It was the yearly NRA convention. Scheduled years in advance. Costing hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars. With over ten thousand people travelling from across the US.
Of COURSE they didn't cancel it. It'd be like cancelling GenCon because some idiot in Milwaukee committed several killings with a sword the week before.
Go look at file footage and the newspaper clippings - Charleton Heston didn't just come here, he taunted the city, he taunted the state, and he taunted the victims. The man has exactly zero empathy.
OR it might be that the NRA looks on ballistic fingerprinting as a backdoor means of registering guns?
And what exactly is wrong with registering WEAPONS? You have to register a car (which is the most common red hering that you gun people throw out....with the specious argument that if we ban guns, we should also ban cars....), why shouldn't you have to register a weapon that has no other purpose then to kill?
A law abiding person has absolutly no reason to fear gun registration. But then again - this is exactly WHY the NRA opposes it. Not because of some straw man of the government coming for your guns... no, it is intended purely to make it more difficult to locate and punish people who are the NRAs constituancy - gun owners. Project Exile and other NRA 'initiatives' to punish people who commit gun crimes are nothing more then PR - that distracts people from the cold hard facts that the NRA does everthing it can to make prosecuting people for using guns in ANY manor more difficult.
As I'm sure someone of your vast experience with firearms knows, when a firearm is discharged, a projectile (the bullet) travels through the barrel. The barrel, for reasons of accuracy, is essentially threaded like a screw, imparting a spin on the bullet to increase accuracy--much like a football is thrown.
You clearly think im an idiot and don't understand basic physics. Doesn't everyone know this? The process was originally developed with arrows many thousands of years ago - the feathers would be put around the shaft in a curved way - which would cause the arrow to stabilize in flight.
I admit I could be wrong, but it was my understanding that their is now an initiative to be able to fingerpring BULLETS - not BALLISTIC fingerprinting, but BULLET fingerprinting. It would not tell you what gun it was fired from, but it would be tracable to the point of purchase.
if it passed, 10 years from now, 99% of the bullets out there would have fingerprints.
even if SOME criminals don't use them, or sand them off, not all (probably not even most) will avoid them. it's a tool - one that will be useful in some cases.
what is it about gun people that they fight tooth and nail to make it harder to gain tools to arrest and convict people who use guns to murder other people?
As for that rally, the NRA has no respect for a community in mourning, no respect for gun victims, no respect for people who have been wounded, and no respect for anybody who doesn't think that every citizen should have the right to any weapon they want, no matter what that person has done in the past (or likely will do in the near future - see restraining orders...)
the NRA is a mean hearted organization that does it's damnedest to discredit and hurt people who are victims of guns. They treat then like they are the enemy, and the shooter is some sort of hero for using their 2nd amendment rights.
Great! Two gun wielding psychopaths are behind bars. Exactly why are you against that?
Face it, the reason the NRA doesn't want ballistic fingerprinting is so that it's one step harder to put them in jail when one of their members DO go out and murder someone.
The reason the NRA is extreme, is less their subject, and more their methods. The NRA has a habit of doing some pretty despicable things to push it's views. Much like the rally here (Denver) that they held right after Columbine.
They enjoy rubbing salt in the wounds of communities that have been the victims of truly horrible gun violence. And are completely focused on one goal - completely unfettered access to guns for everyone - no matter their situation or background.
The NRA also has a history of assaulting anything that could make murders with guns easier to solve.
A perfect example of this is bullet fingerprinting. Bullet fingerprinting does absolutly ZERO damage to a person's ability to use a gun as they choose. BUT, if they murder someone, it makes it easy to trace. there is NO solid reason for the NRA to be against this, except that they support strong gun rights for not just citizens, hunters and for protection...but they effectivly support strong gun rights for criminals, doing their best to make it difficult for people to be charged with gun crimes - or for a gun to be used as evidence of another crime. And, the only argument they can broke agaisnt this - is that criminals willjust use unfingerprinted bullets....to which I say BULLSHIT - not all crimes are pre-meditated, and not all criminals are smart. Some will use the bullets, and those will be easier to prosecute - all at no cost to the lawful gun user.
the NRA in my mind is run by a man (Charleton Heston) who has had his mental capacity COMPLETLY subsumed by the Meme of unfettered gun access.
IMHO he's not a man anymore - just a replication device for the meme...
Completly agreed. Consoles just don't hold a candle to the PC when it comes to games with a more intellectually challening level of gameplay. Colsoles have tried for decades to reproduce RPGs from PCs (or other general purpose computers), and have come up with what? Final Fantasy? What a joke. FF doesn't hold a candle to the story depth and complexity of gameplay of the true PC RPGs. Starting back 20+ years, you have Bard's Tale, Wizardry, Ultima (Ultima 4 is simply the best CRPG ever produced), Ultima Underworld, Might and Magic, Elder Scrolls, Magic Candle, Eye of the Beholder, Dungeon Master, and now NWN, all contributing new and interesting things to the state of CRPG art (there are of course many many more, but for me - these are the core of good CRPGs). Some of these have been poorly translated to various platforms, and without fail, they are always a pale reflection of the PC version.
Why is this? IMHO 2 reasons: 1) The more complex controls on a PC allow for a greater variety of ideas to flourish, and for more complex games to be born.
2) Consoles almost invariably dumb down games for mass market appeal (or to make them playable by kids). PC games have almost always been a smaller market - but one that tends to have more people who are willing to face greater complexity, and who demand more intelligence in their games then Zelda or Final Fantasy.
Please don't hold it against us. Our president is a Jackass, and one that is only in office because our supreme court corruptly put him there.
Americans value our brothers to the north, I think in some ways though - we view you so much as a part of our culture, that when it comes to talking about our friends, we almost always mention Britain or Mexico first - both of which are friendly, but are a bit more distanced from us culturally. In short, we take Canada for granted.
As far as the tariffs - well, I don't think those are widly supported (or heck, even understood). Thos are mostly the result of special interests polluting our political system.
Personally I think both our lumber and steel industries are outdated hulks who need to face real competetion - so that the either die or move into the 21st century. Hell, half the steel industry in the US (Mini Mills) don't even need the tariffs to be competetive - it's just entrenched industrial bohemeths like Bethlehem Steel....but I digress.
Canada is important - and when we have a president who isn't a shill for Oil, Steel and other industrial age sloths, the relationship will get better again.
you are totally missing the point of the springboard. with the springboard, I can use almost ALL memory expansion types. Smartmedia, CompactFlash, MMC, hell, even the Sony Memory stick. Beyond that, there is no reason based upon the specs for SD & Springboard that you couldn't make an SD adapter.
who cares if it's non standard - when it lets you use ALL the standards.
screw being stuck with a single expansion slot type - now that's crippling.
when am I ever going to be able to stick a compact flash from my camara into an SD slot? oh yeah, this side of never....
It's really unfortunate, the springboard is bar none the best expansion slot in the PDA business. no where else can I have one slot that can be rigged to take compact flash, smartmedia, memory sticks, mmc, or native expansions?
Being stranded with the springboard is STILL better then being stuck with only SD. Can I view photos from digital camara using springboard? You betcha. will I ever be able to do the same with SD? I seriously doubt it.
This is wonderful to see. Tattered Cover is easily the coolest bookstore I have ever had the pleasure to buy books at. The main store (Cherry Creek) is giagantic, sporting (among other things) very extinsive abounts of Sci-Fi, History, Maps (some historical), and computer books. At 4 stories, I don't know of another anywhere near it's size. The Downtown one is also very cool, right in one of the hottest parts of Denver (LoDo). Regularly, they have really high profile authors in, talking about their books or doing readings.
All this from what was a tiny corner bookstore maybe 15 years ago.
Between their just utter badassness, and this - I don't see myself buying books anywhere else for a long long time. oh, and note: they have an affiliate program - so if you value companie slike this, dump amazon, and add them.
The idea is being able to swap one item for another. Do I buy intel stuff? Yeah, sometimes. Do I have to ? NO. I am not beholden to Intel, nor am I beholden to AMD. Frankly put, I don't trust any one of these companies (Intel, AMD, Apple, IBM, et al), so why the hell would I want to handcuff myself to them?
Linux having problems with (C) is definitely right.
Look at QT... I keep about five different versions of QT on my system, and sometimes I *still* can't get a QT app to compile against one of them.
GTK+, on the other hand, seems to do much better in terms of keeping a stable API from version-to-version.
personally I want one of them to just go away. Competetion may be a good thing, but not having a single stable, usable API keeps many developers away (I know it keeps me away)
I like using linux, but till there I get this - all the apps I write are console or java.
well, for one, windows is deffinitly inferrior - though I am mostly a linux person.
I do find OS X appealing for multiple reasons, not the least of which being that I would like to have a desktop that is:
A) Stable B) nice looking C) has a single well defined API
Linux on the desktop doesn't seem to be able to provide C, and sometimes A is in question.
But the problem is, I am not willing to exchange a proprietary OS for a proprietary platform. What I want is an open OS sitting on an Open paltform, and unfortunatly, Mac can't provide that.
It's not really about the last 5 mhz, it's also that - after investing money in my computer - I now can kind of do a rolling upgrade - so I never really need to plop down 2-3000 - instead it's 300 here, 100 there over time. This provides me tow things:
1) I never have to take a really big financial hit 2) My computer is never really far behind, as it generally will have equipment that is the best performance for the dollar in it (not the best, but good)
Frankly, I don't go out and buy Sparc or PA-Risc boxen for basically the same reason - I adhore being beholden to one supplier.
Like the freedom to put in commodity IDE drives, or commodity RAM? Macs use commodity hardware. You're just a cheapskate abusing the word "freedom".
No, more like the freedom to choose what motherboard, processor, et al.
Every desktop I have owned has been built with my hands. A commodity market has created this ability for me, and it is not a control I am willing to give up. For me, an open platform is just as important as an open operating system. So I can make my own decisions, instead of a corperation making a one size fits all choice for me.
On Intel, I can always run an open operating system, and my entire system is pretty much open. On mac, even with a relatively open OS like OS X, my system will always be very much proprietary, adn that is not acceptable to me.
You may think I'm a cheepskate, I think it's clear that that is not the case. Clearly I am a control freak.
It's really unfortunate though, many intel people would LOVE the opportunity to use Mac OS X. I know I would. But simply put, I don't use desktops that I don't build myself. So, between the fact I have no ability to really build my own, and the fact that the Macs are far more expensive then PCs - it's never going to happen that purchace hardware that Mac OS X will run on.
It's a shame, because it's a nice opperating system - but I'm not going to give up the freedoms of a commodity computer marketplace for it.
I wrote one that can encode using multiple mp3 codecs, or can use oggenc.
it is command line, but I at least feel it is quite easy to use, and it is faster then alot of them, because as soon as it finishes ripping a song, it forks an encoder, then goes on to rip the next.
anyway: it's called the One Ripper, and it is at:
http://www.evilsoft.org/Software.
it requires a linux system with perl 5, and it has links to some perl libraries you need.
Umm... That's because Emacs doesn't do any one of those things as well as stand alone programs written for that purpose.
Mozilla on the other hand is:
1. A cross platform framework.
2. A browser application written on TOP of that framework.
Composer is an editor written on top of the framework
Messenger is a mailer written on top of the framework
Chatzilla is an IRC app written on top of the framework
This Calendaring is another app written on top of the framework.
You don't want one? then don't build it (or don't install it)
Each of these apps is a seperate beasie, that can run alone (without the others). Each is intended to do one thing, and do it well (Browsing, Web Editing, Mail, and PIM). But, in the unix style of things - they all talk to each other very effectivly. This is useful, as the apps working together creates a package that is more then the sum of the parts.
Mozilla is my favorite browser, Messanger is my favorite Mailer. I can take or leave the current incarnation of Composer.
As other apps start working well in the Mozilla environment, I will pick and choose those which I choose to use - but the fact they all work well together makes the suite more effective.
Don't front on people's ability to try and work on tools that they want. Mozilla is gonna be released for 1.0 when it is released, and this will likely not change that date by so much as a week. I want (as many people) a suite of internet tools that function well with each other, and make my working life easier, instead of having to spend the time finding the bloody setting that lets my e-mail program launch links to my preferred browser, or dealing with any of the other annoyances of trying to get two packages to work well together that were not designed from the beginning to do so....
I've personally had 3 BOSD style crashes with W2k - as well as the system needing to be rebooted multiple times because it has become unusable.
It IS better the NT or 95/98/ME, but it still has nothing on UNIX/Linux
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I just purchased the crossover plugin, and here are my first thoughs with it: (testing with Netscape & Mozilla)
Installer: Very cool - makes it way easier to get the plugins.
Quicktime: Quicktime installed fine, but the opening video I played had no sound.
following attempts with opening a.mov file on my system with browsers led to:
Netscape:.mov file played correctly, and in line
Mozilla: Tried to launch Xanim
Gnome (nautilus): launches to Xanim
Shockwave: Shockwave installer had to be downloaded, but it's install went fine
Netscape: every file I have tried to use has worked to at least some degree. some things the sound only produces a crackle - but this could be my audio driver I suppose
Mozilla: only aboul a 1/4 of th eflash files Ihave tried have worked. Some sites cannot detect tha mozilla has the plugin installed.
Word: Word viewer installed fine, though it didthrow an error, saying the plugin wasn't detected.
Netscape: Files loaded fine (Note, if file has a space in it's name, you need to escape it, or it will take you to netscape's search site) Note: the file was not viewed in line
Mozilla: Didn't pick up the mime type, and so just displayed a normal dialog for running a file it does not recognize
Gnome: Files launched to the word viewer fine
Excel: Excel viewer installed fine, though it didthrow an error, saying the plugin wasn't detected.
Netscape: Files loaded fine (Note, if file has a space in it's name, you need to escape it, or it will take you to netscape's search site) Note: the file was not viewed in line
Mozilla: Didn't pick up the mime type, and so just displayed a normal dialog for running a file it does not recognize
Gnome: Files launched to the excel viewer fine
Note, the Excel & Word viewers did not show up in mozilla when one does an About:Plugin
Final judgement: This works pretty well in Netscape, but needs alot of work for Mozilla. this is to be expected from the release notes. For me, the word and excel viewers are well worth the $20 - and the rest is fun to play with
You mean the president who has appointed the most diverse cabinet in american history?
Hmm...and the same president that has purposefully aided in the trashing of our economy in order to pass a very shady tax cut?
The same president who has managed to actually piss off the entire UN?
The same president who helped remove any testing for arsnic in our water supply (Arsnic stays in the body's fat I might add...it doesn't just leave like cyanide)?
The same president who is activly trying to restart the cold war by damaging our relations as much as he can with russia (there was NO need to send 50 diplomats back to russia)?
you mean that idiot?
Unlike most of you pro aborts, I'm very careful about who I have sex with. Being the only chick at the bar who said yes isn't good enough for me.
oh - and I'm not? It's not about ME or YOU, it's about the woman. Do you have to carry the baby? Do you have to get morning sickness? Do you have to get stuck in the situation of having to drop out of school because you ahve to care for a child? Perhaps permanently sitting you on the welfare role?
I didn't think so
Since you bring it up, I DO think it's appropriate to shame and embarass abortion providers to attempt to sway them away from the practice.
And yet you still skirt the question: DO YOU OR DO YOU NOT THINK THAT KILLING ABORTION DOCTORS IS AN ACCEPTABLE THING? DO YOU OR DO YOU NOT THINK THAT INCITING PEOPLE TO KILL THEM IS AN ACCEPTABLE THING?
The reason is - that if a moral stance comes purely from religion, our government should not act to respect that moral stance.
if our government made everything illegal that the religions within it's borders find immoral - we would be able to to very little. for example, becuase dringking alchohol is immoral in islam, it would have to be illegal.
Our governemtn is base around the idea that we can have a society within which members of many religions can participate, but none of those religions will be able to effect other people through policy. This is done in an effort to keep the united states a free and open culture - ideas that are in many cases foreign to religion.
we have not defined self-destructive. So I will do it now:
I define self destuctive as any act that causes the perpetrator more harm then good.
keep in mind that everything you do can harm you in some way - so remembering that EVERYTHING causes some harm - the only way for any action to not be self destructive would be for that action to provide more good for the person then bad.
Abortion does damage tissues, but that tissue damage is negligable. The cancer issue is not an accepted medical fact, it is only a thing which a minority believe to be true.
so that covers harm.
on the benefit side, most women who have an abortion become free to go to school, enrich themselves, and become stronger, more stable people so that if they choose to have children, they can do it on positive terms, and have a child who grows up in a healthy atmosphere of success, instead of one of possible poverty.
I think this fits safely in the rights of a person to life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness myself.
but on top of that - there is plently of lay that exists to prevent people from murdering me, harassing me, stalking me, raping me, injuring me, and so on. It is the government's responsibility to police the country to ensure that people behave in ways that do not seriously adversly affect the other citizens.
do you think all of the above should be legal?
I sure don't
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Of COURSE they didn't cancel it. It'd be like cancelling GenCon because some idiot in Milwaukee committed several killings with a sword the week before.
Go look at file footage and the newspaper clippings - Charleton Heston didn't just come here, he taunted the city, he taunted the state, and he taunted the victims. The man has exactly zero empathy.
OR it might be that the NRA looks on ballistic fingerprinting as a backdoor means of registering guns?
And what exactly is wrong with registering WEAPONS? You have to register a car (which is the most common red hering that you gun people throw out....with the specious argument that if we ban guns, we should also ban cars....), why shouldn't you have to register a weapon that has no other purpose then to kill?
A law abiding person has absolutly no reason to fear gun registration. But then again - this is exactly WHY the NRA opposes it. Not because of some straw man of the government coming for your guns... no, it is intended purely to make it more difficult to locate and punish people who are the NRAs constituancy - gun owners. Project Exile and other NRA 'initiatives' to punish people who commit gun crimes are nothing more then PR - that distracts people from the cold hard facts that the NRA does everthing it can to make prosecuting people for using guns in ANY manor more difficult.
As I'm sure someone of your vast experience with firearms knows, when a firearm is discharged, a projectile (the bullet) travels through the barrel. The barrel, for reasons of accuracy, is essentially threaded like a screw, imparting a spin on the bullet to increase accuracy--much like a football is thrown.
You clearly think im an idiot and don't understand basic physics. Doesn't everyone know this? The process was originally developed with arrows many thousands of years ago - the feathers would be put around the shaft in a curved way - which would cause the arrow to stabilize in flight.
I admit I could be wrong, but it was my understanding that their is now an initiative to be able to fingerpring BULLETS - not BALLISTIC fingerprinting, but BULLET fingerprinting. It would not tell you what gun it was fired from, but it would be tracable to the point of purchase.
does it matter if people do this stuff?
if it passed, 10 years from now, 99% of the bullets out there would have fingerprints.
even if SOME criminals don't use them, or sand them off, not all (probably not even most) will avoid them. it's a tool - one that will be useful in some cases.
what is it about gun people that they fight tooth and nail to make it harder to gain tools to arrest and convict people who use guns to murder other people?
As for that rally, the NRA has no respect for a community in mourning, no respect for gun victims, no respect for people who have been wounded, and no respect for anybody who doesn't think that every citizen should have the right to any weapon they want, no matter what that person has done in the past (or likely will do in the near future - see restraining orders...)
the NRA is a mean hearted organization that does it's damnedest to discredit and hurt people who are victims of guns. They treat then like they are the enemy, and the shooter is some sort of hero for using their 2nd amendment rights.
Great! Two gun wielding psychopaths are behind bars. Exactly why are you against that?
Face it, the reason the NRA doesn't want ballistic fingerprinting is so that it's one step harder to put them in jail when one of their members DO go out and murder someone.
Cars have an explicit goal - that of getting people from point A to point B.
Guns also have an explicit goal - to kill whatever is at the other end of it when the trigger is pulled.
The design goals of an item DO matter. Trees (heh) are not deigned to kill people, nor are cars - guns are.
This means that the guns deserve MORE care when crafting regulations.
The reason the NRA is extreme, is less their subject, and more their methods. The NRA has a habit of doing some pretty despicable things to push it's views. Much like the rally here (Denver) that they held right after Columbine.
They enjoy rubbing salt in the wounds of communities that have been the victims of truly horrible gun violence. And are completely focused on one goal - completely unfettered access to guns for everyone - no matter their situation or background.
The NRA also has a history of assaulting anything that could make murders with guns easier to solve.
A perfect example of this is bullet fingerprinting. Bullet fingerprinting does absolutly ZERO damage to a person's ability to use a gun as they choose. BUT, if they murder someone, it makes it easy to trace. there is NO solid reason for the NRA to be against this, except that they support strong gun rights for not just citizens, hunters and for protection...but they effectivly support strong gun rights for criminals, doing their best to make it difficult for people to be charged with gun crimes - or for a gun to be used as evidence of another crime. And, the only argument they can broke agaisnt this - is that criminals willjust use unfingerprinted bullets....to which I say BULLSHIT - not all crimes are pre-meditated, and not all criminals are smart. Some will use the bullets, and those will be easier to prosecute - all at no cost to the lawful gun user.
the NRA in my mind is run by a man (Charleton Heston) who has had his mental capacity COMPLETLY subsumed by the Meme of unfettered gun access.
IMHO he's not a man anymore - just a replication device for the meme...
I propose:
"Phoenix the web browser, not PhoenixBios who are a bunch of fsckers"
Completly agreed. Consoles just don't hold a candle to the PC when it comes to games with a more intellectually challening level of gameplay. Colsoles have tried for decades to reproduce RPGs from PCs (or other general purpose computers), and have come up with what? Final Fantasy? What a joke. FF doesn't hold a candle to the story depth and complexity of gameplay of the true PC RPGs. Starting back 20+ years, you have Bard's Tale, Wizardry, Ultima (Ultima 4 is simply the best CRPG ever produced), Ultima Underworld, Might and Magic, Elder Scrolls, Magic Candle, Eye of the Beholder, Dungeon Master, and now NWN, all contributing new and interesting things to the state of CRPG art (there are of course many many more, but for me - these are the core of good CRPGs). Some of these have been poorly translated to various platforms, and without fail, they are always a pale reflection of the PC version.
Why is this? IMHO 2 reasons:
1) The more complex controls on a PC allow for a greater variety of ideas to flourish, and for more complex games to be born.
2) Consoles almost invariably dumb down games for mass market appeal (or to make them playable by kids). PC games have almost always been a smaller market - but one that tends to have more people who are willing to face greater complexity, and who demand more intelligence in their games then Zelda or Final Fantasy.
Please don't hold it against us. Our president is a Jackass, and one that is only in office because our supreme court corruptly put him there.
Americans value our brothers to the north, I think in some ways though - we view you so much as a part of our culture, that when it comes to talking about our friends, we almost always mention Britain or Mexico first - both of which are friendly, but are a bit more distanced from us culturally. In short, we take Canada for granted.
As far as the tariffs - well, I don't think those are widly supported (or heck, even understood). Thos are mostly the result of special interests polluting our political system.
Personally I think both our lumber and steel industries are outdated hulks who need to face real competetion - so that the either die or move into the 21st century. Hell, half the steel industry in the US (Mini Mills) don't even need the tariffs to be competetive - it's just entrenched industrial bohemeths like Bethlehem Steel....but I digress.
Canada is important - and when we have a president who isn't a shill for Oil, Steel and other industrial age sloths, the relationship will get better again.
you are totally missing the point of the springboard. with the springboard, I can use almost ALL memory expansion types. Smartmedia, CompactFlash, MMC, hell, even the Sony Memory stick. Beyond that, there is no reason based upon the specs for SD & Springboard that you couldn't make an SD adapter.
who cares if it's non standard - when it lets you use ALL the standards.
screw being stuck with a single expansion slot type - now that's crippling.
when am I ever going to be able to stick a compact flash from my camara into an SD slot? oh yeah, this side of never....
It's really unfortunate, the springboard is bar none the best expansion slot in the PDA business. no where else can I have one slot that can be rigged to take compact flash, smartmedia, memory sticks, mmc, or native expansions?
Being stranded with the springboard is STILL better then being stuck with only SD. Can I view photos from digital camara using springboard? You betcha. will I ever be able to do the same with SD? I seriously doubt it.
This is wonderful to see. Tattered Cover is easily the coolest bookstore I have ever had the pleasure to buy books at. The main store (Cherry Creek) is giagantic, sporting (among other things) very extinsive abounts of Sci-Fi, History, Maps (some historical), and computer books. At 4 stories, I don't know of another anywhere near it's size. The Downtown one is also very cool, right in one of the hottest parts of Denver (LoDo). Regularly, they have really high profile authors in, talking about their books or doing readings.
All this from what was a tiny corner bookstore maybe 15 years ago.
Between their just utter badassness, and this - I don't see myself buying books anywhere else for a long long time. oh, and note: they have an affiliate program - so if you value companie slike this, dump amazon, and add them.
The idea is being able to swap one item for another. Do I buy intel stuff? Yeah, sometimes. Do I have to ? NO. I am not beholden to Intel, nor am I beholden to AMD. Frankly put, I don't trust any one of these companies (Intel, AMD, Apple, IBM, et al), so why the hell would I want to handcuff myself to them?
Look at QT... I keep about five different versions of QT on my system, and sometimes I *still* can't get a QT app to compile against one of them.
GTK+, on the other hand, seems to do much better in terms of keeping a stable API from version-to-version.
personally I want one of them to just go away. Competetion may be a good thing, but not having a single stable, usable API keeps many developers away (I know it keeps me away)
I like using linux, but till there I get this - all the apps I write are console or java.
well, for one, windows is deffinitly inferrior - though I am mostly a linux person.
I do find OS X appealing for multiple reasons, not the least of which being that I would like to have a desktop that is:
A) Stable
B) nice looking
C) has a single well defined API
Linux on the desktop doesn't seem to be able to provide C, and sometimes A is in question.
But the problem is, I am not willing to exchange a proprietary OS for a proprietary platform. What I want is an open OS sitting on an Open paltform, and unfortunatly, Mac can't provide that.
It's not really about the last 5 mhz, it's also that - after investing money in my computer - I now can kind of do a rolling upgrade - so I never really need to plop down 2-3000 - instead it's 300 here, 100 there over time. This provides me tow things:
1) I never have to take a really big financial hit
2) My computer is never really far behind, as it generally will have equipment that is the best performance for the dollar in it (not the best, but good)
Frankly, I don't go out and buy Sparc or PA-Risc boxen for basically the same reason - I adhore being beholden to one supplier.
No, more like the freedom to choose what motherboard, processor, et al.
Every desktop I have owned has been built with my hands. A commodity market has created this ability for me, and it is not a control I am willing to give up. For me, an open platform is just as important as an open operating system. So I can make my own decisions, instead of a corperation making a one size fits all choice for me.
On Intel, I can always run an open operating system, and my entire system is pretty much open. On mac, even with a relatively open OS like OS X, my system will always be very much proprietary, adn that is not acceptable to me.
You may think I'm a cheepskate, I think it's clear that that is not the case. Clearly I am a control freak.
It's really unfortunate though, many intel people would LOVE the opportunity to use Mac OS X. I know I would. But simply put, I don't use desktops that I don't build myself. So, between the fact I have no ability to really build my own, and the fact that the Macs are far more expensive then PCs - it's never going to happen that purchace hardware that Mac OS X will run on.
It's a shame, because it's a nice opperating system - but I'm not going to give up the freedoms of a commodity computer marketplace for it.
I wrote one that can encode using multiple mp3 codecs, or can use oggenc.
it is command line, but I at least feel it is quite easy to use, and it is faster then alot of them, because as soon as it finishes ripping a song, it forks an encoder, then goes on to rip the next.
anyway: it's called the One Ripper, and it is at:
http://www.evilsoft.org/Software.
it requires a linux system with perl 5, and it has links to some perl libraries you need.
Enjoy.
Umm... That's because Emacs doesn't do any one of those things as well as stand alone programs written for that purpose.
Mozilla on the other hand is:
1. A cross platform framework.
2. A browser application written on TOP of that framework.
Composer is an editor written on top of the framework
Messenger is a mailer written on top of the framework
Chatzilla is an IRC app written on top of the framework
This Calendaring is another app written on top of the framework.
You don't want one? then don't build it (or don't install it)
Each of these apps is a seperate beasie, that can run alone (without the others). Each is intended to do one thing, and do it well (Browsing, Web Editing, Mail, and PIM). But, in the unix style of things - they all talk to each other very effectivly. This is useful, as the apps working together creates a package that is more then the sum of the parts.
Mozilla is my favorite browser, Messanger is my favorite Mailer. I can take or leave the current incarnation of Composer.
As other apps start working well in the Mozilla environment, I will pick and choose those which I choose to use - but the fact they all work well together makes the suite more effective.
Don't front on people's ability to try and work on tools that they want. Mozilla is gonna be released for 1.0 when it is released, and this will likely not change that date by so much as a week. I want (as many people) a suite of internet tools that function well with each other, and make my working life easier, instead of having to spend the time finding the bloody setting that lets my e-mail program launch links to my preferred browser, or dealing with any of the other annoyances of trying to get two packages to work well together that were not designed from the beginning to do so....
I've personally had 3 BOSD style crashes with W2k - as well as the system needing to be rebooted multiple times because it has become unusable.
It IS better the NT or 95/98/ME, but it still has nothing on UNIX/Linux
I just purchased the crossover plugin, and here are my first thoughs with it: (testing with Netscape & Mozilla)
.mov file on my system with browsers led to:
.mov file played correctly, and in line
Installer: Very cool - makes it way easier to get the plugins.
Quicktime: Quicktime installed fine, but the opening video I played had no sound.
following attempts with opening a
Netscape:
Mozilla: Tried to launch Xanim
Gnome (nautilus): launches to Xanim
Shockwave: Shockwave installer had to be downloaded, but it's install went fine
Netscape: every file I have tried to use has worked to at least some degree. some things the sound only produces a crackle - but this could be my audio driver I suppose
Mozilla: only aboul a 1/4 of th eflash files Ihave tried have worked. Some sites cannot detect tha mozilla has the plugin installed.
Word: Word viewer installed fine, though it didthrow an error, saying the plugin wasn't detected.
Netscape: Files loaded fine (Note, if file has a space in it's name, you need to escape it, or it will take you to netscape's search site) Note: the file was not viewed in line
Mozilla: Didn't pick up the mime type, and so just displayed a normal dialog for running a file it does not recognize
Gnome: Files launched to the word viewer fine
Excel: Excel viewer installed fine, though it didthrow an error, saying the plugin wasn't detected.
Netscape: Files loaded fine (Note, if file has a space in it's name, you need to escape it, or it will take you to netscape's search site) Note: the file was not viewed in line
Mozilla: Didn't pick up the mime type, and so just displayed a normal dialog for running a file it does not recognize
Gnome: Files launched to the excel viewer fine
Note, the Excel & Word viewers did not show up in mozilla when one does an About:Plugin
Final judgement: This works pretty well in Netscape, but needs alot of work for Mozilla. this is to be expected from the release notes. For me, the word and excel viewers are well worth the $20 - and the rest is fun to play with
Devon Jones
Hmm...and the same president that has purposefully aided in the trashing of our economy in order to pass a very shady tax cut?
The same president who has managed to actually piss off the entire UN?
The same president who helped remove any testing for arsnic in our water supply (Arsnic stays in the body's fat I might add...it doesn't just leave like cyanide)?
The same president who is activly trying to restart the cold war by damaging our relations as much as he can with russia (there was NO need to send 50 diplomats back to russia)?
you mean that idiot?
Unlike most of you pro aborts, I'm very careful about who I have sex with. Being the only chick at the bar who said yes isn't good enough for me.
oh - and I'm not? It's not about ME or YOU, it's about the woman. Do you have to carry the baby? Do you have to get morning sickness? Do you have to get stuck in the situation of having to drop out of school because you ahve to care for a child? Perhaps permanently sitting you on the welfare role?
I didn't think so
Since you bring it up, I DO think it's appropriate to shame and embarass abortion providers to attempt to sway them away from the practice.
And yet you still skirt the question: DO YOU OR DO YOU NOT THINK THAT KILLING ABORTION DOCTORS IS AN ACCEPTABLE THING? DO YOU OR DO YOU NOT THINK THAT INCITING PEOPLE TO KILL THEM IS AN ACCEPTABLE THING?
Answer it.
Answer the bloody question
The reason is - that if a moral stance comes purely from religion, our government should not act to respect that moral stance.
if our government made everything illegal that the religions within it's borders find immoral - we would be able to to very little. for example, becuase dringking alchohol is immoral in islam, it would have to be illegal.
Our governemtn is base around the idea that we can have a society within which members of many religions can participate, but none of those religions will be able to effect other people through policy. This is done in an effort to keep the united states a free and open culture - ideas that are in many cases foreign to religion.
no - mre that I have always felt that if a person replies to one of my comments that I have a polite responsibility to respond to them.
Ok - you wanna play dirty eh?
we have not defined self-destructive. So I will do it now:
I define self destuctive as any act that causes the perpetrator more harm then good.
keep in mind that everything you do can harm you in some way - so remembering that EVERYTHING causes some harm - the only way for any action to not be self destructive would be for that action to provide more good for the person then bad.
Abortion does damage tissues, but that tissue damage is negligable. The cancer issue is not an accepted medical fact, it is only a thing which a minority believe to be true.
so that covers harm.
on the benefit side, most women who have an abortion become free to go to school, enrich themselves, and become stronger, more stable people so that if they choose to have children, they can do it on positive terms, and have a child who grows up in a healthy atmosphere of success, instead of one of possible poverty.
that sounds like a net benefit to me.
I think this fits safely in the rights of a person to life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness myself.
but on top of that - there is plently of lay that exists to prevent people from murdering me, harassing me, stalking me, raping me, injuring me, and so on. It is the government's responsibility to police the country to ensure that people behave in ways that do not seriously adversly affect the other citizens.
do you think all of the above should be legal?
I sure don't