I'm a longtime Perl programmer, and while I've seen Perl having been taken over by PHP on the web side of things, Perl still sees enourmous use in generic *nix system world. For example, in the company I work for we use many programming languages on many architectures, and Perl has consistently been the duct tape that ties them all together. We even have a dedicated infratructure team that maintains the various releases of Perl and our core Perl APIs. I dont think Perl will ever completely die(), but it's use in certain areas has certainly diminished.
Although I haven't done much more than quick hacks to PHP scripts, I still prefer to use Perl for everything. Every time I've tried to seriously use PHP for web stuff, I always go back. I end up missing the syntax, idioms and CPAN. I suppose its just a matter of personal taste.
I think what makes this significant is the fact that now that KDE has full accessibility it can be more easily adopted into public/government domains where accessibility features are mandatory.
This lack of accessibility has kept KDE out of consideration from a lot of places for a long time, but now... prepare for total world domination:)
I got a hold of 7b85 right after I picked up one of the new 15" powerbooks, and Expose is better than crack...
I'm a huge x11/kde-aholic with many virtual desktops always being in use, so when I had to use OSX, I immediately grabbed a desktop manager for it... soon after trying and getting used to Expose, i deleted it, and now am always tempted to hit those expose shortcuts (mouse 3) when I use my PC workstation again...
It almost feels like those movies where they show some ultra unreaslistic portrayal of a hacker using a computer with lots of fancy 3d and graphics.. kinda like when tom cruise was using holographic computers in minority report.. only now its real.. tho of course its not holographic.. and i still miss focus-follows-mouse... however, i've been converted for life.... now if only that portage on OSX project didnt disappear
I remember reading this script back in around '94 or '95 when talk of the prequels was first starting to surface.. I seem to recall getting it from a BBS or maybe through my FreeNet account at the time.
I'm pretty sure it was debunked as some fan's lame attempt at writing what the prequels would be like.
Gotta say though, I was always hoping the prequels would have 'Fall of the Republic' in one of their names instead of what they ended up being called.. gah
If I was one of these people being sued, could I in theory be immune if I already owned these songs I've supposedly pirated from p2p on CD? Could I even buy the CDs after the fact (no way to really prove how long I've owned them) and then be immune?..
I mean it all comes down to 'stealing' music, but what if I've already paid for it?
if you follow this logic, then half-life was just a mod for the original quake engine (cuz thats the source it was based off of)... but obviously companies hire developers to expand and adapt the engine... john carmack isnt the only one out there:)
As you could with a car. So what? In the hands of a responsible adult, a firearm holds no special danger. You hold in your hands (probably far too often) the equipment to be a serial rapist. Are you one? No. Presumably, you are a responsible adult.
A car is meant to drive and my penis is meant for shagging... a gun is meant to kill.. when you hold a gun in your hand, it has only one purpose: to threaten life.
The current sniper, is by definition, a criminal. If guns and ammo were outlawed, what makes you think that he would not be able to obtain them anyway? Heroin and crack are illegal, but there seems to be no problem obtaining these, either.
But do you think he would be able to get his hands on a sniper rifle (a somewhat specialized weapon) through the black market very easily??.. im betting all he did to get his hands on this is the right paperwork and waiting time...
The events of 9/11 had nothing to do with personal firearm ownership.
IIRC the terrorists had personal firearms when they were taking over the planes... where did they get them from??.. perhaps it was at the 'target' store down the street.. perhaps it was some other way.. but ultimately those guns came from the easily available market in the U.S... I will secede though that they could have imported the weapons from home.
When the asshole breaks into your house, and says "Give me the money", you give it to him.
When he says "Give me your car", you toss him the keys.
When he says "Give me your wife", you smile and wave as he carries her out the door, because you cannot stop him.
I'd say that in all these situations you will most likely not even have time to reach for your safely secured and locked firearm in your bedside drawer.. if hes got a gun trained on you, he's not going to give you the time to pull yours out
Ultimately though, you're right about having let the genie out of the bottle.... people always have the power to take a life in their hands and extinguish it...i think putting a gun in that hand makes it a lot easier to decide whether to excercise that power or not. but we will never eliminate the need for guns until humans evolve beyond them
do you really think you stand a chance in HELL of overthrowing the worlds most powerful military machine with your dinky little semi-automatic rifle (last i checked, automatic weapons were still illegal in the U.S.)?.. even if you had a thousand.. a million... theyd still squash you like the anti-government militia that you are to them..
fact is guns are used MORE for illegitimate purposes that legit... just look at all the countries with strict gun laws (esp. pistols being illegal like here in Canada).. the amount of violent crimes being committed in those countries are significantly lower than in the U.S... show me a legitimate use for selling military grade weapons to the public, and ill show you a crazy serial killer going around murdering people randomly.. anyone remember something about a sniper on CNN?
the idea of having the right to bear arms is just a silly outdated excuse for gun nuts to satisfy their fetish.... i'll admit it, holding a hand gun makes you feel powerful.. its like a drug... but not a necessary one
and maybe thats not even such a bad thing, but dont be a hypocrite... if you allow something with mostly horrendous uses, and few legit, why not allow them all? the answer is money.. theres a shitload of money in making and selling arms, and the powers that be in the U.S. are heavily backed by certain lobbies and thus will make sure that there are always guns around to be guns sold.. and tobacco.. and alcohol... and fossil fuels... but no drugs, because drugs are the spawn of satan, and they cant tax those... theyll convince you its in your best interest to support guns because of the 2nd amendment, and your right to defend yourself against criminals... fortunately, for the criminals, but unfortunately, for you, they too can defend themselves when they break into your house...
i love the idea of a free world... but there is absolutely no legitimate use for any civilian to own a gun..
there exists no quick solution to getting rid of guns, obviously.. but you have to start somewhere.. making the sale of guns and ammo to the public illegal could be a nice starting point... making the public TRULY aware of the horror of guns, instead of supporting them could be another..
the way you're describing guns here really amazes me... as if its your god given right to have the power in your hand to end someones life in an instant... i'd like to think that we've progressed FAR beyond the ass backward colonial american days when carrying arms was perhaps necessary to keep the redcoats at bay...
civilians have no excuse to carry guns..
target shooting? boohoo, so you dont get to practice your m4d sniping skillz.. go play some counter-strike instead
you dont need them to hunt - you go the store instead, or use a bow if you must absolutely kill your own food
you could use them against your government in case they became tyrannical - come on! you think youd stand a chance?
you could use them to defend yourself from criminals - but then they could use them against you too.
collecting guns - again, boohoo so some rich texan doesn't get to display his semi-automatic rifle collection on his wall.
if anything, guns are anything BUT mostly harmless... but people like you, that have this fundamental belief that theyre essential to existance, are the reason why events like columbine, 9/11 and the latest sniper nut killings happen.... dont you think the gains clearly outweigh the losses?
do you really think you stand a chance in HELL of overthrowing the worlds most powerful military machine with your dinky little semi-automatic rifle (last i checked, automatic weapons were still illegal in the U.S.)?.. even if you had a thousand.. a million... theyd still squash you like the anti-government militia that you are to them..
fact is guns are used MORE for illegitimate purposes that legit... just look at all the countries with strict gun laws (esp. pistols being illegal like here in Canada).. the amount of violent crimes being committed in those countries are significantly lower than in the U.S... show me a legitimate use for selling military grade weapons to the public, and ill show you a crazy serial killer going around murdering people randomly.. anyone remember something about a sniper on CNN?
the idea of having the right to bear arms is just a silly outdated excuse for gun nuts to satisfy their fetish.... i'll admit it, holding a hand gun makes you feel powerful.. its like a drug... but not a necessary one
and maybe thats not even such a bad thing, but dont be a hypocrite... if you allow something with mostly horrendous uses, and few legit, why not allow them all? the answer is money.. theres a shitload of money in making and selling arms, and the powers that be in the U.S. are heavily backed by certain lobbies and thus will make sure that there are always guns around to be guns sold.. and tobacco.. and alcohol... and fossil fuels... but no drugs, because drugs are the spawn of satan, and they cant tax those... theyll convince you its in your best interest to support guns because of the 2nd amendment, and your right to defend yourself against criminals... fortunately, for the criminals, but unfortunately, for you, they too can defend themselves when they break into your house...
i love the idea of a free world... but there is absolutely no legitimate use for any civilian to own a gun..
actually i think rope is primarily used to tie things up and such:)...
you cant seriously think its the same argument with guns... guns were designed with no other purpose in mind than to kill things... and giving the ole bs argument that people use it for sport hunting is no better. Shooting an innocent defenseless animal to death for sport is just about as sickening as murdering a person in cold blood IMHO
I know a court has ruled deCSS to be in violation of the DMCA, but that was because the judge was stupid, and the MPAA was smart enough to convince him that the utility is "primarily intended for circumvention of a protection mechanism". The keyword there is "primarily".
i wonder why americans can't use the same logic to get rid of guns... last i checked weren't guns primarily used to murder people?
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I'm a longtime Perl programmer, and while I've seen Perl having been taken over by PHP on the web side of things, Perl still sees enourmous use in generic *nix system world. For example, in the company I work for we use many programming languages on many architectures, and Perl has consistently been the duct tape that ties them all together. We even have a dedicated infratructure team that maintains the various releases of Perl and our core Perl APIs. I dont think Perl will ever completely die(), but it's use in certain areas has certainly diminished.
Although I haven't done much more than quick hacks to PHP scripts, I still prefer to use Perl for everything. Every time I've tried to seriously use PHP for web stuff, I always go back. I end up missing the syntax, idioms and CPAN. I suppose its just a matter of personal taste.
Private Life of Linus Torvalds...
on second thought, no
I think what makes this significant is the fact that now that KDE has full accessibility it can be more easily adopted into public/government domains where accessibility features are mandatory.
This lack of accessibility has kept KDE out of consideration from a lot of places for a long time, but now... prepare for total world domination:)
I got a hold of 7b85 right after I picked up one of the new 15" powerbooks, and Expose is better than crack...
I'm a huge x11/kde-aholic with many virtual desktops always being in use, so when I had to use OSX, I immediately grabbed a desktop manager for it... soon after trying and getting used to Expose, i deleted it, and now am always tempted to hit those expose shortcuts (mouse 3) when I use my PC workstation again...
It almost feels like those movies where they show some ultra unreaslistic portrayal of a hacker using a computer with lots of fancy 3d and graphics.. kinda like when tom cruise was using holographic computers in minority report.. only now its real.. tho of course its not holographic.. and i still miss focus-follows-mouse... however, i've been converted for life.... now if only that portage on OSX project didnt disappear
I remember reading this script back in around '94 or '95 when talk of the prequels was first starting to surface.. I seem to recall getting it from a BBS or maybe through my FreeNet account at the time.
I'm pretty sure it was debunked as some fan's lame attempt at writing what the prequels would be like.
Gotta say though, I was always hoping the prequels would have 'Fall of the Republic' in one of their names instead of what they ended up being called.. gah
--mike
i havent used it myself, but i hear bricolage is quite an amazing content management system complete with workflow, etc etc
http://bricolage.cc/
If I was one of these people being sued, could I in theory be immune if I already owned these songs I've supposedly pirated from p2p on CD? Could I even buy the CDs after the fact (no way to really prove how long I've owned them) and then be immune?..
I mean it all comes down to 'stealing' music, but what if I've already paid for it?
--mike
if you follow this logic, then half-life was just a mod for the original quake engine (cuz thats the source it was based off of)... but obviously companies hire developers to expand and adapt the engine... john carmack isnt the only one out there:)
ugh.. youre an idiot..
normally i have a pretty open mind towards people, but we obviously differ on a very fundamental level and theres no point in continuing this..
As you could with a car. So what? In the hands of a responsible adult, a firearm holds no special danger. You hold in your hands (probably far too often) the equipment to be a serial rapist. Are you one? No. Presumably, you are a responsible adult.
A car is meant to drive and my penis is meant for shagging... a gun is meant to kill.. when you hold a gun in your hand, it has only one purpose: to threaten life.
The current sniper, is by definition, a criminal. If guns and ammo were outlawed, what makes you think that he would not be able to obtain them anyway? Heroin and crack are illegal, but there seems to be no problem obtaining these, either.
But do you think he would be able to get his hands on a sniper rifle (a somewhat specialized weapon) through the black market very easily??.. im betting all he did to get his hands on this is the right paperwork and waiting time...
The events of 9/11 had nothing to do with personal firearm ownership.
IIRC the terrorists had personal firearms when they were taking over the planes... where did they get them from??.. perhaps it was at the 'target' store down the street.. perhaps it was some other way.. but ultimately those guns came from the easily available market in the U.S... I will secede though that they could have imported the weapons from home.
When the asshole breaks into your house, and says "Give me the money", you give it to him.
When he says "Give me your car", you toss him the keys.
When he says "Give me your wife", you smile and wave as he carries her out the door, because you cannot stop him.
I'd say that in all these situations you will most likely not even have time to reach for your safely secured and locked firearm in your bedside drawer.. if hes got a gun trained on you, he's not going to give you the time to pull yours out
Ultimately though, you're right about having let the genie out of the bottle.... people always have the power to take a life in their hands and extinguish it...i think putting a gun in that hand makes it a lot easier to decide whether to excercise that power or not. but we will never eliminate the need for guns until humans evolve beyond them
do you really think you stand a chance in HELL of overthrowing the worlds most powerful military machine with your dinky little semi-automatic rifle (last i checked, automatic weapons were still illegal in the U.S.)?.. even if you had a thousand.. a million... theyd still squash you like the anti-government militia that you are to them..
fact is guns are used MORE for illegitimate purposes that legit... just look at all the countries with strict gun laws (esp. pistols being illegal like here in Canada).. the amount of violent crimes being committed in those countries are significantly lower than in the U.S... show me a legitimate use for selling military grade weapons to the public, and ill show you a crazy serial killer going around murdering people randomly.. anyone remember something about a sniper on CNN?
the idea of having the right to bear arms is just a silly outdated excuse for gun nuts to satisfy their fetish.... i'll admit it, holding a hand gun makes you feel powerful.. its like a drug... but not a necessary one
and maybe thats not even such a bad thing, but dont be a hypocrite... if you allow something with mostly horrendous uses, and few legit, why not allow them all? the answer is money.. theres a shitload of money in making and selling arms, and the powers that be in the U.S. are heavily backed by certain lobbies and thus will make sure that there are always guns around to be guns sold.. and tobacco.. and alcohol... and fossil fuels... but no drugs, because drugs are the spawn of satan, and they cant tax those... theyll convince you its in your best interest to support guns because of the 2nd amendment, and your right to defend yourself against criminals... fortunately, for the criminals, but unfortunately, for you, they too can defend themselves when they break into your house...
i love the idea of a free world... but there is absolutely no legitimate use for any civilian to own a gun..
there exists no quick solution to getting rid of guns, obviously.. but you have to start somewhere.. making the sale of guns and ammo to the public illegal could be a nice starting point... making the public TRULY aware of the horror of guns, instead of supporting them could be another..
the way you're describing guns here really amazes me... as if its your god given right to have the power in your hand to end someones life in an instant... i'd like to think that we've progressed FAR beyond the ass backward colonial american days when carrying arms was perhaps necessary to keep the redcoats at bay...
civilians have no excuse to carry guns..
target shooting? boohoo, so you dont get to practice your m4d sniping skillz.. go play some counter-strike instead
you dont need them to hunt - you go the store instead, or use a bow if you must absolutely kill your own food
you could use them against your government in case they became tyrannical - come on! you think youd stand a chance?
you could use them to defend yourself from criminals - but then they could use them against you too.
collecting guns - again, boohoo so some rich texan doesn't get to display his semi-automatic rifle collection on his wall.
if anything, guns are anything BUT mostly harmless... but people like you, that have this fundamental belief that theyre essential to existance, are the reason why events like columbine, 9/11 and the latest sniper nut killings happen.... dont you think the gains clearly outweigh the losses?
do you really think you stand a chance in HELL of overthrowing the worlds most powerful military machine with your dinky little semi-automatic rifle (last i checked, automatic weapons were still illegal in the U.S.)?.. even if you had a thousand.. a million... theyd still squash you like the anti-government militia that you are to them.. fact is guns are used MORE for illegitimate purposes that legit... just look at all the countries with strict gun laws (esp. pistols being illegal like here in Canada).. the amount of violent crimes being committed in those countries are significantly lower than in the U.S... show me a legitimate use for selling military grade weapons to the public, and ill show you a crazy serial killer going around murdering people randomly.. anyone remember something about a sniper on CNN? the idea of having the right to bear arms is just a silly outdated excuse for gun nuts to satisfy their fetish.... i'll admit it, holding a hand gun makes you feel powerful.. its like a drug... but not a necessary one and maybe thats not even such a bad thing, but dont be a hypocrite... if you allow something with mostly horrendous uses, and few legit, why not allow them all? the answer is money.. theres a shitload of money in making and selling arms, and the powers that be in the U.S. are heavily backed by certain lobbies and thus will make sure that there are always guns around to be guns sold.. and tobacco.. and alcohol... and fossil fuels... but no drugs, because drugs are the spawn of satan, and they cant tax those... theyll convince you its in your best interest to support guns because of the 2nd amendment, and your right to defend yourself against criminals... fortunately, for the criminals, but unfortunately, for you, they too can defend themselves when they break into your house... i love the idea of a free world... but there is absolutely no legitimate use for any civilian to own a gun..
actually i think rope is primarily used to tie things up and such:)...
you cant seriously think its the same argument with guns... guns were designed with no other purpose in mind than to kill things... and giving the ole bs argument that people use it for sport hunting is no better. Shooting an innocent defenseless animal to death for sport is just about as sickening as murdering a person in cold blood IMHO
I know a court has ruled deCSS to be in violation of the DMCA, but that was because the judge was stupid, and the MPAA was smart enough to convince him that the utility is "primarily intended for circumvention of a protection mechanism". The keyword there is "primarily".
i wonder why americans can't use the same logic to get rid of guns... last i checked weren't guns primarily used to murder people?
Tried to edit my preferences, damn thing doesnt work... get an internal server error ..