No, the U.S. was far from the only country with a communist hunt (it was in fact the norm in the West), and I'm sure the burning of Beatles records were the actual voicing of opinion from private citizens, not an act of the States themselves. There's nothing undemocratic in that, nor in the preference of religion to science. They may be an intolerant bunch of inbred morons, but that's not an anti-democratic feature in itself.
The Brit Richard Dawkins seems to waste a fair bit of time fighting something which doesn't concern him, then. Fact is, there are a whole bunch of creationist nutjobs in England as well, and they use pretty much the same tools as their American counterparts, just not as vocally -- perhaps due to the stronger democratic traditions in the U.S.
The fact that you haven't heard something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. In fact, just a couple of days ago, there was an article in a Norwegian newspaper making the exact same point as this one, against the term "Darwinism" (or "darwinisme" in Norwegian), and for the same reasons.
I didn't say that. I said they didn't come out with a "this is probably the last year you can ski here" statement, and your link doesn't support such a claim either.
Yes, and one of the reasons for those predictions was in fact the natural cycle of hurricanes, mentioned here, and explained away here (note that Christopher Landsea actually thought there was no evidence for linking hurricanes with global warming when he withdrew from the IPCC in 2005).
There has never been a "this is probably the last year you can ski here" statement from climate scientists. It's straw man attacks like these that make denialists into denialists: instead of criticising the models, the predictions and the findings, you come up with your own stuff. Or you choose to criticise moonbat environmentalist hippies instead of the science.
What? Winter isn't a global phenomenon. It occurs on one hemisphere at a time. AFAIK, Australia has a particularly hot summer this winter. And it's not a particularly cold winter here.
My first experience with KDE4 was like yours, but I switched back to it with a beta of 4.1 and have used it since. It's only with 4.2 it has started to impress me, though, and it's close to the point where I'd recommend it for other people. It's a year late, and still has its glitches, but it's going to be good.
I was just going to say how nice the latest version of KMail has become when it barfed up an inexplicable error message at me (Gmail's IMAP is a bit flaky); some of the smaller things like error reporting is obviously not there yet, but at least it went right back to working when I tried again, something which it hasn't been able to earlier.
With older NVIDIA cards, I have worse performance than on my EeePC (GMA 900).
Your old cards aren't as good as your new ones? shock! horror! Say it isn't so!
The GMA 900 is slower in games than a Geforce 6200, a several generations old budget GPU from nvidia. And anyway, nvidia have recently released a driver update that to a great extent fixed the problem with KDE, which suggests (as was already known) that the performance problem was indeed a driver issue.
But don't let random facts get in the way in your holy crusade against the godless open source zealots.
KDE 4.2.0 is out today, and isn't a trainwreck. There are a few annoyances left, but most of them should be gone by 4.2.2. But then again, 4.2.0 wouldn't be four-two-o if it wasn't a bit four twenty.
1) You're way off target regarding Hobbes. 2) Which experts? A search through Google Books shows estimates from the time that the world can hold at least 20 billion people, and more than twice that if all energy problems are solved. 3) Our energy problems aren't solved.
4) Other than that, all you have to contribute is blind faith in technological progress. Insightful, indeed.
Perhaps your distro treats it as second rate. I've never noticed any significant difference in the amount of bugs between Gnome and KDE. In 3.x there was a major annoyance that a few of the standard (legacy) multimedia apps were completely useless so that you had to configure it not to use Kaboodle or whatever to play music and video. Then again, Gnome's Rhythmbox felt like a garbage truck made out of Meccano the last time I used it and Amarok was very good.
In Debian, KDE and Gnome have been about on par, bugwise. I've tried Kubuntu (with KDE 3.5) and found it very poor.
And it is for that reason that I have such frustration with it...
It used to be, I could in good conscience make jokes about Windows, about how when Microsoft makes a "beta" release, it's what the rest of the world would call an Alpha, the release is really Beta quality, and SP1 is release candidate 1. By SP2, the product might be ready.
They all do this all the time, though. OS X 10.0? Shit. 10.1? Slowly getting there. 10.2. Almost done. 10.3 was the first OS X release that was really good. Gnome 2.0 was as unfinished as KDE 4.0, but at least Gnome removed all the half-baked parts for "usability" reasons. KDE 4.0 was just a broken mess. But I've been using it since a 4.1 alpha or beta, and I like it better with each release.
In the language Dogg, the word 'git' means 'sir'. So one would politely ask a stranger: 'Cretinous pig-faced, git?', meaning 'Have you got the time please, sir?'
I don't think it's a new September, it's just a function of karma and modpoints. Slashdotters read and write, and we all want a positive karma. The problem is, modpoints are distributed to those with positive karma, and those with positive karma are the same that post what brings positive karma. This encourages group-think. The "wise" people spout off what they've already read is "insightful".
The majority of Slashdot doesn't know science from a collection of fortune cookies.
So if you're caught, say, guilty of breaking and entry, theft, etc., you should be punished to the full extent of the law, despite having broken in to take a fire extinguisher, without which the house would likely have burned down?
There's more to life than simple binary oppositions. For some reason, this seems to escape a lot of Slashdotters. Autism?
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No, the U.S. was far from the only country with a communist hunt (it was in fact the norm in the West), and I'm sure the burning of Beatles records were the actual voicing of opinion from private citizens, not an act of the States themselves. There's nothing undemocratic in that, nor in the preference of religion to science. They may be an intolerant bunch of inbred morons, but that's not an anti-democratic feature in itself.
According to a recent study, one fifth of Britons don't believe in evolution, and an additional third don't understand it (a surprisingly small part).
The Brit Richard Dawkins seems to waste a fair bit of time fighting something which doesn't concern him, then. Fact is, there are a whole bunch of creationist nutjobs in England as well, and they use pretty much the same tools as their American counterparts, just not as vocally -- perhaps due to the stronger democratic traditions in the U.S.
The fact that you haven't heard something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. In fact, just a couple of days ago, there was an article in a Norwegian newspaper making the exact same point as this one, against the term "Darwinism" (or "darwinisme" in Norwegian), and for the same reasons.
I didn't say that. I said they didn't come out with a "this is probably the last year you can ski here" statement, and your link doesn't support such a claim either.
Actually, I did not. But thanks for proving you don't know what a proof is.
No, I'll start believing I can walk on water. Duh.
Yes, and one of the reasons for those predictions was in fact the natural cycle of hurricanes, mentioned here, and explained away here (note that Christopher Landsea actually thought there was no evidence for linking hurricanes with global warming when he withdrew from the IPCC in 2005).
Source? That's a rhetorical question, btw, I'm actually saying you haven't got one.
There has never been a "this is probably the last year you can ski here" statement from climate scientists. It's straw man attacks like these that make denialists into denialists: instead of criticising the models, the predictions and the findings, you come up with your own stuff. Or you choose to criticise moonbat environmentalist hippies instead of the science.
What? Winter isn't a global phenomenon. It occurs on one hemisphere at a time. AFAIK, Australia has a particularly hot summer this winter. And it's not a particularly cold winter here.
My first experience with KDE4 was like yours, but I switched back to it with a beta of 4.1 and have used it since. It's only with 4.2 it has started to impress me, though, and it's close to the point where I'd recommend it for other people. It's a year late, and still has its glitches, but it's going to be good.
I was just going to say how nice the latest version of KMail has become when it barfed up an inexplicable error message at me (Gmail's IMAP is a bit flaky); some of the smaller things like error reporting is obviously not there yet, but at least it went right back to working when I tried again, something which it hasn't been able to earlier.
Or it would be, if you had a girlfriend.
What's troublesome with softdeps? Genuine question.
Your old cards aren't as good as your new ones? shock! horror! Say it isn't so!
The GMA 900 is slower in games than a Geforce 6200, a several generations old budget GPU from nvidia. And anyway, nvidia have recently released a driver update that to a great extent fixed the problem with KDE, which suggests (as was already known) that the performance problem was indeed a driver issue.
But don't let random facts get in the way in your holy crusade against the godless open source zealots.
How the hell is a first post proof of that?
KDE 4.2.0 is out today, and isn't a trainwreck. There are a few annoyances left, but most of them should be gone by 4.2.2. But then again, 4.2.0 wouldn't be four-two-o if it wasn't a bit four twenty.
1) You're way off target regarding Hobbes.
2) Which experts? A search through Google Books shows estimates from the time that the world can hold at least 20 billion people, and more than twice that if all energy problems are solved.
3) Our energy problems aren't solved.
4) Other than that, all you have to contribute is blind faith in technological progress. Insightful, indeed.
Perhaps your distro treats it as second rate. I've never noticed any significant difference in the amount of bugs between Gnome and KDE. In 3.x there was a major annoyance that a few of the standard (legacy) multimedia apps were completely useless so that you had to configure it not to use Kaboodle or whatever to play music and video. Then again, Gnome's Rhythmbox felt like a garbage truck made out of Meccano the last time I used it and Amarok was very good.
In Debian, KDE and Gnome have been about on par, bugwise. I've tried Kubuntu (with KDE 3.5) and found it very poor.
And it is for that reason that I have such frustration with it...
It used to be, I could in good conscience make jokes about Windows, about how when Microsoft makes a "beta" release, it's what the rest of the world would call an Alpha, the release is really Beta quality, and SP1 is release candidate 1. By SP2, the product might be ready.
They all do this all the time, though. OS X 10.0? Shit. 10.1? Slowly getting there. 10.2. Almost done. 10.3 was the first OS X release that was really good. Gnome 2.0 was as unfinished as KDE 4.0, but at least Gnome removed all the half-baked parts for "usability" reasons. KDE 4.0 was just a broken mess. But I've been using it since a 4.1 alpha or beta, and I like it better with each release.
In the language Dogg, the word 'git' means 'sir'. So one would politely ask a stranger: 'Cretinous pig-faced, git?', meaning 'Have you got the time please, sir?'
Then there's this.
I don't think it's a new September, it's just a function of karma and modpoints. Slashdotters read and write, and we all want a positive karma. The problem is, modpoints are distributed to those with positive karma, and those with positive karma are the same that post what brings positive karma. This encourages group-think. The "wise" people spout off what they've already read is "insightful".
The majority of Slashdot doesn't know science from a collection of fortune cookies.
You must be new here. "Insightful" means "I agree", signed by an anonymous coward[1] with modpoints. Very few /.ers have any knowledge of science.
[1] Small letter ac, as opposed to Anonymous Coward, who posts.
So if you're caught, say, guilty of breaking and entry, theft, etc., you should be punished to the full extent of the law, despite having broken in to take a fire extinguisher, without which the house would likely have burned down?
There's more to life than simple binary oppositions. For some reason, this seems to escape a lot of Slashdotters. Autism?
What's the point of your comment? It's just a retarded opinion.
You forgot GNU/Duke Nukem 4Ever.