Evolution works great with exchange. It's way faster then outlook and has more features. I especially love the fact that you can view your private and public calendars together in one view and the the virtual folders.
Give it a try, I bet you will never go back to the abomination that's outlook.
Exchange connector would be great. Evolution kicks ass, I prefer it over outlook in every way but it won't run in windows or mac (not the 2.0 version anyway).
Please have an exchange connector so I don't have to use outlook when I am at work.
I switched my wife over from eudora. She likes it better. For a long time she was adamant about not switching but it was only because she was afraid of learning something new. As it turned out there was no learning curve she picked it up in a few minutes.
You seem to be stuck in a false dichotomy. Just because nobody is perfect that does not mean we abandon morality, ethics or judgements. Just because people may disagree or morals change that does not mean we stop making moral judgements or trying to lead moral lives.
In the past it was OK to have slaves and to rape little girls back then a few people disagreed and started making judgements based on their internal moral compass. Eventually the norms of society changed so that virtually all people believe that slavery is immoral.
The fact that human beings have internal moral compass is an important point. Let me tell you a Budha story....
One time Budha came upon a town and the elders of the town had a meeting with him. They asked him "We have many sages and ascetics come by and each one tells us that they hold the key to enlightenment. How can be sure you are right and others are wrong, how can we tell who to follow and who to ignore?". Budha replied. "Look into your hearts, decide what's right and wrong, stop doing what's wrong, start doing what's right and you will have found true religion."
Real morality comes from action. You have to consiously make decisions and then act on them. It's not enough to know what's wrong or right, you have to act on those thoughts. You have to stop doing the wrong things and start doing the right things. In the end unless you are mentally deficient or psychotic you will find that your internal compass points in the same direction as everybody elses moral compass.
Read my signature, it encapsulates my entire philosophy of morality in a bite sized chunk.
"Then you should understand that morality is a purely human concept."
Of course it is. It's a judgement made by humans.
"If morality is to be an absolute, it must occur in nature"
Morality does not occur in nature, so no it's not an absolute. Although technically speaking morality comes from religion/god which does make it absolute. Technically the word "norms" is used when dealing with non religous morality. The word morality implies religion, which then sets the absolute criterea by which you judge the morality of actions and words.
I am not talking about the technical definition of morality, I am more talking about "mores" or "norm". There is a baseline morality/norm on which most human beings agree. Things such as lying, stealing, cheating, murder, rape etc are considered to be universally wrong (there is that word again).
Now in this case SCO is lying, cheating and stealing and pretty much all cultures and religions (except capitalism and satanism) regard that as wrong and immoral. Capitalism like satanism believes that we are not subject to moral judgements and that we should work to increase our power whenever we can in whatever way we can. In Satanism the main creed is "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law", that creed also applies to capitalism.
BTW I am not saying the word amoral does not exist I am saying that no act or word is amoral. From your definition "Not admitting of moral distinctions or judgments; neither moral nor immoral.". Since morality is a judgement everything can be judged to be moral or immoral. You claim people don't have the right to make that judgement but I disagree. If not humans then who? God? Either way every act can be judged.
I don't think you and I agree on what morality is or even if morality exists.
If I may paraphrase you.
We are animals, acting morally is acting in accordance with out animal instincts, acting immorally is acting against our animal instincts.
It seems like you don't believe in morality at all. I define morality as striving to overcome your animal instincts.
As I said with such opposing definitions of the word morality I really don't think we can go far.
BTW there is no such thing as amoral. All your words and actions are subject to judgement. Morality is a judgement that humans make on words and actions.
" Look at it from the other way: have you any reason to believe that the IT industry will buck the trend and not improve worker efficiency, unlike any other industry in existence?"
Because it's not really an industry. It's knowledge work. In the 80's you had be brilliant to get into the "industry". In the 90s you had to be smart. Today an average person can do the job. Looking at the IT shops I have worked at it really hasn't become that much more efficient. If anything it now takes more mediocre personell to do the job of a few really smart people.
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"But, anyway, they will still pay royalties to the responsible companies. "
I am curious as to why they would do that? If they ignore any intellectual property claims what are the royalies based on?
It's not a matter of agreement. It would be like a chinese person arguing with a martian. If you can't agree on basic premises there can be no meaningful dialog.
"Do you really want your government running any kind of telecom infrastructure? "
We trust our govt to fight evil, destroy terrorism, end tyrany, deliver democracy to arabs so why can't it deliver wifi to my house?
Besides our govt is already building schools, hospitals, roads, houses in iraq, delivering free health care and education to iraqis so why not deliver wifi to my house?
If the US govt can build a telecom infrastructure in afghanistan and iraq why can't it do so at home?
Democracy was a great experiment but now it's dead. Vast majority of the pupulation of the US now lives in a house district where the candidate from one party wins overwhelmingly. The party made sure the district got drawn that way.
Vast majority of Americans now live in a state which always votes for the candidate of one party for president.
Vast majority of Americans live in a state who always votes for the senator from one party.
In America anyway (the supposed birthplace of democracy) vast majority of votes don't really matter.
Finally the politicians have perfected the art of manipulating the masses. They know what buttons to push to get you to vote for them. For example when the next election cycle comes up the people of pensylvannia will completely ignore this case and will instead vote purely on guns, abortion, homosexual marriage, or some other wedge issue. The fact that they are getting fleeced never occurs to them when somebody claims that joe shmoe will take away their guns or end abortion.
Disclaimer: I realize other countries may have a more democratic/representitive system then the US.
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I just read this.
Apparently Brazil is ready to go ahead and break the patent of several drug companies because they can't afford to pay for them.
New drugs are great but only if you can afford to take them.
1) She is going to be deposed. 2) Her articles and publications will be scrutinized by the court and hopefully the SEC. 3) She is going to be asked to reveal her source for the sealed information (she published some of it). 4) All the SCO documents will be unsealed as well as the IBM docs. 5) More depositions! All kinds of people who had nothing to do with the case will be open to deposition. This list will surely include other writes for the publication such as Enderlee as well as other employees of SCO, Canopy and (hopefully) MS.
The reason debian takes so long is that there so many packages and so many architectures. Just too much to test in a timely manner.
IMHO they should pare down the list some. Call it core, call the rest contrib. Test the hell out of the core and treat the contrib as testing. Maybe then they could release once a year. I honestly don't see a need for more then once a year release myself.
"Two ways to end the war: (1) Kill all terrorists. (2) Convert to Islam. Unfortunately, diplomacy is not a part of either"
Well if that's as far as your imagination can take you then OK I guess. But tell me one thing. How do you plan on killing ALL the terrorists without making new ones. Also since you are making terrorists all over the world how do you plan on killing all the terrorists in all the countries in the world including the US?
I just don't see how you could kill them all. I guess it's time to either convert to islam or think a little bit harder to see if there are more options.
We want to make sure we don't own any stock in any company whose management is so easily duped. If a CxO is stupid enough to buy an SCO license who knows what other boneheaded decisions are being made.
My understanding is that it's a different instruction set. It is based on the IBM Power architecture though so it should be similar.
Rumors are that sony is working on a linux port. If that's true then this could be the premier chip for non MS based systems. I suspect this is why MS is using powerpc for the next xbox. They want to have some head start in case they have to port windows to the cell processor.
Borland seems to be getting away from being a language vendor. They are now into being a tools vendor since the purchase of several development tool companies. They have a nice stack of tools if you want to drink the cool aid but it will cost you about 3K.
Maybe they will open source Deplhi (the language). That would be pretty cool. They sell the IDE not the language. Since their IDE works with C#, C/C++ neither of which they own anyway why not "give away the language".
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No I haven't. Do you know anybody who has?
Evolution works great with exchange. It's way faster then outlook and has more features. I especially love the fact that you can view your private and public calendars together in one view and the the virtual folders.
Give it a try, I bet you will never go back to the abomination that's outlook.
Exchange connector would be great. Evolution kicks ass, I prefer it over outlook in every way but it won't run in windows or mac (not the 2.0 version anyway).
Please have an exchange connector so I don't have to use outlook when I am at work.
How about going the other way. I really liked using mozilla and being able to right click on a URL in my mail and have the "open in a new tab" option.
I switched my wife over from eudora. She likes it better. For a long time she was adamant about not switching but it was only because she was afraid of learning something new. As it turned out there was no learning curve she picked it up in a few minutes.
You seem to be stuck in a false dichotomy. Just because nobody is perfect that does not mean we abandon morality, ethics or judgements. Just because people may disagree or morals change that does not mean we stop making moral judgements or trying to lead moral lives.
In the past it was OK to have slaves and to rape little girls back then a few people disagreed and started making judgements based on their internal moral compass. Eventually the norms of society changed so that virtually all people believe that slavery is immoral.
The fact that human beings have internal moral compass is an important point. Let me tell you a Budha story....
One time Budha came upon a town and the elders of the town had a meeting with him. They asked him "We have many sages and ascetics come by and each one tells us that they hold the key to enlightenment. How can be sure you are right and others are wrong, how can we tell who to follow and who to ignore?". Budha replied. "Look into your hearts, decide what's right and wrong, stop doing what's wrong, start doing what's right and you will have found true religion."
Real morality comes from action. You have to consiously make decisions and then act on them. It's not enough to know what's wrong or right, you have to act on those thoughts. You have to stop doing the wrong things and start doing the right things. In the end unless you are mentally deficient or psychotic you will find that your internal compass points in the same direction as everybody elses moral compass.
Read my signature, it encapsulates my entire philosophy of morality in a bite sized chunk.
"Then you should understand that morality is a purely human concept."
Of course it is. It's a judgement made by humans.
"If morality is to be an absolute, it must occur in nature"
Morality does not occur in nature, so no it's not an absolute. Although technically speaking morality comes from religion/god which does make it absolute. Technically the word "norms" is used when dealing with non religous morality. The word morality implies religion, which then sets the absolute criterea by which you judge the morality of actions and words.
I am not talking about the technical definition of morality, I am more talking about "mores" or "norm". There is a baseline morality/norm on which most human beings agree. Things such as lying, stealing, cheating, murder, rape etc are considered to be universally wrong (there is that word again).
Now in this case SCO is lying, cheating and stealing and pretty much all cultures and religions (except capitalism and satanism) regard that as wrong and immoral. Capitalism like satanism believes that we are not subject to moral judgements and that we should work to increase our power whenever we can in whatever way we can. In Satanism the main creed is "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law", that creed also applies to capitalism.
BTW I am not saying the word amoral does not exist I am saying that no act or word is amoral. From your definition "Not admitting of moral distinctions or judgments; neither moral nor immoral.". Since morality is a judgement everything can be judged to be moral or immoral. You claim people don't have the right to make that judgement but I disagree. If not humans then who? God? Either way every act can be judged.
I don't think you and I agree on what morality is or even if morality exists.
If I may paraphrase you.
We are animals, acting morally is acting in accordance with out animal instincts, acting immorally is acting against our animal instincts.
It seems like you don't believe in morality at all. I define morality as striving to overcome your animal instincts.
As I said with such opposing definitions of the word morality I really don't think we can go far.
BTW there is no such thing as amoral. All your words and actions are subject to judgement. Morality is a judgement that humans make on words and actions.
" Look at it from the other way: have you any reason to believe that the IT industry will buck the trend and not improve worker efficiency, unlike any other industry in existence?"
Because it's not really an industry. It's knowledge work. In the 80's you had be brilliant to get into the "industry". In the 90s you had to be smart. Today an average person can do the job. Looking at the IT shops I have worked at it really hasn't become that much more efficient. If anything it now takes more mediocre personell to do the job of a few really smart people.
"But, anyway, they will still pay royalties to the responsible companies. "
I am curious as to why they would do that? If they ignore any intellectual property claims what are the royalies based on?
It's not a matter of agreement. It would be like a chinese person arguing with a martian. If you can't agree on basic premises there can be no meaningful dialog.
Apparently you and I have completely different takes on what is right and wrong, what is fair and unfair, what is moral and immoral.
I really don't think two people with such opposite value systems can have a converstation on this topic.
"Do you really want your government running any kind of telecom infrastructure? "
We trust our govt to fight evil, destroy terrorism, end tyrany, deliver democracy to arabs so why can't it deliver wifi to my house?
Besides our govt is already building schools, hospitals, roads, houses in iraq, delivering free health care and education to iraqis so why not deliver wifi to my house?
If the US govt can build a telecom infrastructure in afghanistan and iraq why can't it do so at home?
" Is there even a reason we vote anymore."
In a word, no.
Democracy was a great experiment but now it's dead. Vast majority of the pupulation of the US now lives in a house district where the candidate from one party wins overwhelmingly. The party made sure the district got drawn that way.
Vast majority of Americans now live in a state which always votes for the candidate of one party for president.
Vast majority of Americans live in a state who always votes for the senator from one party.
In America anyway (the supposed birthplace of democracy) vast majority of votes don't really matter.
Finally the politicians have perfected the art of manipulating the masses. They know what buttons to push to get you to vote for them. For example when the next election cycle comes up the people of pensylvannia will completely ignore this case and will instead vote purely on guns, abortion, homosexual marriage, or some other wedge issue. The fact that they are getting fleeced never occurs to them when somebody claims that joe shmoe will take away their guns or end abortion.
Disclaimer: I realize other countries may have a more democratic/representitive system then the US.
I just read this.
Apparently Brazil is ready to go ahead and break the patent of several drug companies because they can't afford to pay for them.
New drugs are great but only if you can afford to take them.
1) She is going to be deposed.
2) Her articles and publications will be scrutinized by the court and hopefully the SEC.
3) She is going to be asked to reveal her source for the sealed information (she published some of it).
4) All the SCO documents will be unsealed as well as the IBM docs.
5) More depositions! All kinds of people who had nothing to do with the case will be open to deposition. This list will surely include other writes for the publication such as Enderlee as well as other employees of SCO, Canopy and (hopefully) MS.
Of course there are hard feelings. Don't we all have hard feelings over what SCO is doing. They haven't smeared me and I hate them too.
Honestly how many people here don't have hard feelings for what SCO has done.
The reason debian takes so long is that there so many packages and so many architectures. Just too much to test in a timely manner.
IMHO they should pare down the list some. Call it core, call the rest contrib. Test the hell out of the core and treat the contrib as testing. Maybe then they could release once a year. I honestly don't see a need for more then once a year release myself.
"Two ways to end the war: (1) Kill all terrorists. (2) Convert to Islam. Unfortunately, diplomacy is not a part of either"
Well if that's as far as your imagination can take you then OK I guess. But tell me one thing. How do you plan on killing ALL the terrorists without making new ones. Also since you are making terrorists all over the world how do you plan on killing all the terrorists in all the countries in the world including the US?
I just don't see how you could kill them all. I guess it's time to either convert to islam or think a little bit harder to see if there are more options.
If parrot can host ocaml then you will be able to call perl libraries from ocaml.
You left out the most important part.
We want to make sure we don't own any stock in any company whose management is so easily duped. If a CxO is stupid enough to buy an SCO license who knows what other boneheaded decisions are being made.
Mouse??? Mouse???? A mouse is for weenies!. no real firewall, router or spamfilter needs a mouse. Why that's an abomination.
Wow in that case countries like Mexico and Turkey should be economic powerhouses.
My understanding is that it's a different instruction set. It is based on the IBM Power architecture though so it should be similar.
Rumors are that sony is working on a linux port. If that's true then this could be the premier chip for non MS based systems. I suspect this is why MS is using powerpc for the next xbox. They want to have some head start in case they have to port windows to the cell processor.
Borland seems to be getting away from being a language vendor. They are now into being a tools vendor since the purchase of several development tool companies. They have a nice stack of tools if you want to drink the cool aid but it will cost you about 3K.
Maybe they will open source Deplhi (the language). That would be pretty cool. They sell the IDE not the language. Since their IDE works with C#, C/C++ neither of which they own anyway why not "give away the language".