Hate to tell you this, but Mark Sanford was/is from South Carolina. (I know...it is hard for some people to realize there are *two* Carolinas!). That is the same state that gave us Strom Thurmond. I'll let you look that one up.
The only Sanford we have had in North Carolina as a governor was Terry Sanford. He was a fairly progressive liberal Democrat who also served as a U.S. Senator.
As for that billboard you keep linking to, remember the KKK has had its claws in a *lot* of states over the years. Indiana was once known as the state ran by the KKK. And as for racism, you might look into the institutional racism in Hollywood and New York before the Civil Rights Act.
As for these buffoons in Woodland, there is a zoning and NIMBY pushback all over the eastern portion of the state, as solar companies are persuading many landowners to lease/sell land to build them. I don't have a problem with the farms, but I'm also not in a position to give away my land and home for it.
A) Using a product by someone you don't like has exactly nothing to do with protesting the appointment to CEO of someone you don't like. Eich didn't invent Firefox, and he has a negligible influence on the current state of Javascript.
B) Still using ReiserFS? The file-system left in unstable and pretty much abandoned development years ago because its main contributor is in prison? Are you high?
The only relation between these two persons is that they brought out the very stupidest of Slashdot readers in their defense.
You think you see my point? My point is that almost every single person has opinions and has supported causes that, if brought to light, would disqualify them from running *any* company. You want a litmus test?
No, I don't know you, or anyone specifically, but if you think you are without sin, you're full of it!
As for Eich's current involvement with Firefox or Javascript, if he wouldn't have had any influence on the direction of Mozilla, then what was the big deal? Because he didn't pass *today's* litmus test? What next? He didn't save a kitten from drowning? PETA/ADL would have a field day with that one!
I don't even necessarily think Wikileaks did the right thing, but when I read this:
Even if it is made public, it has to be declassified under proper authority to legally be declassified. And if it still has valid security implications, it can remain classified. Which means certain people can't legally discuss it, much less process it on their non-classified machinery, while others will openly discuss it.
Leaving in the names of people who are still in danger is a clear violation of law even when properly declassifying information.
If I get you right, you are quoting LEGAL language, not MORAL language
At any rate, none of this information has been declassified by the proper authority, so all of it is still legally considered classified, and anyone accessing it is liable to be charged with a crime.
Which brings up the simple question of moral relativism.
I agree. but not for Wikileaks, because...
Well, we all do, in the end, but for some of us the blood comes with moral authority and a lack of criminal guilt.
You, my friend have just equated morality with legality, and that is why, for the most part, our government has lost all standing to criticize or prosecute Wikileaks. The fact that you have been indoctrinated this much is why Jefferson is probably turning over in his grave.
Thank you for confirming what I always thought about Linux users as well-nothing but a bunch of freeloaders. You bitch and bitch but you do *NOTHING*. Bug reports are one thing, but instead of giving useful info the parent just says "How wonderful OSX is!!! We should all complain about Windoze!!! And Linux!!!" ALSA and OSS get better by *contributions* to the code base. Get on the mailing list. Talk to the maintainers. I'm hearing all kinds of useful information about problems from many in this discussion, but the parent goes on a rant about how he'd like to claim that his audio project was created on Linux. He has all this *expertise* about what he finds wanting. My view is that he's comparing apples and oranges. Using Apple's operating system is just like using Windows. You get drivers you *pay* for because there are people willing to pay for it. Many here forget that 4Front Technologies also offers driver development for payment. "But audio drivers ought to be FREEEE!!!" Well, you get what you pay for. I helped get my laptop supported by reading the tech specs from Intel and IDT and read the ALSA source to get mine to work, not to mention I'm on the mailing list-they are *very* helpful there. The parent (and YOU) contribute nothing! Yet you complain. I *am* reading the complaints here about mixing problems and sound quality and pulseaudio issues. Yet you cuss me out. And the parent says "How wonderful OSX is!!!" Then *stay* there. We'll get to the top with or without the likes of either of you. But if we fail, it won't be because we didn't try. Stay away, we don't need either of you. Oh, and by the way, these issues are discussed on the mailing list almost every day.
I'm sorry you have to boot into your monochromatic machine's native operating system...After all, ALSA only tries to work with a bajillion different sound cards instead of just the one or two that OSX has to deal with natively. Even if you have a third party sound card, and I'll bet it's one of the better supported ones since you do audio work, the fact is that since a software company will make money off of you for ProTools you won't have to cobble together a sound driver yourself. Let's see you program a sound driver for ALSA *OR* OSS and then I'll listen to you complain. I've worked with the ALSA source code myself and it works well enough for a VOLUNTEER EFFORT!!! Convince a major music software publisher to create a Linux version (and promote it, and at least attempt to sell it) and we'll get professional sound drivers written by the card manufacturers instead of the (often miraculous, since we don't always have specs) amateur ones we get for free.
Easy, just download the SP2 file and the SP3 iso from Microsoft and burn them to CDs. Disconnect the computer from the net and after XP SP1 install, just run the SP2 and SP3 updates. I recently did it. Anyone else can.
Sony Executive No. 1: "Let's send out *millions* of Blu-Ray DVDs to all the Wal-Marts in America even though we haven't made our first Blu-Ray player! We'll be rich!!!"
Jobs is a private individual. As far as I'm concerned, Jobs can keep all his medical records secret...I'm not a shareholder. If I was, and it made a big enough difference to me to know if he was going to be around to run the company, I'd demand that he disclose information to that effect. Not a bit of difference between that and if he was healthy and had been investing heavily in an intense business rival. That's like a baseball player betting against his own team.
On the other hand, the President is *MY PROPERTY* (and yours, too). My state representatives and my state governmental officials and my local sheriff are as well. Since there is supposed to be transparency in government, it is my right to know if a politician or member of government has a conflict of interest that may compromise the integrity of their decisions; and, like it or not, health concerns can affect the decision-making of an official at any level. They lose all rights to privacy when they run for public office or take a government job. I'm not saying that they cease to be human, but if it's important enough to keep hidden from me, then it's important enough to know.
Yes, computers are *TOOLS*. The same way a circular saw, or a jackhammer, or a pneumatic hole punch is a tool. A computer is a tool that a fool can use, and if your aunt doesn't have enough sense to wear a set of safety goggles is it the OS company's fault if she loses an eye?
The documentation for OSes is usually to blame, and all it would take with Windows is put a "HOWTO" book in with the product (no, the "Getting Started" book is not enough). The only thing that Linux has going for it is a general disclaimer in the form of the GPL and a reputation for being difficult that weeds out most of the "I don't need no steenking instructions" crowd.
Users are hapless? You have to take driver's ed and a driver's test to get your license. Where is your aunt's "Computer Operator's License"?
OS companies are to blame for no protection and no productivity in their products. If the project manager/programmer can't say to his/her boss, "It's not ready," and receive praise rather than ridicule/termination for honesty and then allow the project to be reasonably completed (meaning that it won't take another 6 months), then that company has a serious, serious management problem and customers should just refuse to buy their products.
Speaking out of experience...Long haul driver...Undiagnosed DVT that moved to my lung...Called a Pulmonary Embolism (PE).
5 days in hospital on Heparin with little or no movement allowed, because the clot could move to your heart (heart attack) or brain (stroke/aneurysm); one year on Coumadin (warfarin, btw is also a rat poison) with twice-weekly to monthly prothrombin checks to guarantee no wild swings (too much clotting vs hemophiliac-like bleeding); and, up until recently, aspirin regimen to decrease normal clotting once I was taken off the Coumadin.
I say up until recently because now, after being off Coumadin for 2-1/2 years I now have venous stasis in my other leg - I knew the symptoms of pre-DVT. Now currently taking Plavix and am getting compression stockings. I seem to be too good at sitting at my job!
Important to know: Once you get it once you are at a very high risk for getting it again!
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X-10 didn't exist until 1999 - that's 27 years for you.
Over 35 years my fucking ass.
Do a little research...Radio Shack had this in the 80s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Hate to tell you this, but Mark Sanford was/is from South Carolina. (I know...it is hard for some people to realize there are *two* Carolinas!). That is the same state that gave us Strom Thurmond. I'll let you look that one up.
The only Sanford we have had in North Carolina as a governor was Terry Sanford. He was a fairly progressive liberal Democrat who also served as a U.S. Senator.
As for that billboard you keep linking to, remember the KKK has had its claws in a *lot* of states over the years. Indiana was once known as the state ran by the KKK. And as for racism, you might look into the institutional racism in Hollywood and New York before the Civil Rights Act.
As for these buffoons in Woodland, there is a zoning and NIMBY pushback all over the eastern portion of the state, as solar companies are persuading many landowners to lease/sell land to build them. I don't have a problem with the farms, but I'm also not in a position to give away my land and home for it.
A) Using a product by someone you don't like has exactly nothing to do with protesting the appointment to CEO of someone you don't like. Eich didn't invent Firefox, and he has a negligible influence on the current state of Javascript.
B) Still using ReiserFS? The file-system left in unstable and pretty much abandoned development years ago because its main contributor is in prison? Are you high?
The only relation between these two persons is that they brought out the very stupidest of Slashdot readers in their defense.
You think you see my point? My point is that almost every single person has opinions and has supported causes that, if brought to light, would disqualify them from running *any* company. You want a litmus test?
No, I don't know you, or anyone specifically, but if you think you are without sin, you're full of it!
As for Eich's current involvement with Firefox or Javascript, if he wouldn't have had any influence on the direction of Mozilla, then what was the big deal? Because he didn't pass *today's* litmus test? What next? He didn't save a kitten from drowning? PETA/ADL would have a field day with that one!
All of you fucking PC idiots can go to hell.
If you pushed for Eich to resign, are you still using ReiserFS?
Why do you hate Depressed Mood so much?
Umm...Slashdot is now open to the highest bidder?
Maybe the editors need to vet the submissions better.
Might want to research intermittent wipers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kearns
I'm waiting for the newer model. It'z da Reggae Telescope, mon!
Only a nobody walks in L.A.
So you're saying that this is more like rape than like seduction?
Now, now, now...You said you liked it last time...
Even if it is made public, it has to be declassified under proper authority to legally be declassified. And if it still has valid security implications, it can remain classified. Which means certain people can't legally discuss it, much less process it on their non-classified machinery, while others will openly discuss it.
Leaving in the names of people who are still in danger is a clear violation of law even when properly declassifying information.
If I get you right, you are quoting LEGAL language, not MORAL language
At any rate, none of this information has been declassified by the proper authority, so all of it is still legally considered classified, and anyone accessing it is liable to be charged with a crime.
Which brings up the simple question of moral relativism.
I agree. but not for Wikileaks, because...
Well, we all do, in the end, but for some of us the blood comes with moral authority and a lack of criminal guilt.
You, my friend have just equated morality with legality, and that is why, for the most part, our government has lost all standing to criticize or prosecute Wikileaks. The fact that you have been indoctrinated this much is why Jefferson is probably turning over in his grave.
Umm...why you picking on conservatives?
Thank you for confirming what I always thought about Linux users as well-nothing but a bunch of freeloaders. You bitch and bitch but you do *NOTHING*. Bug reports are one thing, but instead of giving useful info the parent just says "How wonderful OSX is!!! We should all complain about Windoze!!! And Linux!!!" ALSA and OSS get better by *contributions* to the code base. Get on the mailing list. Talk to the maintainers. I'm hearing all kinds of useful information about problems from many in this discussion, but the parent goes on a rant about how he'd like to claim that his audio project was created on Linux. He has all this *expertise* about what he finds wanting. My view is that he's comparing apples and oranges. Using Apple's operating system is just like using Windows. You get drivers you *pay* for because there are people willing to pay for it. Many here forget that 4Front Technologies also offers driver development for payment. "But audio drivers ought to be FREEEE!!!" Well, you get what you pay for. I helped get my laptop supported by reading the tech specs from Intel and IDT and read the ALSA source to get mine to work, not to mention I'm on the mailing list-they are *very* helpful there. The parent (and YOU) contribute nothing! Yet you complain. I *am* reading the complaints here about mixing problems and sound quality and pulseaudio issues. Yet you cuss me out. And the parent says "How wonderful OSX is!!!" Then *stay* there. We'll get to the top with or without the likes of either of you. But if we fail, it won't be because we didn't try. Stay away, we don't need either of you. Oh, and by the way, these issues are discussed on the mailing list almost every day.
I'm sorry you have to boot into your monochromatic machine's native operating system...After all, ALSA only tries to work with a bajillion different sound cards instead of just the one or two that OSX has to deal with natively. Even if you have a third party sound card, and I'll bet it's one of the better supported ones since you do audio work, the fact is that since a software company will make money off of you for ProTools you won't have to cobble together a sound driver yourself. Let's see you program a sound driver for ALSA *OR* OSS and then I'll listen to you complain. I've worked with the ALSA source code myself and it works well enough for a VOLUNTEER EFFORT!!! Convince a major music software publisher to create a Linux version (and promote it, and at least attempt to sell it) and we'll get professional sound drivers written by the card manufacturers instead of the (often miraculous, since we don't always have specs) amateur ones we get for free.
Easy, just download the SP2 file and the SP3 iso from Microsoft and burn them to CDs. Disconnect the computer from the net and after XP SP1 install, just run the SP2 and SP3 updates. I recently did it. Anyone else can.
Sony Executive No. 1: "Let's send out *millions* of Blu-Ray DVDs to all the Wal-Marts in America even though we haven't made our first Blu-Ray player! We'll be rich!!!"
Sony Executive No. 2: "Brilliant!!!"
Then we would have the enterprise-level feature (H)igh (A)vailability and (R)esource (D)istributed (S)cheduler *HARDS*.
That acronym makes no sense *whatsoever*, not like the original summary...
Jobs is a private individual. As far as I'm concerned, Jobs can keep all his medical records secret...I'm not a shareholder. If I was, and it made a big enough difference to me to know if he was going to be around to run the company, I'd demand that he disclose information to that effect. Not a bit of difference between that and if he was healthy and had been investing heavily in an intense business rival. That's like a baseball player betting against his own team.
On the other hand, the President is *MY PROPERTY* (and yours, too). My state representatives and my state governmental officials and my local sheriff are as well. Since there is supposed to be transparency in government, it is my right to know if a politician or member of government has a conflict of interest that may compromise the integrity of their decisions; and, like it or not, health concerns can affect the decision-making of an official at any level. They lose all rights to privacy when they run for public office or take a government job. I'm not saying that they cease to be human, but if it's important enough to keep hidden from me, then it's important enough to know.
The documentation for OSes is usually to blame, and all it would take with Windows is put a "HOWTO" book in with the product (no, the "Getting Started" book is not enough). The only thing that Linux has going for it is a general disclaimer in the form of the GPL and a reputation for being difficult that weeds out most of the "I don't need no steenking instructions" crowd.
Users are hapless? You have to take driver's ed and a driver's test to get your license. Where is your aunt's "Computer Operator's License"?
OS companies are to blame for no protection and no productivity in their products. If the project manager/programmer can't say to his/her boss, "It's not ready," and receive praise rather than ridicule/termination for honesty and then allow the project to be reasonably completed (meaning that it won't take another 6 months), then that company has a serious, serious management problem and customers should just refuse to buy their products.
So maybe end users *ARE* to blame in some way...
Or we'll be taking care of the kid(s) ala Trillian dumping her daughter Random on Arthur Dent in Hitchhiker's Guide sequel Mostly Harmless.
Looks like Negroponte is trying to resurrect Smalltalk :)
(If the OLPC succeeds, that is.)
Whoops! That's Sammy Gravano.
That's like moderating Sonny Gravano as Informative...
Dear God...who moderated this as a Troll?!? It might be appropriate or it might be humorous, but a Troll???
Speaking out of experience...Long haul driver...Undiagnosed DVT that moved to my lung...Called a Pulmonary Embolism (PE).
5 days in hospital on Heparin with little or no movement allowed, because the clot could move to your heart (heart attack) or brain (stroke/aneurysm); one year on Coumadin (warfarin, btw is also a rat poison) with twice-weekly to monthly prothrombin checks to guarantee no wild swings (too much clotting vs hemophiliac-like bleeding); and, up until recently, aspirin regimen to decrease normal clotting once I was taken off the Coumadin.
I say up until recently because now, after being off Coumadin for 2-1/2 years I now have venous stasis in my other leg - I knew the symptoms of pre-DVT. Now currently taking Plavix and am getting compression stockings. I seem to be too good at sitting at my job!
Important to know: Once you get it once you are at a very high risk for getting it again!