Didn't you learn from the last time? Using MozillaQuest as a news source is like using the National Enquirer. If you dig deep enough you might find a kernel of truth, but most of it is sensationalist, wildly inaccurate crap. This is the site that claimed Netscape 6.1 was not based on Mozilla code, includes things like duplicates and feature requests when counting the number of "bugs," and somehow manages to skew every bit of news, whether positive or negative, to make it evidence of Mozilla's demise/irrelevance/uselessness/etc.
If you want straight-forward news (including the real story about Mitchell Baker), check out MozillaZine instead. They may not update the site as frequently, but it's generally news from people who are actually involved with the project, and it's a hell of a lot more accurate (one advantage of waiting until you have real information instead of making up your own).
And people who believe in a different God, you would really deny citizenship? You'd really make this nation a theocracy to rival any intolerance in the Middle East? Funny, I'd always hoped that what happened to Afghanistan couldn't happen here.
For those non-UC Irvine people, Clone Notes is actually located on the UCI campus and sells both lecture notes and lecture tapes, depending on demand from students and permission from professors. I've always had the impression that they were somehow associated with or at least sanctioned by the university.
Actually, it says it's illegal to sell notes *without authorization*. I'd bet that Student Disability Services and Clone Notes will be granted authorization within 5 minutes of the law going into effect (and through them, the students they hire).
>>Now I'd be more impressed if it bitched when
>>someone tried to send out a mail that was badly
>>spelt, all lower or uppercase and has no
>>punctuation.
Actually, it does. There's an option for "warn me when sending email with spelling errors."
According to a recent JMS post, it's "way too early" to start looking at that. I kind of get the impression that the show itself is extremely dead (TNT was extremely vindictive when they found that the show's creator and main writer wasn't willing to compromise its integrity by turning it into space wrestling, and they killed it dead. So dead that TNT will probably refuse to air the 13 existing episodes again or even let anyone else air them until their broadcast rights expire).
A pity, since the 5 episodes done without TNT's interference were pretty damn good, and there were some good bits in the other 8 as well.
To call B5 a Star-Trek rip-off is like calling one hard-boiled detective a rip-off of another. People sometimes forget that Star Trek is not the be-all and end-all of science fiction. Most people have forgotten that when Star Trek first came out it was laughed at as a Lost In Space rip-off. I mean, it had people in space, right?
And to say the Borg mean anything, compared to the complex backstory in B5, is funny, too. At least the Vorlons and Shadows stood for the same thing consistently. The Borg started out as decentralized technology junkies, became cybernetic parasites, and were eventually turned into an insect hive, with no explanation.
"Oh, my god, these two novels both have words in them! This one's an obvious rip-off!"
Still, I never really cared about the characters and was distracted by the constant scientific slips -- would it be so hard to just get things right on occassion? This is sci fi, after all.
On the other hand, it was a hell of a lot more realistic than most sci-fi movies. The only science mistake that bugged me while I was actually watching it was the oversimplified DNA models ("That DNA looks human!" - 20 base pairs out of a few zillion, and they can tell?). The science bugged me a lot less than the blatant product placement.
When it comes to scientific accuracy, expecting 100% from Hollywood is ridiculous; I'm surprised more people aren't happy with improvement.
"Wouldn't it be cool if the VCL core packages were distributed with the OS?" No it wouldn't. This only means that we would be somewhat forced to use the VCL for any application we have. And unless it's released under GPL I wouldn't agree with this. Actually, I believe he meant this in the sense that, say, QT is bundled with most Linux distros. You're not forced to use QT, are you? No, of course not; you have GTK, Motif, etc. QT wasn't GPL'ed through 1.4, either. Should it not have been included in the distribution?
An anonymous coward wrote: <<Wouldn't it be a genuinely tragic thing if you were "obsoleted" by a woman, who was congenitally unable to make a contribution?>>
I think it would tear you apart more if your job was taken by a woman who could do it just as well. Which leads to the question: what is your job? I can understand the objection if you're in something like construction work that requires a great deal of physical strength, because women have to work harder to develop muscles to that point. But keep in mind that the differences between men and women in general pale in comparison to the differences between individuals, and many jobs - especially in the ever-growing realm of the office - can be handled equally well by individuals of both sexes. That you seem to think that women are inherently inferior and good for only one thing, is just as oppressive and bigoted as the belief that any race is inferior or superior to another. In fact, it's also shared by the "Christian Identity" groups and Nazis. So if you're going to argue guilt by association, you'd better choose your targets more carefully.
Solution: take a minor, join a club, or add a second major. I graduated from UCI last year with a double major in computer science and drama. I met lots of girls in my other major, and I'm still dating one I met through a creative writing club.
Find something else you're interested in, add a minor in it, and chances are there'll be more of a gender balance in that field.
So you're claiming women are incapable of anything other than homemaking? How many women have you actually met? Or were they all too afraid to step outside the rigid box you (not God) have circumscribed around them? And who is forcing women to take on roles in addition to wives and mothers? The idea isn't to force them to have jobs, but to allow them to.
Somehow, I find it hard to believe that God would limit half the population of the world to a single occupation. That people like you want to impose such limits using His name is one of the reasons so many people have developed a knee-jerk reaction against religion.
My parents showed this one to me as a kid, and I got a real kick out of it. It introduced me to pieces like "Bolero," and it's both impressive and enjoyable. I actually have only seen the dubbed version (which had the great line, "Frisney did this?"). There's a nice bit of attitude in the framing sequences, though I'm sure it'd be better subtitled (most foreign movies are - somehow getting different actors to speak over the lines in a new language never captures the same feeling as the original delivery), but I'd argue that it's less of a problem with this film, since the framing sequence isn't what's important - it's the music, which is its own language.
If you just look at the browser, all Opera is missing (in the Windows version, which is stable, small, and damn fast) is DHTML, Java, and a few small things like images as table backgrounds. In fact, the only sites I've seen that don't render correctly have either been badly written (depending on bugs in the way Netscape and IE display pages) or use DHTML (which I suspect will be supported in Opera 4.0, since the Linux version is willing to at least hide divisions through stylesheets). Sites with correct HTML display fine. As for Java, all you have to do is download Sun's Java Plug-in. If you do Java programming anyway, you'll want the latest JDK, which already includes the plugin. Otherwise, the JRE's an extra 6 or so megs. THIS is the major reason Opera is small: simply because Java takes up huge honkin' amounts of space.
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Didn't you learn from the last time? Using MozillaQuest as a news source is like using the National Enquirer. If you dig deep enough you might find a kernel of truth, but most of it is sensationalist, wildly inaccurate crap. This is the site that claimed Netscape 6.1 was not based on Mozilla code, includes things like duplicates and feature requests when counting the number of "bugs," and somehow manages to skew every bit of news, whether positive or negative, to make it evidence of Mozilla's demise/irrelevance/uselessness/etc.
If you want straight-forward news (including the real story about Mitchell Baker), check out MozillaZine instead. They may not update the site as frequently, but it's generally news from people who are actually involved with the project, and it's a hell of a lot more accurate (one advantage of waiting until you have real information instead of making up your own).
As Churchill stated, "Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time"
And people who believe in a different God, you would really deny citizenship? You'd really make this nation a theocracy to rival any intolerance in the Middle East? Funny, I'd always hoped that what happened to Afghanistan couldn't happen here.
For those non-UC Irvine people, Clone Notes is actually located on the UCI campus and sells both lecture notes and lecture tapes, depending on demand from students and permission from professors. I've always had the impression that they were somehow associated with or at least sanctioned by the university.
Actually, it says it's illegal to sell notes *without authorization*. I'd bet that Student Disability Services and Clone Notes will be granted authorization within 5 minutes of the law going into effect (and through them, the students they hire).
>>Now I'd be more impressed if it bitched when
>>someone tried to send out a mail that was badly
>>spelt, all lower or uppercase and has no
>>punctuation.
Actually, it does. There's an option for "warn me when sending email with spelling errors."
Of course, real history always leaves loose ends...
According to a recent JMS post, it's "way too early" to start looking at that. I kind of get the impression that the show itself is extremely dead (TNT was extremely vindictive when they found that the show's creator and main writer wasn't willing to compromise its integrity by turning it into space wrestling, and they killed it dead. So dead that TNT will probably refuse to air the 13 existing episodes again or even let anyone else air them until their broadcast rights expire).
A pity, since the 5 episodes done without TNT's interference were pretty damn good, and there were some good bits in the other 8 as well.
Actually, if you fast-forward through the alien kickboxing and just watch the stuff with Ivanova, it's not so bad.
To call B5 a Star-Trek rip-off is like calling one hard-boiled detective a rip-off of another. People sometimes forget that Star Trek is not the be-all and end-all of science fiction. Most people have forgotten that when Star Trek first came out it was laughed at as a Lost In Space rip-off. I mean, it had people in space, right?
And to say the Borg mean anything, compared to the complex backstory in B5, is funny, too. At least the Vorlons and Shadows stood for the same thing consistently. The Borg started out as decentralized technology junkies, became cybernetic parasites, and were eventually turned into an insect hive, with no explanation.
"Oh, my god, these two novels both have words in them! This one's an obvious rip-off!"
Still, I never really cared about the characters and was distracted by the constant scientific slips -- would it be so hard to just get things right on occassion? This is sci fi, after all.
On the other hand, it was a hell of a lot more realistic than most sci-fi movies. The only science mistake that bugged me while I was actually watching it was the oversimplified DNA models ("That DNA looks human!" - 20 base pairs out of a few zillion, and they can tell?). The science bugged me a lot less than the blatant product placement.
When it comes to scientific accuracy, expecting 100% from Hollywood is ridiculous; I'm surprised more people aren't happy with improvement.
"Wouldn't it be cool if the VCL core packages were distributed with the OS?" No it wouldn't. This only means that we would be somewhat forced to use the VCL for any application we have. And unless it's released under GPL I wouldn't agree with this. Actually, I believe he meant this in the sense that, say, QT is bundled with most Linux distros. You're not forced to use QT, are you? No, of course not; you have GTK, Motif, etc. QT wasn't GPL'ed through 1.4, either. Should it not have been included in the distribution?
I think it would tear you apart more if your job was taken by a woman who could do it just as well. Which leads to the question: what is your job? I can understand the objection if you're in something like construction work that requires a great deal of physical strength, because women have to work harder to develop muscles to that point. But keep in mind that the differences between men and women in general pale in comparison to the differences between individuals, and many jobs - especially in the ever-growing realm of the office - can be handled equally well by individuals of both sexes. That you seem to think that women are inherently inferior and good for only one thing, is just as oppressive and bigoted as the belief that any race is inferior or superior to another. In fact, it's also shared by the "Christian Identity" groups and Nazis. So if you're going to argue guilt by association, you'd better choose your targets more carefully.
Find something else you're interested in, add a minor in it, and chances are there'll be more of a gender balance in that field.
Somehow, I find it hard to believe that God would limit half the population of the world to a single occupation. That people like you want to impose such limits using His name is one of the reasons so many people have developed a knee-jerk reaction against religion.
It may actually have been "Prisney"even in the dubbed version - it's been a while since I've seen it.
My parents showed this one to me as a kid, and I got a real kick out of it. It introduced me to pieces like "Bolero," and it's both impressive and enjoyable. I actually have only seen the dubbed version (which had the great line, "Frisney did this?"). There's a nice bit of attitude in the framing sequences, though I'm sure it'd be better subtitled (most foreign movies are - somehow getting different actors to speak over the lines in a new language never captures the same feeling as the original delivery), but I'd argue that it's less of a problem with this film, since the framing sequence isn't what's important - it's the music, which is its own language.
Bottom line: I second this recommendation!
And people are still buying CDs from Wherehouse and Tower and CD-Now and such.
Don't you mean, 1,4,5,6? Ep. 3 won't be filmed for another 3-4 years...
If you just look at the browser, all Opera is missing (in the Windows version, which is stable, small, and damn fast) is DHTML, Java, and a few small things like images as table backgrounds. In fact, the only sites I've seen that don't render correctly have either been badly written (depending on bugs in the way Netscape and IE display pages) or use DHTML (which I suspect will be supported in Opera 4.0, since the Linux version is willing to at least hide divisions through stylesheets). Sites with correct HTML display fine. As for Java, all you have to do is download Sun's Java Plug-in. If you do Java programming anyway, you'll want the latest JDK, which already includes the plugin. Otherwise, the JRE's an extra 6 or so megs. THIS is the major reason Opera is small: simply because Java takes up huge honkin' amounts of space.