Even if there's no truth whatsoever behind the initial claim, I suspect we'll be seeing this pop up in various more and less accurate forms for several years to come.
This is one of the places where I, for one, would welcome more regulation. The roaming charges are often completely absurd, and I don't see the free market taking care of it anytime soon. Now, if they could fix the roaming charges for data connections outside of the EU too... (over 10€/MB? Seriously?)
My situation might have been different since, well, panic is a natural part of a panic attack as far as I know.:-) As it hit me suddenly when I was walking it was (most likely) not caused by any actual physical danger, rather probably by built-up stress I guess.
Maybe I could handle something like it better nowadays, but I wouldn't bet on it..
This might be pretty obvious, but there's also a difference between the "fear of death" you feel in everyday life and the kind of "fear of death" you have when you believe that your life is actually threatened in some way. I don't walk around being afraid of dying or anything, but a panic attack a few years ago gave me a new perspective on a few things.
I think it's trying to be a bit too smart lately, constantly being "helpful" by searching for what it thinks I want to search for instead of what I actually wanted to search for.
Many times it actually corrects a real spelling mistake of course, the difference might be that when I make a spelling mistake I can only blame myself, but when google corrects something it shouldn't I can blame google..
Although I hold no real hope that ACTA will be shot down, the summary is - as far as I can see - at best misleading.
Quoting from Christian Engstroms blog:
This was a defeat, but it is far from the final word on the issue. The resolution has no formal effect at all, but is merely an expression of how the Parliament feels.
I'm sure I'll get some flack for saying this, but this is one place where I think that gentoo is slightly better than arch: you have more power to (easily) put together a set of packages that works for you.
Wouldn't this basically be like saying "you can use these patents freely" and then turn around to (possibly) sue anyone who might be using them? Is that even legally possible?
Surely, pledging the patents to the portfolio in the first place has to mean _something_ other than just "use them for now, but we might change our minds!"?
I've seen some people claim that you get a small abacus in your head once you've learnt it (and got some experience with it, I assume). Any chance your grandmother was claiming something similar?
This is not the scheduler that the grandparent would be referring to though. BFS has been around for about a year, and has as far as I know never actually been pushed for inclusion.
The previous scheduler that Con wrote was rejected in favor of CFS which is currently in use by the kernel. CFS is at least partly based on ideas from Con, and he was also credited for them.
Heh. How different would LibreOffice have managed to become in like the month and a half it's been split from OpenOffice.org?
About stability, I think most of the changes that have been integrated so far has already been somewhat tested by being included in distribution patches or similar, but I admit that I probably don't really know enough to make much of a statement.
When you think about it, it's pretty amazing that we can sit here with our fancy 3D-accelerated desktops, wobbly windows and all, using software designed in the 80's.
Personally I think that tells us something about how extensible X is, and I get a bit nervous when people talk about throwing it out.
(And then there's the lovely network transparency of course, is it really worth throwing that away..)
As not all the ballots are counted as of yet it's possible that the final result will differ a few points, but it's worth noting that the Swedish Pirate Party basically seems to have retained its voters from the previous election:
2006: 0.63%
2010: 0.65% (preliminary)
This even though they were more or less absent from the public debate before the election.
I also think that the existence of a Pirate Party here in Sweden has managed to affect the public debate regarding piracy and privacy related questions more than what shows up in the polls.
I'm just a bit curious here, but have these big companies you are speaking of copied your patented techniques by looking at your product or your patent application, or do you think that they reasonably could have invented them independently?
So, do you mind pointing out where I went on that crusade against people using the word God in any way? Or maybe where I said that I disliked any theology and ranted against theism of any kind?
I am not particularly interested in prescribing any particular meaning to the word God, people may use it however they like. Of course, it makes things a lot easier if they define what they mean with it so one can have a meaningful discussion. I did not quite see the logic behind the reasoning in your original post.
Now, I do happen to believe that there most likely is no such thing as a God (as the word is most commonly used, referring to some kind of almighty being). And I do believe that I am allowed to tell the world about my stance if I were so inclined. And if someone starts arguing with me about it, I might argue back I guess. Or maybe I won't bother, it has yet to happen.
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Even if there's no truth whatsoever behind the initial claim, I suspect we'll be seeing this pop up in various more and less accurate forms for several years to come.
I paid $10 for the last bundle (as a Linux buyer), but I still haven't even tried any of the games..
Both? Neither?
This is one of the places where I, for one, would welcome more regulation. The roaming charges are often completely absurd, and I don't see the free market taking care of it anytime soon. Now, if they could fix the roaming charges for data connections outside of the EU too... (over 10€/MB? Seriously?)
Skepticism is good. Denial in face of a mountain of evidence is not.
My situation might have been different since, well, panic is a natural part of a panic attack as far as I know. :-) As it hit me suddenly when I was walking it was (most likely) not caused by any actual physical danger, rather probably by built-up stress I guess.
Maybe I could handle something like it better nowadays, but I wouldn't bet on it..
This might be pretty obvious, but there's also a difference between the "fear of death" you feel in everyday life and the kind of "fear of death" you have when you believe that your life is actually threatened in some way. I don't walk around being afraid of dying or anything, but a panic attack a few years ago gave me a new perspective on a few things.
I think it's trying to be a bit too smart lately, constantly being "helpful" by searching for what it thinks I want to search for instead of what I actually wanted to search for.
Many times it actually corrects a real spelling mistake of course, the difference might be that when I make a spelling mistake I can only blame myself, but when google corrects something it shouldn't I can blame google..
On a related note, I'm hoping that there'll be something interesting about The Pirate Bay among the leaked documents from the embassy in Stockholm..
I see, it undermines your living so it's clearly a bad thing. Not saying you're wrong, but your argument isn't that persuasive as it stands..
Quoting from Christian Engstroms blog:
This was a defeat, but it is far from the final word on the issue. The resolution has no formal effect at all, but is merely an expression of how the Parliament feels.
I'm sure I'll get some flack for saying this, but this is one place where I think that gentoo is slightly better than arch: you have more power to (easily) put together a set of packages that works for you.
Wouldn't this basically be like saying "you can use these patents freely" and then turn around to (possibly) sue anyone who might be using them? Is that even legally possible?
Surely, pledging the patents to the portfolio in the first place has to mean _something_ other than just "use them for now, but we might change our minds!"?
I've seen some people claim that you get a small abacus in your head once you've learnt it (and got some experience with it, I assume). Any chance your grandmother was claiming something similar?
This is not the scheduler that the grandparent would be referring to though. BFS has been around for about a year, and has as far as I know never actually been pushed for inclusion.
The previous scheduler that Con wrote was rejected in favor of CFS which is currently in use by the kernel. CFS is at least partly based on ideas from Con, and he was also credited for them.
You thought wrong. Well, the part about a scheduler being rejected is pretty right I guess.
Does it handle complex Powerpoint files okay?
Heh. How different would LibreOffice have managed to become in like the month and a half it's been split from OpenOffice.org?
About stability, I think most of the changes that have been integrated so far has already been somewhat tested by being included in distribution patches or similar, but I admit that I probably don't really know enough to make much of a statement.
You seem to be assuming that the only reason for anyone to avoid Microsoft is because they make bad products.
I guess you could call it the freedom of the maker of devices to impose silly and arbitrary restrictions upon others.
Also, war is peace.
When you think about it, it's pretty amazing that we can sit here with our fancy 3D-accelerated desktops, wobbly windows and all, using software designed in the 80's.
Personally I think that tells us something about how extensible X is, and I get a bit nervous when people talk about throwing it out.
(And then there's the lovely network transparency of course, is it really worth throwing that away..)
The frenzy around IE9 may have subsided already and [...]
What frenzy? :-)
You may find it cumbersome now, but they were once state of the art..
As not all the ballots are counted as of yet it's possible that the final result will differ a few points, but it's worth noting that the Swedish Pirate Party basically seems to have retained its voters from the previous election:
2006: 0.63%
2010: 0.65% (preliminary)
This even though they were more or less absent from the public debate before the election.
I also think that the existence of a Pirate Party here in Sweden has managed to affect the public debate regarding piracy and privacy related questions more than what shows up in the polls.
I'm just a bit curious here, but have these big companies you are speaking of copied your patented techniques by looking at your product or your patent application, or do you think that they reasonably could have invented them independently?
So, do you mind pointing out where I went on that crusade against people using the word God in any way? Or maybe where I said that I disliked any theology and ranted against theism of any kind?
I am not particularly interested in prescribing any particular meaning to the word God, people may use it however they like. Of course, it makes things a lot easier if they define what they mean with it so one can have a meaningful discussion. I did not quite see the logic behind the reasoning in your original post.
Now, I do happen to believe that there most likely is no such thing as a God (as the word is most commonly used, referring to some kind of almighty being). And I do believe that I am allowed to tell the world about my stance if I were so inclined. And if someone starts arguing with me about it, I might argue back I guess. Or maybe I won't bother, it has yet to happen.