The current Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, is an atheist, and it was pretty much a non-issue when the news came out. "Meh". Most of our former leaders were also not that religious. Aussies would rather here you swear and scull beer, than swear on the bible (Google on "Bob Hawke" and "Beer")
Also see: http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/30/of-12-prime-ministers-before-this-atheist-only-rudd-got-on-his-knees/
Is my skin being harvested when I shower? Has anybody had a similar experience?
Yes, but not quite. All of Buffalo Bill's victims had their skin harvested after a nice shower and rubbing with a good moisturizer. At least that's what Hannibal Lecter told me.
Hopefully, IBM can put Java on the right track again: fully open source it, fix its performance problems
What do you mean "fully open source" it? The only hitches are the bits not open where it's using code that they don't own, and there is work in OpenJDK being done on replacing that with open source code.
You think I'm gonna spend the time to read TFA to see what their actual claim is? No friggin' way.
Sheesh, you are judging an article based solely on the blurb that was posted? "Oooh, mommy, I debunked something on Slashdot!!" That's nice, dearie. Some of us find more value in learning new things despite these sucky descriptions. The content is in the articles, not the stuff written by the contributors and editors.
How can this by any stretch of the imagination be "stuff that matters"? Google are under no obligation to observe all the bloody holidays in existence. They do it as a bit of fun, not out of any patriotic duty. Goddamn, theodp is as much of a fucking nut-job as the website where that "article" came from. Off with his head.
It might be inconsistent, from your point of view, but you have to deal with people's expectations. As I said, people care about what is in the folder, not the folder itself. So what if you "treat one icon differently"? The point of a filesystem is to storage of their files, not consistent treatment of icons. Losing files you didn't expect to lose - bad. Having files from same-name directories mixed together because you moved files from one location to another - possibly annoying, but less painful.
The "merge" behaviour is the one that's consistent with the real world, which is really the starting point for the desktop metaphor. If I have a folder labelled "bills" on my study desk, and then put it on another table with another folder also labelled "bills", I don't lose the contents of the first folder. The contents of both folders are still there.
Doing a "replace" for that operation makes sense in a spatial system because all spatial icons are treated the same way. You'd wouldn't expect dragging a Word file named "happy.doc" into a folder already containing a "happy.doc" to perform a merge operation; so why would you expect that with a folder in the same situation?
Because a folder is different from a file. When working with folders, you are actually using that to group files together. The folder itself is not the entity you're concerned with, it's the files inside it. If you move a folder onto another with the same name, you are actually telling the system "move the files in this location to this other location". I think this is the more frequent user scenario, rather than a user wanting to REPLACE the contents of one directory with another. I think in these cases, the one that loses the least number of files should prevail.
It's not entirely accurate to say that the codenames are no longer used once they're officially released. The repositories are named feisty, edgy, dapper - and it can get confusing when you're trying to update the sources.list for apt.
'Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending, therefore blocking FireFox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks, whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers.'
That just doesn't make sense. If Firefox users are only a small percentage of all users, then how would blocking them result in 'tremendous financial rewards'? If there are so few of them, then how would their usage of AdBlock result in any huge financial losses?
And haven't we heard this kind of reasoning before from the TV industry? "GRRRR!! Tivo bad, ad-skipping bad!! You have a contract to watch our ads!! Or else kittens die! Harumph! Harumph!"
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Fuck these parenthetical clauses. If only those founding fathers knew how much debate and confusion this clause would cause, they might have written it more clearly like this:
"Because a well regulated Militia is necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."
The right to bear arms shall not be infringed because the assumption was that normal people would be part of that militia. The existence of a professional military would have eliminated the need for the militia, and along with it, the right to bear arms freely.
They know that Japan was the only Asian country to have challenged the white lords. In order to do that, they had to be a bit nasty sometimes, but that behavior was motivated by pragmaticism and a long-term view of achieving Asian solidarity and freedom from being killed by white people. In the final analysis, Japan cared (and still cares) more about the future prosperity of Asia than any European/American. Better an Asian country be ruled by fellow Asian people than by a bunch of tyrranical, arbitrary and murderous thugs that Europeans and Americans were and still are.
You show your utter ignorance of Asian history with your naive generalisations on the Japanese, based on the mere fact that they fought against Europeans and Americans. First of all, they were never under colonial rule, unlike the other countries in South East Asia. And the fact is, all of these countries had their own rebellions and insurgent movements. The Philippines (where I'm from) led the first successful anti-colonial revolution in Asia. The Vietnamese struggled against French rule in the 1930s, and eventually declared independence in 1945.
What do you mean the Japanese "had to be nasty sometimes"? You call torture, slave labour, rape, and sexual slavery as simply "being nasty"? What the Japanese did to the rest of Asia during World War II is the main reason why there is still widespread resentment from their neighbours. The Japanese in World War II were no slouches in the tyranny and murderous thugs department.
And you mean to tell me our countries were invaded by Japan to promote "Asian solidarity and freedom", and all that wartime suffering was for our own good, not to establish a new Japanese empire? Next thing you'll be telling me is how the US invaded Iraq to spread democracy. W00t!
I don't know if it was also Philips that did it, but there was definitely a digital turntable. You put your vinyl on it and a laser needle was used to "read" the music.
Not sure if it ever got mass-produced though, as the Newsweek article I read (back in 84-85) priced it around $10,000, and said the most likely takers for this would be libraries with music archives of fragile 78rpm records.
Or he might've gotten the idea from New Order, who did a similar thing for their song "Crystal". The components of the song were stored as separate.wav files ready for remixing in Acid or whatever software you fancied. A bit better than restricting people to just using GarageBand.
Mellotron was used more recently on "Exit Music (for a Film)" by Radiohead on their "OK Computer" album. The Mellotron plays that background choir of voices on the section where he sings "Breathe.. keep breathing... don't lose your nerve"
they are disrespectful to dirt. Can you not see they are serious? Get out of their way, all of you! This is no place for loafers. Join them or die.
For the bewildered: this is a reference to the Simpson's episode where Homer thinks a Japanese company copied his likeness for their "Mr Sparkle" detergent. The lines above are from the promo video that the Mr Sparkle company sends to them.
And this comes amid all the rhetoric from groups like the World Trade Organisation, about how important it is to remove trade barriers and capitalism is at its best when left unhindered. It's all well and good to remove barriers for capitalism, but what about removing barriers for consumers?
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The current Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, is an atheist, and it was pretty much a non-issue when the news came out. "Meh". Most of our former leaders were also not that religious. Aussies would rather here you swear and scull beer, than swear on the bible (Google on "Bob Hawke" and "Beer")
Also see: http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/30/of-12-prime-ministers-before-this-atheist-only-rudd-got-on-his-knees/
Aww. Too bad. You don't get to put "Jedi" as your religion! :)
Not when their attorney is Lisa Simpson!
Ceglia's only chance is to get Milhouse on his team.
Is my skin being harvested when I shower? Has anybody had a similar experience?
Yes, but not quite. All of Buffalo Bill's victims had their skin harvested after a nice shower and rubbing with a good moisturizer. At least that's what Hannibal Lecter told me.
I misread it and thought it was about the "Heaviest Chute" - "50,000 pounds!! WTF?"
Hopefully, IBM can put Java on the right track again: fully open source it, fix its performance problems
What do you mean "fully open source" it? The only hitches are the bits not open where it's using code that they don't own, and there is work in OpenJDK being done on replacing that with open source code.
Well, surely there can be only one way out of this potential dilemma:
Never ever ever admit you saw Big Momma's House 3.
Perhaps this is the reason it hasn't taken off. Many web 2.0 sites strive to be agile and they can't really do that in Java.
You wouldn't write a web app in C++, so why would you want to write it in a language that was designed to replace C++?
4, Insightful? His reasoning doesn't even make sense! Who the hell is modding these illiterate posts?
1. Do you even have a clue what "agile" means? What makes you think you "can't really do that in Java"?
2. A LOT of web sites have been written using Java on the server-side. Where does C++ come into the picture?
Do you even know what you're talking about?
Sheesh, you are judging an article based solely on the blurb that was posted? "Oooh, mommy, I debunked something on Slashdot!!" That's nice, dearie. Some of us find more value in learning new things despite these sucky descriptions. The content is in the articles, not the stuff written by the contributors and editors.
How can this by any stretch of the imagination be "stuff that matters"? Google are under no obligation to observe all the bloody holidays in existence. They do it as a bit of fun, not out of any patriotic duty. Goddamn, theodp is as much of a fucking nut-job as the website where that "article" came from. Off with his head.
It might be inconsistent, from your point of view, but you have to deal with people's expectations. As I said, people care about what is in the folder, not the folder itself. So what if you "treat one icon differently"? The point of a filesystem is to storage of their files, not consistent treatment of icons. Losing files you didn't expect to lose - bad. Having files from same-name directories mixed together because you moved files from one location to another - possibly annoying, but less painful.
The "merge" behaviour is the one that's consistent with the real world, which is really the starting point for the desktop metaphor. If I have a folder labelled "bills" on my study desk, and then put it on another table with another folder also labelled "bills", I don't lose the contents of the first folder. The contents of both folders are still there.
Doing a "replace" for that operation makes sense in a spatial system because all spatial icons are treated the same way. You'd wouldn't expect dragging a Word file named "happy.doc" into a folder already containing a "happy.doc" to perform a merge operation; so why would you expect that with a folder in the same situation?
Because a folder is different from a file. When working with folders, you are actually using that to group files together. The folder itself is not the entity you're concerned with, it's the files inside it. If you move a folder onto another with the same name, you are actually telling the system "move the files in this location to this other location". I think this is the more frequent user scenario, rather than a user wanting to REPLACE the contents of one directory with another. I think in these cases, the one that loses the least number of files should prevail.
It's not entirely accurate to say that the codenames are no longer used once they're officially released. The repositories are named feisty, edgy, dapper - and it can get confusing when you're trying to update the sources.list for apt.
'Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending, therefore blocking FireFox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks, whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers.'
That just doesn't make sense. If Firefox users are only a small percentage of all users, then how would blocking them result in 'tremendous financial rewards'? If there are so few of them, then how would their usage of AdBlock result in any huge financial losses?
And haven't we heard this kind of reasoning before from the TV industry? "GRRRR!! Tivo bad, ad-skipping bad!! You have a contract to watch our ads!! Or else kittens die! Harumph! Harumph!"
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Fuck these parenthetical clauses. If only those founding fathers knew how much debate and confusion this clause would cause, they might have written it more clearly like this:
"Because a well regulated Militia is necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."
The right to bear arms shall not be infringed because the assumption was that normal people would be part of that militia. The existence of a professional military would have eliminated the need for the militia, and along with it, the right to bear arms freely.
This is what Aust. telco Telstra did last year: 1. broadcast to all that you've been looking at your linux desktop options, 2. watch Steve Ballmer fly over and come up with a sweet sweet deal. See http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/02/ 004236&tid=163&tid=201
They know that Japan was the only Asian country to have challenged the white lords. In order to do that, they had to be a bit nasty sometimes, but that behavior was motivated by pragmaticism and a long-term view of achieving Asian solidarity and freedom from being killed by white people. In the final analysis, Japan cared (and still cares) more about the future prosperity of Asia than any European/American. Better an Asian country be ruled by fellow Asian people than by a bunch of tyrranical, arbitrary and murderous thugs that Europeans and Americans were and still are.
You show your utter ignorance of Asian history with your naive generalisations on the Japanese, based on the mere fact that they fought against Europeans and Americans. First of all, they were never under colonial rule, unlike the other countries in South East Asia. And the fact is, all of these countries had their own rebellions and insurgent movements. The Philippines (where I'm from) led the first successful anti-colonial revolution in Asia. The Vietnamese struggled against French rule in the 1930s, and eventually declared independence in 1945.
What do you mean the Japanese "had to be nasty sometimes"? You call torture, slave labour, rape, and sexual slavery as simply "being nasty"? What the Japanese did to the rest of Asia during World War II is the main reason why there is still widespread resentment from their neighbours. The Japanese in World War II were no slouches in the tyranny and murderous thugs department.
And you mean to tell me our countries were invaded by Japan to promote "Asian solidarity and freedom", and all that wartime suffering was for our own good, not to establish a new Japanese empire? Next thing you'll be telling me is how the US invaded Iraq to spread democracy. W00t!
I don't know if it was also Philips that did it, but there was definitely a digital turntable. You put your vinyl on it and a laser needle was used to "read" the music.
Not sure if it ever got mass-produced though, as the Newsweek article I read (back in 84-85) priced it around $10,000, and said the most likely takers for this would be libraries with music archives of fragile 78rpm records.
Bah - wimps from the First World. When I was growing up in the Philippines, we had a Five MINUTE Rule!
Or he might've gotten the idea from New Order, who did a similar thing for their song "Crystal". The components of the song were stored as separate .wav files ready for remixing in Acid or whatever software you fancied. A bit better than restricting people to just using GarageBand.
Mellotron was used more recently on "Exit Music (for a Film)" by Radiohead on their "OK Computer" album. The Mellotron plays that background choir of voices on the section where he sings "Breathe.. keep breathing... don't lose your nerve"
Bring back the Megahertz wars, I say. Much simpler back then.
1600 Mhz beats 800 Mhz.
800 Mhz beats 400 Mhz.
400 Mhz beats 200 Mhz
Easy!
They replaced it with a model numbering system that meant squat to everyone except their marketing department. (assuming *they* know what it means)
For the bewildered: this is a reference to the Simpson's episode where Homer thinks a Japanese company copied his likeness for their "Mr Sparkle" detergent. The lines above are from the promo video that the Mr Sparkle company sends to them.
See: http://www.thesimpsons.com/episode_guide/0822.htm
And this comes amid all the rhetoric from groups like the World Trade Organisation, about how important it is to remove trade barriers and capitalism is at its best when left unhindered. It's all well and good to remove barriers for capitalism, but what about removing barriers for consumers?
OH, you meant he was using the Mac as inspiration while coding Windows!!
Surely I'm not the only one who immediately thought about that other kind of "inspiration" viewable on CRTs!