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How about we create a Palestinian state in your home town? Hope you won't mind if they raze your house to accomodate their new settlements.
I can tell you're fair and balanced.
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A slant relative to what?
You imply that someone's not slanted.
If it's more accurate, it's more objective, and therefore *less slanted* by definition.
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A bomber is someone who blows people up with bombs.
A *suicide* bomber is one who blows herself up as well.
Arguably, the first category is homicidal and the second category is both homicidal and suicidal. But this raises a number of questions. If you kill civilians are you a homicide bomber, even if you don't yourself die? Did the US send homicide bombers over Nagasaki and Hiroshima in WWII?
The real intent of this perversion of language is to make the bombers seem less like military agents and more like criminals. This would be a hell of a lot easier if Israel would stop ignoring UN resolutions by aggressively launching raids and building settlements in Palestinian territory.
Or are you one of those folks who thinks that Palestinians have no right to self defense? And if they do have a right to self defense, what weapons would you suggest they use against the US-supported Israeli army if you were Arafat? Rocks? And don't tell me Israel is always on "self-defense" and the Palestinians are always on offense. Gandhi's dictum applies: "an eye for an eye and the world goes blind." It doesn't matter who started it anymore.
Caveat: I don't like suicide bombers at all. I want the conflict to end. I just think the ball is in Israel's court, since they're the ones with the real power. They just refuse to implement the Oslo accords.
Finally though, in some dystopian future, if the U.S. is the last bastion of democracy in the world, under siege from some dark axis, and the only effective weapon available is a bomb that will kill the wearer and some bystanders, should that weapon be used? Or would it be more ethical to let our way of life just disappear? The only permanent way to end conflict is to first remove the root causes *then* criminalize those who won't let the war die. Otherwise you'll get what you've got in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, you'll get what you got in the British-Irish conflict.
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RobotRunAmok is middle-of-the-road, or at least she thinks she is.
Fox News is an obvious conservative propaganda outlet. They insisted on highlighting the gravitas of the Schwarzenegger campaign. They invented the term homicide bomber out of whole cloth in a deliberate and cynical attempt to reframe the Palestinian question. They are run by Rupert Murdoch. Their coverage of the Plame felony has been notoriously one-sided.
I really could go on and on. Let's hear from someone who can recite a similar litany explaining how NPR is left-wing. Indymedia is left wing. Pacifica is left-wing. There is no major national left-wing news television or radio network at the present time.
According to the review I read, this device only lets you load music through the musicmatch jukebox service- is this their way of trying to enforce DRM?
Is it really too much to ask for a USB mass storage interface? It's so simple, and everyone who has a computer understands it- it's just a new disk.
Okay, no offense, but that's the worst description of continuations I've ever heard. It seems to be giving people ideas that it's like goto, which is a common reaction people have when they first hear about continuations. But it's not accurate. Goto manipulates the instruction pointer alone; continuations manipulate the entire stack in much more interesting ways.
I'm curious, but you definitely haven't persuaded me. You make it sound like there's even MORE stuff you have to manage with continuations than with GOTO.
I'd like to see a "Slashdot Skip-Day," like back in high school. Watch the world grind to a halt when those of us that keep it running take a day off simultaneously!
The next one has already been scheduled for the release date of Diablo III. Mark your calendar.
Actually you don't need to disable middle click in X, you just need to change mozilla's default behavior- this problem used to drive me nuts too.
If you're using (iirc) Mozilla 1.3 or better, type about:config in your address bar. Find the line that says "middlemouse.contentLoadURL". Right click on it and choose modify. Set it to false.
This turns off the behavior of middle click on an empty space going somewhere.
The useful half of this really matters. This is a case where I don't care if we can sell competing products, but I do care very much that the source open for review.
Even a Microsoft-style shared source license would be better than the status quo, though it pains me to say so.
Whatever dude. I don't have time for a deep thread on this.
Everyone finds themselves in a disagrement at some time in their lives. Announcing their position does not make them a zealot. Pushing on with their position to an extreme (i.e. beyond what is justifiable in light of facts, or in inappropriate fora) makes them a zealot.
This is a discussion forum. Expressing a position and differentiating it from that of others does not a zealot make.
Your definition stinks- it is zeal that sets zealots apart, not their scheme for classifying ideologies. In fact you can't have zealots without contrasting ideologies, because what would their zeal be for if not for one ideology over the other? Nor can you have advocates, of course.
Here's a useful definition from dictionary.com:
zealot \Zeal"ot\, n. [F. z['e]lote, L. zelotes, Gr. ?. See Zeal.] One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan.
But let's run with your definition anyway Dr. Psychologist Man; put me on your couch and tell me what else is wrong with me.
I must be in very bad shape to have divided slashdot readers into two groups of people, and identified myself as in one of them and out of another. I would dare say that my classification is a useful one based on observation rather than a fanciful one based on religous faith.
But your point is well taken- perhaps even some folks who are not Microsoft supporters have been confusing zealots and advocates. Education all around.
I'm fairly an fsf/linux advocate, but I'll tell you brother, it's not because I close my eyes- it's because they're open, and I'm dying to hear an excuse for Microsoft et. al.'s behavior.
Got that? I WANT to be told things aren't as bad as they seem. But I won't believe it unless it's credible.
I think PrimeNumber was foolish to suggest one shouldn't read the article. I agree with your implication that one should read the article. However, I'm concerned that peopel don't know the difference between advocates and zealots.
Unfortunately, the terms "advocate" and "zealot" have been conflated lately on slashdot by pro-Microsoft folks. It's time we start separating them. An advocate is one who vocally supports a position. A zealot is one who loudly ignores contrary evidence. There is a difference, and in this case the zealot is Daniel Lyons, who has not yet to my knowledge issued a correction to his misleading story.
I can't tell you how many of my very smart friends have decided not to teach because of the low pay and sucky working conditions. A lot of them want very badly to teach but can't justify shortchanging their own families to help out everyone else's.
And regarding merit pay, perhaps you've never had to deal with a school bureaucracy before. School administrators are politicians plain and simple, and they value conformity over creativity, football over forensics and test scores over true learning almost every single time. The merit pay wouldn't go where you think it would. Teacher's unions are a political force too, no doubt, but they serve as a check on the power of schoolboard politicians.
So when you say they're 'for the teachers not the kids', I feel the need to correct you - they're for the teachers, therefore they're for the kids. You're not going to get better teachers by asking teachers to make more sacrifices.
Pilots in general are good- their ball point pens are probably the best price/performance ratio in the business. Uni-Balls are good too.
I speak from experience; in high school and college I was a debater, and you had to write down the gist of what your opponents were saying as they spoke at ridiculous speeds (sometimes > 350 wpm, I shit you not). I've done a lot of writing. Pilots and Uniballs.
Show me a good way of pasting one selection over another selection under X without retyping.
Well, you can't in most applications. However, show me a way to copy in windows without touching the keyboard or opening a menu. You can't.
Neither of these problems is really a big deal - paste-to-replace is instead done as 1. paste the new stuff 2. delete the old stuff, and in windows click-to-copy becomes opening a menu or using the Ctrl-C hotkey.
Personally, I LOVE being able to use only my mouse for copying and pasting. I really don't miss the replace option as much as I enjoy the X copy/paste semantics. They save me a lot of time.
So any change to the database does the equivalent of locking the entire database rather than locking a single row or even table? This seems like where the biggest problem might lie.
Then guess who's lying when they sell unlimited internet access?
It is wrong to mislead your customers. I'm sure you'd want to konw if your backbone provider planned to cut you off when your business became inconvenient for them.
Someone at Harvard wanted to load test their server configuration, so they turned to Phil and said "can you post some flame bait and then get it posted to Slashdot for us?"
So you see he's not a troll, just a resourceful engineer:)
Unless they've got some strange units of memory (someone please correct me if this is the case), their memory cache sizes are measured in powers of two but their drive storage sizes are measured in powers of ten.
Here's an example - this is a Maxtor data sheet that shows the details for this drive - they cleverly point out in very small print (I had to go to +4 magnification in xpdf to even read it) that GB = 1 billion bytes, but they make no claim about what MB means. The front page for the drive doesn't mention it at all. I'm sure Maxtor is representative of all drive manufacturers in this regard. How could that be? Hmmm.....
If Microsoft made SSH, they'd deny the existence of this bug for 6 months then release a Rumplestiltskin patch that made you agree to waive your rights to your first born child, the fourth amendment, and all your base.
It's not just that people want to make improvements to source code - sometimes we want to FIX the source code before someone else can mess with it. Remember this next time someone reads a MS talking point saying that few users want to edit the source code to applications.
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How about we create a Palestinian state in your home town? Hope you won't mind if they raze your house to accomodate their new settlements.
I can tell you're fair and balanced.
A slant relative to what?
You imply that someone's not slanted.
If it's more accurate, it's more objective, and therefore *less slanted* by definition.
A bomber is someone who blows people up with bombs.
A *suicide* bomber is one who blows herself up as well.
Arguably, the first category is homicidal and the second category is both homicidal and suicidal. But this raises a number of questions. If you kill civilians are you a homicide bomber, even if you don't yourself die? Did the US send homicide bombers over Nagasaki and Hiroshima in WWII?
The real intent of this perversion of language is to make the bombers seem less like military agents and more like criminals. This would be a hell of a lot easier if Israel would stop ignoring UN resolutions by aggressively launching raids and building settlements in Palestinian territory.
Or are you one of those folks who thinks that Palestinians have no right to self defense? And if they do have a right to self defense, what weapons would you suggest they use against the US-supported Israeli army if you were Arafat? Rocks? And don't tell me Israel is always on "self-defense" and the Palestinians are always on offense. Gandhi's dictum applies: "an eye for an eye and the world goes blind." It doesn't matter who started it anymore.
Caveat: I don't like suicide bombers at all. I want the conflict to end. I just think the ball is in Israel's court, since they're the ones with the real power. They just refuse to implement the Oslo accords.
Finally though, in some dystopian future, if the U.S. is the last bastion of democracy in the world, under siege from some dark axis, and the only effective weapon available is a bomb that will kill the wearer and some bystanders, should that weapon be used? Or would it be more ethical to let our way of life just disappear? The only permanent way to end conflict is to first remove the root causes *then* criminalize those who won't let the war die. Otherwise you'll get what you've got in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, you'll get what you got in the British-Irish conflict.
RobotRunAmok is middle-of-the-road, or at least she thinks she is.
Fox News is an obvious conservative propaganda outlet. They insisted on highlighting the gravitas of the Schwarzenegger campaign. They invented the term homicide bomber out of whole cloth in a deliberate and cynical attempt to reframe the Palestinian question. They are run by Rupert Murdoch. Their coverage of the Plame felony has been notoriously one-sided.
I really could go on and on. Let's hear from someone who can recite a similar litany explaining how NPR is left-wing. Indymedia is left wing. Pacifica is left-wing. There is no major national left-wing news television or radio network at the present time.
Now, draw up sides, and... engage!
Mmmmm, a worm on a string- my favorite!
According to the review I read, this device only lets you load music through the musicmatch jukebox service- is this their way of trying to enforce DRM?
Is it really too much to ask for a USB mass storage interface? It's so simple, and everyone who has a computer understands it- it's just a new disk.
Geez.
Okay, no offense, but that's the worst description of continuations I've ever heard. It seems to be giving people ideas that it's like goto, which is a common reaction people have when they first hear about continuations. But it's not accurate. Goto manipulates the instruction pointer alone; continuations manipulate the entire stack in much more interesting ways.
I'm curious, but you definitely haven't persuaded me. You make it sound like there's even MORE stuff you have to manage with continuations than with GOTO.
I'd like to see a "Slashdot Skip-Day," like back in high school. Watch the world grind to a halt when those of us that keep it running take a day off simultaneously!
The next one has already been scheduled for the release date of Diablo III. Mark your calendar.
The ADU cat was named /etc. I know it's not a cable type, but it's topical.
/etc emerging from the hardware here.
You can see
Actually you don't need to disable middle click in X, you just need to change mozilla's default behavior- this problem used to drive me nuts too.
If you're using (iirc) Mozilla 1.3 or better, type about:config in your address bar. Find the line that says "middlemouse.contentLoadURL". Right click on it and choose modify. Set it to false.
This turns off the behavior of middle click on an empty space going somewhere.
The useful half of this really matters. This is a case where I don't care if we can sell competing products, but I do care very much that the source open for review.
Even a Microsoft-style shared source license would be better than the status quo, though it pains me to say so.
Whatever dude. I don't have time for a deep thread on this.
Everyone finds themselves in a disagrement at some time in their lives. Announcing their position does not make them a zealot. Pushing on with their position to an extreme (i.e. beyond what is justifiable in light of facts, or in inappropriate fora) makes them a zealot.
This is a discussion forum. Expressing a position and differentiating it from that of others does not a zealot make.
Your definition stinks- it is zeal that sets zealots apart, not their scheme for classifying ideologies. In fact you can't have zealots without contrasting ideologies, because what would their zeal be for if not for one ideology over the other? Nor can you have advocates, of course.
Here's a useful definition from dictionary.com:
zealot
\Zeal"ot\, n. [F. z['e]lote, L. zelotes, Gr. ?. See Zeal.] One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan.
But let's run with your definition anyway Dr. Psychologist Man; put me on your couch and tell me what else is wrong with me.
I must be in very bad shape to have divided slashdot readers into two groups of people, and identified myself as in one of them and out of another. I would dare say that my classification is a useful one based on observation rather than a fanciful one based on religous faith.
But your point is well taken- perhaps even some folks who are not Microsoft supporters have been confusing zealots and advocates. Education all around.
I'm fairly an fsf/linux advocate, but I'll tell you brother, it's not because I close my eyes- it's because they're open, and I'm dying to hear an excuse for Microsoft et. al.'s behavior.
Got that? I WANT to be told things aren't as bad as they seem. But I won't believe it unless it's credible.
I think PrimeNumber was foolish to suggest one shouldn't read the article. I agree with your implication that one should read the article. However, I'm concerned that peopel don't know the difference between advocates and zealots.
Unfortunately, the terms "advocate" and "zealot" have been conflated lately on slashdot by pro-Microsoft folks. It's time we start separating them. An advocate is one who vocally supports a position. A zealot is one who loudly ignores contrary evidence. There is a difference, and in this case the zealot is Daniel Lyons, who has not yet to my knowledge issued a correction to his misleading story.
Time to move to an open standard like svg (Scalable Vector Graphics)!
It's just as good if not better . And it's not a proprietary standard- just embed it in the dang browser and be done with it, no plugin messiness.
No... you are for the teachers, not the kids,
I can't tell you how many of my very smart friends have decided not to teach because of the low pay and sucky working conditions. A lot of them want very badly to teach but can't justify shortchanging their own families to help out everyone else's.
And regarding merit pay, perhaps you've never had to deal with a school bureaucracy before. School administrators are politicians plain and simple, and they value conformity over creativity, football over forensics and test scores over true learning almost every single time. The merit pay wouldn't go where you think it would. Teacher's unions are a political force too, no doubt, but they serve as a check on the power of schoolboard politicians.
So when you say they're 'for the teachers not the kids', I feel the need to correct you - they're for the teachers, therefore they're for the kids. You're not going to get better teachers by asking teachers to make more sacrifices.
Pilots in general are good- their ball point pens are probably the best price/performance ratio in the business. Uni-Balls are good too.
I speak from experience; in high school and college I was a debater, and you had to write down the gist of what your opponents were saying as they spoke at ridiculous speeds (sometimes > 350 wpm, I shit you not). I've done a lot of writing. Pilots and Uniballs.
Show me a good way of pasting one selection over another selection under X without retyping.
Well, you can't in most applications. However, show me a way to copy in windows without touching the keyboard or opening a menu. You can't.
Neither of these problems is really a big deal - paste-to-replace is instead done as 1. paste the new stuff 2. delete the old stuff, and in windows click-to-copy becomes opening a menu or using the Ctrl-C hotkey.
Personally, I LOVE being able to use only my mouse for copying and pasting. I really don't miss the replace option as much as I enjoy the X copy/paste semantics. They save me a lot of time.
"Oh, by the way, these slides are running on a desktop in Italy, being remotely displayed here suing NX".
That wouldn't have happened to be an SCO desktop, would it?
So any change to the database does the equivalent of locking the entire database rather than locking a single row or even table? This seems like where the biggest problem might lie.
Then guess who's lying when they sell unlimited internet access?
It is wrong to mislead your customers. I'm sure you'd want to konw if your backbone provider planned to cut you off when your business became inconvenient for them.
You want to know what I really think happened?
:)
Someone at Harvard wanted to load test their server configuration, so they turned to Phil and said "can you post some flame bait and then get it posted to Slashdot for us?"
So you see he's not a troll, just a resourceful engineer
I have licenses to all those issues that SCO is suing IBM for. If I didn't have them, I certainly wouldn't indemnify them.
So do I buddy. It's right here.
Now with thermal paste icing!
Unless they've got some strange units of memory (someone please correct me if this is the case), their memory cache sizes are measured in powers of two but their drive storage sizes are measured in powers of ten.
Here's an example - this is a Maxtor data sheet that shows the details for this drive - they cleverly point out in very small print (I had to go to +4 magnification in xpdf to even read it) that GB = 1 billion bytes, but they make no claim about what MB means. The
front page for the drive doesn't mention it at all. I'm sure Maxtor is representative of all drive manufacturers in this regard.
How could that be? Hmmm.....
If Microsoft made SSH, they'd deny the existence of this bug for 6 months then release a Rumplestiltskin patch that made you agree to waive your rights to your first born child, the fourth amendment, and all your base.
It's not just that people want to make improvements to source code - sometimes we want to FIX the source code before someone else can mess with it. Remember this next time someone reads a MS talking point saying that few users want to edit the source code to applications.