That is not RPM's fault. Ubuntu/Debian are not any different. If you download a.deb of something and it has dependencies on packages you don't have installed, you will encounter the same problems. You may have heard of "apt" for Debian based distributions. There is also "yum" for RPM.
If standing up for *our* nation and *our* selves is racist, then so be it. Our family has been in America for several generations. I know people who have roots here even longer than I. I will, not for one minute, treat someone who hops on a boat or plane here to get a cheap job because its better than their 3rd world drudgery as an equal. It has nothing to do with race, it has to do with the fact that those of us here who have REAL ROOTS here should protect what we have helped to build.
So let me get this straight (and I don't believe you, btw)... if I call up and start cursing and screaming and not cooperating, T-Mobile can't do anything about it?
Sounds like an institutional problem to me. Disabling external storage is a sensible and nessecary thing to do. If your institution does not have resources in place to share data it should be fixed instead of opening a gaping security hole. Having employees able to take data away from the company that easily is a no-no, especially at a bank that handles personal information. Lax data security policies are what got data stolen from Veterans Affairs.
I'd rather computers be made here at home. If it were my choice, I'd have it that way. I'm just telling you how it is. (I do tend to buy the more expensive higher quality electronics and computers that have more American made parts and assembly).
Just because I can't buy an "All American Computer" doesn't mean I am going to turn myself into a big fan of outsourcing.
Has nothing to do with racism, especially since Indian people are not a "race" (which, according to modern biologists, does not really exist anyway).
The average quality of an Indian IT worker is lower than an America. Source? Practice. I've been in several different companies in the past years and I've seen what outsourcing does. Maybe in 10-20 years when things get more modernized and other factors improve it may be different but this is the true story. Outsourcing is being done to simply shave the bottom line at the cost of quality.
As someone who has worked in various levels of management, I've seen the dregs of outsourcing. It always results in some level of reduction of quality, a decrease in customer satisfaction, and only a moderate savings.
Everything is subject to change over time but right now, the quality of the average American IT worker is far better than those from India.
I don't know about the fence part, but otherwise the other things he said are 100% true. Go look it up - I'm not Google. Mexico does NOT tolerate immigrants coming from Guatemala and places further south.
well, ignoring the fact that you call anyone who disagrees with you a name as a form of argument, we can examine this more in depth:
I can make totally GPL compliant code for a linux kernel module that totally breaks the kernel and causes crashes and destruction. I hardly think this is what Stallman and others had in mind with the GPL, as you claim.
Stallman created the GPL in order to prevent closed-source software from benefiting from open-source code. The argument is whether a binary driver benefits (i.e. incorporates in some meaningful way to create a "derivative work", which is the legal underpinning here) or if it just merely interfaces in such a way where it cannot possibly be construed as incorporating functionality. My opinion is that the answer is no and that creating a driver that uses an interface is not the same as incorporating code. The drivers do not benefit from knowledge of the interface, they only use it to function within the system.
Do you have any proof that this official did any of the things you mentioned, or are you just making a bigoted generalization about all Chinese people?
This would be a great time for students to start setting up wireless meshes on their campuses. The university can't regulate it or give RIAA a tap to go sniffing around. The infrastructure would be easy to set up too.
I don't see why there should be a fuss about this.
This isn't a secret discussion for Linux kernel developers, its for users.
This is like saying its "elitist" for a company to have a closed board meeting that discusses the possibility of using OSS in a particular corporation.
Heck, I just got out of a meeting with my boss and fellow programmers about our company switching to Linux on our internal systems. We didn't invite Linus Torvalds or Slashdot members to attend. Does that make it wrong somehow?
There is nothing that says you can't bypass any DNS related API when using the TCP/IP stack.
Many programs already do their own DNS lookups because the behavior of the OS's resolver causes problems for some particular types of programs.
I don't see why this is fishy. If you don't want Microsoft products phoning home, don't install them. You already knew they were going to try to do so. The HOSTS thing is just a way to make sure it is not being blocked by a retarded trojan.
What exactly should Microsoft not include with Windows in order to not make it a monopoly?
Should Microsoft only provide a kernel? Would providing a windowing system somehow deprive an other company of business? What about desktop/file system management? Couldn't some other company design a file manager to tell? Explorer.exe surely is an example of what you are talking about.
What about built in device drivers? Couldn't another company provide device drivers for common PC hardware for a price instead of Microsoft bundling their own?
I think this is a ridiculous argument.
Are you going to argue that if Microsoft secures their OS so that it is no longer a shoddy bug ridden security hole laden product it is anti-competitive because it (somehow, someway) makes their OS more appealing in comparison to Linux/etc. and deprives 3rd party AV and anti-Spyware companies of their revenue that it would be anti-competitive?
I have used a lot of Sony products and have been very satisfied with them. Just because Sony screws up on some things doesn't mean everything from them sucks.
I'm in the same boat in the DFW area at a school that isn't exactly a top school. I got job offers coming out of the ass and I just got hired on for a summer internship at a local telecom at a very good pay rate.
Everyone here wants to claim that CS is a bad or weak degree. It seems these people are unmotivated to adapt to the needs of the marketplace and want to project their insecurities onto the rest of us.
CS degrees are not tech ceritication degrees. CS teaches you abstract concepts that don't change that you should be able to apply to new and emerging technology. Thats why good CS programs teach a lot using languages that you rarely see in the market place anyway.
This is like complaining that the mathematics degree you took 40 years ago didn't teach you anything about using the latest calculators and mathematical packages. You should have the knowledge needed to learn these things on your own to keep up to date.
If downloading music is the same as stealing CDs out of Sam Goody, then talking about voting against President Bush is the same thing as plotting an assasination.
In groups, you can find many differences between different groups. IQ is a well known example of this.
However, in the interests of fairness, one should look at individuals. Blacks may, in groups, have low IQ, but I have met very many smart black people. Should I automatically assume any black person who wants to go into an intellectual field will be incapable, or should I just look at an individual's merits?
Basically, the only thing that this proves is that, as groups, we are not the same.
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That is not RPM's fault. Ubuntu/Debian are not any different. If you download a .deb of something and it has dependencies on packages you don't have installed, you will encounter the same problems. You may have heard of "apt" for Debian based distributions. There is also "yum" for RPM.
Knowledge is power.
If standing up for *our* nation and *our* selves is racist, then so be it. Our family has been in America for several generations. I know people who have roots here even longer than I. I will, not for one minute, treat someone who hops on a boat or plane here to get a cheap job because its better than their 3rd world drudgery as an equal. It has nothing to do with race, it has to do with the fact that those of us here who have REAL ROOTS here should protect what we have helped to build.
So let me get this straight (and I don't believe you, btw)... if I call up and start cursing and screaming and not cooperating, T-Mobile can't do anything about it?
Sorry pal, I don't buy it.
Sounds like an institutional problem to me. Disabling external storage is a sensible and nessecary thing to do. If your institution does not have resources in place to share data it should be fixed instead of opening a gaping security hole. Having employees able to take data away from the company that easily is a no-no, especially at a bank that handles personal information. Lax data security policies are what got data stolen from Veterans Affairs.
I'd rather computers be made here at home. If it were my choice, I'd have it that way. I'm just telling you how it is. (I do tend to buy the more expensive higher quality electronics and computers that have more American made parts and assembly).
Just because I can't buy an "All American Computer" doesn't mean I am going to turn myself into a big fan of outsourcing.
Has nothing to do with racism, especially since Indian people are not a "race" (which, according to modern biologists, does not really exist anyway).
The average quality of an Indian IT worker is lower than an America. Source? Practice. I've been in several different companies in the past years and I've seen what outsourcing does. Maybe in 10-20 years when things get more modernized and other factors improve it may be different but this is the true story. Outsourcing is being done to simply shave the bottom line at the cost of quality.
As someone who has worked in various levels of management, I've seen the dregs of outsourcing. It always results in some level of reduction of quality, a decrease in customer satisfaction, and only a moderate savings.
Everything is subject to change over time but right now, the quality of the average American IT worker is far better than those from India.
I don't know about the fence part, but otherwise the other things he said are 100% true. Go look it up - I'm not Google. Mexico does NOT tolerate immigrants coming from Guatemala and places further south.
well, ignoring the fact that you call anyone who disagrees with you a name as a form of argument, we can examine this more in depth:
I can make totally GPL compliant code for a linux kernel module that totally breaks the kernel and causes crashes and destruction. I hardly think this is what Stallman and others had in mind with the GPL, as you claim.
Stallman created the GPL in order to prevent closed-source software from benefiting from open-source code. The argument is whether a binary driver benefits (i.e. incorporates in some meaningful way to create a "derivative work", which is the legal underpinning here) or if it just merely interfaces in such a way where it cannot possibly be construed as incorporating functionality. My opinion is that the answer is no and that creating a driver that uses an interface is not the same as incorporating code. The drivers do not benefit from knowledge of the interface, they only use it to function within the system.
Do you have any proof that this official did any of the things you mentioned, or are you just making a bigoted generalization about all Chinese people?
A thousand angels weep for you.
This would be a great time for students to start setting up wireless meshes on their campuses. The university can't regulate it or give RIAA a tap to go sniffing around. The infrastructure would be easy to set up too.
Well it doesn't.. so?
I don't see why there should be a fuss about this.
This isn't a secret discussion for Linux kernel developers, its for users.
This is like saying its "elitist" for a company to have a closed board meeting that discusses the possibility of using OSS in a particular corporation.
Heck, I just got out of a meeting with my boss and fellow programmers about our company switching to Linux on our internal systems. We didn't invite Linus Torvalds or Slashdot members to attend. Does that make it wrong somehow?
He didn't mention a word about Al Gore.
Its not greed if most people do it. Haha.
There is nothing that says you can't bypass any DNS related API when using the TCP/IP stack.
Many programs already do their own DNS lookups because the behavior of the OS's resolver causes problems for some particular types of programs.
I don't see why this is fishy. If you don't want Microsoft products phoning home, don't install them. You already knew they were going to try to do so. The HOSTS thing is just a way to make sure it is not being blocked by a retarded trojan.
What exactly should Microsoft not include with Windows in order to not make it a monopoly?
Should Microsoft only provide a kernel? Would providing a windowing system somehow deprive an other company of business? What about desktop/file system management? Couldn't some other company design a file manager to tell? Explorer.exe surely is an example of what you are talking about.
What about built in device drivers? Couldn't another company provide device drivers for common PC hardware for a price instead of Microsoft bundling their own?
I think this is a ridiculous argument.
Are you going to argue that if Microsoft secures their OS so that it is no longer a shoddy bug ridden security hole laden product it is anti-competitive because it (somehow, someway) makes their OS more appealing in comparison to Linux/etc. and deprives 3rd party AV and anti-Spyware companies of their revenue that it would be anti-competitive?
Bypassing the hosts file is not some super-secret thing only Microsoft can do.
You can EASILY do this in your own programs by implementing your own resolver. Microsoft cannot and does not prevent you from doing this.
Microsoft is merely doing something smart. If other vendors cannot figure out this, its their fault. Microsoft shouldn't be penalized for being smart.
I have used a lot of Sony products and have been very satisfied with them. Just because Sony screws up on some things doesn't mean everything from them sucks.
I'm in the same boat in the DFW area at a school that isn't exactly a top school. I got job offers coming out of the ass and I just got hired on for a summer internship at a local telecom at a very good pay rate.
Everyone here wants to claim that CS is a bad or weak degree. It seems these people are unmotivated to adapt to the needs of the marketplace and want to project their insecurities onto the rest of us.
CS degrees are not tech ceritication degrees. CS teaches you abstract concepts that don't change that you should be able to apply to new and emerging technology. Thats why good CS programs teach a lot using languages that you rarely see in the market place anyway.
This is like complaining that the mathematics degree you took 40 years ago didn't teach you anything about using the latest calculators and mathematical packages. You should have the knowledge needed to learn these things on your own to keep up to date.
How is that "humor"? What is the punch line?
If downloading music is the same as stealing CDs out of Sam Goody, then talking about voting against President Bush is the same thing as plotting an assasination.
In groups, you can find many differences between different groups. IQ is a well known example of this.
However, in the interests of fairness, one should look at individuals. Blacks may, in groups, have low IQ, but I have met very many smart black people. Should I automatically assume any black person who wants to go into an intellectual field will be incapable, or should I just look at an individual's merits?
Basically, the only thing that this proves is that, as groups, we are not the same.