Leave the poor American alone. S/he's quite happy believing that everyone wants to be an American (and who can blame him, especially the way Mr Howard (known to the rest of the world as the unnamed official sitting next to the IOC chairman) has been brown nosing lately) and Australia isn't likely to declared a terrorist country anytime soon (unless the US takes up cricket or rugby, then it'll become a matter of national pride).
There is no such thing as the "Post Sept-11 World"
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The only difference between the pre Sept-11 world and the post Sept-11 world is that America has noticed that it is there. Terrorism wasn't born on Sept-11, it just got serious CNN coverage for the first time. Nothing else much has changed.
Well, that's not entirely true. Now any government around the world can follow the US's lead and exterminate any group that opposes them with impunity and call it "War on Terrorism" and say they are doing their part. Also you now have no right to be assumed innocent. You can be assumed terrorist without any real proof. Aint it grand?
Apple is "into" Open Source about as much as Microsoft is. We'll use it to get what we want so long as it doesn't steal our market share. The only reason Apple released Darwin was so that *nix developers could support yet another slightly different proprietary *nix.
Apple is also the evil empire. They just aren't as good at it as Microsoft.
If you want to make a joke about something then you don't talk down at others.
That's the problem a large portion of the internet seems to have with humour (I hesitate to say Americans because that would be elitist, racist, Americanist and quite possible terrorist in the current world climate). They don't want to risk offending anyone which results in completely crap humour that only complete morons find funny (like Dave Letterman, come on admit it, he could not be less funny). The really funny stuff is cutting because it has a kernel of truth in it (or common misconception etc). Some people wont like this kernel and take it personally. These people are called anal and need to lighten up for the good of all of us.
The other side of this humour is that you are going to be on the recieveing end one day (which I think is the main complaint). HAVE A LAUGH AT YOURSELF. It's good for you. If that isn't possible then ignore it.
If you can't laugh at yourself then you don't have the right to laugh at anyone else either. Also it makes you that much more attractive for said humour.
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I'm Australian. Here, "How are you, you old bastard?" is considered a suitable greeting to a good friend.
Oh come on, don't tell me you've never seen a Windows box that has the power saving features enabled but mysteriously doesn't go into sleep mode every other Tuesday?
The real problem is that text document you forgot you had open in notepad stops the shutdown process while waiting for your input. The OS couldn't possibly raise the priority of the shutdown to NOW_DAMN_IT level and not wait for the user.
When you retire from work, you are no longer a sysadmin. Then you are a human being
If you retire from sysadmin then you were never a sysadmin in the first place. Real sysadmins die at the keyboard, and retirement never enters their minds.
Compared with the Romans the US hasn't been around for that long and has been a world power for an even shorter time. But strangely the Roman empire no longer exists.
People who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it and I would think the only subject that most US citizens are worse at than science would be world history.
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!
How can people possibly believe that a being that created the universe and everything in it could still give a crap about one species on one planet that isn't much evolved past being a instinct driven animal? (Don't believe me? Watch how most people behave and think pack animal. Not everyone, just most)
If there is a being that created the universe and can control everything that happens in it (from the smallest sub-atomic interaction to galaxies forming and even the Hurd project) do you honestly believe that a human could could even begin to comprehend It? (Yes It. If yuo are the supreme being then what sex You are also kind of irrelevant). And do you honestly believe that it wants you as an individual to bow down to It? Even if It was interested in making the universe a better place by imposing rules on what you are supposed to do, do you really think It would give a crap if you called it Allah, Jahova, God or any other name(s)? (This being a major part of pretty much all religions, don't bow down to false idols)
When it comes to the crunch humans are insignificant in the scheme of things. Have a think about religion in that context and tell me it isn't atleast a bit perverted.
Also, I don't think that the messanger of the supreme being is going to be a guy on cable tv with a bad hair style asking for your money. If the supreme being exists, it is going to have serious style.
GPL only applies to soure code and there's no source code what MS released (AFAIK). The area where the problem is is patent law, not copyright law (which is where the GPL lives).
MS's main concern publicly was the subversion of their IP by inclusion in GPL software. This is a smoke screen for their real concern that they can't "repurpose" GPL software.
The reason what was in the licence is a smoke screen is because the GPL gives you no special rights when it comes to patents. If you include a MS patented idea in GPL code MS can still sue the crap out of you for doing it and everyone who uses it for using it.
and the rest of us just have to put in a little more effort to find the thing in the McMaster-Carr catalog.
Nah. The rest of us just use a flat head screw driver or a socket that's close enough and try not to ream out the screw too much. And then replace it with something that we don't need the stupid tools for.
Either that or angle grind it off and redrill the hole.
If every author started doing this, sales would plummet.
Another unfounded statement from the readers at Slashdot!
Eric Flint's sales only went up because he was getting free publicity just because he was doing this.
Or maybe you didn't miss the point after all. That's right! You give stuff away as free publicity. If what you write is good, people will buy it.
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The sample size is several books plus a comparison of usual e-book sales with the same dead tree version plus over a thousand emails. As he says that's significantly more evidence than presented by the opposition side ("We've lost 400 trillion dollars in sales because of sharing program X. Um... that's it. The prosecution rests.").
I guess my point is that this probably doesn't apply to music.
My guess is that's because most people wont pay for the crap that forms the staple from the record companies. This system only works for the good artists. The crap ones loose out big time. OMG could this be why...
If you typed free and then read the number in the first row under the heading free then this is wrong. This number should be small under all circumstances. Linux will use all available free memory (and even swap pages out of memory that haven't been used for a while) as cache for disk operations. It's quite possible that the kernel decided to swap out old processes (apache, sendmail, databases, all the crap that gets loaded with linux these days) to make room for more cache. This would have happened about the same time you started mozilla because of the increased memory pressure.
If you typed top and added up the memory used by all the mozilla-bin processes then this is also wrong. All of the code pages used by those processes is shared between them and should only be counted once. Just out of interest does anyone know how to get total size of a process/group of processes (swap and memory resident)?
I compiled KDE 3.0 while running KDE 2.2, Mozilla 0.9.9 plus a heap of other stuff and never used more than about 300 Meg of memory (not counting buffers and cache). This is still less than what you have.
While I'm not saying Mozilla is a light browser it's not nearly as bad as you seem to think. It does has bells and whistles (tabbed browsing is a god send). The cost of this is higher memory and CPU load. If this is an issue use something else.
As somebody who has just spent all weekend installing Debian for the first time (after years of RedHat indulgence) I'd say it's not for newbies. None of this hand-holdy GUI installs or userfriendly tools (dselect is a shining example of how to make things unnecessarily hard). If yuo want things to just work then debian isn't for yuo.
That said if yuo are willing to put in the time then debian is worth it. While stable is about a year out of date, testing is a lot more recent than RH 7.2 and it's relatively easy to get reasonably upto date libraries for compiling yuor own. And compiling yuor own is an option (which is where RH seems to go out of it's way to make things difficult). Adding "--PREFIX=/usr/local" really isn't that hard.
Yuo can only charge reasonable distribution costs (possibly only to a person who has bought yuor software, gray area here). $10 for a cd or download would be about the most yuo could reasonably charge.
It appears as though GPL zealots aren't the only ones who misunderstand/haven't read the licence.
Apple is a large comany just like MS. They have exactly the same mission statement as MS and every other large companie out there, "Make more money", anything else they sprout in their mission statement is a means to an end, not the goal.
They currently don't have the clout that MS has in the marketplace so they play a different game. They throw the users a bone occasionally to keep them on side. This does not make them any more trustworthy than MS.
It's not that I don't like Apple (they make some good stuff, mmmm, iPod) it's that this sort of "Apple is a nice company" is crap. They just have better PR than MS for the time being.
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I suggest Mr Rod Speed, Floyd and Lazz for nomination.
Leave the poor American alone. S/he's quite happy believing that everyone wants to be an American (and who can blame him, especially the way Mr Howard (known to the rest of the world as the unnamed official sitting next to the IOC chairman) has been brown nosing lately) and Australia isn't likely to declared a terrorist country anytime soon (unless the US takes up cricket or rugby, then it'll become a matter of national pride).
Well, that's not entirely true. Now any government around the world can follow the US's lead and exterminate any group that opposes them with impunity and call it "War on Terrorism" and say they are doing their part. Also you now have no right to be assumed innocent. You can be assumed terrorist without any real proof. Aint it grand?
Apple is also the evil empire. They just aren't as good at it as Microsoft.
Sand off all the letters and use the Dvorak keyboard layout. When told that's not allowed simply say "You use it".
You can all use dvorak, can't you?
That's the problem a large portion of the internet seems to have with humour (I hesitate to say Americans because that would be elitist, racist, Americanist and quite possible terrorist in the current world climate). They don't want to risk offending anyone which results in completely crap humour that only complete morons find funny (like Dave Letterman, come on admit it, he could not be less funny). The really funny stuff is cutting because it has a kernel of truth in it (or common misconception etc). Some people wont like this kernel and take it personally. These people are called anal and need to lighten up for the good of all of us.
The other side of this humour is that you are going to be on the recieveing end one day (which I think is the main complaint). HAVE A LAUGH AT YOURSELF. It's good for you. If that isn't possible then ignore it.
If you can't laugh at yourself then you don't have the right to laugh at anyone else either. Also it makes you that much more attractive for said humour.
DISCLAIMER:
I'm Australian. Here, "How are you, you old bastard?" is considered a suitable greeting to a good friend.
The real problem is that text document you forgot you had open in notepad stops the shutdown process while waiting for your input. The OS couldn't possibly raise the priority of the shutdown to NOW_DAMN_IT level and not wait for the user.
1.0 has been released. Development now stops for a week while everyone pisses it up and trys out their headache cures. Not that this is a bad thing :)
If you retire from sysadmin then you were never a sysadmin in the first place. Real sysadmins die at the keyboard, and retirement never enters their minds.
Because 18 months after yuo bought it it would cost $400 and not act as a room heater (probably).
I think yuo're smoking better shit that he is.
First AND second post and both with content. That has to be some sort of slashdot record.
People who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it and I would think the only subject that most US citizens are worse at than science would be world history.
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!
How can people possibly believe that a being that created the universe and everything in it could still give a crap about one species on one planet that isn't much evolved past being a instinct driven animal? (Don't believe me? Watch how most people behave and think pack animal. Not everyone, just most)
If there is a being that created the universe and can control everything that happens in it (from the smallest sub-atomic interaction to galaxies forming and even the Hurd project) do you honestly believe that a human could could even begin to comprehend It? (Yes It. If yuo are the supreme being then what sex You are also kind of irrelevant). And do you honestly believe that it wants you as an individual to bow down to It? Even if It was interested in making the universe a better place by imposing rules on what you are supposed to do, do you really think It would give a crap if you called it Allah, Jahova, God or any other name(s)? (This being a major part of pretty much all religions, don't bow down to false idols)
When it comes to the crunch humans are insignificant in the scheme of things. Have a think about religion in that context and tell me it isn't atleast a bit perverted.
Also, I don't think that the messanger of the supreme being is going to be a guy on cable tv with a bad hair style asking for your money. If the supreme being exists, it is going to have serious style.
MS's main concern publicly was the subversion of their IP by inclusion in GPL software. This is a smoke screen for their real concern that they can't "repurpose" GPL software.
The reason what was in the licence is a smoke screen is because the GPL gives you no special rights when it comes to patents. If you include a MS patented idea in GPL code MS can still sue the crap out of you for doing it and everyone who uses it for using it.
Trolls are like stray dogs. Feed them once and you'll never get rid of them.
Nah. The rest of us just use a flat head screw driver or a socket that's close enough and try not to ream out the screw too much. And then replace it with something that we don't need the stupid tools for.
Either that or angle grind it off and redrill the hole.
There's always a bigger hammer.
Another unfounded statement from the readers at Slashdot!
Eric Flint's sales only went up because he was getting free publicity just because he was doing this.
Or maybe you didn't miss the point after all. That's right! You give stuff away as free publicity. If what you write is good, people will buy it.
I guess my point is that this probably doesn't apply to music.
My guess is that's because most people wont pay for the crap that forms the staple from the record companies. This system only works for the good artists. The crap ones loose out big time. OMG could this be why ...
I'll leave you to decide.
If you typed free and then read the number in the first row under the heading free then this is wrong. This number should be small under all circumstances. Linux will use all available free memory (and even swap pages out of memory that haven't been used for a while) as cache for disk operations. It's quite possible that the kernel decided to swap out old processes (apache, sendmail, databases, all the crap that gets loaded with linux these days) to make room for more cache. This would have happened about the same time you started mozilla because of the increased memory pressure.
If you typed top and added up the memory used by all the mozilla-bin processes then this is also wrong. All of the code pages used by those processes is shared between them and should only be counted once. Just out of interest does anyone know how to get total size of a process/group of processes (swap and memory resident)?
I compiled KDE 3.0 while running KDE 2.2, Mozilla 0.9.9 plus a heap of other stuff and never used more than about 300 Meg of memory (not counting buffers and cache). This is still less than what you have.
While I'm not saying Mozilla is a light browser it's not nearly as bad as you seem to think. It does has bells and whistles (tabbed browsing is a god send). The cost of this is higher memory and CPU load. If this is an issue use something else.
Do these print ads require a browser upgrade or something?
As somebody who has just spent all weekend installing Debian for the first time (after years of RedHat indulgence) I'd say it's not for newbies. None of this hand-holdy GUI installs or userfriendly tools (dselect is a shining example of how to make things unnecessarily hard). If yuo want things to just work then debian isn't for yuo.
That said if yuo are willing to put in the time then debian is worth it. While stable is about a year out of date, testing is a lot more recent than RH 7.2 and it's relatively easy to get reasonably upto date libraries for compiling yuor own. And compiling yuor own is an option (which is where RH seems to go out of it's way to make things difficult). Adding "--PREFIX=/usr/local" really isn't that hard.
Well the usual method of getting him to cough wouldn't have helped at all, would it?
Yuo can only charge reasonable distribution costs (possibly only to a person who has bought yuor software, gray area here). $10 for a cd or download would be about the most yuo could reasonably charge.
It appears as though GPL zealots aren't the only ones who misunderstand/haven't read the licence.
Apple is a large comany just like MS. They have exactly the same mission statement as MS and every other large companie out there, "Make more money", anything else they sprout in their mission statement is a means to an end, not the goal.
They currently don't have the clout that MS has in the marketplace so they play a different game. They throw the users a bone occasionally to keep them on side. This does not make them any more trustworthy than MS.
It's not that I don't like Apple (they make some good stuff, mmmm, iPod) it's that this sort of "Apple is a nice company" is crap. They just have better PR than MS for the time being.