Being a user is fine, and not understanding is also fine. However, you need to be careful when disseminating information that is solely your own interpretation in a medium and place where it can easily and quickly be construed as fact.
More than one person has come onto IRC (Freenode) into #mythtv-users claiming that they "Read on slashdot" that zap2it was discontinuing their free service... and then gave your post as a reference. It's not your fault that people aren't able to recognize an op ed piece as not fact when they see it, but being a mythtv user I would suggest that there is a certain amount of responsibility that you should bear in matters such as these.
For what it is worth, I am not a MythTV developer as such either (I've only submitted two very minor patches), but I do hang out with a few (including Jarod) on IRC...
That doesn't keep me up to date though. I follow the lists enough and watch what I say to the extent that I am able to say things as fact rather than opinion. If I am not sure it is fact, then I just don't say it, or I ask it as a question instead of a format that someone could think was fact.
The point release issue has been going on for quite some time. They actually meant to do it for 0.17 but Jarod didn't have time and they couldn't get it coordinated before 0.18 was getting out the door. This is all well discussed on the mythtv-dev and mythtv-users mailing lists; which are fully searchable in the archives gossamer-threads.
I see this as a branch/fork. Then you didn't read hard enough. The LxM Suite support is not a fork. It is an accepted patch in the main CVS head. This release is a point release of the release trunk + patches from cvs, not a fork from it.
Based on the announcement, I'm not certain why everyone's waving flags and saying that Zap2It labs is going away. Me either. It's not.
if one of the major developers says that they're not involved in it much and: "If it's busted, blame him (Jarod Wilson), not me. =)", I can't see much of an issue. That had nothing to do with the fact that there was an LxM Suite patch in there, and everything to do with that this was a point release and Isaac only handles major releases. Rest assured that when the next major release comes out, all of those patches will be in it too.
Seriously... do you don't think every time linux kernel 2.6.x comes out that "Oh! This is a fork from 2.6! Linus isn't going to support this!", and I'd hope that because Linus isn't managing the releases of kernels in the 2.0, 2.2 and 2.4 series that new releases put out by the respective release managers are not "official". Try just a little harder to keep up with the program, hey?
Try as I might, I can get at most three fingers pointing back at me. Am I doing it wrong?
Obviously you are not using both hands. And everyone knows that if you are going to do it, you need to use both hands, or the result is simply less than spectacular.
99% of the human population would also say they would like you to give them a dollar. Are you going to start handing out dollars? Just because something is held in popular belief does not automatically make it so.
Virii is not the plural of virus. Do 99% of "the human population" talk about the circii when more than one circus comes to town? Of course not. Would they correct me if I said it? Very likely so. This is no different.
Nope. It's just the new "SlashNot" feature that shows the worst of the worst from the rejected articles pool... go into your options and you can disable it =)
Then stop placing yourself in the same group as this guy. Stop calling yourself Christian. Call yourself Anglican, or a follower of Christ, but do everything you can to distance yourself from these types of people.
I will certainly not.
Consider this: You can ask two people of a particular political leaning [republical|democrat|etc] their views on a subject and get different answers... that does not mean either one should stop saying they are aligned with that political group [republican|democrat|etc].
Also consider this: I (a very white caucasian) can go around calling myself African-American all day long doing REALLY stupid things and being VERY vocal about different issues. An intelligent person would not then tell the African-American community to stop calling themselves an African-Americans because of my idiocy.
If I happen to have a pinto that never had a problem and has survived three exceptionally large wrecks without issue, you wouldn't tell me to stop calling it a pinto just because of the bad reputation of the rest.
You are most certainly wrong.
Instead, I will say proudly that I am a christian, and that this man has (from my perspective) a decidedly unchristian attitude. I will call an apple an apple, and a rotten apple a rotten apple. I would proudly say that whilst i do not condone homosexuality, I do not now and will not ever endorse stripping any person of basic human rights. I will also proudly say that I have nothing but support, love and compassion for any homosexual person... the same as I do for any other person.
Stop calling myself Christian indeed!
By the way... if you want to start using such illogical pretenses:
I know an athiest who is homosexual. Does that mean that you are homosexual? Or should you stop calling yourself an athiest?
I know a homosexual who is christian. Does that mean that if you call yourself an athiest that you are also a christian?
Adobe Photoshop has never been the underdog. Ever. That title has always belonged to JASC's Paint Shop Pro. I've never heard of or seen a real professional state otherwise, only aspiring amateurs.
Paint Shop Pro is good, don't get me wrong. I use it exclusively (disclaimer: I am not an imaging professional)... but under no condition am I under the delusion that it has ever yet been as good or powerful as Photoshop.
You are hereby being served for infringing on US Patent #123789321987: "Method For Recovery of Capital used for Investment In Extra-Planar Activities".
Actually, it (the device) really does come in two forms, the iCopulate and the iMasturbate. iCopulate is an add-on for the iPartner product. iMasterbate is essentially a loop back device enabling the iPod to copy files to its self. In this case, the lube is optional, but really speeds things up.
Somebody mentioned that the internal project name for iMasturbate was "Hand Jobs a Winner". That's just a little too bizarre to believe... isn't it? Then again... we are talking about a product that has passed through the Reality Distortion Field, so who knows!
Sheesh. I have a real office (complete with walls, door and window) but they still put a cubicle in it just to put the screws on me. A cubicle just as wide and long as the room.
Apparently it was cheaper to move the space cubicle in than to move the spare desk in.
For as long as I can remember, people have been touting the "There aren't games to fully utilize it right now, but just wait till [6,9,12] months from now!" line when trying to justify either a sale or a purchase.
I dont get it.
Historically, the price of video cards has dropped by around 50% over the course of 12 months. Why are people paying todays prices so they can play tomorrow's [or more!] games?
The only reason I can think of is penis waving. So they can say "mine is bigger than yours!".
If it were otherwise then they would have waited until the game that needed it came out.
He bought a Blizzard brand milk jug from his friend that can accept refills bought at Blizzard's Grocery Store. Only thing is, Blizzard's Grocery Store wont sell refills to you unless you have one of their Member Cards, and they will only create one Member Card per Blizzard brand milk jug. Since his friend has already had a Member Card created from that Blizzard brand milk jug, he is not able to have Member Card created, and Blizzard's Grocery Store will not sell him the milk refills promised to anyone who bought a Blizzard brand milk jug.
It's not pretty, but I think it's a little more accurate.
Things will be reasonably quiet until a few outcast terrorist HIV strands decide to hijack an errant blood clot and crash it into the aortic valve.
Following that, security will start "screening" the blood so finely that the backlog of blood waiting to enter the heart causes our blood pressure to skyrocket, causing us to all die early of heart attacks.
But they'll tell us it's in our best interests, and we'll go along with it anyway.
Whether Carly Fiorina exerted too much or too little control, HP still ended up screwed because of her actions. Under or over management, she's still damned, and there is a chance that with a decent CEO they significantly change.
The person at the top can always veto everyone else. They are The Boss(tm) for a reason; But at the same time, the reason is not to fulfill their own personal agenda.
They're not different at all. Not even in the slightest.
However, I do restrain myself from saying "People should donate [x] to [y] instead of using it for [z], because [z] is a selfish and sad use of [x]". As a result of this, I do not have to feel that I have compromised my integrity by saying one thing, and doing another in the same manner that the author of the post I replied to did...
Yes, I am well aware of my own sig. But thanks for your concern =)
If you have 80 million dollars of charitable donations though, it's sad if you spend it on TV rather than something importiant in the scheme of things. I'm just saying it's sad, that's all.
I was going to sign up with your freeipodshuffle link, and then I thought to myself that instead of wasting my time signing up at a website, I should go donate it to a non profit.
I mean, if I can give ten minutes of labor to someone, then it would be sad if I donated it to helping you get an iPod instead of helping someone have a roof over their head, right?
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Do you realize how large a zip code is? How many dwellings it could potentially contain?
This would be nowhere near close enough for federal 911 requirements.
Being a user is fine, and not understanding is also fine. However, you need to be careful when disseminating information that is solely your own interpretation in a medium and place where it can easily and quickly be construed as fact.
More than one person has come onto IRC (Freenode) into #mythtv-users claiming that they "Read on slashdot" that zap2it was discontinuing their free service... and then gave your post as a reference. It's not your fault that people aren't able to recognize an op ed piece as not fact when they see it, but being a mythtv user I would suggest that there is a certain amount of responsibility that you should bear in matters such as these.
For what it is worth, I am not a MythTV developer as such either (I've only submitted two very minor patches), but I do hang out with a few (including Jarod) on IRC...
That doesn't keep me up to date though. I follow the lists enough and watch what I say to the extent that I am able to say things as fact rather than opinion. If I am not sure it is fact, then I just don't say it, or I ask it as a question instead of a format that someone could think was fact.
The point release issue has been going on for quite some time. They actually meant to do it for 0.17 but Jarod didn't have time and they couldn't get it coordinated before 0.18 was getting out the door. This is all well discussed on the mythtv-dev and mythtv-users mailing lists; which are fully searchable in the archives gossamer-threads.
I hope that this helps you some more.
I see this as a branch/fork.
Then you didn't read hard enough. The LxM Suite support is not a fork. It is an accepted patch in the main CVS head. This release is a point release of the release trunk + patches from cvs, not a fork from it.
Based on the announcement, I'm not certain why everyone's waving flags and saying that Zap2It labs is going away.
Me either. It's not.
if one of the major developers says that they're not involved in it much and: "If it's busted, blame him (Jarod Wilson), not me. =)", I can't see much of an issue.
That had nothing to do with the fact that there was an LxM Suite patch in there, and everything to do with that this was a point release and Isaac only handles major releases. Rest assured that when the next major release comes out, all of those patches will be in it too.
Seriously... do you don't think every time linux kernel 2.6.x comes out that "Oh! This is a fork from 2.6! Linus isn't going to support this!", and I'd hope that because Linus isn't managing the releases of kernels in the 2.0, 2.2 and 2.4 series that new releases put out by the respective release managers are not "official". Try just a little harder to keep up with the program, hey?
Damn ricers.
Not content to read punch cards.
Honestly, what is it with you guys and your "CRT Displays"?
And the primer gray paint.
Everyone knows your car goes faster when painted primer gray.
Try as I might, I can get at most three fingers pointing back at me. Am I doing it wrong?
Obviously you are not using both hands. And everyone knows that if you are going to do it, you need to use both hands, or the result is simply less than spectacular.
anyways.
99% of the human population would also say they would like you to give them a dollar. Are you going to start handing out dollars? Just because something is held in popular belief does not automatically make it so.
Virii is not the plural of virus. Do 99% of "the human population" talk about the circii when more than one circus comes to town? Of course not. Would they correct me if I said it? Very likely so. This is no different.
Now look what you've done. The moment you added your Cl, the idea pool went sterile.
Congratulations.
Nope. It's just the new "SlashNot" feature that shows the worst of the worst from the rejected articles pool... go into your options and you can disable it =)
I will certainly not.
Consider this: You can ask two people of a particular political leaning [republical|democrat|etc] their views on a subject and get different answers... that does not mean either one should stop saying they are aligned with that political group [republican|democrat|etc].
Also consider this: I (a very white caucasian) can go around calling myself African-American all day long doing REALLY stupid things and being VERY vocal about different issues. An intelligent person would not then tell the African-American community to stop calling themselves an African-Americans because of my idiocy.
If I happen to have a pinto that never had a problem and has survived three exceptionally large wrecks without issue, you wouldn't tell me to stop calling it a pinto just because of the bad reputation of the rest.
You are most certainly wrong.
Instead, I will say proudly that I am a christian, and that this man has (from my perspective) a decidedly unchristian attitude. I will call an apple an apple, and a rotten apple a rotten apple. I would proudly say that whilst i do not condone homosexuality, I do not now and will not ever endorse stripping any person of basic human rights. I will also proudly say that I have nothing but support, love and compassion for any homosexual person... the same as I do for any other person.
Stop calling myself Christian indeed!
By the way... if you want to start using such illogical pretenses:
It's almost as bad as reading:
"And now an editorial by Jon Katz"
isn't it?
Except Dvorak won't scar you for life.
Adobe Photoshop has never been the underdog. Ever. That title has always belonged to JASC's Paint Shop Pro. I've never heard of or seen a real professional state otherwise, only aspiring amateurs.
Paint Shop Pro is good, don't get me wrong. I use it exclusively (disclaimer: I am not an imaging professional)... but under no condition am I under the delusion that it has ever yet been as good or powerful as Photoshop.
The personal guarantee of an anonymous coward.
Priceless =)
You are hereby being served for infringing on US Patent #123789321987: "Method For Recovery of Capital used for Investment In Extra-Planar Activities".
Sincerely,
The Law Offices of Greasum, Fleecem and Phly.
Actually, it (the device) really does come in two forms, the iCopulate and the iMasturbate. iCopulate is an add-on for the iPartner product. iMasterbate is essentially a loop back device enabling the iPod to copy files to its self. In this case, the lube is optional, but really speeds things up.
Somebody mentioned that the internal project name for iMasturbate was "Hand Jobs a Winner". That's just a little too bizarre to believe... isn't it? Then again... we are talking about a product that has passed through the Reality Distortion Field, so who knows!
Sheesh. I have a real office (complete with walls, door and window) but they still put a cubicle in it just to put the screws on me. A cubicle just as wide and long as the room.
Apparently it was cheaper to move the space cubicle in than to move the spare desk in.
And don't we all feel loved?
When will the consumer get ahead in any of this?
Seems like in your scenario the cable provider is getting ahead, and the consumer is getting a head.... can't you ever be happy?
I used tax freedom this year, last year and turbotax the year before. TaxFreedom let me import data from last years tax return without a problem.
People have been telling you wrong.
For as long as I can remember, people have been touting the "There aren't games to fully utilize it right now, but just wait till [6,9,12] months from now!" line when trying to justify either a sale or a purchase.
I dont get it.
Historically, the price of video cards has dropped by around 50% over the course of 12 months. Why are people paying todays prices so they can play tomorrow's [or more!] games?
The only reason I can think of is penis waving. So they can say "mine is bigger than yours!".
If it were otherwise then they would have waited until the game that needed it came out.
Flight Simulator Experience On Mars
Nuff Said.
Your analogy is close, but I'm gonna go with:
He bought a Blizzard brand milk jug from his friend that can accept refills bought at Blizzard's Grocery Store. Only thing is, Blizzard's Grocery Store wont sell refills to you unless you have one of their Member Cards, and they will only create one Member Card per Blizzard brand milk jug. Since his friend has already had a Member Card created from that Blizzard brand milk jug, he is not able to have Member Card created, and Blizzard's Grocery Store will not sell him the milk refills promised to anyone who bought a Blizzard brand milk jug.
It's not pretty, but I think it's a little more accurate.
Things will be reasonably quiet until a few outcast terrorist HIV strands decide to hijack an errant blood clot and crash it into the aortic valve.
Following that, security will start "screening" the blood so finely that the backlog of blood waiting to enter the heart causes our blood pressure to skyrocket, causing us to all die early of heart attacks.
But they'll tell us it's in our best interests, and we'll go along with it anyway.
Whether Carly Fiorina exerted too much or too little control, HP still ended up screwed because of her actions. Under or over management, she's still damned, and there is a chance that with a decent CEO they significantly change.
The person at the top can always veto everyone else. They are The Boss(tm) for a reason; But at the same time, the reason is not to fulfill their own personal agenda.
They're not different at all. Not even in the slightest.
However, I do restrain myself from saying "People should donate [x] to [y] instead of using it for [z], because [z] is a selfish and sad use of [x]". As a result of this, I do not have to feel that I have compromised my integrity by saying one thing, and doing another in the same manner that the author of the post I replied to did...
Yes, I am well aware of my own sig. But thanks for your concern =)
I was going to sign up with your freeipodshuffle link, and then I thought to myself that instead of wasting my time signing up at a website, I should go donate it to a non profit.
I mean, if I can give ten minutes of labor to someone, then it would be sad if I donated it to helping you get an iPod instead of helping someone have a roof over their head, right?
I think I'll call Habitat for Humanity now.