the TSA is a huge waste of money. they solved the terrorsit threat to the airlines when they put the bulletproof doors on the cockpits. everytime I fly and I watch the TSA hassle people over nail clippers, swiss army knives, knitting needles I laugh at the poor bastards because they are preemptively preventing nothing. if anyone ever has the chance to go to any prison museum I highly recommend it. the killing tools on display in any prison museum will make you realise that the TSA's job is impossible (unless they strip search every passenger). plastic puncturing weapons, polycarbonate knives, oh my.
and my personal favorite, the TSA took my swiss army knift on my keychain (a knife with a 1 inch blade). then i make my way into the airport restaurant and am served with a metal fork (bend all tines down except one, and bend handle into a loop, you have a perfect puncturing weapon to stab into a stuartess).
we would all be better off spending the TSA budget in other ways!
I actually work on the air force base in plattsburgh and let me tell you. The security there is really bad. There are only about 6 rent-a-cops that drive around and only occassionally ask anyone where they are going. Anyone want to kidnap and randsome some goats? just kidding! But I always laugh when I think that Plattsburgh's claim to fame is a couple of spider goats....
I always though socket programming was fun. Whether it is a tic-tac-toe game, or a chat server/client I enjoy sockets. Ths also opens the door for articifical intelligence and a whole slew of other topics.
I read an interesting articel from nicholas peterly, im sure some of you are familiar with him. anyways he basically was saying that many large vendors i.e. ibm/sun etc. were supporting linux in an attampt to create a neutral battle ground for their companies to compete on. as it is now microsoft has the upper hand because they control the OS/API's. I am not sure i totally agree with him, but take a look at your latest Info World magazines lying around, i forget which issue but its in there.
i also work for a power company, and one of the field technicians who measures radiation emitted from power lines/power plants, said he was at his kids school play, and while he was there in the school auditorium he wipped out his meter and what did he find? the radiation levels were higher in the school auditorium that they were under the 700+KV lines (those big towers that look like giant robots).
thats not the point of my post. the point of my post is that AOL is restricting other people from trying to create any sort of standard. also, due to the enormous market share they possess, their competition doesnt stand a chance against them. after all who wants to be the only person who has a new messaging client.
You seriously have a problem with this dont you. what is wrong with someone who does not like intel. Is it a sin to like some other company? i just dont understand why you are so upset over this. Are you working for intel?
AOL owns 90% of the IM market share. that is over the 50% needed to be accused of having a monopoly. By AOL's continued refusal to allow other companies into the IM market it is participating in unfair and ILLEGAL business practices here in the US. This would not even be an issue if AOL was out of the US, or if AOL DID NOT have a 90% market share.
The people who made the anti-trust laws did so for a reason. they were not doing this because they were communist. By giving others a chance to enter the IM market the consumer can benefit by a greater selection of products and services.
though some of the linux thugs have been very elitist lately, i think this is great. more software is always good, and gives people a chance to choose. maybe that is something the thugs here dont understand. maybe they dont like choice. i suppose it makes life alot easier to be forced into using one concept that is 30 years old. ( i am referring to the redundant cowboy logic people have been using to justify the console. though the console is great, its not a three button mouse and shouldnt be hailed as something that awesome. )
i think GNOME is doing a kick ass job lately, especially with the 1.2 release. i used to be a KDE user but i converted to gnome shorty after 1.2 came out. though i am also a Window Maker user, i appreciate the differences between the two environments. however they were built for different uses and i dont think its fair to comapre the two.
in closing, its always nice to see the linux community ganging up and bashing upon a new project (not even in alpha stage). its so nice to have pride in the community when they act so impulsive and with out anything but a selfish opinion based on a few crummy screen shots. if this is a trend we are going to see more of then pre-install windows on my PC and drop me out of college.
i have heard this same argument many times before. did you copy and paste from someone elses post?
maybe you should write your own graphical interface if you dont like the current ones. the source is there. and if you dont want a graphical interface dont use it. no one is forcing you to.
I am a college student at Plattsburgh State University in New York and in a class I am in titled, "Computers in Society" we have recently read teh GNU Manifesto as part of our studies. This writing was included among other writings in a book titled, "Computers, Ethics, and Society" by Erman, Williams, and Shauf. My question for RMS has to do with another piece of writing in this book. Chapter 9 of this book, written by Eugene Spafford is about the ethical nature of hacker break-ins. Spafford goes as far to say that, "This hacker ethic states, in part, that all information should be free. This view holds that information belongs to everyone and there should be no boundaries or restraints to prevent anyone from examining information. Richard Stallman states much the same thing in his GNU Manifesto. He and others have stated in various forums that if information is free, it logically follows that there should be no such thing as intellectual property, and no need for security." Getting to the point, what do you think about Spaffords train of thinking? How much of what Spafford says here really reflects the GNU Manifesto and your beliefs? I have read the GNU Manifesto and I didn't draw the same conclusions Spafford did. However by accepting Spafford's critique of the GNU Manifesto, Spafford makes conclusions which I believe treat Free Software and RMS unfairly, in effect possibly misleading people as to what you stand for. (I will not discuss Spafford any more and if anyone is curious you can read for yourselves in the book, "Computers in Society")
goto linux.tucows.com and search under console and jpeg, there are a variety of programs that do it, but i dont remember the names and im too lazy to go look myself.
the previous post did have a point. chuck d never precisely says in this particular writing that he "likes napster". he only gets as far as saying that maybe this is a way for artists to take back what big corporations stole. i personaly think that this small piece of writing is far too small to and inconclusive to judge chuck d's opinion of napster. but if you have any other information as to where more chuck d pro napster writings are please list them.
go to mozilla.org and you can read all about why this feature is missing. netscape basically took mozilla M14 and toned it down for this little demo. I imagine they did this to remove alot of the complexity and therefore bugs so that they can show off and give people a "peak" at what the new browser will be like. so dont worry, the feature will be back, it will just take some time. anyway this will allow netscape to have 6.1, 6.2, 6.3,... releases to competein the old version number war with internet explorer.
with something like indrema the uses are not limited to gaming, and that is what this particular console has the greatest advantage at right now. If this thing runs linux then it will have the greatest potential for doing a wide variety of tasks due to the open nature of the system, and the existing applications for linux right now. one of the cooler things indrema is boasting is its personal integrated tv system. which according to gamefan http://www.gamefan.com/hotinfo.asp?s=5763&rs= is something like TiVo. if this is true then maybe indrema is what i have always wanted, namely something to filter out commercials. currently TiVo is being sued by televison mega corporations and also in the process of defending itself from a hostile takeover by the same mega corporations. if there was an open source version of TiVo maybe the project could be protected. *sign* maybe someday i will be able to watch tv without commercials. heck i figure that i could save myself about 15 minutes out of every hour by skipping the commercials.
Picture this: We already know that the US is full of blood thirsty lawyers. Now what would happen if a few of them got CS degrees and some creativity? They could look at the electronic signatures of various software programs and then compare them to open source projects. When you get a match, BAMMO! We all know that the open source community doesnt really care about money, but the lawyers/CS people do. So they could bargain that they get a large lump sum of the out-of-court settlement for damages as well as help open source people keep the IP rights to thier own code. sounds like a plan, what do other people think? Is this sort of thing even possible? Granted this would only work if people were to copy large parts of open source software,
linux mandrake and corel lilnux both have live update tools that let you download the newest security enhancements to installed software. whether people use them or not is another story...
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the TSA is a huge waste of money. they solved the terrorsit threat to the airlines when they put the bulletproof doors on the cockpits. everytime I fly and I watch the TSA hassle people over nail clippers, swiss army knives, knitting needles I laugh at the poor bastards because they are preemptively preventing nothing. if anyone ever has the chance to go to any prison museum I highly recommend it. the killing tools on display in any prison museum will make you realise that the TSA's job is impossible (unless they strip search every passenger). plastic puncturing weapons, polycarbonate knives, oh my.
and my personal favorite, the TSA took my swiss army knift on my keychain (a knife with a 1 inch blade). then i make my way into the airport restaurant and am served with a metal fork (bend all tines down except one, and bend handle into a loop, you have a perfect puncturing weapon to stab into a stuartess).
we would all be better off spending the TSA budget in other ways!
You can get RAM for your iMac at 30 cents a MB from any number of places. Also, OSX comes with OS9.1 so you dont have to "upgrade" to OS 9 first.
who said that you wouldnt be able to....
Does anyone think the US would return the Chinese pilots if the roles were reversed? I certainly don't...
come on, nuclear war?
I actually work on the air force base in plattsburgh and let me tell you. The security there is really bad. There are only about 6 rent-a-cops that drive around and only occassionally ask anyone where they are going. Anyone want to kidnap and randsome some goats? just kidding! But I always laugh when I think that Plattsburgh's claim to fame is a couple of spider goats....
No not all americans forgot... at least not this one.
./netscape-installer
[tjones@ecc netscape-installer]#
Segmentation fault
[tjones@ecc netscape-installer]#
oh yeah this is netscape 6pr2 NOT Mozilla. M17 worked fine after I untarred it.
"The importance of using technology in the right way has never been more clear."
I always though socket programming was fun. Whether it is a tic-tac-toe game, or a chat server/client I enjoy sockets. Ths also opens the door for articifical intelligence and a whole slew of other topics.
"The importance of using technology in the right way has never been more clear."
I read an interesting articel from nicholas peterly, im sure some of you are familiar with him. anyways he basically was saying that many large vendors i.e. ibm/sun etc. were supporting linux in an attampt to create a neutral battle ground for their companies to compete on. as it is now microsoft has the upper hand because they control the OS/API's. I am not sure i totally agree with him, but take a look at your latest Info World magazines lying around, i forget which issue but its in there.
"The importance of using technology in the right way has never been more clear."
i also work for a power company, and one of the field technicians who measures radiation emitted from power lines/power plants, said he was at his kids school play, and while he was there in the school auditorium he wipped out his meter and what did he find? the radiation levels were higher in the school auditorium that they were under the 700+KV lines (those big towers that look like giant robots).
now thats scary!!
"The importance of using technology in the right way has never been more clear."
thats not the point of my post. the point of my post is that AOL is restricting other people from trying to create any sort of standard. also, due to the enormous market share they possess, their competition doesnt stand a chance against them. after all who wants to be the only person who has a new messaging client.
"The importance of using technology in the right way has never been more clear."
theres nothing illegal about being a monopoly, but there is something wrong with abusing a monopoly.
"The importance of using technology in the right way has never been more clear."
You seriously have a problem with this dont you. what is wrong with someone who does not like intel. Is it a sin to like some other company? i just dont understand why you are so upset over this. Are you working for intel?
"The importance of using technology in the right way has never been more clear."
AOL owns 90% of the IM market share. that is over the 50% needed to be accused of having a monopoly. By AOL's continued refusal to allow other companies into the IM market it is participating in unfair and ILLEGAL business practices here in the US. This would not even be an issue if AOL was out of the US, or if AOL DID NOT have a 90% market share.
The people who made the anti-trust laws did so for a reason. they were not doing this because they were communist. By giving others a chance to enter the IM market the consumer can benefit by a greater selection of products and services.
that is all!
"The importance of using technology in the right way has never been more clear."
though some of the linux thugs have been very elitist lately, i think this is great. more software is always good, and gives people a chance to choose. maybe that is something the thugs here dont understand. maybe they dont like choice. i suppose it makes life alot easier to be forced into using one concept that is 30 years old. ( i am referring to the redundant cowboy logic people have been using to justify the console. though the console is great, its not a three button mouse and shouldnt be hailed as something that awesome. )
i think GNOME is doing a kick ass job lately, especially with the 1.2 release. i used to be a KDE user but i converted to gnome shorty after 1.2 came out. though i am also a Window Maker user, i appreciate the differences between the two environments. however they were built for different uses and i dont think its fair to comapre the two.
in closing, its always nice to see the linux community ganging up and bashing upon a new project (not even in alpha stage). its so nice to have pride in the community when they act so impulsive and with out anything but a selfish opinion based on a few crummy screen shots. if this is a trend we are going to see more of then pre-install windows on my PC and drop me out of college.
"The importance of using technology in the right way has never been more clear."
i have heard this same argument many times before. did you copy and paste from someone elses post?
maybe you should write your own graphical interface if you dont like the current ones. the source is there. and if you dont want a graphical interface dont use it. no one is forcing you to.
"The importance of using technology in the right way has never been more clear."
i was jsut at the PRIMARY ftp site for linux mandrake and there were only 43 out of a possible 250 people logged on. maybe that means something
"The importance of using technology in the right way has never been more clear."
I am a college student at Plattsburgh State University in New York and in a class I am in titled, "Computers in Society" we have recently read teh GNU Manifesto as part of our studies. This writing was included among other writings in a book titled, "Computers, Ethics, and Society" by Erman, Williams, and Shauf. My question for RMS has to do with another piece of writing in this book. Chapter 9 of this book, written by Eugene Spafford is about the ethical nature of hacker break-ins. Spafford goes as far to say that, "This hacker ethic states, in part, that all information should be free. This view holds that information belongs to everyone and there should be no boundaries or restraints to prevent anyone from examining information. Richard Stallman states much the same thing in his GNU Manifesto. He and others have stated in various forums that if information is free, it logically follows that there should be no such thing as intellectual property, and no need for security." Getting to the point, what do you think about Spaffords train of thinking? How much of what Spafford says here really reflects the GNU Manifesto and your beliefs? I have read the GNU Manifesto and I didn't draw the same conclusions Spafford did. However by accepting Spafford's critique of the GNU Manifesto, Spafford makes conclusions which I believe treat Free Software and RMS unfairly, in effect possibly misleading people as to what you stand for. (I will not discuss Spafford any more and if anyone is curious you can read for yourselves in the book, "Computers in Society")
"The importance of using technology in the right way has never been more clear."
goto linux.tucows.com and search under console and jpeg, there are a variety of programs that do it, but i dont remember the names and im too lazy to go look myself.
"The importance of using technology in the right way has never been more clear."
the previous post did have a point. chuck d never precisely says in this particular writing that he "likes napster". he only gets as far as saying that maybe this is a way for artists to take back what big corporations stole. i personaly think that this small piece of writing is far too small to and inconclusive to judge chuck d's opinion of napster. but if you have any other information as to where more chuck d pro napster writings are please list them.
"The importance of using technology in the right way has never been more clear."
go to mozilla.org and you can read all about why this feature is missing. netscape basically took mozilla M14 and toned it down for this little demo. I imagine they did this to remove alot of the complexity and therefore bugs so that they can show off and give people a "peak" at what the new browser will be like. so dont worry, the feature will be back, it will just take some time. anyway this will allow netscape to have 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, ... releases to competein the old version number war with internet explorer.
"The importance of using technology in the right way has never been more clear."
with something like indrema the uses are not limited to gaming, and that is what this particular console has the greatest advantage at right now. If this thing runs linux then it will have the greatest potential for doing a wide variety of tasks due to the open nature of the system, and the existing applications for linux right now. one of the cooler things indrema is boasting is its personal integrated tv system. which according to gamefan http://www.gamefan.com/hotinfo.asp?s=5763&rs= is something like TiVo. if this is true then maybe indrema is what i have always wanted, namely something to filter out commercials. currently TiVo is being sued by televison mega corporations and also in the process of defending itself from a hostile takeover by the same mega corporations. if there was an open source version of TiVo maybe the project could be protected. *sign* maybe someday i will be able to watch tv without commercials. heck i figure that i could save myself about 15 minutes out of every hour by skipping the commercials.
"The importance of using technology in the right way has never been more clear."
this is strange that gnullsoft is owned by nullsoft, and nullsoft is owned by time warner.
time warner is represented by the RIAA who is sueing napster.
it doesnt make any sense???
"The importance of using technology in the right way has never been more clear."
Picture this: We already know that the US is full of blood thirsty lawyers. Now what would happen if a few of them got CS degrees and some creativity? They could look at the electronic signatures of various software programs and then compare them to open source projects. When you get a match, BAMMO! We all know that the open source community doesnt really care about money, but the lawyers/CS people do. So they could bargain that they get a large lump sum of the out-of-court settlement for damages as well as help open source people keep the IP rights to thier own code. sounds like a plan, what do other people think? Is this sort of thing even possible? Granted this would only work if people were to copy large parts of open source software,
"The importance of using technology in the right way has never been more clear."
linux mandrake and corel lilnux both have live update tools that let you download the newest security enhancements to installed software. whether people use them or not is another story...
"The importance of using technology in the right way has never been more clear."