Actuall, FF2 is more flakey than 1.5 in my experience. I run both regularly. I think Fedora is right to wait to push it out in the next major release (7) which shouldn't be that far away, anyhow.
All of which has been very clear for a long time. So why does ESR need to post his defection to news sources? Really, who cares? Everything I've read about the guy indicates he's a blowhard. I'd fire him in a heartbeat.
It's not a contradiction. Real powers users are up to their asses in the shell/editor/compiler/applications/etc. They want the desktop to stay out of the way - functional, good-looking, and maintenance-free. If you think you're a power user because you spend all day tweaking your window borders and desktop behavior, well, whatever.
They're just using harassment as a way to stop ideas they don't like - which, in the long run, probably harms their cause more than it helps. I'm very much against blood sport, but right now I feel like laying down a bet on a dogfight just to spite these hateful morons.
I agree with you idea, but it fails in enforcement. Fault is not determined in many accidents, and many states and insurance companies have schemes whereby the fault doesn't really matter. I think the state thinks it is cheaper to prohibit broad classes of marginally unsafe behavior. This reduces costs better than trying to determine fault in every little accident. Fault determination and penalization would probably require more from the courts, police, insurance investigators, etc.
He said "140,000 windows exploits", not Vista exploits. So that might include windows everything from windows 1.0 to Vista. Not that he has a source, but he's probably right.
Actually, the correct labels are "pro-abortion" and "anti-abortion", imo. "Life" and "Choice" are of course much broader values than that which they fight over.
You've never seen a $2 bill? Go down to the bank and ask for one. Well, give them $2 in other denominations back, you don't want to be arrested. They are not particularly rare or anything, you owe it to yourself to have at least seen one once. I've got a bunch right here, I'll sell you one for $2.50
Sure, that's the common argument. But really, once you've used vi for a while, you don't really make the mode-state errors anymore. Maybe less that 0.01% of all errors you make will be due to you not knowing what mode you are in. So in effect, that argument against modal errors is pretty stupid in the long term. Most arguments in the arena (editor / interface flame wars) are similar - they assume that the user is perpetually a beginner, which is not true.
You might as well argue that a bicycle is lousy invention because you will fall over all the time, when people who ride bicycles rarely, if ever, fall over.
There are countless human endeavors where you need to be consciously or subconsciously aware of some state you are in, and adapt your behavior accordingly. Many of these endeavors reward mistakes with death rather than a few junk characters in your terminal. In short, people are quite adept at handling the modal nature of vi, and people who choose to do so can be quite productive.
Can't we impeach the bastard yet? All nixon did was spy on his political opponents. All Clinton did was lie about sex. This signing statement bullshit is the one of the biggest threats to the American people of the last 300 years. He's ignoring the constitution, overpowering the congress, and extending government power at the expense of civil liberties all with one giant, misguided stone.
For me, the fact that the STL is conceptually simple makes it easy to use. Sure, sometimes, there are some ugly warts for some things you want to do, but I find that the concepts laid out by the STL are cohesive and make sense, and the occasional syntactic hoops one must jump through are not much bother. Plus, extending, adapting, or emulating the STL as required is pretty easy and natural. If the STL containers don't work for me, I can write new ones that behave similarly and leverage the iterators and algorithms of the STL.
In short, simple container and algorithm usage is dead simple, and more complex things are possible. Everything more or less fits together. Makes sense to me, I can't say the same for other container/algorithm libraries I've used.
If the lobbying groups don't buy influence, what exactly is it they are spending money on? If the lobbying groups don't have influence, what exactly is the point of them? If the politicians already agree with the lobbying groups, why don't the lobbying groups just go home and spend all that money on hookers an booze?
If the politicians already agree with the lobbyists when they get to Washington, it's because they already know where the money is .
If the lobbying groups only buy the staff assistants, that works too, since the assistants read the bills, broker the meetings, pull the strings, arrange schedules, and wipe the assess of the senators. The senators don't even read the bills.
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Java threads only work on one platfrom, the Java platform.
Actuall, FF2 is more flakey than 1.5 in my experience. I run both regularly. I think Fedora is right to wait to push it out in the next major release (7) which shouldn't be that far away, anyhow.
All of which has been very clear for a long time. So why does ESR need to post his defection to news sources? Really, who cares? Everything I've read about the guy indicates he's a blowhard. I'd fire him in a heartbeat.
Hope that helps.
It's not a contradiction. Real powers users are up to their asses in the shell/editor/compiler/applications/etc. They want the desktop to stay out of the way - functional, good-looking, and maintenance-free. If you think you're a power user because you spend all day tweaking your window borders and desktop behavior, well, whatever.
If you do bet, always bet on the under-dog.
I agree with you idea, but it fails in enforcement. Fault is not determined in many accidents, and many states and insurance companies have schemes whereby the fault doesn't really matter. I think the state thinks it is cheaper to prohibit broad classes of marginally unsafe behavior. This reduces costs better than trying to determine fault in every little accident. Fault determination and penalization would probably require more from the courts, police, insurance investigators, etc.
Babies don't even like candy. And there grip is really weak if they do choose to hold on to some candy. What are you, some kind of pansy?
He said "140,000 windows exploits", not Vista exploits. So that might include windows everything from windows 1.0 to Vista. Not that he has a source, but he's probably right.
Or how about "anti-abortion" and "pro-death penalty"? Why get carried away, we have much better labels for these groups than "pro-life"?
Actually, the correct labels are "pro-abortion" and "anti-abortion", imo. "Life" and "Choice" are of course much broader values than that which they fight over.
"Sit perfectly still at zero Kelvin" - not much of a process. You had better patent it.
ANY ... process will ... end up heating the universe.
I'm confused, is it Ubuntu that is writing wireless NIC drivers, or is it projects like Madwifi?
Please don't feed the trolls.
Ha ha, yeah, if the Dvorak key layout is "far superior" it should be trivial to prove this superiority to the world. Don't hold your breath.
Ah, I see.
Where do you get your information?
You've never seen a $2 bill? Go down to the bank and ask for one. Well, give them $2 in other denominations back, you don't want to be arrested. They are not particularly rare or anything, you owe it to yourself to have at least seen one once. I've got a bunch right here, I'll sell you one for $2.50
You might as well argue that a bicycle is lousy invention because you will fall over all the time, when people who ride bicycles rarely, if ever, fall over.
There are countless human endeavors where you need to be consciously or subconsciously aware of some state you are in, and adapt your behavior accordingly. Many of these endeavors reward mistakes with death rather than a few junk characters in your terminal. In short, people are quite adept at handling the modal nature of vi, and people who choose to do so can be quite productive.
Can't we impeach the bastard yet? All nixon did was spy on his political opponents. All Clinton did was lie about sex. This signing statement bullshit is the one of the biggest threats to the American people of the last 300 years. He's ignoring the constitution, overpowering the congress, and extending government power at the expense of civil liberties all with one giant, misguided stone.
In short, simple container and algorithm usage is dead simple, and more complex things are possible. Everything more or less fits together. Makes sense to me, I can't say the same for other container/algorithm libraries I've used.
Regards.
PS: the STL is simple.
PPS: love your work, PMF
If the politicians already agree with the lobbyists when they get to Washington, it's because they already know where the money is .
If the lobbying groups only buy the staff assistants, that works too, since the assistants read the bills, broker the meetings, pull the strings, arrange schedules, and wipe the assess of the senators. The senators don't even read the bills.