So, has there been any substantive discussion about how we might not want to look up at the Moon and have it begin to actually look like Swiss Cheese? Why would we want to destroy such an object that we have seen the same face of since Humans began (whether that's 10,000 years ago, or 1 million...)? Do we really want to see strip mines when we look up at the Moon? Or the lights of night mining operations breaking the apparent illusion of "phases of the Moon"? Will we only mine the side of the moon facing away from Earth?
Many people were very upset when the Taliban in Afghanistan blew up the great Bamiyan Buddha statues, carved over 2,000 years ago. The Moon was made over 4 billion years ago. Isn't it worth decrying defacement of the Moon *even more* than those comparatively young works of art?
That is just not correct. There are lots and lots of mature "enterprise" software management applications, from Tivoli, LANDesk, Microsoft's Systems Management Server and package creation tools like Windows Installer, WISE, etc. that are only now getting started in Linux. Administering software installs/updates/removals in large, geographically distributed Windows deployments is not as hard for admins to master as it is for Linux, where, mostly, every management system has to be architected from scratch by a competent admin team, with little hope of congruency across different shops.
Well, I'm sorry for the creative destruction here, but, face it, TV affiliates:
Innovate, or die.
You saw it coming with the dawn of the non-academic Internet, the World Wide Web, and, more tellingly, those old pre-dot-com "Push Technology" companies like PointCast, Marimba, etc. But, you didn't do anything. You could have offered your content many many years ago, or, if blocked by your networks, heavily lobbied for the right to do so. But you didn't. And now you're crying foul. Stop resting on your frequencies to save you - get creative! The resources required to serve your viewers and advertisers better are all there for you.
A "journalist", literally, would be someone who is for or contributes to, a "journal". What is a blog but a person's journal?
OK, that might not be a great basis for argument. How about this - in many eras, there have been tiny or one-person magazines published. In the 80's and 90's, that was known as the 'zine movement. These folks, on average, often had circulations in the hundreds (if not dozens;) ). Yet, many of these people were definitely journalists. A blogger, writing about the same subjects as their 'zine forebears, could have a readership in the thousands, or millions, purely due to the increased coverage of the technology. Were 'zine authors not "writers" or "journalists", just because they had small circulation publications?
This law, and others like it, fly in the face of the guarantees of the Constitution, especially the protection of rights codified in the 9th and 10th amendments.
Hybrids, at this point in time, are nothing but a wasteful political statement. There is almost no circumstance where they are socially beneficial, nor beneficial to the owner in any other respect than his or her ability to feel righteous.
You are definitely right about how owning one is a political statement. But wasteful? Here's what I got from my 2002 Prius:
Obviously, I got !A New Car! (cue "Price is Right" theme)
I got a car that cuts its gas engine when stopped
Pennance for a multitude of sins in my many years of owning a '69 Dodge Dart Swinger and then a '65 Plymouth Barracuda ownership
A car that makes both a strong economic AND strong political statement
To expand on my last point - I am happy to have spent the money to, in essence, "vote with my wallet", telling Toyota, and, indirectly, other car companies from whom I did not purchase from, that I want them to continue they're research into making more efficient and less polluting vehicles. I think this is necessary research, and I am _happy_ to help, and, on a practical level, get a nice new car out of the bargain. And, (yay), I can drive in HOV lanes in Cali now, and (yay) I got $2000 back from the Feds on my taxes. Those benefits are pretty real.
This is all part of a strategic re-alignment at Tivo HQ. I think the PowerPoint went something like this:
** Customer Relations Strategy **
Now that we have begun to implement our new "Media Corporation Love and Affection Agreements", we now must implement our next phase of customer appreciation. This phase can best be expressed in the following project mission statement:
"Customers will always be our customers, because we are so loveable. We will always love them, and they will always love us, even if we no longer provide the services that they bought our product for. Therefore, to ensure that the love is forever mutual, we will make sure that the love our customers have for us is enhanced, protected and enforced by a 'Wallet Lock-in' agreement that will forever bind us to our wonderful customers, in fiscal love and understanding. And, to ensure the safety of our customers and ensure strong relationships with our Media Corporation Significant Others, we will also ensure that we will delete any recordings that make our customers the slightest bit vulnerable to our beloved Corporate Significant Others' tough-loving and frisky General Counsels."
So, I guess that you'll make an exception and pay real quick like to keep the oil infrastructure disaster coverage federalized? OK, then, what about the roads, bridges, and rail that lead to the oil refineries? OK, then, what about the destroyed schools that give enough (sometimes, *only* enough) education to local people so that they can work on the oil infrastructure - should the feds not pay to help rebuild that?
What I'm trying to impart to you is that you *DO* benefit when other parts of the country outside your own are kept viable and are well insured against future damage. I live in Cali, but I sure do like them Georgia Peaches, Kansas Grains, Pennsylvania Coal, Washington Electricity, etc. etc., and I'd like to know that the people there have can access the aggregated purchasing and logistical power of FEMA when needed. Don't businesses ever waste money? And would the "waste" of the Feds be less than the profit margins of a privatized emergency response infrastructure? And would it be there when it is needed?
I assume the headaches and liver damage are just a nominal side effect.
Nah, that just bolsters my theory that the liver is actually not a poison-processing organ, but actually a secondary brain, which, through evolution, has been developed to counter the quantum effects of "negative information". Information such as, "I really shouldn't have another drink", and "I really shouldn't kiss that person, especially with my wife in the restroom", and "Oh, so that's how I wrecked the car" and "Here is why you don't tell the nice police officer what I think of him and his family." Unfortunately, evolution hasn't quite gotten around to hooking up the necessary signaling nerves to make this information available to the other brain that has actual control over motor functions. Oh well, maybe next species.
Hey, just to be ultra-nerdy, here's the Realvideo server info from NASA-TV's Realvideo streams:
Server: Helix Server Version 9.0.3.916 (linux-2.2-libc6-i686-server)
Thought you might like that, you Linux-loving OS bigots.;)
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Please repeat after me:
Gentoo has pre-compiled binary packages. Gentoo has pre-compiled binary packages. Gentoo has pre-compiled binary packages.
With the "Stage 3" install and the "Gentoo Reference Platform", you can install quick with minimal compiling, and, if you wish, re-compile specific pacakges later, or, just be satisfied to know that when you go to install a brand new application later, your dependencies will all be automagically handled for you by Portage.
So, you could save yourself 5.5 hours and still install Gentoo Linux.
* Hence, what you are seeing & complaining about afaik & iirc... it's a limitation of 32 OS' & the cpu platforms they ride on.
[sic]
BZZZT. Wrong, sorry. The OS must support Large Files. Mine does. But Apache does not, even though most other applications I use do. It *can* do it, but it requires a rebuild with appropriate gcc flags to enable Large File Support. However, it appears that this is not well supported, and causes instability with some modules when enabled in current Apache builds.
So, by my arithmatic, had the 43 Dems who voted YEAH! instead voted HELL NO!, and one more Dem showed up, it would have failed passage. Of course, if the non-voting members didn't show up, it would have been a tie.
Why are the Democants STILL so spineless? (Well, not my Democantic Reps, but, still...) Hell, there were some stand-up Republicants voting HELL NO!
Terrorists win when fear is the overarching guidance for policy. Where does more intrusive and arbitrary infringements on personal liberty and privacy fit in with "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?"
It would appear that the terrorists are winning in my great country, since they win when the populace forgets its highest ideals and instead focuses on security and fear. The PATRIOT act, in its current form, goes too far, and, as history shows, when a government - ANY government - gains a "right" or "power", it is very hard to take it back.
Yes, thousands died on 9/11. It was a terrible, terrible cowardly attack. But what of the lives of hundreds of thousands who have died since the American Revolution to fight to restrict government intrusion into our private lives and secure our liberty? Do they mean nothing?
Having worked in a corporate infrastrucuture for far too long, I have to sadly say, that the biggest enterprise drawback to the use of FireFox is the lack of a Admin kit, that would allow you to customize which extensions you push out with Firefox.
So, no one is stopping you. Make a good one, then submit it to the Firefox/Mozilla team. If they don't accept it, grumble to yourself, and work with them to make it more acceptable. If it is "nice to have" then it must be nice enough for you that you put the effort into building it... Otherwise, why should someone else do it for you?
Why should people who work voluntarily on a free product without pay scramble to put together something for people who get paid and make a profit? I just don't get how people can expect volunteers to stand up and salute for someone else's need to make money efficiently. You make money, great. You have a need, great. So, give back to the community from which you benefit, and all can be happy.
I really liked the original "WebCalendar": http://www.math.utexas.edu/webcalendar/ . Perl-based, e-mail reminders with daily to-do summary e-mail, supports iCal and VCS file import/export, a shared "corporate caelndar", Free/Busy functionality, nice interface, tooltip information drill-down, GPL'd. No direct Palm support, though. Very stable. I wish the PHP WebCalendar hadn't "borrowed" the name...:(
I had many happy client users! But, to be fair, Outlook/Exchange supplanted it. I do think the functionality of Outlook/Exchange is quite nice, and is going to be hard for F/OSS to beat.
...and I don't like how I have to painstakingly re-enter my lineup (uncheck, uncheck, uncheck, uncheck), when it would be sooo much easier if I could just import my existing Zap2it lineup. But, I want to vote on new features - we'll see how this pans out. Only $30 for the six month pilot, not too much of a pain in the wallet for what we might get. Oh, and I'd really love to see the lineups tailored to individual subscription packages - THAT would makes keeping up with your sat/cable provider's constant lineup changes a bit less of a chore. We'll see if paying for it really gets you any more say...
Been using Myth since 0.15 in August, '04. With a PVR-350 in a Shuttle SN41G2 V2 box and 2x200GB LVM'd drives. Having a PVR really helped me to get the most out of my Dish subscription - hard to believe how cool it is to be able to record all those research and university networks in a managed way - you can take entire courses this way. And watching "Mosaic: News from the Middle East" has been an education.
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So, has there been any substantive discussion about how we might not want to look up at the Moon and have it begin to actually look like Swiss Cheese? Why would we want to destroy such an object that we have seen the same face of since Humans began (whether that's 10,000 years ago, or 1 million...)? Do we really want to see strip mines when we look up at the Moon? Or the lights of night mining operations breaking the apparent illusion of "phases of the Moon"? Will we only mine the side of the moon facing away from Earth?
Many people were very upset when the Taliban in Afghanistan blew up the great Bamiyan Buddha statues, carved over 2,000 years ago. The Moon was made over 4 billion years ago. Isn't it worth decrying defacement of the Moon *even more* than those comparatively young works of art?
That is just not correct. There are lots and lots of mature "enterprise" software management applications, from Tivoli, LANDesk, Microsoft's Systems Management Server and package creation tools like Windows Installer, WISE, etc. that are only now getting started in Linux. Administering software installs/updates/removals in large, geographically distributed Windows deployments is not as hard for admins to master as it is for Linux, where, mostly, every management system has to be architected from scratch by a competent admin team, with little hope of congruency across different shops.
Well, I'm sorry for the creative destruction here, but, face it, TV affiliates:
Innovate, or die.You saw it coming with the dawn of the non-academic Internet, the World Wide Web, and, more tellingly, those old pre-dot-com "Push Technology" companies like PointCast, Marimba, etc. But, you didn't do anything. You could have offered your content many many years ago, or, if blocked by your networks, heavily lobbied for the right to do so. But you didn't. And now you're crying foul. Stop resting on your frequencies to save you - get creative! The resources required to serve your viewers and advertisers better are all there for you.
Try reading that again, except substituting this at the end:
Why can't all *countries* be like Google??? The world would be a better place.
OK, try this:
;) ). Yet, many of these people were definitely journalists. A blogger, writing about the same subjects as their 'zine forebears, could have a readership in the thousands, or millions, purely due to the increased coverage of the technology. Were 'zine authors not "writers" or "journalists", just because they had small circulation publications?
A "journalist", literally, would be someone who is for or contributes to, a "journal". What is a blog but a person's journal?
OK, that might not be a great basis for argument. How about this - in many eras, there have been tiny or one-person magazines published. In the 80's and 90's, that was known as the 'zine movement. These folks, on average, often had circulations in the hundreds (if not dozens
This law, and others like it, fly in the face of the guarantees of the Constitution, especially the protection of rights codified in the 9th and 10th amendments.
And then, by Odin, the Thor web will come, with its mighty Hammer, and crush the pitiful Loki web. Again.
Ever seen the Remote Viewing article?
You are definitely right about how owning one is a political statement. But wasteful? Here's what I got from my 2002 Prius:
To expand on my last point - I am happy to have spent the money to, in essence, "vote with my wallet", telling Toyota, and, indirectly, other car companies from whom I did not purchase from, that I want them to continue they're research into making more efficient and less polluting vehicles. I think this is necessary research, and I am _happy_ to help, and, on a practical level, get a nice new car out of the bargain. And, (yay), I can drive in HOV lanes in Cali now, and (yay) I got $2000 back from the Feds on my taxes. Those benefits are pretty real.
This is all part of a strategic re-alignment at Tivo HQ. I think the PowerPoint went something like this:
** Customer Relations Strategy **Now that we have begun to implement our new "Media Corporation Love and Affection Agreements", we now must implement our next phase of customer appreciation. This phase can best be expressed in the following project mission statement:
Unless you work in the Television industry... or other major media... which might be several thousand potential MythTV users.
Cool idea.
:)
psst. hey. microsoft. come. over. here. *BASH*BASH*BASH*. <roaring>LINUX IS THE GREAT, AND YOU ARE THE TRASH!</roaring>
Wow, never done that before. Fun stuff. Thanks. Even took a grammar break.
And in still others, it could be a Supreme Court decision.
So, I guess that you'll make an exception and pay real quick like to keep the oil infrastructure disaster coverage federalized? OK, then, what about the roads, bridges, and rail that lead to the oil refineries? OK, then, what about the destroyed schools that give enough (sometimes, *only* enough) education to local people so that they can work on the oil infrastructure - should the feds not pay to help rebuild that?
What I'm trying to impart to you is that you *DO* benefit when other parts of the country outside your own are kept viable and are well insured against future damage. I live in Cali, but I sure do like them Georgia Peaches, Kansas Grains, Pennsylvania Coal, Washington Electricity, etc. etc., and I'd like to know that the people there have can access the aggregated purchasing and logistical power of FEMA when needed. Don't businesses ever waste money? And would the "waste" of the Feds be less than the profit margins of a privatized emergency response infrastructure? And would it be there when it is needed?
Oh, and, yes, I think I'd like to help Denver out when they have flash floods and tornadoes.
Nah, that just bolsters my theory that the liver is actually not a poison-processing organ, but actually a secondary brain, which, through evolution, has been developed to counter the quantum effects of "negative information". Information such as, "I really shouldn't have another drink", and "I really shouldn't kiss that person, especially with my wife in the restroom", and "Oh, so that's how I wrecked the car" and "Here is why you don't tell the nice police officer what I think of him and his family." Unfortunately, evolution hasn't quite gotten around to hooking up the necessary signaling nerves to make this information available to the other brain that has actual control over motor functions. Oh well, maybe next species.
Hey, just to be ultra-nerdy, here's the Realvideo server info from NASA-TV's Realvideo streams:
Server: Helix Server Version 9.0.3.916 (linux-2.2-libc6-i686-server)
Thought you might like that, you Linux-loving OS bigots. ;)
Please repeat after me:
Gentoo has pre-compiled binary packages.
Gentoo has pre-compiled binary packages.
Gentoo has pre-compiled binary packages.
With the "Stage 3" install and the "Gentoo Reference Platform", you can install quick with minimal compiling, and, if you wish, re-compile specific pacakges later, or, just be satisfied to know that when you go to install a brand new application later, your dependencies will all be automagically handled for you by Portage.
So, you could save yourself 5.5 hours and still install Gentoo Linux.
BZZZT. Wrong, sorry. The OS must support Large Files. Mine does. But Apache does not, even though most other applications I use do. It *can* do it, but it requires a rebuild with appropriate gcc flags to enable Large File Support. However, it appears that this is not well supported, and causes instability with some modules when enabled in current Apache builds.
Man, the comments are way off the rails on PDF readers. Funny. So, back on topic... the PDF mentions one of my big problems with the current apache
2 GB file limit
Why, oh why? It's 2005! Makes throwing video around a bit limited. Please, good Apache people, make this a priority!
Again, why should VOLUNTEERS care?
Terrible numbers in that vote:
So, by my arithmatic, had the 43 Dems who voted YEAH! instead voted HELL NO!, and one more Dem showed up, it would have failed passage. Of course, if the non-voting members didn't show up, it would have been a tie.
Why are the Democants STILL so spineless? (Well, not my Democantic Reps, but, still...) Hell, there were some stand-up Republicants voting HELL NO!
Yeah, what a dream.
Terrorists win when fear is the overarching guidance for policy. Where does more intrusive and arbitrary infringements on personal liberty and privacy fit in with "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?"
It would appear that the terrorists are winning in my great country, since they win when the populace forgets its highest ideals and instead focuses on security and fear. The PATRIOT act, in its current form, goes too far, and, as history shows, when a government - ANY government - gains a "right" or "power", it is very hard to take it back.
Yes, thousands died on 9/11. It was a terrible, terrible cowardly attack. But what of the lives of hundreds of thousands who have died since the American Revolution to fight to restrict government intrusion into our private lives and secure our liberty? Do they mean nothing?
So, no one is stopping you. Make a good one, then submit it to the Firefox/Mozilla team. If they don't accept it, grumble to yourself, and work with them to make it more acceptable. If it is "nice to have" then it must be nice enough for you that you put the effort into building it... Otherwise, why should someone else do it for you?
Why should people who work voluntarily on a free product without pay scramble to put together something for people who get paid and make a profit? I just don't get how people can expect volunteers to stand up and salute for someone else's need to make money efficiently. You make money, great. You have a need, great. So, give back to the community from which you benefit, and all can be happy.
I really liked the original "WebCalendar": http://www.math.utexas.edu/webcalendar/ . Perl-based, e-mail reminders with daily to-do summary e-mail, supports iCal and VCS file import/export, a shared "corporate caelndar", Free/Busy functionality, nice interface, tooltip information drill-down, GPL'd. No direct Palm support, though. Very stable. I wish the PHP WebCalendar hadn't "borrowed" the name... :(
I had many happy client users! But, to be fair, Outlook/Exchange supplanted it. I do think the functionality of Outlook/Exchange is quite nice, and is going to be hard for F/OSS to beat.
...and I don't like how I have to painstakingly re-enter my lineup (uncheck, uncheck, uncheck, uncheck), when it would be sooo much easier if I could just import my existing Zap2it lineup. But, I want to vote on new features - we'll see how this pans out. Only $30 for the six month pilot, not too much of a pain in the wallet for what we might get. Oh, and I'd really love to see the lineups tailored to individual subscription packages - THAT would makes keeping up with your sat/cable provider's constant lineup changes a bit less of a chore. We'll see if paying for it really gets you any more say...
Been using Myth since 0.15 in August, '04. With a PVR-350 in a Shuttle SN41G2 V2 box and 2x200GB LVM'd drives. Having a PVR really helped me to get the most out of my Dish subscription - hard to believe how cool it is to be able to record all those research and university networks in a managed way - you can take entire courses this way. And watching "Mosaic: News from the Middle East" has been an education.