Bruce Forest, a self-described "elder statesman" in the piracy scene, started ripping and trading in the ancient days of the late '80s. While he no longer actively traffics in bootlegged media, he maintains contacts that give him access to the most exclusive topsites. What the topsites don't know is that three years ago, Forest came in from the cold. "Basically, I'm a double agent," he concedes. "Though I don't fink anyone out. I'm not a cop." 'Forest runs his business from the first floor of his rural Connecticut home. He's in his mid-40s but moves with jerky, adolescent energy. His brown hair is in perpetual disarray, and he pads around his office with bare feet, dressed in cargo shorts and a faded polo. Gold and platinum albums from his days as a producer at Island Records, MCA, and Arista line one wall.'
This story smokes like crack.
For a start the last I read about half-life 2 source was that the game wasn't any where near complete and would have taken a year to get to the state it's currently in.
Both doom 3 and HL2 were like being given a tour of some pretty graphics and 'bad' AI.
when they said 'interactive movie' they were right, just sit down, press a few buttons and watch the preplanned show.
After playing GTA years ago I was expecting a little better than the very linear game play and the horrible predictable, and samey levels.
Doom 3, and the corridors and spiders. HL2 and the building or outposts full of baddies that you can skip straight past and save a couple of days of playing the game.
I'm being charged for something I'm not allowed to do. If you look at the drugs tax law, if you are caught with drugs that don't have a tax stamp your fined, which means you 'must' by the stamps before you bug the drugs, or make moonshine, or mix some spirits.
The UK government is looking at forcing people to pay for ID cards, which is also similar. There taxing you on the presumption that you may do something wrong, but just because you've paid for them to catch you, it doesn't mean that they have to let you go.
'Children can not, by definition, consent, and thus it's rape.'
Rape, I was drunk and didn't know what I was doing, under the influence and therefore not consenting.
Rape, I was walking home and this guy grabbed me, he pulled out a knife and told me to take my knickers down and said don't tell anyone about this, then he forced himself inside me and left me beaten on the side of the road.
you've got some weird Ideas if you equate not being able to give consent and maybe tricked into something the same as being forced into something.
'Funnily enough, you'll find that code written by the same people/organisations generally follows the same interface formats (config files, arguments, etc.) as other software written by the same people/organisations. You haven't installed many third-party command line tools in Windows, have you?'
well, code written by the same people may have the same standard, but code written by different people (just look across the whole of kde packages) doesn't, why not?
I even offered to XHTML and bobby the kde-apps web site twice, with no reply, and I'll gladly take your app and check that it's command line prams are against a defined standard.
I don't seem to remember having any problems with the command line under dos/windows(\r recursive \? help...)...well until I installed some OSS!
Windows, registry. Horrible, but it's a standard format, if you look in the registry there are keys (can't remember off the top of my head) that tell you were to put applications, where to put configuration, where to put system files, what is in the path etc... The registry also tells application were to locate various components.
'I'm curious as to why you think completely different programs need to have the exact same format for config files.'
Why not, which is easier, less bug prone.
Everything using the same format or everything using different formats?
Lets say I pick XML with optional XSD, the comments from the XSD can be used for or generated from documentation etc....
Why can't your logrotate, passwrd, fstab, appache2, XF86Config, inittab, modules.conf, kio_locate.protocol, hosts, printcap . ls/etc... use that as a format?
(the names given is passwd configuration file and the names in the API don't even match!)
I can even validate my configuration file against the XSD, no more trial and error to find that you've got a rogue char in fstab, or an incorrect fstype.
I'm basically trying to get kids to by as much of a product that I know has a good chance of helping them die premature so that I can make a fast buck and the share holders get rich. every time I see that add on TV I remember my dead fat gran in hospital and in agony all over her love of corn-flakes.
Again, child porn is what you make of it, you make the worst of it which is probably often true, I haven't seen any child porn, but things like naturist videos are often taken as child porn, no child is being traumatised there, just saying don't use freenet, 'child porn' is like me saying don't eat sweets, diabetes.
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I don't condone 'forced' child porn, or taking advantage of children but I don't have a problem with someone jerking off over a picture of a child(or child lookalike or anamie) in a swim suit, any more than if they were doing it after seeing me walk down the street (horrible thought!).
Rape is forced it doesn't matter if it's a child, a man or a dog, child porn isn't necessarily forced so I wouldn't call it rape, it could be sexual abuse or it could be taking advantage of a minor. Eating too many corn-flakes may kill you in the end,is murder worse than rape?
Romans didn't force the kids to join in, but they still did, you don't hear much about how the Romans were all traumatised because they practised incest and let the kids join in.
Again I don't condone child porn, I do condone someone using it as a reason for not using freenet.
'Oh, gee, your impression? Well, hey, that proves it.' Why do you think he said my impression if he wanted to prove anything? He was making an informed guess about the possible cause of the problem. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1344 24&op=Repl y&threshold=-1&commentsort=3&tid=113&mode=thread&p id=11223895 'Has Mozilla done a code audit?', well probably not a formal one, bugs fixes do get validated/audited as part of the process though, and mark shutleworth put up some bounty for finding faults.
'Nobody has ever been able to legally or morally justify piracy.'
Well, 1: legally people were paid to raid Spanish bullion ships.
2: CD's stolen from my car, I still 'own' the CD's so I download them.
CD's burnt in fire, I still own a license so I download them. Dodgy or scratched game dist, so I download it.
I don't want company ZYX tracking me by my key, so I download a cracked version of the software I have purchased.
The song has just come out of copyright but the only available versions are DRM'd or pirated. The pirated versions are the only ones that give me fair use of a now public domain work.
I run linux, the app I own works under wine, but the copy-protection doesn't so I download a cracked version.
The Romans never has a problem with 'kiddie' porn and they managed to take over most of Europe for a while.
All I'm saying is kiddie porn is what you and society make it. I don't agree with 'kiddie porn', but then I put it in the same bag as sweet companies advertising to kids who get fat, develop diabetes, heart problems and get pregnant when the pill doesn't work any more.
Unfortunatly it's left up to the may day protesters to burn down the sweet factories and RIAA whilst the mums are burning down perves and free-net.
'Heard of CVS?' Yes, most projects I've seen don't give direct CVS access. www.kernel.org, and parts there of. www.winehq.org www.sourceforge.net/projects/ eciadsl
'Regular contributors have proven that a) they are trustworthy b) are competent at writing code.',
but they are still human, I've seen some tripe get into CVS from 'trusted' developers and some gems get missed out from newbies. This is my experience and understanding.
'I want to live in your world.' Go on then, I haven't worked on a commercial project for the past 5 years that's let 'looks nice but doesn't work' features in, prior to that I worked for a small company, which probably faced similar problems to OSS. (no QA, tight budget)
'First you link to a duplicate report of the bug, second....' 1: It was the first one that came up, their are many. 2: Wasn't my point that unsupported broken features get put into release? The plugin is on by default, and the work-around are of the rm -rf * nature, and the number of duplicate reports show how easy it is to spot, even if all aren't affected. The fix is to disable one of the features, which is the only viable workaround so far, and isn't exactly 'fix'.
3: Anyhow, that was one example pulled off the top of my head, I can list may partly working features if you want?
e.g. there's a feature in Ceversa where if you change the name of a tag it updates the name in the matching tag... well.. sometimes. Also most code-completions are broken, or so partly implemented that they are more or less useless. And then there's office workspace.
(I'm not picking on KDE, it's just that I use it the most so it's easiest to real off stuff)
I'm sure you can also list a few features in a commercial app that are buggy, but on average I can list double in any OSS equivalent.
4: CVS patching isn't an option, I'm a major company and can't afford to be running a 'custom' version of software and don't have time to remove unstable features. Last time I had problems with my SDLC card I got in touch with the manufacture, reported the bug and got an updated driver a month later. maybe not instant turn around but good. I'm also on several standards bodies where I can have an active input in to the next release or next major version of a standard, sometimes turn around is hours for bugs.
'What are you doing? Following the development branches of all your programs?'
Kernel 2.4, VM changes. Kernel 2.6, not branching to stable and dev leaving it upto distros to stabilise. Gentoo kernel > 2.6.8 dropped the supermount patch, and replaced with.. well.. ivman, which doesn't do the job properly and even the ivman site says that it's just a prototype.
When you upgrade Berkely DB you have to go and fix the database, not the best usability I've seen.
That's 4 biggies.
Yes I do know what emerge -up world does, I just ran it to tell me what update were about, and yes I do know that ebuild bugs get fixed too, db seems to appear quite often, again this was something that I just picked. Other software that comes in the default install of a lot of distributions is frequently unstable or suffering from feature creep, look at emacs, still going, but for anything other than a text editor I'm sure you could find better choices out there.
No I'm not a troll just because I don't say well done lads, good job and let me pat you on the back, I do as much OSS work as possible and try to fix some of the things I have mentioned, which is I how I have come to know the process. I also fully appreciate the often voluntary work that people put in, but that doesn't mean that it is perfect or even 'commercially' viable.
Projects that have made it are things like: Firefox (they will tell you to cut all the crap out of you OSS if you want acceptance!)
Samba, very long development cycle between major releases and I don't see such frequent updates as other projects.
And a few other's like apache &co, but I don't know enough about their pros and cons to comment.
'Buddhism is very much an organised religion' Buddhism isn't a religion, a religion must have a God.
'I don't know where the hell you got this' All religious people wait for death, either heaven, reincarnation, martyrdom or wherever. Selling religion is selling death(or shooting people with a Gun as many religions do), why else worship something if it's all over when you die?
'How often does your government order the military...' well it depends what you call 'military' does armoured vehicles, guns, people mounted on horse back and dogs count?
'remember studying the industrial revolution',
1: that's part of where we are at the moment, try thinking a thousand years ago instead of the current 'history' of a hundred or so, look at how long cultures that have remained uncharged work today, we have charity workers collecting for women who spend 5 hours a day(35 hours a week) collecting water and food when most in the west spend 45 hours+ a week doing exactly the same and don't have a house to their name.
and 2: most people 100 or so years ago got paid in cider or wine and were pissed 24/7, I knew people who used to work the fields a hundred years ago (their all dead now) and it was nowhere near as much pressure as most people are put through now-a-days.
3: A higher percentage of the population work (and I include forced education in this) than they used to, womens-lib and all (I know some kids and women used to work cotton mills etc...)
You enter ketosis when you blood sugar levels drop to next to nothing. (cells also store sugar so that has to be used up too).
If I don't eat before bed when I wake up in the morning my body is starting to go into ketosis, if I were to only eat food that took a long time to be absorbed and produced a low amount of sugar I would remain in ketosis for most of the day.
breaking the sugar-fat cycle is how the Atkins diet works, and it's also how it manages to keep cholesterol down too.
If someone was to ask me what diet they should take I would advise reduced sugar, reduced simple carbs like white bread, wheat pasta, potatoes and long grain rice, don't eat the food that says xyz% fat free. This would avoid a sugar rush so you'd eat less, help stop diabetes as well as avoiding sugar->fat.
If you look at most OSS projects the only way to get code updates in is via the path mailing list. A new poster will have and changes vigorously scrutinised, and even for the more regular project members there are quite a few people reading the list who will validate the patches whoever they are from.
Having said that trust levels are a bit mixed, the code of more frequent contributors tends to get glanced over causing bugs to needlessly be introduced.
The main problems I have found with OSS are:
Too few standards and integration, as a obvious example look at config files or command line arguments(what do I do for: help, version, verbose?). I think this is because the amount of organisation required to standardise software is quite high, and no one likes doing that kind of nitty-gritty work anyway.
Feature creep.
a: When a new version is released typically it has, stable functions, new slightly buggy functions and unsupported or beta functions that break 50% of the time. Commercial software would have dropped the broken functions regardless of how important they are.
b: OSS never seems to stop being developed, why can libxyz or whatever be written and put on a 6 month update cycle to take account of any changes. If libxyz really needs all this extra functionality why mot make a separate library and agree some standards so everyone can use it? If it's still being hacked, do a re-write with a better architecture that doesn't require so many updates.
As an example, emerge -up world tells me... sys-libs/db, come on guy's freeze berky db and start working on a more advanced db instead of trying to hack improvements in.
I don't beleive in God, but I wouldn't like that to affect my opinion of the bible.
I used to go to church, sunday school, other church and band practice at the salvation army every week as a child. I thought it was very good, and it's a shame that people don't act so communally any more, where I live churches are now dark, misterious and for old people. Maybe if they dropped the God bit more people would come, it didn't make any difference to me.
Anyhow, I'll search out the bible on line and read the begining of the four gospels again, I usually read the bible when I'm in a Hotel because it's better than the TV.
Fat is better for you than short chain carbs too. 1: It doesn't require insuline to turn it into fat. 2: It's digested slower, so not so much of it gets stored as fat. 3: Because fats are absorbed slower you don't get the craving you do with carbs, so fat is less adictive. 4: Carbohydrates produce a transitionaly type of cholesterol that causes the formation of HDL? cholesterol.
I looked all this up about 5 years ago because I have heart problems in my family, sweets are worse for you than a block of lard, and this is why the Atkins diet works.
How the old testament was put together is incredibly relevant to the authenticity of the new testament, as it set a precedent.
as for the Earth being flat, well that just shows how much corruption there was.
So I confused Matthew and mark and Paul and John. See how easy it is to get a couple of things mixed up.
AS for re-reading the bible, I'll re-read the first 10-20 pages of each of the four gospels. I think what you need to do is, take the gospels, find out what is the same and what is different. Look at the style of the different bits and try to work out how much is 'fact' and how much is artistic license.
Then with you new found knowledge about the authors look and see if one gospel is just a re-hash of another with a bit of artistic license thrown in.
Personally I think Matthew was just a bit of a perve who couldn't look at a woman without having 'impure' thoughts, so when reading Matthew you have to remember that the work was written by someone who go turned on at the sight of a woman and was trying to deal with it.
The old testament was written long before he was alive.
The account you've given doesn't fit with any 'modern day' accounts of when the bible was written and who buy.
For a start you've got all those books written by moses, now I just googled 'who wrote the bible',skipped the book on Amozon and...
"The traditional explanation is that the Five Books of Moses were written by Moses himself. There are several variants of this explanation:
Traditional Judaism and fundamentalist Christianity believe that the text was dictated by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, letter for letter (or pretty much letter for letter). Other religious groups still ascribe authorship to Moses, but use words like "divinely inspired" rather than "dictated letter for letter." Still others say Moses was the sole author, but there's nothing "divine" about it except in the sense that all great works of literature and poetry are "inspired."
Mosaic authorship would mean the five books were written around 1280 to 1250 BC, the most commonly accepted range of dates for the exodus from Egypt, give or take 30 years.
It has long been recognised that there were a few problems with the traditional view of Moses as author. The text reports the death of Moses--how could Moses have written of his own death? It also describes Moses as "the most humble man who ever lived"--how could Moses write that about himself? But these are minor issues. Some say Moses' successor Joshua wrote the few lines that describe the death of Moses; others say that Moses himself was commanded to write that text before it happened. None of this represents a serious challenge to Mosaic authorship."
So, the first 1/4 of you account is generally believed to be wrong, just like the earth isn't flat.
Also, three generations would have been 50-60 years, your 15-30 years is about as close to the line for writing the bible as anything I've seen. Some people even believe that the bible was written by people who knew Jesus, though that's been mostly dismissed.
The letters of John had next to nothing to do with Jesus, Mathew is generally believed to be a christian persecuted for allegedly burning down some Roman city and a lot of the bible is a re-hash of Mathew(though some think that it's a re-hash of mark)
So you've got a book of Chinese whispers, editing and personal opinion, so much so that I would be amazed to find that more than 10% of it was anything like factual, why do so many of the books more or less agree on many of the topics, well they just copied one another.
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How to loose your job with a single interview.
Bruce Forest, a self-described "elder statesman" in the piracy scene, started ripping and trading in the ancient days of the late '80s. While he no longer actively traffics in bootlegged media, he maintains contacts that give him access to the most exclusive topsites. What the topsites don't know is that three years ago, Forest came in from the cold. "Basically, I'm a double agent," he concedes. "Though I don't fink anyone out. I'm not a cop."
'Forest runs his business from the first floor of his rural Connecticut home. He's in his mid-40s but moves with jerky, adolescent energy. His brown hair is in perpetual disarray, and he pads around his office with bare feet, dressed in cargo shorts and a faded polo. Gold and platinum albums from his days as a producer at Island Records, MCA, and Arista line one wall.'
This story smokes like crack.
For a start the last I read about half-life 2 source was that the game wasn't any where near complete and would have taken a year to get to the state it's currently in.
Boolocks, you can get a no-steam single palyer crack for HL2 and I run the crackola privacy version the I got from loki.
At least with the original doom you had loads of secrets you could find, which made things a little more interesting.
What happened in doom 3 if you kill the boss when you first meet him in about the 5th level?
The only good NPC is a dead one, reload, oh a combine, I got one.
I tried beating them but they don't take hits.
Both doom 3 and HL2 were like being given a tour of some pretty graphics and 'bad' AI.
when they said 'interactive movie' they were right, just sit down, press a few buttons and watch the preplanned show.
After playing GTA years ago I was expecting a little better than the very linear game play and the horrible predictable, and samey levels.
Doom 3, and the corridors and spiders.
HL2 and the building or outposts full of baddies that you can skip straight past and save a couple of days of playing the game.
Pop down you local gunshop and go out hunting maybe take up a Martial art or boxing, or you could always go out on a rally day.
I don't think portables are anything like realistic.
I'm being charged for something I'm not allowed to do. If you look at the drugs tax law, if you are caught with drugs that don't have a tax stamp your fined, which means you 'must' by the stamps before you bug the drugs, or make moonshine, or mix some spirits.
The UK government is looking at forcing people to pay for ID cards, which is also similar. There taxing you on the presumption that you may do something wrong, but just because you've paid for them to catch you, it doesn't mean that they have to let you go.
Tax != purchase.
It is the same as paying tax for something but not being allowed to use it.
I pay coke tax and I already pay tax on tinfoil and bi-carb so crack must be ok?
you have to pay tax on coke in North Carolina
Marijuana stems & stalks that have
been separated from the plant.
$.40 for each gram
or fraction thereof
More than 42.5 grams
Marijuana other than
separated stems and stalks
$3.50 for each gram
or fraction thereof
More than 42.5 grams
Cocaine
$50.00 for each gram
or fraction thereof
7 or more grams
Any other controlled substance
that is sold by weight
$200.00 for each gram
or fraction thereof
7 or more grams
don't you still have public executions in the US?
And how long ago was slavery abolished? not that long.
'Children can not, by definition, consent, and thus it's rape.'
Rape, I was drunk and didn't know what I was doing, under the influence and therefore not consenting.
Rape, I was walking home and this guy grabbed me, he pulled out a knife and told me to take my knickers down and said don't tell anyone about this, then he forced himself inside me and left me beaten on the side of the road.
you've got some weird Ideas if you equate not being able to give consent and maybe tricked into something the same as being forced into something.
'Funnily enough, you'll find that code written by the same people/organisations generally follows the same interface formats (config files, arguments, etc.) as other software written by the same people/organisations. You haven't installed many third-party command line tools in Windows, have you?'
...) ...well until I installed some OSS!
/etc...
well, code written by the same people may have the same standard, but code written by different people (just look across the whole of kde packages) doesn't, why not?
I even offered to XHTML and bobby the kde-apps web site twice, with no reply, and I'll gladly take your app and check that it's command line prams are against a defined standard.
I don't seem to remember having any problems with the command line under dos/windows(\r recursive \? help
Windows, registry. Horrible, but it's a standard format, if you look in the registry there are keys (can't remember off the top of my head) that tell you were to put applications, where to put configuration, where to put system files, what is in the path etc... The registry also tells application were to locate various components.
'I'm curious as to why you think completely different programs need to have the exact same format for config files.'
Why not, which is easier, less bug prone.
Everything using the same format or everything using different formats?
Lets say I pick XML with optional XSD, the comments from the XSD can be used for or generated from documentation etc....
Why can't your logrotate, passwrd, fstab, appache2, XF86Config, inittab, modules.conf, kio_locate.protocol, hosts, printcap . ls
use that as a format?
(the names given is passwd configuration file and the names in the API don't even match!)
I can even validate my configuration file against the XSD, no more trial and error to find that you've got a rogue char in fstab, or an incorrect fstype.
I'm basically trying to get kids to by as much of a product that I know has a good chance of helping them die premature so that I can make a fast buck and the share holders get rich. every time I see that add on TV I remember my dead fat gran in hospital and in agony all over her love of corn-flakes.
Again, child porn is what you make of it, you make the worst of it which is probably often true, I haven't seen any child porn, but things like naturist videos are often taken as child porn, no child is being traumatised there, just saying don't use freenet, 'child porn' is like me saying don't eat sweets, diabetes.
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I don't condone 'forced' child porn, or taking advantage of children but I don't have a problem with someone jerking off over a picture of a child(or child lookalike or anamie) in a swim suit, any more than if they were doing it after seeing me walk down the street (horrible thought!).
Rape is forced it doesn't matter if it's a child, a man or a dog, child porn isn't necessarily forced so I wouldn't call it rape, it could be sexual abuse or it could be taking advantage of a minor. Eating too many corn-flakes may kill you in the end,is murder worse than rape?
Romans didn't force the kids to join in, but they still did, you don't hear much about how the Romans were all traumatised because they practised incest and let the kids join in.
Again I don't condone child porn, I do condone someone using it as a reason for not using freenet.
'Oh, gee, your impression? Well, hey, that proves it.'4 24&op=Repl y&threshold=-1&commentsort=3&tid=113&mode=thread&p id=11223895
Why do you think he said my impression if he wanted to prove anything? He was making an informed guess about the possible cause of the problem.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134
'Has Mozilla done a code audit?', well probably not a formal one, bugs fixes do get validated/audited as part of the process though, and mark shutleworth put up some bounty for finding faults.
'Nobody has ever been able to legally or morally justify piracy.'
Well,
1: legally people were paid to raid Spanish bullion ships.
2:
CD's stolen from my car, I still 'own' the CD's so I download them.
CD's burnt in fire, I still own a license so I download them.
Dodgy or scratched game dist, so I download it.
I don't want company ZYX tracking me by my key, so I download a cracked version of the software I have purchased.
The song has just come out of copyright but the only available versions are DRM'd or pirated. The pirated versions are the only ones that give me fair use of a now public domain work.
I run linux, the app I own works under wine, but the copy-protection doesn't so I download a cracked version.
you have to wonder why he was on the diet in the first place? and what other weird things he was doing.
Sure, diet won't solve all you problems, but it can be a step in the right direction to solving some of them.
The Romans never has a problem with 'kiddie' porn and they managed to take over most of Europe for a while.
All I'm saying is kiddie porn is what you and society make it.
I don't agree with 'kiddie porn', but then I put it in the same bag as sweet companies advertising to kids who get fat, develop diabetes, heart problems and get pregnant when the pill doesn't work any more.
Unfortunatly it's left up to the may day protesters to burn down the sweet factories and RIAA whilst the mums are burning down perves and free-net.
'Heard of CVS?'/ eciadsl
Yes, most projects I've seen don't give direct CVS access.
www.kernel.org, and parts there of.
www.winehq.org
www.sourceforge.net/projects
'Regular contributors have proven that a) they are trustworthy b) are competent at writing code.',
but they are still human, I've seen some tripe get into CVS from 'trusted' developers and some gems get missed out from newbies. This is my experience and understanding.
'I want to live in your world.'
Go on then, I haven't worked on a commercial project for the past 5 years that's let 'looks nice but doesn't work' features in, prior to that I worked for a small company, which probably faced similar problems to OSS. (no QA, tight budget)
'First you link to a duplicate report of the bug, second....'
1: It was the first one that came up, their are many.
2: Wasn't my point that unsupported broken features get put into release?
The plugin is on by default, and the work-around are of the rm -rf * nature, and the number of duplicate reports show how easy it is to spot, even if all aren't affected. The fix is to disable one of the features, which is the only viable workaround so far, and isn't exactly 'fix'.
3: Anyhow, that was one example pulled off the top of my head, I can list may partly working features if you want?
e.g. there's a feature in Ceversa where if you change the name of a tag it updates the name in the matching tag... well.. sometimes. Also most code-completions are broken, or so partly implemented that they are more or less useless.
And then there's office workspace.
(I'm not picking on KDE, it's just that I use it the most so it's easiest to real off stuff)
I'm sure you can also list a few features in a commercial app that are buggy, but on average I can list double in any OSS equivalent.
4: CVS patching isn't an option, I'm a major company and can't afford to be running a 'custom' version of software and don't have time to remove unstable features. Last time I had problems with my SDLC card I got in touch with the manufacture, reported the bug and got an updated driver a month later. maybe not instant turn around but good. I'm also on several standards bodies where I can have an active input in to the next release or next major version of a standard, sometimes turn around is hours for bugs.
'What are you doing? Following the development branches of all your programs?'
Kernel 2.4, VM changes.
Kernel 2.6, not branching to stable and dev leaving it upto distros to stabilise.
Gentoo kernel > 2.6.8 dropped the supermount patch, and replaced with.. well.. ivman, which doesn't do the job properly and even the ivman site says that it's just a prototype.
When you upgrade Berkely DB you have to go and fix the database, not the best usability I've seen.
That's 4 biggies.
Yes I do know what emerge -up world does, I just ran it to tell me what update were about, and yes I do know that ebuild bugs get fixed too, db seems to appear quite often, again this was something that I just picked. Other software that comes in the default install of a lot of distributions is frequently unstable or suffering from feature creep, look at emacs, still going, but for anything other than a text editor I'm sure you could find better choices out there.
No I'm not a troll just because I don't say well done lads, good job and let me pat you on the back, I do as much OSS work as possible and try to fix some of the things I have mentioned, which is I how I have come to know the process. I also fully appreciate the often voluntary work that people put in, but that doesn't mean that it is perfect or even 'commercially' viable.
Projects that have made it are things like: Firefox (they will tell you to cut all the crap out of you OSS if you want acceptance!)
Samba, very long development cycle between major releases and I don't see such frequent updates as other projects.
And a few other's like apache &co, but I don't know enough about their pros and cons to comment.
'Buddhism is very much an organised religion'
Buddhism isn't a religion, a religion must have a God.
'I don't know where the hell you got this'
All religious people wait for death, either heaven, reincarnation, martyrdom or wherever. Selling religion is selling death(or shooting people with a Gun as many religions do), why else worship something if it's all over when you die?
'How often does your government order the military...' well it depends what you call 'military' does armoured vehicles, guns, people mounted on horse back and dogs count?
'remember studying the industrial revolution',
1: that's part of where we are at the moment, try thinking a thousand years ago instead of the current 'history' of a hundred or so, look at how long cultures that have remained uncharged work today, we have charity workers collecting for women who spend 5 hours a day(35 hours a week) collecting water and food when most in the west spend 45 hours+ a week doing exactly the same and don't have a house to their name.
and 2: most people 100 or so years ago got paid in cider or wine and were pissed 24/7, I knew people who used to work the fields a hundred years ago (their all dead now) and it was nowhere near as much pressure as most people are put through now-a-days.
3: A higher percentage of the population work (and I include forced education in this) than they used to, womens-lib and all (I know some kids and women used to work cotton mills etc...)
You enter ketosis when you blood sugar levels drop to next to nothing.
(cells also store sugar so that has to be used up too).
If I don't eat before bed when I wake up in the morning my body is starting to go into ketosis, if I were to only eat food that took a long time to be absorbed and produced a low amount of sugar I would remain in ketosis for most of the day.
breaking the sugar-fat cycle is how the Atkins diet works, and it's also how it manages to keep cholesterol down too.
If someone was to ask me what diet they should take I would advise reduced sugar, reduced simple carbs like white bread, wheat pasta, potatoes and long grain rice, don't eat the food that says xyz% fat free. This would avoid a sugar rush so you'd eat less, help stop diabetes as well as avoiding sugar->fat.
If you look at most OSS projects the only way to get code updates in is via the path mailing list.
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A new poster will have and changes vigorously scrutinised, and even for the more regular project members there are quite a few people reading the list who will validate the patches whoever they are from.
Having said that trust levels are a bit mixed, the code of more frequent contributors tends to get glanced over causing bugs to needlessly be introduced.
The main problems I have found with OSS are:
Too few standards and integration, as a obvious example look at config files or command line arguments(what do I do for: help, version, verbose?). I think this is because the amount of organisation required to standardise software is quite high, and no one likes doing that kind of nitty-gritty work anyway.
Feature creep.
a: When a new version is released typically it has, stable functions, new slightly buggy functions and unsupported or beta functions that break 50% of the time. Commercial software would have dropped the broken functions regardless of how important they are.
As an example KDE document relations tool bar.
b: OSS never seems to stop being developed, why can libxyz or whatever be written and put on a 6 month update cycle to take account of any changes. If libxyz really needs all this extra functionality why mot make a separate library and agree some standards so everyone can use it? If it's still being hacked, do a re-write with a better architecture that doesn't require so many updates.
As an example, emerge -up world tells me
sys-libs/db, come on guy's freeze berky db and start working on a more advanced db instead of trying to hack improvements in.
I don't beleive in God, but I wouldn't like that to affect my opinion of the bible.
I used to go to church, sunday school, other church and band practice at the salvation army every week as a child. I thought it was very good, and it's a shame that people don't act so communally any more, where I live churches are now dark, misterious and for old people. Maybe if they dropped the God bit more people would come, it didn't make any difference to me.
Anyhow, I'll search out the bible on line and read the begining of the four gospels again, I usually read the bible when I'm in a Hotel because it's better than the TV.
Fat is better for you than short chain carbs too.
1: It doesn't require insuline to turn it into fat.
2: It's digested slower, so not so much of it gets stored as fat.
3: Because fats are absorbed slower you don't get the craving you do with carbs, so fat is less adictive.
4: Carbohydrates produce a transitionaly type of cholesterol that causes the formation of HDL? cholesterol.
I looked all this up about 5 years ago because I have heart problems in my family, sweets are worse for you than a block of lard, and this is why the Atkins diet works.
How the old testament was put together is incredibly relevant to the authenticity of the new testament, as it set a precedent.
as for the Earth being flat, well that just shows how much corruption there was.
So I confused Matthew and mark and Paul and John.
See how easy it is to get a couple of things mixed up.
AS for re-reading the bible, I'll re-read the first 10-20 pages of each of the four gospels.
I think what you need to do is, take the gospels, find out what is the same and what is different.
Look at the style of the different bits and try to work out how much is 'fact' and how much is artistic license.
Then with you new found knowledge about the authors look and see if one gospel is just a re-hash of another with a bit of artistic license thrown in.
Personally I think Matthew was just a bit of a perve who couldn't look at a woman without having 'impure' thoughts, so when reading Matthew you have to remember that the work was written by someone who go turned on at the sight of a woman and was trying to deal with it.
The old testament was written long before he was alive.
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The account you've given doesn't fit with any 'modern day' accounts of when the bible was written and who buy.
For a start you've got all those books written by moses, now I just googled 'who wrote the bible',skipped the book on Amozon and
"The traditional explanation is that the Five Books of Moses were written by Moses himself. There are several variants of this explanation:
Traditional Judaism and fundamentalist Christianity believe that the text was dictated by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, letter for letter (or pretty much letter for letter).
Other religious groups still ascribe authorship to Moses, but use words like "divinely inspired" rather than "dictated letter for letter."
Still others say Moses was the sole author, but there's nothing "divine" about it except in the sense that all great works of literature and poetry are "inspired."
Mosaic authorship would mean the five books were written around 1280 to 1250 BC, the most commonly accepted range of dates for the exodus from Egypt, give or take 30 years.
It has long been recognised that there were a few problems with the traditional view of Moses as author. The text reports the death of Moses--how could Moses have written of his own death? It also describes Moses as "the most humble man who ever lived"--how could Moses write that about himself? But these are minor issues. Some say Moses' successor Joshua wrote the few lines that describe the death of Moses; others say that Moses himself was commanded to write that text before it happened. None of this represents a serious challenge to Mosaic authorship."
So, the first 1/4 of you account is generally believed to be wrong, just like the earth isn't flat.
Also, three generations would have been 50-60 years, your 15-30 years is about as close to the line for writing the bible as anything I've seen. Some people even believe that the bible was written by people who knew Jesus, though that's been mostly dismissed.
The letters of John had next to nothing to do with Jesus, Mathew is generally believed to be a christian persecuted for allegedly burning down some Roman city and a lot of the bible is a re-hash of Mathew(though some think that it's a re-hash of mark)
So you've got a book of Chinese whispers, editing and personal opinion, so much so that I would be amazed to find that more than 10% of it was anything like factual, why do so many of the books more or less agree on many of the topics, well they just copied one another.