No, the word is "reality". At the height of the German, French, British, and Russian empires people in other nations (including the United States) were very aware of the geography and politics of those empires. The same is true of the United States today. Everybody keeps an eye on the biggest kid on the block, for obvious reasons.
You can call me arrogant for recognizing that fact if it makes you feel superior. Whatever floats your boat.
Regarding the states in the US - if you want that granularity, then try naming a few "län" in Sweden?
I hate to break it to you, but that's not the same level of granularity. Sweden is just barely larger than California, and the average State in the U.S. (which is likely the world's most powerful nation/empire at the moment, and is well over twice the size of western Europe) is 8 times larger than the average län in Sweden.
Name me the eight largest counties in California off the top of your head, and then we'll talk about Swedish län.
Do we really need a declaration of war from the congress to make it a war? We are bombing, we have landed troups, we are fighting on the ground? How is this not a war other than the perfunctory "declaration."
Yes, we do need a declaration of war from Congress to make it a war. All sorts of really great stuff kicks in if you're actually at war, including treaties and other international law, an expectation by the people of sunset clauses on emergency laws, and so forth.
I agree with your sentiments respecting Vietnam... it should have been called the war that it was. But it's a lot easier to get people to support an "intervention" in defense of a democracy beset by Commie usurpers than it is to get them to support an all-out war against a nationalist movement that was attempting to supplant (through political means) an unpopular puppet government established by France and the United States.
This time around, it's different... we're waging war without declaring war not so that we can claim a moral high ground, but in order to avoid some of the consequences of waging war. Hell, we're even calling it 'war' when we speak about it. Just not in the legal sense, y'understand.
Of particular note is Sec. 102, which states in part:
(b) This Order does not constitute authority to implement the plans prepared
pursuant to this Order. Plans so developed may be executed only in the event
that authority for such execution is authorized by law.
As well it should... it's not within the Executive's powers to make law, only
to regulate how its agencies carry out the execution of law defined by the
Legislature.
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I'm sorry, I assumed part of his argument in the premise, instead of stating
it explicitly... I should have included the statement that "Nautilus is slower
on IDE than the Windows FM is on IDE."
So now you have the premise: Nautilus on SCSI and Windows' FM on IDE are
equally fast, while Nautilus is slower on IDE than Windows' FM on IDE.
Now, if SCSI is not faster than IDE, then the hardware difference is
not a defining factor of the software's performance. Therefore, there must be
some reason other than the IDE/SCSI difference for Nautilus running slower
than the Windows FM on IDE while the performance remains equal with
Nautilus/SCSI and Windows/IDE. Your best case scenario, then, is that
Nautilus and Windows' FM perform equally well, and the Windows FM does not in
any case run more slowly than Nautilus. Therefore, you can reasonably
conclude that Nautilus is generally slower than the Windows FM. This is my
first of two possible conclusions.
Better?
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Nautilus runs as fast as Windows does in IDE mode when running on SCSI.
This is a joke, right?
You've posted at least three times that people complaining about Nautilus' speed (or lack thereof) should ditch their IDE drives and go to SCSI.
You might want to jump a little, I'm gonna throw some basic logic at you.
If the Windows file manager runs as fast on IDE as Nautilus does on SCSI, you can make two conclusions: (1) SCSI is not any faster than IDE, and Nautilus is just slower than the Windows FM. (2) SCSI is faster than IDE, and Nautilus is a lot slower than the Windows FM.
Either way, you're not helping your case.
While we're on the subject, you might want to consider that if only one device on the controller is speaking, SCSI has no real advantage over IDE. That means for most desktop systems, which only have one hard drive, IDE is perfectly sufficient and a hell of a lot cheaper. Do your own research: here's the first link I found at google on the subject.
So drop your ridiculous SCSI fetish and recognize that Nautilus is just slow (even according to your own damned post).
And, no, to presuppose the silly question I was asked earlier, of course one of the poles isn't in the centre of the magnet. If it were, how the hell would the flux lines get to the outside?!
I'm sorry I didn't express myself as clearly as I should have... I personally think the punishment we dole out for many crimes these days has become horribly disproportionate. Under most circumstances, I would agree with you that throwing kids in jail for breaking into computer systems is a bit extreme. After all, as you said, they're kids.
But the reason I would try to refrain from jailing them has nothing to do with curiosity as a justification for criminal activity, as I don't see that as a reasonable defense. More than a few have put forth that very notion, though, and it was that notion to which I was responding.
Maybe, ti just might be that the hackers and crackers are just not "evil" as they are made out. Instead of opening watches and playing with blocks they toy around with computers.
This rather doofy rationale has been expounded before. The counterargument, of course, is that if kids tinker with locks it's one thing... when they tinker with the locks on other peoples' buildings and go walking around inside, it's another entirely.
You don't get to "tinker" with other people's stuff. How anyone could think one should be granted that right because one is "curious", I'll never understand.
The novel is actually titled The Difference Engine.
And I wouldn't read it for informative purposes (especially the historical sort), but it is a pretty good book.
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...the mantra is release early release often but it never truly reaches gold because its never finished.
Well, yeah. That's sort of the point, isn't it? There's always room for improvement, and rarely does development on software stop for lack of further work to do.
One benefit of free software is that by removing the usual factors that force development of a given piece of software to stop, continual betterment becomes possible.
(And yeah, I know what you meant to say. But that was just you being a dick, and there was a worthwhile point to be made if I ignored your intent.)
And I speak as one who has worked booths at ALS, LWCE, and the LBE.
Linuxworld Conference and Expo (mostly Expo) and COMDEX's Linux Business Expo are more than enough shiny/marketroid/free-crap for Linux.
What Linux needs is more conferences like ALS. Or better yet, more frequent ALSes (yes, I know what the 'A' stands for.. it didn't stand for that until recently, y'know). ALS is an excellent conference put on by great people with a real grasp of the diversity and depth of the Linux field. It's the only one of the three big Linux events I felt was worthwhile from a technical standpoint.
It's also the only one where I genuinely enjoyed sitting in a booth, because the people who came by to talk were typically clueful or at least there to become so, and not just looking for whatever shiny bauble I might or might not have stashed under the table.
I'm sure this will be modded to lowest plane of/. hell for attempting to pick on the One True O.S. but it has to be said, I for one am TIRED of downloading programs only to find some strange library from some linux install is needed (and I'm greatly oversimplifying here).
No, you're not. I'm a Linux user, and this trend irritates the living hell out of me. I don't grok the need for 47 tiny libraries to write a mail client*, especially when nine times out of ten half of the required libs were written by the same guy for the same project, but distributed separately (never to be used by another project).
* For the truly anal retentive, that was a bit of hyperbole. But not much.
So, the reason I switched from Windows to Linux full-time is that Windows sucked at its job. (It's gotten a lot better, incidentally, but still doesn't do it for me.)
In terms of "getting more out of" my PC... it's a desktop machine. Its entire purpose in life is to provide me with a decent set of apps in a nice, convenient, featureful interfce. "Getting more" does not involve stripping down the UI to bare minimum so I can encode the occasional vorbis file a little bit faster. That's what nice(1) and renice(8) are for.
Maybe it's just me, but the "just to be cool" factor seems to be more prevalent among people who use Blackbox, Enlightenment, and Windowmaker than among those who use a full Gnome or (especially) KDE desktop.
What if I _want_ to see the URL, and I _want_ to be able to select it, or part of it, with the mouse, and paste it into a mail window?
You'll be able to, unless the URL is so long that it would dork up the page formatting, in which case it'll be obviously truncated and you'll just have to cope. Is it not safe to say that such usage of a URL is minimal, compared to clicking on a damned link?
Let's look at this point by point, 'k?
overlong URLs fuck up the page format, and make it irritating to read.
inserting spaces in URLs to break them up makes them almost useless... there's no anchor to click, and if you copy/paste you have to *find* the spaces and clean them up.
the ability to convert a URL into an anchor tag is there, easy to implement, and light on resources.
Truncating a URL, and marking it truncated somehow, is even easier.
URLs that are converted into anchors are only truncated in the CDATA if they're overlong.
Most browsers have the ability to copy a link's HREF into the clipboard.
Most browsers will let you copy their locations into the clipboard, so you could just follow the damned link and copy the location.
Most people, most of the time, when confronted with a URL, want to either ignore it or go there, not immediately copy it to their clipboard for some other purpose.
I'm just going to call it quits on this discussion now... You're reaching for reasons to be right, and I'm bored.
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Well, the parachute pants might slow him down a bit.
December 31, 2005. Start around 6 or 7. BYOB.
You can call me arrogant for recognizing that fact if it makes you feel superior. Whatever floats your boat.
I hate to break it to you, but that's not the same level of granularity. Sweden is just barely larger than California, and the average State in the U.S. (which is likely the world's most powerful nation/empire at the moment, and is well over twice the size of western Europe) is 8 times larger than the average län in Sweden.
Name me the eight largest counties in California off the top of your head, and then we'll talk about Swedish län.
Yes, we do need a declaration of war from Congress to make it a war. All sorts of really great stuff kicks in if you're actually at war, including treaties and other international law, an expectation by the people of sunset clauses on emergency laws, and so forth.
I agree with your sentiments respecting Vietnam... it should have been called the war that it was. But it's a lot easier to get people to support an "intervention" in defense of a democracy beset by Commie usurpers than it is to get them to support an all-out war against a nationalist movement that was attempting to supplant (through political means) an unpopular puppet government established by France and the United States.
This time around, it's different... we're waging war without declaring war not so that we can claim a moral high ground, but in order to avoid some of the consequences of waging war. Hell, we're even calling it 'war' when we speak about it. Just not in the legal sense, y'understand.
10990 -> 11612 -> 11807 -> REVOKED BY 12196
10995 -> REVOKED BY 11556
10997 -> REVOKED BY 11490
10998 -> REVOKED BY 11490
11000 -> REVOKED BY 11490
11001 -> REVOKED BY 11490
11002 -> REVOKED BY 11490
11003 -> REVOKED BY 11490
11004 -> REVOKED BY 11490
11005 -> REVOKED BY 11490
11310 -> REVOKED BY 11490
The interesting bit is that 11490 was itself revoked by 12656. PEO 12656, "Assignment of emergency preparedness responsibilities", is still on the books.
Of particular note is Sec. 102, which states in part:
As well it should... it's not within the Executive's powers to make law, only to regulate how its agencies carry out the execution of law defined by the Legislature.
So now you have the premise: Nautilus on SCSI and Windows' FM on IDE are equally fast, while Nautilus is slower on IDE than Windows' FM on IDE.
Now, if SCSI is not faster than IDE, then the hardware difference is not a defining factor of the software's performance. Therefore, there must be some reason other than the IDE/SCSI difference for Nautilus running slower than the Windows FM on IDE while the performance remains equal with Nautilus/SCSI and Windows/IDE. Your best case scenario, then, is that Nautilus and Windows' FM perform equally well, and the Windows FM does not in any case run more slowly than Nautilus. Therefore, you can reasonably conclude that Nautilus is generally slower than the Windows FM. This is my first of two possible conclusions.
Better?
This is a joke, right?
You've posted at least three times that people complaining about Nautilus' speed (or lack thereof) should ditch their IDE drives and go to SCSI.
You might want to jump a little, I'm gonna throw some basic logic at you.
If the Windows file manager runs as fast on IDE as Nautilus does on SCSI, you can make two conclusions: (1) SCSI is not any faster than IDE, and Nautilus is just slower than the Windows FM. (2) SCSI is faster than IDE, and Nautilus is a lot slower than the Windows FM.
Either way, you're not helping your case.
While we're on the subject, you might want to consider that if only one device on the controller is speaking, SCSI has no real advantage over IDE. That means for most desktop systems, which only have one hard drive, IDE is perfectly sufficient and a hell of a lot cheaper. Do your own research: here's the first link I found at google on the subject.
So drop your ridiculous SCSI fetish and recognize that Nautilus is just slow (even according to your own damned post).
DUH!
There are 7000 Code Red instances.
There are 4 Nimda instances for each Code Red instance.
Therefore, there are 7000*4 Nimda instances, not 7000*5.
There are 7000*5 instances of Code Red and Nimda combined.
Tomorrow's lesson: Basic Grammar.
Monday: Civility and Etiquette.
I'm sorry I didn't express myself as clearly as I should have... I personally think the punishment we dole out for many crimes these days has become horribly disproportionate. Under most circumstances, I would agree with you that throwing kids in jail for breaking into computer systems is a bit extreme. After all, as you said, they're kids.
But the reason I would try to refrain from jailing them has nothing to do with curiosity as a justification for criminal activity, as I don't see that as a reasonable defense. More than a few have put forth that very notion, though, and it was that notion to which I was responding.
Again, my apologies.
This rather doofy rationale has been expounded before. The counterargument, of course, is that if kids tinker with locks it's one thing... when they tinker with the locks on other peoples' buildings and go walking around inside, it's another entirely.
You don't get to "tinker" with other people's stuff. How anyone could think one should be granted that right because one is "curious", I'll never understand.
And I'm only 22.
And I wouldn't read it for informative purposes (especially the historical sort), but it is a pretty good book.
Well, yeah. That's sort of the point, isn't it? There's always room for improvement, and rarely does development on software stop for lack of further work to do.
One benefit of free software is that by removing the usual factors that force development of a given piece of software to stop, continual betterment becomes possible.
(And yeah, I know what you meant to say. But that was just you being a dick, and there was a worthwhile point to be made if I ignored your intent.)
Too bad there isn't a "+1, this guy's right, you're screwed" for Ask Slashdot posts.
I can't detect any real difference between a bladeenc-encoded mp3 at 192 and a Vorbis file encoded with VBR.
So I use Vorbis, because it's unrestricted and my distribution of choice ships with the tools.
And I speak as one who has worked booths at ALS, LWCE, and the LBE.
Linuxworld Conference and Expo (mostly Expo) and COMDEX's Linux Business Expo are more than enough shiny/marketroid/free-crap for Linux.
What Linux needs is more conferences like ALS. Or better yet, more frequent ALSes (yes, I know what the 'A' stands for.. it didn't stand for that until recently, y'know). ALS is an excellent conference put on by great people with a real grasp of the diversity and depth of the Linux field. It's the only one of the three big Linux events I felt was worthwhile from a technical standpoint.
It's also the only one where I genuinely enjoyed sitting in a booth, because the people who came by to talk were typically clueful or at least there to become so, and not just looking for whatever shiny bauble I might or might not have stashed under the table.
That said... try getting Grandma to email you a tin of her world-famous chocolate chip cookies.
Port 'em to SDL or something, maybe bundle 'em with a Gravis analog joystick (or gamepad, if that was your thing).
I'd drop $50 pretty happily for a disc with native ports of the Keen games.
The ability to push data between graphical apps doesn't quite fly as a "paradigm shift". It's just grafting one paradigm onto another.
And that, I think, is enough use of the word "paradigm" today.
No, you're not. I'm a Linux user, and this trend irritates the living hell out of me. I don't grok the need for 47 tiny libraries to write a mail client*, especially when nine times out of ten half of the required libs were written by the same guy for the same project, but distributed separately (never to be used by another project).
* For the truly anal retentive, that was a bit of hyperbole. But not much.
Those shadows and true transparency in Terminal are my favorite pieces of eye candy on that OS.
In terms of "getting more out of" my PC... it's a desktop machine. Its entire purpose in life is to provide me with a decent set of apps in a nice, convenient, featureful interfce. "Getting more" does not involve stripping down the UI to bare minimum so I can encode the occasional vorbis file a little bit faster. That's what nice(1) and renice(8) are for.
Maybe it's just me, but the "just to be cool" factor seems to be more prevalent among people who use Blackbox, Enlightenment, and Windowmaker than among those who use a full Gnome or (especially) KDE desktop.
KDE isn't leet, I'm told. Oh well.
You'll be able to, unless the URL is so long that it would dork up the page formatting, in which case it'll be obviously truncated and you'll just have to cope. Is it not safe to say that such usage of a URL is minimal, compared to clicking on a damned link?
Let's look at this point by point, 'k?
I'm just going to call it quits on this discussion now... You're reaching for reasons to be right, and I'm bored.