There is no such thing as "unquote" -- it's "end quote".
Tell you what I hate, it's people who believe that only their knowledge and experiences are valid.
"Quote Unquote" is perfectly valid in the UK, at least. There's even a BBC radio show called that.
It happened to me, too. I was considering buying the DVD box set of Ken Burns's Baseball documentary - over a hundred dollars, IIRC. However, it was only available as a region 1 DVD, and I'm in region 2. Bingo - lost sale.
Why the hell would they want to restrict their market for it, if they don't intend to release it in any other region?
It was more than that. They had a quarter million $ in unpaid bills outstanding. Even the real estate they were sitting on was no longer theirs.
None of that's a serious or violent crime, of course.
I don't think that's any kind of crime. As I understand it, non-payment of debt is strictly a civil matter, not a criminal one.
considering that the US economy was up 8.2% last quarter
Lies, damned lies, and statistics . . .
The US economy *wasn't* up 8.2% last quarter. It was up an *annualised* 8.2%. That is, if that increase kept up the entire year, it would have increased by 8.2%. Of course, it won't.
Does anyone care to guess how many violations or abuses that have been uncovered where a private citizens rights have been violated?
At least one.
Did anyone guess Zero? Because thats exactly how many violations there have been. Zero. Period.
Wrong.
The powers granted by the Patriot Act have helped to uncover and break up Al Queda cells and even prevent the detonation of a dirty bomb in New York by Jose Padilla.
So even you know about Jose Padilla.
We don't know if Jose Padilla was going to create a dirty bomb - because his constitutional right to due process has been ignored. Despite being a US citizen, and being arrested in the US, he's been held for over a year in military custody without being charged, without being allowed to consult a lawyer, and without being brought before a judge. You don't think his rights have been violated?
Charge Padilla!
Ergonomists are derided, coders are lauded. Such is the way of Free Software.
If the rest of the ergonomists are as whiny as you, I'm not surprised. I've only read 4 or 5 of your comments in this thread, and I've already started to tune you out.
Fork for architectures: i know lots of people don't like to wait for upgraded packages because they break on different architectures. This is what's happenning with xfree 4.3 not being available. If there were a debian-x86 fork, it would use optimization and wouldn't be behind other distros in package versions.
Well, first of all, XFree 4.3 is available. I've been using it on Debian for ages - you just neet to add a Debian Experimental line to your sources.list
Secondly, getting software to work on many architectures usually involves fixing bugs and poor assumptions. The many architectures of Debian helps QA, rather than hinder it, even if it does take longer.
As far as dselect goes, I've been running Debian for 3 years now, and I used dselect exactly once - my first install. You're not forced to use it in any way.
do the stable, testing and unstable package list: they should only contain base, critical packages. So i want to run the latest kde with my stable setup? Is kde 2.2 more stable than 3.1?
Stable doesn't just mean it doesn't crash. It means it doesn't *change*. That's the point of the stable install. You know that installing the security packages won't introduce some behaviour that you weren't expecting, which a lot of people think is damned important.
Updated versions! Slackware is current, and it's stable.
New versions of software are by definition unstable. Things change, configs become out of date, new libraries are needed. If you don't mind those things, use Debian Unstable. Its packages are not only up-to-date, but they're also damned good quality.
It created a new version every time you saved, so just going through a few change/compile/fix cycles (for example) would create lots of versions clogging up the disk.
You can tell it to only keep a certain number of copies.
The old versions were in the same place as the latest version, and if you wanted to delete a file, you'd just say "delete blah.blah.*" to wipe out all versions (and therefore all traces of the file)... then say "oops!"
Despite what you may have learned, "It's free trade" isn't the answer to end all answers. Free trade is notoriously poor at valuing externalities. Transporting goods over long distances, for example, may be profitable, but would be less so if the transporter had to pay the actual cost of the pollution he's creating.
. . . but I will change IM depending on which ones are supported on my OS.
I'm part of a couple of Yahoo fantasy leagues. I use Yahoo IM to talk to my fellow owners. Now, I don't use any of the paid-for features of Yahoo, but I know my league-mates do. Do Yahoo think that making it harder for people to talk on Yahoo will
a) Increase the density of users willing to spend money on yahoo, or
b) Decrease the density of users willing to spend money on yahoo?
The usefulness of a centralised IM system is the square of the users, IIRC. Getting rid of those who don't have clients that work affects the network more than just the loss of those people.
This company should never be allowed to touch internet infrastructure.
Everyone, remember this the next time someone tries to spread the propaganda that corporations are always more efficient than public bodies. The things that drive corporations *often* conflict with the public good.
the correct way to do it would not be with simplistic "yes/no/cancel" dialogs, but with verbs
It also makes it easier to translate. I'm part of the team translating gnome into Welsh. Welsh doesn't have a word for "Yes", it has words for "Yes it is" and "Yes I would" and "Yes there is", etc.
A dialog box with Yes/No/Cancel in Gnome should have a bug filed against it.
What the hell do all those things do or mean? I have no idea. As it happens, I managed to muddle through the Debian install process for CUPS, and printing works, but unlike most other things on Linux, I have no idea *how*.
I mean, what's the point of being the only nation in town that believes in free trade when everyone else, including American importers, are using it to crush Americans at home
Yeah, tell us another.
The US is just as likely as any country to use "free trade" arguments as a hammer to hit other countries while all the time implementing steel tarrifs, or lumber tarriffs, or ethanol subsidies, or agricultural subsidies.
Kuwait is a country, Kuwait City is a city. Monaco is a Prinipality - Monte Carlo is the city in Monaco. Luxembourg is a country, Luxembourg City is a city.
I don't really know what (if any) jobs are "safe."
I do. Jobs that need your physical presence at the location of the consumer. If you want to avoid having your job outsourced to someone in another country, you're better off becoming a plumber than a coder.
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FYI, I've been listening to the pre-season games in MS Media Player format using Firefox and mplayerplug-in on Debian unstable.
As a resident of the Welsh valleys, I must point out that you're wrong. We all have computers. It's the most convenient way of getting sheep pron.
Tell you what I hate, it's people who believe that only their knowledge and experiences are valid. "Quote Unquote" is perfectly valid in the UK, at least. There's even a BBC radio show called that.
It happened to me, too. I was considering buying the DVD box set of Ken Burns's Baseball documentary - over a hundred dollars, IIRC. However, it was only available as a region 1 DVD, and I'm in region 2. Bingo - lost sale. Why the hell would they want to restrict their market for it, if they don't intend to release it in any other region?
Lies, damned lies, and statistics . . . The US economy *wasn't* up 8.2% last quarter. It was up an *annualised* 8.2%. That is, if that increase kept up the entire year, it would have increased by 8.2%. Of course, it won't.
If the rest of the ergonomists are as whiny as you, I'm not surprised. I've only read 4 or 5 of your comments in this thread, and I've already started to tune you out.
Well, first of all, XFree 4.3 is available. I've been using it on Debian for ages - you just neet to add a Debian Experimental line to your sources.list Secondly, getting software to work on many architectures usually involves fixing bugs and poor assumptions. The many architectures of Debian helps QA, rather than hinder it, even if it does take longer. As far as dselect goes, I've been running Debian for 3 years now, and I used dselect exactly once - my first install. You're not forced to use it in any way.
Stable doesn't just mean it doesn't crash. It means it doesn't *change*. That's the point of the stable install. You know that installing the security packages won't introduce some behaviour that you weren't expecting, which a lot of people think is damned important.
New versions of software are by definition unstable. Things change, configs become out of date, new libraries are needed. If you don't mind those things, use Debian Unstable. Its packages are not only up-to-date, but they're also damned good quality.
Has it attacked Windows yet?
Despite what you may have learned, "It's free trade" isn't the answer to end all answers. Free trade is notoriously poor at valuing externalities. Transporting goods over long distances, for example, may be profitable, but would be less so if the transporter had to pay the actual cost of the pollution he's creating.
Pilot Gel Pens are *so* much nicer to use than ordinary Biros, it's not true, and they're far more convenient than fountain pens.
. . . but I will change IM depending on which ones are supported on my OS.
I'm part of a couple of Yahoo fantasy leagues. I use Yahoo IM to talk to my fellow owners. Now, I don't use any of the paid-for features of Yahoo, but I know my league-mates do. Do Yahoo think that making it harder for people to talk on Yahoo will
a) Increase the density of users willing to spend money on yahoo, or
b) Decrease the density of users willing to spend money on yahoo?
The usefulness of a centralised IM system is the square of the users, IIRC. Getting rid of those who don't have clients that work affects the network more than just the loss of those people.
It also makes it easier to translate. I'm part of the team translating gnome into Welsh. Welsh doesn't have a word for "Yes", it has words for "Yes it is" and "Yes I would" and "Yes there is", etc.
A dialog box with Yes/No/Cancel in Gnome should have a bug filed against it.
lp? lpr? foomatic? CUPS? Xprt? ppd? pdq?
What the hell do all those things do or mean? I have no idea. As it happens, I managed to muddle through the Debian install process for CUPS, and printing works, but unlike most other things on Linux, I have no idea *how*.
That isn't goodwill to Linux, though. In accounting terms, goodwill is an asset of the company.
The horrible spoiler in the review is actually pretty fitting. I thoroughly enjoyed 90% of Decipher when I read it, but the ending sucked donkey dick.
Ever more expensive ways of
a) Killing people
b) Rewarding the military-industrial complex for their campaign donations.
News for nerds, stuff that matters? I hope not.
A new Opera Linux alpha^Wtechnology preview came out this week, with new IPv6 support as one of the changelog entries
Kuwait is a country, Kuwait City is a city. Monaco is a Prinipality - Monte Carlo is the city in Monaco. Luxembourg is a country, Luxembourg City is a city.
I do. Jobs that need your physical presence at the location of the consumer. If you want to avoid having your job outsourced to someone in another country, you're better off becoming a plumber than a coder.