Will this change the way companies write they reports and presidential candidates speak?
Yes. But so what? The lack of future tense isn't what's winning the elections, but merely a side effect of something else. That something else is easy to figure out: the average voter/consumer wants to know more about the practical here and now and less about the promises of the future.
"I use Mandrake, so that makes me suave and sophisticated."
I sprayed my monitor with milk and chunks of tuna caserole when I read that. To a Mandrake user, "suave" means wearing tightie whities as loungewear, and "sophisticated" means using a handful of toilet paper as a napkin.
With more and more privacy-invading legislation being installed, the US will rapidly become unusable to any business
While the US is far from perfect, other nations are hardly any cleaner. At least I don't have to worry about national ID cards and cameras at every stoplight. The last people to sell my personal information without my consent were not from the US (which is why I can't sue them), but spammers from enlightened Europe. It's been twenty years since the last time a policeman asked me for my "papers", and that was because I was speeding.
What was the reason for not implementing these as devices?
Because KDE is a cross platform desktop, and devices are too tightly tied to a specific kernel. A Linux device doesn't help a FreeBSD, Solaris or AIX user.
They've forced me to dump dual boot at work, but back when I was dual booting Win2K and FreeBSD/KDE, the latter was objectively faster even though the former seemed to be quicker to the casual user. But when I did an objective test from bootup to displaying a webpage in the default browser, FreeBSD/KDE had Win2K beat by about five seconds (45 to 50 seconds totals). Win2K seemed to boot quicker, but it really didn't. When it looked like it was up and running it was still loading in the background. You would click on IE and end up with five to ten seconds of an hourglass cursor.
I'm sure WinXP has improved in speed, and I'm sure you can find some lameass slow Linux distros, but the myth that Windows is faster simply is not true....and probably mac, never really used it...
Then why don't you go find out first before making claims! From my ACTUAL USE of the Mac, it seems to me that the Mac is marginally slower to start up, even though the UI seems to be snappier.
Irrelevant. To quote Linus, "The midwife doesn't get to name the baby." The compiler isn't the OS. The libraries aren't the OS. The tools aren't the OS. But Behold! Pick any book on OS design and 95% of it will be discussing the kernel.
Or to look at it another way, maybe everything should be prefixed with "K&R", because they invented the language the GNU tools, libraries and compilers were written in.
Heck, you don't even need pro-Bush comments to get modded down. I'm a libertarian who's going to vote for Badnarik, and I get modded down just for questioning the divinity of Kerry!
I think you're confusing de-monopolization for deregulation. They are different things. We pretty much had the same thing in California, when we had a proposition that eliminated one form of state government mandated monopoly. But since the regulation was still there, all we ended up with was competition for the governor's favors.
Of course! To be Fair and Balanced (tm) I am merely pointing out another petty tyranny pretending to be the epitome of liberty. All I am doing is pointing out the log in France's eye, so that France can remove it to better see the splinter in the US's eye.
You're making my point for me. The California power industry was NEVER deregulated! You only think it was because the politicians used the word "deregulation" incorrectly. In fact, there was an increase in power industry regulations at the time!
You were fooled by the politician's Orwellian Newspeak, and now believe that black is white. The politicians have done the same thing to the word "privatize" (to mean government issued monopolies) and "free trade" (to mean bureaucratic micromanagement of imports and exports).
You claimed ARPANET was a "private utility". This is incorrect. It was always public. Anyone who could afford the *hardware* could join in. It wasn't Al Gore who gave the internet to the masses, but cheaper hardware. Once the hardware got cheap enough ISPs started popping up everywhere.
I am not dissing Gore's involvement in promoting the internet, but I'm not going to give him more credit than he deserves.
France is seen as a beacon of Liberty and Freedom throughout the world
They are seen as a beacon of liberty only within France. Outside it's just France. You know, the nation that confused the Reign of Terror with political freedom. That was an imperialist colonial power within my lifetime. That even today takes children to court for wearing religious dress. Frankly [sic] the French have redefined liberte as whatever they want it to mean at the moment.
but Vint Cerf told me that, before Al Gore, the ARPANET was a private utility.
Could you please show us a quote please? Because I distinctly remember using ARPANET in the pre-Gore days. It was created by a PUBLIC government agency and I was using it at a PUBLIC university. There were some private companies using it, but to consider it a "private utility" is laughable.
I was stuck on a plane from Dallas to Frankfurt with this Texan lady who insisted on yammering at me the entire trip. I didn't understand a word she said the entire time, but I just kept nodding my head. Her accent was so thick you could stand a fork upright in it.
And look at those eleven (or fifty six) bills closer, and you'll see that most of them are trivial nothings. Naming buildings and such like that. When it comes to substantive legal bills, he's introduced virtually nothing.
Except for the fact that what politicians call "free trade" isn't free at all. These are micromanaged trade agreements running hundreds or thousands of pages long.
Like "deregulation" and "privatize", the term has been twisted by the politicians to prevent the public from ever wanting it. It's orwellian language redefining in action.
It should be noted that before this thread existed this article was only in the Linux section. After this thread it gets moved to the BSD section with a link in the Linux section.
WTF?
Meanwhile, it still hasn't been tagged with the GNUstep topic, which Windowmaker is officially a part of.
WTF?
Does anyone else think that Slashdot's continuing popularity is a result of mere inertia?
Comparing auto-park to cruise control is erroneous. With cruise control I am still driving. I'm looking out the window. I'm steering left or right. The driver can instantly resume full driving responsibility at any time. Auto-park is different, according to the description. It does all the driving. The automobile has assumed all control, and the driver has become a mere passenger for the next few seconds.
In fact, to initiate auto-park, you must look away from the outside of the vehicle and onto the nagivation controls where you manipulate some icons to indicate where you want to park. While I'm certain the driver can still instantly apply the breaks, I'm doubtful he'll be observing much outside the car during the operation.
Think about how you parallel park. The hardest part (after you learn how) is craning your neck around to see behind you. You're trying to see around the blind spots. But with auto-park, how may people are going to be turning halfway around in their seats to see behind them? I suspect most will be content with their rearview mirror, if they even bother to look behind.
I am not saying auto-park should be banned or anything like that. I'm just saying that the manufacturer needs to assume some of the responsibilities of the feature, simply due to the fact that the feature was designed to take responsibilities away from the driver.
p.s. Auto-park might come with a rear sensor to detect soccer balls and children. If so, I take back everything I said. Otherwise, though, the manufacturer is opening themselves up for a justified lawsuit.
Thank goodness for old fashioned American litigiousness! From the article:
But the system cannot respond to changing conditions, like the vehicle in front suddenly backing into the space the Prius is about to enter. Nor can the system respond to unexpected road obstacles -- a soccer ball rolling into the gutter or a child running in the way.
While I think self-driving cars are an awesome thing, I'll make sure to wait until the technology is good enough to avoid backing over small children. Unexpected road obstacles" happen, and every production self-driving technology needs to account for them. Frankly, I'm amazed no one in Europe and Japan is suing over this. Is it somehow okay to drive over children there?" Do they also accept power windows that slice arms off if they get in the way? Do they accept brakes that lock up if applied at too high of speeds? I don't think so.
A car that takes assumes the responsibility to park a car must also assume the responsibility to do so safely.
p.s. And for all of you nitwits out there saying "you need to monitor your children closer", it's obvious you don't know the first thing about children. To you proper childcare must consist of chaining them in their closets.
The kneecapping is because I dissed Firefox. From page 12 of the Slashbot guide: "All Gecko based browsers are to be universally admired and adulated, with Firefox to be more equally admired and adulated than the others."
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Will this change the way companies write they reports and presidential candidates speak?
Yes. But so what? The lack of future tense isn't what's winning the elections, but merely a side effect of something else. That something else is easy to figure out: the average voter/consumer wants to know more about the practical here and now and less about the promises of the future.
Here's my voting campaign: If you're too busy to study the candidates and the issues, you're too busy to vote. So stay home.
"I use Mandrake, so that makes me suave and sophisticated."
I sprayed my monitor with milk and chunks of tuna caserole when I read that. To a Mandrake user, "suave" means wearing tightie whities as loungewear, and "sophisticated" means using a handful of toilet paper as a napkin.
With more and more privacy-invading legislation being installed, the US will rapidly become unusable to any business
While the US is far from perfect, other nations are hardly any cleaner. At least I don't have to worry about national ID cards and cameras at every stoplight. The last people to sell my personal information without my consent were not from the US (which is why I can't sue them), but spammers from enlightened Europe. It's been twenty years since the last time a policeman asked me for my "papers", and that was because I was speeding.
The succes of Firefox was that it wasn't a huge bloated beast.
What was the reason for not implementing these as devices?
Because KDE is a cross platform desktop, and devices are too tightly tied to a specific kernel. A Linux device doesn't help a FreeBSD, Solaris or AIX user.
They've forced me to dump dual boot at work, but back when I was dual booting Win2K and FreeBSD/KDE, the latter was objectively faster even though the former seemed to be quicker to the casual user. But when I did an objective test from bootup to displaying a webpage in the default browser, FreeBSD/KDE had Win2K beat by about five seconds (45 to 50 seconds totals). Win2K seemed to boot quicker, but it really didn't. When it looked like it was up and running it was still loading in the background. You would click on IE and end up with five to ten seconds of an hourglass cursor.
...and probably mac, never really used it...
I'm sure WinXP has improved in speed, and I'm sure you can find some lameass slow Linux distros, but the myth that Windows is faster simply is not true.
Then why don't you go find out first before making claims! From my ACTUAL USE of the Mac, it seems to me that the Mac is marginally slower to start up, even though the UI seems to be snappier.
Irrelevant. To quote Linus, "The midwife doesn't get to name the baby." The compiler isn't the OS. The libraries aren't the OS. The tools aren't the OS. But Behold! Pick any book on OS design and 95% of it will be discussing the kernel.
Or to look at it another way, maybe everything should be prefixed with "K&R", because they invented the language the GNU tools, libraries and compilers were written in.
What about showing some respect to Linus Torvalds, who actually managed to write a kernel instead of spending ten years griping about names.
Heck, you don't even need pro-Bush comments to get modded down. I'm a libertarian who's going to vote for Badnarik, and I get modded down just for questioning the divinity of Kerry!
It doesn't matter if the submission was correct or incorrect, because it has served it's purpose in fanning the flames of US hatred.
The whole story is a TROLL!
I think you're confusing de-monopolization for deregulation. They are different things. We pretty much had the same thing in California, when we had a proposition that eliminated one form of state government mandated monopoly. But since the regulation was still there, all we ended up with was competition for the governor's favors.
Of course! To be Fair and Balanced (tm) I am merely pointing out another petty tyranny pretending to be the epitome of liberty. All I am doing is pointing out the log in France's eye, so that France can remove it to better see the splinter in the US's eye.
You're making my point for me. The California power industry was NEVER deregulated! You only think it was because the politicians used the word "deregulation" incorrectly. In fact, there was an increase in power industry regulations at the time!
You were fooled by the politician's Orwellian Newspeak, and now believe that black is white. The politicians have done the same thing to the word "privatize" (to mean government issued monopolies) and "free trade" (to mean bureaucratic micromanagement of imports and exports).
You claimed ARPANET was a "private utility". This is incorrect. It was always public. Anyone who could afford the *hardware* could join in. It wasn't Al Gore who gave the internet to the masses, but cheaper hardware. Once the hardware got cheap enough ISPs started popping up everywhere.
I am not dissing Gore's involvement in promoting the internet, but I'm not going to give him more credit than he deserves.
France is seen as a beacon of Liberty and Freedom throughout the world
They are seen as a beacon of liberty only within France. Outside it's just France. You know, the nation that confused the Reign of Terror with political freedom. That was an imperialist colonial power within my lifetime. That even today takes children to court for wearing religious dress. Frankly [sic] the French have redefined liberte as whatever they want it to mean at the moment.
but Vint Cerf told me that, before Al Gore, the ARPANET was a private utility.
Could you please show us a quote please? Because I distinctly remember using ARPANET in the pre-Gore days. It was created by a PUBLIC government agency and I was using it at a PUBLIC university. There were some private companies using it, but to consider it a "private utility" is laughable.
I was stuck on a plane from Dallas to Frankfurt with this Texan lady who insisted on yammering at me the entire trip. I didn't understand a word she said the entire time, but I just kept nodding my head. Her accent was so thick you could stand a fork upright in it.
And look at those eleven (or fifty six) bills closer, and you'll see that most of them are trivial nothings. Naming buildings and such like that. When it comes to substantive legal bills, he's introduced virtually nothing.
Except for the fact that what politicians call "free trade" isn't free at all. These are micromanaged trade agreements running hundreds or thousands of pages long.
Like "deregulation" and "privatize", the term has been twisted by the politicians to prevent the public from ever wanting it. It's orwellian language redefining in action.
That's not a tax loophole! Get a frickin' clue.
It should be noted that before this thread existed this article was only in the Linux section. After this thread it gets moved to the BSD section with a link in the Linux section.
WTF?
Meanwhile, it still hasn't been tagged with the GNUstep topic, which Windowmaker is officially a part of.
WTF?
Does anyone else think that Slashdot's continuing popularity is a result of mere inertia?
Comparing auto-park to cruise control is erroneous. With cruise control I am still driving. I'm looking out the window. I'm steering left or right. The driver can instantly resume full driving responsibility at any time. Auto-park is different, according to the description. It does all the driving. The automobile has assumed all control, and the driver has become a mere passenger for the next few seconds.
In fact, to initiate auto-park, you must look away from the outside of the vehicle and onto the nagivation controls where you manipulate some icons to indicate where you want to park. While I'm certain the driver can still instantly apply the breaks, I'm doubtful he'll be observing much outside the car during the operation.
Think about how you parallel park. The hardest part (after you learn how) is craning your neck around to see behind you. You're trying to see around the blind spots. But with auto-park, how may people are going to be turning halfway around in their seats to see behind them? I suspect most will be content with their rearview mirror, if they even bother to look behind.
I am not saying auto-park should be banned or anything like that. I'm just saying that the manufacturer needs to assume some of the responsibilities of the feature, simply due to the fact that the feature was designed to take responsibilities away from the driver.
p.s. Auto-park might come with a rear sensor to detect soccer balls and children. If so, I take back everything I said. Otherwise, though, the manufacturer is opening themselves up for a justified lawsuit.
Thank goodness for old fashioned American litigiousness! From the article:
But the system cannot respond to changing conditions, like the vehicle in front suddenly backing into the space the Prius is about to enter. Nor can the system respond to unexpected road obstacles -- a soccer ball rolling into the gutter or a child running in the way.
While I think self-driving cars are an awesome thing, I'll make sure to wait until the technology is good enough to avoid backing over small children. Unexpected road obstacles" happen, and every production self-driving technology needs to account for them. Frankly, I'm amazed no one in Europe and Japan is suing over this. Is it somehow okay to drive over children there?" Do they also accept power windows that slice arms off if they get in the way? Do they accept brakes that lock up if applied at too high of speeds? I don't think so.
A car that takes assumes the responsibility to park a car must also assume the responsibility to do so safely.
p.s. And for all of you nitwits out there saying "you need to monitor your children closer", it's obvious you don't know the first thing about children. To you proper childcare must consist of chaining them in their closets.
The kneecapping is because I dissed Firefox. From page 12 of the Slashbot guide: "All Gecko based browsers are to be universally admired and adulated, with Firefox to be more equally admired and adulated than the others."