Mostly, you get what your parents deserve. Why should I be penalised if my mother is a crack whore? That's not my fault, is it?
Let's turn that around a bit.. Wether you deserve it or not, doesn't really matter. You should be given an equal chance despite of who your parents are. It only makes economic sense as well as moral sense. It doesn't pay well for one part of society to subsidize the poor part, which is rendered impotent because they don't get an equal opportunity.
How many Einsteins and Newtons lies buried inside children who will never have the opportunity?
So.. Instead of being useful to the world, you just don't care. As someone who claims to know better, and do nothing, you have an even worse excuse than those who are ignorant.
If you remember Spider-Man: With great power comes great responsibility. This also applies to Knowledge. It helps nobody to roll over and be beaten, or watch someone else get beaten while shrugging that it would happen anyways.
The whole point of this life is that you are here. Don't let it all go to waste.
If you want to punish someone / something, don't buy Sony products and tell everybody about this, but don't take it personal, you'll only hurt yourself in the end..
Well posted! This is one part of it, but I think there are more dreams out there which people believe in, wether they are true or not, and do everything in their power to make it true. I'll just add one major dream that the currents trends in society is being ruled by:
The Economist Dream
The Economics Dream is very simple: It is the capitalist belief that if you just make every exchange in society a transaction, we will automatically make the right decisions due to market forces somehow making those perfect decisions for us. Whatever will be the cheapest solution, when everything is marketized, will be the Best Solution.
Remember the stories about the supposed Information Age, when Information would be sold and bartered with, just like the stock market? This is one such idea based on The Economist Dream. Make everything a transaction, and whatever you need can be bought and whatever you have can be sold.
It didn't quite turn out that way however. What information is being bought and sold between corporations is information about us, our private information. Remember those privacy statements where corporations claim they will only share your information with their affiliates? I guess that means information about you will be sold to Checkpoint, or some other company, that then resells this information further to the highest bidder, or lose the information to some hacker..
The Economist Dream is all about making everything a transaction, as if money-flow will solve every conceivable issue in this world. As we have seen, money is also generating problems for us, because these corporations are beginning to have a life on its own! "We have to do it because our stockholders will sue us." "They have to do it because they have to maximize capital." Etc. Etc. The excuses begins to pour in. Corporations should not be ammoral entities to an extent where they can control the people who "runs" them!
Decisions are being made based on money every day, and if it doesn't get out of hand, this is a good balance. Nobody should do nothing and be rewarded for it, certainly. But if we let it take control of our planet, it will go very wrong.
Especially information is not suited to The Economist Dream. Information is intangible and can be copied almost without cost. Indeed, when information is shared it enriched everyone and leads to innovations the original author never thought about! If it is withheld it enriches only the few who hold it, if it ever does any good. The biggest potential for information is when it is freely shared, instead of going through a toll-booth.
However, those who believe in The Economist Dream believe EVERYTHING should be made a transaction. They fail to realize that a transaction also constitute a friction, a lowest barrier that must be overcome, while the natural state of information is frictionless. Software will naturally become commodized, because over time the market forces will force the value of software down to the natural cost of information. Open Source and Free Software (GPL) is only a catalyst for this process.
Just like many dreams, The Economist Dream is a partial solution, but it shouldn't be applied to areas where reality dictates otherwise. We shouldn't challenge reality, the natural way of living, because building a card-deck house will crumble to the slightest wind.
The Economist Dream also has fundamental problems in the very decision-making. It makes our mind go to our thoughts and intellect, more than go to our hearts. Good decisions are made from a mix of heart and intellect, but when decisions are made only from the intellect, it can quickly turn "cold" and cynical. When we lose our innocence in making decisions, conflict arises. However, when we make decisions from the heart also, we will not try to trick others or otherwise make "cold-hearted" decisions. We will want what is best for everyone, and thus any mistakes we do, can be forgiven, because they were just that: mistakes, and not intention.
If you have faith in human nature and nurture human value, that's spirituality to me. It doesn't matter what you believe or disbelieve really. Why should it? In a few years, both of us will have a different set of beliefs than we have now anyways.
"Religion" and "Spirituality" can be thought of covering two different terms: If you think of a banana. It has a protective skin, which you can't eat. Now, that is the outer appearance of the banana. Without it, you might not want the banana itself..
Religion is like that outer layer. It consists of all things changing: traditions, symbols, scriptures, places, people. These are outer appearances to protect the inside, and to build a framework in which to interact with the inside.
While spirituality is the banana. It is the only thing really edible, and is what is coveted by everybody, wether they know it or not. It is love, it is all things good. It is playfulness, joy and abundant happiness, not really serious at all, not the way we can be anyways. It is all that is never changing, permanent knowledge, innate knowledge in human nature. We are always searching for it, in things, in relationships, in valuables, in status, everywhere but where it really is! If I only get this... and this...
What is really funny, is that many people have thrown away the banana and are holding on to the skin! They even argue about which skin is the best!
But this is not to say the banana-skin is worthless. You need to have a banana-skin to interact with the banana. It is just that when you put more value on the outer layers, which are always changing anyways, you tend to drop into conflict, self-defence and creating separation instead of unity. But the purpose of the skin is just to hold the banana itself!
This inner banana is the same, wether you are rich, poor, stupid, intelligent or whatever. This is why we enjoy unity so much, at the valuable opportunity that we experience it, because we are really all the same banana!;-)
In programming terms I guess you can call Religion, God's API, although it is through humans it gets built so it doesn't always work as expected;-)
It did occur to people. But the mindset was just not there to fix it. People are generally happy if things are working. To go the extra mile of paranoid security-checks, requires a mindset and to put security high on the agenda.
I remember back in the early 90's I was curious if pictures could actually contain viruses. I always assumed people would code in checks to prevent overflows, so I didn't think more about it. Assumptions is ignorance, that was my fault.
ust imagine, every Windows 98 computer out there probably has this problem too, and there's no way it's going to be really fixed. It will never be safe to run even "safe" things like jpg and mp3 on old computers now. It's very, very disapointing news.
Why not install Linux or BSD on those boxes. It'll be more legal, and you get Free updates and security fixes. Windows 98 has always been disappointing, so why not do something about it?
But your point is well taken; no operating system is immune to attack.
I would guess OpenBSD is pretty much immune to this type of attack, as long as the OS is not borrowing binaries from other OSes, but instead compiling it with propolice stack protection, and all the other nifties in 3.8. It will still crash of course, given that the bug remains in the package, but it will be near impossible to exploit it.
I would love to see an easy install/upgrade path for OpenBSD. As it is now, there's too much politics and too little hand-holding for me to accept it. I can probably figure it out, but time is an issue, and others can't reasonably take over when the bar is so high compared to Ubuntu / Debian.
What is surprising to me is how little Linux people value security. You would think the necessary means would be put in place, but only fringe distros like Adamantix really do it.
While I agree that forcing one particular view in the classroom is bad, most of our society is based on religious / spiritual values. Most of our laws, rules, codes and structure is based on principles from the bible, which again comes from Asian religions and spiritual practices (although distorted in some uncomfortable ways sometimes). Without spirituality, humanity is lost.
The problem is when somebody claims they are MORE right than anybody else, try to take control, play power-games etc, etc. That's human ignorance and ego, not spirituality.
This is the whole point of open source and free software: You apply a patch to the maintainer in the hope he will submit it to the codebase, and THEN you get your support!
In case your patch is not accepted, you can always maintain a fork, which you can even use to compete with the original maintainers (depending on how "open" the license is of course).
In case you don't want to run your own show, you can always keep a diff, and hope the surrounding code doesn't change too much over the versions. With open source/free software you can easily apply your own patches to software and kernels anywhere in the system by compiling those modules yourself.
This is just yet more FUD from Microsoft. This only shows how much they fear Linux now that Free distros such as Ubuntu has come to the scene and Linux is starting to look better than the current Windows offerings on the desktop..
What was it Gandhi said? "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Mohandas Gandhi
Another good quote: "I think it would be a good idea." Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
In fact Gandhi has an enormous collection of good quotes. Look it up on the net.
Try running Inkscape in KDE. You'll notice the menu and file-dialogs look very dated.
Try running Banshee, it won't even run under KDE for Breezy.
Not to say I'm unhappy with using Ubuntu and KDE with a mixture of Gnome-apps and KDE-apps, but the poster has a valid point. It doesn't always work so good.
I tend to like Gnome for administering and KDE as a default for everything else. KDE-apps are too busy for administering, and the admin-apps are not so intuitive (although Control Center rocks, unless your option is hidden under some Advanced-tab somewhere..) Gnome user-admin, gparted, and other admin-tools kicks KDE in terms of clearness, which is what you want when you admin a box, but the default widgets and theme for Gnome is too boring for anything else.
So both environments has its merits in my opinion. I think Ubuntu should support apps for both environments out of the box, because with imperfect implementations on both sides, it only makes sense to mix-and-match.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Being a genius, doesn't mean you're happy, or have a happy life, or even that you can choose your life. Did this kid really choose to be sent to college at age 8? What other choices will be made, in order to "optimize his future possibilities"? Rich people usually have the greatest debts. It's really amazing how paradoxial the world is..
This is why envy does no good to a man, it only makes you drop your innocence and thus happiness. Envy can happen to this boy, as well as his peers, leaving all of them ravaged. Or the opposite might happen, which would be truly great.
The real geniuses I admire are those who can be happy while contributing to the benefit of all. That has nothing to do with the type of IQ or school grades being measured by scientists, yet.
The Gorm developers better wait this one out 'till Avalon is out the door. Eolas will seem like pancakes compared to the lawsuit Microsoft is going to face for this..
The real beauty of it all, is when all is said and done at the end of the day, the GPL will ensure Avalon becomes GPL and Free Software for all to use. Just think, the simplicity of Gorm and the beautiful Avalon, a happy merger for all enthusiasts. Ironically, this WILL spell the end of GNOME, KDE, XFce and even fvvwm!
Microsoft will regret the day they Gormed their Desktop. It's like playing with nitroglyserin, except you always explode (for those who've seen Lost, you know what I mean. It ain't pretty..)
Microsoft dies into a puddle of blood. KDE lies in shatters on the floot. GNOME runs and hides under the carpet. Gorm cackles with insane glee while spinning maniacly in small circles.
A new Gorm-era is in the making, as the wheel of time keeps spinning, making everybody pretty dizzy.
I read the same sentence, switched to IE to try out the "Live"-site. However, IE crashed instantly, even before I had the chance to block a cookie from the site. Yes, *crashed* IE. This is not something a webpage should be able to do (but if this is really MS, then I'm impressed. I wonder if Blue-Screen is next.. This would *really* become "Windows-live" then..)
Without SP2 I suspect this site could infect your computer with a Trojan, or maybe it already got my machine. WHOIS didn't turn up much meaningful information either, so I doubt it's Microsoft at work here.
The only way you could protect users against themselves is to make it very hard to install software (bad) or lock them in to only use your distro's software (worse).
Why on earth is this bad? Having an admin do the job properly, or only allow whitelisted software is a solution that works almost 100%. It's a step in the right direction compared to blacklisting, and trying to plug hole-by-hole, like a silly wack-a-mole game.
For home-users, this might seem impractical, but then again, maybe they should have their own internet to screw up..
Have you seen a child? It is never depressed. A child cannot be depressed. It learns that behaviour from the environment, which it eagerly emulates, and when put under stress for a long time.
On what basis do you come to this conclusion, and how do you define depression?
Being depressed. I will readily admit I don't know the "official" definition, but I would say it is something holding you back and pulling you down. When you're depressed, you start thinking about yourself more and more, and more. This will make your problems seem bigger and bigger, until they overshadow everything else. The quickest way to become depressed is in fact to only think about yourself!;-)
I'd say depression is a path which leads to long-lasting feelings of lack, sorrow, guilt, lack of self-esteem, etc. It will pull you down, have bad effects for a healthy body and mind.
Being depressed is not crying. When you cry, you cry. So what? There's no point in feeling good all the time. If you're ALWAYS on the top, the curve is flat. Life consists of variations, mountains and valleys, thankfully! A child, when you look at it, will cry with its whole body. What we as adults have forgotten, the child does naturally. This will free so much stress from the system! When a child cries, it cries, it doesn't think so much, doesn't analyse a whole lot, or focus on the obstacles.
The way out of depression is to care about others, then your own problems will become smaller!
If my words can help someone, that is enough for me.
The unhappy people can't stand happy people. So if you're unhappy, you will more likely seek depressing and complaining company, than cheerful, vibrant and active people. That doesn't mean they don't exist, you just shut everything positive away, so you can live what you think you are right now. Depression leads to dullness and stagnation, and is also fueled by it, while the way to come out of it is to become active and seek out good company/do good things for others etc. It's really very simple! Yet, when you're stuck with your unhappiness, it seems so hard. You think that 'you' are unhappy, so you stay there longer. We know what to do, yet, we find so many excuses for not doing it. This is mainly because we have been trained to do so, and have perfected its mastery very well. The mind is pretty sneaky actually!
Don't fall for the truth of unhappy people about what is our true nature. Have you seen a child? It is never depressed. A child cannot be depressed. It learns that behaviour from the environment, which it eagerly emulates, and when put under stress for a long time. The younger the child, the more happiness, creativity, laughter, playfullness, innocense and all the other good qualities.
So we need to get rid of our stress and negative patterns that lets us be stuck with a worldview that dictates we shouldn't be 'too happy'. That is truly an art, and then we will discover WHO WE TRULY ARE.
'Old trite arguments'? There's no such thing. It depends on the listener!
Thanks. I didn't know the site was this famous. I just found it by a Google-search, and found the arguments very much in-line with my impression. Like, the way every pro-patent lobbyist always say they are against software patents, but in secret they are lobbying for "computer-invented inventions", claiming that's a different thing! It's not, and we as the technical experts know better, and we need to get our voice heard! Like RMS is saying in his speeches, just because patents works okay for one part of business, doesn't mean it is suited for every part of life.. no, we should discriminate the patent-laws according to the field in question, wether it will have a positive benefit or not.
I don't like exclamation marks, or having to call "lie", which we should be very careful to use because it drags us down with it.. but what has happened, and how big money runs things, is unacceptable.
I did vote, and it felt good. It doesn't mean wether we win, but at least I did one thing for it today. Next day I can do something else. Just think how much power we have as individuals today, by telling the truth!
This website offers nice rebuttals and arguments against software patents or "computer-invented inventions" as they're popularly called by their proponents:
I urge everyone to mail this link to every co-worker and IT-knowledgeable person you know. First, all the geeks must unite, then the knowledge will spread from the knowledgeable to the ignorant.
A link to/. might even make you more competitive, since you're already wasting time reading it!;-)
It is never too late! The costs of maintaining a broken system is greater than fixing it, no matter when you finally decide to do it!
If your disk is flakey and your data is important, you will back it up on removable media which you store in a separate location.
With internet, it is even easier. You can use one of the online backup services, or do it yourself. What can be achieved rather painlessly today in backup is amazing: In one day I mirrored a Linux PC over internet, with full mirroring of the whole Debian-install, making for a complete redundant backup-machine which can be put online in minutes. Pretty fun, and I can clone the entire install anywhere I like, never having to install everything by hand again.
If you're relying on copies of files for backup, then I guess you never had a HD die on you. It's not fun, and copies won't help you. Solutions exists to get the data, but it's too pricey for individuals.
If you're into local redundancy, I guess RAID could be a cheap option, or just copy the files to another filesystem.
I think your gripe is with Microsoft usually not giving enough options to their customers, because I can't see why you don't like this solution, which of course in a sane system should be possible to turn off. For a workstation this is probably not needed anyways, but imagine what this can do for a CVS-sandbox fileserver.
I'm surprised that the filesystems for Linux haven't been doing this for years yet. It might have performance issues, but those should be solvable.
People are different. Just because some very loud and rude people walk all over a forum, doesn't mean that this represents the people who are working on important bits. Often the loudest, are doing the least.
What can be damaging to your view is mixing up those you meet on a forum, or are acting immature/ignorant, with those who really matters in a project.
More interesting is that what you see as OS bigotry and elitism in others, is a feeling in yourself really. It might not have a reality in the other person. This extends to anything, and realizing it is a first step to taking responsibility for your own feelings and opinions. Who knows who others are? We don't really know each other that well yet, do we really?
So relax.. enjoy Windows or Linux or BSD.. and be happy!
Of course not. If implemented properly, it should be transparent. That means you disolve the link when somebody performs a mutation on their instance. If 1000 people do this, it means you will have to store the 1000 variations. But you could also detect similarities with ie. hashing, and only store those unique objects and link to them for each instance.
Ironically, Microsoft is developing WinFS which is supposed to be able to automatically hardlink files transparently, thus the filesystem will automatically support Instance Store for every application. This is actually a pretty neat feature!
Yes, people will seem stupid when you assume they are. It is most usually about your assumptions, not them..
Instead of jumping on the problem, just think the obvious solution, and then patent that;-)
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Mostly, you get what your parents deserve.
Why should I be penalised if my mother is a crack whore? That's not my fault, is it?
Let's turn that around a bit.. Wether you deserve it or not, doesn't really matter. You should be given an equal chance despite of who your parents are. It only makes economic sense as well as moral sense. It doesn't pay well for one part of society to subsidize the poor part, which is rendered impotent because they don't get an equal opportunity.
How many Einsteins and Newtons lies buried inside children who will never have the opportunity?
So.. Instead of being useful to the world, you just don't care.
As someone who claims to know better, and do nothing, you have an even worse excuse than those who are ignorant.
If you remember Spider-Man: With great power comes great responsibility. This also applies to Knowledge. It helps nobody to roll over and be beaten, or watch someone else get beaten while shrugging that it would happen anyways.
The whole point of this life is that you are here. Don't let it all go to waste.
Because two wrongs don't make a right?
Hey, that one was easty!
If you want to punish someone / something, don't buy Sony products and tell everybody about this, but don't take it personal, you'll only hurt yourself in the end..
Well posted! This is one part of it, but I think there are more dreams out there which people believe in, wether they are true or not, and do everything in their power to make it true. I'll just add one major dream that the currents trends in society is being ruled by:
The Economist Dream
The Economics Dream is very simple: It is the capitalist belief that if you just make every exchange in society a transaction, we will automatically make the right decisions due to market forces somehow making those perfect decisions for us. Whatever will be the cheapest solution, when everything is marketized, will be the Best Solution.
Remember the stories about the supposed Information Age, when Information would be sold and bartered with, just like the stock market? This is one such idea based on The Economist Dream. Make everything a transaction, and whatever you need can be bought and whatever you have can be sold.
It didn't quite turn out that way however. What information is being bought and sold between corporations is information about us, our private information. Remember those privacy statements where corporations claim they will only share your information with their affiliates? I guess that means information about you will be sold to Checkpoint, or some other company, that then resells this information further to the highest bidder, or lose the information to some hacker..
The Economist Dream is all about making everything a transaction, as if money-flow will solve every conceivable issue in this world. As we have seen, money is also generating problems for us, because these corporations are beginning to have a life on its own! "We have to do it because our stockholders will sue us." "They have to do it because they have to maximize capital." Etc. Etc. The excuses begins to pour in. Corporations should not be ammoral entities to an extent where they can control the people who "runs" them!
Decisions are being made based on money every day, and if it doesn't get out of hand, this is a good balance. Nobody should do nothing and be rewarded for it, certainly. But if we let it take control of our planet, it will go very wrong.
Especially information is not suited to The Economist Dream. Information is intangible and can be copied almost without cost. Indeed, when information is shared it enriched everyone and leads to innovations the original author never thought about! If it is withheld it enriches only the few who hold it, if it ever does any good. The biggest potential for information is when it is freely shared, instead of going through a toll-booth.
However, those who believe in The Economist Dream believe EVERYTHING should be made a transaction. They fail to realize that a transaction also constitute a friction, a lowest barrier that must be overcome, while the natural state of information is frictionless. Software will naturally become commodized, because over time the market forces will force the value of software down to the natural cost of information. Open Source and Free Software (GPL) is only a catalyst for this process.
Just like many dreams, The Economist Dream is a partial solution, but it shouldn't be applied to areas where reality dictates otherwise. We shouldn't challenge reality, the natural way of living, because building a card-deck house will crumble to the slightest wind.
The Economist Dream also has fundamental problems in the very decision-making. It makes our mind go to our thoughts and intellect, more than go to our hearts. Good decisions are made from a mix of heart and intellect, but when decisions are made only from the intellect, it can quickly turn "cold" and cynical. When we lose our innocence in making decisions, conflict arises. However, when we make decisions from the heart also, we will not try to trick others or otherwise make "cold-hearted" decisions. We will want what is best for everyone, and thus any mistakes we do, can be forgiven, because they were just that: mistakes, and not intention.
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If you have faith in human nature and nurture human value, that's spirituality to me. It doesn't matter what you believe or disbelieve really. Why should it? In a few years, both of us will have a different set of beliefs than we have now anyways.
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"Religion" and "Spirituality" can be thought of covering two different terms: If you think of a banana. It has a protective skin, which you can't eat. Now, that is the outer appearance of the banana. Without it, you might not want the banana itself..
Religion is like that outer layer. It consists of all things changing: traditions, symbols, scriptures, places, people. These are outer appearances to protect the inside, and to build a framework in which to interact with the inside.
While spirituality is the banana. It is the only thing really edible, and is what is coveted by everybody, wether they know it or not. It is love, it is all things good. It is playfulness, joy and abundant happiness, not really serious at all, not the way we can be anyways. It is all that is never changing, permanent knowledge, innate knowledge in human nature. We are always searching for it, in things, in relationships, in valuables, in status, everywhere but where it really is! If I only get this... and this...
What is really funny, is that many people have thrown away the banana and are holding on to the skin! They even argue about which skin is the best!
But this is not to say the banana-skin is worthless. You need to have a banana-skin to interact with the banana. It is just that when you put more value on the outer layers, which are always changing anyways, you tend to drop into conflict, self-defence and creating separation instead of unity. But the purpose of the skin is just to hold the banana itself!
This inner banana is the same, wether you are rich, poor, stupid, intelligent or whatever. This is why we enjoy unity so much, at the valuable opportunity that we experience it, because we are really all the same banana!
In programming terms I guess you can call Religion, God's API, although it is through humans it gets built so it doesn't always work as expected
It did occur to people. But the mindset was just not there to fix it. People are generally happy if things are working. To go the extra mile of paranoid security-checks, requires a mindset and to put security high on the agenda.
I remember back in the early 90's I was curious if pictures could actually contain viruses. I always assumed people would code in checks to prevent overflows, so I didn't think more about it. Assumptions is ignorance, that was my fault.
ust imagine, every Windows 98 computer out there probably has this problem too, and there's no way it's going to be really fixed. It will never be safe to run even "safe" things like jpg and mp3 on old computers now. It's very, very disapointing news.
Why not install Linux or BSD on those boxes. It'll be more legal, and you get Free updates and security fixes. Windows 98 has always been disappointing, so why not do something about it?
But your point is well taken; no operating system is immune to attack.
I would guess OpenBSD is pretty much immune to this type of attack, as long as the OS is not borrowing binaries from other OSes, but instead compiling it with propolice stack protection, and all the other nifties in 3.8. It will still crash of course, given that the bug remains in the package, but it will be near impossible to exploit it.
I would love to see an easy install/upgrade path for OpenBSD. As it is now, there's too much politics and too little hand-holding for me to accept it. I can probably figure it out, but time is an issue, and others can't reasonably take over when the bar is so high compared to Ubuntu / Debian.
What is surprising to me is how little Linux people value security. You would think the necessary means would be put in place, but only fringe distros like Adamantix really do it.
While I agree that forcing one particular view in the classroom is bad, most of our society is based on religious / spiritual values. Most of our laws, rules, codes and structure is based on principles from the bible, which again comes from Asian religions and spiritual practices (although distorted in some uncomfortable ways sometimes). Without spirituality, humanity is lost.
The problem is when somebody claims they are MORE right than anybody else, try to take control, play power-games etc, etc. That's human ignorance and ego, not spirituality.
This is the whole point of open source and free software: You apply a patch to the maintainer in the hope he will submit it to the codebase, and THEN you get your support!
/free software you can easily apply your own patches to software and kernels anywhere in the system by compiling those modules yourself.
In case your patch is not accepted, you can always maintain a fork, which you can even use to compete with the original maintainers (depending on how "open" the license is of course).
In case you don't want to run your own show, you can always keep a diff, and hope the surrounding code doesn't change too much over the versions. With open source
This is just yet more FUD from Microsoft. This only shows how much they fear Linux now that Free distros such as Ubuntu has come to the scene and Linux is starting to look better than the current Windows offerings on the desktop..
What was it Gandhi said?
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Mohandas Gandhi
Another good quote:
"I think it would be a good idea."
Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
In fact Gandhi has an enormous collection of good quotes. Look it up on the net.
Try running Inkscape in KDE. You'll notice the menu and file-dialogs look very dated.
Try running Banshee, it won't even run under KDE for Breezy.
Not to say I'm unhappy with using Ubuntu and KDE with a mixture of Gnome-apps and KDE-apps, but the poster has a valid point. It doesn't always work so good.
I tend to like Gnome for administering and KDE as a default for everything else. KDE-apps are too busy for administering, and the admin-apps are not so intuitive (although Control Center rocks, unless your option is hidden under some Advanced-tab somewhere..) Gnome user-admin, gparted, and other admin-tools kicks KDE in terms of clearness, which is what you want when you admin a box, but the default widgets and theme for Gnome is too boring for anything else.
So both environments has its merits in my opinion. I think Ubuntu should support apps for both environments out of the box, because with imperfect implementations on both sides, it only makes sense to mix-and-match.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Being a genius, doesn't mean you're happy, or have a happy life, or even that you can choose your life. Did this kid really choose to be sent to college at age 8? What other choices will be made, in order to "optimize his future possibilities"? Rich people usually have the greatest debts. It's really amazing how paradoxial the world is..
This is why envy does no good to a man, it only makes you drop your innocence and thus happiness. Envy can happen to this boy, as well as his peers, leaving all of them ravaged. Or the opposite might happen, which would be truly great.
The real geniuses I admire are those who can be happy while contributing to the benefit of all. That has nothing to do with the type of IQ or school grades being measured by scientists, yet.
The Gorm developers better wait this one out 'till Avalon is out the door. Eolas will seem like pancakes compared to the lawsuit Microsoft is going to face for this..
The real beauty of it all, is when all is said and done at the end of the day, the GPL will ensure Avalon becomes GPL and Free Software for all to use. Just think, the simplicity of Gorm and the beautiful Avalon, a happy merger for all enthusiasts. Ironically, this WILL spell the end of GNOME, KDE, XFce and even fvvwm!
Microsoft will regret the day they Gormed their Desktop. It's like playing with nitroglyserin, except you always explode (for those who've seen Lost, you know what I mean. It ain't pretty..)
Microsoft dies into a puddle of blood.
KDE lies in shatters on the floot.
GNOME runs and hides under the carpet.
Gorm cackles with insane glee while spinning maniacly in small circles.
A new Gorm-era is in the making, as the wheel of time keeps spinning, making everybody pretty dizzy.
Attorneys are not programmers, and should stay the hell away from IT!
BEWARE!
I read the same sentence, switched to IE to try out the "Live"-site. However, IE crashed instantly, even before I had the chance to block a cookie from the site. Yes, *crashed* IE. This is not something a webpage should be able to do (but if this is really MS, then I'm impressed. I wonder if Blue-Screen is next.. This would *really* become "Windows-live" then..)
Without SP2 I suspect this site could infect your computer with a Trojan, or maybe it already got my machine. WHOIS didn't turn up much meaningful information either, so I doubt it's Microsoft at work here.
The only way you could protect users against themselves is to make it very hard to install software (bad) or lock them in to only use your distro's software (worse).
Why on earth is this bad? Having an admin do the job properly, or only allow whitelisted software is a solution that works almost 100%. It's a step in the right direction compared to blacklisting, and trying to plug hole-by-hole, like a silly wack-a-mole game.
For home-users, this might seem impractical, but then again, maybe they should have their own internet to screw up..
What a depressing post.
Have you seen a child? It is never depressed. A child cannot be depressed. It learns that behaviour from the environment, which it eagerly emulates, and when put under stress for a long time.
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On what basis do you come to this conclusion, and how do you define depression?
Being depressed. I will readily admit I don't know the "official" definition, but I would say it is something holding you back and pulling you down. When you're depressed, you start thinking about yourself more and more, and more. This will make your problems seem bigger and bigger, until they overshadow everything else. The quickest way to become depressed is in fact to only think about yourself!
I'd say depression is a path which leads to long-lasting feelings of lack, sorrow, guilt, lack of self-esteem, etc. It will pull you down, have bad effects for a healthy body and mind.
Being depressed is not crying. When you cry, you cry. So what? There's no point in feeling good all the time. If you're ALWAYS on the top, the curve is flat. Life consists of variations, mountains and valleys, thankfully! A child, when you look at it, will cry with its whole body. What we as adults have forgotten, the child does naturally. This will free so much stress from the system! When a child cries, it cries, it doesn't think so much, doesn't analyse a whole lot, or focus on the obstacles.
The way out of depression is to care about others, then your own problems will become smaller!
If my words can help someone, that is enough for me.
...because you always give what you have.
The unhappy people can't stand happy people. So if you're unhappy, you will more likely seek depressing and complaining company, than cheerful, vibrant and active people. That doesn't mean they don't exist, you just shut everything positive away, so you can live what you think you are right now. Depression leads to dullness and stagnation, and is also fueled by it, while the way to come out of it is to become active and seek out good company/do good things for others etc. It's really very simple! Yet, when you're stuck with your unhappiness, it seems so hard. You think that 'you' are unhappy, so you stay there longer. We know what to do, yet, we find so many excuses for not doing it. This is mainly because we have been trained to do so, and have perfected its mastery very well. The mind is pretty sneaky actually!
Don't fall for the truth of unhappy people about what is our true nature. Have you seen a child? It is never depressed. A child cannot be depressed. It learns that behaviour from the environment, which it eagerly emulates, and when put under stress for a long time. The younger the child, the more happiness, creativity, laughter, playfullness, innocense and all the other good qualities.
So we need to get rid of our stress and negative patterns that lets us be stuck with a worldview that dictates we shouldn't be 'too happy'. That is truly an art, and then we will discover WHO WE TRULY ARE.
'Old trite arguments'? There's no such thing. It depends on the listener!
Are you your stress?
Thanks. I didn't know the site was this famous. I just found it by a Google-search, and found the arguments very much in-line with my impression. Like, the way every pro-patent lobbyist always say they are against software patents, but in secret they are lobbying for "computer-invented inventions", claiming that's a different thing! It's not, and we as the technical experts know better, and we need to get our voice heard! Like RMS is saying in his speeches, just because patents works okay for one part of business, doesn't mean it is suited for every part of life.. no, we should discriminate the patent-laws according to the field in question, wether it will have a positive benefit or not.
I don't like exclamation marks, or having to call "lie", which we should be very careful to use because it drags us down with it.. but what has happened, and how big money runs things, is unacceptable.
I did vote, and it felt good. It doesn't mean wether we win, but at least I did one thing for it today. Next day I can do something else. Just think how much power we have as individuals today, by telling the truth!
This website offers nice rebuttals and arguments against software patents or "computer-invented inventions" as they're popularly called by their proponents:
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/. might even make you more competitive, since you're already wasting time reading it! ;-)
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/intro/index
I urge everyone to mail this link to every co-worker and IT-knowledgeable person you know. First, all the geeks must unite, then the knowledge will spread from the knowledgeable to the ignorant.
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It is never too late! The costs of maintaining a broken system is greater than fixing it, no matter when you finally decide to do it!
If your disk is flakey and your data is important, you will back it up on removable media which you store in a separate location.
With internet, it is even easier. You can use one of the online backup services, or do it yourself. What can be achieved rather painlessly today in backup is amazing: In one day I mirrored a Linux PC over internet, with full mirroring of the whole Debian-install, making for a complete redundant backup-machine which can be put online in minutes. Pretty fun, and I can clone the entire install anywhere I like, never having to install everything by hand again.
If you're relying on copies of files for backup, then I guess you never had a HD die on you. It's not fun, and copies won't help you. Solutions exists to get the data, but it's too pricey for individuals.
If you're into local redundancy, I guess RAID could be a cheap option, or just copy the files to another filesystem.
I think your gripe is with Microsoft usually not giving enough options to their customers, because I can't see why you don't like this solution, which of course in a sane system should be possible to turn off. For a workstation this is probably not needed anyways, but imagine what this can do for a CVS-sandbox fileserver.
I'm surprised that the filesystems for Linux haven't been doing this for years yet. It might have performance issues, but those should be solvable.
People are different. Just because some very loud and rude people walk all over a forum, doesn't mean that this represents the people who are working on important bits. Often the loudest, are doing the least.
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What can be damaging to your view is mixing up those you meet on a forum, or are acting immature/ignorant, with those who really matters in a project.
More interesting is that what you see as OS bigotry and elitism in others, is a feeling in yourself really. It might not have a reality in the other person. This extends to anything, and realizing it is a first step to taking responsibility for your own feelings and opinions. Who knows who others are? We don't really know each other that well yet, do we really?
So relax.. enjoy Windows or Linux or BSD.. and be happy!
Oh, yeah, Mac too
Of course not. If implemented properly, it should be transparent. That means you disolve the link when somebody performs a mutation on their instance. If 1000 people do this, it means you will have to store the 1000 variations. But you could also detect similarities with ie. hashing, and only store those unique objects and link to them for each instance.
;-)
Ironically, Microsoft is developing WinFS which is supposed to be able to automatically hardlink files transparently, thus the filesystem will automatically support Instance Store for every application. This is actually a pretty neat feature!
Yes, people will seem stupid when you assume they are. It is most usually about your assumptions, not them..
Instead of jumping on the problem, just think the obvious solution, and then patent that
Wonder if that 256mB is full speed, he doesnt say. Is it L1 or L2?
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Actually, it is L5.
Kneel mortal!