Meanwhile Milesovic will be doing evertything he can to escalate this and involve neighboring states and the other Slavs (Russians/Urkranians/Beylorussians).
The Russians will _not_ repeat _NOT_ be dragged into a shooting war. Why? The risk of economic sanctions is too great. If they get into a shooting war, then half of their population will starve. Russia is a paper tiger in this sense...
"The Germans ended their air war a little too soon. If they had pulled through, I wouldn't be responding to your posting. The Germans didn't know how close to victory they had gotten. Another thing that saved Great Britain's ass was that it had much better pilots than the Luftwaffe pilots."
I have to disagree slightly. The reason why the Luftwaffe lost may have had to do with superior pilot quality(I do not mean to insult any pilots on either side). But, the number one reason is that Hitler, in retaliation for an RAF raid on Berlin, directed Goering to start bombing cities and stop bombing military targets. By RAF records, it would have taken two to three more raids for the Luftwaffe to have completely and totally destroyed Britian's air force. Had that happened, operation Sea Lion would have gone as planned, and we *would* all be speaking German. That one decision, IMHO, is what cost Germany the war.
What I'm confused about is the reference to "The GNU System". Wouldn't it be easer to just say, "Yeah, I'm running Linux and Hurd on a dual boot with GCC and X and about 30 other GNU tools that access an Oracle DB that I use for an address book." every time you referenced your particular OS???
"The elite will always whine about their "private club" being taken and used by the masses.. I mean, we saw that when the web took over the internet (from gopher). We'll see it again when real users interfaces take over the unix kernal. Yes, there will be die-hards who deal with the system on a text level (just like there are those who think the beast way to surf the web on a fast connection is with lynx.. go figure), but the majority will use a *real* browser-- er, I mean interface. "
Hmmm. Well, I don't use Linux because I don't have a computer at home. At work, I'm forced to use M$ products(I do *NOT* have to like it). But I would like to add my $0.02 anyway.
Let's say I'm buying a car. And let's say I have two choices:#1 a brand-new shiny Jag or #2:an air-cooled VW('66 VW Squareback, like what I drive now).
Let's look at the Jag. It's rather like Windoze:shiny, powerful, easy to use and drive. It's also in the shop every other week. What can I do with the car? Add gas, change a tire(if I happen to have the correct wheel lock), maybe add oil. And this is on a good day. If I'm driving to the Grand Canyon from Texas and the car dies, (fatal exception OE in module 1283df148; Registers x, y, z)I have to call AAA to tow my car to an authorized repair shop. They then diagnose the problem and overcharge me($35.00 per Tech Support call) to do something that I probably could have done in the first place, had I not needed prohibitively expensive equipment(i.e. the tech support at Stream) to work on it.
Now, for the VW. It's a bit more like Linux. Powerful, effective, infinantly customizable and upgradable. Yeah, so the body(GUI) isn't as pretty at first. So what? I can work on it in my spare time at home and make it pretty. Oh, you mean it doesn't make enough power? No big deal! I'll just get a bigger set of pistons(new kernal, new module, write a script, whatever...). And when I take that trip to the Grand Canyon from Texas and it breaks down, I can look at it and tell the generator belt is broken. I can then fix it with my spare(which I am *never* without)and be back on the road in no time, for no money.
In closing, it's not about or "private clubs". It's (IMHO) about the freedom to do what I want/need/like to do. This has very little to do with "elitists" . It has to do with pride in what is yours and in your ability.
Wasn't it Ben Franklin who said, "Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither."?
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Meanwhile Milesovic will be doing evertything he can to escalate this and involve neighboring states and the other Slavs (Russians/Urkranians/Beylorussians).
The Russians will _not_ repeat _NOT_ be dragged into a shooting war. Why? The risk of economic sanctions is too great. If they get into a shooting war, then half of their population will starve. Russia is a paper tiger in this sense...
"The Germans ended their air war a little too soon. If they had pulled through, I wouldn't be responding to your
posting. The Germans didn't know how close to victory they had gotten. Another thing that saved Great Britain's ass
was that it had much better pilots than the Luftwaffe pilots."
I have to disagree slightly. The reason why the Luftwaffe lost may have had to do with superior pilot quality(I do not mean to insult any pilots on either side). But, the number one reason is that Hitler, in retaliation for an RAF raid on Berlin, directed Goering to start bombing cities and stop bombing military targets. By RAF records, it would have taken two to three more raids for the Luftwaffe to have completely and totally destroyed Britian's air force. Had that happened, operation Sea Lion would have gone as planned, and we *would* all be speaking German. That one decision, IMHO, is what cost Germany the war.
YAY! More coasters!!!!
What I'm confused about is the reference to "The GNU System". Wouldn't it be easer to just say, "Yeah, I'm running Linux and Hurd on a dual boot with GCC and X and about 30 other GNU tools that access an Oracle DB that I use for an address book." every time you referenced your particular OS???
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I want to believe...
heh
"The elite will always whine about their "private club" being taken and used by the masses.. I mean, we saw that
when the web took over the internet (from gopher). We'll see it again when real users interfaces take over the unix
kernal. Yes, there will be die-hards who deal with the system on a text level (just like there are those who think
the beast way to surf the web on a fast connection is with lynx.. go figure), but the majority will use a *real*
browser-- er, I mean interface. "
Hmmm. Well, I don't use Linux because I don't have a computer at home. At work, I'm forced to use M$ products(I do *NOT* have to like it). But I would like to add my $0.02 anyway.
Let's say I'm buying a car. And let's say I have two choices:#1 a brand-new shiny Jag or #2:an air-cooled VW('66 VW Squareback, like what I drive now).
Let's look at the Jag. It's rather like Windoze:shiny, powerful, easy to use and drive. It's also in the shop every other week. What can I do with the car? Add gas, change a tire(if I happen to have the correct wheel lock), maybe add oil. And this is on a good day. If I'm driving to the Grand Canyon from Texas and the car dies, (fatal exception OE in module 1283df148; Registers x, y, z)I have to call AAA to tow my car to an authorized repair shop. They then diagnose the problem and overcharge me($35.00 per Tech Support call) to do something that I probably could have done in the first place, had I not needed prohibitively expensive equipment(i.e. the tech support at Stream) to work on it.
Now, for the VW.
It's a bit more like Linux. Powerful, effective, infinantly customizable and upgradable. Yeah, so the body(GUI) isn't as pretty at first. So what? I can work on it in my spare time at home and make it pretty. Oh, you mean it doesn't make enough power? No big deal! I'll just get a bigger set of pistons(new kernal, new module, write a script, whatever...). And when I take that trip to the Grand Canyon from Texas and it breaks down, I can look at it and tell the generator belt is broken. I can then fix it with my spare(which I am *never* without)and be back on the road in no time, for no money.
In closing, it's not about or "private clubs". It's (IMHO) about the freedom to do what I want/need/like to do. This has very little to do with "elitists" . It has to do with pride in what is yours and in your ability.
Wasn't it Ben Franklin who said, "Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither."?