Oh, and on a related note, can you say "troll"? Either "killing people to save others" is a pitiful strawman, or you just have no understanding of what you're talking about.
If the ends shouldn't justify the means, then what the hell is there to justify anything? The "ends" is everything, so long as you understand that that includes all of the consequences of what you do, from start to finish. What better choice is there than the one which, to the best of our understanding, offers the best end result all around?
This seems so bloody obvious I'm shaking my head why it would be removed in the first place.
Easy. It hasn't been. Don't trust changelog authors to actually explain things in a manner that makes sense. You can still choose whether or not to report your idle status; you're just not required to tell gaim how to compute idle-time anymore. It will use keyboard/mouse activity if it's able to get that information from the system, and gaim activity otherwise.
No, not very positive. Mostly it just displays your ignorance.
1) This has nothing to do with gaim. GTK+ leaks memory like a sieve and somehow nobody's ever fixed that.
2) Why not find out instead of speculating? In any case, it does that.
3) Ever hear of a text editor or web browser?
4) This also has pretty much nothing to do with gaim. GTK+ allows you to style not only your whole system, but also any app however you want, without the "permission" of the app. If you haven't, that's your fault. But on that topic, Trillian is an ugly piece of shit.
5) It's been completely rewritten. Pay attention.
6) There's a manual option. You can put it in any order you want. Or you can write a script to put it in any order you want.
7) Gaim has more features than most anything. It's just that it's useful features instead of the kind of shit you get with, say, the ICQ or Yahoo clients. In any case, why do you need someone to "give you a piece"? You apparently know what you want to see, so go and write it!
AIM's encryption feature really isn't as hot as you thihnk it is. PKI with AOL at the root? No thanks. Off-the-record messaging has a design that's actually been thought-out and designed from the bottom up with the needs of an IM client in mind. It's also quite stable, and it works for anyone who runs Gaim or Adium or uses Windows, OS X, or any decent Unix.
Oh, and did I mention it's protocol-agnostic?
And for anyone who's wondering, gaim-otr should be able to interoperate with Gaim 2.0 shortly after (or perhaps shortly before) its release; I've been betaing a patched-up version of gaim-otr against gaim CVS for a while now with no issues.
It's a measure of aperture, in terms of the focal length. That's where the f comes from. f/16 isn't some fixed value; it means that the diameter of the aperture is one-sixteenth of the focal length of the objective lens(es). Naturally, if you keep the same diaphragm for the aperture and you double the focal length by adding 50mm or so of extender, you're going to double your f-numbers as well.
If even 1% of them do crash consistently through regular usage, that is a spectacular failure. Gaming consoles are regarded as "appliance" type devices. They should have tested that it could run a stress-test (or PGR3, whatever) for a week without crashing, and if they did that you would expect that the number that couldn't even survive for 5 minutes would be significantly less than one percent.
With a console during its "lifetime", all of the important hardware is a known quantity, and all of the software has an opportunity to be tested before being given a shiny sticker. There's no reason that the damn things should be more liable to crash than certain other products from Microsoft. None at all. It's just not the same thing.
I think that the Internet has shown us that there's a real flipside to the Infinite Monkeys Theorem. Given enough monkeys and enough time, you will indeed produce Hamlet or whatever other worthwhile thing you were after. But how the hell will you know when you've got it?
But it certainly isn't new. I'm quite sure that I read about it at least a year ago. "New state of matter" is a bit of a stretch; it's more that "heavy particle gases" are enough unlike ideal gases that they do some relatively interesting things. As I understand it, the point of studying them is to gain a better understanding of more mundane gases in interesting situations like turbulent flow.
Also, I seem to remember that some years back there was an experiment done on the space shuttle involving a mess of ball bearings in microgravity that was also intended to study the same thing.
Now, obviously MS probably should have expected some people to play the XBox360 non-stop since they got it, but I doubt they considered 72hrs straight as a normal condition when they designed and tested it
Come on... they should treat it as an "appliance" type device, 72 hours is half of what I'd expect. They should have made sure that they could stay on for a week without thermal problems before they released it. And definitely that none of them started melting after 10 minutes.
We are, generally speaking, horribly bad at that sort of thing. Building up any sort of relatively big molecule is a matter of trial and error and error. And even when we do figure it out, it's usually less efficient than letting some plants or bacteria do it for us.
It does mean something else in the geek world -- as well as most of the rest of the world outside of your head. What that something is is "quod erat demonstrandum", or "that which was to be proven". In other words "looky here, that last step was the same thing we were supposed to be proving. I guess we must be done."
Although, in the really geeky world it's also Quantum Electrodynamics:)
When did it end for me? Around 1999-2000 when the group 'metallica' put their ugly mugs before congress and told of the big bad wolf out on the internet that was stealing from them.
How about around 1991, when the group 'Metallica' produced the album 'Metallica'? That's when it ended for me;)
Even more amazing, it was Verizon's. I hate Verizon, hate their service, but their automated system works really well, and does an eerily good job of acting human.
The right to free speech doesn't include the right to be invited to speak before leaders of nations. Most people who talk about rights these days seem to have no idea what they actually are -- and this includes, for the most part, the UN>
Maybe you need to spend just a little more time in the real world. "Don't screw around with all of that stuff, it's taken care of for you at a lower level" is a wonderful philosophy, and it's useful most of the time, but when you're working on something big and important where performance sells, then mucking around with every last underlying piece of the system, whether it's polite or not, is just what you do.
Yes, that was a horrible sentence, but fortunately for me slashdot doesn't take away points for comma splices.
Either you're well behind the times, or it's just that you haven't had significant exposure to US culture -- because apparently this is the sort of thing that's different everywhere else. In any case, around here and around Slashdotland, being a "geek" is a relatively good thing. It means that you're not quite like other people, but you have l33t sk1llz and that makes up for it. "Nerds", on the other hand, have all of the social dysfunction, and none of the positive traits. And they tend to be more self-important than the geek, who is traditionally supposed to be humble (though of course YMMV in reality).
See the post on the poll thread where someone argues that Urkel doesn't deserve to be included with the "geeks" -- that's what they're talking about. Urkel is a nerd, dork, spaz, or what-have-you, but not a geek in the sense I'm talking about. And that's the same sense in which you should take the current article summary.
Whether it's justifiable to curtail freedom for the purpose of safety isn't even the right argument, though, because that's not what they're doing. They're curtailing freedom for the appearance of safety, dedicating their time and money (or rather, your money if you live or work here) towards measures that are highly visible, highly intrusive -- and fundamentally useless.
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And I'm the one with a pitiful strawman??
Um, yes. Do you, er, know what a strawman is?
He's back! In programming language form!
Oh, and on a related note, can you say "troll"? Either "killing people to save others" is a pitiful strawman, or you just have no understanding of what you're talking about.
If the ends shouldn't justify the means, then what the hell is there to justify anything? The "ends" is everything, so long as you understand that that includes all of the consequences of what you do, from start to finish. What better choice is there than the one which, to the best of our understanding, offers the best end result all around?
This seems so bloody obvious I'm shaking my head why it would be removed in the first place.
Easy. It hasn't been. Don't trust changelog authors to actually explain things in a manner that makes sense. You can still choose whether or not to report your idle status; you're just not required to tell gaim how to compute idle-time anymore. It will use keyboard/mouse activity if it's able to get that information from the system, and gaim activity otherwise.
No, not very positive. Mostly it just displays your ignorance.
1) This has nothing to do with gaim. GTK+ leaks memory like a sieve and somehow nobody's ever fixed that.
2) Why not find out instead of speculating? In any case, it does that.
3) Ever hear of a text editor or web browser?
4) This also has pretty much nothing to do with gaim. GTK+ allows you to style not only your whole system, but also any app however you want, without the "permission" of the app. If you haven't, that's your fault. But on that topic, Trillian is an ugly piece of shit.
5) It's been completely rewritten. Pay attention.
6) There's a manual option. You can put it in any order you want. Or you can write a script to put it in any order you want.
7) Gaim has more features than most anything. It's just that it's useful features instead of the kind of shit you get with, say, the ICQ or Yahoo clients. In any case, why do you need someone to "give you a piece"? You apparently know what you want to see, so go and write it!
AIM's encryption feature really isn't as hot as you thihnk it is. PKI with AOL at the root? No thanks. Off-the-record messaging has a design that's actually been thought-out and designed from the bottom up with the needs of an IM client in mind. It's also quite stable, and it works for anyone who runs Gaim or Adium or uses Windows, OS X, or any decent Unix.
Oh, and did I mention it's protocol-agnostic?
And for anyone who's wondering, gaim-otr should be able to interoperate with Gaim 2.0 shortly after (or perhaps shortly before) its release; I've been betaing a patched-up version of gaim-otr against gaim CVS for a while now with no issues.
It's a measure of aperture, in terms of the focal length. That's where the f comes from. f/16 isn't some fixed value; it means that the diameter of the aperture is one-sixteenth of the focal length of the objective lens(es). Naturally, if you keep the same diaphragm for the aperture and you double the focal length by adding 50mm or so of extender, you're going to double your f-numbers as well.
If even 1% of them do crash consistently through regular usage, that is a spectacular failure. Gaming consoles are regarded as "appliance" type devices. They should have tested that it could run a stress-test (or PGR3, whatever) for a week without crashing, and if they did that you would expect that the number that couldn't even survive for 5 minutes would be significantly less than one percent.
With a console during its "lifetime", all of the important hardware is a known quantity, and all of the software has an opportunity to be tested before being given a shiny sticker. There's no reason that the damn things should be more liable to crash than certain other products from Microsoft. None at all. It's just not the same thing.
I think that the Internet has shown us that there's a real flipside to the Infinite Monkeys Theorem. Given enough monkeys and enough time, you will indeed produce Hamlet or whatever other worthwhile thing you were after. But how the hell will you know when you've got it?
See also: Slashdot, blogs, Google.
But it certainly isn't new. I'm quite sure that I read about it at least a year ago. "New state of matter" is a bit of a stretch; it's more that "heavy particle gases" are enough unlike ideal gases that they do some relatively interesting things. As I understand it, the point of studying them is to gain a better understanding of more mundane gases in interesting situations like turbulent flow.
Also, I seem to remember that some years back there was an experiment done on the space shuttle involving a mess of ball bearings in microgravity that was also intended to study the same thing.
Civil liberties have been taking a hit for the last four years, but the Bill of Rights still has force.
Well yeah, so long as you don't count the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, or tenth amendments.
Go exists! I've played it!
Now, obviously MS probably should have expected some people to play the XBox360 non-stop since they got it, but I doubt they considered 72hrs straight as a normal condition when they designed and tested it
Come on... they should treat it as an "appliance" type device, 72 hours is half of what I'd expect. They should have made sure that they could stay on for a week without thermal problems before they released it. And definitely that none of them started melting after 10 minutes.
We are, generally speaking, horribly bad at that sort of thing. Building up any sort of relatively big molecule is a matter of trial and error and error. And even when we do figure it out, it's usually less efficient than letting some plants or bacteria do it for us.
Open Source refers to a development model. Free Software refers to a licensing model which grants certain freedoms to end users.
This is, strictly speaking, wrong.
It does mean something else in the geek world -- as well as most of the rest of the world outside of your head. What that something is is "quod erat demonstrandum", or "that which was to be proven". In other words "looky here, that last step was the same thing we were supposed to be proving. I guess we must be done."
:)
Although, in the really geeky world it's also Quantum Electrodynamics
Symantecs.
They're both interchangable now-a-days.
No, not Symantecs. Nortons!
When did it end for me? Around 1999-2000 when the group 'metallica' put their ugly mugs before congress and told of the big bad wolf out on the internet that was stealing from them.
;)
How about around 1991, when the group 'Metallica' produced the album 'Metallica'? That's when it ended for me
Even more amazing, it was Verizon's. I hate Verizon, hate their service, but their automated system works really well, and does an eerily good job of acting human.
The right to free speech doesn't include the right to be invited to speak before leaders of nations. Most people who talk about rights these days seem to have no idea what they actually are -- and this includes, for the most part, the UN>
Maybe you need to spend just a little more time in the real world. "Don't screw around with all of that stuff, it's taken care of for you at a lower level" is a wonderful philosophy, and it's useful most of the time, but when you're working on something big and important where performance sells, then mucking around with every last underlying piece of the system, whether it's polite or not, is just what you do.
Yes, that was a horrible sentence, but fortunately for me slashdot doesn't take away points for comma splices.
Either you're well behind the times, or it's just that you haven't had significant exposure to US culture -- because apparently this is the sort of thing that's different everywhere else. In any case, around here and around Slashdotland, being a "geek" is a relatively good thing. It means that you're not quite like other people, but you have l33t sk1llz and that makes up for it. "Nerds", on the other hand, have all of the social dysfunction, and none of the positive traits. And they tend to be more self-important than the geek, who is traditionally supposed to be humble (though of course YMMV in reality).
See the post on the poll thread where someone argues that Urkel doesn't deserve to be included with the "geeks" -- that's what they're talking about. Urkel is a nerd, dork, spaz, or what-have-you, but not a geek in the sense I'm talking about. And that's the same sense in which you should take the current article summary.
Whether it's justifiable to curtail freedom for the purpose of safety isn't even the right argument, though, because that's not what they're doing. They're curtailing freedom for the appearance of safety, dedicating their time and money (or rather, your money if you live or work here) towards measures that are highly visible, highly intrusive -- and fundamentally useless.
(dum-de-dum-dum-dum!)
Share and enjoy, share and enjoy
Journey through life with a plastic boy
Or girl by your side, let your pal be your guide
And when it breaks down, or starts to annoy,
Or grinds when it moves, and gives you no joy
'Cause it eats up your hat, or had sex with your cat,
Bled oil on your floor, or ripped off your door
And you get to the point you can't stand anymore,
Bring it to us, we won't give a fig
We'll tell you
GO STICK YOUR HEAD IN A PIG