You could always go read some of their literature for yourself and find out that they're not lunatics, they just have different points of reference.
Ooops, that would require an open mind.
A large number of north americans (Canadians as well as Americans) have a very low view of felons because all they see on TV are the worst 2% or so. They never see the guy who went to jail for not having his tax receipts for his business from 4 years ago, or the person who speeds excessively on an empty highway to get to a client's location or else he'll lose them, etc.
A _lot_ of people go to jail for things that you and I either have or would do. These people should _not_ be looked down on the way they are.
When I first told my highschool teachers I could hack into the network she asked me not to...then asked if I wanted to help teach the computers class and design assignments for the other students.
If you invested your money 6 months ago, it would have gone to those creditors _before_ they went bankrupt. As it is, they now owe creditors money and those creditors are _out_ by that much money. What if Ximian were owed money by Symantec and Symantec went out of business? Wouldn't we be upset that Ximian was out that much cash?
It used to be a real community - people actively exchanging ideas in a postive manner, everyone happy to see Linux in the news for some reason, and people actually working on projects to contribute back to the community.
When I introduce people to the free software community, I introduce them to this side of it and they are often eager to share their developments with the world that they often realise they had no reason to keep secret in the first place.
As long as we keep adding new coding members as well as people who just buy T-shirts, we should be doing fine;-)
I am curious, though, and I am not trying to get any sort of angle on you here, what
brilliant idea have you come up with that makes you think you can compress arbitrary
data? Whether or whatever you disclose won't affect this challenge and I will live
up t my end of the bargain regardless.
I'll admit that for some projects, source distribution is unwieldy (although I compiled my own versions of glib, gtk and gnome-lib for most versions on a K6-200), but Make's ability to track dependancies removes the need for recompiling the whole project for a patch.
The point I made was the distribution of source. I made no claim to this being more secure or less, simply a retort to the person who claimed that users don't want source because binaries are easier.
If you want the point, however, it means that everyone has the sources. Its a bit like everyone having guns but not knowing how to use them... when the police state happens...;-)
The Internet, to a large extent, is no longer decentralised. Internet hosts route to their providers then to backbone providers, across those providers' backbone routers to the far ISP and/or destination host. This is done on what looks like a redundant map at the core level, but on the edges, near the clients, where the problems usually happen, there is no redundancy. Does your local cable provider have more than one connection to the backbone? Probably not. Do they add multiple redundant links to the same provider using multiple routers or just one or a few big router(s)? You guess.
Can you even set up your own redundant links anymore? Not really -- you need a/19 or thereabouts in address space to successfully advertise BGP routes to the Internet at large. We've screwed up the redundancy of the Internet because of a lack of shared connections and fast routing protocols (when allowing every individual user multiple egress and ingress points).
In reality, consumers don't know the difference (or care) as long as it works and explains what they need to know to them. Give them a graphical program that does a...
./configure; make; make install
... for most packages and they'll be happy. I've taught many people to install source packages without any knowledge of C, Makefiles, etc.
"the goal of the first ammendment" is being defined very broadly in your last statement. You basically state that its goal is to protect speech from anyone for any reason. You then point out that your view ignores the original writers' intentions; to protect us from regulations on speech at the government level. Deciding the reasoning behind such things is not simple and requires a bit more thought...
... note: being a fairly open-minded Christian, I find it quite ignorant of the FCC to decide what is acceptable and what is not. I also find it ignorant of the average Slashdot user to believe (as has been stated in previous threads) that Christian values and views shouldn't be acceptable in classrooms or in the government because somehow that would be state-sponsored religion which is obviously much worse than the right to express one's beliefs whether one is a government employee or not (sarcasm).
Its also hard when you've always been an employee to understand being the employer looking at a loss of several million, or several hundred million dollars. Its even harder when you're the employer and you're publically traded and for no good reason, your shareholders could decide to tear your company to shreds. Public companies (which many current tech companies are) are run by shareholders in the end -- the shares go up or down based on the decisions made, and if the shareholders want people laid off, guess who gets laid off.
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People have the right to sue for $10 million when they get in a car accident too. Rights aren't the issue.
I would say that he's saying that he feels the voters who didn't want Bush got the short end of the stick. That number of people, no matter how you count it, is almost equal to the number who did want Bush. That is to say, the 40 or 50% of the country that bothered to vote is divided.
If the people who didn't bother to vote had voted, there might not (almost surely would not) have been any contest as to who got elected.
Getting laid off without due notice / pay is illegal. Unions don't change that.
Forcing large tech firms to keep on staff we all know they couldn't afford to hire in the first place will be the final nail in the coffin of good E-business.
Incidentally, these decisions are almost always made based on their pocket books, and they know full well that the average american watching tv at those times of the day, etc. will watch their station if it avoids depicting these things persons wish to avoid.
The court ruled it legal to fuck the voters by running out the clock, and demonstrated how to do it.
I find it interesting that you would blame the courts and not the half of the populace who didn't bother to vote at all.
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I'm responding to an AC so their voice might be heard.
That is that "healthy" skepticism (if such a thing is scientifically measurable) does not entail believing all things to be untrue until satisfactorily proven. It should, instead, allow for trust or mistrust of the persons involved in the claims and margins of error in assumption.
At a grade 3 level, being told that light moves in a straight line by one's teacher is probably sufficient for it to be believed even though the education of grade 3 teachers in the actual nature of light is minimal.
As a professional scientist, someone's "word" that something is true may be sufficient as well, if they are a revered collegue and one does not have the time or interest to delve into the details. This is where the following of peer review comes in.
However, there are always the few who wish everything they find interesting to be true, whether it be true or not. These are also useful since the sum of everyone's assumptions and presuppositions is sometimes (although quite rarely) very wrong (like the roundness of the earth). They bring back up old issues so they can be confronted by new minds... don't knock them off so quickly.
64 bit PCI has advantages, and 64 bit support on all PCI slots would be wonderful. However, AGP has faster-than-dma advantages that should be acknowledged. You pointed out that its fast but not used. It should be used, as another poster pointed out, as reference memory and the internal video, scsi, sound, etc.memory can be used as a higher-speed cache of system ram (like CPUs' L1 and L2). Being able to quickly access the wealth of system ram on modern machines (especially at the low price compared to higher speed video memories, etc.) is a good thing. A good gaming PC in the future could contain several 64 bit PCI slots and 2 or 3 AGP slots for video, scsi and sound cards. The difficulties are in sharing the memory across multiple slots efficiently without involving (excessively) the CPU.
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You could always go read some of their literature for yourself and find out that they're not lunatics, they just have different points of reference. Ooops, that would require an open mind.
A large number of north americans (Canadians as well as Americans) have a very low view of felons because all they see on TV are the worst 2% or so. They never see the guy who went to jail for not having his tax receipts for his business from 4 years ago, or the person who speeds excessively on an empty highway to get to a client's location or else he'll lose them, etc.
A _lot_ of people go to jail for things that you and I either have or would do. These people should _not_ be looked down on the way they are.
When I first told my highschool teachers I could hack into the network she asked me not to ...then asked if I wanted to help teach the computers class and design assignments for the other students.
You have to remember that the school _is_ responsible to be aware of his mental state at that level.
On the note of money:
If you invested your money 6 months ago, it would have gone to those creditors _before_ they went bankrupt. As it is, they now owe creditors money and those creditors are _out_ by that much money. What if Ximian were owed money by Symantec and Symantec went out of business? Wouldn't we be upset that Ximian was out that much cash?
When I introduce people to the free software community, I introduce them to this side of it and they are often eager to share their developments with the world that they often realise they had no reason to keep secret in the first place.
As long as we keep adding new coding members as well as people who just buy T-shirts, we should be doing fine ;-)
And here if needed.
This is quite valid.
I'll admit that for some projects, source distribution is unwieldy (although I compiled my own versions of glib, gtk and gnome-lib for most versions on a K6-200), but Make's ability to track dependancies removes the need for recompiling the whole project for a patch.
Dependancies are easier to track at compilation time as well.
The point I made was the distribution of source. I made no claim to this being more secure or less, simply a retort to the person who claimed that users don't want source because binaries are easier.
... when the police state happens ... ;-)
If you want the point, however, it means that everyone has the sources. Its a bit like everyone having guns but not knowing how to use them
Your other option is to use an "install" binary that supports removal of software by package name (this would be a nice standard enhancement, btw).
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For example (wishfull thinking):
install --package=gimp --version=4.2.6b7
make uninstall
The Internet, to a large extent, is no longer decentralised. Internet hosts route to their providers then to backbone providers, across those providers' backbone routers to the far ISP and/or destination host. This is done on what looks like a redundant map at the core level, but on the edges, near the clients, where the problems usually happen, there is no redundancy. Does your local cable provider have more than one connection to the backbone? Probably not. Do they add multiple redundant links to the same provider using multiple routers or just one or a few big router(s)? You guess.
/19 or thereabouts in address space to successfully advertise BGP routes to the Internet at large. We've screwed up the redundancy of the Internet because of a lack of shared connections and fast routing protocols (when allowing every individual user multiple egress and ingress points).
Can you even set up your own redundant links anymore? Not really -- you need a
May I say that Linux needs an OpenBSD-style Linux distribution?
Consumers think they want binaries.
...
In reality, consumers don't know the difference (or care) as long as it works and explains what they need to know to them. Give them a graphical program that does a
./configure; make; make install
... for most packages and they'll be happy. I've taught many people to install source packages without any knowledge of C, Makefiles, etc.
"the goal of the first ammendment" is being defined very broadly in your last statement. You basically state that its goal is to protect speech from anyone for any reason. You then point out that your view ignores the original writers' intentions; to protect us from regulations on speech at the government level. Deciding the reasoning behind such things is not simple and requires a bit more thought ...
... note: being a fairly open-minded Christian, I find it quite ignorant of the FCC to decide what is acceptable and what is not. I also find it ignorant of the average Slashdot user to believe (as has been stated in previous threads) that Christian values and views shouldn't be acceptable in classrooms or in the government because somehow that would be state-sponsored religion which is obviously much worse than the right to express one's beliefs whether one is a government employee or not (sarcasm).
Its also hard when you've always been an employee to understand being the employer looking at a loss of several million, or several hundred million dollars. Its even harder when you're the employer and you're publically traded and for no good reason, your shareholders could decide to tear your company to shreds. Public companies (which many current tech companies are) are run by shareholders in the end -- the shares go up or down based on the decisions made, and if the shareholders want people laid off, guess who gets laid off.
People have the right to sue for $10 million when they get in a car accident too. Rights aren't the issue.
I would say that he's saying that he feels the voters who didn't want Bush got the short end of the stick. That number of people, no matter how you count it, is almost equal to the number who did want Bush. That is to say, the 40 or 50% of the country that bothered to vote is divided.
If the people who didn't bother to vote had voted, there might not (almost surely would not) have been any contest as to who got elected.
Getting laid off without due notice / pay is illegal. Unions don't change that.
Forcing large tech firms to keep on staff we all know they couldn't afford to hire in the first place will be the final nail in the coffin of good E-business.
Incidentally, these decisions are almost always made based on their pocket books, and they know full well that the average american watching tv at those times of the day, etc. will watch their station if it avoids depicting these things persons wish to avoid.
I just felt like responding to your tagline:
I find it interesting that you would blame the courts and not the half of the populace who didn't bother to vote at all.
I'm responding to an AC so their voice might be heard.
... don't knock them off so quickly.
That is that "healthy" skepticism (if such a thing is scientifically measurable) does not entail believing all things to be untrue until satisfactorily proven. It should, instead, allow for trust or mistrust of the persons involved in the claims and margins of error in assumption.
At a grade 3 level, being told that light moves in a straight line by one's teacher is probably sufficient for it to be believed even though the education of grade 3 teachers in the actual nature of light is minimal.
As a professional scientist, someone's "word" that something is true may be sufficient as well, if they are a revered collegue and one does not have the time or interest to delve into the details. This is where the following of peer review comes in.
However, there are always the few who wish everything they find interesting to be true, whether it be true or not. These are also useful since the sum of everyone's assumptions and presuppositions is sometimes (although quite rarely) very wrong (like the roundness of the earth). They bring back up old issues so they can be confronted by new minds
64 bit PCI has advantages, and 64 bit support on all PCI slots would be wonderful. However, AGP has faster-than-dma advantages that should be acknowledged. You pointed out that its fast but not used. It should be used, as another poster pointed out, as reference memory and the internal video, scsi, sound, etc.memory can be used as a higher-speed cache of system ram (like CPUs' L1 and L2). Being able to quickly access the wealth of system ram on modern machines (especially at the low price compared to higher speed video memories, etc.) is a good thing. A good gaming PC in the future could contain several 64 bit PCI slots and 2 or 3 AGP slots for video, scsi and sound cards. The difficulties are in sharing the memory across multiple slots efficiently without involving (excessively) the CPU.
I was going to point out that my girlfriend and I talked by "talk" in the late 80's actually, but you've definately got me.
I was born in the 70's.
Point still stands: what's wrong with these people who think ICQ was a _new_ concept?