I guess that's the difference between then and now. Today, if one of the =first= colonist died on Mars it would be on CNN within X mintues. Where X is just larger than the time light takes to travel between Earth and Mars. Back in the 18th century if your relation died in the middle of nowhere it might take you 6 months to hear.
Secondly the living conditions in Europe at that time meant by going to the America's (or elsewhere) people had a chance to improve their life. Kinda like modern day refuges. Compare that with the modern-day fat-cat OECD middle class, who laking an economic reason have only adventure as a calling card for emigration to Mars.
Vikings were (probably) making it to the Americas from Europe well before the 18th century. I'm not sure of the dates. Maybe we'll see a similar time frame between those adventurers and the equivalent 18th century colonist before 2Xth century Mars colonies are viable.
There seems to be clear evidence that the middle east and parts of the culture that exist in that region are and will continue to be the breeding grounds for attacks such as these.
Its undoubtable in my mind that regardless of final judgment and due justice that a war has been declared on both sides. A war between a state and a regional gorilla organization. An organization that now has the knowledge of what is possible might up the ante. The victim of this will of course be our everyday life and the comfort of being able to move though this world without fear.
It is somewhat ironic that the wealth created in the Middle East regional which ultimately is the main source of funding for this/these organizations is mainly derive from the increasing demand for oil generated in its perceived target.
A war of bullets is likely only to create martas, merely pushing the next event of hate to a later time. It seems then that the best way to attack your attackers is to remove their strengths with your weaknesses.
An effort to removed the dependancy of the western world on oil would likely go long way to making these terror organizations impotent.
Although I'm concerned about some of the reckless GE experimentation conducted. I've always had this feeling at some point in human progress we might require the ability to GE ourselves in order to survive as a race. That might be considered a contradiction in itself.
Still because of this I'm not willing to reject GE out of hand, it seems better to be informed if and when this event might occur.
Of course existance of the moral ability and maturity within the modern culture to be able to deal with GE technology is debatable at present.
have you factored that the after-sales cost of a Windows installation? Some of my old Windows desktops shall the install CD at least once evry 5 weeks, some of my Debian machines have never seen a CD.
Consider the support of developers cost as well. I buy probably one openbsd CD a year. Not because I need it, but because the developers work saves me time and money and purchase of the CD is a reconised support channel. Also I like their stickers.;)
The thing that strikes me as I read all these articles about Microsoft is their attitude. Its seems obvious that they have done some quite anti-competitive and criminal things to cement their position as the ubiquitous company of computer. Irreplaceable and an inevitable part of everyday computing.
That considered what I find amazing is their steady-fast denial of any wrongdoing, and seeming an organizational level compete lack of remorse. Some of the public commentary and discussion as led me to think this is very similar to that of the amoral criminal. Most particular in the formation of this thought was the article The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth on Wired.
It is somewhat of concern in day when Microsoft, even in the face of obvious guilt, continues in its actions along the same vein. Furthermore it seeks to court governments and in entwine itself further into the bowels of modern interaction.
Imagine the future where you need a Microsoft Passport to vote in your national local elections. Certainly possible, I'm sure Bill can hear the coins clinking now.
TWiki is based on the WikiWiki concept, but adds version management (including of file attachment), access control, plugins and change notification. It has an active development communtity at TWiki.Codev.
Its used sucessfully by quite a few large corporates for their knowledge bases and support tools. See TWikiSuccessStories for some specifics.
TWiki is based on the WikiWiki concept, but adds version management (including of file attachment), access control, plugins and change notification. It has an active development communtity at TWiki.Codev.
Its patently not an OS any more. Mix in internet explorer, outlook express, media player, directx,.NET components, etc, etc.
What you have can't really be compared to an proper operating system anymore. Certainly not in the *nix fashion where you can chose your options.
One would guess this is why they are loved and hated by so many people. On one hand (ignoring security issues, and BSOD) they put together a well integrated package that seems easy to use, on the other they use this and their market position to destory people who compete.
From reading interviews with Bill and commentry on Microsoft its we can see that they think everything software related competes directly. I'm sure we'll see the same old, same old as they move into the console market with xbox.
Regardless, didn't you know bigger is ALWAYS better.;)
Dont we get a Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy problem here?
The algorithm to decode the ratio stored in the Crystal Rod must be extremely complex. Obviously the Alien in this case must then be the other part of the encoding/decoding machine.
Actually I disagree with this. I have used both the openbsd ports system and apt-get. Although they are both wonderful tools, apt-get is by far the better tool.
I find it much easier to add third-party packages (Helix Code mirror), even mix unstable and stable packages.
One thing that would make ports as good as the Debian system is some way to tell me, and offer automatic upgrades when new versions are released.
Its interesting that this whole situations goes to the core of Microsoft's business practice. They have the right to take an open product extend it and then withdraw the use of it from the community by the mere fact that they own most of the desktop (client) market.
Rich Black: I think it's one of those things where our corporate rule is that we do not open up our code, and we do not have open code, and we will not do that
Well this means I'll never buy any NVidia products.
Personally I've found ipf and openbsd to be much easier to understand and maintain than ipfwadm or ipchains. With new firewall tools in 2.4 I'm glad I made the investment and switched. My suggestion if you want to use ipf, is definitely read the ipf howto.
All things, naturally move toward randomness. There is a whopping difference. Life moves other things more quickly to disorder to grow and maintain its own complexity.
Randomness in what sense? Remeber probability is simply a form of mathematics. The rules of lotto might not apply to evolution in the sense that we understand or have discovered yet.
Get off your high horse! (rant)
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I assume by your comparison that you are from North America. You should considering that North America is the biggest COMSUMER (waster) of the worlds resources. Look at yourselfs before you blame others for your woes.
Might we dream of a world where everyone in the Asian continent has 1.5 cars, and they use their nuclear capacity to keep fuel prices down too 4c a gallon.
What country or race you are from, there is nothing productive in blaming other people. What we as a species must recognize is that we all live in this sandpile, and we all need to take responsibility for it.
Obfuscated maybe but CPAN gives perlpossibly the most reusable collection of code in use. This is one of the features that makes perl so enduring. Download a perl CPAN package, read some POD documentation and within mintues you can saving hours of work.
Perl is then maybe the most reused language on the planet.
Seems a bit stupid to me that Corel have written a EULA that requires a person to 'click-sign' to the effect that they are older than 18. We are assuming that they have written this because you cannot sign a binding contract if you're a minor.
So an under 18 year old downloading the software can't 'legally' agree to the EULA anyway.
Surely the war for the home client is hard going because of the very nature of microsoft's hold on the market. ie is very much more stable and faster than netscape on win32. Is this surprising given the hold ms have on hidden interfaces and various things like that.
Certainly like TV the media transmission market is vital business. However we must consider the business to business market. Free from the need for fancy plugins and client side code, the new internet technology battle ground is probably in the likes of XML and server side technology. HTTP, SMTP, or whatever the business transactions that will be carried aren't interesting in the new fancy http protocols.
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The thing that got me about Metcalfe's thoughtless comment, was it's complete stupidity.
Emacs as a GNU project, is the refinement of almost 30 years development. It certainly wasn't 'writen over a weekend.' Only because of it's GNU development model, it's stable, portable, and so flexible.
Unlike the microbloat product he compares it with. Which has frequent feature/version upgrades without dealing with bugs, acting as one of M$'s biggest taxes.
Being one of the largest sources of virus problems on the win32 platform, it certainly seemes to be that the statement is the wrong way around.
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I guess that's the difference between then and now. Today, if one of the =first= colonist died on Mars it would be on CNN within X mintues. Where X is just larger than the time light takes to travel between Earth and Mars. Back in the 18th century if your relation died in the middle of nowhere it might take you 6 months to hear.
Secondly the living conditions in Europe at that time meant by going to the America's (or elsewhere) people had a chance to improve their life. Kinda like modern day refuges. Compare that with the modern-day fat-cat OECD middle class, who laking an economic reason have only adventure as a calling card for emigration to Mars.
Vikings were (probably) making it to the Americas from Europe well before the 18th century. I'm not sure of the dates. Maybe we'll see a similar time frame between those adventurers and the equivalent 18th century colonist before 2Xth century Mars colonies are viable.
There seems to be clear evidence that the middle east and parts of the culture that exist in that region are and will continue to be the breeding grounds for attacks such as these.
Its undoubtable in my mind that regardless of final judgment and due justice that a war has been declared on both sides. A war between a state and a regional gorilla organization. An organization that now has the knowledge of what is possible might up the ante. The victim of this will of course be our everyday life and the comfort of being able to move though this world without fear.
It is somewhat ironic that the wealth created in the Middle East regional which ultimately is the main source of funding for this/these organizations is mainly derive from the increasing demand for oil generated in its perceived target.
A war of bullets is likely only to create martas, merely pushing the next event of hate to a later time. It seems then that the best way to attack your attackers is to remove their strengths with your weaknesses.
An effort to removed the dependancy of the western world on oil would likely go long way to making these terror organizations impotent.
Although I'm concerned about some of the reckless GE experimentation conducted. I've always had this feeling at some point in human progress we might require the ability to GE ourselves in order to survive as a race. That might be considered a contradiction in itself.
Still because of this I'm not willing to reject GE out of hand, it seems better to be informed if and when this event might occur.
Of course existance of the moral ability and maturity within the modern culture to be able to deal with GE technology is debatable at present.
You could run rdesktop. 8)
have you factored that the after-sales cost of a Windows installation? Some of my old Windows desktops shall the install CD at least once evry 5 weeks, some of my Debian machines have never seen a CD.
Consider the support of developers cost as well. I buy probably one openbsd CD a year. Not because I need it, but because the developers work saves me time and money and purchase of the CD is a reconised support channel. Also I like their stickers.
The thing that strikes me as I read all these articles about Microsoft is their attitude. Its seems obvious that they have done some quite anti-competitive and criminal things to cement their position as the ubiquitous company of computer. Irreplaceable and an inevitable part of everyday computing.
That considered what I find amazing is their steady-fast denial of any wrongdoing, and seeming an organizational level compete lack of remorse. Some of the public commentary and discussion as led me to think this is very similar to that of the amoral criminal. Most particular in the formation of this thought was the article The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth on Wired.
It is somewhat of concern in day when Microsoft, even in the face of obvious guilt, continues in its actions along the same vein. Furthermore it seeks to court governments and in entwine itself further into the bowels of modern interaction.
Imagine the future where you need a Microsoft Passport to vote in your national local elections. Certainly possible, I'm sure Bill can hear the coins clinking now.
Its used sucessfully by quite a few large corporates for their knowledge bases and support tools. See TWikiSuccessStories for some specifics.
TWiki is based on the WikiWiki concept, but adds version management (including of file attachment), access control, plugins and change notification. It has an active development communtity at TWiki.Codev.
Have a look at something like http://www.twiki.org.
People are using it now in convergences with binary document formats and reversion control. In the future it should have even better integration.
See this page for links to order the above CDs.
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http://www.sap.com/solutions/technology/linux/e
Seems to be free delivery anywhere in the world.
I completely agree.
I can never solve win32 problems by searching the net.
Conversely, google solves 80% of my quick unix problems.
I ring up my MSCE friends and they almost NEVER solve my win32 problems over the phone.
Conversely, people call me and I can usual point at the right resource to use to solve the problem.
Its patently not an OS any more. Mix in internet explorer, outlook express, media player, directx, .NET components, etc, etc.
;)
What you have can't really be compared to an proper operating system anymore. Certainly not in the *nix fashion where you can chose your options.
One would guess this is why they are loved and hated by so many people. On one hand (ignoring security issues, and BSOD) they put together a well integrated package that seems easy to use, on the other they use this and their market position to destory people who compete.
From reading interviews with Bill and commentry on Microsoft its we can see that they think everything software related competes directly. I'm sure we'll see the same old, same old as they move into the console market with xbox.
Regardless, didn't you know bigger is ALWAYS better.
Dont we get a Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy problem here?
The algorithm to decode the ratio stored in the Crystal Rod must be extremely complex. Obviously the Alien in this case must then be the other part of the encoding/decoding machine.
What would be cool is if you could run linux on the SunPCi. A whole pile of cheap ($195) sandboxes.
Nicholas
Actually I disagree with this. I have used both the openbsd ports system and apt-get. Although they are both wonderful tools, apt-get is by far the better tool.
I find it much easier to add third-party packages (Helix Code mirror), even mix unstable and stable packages.
One thing that would make ports as good as the Debian system is some way to tell me, and offer automatic upgrades when new versions are released.
Nicholas
Obviously you didn't read that paragraph and the next correctly.
What does MySQL's lack of minimal SQL tranasction got to do with bias?
Its interesting that this whole situations goes to the core of Microsoft's business practice. They have the right to take an open product extend it and then withdraw the use of it from the community by the mere fact that they own most of the desktop (client) market.
Rich Black: I think it's one of those things where our corporate rule is that we do not open up our code, and we do not have open code, and we will not do that
Well this means I'll never buy any NVidia products.
Personally I've found ipf and openbsd to be much easier to understand and maintain than ipfwadm or ipchains. With new firewall tools in 2.4 I'm glad I made the investment and switched. My suggestion if you want to use ipf, is definitely read the ipf howto.
All things, naturally move toward randomness. There is a whopping difference. Life moves other things more quickly to disorder to grow and maintain its own complexity.
Randomness in what sense? Remeber probability is simply a form of mathematics. The rules of lotto might not apply to evolution in the sense that we understand or have discovered yet.
I assume by your comparison that you are from North America. You should considering that North America is the biggest COMSUMER (waster) of the worlds resources. Look at yourselfs before you blame others for your woes.
Might we dream of a world where everyone in the Asian continent has 1.5 cars, and they use their nuclear capacity to keep fuel prices down too 4c a gallon.
What country or race you are from, there is nothing productive in blaming other people. What we as a species must recognize is that we all live in this sandpile, and we all need to take responsibility for it.
Obfuscated maybe but CPAN gives perlpossibly the most reusable collection of code in use. This is one of the features that makes perl so enduring. Download a perl CPAN package, read some POD documentation and within mintues you can saving hours of work.
Perl is then maybe the most reused language on the planet.
Seems a bit stupid to me that Corel have written a EULA that requires a person to 'click-sign' to the effect that they are older than 18. We are assuming that they have written this because you cannot sign a binding contract if you're a minor.
So an under 18 year old downloading the software can't 'legally' agree to the EULA anyway.
Too me this seems somewhat of a paradox.
Surely the war for the home client is hard going because of the very nature of microsoft's hold on the market. ie is very much more stable and faster than netscape on win32. Is this surprising given the hold ms have on hidden interfaces and various things like that.
Certainly like TV the media transmission market is vital business. However we must consider the business to business market. Free from the need for fancy plugins and client side code, the new internet technology battle ground is probably in the likes of XML and server side technology. HTTP, SMTP, or whatever the business transactions that will be carried aren't interesting in the new fancy http protocols.
Stable scable servers will be the byword there.
Eljay General Accounting System Home Page at http://members.iweb.net.au/~steveoc/ERP/ is another GPL work in progress.
The thing that got me about Metcalfe's thoughtless comment, was it's complete stupidity.
Emacs as a GNU project, is the refinement of almost 30 years development. It certainly wasn't 'writen over a weekend.' Only because of it's GNU development model, it's stable, portable, and so flexible.
Unlike the microbloat product he compares it with. Which has frequent feature/version upgrades without dealing with bugs, acting as one of M$'s biggest taxes.
Being one of the largest sources of virus problems on the win32 platform, it certainly seemes to be that the statement is the wrong way around.