Mostly I made the comment about the Crusades because it always comes up in these discussions as "Christian Brutality" whether they were right or wrong really doesn't matter as I as a Christian am not responsible for something that happened what 6? 7? centuries ago.
And people accuse Christians of being close-minded! It really isn't about what you believe, its about respecting what other people believe. I'm not superior to people who believe the teachings of the Mormons or the Christian Science church. But I do disagree with those teachings and I don't want my name or my belief system to be mis-represented.
Christ being the son of God is core to my belief, its important to me, if its not important to you then fine but I clarify because I don't want you or anyone else to say "its all the same" because that misrepresents what I believe in.
You are mistaken, and from your posts you seem to believe that is something is 'Christian' in name they are 'Christian' in practice or belief. Its sort of like a trademark really meant to make people believe in something that isn't true.
There are three major branches of Christianity. Roman Catholic, Greek/Russian Orthidox, and Protestant. The Catholic and Orthidox put more emphasis on traditions and ritual while Protestants tend to put more emphasis on a personal relationship to Christ.
Protestants are further broken down into denominations and that's where the small differences come into play with abortion or women ministers etc. But at their core all of these groups believe the same things.
Christian Science and groups like it on the other hand don't belive that Christ was the Son of God, or don't believe in the deity of Christ or don't believe that he rose from the dead. Those things combined with the idea that the Bible is of God as well are what makes Christianity. Anyone that claims not to believe those things cannot properly be called a Christian.
I simply don't think that's worth getting all annoyed about.
I'm not annoyed, but it is worth noting, think of it in cultural terms: don't you think that a Canadian would be somewhat annoyed/offended if you call him an American? And in this case its like calling a Jamacian guy Canadian (though he probably wouldn't be offended, but he might laugh)
Because when I think of eastern religion and Christianity (as in its core teachings and not as practiced), I think of a casual disregard for human life and mindless slaughter.
Then you obviously don't know anything about the core teachings of Christianity. How about some examples? (And don't say the Crusades as they have nothing to do with core teachings of Christianity)
Yesterday in fact. There is a train that takes commuters to Dallas now. But no, there isn't a better arrangment from the parking lot to the Tandy Center. Of course as I mentioned in an earlier comment, its not so far that one couldn't simply walk:)
It was sort of half and half. In the parking lot it ran above ground but as you got closer to downtown it went into a rather long tunnel to the station under the Tandy Center.
It was kind of neat but I can see why they would want to get rid of it as it was somewhat pointless. They could only run one train through the tunnel at a time so one could have probably walked the length of the tunnel to the building by the time the train could come pick them up.
Lessing is a loony. E-mail services are privatly owned by ISPs, its already taxed with sales tax when you pay your monthly connectivity bill. We don't need a new tax on infrastructure that the government has nothing to do with.
If the gov is going to get involved then they need to make unsolicited email illegal, as well as working with other countries to make it illegal there as well. That gives us the right to bring charges against those ISPs and individuals who are sending it, and things like SpamAssasin can take care of the rest.
I didn't say that people who like KDE should go to Windows. I told the parent poster to go use Windows if he wanted an OS where the graphical interface is (mostly) dictated to him.
If you like KDE, fine, use KDE, you have that choice. I like a combination of Blackbox with GNOME and KDE apps better, I don't want to be forced to use KDE which was what the parent was suggesting.
This has nothing to do with Linus accepting or refusing patches. The issue would be if IBM came to Linus and said "Hey Linus we need Linux to work on our big mainframes, but we aren't going to help you or pay you to do that we just want it to work." Would Linus agree to that, probably not. That's what I'm talking about here. In Open Source the users should contribute, and if they don't they shouldn't complain about features lacking or not lacking.
It isn't about wheither or not developers should listen to users (they should) but its about wheither developers should take seriously one person who's screaming "Fundamentally change Linux because I said"
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Face it: we don't need X any longer.
Then why is it that Microsoft keeps trying to copy it (failing miserable) ala Remote Desktop etc.? I for one would love a handheld device that gave me complete control over my home machine from anywhere it the world. You can't do that without a network GUI.
X is bloated and you compare it to "High Performance" Win XP? From what I have seen XP is useless on machines less than Athlon or PIII, and even then it starts slowing down if you have more than a few apps open, while my wife can run Mandrake 9 with full blown KDE, Mozilla and Open Office (even at the same time) on a K6-2 450 with only 192 megs of RAM. Its not the snappest machine in the world but its useable enough that I don't get annoyed at it. Its even faster when I run Blackbox.
KDE works automatically. And this would weed out Gnome this obsolete, second desktop system which just draws resources from the KDE pool and thus slows down advancement of open source systems.
If you want your apps and look and feel dictated to you then go back to Windows because that's what its for. No choice, you can feel good that everybody just uses what is handed to them. Linux is about choice. While I agree that Gnome and KDE could work better together (and should strive for that goal) I would be extremely upset if the people that work on Blackbox, or GAIM or Mozilla decided they were going to work on KDE apps instead. I like the GNOME apps I use, I like Mozilla and no one has the right to dictate those choices to me.
Open Source development isn't about what everyone wants, its about what the developer wants and she/he's nice enough to give that to other people in case its useful to them and they are free to do with it what they want.
Finally are you a KDE developer? because if not then you certainly don't have any right to complain about other people not working on the project you want them to work on.
IANAL of course but wouldn't it seem that these suits against small websites should be thrown out because they didn't create the technology, they simply used it, under the presumption that it was safe since it was released by Netscape for free.
SBC should sue AOL Time Warner as the current owners of Netscape, there is no way that anyone else should be liable for using a technology that was released to them.
This is true, I was more refering to getting my browser to open a new window. That can only happen on the client side unless there is help from a third party program (which I believe happens on some unnamed platforms:) )
They don't use page resize. It's told to start up that way so it bypasses the resize function. Also interestingly enough I could still close it. It certainly didn't take over my computer for 15 seconds.
Or other pop-up blocker. If that doesn't work, turn off Javascript. If they have found a way to do it without Javascript then I'll be impressed and I'll want to see the code (I'll also never visit the site again).
No, we need people who will switch and wait awhile for their games to come out. If enough people switch then there is a demand for the product. We need people who would actually stand up to the game companies even if they use windows, and boycott them until they provide games for other platforms. There are perfectly good acceptable open APIs for making the games to where they will compile for multiple systems, we just need to create the demand for it. We also need (more) innovative game companies that will stand up to MS and say their games won't use DirectX and that they will compile for more than one system (are you listening EA?)
Not that either of those this will happen soon but even one person can make a difference. Which is why I don't buy new games. EA won't get my money until they offer me the product I want.
And just a nitpick: Operating systems are not a medium, computers are, you'd think that manufacturers would want to have their software work on as many computers as possible. I guess that isn't easy when one company has a monopoly on the desktop software.
Geez I'd be rich if I had a quarter for everytime those words were uttered on/. What does this have to do with Bush? What makes you think that a Dem in office would make it any different? Hollywood is all Democratic, they don't want you to have broadband (because you'll steal movies and music).
Remember that Clinton was in office for 8 years and we didn't all suddenly get cheap bandwidth and then suddenly lose it when Bush came to the Whitehouse!
Bush is a lot of things but he certainly isn't to blame for everything that's wrong in the world! As for the telecom industry de-regulation and competition is what is needed. The monopoly that providers enjoy (over their areas) is why they don't treat Internet like a critical service, they don't have to because you don't have a choice of provider. You either suck it up and pay them for crappy service or you don't get it at all.
"'These antispammers should get a life[...] Do their fingers hurt too much from pressing the delete key? How much time does that really take from their day?"
I wonder if we should see if Ms Sachs fingers would hurt from throwing away all the physical junk she would get should someone post her address here... hmmmm.
The Wine team has reverse-engineered lots of the libraries so you don't need the DLL files. However, at least when I was messing with Wine a lot nothing much worked unless you had the Windows libraries.
I'm hoping that has changed now. Assuming some of the crossover code has worked its way back in to the main Wine tree then it has. I use IE under Crossover (when I'm feeling masiocistic) and there isn't even the hint of Windows on here.
This will probably never be seen because of all the comments but what the heck. Let me also precursor this with IANAAP (I am not an astro-physicist) so I'm probably quite wrong:)
The Big Bang. Such an event should be spherical and the matter from it should always be expanding and it should have an edge where matter has not expanded to yet. That negates this theory, the edge of the Big Bang is the limit. Now one could argue that there were multiple big bangs (an infinate number) but wouldn't that give you a higher concentration of matter where the matter from different Big Bangs begins to overlap? Now suddenly you don't have an even distribution any longer.
Then what I see as the fundemental flaw with infiniate possibilities is how do you resolve conflicting possibilities? For instance because of infinate possibilities I should be the only person that is like me but because of infinate possibilities there should be millions and millions of mes. Or there should be three mes. All of those are possible but only one can be true so not every possibilty can exist and therefore the posibilities are no longer infinate.
I don't really see how the article can make a jump from infinate space = infinate matter = infinate posibilities. Even if we do have infinate space and infinate matter how does it follow that we suddenly have the ability to do anything and everything? If that's true why aren't we exploring the stars because surely someone would have created the warp drive and come to tell us about it by now.
Sounds like your college is A) doing the smart thing or B) just hasn't implemented the entire thing yet.
The college that I graduated from implemented OneCard just before I left. When I left you had to have it to get into the dorms, computer labs etc. Or to get your meals.
Funny thing was one of the whole ideas behind getting it was to eleminate some of the cafeteria workers, see before OneCard they Aramark cards with a bar-code on them, some blue-haired lady checked your card and scanned it (can't have more than one meal because that would mean they couldn't steal money from you... long story). But with the OneCard they figured that students could scan themselves in. Trouble is they couldn't figure out how to make it only allow one meal, either that or students would just walk in without scanning. So they had to hire the workers back.
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Umm in PHP you can use "#" and "/*" as well.
Mostly I made the comment about the Crusades because it always comes up in these discussions as "Christian Brutality" whether they were right or wrong really doesn't matter as I as a Christian am not responsible for something that happened what 6? 7? centuries ago.
And people accuse Christians of being close-minded! It really isn't about what you believe, its about respecting what other people believe. I'm not superior to people who believe the teachings of the Mormons or the Christian Science church. But I do disagree with those teachings and I don't want my name or my belief system to be mis-represented.
Christ being the son of God is core to my belief, its important to me, if its not important to you then fine but I clarify because I don't want you or anyone else to say "its all the same" because that misrepresents what I believe in.
You are mistaken, and from your posts you seem to believe that is something is 'Christian' in name they are 'Christian' in practice or belief. Its sort of like a trademark really meant to make people believe in something that isn't true.
There are three major branches of Christianity. Roman Catholic, Greek/Russian Orthidox, and Protestant. The Catholic and Orthidox put more emphasis on traditions and ritual while Protestants tend to put more emphasis on a personal relationship to Christ.
Protestants are further broken down into denominations and that's where the small differences come into play with abortion or women ministers etc. But at their core all of these groups believe the same things.
Christian Science and groups like it on the other hand don't belive that Christ was the Son of God, or don't believe in the deity of Christ or don't believe that he rose from the dead. Those things combined with the idea that the Bible is of God as well are what makes Christianity. Anyone that claims not to believe those things cannot properly be called a Christian.
I simply don't think that's worth getting all annoyed about.
I'm not annoyed, but it is worth noting, think of it in cultural terms: don't you think that a Canadian would be somewhat annoyed/offended if you call him an American? And in this case its like calling a Jamacian guy Canadian (though he probably wouldn't be offended, but he might laugh)
Interestingly enough 'Christian Science' doesn't really have anything to do with the ideas behind Christianity or Science.
Because when I think of eastern religion and Christianity (as in its core teachings and not as practiced), I think of a casual disregard for human life and mindless slaughter.
Then you obviously don't know anything about the core teachings of Christianity. How about some examples? (And don't say the Crusades as they have nothing to do with core teachings of Christianity)
Yesterday in fact. There is a train that takes commuters to Dallas now. But no, there isn't a better arrangment from the parking lot to the Tandy Center. Of course as I mentioned in an earlier comment, its not so far that one couldn't simply walk :)
It was sort of half and half. In the parking lot it ran above ground but as you got closer to downtown it went into a rather long tunnel to the station under the Tandy Center.
It was kind of neat but I can see why they would want to get rid of it as it was somewhat pointless. They could only run one train through the tunnel at a time so one could have probably walked the length of the tunnel to the building by the time the train could come pick them up.
Lessing is a loony. E-mail services are privatly owned by ISPs, its already taxed with sales tax when you pay your monthly connectivity bill. We don't need a new tax on infrastructure that the government has nothing to do with.
If the gov is going to get involved then they need to make unsolicited email illegal, as well as working with other countries to make it illegal there as well. That gives us the right to bring charges against those ISPs and individuals who are sending it, and things like SpamAssasin can take care of the rest.
I didn't say that people who like KDE should go to Windows. I told the parent poster to go use Windows if he wanted an OS where the graphical interface is (mostly) dictated to him.
If you like KDE, fine, use KDE, you have that choice. I like a combination of Blackbox with GNOME and KDE apps better, I don't want to be forced to use KDE which was what the parent was suggesting.
This has nothing to do with Linus accepting or refusing patches. The issue would be if IBM came to Linus and said "Hey Linus we need Linux to work on our big mainframes, but we aren't going to help you or pay you to do that we just want it to work." Would Linus agree to that, probably not. That's what I'm talking about here. In Open Source the users should contribute, and if they don't they shouldn't complain about features lacking or not lacking.
It isn't about wheither or not developers should listen to users (they should) but its about wheither developers should take seriously one person who's screaming "Fundamentally change Linux because I said"
Face it: we don't need X any longer.
Then why is it that Microsoft keeps trying to copy it (failing miserable) ala Remote Desktop etc.? I for one would love a handheld device that gave me complete control over my home machine from anywhere it the world. You can't do that without a network GUI.
X is bloated and you compare it to "High Performance" Win XP? From what I have seen XP is useless on machines less than Athlon or PIII, and even then it starts slowing down if you have more than a few apps open, while my wife can run Mandrake 9 with full blown KDE, Mozilla and Open Office (even at the same time) on a K6-2 450 with only 192 megs of RAM. Its not the snappest machine in the world but its useable enough that I don't get annoyed at it. Its even faster when I run Blackbox.
KDE works automatically. And this would weed out Gnome this obsolete, second desktop system which just draws resources from the KDE pool and thus slows down advancement of open source systems.
If you want your apps and look and feel dictated to you then go back to Windows because that's what its for. No choice, you can feel good that everybody just uses what is handed to them. Linux is about choice. While I agree that Gnome and KDE could work better together (and should strive for that goal) I would be extremely upset if the people that work on Blackbox, or GAIM or Mozilla decided they were going to work on KDE apps instead. I like the GNOME apps I use, I like Mozilla and no one has the right to dictate those choices to me.
Open Source development isn't about what everyone wants, its about what the developer wants and she/he's nice enough to give that to other people in case its useful to them and they are free to do with it what they want.
Finally are you a KDE developer? because if not then you certainly don't have any right to complain about other people not working on the project you want them to work on.
IANAL of course but wouldn't it seem that these suits against small websites should be thrown out because they didn't create the technology, they simply used it, under the presumption that it was safe since it was released by Netscape for free.
SBC should sue AOL Time Warner as the current owners of Netscape, there is no way that anyone else should be liable for using a technology that was released to them.
Stupid patents.
This is true, I was more refering to getting my browser to open a new window. That can only happen on the client side unless there is help from a third party program (which I believe happens on some unnamed platforms :) )
They don't use page resize. It's told to start up that way so it bypasses the resize function. Also interestingly enough I could still close it. It certainly didn't take over my computer for 15 seconds.
Or other pop-up blocker. If that doesn't work, turn off Javascript. If they have found a way to do it without Javascript then I'll be impressed and I'll want to see the code (I'll also never visit the site again).
You need the medium to use the app.
No, we need people who will switch and wait awhile for their games to come out. If enough people switch then there is a demand for the product. We need people who would actually stand up to the game companies even if they use windows, and boycott them until they provide games for other platforms. There are perfectly good acceptable open APIs for making the games to where they will compile for multiple systems, we just need to create the demand for it. We also need (more) innovative game companies that will stand up to MS and say their games won't use DirectX and that they will compile for more than one system (are you listening EA?)
Not that either of those this will happen soon but even one person can make a difference. Which is why I don't buy new games. EA won't get my money until they offer me the product I want.
And just a nitpick: Operating systems are not a medium, computers are, you'd think that manufacturers would want to have their software work on as many computers as possible. I guess that isn't easy when one company has a monopoly on the desktop software.
however, under the Bush administration
/. What does this have to do with Bush? What makes you think that a Dem in office would make it any different? Hollywood is all Democratic, they don't want you to have broadband (because you'll steal movies and music).
Geez I'd be rich if I had a quarter for everytime those words were uttered on
Remember that Clinton was in office for 8 years and we didn't all suddenly get cheap bandwidth and then suddenly lose it when Bush came to the Whitehouse!
Bush is a lot of things but he certainly isn't to blame for everything that's wrong in the world! As for the telecom industry de-regulation and competition is what is needed. The monopoly that providers enjoy (over their areas) is why they don't treat Internet like a critical service, they don't have to because you don't have a choice of provider. You either suck it up and pay them for crappy service or you don't get it at all.
"'These antispammers should get a life[...] Do their fingers hurt too much from pressing the delete key? How much time does that really take from their day?"
I wonder if we should see if Ms Sachs fingers would hurt from throwing away all the physical junk she would get should someone post her address here... hmmmm.
Hmmm lets see ... why Quicktime? Hmm I dunno MAYBE BECAUSE ITS ON APPLE.COM????
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I think
You're (sort of) wrong.
The Wine team has reverse-engineered lots of the libraries so you don't need the DLL files. However, at least when I was messing with Wine a lot nothing much worked unless you had the Windows libraries.
I'm hoping that has changed now. Assuming some of the crossover code has worked its way back in to the main Wine tree then it has. I use IE under Crossover (when I'm feeling masiocistic) and there isn't even the hint of Windows on here.
If you have Mandrake, untar the directory somewhere
click 'Mandrake Control Center'
System-> Fonts-> Advanced
Click add, select the directory, close the Add window. Click install list. Voila! New fonts no messing with X configs or even restarting it.
Linux has a very good flight sim
I don't really see how the article can make a jump from infinate space = infinate matter = infinate posibilities. Even if we do have infinate space and infinate matter how does it follow that we suddenly have the ability to do anything and everything? If that's true why aren't we exploring the stars because surely someone would have created the warp drive and come to tell us about it by now.
Sounds like your college is A) doing the smart thing or B) just hasn't implemented the entire thing yet.
... long story). But with the OneCard they figured that students could scan themselves in. Trouble is they couldn't figure out how to make it only allow one meal, either that or students would just walk in without scanning. So they had to hire the workers back.
The college that I graduated from implemented OneCard just before I left. When I left you had to have it to get into the dorms, computer labs etc. Or to get your meals.
Funny thing was one of the whole ideas behind getting it was to eleminate some of the cafeteria workers, see before OneCard they Aramark cards with a bar-code on them, some blue-haired lady checked your card and scanned it (can't have more than one meal because that would mean they couldn't steal money from you