If you have have a clue, you know what the limits of your components are, and you don't go beyond those limits. Chips are not designed for a particular speed; they are simply sold by batch. Some will clock faster than others. If you *don't* clock your chip to the fastest speed that it will run at reliably, you're missing out on performance, and not getting your money's worth, IMO.
I've been quite happy with my OCd Celerys; the one I'm using now is an SMP system with two 333s @ 500 MHz @ 2.00v. Didn't even have to boost the voltage!:-)
This guy in no way represents freedom or liberty; he and his supporters represent common thuggery.
If you expect people to respect your property rights, you have to respect the property rights of others. If he doesn't like McDonald's, he should educated others as to why they should not patronize their restaurants. He has no right to simply destroy their property.
This might be the all-time worst trollish JonKatz post.
The only "problem" in distributing most of KDE comes in because people like the Debian crowd don't recognize Qt as a "system library."
This might have been a reasonable argument in 1996, but it isn't now, as every Linux distribution I can think of ships with Qt, just like Solaris ships with Motif.
I think a lot of the reason for the non-inclusion of KDE (remember, kdelibs is LGPL, so no legal problem there) is simply bias against it because
it is not GNOME
it is mostly written in C++, and not in God's Own Language, C
Oh, and I'm rather confused about where I was "bloodying the taxpayers." I don't think I said anything that would even remotely suggest that I don't think taxpayers are paying enough. I am saying that they are paying too much.
For some reason you left out 'wether that be trade unions primarily interested in tenure and long term compensation for the teaching staff' up there where you were bloodying the corporations and taxpayers.
You must have missed my other responses, then.
Teaching should be a profession, not a trade. Teachers should not be unionised.
I absolutely agree.
In fact, I believe that should be the case for all government employees.
I love the Catholic school system -- heck, I'm a product of it -- but you have to be fair: (a) Catholic schools are always hurting for adequate facilities and (b) a significant fraction of their faculties are religious, with a noticeably lower cost in salaries, benefits, etc.
But that's *exactly* my point. That despite lower costs and lesser facilities, they turn out better educated students.
I'm really just trying to argue that the focus on funding is somewhat misguided. You need a certain baseline level of money, and beyond that, you're not going to see any educational benefits.
You're missing the point; what I am saying is that increasingly, educational institutions are being run by people whose primary concern is revenue generation. Whether that be corporate arrangements, or higher taxes as a result of bond debt, it is eclipsing fundamentals.
Wow. I managed to piss off both sides...I must be doing something right!:-)
What I am saying is that it is ethically wrong for an educational facility to put the aquisition of mony above the quality and consistency of its education.
I believe this is the case whether the money being pursued is corporate or from taxpayers (i.e., teachers indoctrinating students to push their parents to vote in favor of bond measures).
Don't get me wrong; educators are entitled to make a living. However, they should be primarily interested in turning out well-rounded, educated youth.
Ok so put the boot in on European social welfare models of economy, but hey at least when it works it protects the education sector from having to do this kind of dealing rather than educating people...sigh...
But we in the U.S. had schools free of this nonsense for two hundred years.
I think it has little to nothing to do with our economic model; I think it has to do with a declining sense of morals and ethics among educators, and really among people in general.
It's simply ethically wrong for a school to enter into these types of arrangements. But the focus in education in the U.S. over the past twenty years has been money, money, money. The teachers' unions have been pushing for more money every election, despite the obvious fact that money (above a certain baseline) has no relationship to the quality of education. Our most horrendous schools in the U.S. happen to be in the school districts (like Washington, D.C.) with the highest per-student expenditures.
Our privately-run schools tend to do a much better job, while spending a fraction of the money of the state-run schools. The figures from a few years back were, I think, in Los Angeles, $7,200 per student in the L.A. Unified School District vs. $3,000 per student in the Catholic schools there. And the Catholic schools were turning out better educated students, even though they also had a reasonable share of economically disadvantaged students.
I largely agree, and am another in the subset of users who dislike Microsoft, but don't think they should be split. If anything, the government should have just invalidated any anti-competitive contracts that Microsoft "partners" have signed.
I do have to take issue with this, though:
I'm also tired of those that diss Dell, Gateway, Compaq, and others for [up until recently] only selling Windows PCs. Is Microsoft behind this? They have a minor role. More important is the demand of the comsumers. Windows has no competitors there. Why?
Windows has no competitors there because of the anti-competitive licensing contracts which kept any other OS out of the market. OS/2 was a viable consumer operating system. Did it have rough edges? Yes, but so does Windows. OS/2, had it gotten access to the preload market would have been a serious competitor to Windows. But it could not reach that market, because of the restrictions placed on OEMs by Microsoft.
There are very few here who think Linux is ready for the masses; you're just lying about that.
However, here's something to think about: KDE 2 has a built-in office suite, and it is able to import MS Office documents. When KDE 2 is ready for release (probably later this year), it will represent a threat to Microsoft on the desktop to some degree, no doubt about it. It is super easy to use, and even uses some simplified terminology, for average Joes.
Now I realize that you're just trolling for Bill, but I hope others that begin to buy into your BS, will take a look at KDE 2, as it really makes Linux simple enough to use for just about anyone.
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Although I could see how some people might not see this event as a negative to begin with. :-)
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I've been quite happy with my OCd Celerys; the one I'm using now is an SMP system with two 333s @ 500 MHz @ 2.00v. Didn't even have to boost the voltage! :-)
And it's been extremely stable.
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What vendors? Hardly anyone is buying S&W since they bent over for Clintigula.
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If you expect people to respect your property rights, you have to respect the property rights of others. If he doesn't like McDonald's, he should educated others as to why they should not patronize their restaurants. He has no right to simply destroy their property.
This might be the all-time worst trollish JonKatz post.
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I haven't seen a big Linux show in Portland yet; I think it would be much better attended here than in the Midwest.
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It's like they're each trying to out-fascist the other.
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Caveat Emptor.
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Huh? I've installed Netscape, Lynx, Mozilla, Konqueror and several other browsers and have never had Flash included.
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This might have been a reasonable argument in 1996, but it isn't now, as every Linux distribution I can think of ships with Qt, just like Solaris ships with Motif.
I think a lot of the reason for the non-inclusion of KDE (remember, kdelibs is LGPL, so no legal problem there) is simply bias against it because
- it is not GNOME
- it is mostly written in C++, and not in God's Own Language, C
Go ahead, mod me down, KDE-haters; see if I care.--
Yeah...I noticed that after I posted the other correction... :-)
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Oh, and I'm rather confused about where I was "bloodying the taxpayers." I don't think I said anything that would even remotely suggest that I don't think taxpayers are paying enough. I am saying that they are paying too much.
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You must have missed my other responses, then.
Teaching should be a profession, not a trade. Teachers should not be unionised.
I absolutely agree.
In fact, I believe that should be the case for all government employees.
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But I went to public school, so there you go... :-)
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But that's *exactly* my point. That despite lower costs and lesser facilities, they turn out better educated students.
I'm really just trying to argue that the focus on funding is somewhat misguided. You need a certain baseline level of money, and beyond that, you're not going to see any educational benefits.
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Wow. I managed to piss off both sides...I must be doing something right! :-)
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I believe this is the case whether the money being pursued is corporate or from taxpayers (i.e., teachers indoctrinating students to push their parents to vote in favor of bond measures).
Don't get me wrong; educators are entitled to make a living. However, they should be primarily interested in turning out well-rounded, educated youth.
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But we in the U.S. had schools free of this nonsense for two hundred years.
I think it has little to nothing to do with our economic model; I think it has to do with a declining sense of morals and ethics among educators, and really among people in general.
It's simply ethically wrong for a school to enter into these types of arrangements. But the focus in education in the U.S. over the past twenty years has been money, money, money. The teachers' unions have been pushing for more money every election, despite the obvious fact that money (above a certain baseline) has no relationship to the quality of education. Our most horrendous schools in the U.S. happen to be in the school districts (like Washington, D.C.) with the highest per-student expenditures.
Our privately-run schools tend to do a much better job, while spending a fraction of the money of the state-run schools. The figures from a few years back were, I think, in Los Angeles, $7,200 per student in the L.A. Unified School District vs. $3,000 per student in the Catholic schools there. And the Catholic schools were turning out better educated students, even though they also had a reasonable share of economically disadvantaged students.
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My mistake...I thought you could only get to default 0 via negative karma, and that it took a bitchslapping to default to -1.
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I do have to take issue with this, though:
I'm also tired of those that diss Dell, Gateway, Compaq, and others for [up until recently] only selling Windows PCs. Is Microsoft behind this? They have a minor role. More important is the demand of the comsumers. Windows has no competitors there. Why?
Windows has no competitors there because of the anti-competitive licensing contracts which kept any other OS out of the market. OS/2 was a viable consumer operating system. Did it have rough edges? Yes, but so does Windows. OS/2, had it gotten access to the preload market would have been a serious competitor to Windows. But it could not reach that market, because of the restrictions placed on OEMs by Microsoft.
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Absolutely...it was hilarious. The only thing I would suggest is that he use a little more ALL CAPS for effect.
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However, here's something to think about: KDE 2 has a built-in office suite, and it is able to import MS Office documents. When KDE 2 is ready for release (probably later this year), it will represent a threat to Microsoft on the desktop to some degree, no doubt about it. It is super easy to use, and even uses some simplified terminology, for average Joes.
Now I realize that you're just trolling for Bill, but I hope others that begin to buy into your BS, will take a look at KDE 2, as it really makes Linux simple enough to use for just about anyone.
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RedHat and Corel, at least, are a breeze by comparison. Debian's kind of a pain, though, IMO.
Also, NT is inflexible; for instance, once you've set up a machine, you can't go back and make it a PDC. You must reinstall. Lame.
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He is an imposter, and I believe he has been "bitchslapped", meaning all his posts start at -1.
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It is a license incompatibility issue, and nothing else.
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