Poverty doesn't "just happen". The United States could be poverty-stricken, too, if it did. Poverty comes from people who can't or won't take care of themselves.
Uh... wow.
Have you ever heard of the great depression?
The U.S. was poverty-stricken, at one time, when movement toward urban and industrial of modes of society began to leave large quantities of people behind. The U.S. eventually became poverty-stricken to the point of being absolute crisis, in one single decade-long event that had so many disparate causes that "it just happened" is as good an explanation as any.
In the aftermath of this event, one could make an extremely compelling argument that the reason the U.S. isn't poverty-stricken now is that we're artificially removing poverty through the use of startlingly wasteful welfare and farming subsidy programs. Which hardly represents self-reliance.
America has avoided being poverty-stricken today despite the widespread presence of people who can't or won't take care of themselves. There are many nations that are poverty-stricken today despite no lack of people who are willing to take care of themselves at far greater cost than any american pays today.
The Islamists have the same goals as Hitler -- world domination with them in charge.
I couldn't disagree more. I'd even suggest quite the opposite. The rallying cry of terrorist leaders, the method they use to recruit, is assert that the Western world, the US in particular, is out for world domination.
I don't... um... I don't see how these two statements are in disagreement.
It seems to me like the islamists have the goal of world domination, and their rallying cry-- the method they use to recruit-- is to assert that the western world, the US in particular, has the goal of world domination.
It seems to me like you're falling into the exact same lie as George W. Bush-- i.e., assuming that whoever is on the other side from the "bad guy" must therefore be the "good guy".
I don't see a "good guy" in this situation. I just kind of see here two bad guys that have divided the world in two, and are holding power in their halves by pointing at the other bad guy and yelling "See?? I have to protect you from HIM!!!"
Me and some of the people I know use Skype and we use Skype for mostly one reason: There's a mac version, and we need to have an application that both the PC and mac users in the circle can use.
If we could have a choice of more than one application to use for this purpose, that would be pretty cool. If we could have the option of an alternate application to use for this purpose that supported or had, like, even a fraction of the featureset of Ventrilo, that would make us deleriously happy.
That said... I may (or may not, depending on my degree of laziness) in the indeterminate future be writing a network-based application into which I want to embed a VoIP / voice chat aspect in the easiest way possible. How hard is it to get that Skype API access, would that be a good way to do it, and am I opening myself up to risk of some kind of license fuckery by doing so?
Come to think of it, how hard would it be to use the Skype API to write a Skype/Gizmo bridge?
And could they seriously not have come up with a better name than "Gizmo"? I mean come on.
I think the objection isn't that IE contains bloat so much as that IE is bloat. That is, the very existence of IE by itself constitutes bloat within the Windows operating system, goes the common complaint.
Safari, actually. It crashes occasionally. Not so often for it to be a real problem or particularly noticeable, but it does happen. If however I were running an active bt client in the same process space, I'd probably notice these occasions more often...
Unless BitTorrent can't continue a stopped transfer
In my experience stopped/restarted transfers work just fine, but sometimes you can experience associated wierdness afterward, like your transfer rate being mucked up.
The first is that bittorrent is not really a stable protocol. By which I mean, the protocol itself is still under active development. I could imagine in-browser bittorrent being great for about two weeks, then all of a sudden Azureus will come up with some kind of funny extension or the main Bittorrent team will come up with a better multi-root-tracker swarming mechanism or some such and all of a sudden the in-browser client won't work with any of the new torrents out there. That would get obnoxious.
The second is that web browsers are not stable. I mean, web browsers crash a lot. I expect a torrent to be running for hours and hours, becuase if it won't be going that long, well, it makes less sense for it to be torrented in the first place. Even the most stable web browser I've ever used, I'd be a little cautious to run bittorrent inside it because some afternoon I could be reading a site it doesn't like or something and I could crash two or three times, getting booted out of my hypothetical torrent each time, before that torrent finishes. I'd hope or wish there was some way to move the actual bittorrent downloading into a separate process, one that isn't effected by browser crashes, even if it's transparently "part of" the web browser from a GUI perspective. (Come to think of it, I kind of wish at times someone could make a web browser where every window got its own process space, or something, so one browser window could lock up or crash without effecting the others. Web browsers are practically OSes now, they might as well start acting like it.)
Other than these things it seems like a good idea.
Either you're with bloat in the browser world or you aren't. Which is it?
So I take it then that you're opposed to Firefox's inclusion of FTP and Gopher?
Because I mean, come on, either you're with bloat in the browser world or you aren't. You don't need to access gopher or FTP via a webbrowser, there are command line tools for that. And how often do you really use gopher anyway?
Curse this mozilla featuritis! Just think, if they dropped support for Gopher, they could possibly remove an entire kilobyte of bloat!
If in order to make whatever your point is, you have to make up hypothetical opinions held by people you also made up under a hypothetical situation you also made up...
It's not like the comet was going to stay pristine. Comets travel through very harsh environments
Yup. If you'll look here, you'll see an image that the impact probe captured on approach. That is, before it hit the comet.
Notice something rather distinctive about that comet?
It's covered in impact craters already
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In my experience unfortunately such tools seem (?) to only work if XF86Config is set up correctly to contain all the needed resolutions with the right settings.
Of course it should be noted that on my most recent attempt to use linux as a desktop OS I for some reason decided to use Gentoo, so I guess that if things didn't work right it is thus wholly my fault for trying to use Gentoo...
how long did it take apple to get real multithreading?
The Thread Manager has been available since the system 7 era, at least since 1993. In its initial 68k incarnation it supported preemptive threads, if that's what you mean by "real" multithreading.
Aside from the oddity of comparing a developer nicety, such as a threading system, to an end-user feature such as filenames, perhaps you meant to say something slightly different?
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Personally, given my experiences with linux so far, if it were up to me I'd concentrate more on building a GUI where you can change the monitor resolution to the resolution you want when you want it on arbitrary systems, without having to ever edit a file named "XF86Config".
I'd hardly call HFS+ "lock in"... if you or your OS vendor wants to write code or drivers to support HFS+, all they have to do is look at the unencumbered documentation available here. You may not be able to do this personally, but your OS vendor certainly can.
If you want to do the same with NTFS or Microsoft's SMB... well, get ready for a lot of reverse engineering and compatibility bugs, and be prepared for the idea it may never work at all. That's a little closer to what I'd call "lock in".
I'm also just a little bit confused as to exactly what the person from the grandparent post's anecdote did to get OS X burning CDs as HFS+. It sure does seem that the CDs I've burned on my mac in the past have come out ISO 9600. Perhaps I've been doing something strange without realizing it?
What if you ran a small news site that came up with a steady stream of stories, and some guy plagerises 100% of it, mirrors it on his own site and collects all of the advertisement revenue that supposed to keep YOUR site alive? Wouldn't you be a little pissed off?
Uh, then my response would be to go after him under the applicable copyright laws and make him stop copying my stories, not to go flooding slashdot with posts about it.
There's some guy named "Roland de Pipuequaville" or something. I can't spell his name. Apparently the slashdot editors have been linking his website a lot for some months. There's this bizarrely large clique of users who are so absolutely blinded with hate and envy as a result that they apparently just absolutely can't stand to talk about anything else.
How about a plugin to edit out posts from people who feel compelled to collaboratively crapflood articles with posts whining about the article submitter until it's impossible to actually discuss the article?
Or to automatically meta-moderate as "unfair" any jackass idiot who moderates up the crapflooders before mentioned?
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China and Vladmir Putin, backing democracy?
You think that's what G8 wants?
Poverty doesn't "just happen". The United States could be poverty-stricken, too, if it did. Poverty comes from people who can't or won't take care of themselves.
Uh... wow.
Have you ever heard of the great depression?
The U.S. was poverty-stricken, at one time, when movement toward urban and industrial of modes of society began to leave large quantities of people behind. The U.S. eventually became poverty-stricken to the point of being absolute crisis, in one single decade-long event that had so many disparate causes that "it just happened" is as good an explanation as any.
In the aftermath of this event, one could make an extremely compelling argument that the reason the U.S. isn't poverty-stricken now is that we're artificially removing poverty through the use of startlingly wasteful welfare and farming subsidy programs. Which hardly represents self-reliance.
America has avoided being poverty-stricken today despite the widespread presence of people who can't or won't take care of themselves. There are many nations that are poverty-stricken today despite no lack of people who are willing to take care of themselves at far greater cost than any american pays today.
It seems to me like the islamists have the goal of world domination, and their rallying cry-- the method they use to recruit-- is to assert that the western world, the US in particular, has the goal of world domination.
It seems to me like you're falling into the exact same lie as George W. Bush-- i.e., assuming that whoever is on the other side from the "bad guy" must therefore be the "good guy".
I don't see a "good guy" in this situation. I just kind of see here two bad guys that have divided the world in two, and are holding power in their halves by pointing at the other bad guy and yelling "See?? I have to protect you from HIM!!!"
Me and some of the people I know use Skype and we use Skype for mostly one reason: There's a mac version, and we need to have an application that both the PC and mac users in the circle can use.
If we could have a choice of more than one application to use for this purpose, that would be pretty cool. If we could have the option of an alternate application to use for this purpose that supported or had, like, even a fraction of the featureset of Ventrilo, that would make us deleriously happy.
That said... I may (or may not, depending on my degree of laziness) in the indeterminate future be writing a network-based application into which I want to embed a VoIP / voice chat aspect in the easiest way possible. How hard is it to get that Skype API access, would that be a good way to do it, and am I opening myself up to risk of some kind of license fuckery by doing so?
Come to think of it, how hard would it be to use the Skype API to write a Skype/Gizmo bridge?
And could they seriously not have come up with a better name than "Gizmo"? I mean come on.
Perhaps the creationists will use this as an opportunity to finally just admit that Cain's wife had to have come from somewhere...
But I was speaking in a more general sense. Opera may have been the first to integrate this feature by default, but they definitely won't be the last.
Does WinDVD work in Wine?
"For every lock there is a k... uh.. oh, hey, look, you can just slip this lock right off the doorknob without even having to unlock it. Neat!"
I think the objection isn't that IE contains bloat so much as that IE is bloat. That is, the very existence of IE by itself constitutes bloat within the Windows operating system, goes the common complaint.
You must be using FireFox ;-)
Safari, actually. It crashes occasionally. Not so often for it to be a real problem or particularly noticeable, but it does happen. If however I were running an active bt client in the same process space, I'd probably notice these occasions more often...
Unless BitTorrent can't continue a stopped transfer
In my experience stopped/restarted transfers work just fine, but sometimes you can experience associated wierdness afterward, like your transfer rate being mucked up.
Just wait until someone can just create a link to a malicious gopher server, and own your machine.
Ah yes. The infamous "burrow" exploit.
Fortunately the exploit can be made inoperative by running the billmurrayd security daemon on your machine.
I can see two problems with this.
The first is that bittorrent is not really a stable protocol. By which I mean, the protocol itself is still under active development. I could imagine in-browser bittorrent being great for about two weeks, then all of a sudden Azureus will come up with some kind of funny extension or the main Bittorrent team will come up with a better multi-root-tracker swarming mechanism or some such and all of a sudden the in-browser client won't work with any of the new torrents out there. That would get obnoxious.
The second is that web browsers are not stable. I mean, web browsers crash a lot. I expect a torrent to be running for hours and hours, becuase if it won't be going that long, well, it makes less sense for it to be torrented in the first place. Even the most stable web browser I've ever used, I'd be a little cautious to run bittorrent inside it because some afternoon I could be reading a site it doesn't like or something and I could crash two or three times, getting booted out of my hypothetical torrent each time, before that torrent finishes. I'd hope or wish there was some way to move the actual bittorrent downloading into a separate process, one that isn't effected by browser crashes, even if it's transparently "part of" the web browser from a GUI perspective. (Come to think of it, I kind of wish at times someone could make a web browser where every window got its own process space, or something, so one browser window could lock up or crash without effecting the others. Web browsers are practically OSes now, they might as well start acting like it.)
Other than these things it seems like a good idea.
Either you're with bloat in the browser world or you aren't. Which is it?
So I take it then that you're opposed to Firefox's inclusion of FTP and Gopher?
Because I mean, come on, either you're with bloat in the browser world or you aren't. You don't need to access gopher or FTP via a webbrowser, there are command line tools for that. And how often do you really use gopher anyway?
Curse this mozilla featuritis! Just think, if they dropped support for Gopher, they could possibly remove an entire kilobyte of bloat!
Will no one think of the kilobytes??
It's like Johnny Mnenmonic, but with more polish
This is going to appeal to you in five years.
Frankly I kind of remember there being people who were more or less claiming that five years ago.
is a map depicting the travel itinerary described by this book
If in order to make whatever your point is, you have to make up hypothetical opinions held by people you also made up under a hypothetical situation you also made up...
You don't actually have a point at all.
Notice something rather distinctive about that comet?
It's covered in impact craters already
In my experience unfortunately such tools seem (?) to only work if XF86Config is set up correctly to contain all the needed resolutions with the right settings.
Of course it should be noted that on my most recent attempt to use linux as a desktop OS I for some reason decided to use Gentoo, so I guess that if things didn't work right it is thus wholly my fault for trying to use Gentoo...
how long did it take apple to get real multithreading?
The Thread Manager has been available since the system 7 era, at least since 1993. In its initial 68k incarnation it supported preemptive threads, if that's what you mean by "real" multithreading.
Aside from the oddity of comparing a developer nicety, such as a threading system, to an end-user feature such as filenames, perhaps you meant to say something slightly different?
Personally, given my experiences with linux so far, if it were up to me I'd concentrate more on building a GUI where you can change the monitor resolution to the resolution you want when you want it on arbitrary systems, without having to ever edit a file named "XF86Config".
I'd hardly call HFS+ "lock in"... if you or your OS vendor wants to write code or drivers to support HFS+, all they have to do is look at the unencumbered documentation available here. You may not be able to do this personally, but your OS vendor certainly can.
If you want to do the same with NTFS or Microsoft's SMB... well, get ready for a lot of reverse engineering and compatibility bugs, and be prepared for the idea it may never work at all. That's a little closer to what I'd call "lock in".
I'm also just a little bit confused as to exactly what the person from the grandparent post's anecdote did to get OS X burning CDs as HFS+. It sure does seem that the CDs I've burned on my mac in the past have come out ISO 9600. Perhaps I've been doing something strange without realizing it?
What if you ran a small news site that came up with a steady stream of stories, and some guy plagerises 100% of it, mirrors it on his own site and collects all of the advertisement revenue that supposed to keep YOUR site alive? Wouldn't you be a little pissed off?
Uh, then my response would be to go after him under the applicable copyright laws and make him stop copying my stories, not to go flooding slashdot with posts about it.
There's some guy named "Roland de Pipuequaville" or something. I can't spell his name. Apparently the slashdot editors have been linking his website a lot for some months. There's this bizarrely large clique of users who are so absolutely blinded with hate and envy as a result that they apparently just absolutely can't stand to talk about anything else.
How about a plugin to edit out posts from people who feel compelled to collaboratively crapflood articles with posts whining about the article submitter until it's impossible to actually discuss the article?
Or to automatically meta-moderate as "unfair" any jackass idiot who moderates up the crapflooders before mentioned?
Because I'd install that one.