funny you say that.. My impression has always been the opposite. I use gnome as my desktop environment . Most apps I use are gnome and only a few are KDE apps, but i'm experiencing the KDE crash dialog far more often than the gnome one.
Utopia comes from from greek "ou" = not and "topos" which means place (etymology). So it basically means "no place". In case of all europeans disappearing the place will still be there - so it's more like the opposite of utopia whatever that may be...
I hope you are not also a supporter of the income tax. That would put you in a spot full of contradictions...
I fail to see what income tax has to do with this.
PS: The principle of "if you don't play by our rules, we'll play by yours" actually would allow for such treatment, provided that the one receiving it has treated someone else in that way (or comparable) beforehand. Its quite a usefull framework, permitting the death penatly (indeed penalties period) while still guranteeing rights to those that acually respect them in others.
The thing with principles is that you don't get to choose when to apply them and when not.
You either have principles and act according to those principles or you don't have them.
One of the most basic principle of modern, constitutional law is "in dubio pro reo" roughly the equivalent of "innocent until proven guilted" not "guilty cause we say so" or "guilty if it would be too embarassing to release him"
I think the grandparent searched for a method to not do a GUI boot process but still boot into X.
This can be accomplished on Fedora by remove the rhgb kernel option in
I've known some very good first rate programmers who religiously put the constants on the left. I've never known a second rate programmer who did.
I once worked with a guy who also put the constants left - in java. He also kept using other C/C++ conventions in java, like hungarian notation (how can you confuse the type of your variable in java?) and was a great fan of creating new classes by copying and pasting large code chunks. To me it always seemed like he was mentally retired - but whatever the reasons for his code style were, he was a pain to work with.
I just call it how I see it, and many of the european countries are socialist in nature.
If they hold free elections they're social-democratic to me. Besides not the countries are socialistic, some of the ruling parties are. Before 1998 we had 16 years of conservatives ruling.
If Tony Blair keeps fucking up, England will be ruled by Tory soon.
European countries are social-democratic as long as people vote that way. And in contrast to some other countries we usually have a real difference between the parties of which we usually have more than two.
The NPD "only" reached 9.2% votes in the elections of one of the 16 federal states, Saxony. Saxony belongs to the 5 states which the GDR consisted of. Somehow some of the people there went from being communistic to right to being Nazis. Maybe because of the way the GDR dealt with the Nazi past - mainly by denying that any Nazis could exist in the workers paradise and that all Nazis were in capitalistic West Germany.
In national elections the NPD is below the 5% limit which means they're not in parliament at all.
John Lennon & Yoko Ono had a track on their "Life With the Lions" album that was called "Two Minutes Silence" and thats all it was. Two minutes of silence so you could say that this 1.3 minutes of silence is just an incomplete rip-off of that track and is therefore a blatent copyright breach.
I think that the John Lennon & Yoko Ono song itself was just stolen out of John Cage's 4'33 from 1952.
Is socialist a swear word? You seem to be reacting like it is.
In my experience socialism is very much a swear word in american usage. Socialism gets lumped together with Communism to cover political systems from the former UDSSR, China, Cuba to parties like the european social democrats like the english labour or the german SPD.
The "democratic" part is important for me as distinction between a socially oriented democracy and basically totalitaristic systems. Besides I don't like the idea of americans defining the terminology for us - we're very much capable of deciding by ourselves what we want and who we are, thank you very much.
Only the glorification of Nazis or the denial of their atrocities is banned, not historical education of which there is no shortage in germany, neither in school nor in libraries, television or museums.
I also understand that here in the US we have plenty of laws outlawing things which hurt nobody.. but HTML and GIFs?
Perhaps somebody from the European states could enlighten me.
First of all.. what about things like Janet Jacksons Nipple "accident"? Why was there such an outrage over the display of a body part common to half of the population? Where was any harm done?
Why did the broadcasting station have to pay a fine? How is that different from banning certain HTML and GIFs?
There's a different view on what is acceptable in Europe and the USA. Europeans ban violence, the USA ban nudity and sex.
In Germany there's also an historical aspect to this. After the horrible things which were done by germans from 1933-1945 I find it very understandable that we have laws banning anyone to say it was cool murdering all those people or that it never happened. And somehow it is even expected from Germany to act this way. Every nation has it's radicals and idiots. But when our local idiots march again there's an outcry in the press in e.g. France or Israel : "Look, it's happening again!".
Taskbar, start menu, integrated filesystem/net browser,.NET, etc.
What do all those things have in common with Linux? Oh, that's right, they're Windows features that are ripped-off in all Linux distros.
Hilarious.
Hilarious? You should really learn some computer history:
Arthur/RiscOS2 (1987/1989) and NextSTEP (1989) both included a taskbar. ( History of the GUI )
The start menu is very similar to the apple application menu.
NSCA Mosaic supported local files since
version 0.2a, publically available was version 0.5a in 1993 ( NCSA Mosaic History ). Microsoft bought a Spyglass Mosaic Browser version and renamed it to "Internet Explorer" in 1995.
.NET is hardly innovative. It rather blatantly copies Java which copied features from Smalltalk, Pascal and LISP.
As for your completely random and pointless reference to Bob, I'm still amazed Slashdotters obsess over this small desktop shell released for a short time way back in 1994.
That's because it was one of the very few times Microsoft really invented something - and it demonstrates what comes out if Microsoft does innovate.
Unfortunately, the OP does not have one single object that they can serialize, and they surely don't want to serialise the whole content of the memory...
You can change serialization behaviour with various means to only store exactly that what needs to be stored.
Serializable classes that need to designate an alternative object to be used when writing an object to the stream should implement this special method with the exact signature:
Classes that need to designate a replacement when an instance of it is read from the stream should implement this special method with the exact signature.
The poster which I replied to explained the need for a dedicated firewall computer/router with personal responsibility and "precautions against evil" which are political (in the old greek sense) terms. I tried to point out what a responsible individuum could do instead.
You are opening a technical discourse again.
Last a checked a default fedora installation still took about 30 mins to be owned which is still a lot better than the 3 minutes it used to take.
I would like to see a reference for those time figures. (This study talks about 2 or 3 month)
And where did I say anything about not updating systems?
Are you seriously blind enough to think that you should rely on one level of security? That's insane, if you are a network engineer I suggest you quit your job to make room for someone capable of securing anything.
Nice attack. I did not claim that one level of security is enough. I argued against the general nescessity of a dedicated firewall device for home usage.
What security does a firewall provide against a buffer overflow or other vulnerability over a port it is not blocking? None. The purpose of a firewall is to be an additional, port-based security layer. Whether this firewall runs on a dedicated hardware plays no role in a home environment. More important would be to ensure that the installed system only runs the nescessary services. Introducing "magic security" in form of a hardware box can even be harmfull for the security awareness in that respect.
No OS is perfect so you might as well take steps to minimize risk rather than complaining.
I did not claim that Linux is perfect - but it's better than Windows in security terms. Windows comes with applications (Internet Explorer e.g.) that are a further security risk not present in such a degree on Linux. I especially talked about personal responsibility, which in my eyes does not stop at ensuring system security.
Seriously, even in a home environment a personal firewall like a linksys ain't a bad idea, it allows any device to hop on the net, my parents don't use it for security, they use it because it makes having a laptop and a desktop on the net easy. So now you've just eliminated the OS variable alltogether for $60. I fail to see what is wrong with that.
Personally I use a cheapish DSL router, too. (Mainly because I have to computers which need internet access and I didn't want to require one machine to always run for internet access).
"Wrong" with it is that it introduces an embedded closed source system into my LAN whose correctness I can not determine. Embedded systems can be hacked, too.
Wrong is to see that $60 dollar gadget as nescessary step in connecting a home computer to the internet.
If you talk about personal responsibility and "precautions against evil", you should make yourself personally responsible for using a certain free software alternative and play a part in seriously reducing the problem.
If you want your software to be free - free on both counts, release it without any restrictions into the public domain. It seems that most GPL developers are so scared that someone is going to take their software and make money on it - or worse still, take control over their project. If their intellectual contribution is so valuable, then they will retain de facto control no matter what - and so the why the #$#^ care so much if someone else makes money off of software that includes your work. That's real charity - not the cowardly selfish charity that the GPL embodies.
The programs I write come to existence from my ideas, through my labour. I am the copyright holder on them. If anyone earns money on them it's either me or someone I contracted with.
The reason why I advocate free software has nothing to do with charity but everything with freedom:
It is fundamentally unjust to lock in my users and to deprive them of the possibility to use my programs in ways I didn't imagine or to choose another path in using them. That's why I choose a license for my software which ensures that my users have those freedoms now and in the future.
JSON and JSON-RPC focus on the Javascript-RPC thing and offer some advanced features like different language support or ORB.
My implementation uses a very similar but even simpler approach embedded in a general web application toolkit and runtime engine. While JSON-RPC-java uses a seperate servlet to handle JSON requests, my framework uses Javascript libraries as alternative reponse form for the actions supported by the framework.
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funny you say that.. My impression has always been the opposite. I use gnome as my desktop environment . Most apps I use are gnome and only a few are KDE apps, but i'm experiencing the KDE crash dialog far more often than the gnome one.
Utopia comes from from greek "ou" = not and "topos" which means place (etymology). So it basically means "no place". In case of all europeans disappearing the place will still be there - so it's more like the opposite of utopia whatever that may be...
One of the most basic principle of modern, constitutional law is "in dubio pro reo" roughly the equivalent of "innocent until proven guilted" not "guilty cause we say so" or "guilty if it would be too embarassing to release him"
Where is the connection to that "mission statement"?
(Hoffe das war auch höflich genug =)
If Tony Blair keeps fucking up, England will be ruled by Tory soon.
European countries are social-democratic as long as people vote that way. And in contrast to some other countries we usually have a real difference between the parties of which we usually have more than two.
In national elections the NPD is below the 5% limit which means they're not in parliament at all.
The "democratic" part is important for me as distinction between a socially oriented democracy and basically totalitaristic systems. Besides I don't like the idea of americans defining the terminology for us - we're very much capable of deciding by ourselves what we want and who we are, thank you very much.
Only the glorification of Nazis or the denial of their atrocities is banned, not historical education of which there is no shortage in germany, neither in school nor in libraries, television or museums.
In Germany e.g. Kerry would fall into the the right wing of your conservatives.
Just because you call someone a socialist does not mean he is. There is a vast difference between a socialist and a social-democrat.
There's a different view on what is acceptable in Europe and the USA. Europeans ban violence, the USA ban nudity and sex.
In Germany there's also an historical aspect to this. After the horrible things which were done by germans from 1933-1945 I find it very understandable that we have laws banning anyone to say it was cool murdering all those people or that it never happened. And somehow it is even expected from Germany to act this way. Every nation has it's radicals and idiots. But when our local idiots march again there's an outcry in the press in e.g. France or Israel : "Look, it's happening again!".
What would you use such a powerfull bomb for?
To prepare occupation?
The only thing such a bomb is useful for is to create fear, terror in your enemies' hearts.
From javadoc of java.io.Serializable :
This does not make it a language issue but it surely helps not to reinvent the wheel with every project.You are opening a technical discourse again.
I would like to see a reference for those time figures. (This study talks about 2 or 3 month)And where did I say anything about not updating systems?
Nice attack. I did not claim that one level of security is enough. I argued against the general nescessity of a dedicated firewall device for home usage.What security does a firewall provide against a buffer overflow or other vulnerability over a port it is not blocking? None. The purpose of a firewall is to be an additional, port-based security layer. Whether this firewall runs on a dedicated hardware plays no role in a home environment. More important would be to ensure that the installed system only runs the nescessary services. Introducing "magic security" in form of a hardware box can even be harmfull for the security awareness in that respect.
I did not claim that Linux is perfect - but it's better than Windows in security terms. Windows comes with applications (Internet Explorer e.g.) that are a further security risk not present in such a degree on Linux. I especially talked about personal responsibility, which in my eyes does not stop at ensuring system security. Personally I use a cheapish DSL router, too. (Mainly because I have to computers which need internet access and I didn't want to require one machine to always run for internet access)."Wrong" with it is that it introduces an embedded closed source system into my LAN whose correctness I can not determine. Embedded systems can be hacked, too.
Wrong is to see that $60 dollar gadget as nescessary step in connecting a home computer to the internet.
If you talk about personal responsibility and "precautions against evil", you should make yourself personally responsible for using a certain free software alternative and play a part in seriously reducing the problem.
The reason why I advocate free software has nothing to do with charity but everything with freedom:
It is fundamentally unjust to lock in my users and to deprive them of the possibility to use my programs in ways I didn't imagine or to choose another path in using them. That's why I choose a license for my software which ensures that my users have those freedoms now and in the future.
JSON and JSON-RPC focus on the Javascript-RPC thing and offer some advanced features like different language support or ORB. My implementation uses a very similar but even simpler approach embedded in a general web application toolkit and runtime engine. While JSON-RPC-java uses a seperate servlet to handle JSON requests, my framework uses Javascript libraries as alternative reponse form for the actions supported by the framework.
maybe you are interested in this .