We can't tell whether Li was worried, or whether he was brave, or both. But journalists do risk jail and execution for stunts like that when they don't go right. Maybe Li was skillful, maybe he was lucky, maybe he was just assured of success on a wave of Chinese history. But he could have just complied with the government control. Standing up, even when confident of success, is still brave. Compare that to our coward American journalists.
Scotty McLiar is the trick, the john - not the pimp. The pimps are the media execs who send out their media whores. But the public gets the screwing.
The politicians need the media more than the reverse. The media can do their job by talking to others, like pundits, or disempowered politicians, even if politicians won't give them "access". Polticians have no other way to get voters to vote for them than through the media. If the media were independent, instead of corporate products in partnership with government sponsors, they'd exercise their options. Instead, why should they?
Whenever I've (rarely) had the misfortune of being bored enough in Holland to watch TV, it seemed that only the weather is shown.
That royalty you've got is a joke. But at least they're not as ugly as their German cousins across the Channel. Maybe that's why they're on TV. Though why Catholics worship Protestant royalty is worthy of further explanation, even if not on Slashdot.
I'm not complaining that the St. Patrick's Day parade is religious, though you are denying that it is.
That parade includes all kinds of community groups, which have nothing to do with religion or parades, but gay groups are specifically excluded. If Black groups were specifically excluded, that would be obviously wrong. Yet you share the special status for gays, "prohibited", that the parade assigns. Gay groups are no more entitled than any other group, but they are entitled to protection from discrimination against them.
Now we see how perfectly compatible is fascism with theocracy. Corporations will do whatever is necessary to enforce religious laws to protect their profits. When the international currency, oil, is controlled by theocrats (Christian, Muslim or otherwise makes little difference), corporate lawmakers will enact those laws, or enforce them privately.
Slashdot is overrun by people who are in deep denial of Bush's crimes. Partly because they're responsible: they voted for Bush twice, and have spent 5 years insisting that Bush's crimes are either nonexistent, necessary or both. They spend their modpoints modding down posts that mention Bush's crimes, rather than modding other stories, or responding to them. What else would we expect from people defending the destruction of our country, especially by the corporate media, than an army of media suppressors?
These people are Bush's courtiers, who won't even get the hollow honor of attending at Bush's court. They're sick, and they're killing us.
When French King Louis 14 (1638-1715) famously said "l'etat, c'est moi" (the state, that's me), he meant that the king incarnates the state. Anything the king does is legal, official policy. No "separation of powers". Anything the kind doesn't like is a threat to national security, because the king's security is the state's security.
Making documents already circulated in public makes it harder for the public to know about them. It doesn't really stop determined researchers, like foreign intelligence agencies, from knowing about them. But it sure does make it more likely that embarassing info, evidence of crimes, and plans for goverment actions unacceptable to the public will be ignored by our fat, lazy corporate media.
This action by Bush's government is independently a demonstration of a King's privilege. But of course it doesn't stand alone. Over the past 5 years, there is a long list of individual actions by Bush's government to do thinks like an absolute monarch, including ignoring Congress, lying us into war, leaving the Gulf Coast unprotected, leaking CIA/WMD agent identity to protect a lie to send us to war, with only the TV spokesmodel facing any repercussions when the government is caught. It's obvious that the Bush doctrine of the unitary executive is Bushspeak for "the state, that's me".
I've been urged by poofyhairguy as recently as this Winter to use xcompmgr, and told that it would be debugged by the April 2006 Ubuntu release. Then I READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE, and saw it talk about an unnamed "new compositing manager", which is almost ready in February:
"The Metacity compositing manager requires the latest features of unstable X.org and requires the new texture-from-pixmap extension, as a result this feature is turned off by default."
The fucking article doesn't mention xcompmgr by name, doesn't mention that xcompmgr is superceded, doesn't mention that the "new compositing manager" isn't xcompmgr, or what it is actually called. Then it says that the new one is unstable and turned off by default - sounds a lot like xcompmgr, even if it isn't.
Then I asked a simple, friendly question. Several others in this thread gave prompt, friendly, helpful answers clarifying the status of xcompmgr.
And then I get your obnoxious flame, after you didn't bother to read the other responses. All defensive about xcompmgr, and attacking me for no reason. You're a useless jerk.
Just when the new Slashcode revison seems to have reduced dup' posts, publishing stories submitted by their author sends a perpetual motion advertisement to the front page. Just because the ad is published in "Open Source" Energy
Thanks. I (think I) know you don't make the Ubuntu repository tools, but I'd love to see the package detail page link to the package project website (if any). And a subscription interface with email notification for package changes. Maybe the latter is included somewhere in the Ubuntu desktop SW.
"You must compile the newest CVS version of glitz to get this to work with Nvidia cards that lack Pixel Shaders (aka anything older than a 5200 FX). Hopefully this will be updated in the repository soon."
My GeForce2Go lacks Pixel Shaders. How can I tell when the required version of glitz is updated in the repository, so I don't have to compile it from CVS?
It's interesting that you have such a long spin when the facts are simple, as you could see from the overwhelming evidence to which I linked in my post. If Rumsfeld adequately supplied our troops with body armor, thousands of them wouldn't be maimed today. Citing hyperbolic strawmen like "100% perfection" as defense from the well-documented criticism that Rumsfeld doesn't adequately equip our troops is positively Rumsfeldian.
But your slavish devotion to official Rumsfeld spin shows where you turn my Vietnam reference into another strawman. What I said was precisely "an indulgence in warmongering, and for the Secretary of Defense to aim for victory with a victory strategy, not just an endless war", not that it was a "military defeat". That it was a political defeat of our own troops, by the Secretary of Defense.
But you're such a warmonger that all you can do is repeat Pentagon talking points when I push your button. Like your unnecessary kneejerk pledge of allegience to our troops, blurted in the middle of your spin. You've got a great career ahead of you in the 24 hour propaganda machine.
I dunno if I'm one of "those guys". When my team did it (second processor for all rendering) in the late 1980s, we called it "Genigraphics". When Atari did it with a separate processor for Display List processing in the early 1980s, they called it "ANTIC". I call it dual processing.
I really hope they've got the xcompmgr debugged so it works without freezing on my Inspiron8000. Factoring all display rendering operations out of the CPU onto the GPU in OpenGL will really squeeze a lot more performance out of GNOME, across the board.
That's a good guess. Since it's all one word, not an acronym (Ex Yoo El Ahr Yoo En En Eee Ahr?), maybe it could be "Chewlrunner", "Chulrunner", or "Zewlrunner", "Zuhlrunner" or "Schoolrunner".
The problem is not how hard it is to pronounce, but rather how hard it is to guess how to pronounce it. And "Ex Yoo El Runner" is fairly hard to pronounce, anyway.
And what happens when the person viewing the Unipage doesn't have the fonts installed that are specified in the Unipage, like because they're viewing on a different (eg. OS) platform than that used to create the Unipage? That's the original design goal of PDF ("Portable Document Format).
Can the MS Mobile softphone point at an independent VoIP server, or must it point at Microsoft? It's like the dedicated MSN client vs Netscape (and AOL and Mozilla and IE and Firefox) all over again.
Can the MS VoIP servers be accessed by an independent client? Like a client that already talks MSN IM protocols with VoIP extensions?
Whose idea was it to name "XULRunner"? Picking a name that's a new word, hard for most people to guess how to pronounce, is a bad way to get people to talk about it.
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We can't tell whether Li was worried, or whether he was brave, or both. But journalists do risk jail and execution for stunts like that when they don't go right. Maybe Li was skillful, maybe he was lucky, maybe he was just assured of success on a wave of Chinese history. But he could have just complied with the government control. Standing up, even when confident of success, is still brave. Compare that to our coward American journalists.
Scotty McLiar is the trick, the john - not the pimp. The pimps are the media execs who send out their media whores. But the public gets the screwing.
The politicians need the media more than the reverse. The media can do their job by talking to others, like pundits, or disempowered politicians, even if politicians won't give them "access". Polticians have no other way to get voters to vote for them than through the media. If the media were independent, instead of corporate products in partnership with government sponsors, they'd exercise their options. Instead, why should they?
Whenever I've (rarely) had the misfortune of being bored enough in Holland to watch TV, it seemed that only the weather is shown.
That royalty you've got is a joke. But at least they're not as ugly as their German cousins across the Channel. Maybe that's why they're on TV. Though why Catholics worship Protestant royalty is worthy of further explanation, even if not on Slashdot.
You mean the Bob Woodward who makes his living off of writing Bush biographies, and covers up his own role in outing CIA/WMD agents?
Yeah, the accountability moments only happen one day every 2 years, and they're rigged.
I'm not complaining that the St. Patrick's Day parade is religious, though you are denying that it is.
That parade includes all kinds of community groups, which have nothing to do with religion or parades, but gay groups are specifically excluded. If Black groups were specifically excluded, that would be obviously wrong. Yet you share the special status for gays, "prohibited", that the parade assigns. Gay groups are no more entitled than any other group, but they are entitled to protection from discrimination against them.
In China journalists brave jail and execution for independence. In America journalists are afraid to ask politicians questions about their crimes.
You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.
Now we see how perfectly compatible is fascism with theocracy. Corporations will do whatever is necessary to enforce religious laws to protect their profits. When the international currency, oil, is controlled by theocrats (Christian, Muslim or otherwise makes little difference), corporate lawmakers will enact those laws, or enforce them privately.
Slashdot is overrun by people who are in deep denial of Bush's crimes. Partly because they're responsible: they voted for Bush twice, and have spent 5 years insisting that Bush's crimes are either nonexistent, necessary or both. They spend their modpoints modding down posts that mention Bush's crimes, rather than modding other stories, or responding to them. What else would we expect from people defending the destruction of our country, especially by the corporate media, than an army of media suppressors?
These people are Bush's courtiers, who won't even get the hollow honor of attending at Bush's court. They're sick, and they're killing us.
When French King Louis 14 (1638-1715) famously said "l'etat, c'est moi" (the state, that's me), he meant that the king incarnates the state. Anything the king does is legal, official policy. No "separation of powers". Anything the kind doesn't like is a threat to national security, because the king's security is the state's security.
Making documents already circulated in public makes it harder for the public to know about them. It doesn't really stop determined researchers, like foreign intelligence agencies, from knowing about them. But it sure does make it more likely that embarassing info, evidence of crimes, and plans for goverment actions unacceptable to the public will be ignored by our fat, lazy corporate media.
This action by Bush's government is independently a demonstration of a King's privilege. But of course it doesn't stand alone. Over the past 5 years, there is a long list of individual actions by Bush's government to do thinks like an absolute monarch, including ignoring Congress, lying us into war, leaving the Gulf Coast unprotected, leaking CIA/WMD agent identity to protect a lie to send us to war, with only the TV spokesmodel facing any repercussions when the government is caught. It's obvious that the Bush doctrine of the unitary executive is Bushspeak for "the state, that's me".
I've been urged by poofyhairguy as recently as this Winter to use xcompmgr, and told that it would be debugged by the April 2006 Ubuntu release. Then I READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE, and saw it talk about an unnamed "new compositing manager", which is almost ready in February:
"The Metacity compositing manager requires the latest features of unstable X.org and requires the new texture-from-pixmap extension, as a result this feature is turned off by default."
The fucking article doesn't mention xcompmgr by name, doesn't mention that xcompmgr is superceded, doesn't mention that the "new compositing manager" isn't xcompmgr, or what it is actually called. Then it says that the new one is unstable and turned off by default - sounds a lot like xcompmgr, even if it isn't.
Then I asked a simple, friendly question. Several others in this thread gave prompt, friendly, helpful answers clarifying the status of xcompmgr.
And then I get your obnoxious flame, after you didn't bother to read the other responses. All defensive about xcompmgr, and attacking me for no reason. You're a useless jerk.
You think the upgrade will make my fonts in Evolution and Firefox (they work in Mozilla) reliably legible?
As I recall, GeForce2Go . Is there an app I can run to probe for the exact model?
Just when the new Slashcode revison seems to have reduced dup' posts, publishing stories submitted by their author sends a perpetual motion advertisement to the front page. Just because the ad is published in "Open Source" Energy
Thanks. I (think I) know you don't make the Ubuntu repository tools, but I'd love to see the package detail page link to the package project website (if any). And a subscription interface with email notification for package changes. Maybe the latter is included somewhere in the Ubuntu desktop SW.
Thanks.
That note says
"You must compile the newest CVS version of glitz to get this to work with Nvidia cards that lack Pixel Shaders (aka anything older than a 5200 FX). Hopefully this will be updated in the repository soon."
My GeForce2Go lacks Pixel Shaders. How can I tell when the required version of glitz is updated in the repository, so I don't have to compile it from CVS?
It's interesting that you have such a long spin when the facts are simple, as you could see from the overwhelming evidence to which I linked in my post. If Rumsfeld adequately supplied our troops with body armor, thousands of them wouldn't be maimed today. Citing hyperbolic strawmen like "100% perfection" as defense from the well-documented criticism that Rumsfeld doesn't adequately equip our troops is positively Rumsfeldian.
But your slavish devotion to official Rumsfeld spin shows where you turn my Vietnam reference into another strawman. What I said was precisely "an indulgence in warmongering, and for the Secretary of Defense to aim for victory with a victory strategy, not just an endless war", not that it was a "military defeat". That it was a political defeat of our own troops, by the Secretary of Defense.
But you're such a warmonger that all you can do is repeat Pentagon talking points when I push your button. Like your unnecessary kneejerk pledge of allegience to our troops, blurted in the middle of your spin. You've got a great career ahead of you in the 24 hour propaganda machine.
I dunno if I'm one of "those guys". When my team did it (second processor for all rendering) in the late 1980s, we called it "Genigraphics". When Atari did it with a separate processor for Display List processing in the early 1980s, they called it "ANTIC". I call it dual processing.
;).
And I call it late to the party
Well, since its a packager/installer for Mozilla apps, how about MoFo?
With Ubuntu?
How do I use that with Ubuntu instead of OpenSuSE?
I really hope they've got the xcompmgr debugged so it works without freezing on my Inspiron8000. Factoring all display rendering operations out of the CPU onto the GPU in OpenGL will really squeeze a lot more performance out of GNOME, across the board.
That's a good guess. Since it's all one word, not an acronym (Ex Yoo El Ahr Yoo En En Eee Ahr?), maybe it could be "Chewlrunner", "Chulrunner", or "Zewlrunner", "Zuhlrunner" or "Schoolrunner".
The problem is not how hard it is to pronounce, but rather how hard it is to guess how to pronounce it. And "Ex Yoo El Runner" is fairly hard to pronounce, anyway.
And what happens when the person viewing the Unipage doesn't have the fonts installed that are specified in the Unipage, like because they're viewing on a different (eg. OS) platform than that used to create the Unipage? That's the original design goal of PDF ("Portable Document Format).
Can the MS Mobile softphone point at an independent VoIP server, or must it point at Microsoft? It's like the dedicated MSN client vs Netscape (and AOL and Mozilla and IE and Firefox) all over again.
Can the MS VoIP servers be accessed by an independent client? Like a client that already talks MSN IM protocols with VoIP extensions?
Whose idea was it to name "XULRunner"? Picking a name that's a new word, hard for most people to guess how to pronounce, is a bad way to get people to talk about it.