Several people have reported instability in 2.0.x on mac68k, growing worse with uptime. But not everyone - some say it's stable as a rock. I was really looking forward to 2.0, with the native threading, but this has made me hold on to 1.6.2 for my more recent installs. I'm hoping 2.1 has fixed whatever the problem was.
Two things I love about NetBSD: pkgsrc, and the ease of upgrades. Pkgsrc is the best package manager I've ever worked with. And the "unpack the tarballs and reboot" upgrades don't get any easier.
Aliases aren't perfect - they "broke" under MacOS X. The problem? They appear as "just a file" from a Unix shell. Apple should have found some way for an alias to appear as a symlink from the shell, and a symlink to appear as an alias in the Finder. In the classic MacOS, aliases were wonderful - they always "just worked" just like you'd expect.
I'm not bashing MySQL. I've been using MySQL since '99. I'm just saying that my philosophy is to be cautious in upgrades. There are tons of "early adopter" types that will be posting their drool-filled "oooo gotta download right now!" posts. There's nothing wrong with their posts, right? So what's wrong with me saying I plan to hold back a bit?
Regarding the feature list, yeah, those things are really cool. I've been looking forward to having them. But, like I said, I'm waiting until maybe 5.0.3 or so - let them work the kinks out with some real-world feedback. And in the meantime, if I want to work with those features, I can grab Postgres. I've never used Postgres before, and I've been wanting to give it a try. It would be good experience. Again, what's wrong with me saying this?
If you're looking to be offended, I suppose you can find it in anything that's not a glowing endorsement. But my intent was not offense.
If everybody could adopt a single file format to generate menus from, I'd be thrilled. I hate setting up my desktop, all over again, just because I am trying out a new window manager. It's hard to sell potential desktop Linux adopters on "the flexibility of Linux is a strength" when something as trivial as this is so cumbersome. Flexibility/choice can be a strength, but it can also be a PITB. The Free Desktop folks have a suggested standard for this...who is using it?
If anything - this shows the level of stupidity at Microsoft.
Sounds almost like bigotry or racism to me, not mere stupidity. I read that quote as, "Africans are too stupid to use free software." Microsoft won't make many inroads with that attitude.
Why not plastic? The paper bills we have are already of no inherent value. Paper or plastic, it makes no difference.
Doesn't anybody see the dangers of a fiat currency? Doesn't anyone think money should have intrinsic worth so that if the gov't collapses, the economy doesn't tank along with it? Money should be secure from the meddling of gov't manipulators.
The verb "to coin" is there for a reason. It means to make coins - pieces of metal representing value. It doesn't say "to print". The government has no authority to print paper bills and pass it off as currency. The only thing that's keeping the economy aloft is faith in the credit of the United States. If that faith should ever falter, we'd be spiraling down into hyperinflation so fast it would make your head spin. The happens, sooner or later, to every country that adopts a fiat currency.
You can't pin the economy to something that is fundamentally a fiction. Gold and silver have value. Paper does not. Paper only has promises backing it, and government is really good at breaking promises.
The fact that government coins money (at least originally it did) and regulates the value thereof was one of the primary reasons the government is also in charge of establishing standards of weights and measures. It's in the very same clause because the two go hand-in-hand. If the definition of "ounce" wasn't critically important to the economic lifeblood of the country, you could turn that over to an independent organization, kind of like ANSI or something. But when your money hinges on that definition, it's too important to leave open to the possibility of tampering. However, gov't took it upon itself to tamper with the money system. The meaning of "dollar" fluctuates, and it's under the control of gov't. My bank account can be worth less tomorrow simply because some bureaucrat decided more paper should be printed, diluting the value of what I have. That's just wrong.
Democracy is not the antithesis of tyranny, liberty is. There's nothing "holy" about democracy. Democracy can be used to defend liberty, but it can also be used to create it. Ever heard of "tyranny of the majority"?
That's stupidest thing I've heard in a long time. Taxing basic communication? Don't pass laws you think are unenforceable - gov't always finds some way to enforce them. When your cute little idea bites you in the butt, everybody will be asking "what idiot passed this law?" Every law is a curtailment of your freedom - we need fewer of them, not more.
I've always thought the generic TLDs were stupid. Virtually everything has a country of origin, and every country is going to have its own laws. Put domains under ccTLDs so it's clear where your origination and jurisdiction is. And there's.int for the truly international organizations. Some here like to talk about how the internet breaks down "short-sighted nationalism", yadda yadda - get real.
Every nation should be represented in a fair and democratic Internet administration, not just the people we like.
I care more about liberty than about democracy. If you (and a majority of your peers) decide to limit my freedom, I don't really care if you did it democratically or not. Curtailing liberty is wrong. Those who would do so should not be allowed to participate.
Funny, I just read this which is exactly the same idea. Quite the day when a libertarian links to CommonDreams to make a point. Here's another link showing that unfettered democracy is not the best idea. A majority is not right simply because it is a majority.
Those schools should be required to add "online auctions" as a class.
Not saying that I agree with this, but if you're going to force the online guys to learn the auctioneer rap, the auctioneers better learn how to navigate eBay and similar systems. If the pretense for passing this law is being fair and equitable, then it had better be.
Political responsibility is limited by the memory span of the constituents. If we've forgotten by the time of the next election, then they're not held responsible. There are several problems contributing to this:
US Senators are no longer elected by state legislatures since the 17th Amendment. Can you remember what you senator did 6 years ago? Heck no. The longer term of the Senate was justified because they were going to be the best of the best, the most capable people, selected by a select group that had already been determined the best of their respective localities. Further, an entire state is too large a district to represent adequately from a populist perspective. Do you really think your senator feels personally accountable to any individual voter? Do you think he'd feel more or less accountable to the few dozen people in your state house? Hmmm, think about it. The 17th was supposed to make the Senate more responsive to the popular will, but it did the opposite. Senate campaigns are some of the most expensive there are. If you think Big Money is influencing politics, then you don't need campaign finance reform (which just limits individuals' freedom to support whom they want), you need to repeal the 17th.
US Representatives likewise serve districts that are much too big. By the original reckoning of the Constitution (1:30k, small enough that you'd have a good chance of having met your Congressman at least), we'd need something like 8000 reps today. That's a bit crazy, but we certainly could have 1000 - easy with modern technology like PA systems, TVs, and computers. Again, make them accountable to a smaller group, so the common person will feel more engaged with the process, and hold the fire to their feet when it comes up on election time. At least they only serve a two-year term, so it's a bit easier to remember if the guy has been doing a lousy job or not.
The (plurality) voting system lends itself to voter disinterest. The voting rate is so low because people feel they can't make a difference - they take it as a foregone conclusion that it's going to be a donkey or an elephant no matter they do. Duverger's Law at work. We need to reform the system so that it supports diversity of political thought at a fundamental level - by giving everyone an equal chance, regardless if they're incumbents or not. Anecdotally, I submit the fact that the voter turnout rate in presidential campaign years declined every year 1960-2000, except for one: 1992. What happened that year? Ross Perot. Like him or hate him, he was a well-known well-publicized alternative that people thought had a chance of winning. He pulled some votes from the disenchanted of the Duopoly, and he pulled in votes from those that were disillusioned of the whole system and would have stayed home otherwise. Anyway, without informed and engaged voters, you're not going to get decent people elected.
Media spin and media hype in a revenue-driven media world. The old media doesn't care about educating people anymore, and exposing corruption. They're in bed with the pols. If you want real reporting, you get it online or from other "non-establishment" sources.
There are other reasons why politicians' actions are poor.
In many states, members of the legislature are paid only a token wage, so you get underqualified people that are somehow in a position of having the free time to serve (e.g. retired). If the job is going to tie up so much time that he can't support a family by working the rest of the year in the private sector, then you need to compensate him fairly. Better yet would be to limit the role of gov't so you can get that business done in a couple months. Legislative sessions are traditionally in the winter so that you can get home in time for spring planting and the "work season" - but we've made the politicians' job into a full-time role. Unfortunately.
The idea of hard currency is that you wouldn't have unconstitutional fiat (i.e. paper) money. I'm not sure the Federal Reserve is constitutional, either. And AFAIK, RFID chips can't work embedded in metal.
Another reason to get back on the gold standard. Not only can't the gov't screw with the value of money by practicing inflation, but RFID can't work either.
The GPL claims to protect the user's freedoms, but that's plain wrong. The GPL protects other users freedoms at the expense of any one individual's ability to use a piece of code completely freely.
Well said. My own paraphrase is "GPL makes the code free; BSD makes the coder free."
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Several people have reported instability in 2.0.x on mac68k, growing worse with uptime. But not everyone - some say it's stable as a rock. I was really looking forward to 2.0, with the native threading, but this has made me hold on to 1.6.2 for my more recent installs. I'm hoping 2.1 has fixed whatever the problem was.
Two things I love about NetBSD: pkgsrc, and the ease of upgrades. Pkgsrc is the best package manager I've ever worked with. And the "unpack the tarballs and reboot" upgrades don't get any easier.
Kudos to the NetBSD team!
Aliases aren't perfect - they "broke" under MacOS X. The problem? They appear as "just a file" from a Unix shell. Apple should have found some way for an alias to appear as a symlink from the shell, and a symlink to appear as an alias in the Finder. In the classic MacOS, aliases were wonderful - they always "just worked" just like you'd expect.
ODF will be assimilated.
Yup. IMO, 5.0.0-5.0.14 were really just public betas one through fifteen. Very silly/confusing, if you ask me.
I'm not bashing MySQL. I've been using MySQL since '99. I'm just saying that my philosophy is to be cautious in upgrades. There are tons of "early adopter" types that will be posting their drool-filled "oooo gotta download right now!" posts. There's nothing wrong with their posts, right? So what's wrong with me saying I plan to hold back a bit?
Regarding the feature list, yeah, those things are really cool. I've been looking forward to having them. But, like I said, I'm waiting until maybe 5.0.3 or so - let them work the kinks out with some real-world feedback. And in the meantime, if I want to work with those features, I can grab Postgres. I've never used Postgres before, and I've been wanting to give it a try. It would be good experience. Again, what's wrong with me saying this?
If you're looking to be offended, I suppose you can find it in anything that's not a glowing endorsement. But my intent was not offense.
I never get the .0 release of anything...once bitten, twice shy, I suppose. I'll stick with the 4.x series until the stability is proven.
And I've been wanting to try out Postgres anyway...
If everybody could adopt a single file format to generate menus from, I'd be thrilled. I hate setting up my desktop, all over again, just because I am trying out a new window manager. It's hard to sell potential desktop Linux adopters on "the flexibility of Linux is a strength" when something as trivial as this is so cumbersome. Flexibility/choice can be a strength, but it can also be a PITB. The Free Desktop folks have a suggested standard for this...who is using it?
Sounds almost like bigotry or racism to me, not mere stupidity. I read that quote as, "Africans are too stupid to use free software." Microsoft won't make many inroads with that attitude.
Why not plastic? The paper bills we have are already of no inherent value. Paper or plastic, it makes no difference.
Doesn't anybody see the dangers of a fiat currency? Doesn't anyone think money should have intrinsic worth so that if the gov't collapses, the economy doesn't tank along with it? Money should be secure from the meddling of gov't manipulators.
The verb "to coin" is there for a reason. It means to make coins - pieces of metal representing value. It doesn't say "to print". The government has no authority to print paper bills and pass it off as currency. The only thing that's keeping the economy aloft is faith in the credit of the United States. If that faith should ever falter, we'd be spiraling down into hyperinflation so fast it would make your head spin. The happens, sooner or later, to every country that adopts a fiat currency.
You can't pin the economy to something that is fundamentally a fiction. Gold and silver have value. Paper does not. Paper only has promises backing it, and government is really good at breaking promises.
The fact that government coins money (at least originally it did) and regulates the value thereof was one of the primary reasons the government is also in charge of establishing standards of weights and measures. It's in the very same clause because the two go hand-in-hand. If the definition of "ounce" wasn't critically important to the economic lifeblood of the country, you could turn that over to an independent organization, kind of like ANSI or something. But when your money hinges on that definition, it's too important to leave open to the possibility of tampering. However, gov't took it upon itself to tamper with the money system. The meaning of "dollar" fluctuates, and it's under the control of gov't. My bank account can be worth less tomorrow simply because some bureaucrat decided more paper should be printed, diluting the value of what I have. That's just wrong.
Democracy is not the antithesis of tyranny, liberty is. There's nothing "holy" about democracy. Democracy can be used to defend liberty, but it can also be used to create it. Ever heard of "tyranny of the majority"?
That's stupidest thing I've heard in a long time. Taxing basic communication? Don't pass laws you think are unenforceable - gov't always finds some way to enforce them. When your cute little idea bites you in the butt, everybody will be asking "what idiot passed this law?" Every law is a curtailment of your freedom - we need fewer of them, not more.
I've always thought the generic TLDs were stupid. Virtually everything has a country of origin, and every country is going to have its own laws. Put domains under ccTLDs so it's clear where your origination and jurisdiction is. And there's .int for the truly international organizations. Some here like to talk about how the internet breaks down "short-sighted nationalism", yadda yadda - get real.
No thanks. The UN isn't my government.
Norm is definitely an opportunist, and with him being a party flip-flopper I didn't trust him one bit. I voted for Kovatchevich.
I care more about liberty than about democracy. If you (and a majority of your peers) decide to limit my freedom, I don't really care if you did it democratically or not. Curtailing liberty is wrong. Those who would do so should not be allowed to participate.
Funny, I just read this which is exactly the same idea. Quite the day when a libertarian links to CommonDreams to make a point. Here's another link showing that unfettered democracy is not the best idea. A majority is not right simply because it is a majority.
Those schools should be required to add "online auctions" as a class.
Not saying that I agree with this, but if you're going to force the online guys to learn the auctioneer rap, the auctioneers better learn how to navigate eBay and similar systems. If the pretense for passing this law is being fair and equitable, then it had better be.
Don't you mean 180? 360 would leave them going the same direction as before...
So...you're saying most of us are delusional?
Ha! Yeah, that'll happen.
Political responsibility is limited by the memory span of the constituents. If we've forgotten by the time of the next election, then they're not held responsible. There are several problems contributing to this:
There are other reasons why politicians' actions are poor.
The idea of hard currency is that you wouldn't have unconstitutional fiat (i.e. paper) money. I'm not sure the Federal Reserve is constitutional, either. And AFAIK, RFID chips can't work embedded in metal.
Another reason to get back on the gold standard. Not only can't the gov't screw with the value of money by practicing inflation, but RFID can't work either.
I've just noticed that the typical poster here seems to lean more left than right.
Like reading \. all day?
Well said. My own paraphrase is "GPL makes the code free; BSD makes the coder free."