I suppose, considering homosexuals in general are a small percentage of the population.
However normal linux users are fairly large. About as large as the Mac in most estimates, and Apple is doing just fine. There is a market. Not even close to as large as the Microsoft Windows market, but large enough.
IBM is also pushing their people over to linux. It is strange that they do not sell systems with their internal OS to customers. (though they do consult for others who want to adopt linux)
Of course linux is more of a server system than a desktop system, but there are still a lot of linux desktops. Enough that someone could make money. (In fact a few companies do)
Of course since IBM just sold their PC business there isn't much they can do now. It is strange that they were not doing this before though.
I keep home they will use Konqueror on a large part of them. Choice is good, and since both are standards compliant (well almost, both have some bugs, but nothing compared to IE) things work if you make minimal effort.
Not quite. If you are a dissident make sure that you enter the public keys you trust yourself. This also means that you need programs that you have audited (or that you had someone you trust audit), and they are running on a computer your trust.
Remember Ken Thompson's login/compiler hack? You can write a OS that recognizes when some open source program is running. Which means that you can't trust the machine you are running programs on if you are in China at least.
hmmm... I think I have just given myself one more reason to refuse to buy anything made in China if I have any choice in the matter.
Where are they supposed to move? All countries restrict who can immigrate in. (some are worse than others) Many restrictive countries will not let you leave.
Sorry, the government controls the machines. Your computer only accepts one certificate authority, the one that government proxies generate as needed for any site you connect to. The government proxies then decrypt/re-encrypt everything before forwarding it to whoever.
Spyware companies have already done this. See the slashdot article a couple weeks back.
In generally one person doesn't have power alone. However most call centers have things like weekly meetings, and call summaries to fill out. Management gets results from both. When Safari is suddenly a top issue that gets attention.
That is why you need to get everyone you know to pay on line as if it works. It is the only way to make sure there is attention to this type of detail.
It has been talked about more than once. Some people are for it, but for the most part KDE likes having something different so that users have a CHOICE.
Verizon will not change so long as you let them get away with this. Encourage ALL mac users you know to pay with Safari. Force all PC users to use firefox/konqueor. Make sure you print any confirmation numbers. At least print the page that says the payment went though (if any).
Then when they try to disconnect spend the time on the phone to ask what is wrong. Odds are they will see this in statistics and correct their site because phone calls to customer service cost money. (and decrease customer satisfaction) Even if they don't see it directly, the first level techs start to notice problems like that when many people call, and that will get around the office.
No, the one hole was in openssh. There have been many (well at least one) holes in their apache, but apache is not enabled by default so it is not counted. Openssh is enabled by default, so it counts.
The gcc devs are unlikely to accept such a thing. Unless Borland gives everyone a licenses anyway. Software patents are bad enough that they won't touch them even if they could get a GPL compatible license, just to protest them. Long term this is a good idea.
Directly they do not care. However Apple should care because the KHTML devs are making changes to KHTML. When there is no effort made to keep them in sync, Apple is forced to hire extra people to implement the features the KHTML devs have already done, because it is easier to start over than to copy the changes. If they keep things in sync, in the long run it is easier for both groups.
The KHTML developers are more careful to keep their code 'clean', so in the long run Apple looses. Apple is sticking with their short term patches which result in more features short term, but long term make it harder to maintain. Many developers have been burned by such things in the commercial world.
Mac users don't care directly. They do care when Apple decides Safari is advanced enough. (See what Microsoft did to IE) If KHTML was in sync between the two projects it would be trivial for Apple to update once in a while.
Every time I move my state requires me to get a new license to reflect my new address. If I move out of state I have to turn over my old license and get one in the new state. (Generally they just mark the old license as invalid as a license, but still proof of ID, and give you papers that are proof of license - confusing but it works until you get the new license in about a month)
In most states licenses are only good for 4 years. Every 4 years I have to go get a new license, which includes a vision test. (no other tests) Arizona was/is an exception. A few years back they made all licenses good for 60 years or some such, in protest of new federal drivers license regulations - I think that was only for a short time though. (Yes, there are federal laws about drivers licenses already, but only apply to renewals)
I don't know about Audubon itself. I do think that it used to be common to not give farmers street addresses. I grew up on a Rural route. My street address was:
Rural Route 2, Box 155b
Buffalo, MN, 55362
They gave us street addresses about 15 years ago. I know plenty of people in rural areas who still have the rural route address.
Note that this is a rural route, box address. This is different from a P.O. box, contrary to what the grandparent post claimed. From a rural route box there is no way to guess what street you live on. Even if you follow the postal carrier you cannot know, as houses are built they have to add more boxes. (There was a trailer home on the property with box 156b1)
The sword fighter doesn't need to deflect bullets. He just needs to get into sword range before shots are fired. Once he is in sword range it fairly easy to keep the gun pointed away from you. (This of course means you change fighting technique a little) After a couple good hits to the barrel the gun is useless, and will explode if fired. Then the sword fighter has a completely unarmed opponent to finish off at his leasure.
The hard part is getting into sword range. You can run 10 yards in the time it takes to aim the gun, but not much more. If the guy with a gun is 50 yards away you are dead. Nobody with a gun will let a sword get that close to them when expecting trouble.
Source code. When you ask a tough question about OSS someone may look at the source to get your answer. Sometimes they will tell you it can't be done, without source changes which the outline. They might even write a patch to make it do what you want. More likely you now have something to show any competent developer you wish to hire to solve the problem
Or to put it a different way: the amount of support you get depends solely on you. The source is there, so if you run into a problem you can have experts solve it like you want it. Sometimes that means OSS is more expensive. (You don't get a 6 months to write feature implemented for free when you are the only one who wants it, but you wouldn't get it at all elsewhere)
Want to use something obsolete? I will support linux kernel 1.2.13 if you pay me to. Microsoft will not support windows 95 no matter how much you want them to. It is up to you how long you continue on the old stuff before upgrading, not a third party.
50-40 or fight! was not a factor until the 1840s. There in fact was no reason for such a thing then as essentially nobody lived in that area at the time. The purpose of 50-40 or fight! was to extend what is essentially the norther border of the US in Washington State up a few hundred miles from where it is now.
The French were a non factor in North American in 1812. Napoleon was tied up with his wars in Europe, and sold Louisiana to the US in 1803, which was the only useful land at that time. (The US continued to expand westward, but in 1812 the Mississippi was as far west as anyone went. (Other than a few exploreres and other weirdos)
The French would become a factor again latter (not much though), from time to time. Their major involvement in North American ended in 1803.
Why is that horrible? Money is useless once you are dead. Your goal should be to give your last $20 to the taxi driver outside the hospital 15 minutes before you die. (you can never know when you are going to die so this isn't achievable, but it should be the goal)
Note that the savings numbers do not include many investments. A house is most people's largest investment, yet it does not count as savings.
Ford owns Japanese maker Mazda. GM has Isuzu and Suzuki. Things are far to complex to say which country owns the others.
Honda is no longer the standard for reliability (though they have the reputation), KIA is beating them. German cars are getting to be downright badly engineered, despite the good reputation they have. In a few more years things will switch up again.
I live in the twin cities area (same as the other poster) and I was off my computer job for part of the period. You have wrong about what the market it like.
I choose to build houses when unemployment ran out. I started at $12/hr (the was a couple years ago), though I did get health insurance. (most contructions jobs to not offer insurance to workers less than supervisor, but they pay a little more) My foreman was making $20/hr, plus a company truck, and he was doing very well. Enough money to live on if you are careful. I had to work long days, and every Saturday, and I was still falling behind on my bills. (Fortunately interest rates were dropping, at the end I was able to refinance and drop my house payment. If I had known I wouldn't have bought this house)
When I found a job a year latter I was offered about half again more than the foreman was making. This is a wage that is generally less than what I'm worth. I was also able to drop my hours to 40/week.
The big advantage of not working construction is in my body. I no longer come home in pain. I no longer get home from work, and leave again in 7 hours.
McDonald's is a better choice if you go into management. If I had stuck with them from high school I would always make as much or more than I made elsewhere (They in fact made me that offer back then). I also would not have a real university education, so I would be stuck with them. Of course beautiful high school girls have to talk to you, but that is the only real advantage. (even though some would sleep with you, if you are that type, you would be arrested for it) The stress is high though, and the hours suck. In theory it is flexable, but in practice that just means you never know when you will be working.
Feingold, co-sponsor of the incumbent protection act? You thought he would stand up for this? He has already proved he cares about getting re-elected more than pesky things like the first amendment. Why would you be surprised that he voted for this?
No, a vote for democrats or republicans would be throwing my vote away. They do not represent my beliefs, nor are they close enough to be worth compromising on them. So it is a wasted vote to give it to them. Maybe my candidate doesn't win, but it sends a message: I care enough to vote for someone who won't win.
The major parties always watch the third parties. When they become too powerful they start moving in that direction to pick up those votes. So the only way I can achieve long term change is to vote for someone who believes what I want to happen long therm.
Voting republican or democrat just says that you think they are doing just fine.
Who says the common soldier would obey orders to fire on the common people? If the war has a chance of succeeding many of them will be on our side. (200 people will never win, you need thousands in active support and a large percentage of the population willing to ignore those in support)
Why do you assume the old civil war two lines of soldiers standing in lines and taking pot shots at each other? That didn't work then (80% causalities where in every other war 20% is a lot), and it won't work now.
War, if it ever comes to that will be fought differently. Look at what is happening in Iraq: a small number of people (relative) are killing quite a few, because they are hard to find. Vietnam was much the same.
If I decided to raise up against my country, it will be hard to figure out that it is me doing the shooting. I'm still going to work in the morning. Once in a while I'd shoot someone (high in government). Most of the time I give every appearance of not involved. At most I'd be accused of hiding those fighting, not being a fighter myself.
Unless I was a leader, in which case I'd have a different strategy, but those shooting would have the above. Leaders would make sure they didn't have guns. Depending on why the situation is bad enough to fight depends on how leaders react.
A small war with just a few supporters is not winnable. However there are more guns in the US than people, and most gun owners keep plenty of ammo around. (1000 rounds sounds like a lot, but small time hunters keep more than that around) The people also know their area. The Army is going to have a tough time finding everyone who is hiding in the woods.
Get a majority of Gun owners to decide to fight, and it doesn't matter that the US has those powerful weapons: they cannot be used without killing everyone in the area. So they are useless. Unless they are willing to poison the entire US they cannot get us out of hiding. The government will have little power if they make the entire US uninhabitable.
You can switch your GSM phone between Tmobil and Cingular. I've done it with others I work with.
They give you a new phone for signing up with them, so almost nobody does it, but there is no reason it can't be done. (Note you have to get the phones unlocked first. Not a problem after it is paid for)
Nobody in the US cares about text messages. See our per minute charges on a voice call are so cheap that we just call someone and talk. SMS on a phone is at best difficult and slow. You use it there because you pay so much for your voice time that you care. I don't think twice about making a 1 hour voice call to someone 1000 miles away, I just dial.
Last time I was in Spain I told someone to call my cell phone (company cell phone from our France office) and they told me that was too expensive. Your criticisms of the Us networks come from the very fact that your networks are so expensive that you need work arounds so you can afford it.
My cell phone roams in all 50 states. (some better than others, but if the city has any population I have service) No extra charge. I don't even think about it.
Instead of criticizing our network (which isn't perfect) start looking really hard at yours. Every time you send a SMS you should be asking why you are not just making a call. (SMS is great for little facts like an IP address, but in most cases a voice call is much better) Everytime you are in a different country, remember that our states are equal to your countries (in fact the two words mean the same thing), so why is roaming so much more? Start demanding change to the problems of your system.
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I suppose, considering homosexuals in general are a small percentage of the population.
However normal linux users are fairly large. About as large as the Mac in most estimates, and Apple is doing just fine. There is a market. Not even close to as large as the Microsoft Windows market, but large enough.
IBM is also pushing their people over to linux. It is strange that they do not sell systems with their internal OS to customers. (though they do consult for others who want to adopt linux)
Of course linux is more of a server system than a desktop system, but there are still a lot of linux desktops. Enough that someone could make money. (In fact a few companies do)
Of course since IBM just sold their PC business there isn't much they can do now. It is strange that they were not doing this before though.
I keep home they will use Konqueror on a large part of them. Choice is good, and since both are standards compliant (well almost, both have some bugs, but nothing compared to IE) things work if you make minimal effort.
Not quite. If you are a dissident make sure that you enter the public keys you trust yourself. This also means that you need programs that you have audited (or that you had someone you trust audit), and they are running on a computer your trust.
Remember Ken Thompson's login/compiler hack? You can write a OS that recognizes when some open source program is running. Which means that you can't trust the machine you are running programs on if you are in China at least.
hmmm... I think I have just given myself one more reason to refuse to buy anything made in China if I have any choice in the matter.
Where are they supposed to move? All countries restrict who can immigrate in. (some are worse than others) Many restrictive countries will not let you leave.
Sorry, the government controls the machines. Your computer only accepts one certificate authority, the one that government proxies generate as needed for any site you connect to. The government proxies then decrypt/re-encrypt everything before forwarding it to whoever.
Spyware companies have already done this. See the slashdot article a couple weeks back.
In generally one person doesn't have power alone. However most call centers have things like weekly meetings, and call summaries to fill out. Management gets results from both. When Safari is suddenly a top issue that gets attention.
That is why you need to get everyone you know to pay on line as if it works. It is the only way to make sure there is attention to this type of detail.
It has been talked about more than once. Some people are for it, but for the most part KDE likes having something different so that users have a CHOICE.
Verizon will not change so long as you let them get away with this. Encourage ALL mac users you know to pay with Safari. Force all PC users to use firefox/konqueor. Make sure you print any confirmation numbers. At least print the page that says the payment went though (if any).
Then when they try to disconnect spend the time on the phone to ask what is wrong. Odds are they will see this in statistics and correct their site because phone calls to customer service cost money. (and decrease customer satisfaction) Even if they don't see it directly, the first level techs start to notice problems like that when many people call, and that will get around the office.
No, the one hole was in openssh. There have been many (well at least one) holes in their apache, but apache is not enabled by default so it is not counted. Openssh is enabled by default, so it counts.
The gcc devs are unlikely to accept such a thing. Unless Borland gives everyone a licenses anyway. Software patents are bad enough that they won't touch them even if they could get a GPL compatible license, just to protest them. Long term this is a good idea.
Directly they do not care. However Apple should care because the KHTML devs are making changes to KHTML. When there is no effort made to keep them in sync, Apple is forced to hire extra people to implement the features the KHTML devs have already done, because it is easier to start over than to copy the changes. If they keep things in sync, in the long run it is easier for both groups.
The KHTML developers are more careful to keep their code 'clean', so in the long run Apple looses. Apple is sticking with their short term patches which result in more features short term, but long term make it harder to maintain. Many developers have been burned by such things in the commercial world.
Mac users don't care directly. They do care when Apple decides Safari is advanced enough. (See what Microsoft did to IE) If KHTML was in sync between the two projects it would be trivial for Apple to update once in a while.
Every time I move my state requires me to get a new license to reflect my new address. If I move out of state I have to turn over my old license and get one in the new state. (Generally they just mark the old license as invalid as a license, but still proof of ID, and give you papers that are proof of license - confusing but it works until you get the new license in about a month)
In most states licenses are only good for 4 years. Every 4 years I have to go get a new license, which includes a vision test. (no other tests) Arizona was/is an exception. A few years back they made all licenses good for 60 years or some such, in protest of new federal drivers license regulations - I think that was only for a short time though. (Yes, there are federal laws about drivers licenses already, but only apply to renewals)
I don't know about Audubon itself. I do think that it used to be common to not give farmers street addresses. I grew up on a Rural route. My street address was:
Rural Route 2, Box 155b
Buffalo, MN, 55362
They gave us street addresses about 15 years ago. I know plenty of people in rural areas who still have the rural route address.
Note that this is a rural route, box address. This is different from a P.O. box, contrary to what the grandparent post claimed. From a rural route box there is no way to guess what street you live on. Even if you follow the postal carrier you cannot know, as houses are built they have to add more boxes. (There was a trailer home on the property with box 156b1)
The sword fighter doesn't need to deflect bullets. He just needs to get into sword range before shots are fired. Once he is in sword range it fairly easy to keep the gun pointed away from you. (This of course means you change fighting technique a little) After a couple good hits to the barrel the gun is useless, and will explode if fired. Then the sword fighter has a completely unarmed opponent to finish off at his leasure.
The hard part is getting into sword range. You can run 10 yards in the time it takes to aim the gun, but not much more. If the guy with a gun is 50 yards away you are dead. Nobody with a gun will let a sword get that close to them when expecting trouble.
Source code. When you ask a tough question about OSS someone may look at the source to get your answer. Sometimes they will tell you it can't be done, without source changes which the outline. They might even write a patch to make it do what you want. More likely you now have something to show any competent developer you wish to hire to solve the problem
Or to put it a different way: the amount of support you get depends solely on you. The source is there, so if you run into a problem you can have experts solve it like you want it. Sometimes that means OSS is more expensive. (You don't get a 6 months to write feature implemented for free when you are the only one who wants it, but you wouldn't get it at all elsewhere)
Want to use something obsolete? I will support linux kernel 1.2.13 if you pay me to. Microsoft will not support windows 95 no matter how much you want them to. It is up to you how long you continue on the old stuff before upgrading, not a third party.
50-40 or fight! was not a factor until the 1840s. There in fact was no reason for such a thing then as essentially nobody lived in that area at the time. The purpose of 50-40 or fight! was to extend what is essentially the norther border of the US in Washington State up a few hundred miles from where it is now.
The French were a non factor in North American in 1812. Napoleon was tied up with his wars in Europe, and sold Louisiana to the US in 1803, which was the only useful land at that time. (The US continued to expand westward, but in 1812 the Mississippi was as far west as anyone went. (Other than a few exploreres and other weirdos)
The French would become a factor again latter (not much though), from time to time. Their major involvement in North American ended in 1803.
Why is that horrible? Money is useless once you are dead. Your goal should be to give your last $20 to the taxi driver outside the hospital 15 minutes before you die. (you can never know when you are going to die so this isn't achievable, but it should be the goal)
Note that the savings numbers do not include many investments. A house is most people's largest investment, yet it does not count as savings.
Ford owns Japanese maker Mazda. GM has Isuzu and Suzuki. Things are far to complex to say which country owns the others.
Honda is no longer the standard for reliability (though they have the reputation), KIA is beating them. German cars are getting to be downright badly engineered, despite the good reputation they have. In a few more years things will switch up again.
I live in the twin cities area (same as the other poster) and I was off my computer job for part of the period. You have wrong about what the market it like.
I choose to build houses when unemployment ran out. I started at $12/hr (the was a couple years ago), though I did get health insurance. (most contructions jobs to not offer insurance to workers less than supervisor, but they pay a little more) My foreman was making $20/hr, plus a company truck, and he was doing very well. Enough money to live on if you are careful. I had to work long days, and every Saturday, and I was still falling behind on my bills. (Fortunately interest rates were dropping, at the end I was able to refinance and drop my house payment. If I had known I wouldn't have bought this house)
When I found a job a year latter I was offered about half again more than the foreman was making. This is a wage that is generally less than what I'm worth. I was also able to drop my hours to 40/week.
The big advantage of not working construction is in my body. I no longer come home in pain. I no longer get home from work, and leave again in 7 hours.
McDonald's is a better choice if you go into management. If I had stuck with them from high school I would always make as much or more than I made elsewhere (They in fact made me that offer back then). I also would not have a real university education, so I would be stuck with them. Of course beautiful high school girls have to talk to you, but that is the only real advantage. (even though some would sleep with you, if you are that type, you would be arrested for it) The stress is high though, and the hours suck. In theory it is flexable, but in practice that just means you never know when you will be working.
Feingold, co-sponsor of the incumbent protection act? You thought he would stand up for this? He has already proved he cares about getting re-elected more than pesky things like the first amendment. Why would you be surprised that he voted for this?
No, a vote for democrats or republicans would be throwing my vote away. They do not represent my beliefs, nor are they close enough to be worth compromising on them. So it is a wasted vote to give it to them. Maybe my candidate doesn't win, but it sends a message: I care enough to vote for someone who won't win.
The major parties always watch the third parties. When they become too powerful they start moving in that direction to pick up those votes. So the only way I can achieve long term change is to vote for someone who believes what I want to happen long therm.
Voting republican or democrat just says that you think they are doing just fine.
Who says the common soldier would obey orders to fire on the common people? If the war has a chance of succeeding many of them will be on our side. (200 people will never win, you need thousands in active support and a large percentage of the population willing to ignore those in support)
Why do you assume the old civil war two lines of soldiers standing in lines and taking pot shots at each other? That didn't work then (80% causalities where in every other war 20% is a lot), and it won't work now.
War, if it ever comes to that will be fought differently. Look at what is happening in Iraq: a small number of people (relative) are killing quite a few, because they are hard to find. Vietnam was much the same.
If I decided to raise up against my country, it will be hard to figure out that it is me doing the shooting. I'm still going to work in the morning. Once in a while I'd shoot someone (high in government). Most of the time I give every appearance of not involved. At most I'd be accused of hiding those fighting, not being a fighter myself.
Unless I was a leader, in which case I'd have a different strategy, but those shooting would have the above. Leaders would make sure they didn't have guns. Depending on why the situation is bad enough to fight depends on how leaders react.
A small war with just a few supporters is not winnable. However there are more guns in the US than people, and most gun owners keep plenty of ammo around. (1000 rounds sounds like a lot, but small time hunters keep more than that around) The people also know their area. The Army is going to have a tough time finding everyone who is hiding in the woods.
Get a majority of Gun owners to decide to fight, and it doesn't matter that the US has those powerful weapons: they cannot be used without killing everyone in the area. So they are useless. Unless they are willing to poison the entire US they cannot get us out of hiding. The government will have little power if they make the entire US uninhabitable.
You can switch your GSM phone between Tmobil and Cingular. I've done it with others I work with.
They give you a new phone for signing up with them, so almost nobody does it, but there is no reason it can't be done. (Note you have to get the phones unlocked first. Not a problem after it is paid for)
Nobody in the US cares about text messages. See our per minute charges on a voice call are so cheap that we just call someone and talk. SMS on a phone is at best difficult and slow. You use it there because you pay so much for your voice time that you care. I don't think twice about making a 1 hour voice call to someone 1000 miles away, I just dial.
Last time I was in Spain I told someone to call my cell phone (company cell phone from our France office) and they told me that was too expensive. Your criticisms of the Us networks come from the very fact that your networks are so expensive that you need work arounds so you can afford it.
My cell phone roams in all 50 states. (some better than others, but if the city has any population I have service) No extra charge. I don't even think about it.
Instead of criticizing our network (which isn't perfect) start looking really hard at yours. Every time you send a SMS you should be asking why you are not just making a call. (SMS is great for little facts like an IP address, but in most cases a voice call is much better) Everytime you are in a different country, remember that our states are equal to your countries (in fact the two words mean the same thing), so why is roaming so much more? Start demanding change to the problems of your system.
True I only deal with -20 about one week a year, maybe two. I deal with snow/sleet 4-6 months.
Sure I could buy a bike and ride it in summer. However I still need the car for the winter.