Look, I love guns and support the 2nd amendment (if this is the way politicians act now, imagine how bad it would be if they knew we couldn't shoot them if they really cross the line), but what is the use of a gun besides its actual or potential ability to kill living things? I can think of only three uses: kill stuff, threaten to kill stuff, wound stuff, or show off.
Thanks, I'll give it a try. However I prefer rolling my own with libXML and gnomes GtkTreeViewModel -- use libXML for serializing the data, and keep the entire database in-memory in a GtkTreeViewModel.
It's perfect for single-user, small, personal databases. No binary interfaces to fail. Transactional consistency is a snap -- you commit all changes in one fell swoop.
It's good enough for 1mb databases. If I need more, I'll use a "real SQL".
Don't be so high and mighty: I have the same phobias over fixing my car. I'm sure plenty of people here fix their own cars, but I don't, and I'm sure plenty don't: and we feel exactly the same about our cars that technophobes feel about their computers.
People tend to react emotionally to things they don't understand. If you understand why foo is happening, you'll feel equanimous about it. If you don't, you'll fret.
Not a troll, but try to remember the inverse of the statement "All Linux Users are responsible for the MyDoom virus" is not "No Linux User is responsible for the MyDoom virus". The validity of the statement "The MyDoom virus author is a Linux User" is not verified -- but drawing any sort of Universal conclusion (affirmatively or negatively) is not valid reasoning.
You know the old conspiracy theory about "NYC" in Wingdings? Check it out. (Note: I am just the messenger, I surely don't endorse that kind of thinking, although I bet I will get a bunch of purile comments to this).
Actually, since I use the excellent mplayer with live.com RTSP streaming, I don't care if its Real, or WMP, or Quicktime. All three are over my crapware threshold, so I run Linux! (Although Real is the absolute worst piece of spyware, QT is real bad, and you can't get rid of WMP if you try).
You are foolish -- who cares if you make money if its a drop in the bucket? On CNBC recently I saw Microsoft could lose its entire server business to Linux and it would be 1.5 cents (=~1.5 billion) out of 34.5 cents (=~34 billion) of revenue.
I worked there -- the small divisions may be profitable but no one cares. That's business.
The difference here is that Microsoft made MacIntosh software before Windows was dominant, if not before Windows existed. That's not the case with Linux.
I doubt if Mac came along after Windows if Microsoft would have made software for it. Although they do make a profit on it, it is insigificant compared to Office/Windows.
I absolutely hated all three movies: 99 details out of 100 were omitted, and those that were included were all told differently from the book. For me, the fun of the books was all the names, and knowing how many miles this was from that, and all of it.
I know I'm hard to please but I personally feel that the Lord of the Rings was not the movie made -- it was a story *like* the LOTR but it wasn't that.
Sue me. I love the books. I don't think Tolkien would have liked the movies at all, any more than me.
Well, shit, no -- but I wasn't making that claim. Of course you can write portable code, or you can use abstraction libs -- such as Mozilla uses. We all know how hard *that* is.
But that's not the point -- the point is you can compile Windows apps for free, using Microsoft's tools, legally. That's interesting in and of itself.
Do you know with the.NET SDK you get the non-optimizing version of the Visual C++ compiler? Just no IDE. And you can download the Win32 sdk for free. So you can compile Win32 apps on Windows for free.
Israel's Finance Ministry recently threatened to move thousands of PCs to open-source software, until Microsoft agreed to its demand to purchase individual applications from the Microsoft Office package.
I think most organizations are using Free Software against Microsoft as bargaining leverage, or at least more than truly prefer Free Software.
This wouldn't bother me so much if they hadn't made a big point of pointing out how XML lets you interoperate. Well, I guess that's still true, but they forgot to see "for a fee."
Integers were now large enough for any conceivable use.
Try doing currency arithmatic for a large multinational (> $4 billion, pretty common) where you have to sum thousands of numbers and exactness counts (so floating point won't work).
Having just seen it for the first time, it's more of a horror movie than anything else.
It's not a horror movie to me, it's just something utterly unrelated to the truth.
Not to say you won't find scary experiences, but *that* set of scary experiences is utterly unrelated to the truth -- it's just a homoerotic fantasy. Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood did a bunch of subtly "gay" themed movies (Dirty Harry, Alcatraz, &c.) in the 1970s.
No, you need to check yourself. How dare you ridicule southerners for exhibiting any type of stereotyping when you yourself are the A#1 example of stereotyping.
"Do under others"
Yes, I can lighten up -- but I can also see when people are *not* laughing with you, or laughing at life, but are being cruel -- because I grew up with racists. Your joke was in the same spirit as their jokes. Southerners get reamed whenever they make any comments like that -- rightly so, and they should work hard. You need to do it too.
What I object to is the automatic injection of a negative stereotype of a people in a situtation that is utterly not related to that stereotype -- in the context, had their been *some* relation, it would have been funny. This is not.
Aw, fuck it, i'll post as me. Mod me all you want.
This is just stupid, and poor reasoning. Following your thinking, an inbred society does not imply its invitation-only. Also, it's not a very apt metaphor of the south -- Park Avenue is more "invitation-only" than the Deliverance. You are thinking "something-else-only."
Pantywaist city folks when they meet rurual folks tend to question their own masculinity and usually get teased about being fags -- and they feel like fags next to "real people." I expect that the hollywood writers of Deliverance probably felt like fags when they met some "real rednecks" or bikers and tried, probably subconsciously, to get revenge by portrarying rednecks as fags.
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Look, I love guns and support the 2nd amendment (if this is the way politicians act now, imagine how bad it would be if they knew we couldn't shoot them if they really cross the line), but what is the use of a gun besides its actual or potential ability to kill living things? I can think of only three uses: kill stuff, threaten to kill stuff, wound stuff, or show off.
What are you thinking of?
Thanks, I'll give it a try. However I prefer rolling my own with libXML and gnomes GtkTreeViewModel -- use libXML for serializing the data, and keep the entire database in-memory in a GtkTreeViewModel.
It's perfect for single-user, small, personal databases. No binary interfaces to fail. Transactional consistency is a snap -- you commit all changes in one fell swoop.
It's good enough for 1mb databases. If I need more, I'll use a "real SQL".
Don't be so high and mighty: I have the same phobias over fixing my car. I'm sure plenty of people here fix their own cars, but I don't, and I'm sure plenty don't: and we feel exactly the same about our cars that technophobes feel about their computers.
People tend to react emotionally to things they don't understand. If you understand why foo is happening, you'll feel equanimous about it. If you don't, you'll fret.
Not a troll, but try to remember the inverse of the statement "All Linux Users are responsible for the MyDoom virus" is not "No Linux User is responsible for the MyDoom virus". The validity of the statement "The MyDoom virus author is a Linux User" is not verified -- but drawing any sort of Universal conclusion (affirmatively or negatively) is not valid reasoning.
You know the old conspiracy theory about "NYC" in Wingdings? Check it out. (Note: I am just the messenger, I surely don't endorse that kind of thinking, although I bet I will get a bunch of purile comments to this).
I have a 9000's uid that I forgot the password for and no longer have the email. Any chance I can use it?
I'd like to see Slashdot ID counter vs. time graph. I came to the party late.
Actually, since I use the excellent mplayer with live.com RTSP streaming, I don't care if its Real, or WMP, or Quicktime. All three are over my crapware threshold, so I run Linux! (Although Real is the absolute worst piece of spyware, QT is real bad, and you can't get rid of WMP if you try).
+1 funny!
Don't you know anything about how business works?
Sure, they won't close them down -- but nobody cares. I was at the company meeting -- nobody cares.
You are foolish -- who cares if you make money if its a drop in the bucket? On CNBC recently I saw Microsoft could lose its entire server business to Linux and it would be 1.5 cents (=~1.5 billion) out of 34.5 cents (=~34 billion) of revenue.
I worked there -- the small divisions may be profitable but no one cares. That's business.
The difference here is that Microsoft made MacIntosh software before Windows was dominant, if not before Windows existed. That's not the case with Linux.
I doubt if Mac came along after Windows if Microsoft would have made software for it. Although they do make a profit on it, it is insigificant compared to Office/Windows.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/default.a sp
Party on.
I absolutely hated all three movies: 99 details out of 100 were omitted, and those that were included were all told differently from the book. For me, the fun of the books was all the names, and knowing how many miles this was from that, and all of it.
I know I'm hard to please but I personally feel that the Lord of the Rings was not the movie made -- it was a story *like* the LOTR but it wasn't that.
Sue me. I love the books. I don't think Tolkien would have liked the movies at all, any more than me.
That's not the inverse, this is:
One distro to be ruled by all,
One distro to be found,
One distro to be brought to all,
And in the light release them.
Well, shit, no -- but I wasn't making that claim. Of course you can write portable code, or you can use abstraction libs -- such as Mozilla uses.
We all know how hard *that* is.
But that's not the point -- the point is you can compile Windows apps for free, using Microsoft's tools, legally. That's interesting in and of itself.
Do you know with the .NET SDK you get the non-optimizing version of the Visual C++ compiler? Just no IDE. And you can download the Win32 sdk for free. So you can compile Win32 apps on Windows for free.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5145332.html
Israel's Finance Ministry recently threatened to move thousands of PCs to open-source software, until Microsoft agreed to its demand to purchase individual applications from the Microsoft Office package.
I think most organizations are using Free Software against Microsoft as bargaining leverage,
or at least more than truly prefer Free Software.
This wouldn't bother me so much if they hadn't made a big point of pointing out how XML lets you interoperate. Well, I guess that's still true, but they forgot to see "for a fee."
Integers were now large enough for any conceivable use.
Try doing currency arithmatic for a large multinational (> $4 billion, pretty common) where you have to sum thousands of numbers and exactness counts (so floating point won't work).
It can be done, but its a bitch.
Having just seen it for the first time, it's more of a horror movie than anything else.
It's not a horror movie to me, it's just something utterly unrelated to the truth.
Not to say you won't find scary experiences, but *that* set of scary experiences is utterly unrelated to the truth -- it's just a homoerotic fantasy. Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood did a bunch of subtly "gay" themed movies (Dirty Harry, Alcatraz, &c.) in the 1970s.
Okay, so the grandparent is +5 Funny, but a comment about the same topic is -1 offtopic?
Riiiiiiiiiiiiighhhhhhhhhht.
Context, context, context, context.
Get it?
No, you need to check yourself. How dare you ridicule southerners for exhibiting any type of stereotyping when you yourself are the A#1 example of stereotyping.
"Do under others"
Yes, I can lighten up -- but I can also see when people are *not* laughing with you, or laughing at life, but are being cruel -- because I grew up with racists. Your joke was in the same spirit as their jokes. Southerners get reamed whenever they make any comments like that -- rightly so, and they should work hard. You need to do it too.
What I object to is the automatic injection of a negative stereotype of a people in a situtation that is utterly not related to that stereotype -- in the context, had their been *some* relation, it would have been funny. This is not.
Aw, fuck it, i'll post as me. Mod me all you want.
This is just stupid, and poor reasoning. Following your thinking, an inbred society does not imply its invitation-only. Also, it's not a very apt metaphor of the south -- Park Avenue is more "invitation-only" than the Deliverance. You are thinking "something-else-only."
Pantywaist city folks when they meet rurual folks tend to question their own masculinity and usually get teased about being fags -- and they feel like fags next to "real people." I expect that the hollywood writers of Deliverance probably felt like fags when they met some "real rednecks" or bikers and tried, probably subconsciously, to get revenge by portrarying rednecks as fags.
Betcha a dollar its true.
Why weren't they doing ongoing quality control testing?
Either not all of the product is defective, or they were doing *no* testing, or somebody within the company was commiting a crime.