And yet, they're still dead. It's small consolation, isn't it? Whether we accidentally killed them trying to keep the peace or they were intentionally killed to keep the peace (Saddam) it matters little to the dead or their relatives. It might make you feel better about it, it doesn't make me (as an American citizen) sleep any easier.
The U.S. military announced in 2004 in Iraq that several crates of the old shells had been uncovered and that they contained a blister agent that was no longer active. Neither the military nor the White House nor the CIA considered the shells to be evidence of what was alleged by the Bush administration to be a current Iraqi program to make chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
I think you are being every misleading when you say WMD's were found in Iraq. You're trying to give the false impression that there were WMD's that were still a threat. Basically all that were found were refuse from previous stockpiles NOT a current WMD program. If the agent is no longer active, is it a WMD?
The question was almost certainly a response to the "Nerd's Spreadhsheet" bit.
See, the hyper spreadsheet is for nerds, just like R would be.
Did you consider his response in the context of the slashdot article/submission? Or do you simply have a grudge against people who use software without "professional documentation and training"?
It does seem odd that slashdot has to resort to making a troll out of an article that already
has negative things to say about the linux development process presumably just to garner posts and addclicks and whatever.
I read the whole article and even though I was a user of -ck off and on for a long time I still
appreciate the possibility that the actions of the other kernel hackers
is open to interpretation. The price you pay for open development is that the discontent felt by some
is viewable by all. Is there no disagreement in commercial environments? You can sometimes see it, mostly
it's hidden. Are a small army of bright people going to agree all of the time? Not going to happen...
I think in the case of interactivity Con has it right, it's hard to measure and I think the the kernel hackers
have perhaps relied too much on measurable elements of kernel performance. Perhaps that's a mistake or maybe it's the only
sane thing they can do.
You wouldn't rather just fix it yourself? Or at least gain some understanding of why it was broken even if someone else eventually fixes it? What happens when AP forgets to pay the support contract bill and you call them and they tell you to stuff it?
You can pay corporations to support free software, BTW. Not sure if you've heard about that yet I know it's a recent development and all.
Also, free software is about more than "philosophy" it's really about the license. Good luck with all your commercial solutions when your company hits a cash flow problem, or forgets to pay the support bill, or uses an unsupported configuration, or allows support to lapse and they want to recertify. All of these are common problems with commercial software when you are dependent on someone else for support. It amazes me that people are still allowed to make purchasing decisions in companies without considering the implications of the license in question. It defines what you can do with the software! How is that not most practical aspect of the software in question?
It is a very chessy road, you always have to get the newest WINE version instead of the packages and that means compiling in the case of WINE else you have to wait months for the packages.
Not sure which distribution you use but the latest wine is in the extras for FC6 almost immediately and the repository for ubuntu is updated very quickly as well.
Also, I'll be using the word "chessy" to describe something classy, with intellectual overtones from now on;)
I guess I have a nit to pick with the statement that wine is "a tool of last resort".
What if the application you need or want to run simply only exists for Windows (or not-linux, at least)? Your last resort as also your only resort, or first resort if you will.
Two examples: Remedy (remedy.com) and World of Warcraft. In the case of Remedy it's a hideous system for allowing people
with no experience designing user interfaces or databases to do both simultaneously. I hate it, but my company has used it
for a decade with no linux version in sight. Wine has allowed me (for most of that decade) to avoid dual-booting, using vmware, or using multiple computers but I can still do what I have to do in remedy.
World of Warcfaft is a slightly different example. I could play games in linux that are native. However, after some set up pain WoW runs pretty well for me in WINE so why not? (Ethical concerns about non-free software aside, of course.)
I really don't see any of this "preaching WINE to every Windows convert" nor any of this "Rabid WINE advocacy" that you speak of. Maybe you're thinking of the old slashdot, before most of the actual free software enthusiasts left for greener pastures?
And where did they go? I didn't get an invite...
If you do and your reception is "good enough" then it will look awesome.
If you don't have an HDTV, it still might look better than your analag OTA reception but wouldn't IMHO be worth spending $300 to find out.
How do you determine if your reception will be "good enough"? Ask your neighbors, or buy a tuner from somewhere with a good return policy so you can take it back if you don't like it.
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Does it matter to me? Not really. Whether Jones is a shill for IBM or acting on "her" own is really irrelevant - either way it's obvious the person or people are biased against SCO.
You don't say so but being biased against SCO does not invalidate groklaw.
Virtually everything written on groklaw is exhaustively sourced. If you prefer
to not read the commentary because of it's obvious bias, the primary documents
really support what Pamela is saying.
One wonders if, like Microsoft, the bias stems from consistent and very shady business and legal
practices leading to some skepticism about the motives of the company in question.
Anyone who doesn't have an opinion about SCO simply doesn't know enough about this litigation.
After years, there still isn't any evidence of their claims being true... nor is there any real
support for their crazy legal theories. Couple that with all the attempts to discredit free software, linux, the GPL,
and Pamela herself, is there anyone who's opinion isn't negative and therefore biased?
Expecting WINE to make Linux run MS programs identically to Windows is never goign to happen. And yet, it does work well in many circumstances for many programs.
Have you tried it recently?
Maybe you would or maybe you wouldn't be surprised by the number of Americans who think torture is perfectly fine if they guy is guilty or we think he's probably guilty and he's not American. Just ask around my office...
I learned that if I spent enough time fighting wimpy monsters in a dungeon I'd already cleared that I could make myself tougher with minimal risk.
Yet, there was nothing challenging about that.
I think this has always been the lesson of computer RPG's.
Even nethack has a little bit of that... early in the game though the need to pursue food usually drives you downward (and into riskier situations) preventing you from simply milking the easier levels for lucky equipment drops.
"AT&T could certainly try to go after any company that sells products like iPod - there's always a strategy with licensing technology," Aharonian said. "If you charge too much it gives people the ability to challenge the patent in court. If you charge something less, most people will just sign the license since it costs more to fight than to pay the license."
How can he say something like that and not feel dirty...
I'm glad someone pointed this out. It kills me that slashdot has changed so much that someone is allowed to admit to using and being enthused about a M$ product without getting thrashed.
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And yet, they're still dead. It's small consolation, isn't it? Whether we accidentally killed them trying to keep the peace or they were intentionally killed to keep the peace (Saddam) it matters little to the dead or their relatives. It might make you feel better about it, it doesn't make me (as an American citizen) sleep any easier.
The U.S. military announced in 2004 in Iraq that several crates of the old shells had been uncovered and that they contained a blister agent that was no longer active. Neither the military nor the White House nor the CIA considered the shells to be evidence of what was alleged by the Bush administration to be a current Iraqi program to make chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
I think you are being every misleading when you say WMD's were found in Iraq. You're trying to give the false impression that there were WMD's that were still a threat. Basically all that were found were refuse from previous stockpiles NOT a current WMD program. If the agent is no longer active, is it a WMD?
Or, they want to play with their friends and their friends play wow.
Are you a "herd-animal" because you want to play video games with your RL friends?
A couple of reasons come to mind:
Some poeple would rather not give any (more) money to Microsoft, as it tends to reward them for abusing their monopoly position
Some poeple would rather not run their database on Windows, or be locked into running their database on windows in case they change their mind later.
Those are valid reasons. Your stated and implied only reason, is just a stupid troll.
As mentioned elsewhere, I would look at rsnapshot or rdiff-backup. Scripts (no GUI, that I know of) but both wonderful in their own way.
I would have thought that would have been obvious... maybe I'll go RTFA now.
The question was almost certainly a response to the "Nerd's Spreadhsheet" bit.
See, the hyper spreadsheet is for nerds, just like R would be.
Did you consider his response in the context of the slashdot article/submission? Or do you simply have a grudge against people
who use software without "professional documentation and training"?
You say: "where it is unclear or fuzzy say making a program that run and communicates with a non GPL Program"
Are you saying you think communicating with GPL programs might be a violation?
Either you are a troll or clueless.
It does seem odd that slashdot has to resort to making a troll out of an article that already has negative things to say about the linux development process presumably just to garner posts and addclicks and whatever.
I read the whole article and even though I was a user of -ck off and on for a long time I still appreciate the possibility that the actions of the other kernel hackers is open to interpretation. The price you pay for open development is that the discontent felt by some is viewable by all. Is there no disagreement in commercial environments? You can sometimes see it, mostly it's hidden. Are a small army of bright people going to agree all of the time? Not going to happen...
I think in the case of interactivity Con has it right, it's hard to measure and I think the the kernel hackers have perhaps relied too much on measurable elements of kernel performance. Perhaps that's a mistake or maybe it's the only sane thing they can do.
You wouldn't rather just fix it yourself? Or at least gain some understanding of why it was broken even if someone else eventually fixes it? What happens when AP forgets to pay the support contract bill and you call them and they tell you to stuff it?
You can pay corporations to support free software, BTW. Not sure if you've heard about that yet I know it's a recent development and all.
Also, free software is about more than "philosophy" it's really about the license. Good luck with all your commercial solutions when your company hits a cash flow problem, or forgets to pay the support bill, or uses an unsupported configuration, or allows support to lapse and they want to recertify. All of these are common problems with commercial software when you are dependent on someone else for support. It amazes me that people are still allowed to make purchasing decisions in companies without considering the implications of the license in question. It defines what you can do with the software! How is that not most practical aspect of the software in question?
Not sure which distribution you use but the latest wine is in the extras for FC6 almost immediately and the repository for ubuntu is updated very quickly as well.
Also, I'll be using the word "chessy" to describe something classy, with intellectual overtones from now on ;)
I guess I have a nit to pick with the statement that wine is "a tool of last resort".
What if the application you need or want to run simply only exists for Windows (or not-linux, at least)? Your last resort as also your only resort, or first resort if you will.
Two examples: Remedy (remedy.com) and World of Warcraft. In the case of Remedy it's a hideous system for allowing people with no experience designing user interfaces or databases to do both simultaneously. I hate it, but my company has used it for a decade with no linux version in sight. Wine has allowed me (for most of that decade) to avoid dual-booting, using vmware, or using multiple computers but I can still do what I have to do in remedy.
World of Warcfaft is a slightly different example. I could play games in linux that are native. However, after some set up pain WoW runs pretty well for me in WINE so why not? (Ethical concerns about non-free software aside, of course.)
I really don't see any of this "preaching WINE to every Windows convert" nor any of this "Rabid WINE advocacy" that you speak of. Maybe you're thinking of the old slashdot, before most of the actual free software enthusiasts left for greener pastures? And where did they go? I didn't get an invite...
You don't say if you have an HDTV.
If you do and your reception is "good enough" then it will look awesome.
If you don't have an HDTV, it still might look better than your analag OTA reception but wouldn't IMHO be worth spending
$300 to find out.
How do you determine if your reception will be "good enough"?
Ask your neighbors, or buy a tuner from somewhere with a good return policy so you can take it back if you don't like it.
You don't say so but being biased against SCO does not invalidate groklaw. Virtually everything written on groklaw is exhaustively sourced. If you prefer to not read the commentary because of it's obvious bias, the primary documents really support what Pamela is saying.
One wonders if, like Microsoft, the bias stems from consistent and very shady business and legal practices leading to some skepticism about the motives of the company in question.
Anyone who doesn't have an opinion about SCO simply doesn't know enough about this litigation. After years, there still isn't any evidence of their claims being true... nor is there any real support for their crazy legal theories. Couple that with all the attempts to discredit free software, linux, the GPL, and Pamela herself, is there anyone who's opinion isn't negative and therefore biased?
Sarbanes Oxley.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes-Oxley_Act
The IT Impacts section is what has made corporate IT/development environments crazy with
paper work and sign offs and arbitrary access limitations.
As if there wasn't enough of that before...
Maybe you would or maybe you wouldn't be surprised by the number of Americans who think torture is perfectly fine if they guy is guilty or we think he's probably guilty and he's not American. Just ask around my office...
I learned that if I spent enough time fighting wimpy monsters in a dungeon I'd already cleared
that I could make myself tougher with minimal risk.
Yet, there was nothing challenging about that.
I think this has always been the lesson of computer RPG's.
Even nethack has a little bit of that... early in the game though the need to pursue food usually drives
you downward (and into riskier situations) preventing you from simply milking the easier levels for lucky equipment drops.
After 0.99 comes 0.100 anyway
Convicted monopolists often have burdens imposed on them that fairly competing companies wouldn't.
And of course, you were trolling as nowhere was it stated the MS would have to "support" any 3rd party.
And MacOS X will work much better on their next laptop... if it's a Mac.
You argument is brain-damaged.
I'm glad someone pointed this out. It kills me that slashdot has
changed so much that someone is allowed to admit to using and being
enthused about a M$ product without getting thrashed.
Never would have happened in the old days...
Doesn't anyone ever read their RFC's?
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1627.txt
NAT sucks, ipv6+firewall will be a better system. I hope.
IPv6 is a bit like HDTV... it's been "coming" for a long time,
but I can actually watch some shows in HD now, so maybe there is
hope after all!
I adminster the mail server among other machines (~100 UNIX/Linux servers) and no one's ever even implied
I might one day have an office.