Please read through the political smoke-and-mirrors. The aforementioned senator is doing a classic political deceit maneuvre: "if it's not us, it's the non-human enemy monsters!"
It's not that simple. The proposal they really want to combat is meant to give control over the Internet to a commitee of pretty much all countries in the world. It's not like all of a sudden dictatorships such as China will get ultimate power on-line: they will simply be members like anyone else in the commitee. What the senator really despises is that the control over the Internet will cease to be a 100% american affair and become worldwide instead.
Yes, it would suck if China will get control over the Internet. Fortunately, it's not gonna happen either way.
If Roudcube had an interface to Sieve server-side filtering (that's used by Cyrus IMAPd), I would start using it today. Without server-side filtering, it's really nasty to subscribe to high-volume mailing lists and use more than one IMAP client. If you use just one client, it's OK, just perform the filtering on the client. But single-client IMAP is like having a fast sportbike but only ride it around your house at 30 mph.
why complain about this lack of "modern tools" keeping gaim in "1999-2000", when things like gaim-vv being merged with the main gaim codebase are happening?
Um, because it didn't happen yet, and there's no assurance that it will actually happen? The article was written at the present tense, not the future.
upgrading apps on an RPM-based distro has always sucked. Using an OS with sane package management (Gentoo, FreeBSD, Debian) will eliminate this issue entirely.
Uninformed rant, please mod down.
Counter-example: on Fedora, yum performs the same functions as emerge on Gentoo, including dependency solving, automatic downloads of software, package updates, etc.
Please keep yourself up to date with the reality before opening mouth (or typing away).
See my reply to the parent post. The "dependency hell" is not a problem anymore. Please refer to any modern distribution (and read my reply for an example).
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I agree that on Windows it's still a lot easier to install new applications. But still, Linux has come a long ways now. Many distributions use package managers to install/remove/upgrade software; in order to solve inter-package dependencies, most of these distributions use meta-applications that run on top of the package managers. E.g., on Fedora, rpm is the package manager, and yum is the meta-app that runs on top of it. If you want to install, say, php-mysql, you just run:
yum install php-mysql
yum will go ahead, pull the php-mysql package from the Internet, figure out the dependencies, download the missing ones, figure their dependencies as well, and so on until all dependencies are solved. At the end, you're presented with a list of actions that yum will take ("I will install such-and-such packages and update such-and-such. OK? y/n") You never even have to touch rpm per se - yum does that for you.
It's really pretty easy. No more dependency hell since yum and similar programs became more popular.
There is no such thing as "mass produced software". Heck, that's why it's software. The cost of making 10 copies of an application and the cost of making 10 million copies are different just because in the latter case you have to burn more CDs - a small percentage of the total cost if the software is big and complex (operating system, office suite, etc.).
And no, Microsoft doesn't have lower costs than the rest of the industry. Quite the opposite.
Finally, their habit of using their sheer weight to crush the competition (a.k.a. monopolistic practices) is widely known.
A magnetic field above 10 gigateslas is strong enough to wipe a credit card from half the distance of the Moon from the Earth. A small neodymium based rare earth magnet has a field of about a tesla, Earth has a geomagnetic field of 30-60 microteslas, and most media used for data storage can be erased with a millitesla field.
The magnetic field of a magnetar would be lethal at a distance of up to 1000 km, tearing tissues due to the diamagnetism of water.
And this was modded "Score:3, Interesting"??? What the heck? Dude, the atmosphere is already saturated with H2O. Even if we generate more, it will not stay in gaseous form - it will merely condensate into liquid form. It will not contribute anything to the absorbtion of heat overall.
Don't worry, when oil dries up, nobody will question the efficiency of using hydrogen as an energy carrier. Just build a whole lotta nukes, so that electricity (and energy in general) is cheap enough, and we're all set.
Now, the problem is, how the heck are we going to build enough nukes in due time?...
Women may be better in situations when the company (or just that group) is in "maintenance" mode, such as mature companies that are in a stable state. Men might be better in situations when rapid and/or aggressive changes are required: startups, etc.
Women are not good conquerors. Men are not good maintainers. (political correctness be damned)
...is a tiny amount of dust on the reflective surface (you know, the kind that gets picked up in flight), and your shiny mirror starts swallowing laser energy like there's no tomorrow. A few miliseconds later... BOOM!:-P
So then Klaus Schulze was not just a pioneer of electronic music, but a visionaire - his early albums have parts that sound pretty similar to the Saturn sounds.:-)
Just kidding, but it's still pretty damn fascinating.
That's great, but is there any cell phone module for it? (preferably GSM) My aging Handspring Visor gives signs that it needs replacement. However, I've been extremely happy with its GSM cell phone module (a.k.a. "Treo before Treo").
I wonder if there's any cell phone module that can be bought to use with the Zaurus. Of course, the software must be compatible.
Currently, Itanium is pretty much exclusively used in really high-end machinery such as SGI supercomputers, which are not really within the reach of the ordinary computer enthusiast. So, since there are more urban legends about the chip than actual knowledge, it's easy for such myths to spread. But there are some trends that seem to push this chip outside the exclusive markets - e.g. the aforementioned SGI is working hard to translate its knowledge in the field of supercomputers into things more accessible, such as high-performance enterprise servers. If Intel makes concessions to the price, those high-performance servers might actually use Itanium. Of course, if Intel keeps the price high, then those "small supercomputers" will just use some other CPU, to keep the total price down.
Bottom line: it's a perception thing. It's easier to ridicule what is not known, hence the "Itanic" myth.
Fusion, if feasible, could be the best thing since the fire was discovered - clean, virtually inexhaustible energy (well, not really, but close enough for now) - and the morons are fighting over who gets bragging rights? That's unbeleivable.
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At least in Europe children are not indoctrinated with retarded ideas such as creationism.
Consider that US is seeing a resurgence of Dark Ages ideas such as creationism. ;-)
Please read through the political smoke-and-mirrors.
The aforementioned senator is doing a classic political deceit maneuvre: "if it's not us, it's the non-human enemy monsters!"
It's not that simple. The proposal they really want to combat is meant to give control over the Internet to a commitee of pretty much all countries in the world. It's not like all of a sudden dictatorships such as China will get ultimate power on-line: they will simply be members like anyone else in the commitee.
What the senator really despises is that the control over the Internet will cease to be a 100% american affair and become worldwide instead.
Yes, it would suck if China will get control over the Internet. Fortunately, it's not gonna happen either way.
If Roudcube had an interface to Sieve server-side filtering (that's used by Cyrus IMAPd), I would start using it today.
Without server-side filtering, it's really nasty to subscribe to high-volume mailing lists and use more than one IMAP client. If you use just one client, it's OK, just perform the filtering on the client. But single-client IMAP is like having a fast sportbike but only ride it around your house at 30 mph.
Actually, Squirrelmail too can manage Sieve filters, with the Avelsieve plugin.
If Roundcube had a Sieve interface, I would start to use it today.
No, they don't. Not even gaim-to-gaim (at least over Yahoo, at least with one client on Linux and the other on Windows). That's pretty annoying.
Um, because it didn't happen yet, and there's no assurance that it will actually happen?
The article was written at the present tense, not the future.
Uninformed rant, please mod down.
Counter-example: on Fedora, yum performs the same functions as emerge on Gentoo, including dependency solving, automatic downloads of software, package updates, etc.
Please keep yourself up to date with the reality before opening mouth (or typing away).
See my reply to the parent post. The "dependency hell" is not a problem anymore. Please refer to any modern distribution (and read my reply for an example).
Many distributions use package managers to install/remove/upgrade software; in order to solve inter-package dependencies, most of these distributions use meta-applications that run on top of the package managers.
E.g., on Fedora, rpm is the package manager, and yum is the meta-app that runs on top of it. If you want to install, say, php-mysql, you just run:yum will go ahead, pull the php-mysql package from the Internet, figure out the dependencies, download the missing ones, figure their dependencies as well, and so on until all dependencies are solved. At the end, you're presented with a list of actions that yum will take ("I will install such-and-such packages and update such-and-such. OK? y/n")
You never even have to touch rpm per se - yum does that for you.
It's really pretty easy. No more dependency hell since yum and similar programs became more popular.
There is no such thing as "mass produced software". Heck, that's why it's software. The cost of making 10 copies of an application and the cost of making 10 million copies are different just because in the latter case you have to burn more CDs - a small percentage of the total cost if the software is big and complex (operating system, office suite, etc.).
And no, Microsoft doesn't have lower costs than the rest of the industry. Quite the opposite.
Finally, their habit of using their sheer weight to crush the competition (a.k.a. monopolistic practices) is widely known.
So... what was your point, again?
Please mod parent up, it points out real and important issues.
Mwaaaahahahahaha! Mod parent "uneducated rant".
Which part of "yum update gaim" you don't find easy?
The comments pages (the "Read More" links) open up a lot faster in Firefox on my ancient PIII/800! Thank you!
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The fonts are uglier. Spacing and alignment are less than perfect. It looks like the old website rendered by Opera.
And this was modded "Score:3, Interesting"??? What the heck?
Dude, the atmosphere is already saturated with H2O. Even if we generate more, it will not stay in gaseous form - it will merely condensate into liquid form. It will not contribute anything to the absorbtion of heat overall.
Don't worry, when oil dries up, nobody will question the efficiency of using hydrogen as an energy carrier. Just build a whole lotta nukes, so that electricity (and energy in general) is cheap enough, and we're all set.
Now, the problem is, how the heck are we going to build enough nukes in due time?...
Women may be better in situations when the company (or just that group) is in "maintenance" mode, such as mature companies that are in a stable state.
Men might be better in situations when rapid and/or aggressive changes are required: startups, etc.
Women are not good conquerors.
Men are not good maintainers.
(political correctness be damned)
...is a tiny amount of dust on the reflective surface (you know, the kind that gets picked up in flight), and your shiny mirror starts swallowing laser energy like there's no tomorrow. A few miliseconds later... BOOM! :-P
So, that will only support one conversation at a time. What if I need more than one? (buy more cell phones?)
So then Klaus Schulze was not just a pioneer of electronic music, but a visionaire - his early albums have parts that sound pretty similar to the Saturn sounds. :-)
Just kidding, but it's still pretty damn fascinating.
That's great, but is there any cell phone module for it? (preferably GSM)
My aging Handspring Visor gives signs that it needs replacement. However, I've been extremely happy with its GSM cell phone module (a.k.a. "Treo before Treo").
I wonder if there's any cell phone module that can be bought to use with the Zaurus. Of course, the software must be compatible.
Currently, Itanium is pretty much exclusively used in really high-end machinery such as SGI supercomputers, which are not really within the reach of the ordinary computer enthusiast. So, since there are more urban legends about the chip than actual knowledge, it's easy for such myths to spread.
But there are some trends that seem to push this chip outside the exclusive markets - e.g. the aforementioned SGI is working hard to translate its knowledge in the field of supercomputers into things more accessible, such as high-performance enterprise servers. If Intel makes concessions to the price, those high-performance servers might actually use Itanium.
Of course, if Intel keeps the price high, then those "small supercomputers" will just use some other CPU, to keep the total price down.
Bottom line: it's a perception thing. It's easier to ridicule what is not known, hence the "Itanic" myth.
Fusion, if feasible, could be the best thing since the fire was discovered - clean, virtually inexhaustible energy (well, not really, but close enough for now) - and the morons are fighting over who gets bragging rights?
That's unbeleivable.
Well, Apache maybe not, but something like thttpd or equivalent should work just fine.
In fact, I am surprised nobody did this yet. Or?...