So now you resort to ad hominem attacks? Who's escalating now? Please explain why you think that pointing out something that I believe is clearly a defect - and easily changed - makes me a "bringer of destruction". When something is very unusual, the normal, instant reaction is to find something familiar in it. If the first association is distasteful, that can leave a lasting impression, which can only be overcome with considerable difficulty. I still have to contend with jokes about Mandriva whereas all my peers thought that Mandrake was a cool name - a few even tried it as a dual-boot. Very stupid of them to change it.
Also, that other Mandrake fork, PCLinuxOS is just as a bad a name - why didn't Bill Reynolds call it Texstar Linux? Calling a distro PCLinuxOS is like naming your dog BarkingMammal.
I used to be a big Mandrake fan, even though most of my Linux buddies spurned it - not hardcore enough for them. Interestingly, most of those now either run Mac OS X on their personal machines or Ubuntu - go figure. Fork all you want, but the NAMES? Gah, "Man Driver" was bad enough but now we have "My Gayer". Yah, even if I decide to try this one out, I guarantee it'll be running in a VM on a server hidden away "in a closet".
What a waste of $1.73 million that would be. It would be more productive to spend all that money and manure and dump it on the lawn of their HQ. That's about the only way to get something to grow out of that patent shill mill.
That Luddite wanted America to pursue renewable strategies as well as the other nastier alternatives - remember the solar panel on the White House roof? Also, nuclear waste reprocessing sounds wonderful in theory but is not a slamdunk in practice. France still needs to finds a place to bury the stuff that's not worth reprocessing and the greater needs and sprawl of the US would have made for hell of a lot more waste to be dumped in someone else's back yard. The thorium reactor might have resolved all these problems but, 50 years own, we still don't have a design that can scale up to the needs of modern society.
The Luddite also wanted to Americans to be less materialistic. Regrettably, neither of those visions have yet come to pass and probably won't in the peanut farmer's lifetime.
(Disclaimer - FF, with certain extensions, is, by far, my preferred browser, although Chrome is looking better each release)
So, IE9 beta will be unleashed unto the expectant masses in just a short while - since Kraken was under wraps until yesterday, that would have given the Internet Explorer dev team no opportunity to test their codebase. Co-incidence? I think NOT!
I've stated before that i find the latest round of the browser wars that ignited when Google first revealed revealed Chrome to be more exciting than the OS wars that have been fought since the '90s ( although, despite not being a Mac guy, Apple's shift, first to Unix underpinnings and then from PowerPC to Intel was simply astonishing). I'm not sure why the release of Safari 3 on Windows didn't cause the same seismic shift in browser development.
Very, very excited about what the future of browser-based apps, especially since HTML5 is ramping up in adoption.
Cops can pretty much always find a reason to arrest you and maybe even charge you. Whether it holds up in court is another matter. Asshole cops routinely do this to teach intimidate someone knowing that the accusation carries a lot of weight if made public as many folks will simply assume that you must be guilty if you were accused.
And, at least one fine upstanding public servant - yes, I mean you, Sheriff Arpaio - has made a career out of treating the accused as if they were already tried and sentenced.
I'm with you on this one. I'm not even close to being a Jobs butt-monkey but this is stupid. Unless possession of these is illegal in Japan, he should have had every right to take them on his personal aircraft. Someone probably got pissed that the fucking rich American bastard didn't offer to grease some palms.
This nonsense of 'there are Dalits and there are Dalits' is mischievous malicious propaganda. Dalits are Hindus. They were treated as the bottom rung of Hindu society by the other castes historically, but they were, and are Hindus. A Dalit today will mention his religion as 'Hindu', if asked to fill it in an application form.
Is it surprising that someone would lie on a form if it made the difference between getting assistance or employment or not?
India of today is modern India, and in no way identifies itself with pre-independence India - the two are completely separate. No one in India even dreams about going back to the pre-1947 state. When we say India, we refer only to post independence India. Now, it's the other country, Pakistan which has divided into two, while on the other hand, India has stayed united, in spite of all the naysayers and skeptics! So, your argument about India being divided is extremely silly.
I wonder if the Punjabi Sikhs would think me silly or are they not still dreaming of a Khalistan formed out of the (pre-Independence) Greater Punjab. It's probably a very good thing for Indian unity that Manmohan Singh leads the country and is so well regarded across the political spectrum.
We don't consider the other two countries to be part of India, we don't want them, we don't want anything to do with them. Let them go their own ways - they were never part of "India" and hopefully never will be.
It's a lot easier to keep a country together when you have contiguous borders or do not have a large, strong enemy territory to cross. I think it was inevitable that the 2 former Pakistans would go their own way. If Islam hasn't been able to create one giant united state in the Middle East despite having so much in common and having so much of the most useful and coveted substance in human history, there was little chance of a split Pakistan enduring.
Regarding the "affirmative action" or "uplift" program, it seems that there are Dalits and then there are Dalits - the ones who practice Hinduism fare much better than those who don't - a double helping of apartheid in a secular democracy.
I would sooner see India become the Asian superpower over China but I doubt they can heal the huge societal rifts that have plague them. Stepping outside your 10-year fence but staying within modern times, it's instructive to recall that, after the withdrawal of British rule, India quickly became, not one country, but three.
Limiting it to the last decade seems awful convenient when you're considering a societal practice that has endured for millenia in a country that is one of the worlds oldest civilizations, despite the efforts of some prominent people, such as Gautama Buddha himself to change it.
Well 300 million sounds like a lot but that still leaves 700 million - who, I imagine, are really the ones who make up the might of the Indian state, in the world's most populous democracy.
It's telling that, almost 60 years after the abolition of the caste system, its roots still run deep. Many of the incidents listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste-related_violence_in_India fall within your 10-year limit and the description of violence are quite horrific. It seems that the Indian state is judiciously withholding its might. I've not had much success in finding reliable statistics among inter-caste marriage (at any level). When that becomes commonplace and accepted throughout the country, then talk to me about dramatic change. And, as yet, no Dalit has risen to the office of Prime Minister, although a Sikh has. By the way, where are the terms of Chief Justices so brief? Most don't make it to the end of their 5-year term.
Regrettably this is the way the world is going and the stupid sheeple don't know how to fight back. Also, isn't India the country that cut off the balls of thousands during forced sterilization in the '70s?
You can find YouTube videos with Muslims responding to the question of who created Allah. The answer is usually something like since he is eternal and is both the first and the last ( something to do with his names), he is, by definition, uncreated. I imagine every religion that believes in a similar deity makes or can make the same argument.
So, if millions (billions?) of supposedly rational people have no trouble believing in an omnipotent, eternal alien who has always been and always will be, and who demands the adulation of insignificant specks of organic matter, what's the problem with me believing in a universe that exploded into existence out of absolutely nothing.
I recall seeing this problem with NFS some years back - don't know if it's still the case. The clients with open connections would freeze solid if the server abruptly dropped the connection, for whatever reason, and would stay that way until either forcibly rebooted or until the server reconnected. I think that the server could be mounted in a "soft" state to prevent that but was told there was too much of a performance penalty.
My point was that there were reports of widespread "gaming the system" with NiCkLeBee. I'd hate to see that happen with the compliance with the Clean Air Act, since it's much too weak, IMO, as it stands.
I'd like to see how many current vehicles will continue to be sold without modification. If no or only minor mods are needed, then the Act needs to be scrapped and rewritten.
The Nortel 1-Meg modem - I may still have one lying around somewhere. Probably can use it to prop up my couch. The line filter alone was only a bit smaller than the last DSL modem I had.
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I'm well aware of this - I speak French. But they had been doing business in English for years - they didn't do their homework.
So now you resort to ad hominem attacks? Who's escalating now? Please explain why you think that pointing out something that I believe is clearly a defect - and easily changed - makes me a "bringer of destruction".
When something is very unusual, the normal, instant reaction is to find something familiar in it. If the first association is distasteful, that can leave a lasting impression, which can only be overcome with considerable difficulty. I still have to contend with jokes about Mandriva whereas all my peers thought that Mandrake was a cool name - a few even tried it as a dual-boot. Very stupid of them to change it.
You have to consider the impression made on the end-user. Branding matters. Would you run Faggot Linux on your desktop?
Faggot:
a bundle of sticks, twigs, or branches bound together and used as fuel, a fascine, a torch, etc.
Also, that other Mandrake fork, PCLinuxOS is just as a bad a name - why didn't Bill Reynolds call it Texstar Linux? Calling a distro PCLinuxOS is like naming your dog BarkingMammal.
I used to be a big Mandrake fan, even though most of my Linux buddies spurned it - not hardcore enough for them. Interestingly, most of those now either run Mac OS X on their personal machines or Ubuntu - go figure. Fork all you want, but the NAMES? Gah, "Man Driver" was bad enough but now we have "My Gayer". Yah, even if I decide to try this one out, I guarantee it'll be running in a VM on a server hidden away "in a closet".
Just when I thought my opinion of them couldn't fall any lower.
What a waste of $1.73 million that would be. It would be more productive to spend all that money and manure and dump it on the lawn of their HQ.
That's about the only way to get something to grow out of that patent shill mill.
Did you mean Nixon or Carter?
That Luddite wanted America to pursue renewable strategies as well as the other nastier alternatives - remember the solar panel on the White House roof? Also, nuclear waste reprocessing sounds wonderful in theory but is not a slamdunk in practice. France still needs to finds a place to bury the stuff that's not worth reprocessing and the greater needs and sprawl of the US would have made for hell of a lot more waste to be dumped in someone else's back yard.
The thorium reactor might have resolved all these problems but, 50 years own, we still don't have a design that can scale up to the needs of modern society.
The Luddite also wanted to Americans to be less materialistic. Regrettably, neither of those visions have yet come to pass and probably won't in the peanut farmer's lifetime.
(Disclaimer - FF, with certain extensions, is, by far, my preferred browser, although Chrome is looking better each release)
So, IE9 beta will be unleashed unto the expectant masses in just a short while - since Kraken was under wraps until yesterday, that would have given
the Internet Explorer dev team no opportunity to test their codebase. Co-incidence? I think NOT!
I've stated before that i find the latest round of the browser wars that ignited when Google first revealed revealed Chrome to be more exciting than the OS wars that have been fought since the '90s ( although, despite not being a Mac guy, Apple's shift, first to Unix underpinnings and then from PowerPC to Intel was simply astonishing). I'm not sure why the release of Safari 3 on Windows didn't cause the same seismic shift in browser development.
Very, very excited about what the future of browser-based apps, especially since HTML5 is ramping up in adoption.
Cops can pretty much always find a reason to arrest you and maybe even charge you.
Whether it holds up in court is another matter. Asshole cops routinely do this to teach intimidate someone knowing that the accusation carries a lot of weight if made public as many folks will simply assume that you must be guilty if you were accused.
And, at least one fine upstanding public servant - yes, I mean you, Sheriff Arpaio - has made a career out of treating the accused as if they were already tried and sentenced.
I'm with you on this one. I'm not even close to being a Jobs butt-monkey but this is stupid. Unless possession of these is illegal in Japan, he should have had every right to take them on his personal aircraft. Someone probably got pissed that the fucking rich American bastard didn't offer to grease some palms.
This nonsense of 'there are Dalits and there are Dalits' is mischievous malicious propaganda. Dalits are Hindus. They were treated as the bottom rung of Hindu society by the other castes historically, but they were, and are Hindus. A Dalit today will mention his religion as 'Hindu', if asked to fill it in an application form.
Is it surprising that someone would lie on a form if it made the difference between getting assistance or employment or not?
India of today is modern India, and in no way identifies itself with pre-independence India - the two are completely separate. No one in India even dreams about going back to the pre-1947 state. When we say India, we refer only to post independence India. Now, it's the other country, Pakistan which has divided into two, while on the other hand, India has stayed united, in spite of all the naysayers and skeptics! So, your argument about India being divided is extremely silly.
I wonder if the Punjabi Sikhs would think me silly or are they not still dreaming of a Khalistan formed out of the (pre-Independence) Greater Punjab. It's probably a very good thing for Indian unity that Manmohan Singh leads the country and is so well regarded across the political spectrum.
We don't consider the other two countries to be part of India, we don't want them, we don't want anything to do with them. Let them go their own ways - they were never part of "India" and hopefully never will be.
It's a lot easier to keep a country together when you have contiguous borders or do not have a large, strong enemy territory to cross.
I think it was inevitable that the 2 former Pakistans would go their own way. If Islam hasn't been able to create one giant united state in the Middle East despite having so much in common and having so much of the most useful and coveted substance in human history, there was little chance of a split Pakistan enduring.
Regarding the "affirmative action" or "uplift" program, it seems that there are Dalits and then there are Dalits - the ones who practice Hinduism fare much better than those who don't - a double helping of apartheid in a secular democracy.
I would sooner see India become the Asian superpower over China but I doubt they can heal the huge societal rifts that have plague them. Stepping outside your 10-year fence but staying within modern times, it's instructive to recall that, after the withdrawal of British rule, India quickly became, not one country, but three.
And, if you feel the need to criticize the USA, by all means, proceed. I both praise and damn it, and other countries, on a regular basis.
But, I'm a bit mystified as to why you believe it's my country.
Limiting it to the last decade seems awful convenient when you're considering a societal practice that has endured for millenia in a country that is one of the worlds oldest civilizations, despite the efforts of some prominent people, such as Gautama Buddha himself to change it.
Well 300 million sounds like a lot but that still leaves 700 million - who, I imagine, are really the ones who make up the might of the Indian state, in the world's most populous democracy.
It's telling that, almost 60 years after the abolition of the caste system, its roots still run deep.
Many of the incidents listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste-related_violence_in_India fall within your 10-year limit and the description of violence are quite horrific. It seems that the Indian state is judiciously withholding its might.
I've not had much success in finding reliable statistics among inter-caste marriage (at any level). When that becomes commonplace and accepted throughout the country, then talk to me about dramatic change.
And, as yet, no Dalit has risen to the office of Prime Minister, although a Sikh has.
By the way, where are the terms of Chief Justices so brief? Most don't make it to the end of their 5-year term.
True enough. Many (all?) countries have practiced oppression of one or more groups at one time or another, sometimes for decades or centuries.
Which brings me back to India - look at their treatement of the Dalits for, oh, about three thousand years, give or take a few.
Regrettably this is the way the world is going and the stupid sheeple don't know how to fight back. Also, isn't India the country that cut off the balls of thousands during forced sterilization in the '70s?
Beat me to it.
Which twat modded this Flamebait? Mod it Funny, twat or don't mod it at all.
You can find YouTube videos with Muslims responding to the question of who created Allah. The answer is usually something like since he is eternal and is both the first and the last ( something to do with his names), he is, by definition, uncreated.
I imagine every religion that believes in a similar deity makes or can make the same argument.
So, if millions (billions?) of supposedly rational people have no trouble believing in an omnipotent, eternal alien who has always been and always will be, and who demands the adulation of insignificant specks of organic matter, what's the problem with me believing in a universe that exploded into existence out of absolutely nothing.
I recall seeing this problem with NFS some years back - don't know if it's still the case. The clients with open connections would freeze solid if the server abruptly dropped the connection, for whatever reason, and would stay
that way until either forcibly rebooted or until the server reconnected.
I think that the server could be mounted in a "soft" state to prevent that but was told there was too much of a performance penalty.
My point was that there were reports of widespread "gaming the system" with NiCkLeBee. I'd hate to see that happen with the compliance with the Clean Air Act, since it's much too weak, IMO, as it stands.
I'd like to see how many current vehicles will continue to be sold without modification. If no or only minor mods are needed, then the Act needs to be scrapped and rewritten.
The Nortel 1-Meg modem - I may still have one lying around somewhere. Probably can use it to prop up my couch. The line filter alone was only a bit smaller than the last DSL modem I had.