Actually, it does make a difference to the third party's fundraising efforts the next time around. Also, any third party that 'beats the spread' between the major two parties traditionally gets pieces of its platform lifted and adopted by *both* major parties - see the experience of Henry Wallace for a practical example.
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I'm assuming you have the classic pull a lever, draw the curtain, pull a lever again to register your vote.
Step 1
pull main lever to draw curtain (it's the big one in the middle).
Step 2
vote only on those elections where you want to register a vote (this can be 0 elections) leaving the other races blank.
Step 3
pull main lever back
All races with no votes cast are 'none of the above' races. People do this all of the time but usually they vote for the 'big' elections and leave blank the junior assistant dogcatcher races that they don't understand. Believe me, if a race were held and the congressional race generated more votes than the presidential it would be a very big deal for the parties no matter who won the respective races.
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In a society which has a majority that would turn its back on all the good things that have made America special, a little totemic respect for the founders is actually a good thing. The best that an idiot can achieve in voting is to vote in step with those smarter than he is. Whatever else you say about the founders of the US, they were a remarkably intellectual and practical bunch that have produced arguably the best founding political document in the history of mankind.
not true. The 25% would be scrutinized avidly both by the 2 major parties (as they scrutinized the perot people and the wallace people) so that they can morph their platform enough to pull in that group into their coalition. The first time one of the two major US parties doesn't do that, it will be the death knell for one of the two current parties because there *will* be a third party to take up the banner. Actually there most likely are already several, Libertarian, Green, Natural Law, Socialist, National Socialist, they are all there if that is what floats your boat.
Who will spend time writing this stuff? The airlines. They lose tens of millions of dollars because we're using outdated technology for ATC. If they can improve the systems themselves, adding the features that they want, you might find things like flight corridors going away. Right now, these changes have to be lobbied for politically and pressure can only be applied indirectly.
It's a classic open source itch scratching situation, only its firms this time, not individual hackers for the most part. Though I do expect that individual hackers caught in their 5th hour of unexplained delays might decide to improve/write an interface to improve passenger reporting of problems via the ATC system.
In other words, qualified people are likely to do it, jumpstarting a process of upgrading the ATC systems in the US that has been horribly blown to date.
Just because today, government specs are all incompatible doesn't mean that they have to stay that way and OS could be a method of achieving a bit more sanity. New municipalities are created every year. If even a significant minority were to adhere to a generalized OS software philosophy, it could reduce costs significantly. Existing governments would come on board over time (the whole process would likely take decades). My point is that if you don't start, you will never finish.
Actually, it is quite likely that the airlines would be major contributors. If throwing a thousand programmers for a year at the ATC system increases the number of planes that can fly out of JFK, LAX, or any other overcrowded airport by 5%, it's a net positive to their bottom line in less than a year. When planes sit on runways waiting for a slot or even worse, are kept in holding patterns, it's a very ugly cash hemorrage.
The fair measurement isn't whether the stability/longevity advantages of open source hold true for "every conceivable software project". Rather it is whether the advantage holds true in such a large number of cases that it saves time and money to make open source the default.
I suspect that there will always be closed source in government software, specifically in military and intelligence applications where we certainly want our enemies to do their own darn R&D (fill in your own country here, you anti-USA-centric whiners). There may be other specialized cases as well (would we want wiretap software to be open source?). But those examples are irrelevant to the vast majority of computer applications in government work which would do just fine in open source.
Oh, let's see (can't resist a few pet peeves), a proper universal clipboard where all apps can cut, copy, & paste so that terminal windows can copy, not only paste, the ability to have it always be ctrl-x for cut or alt-x for cut, not one way in one program and another way in another program, you know, little basic useability things that those closed source Apple folks have had down pat since the early 80's.
If I have a valid license for a piece of software and the media is defective, is it piracy to remedy the defective media by using non-defective media? If that is so, I would suspect that the incidence of 'piracy' spirals out of control. If it is not piracy, what is illegal about providing proper media, i.e. not locked into a restore disk?
IANAL and all but it seems as if this is untenable on MS' part.
Why does being a racist bastard mean that your testimony is invalid? Thoughtcrime anyone?
The actual problem is that the prosecution's star witness lied about his opinions on matters of race on the stand. Any lie on the stand that is caught can and should be used by the jury to evaluate the truthfulness of the rest of the testimony. It's called impeaching a witness.
This is also why OJ did not take the stand since he would have been torn apart for his inconsistent statements making any police inconsistencies look inconsequential.
You do not lose any rights no matter where you go unless you are deprived them by process of law (i.e. go to prison for committing a crime).
If I don't have the right to go through your bags if you enter my house (and as a general rule, I don't), there is no right of a store to rifle through your belongings either. If I see you lifting my silverware, it's a different matter, ditto for the store spotting a shoplifter. But we both still can't force a search.
If you were still to refuse to submit to search, I'm within my rights (as is the store) to stop you from exiting with your stolen goods and call the cops who then can search. If there is no theft, the detainee gets to sue for all the usual inconvenience, emotional distress, etc. grounds. This keeps people from doing this sort of citizen's arrest on a whim.
On the mac at least, your point falls down, while today they are two different things, Mac OS X Server is going to end up being changed over to be OS X + server applications, in other words, one OS.
Ok, you're bait and switching here. This was about release delays, not whether or not software is free or not. If you don't think that Apple is offering you good value for the money that they want to charge, don't buy it. If you want free Apple stuff, I suggest going to the Darwin website where you can get a free unix workalike, a kick butt free streaming server, and a few other open source goodies and download them quite legally.
BTW: putting >console into the user window on the OS X Beta dumps the GUI and leaves you with a Darwin session.
Also BTW: if you read the Darwin FAQs carefully, you might notice that Apple is steering an effort to make Darwin a multi-platform OS. Since the parts of OS X residing on top of Darwin are said to be platform independent, this probably means, OS X on Itanium in 2002. Now put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Well, a world without Apple would be a world without Firewire, an awesome piece of nerd tech if I've ever seen one. What IEEE specs have Dell, Gateway or Compaq come up with?
I certainly wouldn't be happier without the ability to hook up video cameras,VCRs, computers, etc. on a cheap I/O system that doesn't need to be mediated by a computer.
This, all by itself, justifies Apple's ccontinued existence.
I'm sorry but you just don't have much of a clue. If they didn't wan't Darwin running on x86, they certainly wouldn't be encouraging people to develop it. And everything I've read leads me to believe that the parts of OS X that live on top of Darwin are all platform independent.
In other words, it's quite likely that in a year or two you are going to be able to run Darwin on your x86 box, and do an upgrade to OS X. Apple may or may not support it as a hardware config but I'm sure that an equivalent to RedHat will be formed to pick up any support dollars that Apple leaves on the table.
This very fact kills any demand for an OS X emulator for x86 because you will just be able to run it native and who is going to fork out more money for less performance?
This rant is hardly stuff that matters. As for news for nerds, it's only news for the ignorant
The reason the UK pays so much is that your fuel taxes are huge and are viewed as a general revenue source. The US fuel tax bill is much lower and most of it is earmarked for transportation maintenance/improvements (reducing the politician's impulse to raise taxes).
Unless you are agitating for higher fuel taxes in the US, what exactly are you getting at?
3c905c NICS are 10/100, the G4 ships with 10/100/1000 ethernet. You also made no mention of firewire which comes standard on the G4.
Once you add both of these factors in (another post listed $200 for the GB ethernet and $80 for an adaptec firewire card sounds right), you come up with a competitive solution by buying from Apple. It's not going to be everybody's cup of tea but I don't see any large disadvantage to it
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Actually, it does make a difference to the third party's fundraising efforts the next time around. Also, any third party that 'beats the spread' between the major two parties traditionally gets pieces of its platform lifted and adopted by *both* major parties - see the experience of Henry Wallace for a practical example.
DB
I'm assuming you have the classic pull a lever, draw the curtain, pull a lever again to register your vote.
Step 1
pull main lever to draw curtain (it's the big one in the middle).
Step 2
vote only on those elections where you want to register a vote (this can be 0 elections) leaving the other races blank.
Step 3
pull main lever back
All races with no votes cast are 'none of the above' races. People do this all of the time but usually they vote for the 'big' elections and leave blank the junior assistant dogcatcher races that they don't understand. Believe me, if a race were held and the congressional race generated more votes than the presidential it would be a very big deal for the parties no matter who won the respective races.
DB
In a society which has a majority that would turn its back on all the good things that have made America special, a little totemic respect for the founders is actually a good thing. The best that an idiot can achieve in voting is to vote in step with those smarter than he is. Whatever else you say about the founders of the US, they were a remarkably intellectual and practical bunch that have produced arguably the best founding political document in the history of mankind.
DB
not true. The 25% would be scrutinized avidly both by the 2 major parties (as they scrutinized the perot people and the wallace people) so that they can morph their platform enough to pull in that group into their coalition. The first time one of the two major US parties doesn't do that, it will be the death knell for one of the two current parties because there *will* be a third party to take up the banner. Actually there most likely are already several, Libertarian, Green, Natural Law, Socialist, National Socialist, they are all there if that is what floats your boat.
DB
You truly like inconsistent interfaces and consider them good UI? I doubt it troll.
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Who will spend time writing this stuff? The airlines. They lose tens of millions of dollars because we're using outdated technology for ATC. If they can improve the systems themselves, adding the features that they want, you might find things like flight corridors going away. Right now, these changes have to be lobbied for politically and pressure can only be applied indirectly.
It's a classic open source itch scratching situation, only its firms this time, not individual hackers for the most part. Though I do expect that individual hackers caught in their 5th hour of unexplained delays might decide to improve/write an interface to improve passenger reporting of problems via the ATC system.
In other words, qualified people are likely to do it, jumpstarting a process of upgrading the ATC systems in the US that has been horribly blown to date.
DB
Just because today, government specs are all incompatible doesn't mean that they have to stay that way and OS could be a method of achieving a bit more sanity. New municipalities are created every year. If even a significant minority were to adhere to a generalized OS software philosophy, it could reduce costs significantly. Existing governments would come on board over time (the whole process would likely take decades). My point is that if you don't start, you will never finish.
DB
Actually, it is quite likely that the airlines would be major contributors. If throwing a thousand programmers for a year at the ATC system increases the number of planes that can fly out of JFK, LAX, or any other overcrowded airport by 5%, it's a net positive to their bottom line in less than a year. When planes sit on runways waiting for a slot or even worse, are kept in holding patterns, it's a very ugly cash hemorrage.
DB
The fair measurement isn't whether the stability/longevity advantages of open source hold true for "every conceivable software project". Rather it is whether the advantage holds true in such a large number of cases that it saves time and money to make open source the default.
I suspect that there will always be closed source in government software, specifically in military and intelligence applications where we certainly want our enemies to do their own darn R&D (fill in your own country here, you anti-USA-centric whiners). There may be other specialized cases as well (would we want wiretap software to be open source?). But those examples are irrelevant to the vast majority of computer applications in government work which would do just fine in open source.
DB
Oh, let's see (can't resist a few pet peeves), a proper universal clipboard where all apps can cut, copy, & paste so that terminal windows can copy, not only paste, the ability to have it always be ctrl-x for cut or alt-x for cut, not one way in one program and another way in another program, you know, little basic useability things that those closed source Apple folks have had down pat since the early 80's.
Can't we all just get along?
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If I have a valid license for a piece of software and the media is defective, is it piracy to remedy the defective media by using non-defective media? If that is so, I would suspect that the incidence of 'piracy' spirals out of control. If it is not piracy, what is illegal about providing proper media, i.e. not locked into a restore disk?
IANAL and all but it seems as if this is untenable on MS' part.
DB
You mean like blood evidence, DNA, shoe prints? OJ walked because he had great lawyers and a stupid criminal prosecution team starting with the cops.
MS-DOS is a Microsoft OS
PC-DOS is an IBM OS
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Why does being a racist bastard mean that your testimony is invalid? Thoughtcrime anyone?
The actual problem is that the prosecution's star witness lied about his opinions on matters of race on the stand. Any lie on the stand that is caught can and should be used by the jury to evaluate the truthfulness of the rest of the testimony. It's called impeaching a witness.
This is also why OJ did not take the stand since he would have been torn apart for his inconsistent statements making any police inconsistencies look inconsequential.
DB
You do not lose any rights no matter where you go unless you are deprived them by process of law (i.e. go to prison for committing a crime).
If I don't have the right to go through your bags if you enter my house (and as a general rule, I don't), there is no right of a store to rifle through your belongings either. If I see you lifting my silverware, it's a different matter, ditto for the store spotting a shoplifter. But we both still can't force a search.
If you were still to refuse to submit to search, I'm within my rights (as is the store) to stop you from exiting with your stolen goods and call the cops who then can search. If there is no theft, the detainee gets to sue for all the usual inconvenience, emotional distress, etc. grounds. This keeps people from doing this sort of citizen's arrest on a whim.
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I don't know about HP. I've got a Vectra that works just fine with RH7
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On the mac at least, your point falls down, while today they are two different things, Mac OS X Server is going to end up being changed over to be OS X + server applications, in other words, one OS.
DB
BTW: putting >console into the user window on the OS X Beta dumps the GUI and leaves you with a Darwin session.
Also BTW: if you read the Darwin FAQs carefully, you might notice that Apple is steering an effort to make Darwin a multi-platform OS. Since the parts of OS X residing on top of Darwin are said to be platform independent, this probably means, OS X on Itanium in 2002. Now put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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Try Telocity instead. I've gotten a much better deal from them.
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It would have been educational if he was factually correct. Unfortunately, he wasn't. OS X runs on far more machines than are on the official list.
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Actually, your 8600/300 does run Mac OS X, it's just not on the supported hardware list.
Take a look at Xappeal.org. They have a long list of older macs that they have run OS X on that aren't on the official Apple list.
DB
Well, a world without Apple would be a world without Firewire, an awesome piece of nerd tech if I've ever seen one. What IEEE specs have Dell, Gateway or Compaq come up with?
I certainly wouldn't be happier without the ability to hook up video cameras,VCRs, computers, etc. on a cheap I/O system that doesn't need to be mediated by a computer.
This, all by itself, justifies Apple's ccontinued existence.
DB
I'm sorry but you just don't have much of a clue. If they didn't wan't Darwin running on x86, they certainly wouldn't be encouraging people to develop it. And everything I've read leads me to believe that the parts of OS X that live on top of Darwin are all platform independent.
In other words, it's quite likely that in a year or two you are going to be able to run Darwin on your x86 box, and do an upgrade to OS X. Apple may or may not support it as a hardware config but I'm sure that an equivalent to RedHat will be formed to pick up any support dollars that Apple leaves on the table.
This very fact kills any demand for an OS X emulator for x86 because you will just be able to run it native and who is going to fork out more money for less performance?
This rant is hardly stuff that matters. As for news for nerds, it's only news for the ignorant
DB
The reason the UK pays so much is that your fuel taxes are huge and are viewed as a general revenue source. The US fuel tax bill is much lower and most of it is earmarked for transportation maintenance/improvements (reducing the politician's impulse to raise taxes).
Unless you are agitating for higher fuel taxes in the US, what exactly are you getting at?
DB
3c905c NICS are 10/100, the G4 ships with 10/100/1000 ethernet. You also made no mention of firewire which comes standard on the G4.
Once you add both of these factors in (another post listed $200 for the GB ethernet and $80 for an adaptec firewire card sounds right), you come up with a competitive solution by buying from Apple. It's not going to be everybody's cup of tea but I don't see any large disadvantage to it
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