I think you've struck the core of the issue. Australians, being a society founded by criminals, instinctively create laws which we must break. It just wouldn't feel right if we created sane laws that all had to abide by.
A "mere" animal, you say. Not all animals have a complete "gimme" attitude. In fact, I don't know of any that do. They generally live in a harmonious balance, with varying degrees of give and take. It is homo sapiens that has taken the most, of any of the animal species.
People are animals. We have animalistic instincts, we have emotions, and we follow them. People are also sentient and rational. We have to accept these different parts of ourselves, and learn how we can behave so they are not conflicted. Religion can help in this regard.
From a rational viewpoint, I view religion as a tool. It is useful and effective in what it does. If we're still using it in another few millennia, it is because we still need it. There's nothing sad about it.
Throughout life, you have to decide what you trust in. Even the greatest sceptic must do so. Nobody can survive without trusting something to a certain degree. People that follow religion have just established their trust point at that level. They believe, without proof, and without the possibility of proof. That's their personal decision, and it's not a bad thing. It's only bad when the trust is abused, and used for personal gain, or against others.
You could compile your own code, if you don't trust the binary. But, you would still have to place your trust in the compiler.
You speak as if all people have moved past their primitive selves. That's not the case. We are all primitive in some way. And that's not a bad thing.
In any case, there's still a place for religion in the modern world. Religion itself is not bad. It's when it is taken advantage of by people pushing a bad agenda, that it can become a problem. But then again, you can say that about many non-religious organisations as well.
I don't mind religion. It can have a very positive effect on people. Sure, it requires that you believe in things that have no proof. Everyone does that anyway, no matter how "rational" you believe you are. When was the last time you sincerely believed in something, without conclusive proof to back you up?
Not quite. I've created a few perl scripts in my time. Some were designed to run on both windows and unix. There's a few little gotchas you've got to worry about when dealing with the two platforms.
Things like the newline character. Perl will print a different newline character if it's run in Windows. This is quite important to know if you want to output text to a standard file format operated on by another program.
While I'm on files, if you want to deal with binary files in windows perl, you need to use the binmode command. Not so with unix.
Anyway, perl isn't 100% portable. You've got to cover the problem cases. Thankfully, there's not too many issues, and it's relatively easy to write portable code.
Actually, the primary meaning of "violent" is to mark something that is intense, or resulting from great force.
In any case, words do have multiple meanings. Just because it doesn't meet with the primary meaning, does not mean its use is confused. There is no confusion by the parent poster. He could have certainly used violence to tear down a house.
Don't confuse pockets of racial behaviour to be reflective of the Australian populace in general. I'm born Australian, from immigrant parents, coincidently of the same ethnic culture as those that triggered the Cronulla riots. I think Australia is one of the best examples in the world of different cultures living together. I wouldn't live anywhere else.
Now if we can only get rid of these politicians that have nanny state tendencies. They seem to appear no matter what party we vote for. As the old saying goes: same shit, different smell.
Have you ever tried Ubuntu Linux? This is one distribution that I feel comfortable installing on my parents computer. In fact, I have.
I have a friend who has installed it on his laptop and home PC. It worked fine with his hardware. Even wireless was up and running effortlessly.
I use Debian personally, but I'm a tinkerer. It suits me perfectly.
Funny you mention printers as an example of bad hardware experience in Linux. OSX has exactly the same system; CUPS. I would have thought that any printer issue in Linux would be the same in OSX.
For me, the main reason why I'd like a hacked PS3 is to:
* Play PAL DVDs. Currently, I can't even play Region 0 DVDs if they're in PAL.
* Play import PS2 games. I have an older version of the PS3, which has PS2 hardware built in. I'd like to play some European and Japanese titles from my PS2 library. Sure, I can use my PS2 for that, but I'd prefer to keep my AV devices to a minimum. Plus, the PS3 upscales PS2 titles, so they look better on a HD screen.
* Use Linux with full GPU access. Being able to run Linux on my PS3 is nice, and quite handy in some situations. Being able to fully use the GPU would open up a whole range of new uses for it.
Cheating? Piracy? Not really interested. I just want to use my PS3 to its full abilities. Currently, Sony are deliberately holding it back. That irks me. A hack would be most welcome.
FreeBSD has some cool features in the kernel, like ZFS support, Jails, and a 10Gb optimised network stack. I've found that the FreeBSD kernel responds better when the system is under heavy load. That's a godsend when you're trying to fix an issue. It's a high quality kernel, and is extremely stable.
Software management in Debian is much nicer than FreeBSD. The configuration files are more consistent, and keeping your system clean and tidy is an easy process. Doing updates, and even major upgrades, is often trivial in Debian.
I imagine that the idea behind the kFreeBSD project is to marry the best of both systems. It's a neat idea, I think.
Glad to hear you're improving your English. Keep up the effort.
"many" implies a significant percentage of the whole. That's obviously not the case here.
"several" would be close, but I wouldn't use it for this situation. It indicates a moderate amount. My instinct is that this is a tad greater than what you want to describe.
I would use "few". It represents more than one, but also signifies a minority.
Ironically, the phrase "quite a few" actually means a large amount, and would be synonymous with "many". English can sometimes behave this way, just to make sure you're alert and paying attention, of course.
"some" may also be a good choice, but it is more indicative of an unspecified amount. It is not as accurate as "few".
I completely agree. I always throw in simple one or two line comments before sections of relatively complex code. The reader can then immediately understand what the intent of that section is.
Still, kudos to the author for challenging an idea that people don't often question. There is such a thing called over-commenting. It is not a good thing. Comments for the sake of comments are near useless.
Maybe Lucas wanted to throw in some sophistication for the more mature members of the audience. Unfortunately, he then created a character like Jar-Jar, a complete offence to most people beyond the age of 8. Alas, it was a movie that tried to please too many, and thus pleased too little.
Apparently, a study found that many indigenous families in the Northern Territory left high level media easily accessible to children. Most often because the parents didn't understand the classification level, and the responsibilities entailed by law. This argument is saying that having R18+ games would aggravate problems due to this.
I don't think that argument works when concerning games though. You need a decent level of education to be able to use computer games, and even console games. Certainly high enough to ensure that families with games will understand the classification system.
I've already submitted my response. I argued against the idea that interactivity heightens the negative impact of games. I believe that interactivity helps to enforce the feeling that this is not reality. Therefore interactivity actually lessens any negative effects. After all, the more real you think something is, the more impact it will have. I don't care how realistic the graphics are, as soon as you can control that figure on the screen, you _know_ it's all a fantasy.
Not only that, but FreeBSD is a far more reliable and higher-quality core than even Debian could ever hope to be.
Experience tells me otherwise. I'm in the position where I administer both Debian and FreeBSD systems. This is roughly over the last five years. The Debian systems haven't skipped a beat during that time. The FreeBSD boxes are generally fine as well, although I did have one crash on me once. Luckily it wasn't a busy system.
Five years of running, and not one single kernel or base OS problem. Seems like Debian is fine to me.
Good comment. I just have one issue with you saying that Windows 7 has better hardware support. A workmate of mine recently installed Windows 7, and then discovered that his USB to serial cable wouldn't work anymore. Under Linux though, it just works.
I know that one example is hardly meaningful. Still, it does mean that you can't assume everything will work in Windows 7.
Have to disagree with you. I find Linux (well, Debian anyway) to be more consistent than FreeBSD. I manage a few FreeBSD boxes at my work, and I've found that configuration files and service startup scripts are better managed in Debian.
Linux has iptables instead of pf. From what I've used of pf, it doesn't have anything that cannot be done by iptables.
I do like Jails. While you can achieve the same thing with virtual machines, Jails is better with resources. Still, if we're talking about a desktop user here, it's a useless feature.
Speaking of desktop users, they will certainly like the better hardware support of Linux. For a regular user, they'll also prefer a distribution like Ubuntu. So the original commenter still has a good point.
My parents are Arabic, and one dish that is part of the cultural cuisine is Kibbeh Nayeh. It's basically raw lamb, ground up finely, and mixed with spices and crushed wheat. This is meat which has not touched a flame or hot plate. It's as raw as you can get.
There are whole communities that eat this dish, nay, whole countries. I've never heard of anyone suffering food poisoning from it.
I also have to say, I do like my steak with a little pink inside. Maybe not rare, but medium works well for me.
At the same time, I wouldn't touch semi-cooked chicken flesh with a long stick, much less with a fork and knife. Chicken has to be cooked well. I have suffered food poisoning from some chicken sandwiches from a caterer for some work function.
Try using Debian Testing, if you're a little shy of trying the unstable collection. It's still very up to date, lagging the unstable release by a few weeks or months, and packages have already filtered through unstable, so most obvious issues have been ironed out.
I use Testing as my default release, although I've also selectively installed applications from unstable and experimental. I'm really happy with how it all works. It suits me perfectly.
Then again, I'm the kind of guy who likes to use Gimp to tweak level curves on photos. Gimp too hard to use? I don't think so.
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I think you've struck the core of the issue. Australians, being a society founded by criminals, instinctively create laws which we must break. It just wouldn't feel right if we created sane laws that all had to abide by.
A "mere" animal, you say. Not all animals have a complete "gimme" attitude. In fact, I don't know of any that do. They generally live in a harmonious balance, with varying degrees of give and take. It is homo sapiens that has taken the most, of any of the animal species.
People are animals. We have animalistic instincts, we have emotions, and we follow them. People are also sentient and rational. We have to accept these different parts of ourselves, and learn how we can behave so they are not conflicted. Religion can help in this regard.
From a rational viewpoint, I view religion as a tool. It is useful and effective in what it does. If we're still using it in another few millennia, it is because we still need it. There's nothing sad about it.
Throughout life, you have to decide what you trust in. Even the greatest sceptic must do so. Nobody can survive without trusting something to a certain degree. People that follow religion have just established their trust point at that level. They believe, without proof, and without the possibility of proof. That's their personal decision, and it's not a bad thing. It's only bad when the trust is abused, and used for personal gain, or against others.
You could compile your own code, if you don't trust the binary. But, you would still have to place your trust in the compiler.
You speak as if all people have moved past their primitive selves. That's not the case. We are all primitive in some way. And that's not a bad thing.
In any case, there's still a place for religion in the modern world. Religion itself is not bad. It's when it is taken advantage of by people pushing a bad agenda, that it can become a problem. But then again, you can say that about many non-religious organisations as well.
I don't mind religion. It can have a very positive effect on people. Sure, it requires that you believe in things that have no proof. Everyone does that anyway, no matter how "rational" you believe you are. When was the last time you sincerely believed in something, without conclusive proof to back you up?
Not quite. I've created a few perl scripts in my time. Some were designed to run on both windows and unix. There's a few little gotchas you've got to worry about when dealing with the two platforms.
Things like the newline character. Perl will print a different newline character if it's run in Windows. This is quite important to know if you want to output text to a standard file format operated on by another program.
While I'm on files, if you want to deal with binary files in windows perl, you need to use the binmode command. Not so with unix.
Anyway, perl isn't 100% portable. You've got to cover the problem cases. Thankfully, there's not too many issues, and it's relatively easy to write portable code.
Actually, the primary meaning of "violent" is to mark something that is intense, or resulting from great force.
In any case, words do have multiple meanings. Just because it doesn't meet with the primary meaning, does not mean its use is confused. There is no confusion by the parent poster. He could have certainly used violence to tear down a house.
And now we know why Geeks will inherit the earth.
Don't confuse pockets of racial behaviour to be reflective of the Australian populace in general. I'm born Australian, from immigrant parents, coincidently of the same ethnic culture as those that triggered the Cronulla riots. I think Australia is one of the best examples in the world of different cultures living together. I wouldn't live anywhere else.
Now if we can only get rid of these politicians that have nanny state tendencies. They seem to appear no matter what party we vote for. As the old saying goes: same shit, different smell.
Maybe he doesn't feel the same way.
Have you ever tried Ubuntu Linux? This is one distribution that I feel comfortable installing on my parents computer. In fact, I have.
I have a friend who has installed it on his laptop and home PC. It worked fine with his hardware. Even wireless was up and running effortlessly.
I use Debian personally, but I'm a tinkerer. It suits me perfectly.
Funny you mention printers as an example of bad hardware experience in Linux. OSX has exactly the same system; CUPS. I would have thought that any printer issue in Linux would be the same in OSX.
For me, the main reason why I'd like a hacked PS3 is to:
* Play PAL DVDs. Currently, I can't even play Region 0 DVDs if they're in PAL.
* Play import PS2 games. I have an older version of the PS3, which has PS2 hardware built in. I'd like to play some European and Japanese titles from my PS2 library. Sure, I can use my PS2 for that, but I'd prefer to keep my AV devices to a minimum. Plus, the PS3 upscales PS2 titles, so they look better on a HD screen.
* Use Linux with full GPU access. Being able to run Linux on my PS3 is nice, and quite handy in some situations. Being able to fully use the GPU would open up a whole range of new uses for it.
Cheating? Piracy? Not really interested. I just want to use my PS3 to its full abilities. Currently, Sony are deliberately holding it back. That irks me. A hack would be most welcome.
Trust that Linus will pick someone to take over where he leaves off. I think that Andrew Morton would do a great job.
FreeBSD has some cool features in the kernel, like ZFS support, Jails, and a 10Gb optimised network stack. I've found that the FreeBSD kernel responds better when the system is under heavy load. That's a godsend when you're trying to fix an issue. It's a high quality kernel, and is extremely stable.
Software management in Debian is much nicer than FreeBSD. The configuration files are more consistent, and keeping your system clean and tidy is an easy process. Doing updates, and even major upgrades, is often trivial in Debian.
I imagine that the idea behind the kFreeBSD project is to marry the best of both systems. It's a neat idea, I think.
Glad to hear you're improving your English. Keep up the effort.
"many" implies a significant percentage of the whole. That's obviously not the case here.
"several" would be close, but I wouldn't use it for this situation. It indicates a moderate amount. My instinct is that this is a tad greater than what you want to describe.
I would use "few". It represents more than one, but also signifies a minority.
Ironically, the phrase "quite a few" actually means a large amount, and would be synonymous with "many". English can sometimes behave this way, just to make sure you're alert and paying attention, of course.
"some" may also be a good choice, but it is more indicative of an unspecified amount. It is not as accurate as "few".
I completely agree. I always throw in simple one or two line comments before sections of relatively complex code. The reader can then immediately understand what the intent of that section is.
Still, kudos to the author for challenging an idea that people don't often question. There is such a thing called over-commenting. It is not a good thing. Comments for the sake of comments are near useless.
Maybe Lucas wanted to throw in some sophistication for the more mature members of the audience. Unfortunately, he then created a character like Jar-Jar, a complete offence to most people beyond the age of 8. Alas, it was a movie that tried to please too many, and thus pleased too little.
Read the discussion paper.
Apparently, a study found that many indigenous families in the Northern Territory left high level media easily accessible to children. Most often because the parents didn't understand the classification level, and the responsibilities entailed by law. This argument is saying that having R18+ games would aggravate problems due to this.
I don't think that argument works when concerning games though. You need a decent level of education to be able to use computer games, and even console games. Certainly high enough to ensure that families with games will understand the classification system.
I've already submitted my response. I argued against the idea that interactivity heightens the negative impact of games. I believe that interactivity helps to enforce the feeling that this is not reality. Therefore interactivity actually lessens any negative effects. After all, the more real you think something is, the more impact it will have. I don't care how realistic the graphics are, as soon as you can control that figure on the screen, you _know_ it's all a fantasy.
Politicians are not cool. It is universal.
Anyways, we'll just have to wait until the next election. Then we can vote yet another douchebag in.
Experience tells me otherwise. I'm in the position where I administer both Debian and FreeBSD systems. This is roughly over the last five years. The Debian systems haven't skipped a beat during that time. The FreeBSD boxes are generally fine as well, although I did have one crash on me once. Luckily it wasn't a busy system.
Five years of running, and not one single kernel or base OS problem. Seems like Debian is fine to me.
Good comment. I just have one issue with you saying that Windows 7 has better hardware support. A workmate of mine recently installed Windows 7, and then discovered that his USB to serial cable wouldn't work anymore. Under Linux though, it just works.
I know that one example is hardly meaningful. Still, it does mean that you can't assume everything will work in Windows 7.
Have to disagree with you. I find Linux (well, Debian anyway) to be more consistent than FreeBSD. I manage a few FreeBSD boxes at my work, and I've found that configuration files and service startup scripts are better managed in Debian.
Linux has iptables instead of pf. From what I've used of pf, it doesn't have anything that cannot be done by iptables.
I do like Jails. While you can achieve the same thing with virtual machines, Jails is better with resources. Still, if we're talking about a desktop user here, it's a useless feature.
Speaking of desktop users, they will certainly like the better hardware support of Linux. For a regular user, they'll also prefer a distribution like Ubuntu. So the original commenter still has a good point.
My parents are Arabic, and one dish that is part of the cultural cuisine is Kibbeh Nayeh. It's basically raw lamb, ground up finely, and mixed with spices and crushed wheat. This is meat which has not touched a flame or hot plate. It's as raw as you can get.
There are whole communities that eat this dish, nay, whole countries. I've never heard of anyone suffering food poisoning from it.
I also have to say, I do like my steak with a little pink inside. Maybe not rare, but medium works well for me.
At the same time, I wouldn't touch semi-cooked chicken flesh with a long stick, much less with a fork and knife. Chicken has to be cooked well. I have suffered food poisoning from some chicken sandwiches from a caterer for some work function.
I disagree. A compilation of geeks would work just as well, or possibly be even more effective.
Even better, the phrase "Release the geeks!" could be used. That's just awesomeness in itself.
Try using Debian Testing, if you're a little shy of trying the unstable collection. It's still very up to date, lagging the unstable release by a few weeks or months, and packages have already filtered through unstable, so most obvious issues have been ironed out.
I use Testing as my default release, although I've also selectively installed applications from unstable and experimental. I'm really happy with how it all works. It suits me perfectly.
Then again, I'm the kind of guy who likes to use Gimp to tweak level curves on photos. Gimp too hard to use? I don't think so.