You'd be amazed at how fast the cries of 'redbaiter' come out if anybody steps off the orthodox path in any 'progressive' organization.
***beginning of rant about ignorant US leftists who rubberstamp the atrocities and evil of communism- please skip over if you're a lil' red kid and have a short temper***
Stalin's guys did a hell of a good job of coopting the ideology of the left with their lackies in the United States. For decades in the 20th century, they funded the whole Communist Party by having a huge quantity of subscriptions to the 'Daily Journal'- the CP-USA daily newspaper. Probably the only libraries in the world that subscribed at that level to the US CP newspaper were in the Soviet Union and their client state.
Granted, there are and were independent leftist organizations that identified the USSR as a corrupt state very early on. However, the 'moderate left' have traditionally been 'owned' by the well organized 'Stalinists' of the CPUSA.
There are still people who believe the Rosenbergs were innocent, for goodness sake, even though the Rosenbergs and their comrades are more to blame for the Nuclear Arms race (they stole and gave the Soviet Union the atom bomb) than anybody else in history. There are still people who scream 'McCarthyism' at anybody to the political right of them who denounces communism, even though McCarthy was a pariah to the Political Right in this country very quickly after he started out on his adventure. McCarthy was actually a useful 'foil' for the left, more than anything else.
When the walls came down and the Communist system collapsed in the USSR, a whole lot of archives and records became publicly available. It's still not 'fashionable' to talk about them much, but the books have been published, and there's no chance anywhere in the world where the truth is allowed to intrude of anybody claiming there wasn't a communist conspiracy to overthrow the US Government. Hell, there were folks in FDR's administration who were patsies for Stalin's agents...
Read some history and come back when you've caught a clue.
There are so many different possible entities with an interest in breaking/debunking the GPL that they're uncountable. Many interests with deep pockets wouldn't mind things staying the way they are in the software business.
Trying to turn it into a 'blame Microsoft' issue will just get you branded an 'anti Micro$oft nutcase' by the main public.
The BSD Unix OSes have achieved excellence and what you claim will happen, hasn't happened. Please don't spread your FUD about other open source licenses merely to hype up your GPL.
Frankly, the BSD licensed projects seem to be doing pretty good. I'm typing this on a NetBSD system using Mozilla, another non-GPL code base.
You're really stubborn about confining your focus with regard to 'computers and operating systems' to tasks involving sitting in front of a box with display, keyboard, and mouse attached.
You cite the one 'marketing bullet point' example of that cluster of 'G5' machines, but it seems you have no clue that people do things like embedded PC104 boards in industrial machines and run cut-back Linux kernals on the controllers on weather balloons, etc.
Think outside the box, dude. Or, to use bad grammar: "Think Different"
Yes, and they have a direct relationship with ATI and nVidia, and so can tightly integrate their OS to a specific, small target of hardware. This is radically different from the case for Linux or Windows, where the OS may find any random card installed that it's forced to use.
Up earlier in your text, you bolded $5.7 million list price paid for the macs, but then two paragraphs down you say educational list price without bolding it like you wanted it to slip through.
One of the things that makes radicals like ANSWER really angry is that they have so much free speech to protest and parade around and denounce their government, etc.
They want a revolution, and all they get is freedom. It's truly the paradox of 'progressives' in a free country. Lord help them if they happened to live in a country like Iraq, Cuba, or N. Korea...
The study term for today is: petit-bourgeois adventurist.
None of which, of course, has stopped us from the whole sale management of ecosystems when we think the animal is endangered...
It's a mixed bag. We have all these 'researchers' out there identifying and documenting the travel patterns of all sorts of floura and fauna. For instance the migration patterns of whales. What happens with said information is up-for-grabs. It could be used by whale hunters to better 'harvest' all the whales. But as long as the oceanographers can get their grant money to sail around the world on their adventures, it's okay with them.
Archaeologist strive to find deeply buried and hidden artifacts. They drag them out of the places where they've remained intact for centuries, and into modern steel and glass buildings. Again, they get funding only so long as they publish and have new evidence to study. The mummy is screwed next time there's a budget cut.
Foresters don't exist to leave the trees alone. They exist to 'manage' the trees, to cut and cull and generally screw around with things.
Any other Operating System that was on the market at the same time as MS-DOS had either a cost substancially higher than MS-DOS, or the development tools for it were an expensive add-on. Coherent may be one of the few exceptions to this.
No, the crippled C compiler (cc) 'bundled' with an OS like, say, HP-UX does not constitute 'development tools.' It's a limited little thing included so admins can patch the system, nothing more.
I thought I'd click on that 'cluetrain.com' link. Haven't been to that site in years. I remembered it as being one of those 'Everything Is Completely Changed' websites that provided a considerable amount of the smoke and mirrors that fueled the dot.bomb frenzy.
It doesn't seem to have changed at all. The authors of the page have a few valid points, but they run away with it in ways that many people have figured out how to shrug off.
You seem to have assigned a meaning to 'joystick port' that few of the rest of us use. Are you sure you're not a little more involved with that mere machine than you should be?
You're right, but ESR in particular fancies the imagery promoted by Robert Heinlein, a SF writer who spins up a whole utopian fantasy world that has many cultish followers. People who look closely will see that a significant body of Raymond's ideology comes from the work of Heinlein. The whole 'Church of All Worlds' thing. Heinlein can and has been likened by some as a similar but less successful L. Ron Hubbard.
Then again, this particular Scientology-clone cult seems to have MANY followers in the geek community. This whole comment may end up being branded as flamebait.
My vote for a 'resident historian' would be the dude who wrote A QuarterCentury of UNIX, or some other old timer, not someone who showed up late and copped an attitude.
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Actually, WWII pulled the US out of the depression.
Obviously Groening is 'just an entertainer' engaging in 'satire.'
Like Franken.
O'Reilly isn't exactly a conservative. He's just a non-liberal.
They'd better be careful about any claim to the rights to 'fake news.' The New York Times has a lot of money and probably has better lawyers.
Punched cards delimit your data into 80 char chunks. You want to use paper tape.
I saw a high speed paper tape punch at auction a few months ago. I probably should have bought it.
You'd be amazed at how fast the cries of 'redbaiter' come out if anybody steps off the orthodox path in any 'progressive' organization.
***beginning of rant about ignorant US leftists who rubberstamp the atrocities and evil of communism- please skip over if you're a lil' red kid and have a short temper***
Stalin's guys did a hell of a good job of coopting the ideology of the left with their lackies in the United States. For decades in the 20th century, they funded the whole Communist Party by having a huge quantity of subscriptions to the 'Daily Journal'- the CP-USA daily newspaper. Probably the only libraries in the world that subscribed at that level to the US CP newspaper were in the Soviet Union and their client state.
Granted, there are and were independent leftist organizations that identified the USSR as a corrupt state very early on. However, the 'moderate left' have traditionally been 'owned' by the well organized 'Stalinists' of the CPUSA.
There are still people who believe the Rosenbergs were innocent, for goodness sake, even though the Rosenbergs and their comrades are more to blame for the Nuclear Arms race (they stole and gave the Soviet Union the atom bomb) than anybody else in history. There are still people who scream 'McCarthyism' at anybody to the political right of them who denounces communism, even though McCarthy was a pariah to the Political Right in this country very quickly after he started out on his adventure. McCarthy was actually a useful 'foil' for the left, more than anything else.
When the walls came down and the Communist system collapsed in the USSR, a whole lot of archives and records became publicly available. It's still not 'fashionable' to talk about them much, but the books have been published, and there's no chance anywhere in the world where the truth is allowed to intrude of anybody claiming there wasn't a communist conspiracy to overthrow the US Government. Hell, there were folks in FDR's administration who were patsies for Stalin's agents...
Read some history and come back when you've caught a clue.
It's sort of a non-civillian Hong Kong kind of deal.
Too bad it's not civillian, it'd be nice to be able to fly down out of Miami and buy a whole CD wallet full of warez for pocket change. heh.
For some values of 'perfect.' Not for other values.
Avoid shaking and rapid changes of temperature.
Be wary of adolescents who've read a few pamphlets and have it all 'figured out.'
Give college kids the time they need to mature. Humor them but only to a certain degree.
Wow. Your rights are damned limited, there, dude.
Geez.
For all your high-sounding rhetoric, don't you think you're going to look pretty ridiculous playing golf at Tonkin?
Send your money to the United Way. heh.
Tying this ideologically to the actions of the Bush Administration in Iraq is a great way to divide and conquer the Linux/GPL community.
Keep it up! (meant sarcastically)
You're wrong.
There are so many different possible entities with an interest in breaking/debunking the GPL that they're uncountable. Many interests with deep pockets wouldn't mind things staying the way they are in the software business.
Trying to turn it into a 'blame Microsoft' issue will just get you branded an 'anti Micro$oft nutcase' by the main public.
The BSD Unix OSes have achieved excellence and what you claim will happen, hasn't happened. Please don't spread your FUD about other open source licenses merely to hype up your GPL.
Frankly, the BSD licensed projects seem to be doing pretty good. I'm typing this on a NetBSD system using Mozilla, another non-GPL code base.
You're really stubborn about confining your focus with regard to 'computers and operating systems' to tasks involving sitting in front of a box with display, keyboard, and mouse attached.
You cite the one 'marketing bullet point' example of that cluster of 'G5' machines, but it seems you have no clue that people do things like embedded PC104 boards in industrial machines and run cut-back Linux kernals on the controllers on weather balloons, etc.
Think outside the box, dude. Or, to use bad grammar: "Think Different"
Yes, and they have a direct relationship with ATI and nVidia, and so can tightly integrate their OS to a specific, small target of hardware. This is radically different from the case for Linux or Windows, where the OS may find any random card installed that it's forced to use.
A Trident 8900CL would prove sufficient, and waste less power.
Wait a minute, here.
Up earlier in your text, you bolded $5.7 million list price paid for the macs, but then two paragraphs down you say educational list price without bolding it like you wanted it to slip through.
It just seemed a little dishonest.
One of the things that makes radicals like ANSWER really angry is that they have so much free speech to protest and parade around and denounce their government, etc.
They want a revolution, and all they get is freedom. It's truly the paradox of 'progressives' in a free country. Lord help them if they happened to live in a country like Iraq, Cuba, or N. Korea...
The study term for today is: petit-bourgeois adventurist.
None of which, of course, has stopped us from the whole sale management of ecosystems when we think the animal is endangered...
It's a mixed bag. We have all these 'researchers' out there identifying and documenting the travel patterns of all sorts of floura and fauna. For instance the migration patterns of whales. What happens with said information is up-for-grabs. It could be used by whale hunters to better 'harvest' all the whales. But as long as the oceanographers can get their grant money to sail around the world on their adventures, it's okay with them.
Archaeologist strive to find deeply buried and hidden artifacts. They drag them out of the places where they've remained intact for centuries, and into modern steel and glass buildings. Again, they get funding only so long as they publish and have new evidence to study. The mummy is screwed next time there's a budget cut.
Foresters don't exist to leave the trees alone. They exist to 'manage' the trees, to cut and cull and generally screw around with things.
Study the history of the long border (one of the longest on earth) separating the USSR and China.
clue: it historically was a very VERY hostile border for most of the latter half of the 20th century.
Any other Operating System that was on the market at the same time as MS-DOS had either a cost substancially higher than MS-DOS, or the development tools for it were an expensive add-on. Coherent may be one of the few exceptions to this.
No, the crippled C compiler (cc) 'bundled' with an OS like, say, HP-UX does not constitute 'development tools.' It's a limited little thing included so admins can patch the system, nothing more.
I thought I'd click on that 'cluetrain.com' link. Haven't been to that site in years. I remembered it as being one of those 'Everything Is Completely Changed' websites that provided a considerable amount of the smoke and mirrors that fueled the dot.bomb frenzy.
It doesn't seem to have changed at all. The authors of the page have a few valid points, but they run away with it in ways that many people have figured out how to shrug off.
You seem to have assigned a meaning to 'joystick port' that few of the rest of us use. Are you sure you're not a little more involved with that mere machine than you should be?
You're right, but ESR in particular fancies the imagery promoted by Robert Heinlein, a SF writer who spins up a whole utopian fantasy world that has many cultish followers. People who look closely will see that a significant body of Raymond's ideology comes from the work of Heinlein. The whole 'Church of All Worlds' thing. Heinlein can and has been likened by some as a similar but less successful L. Ron Hubbard.
Then again, this particular Scientology-clone cult seems to have MANY followers in the geek community. This whole comment may end up being branded as flamebait.
My vote for a 'resident historian' would be the dude who wrote A Quarter Century of UNIX, or some other old timer, not someone who showed up late and copped an attitude.