This is #1 on my Linux wishlist, too. I submited a wishlist-level bug report to the KDE team about this, and they replied that it was a limitation of X.
Sadly, I think it's a major job: you would have to detach a client from the current X server and reattach it to a different one. Not easy at all.
Jeeze, I cannot understand how this "Can't prove evolution" meme survives. I mean, this post even got modded up!
When you are mildly ill, you can't get antibiotics any more. Why not? Because over-use of antibiotics just makes germs resistant. And how do germs manage to become resistant? Do germ scientists beaver away to work on a cure for antibiotic poisoning? Or is it that the antibiotics kill off most of the germs, but a few, possessing a naturally occouring mutant gene, are immune. These prosper...and soon replace their fallen siblings. All the germs in this batch carry the mutant immune gene. And so the disease has become resistant.
Really, that's pretty much it. Adaptation to the environment via phenotype change over time.
See also: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-misconceptio ns.html#proof
My point? That there is as much reason to say "Evolution is proven" as there is to say "It is proven that man landed on the moon". To claim either is untrue (unless you has startling new evidence, of course) is a sure sign of lunacy. To claim that one is proven and the other isn't is double-lunacy.
My favorite is this one. For no reason whatsoever, after a trivial code change, the VC++ linker comes out with:
mfcs42.lib(dllmodul.obj) : error LNK2005: _DllMain@12 already defined in myobjectfile.obj
...and your code will never link again. To make it worse, MSDN has the cheek to try to pretend that this is by design! I agree with the earlier poster, the VC++ linker is wonky.
Dear Mr Vernon Coaker,
I am writing due to my deep concern about the RIPA bill due for debate on Monday (24th June). Never before have I been so horrified and, yes, frightened, by an act of parliament as I am about this one. The potential for abuse for what this law will allow is tremendous, and will affect us all - even you.
The bill will allow amost anyone in the civil service to read your email, examine your 'phone records and view the list of which web-sites you have visited - without a warrant, and with precious little accountability. The sheer number of people (untrained and inexperienced in the handling of secret data) who will soon have access to this information means that it will become de-facto public knowledge (unscrupilous post office workers (for example) could make a mint selling such data to journalists and private investigators).
Ask yourself: would you mind having records and transcripts of ALL emails, faxes and phone calls you send or receive available to the media, or perhaps even Conservative central office?
I would like to end by questioning what exactly this law is expected to achive? It will not aid in the arrest of on-line child molesters (it is much easier and more efficient to monitor web-sites and IRC chat-rooms) nor will it have any effect in the fight against terrorism (terrorists will not be foolish enough to use electronic telecomunications). So this leaves me wondering - why exactly does my government want widespread blanket surviallence of the entire population?
Please, it is within your power to try to prevent this bill becoming law. It is inconceivable that the British public WISH to be spied upon in this mannor. I therefore request that, as my elected represenative, you do everything in your power to fight this distrubing bill. Thank you very much for your time, Jim
Do you have a link to that 'right to privacy for your correspondance' somewhere? Because the RIPA bill flagrantly violates it. Perhaps we can get it stuck down for that?
A camera on every street corner, a tap on every phone. Truly, we are the surveillence state.
Worse, the proles seem to think it's a great idea: to them, Big Brother is nothing more than a TV concept. Watch any vox pops show on the subject and all you hear are variations of lines like "Those with nothing to hide have nothing to fear". It's the one thing Orwell missed: that the proles would be manipulated to actively welcome 1984.
Of course, this message will soon be placed in my thought-crime file....
Oh god, Peter Greenaway. When I was 20, I thought his films are the best ever. When I reached my 30s, I thought they are the most unbearably pretentous trash ever. You decide:)
The only really good film he made was 'A Zed and two Noughts'. This also has Michael Nyman's best score to boot.
Much better list. Of course, it wouldn't be Slashdot if I didn't shovel in my humble opinion:)
I would move Clockwork orange down (great book, average film). Mad Max III was the best of the Mad Max series (I don't know what this film was titled in the States). Alien was better than Aliens. And I think that Rollerball missed the point.
Kudos for the inclusion of Soylent Green (an astonishinly dark film), The Day the Earth stood still, When worlds collide, Close Encouters (vastly underated at the time, comming out against Star Wars) and Forbidden Planet. Couldn't aggree more.
I would also include The Time Machine (original), The Andromeda Strain, Dr. Strangelove (if you count it as SF), Silent Running, Metropolis, The Thing and The Quatermass series.
Also, an honourable mention has to go to 'Dark Star', maybe not the best film, but very funny nevertheless.
But for me, the best film ever has to be 'Blade Runner'. It's thought provoking (what is the difference between being human and being not-quite human? How do you know your memories are real?), beautifully shot throughout, great acting from Rutger Hauer and even has great music (the haunting Rachel's theme).
Anyways, that's my opionion - feel free to disagree.
I thought that too. Suddenly (and, let's be honest, retroactively) making the 'Queen' of Naboo an elected position, why did the Nabooians (Naboobies?) , facing one of the biggest crises of their planet's history, decide to elect a 13 year old?
The some total of said allegory is: "It's a story about a powerless individual who triumphs over powerful evil."
Tolkien's claim that this makes his book a christian allegory fails on two obvious counts:
1: This is in no way an allegory for the christian legend. In the Jesus story, Jesus is either the son of god or the living incarnation of god (depending on the flavour of christianity). Either way, this makes him the most powerful man in the universe. Far from triumphing over evil, he fails to triumph over anything very much, and the story ends with his grisly and pointless death.
2: If this were considered a christian allegory, then so would about half the stories ever written.
I've never understood this claim of Tolkien's. Perhaps he just said it to make C.S. Lewis happy!:)
"The growing and dangerous intrusion of this new technology" threatened the entire industry's "economic vitality and future security," and further, that the new technology "is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone." Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, on the Threat of VCRs to Hollywood, 1982
Atheist: You take a definite position that there is no God (which ironically is actually a position of faith, but that's another debate).
Common misconception.
A-theist, one who is not a theist. E.g. one who does not belive in any god. This is not the same as one who belives there are no gods. Subtle, isn't it?
To make things clearer for everyone, atheism is divided into 'strong' atheism, ("there is no god") and 'weak' atheism ("I don't seriously belive in the existance of any god" or "The chances of any god existing is vanishingly small").
The strong atheist position has, as you say, an element of faith. The weak position is the most widely held among those who call themselves atheists.
Agnostics claim that this question is undecideable. This is not satisfactory to me: We could say the same thing about the existance of faries, or body thetans, or goverment mind control. It ignores the probability. A or !A: If A is 99.9999% probable occourding to all the available evidence, then it makes sense to assume A, and discount !A (unless more evidence turns up, of course).
As for 'none', these are atheists who do not wish to be labled as such. Perhaps they think the whole thing silly, or maybe they simply do not know what the word means. They are still atheists, though.
Still, either way, I am officialy registered with my government as a Jedi. So nrrrr!
Nope, that's your BIOS assuming anthing on the boot sector that isn't Windows must be a virus...
Remove 'Boot sector virus checking' from your BIOS and everything will be sweet.
My mates and I are hiring a Castle in Wales for a week, soon. We are planning to get a load of super-soakers and play some real life Deathmatch. In a real Castle! How cool is that?:)
So can I ask UK-slashdotters, while we are on the subject, where's the best place to buy SuperSoakers on-line in the UK?
Slashdot Mirror
Sadly, I think it's a major job: you would have to detach a client from the current X server and reattach it to a different one. Not easy at all.
Yes!
When you are mildly ill, you can't get antibiotics any more. Why not? Because over-use of antibiotics just makes germs resistant. And how do germs manage to become resistant? Do germ scientists beaver away to work on a cure for antibiotic poisoning? Or is it that the antibiotics kill off most of the germs, but a few, possessing a naturally occouring mutant gene, are immune. These prosper...and soon replace their fallen siblings. All the germs in this batch carry the mutant immune gene. And so the disease has become resistant.
Really, that's pretty much it. Adaptation to the environment via phenotype change over time.
See also:o ns .html#proof
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-misconcepti
My point? That there is as much reason to say "Evolution is proven" as there is to say "It is proven that man landed on the moon". To claim either is untrue (unless you has startling new evidence, of course) is a sure sign of lunacy. To claim that one is proven and the other isn't is double-lunacy.
...is a victimless crime.
That's not a bug, its a feature!
Seriously, it's the correct behavior. A label MUST be followed by a valid line of code.
My favorite is this one. For no reason whatsoever, after a trivial code change, the VC++ linker comes out with:
mfcs42.lib(dllmodul.obj) : error LNK2005: _DllMain@12 already defined in myobjectfile.obj
...and your code will never link again. To make it worse, MSDN has the cheek to try to pretend that this is by design! I agree with the earlier poster, the VC++ linker is wonky.
Dear Mr Vernon Coaker,
I am writing due to my deep concern about the RIPA bill due for debate on Monday (24th June). Never before have I been so horrified and, yes, frightened, by an act of parliament as I am about this one. The potential for abuse for what this law will allow is tremendous, and will affect us all - even you.
The bill will allow amost anyone in the civil service to read your email, examine your 'phone records and view the list of which web-sites you have visited - without a warrant, and with precious little accountability. The sheer number of people (untrained and inexperienced in the handling of secret data) who will soon have access to this information means that it will become de-facto public knowledge (unscrupilous post office workers (for example) could make a mint selling such data to journalists and private investigators).
Ask yourself: would you mind having records and transcripts of ALL emails, faxes and phone calls you send or receive available to the media, or perhaps even Conservative central office?
I would like to end by questioning what exactly this law is expected to achive? It will not aid in the arrest of on-line child molesters (it is much easier and more efficient to monitor web-sites and IRC chat-rooms) nor will it have any effect in the fight against terrorism (terrorists will not be foolish enough to use electronic telecomunications). So this leaves me wondering - why exactly does my government want widespread blanket surviallence of the entire population?
Please, it is within your power to try to prevent this bill becoming law. It is inconceivable that the British public WISH to be spied upon in this mannor. I therefore request that, as my elected represenative, you do everything in your power to fight this distrubing bill.
Thank you very much for your time,
Jim
Do you have a link to that 'right to privacy for your correspondance' somewhere? Because the RIPA bill flagrantly violates it. Perhaps we can get it stuck down for that?
Worse, the proles seem to think it's a great idea: to them, Big Brother is nothing more than a TV concept. Watch any vox pops show on the subject and all you hear are variations of lines like "Those with nothing to hide have nothing to fear". It's the one thing Orwell missed: that the proles would be manipulated to actively welcome 1984.
Of course, this message will soon be placed in my thought-crime file....
Yeah. It's called 'PGP'
The only really good film he made was 'A Zed and two Noughts'. This also has Michael Nyman's best score to boot.
I would move Clockwork orange down (great book, average film). Mad Max III was the best of the Mad Max series (I don't know what this film was titled in the States). Alien was better than Aliens. And I think that Rollerball missed the point.
Kudos for the inclusion of Soylent Green (an astonishinly dark film), The Day the Earth stood still, When worlds collide, Close Encouters (vastly underated at the time, comming out against Star Wars) and Forbidden Planet. Couldn't aggree more.
I would also include The Time Machine (original), The Andromeda Strain, Dr. Strangelove (if you count it as SF), Silent Running, Metropolis, The Thing and The Quatermass series.
Also, an honourable mention has to go to 'Dark Star', maybe not the best film, but very funny nevertheless.
But for me, the best film ever has to be 'Blade Runner'. It's thought provoking (what is the difference between being human and being not-quite human? How do you know your memories are real?), beautifully shot throughout, great acting from Rutger Hauer and even has great music (the haunting Rachel's theme).
Anyways, that's my opionion - feel free to disagree.
Naahh. Dune - fabulous, brilliant book, pretty crappy film. Same as '1984' which somehow sneaked onto the list.
Including, of course, George Lucas (I'm thinking the beginning of Ep. II)
I thought that too. Suddenly (and, let's be honest, retroactively) making the 'Queen' of Naboo an elected position, why did the Nabooians (Naboobies?) , facing one of the biggest crises of their planet's history, decide to elect a 13 year old?
Tolkien's claim that this makes his book a christian allegory fails on two obvious counts:
1: This is in no way an allegory for the christian legend. In the Jesus story, Jesus is either the son of god or the living incarnation of god (depending on the flavour of christianity). Either way, this makes him the most powerful man in the universe. Far from triumphing over evil, he fails to triumph over anything very much, and the story ends with his grisly and pointless death.
2: If this were considered a christian allegory, then so would about half the stories ever written.
I've never understood this claim of Tolkien's. Perhaps he just said it to make C.S. Lewis happy! :)
The obvious solution is to set up your own record company. Then just sit back and wait for your handouts.
"The growing and dangerous intrusion of this new technology" threatened the entire industry's "economic vitality and future security," and further, that the new technology "is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone."
Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, on the Threat of VCRs to Hollywood, 1982
"It is a sobering thought that better evidence is required to prosecute a shoplifter than is needed to commence a world war."
Anthony Scrivener QC
Common misconception.
A-theist, one who is not a theist. E.g. one who does not belive in any god. This is not the same as one who belives there are no gods. Subtle, isn't it?
To make things clearer for everyone, atheism is divided into 'strong' atheism, ("there is no god") and 'weak' atheism ("I don't seriously belive in the existance of any god" or "The chances of any god existing is vanishingly small").
The strong atheist position has, as you say, an element of faith. The weak position is the most widely held among those who call themselves atheists.
Agnostics claim that this question is undecideable. This is not satisfactory to me: We could say the same thing about the existance of faries, or body thetans, or goverment mind control. It ignores the probability. A or !A: If A is 99.9999% probable occourding to all the available evidence, then it makes sense to assume A, and discount !A (unless more evidence turns up, of course).
As for 'none', these are atheists who do not wish to be labled as such. Perhaps they think the whole thing silly, or maybe they simply do not know what the word means. They are still atheists, though.
Still, either way, I am officialy registered with my government as a Jedi. So nrrrr!
You mean Intel trying to copyright the name '586'. Of course they failed, and 'Pentinum' was born.
How about 'Operation knee-jerk reaction'?
Somebody going to post an mp3 of the talk after, like they did with Jello Biafra in times past?
Remove 'Boot sector virus checking' from your BIOS and everything will be sweet.
Time to change me sig, I think...
My mates and I are hiring a Castle in Wales for a week, soon. We are planning to get a load of super-soakers and play some real life Deathmatch. In a real Castle! How cool is that? :)
So can I ask UK-slashdotters, while we are on the subject, where's the best place to buy SuperSoakers on-line in the UK?