Unless, of course, you're not an idiot, and have your source documents in XHTML, and then transform them for a mobile device using XSLT, in essence stripping them down server-side, while maintaining a single document source. And this is only possible with XHTML, as it's properly formed XML.
They do? Huh... what fruit? Got any examples? Because, I know I sure as hell haven't heard of the TSA stopping any terrorists plots. Of course, one might argue that that's proof their techniques are working. But if you believe that, I have this handy rock I can sell you that repels tigers...
Of course I have a few modules loaded. Funny thing is, Vim has the same features, and I don't need to load *any* modules. And it still starts up faster than Emacs.
And incidentally, yeah, after getting used to Vim for doing quick edits, 1 or 2 seconds feels like a frickin' eternity.:)
Where the arguments are meant to line up (thanks a lot, Slashdot, for having no preformatted option).
In that case, tabs will screw things up because, unless that paren happens to line up exactly on a tab boundary, you're gonna have to mix tabs and spaces, and then variable tab widths will screw up the display. And before you ask, no, I *hate* this:
ie, having the second (and remaining) arguments indented one level deeper. It's ugly. The former visually groups the arguments. The latter is a hack so twits who use tabs won't have a screwed up display.:)
Good lord, what are you running Vim on that it doesn't load instantly? I mean, sure, if it's a 66 Mhz embedded computer, Vim is probably a bit too much. But on any modern PC, it should load instantly.
As for the rest, those are nothing more than religious arguments.
Except that Vim continues to start up lightening fast, unlike Emacs... in fact, before I switched to Vim full time, I found myself consistently using it for small edits because firing up an Emacs instance took so friggin' long.
Put another way: RAM is cheap. My time and patience aren't.
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No, it's just that, like Solaris, the BSD userland never really grew up, and so continues to be ever so user-hateful. Whenever I'm stuck on an OS with a Vi that doesn't support arrow keys in insert mode, I want to shoot myself. And don't get me started on the unbelievably crippled 'find' and 'grep' Solaris comes with...
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The difference between Nano and Vim is that the latter can grow past your "basic needs". I mean, I've known a few programmers who use Nano, and the fact continues to baffle me, whereas Vim is an excellent general text editor, as well as being superbly designed for coding and other more heavy duty editing tasks.
My overworked hands also enjoy the fact that Vim doesn't require me to chord (aside for a few operations, such as window splitting and navigation). It's actually the main reason I switched away from Emacs (my poor pinky couldn't take it anymore).
Err... you mean that which produced one of the most successful alternatives to IE? The one that actually spurred a new round of browser competition? That rewritten project?
I mean, generally speaking, yes, rewrites are bad. But there are almost certainly better examples you could've drawn from.
If everyone left their WAP connection open, none of the connections would get saturated.
Umm... what? Not to put too fine a point on it, but that's idiotic. If someone decides to connect to my open WAP and download a week's worth of Heroes episodes, my WAP becomes unusuable for anyone else. Period. It doesn't matter how many WAPs are open within range. All it takes is one dumbass on each one to render the service useless.
Worse, suppose someone saturates my link, forcing me to use another open WAP within range. Well, now I get crappier service... remember, 802.11 performance degrades pretty dramatically with increasing range. As such, because one moron decides to be anti-social, I'm significantly impacted.
And unlike your little pastoral story about grazing land, there's no way for me to punish a WAP abuser. As such, policing simply isn't possible, and so your little analogy doesn't fit the situation.
Honestly, your post is so naively simplistic, I'm beginning to wonder if I've simply been trolled...
If the brain/mind is exposed to a lot of a particular stimulus, it will associate with that stimulus as being okay and worth mimicing.
Except, of course, that we spend the vast bulk of our time being taught that violence is something that needs to be controlled and/or suppressed. The idea that watching a few hours of fictionalized violence on TV could somehow undo all that social conditioning is, frankly, a bit absurd.
Hell, I would argue that violent competitive sport, among other things, would be a far stronger contributor to anti-social behaviour, in that it actively encourages violent behaviour while providing real, tangible reward for being successful. Of course, a smart person would argue that context is everything... ie, people understand that acceptable violence, in one context, is unacceptable in another.
Interestingly, I would say the same thing is true for fictionalized violence in media or videogames.
And if the results of the study are that violent media is harmful then why not restrict young people's access to it just like alcohol and tobacco?
Then do that. Because, to date, no one has (and no, a slightly higher proclivity toward violent behaviour immediately involving exposure to such materials does not constitute "harm"... and certainly not the kind of long-term harm that would warrant government intervention on behalf of public health or safety). Until such harm has been proven, the government can stay the fuck out.
Meanwhile, violent crime statistics and their general downward trend demonstrates that, whatever the thinkofthechildren crowd would have you believe, violent media seems to have little effect on actual rates of violence, especially when you compare it to factors such as income, education, health and nutrition, etc.
If I get wifi I fully intend to leave it open; why be selfish?
Unfortunately, because other jerks are. I left my WAP open for a while (heavily locked down, of course). And what happened? I ended up with people saturating my connection. Yeah, I could've monitored my WAP and blocked offending MAC addresses, etc, but I'm not an ISP, and as such it wasn't worth my time.
It's called the tragedy of the commons, and it's a bitch.
It has become quite obvious that he is the only presidential candidate that is interested in our individual rights.
Well, to me more accurate, he's the only presidential candidate interested in preventing the government from infringing on your rights, while giving corporations carte blanche do to the same. Yay libertarianism, the right's answer to communism!
Well, let's not exaggerate. How well Ubuntu works varies widely depending on the hardware config. In the last few months, Ubuntu has supported the wireless, video, and audio chipsets, which have traditionally been problematic, out of the box on my nVidia-powered T61. However, among things that *don't* work:
* The display brightness settings only work in the console, not in X. * Other hotkeys, like sleep mode (Fn+F4) sometimes work, sometimes don't (in the current rev of Gutsy I'm running, they don't). * Hibernate doesn't work (though sleep mode does). * The SATA chipset must be run in legacy compatibility mode, which is apparently slower. * Power consumption has only approached Vista after some *serious* tweaking with the help of powertop. * I still haven't got proper ultrabay support working (ie, I can't hot insert/eject my CD drive).
I'm sure there are other issues, but those are just the few off the top of my head. In short: yeah, Ubuntu works. But I definitely wouldn't say "perfectly". And definitely not well enough for those unwilling to do some hacking and tweaking to get things working right.
Uh, wha? The idea that American's carry so much debt *because* of fractional reserve banking (#1) is flat out absurd. The economy is certainly helped by increasing levels of debt, as it spurs spending and increases the money supply. But I'm *extremely* skeptical that there's a causal relationship between consumer and corporate debt, and the banking system as it's structured. After all, most other nations work under a fractional reserve system, and you don't see the same astronomical levels of debt.
It's also ridiculous to believe that American debt is driven by low domestic prices... frankly, I don't understand where this reasoning comes from at all.
So why is there so much domestic and corporate debt? I have no idea. Relatively low interest rates over the last few years certainly haven't helped. The housing boom, which encouraged people to purchased homes they couldn't afford, combined with predatory lending practices *definitely* haven't helped. Heck, it could simply come down to cultural factors.
But the two factors you listed? I highly doubt it.
As for the US economy shitting the bed, there's many things at play, there. Debt is certainly a factor, particularly in the wake of the housing bubble collapse, which makes foreign investment in the US suddenly seem like a risky proposition (and, let's face it... it *is* a risky proposition, given recent lending practices).
Cell Phones have become a necessity, like it or not.
Well that's just bizarre, then, because I don't have a cell phone, and seem to function just fine. But you're right, I'm sure it's a necessity, just like food, clothing, shelter, etc, and I just don't know what I'm missing (other than crappier voice quality, speakers, vocal pickup, no audible voice feedback, random disconnects and generally crappy service coverage, etc, etc).
And what about those who either choose not to have a cellphone, or can't afford one? Not everyone is willing to dedicate themselves to multi-year plans, or spend a not-insignificant number of dollars on a handset so they can pay (exhorbitantly) as they go.
And this would be why, for all it's faults, Slashdot did the right thing with it's mod system. Pass the job around to random people, using some metric as a threshold for determining if a person is eligible (Slashdot uses a combination of visitation frequency, tenure, and karma). Such a system prevents corruption, as it explicitly prevents a closed cabal from taking control of the system.
Of course, how you'd adapt such a model to Wikipedia, I have no idea.:)
ROFL, I've had the exact same experience. It was both frightening and decidedly embarrassing to come across my newgroup posts from 10-15 years ago... OTOH, it gives one an entirely new, decidedly more humble perspective when dealing with obnoxious newbs.:)
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Unless, of course, you're not an idiot, and have your source documents in XHTML, and then transform them for a mobile device using XSLT, in essence stripping them down server-side, while maintaining a single document source. And this is only possible with XHTML, as it's properly formed XML.
They do? Huh... what fruit? Got any examples? Because, I know I sure as hell haven't heard of the TSA stopping any terrorists plots. Of course, one might argue that that's proof their techniques are working. But if you believe that, I have this handy rock I can sell you that repels tigers...
Of course I have a few modules loaded. Funny thing is, Vim has the same features, and I don't need to load *any* modules. And it still starts up faster than Emacs.
:)
And incidentally, yeah, after getting used to Vim for doing quick edits, 1 or 2 seconds feels like a frickin' eternity.
Yes, I'm sure your hunting rifles will prove an excellent defense against an armored tank, should the government decide to quell a rebellion.
Yes we do.
Do that with an if statement and tell me it looks readable. Please...
What part of "insert mode" don't you understand?
BTW, the above example also applies to complex if() statements, and anything else where you have parenthesized lists.
If you code in a language with C syntax TABs are better.
:)
Says you. My experience is the opposite. All tabs do is give the editor an opportunity to a) fuck up the formatting, or b) mix tabs and spaces.
Besides, imagine you have code like this:
call_my_function(a_really_long_argument,
another_long_argument);
Where the arguments are meant to line up (thanks a lot, Slashdot, for having no preformatted option).
In that case, tabs will screw things up because, unless that paren happens to line up exactly on a tab boundary, you're gonna have to mix tabs and spaces, and then variable tab widths will screw up the display. And before you ask, no, I *hate* this:
call_my_function(a_really_long_argument,
another_long_argument);
ie, having the second (and remaining) arguments indented one level deeper. It's ugly. The former visually groups the arguments. The latter is a hack so twits who use tabs won't have a screwed up display.
VIM, however, isn't small and doesn't load fast.
Good lord, what are you running Vim on that it doesn't load instantly? I mean, sure, if it's a 66 Mhz embedded computer, Vim is probably a bit too much. But on any modern PC, it should load instantly.
As for the rest, those are nothing more than religious arguments.
Except that Vim continues to start up lightening fast, unlike Emacs... in fact, before I switched to Vim full time, I found myself consistently using it for small edits because firing up an Emacs instance took so friggin' long.
Put another way: RAM is cheap. My time and patience aren't.
No, it's just that, like Solaris, the BSD userland never really grew up, and so continues to be ever so user-hateful. Whenever I'm stuck on an OS with a Vi that doesn't support arrow keys in insert mode, I want to shoot myself. And don't get me started on the unbelievably crippled 'find' and 'grep' Solaris comes with...
The difference between Nano and Vim is that the latter can grow past your "basic needs". I mean, I've known a few programmers who use Nano, and the fact continues to baffle me, whereas Vim is an excellent general text editor, as well as being superbly designed for coding and other more heavy duty editing tasks.
My overworked hands also enjoy the fact that Vim doesn't require me to chord (aside for a few operations, such as window splitting and navigation). It's actually the main reason I switched away from Emacs (my poor pinky couldn't take it anymore).
See also: Netscape.
Err... you mean that which produced one of the most successful alternatives to IE? The one that actually spurred a new round of browser competition? That rewritten project?
I mean, generally speaking, yes, rewrites are bad. But there are almost certainly better examples you could've drawn from.
If everyone left their WAP connection open, none of the connections would get saturated.
Umm... what? Not to put too fine a point on it, but that's idiotic. If someone decides to connect to my open WAP and download a week's worth of Heroes episodes, my WAP becomes unusuable for anyone else. Period. It doesn't matter how many WAPs are open within range. All it takes is one dumbass on each one to render the service useless.
Worse, suppose someone saturates my link, forcing me to use another open WAP within range. Well, now I get crappier service... remember, 802.11 performance degrades pretty dramatically with increasing range. As such, because one moron decides to be anti-social, I'm significantly impacted.
And unlike your little pastoral story about grazing land, there's no way for me to punish a WAP abuser. As such, policing simply isn't possible, and so your little analogy doesn't fit the situation.
Honestly, your post is so naively simplistic, I'm beginning to wonder if I've simply been trolled...
If the brain/mind is exposed to a lot of a particular stimulus, it will associate with that stimulus as being okay and worth mimicing.
Except, of course, that we spend the vast bulk of our time being taught that violence is something that needs to be controlled and/or suppressed. The idea that watching a few hours of fictionalized violence on TV could somehow undo all that social conditioning is, frankly, a bit absurd.
Hell, I would argue that violent competitive sport, among other things, would be a far stronger contributor to anti-social behaviour, in that it actively encourages violent behaviour while providing real, tangible reward for being successful. Of course, a smart person would argue that context is everything... ie, people understand that acceptable violence, in one context, is unacceptable in another.
Interestingly, I would say the same thing is true for fictionalized violence in media or videogames.
And if the results of the study are that violent media is harmful then why not restrict young people's access to it just like alcohol and tobacco?
Then do that. Because, to date, no one has (and no, a slightly higher proclivity toward violent behaviour immediately involving exposure to such materials does not constitute "harm"... and certainly not the kind of long-term harm that would warrant government intervention on behalf of public health or safety). Until such harm has been proven, the government can stay the fuck out.
Meanwhile, violent crime statistics and their general downward trend demonstrates that, whatever the thinkofthechildren crowd would have you believe, violent media seems to have little effect on actual rates of violence, especially when you compare it to factors such as income, education, health and nutrition, etc.
If I get wifi I fully intend to leave it open; why be selfish?
Unfortunately, because other jerks are. I left my WAP open for a while (heavily locked down, of course). And what happened? I ended up with people saturating my connection. Yeah, I could've monitored my WAP and blocked offending MAC addresses, etc, but I'm not an ISP, and as such it wasn't worth my time.
It's called the tragedy of the commons, and it's a bitch.
It has become quite obvious that he is the only presidential candidate that is interested in our individual rights.
Well, to me more accurate, he's the only presidential candidate interested in preventing the government from infringing on your rights, while giving corporations carte blanche do to the same. Yay libertarianism, the right's answer to communism!
Well, let's not exaggerate. How well Ubuntu works varies widely depending on the hardware config. In the last few months, Ubuntu has supported the wireless, video, and audio chipsets, which have traditionally been problematic, out of the box on my nVidia-powered T61. However, among things that *don't* work:
* The display brightness settings only work in the console, not in X.
* Other hotkeys, like sleep mode (Fn+F4) sometimes work, sometimes don't (in the current rev of Gutsy I'm running, they don't).
* Hibernate doesn't work (though sleep mode does).
* The SATA chipset must be run in legacy compatibility mode, which is apparently slower.
* Power consumption has only approached Vista after some *serious* tweaking with the help of powertop.
* I still haven't got proper ultrabay support working (ie, I can't hot insert/eject my CD drive).
I'm sure there are other issues, but those are just the few off the top of my head. In short: yeah, Ubuntu works. But I definitely wouldn't say "perfectly". And definitely not well enough for those unwilling to do some hacking and tweaking to get things working right.
Uh, wha? The idea that American's carry so much debt *because* of fractional reserve banking (#1) is flat out absurd. The economy is certainly helped by increasing levels of debt, as it spurs spending and increases the money supply. But I'm *extremely* skeptical that there's a causal relationship between consumer and corporate debt, and the banking system as it's structured. After all, most other nations work under a fractional reserve system, and you don't see the same astronomical levels of debt.
It's also ridiculous to believe that American debt is driven by low domestic prices... frankly, I don't understand where this reasoning comes from at all.
So why is there so much domestic and corporate debt? I have no idea. Relatively low interest rates over the last few years certainly haven't helped. The housing boom, which encouraged people to purchased homes they couldn't afford, combined with predatory lending practices *definitely* haven't helped. Heck, it could simply come down to cultural factors.
But the two factors you listed? I highly doubt it.
As for the US economy shitting the bed, there's many things at play, there. Debt is certainly a factor, particularly in the wake of the housing bubble collapse, which makes foreign investment in the US suddenly seem like a risky proposition (and, let's face it... it *is* a risky proposition, given recent lending practices).
Cell Phones have become a necessity, like it or not.
Well that's just bizarre, then, because I don't have a cell phone, and seem to function just fine. But you're right, I'm sure it's a necessity, just like food, clothing, shelter, etc, and I just don't know what I'm missing (other than crappier voice quality, speakers, vocal pickup, no audible voice feedback, random disconnects and generally crappy service coverage, etc, etc).
And what about those who either choose not to have a cellphone, or can't afford one? Not everyone is willing to dedicate themselves to multi-year plans, or spend a not-insignificant number of dollars on a handset so they can pay (exhorbitantly) as they go.
And this would be why, for all it's faults, Slashdot did the right thing with it's mod system. Pass the job around to random people, using some metric as a threshold for determining if a person is eligible (Slashdot uses a combination of visitation frequency, tenure, and karma). Such a system prevents corruption, as it explicitly prevents a closed cabal from taking control of the system.
:)
Of course, how you'd adapt such a model to Wikipedia, I have no idea.
ROFL, I've had the exact same experience. It was both frightening and decidedly embarrassing to come across my newgroup posts from 10-15 years ago... OTOH, it gives one an entirely new, decidedly more humble perspective when dealing with obnoxious newbs. :)