I've been using MDK for almost 2 years now and think that it is a great distro with the exception of its updating mechanism. Generally, I haven't had very much luck with its update (either requiring a fresh install or the update breaks things that worked before)
Separate/,/usr, and/home partitions though make this at least somewhat workable. And at least the install is pretty easy (and does a nice job with autodetecting most things so I don't have to do things like set my monitor scane rates manually)
Overall all, though I've been pretty impressed with each release of MDK.
I belive that Orson Scott Card had a short story regarding something like this as well in a collection of his. Can't remember the name of the story (or the collection) off hand though.
If a company does not protect their patents (or trademarks, or licensing) doesn't this weaken their position as far as enforcing said patents (or license or trademarks).
So if MS has turned a blind eye since 1976 (1976? Bill was doing filesystems in 76?) with respect to enforcing their patents, doesn't this put them in a pretty weak position as far as enforcing them?
I seem to recall something similar happening to AT&T with their litigation against the Regents of California. Namely, AT&T didn't enforce their licensing of SVr4 for a period of time and thus effectively became part of the public domain...
Haven't had any hot beverages this morning, so this could have all been one strange dream though...
We need another alien spacecraft to crash land somewhere. That's a sure fire way to get some technological improvements out. I vote that it crashes somewhere cool to visit -- not the desert this time.
That seems far-fetched. A woman that blew you off 15 years ago in high school is reading your site (or otherwise expending energy in your general direction). Me and my good friend Occam call bullshit on this one. It was probably a buddy/someone-you-know spoofing her email.
'This American Life' had a great story on Sunday about voting machines, specifically about Diebold's. The theme of the show was The Annoying Gap Between Theory and Practice. The show is supposed to be coming out in RA on Thursday here. Basically they talked about electronic voting and some of its (many) drawbacks. Most/.'ers would probably enjoy listening to it.
For anyone who doesn't know about 'This American Life', basically they are short stories (about 3-4 per show) revolving around a certain theme. The stories are real life stories from ordinary people in America. Many of the stories are funny, some are sad, and almost all of them are thought provoking. I'd highly recommend listening to a show or two.
And no, I'm not affiliated with the show. Just an avid listener:)
The steady rise in the speed of bipolar transistors
Thank goodness there are lots of medications to support bipolar transistors. I recommend a nice thin layer of lithium to even up those pesky mood swings.
Considering that, even in the Twenty-First Century more people own a radio than own a television, are we really at the point where the American public needs television, so much so that the seller's desires must be catered to?
People don't need TV at all. I got rid of mine 2 months ago (unplugged the drug, so to speak) and it was the best thing I have done in a long time. Instead of watching TV I now do things like:
1) Volunteer at a hospital 2) cook really good dinners 3) write interesting software in my free time (since at work the software is less than interesting) 4) take classes on things that interest me 5) exercise
It's amazing what you can do (and how much better you feel) when you remove hours of sitting passively on your ass.
not only that, but next election, go out and VOTE.
The most recent congressional statistics I could find were for 1998. Some states had a whopping 28% of voters show up (way to go, Arizona), and the average seemed to be around 40%. I would hope that things are better today (those figures are 5 years old), but I have a hard time believing they are *that* much better.
And those 700 pizza and coke consuming students that cranked the code will all be able to say that they were part of this amazing thing
Too bad that when they graduate they'll find that all technology of this sort has been out-sourced to Bangalore. The Starbucks manager probably won't give a shit about what they've built when they go to get a job there.
>The USA, meanwhile, carries on smoking its crack pipe
That's not crack. That's Patriot Powder(TM). Using it funds things such as the CIA, NSA, FBI, Homeland Security, Major League Baseball, and your NEIGHBORHOOD LIBRARY!
By God, won't somebody think of the children???!??!
The intent of communism is that everyone is equal and should be treated fairly, the basic premise is that everyone deserves to be part of a sharing community where people aren't taken advantage of. Everyone that can provide, should. And everyone that needs, should be given. In such a society no-one shold be considered a freeloader, because everyone should pitch in as much as they can.
1) Any system whose fundamental premise is that everyone is equal is going to be flawed. Obviously, everyone is not equal (Rousseau's _Disocourse on the Origin of Inequality_ comes to mind about this discussion) However, everyone should be equal before the law See the evolution of the English legal system (Magna Carta, Petition of Rights, Rights of the Englishmen) It's been a while since I've read the _Communist Manifesto_, but I don't recall much about equal rights before the law in there.
2) For an interesting culmination of what happens when "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" is implemented, you may want to read Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_. A little dystopic, to be sure, but is certainly thought provoking. In essence, it displays the unfairness that this philosophy engenders.
Of course, communism is always doomed to failure because humanity is inately selfish (a necessary evolutionary trait),
In other words, people are doomed to be who they are. Nice.
Motivated self interest (AKA selfishness) is how people are wired (at least that seems to be the general consensus around here). Selfishness is not a bad thing (although it has a bad connotation in today's society) For example, it is in my best interests to fund general schooling of the population, rehab centers, and welfare (to name a few social institutions) Another Ayn Rand book _The Virtue of Selfishness_ discusses the concept in a rather interesting way which you won't find in your standard religion or civics classes.
However the fact that the ideals of communism are benevolent should not be overlooked
This sounds strangely like the ends justify the means...Which ideals are you talking about? Equality -- false premise. Fairness -- sure, but communism doesn't have a monopoly on advocating this concept. The ideal that the group is more important than myself is definitely not benevolent as it makes the individual subservient to the group, which is not a very fair situation.
And it is uninformed and rude to suggest that an ideological system that exists only as a fanciful mental construct in which everyone is truly equal should in some way be feared and/or insulted
Resorting to ad hominem attacks is not extremely pursuasive. I consider myself informed and very fashionable, and I have no problem with insulting communism.
I am totally in favour of unfair systems, as long as I get the best out of them.
This is just plain wrong, no matter what political system you may advocate.
I can't believe that the parent was modded to 5...
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Thanks for the suggestion. I've used urpmi a little bit, but I'll take a closer look at it.
I've been using MDK for almost 2 years now and think that it is a great distro with the exception of its updating mechanism. Generally, I haven't had very much luck with its update (either requiring a fresh install or the update breaks things that worked before)
/, /usr, and /home partitions though make this at least somewhat workable. And at least the install is pretty easy (and does a nice job with autodetecting most things so I don't have to do things like set my monitor scane rates manually)
Separate
Overall all, though I've been pretty impressed with each release of MDK.
You are shirking the template:
4) PROFIT
I belive that Orson Scott Card had a short story regarding something like this as well in a collection of his. Can't remember the name of the story (or the collection) off hand though.
chooks
If a company does not protect their patents (or trademarks, or licensing) doesn't this weaken their position as far as enforcing said patents (or license or trademarks).
So if MS has turned a blind eye since 1976 (1976? Bill was doing filesystems in 76?) with respect to enforcing their patents, doesn't this put them in a pretty weak position as far as enforcing them?
I seem to recall something similar happening to AT&T with their litigation against the Regents of California. Namely, AT&T didn't enforce their licensing of SVr4 for a period of time and thus effectively became part of the public domain...
Haven't had any hot beverages this morning, so this could have all been one strange dream though...
Where's the time to read/post to /.?
What happened to inventions since then ?
Where are all the other Breakthroughs ?
We need another alien spacecraft to crash land somewhere. That's a sure fire way to get some technological improvements out. I vote that it crashes somewhere cool to visit -- not the desert this time.
[tinfoil hat on]
Who's got new ideas now?
There's no such thing as a new idea.
Wait...I think I've heard that before...
A few hours later I got an e-mail. From Her!.
That seems far-fetched. A woman that blew you off 15 years ago in high school is reading your site (or otherwise expending energy in your general direction). Me and my good friend Occam call bullshit on this one. It was probably a buddy/someone-you-know spoofing her email.
'This American Life' had a great story on Sunday about voting machines, specifically about Diebold's. The theme of the show was The Annoying Gap Between Theory and Practice. The show is supposed to be coming out in RA on Thursday here. /.'ers would probably enjoy listening to it.
:)
Basically they talked about electronic voting and some of its (many) drawbacks. Most
For anyone who doesn't know about 'This American Life', basically they are short stories (about 3-4 per show) revolving around a certain theme. The stories are real life stories from ordinary people in America. Many of the stories are funny, some are sad, and almost all of them are thought provoking. I'd highly recommend listening to a show or two.
And no, I'm not affiliated with the show. Just an avid listener
So IBM is good now, right?
I keep on getting confused.
It's part of Skynet.
Now Ahnuld is really going to have to save California.
It's not the amount of holes in your software, is whether or not the typical cracker knows how to exploit them.
/.'ers have no frame of reference on that one...
God, there's nothing like exploiting holes in software...
Wait -- we're talking about women, right?
Oh never mind. Most
The steady rise in the speed of bipolar transistors
Thank goodness there are lots of medications to support bipolar transistors. I recommend a nice thin layer of lithium to even up those pesky mood swings.
More interesting than what the poster said is that s/he did it in LaTex! Nice!
I salute our new advertising-free overlords.
Considering that, even in the Twenty-First Century more people own a radio than own a television, are we really at the point where the American public needs television, so much so that the seller's desires must be catered to?
People don't need TV at all. I got rid of mine 2 months ago (unplugged the drug, so to speak) and it was the best thing I have done in a long time. Instead of watching TV I now do things like:
1) Volunteer at a hospital
2) cook really good dinners
3) write interesting software in my free time (since at work the software is less than interesting)
4) take classes on things that interest me
5) exercise
It's amazing what you can do (and how much better you feel) when you remove hours of sitting passively on your ass.
I thought he meant naked stoners. That could be bad if they are doing research:
Him: 5 pages of search results on potato chips and other snack foods?
Girls: Doooooooood. Quit harshing, man. We're hungry!
It's like the bourne-again's say -- ash and you shall recieve...
not only that, but next election, go out and VOTE.
The most recent congressional statistics I could find were for 1998. Some states had a whopping 28% of voters show up (way to go, Arizona), and the average seemed to be around 40%. I would hope that things are better today (those figures are 5 years old), but I have a hard time believing they are *that* much better.
Sad.
Argh, wrong link:
WMD
Time for some caffeine...
People believed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, didn't they?
That's WMD to you, bub.
And those 700 pizza and coke consuming students that cranked the code will all be able to say that they were part of this amazing thing
Too bad that when they graduate they'll find that all technology of this sort has been out-sourced to Bangalore. The Starbucks manager probably won't give a shit about what they've built when they go to get a job there.
God, I'm getting bitter.
>The USA, meanwhile, carries on smoking its crack pipe
That's not crack. That's Patriot Powder(TM). Using it funds things such as the CIA, NSA, FBI, Homeland Security, Major League Baseball, and your NEIGHBORHOOD LIBRARY!
By God, won't somebody think of the children???!??!
Must....resist.....arguing.....can't...do...it...
Doh.
The intent of communism is that everyone is equal and should be treated fairly, the basic premise is that everyone deserves to be part of a sharing community where people aren't taken advantage of. Everyone that can provide, should. And everyone that needs, should be given. In such a society no-one shold be considered a freeloader, because everyone should pitch in as much as they can.
1) Any system whose fundamental premise is that everyone is equal is going to be flawed. Obviously, everyone is not equal (Rousseau's _Disocourse on the Origin of Inequality_ comes to mind about this discussion) However, everyone should be equal before the law See the evolution of the English legal system (Magna Carta, Petition of Rights, Rights of the Englishmen) It's been a while since I've read the _Communist Manifesto_, but I don't recall much about equal rights before the law in there.
2) For an interesting culmination of what happens when "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" is implemented, you may want to read Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_. A little dystopic, to be sure, but is certainly thought provoking. In essence, it displays the unfairness that this philosophy engenders.
Of course, communism is always doomed to failure because humanity is inately selfish (a necessary evolutionary trait),
In other words, people are doomed to be who they are. Nice.
Motivated self interest (AKA selfishness) is how people are wired (at least that seems to be the general consensus around here). Selfishness is not a bad thing (although it has a bad connotation in today's society) For example, it is in my best interests to fund general schooling of the population, rehab centers, and welfare (to name a few social institutions) Another Ayn Rand book _The Virtue of Selfishness_ discusses the concept in a rather interesting way which you won't find in your standard religion or civics classes.
However the fact that the ideals of communism are benevolent should not be overlooked
This sounds strangely like the ends justify the means...Which ideals are you talking about? Equality -- false premise. Fairness -- sure, but communism doesn't have a monopoly on advocating this concept. The ideal that the group is more important than myself is definitely not benevolent as it makes the individual subservient to the group, which is not a very fair situation.
And it is uninformed and rude to suggest that an ideological system that exists only as a fanciful mental construct in which everyone is truly equal should in some way be feared and/or insulted
Resorting to ad hominem attacks is not extremely pursuasive. I consider myself informed and very fashionable, and I have no problem with insulting communism.
I am totally in favour of unfair systems, as long as I get the best out of them.
This is just plain wrong, no matter what political system you may advocate.
I can't believe that the parent was modded to 5...
Chooks