Fundamentalist zealots are perfectly acceptable and even nice people. You do agree that becoming a monk requires a certain amount of zeal and fundamentalism, don't you?;)
What people are really objecting to are violent ideologues. Doesn't much matter what the ideology is either (Islam, Judeism, Christianity, Communism, Capitolism, Socialism, Marxism, EMACS, vi, Linux, BSD, Microsoft, Apple, VHS, Betamax, Red Sox, Yankees,...).
I think he also missed out on people who prefer Open Source because they don't trust closed source. This is a big issue with military software and with voting machines.
"National armies under command of National leadership cannot be called "terrorists," sorry PLO."
I'm sorry, I have to take exception to that statement, and no I am not a fan of the PLO.
Terrorism is a military tactic. It is the attempt to break the enemy's will to resist by causing terror, panic, and civil disruption in the civilian population. As such terrorism is available for use by any military force, be they regular uniformed armies or guerrillas.
Hitlers bombing of London (not a military target) was unsuccessful terrorism, The destruction of Nagasaki and Hiroshima was successful terrorism. The PLO has had a mixed record of success with terrorism. The IRA has had some spectacular failures (to date).
So to answer your request for a definition of terrorist:
One who uses tactics that induce terror in the population of the enemy.
As long as it loads no spyware or compromises system security I have no problems with it. As far as I'm concerned it's a specialty app for that one service.
That being said I must mention that I far prefer OS software, OS software is the only software that you can be reasonably sure does what it says it does and only that. It's way too easy to hide malware in closed source software.
The port should be fairly easy from Mac OS X to Linux.
Wear a bandanna or a cap of some sort when working on a computer on a hot day. I once fried a motherboard when a drop of sweat landed on it unnoticed.
Make sure that you touch the power supply when handeling static sensitive components. If the power supply is plugged in (you did turn off the power didn't you?) it will provide a path to ground. This is particularly important when installing video cards.
Get the book "Upgrading and Repairing PC's" published by QUE. There's a Linux edition out there for those of us who use Linux, but it's largly the same as the MS Windows version.
Don't wear static generating clothing when working on the computer. Cotton is good, silk is VERY BAD INDEED.
Wash your hands with soap and warm water beforehand and handle all components by the edges. You don't want to get skin oil on the circuit traces, it's corrosive.
That's about all I have. Keep in mind that I have been building and maintaining my own hardware since 1990. It isn't rocket science (which isn't that hard incidently) as all the components are modular and plug into the computer.
About the only tools you'll need are one of those orange handled Buck screwdrivers with the four bits that you see at the Home Depot, a pair of long nosed pliers for picking up the screws that you will drop into the case and a nut driver to tighten the standoffs on your various cards when you inevitably unscrew the standoff insted of the screw.
I agree with you. I do think that he wants it to be the skeptics network. Unfortunately, I don't want to watch a thinly veiled attack on religion.
This whole Science Channel stuff is bringing back memories of Thesis Defences. Ahh the joy of learning about "The Chemistry of Non-Benzine Conjugated Ring Systems". The thrill of discovering that no one had noticed you sleeping because everyone else was asleep, thank goodness the room was dark (wait, that didn't help). The adulation given to the PhD candidate who had managed to get six overworked and highly caffienated Professors to sleep.
The joy of asking the lecturer to repeat that last part because we had PASSED OUT FROM SHEER BOREDOM!
Face it, most scientific lectures are so boring that you have to drink a gallon of Greek coffee (a lethal dose, one 8 oz cup boosted my heart rate from my normal 60 beats/min. to 130 beats/min.) just to stay awake, and those are the subjects that you are interested in...
"I only recently decided to install SETI@home on my mostly idle home computer. It got me thinking though, are those free processor cycles truly free? Has anyone had experience with processors dying prematurely due to a constant, heavy load, or is usage pretty inconsequential? What about other components, like harddrives? And how much does a 100% processor load increase your power bill versus a 1-2% idle load over the course of a year? It's easy to think of idle computers as an untapped computational resource, but what are the costs to the computer owners?"
My computer has a 250 watt power supply. The power supply will always draw 250 watts regardless of the load I place on it, whatever I don't use goes to ground. To run my computer 24/7 for a year it costs me ~$50 US/Year[(24 hr/day)*(365 days/year)*(0.02111 dollars/Kilowatt Hour)*(0.250 Kilowatts)=$46.23 per year US Dollars].
Hardrives and other components with mechanical parts are of course subject to wear and tear from moving parts. So system, CPU, and power supply fans need monitoring and occasional replacement (I got spares). Solid state components tend to fail due to voltage spikes and other untoward events, get yourself a good line filtering UPS.
Nothing is truly free, you are paying for electricity and depreciation of your system. The good news is that systen hardware is so reliable that by far your main cost is power. The hardware will likely last well past the point when your system is more valuable as raw materials than as a computer.
The E-Prime examples appear to be loaded. Not only do they appear longer than the Standard English, they in fact contain more information. The E-Prime syntax does not clarify matters, it simply leads to clumsy circumloqutions.
If you really want to try thinking differently (and more logicaly), try Latin or Greek.
There are perfectly usable formats out ther that can be used, such as PostScript, PDF, HTML, XHTML, etc.
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DRM did not work for software (it only annoyed us during the 80's and early 90's) and we only had to deal with it during installation. It will certainly not work for books and multimedia.
The real answer to DRM is to make it cultural. Then we can have conversations like this:
Tom: Sure I'll let you use my copy of LOTR.
Abe: Thanks, I'll buy my own copy next week when I get paid.
Litigation (RIAA's tactic) and draconian laws (DMCA) only serve to delegitimize the producers and distributers of these works. Baen books may find that it is riding the wave of the future.
I'm not a communist, but I would rather have been a peasant under Lenin than under the Tsar.
While I agree about the rest of your statment I do have to say that Lenin was NOT AN IMPROVEMENT!!! and Stalin was worse than Hitler.
From the previous post:
You too can live like a Soviet peasant in the 1920s!
Irrelevant, Soviet peasants did not have electricity, and were murdered by Stalin in the 1930's before they could get it. Or are you saying that regulation of the power grid leads to genocide?
In order to get a truly dergulated power supply system we would need multiple and parallel electrical grids in the same area. That way while Green Electric is having a massive blackout and all my neighbors are without power, I, being a customer of Repetitive Redundant Electric Co. would still have my lights on.
Some services are natural monopolies. Deregulating a natural monopoly results (SUPRISE!) in a monopoly. I was never able to understand how energy trading worked. Thanks to this article I now realise the reason for my deficient understanding.
I run Redhat 7.1. I never had any of these problems. Sounds like your system is either grossley misconfigured, or hardware incompatible with Linux.
Check your hardware for Linux compatibility. I tried to get X to run with an incompatible video card and recieved no joy. I finally gave up and bought a Linux compatible video card and viola, runs like a dream.
Once you get your system properly configured, that includes using the Redhat Update Agent (in the System submenu), it will reveal NT for the unreliable OS that it is.
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What people are really objecting to are violent ideologues. Doesn't much matter what the ideology is either (Islam, Judeism, Christianity, Communism, Capitolism, Socialism, Marxism, EMACS, vi, Linux, BSD, Microsoft, Apple, VHS, Betamax, Red Sox, Yankees, ...).
I think he also missed out on people who prefer Open Source because they don't trust closed source. This is a big issue with military software and with voting machines.
I'm sorry, I have to take exception to that statement, and no I am not a fan of the PLO.
Terrorism is a military tactic. It is the attempt to break the enemy's will to resist by causing terror, panic, and civil disruption in the civilian population. As such terrorism is available for use by any military force, be they regular uniformed armies or guerrillas.
Hitlers bombing of London (not a military target) was unsuccessful terrorism, The destruction of Nagasaki and Hiroshima was successful terrorism. The PLO has had a mixed record of success with terrorism. The IRA has had some spectacular failures (to date).
So to answer your request for a definition of terrorist:
One who uses tactics that induce terror in the population of the enemy.
That being said I must mention that I far prefer OS software, OS software is the only software that you can be reasonably sure does what it says it does and only that. It's way too easy to hide malware in closed source software.
The port should be fairly easy from Mac OS X to Linux.
Wear a bandanna or a cap of some sort when working on a computer on a hot day. I once fried a motherboard when a drop of sweat landed on it unnoticed.
Make sure that you touch the power supply when handeling static sensitive components. If the power supply is plugged in (you did turn off the power didn't you?) it will provide a path to ground. This is particularly important when installing video cards.
Get the book "Upgrading and Repairing PC's" published by QUE. There's a Linux edition out there for those of us who use Linux, but it's largly the same as the MS Windows version.
Don't wear static generating clothing when working on the computer. Cotton is good, silk is VERY BAD INDEED.
Wash your hands with soap and warm water beforehand and handle all components by the edges. You don't want to get skin oil on the circuit traces, it's corrosive.
That's about all I have. Keep in mind that I have been building and maintaining my own hardware since 1990. It isn't rocket science (which isn't that hard incidently) as all the components are modular and plug into the computer.
About the only tools you'll need are one of those orange handled Buck screwdrivers with the four bits that you see at the Home Depot, a pair of long nosed pliers for picking up the screws that you will drop into the case and a nut driver to tighten the standoffs on your various cards when you inevitably unscrew the standoff insted of the screw.
I don't get it, I thought that's how all hardware upgrades go. That screwdriver in the power suppy idea for overclocking sounds good though...
"That can't be right, my brother promised me Florida!"
KILL THE TROLL!!!
Yes, me too. Grrr! Linux User. Windows free since 1998.
Must Stay Awake...
ZZZZZ......
This whole Science Channel stuff is bringing back memories of Thesis Defences. Ahh the joy of learning about "The Chemistry of Non-Benzine Conjugated Ring Systems". The thrill of discovering that no one had noticed you sleeping because everyone else was asleep, thank goodness the room was dark (wait, that didn't help). The adulation given to the PhD candidate who had managed to get six overworked and highly caffienated Professors to sleep.
The joy of asking the lecturer to repeat that last part because we had PASSED OUT FROM SHEER BOREDOM!
Face it, most scientific lectures are so boring that you have to drink a gallon of Greek coffee (a lethal dose, one 8 oz cup boosted my heart rate from my normal 60 beats/min. to 130 beats/min.) just to stay awake, and those are the subjects that you are interested in...
My computer has a 250 watt power supply. The power supply will always draw 250 watts regardless of the load I place on it, whatever I don't use goes to ground. To run my computer 24/7 for a year it costs me ~$50 US/Year[(24 hr/day)*(365 days/year)*(0.02111 dollars/Kilowatt Hour)*(0.250 Kilowatts)=$46.23 per year US Dollars].
Hardrives and other components with mechanical parts are of course subject to wear and tear from moving parts. So system, CPU, and power supply fans need monitoring and occasional replacement (I got spares). Solid state components tend to fail due to voltage spikes and other untoward events, get yourself a good line filtering UPS.
Nothing is truly free, you are paying for electricity and depreciation of your system. The good news is that systen hardware is so reliable that by far your main cost is power. The hardware will likely last well past the point when your system is more valuable as raw materials than as a computer.
I have Identified what you did wrong. Next time plug the computer into a 110 V outlet.
mmm... Fried Ballmer...
If you really want to try thinking differently (and more logicaly), try Latin or Greek.
The Bible was written in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek. The Latin was a translation.
You played Paranoia!
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DRM did not work for software (it only annoyed us during the 80's and early 90's) and we only had to deal with it during installation. It will certainly not work for books and multimedia.
The real answer to DRM is to make it cultural. Then we can have conversations like this:
Tom: Sure I'll let you use my copy of LOTR.
Abe: Thanks, I'll buy my own copy next week when I get paid.
Litigation (RIAA's tactic) and draconian laws (DMCA) only serve to delegitimize the producers and distributers of these works. Baen books may find that it is riding the wave of the future.
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Adrenaline junkies don't read.
From the Greek:
Orthos - Upright or correct
Doxa - Glory
So Orthodoxy literaly means Correct Glory.
In order to attain the literal meaning of Orthodoxy you must use all your faculties, all the time. Your signature line is incorrect.
While I agree about the rest of your statment I do have to say that Lenin was NOT AN IMPROVEMENT!!! and Stalin was worse than Hitler.
From the previous post:
You too can live like a Soviet peasant in the 1920s!
Irrelevant, Soviet peasants did not have electricity, and were murdered by Stalin in the 1930's before they could get it. Or are you saying that regulation of the power grid leads to genocide?
We would need bigger telephone poles though...
I just made a table leg on my electric lathe. Do the math.
Energy trading does not in fact exist.
We need to regulate the power industry again.
Check your hardware for Linux compatibility. I tried to get X to run with an incompatible video card and recieved no joy. I finally gave up and bought a Linux compatible video card and viola, runs like a dream.
Once you get your system properly configured, that includes using the Redhat Update Agent (in the System submenu), it will reveal NT for the unreliable OS that it is.