So how much more useful it is depends on the person.
For some the potential of being able to spam 2 x more people might even be worth more than 2 x - because it'll cost more to set up separate spamming systems to spam two unconnected networks.
To the marketing people if 1.1 x or 2 x puts you at No. 1 position, it's worth 10x more than No. 2 position.
To someone who only uses it to communicate with a _single_ loved one, it's not worth much more.
So saying that someone could calculate just by pure math alone the value of a network is naive.
A decently thought out survey of a random 1000 people would even be better.
Also: using "AT&T vs the rivals" as an example doesn't work, because AT&T is connected to the rivals - their users can still contact each other.
So there would only be a smaller increase in value (to the users) by merging the networks, compared to if the two networks were not even connected at all.
If the the various networks were not connected at all, connecting them could actually decrease the value of largest network significantly in the eyes of the owners - they are no longer the number 1, and worse - it will become harder for them to become a monopoly - whereas previously more and more people may want to switch to their network because it is the largest - more of their friends are likely to be on that network and the networks are not interoperable.
Well while regimes can change, I think the relevant powers have got things pretty much heading the way they want, so they aren't going to do much overthrowing in the USA just yet.
That's fine if the two problems are easier to solve.
But an ex-colleague seemed to take months to solve a parser issue. The library used was barfing on some stuff, or something like that.
I suppose everything is fine if the other end actually sends you proper XML instead of broken XML... My guess is my ex-colleague had to deal with a broken case.
I'd have used Perl instead of Java (which my colleague was using).
Aside: It seems more common for the perl module writers to actually use the stuff they write, and use them for real world cases. Whereas lots of Java stuff seems to be written by people just to meet a spec/requirement given by their project managers.
Otherwise theft laws would apply. But copyright laws are the relevant laws in this case.
Even though he made copies and let other people have access to them, the copyright owners still have access to their own originals and copies.
[If he broke some other law in order to get copies then those laws apply.]
So it's not really stealing unless you believe that the Copyright Owners have _automatic_ right to your money just because you use a copy instead. Remember: copyright is a "limited" granted monopoly over copying and distribution, and most copyright laws have fair use clauses.
In fact to me what really is stealing is the extension of copyright terms especially the _retroactive_ extensions in the US.
When a copyright term expires, the copyrighted work enters the Public Domain - in which case the public has full access to the work - they can freely and legally make copies and derivative works.
IMO extending copyright terms can arguably be viewed as closer to stealing. Stealing from the Public - since they are removing access to works that would have otherwise be or become publicly accessible.
But worse are the _retroactive_ extensions - works that are actually already public domain, are then suddenly taken away from the Public.
So who are the real thieves?
Think about it.
Don't get brainwashed by the Media Industry etc. They like to use terms lik stealing, pirates, intellectual property, just to brainwash people. It works. I think even judges and lawmakers are starting to get brainwashed.
The US copyright extension is closer to the Lawnmower Copying Monopoly promising to let the public copy a lawnmower after X years so that the Public can freely make copies of it, and then bribing/convincing law makers so that they only have to return it after 20 years more (or till they stop bribing them). Sure it's not legally stealing - coz the lawmakers changed the law after all, but morally/ethically I believe it is closer to stealing than copyright infringement- which is just making copies of the lawnmower (sure that hurts the industry with a legal monopoly on lawnmower copying, but is it stealing? If I buy a different lawnmower or don't use lawnmowers I also hurt them).
I leave the analogy for the retroactive extensions to you.
Well, then he should be charged in Australia, not the USA. If the Australian courts can't sentence him for anything under Australian Law then he should go free.
This isn't anything like extraditing people for war-crimes or similar stuff.
Just more evidence that Australia is the southernmost state of the US.
Just like in Israel/Palestine, N. Ireland, etc, I bet most Kashmiris never wanted to be part of anything especially a war.
It's usually only a few assholes/idiots who cause most of the trouble.
Otherwise it'll just be lots of heated words and everyone else just ignores them and gets on with their lives.
Look are most Kashmiris much better off if they aren't part of India? I doubt it. Sure India isn't such a great country but what's the big deal being part of it? Is the Indian gov that evil as it is? I doubt it. Plus democracy in India is probably not as big a farce as it is in the US.
In fact the odds are there'll be genocide if one of those Militant Islamist groups takes over - just look at the track record round the world - e.g. Sudan, Indonesia, Turkey (e.g. Armenia, Kurds), even in Nigeria the Islamists burnt churches and rioted because of what a _newspaper_ said re Muhammad and a beauty contest.
Even recently in Pakistan some actress got death threats just because of an on-screen kiss - such threats in Pakistan are no joke - over there people's throats have been slit for less.
Just because people design such systems does not make them incompetent or malicious.
There are many people or organizations where such an escrow feature is vital.
It is esp useful with key splitting+combining features. e.g. if A is in a coma, B or C can't individually decrypt the stuff. But B and C _together_ can decrypt the stuff. This maps well to real world requirements.
I was just refuting points made by the OP. 1) You don't starve just because you don't have carbs - see Inuits. 2) Given the quantities popularly consumed - it doesn't matter even if protein and fats are inefficient energy sources as the OP claims.
The main issue in the USA seems to be people are consuming way too much.
The Atkins diet is just one of the less evil diets for the typical US folk given the quantities they've grown accustomed to eating.
I suspect that if a typical obese US American went on a "Japanese" diet, he'd stuff himself with tons of sushi (or ramen). And that might not be that healthy.
The Atkins diet isn't as annoying as the USDA food pyramid. Whilst carbs probably aren't as bad as the Atkin's people say, carbs really aren't that good for you - just look at the various studies.
In fact I don't see that many decent studies backing the popular "food pyramid" diet. The original proponent of the high carb diet was the USDA.
The USDA = US Dept of _Agriculture_. Their food pyramid probably mirrors the "US Agriculture Production Pyramid", and I wouldn't be surprised if their priorities are the health of the agriculture industry and not the health of the consumers.
In the era of the Food Pyramid, the US people have just got more and more obese. If you look at the photos of US people in the 1960s/1970s pre the USDA, they sure weren't that fat (see college photos ).
They had a lot more hair (including facial hair), but even then that didn't make them as heavy or unhealthy;).
IMO the main contributor to ill-health in the US has probably been rise in consumption of carbonated sweetened beverages (whether artificially sweetened or not). (the increase in standard food portion sizes is also to blame).
With lots of sugar in _solution_ hitting the bloodstream, either the sugar remains in the blood which means you have diabetes, or it converts to fat - which means you're getting fat.
Whilst there's just so much potato you can eat (or want to eat) and digest, drinking sugar water doesn't quench thirst that well, so people drink more. Even drinking that much plain water can be unhealthy - and so most healthy people start to feel bloated/too full.
"avoiding carbs is basically the same thing as starving."
ROFL. None of them (Atkins, typical US folk) look like they are starving _far_ from it - which is the problem.
Diets high in protein appear to make most people feel full, that's the biggest benefit - they stop eating because they _feel_ like stopping.
Whereas the carb diets make many people feel peckish or hungry, or even _starving_ after the blood sugar spikes and then dips/crashes. Sure you lose weight on both type of diets, but pick the one that doesn't make you feel like you're starving.
"carbohydrates should be your main source of energy - fat and protein don't work anywhere near as well (hence the atkins diet being so bad)."
If you mean not working as well = not as efficient, then it's kinda funny, because the typical US American (the main audience for Atkins) has no problem getting more than enough calories to make up for the inefficiency.
Heck it's probably even better for them if it's inefficient.
The Inuits did fine without carbs for years (unfortunately nowadays PCBs and mercury make their traditional diets dangerous).
As for me, I suggest the Japanese cuisine/diet (esp whatever it was the Japanese were eating 20-30 years ago - and in those quantities;) ). The guys smoke (LOTs), drink, work long hours and tons live till 80 (average = 78).
Like most stuff - the price isn't just based on the supplier's cost - it's based on what the market will bear.
Figure out how much it costs them for you to work in the office. Figure out how much it costs you to work from home minus how much it costs you to work in the office.
cost is not just money - include time and other intangibles - e.g. no coworkers to chat with can be a minus or plus depending on you and your situation.
If there's a nice value in between that makes both of you happy then you can have a deal.
If there isn't, then you have to figure out something with your boss.
Errr, yes. "Stop payment" only works if you manage to do it _before_ the money is gone.
Once the money is gone, it's your money that's gone.
Even IF the bank is working to get your money back, you sure can't use YOUR missing money.
Whereas that's not a big problem with credit card stuff. The Bank et all have to prove that it's actually YOUR money that's gone, rather than THEIRS...
If the same thing happened and it was a Credit Card transaction, the Merchant loses or the Bank loses. There's no need to negotiate with the Bank - just say "I didn't agree to that, I'm not paying".
Heck, someone I know screwed up once and did a chargeback of a _valid_ transaction. It's probably because he didn't recognize the actual payment handling company (which can be very different from the merchant) - this is quite common.
When that someone figured out he'd screwed up he was a bit too embarassed to use the same card, so he used another credit card to redo the payment;).
With my credit card, in event of fraud - it's NOT my money that's gone.
I just have to inform the card company that the transaction was not good. And I don't have to pay for it. And since it's not MY money, it's someone else's problem.
At worst, I can't use the affected card and the card company issues me a new card.
That's OK - I have more than one credit card.
I'm far more puzzled by the popularity of debit cards. If stuff happens it's YOUR money that's gone, so YOU have to be the one working your butt off trying to get your money back.
Even cash isn't as safe. You buy something with your credit card and the merchant cheats you, it's a lot easier to fix.
The online merchants AND banks are the ones who should be worried. Too many customers tricked/exploited and their business would be affected.
Seems to be set correctly in KDE Control Center/keyboard shortcuts/application shortcuts. Home=Beginning of Line, End= End of line.
But it doesn't work that way in Konqueror and Mozilla. It works that way on Kate and probably other stuff.
Maybe it's broken because I upgraded KDE on SuSE using SuSE's "unsupported" yast source for KDE3.3.
I had to upgrade because Konsole on the default KDE for SuSE 9.1 was very annoying - you could assign ctrl+insert to copy but it wouldn't work.
Basically Linux for the desktop still sucks. I've had the GUI crash out or hang totally more than twice. This on a P4 3GHz with 2GB RAM.
I've hardly had this happen on Win2K and WinXP. I've got the blue STOP screen on my Win2K before, but I fixed that with a video driver update.
Given that, I was tempted to use the NVidia display driver instead of the default nv, BUT when I looked at the release notes, it said there were issues using the NVidia driver when installing it the proper SuSE style. So "I'll wait, thank you very much, NOT".
Linux is fine as a server and all that. But the GUI stuff sucks. Someone suggested I use Gnome. I said things sure don't look much better. He says it's fine once you customize it.
WTF, even Windows is fine once I customize it too.
The main part of GUI useability is in the _defaults_.
Perhaps by the time the useability catches up with Windows (not like it's that useable), the instability and bugginess will catch up too.
Example: if you are typing an email message and want to press a ctrl-s and save at an important point just in case someone trips over the power cord.
On Kmail, if you do that, Kmail closes the message window - you have to go to Drafts, reopen the message to continue.
On Evolution - the default ctrl-s to save actually tries to save it as a _file_. AFAIK, there's no easy way to customize ctrl-s to do something else.
On MS Windows and Mac desktop, you want to save, you cam use the same shortcut on almost ALL apps.
Whereas on the popular linux desktops, there isn't even a standard way for their email apps.
I'd use linux and *BSD servers over windows servers as far as possible, but for desktops, Gnome and KDE are far from ready. People can suggest some random linux desktop manager, but that misses the point totally - with UI it's the DEFAULTS that count.
Even if Window's defaults suck, it's the _Default_ Default, so newbies might as well learn that. Rather than wasting time learning some nondefault's default that probably still sucks anyway.
Various parties are out to brainwash you whether you like it or not. Hollywood, MTV, RIAA, MPAA, McD, The Corporates, NeoCons, Governments etc. They've all got their agendas.
Example: Hollywood regular snips violent/mature movies enough so that they can sell them to kids and "that's OK". And then they pretend to wonder why it doesn't sell as well, blame pirates etc.
Doh it's like watering down whisky enough so you can sell it to kids. The whiskey drinkers sure won't like it.
Sure shows me they have some sort of agenda. The other film industries (Hong Kong, Bollywood) are more market oriented in comparison - their agenda is profit.
Face it, you're going to be shackled/brainwashed anyway. Pick your shackles whilst/if you can.
At least Christianity has a significant amount of positive stuff in it. Especially when compared to the others trying to brainwash you to their version of what is right and what is wrong.
The easiest way to be invisible is to fire a powerful laser beam around you at the direction of observers.
Once everyone is suitably blinded (or covering their eyes), you may proceed.
Of course weapons designed to blind are banned by the Geneva convention or something like that. So just make sure the beam does something else (damage stuff, range location etc), and the blinding is just a side effect.
It seems really silly and dangerous to mix code and data stacks. Why is it so common?
Maybe it will slow down CPUs, but I think that if a CPU knows that a stack will ONLY ever contain return addresses and another stack only contains data there can be a fair number of optimizations.
If you want to really be paranoid, have 3 stacks. One stack for code (return addresses), one stack for data (variables), and one stack for metadata - e.g. each entry could store the end location of the data (e.g. the data stack pointer before a subroutine call).
The popular method just seems really sloppy and error prone.
But Java doesn't seem like a high level language at all. It's like C++ in a padded cell (white straightjacket and all).
You seem to have to write about the same amount of code. Worse there are all these ratherLongNames.
Perhaps writing in Java gives Java programmers a sense of achievement.
A bit like the sense of achievement of waking up early in the morning, walking a mile or two, milking a cow, just for a glass or two of milk for breakfast.
Rather than just getting it from a milk carton in the fridge (conveniently left there by others who knew you'd want it). And then getting on with the real job.
Yeah, I've gone soft since my 6502 days. But I'd like to think times have changed;).
I wonder if Parrot would help make stuff like Python and Perl run faster. That'll be nice.
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So how much more useful it is depends on the person.
For some the potential of being able to spam 2 x more people might even be worth more than 2 x - because it'll cost more to set up separate spamming systems to spam two unconnected networks.
To the marketing people if 1.1 x or 2 x puts you at No. 1 position, it's worth 10x more than No. 2 position.
To someone who only uses it to communicate with a _single_ loved one, it's not worth much more.
So saying that someone could calculate just by pure math alone the value of a network is naive.
A decently thought out survey of a random 1000 people would even be better.
Also: using "AT&T vs the rivals" as an example doesn't work, because AT&T is connected to the rivals - their users can still contact each other.
So there would only be a smaller increase in value (to the users) by merging the networks, compared to if the two networks were not even connected at all.
If the the various networks were not connected at all, connecting them could actually decrease the value of largest network significantly in the eyes of the owners - they are no longer the number 1, and worse - it will become harder for them to become a monopoly - whereas previously more and more people may want to switch to their network because it is the largest - more of their friends are likely to be on that network and the networks are not interoperable.
In theory you could use lasers to guide bullets.
;).
Your bullets have to be a lot smarter and more expensive than the usual ones though
That said such systems would likely reduce the velocity and maximum range of the bullet.
It'll be better to use lasers to guide a pair of lasers which then guide a nice multi-kilovolt bolt of electricity.
You might still need bullets to break windows and stuff so the electric charge can hit the target.
Keep all of it ESPECIALLY the spam.
:).
The more spam the better.
When they ask for your emails, give them ALL the emails, including the PENIS ENLARGEMENT ones, the nigerian scams etc.
Even more fun if you use unreliable mail software so that you lose the metadata from time to time, or it gets corrupted.
--
Alternatively, delete everything, but the spam
Well while regimes can change, I think the relevant powers have got things pretty much heading the way they want, so they aren't going to do much overthrowing in the USA just yet.
That's fine if the two problems are easier to solve.
But an ex-colleague seemed to take months to solve a parser issue. The library used was barfing on some stuff, or something like that.
I suppose everything is fine if the other end actually sends you proper XML instead of broken XML... My guess is my ex-colleague had to deal with a broken case.
I'd have used Perl instead of Java (which my colleague was using).
Aside: It seems more common for the perl module writers to actually use the stuff they write, and use them for real world cases. Whereas lots of Java stuff seems to be written by people just to meet a spec/requirement given by their project managers.
Copying is not stealing.
Otherwise theft laws would apply. But copyright laws are the relevant laws in this case.
Even though he made copies and let other people have access to them, the copyright owners still have access to their own originals and copies.
[If he broke some other law in order to get copies then those laws apply.]
So it's not really stealing unless you believe that the Copyright Owners have _automatic_ right to your money just because you use a copy instead. Remember: copyright is a "limited" granted monopoly over copying and distribution, and most copyright laws have fair use clauses.
In fact to me what really is stealing is the extension of copyright terms especially the _retroactive_ extensions in the US.
When a copyright term expires, the copyrighted work enters the Public Domain - in which case the public has full access to the work - they can freely and legally make copies and derivative works.
IMO extending copyright terms can arguably be viewed as closer to stealing. Stealing from the Public - since they are removing access to works that would have otherwise be or become publicly accessible.
But worse are the _retroactive_ extensions - works that are actually already public domain, are then suddenly taken away from the Public.
So who are the real thieves?
Think about it.
Don't get brainwashed by the Media Industry etc. They like to use terms lik stealing, pirates, intellectual property, just to brainwash people. It works. I think even judges and lawmakers are starting to get brainwashed.
The US copyright extension is closer to the Lawnmower Copying Monopoly promising to let the public copy a lawnmower after X years so that the Public can freely make copies of it, and then bribing/convincing law makers so that they only have to return it after 20 years more (or till they stop bribing them). Sure it's not legally stealing - coz the lawmakers changed the law after all, but morally/ethically I believe it is closer to stealing than copyright infringement- which is just making copies of the lawnmower (sure that hurts the industry with a legal monopoly on lawnmower copying, but is it stealing? If I buy a different lawnmower or don't use lawnmowers I also hurt them).
I leave the analogy for the retroactive extensions to you.
Uh, NZ is a LOT further from Indonesia than northern Australia.
NZ is at least 10+ hours flight from practically anywhere except Australia, Antartica and a few Pacific islands.
If they are going for NZ they might as well start with Australia first.
Well, then he should be charged in Australia, not the USA. If the Australian courts can't sentence him for anything under Australian Law then he should go free.
This isn't anything like extraditing people for war-crimes or similar stuff.
Just more evidence that Australia is the southernmost state of the US.
Freedom from war and freedom to live.
Just like in Israel/Palestine, N. Ireland, etc, I bet most Kashmiris never wanted to be part of anything especially a war.
It's usually only a few assholes/idiots who cause most of the trouble.
Otherwise it'll just be lots of heated words and everyone else just ignores them and gets on with their lives.
Look are most Kashmiris much better off if they aren't part of India? I doubt it. Sure India isn't such a great country but what's the big deal being part of it? Is the Indian gov that evil as it is? I doubt it. Plus democracy in India is probably not as big a farce as it is in the US.
In fact the odds are there'll be genocide if one of those Militant Islamist groups takes over - just look at the track record round the world - e.g. Sudan, Indonesia, Turkey (e.g. Armenia, Kurds), even in Nigeria the Islamists burnt churches and rioted because of what a _newspaper_ said re Muhammad and a beauty contest.
Even recently in Pakistan some actress got death threats just because of an on-screen kiss - such threats in Pakistan are no joke - over there people's throats have been slit for less.
How many computers does Google have? 100K?
Is that significant for factorization?
Key escrow is a feature not a flaw or weakness.
Just because people design such systems does not make them incompetent or malicious.
There are many people or organizations where such an escrow feature is vital.
It is esp useful with key splitting+combining features. e.g. if A is in a coma, B or C can't individually decrypt the stuff. But B and C _together_ can decrypt the stuff. This maps well to real world requirements.
I was just refuting points made by the OP.
;).
1) You don't starve just because you don't have carbs - see Inuits.
2) Given the quantities popularly consumed - it doesn't matter even if protein and fats are inefficient energy sources as the OP claims.
The main issue in the USA seems to be people are consuming way too much.
The Atkins diet is just one of the less evil diets for the typical US folk given the quantities they've grown accustomed to eating.
I suspect that if a typical obese US American went on a "Japanese" diet, he'd stuff himself with tons of sushi (or ramen). And that might not be that healthy.
The Atkins diet isn't as annoying as the USDA food pyramid. Whilst carbs probably aren't as bad as the Atkin's people say, carbs really aren't that good for you - just look at the various studies.
In fact I don't see that many decent studies backing the popular "food pyramid" diet. The original proponent of the high carb diet was the USDA.
The USDA = US Dept of _Agriculture_. Their food pyramid probably mirrors the "US Agriculture Production Pyramid", and I wouldn't be surprised if their priorities are the health of the agriculture industry and not the health of the consumers.
In the era of the Food Pyramid, the US people have just got more and more obese. If you look at the photos of US people in the 1960s/1970s pre the USDA, they sure weren't that fat (see college photos ).
They had a lot more hair (including facial hair), but even then that didn't make them as heavy or unhealthy
IMO the main contributor to ill-health in the US has probably been rise in consumption of carbonated sweetened beverages (whether artificially sweetened or not). (the increase in standard food portion sizes is also to blame).
With lots of sugar in _solution_ hitting the bloodstream, either the sugar remains in the blood which means you have diabetes, or it converts to fat - which means you're getting fat.
Whilst there's just so much potato you can eat (or want to eat) and digest, drinking sugar water doesn't quench thirst that well, so people drink more. Even drinking that much plain water can be unhealthy - and so most healthy people start to feel bloated/too full.
"avoiding carbs is basically the same thing as starving."
;) ). The guys smoke (LOTs), drink, work long hours and tons live till 80 (average = 78).
ROFL. None of them (Atkins, typical US folk) look like they are starving _far_ from it - which is the problem.
Diets high in protein appear to make most people feel full, that's the biggest benefit - they stop eating because they _feel_ like stopping.
Whereas the carb diets make many people feel peckish or hungry, or even _starving_ after the blood sugar spikes and then dips/crashes. Sure you lose weight on both type of diets, but pick the one that doesn't make you feel like you're starving.
"carbohydrates should be your main source of energy - fat and protein don't work anywhere near as well (hence the atkins diet being so bad)."
If you mean not working as well = not as efficient, then it's kinda funny, because the typical US American (the main audience for Atkins) has no problem getting more than enough calories to make up for the inefficiency.
Heck it's probably even better for them if it's inefficient.
The Inuits did fine without carbs for years (unfortunately nowadays PCBs and mercury make their traditional diets dangerous).
As for me, I suggest the Japanese cuisine/diet (esp whatever it was the Japanese were eating 20-30 years ago - and in those quantities
Like most stuff - the price isn't just based on the supplier's cost - it's based on what the market will bear.
Figure out how much it costs them for you to work in the office.
Figure out how much it costs you to work from home minus how much it costs you to work in the office.
cost is not just money - include time and other intangibles - e.g. no coworkers to chat with can be a minus or plus depending on you and your situation.
If there's a nice value in between that makes both of you happy then you can have a deal.
If there isn't, then you have to figure out something with your boss.
Errr, yes. "Stop payment" only works if you manage to do it _before_ the money is gone.
Once the money is gone, it's your money that's gone.
Even IF the bank is working to get your money back, you sure can't use YOUR missing money.
Whereas that's not a big problem with credit card stuff. The Bank et all have to prove that it's actually YOUR money that's gone, rather than THEIRS...
As I said. Credit cards are fine. Cash is OK.
;).
Say NO to debit cards.
If the same thing happened and it was a Credit Card transaction, the Merchant loses or the Bank loses. There's no need to negotiate with the Bank - just say "I didn't agree to that, I'm not paying".
Heck, someone I know screwed up once and did a chargeback of a _valid_ transaction. It's probably because he didn't recognize the actual payment handling company (which can be very different from the merchant) - this is quite common.
When that someone figured out he'd screwed up he was a bit too embarassed to use the same card, so he used another credit card to redo the payment
The Merchant apparently was very very grateful.
With my credit card, in event of fraud - it's NOT my money that's gone.
I just have to inform the card company that the transaction was not good. And I don't have to pay for it. And since it's not MY money, it's someone else's problem.
At worst, I can't use the affected card and the card company issues me a new card.
That's OK - I have more than one credit card.
I'm far more puzzled by the popularity of debit cards. If stuff happens it's YOUR money that's gone, so YOU have to be the one working your butt off trying to get your money back.
Even cash isn't as safe. You buy something with your credit card and the merchant cheats you, it's a lot easier to fix.
The online merchants AND banks are the ones who should be worried. Too many customers tricked/exploited and their business would be affected.
Seems to be set correctly in KDE Control Center/keyboard shortcuts/application shortcuts. Home=Beginning of Line, End= End of line.
But it doesn't work that way in Konqueror and Mozilla. It works that way on Kate and probably other stuff.
Maybe it's broken because I upgraded KDE on SuSE using SuSE's "unsupported" yast source for KDE3.3.
I had to upgrade because Konsole on the default KDE for SuSE 9.1 was very annoying - you could assign ctrl+insert to copy but it wouldn't work.
Basically Linux for the desktop still sucks. I've had the GUI crash out or hang totally more than twice. This on a P4 3GHz with 2GB RAM.
I've hardly had this happen on Win2K and WinXP. I've got the blue STOP screen on my Win2K before, but I fixed that with a video driver update.
Given that, I was tempted to use the NVidia display driver instead of the default nv, BUT when I looked at the release notes, it said there were issues using the NVidia driver when installing it the proper SuSE style. So "I'll wait, thank you very much, NOT".
Linux is fine as a server and all that. But the GUI stuff sucks. Someone suggested I use Gnome. I said things sure don't look much better. He says it's fine once you customize it.
WTF, even Windows is fine once I customize it too.
The main part of GUI useability is in the _defaults_.
Perhaps by the time the useability catches up with Windows (not like it's that useable), the instability and bugginess will catch up too.
Example: if you are typing an email message and want to press a ctrl-s and save at an important point just in case someone trips over the power cord.
On Kmail, if you do that, Kmail closes the message window - you have to go to Drafts, reopen the message to continue.
On Evolution - the default ctrl-s to save actually tries to save it as a _file_. AFAIK, there's no easy way to customize ctrl-s to do something else.
On MS Windows and Mac desktop, you want to save, you cam use the same shortcut on almost ALL apps.
Whereas on the popular linux desktops, there isn't even a standard way for their email apps.
I'd use linux and *BSD servers over windows servers as far as possible, but for desktops, Gnome and KDE are far from ready. People can suggest some random linux desktop manager, but that misses the point totally - with UI it's the DEFAULTS that count.
Even if Window's defaults suck, it's the _Default_ Default, so newbies might as well learn that. Rather than wasting time learning some nondefault's default that probably still sucks anyway.
"That's the way it works in Windows.
That's the way it works in most Unix apps."
"most Unix apps" - that's the trouble with Unix and X - it's just not consistent.
It doesn't seem to work that way on Mozilla on KDE on Suse 9.1.
Ctrl-a also isn't consistent. On Mozilla you need alt-a.
Telling != Force.
Various parties are out to brainwash you whether you like it or not. Hollywood, MTV, RIAA, MPAA, McD, The Corporates, NeoCons, Governments etc. They've all got their agendas.
Example: Hollywood regular snips violent/mature movies enough so that they can sell them to kids and "that's OK". And then they pretend to wonder why it doesn't sell as well, blame pirates etc.
Doh it's like watering down whisky enough so you can sell it to kids. The whiskey drinkers sure won't like it.
Sure shows me they have some sort of agenda. The other film industries (Hong Kong, Bollywood) are more market oriented in comparison - their agenda is profit.
Face it, you're going to be shackled/brainwashed anyway. Pick your shackles whilst/if you can.
At least Christianity has a significant amount of positive stuff in it. Especially when compared to the others trying to brainwash you to their version of what is right and what is wrong.
For slashdot: use Extrans if you want text.
plain old text is not text. It interprets some HTML - like links.
The easiest way to be invisible is to fire a powerful laser beam around you at the direction of observers.
Once everyone is suitably blinded (or covering their eyes), you may proceed.
Of course weapons designed to blind are banned by the Geneva convention or something like that. So just make sure the beam does something else (damage stuff, range location etc), and the blinding is just a side effect.
It seems really silly and dangerous to mix code and data stacks. Why is it so common?
Maybe it will slow down CPUs, but I think that if a CPU knows that a stack will ONLY ever contain return addresses and another stack only contains data there can be a fair number of optimizations.
If you want to really be paranoid, have 3 stacks. One stack for code (return addresses), one stack for data (variables), and one stack for metadata - e.g. each entry could store the end location of the data (e.g. the data stack pointer before a subroutine call).
The popular method just seems really sloppy and error prone.
NxG8nRdsSMS :)
But Java doesn't seem like a high level language at all. It's like C++ in a padded cell (white straightjacket and all).
;).
You seem to have to write about the same amount of code. Worse there are all these ratherLongNames.
Perhaps writing in Java gives Java programmers a sense of achievement.
A bit like the sense of achievement of waking up early in the morning, walking a mile or two, milking a cow, just for a glass or two of milk for breakfast.
Rather than just getting it from a milk carton in the fridge (conveniently left there by others who knew you'd want it). And then getting on with the real job.
Yeah, I've gone soft since my 6502 days. But I'd like to think times have changed
I wonder if Parrot would help make stuff like Python and Perl run faster. That'll be nice.