you fool, wasn't that obvious...? more seriously, bush wants to prepare a strong "ethical" legal base for mutant emotionless obedient all-surviving (Janus?) soldiers. Hence the rare display of sanity. Everything's there for a reason, good or bad.
donate to the guy in need of donations. Not going by the mention or HTML styling of the we *_need_* donations or "puhleeeeeeeeeeez donate" etc, but by looking at 1. the value of the code 2. the number of users it impacts (not the number of users counted publicly) 3. the financial background of the core team 4. the place they come from - _sometimes_ that has strong correlation, not causation, of financial position - 5. stated urgency of funds by the author(s) - you know english, you know the world, FLOSS programmers are not exactly crooks or mind gamers, for donations at least, (m$ will tell you otherwise...)
There are guys out there who slog ass for nothing inspite of financial problems without even uttering a complaint - yes, old-style character lives in this age, contrary to popular belief.
How do you find out the above facts plus more? Visit Ohloh and Sourceforge
If you want a happy middle-ground, check out if the sf.net project's coder has himself listed as a support provider at any of the support exchanges - Redhat, sf.net, berlios, tigris, etc and use his paid services - you can get to know the person as well. He likes it because he *earned* the money, you can donate more to the project by having your boss (read " *big* pockets " ) buy the coder's support services. If boss likes it he recommends to others, gives a press release etc etc, you've done more than necessary to financially support the chap. He might even remember you as a friendly patron. Why do I talk so much about this - Simple, been there, done that - both sides:-) (Now, now, please do not quote out of context...)
You shall obey the tribal chiefs. You shall not question. You shall not invent what has not been set your way. You shall not suggest that which might suggest another to innovate what is not set his way. You shall not be the newbie genius who always wishes to topple the sitting chiefs. You shall not be the enthusiast that seeks to help the sitting chiefs - they know better, you do not. You shall not speak with perseverance for the chiefs like not unasked counsel. You shall follow the debian order strictly as the orders tell. You shall fear to speak against the mighty debian order overlords.
In simpler prose, the debian system belongs to everyone, to the public, which means it is "public property" which can be misused by overlords but must never be touched by the public. Customize on your machine, but suggest not the change to the ways of the debian greats. You own not that system. They do. So, you shall now not raise this discussion again. Go!
Too ambitious to expect someone to have all three abilities: 1. understand the stuff well 2. know how to teach that stuff 3. know how to act well (drama, plays)
But, is there a shortage of geniuses? I think not.
Or better still, get Feynman in Second Life to do all the explaining!!
Really, why would I want to go to some magical place in the sky, where I could live forever? I think after a few million years it might get rather boring:) Not aiming to sound pedantic, but "Boring" is a concept on earth with this body and these brains. Outside of those bounds, the universe is so vast that merely exploring all of it as a tourist could take up all your millions of millions of years or whatever. Then you might want to mix things around and hack at those things for pure hacking pleasure. Heh... "Pure hacking pleasure" is also an Earth concept. In short, chances are, you won't have free time to "get bored". Seen the last MIB scene where you zoom out to finally see two mighty master beings playing with marbles, each of which are cosmoses in their own with their own "rules" and "laws". Zooming out could go on nearly forever, given the speed at which the Big Bang created things in such variety - everything's dynmamic and creation and destruction are daily "boring" business in the cosmos. *Real* space tourism!
to screw up (pun maybe intended) the image. That fool also messed up the cropping at the very top of the image, instead focusing on beautifying the part just below the top (of the image, you pervert...). A few blobs and brushes here and there got us variety and disparity. Had the guy used GIMP or TuxPaint, things would have been perfect, ya know...
and so we were left at a partial implementation of the image with bad sectors at the top, middle (especially) and the bottom (er... ahem!) So you see, closed source is not a good idea even if you try to be so good and use disk cloning. God hadn't heard of hard disk crashes, you know...
I honestly think the idea of God having a physical body is kind of silly. I mean, I can't even be in two places at once with my physical body, much less everywhere at once. So it comes down to, what does "in His own image" mean? We like much of the creation story in Gensis, I think it is meant to be taken figuratively, not literally. But who is to tell the church this? And how many listen if we do the talking... That's why I'm mighty pleased at this favorable turn of events. Praise the Lord2.0!
... have issued a press statement that only female and child aliens from Venus who visit Texas Ranches on clear nights in UFOs are allowed to be baptized as Mormon Christians.
I read a few pages in a few sections - from a "religious" point of view, it looks perfectly "honorable" as a text for the stated purpose. How they manage to work around the rules and achieve unstated purposes they do is quite as mysterious as how lawyers deftly misinterpret vague laws and constitutions. The text really looks pretty respectable, if you're a "religious-minded" guy, the way they are - rules and high morals and all...
lightweight aseembly insect for earthquake relief
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This should also be part of the future: If you've carefully read the problems Chinese soldiers / rescue workers are facing - the rain, landslides covering roads, bad weather preventing transport vehicles etc, we need a slightly odd solution - maybe one from IronMan-like electromechanical armor. If you've seen Starship Troopers, you'll realize that we could use "insects" like those shown there. They're about 3-4 times taller than humans. They could be *light*. And they can stand on a surface area of 4 (or 6 ) x 100 sq.cm. (100 for each "foot") Sitting atop those insects could be skilled ironman-like trained drivers who have simply one job - walking around over debris, creating least possible damage by stepping correctly and stepping on safe spots - I know it is not as easy as it sounds, but we have accomplished such feats as sending men to the Moon and probes to Mars. The second is definitely very much related to this insect-vehicle. With six legs or eight, and no "body" except a control system box and the bare minimum electric or petroleum engine, this thing could probably help the soldiers walk over unhelpful terrain much faster - and a chain of these could deliver a lot of material over 100m to 200m distances with lesser people - every nation facing an earthquake does not have soldiers in the abundance that the Chinese have. Coming back, just imagine if some humans were thrice the normal size. We call lions and tigers "great cats". We know giant squids exist. We know giant insects and plants exist. We know giant reptiles and birds exist (or did in the past). We have cranes for heavy lifting, helicopters, all sorts of heavy machinery and movers. But we have no light, giant humans or hands, fingers or limbs in general. Moving heavy machinery into such places needs good roads. That is precisely the problem here. Then we need to get in aircraft. They face bad weather. Time and again, earthquake after earthquake. it's the same story - no transport, rain, storms. So, what do we do? We need an insect that can do all this walking and send people across hilly terrain, but which can be carried around easily and can be assembled and disassembled at will. And we need many of these to be standardized as earthquake handling tools just like we have standard fire-extinguisher training at fire drills. The Japanese are well known for this - buildings with steel beams in pillars and springs between floors, making every joint a shock absorber - not collapsible - entire buildings built like lightweight trusses. This is not a "fresh" story but poses a series of questions before any self-respecting engineer (or, i dare say, nerd?)
They've fixed a lot of things that were being complained about under the terms "why php sucks" http://www.google.com/search?q=why+php+sucks . Related news is that PHP runs much better now on Windows Server 2008, as per the official Zend statement. But I doubt we will see too many people switch to WISP. This is flambait, agreed. Also if you now have a PHP-fed brain with no place for anything else, with the new namespaces-on-steroids (http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.using.php) change, you'll likely port slashcode to::\/\. And otherwise refer to <things like="this"/>:-)
We need science to solve problems attributable to indiscipline. Nature loves it that way. If all people lived peacefully and fed and clothed each other first, before thinking of buying their annual MacBook upgrade or iPod thingy or tons of liquor and meat (yeah, it's possible to live without those, whatever your personal gospel truth may be) or selling guns and stuff, it would probably be a boring situation. Nothing exciting, nothing stormy, almost like a hall of a software company (contrasted with the floor of the NYSE). Nature likes it and answers no questions.
Nature isn't opensource. So, we'll keep innovating and rescuing each other willingly (Linux) or not (M$)..... In Soviet Nature, big computer reboots YOU!!;-)
darkviolet blue skyblue lightskyblue darkviolet blue skyblue lightskyblue
- grouping, sorting,.... - first of every 3/4 rows is bold/italic or +1pt (depends on web application)
(These may also be worth considering depending on nature of web app... - columns with different fonts.... - borders for *each group-of-four*: 1px 0px 1px 0px - see autoformat templates in OO.org spreadhseets - floating tooltip with more info / coloring-hacks - hover / onmouseover a la phpMyAdmin - [your bright CSS hack here]
Read the EULA - "If you dont like it, dont accept it." is what it says. It would be great if EFF fought for a clause saying that paid-for software that puts such restrictions is subject to lots of types of damages if the software doesn't do its job at the "most needed time"- even if you "accepted" that you can bring no lawsuits - that is, that blanket waiver is voided. Hehehe - then the fuckers will be fighting Murphy's Law - guess who wins.... If I were the judge or whatever, I would mandate that the only license that is free from damages claims is a freeDOM software license such as the GPL or any OSI-approved license. That won't screw Microsoft, I know, but it'll make these bastards shit before sending legal poop to "soft targets". Ever wondered why the US govt or military never got legal poop notices from anyone at any time for even a single "crime of serious infringement of intellectual property"? If a couple of our friends from the defence forces just use this hack by, ya know, play-acting spy-versus-good-guy and get the fucking mafiAA to send legal notices to the right people, hehehehe, we'll have a spectacular turnaround in the company's stand as far as "suing govt offices goes" in the name of "national secuirty";-)
That'll be a game I'll pay every *day* for, if need be!:-)
Very Intriguing and Sudden Turnaround After Very Idiotic Sounding Threats and Attacks (after) "Vitriolic Infringement (of) Software-Patents" Threats and Allegations.
when you first drew the goddamn circle, I wasn't looking. That _was_ the freaking beginning and you lifted the pencil. That was the freaking end. Now you ask me to go around in circle(sic) figuring how to get off it. Stupid you! I just have to stand up and walk out of it. I'm out side it. And there the fsckin circle **ends** for me. There! Fixed it for you, you cheat;-) And for good measure, why the bloody hell did we start playing this stupid game of finding the end of the fscking tricky device you call circle?!? I was surfing around ever so happily...
Slashdot Mirror
...shall go by the bullet.
....
Lincoln.
Kennedy.
Martin Luther King.
gitmo, abu ghraib, poland, afghanistan,
Sen. Obama, don't try to do too many good things too fast, even mistakenly.
These goons make no mistakes.
you fool, wasn't that obvious...?
more seriously, bush wants to prepare a strong "ethical" legal base for mutant emotionless obedient all-surviving (Janus?) soldiers.
Hence the rare display of sanity.
Everything's there for a reason, good or bad.
it's some indian called anil seti - SETI! now that rings a bell!
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=17&art_id=38649&sid=12309429&con_type=1
donate to the guy in need of donations.
:-)
Not going by the mention or HTML styling of the we *_need_* donations or "puhleeeeeeeeeeez donate" etc, but by looking at
1. the value of the code
2. the number of users it impacts (not the number of users counted publicly)
3. the financial background of the core team
4. the place they come from - _sometimes_ that has strong correlation, not causation, of financial position -
5. stated urgency of funds by the author(s) - you know english, you know the world, FLOSS programmers are not exactly crooks or mind gamers, for donations at least, (m$ will tell you otherwise...)
There are guys out there who slog ass for nothing inspite of financial problems without even uttering a complaint - yes, old-style character lives in this age, contrary to popular belief.
How do you find out the above facts plus more?
Visit Ohloh and Sourceforge
If you want a happy middle-ground, check out if the sf.net project's coder has himself listed as a support provider at any of the support exchanges - Redhat, sf.net, berlios, tigris, etc and use his paid services - you can get to know the person as well.
He likes it because he *earned* the money, you can donate more to the project by having your boss (read " *big* pockets " ) buy the coder's support services.
If boss likes it he recommends to others, gives a press release etc etc, you've done more than necessary to financially support the chap. He might even remember you as a friendly patron.
Why do I talk so much about this - Simple, been there, done that - both sides
(Now, now, please do not quote out of context...)
You shall obey the tribal chiefs.
You shall not question.
You shall not invent what has not been set your way.
You shall not suggest that which might suggest another to innovate what is not set his way.
You shall not be the newbie genius who always wishes to topple the sitting chiefs.
You shall not be the enthusiast that seeks to help the sitting chiefs - they know better, you do not.
You shall not speak with perseverance for the chiefs like not unasked counsel.
You shall follow the debian order strictly as the orders tell.
You shall fear to speak against the mighty debian order overlords.
In simpler prose, the debian system belongs to everyone, to the public, which means it is "public property" which can be misused by overlords but must never be touched by the public. Customize on your machine, but suggest not the change to the ways of the debian greats. You own not that system. They do.
So, you shall now not raise this discussion again.
Go!
Too ambitious to expect someone to have all three abilities:
1. understand the stuff well
2. know how to teach that stuff
3. know how to act well (drama, plays)
But, is there a shortage of geniuses?
I think not.
Or better still, get Feynman in Second Life to do all the explaining!!
Seen the last MIB scene where you zoom out to finally see two mighty master beings playing with marbles, each of which are cosmoses in their own with their own "rules" and "laws".
Zooming out could go on nearly forever, given the speed at which the Big Bang created things in such variety - everything's dynmamic and creation and destruction are daily "boring" business in the cosmos. *Real* space tourism!
to screw up (pun maybe intended) the image.
That fool also messed up the cropping at the very top of the image, instead focusing on beautifying the part just below the top (of the image, you pervert...). A few blobs and brushes here and there got us variety and disparity.
Had the guy used GIMP or TuxPaint, things would have been perfect, ya know...
and so we were left at a partial implementation of the image with bad sectors at the top, middle (especially) and the bottom (er... ahem!)
So you see, closed source is not a good idea even if you try to be so good and use disk cloning.
God hadn't heard of hard disk crashes, you know...
... have issued a press statement that only female and child aliens from Venus who visit Texas Ranches on clear nights in UFOs are allowed to be baptized as Mormon Christians.
I read a few pages in a few sections - from a "religious" point of view, it looks perfectly "honorable" as a text for the stated purpose.
How they manage to work around the rules and achieve unstated purposes they do is quite as mysterious as how lawyers deftly misinterpret vague laws and constitutions.
The text really looks pretty respectable, if you're a "religious-minded" guy, the way they are - rules and high morals and all...
This should also be part of the future:
If you've carefully read the problems Chinese soldiers / rescue workers are facing - the rain, landslides covering roads, bad weather preventing transport vehicles etc, we need a slightly odd solution - maybe one from IronMan-like electromechanical armor.
If you've seen Starship Troopers, you'll realize that we could use "insects" like those shown there. They're about 3-4 times taller than humans. They could be *light*. And they can stand on a surface area of 4 (or 6 ) x 100 sq.cm. (100 for each "foot") Sitting atop those insects could be skilled ironman-like trained drivers who have simply one job - walking around over debris, creating least possible damage by stepping correctly and stepping on safe spots - I know it is not as easy as it sounds, but we have accomplished such feats as sending men to the Moon and probes to Mars. The second is definitely very much related to this insect-vehicle.
With six legs or eight, and no "body" except a control system box and the bare minimum electric or petroleum engine, this thing could probably help the soldiers walk over unhelpful terrain much faster - and a chain of these could deliver a lot of material over 100m to 200m distances with lesser people - every nation facing an earthquake does not have soldiers in the abundance that the Chinese have. Coming back, just imagine if some humans were thrice the normal size. We call lions and tigers "great cats". We know giant squids exist. We know giant insects and plants exist. We know giant reptiles and birds exist (or did in the past). We have cranes for heavy lifting, helicopters, all sorts of heavy machinery and movers. But we have no light, giant humans or hands, fingers or limbs in general. Moving heavy machinery into such places needs good roads.
That is precisely the problem here. Then we need to get in aircraft. They face bad weather.
Time and again, earthquake after earthquake. it's the same story - no transport, rain, storms.
So, what do we do? We need an insect that can do all this walking and send people across hilly terrain, but which can be carried around easily and can be assembled and disassembled at will.
And we need many of these to be standardized as earthquake handling tools just like we have standard fire-extinguisher training at fire drills. The Japanese are well known for this - buildings with steel beams in pillars and springs between floors, making every joint a shock absorber - not collapsible - entire buildings built like lightweight trusses.
This is not a "fresh" story but poses a series of questions before any self-respecting engineer (or, i dare say, nerd?)
They've fixed a lot of things that were being complained about under the terms "why php sucks" http://www.google.com/search?q=why+php+sucks . ::\/\. /> :-)
Related news is that PHP runs much better now on Windows Server 2008, as per the official Zend statement. But I doubt we will see too many people switch to WISP. This is flambait, agreed.
Also if you now have a PHP-fed brain with no place for anything else, with the new namespaces-on-steroids (http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.using.php) change, you'll likely port slashcode to
And otherwise refer to <things like="this"
We need science to solve problems attributable to indiscipline.
;-)
Nature loves it that way.
If all people lived peacefully and fed and clothed each other first, before thinking of buying their annual MacBook upgrade or iPod thingy or tons of liquor and meat (yeah, it's possible to live without those, whatever your personal gospel truth may be) or selling guns and stuff, it would probably be a boring situation. Nothing exciting, nothing stormy, almost like a hall of a software company (contrasted with the floor of the NYSE).
Nature likes it and answers no questions.
Nature isn't opensource.
So, we'll keep innovating and rescuing each other willingly (Linux) or not (M$).....
In Soviet Nature, big computer reboots YOU!!
"Developers began dropping their balls with Microsoft!!"
In Corporate America, Ballmers drop YOU!!
darkviolet
blue
skyblue
lightskyblue
darkviolet
blue
skyblue
lightskyblue
- grouping, sorting,....
- first of every 3/4 rows is bold/italic or +1pt
(depends on web application)
(These may also be worth considering depending on nature of web app...
- columns with different fonts....
- borders for *each group-of-four*: 1px 0px 1px 0px
- see autoformat templates in OO.org spreadhseets
- floating tooltip with more info / coloring-hacks
- hover / onmouseover a la phpMyAdmin
- [your bright CSS hack here]
back then?
or is it just me...
Read the EULA - ;-)
:-)
"If you dont like it, dont accept it." is what it says.
It would be great if EFF fought for a clause saying that paid-for software that puts such restrictions is subject to lots of types of damages if the software doesn't do its job at the "most needed time"- even if you "accepted" that you can bring no lawsuits - that is, that blanket waiver is voided.
Hehehe - then the fuckers will be fighting Murphy's Law - guess who wins....
If I were the judge or whatever, I would mandate that the only license that is free from damages claims is a freeDOM software license such as the GPL or any OSI-approved license.
That won't screw Microsoft, I know, but it'll make these bastards shit before sending legal poop to "soft targets".
Ever wondered why the US govt or military never got legal poop notices from anyone at any time for even a single "crime of serious infringement of intellectual property"?
If a couple of our friends from the defence forces just use this hack by, ya know, play-acting spy-versus-good-guy and get the fucking mafiAA to send legal notices to the right people, hehehehe, we'll have a spectacular turnaround in the company's stand as far as "suing govt offices goes" in the name of "national secuirty"
That'll be a game I'll pay every *day* for, if need be!
mods, please ... +5 informative
Very Intriguing and Sudden Turnaround After
Very Idiotic Sounding Threats and Attacks (after)
"Vitriolic Infringement (of) Software-Patents" Threats and Allegations.
Total BillShut!
http://www.flisom.ch/e/index.html
when you first drew the goddamn circle, I wasn't looking. That _was_ the freaking beginning and you lifted the pencil. That was the freaking end. Now you ask me to go around in circle(sic) figuring how to get off it. Stupid you! I just have to stand up and walk out of it. I'm out side it. ;-)
And there the fsckin circle **ends** for me.
There!
Fixed it for you, you cheat
And for good measure, why the bloody hell did we start playing this stupid game of finding the end of the fscking tricky device you call circle?!?
I was surfing around ever so happily...