I'm the same way. I try to like KDE and Gnome every now and then, but I always end up ripping them out in disgust. It's far easier for me to just use an xterm for most things. The only reason I use X is for multiple xterms, graphical web browsers, xdvi & gv, Jamie's unparalleled collection of screensavers, Image Magick and the Gimp. Oh, and GKrellM is kind of nice...
Hmmm, I guess I do need more than just xterms. But I'll be damned if I need a bunch of desktop icons, bloated file mangler, a graphical front-end to 'less', or an "office suite" for kiddies (who needs an office suite when you have emacs, TeX and perl? Heheheh.)
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What if you're on some crusty old HP-UX machine in the back of someone's shop.
"Oops, sorry Mr. Client, I can't help you. This machine only has vi and, well, I'm just too lazy to learn how to use it. Maybe I can ftp the files to this Windows box and edit them with notepad... excuse me? Yes, certainly, I'll leave right away..."
I don't know if you've noticed, but there is a huge number of network administrators and PHBs who will run all Microsoft shops no matter what happens... I work in such a shop. It is downright sickening.
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Christianity didn't need a conquest because it was adopted as the official religion of the Roman empire, which had already conquered a huge territory.
True. But once stuff starts to get binary, programmers start getting lazy, featuritis creeps in and pretty soon you've got something like Postscript to deal with;-).
But you're right, a compromise with the best of both worlds and a simple standard would be ideal.
Because text is a universal interface, easily exchangeable with most computer systems and most humans. When your programs stop working it's nice to be able to get to your data with a text editor.
IMO, these terrorists were trained in more than just piloting. Remember, these were probably some of their "best" people.
A knife-fighting and/or unarmed-combat expert could hold off an army of unarmed passengers indefinitely in a narrow corridor or doorway where he could not be overwhelmed. After the first few heroes are seriously injured the other passengers would probably realize the futility of resistance.
Perhaps English is not your native language... I meant to imply that MSSQL is indeed better than MySQL, but that PostgreSQL is better than both. Do you have anything to say about that now that you (hopefully) understand my point?
Uhh... rm -rf/ is not going to work unless the administrator is stupid enough to run untrusted executables as root.
rm -rf $HOME can be devastating if you don't back up your data, but it's hardly going to kill the system. I usually have a cron job back up the home directories to a seperate partition on which the users have no write privileges (unless, of course, there is a tape drive available.)
Nah, they'll just license the patent if they need to. It's not like they can't afford it. Or maybe they'll just pressure McAfee into a free license. "Gee, maybe we should integrate a virus-scanner into our next version of Windows."
Ya gotta wonder what kind of sick masochist would base a business on writing Windows software.;-)
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Give any engineer a tour of the great pyramids and show him the gigantic interior granite slabs fitted together with incredible precision and ask him if he could duplicate it with today's technology given an unlimited budget.
Or take him to Macchu Pichu and ask him the same question.
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Huge? No it will be buried and forgotten like all the other evidence of an advanced prehistoric civilization. The so-called "scientists" that make up archaeology's status quo really don't want to rewrite their textbooks...
Netscape also runs wild on animated GIFs that have 0 pause between frames... It will use as much of the CPU as it can just to animate that stupid little GIF as fast as possible:-P
I should have said copyright violation. Abiding by copyrights is important if you want to use the GPL and don't want to be a hypocrite.
Abiding by the law is also important. Consider Aristotle who drank the belladonna despite knowing he was innocent and being given plenty of opportunity to escape. He honored the decision of the Senate because he believed that without law there is no civilization and without civilization man is little more than an animal. Of course there is the counter argument that unjust laws should not be followed, but who decides what is just and what is unjust? That is what Congress is for. Congress is corrupt you say? Then we must work to improve it, because a better system has yet to be implemented.
Evaporate the oceans? I think you're overestimating the power of nuclear weapons as well... You might succeed in irradiating and heating up the oceans a bit, enough to seriously effect marine life, and vaporizing a few million gallons. Certainly, you would cause some kind of "nuclear winter" or "nuclear greenhouse" depending on which theory turns out to be right, and probably succeed in killing off most of the higher life forms on Earth. But I suspect the oceans themselves would be largely unchanged.
I started using Linux because I couldn't afford software (Photoshop, Visual Studio, etc.) for Windows (not to mention being sick of rebooting and curious about Unix). I was unwilling to use illegal copies of software as it is stealing and I have moral standards to live by.
Believe it or not, many GNU/Linux/BSD users do not consider stealing "not that bad of a solution"...
Doesn't this sort of... meditative for lack of a better word, art ever happen to anyone else?
Yes, of course, I would wager that the best pieces of art usually happen this way. In music especially, for me. It's when I'm not even thinking of the key changes and my fingers seem to take on a life of their own that the best sounding riffs flow forth. Just tapping into the Universal Mind, man.;-)
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I'm the same way. I try to like KDE and Gnome every now and then, but I always end up ripping them out in disgust. It's far easier for me to just use an xterm for most things. The only reason I use X is for multiple xterms, graphical web browsers, xdvi & gv, Jamie's unparalleled collection of screensavers, Image Magick and the Gimp. Oh, and GKrellM is kind of nice...
Hmmm, I guess I do need more than just xterms. But I'll be damned if I need a bunch of desktop icons, bloated file mangler, a graphical front-end to 'less', or an "office suite" for kiddies (who needs an office suite when you have emacs, TeX and perl? Heheheh.)
What if you're on some crusty old HP-UX machine in the back of someone's shop.
"Oops, sorry Mr. Client, I can't help you. This machine only has vi and, well, I'm just too lazy to learn how to use it. Maybe I can ftp the files to this Windows box and edit them with notepad... excuse me? Yes, certainly, I'll leave right away..."
I don't know if you've noticed, but there is a huge number of network administrators and PHBs who will run all Microsoft shops no matter what happens... I work in such a shop. It is downright sickening.
Christianity didn't need a conquest because it was adopted as the official religion of the Roman empire, which had already conquered a huge territory.
True. But once stuff starts to get binary, programmers start getting lazy, featuritis creeps in and pretty soon you've got something like Postscript to deal with ;-).
But you're right, a compromise with the best of both worlds and a simple standard would be ideal.
Because text is a universal interface, easily exchangeable with most computer systems and most humans. When your programs stop working it's nice to be able to get to your data with a text editor.
"Go east till you hit the coast, take a right and head south until you see the 2 big buildings. Crash into one."
Seems pretty simple to me...
IMO, these terrorists were trained in more than just piloting. Remember, these were probably some of their "best" people.
A knife-fighting and/or unarmed-combat expert could hold off an army of unarmed passengers indefinitely in a narrow corridor or doorway where he could not be overwhelmed. After the first few heroes are seriously injured the other passengers would probably realize the futility of resistance.
Yeah it was probably some Middle-Eastern terrorist like the guy that blew up the Federal building in Oklaho... errr, never mind.
Perhaps English is not your native language... I meant to imply that MSSQL is indeed better than MySQL, but that PostgreSQL is better than both. Do you have anything to say about that now that you (hopefully) understand my point?
... or PostgreSQL running on Linux boxen, which would probably be faster and more reliable, not to mention a hell of a lot cheaper.
Sorry troll, no one is going to argue with you that MySQL is better than MSSQL. We're not that stupid.
I wasn't sure if you knew anything about Unix or not. I didn't mean to condescend.
No offense, but users should have read-only access to a FAT filesystem as it implements no security.
Uhh... rm -rf / is not going to work unless the administrator is stupid enough to run untrusted executables as root.
rm -rf $HOME can be devastating if you don't back up your data, but it's hardly going to kill the system. I usually have a cron job back up the home directories to a seperate partition on which the users have no write privileges (unless, of course, there is a tape drive available.)
Because it has a better name :P
Nah, they'll just license the patent if they need to. It's not like they can't afford it. Or maybe they'll just pressure McAfee into a free license. "Gee, maybe we should integrate a virus-scanner into our next version of Windows."
Ya gotta wonder what kind of sick masochist would base a business on writing Windows software. ;-)
Give any engineer a tour of the great pyramids and show him the gigantic interior granite slabs fitted together with incredible precision and ask him if he could duplicate it with today's technology given an unlimited budget.
Or take him to Macchu Pichu and ask him the same question.
Huge? No it will be buried and forgotten like all the other evidence of an advanced prehistoric civilization. The so-called "scientists" that make up archaeology's status quo really don't want to rewrite their textbooks...
I realized that the Prevue channel was running Amigas one day when I was flipping by and happened to notice a "guru meditiation" error. :-)
Netscape also runs wild on animated GIFs that have 0 pause between frames... It will use as much of the CPU as it can just to animate that stupid little GIF as fast as possible :-P
It's been ages since I read Plato... please excuse my ignorance.
Did I say Aristotle? Doh! I'm an idiot.
Point.
I should have said copyright violation. Abiding by copyrights is important if you want to use the GPL and don't want to be a hypocrite.
Abiding by the law is also important. Consider Aristotle who drank the belladonna despite knowing he was innocent and being given plenty of opportunity to escape. He honored the decision of the Senate because he believed that without law there is no civilization and without civilization man is little more than an animal. Of course there is the counter argument that unjust laws should not be followed, but who decides what is just and what is unjust? That is what Congress is for. Congress is corrupt you say? Then we must work to improve it, because a better system has yet to be implemented.
Evaporate the oceans? I think you're overestimating the power of nuclear weapons as well... You might succeed in irradiating and heating up the oceans a bit, enough to seriously effect marine life, and vaporizing a few million gallons. Certainly, you would cause some kind of "nuclear winter" or "nuclear greenhouse" depending on which theory turns out to be right, and probably succeed in killing off most of the higher life forms on Earth. But I suspect the oceans themselves would be largely unchanged.
I started using Linux because I couldn't afford software (Photoshop, Visual Studio, etc.) for Windows (not to mention being sick of rebooting and curious about Unix). I was unwilling to use illegal copies of software as it is stealing and I have moral standards to live by.
Believe it or not, many GNU/Linux/BSD users do not consider stealing "not that bad of a solution"...
Doesn't this sort of... meditative for lack of a better word, art ever happen to anyone else?
Yes, of course, I would wager that the best pieces of art usually happen this way. In music especially, for me. It's when I'm not even thinking of the key changes and my fingers seem to take on a life of their own that the best sounding riffs flow forth. Just tapping into the Universal Mind, man. ;-)