Granted, I've always built my own boxes. However, whenever I've done so, and installed windows, there's been a post-install process where I've gone around looking for drivers for my sound card, my video card, etc, etc...
While it was confusing to being with, all I had to do to get it all going in GNU/Linux was two lines.
rpm -ivh [livna repo url]
yum install kmod-nvidia
Everything else worked fine.
You made a comparative statement. You said that Islam was the bloodiest religion humanity has come up with. This requires adequate knowledge of all other religions in order to have any validity.
I'm not even defending Islam here. I'm simply pointing out that your assertions are hyperbole. This is an accusation that you actually refuse to contest.
I know enough to know that your assertions here are somewhat hyperbolic.
The pertinent question here, however, is how Islam compares to other religions. Beyond quoting a line here and there from a book you probably haven't read, what qualifies you to make this comparison?
I'm just treating your posts with the level of seriousness they demand.
I mean, you say that Islam is "the world's most barbaric and hateful religion." You can't actually believe that and be informed at the same time. You're either not aware of far bloodier religions, or you're being silly.
I have a passing knowledge of Arabic, I've had to interpret stuff written by Muslim scholars for my studies into the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages, where there are no English translations available. That's hardly the point, though.
I did look at your MEMRI site, though. It appears as though these chaps can't speak Arabic, either. The pages are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Hebrew and Japanese.
Damnit! Pushed submit instead of preview. Anyway, here's the second one.
A declaration of immunity from Allah and His Messenger, to those of the Pagans with whom ye have contracted mutual alliances --
Go ye, then for four months, backwards and forwards, as ye will, throughout the land, but know ye that ye cannot frustrate Allah by your falsehood, but that Allah will cover with shame those who reject him.
And an announcement from Allah and His Messenger, to the people assembled on the day of the Great Pilgrimage -- that Allah and His Messenger dissolve treaty obligations with the Pagans. If then ye repent, it were best for you; but if ye turn away, know ye that ye cannot frustrate Allah. And proclaim a grievous penalty for those who reject faith.
But the treaties are not dissolved with those Pagans with whom ye have entered into alliance and who have not subsequently failed you in aught, nor aided anyone against you. So fulfil your engagements with them to the end of their term: for Allah loveth the righteous.
But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever e find them, and sieze them, beleager them, and lie in wait for them in every strategem of war. But if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practise regular charity, then open the way for them: for Allah of Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.
If one amongst the Pagans ask thee for asylum, grant it to him, so that he may hear the Word of Allah; and then escort him to where he can be secure. That is because they are men without knowledge.
Pretty standard convert-or-die message, interleaved with stuff about honouring agreements and granting asylum and stuff.
Which translation are you using? I have the Yusuf Ali one in front of me. I'll present the passages as they appear here, along with a bit extra for context.
O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and Christians for your friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily, Allah guideth not a people unjust.
Those in whose hearts is a disease -- thou seest how eagerly they run about amongst them, saying: "We do fear lest a change of fortune bring us disaster." Ah! Perhaps Allah will give thee victory, or a decision according to His Will. Then will they repent of the thoughts which they secretly harboured in their hearts.
And those who believe will say: "Are these the men who swore their strongest oaths by Allah, that they were with you?" All that they do will be in vain, and they will fall into nothing but ruin.
O ye who believe! If any from among you turn back from his Faith, soon will Allah produce a people whom He will love as they love Him -- lowly with the believers, mighty against the rejecters, fighting in the Way of Allah, and never afraid of the reproaches of such as find fault. That is the Grace of Allah, which He will bestow upon whom He pleaseth. And Allah encompasseth all, and He knoweth all things.
Your real friends are no less than Allah, His Messenger, and the fellowship of Believers -- those who establish regular prayers and regular charity, and they bow down humbly for worship.
5: 51-55
So Allah is your friend, and those who are not believers should not be trusted.
I actually know someone who is a lecturer, and when he sets papers, goes on the relevant Wikipedia entries and inserts misinformation. Then, when this nonsense crops up in papers, marks them down in a "haha pwnt" sort of way. He says it's a way of teaching people not to rely on such sources.
Of course, this raises questions of ethics. He's sabotaging a source of information in order to "teach a lesson" to his students. Wouldn't his time be better spent improving said source of information? isn't that his job, after all?
I saw a programme about this earlier this year. I was a little bit drunk when I saw it, so the details are fuzzy, but it described a firm like McLaren using software to help make management decisions. The aim of the providers was to essentially replace executives and the like. I was dubious when I saw it, but who knows down the line.
LGPL version 2.1 (chosen because it happens to be in a file I'm working on at the moment)
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Note that it is up to the person distributing the code which license they choose to distribute it under, not the person writing the code.
Problem with proprietary device drivers is if they're kernel modules (most are). That means they link to a piece of GPL'd software -- you are therefore violating copyright to license that module under anything but the GPL.
This is a perennial problem of science/tech journalism: most journalists, funnily enough, trained to write about stuff, not actually know about stuff. You can pretty much blag it in most areas, but there needs to be a certain level of understanding that you need before you can jump in and write about science and, to a lesser degree, technology. It's quite rare that this occurs, at least in mainstream media.
Slashdot Mirror
Vi IMproved.
I got a web host the other day, which is Solaris SPARC. It has Vi on. I'm not a fan of Vim, but trust me, Vim is a real improvement.
Health and safety at Work Act 1974 does put a price on someone's head. I think at the moment it is £1m.
So if you were a safety regulator in the UK, it'd be even Stevens. Or something.
All very strange...
+1 pwnage
Granted, I've always built my own boxes. However, whenever I've done so, and installed windows, there's been a post-install process where I've gone around looking for drivers for my sound card, my video card, etc, etc...
While it was confusing to being with, all I had to do to get it all going in GNU/Linux was two lines.
rpm -ivh [livna repo url]
yum install kmod-nvidia
Everything else worked fine.
+1 evasive
-1 fail
You made a comparative statement. You said that Islam was the bloodiest religion humanity has come up with. This requires adequate knowledge of all other religions in order to have any validity.
I'm not even defending Islam here. I'm simply pointing out that your assertions are hyperbole. This is an accusation that you actually refuse to contest.
I know enough to know that your assertions here are somewhat hyperbolic.
The pertinent question here, however, is how Islam compares to other religions. Beyond quoting a line here and there from a book you probably haven't read, what qualifies you to make this comparison?
I'm just treating your posts with the level of seriousness they demand.
I mean, you say that Islam is "the world's most barbaric and hateful religion." You can't actually believe that and be informed at the same time. You're either not aware of far bloodier religions, or you're being silly.
I have a passing knowledge of Arabic, I've had to interpret stuff written by Muslim scholars for my studies into the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages, where there are no English translations available. That's hardly the point, though.
I did look at your MEMRI site, though. It appears as though these chaps can't speak Arabic, either. The pages are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Hebrew and Japanese.
Damnit! Pushed submit instead of preview. Anyway, here's the second one.
A declaration of immunity from Allah and His Messenger, to those of the Pagans with whom ye have contracted mutual alliances --
Go ye, then for four months, backwards and forwards, as ye will, throughout the land, but know ye that ye cannot frustrate Allah by your falsehood, but that Allah will cover with shame those who reject him.
And an announcement from Allah and His Messenger, to the people assembled on the day of the Great Pilgrimage -- that Allah and His Messenger dissolve treaty obligations with the Pagans. If then ye repent, it were best for you; but if ye turn away, know ye that ye cannot frustrate Allah. And proclaim a grievous penalty for those who reject faith.
But the treaties are not dissolved with those Pagans with whom ye have entered into alliance and who have not subsequently failed you in aught, nor aided anyone against you. So fulfil your engagements with them to the end of their term: for Allah loveth the righteous.
But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever e find them, and sieze them, beleager them, and lie in wait for them in every strategem of war. But if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practise regular charity, then open the way for them: for Allah of Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.
If one amongst the Pagans ask thee for asylum, grant it to him, so that he may hear the Word of Allah; and then escort him to where he can be secure. That is because they are men without knowledge.
Pretty standard convert-or-die message, interleaved with stuff about honouring agreements and granting asylum and stuff.
Which translation are you using? I have the Yusuf Ali one in front of me. I'll present the passages as they appear here, along with a bit extra for context.
O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and Christians for your friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily, Allah guideth not a people unjust.
Those in whose hearts is a disease -- thou seest how eagerly they run about amongst them, saying: "We do fear lest a change of fortune bring us disaster." Ah! Perhaps Allah will give thee victory, or a decision according to His Will. Then will they repent of the thoughts which they secretly harboured in their hearts.
And those who believe will say: "Are these the men who swore their strongest oaths by Allah, that they were with you?" All that they do will be in vain, and they will fall into nothing but ruin.
O ye who believe! If any from among you turn back from his Faith, soon will Allah produce a people whom He will love as they love Him -- lowly with the believers, mighty against the rejecters, fighting in the Way of Allah, and never afraid of the reproaches of such as find fault. That is the Grace of Allah, which He will bestow upon whom He pleaseth. And Allah encompasseth all, and He knoweth all things.
Your real friends are no less than Allah, His Messenger, and the fellowship of Believers -- those who establish regular prayers and regular charity, and they bow down humbly for worship. 5: 51-55
So Allah is your friend, and those who are not believers should not be trusted.
The etymological origins of "lord" are in the Anglo-Saxon words "hlaford" and "hlafweard," which means literally "keeper/guarder of the bread."
There was a live album as well.
You thought to include gold, and a laptop, but no food?
Geeks clearly aren't cut out for this post apocalypse lark.
I actually know someone who is a lecturer, and when he sets papers, goes on the relevant Wikipedia entries and inserts misinformation. Then, when this nonsense crops up in papers, marks them down in a "haha pwnt" sort of way. He says it's a way of teaching people not to rely on such sources.
Of course, this raises questions of ethics. He's sabotaging a source of information in order to "teach a lesson" to his students. Wouldn't his time be better spent improving said source of information? isn't that his job, after all?
I saw a programme about this earlier this year. I was a little bit drunk when I saw it, so the details are fuzzy, but it described a firm like McLaren using software to help make management decisions. The aim of the providers was to essentially replace executives and the like. I was dubious when I saw it, but who knows down the line.
A company cannot push all of its taxes onto it customers, the incidence of a tax depends upon the price elasticities of supply and demand.
LGPL version 2.1 (chosen because it happens to be in a file I'm working on at the moment)
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.Note that it is up to the person distributing the code which license they choose to distribute it under, not the person writing the code.
Is this why you posted A/C?
Also, those packs of spectres that seem to hang around all the dark places with barrels of petroleum become a lot less troublesome.
I thought that was Celts...
Up to version 7, at least.
That's a sweet suite, that.
Please tell me you're not one of those people attempting to destroy the school science curricula in the US.
The Bourne Shell, actually.
Problem with proprietary device drivers is if they're kernel modules (most are). That means they link to a piece of GPL'd software -- you are therefore violating copyright to license that module under anything but the GPL.
So proprietary device drivers are illegal.
This is a perennial problem of science/tech journalism: most journalists, funnily enough, trained to write about stuff, not actually know about stuff. You can pretty much blag it in most areas, but there needs to be a certain level of understanding that you need before you can jump in and write about science and, to a lesser degree, technology. It's quite rare that this occurs, at least in mainstream media.