. Like it or not, every once and a while, the magic number will be the same for multiple type of the files. Or a single type of file will have many different magic numbers (as they start differently).
Another problem with magic numbers, is app's can't own a certain type of file. For example, if you created a file with GIFconverter, you would probably want that app to open it, and not another one (that might be selected as the default for that file system).
That said, Magic Numbers do work fairly well, but they aren't a be all end all solution to file to app matching.
Then again, the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper sounds were not all new. Many of the ideas were taken from Bob Dylan's Highway 61 (recorded in '65) and the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. Then again, Sgt. Pepper took these items to a new level, twisted them, made them stranger, and progressed society in general.
Sgt. Pepper in actually wasn't a big seller compared to later albums (namely the Beatles' Abbey Road, which sold far more copies).
Mac OS X isn't totally new, but it's totally different, and has some innovative sounds and ideas, that will change a generation. Apple probably won't get most of the benifits, but other OS's like Linux and Windows. Mac OS X is too alternative to for the mainstream, but some of it's alternativeness will make it into mainstream culture.
Newworld Macs (iMac and later) usually require a boot partition for Linux, too (to hold the txbi script that OpenFirmware loads to load the yaboot booter on a Linux paritition). Old World (Biege) Macs don't need a bootstrap, there booter, quik, can boot directly off of a Linux partition.
I've done some info on these booters over at iMacLinux Guides and Howtos. Also check out PenguinPPC for more stuff.
Actually in KDE 2.0, there are no sleeps in the startkde script. They existed in 1.1.x, to avoid having the computer "race" ahead and load compents too early (out of correct order). They over did the sleep a little bit. KDE 2.0 uses kdeinit to start these processes, and it loads them in the correct order.
Yes, it requires you have a jre installed, as it uses that to display Java applications.
"has anyone fixed that whole no DVD, USB, winmodem support problem yet."
<p>DVD drives seem to work fairly well in PowerPC Linux, at least as CD-ROMs, and if you compile in the UDF filesystem. USB also works pretty good on the PowerPC, it supports most keyboards and mice with Linux 2.2, and with the optional 2.4-USB backport, you can use many USB addons. Winmodem support really isn't a problem, as Apple has not shipped a machine with a Winmodem, in about 4 years now (the built in ones are pretty much standard hardware).
<p><i>"Why concentrate so much on all these great new things (don't get me
wrong this is good) when we can't even support the huge hardware base of our biggest competitor."</i>
<p>Who really gives a f?ck about our greatest competitor. They are free to do what they want. Not to mention PPC Linux is already getting far better.
<p><i>"Regular users don't want SMP support that want to be able to connect to the internet and type documents that there boss can read."</i>
<p>Well for many people SMP is more useful. Especially people with CPU intensive stuff. That other stuff can always be done some othertime.