There is no valid reason to restrict speech unless it presents an immediate danger and serves no valid point of discussion (yelling fire in a movie theater).
That is not the attitude any true American should have. A true American, one who truly believes in freedom, would have said: "There is no valid reason to restrict speech."
It's as simple as that.
Your point about somebody yelling "fire" in a cinema is null. If somebody doing that causes people to panic, rather than to remain calm and assess the situation for themselves (Do I smell smoke? Do I see fire? Should I walk calmly towards the exit?), then the people are responsible for any trampling that may take place.
It's incorrect to try to put a "valid discussion" constraint on freedom of speech. Either you have complete freedom of speech, or you don't. There is no middle ground. Anything that inhibits one's ability to express themselves automatically removes the freedom completely.
It sickens me how ignorant some people can be towards you. After all, you are amongst the leading researchers in this field. You are at the top of the game. And yet these fools still deem it necessary to consider you wrong. Frankly, I'm astounded and disgusted at their behaviour.
Maybe it's not a bad thing that PHP might not work with Kubuntu. PHP is known to be nothing but problematic, even for advanced users. As such, it is often the best tool when it is not used.
Anything that reduces the use of PHP is often very good for a systems security and performance.
You're the only one suggesting that they're dishonest. So that means you're wrong.
TrollTech has proven time and time again that they do truly care about the open source community. Even ignoring the fantastic contribution of the GPL'ed edition of Qt (on several platforms), they've made many contributions to the open source community. They have done significant work on KDE and Mozilla, for instance. The open source community would be far better off if there were more companies like TrollTech around.
Why is it that you hate TrollTech so much? It's obviously not because of their attitude towards the open source community, since they've been nothing but reasonable, and a gigantic help. Did their product allow a competitor to easily run you out of business? Did Qt render your Motif skills completely irrelevant?
I was asking for proof, or even just evidence, to back up your claims that Novell cannot afford to purchase said licenses. That is, assuming they even have to do so for the work they're doing.
And please, Aldredge, refrain from your ad hominem attacks. They're not proper discussion technique.
How is SuSE different from Red Hat? Well, first of all their system has proven to be far superior each time I've tried it. Fedora Core is not suitable for production servers (even if some people claim it is), and their commercial offerings aren't much better. It would fail during installation many times. This was even with FC4. SuSE, on the other hand, would just work.
Now, will the trend of SuSE being a quality distribution continue? Perhaps not. Things aren't necessarily looking up for SuSE since the acquisition. However, as of now their products are still quite stable, and from my experiences far better than Fedora.
And for your KDE-based distro, look no further than Kubuntu. It offers a solid Debian base with all of the amenities of KDE.
There is various observed evidence to support the theory of the Big Bang, for instance. Direct and indirect evidence is completely lacking for Intelligent Design. ID is more akin to an interpretation of a myth, than it is to a scientific theory.
There are a lot of good scientists that live and work in Kansas...
Not for long. This sort of anti-scientific sentiment will run out all of the real scientists. As you show, there are many opportunities outside of Kansas. Without a solid scientific and technical base, the economy of Kansas will become irrelevant. And these days no community survives without a solid economy.
They're only redefining science for themselves. Thus they will live by their fantasy definition, while the rest of the world progresses.
This may be the best thing to happen for everyone else. Once Kansas becomes the victim of a self-imposed economic failure, even most religious fundamentalists will realize that factual science is a necessity.
The Bible, obviously. The variant of Intelligent Design preached in Kansas is based on the Biblical writings. Their "intelligent designer" is always the Christian God.
Even within Intelligent Design as a whole, they follow a rather twisted and specific branch.
It's not so much about the quality of the education. It's about the idea that religion reigns supreme, and often trumps common sense. Many people do not want to live, visit or otherwise deal with a state that is a borderline theocracy.
Remember, time is limited. Students only have so many hours per day to learn. It's best to teach them material that matters, and material that is worthwhile to learn. For those interested in any sort of a technical career, it is a waste of their time to learn about Intelligent Design. While they're learning about ID, other students in other states/nations are learning about more practical and proven topics.
Intelligent Design is best suited to a course focusing on the study of literature or mythology. It is a waste of time for people with any interest in performing a technical job to learn about it. Such time could better be spent learning useful subject matter.
But you're not taking international economics into account.
Let those people complain about their "truth" not being taught. Let them pull a Kansas, and teach such non-scientific theories. Soon enough their students won't be able to compete in the world market due to their insufficient education.
Meanwhile, the scientific and technical knowledge of the rest of the world will evolve and progress. Innovations will not be made in places that have a deficit of intelligent individuals.
Thus those communities which adopt such faulty education will fail to exist, as their economy will crumble and there will be a mass exodus of people. It may take a long time, but eventually we will be able to look back and pinpoint actions such as this as the main downfall of Kansas (assuming they don't smarten up relatively soon).
Science is more than just an explanation of nature. A theory is useless if it is not backed up by evidence and observation.
Intelligent design, while it is an attempt at a theory, is in no way science. It cannot be backed up by observation. The fact that it has to draw so much from ancient literature, rather than observation of nature, just goes to show that it is closer to a mythological interpretation than a scientific theory.
Let's be honest. Utah is not seen very highly by many Americans and by others. That may be very well due to the excessive role religion plays in every aspect of the state.
That is not a legacy that Kansas should want to develop for itself.
Kansas will end up serving as an example for the other states. Any economy these days, be it that of a town, city, state or country, cannot exist without a strong scientific and technical foundation. This sort of action will only serve to deteriorate such a base. While the other states will advance technologically, and will thus propsper, Kansas will not.
Kansas' economy will not be able to evolve as effectively as those of the other states. It may take some time, but that will be the result of taking a stance against science. There will be an exodus of talent from Kansas, in addition to a lack of new talent being produced from their anti-science school system. It will not become a theocracy, however, because without a solid economy a state fails to function. Thus it may very well become a deserted state.
Notice that he said small websites. We're talking perhaps 12 hits a minute, or one ever 5 seconds. Concurrency isn't that much of an issue, unless you're working with massive amounts of data (which then you probably shouldn't be using SQLite) or you're performing extremely complex manipulations and queries.
Most small web-based database applications, just pulling product prices and descriptions with an occasional update, will work just fine with SQLite.
Indeed, SQLite is an excellent choice for small web sites.
I recently set up a small site for a local business. Basically they wanted to be able to upload and edit product information, in addition to other such tasks.
Using a combination of OpenBSD, Python and SQLite, it was very easy to get a system set up for them. Best of all for them, it turned an otherwise obsolete computer into a working server.
Making backups of the database is quite easy too, considering a single file (or three, in their case) can be copied and archived.
While I did not benchmark the system, there is a good chance that the SQLite solution is far more efficient than that of MySQL, and most likely moreso than PostgreSQL. But then again, SQLite doesn't offer many of the more advanced features of larger database systems. If you don't need those features, you might as well trade them off for faster execution and reduced RAM consumption.
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There is no valid reason to restrict speech unless it presents an immediate danger and serves no valid point of discussion (yelling fire in a movie theater).
That is not the attitude any true American should have. A true American, one who truly believes in freedom, would have said: "There is no valid reason to restrict speech."
It's as simple as that.
Your point about somebody yelling "fire" in a cinema is null. If somebody doing that causes people to panic, rather than to remain calm and assess the situation for themselves (Do I smell smoke? Do I see fire? Should I walk calmly towards the exit?), then the people are responsible for any trampling that may take place.
It's incorrect to try to put a "valid discussion" constraint on freedom of speech. Either you have complete freedom of speech, or you don't. There is no middle ground. Anything that inhibits one's ability to express themselves automatically removes the freedom completely.
It sickens me how ignorant some people can be towards you. After all, you are amongst the leading researchers in this field. You are at the top of the game. And yet these fools still deem it necessary to consider you wrong. Frankly, I'm astounded and disgusted at their behaviour.
Maybe it's not a bad thing that PHP might not work with Kubuntu. PHP is known to be nothing but problematic, even for advanced users. As such, it is often the best tool when it is not used.
Anything that reduces the use of PHP is often very good for a systems security and performance.
That, and it is common knowledge after all.
In what way is it "weird" or "odd"?
You're the only one suggesting that they're dishonest. So that means you're wrong.
TrollTech has proven time and time again that they do truly care about the open source community. Even ignoring the fantastic contribution of the GPL'ed edition of Qt (on several platforms), they've made many contributions to the open source community. They have done significant work on KDE and Mozilla, for instance. The open source community would be far better off if there were more companies like TrollTech around.
Why is it that you hate TrollTech so much? It's obviously not because of their attitude towards the open source community, since they've been nothing but reasonable, and a gigantic help. Did their product allow a competitor to easily run you out of business? Did Qt render your Motif skills completely irrelevant?
Nobody is disputing the price of QT, Aldredge.
I was asking for proof, or even just evidence, to back up your claims that Novell cannot afford to purchase said licenses. That is, assuming they even have to do so for the work they're doing.
And please, Aldredge, refrain from your ad hominem attacks. They're not proper discussion technique.
Do you have any proof to back up your claims, Aldredge?
How is SuSE different from Red Hat? Well, first of all their system has proven to be far superior each time I've tried it. Fedora Core is not suitable for production servers (even if some people claim it is), and their commercial offerings aren't much better. It would fail during installation many times. This was even with FC4. SuSE, on the other hand, would just work.
Now, will the trend of SuSE being a quality distribution continue? Perhaps not. Things aren't necessarily looking up for SuSE since the acquisition. However, as of now their products are still quite stable, and from my experiences far better than Fedora.
And for your KDE-based distro, look no further than Kubuntu. It offers a solid Debian base with all of the amenities of KDE.
Everything has a price, even that of billions of lives.
My penis weeps at the death of your RPG character. Final Fantasy is a very tragic game like that.
You should go teach him a lesson, Barry. Academic the truth right into his head.
There is various observed evidence to support the theory of the Big Bang, for instance. Direct and indirect evidence is completely lacking for Intelligent Design. ID is more akin to an interpretation of a myth, than it is to a scientific theory.
There are a lot of good scientists that live and work in Kansas ...
Not for long. This sort of anti-scientific sentiment will run out all of the real scientists. As you show, there are many opportunities outside of Kansas. Without a solid scientific and technical base, the economy of Kansas will become irrelevant. And these days no community survives without a solid economy.
They're only redefining science for themselves. Thus they will live by their fantasy definition, while the rest of the world progresses.
This may be the best thing to happen for everyone else. Once Kansas becomes the victim of a self-imposed economic failure, even most religious fundamentalists will realize that factual science is a necessity.
You're the only one accusing the Jewish people of doing anything wrong. I'm not sure why you hate them so much.
The Bible, obviously. The variant of Intelligent Design preached in Kansas is based on the Biblical writings. Their "intelligent designer" is always the Christian God.
Even within Intelligent Design as a whole, they follow a rather twisted and specific branch.
It's not so much about the quality of the education. It's about the idea that religion reigns supreme, and often trumps common sense. Many people do not want to live, visit or otherwise deal with a state that is a borderline theocracy.
Remember, time is limited. Students only have so many hours per day to learn. It's best to teach them material that matters, and material that is worthwhile to learn. For those interested in any sort of a technical career, it is a waste of their time to learn about Intelligent Design. While they're learning about ID, other students in other states/nations are learning about more practical and proven topics.
Intelligent Design is best suited to a course focusing on the study of literature or mythology. It is a waste of time for people with any interest in performing a technical job to learn about it. Such time could better be spent learning useful subject matter.
But you're not taking international economics into account.
Let those people complain about their "truth" not being taught. Let them pull a Kansas, and teach such non-scientific theories. Soon enough their students won't be able to compete in the world market due to their insufficient education.
Meanwhile, the scientific and technical knowledge of the rest of the world will evolve and progress. Innovations will not be made in places that have a deficit of intelligent individuals.
Thus those communities which adopt such faulty education will fail to exist, as their economy will crumble and there will be a mass exodus of people. It may take a long time, but eventually we will be able to look back and pinpoint actions such as this as the main downfall of Kansas (assuming they don't smarten up relatively soon).
Science is more than just an explanation of nature. A theory is useless if it is not backed up by evidence and observation.
Intelligent design, while it is an attempt at a theory, is in no way science. It cannot be backed up by observation. The fact that it has to draw so much from ancient literature, rather than observation of nature, just goes to show that it is closer to a mythological interpretation than a scientific theory.
Does Kansas really want to become like Utah?
Let's be honest. Utah is not seen very highly by many Americans and by others. That may be very well due to the excessive role religion plays in every aspect of the state.
That is not a legacy that Kansas should want to develop for itself.
Kansas will end up serving as an example for the other states. Any economy these days, be it that of a town, city, state or country, cannot exist without a strong scientific and technical foundation. This sort of action will only serve to deteriorate such a base. While the other states will advance technologically, and will thus propsper, Kansas will not.
Kansas' economy will not be able to evolve as effectively as those of the other states. It may take some time, but that will be the result of taking a stance against science. There will be an exodus of talent from Kansas, in addition to a lack of new talent being produced from their anti-science school system. It will not become a theocracy, however, because without a solid economy a state fails to function. Thus it may very well become a deserted state.
Notice that he said small websites. We're talking perhaps 12 hits a minute, or one ever 5 seconds. Concurrency isn't that much of an issue, unless you're working with massive amounts of data (which then you probably shouldn't be using SQLite) or you're performing extremely complex manipulations and queries.
Most small web-based database applications, just pulling product prices and descriptions with an occasional update, will work just fine with SQLite.
Indeed, SQLite is an excellent choice for small web sites.
I recently set up a small site for a local business. Basically they wanted to be able to upload and edit product information, in addition to other such tasks.
Using a combination of OpenBSD, Python and SQLite, it was very easy to get a system set up for them. Best of all for them, it turned an otherwise obsolete computer into a working server.
Making backups of the database is quite easy too, considering a single file (or three, in their case) can be copied and archived.
While I did not benchmark the system, there is a good chance that the SQLite solution is far more efficient than that of MySQL, and most likely moreso than PostgreSQL. But then again, SQLite doesn't offer many of the more advanced features of larger database systems. If you don't need those features, you might as well trade them off for faster execution and reduced RAM consumption.