It's not just an annoyance, it's a bug. For example, when I'm executing a complex keyboard operation, and a dialog pops up and steals my focus, a bunch of work may have been destroyed. It's a security issue as well. When I'm filling in a password (or having one filled in for me by automation), and an instant messenger suddenly pops up, taking those keystrokes, its a sordid tale of woe. No alert should ever take focus unless it's of the "core meltdown, imminent mass casualties" variety.
One could write an app which monitors keystrokes and tracks focus, which calculates focus independently of the window manager, and detects any discrepancies, and corrects them as soon as possible, but it will still leak events sometimes, inevitably, unless it acts as a translation filter and checks at every event for correct focus.
What I found most amusing about the grandparent was the implicit agreement with the reader on a rapport based on mutual contempt for everyone else, when in fact the reader who is most amenable to forming such a rapport probably holds the poster in contempt. It's a rapport based on the illusion that rapport is even possible between such spouting volcanic islands of bile, a brotherhood of shared arrogance. Truly, this is a work of high art.
I never file until the August 15 automatic extension date, because summer is generally a slower season for work. The whole income tax idea is so incredibly, maliciously stupid and counter-productive that I think it is everyone's patriotic duty to do what they can to fuck up the system without incurring penalties which would interfere with higher duties. Consistently filing as late as possible is pretty safe that way.
The open source community as a whole respects function above form, and regards true professionalism as the ability to produce results. The center of gravity in most open source subcultures incorporates a meritocratic value system, including tolerance of individualism and respect for others, which can be construed as professionalism in the best sense, whereas personality and fashionistic bigotry and posturing can be understood an unprofessional in the extreme. The opposition of these viewpoints is essentially irreconcilable. I rather expect business culture to change, than open source culture to change, because business culture also has a figure of merit, measured in cash, and will change in order to adapt to the society, while the principles of open source culture run deep into values of human dignity which are not mutable over the short term. Businessmen need to sell things to others in order to continue in their project, and so they will adapt to the value system of the surrounding culture. That includes, and in the large is being increasingly influenced by, the deeper human values expressed in the open source movement.
I can't tell that there's a difference. Most people using sarcasm in these parts of the Known Universe seem to be doing it as a means of directing attention away from their stupidity.
It certainly would, from which one can draw the inevitable conclusion that the only way to escape from Orwellian, Brazillian horror is to annihilate all the humans who don't share your genome with a timed superspreader virus.
Why persist in these malicious lies? Solid-state fusion, as pioneered by Pons and Fleischmann, has been reproduced in tens of thousands of experiments, generating well over a thousand peer-reviewed publications, over the last 16 years. Dozens of conferences have been conducted, and the topic is increasingly well understood as time goes on. Perhaps you have a large investment in a tokamak company?
It's incomprehensible to me how anyone could have the reckless disregard for their personal integrity to lie so baldly and maliciously misinform naive readers. The truth is that the Pons-Fleischmann experiments were immediately reproduced at dozens of laboratories, and our knowledge of solid-state and other unconventional nuclear fusion processes has continued to expand exponentially since that time. Fleischmann was and is a brilliant electrochemist, who continues to actively publish in prestigous journals, now going into his 80s, and his co-discovery of catalysed solid-state fusion will be a shining event in the history of science long after your pathetic lying existence has passed into dust and been thankfully forgotten.
I seriously doubt that anyone in German has been imprisoned for two years for taking a stick of chewing gum from a shop. Well, unless they were in a politically despised class such as Jews or Historians.
There's nothing authoritative about the eprint servers. You'll find lots of Jack Sarfatti on them. That does not in any way impugn the quality of other papers on the eprint servers, of course.
The interesting part is what he left unsaid. The author writes "I can use 512MB of RAM to perform the same jobs that require 1GB of RAM on other systems". But he does not make clear the obvious result: "I just can't do tasks -- at all -- on other systems, which I can easily do on my Linux system, because there isn't enough RAM for Windows and OSX".
I still enjoy tetris on occasion. I suspect afficionados will be playing Super Mario AllStars and Soul Calibur III 500 years from now, if there is still a human race with the technology for running emulators. Most people will be able to enjoy these things well. Shakespeare, on the other hand, will be enjoyable by far fewer persons. Of course that's much of the point: Snooty self-superiority.
I enjoy Shakespeare, but I don't think that makes me better than someone else who would rather play *gasp* Halo 2, which I disdain. Other people have a different take on both of these issues, viz. the superiority of Timon of Athens viewers over lesser mortals and the l33tness of the green X.
Right to safety? That's a new one on me. It's like saying you have a "right" to a nice car. Saying it doesn't make it so. In reality, you get a degree of safety in proportion to your good fortune and your wit in applying the effort of will to securing your safety, but it's playing with marginal factors and the results are not much: You still die.
Right to safety, huh? I get a good chuckle out of that one.
I object. Killing GWB would not be effective. Now taking out Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Wolfowitz, Perle, Zakheim, Feith, Pipes, Kristol, Rove, Clinton, Feinstein, Specter, Coleman, and a few of the Joint Chiefs might be an improvement, but dear PoTUS just ain't got the horsepower to operate a good fascist empire, so you can't make a case for his removal: He's irrelevant.
They're talking about median end-user usability. People who want it can always download the latest snapshot. But stamping it as a release means "this is what Ubuntu means". The user-experience must be what the project's principal sponsors want it to be, otherwise it's not ready for a release.
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It's not just an annoyance, it's a bug. For example, when I'm executing a complex keyboard operation, and a dialog pops up and steals my focus, a bunch of work may have been destroyed. It's a security issue as well. When I'm filling in a password (or having one filled in for me by automation), and an instant messenger suddenly pops up, taking those keystrokes, its a sordid tale of woe. No alert should ever take focus unless it's of the "core meltdown, imminent mass casualties" variety.
One could write an app which monitors keystrokes and tracks focus, which calculates focus independently of the window manager, and detects any discrepancies, and corrects them as soon as possible, but it will still leak events sometimes, inevitably, unless it acts as a translation filter and checks at every event for correct focus.
Amusingly enough, I *have* fired people for choosing Microsoft.
Evidently I've got a nemesis. I'm sorry to see that he/she just doesn't have the horsepower to pass the bar for "arch" status, however.
Wow, now I get it. So, your retarded, then.
What I found most amusing about the grandparent was the implicit agreement with the reader on a rapport based on mutual contempt for everyone else, when in fact the reader who is most amenable to forming such a rapport probably holds the poster in contempt. It's a rapport based on the illusion that rapport is even possible between such spouting volcanic islands of bile, a brotherhood of shared arrogance. Truly, this is a work of high art.
I never file until the August 15 automatic extension date, because summer is generally a slower season for work. The whole income tax idea is so incredibly, maliciously stupid and counter-productive that I think it is everyone's patriotic duty to do what they can to fuck up the system without incurring penalties which would interfere with higher duties. Consistently filing as late as possible is pretty safe that way.
The open source community as a whole respects function above form, and regards true professionalism as the ability to produce results. The center of gravity in most open source subcultures incorporates a meritocratic value system, including tolerance of individualism and respect for others, which can be construed as professionalism in the best sense, whereas personality and fashionistic bigotry and posturing can be understood an unprofessional in the extreme. The opposition of these viewpoints is essentially irreconcilable. I rather expect business culture to change, than open source culture to change, because business culture also has a figure of merit, measured in cash, and will change in order to adapt to the society, while the principles of open source culture run deep into values of human dignity which are not mutable over the short term. Businessmen need to sell things to others in order to continue in their project, and so they will adapt to the value system of the surrounding culture. That includes, and in the large is being increasingly influenced by, the deeper human values expressed in the open source movement.
> If...this country will be ruined.
You keep using that subjunctive mood. I do not think it means what you think it does. That horse already left the barn.
I think it's Rosanne Rosanna Danna.
> "I can't tell if that is sarcasm or stupidity"
I can't tell that there's a difference. Most people using sarcasm in these parts of the Known Universe seem to be doing it as a means of directing attention away from their stupidity.
The same principles of common law apply in the U.S., as well. They've just be corrupted and co-opted with a Texas drawl instead of a Fraffly snoot.
It certainly would, from which one can draw the inevitable conclusion that the only way to escape from Orwellian, Brazillian horror is to annihilate all the humans who don't share your genome with a timed superspreader virus.
Why persist in these malicious lies? Solid-state fusion, as pioneered by Pons and Fleischmann, has been reproduced in tens of thousands of experiments, generating well over a thousand peer-reviewed publications, over the last 16 years. Dozens of conferences have been conducted, and the topic is increasingly well understood as time goes on. Perhaps you have a large investment in a tokamak company?
It's incomprehensible to me how anyone could have the reckless disregard for their personal integrity to lie so baldly and maliciously misinform naive readers. The truth is that the Pons-Fleischmann experiments were immediately reproduced at dozens of laboratories, and our knowledge of solid-state and other unconventional nuclear fusion processes has continued to expand exponentially since that time. Fleischmann was and is a brilliant electrochemist, who continues to actively publish in prestigous journals, now going into his 80s, and his co-discovery of catalysed solid-state fusion will be a shining event in the history of science long after your pathetic lying existence has passed into dust and been thankfully forgotten.
I seriously doubt that anyone in German has been imprisoned for two years for taking a stick of chewing gum from a shop. Well, unless they were in a politically despised class such as Jews or Historians.
There's nothing authoritative about the eprint servers. You'll find lots of Jack Sarfatti on them. That does not in any way impugn the quality of other papers on the eprint servers, of course.
WTF?
ksnah bild martch tu oh oh six seeteepee?
The interesting part is what he left unsaid. The author writes "I can use 512MB of RAM to perform the same jobs that require 1GB of RAM on other systems". But he does not make clear the obvious result: "I just can't do tasks -- at all -- on other systems, which I can easily do on my Linux system, because there isn't enough RAM for Windows and OSX".
U.S. tax payers wanting a tax preparation aid in software are hereby recommended to use a web-based application, such as TurboTax.
The standard approach is to store your crypto keys on a USB drive, usually in one big password-protected keychain.
I still enjoy tetris on occasion. I suspect afficionados will be playing Super Mario AllStars and Soul Calibur III 500 years from now, if there is still a human race with the technology for running emulators.
Most people will be able to enjoy these things well. Shakespeare, on the other hand, will be enjoyable by far fewer persons. Of course that's much of the point: Snooty self-superiority.
I enjoy Shakespeare, but I don't think that makes me better than someone else who would rather play *gasp* Halo 2, which I disdain. Other people have a different take on both of these issues, viz. the superiority of Timon of Athens viewers over lesser mortals and the l33tness of the green X.
Right to safety? That's a new one on me. It's like saying you have a "right" to a nice car. Saying it doesn't make it so. In reality, you get a degree of safety in proportion to your good fortune and your wit in applying the effort of will to securing your safety, but it's playing with marginal factors and the results are not much: You still die.
Right to safety, huh? I get a good chuckle out of that one.
I object. Killing GWB would not be effective. Now taking out Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Wolfowitz, Perle, Zakheim, Feith, Pipes, Kristol, Rove, Clinton, Feinstein, Specter, Coleman, and a few of the Joint Chiefs might be an improvement, but dear PoTUS just ain't got the horsepower to operate a good fascist empire, so you can't make a case for his removal: He's irrelevant.
It's questionable whether Slashdot would be here if it were hosted in Canada, however.
They're talking about median end-user usability. People who want it can always download the latest snapshot. But stamping it as a release means "this is what Ubuntu means". The user-experience must be what the project's principal sponsors want it to be, otherwise it's not ready for a release.
1) Everything I want to read is already on the 'Net.
2) Anything with DRM, I don't want to read.
End of story.