Ooh, ooh, I know, I know!! It's indicative that you started posting on Slashdot when it was still so obscure that only people with no life even knew of it?;-)
However, unless the can spouted a mouth and decided to deny the holocaust, I don't see how it's the same thing.
Oh, I agree with you in principle, I was just pointing out that it's not as cut and dry as many Americans represent it. In any case, one must allow for the fact that in Germany's case the relevant laws were written by the occupying powers after WWII; And we all know who one of those allies was...
I've been living here for 10 years, and I still believe complete freedom of speech would be better -- at least in theory -- however I do feel it's hypocritical for Americans to criticize this aspect of German law since we were among those who insisted on it.
Nowhere did he demonstrate that they DO value freedom of speech the same as Americans (ostensibly) do.
Nobody values freedom of speech the same as Americans do... but a lot of countries value it as much as Americans do. Just one example: There is hardly a country in Europe (maybe none, I'm not sure) where the exposure of a single nipple would have led to massive fines (see Janet Jackson), or the use of 'swear' words can lead similarly large fines (see Howard Stern).
Here in Germany everyone was laughing their asses off about the Janet Jackson 'scandal', while I could only shrug my shoulders in embarrassment. Typical European statement to incidents of this sort: "So much for Americans' Freedom of Speech."
-chris
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When I play a UT LAN party with a group of friends, I suck. Near the bottom everytime using the mouse/keyboard combo. If I play a round of Halo with a group of friends, I finish in the top 3 everytime. Folks can argue it, but for me, I do much, much better when everyone's using a console controller than when everyone's using a keyboard and mouse.
I tried to like the Civ CTP demo enough to buy the game, really I did. If it had been even *close* to as much fun to play as Freeciv, I would have bought it just for the variety, but I found myself hating it, because the stupid UI kept getting in the way of the game. After that I never looked at a demo for another commercial civ game.
The only thing the CTP games had in common with the real Civ franchise was this word: "Civilization". That was the result of some crazy legal battle whose details I am too lazy to look up. Freeciv is primarily modeled after Civilization I and II (note: no "Call to Power"). I think you would find Civ II compares much more favorably to Freeciv. I'll leave the debate as to which is better over all to those who care;-)
FAdmThiago said:As for selecting uneditable text in dialog boxes, that's a nice feature (one that KDE has, btw)
then oliverthered said:Did you mean doesn't? If not your thinking of something else. For example start Konq, Goto Help/About KDE and try to select the text that reads "K Desktop Environment. Release foo.bar"
No, it does have the feature, you're just showing that it also has uneditable text which can't be selected, not that it doesn't have uneditable text which can be selected. IOW:
"There is no text for which (!editable && selectable) == true" is false.
"There is text for which (!editable && selectable) == true" is true
"There is text for which (!editable && !selectable) == true" is also true
;-)
I believe it's a parameter, so it depends on the author, whether a specific text is selectable. It definitely seems to be the default that text is selectable; just try: kdialog --error 'fatal error!!!' on the command line and you'll see that the "fatal error!!!" string is selectable.
I hate slavic-to-english translations, especially of names, I can never remember which consanants follow which.
Nothing Slavic here:-) Estonian is a Finno-Ugric Language related to Finnish, and both are completely unrelated to the Indo-European languages which include the Slavic languages. IOW, English and Russian are significantly more closely related to eachother than either is to Estonian. The writing system was adopted from the Teutonic (German) Knights who ruled there for a while, so they also use the Latin alphabet and the writing rules resemble those of German most closely.
not to disparage veterans or anything, but losing a few limbs serving your country might not improve your opinion of said country
"Opinion of" and "Patriotism" do not necessarily correlate; though that is the meme that came from the cheerleaders for the Iraq war, revived from the Cold War. I consider to myself to be reasonably patriotic, but my opinion of my country (the U.S.) is that it's in the toilet. If I weren't patriotic I would care a lot less about that.
Quoth atomray (in part):...it's rather disappointing that the game continues to be played on a tube rather than a globe. If Civilization IV is also on a strip...
This is on of the main features that has been advertised to whole time about Civ IV. All the previews, interviews, etc. mention this: It will be a true globe, which can be freely zoomed, rotated, etc.
@Whoever is choosing the questions: Please don't choose this one despite its score, since has been well-answered in the press already.
Good references in your answer, though I would dispute 'unthinkingly', since as I explained there is some thinking going on -- it's just without the knowledge of the background you referenced.
Interesting, since I didn't know the term came from Human Resources where that orientation makes sense, rather I thought it was from Psychology.
Children actually learn with a steep learning curve. If the learning curve is steep, skills are acquired faster.
That's if your curve is a graph with {amount of knowledge} in the y axis vs. time or effort in the x axis. But the way most people use the phrase metaphorically, where steep equals difficult, implies a graph where y = amount of effort and x = amount of progess, thus a steep curve mean a lot of effort for relatively little progress.
And what led you to "learn" this? What a stupid fucking conclusion, considering you first concluded not to work for stupid people. You don't think an American company could act the same? Especially if they are 'stupid' people? It's generalizations like that which lead to most of the stupidity present in the world today. Fact is German companies have a lot better record with their workers (rights/treatment) than American companies; probably an order of magnitude better, though, to be fair, this is largely because of the more stringent laws protecting workers in Germany which wouldn't apply for a German company in the U.S. Still...
I mean the fact is, it's bloated as hell compared to zile or nano and definitely a second choice if you have nedit
I know this thread is already dead, but I just had to answer this. The one and only thing that finally dragged me from nedit, was its continuing inability to handle UTF-8. I still use it for the occasional jotting down of quick text files or such, and I miss some of its interface features (mouse dragging of text, *good* block selecting, etc.), but I have to deal with UTF-8 files so often now, that it's useless for most of my work-related editing:-( Ah, well...
I refer to cases where France ("Chirac") Germany and other rivals claim UN authority trumps US sovereignty.
What? When did either of those countries ever claim that? Please give me some kind of reference. Wasn't the argument more about what trumps Iraq's sovereignty?
Doesn't Virgin Atlantic have planes with pools on board?
Since the above was obviously too subtle for some moderator, let me try to explain it for the brain dead. If you take a plane from Norway to USA which has a swimming pool, and you swim in this swimming pool during the whole flight, then one could say (assuming one has at least a slight sense of humor) that you are "swimming from Norway to USA". Get it? Ha ha? Come on moderators; the whole point of moderation is to keep the thread from getting bogged down in complete crap, not to make sure there are no posts which do not have 100% relevance, insight, and humor, with perfect writing style.
This reminds of when during the election Bush "said" he wanted to reinstate the draft.
I don't remember anyone claiming that Bush said that. As I understood it, people were saying that his actions were going to make it inevitable that a draft would be necessary. Do you have any references which say otherwise? I'm genuinely curious.
Should we change it to "Tommy six-pack" instead of "Joe six-pack" now?
I think "Tommy Two-Pint" has a nice ring, and it fits better. "Tommy Half-pint" isn't bad either, though who ever heard of a Brit stopping after half a pint;-)
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A low UID at /. is indicative of what, exactly?
;-)
Ooh, ooh, I know, I know!! It's indicative that you started posting on Slashdot when it was still so obscure that only people with no life even knew of it?
-chris
No kidding. Talk about the a way to get Gnome and KDE zealots on to team up on you ;-)
-chris
However, unless the can spouted a mouth and decided to deny the holocaust, I don't see how it's the same thing.
Oh, I agree with you in principle, I was just pointing out that it's not as cut and dry as many Americans represent it. In any case, one must allow for the fact that in Germany's case the relevant laws were written by the occupying powers after WWII; And we all know who one of those allies was...
I've been living here for 10 years, and I still believe complete freedom of speech would be better -- at least in theory -- however I do feel it's hypocritical for Americans to criticize this aspect of German law since we were among those who insisted on it.
-chris
Nowhere did he demonstrate that they DO value freedom of speech the same as Americans (ostensibly) do.
Nobody values freedom of speech the same as Americans do... but a lot of countries value it as much as Americans do. Just one example: There is hardly a country in Europe (maybe none, I'm not sure) where the exposure of a single nipple would have led to massive fines (see Janet Jackson), or the use of 'swear' words can lead similarly large fines (see Howard Stern).
Here in Germany everyone was laughing their asses off about the Janet Jackson 'scandal', while I could only shrug my shoulders in embarrassment. Typical European statement to incidents of this sort: "So much for Americans' Freedom of Speech."
-chris
When I play a UT LAN party with a group of friends, I suck. Near the bottom everytime using the mouse/keyboard combo. If I play a round of Halo with a group of friends, I finish in the top 3 everytime. Folks can argue it, but for me, I do much, much better when everyone's using a console controller than when everyone's using a keyboard and mouse.
;-)
FYP
mmmmmmm.... Star Raiders. Man that makes me nostalgic :-)
-chris
I tried to like the Civ CTP demo enough to buy the game, really I did. If it had been even *close* to as much fun to play as Freeciv, I would have bought it just for the variety, but I found myself hating it, because the stupid UI kept getting in the way of the game. After that I never looked at a demo for another commercial civ game.
;-)
The only thing the CTP games had in common with the real Civ franchise was this word: "Civilization". That was the result of some crazy legal battle whose details I am too lazy to look up. Freeciv is primarily modeled after Civilization I and II (note: no "Call to Power"). I think you would find Civ II compares much more favorably to Freeciv. I'll leave the debate as to which is better over all to those who care
-chris
then oliverthered said:Did you mean doesn't? If not your thinking of something else. For example start Konq, Goto Help/About KDE and try to select the text that reads "K Desktop Environment. Release foo.bar"
No, it does have the feature, you're just showing that it also has uneditable text which can't be selected, not that it doesn't have uneditable text which can be selected. IOW:
I believe it's a parameter, so it depends on the author, whether a specific text is selectable. It definitely seems to be the default that text is selectable; just try:
kdialog --error 'fatal error!!!' on the command line and you'll see that the "fatal error!!!" string is selectable.
-chris
I hate slavic-to-english translations, especially of names, I can never remember which consanants follow which.
:-) Estonian is a Finno-Ugric Language related to Finnish, and both are completely unrelated to the Indo-European languages which include the Slavic languages. IOW, English and Russian are significantly more closely related to eachother than either is to Estonian. The writing system was adopted from the Teutonic (German) Knights who ruled there for a while, so they also use the Latin alphabet and the writing rules resemble those of German most closely.
Nothing Slavic here
-chris
not to disparage veterans or anything, but losing a few limbs serving your country might not improve your opinion of said country
"Opinion of" and "Patriotism" do not necessarily correlate; though that is the meme that came from the cheerleaders for the Iraq war, revived from the Cold War. I consider to myself to be reasonably patriotic, but my opinion of my country (the U.S.) is that it's in the toilet. If I weren't patriotic I would care a lot less about that.
-chris
... Economy of scale.
I'm sorry, but my only comment to this story is "No duh".
-chris
Quoth atomray (in part): ...it's rather disappointing that the game continues to be played on a tube rather than a globe. If Civilization IV is also on a strip...
This is on of the main features that has been advertised to whole time about Civ IV. All the previews, interviews, etc. mention this: It will be a true globe, which can be freely zoomed, rotated, etc.
@Whoever is choosing the questions: Please don't choose this one despite its score, since has been well-answered in the press already.
-chris
Good references in your answer, though I would dispute 'unthinkingly', since as I explained there is some thinking going on -- it's just without the knowledge of the background you referenced.
Interesting, since I didn't know the term came from Human Resources where that orientation makes sense, rather I thought it was from Psychology.
-chris
Children actually learn with a steep learning curve. If the learning curve is steep, skills are acquired faster.
That's if your curve is a graph with {amount of knowledge} in the y axis vs. time or effort in the x axis. But the way most people use the phrase metaphorically, where steep equals difficult, implies a graph where y = amount of effort and x = amount of progess, thus a steep curve mean a lot of effort for relatively little progress.
See? It's all in how you look at it.
-chris
And never work for Germans.
And what led you to "learn" this? What a stupid fucking conclusion, considering you first concluded not to work for stupid people. You don't think an American company could act the same? Especially if they are 'stupid' people? It's generalizations like that which lead to most of the stupidity present in the world today. Fact is German companies have a lot better record with their workers (rights/treatment) than American companies; probably an order of magnitude better, though, to be fair, this is largely because of the more stringent laws protecting workers in Germany which wouldn't apply for a German company in the U.S. Still...
-chris
I mean the fact is, it's bloated as hell compared to zile or nano and definitely a second choice if you have nedit
:-( Ah, well...
I know this thread is already dead, but I just had to answer this. The one and only thing that finally dragged me from nedit, was its continuing inability to handle UTF-8. I still use it for the occasional jotting down of quick text files or such, and I miss some of its interface features (mouse dragging of text, *good* block selecting, etc.), but I have to deal with UTF-8 files so often now, that it's useless for most of my work-related editing
-chris
I refer to cases where France ("Chirac") Germany and other rivals claim UN authority trumps US sovereignty.
What? When did either of those countries ever claim that? Please give me some kind of reference. Wasn't the argument more about what trumps Iraq's sovereignty?
-chris
There is nobody, anywhere, that can honestly say they BELIEVED the motivation for the turn to the dark side.
;-)
I did.
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--- Vote Libertarian [lp.org]
Yes... well... that kind of says it all, eh?
-chris
At least Merriam-Webster still has the complete set of definitions.
-chris
Doesn't Virgin Atlantic have planes with pools on board?
Since the above was obviously too subtle for some moderator, let me try to explain it for the brain dead. If you take a plane from Norway to USA which has a swimming pool, and you swim in this swimming pool during the whole flight, then one could say (assuming one has at least a slight sense of humor) that you are "swimming from Norway to USA". Get it? Ha ha? Come on moderators; the whole point of moderation is to keep the thread from getting bogged down in complete crap, not to make sure there are no posts which do not have 100% relevance, insight, and humor, with perfect writing style.
-chris
This reminds of when during the election Bush "said" he wanted to reinstate the draft.
I don't remember anyone claiming that Bush said that. As I understood it, people were saying that his actions were going to make it inevitable that a draft would be necessary. Do you have any references which say otherwise? I'm genuinely curious.
-Chris
I don't think the figures he's talking about can be found in the Library of Congress... ;-)
-chris
Damn, you beat me to it. I should have refreshed before posting mine. :-P
-chris
Should we change it to "Tommy six-pack" instead of "Joe six-pack" now?
;-)
I think "Tommy Two-Pint" has a nice ring, and it fits better. "Tommy Half-pint" isn't bad either, though who ever heard of a Brit stopping after half a pint
-chris
Kind of wierd, isn't it, how those who scoff at science are more than happy to use the fruits of that science to spread "The Word"?
-chris