Agree or disagree involved. I wanted to make a point or slight correction.
If using BitKeeper was a gain or not depends on your goal. If your goal was a working kernel of the quality that 2.6 is, then BK was worth it. If the goal is perfect open source, than BK was a loss (CVS could have been kluged to work). If the goal is open source, but have no particular political goals involved, then BK is a wash.
Your right, I'm in the US. Miles of road with no changes in speed. I can drive for hours at 70mph (~120kph) before I have to change speed - so long as I'm not going to the nearby city where speeds change (normally I am). Even still I find cruise useful even when I have to reset it every 10 minutes.
In my car without cruise I'm always gradually speeding up well beyond the limit. Then I look down and realize that the right lane is gong faster than I want to go (because of the police checking speeds), but I'm passing them.
That would be an interesting situation, but it is unlikely. Christans of the time were mostly also Jews, any deviation from Jewish law was controversial, and therefore makes it into their writings.
Leviticus 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Now christian teach on old testament law is a little complex, as the new testament replaces it. It replaces it as a continuation. It was a big deal with early Christians realized they were able to eat pigs and other "unclean animals". Several of the early books (particularly the writings of Paul, but also Acts) go into detail about this. If Homosexuality was suddenly allowed in the early teachings there would be a big deal made as many discriminated against those who practiced it and the elders had to correct them.
Homosexuality was fairly common in Rome. It was clearly illegal in Jewish law. So you can't claim it is a new thing that wasn't thought of back them, nor can you claim it was only done in closets and those who had no interest didn't know it existed.
I can't think of anything that says something about elections. However Leviticus 19:36-37 apply. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteryard, in weight, or measure. Just balances, just weights a just ephah and a just hin, shall ye have.
No, the temples are not a place of sin. They are a place of holiness that was corrupted.
AFAIK the pope himself was not involved with alter boys. A few priests were, but in competition of people in society in total they are not anymore likely to abuse alter boys. All the existence of a few priests who did such things is prove that Satan can corrupt priests. But that is something that was true from the beginning, Judas was a disciple of Jesus and still was corrupted.
I have problems with the way a lot of churches are run. Look around though and you will see there are many to choose from. I found one that is (so far as I can tell) what Jesus intended. Not that we are perfect, perfection doesn't exist. We do better and are closer to God though. (Or so I say)
I call it cruise control. I accelerate to the speed limit, set the cruise, and my car automatically maintains my speed at the exact limit. I don't have to think about it. Let the other cars pass, if the local government didn't want me to create an unsafe situation by going well under the speed of traffic they wouldn't set the limit so unreasonably slow.
There is a solution to this: vote, and start writing letters to congress. This might not work in UAE, but in the US you can vote. Tell whoever sets the speed limits (could be congress or the city console) to make them reasonable. If they refuse run yourself.
Even if the city sets the limit and you don't live in the city, the state has power. The state just has to tie funding to some project to the speed limit. Things will change. However so long as you complain but don't otherwise make this an issue nothing happens.
I have an IMAP4 account so that I can check my email from several different computers, and see all of it, including email I've put into other folders to save for latter.
At one time a writer got mad at all the publishing software that existed, so he took 20 years off to write his own. Perhaps you have used the result, we call it TeX, and it is very popular in the math world.
Sure there might be a 20 year set back in Linux, but linux is in pretty good shape. In return we get a version control system that works. I'd call that a worthwhile trade, but then I use FreeBSD on my computers so I don't get any benefit from Linux myself.
Actually scientists have done successful teleportation before. However it only works for Quantum particles, and they have not gone very far. Still it has been done in the lab.
Teleportation of people is a long ways out, if ever. There are major technical problems to get around. Some require a new understanding of physics such that what we currently know is wrong!
No, the benefit of the American system is it allows docking with a satelite that wasn't designed for automatic docking. Do you have a new, cost effective way to repair/upgrade a satelite that wasn't designed for repair? This system can get there and do it without involving humans at all. (Assuming your cost effective repair involves no humans)
The Russian system is great when you know you will be going back. A supply ship to a space station is a good example. It is useless to something you didn't expect to be going back to.
It isn't the homes. Carriers are not putting up enough towers. When the tower is close to your phone you have service even if the house is brick. When you have a weak signal already, then you won't get service in a house. Brick is just slightly worse than wood, but that might be enough.
Over in the UK you have enough towers in your cities (I'd be surprised if rural areas had universal in house coverage) because that is the only way to keep the number of phones per tower down to reasonable levels.
I only know of one house where I don't get coverage, and it is out in the country a ways. Most houses do have coverage.
Depends, can your cordless phone roam all over your ranch? The US has limits on range, which means they can't cover the ranch. WiFi roaming means you can put up several base stations (solar powered or something) around the ranch to get service where you want it.
When your bring your cordless phone to the neighbors or town does it still have your phone number? WiFi, when in range, makes this easy. The phone always has your number, just like a cell phone. Perhaps you have noticed the access points are popping up all over. You can't drive with WiFi, and perhaps you never will, but otherwise it is good enough.
Does your cordless phone allow more than one person to make a call at the same time? With WiFi your call volume depends on bandwidth, not on how many lines you have bought.
Does your cell phone or cordless phone allow data connections as well? Farmers are very computerized. Already some are using satelite photos and GPS to change how much fertilizer that put on the field depending on where they are. Having a working WiFi connection may some be important to the tractor, the VOIP connection is just a bonus the farmer can use when he is bored, or something breaks.
Remember I'm talking about areas where cell phone service doesn't exist, or is expensive. If you look at cell phone data pricing you will quickly understand the payoff of having your on WiFi tower even if there is a digital tower in range. Cell phone companies are still focused on charging per ringtone and message, rates that are trivial for a ringtone are unaffordable for any real data transfer.
Clean water problems in India was caused by education! They had good enough shallow wells, but education taught them to dig deep wells right into poisoned water.
People starving is mostly caused by corrupt governments. People have been farming for years, thousands of years of tradition teachers them good enough how to feed themselves, so long as governments are getting in the way. Weather is nice, but until we can perdict weather 1 year in advance it is more useless to farmers who need to know if they should plant for a wet fall or dry fall. I will grant the education can teach a better way of farming, but the old ways are good enough if people were just allowed to practice them.
Education is nice. I'm all for educating people. However it is not a requirement for a good life. When the local governments will not allow you to make use of your education it is useless.
These are criminals (ignoring the innocent, which I grant do exist). They have prooven themselves untrustworthy. When they are released we do not put them on the streets, we put them in a half way house where they are somewhat monitored (and helped to get back into society). When they earn trust let them on the internet. However the majority have prooven they cannot be trusted, so don't place them on the internet where trust is assumed.
Wikipedia has enough troubles with Vandals as it is.
Well when you put two people on the same carrier with different handsets in a room, and one has service while the other doesn't I'd call it a good bet that the handset is at fault.
I understand my cell phone isn't going to work in a metal building. (yet more than once I've had mine work in one that I would have though a good Faraday cage, and I know there was now mini-tower inside it) Likewise brick can block signals. It is a hardproblem making cell phones work inside. However when I have a standard wood house I expect my cell phone to work inside, just like it works in all my friend's houses.
In fact I dropped my land-line years ago because I have so few problems with my cell phone, even indoors. I have come to expect my cellphone will work indoors. When it does not, that is an exception, and I want it fixed.
No, CDMA is a case of better technology that lost. Though I'll admit that the SIM card is a great feature in GSM, and overall GSM works just fine. There is a reason that all the 3rd generation protocols are CDMA, including the GSM version. CDMA is hard to make work, but once it works it works better.
You seem to be making the classic mistake of picking something, and then defending your choice as better no matter what. Don't do that. GSM works just fine, and is more common. That does not mean it is better, though it might still be your better choice. Nobody goes to hell for choosing the wrong cell phone protocol, so don't get religious about it.
The thing to remember is while service isn't universially everywhere, there is service anywhere that you are likely to be. Drive a major road and you probably have service. Its only on the little back roads in remote areas well away from the city (and in the fields beside those roads) that service is lacking. However service is lacking in part because almost nobody goes there, so nobody really cares.
There are enough remote areas in the US though, that most people can think of a couple where they would like service. However those are not areas where they travel all the time.
My cell phone works most of the time. There are a few places where it doesn't work, but they are remote. I have to drive to the top of the hill when I'm in one campground. Up in the middle of nowhere, where I rarely travel it doesn't work. I don't do that very often though, so I live with it.
My cell phone works just fine in my house, my friend's houses, work, and the drive between all of the above. So it works where I need it to work. What else would you want?
Actually VOIP over WiFi is more likely to be useful in deserts and other remote areas because those who care can setup their own network. It might not be worthwhile for a cell phone company to put up a cell tower, but a farmer can put a WiFi station on his silo and get pretty good coverage of his ranch. Sure it won't have a large coverage areas, but it covers his needs.
That is unlikely to ever happen. Beyond the obvious problem of getting a critical mass, DC is the wrong solution to the problem.
Put AC through a transformer and you can efficiently change the voltage to anything you care to use. (There are limits on the high end, but 100,000 volts is too much for a house so who cares) Most of those DC things want 5 volts or less (they don't all want the same, though you can use a resister to change voltage inefficiently), but to transmite your power requirements at 5 volts requires think wires, enough to make copper one of the most significant expenses when building a house.
DC is used fr long distance transmissions. However power companies worry about other issues.
Back in the '70s my dad repaired a TV for my uncle. They adjusted it (to the 3 color lines) and everything was working great. Then his wife walked into the room and asked why all the people where green. They had to re-adjust it, using his wife's eye to check the colors.
No, perhaps the linux kernel is having some troubles, but FOSS is not in trouble. KDE is getting along just fine, as is FreeBSD. GNU might be in danger, but only if linux completely dies and HURD once again proves to not be ready.
Personally I don't believe there is any danger to linux. There might be a slow down, and it might last as much as a year, but there is no great danger. Other projects have gone through their own troubles. (OpenBSD/NetBSD split, the WINE license change, all were trouble, but the projects got through them over time and are doing fine now)
and I'm surprised that the anti-FOSS brigade hasn't tried to capitalize on Linus' mental abberration[sic] yet.
So am I. Though there is nothing here, it is the type of thing they generally would try to play up as something major in hopes of slowing us down.
There is nothing you can do about this for the next year or 3 (I'm not sure how exactly your state government works), but make sure you remember this when election time comes up. Find out where the local political parties meet (pick one), go to the meetings and propose a resolution to repeal this ban. If your party is the incumbent run for his office.
Now doing this alone isn't going to do much. However get a few friends together and you can change things. Political party meetings are often poorly attended, so just 10 people showing up per area is enough to have a majority in all the votes, and you can force things through.
Then between the meetings and elections knock on doors and tell people to not for for the incumbent to voted for this. Politicians only listen to money because it helps them get votes. When you go behind them in grass roots like this you more than negate all the money - you force them to vote your way again because you are prooven to represent enough votes to get them out of office. If you have a good personality you just might find yourself a powerful congressmen trying to decide which, if any, bribes are worth taking.
In fact India and Bangladesh has perfectly fine wells dug by old wisdom. Arsenic only became a problem when someone taught those people to dig modern deep wells right!
At least in the case of water wells, things are not hard. I could dig a well myself, just give me a shovel. If I had some local wisdom I would know there is a danger if dieing when doing so. Odds are if I followed the local wisdom I wouldn't have a problem.
I'm not saying education is bad, but you put far too much importance on it. Lack of education is but one of the problems people in poor countries face.
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Agree or disagree involved. I wanted to make a point or slight correction.
If using BitKeeper was a gain or not depends on your goal. If your goal was a working kernel of the quality that 2.6 is, then BK was worth it. If the goal is perfect open source, than BK was a loss (CVS could have been kluged to work). If the goal is open source, but have no particular political goals involved, then BK is a wash.
Your right, I'm in the US. Miles of road with no changes in speed. I can drive for hours at 70mph (~120kph) before I have to change speed - so long as I'm not going to the nearby city where speeds change (normally I am). Even still I find cruise useful even when I have to reset it every 10 minutes.
In my car without cruise I'm always gradually speeding up well beyond the limit. Then I look down and realize that the right lane is gong faster than I want to go (because of the police checking speeds), but I'm passing them.
Granted. Still, this is one step on the way to fully automatic docking with craft that wasn't designed for docking.
That would be an interesting situation, but it is unlikely. Christans of the time were mostly also Jews, any deviation from Jewish law was controversial, and therefore makes it into their writings.
Leviticus 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Now christian teach on old testament law is a little complex, as the new testament replaces it. It replaces it as a continuation. It was a big deal with early Christians realized they were able to eat pigs and other "unclean animals". Several of the early books (particularly the writings of Paul, but also Acts) go into detail about this. If Homosexuality was suddenly allowed in the early teachings there would be a big deal made as many discriminated against those who practiced it and the elders had to correct them.
Homosexuality was fairly common in Rome. It was clearly illegal in Jewish law. So you can't claim it is a new thing that wasn't thought of back them, nor can you claim it was only done in closets and those who had no interest didn't know it existed.
I can't think of anything that says something about elections. However Leviticus 19:36-37 apply. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteryard, in weight, or measure. Just balances, just weights a just ephah and a just hin, shall ye have.
Yes I was studying Leviticus this week.
No, the temples are not a place of sin. They are a place of holiness that was corrupted.
AFAIK the pope himself was not involved with alter boys. A few priests were, but in competition of people in society in total they are not anymore likely to abuse alter boys. All the existence of a few priests who did such things is prove that Satan can corrupt priests. But that is something that was true from the beginning, Judas was a disciple of Jesus and still was corrupted.
I have problems with the way a lot of churches are run. Look around though and you will see there are many to choose from. I found one that is (so far as I can tell) what Jesus intended. Not that we are perfect, perfection doesn't exist. We do better and are closer to God though. (Or so I say)
I call it cruise control. I accelerate to the speed limit, set the cruise, and my car automatically maintains my speed at the exact limit. I don't have to think about it. Let the other cars pass, if the local government didn't want me to create an unsafe situation by going well under the speed of traffic they wouldn't set the limit so unreasonably slow.
There is a solution to this: vote, and start writing letters to congress. This might not work in UAE, but in the US you can vote. Tell whoever sets the speed limits (could be congress or the city console) to make them reasonable. If they refuse run yourself.
Even if the city sets the limit and you don't live in the city, the state has power. The state just has to tie funding to some project to the speed limit. Things will change. However so long as you complain but don't otherwise make this an issue nothing happens.
I have an IMAP4 account so that I can check my email from several different computers, and see all of it, including email I've put into other folders to save for latter.
At one time a writer got mad at all the publishing software that existed, so he took 20 years off to write his own. Perhaps you have used the result, we call it TeX, and it is very popular in the math world.
Sure there might be a 20 year set back in Linux, but linux is in pretty good shape. In return we get a version control system that works. I'd call that a worthwhile trade, but then I use FreeBSD on my computers so I don't get any benefit from Linux myself.
Actually scientists have done successful teleportation before. However it only works for Quantum particles, and they have not gone very far. Still it has been done in the lab.
Teleportation of people is a long ways out, if ever. There are major technical problems to get around. Some require a new understanding of physics such that what we currently know is wrong!
No, the benefit of the American system is it allows docking with a satelite that wasn't designed for automatic docking. Do you have a new, cost effective way to repair/upgrade a satelite that wasn't designed for repair? This system can get there and do it without involving humans at all. (Assuming your cost effective repair involves no humans)
The Russian system is great when you know you will be going back. A supply ship to a space station is a good example. It is useless to something you didn't expect to be going back to.
It isn't the homes. Carriers are not putting up enough towers. When the tower is close to your phone you have service even if the house is brick. When you have a weak signal already, then you won't get service in a house. Brick is just slightly worse than wood, but that might be enough.
Over in the UK you have enough towers in your cities (I'd be surprised if rural areas had universal in house coverage) because that is the only way to keep the number of phones per tower down to reasonable levels.
I only know of one house where I don't get coverage, and it is out in the country a ways. Most houses do have coverage.
Depends, can your cordless phone roam all over your ranch? The US has limits on range, which means they can't cover the ranch. WiFi roaming means you can put up several base stations (solar powered or something) around the ranch to get service where you want it.
When your bring your cordless phone to the neighbors or town does it still have your phone number? WiFi, when in range, makes this easy. The phone always has your number, just like a cell phone. Perhaps you have noticed the access points are popping up all over. You can't drive with WiFi, and perhaps you never will, but otherwise it is good enough.
Does your cordless phone allow more than one person to make a call at the same time? With WiFi your call volume depends on bandwidth, not on how many lines you have bought.
Does your cell phone or cordless phone allow data connections as well? Farmers are very computerized. Already some are using satelite photos and GPS to change how much fertilizer that put on the field depending on where they are. Having a working WiFi connection may some be important to the tractor, the VOIP connection is just a bonus the farmer can use when he is bored, or something breaks.
Remember I'm talking about areas where cell phone service doesn't exist, or is expensive. If you look at cell phone data pricing you will quickly understand the payoff of having your on WiFi tower even if there is a digital tower in range. Cell phone companies are still focused on charging per ringtone and message, rates that are trivial for a ringtone are unaffordable for any real data transfer.
Clean water problems in India was caused by education! They had good enough shallow wells, but education taught them to dig deep wells right into poisoned water.
People starving is mostly caused by corrupt governments. People have been farming for years, thousands of years of tradition teachers them good enough how to feed themselves, so long as governments are getting in the way. Weather is nice, but until we can perdict weather 1 year in advance it is more useless to farmers who need to know if they should plant for a wet fall or dry fall. I will grant the education can teach a better way of farming, but the old ways are good enough if people were just allowed to practice them.
Education is nice. I'm all for educating people. However it is not a requirement for a good life. When the local governments will not allow you to make use of your education it is useless.
These are criminals (ignoring the innocent, which I grant do exist). They have prooven themselves untrustworthy. When they are released we do not put them on the streets, we put them in a half way house where they are somewhat monitored (and helped to get back into society). When they earn trust let them on the internet. However the majority have prooven they cannot be trusted, so don't place them on the internet where trust is assumed.
Wikipedia has enough troubles with Vandals as it is.
Well when you put two people on the same carrier with different handsets in a room, and one has service while the other doesn't I'd call it a good bet that the handset is at fault.
I understand my cell phone isn't going to work in a metal building. (yet more than once I've had mine work in one that I would have though a good Faraday cage, and I know there was now mini-tower inside it) Likewise brick can block signals. It is a hardproblem making cell phones work inside. However when I have a standard wood house I expect my cell phone to work inside, just like it works in all my friend's houses.
In fact I dropped my land-line years ago because I have so few problems with my cell phone, even indoors. I have come to expect my cellphone will work indoors. When it does not, that is an exception, and I want it fixed.
No, CDMA is a case of better technology that lost. Though I'll admit that the SIM card is a great feature in GSM, and overall GSM works just fine. There is a reason that all the 3rd generation protocols are CDMA, including the GSM version. CDMA is hard to make work, but once it works it works better.
You seem to be making the classic mistake of picking something, and then defending your choice as better no matter what. Don't do that. GSM works just fine, and is more common. That does not mean it is better, though it might still be your better choice. Nobody goes to hell for choosing the wrong cell phone protocol, so don't get religious about it.
The thing to remember is while service isn't universially everywhere, there is service anywhere that you are likely to be. Drive a major road and you probably have service. Its only on the little back roads in remote areas well away from the city (and in the fields beside those roads) that service is lacking. However service is lacking in part because almost nobody goes there, so nobody really cares.
There are enough remote areas in the US though, that most people can think of a couple where they would like service. However those are not areas where they travel all the time.
My cell phone works most of the time. There are a few places where it doesn't work, but they are remote. I have to drive to the top of the hill when I'm in one campground. Up in the middle of nowhere, where I rarely travel it doesn't work. I don't do that very often though, so I live with it.
My cell phone works just fine in my house, my friend's houses, work, and the drive between all of the above. So it works where I need it to work. What else would you want?
Actually VOIP over WiFi is more likely to be useful in deserts and other remote areas because those who care can setup their own network. It might not be worthwhile for a cell phone company to put up a cell tower, but a farmer can put a WiFi station on his silo and get pretty good coverage of his ranch. Sure it won't have a large coverage areas, but it covers his needs.
That is unlikely to ever happen. Beyond the obvious problem of getting a critical mass, DC is the wrong solution to the problem.
Put AC through a transformer and you can efficiently change the voltage to anything you care to use. (There are limits on the high end, but 100,000 volts is too much for a house so who cares) Most of those DC things want 5 volts or less (they don't all want the same, though you can use a resister to change voltage inefficiently), but to transmite your power requirements at 5 volts requires think wires, enough to make copper one of the most significant expenses when building a house.
DC is used fr long distance transmissions. However power companies worry about other issues.
Back in the '70s my dad repaired a TV for my uncle. They adjusted it (to the 3 color lines) and everything was working great. Then his wife walked into the room and asked why all the people where green. They had to re-adjust it, using his wife's eye to check the colors.
The condition that he not reverse engineer the protocol was itself morally wrong! Therefore Tridge cannot be in the wrong.
FOSS is in some danger at the moment,
No, perhaps the linux kernel is having some troubles, but FOSS is not in trouble. KDE is getting along just fine, as is FreeBSD. GNU might be in danger, but only if linux completely dies and HURD once again proves to not be ready.
Personally I don't believe there is any danger to linux. There might be a slow down, and it might last as much as a year, but there is no great danger. Other projects have gone through their own troubles. (OpenBSD/NetBSD split, the WINE license change, all were trouble, but the projects got through them over time and are doing fine now)
and I'm surprised that the anti-FOSS brigade hasn't tried to capitalize on Linus' mental abberration[sic] yet.
So am I. Though there is nothing here, it is the type of thing they generally would try to play up as something major in hopes of slowing us down.
Let's hope he wakes up soon
Yes. Hey Linus: WAKE UP!
There is nothing you can do about this for the next year or 3 (I'm not sure how exactly your state government works), but make sure you remember this when election time comes up. Find out where the local political parties meet (pick one), go to the meetings and propose a resolution to repeal this ban. If your party is the incumbent run for his office.
Now doing this alone isn't going to do much. However get a few friends together and you can change things. Political party meetings are often poorly attended, so just 10 people showing up per area is enough to have a majority in all the votes, and you can force things through.
Then between the meetings and elections knock on doors and tell people to not for for the incumbent to voted for this. Politicians only listen to money because it helps them get votes. When you go behind them in grass roots like this you more than negate all the money - you force them to vote your way again because you are prooven to represent enough votes to get them out of office. If you have a good personality you just might find yourself a powerful congressmen trying to decide which, if any, bribes are worth taking.
In fact India and Bangladesh has perfectly fine wells dug by old wisdom. Arsenic only became a problem when someone taught those people to dig modern deep wells right!
At least in the case of water wells, things are not hard. I could dig a well myself, just give me a shovel. If I had some local wisdom I would know there is a danger if dieing when doing so. Odds are if I followed the local wisdom I wouldn't have a problem.
I'm not saying education is bad, but you put far too much importance on it. Lack of education is but one of the problems people in poor countries face.