Godwin's law does have a corrolary (Quirk's exception) that states that while a comment about nazis ends a discussion, if someone follows it up with a comment about how that post ends the discussion, they lose.
"Corrolary" is spelled corollary.
An exception is not a corollary (quite the opposite).
AFAIU, Quirk's exception doesn't say what you think. "Intentional invocation of the Nazi Clause" means: making a Nazi comparison for the sole purpose of ending the discussion, not: making a follow-up comment on how Godwin applies.
...I find it interesting that somehow Apple never seems to associate with those astroturf-sponsoring consortiums. Yes they are in it for the money, often more closed/secretive and lawyerly than I like, but at least they seem not to constantly insult the public's intelligence. (Maybe that motivates the indulgence they enjoy around here?)
the disadvantage is when you want to backup all your settings. You then have to traverse all the app directories to find settings files
No, of course the settings (being per-user...) are not stored in the app dirs. They are as usual in dotfiles or some variations thereof (ROX in ~/Choices, the Mac in per-app xml pref files files inside ~/Library/Preferences).
But why go to so much effort? There are plenty of great programs out there that offer input and have engraving qualities. Finale, Sibelius and Graphire Music Press.
Obviously you didn't bother to read past the first of these FAQs, which is a bit sad. It's exactly as if you said "Why bother using TeX when I can typeset mathematics in Word?"
Well, you can. But no journal will accept your output, because the quality just isn't up to snuff. Likewise, Finale's output is not up to the time-honored standards of music publishing. To musicians who sight-read at a professional level, the difference matters. In the long run, they can't stand it any more than Knuth could stand the piss-poor, headache-inducing math typesetting that enraged him into writing TeX. Quote:
Layout should be pretty, not only for its own sake, but especially because it helps the reader in his task. For performance material like sheet music, this is doubly important: musicians have a limited amount of attention. The less attention they need for reading, the more they can focus on playing itself. In other words, better typography translates to better performances.
Plus, proprietary programs lock your scores into proprietary formats, which you can't further process and share like this (scroll down the page).
Many others. Yes, they had restaurants first (that made them famous enough to sell books), but they sure opened more thereafter. Sounds like you're living in a nightmare world, eh?
Sorry but there is no other way to characterize it.
I went to college in Europe (Switzerland, Ph.D in France) and you could essentially go through the entire curriculum without buying even one book. There were no official "course Textbooks", instead each faculty wrote lecture notes, problem sets, and solutions, which were mimeographed and either given away, or sold at cost by the university.
These notes were simpler to absorb because they addressed neither more nor less than the actual course syllabus. Of course they'd recomment additional references that you could buy (I certainly did sometimes), but definitely didn't have to. Thus students could save their money for what's of interest to them -- and that also made publishers compete under much healthier rules.
That was a few years ago. Recently, unfortunately, it seems that the trend for "Textbooks" is slowly taking over Europe as well. And I can't help but feel for the students I see lugging 600+ page hard covers, of which the actual course uses maybe 25%.
it's not honest the way they're going at it, IMHO.
Safari is not playing leap frog or riding on the tails of anyone else's efforts. Omni should first attempt to get their own browser out the door without crashing all over the place; when they've demonstrated they too can write solid code, then they can do what they want.
You're so right. How dare they build on open code, implementing open standards?!? These guys are hijacking the web, pure and simple!!!
Omni should first attempt to design their own markup language and transfer protocol. Once they've demonstrated they too can write a good network stack and lay their own backbone fiber, then they can do what they want.
Anything short (including their sickening use of public roads to drive to work!!!) is just sheer piracy on their part.
I typed one command, a menu prompted me to accept a license, then looked for a version on nvidia's ftp site, didn't find one. So it compiled one for me.
Out of curiosity: are there, or can we expect, drivers for the nVidias in 12" PowerBooks?
Regulations sometimes require that stuff works within set limits. The law will then require the company to take resonable steps to ensure that end users can't change the software to circumvent the limits. Usually this will mean preventing release of modifiable source code.
By this argument, Ford ought to get sued if you remove the catalytic converter on your car. Is this remotely true?
by Park City, you mean the "Quantum Field Theory and Enumerative Geometry" program?
No, no, it was another program about six years ago and he wasn't even there as a speaker, except (IIRC!) for a report on the ArXiv thing. And at the time, I wouldn't have even known he might be autograph-worthy to anyone:-)
If you've read the book, you may have noticed among the scientists whose contributions are described at length David Morrison, who may be better known around here as co-leader of the Fink project.
That goes to show that pretty bright minds are working on Free Software, doesn't it? And suggests what could be a very interesting (though probably quite busy) Slashdot interviewee... I will admit I'm curious to know what drew him to that level of participation in Free Software.
I was pleased to note that dissenting views on whether string theory was science were presented, and even brief discussion of what constitutes science.
Having participated as a "pure mathematician", I guess he might be well-placed to explain that one can do science without a need for immediate applications or even ties to "experiment".
(I saw the man once in Park City, Utah -- no, he wouldn't remember me -- busy with a PowerBook, and at the time helping launch another noteworthy open project, the UC Davis Math Archive.)
The article gives the reader the idea that those opposed to electronic voting machine are all technophobes that don't 'get' how great these new machines are.
Not really. It quotes someone from MIT saying, "The computer science community has pretty much rallied against electronic voting. A disproportionate number of computer scientists who have weighed in on this issue are opposed to it."
Slashdot Mirror
This was #5 in the first google search I tried. (Your turn guessing my search terms :) It both mentions and disputes your candidate (Erasmus).
Nothing beats the VeloSolex -- apparently still made by Impex in Hungary.
Now I want one here...
No, of course the settings (being per-user...) are not stored in the app dirs. They are as usual in dotfiles or some variations thereof (ROX in ~/Choices, the Mac in per-app xml pref files files inside ~/Library/Preferences).
...review everywhere!
Obviously you didn't bother to read past the first of these FAQs, which is a bit sad. It's exactly as if you said "Why bother using TeX when I can typeset mathematics in Word?"
Well, you can. But no journal will accept your output, because the quality just isn't up to snuff. Likewise, Finale's output is not up to the time-honored standards of music publishing. To musicians who sight-read at a professional level, the difference matters. In the long run, they can't stand it any more than Knuth could stand the piss-poor, headache-inducing math typesetting that enraged him into writing TeX. Quote:
Plus, proprietary programs lock your scores into proprietary formats, which you can't further process and share like this (scroll down the page).Georges Blanc
Paul Bocuse
Alain Chapel
Fredy Girardet
Michel Guerard
Joel Robuchon
Pierre Troisgros
Roger Verge
Many others. Yes, they had restaurants first (that made them famous enough to sell books), but they sure opened more thereafter. Sounds like you're living in a nightmare world, eh?
Knoppix-MiB has ppc isos, see the discussion and posts by 'fleny68' here.
I went to college in Europe (Switzerland, Ph.D in France) and you could essentially go through the entire curriculum without buying even one book. There were no official "course Textbooks", instead each faculty wrote lecture notes, problem sets, and solutions, which were mimeographed and either given away, or sold at cost by the university.
These notes were simpler to absorb because they addressed neither more nor less than the actual course syllabus. Of course they'd recomment additional references that you could buy (I certainly did sometimes), but definitely didn't have to. Thus students could save their money for what's of interest to them -- and that also made publishers compete under much healthier rules.
That was a few years ago. Recently, unfortunately, it seems that the trend for "Textbooks" is slowly taking over Europe as well. And I can't help but feel for the students I see lugging 600+ page hard covers, of which the actual course uses maybe 25%.
Oh but it does!
Safari is not playing leap frog or riding on the tails of anyone else's efforts. Omni should first attempt to get their own browser out the door without crashing all over the place; when they've demonstrated they too can write solid code, then they can do what they want.
You're so right. How dare they build on open code, implementing open standards?!? These guys are hijacking the web, pure and simple!!!
Omni should first attempt to design their own markup language and transfer protocol. Once they've demonstrated they too can write a good network stack and lay their own backbone fiber, then they can do what they want.
Anything short (including their sickening use of public roads to drive to work!!!) is just sheer piracy on their part.
Fugu is nice for SFTP, too. BSD'ed ;)
Your article about unwanted X is unwanted.
Spam filtering, popup killing, troll killfiling, instant message yanking...
we are overloaded by information about information overload.
Please go away.
Thank you.
Contain no content?
Someone ought to suggest them Write-Only Memory as a better solution to the p2p problem.
(I was confused too, somehow your posts seem to thread as replies to the parents of the ones you're actually answering.)
Baffles me to see "ray-auch" go to the length of writing down such a strange (FUD?) argument... and then have 3 mods fall for it ?! Strange.
Out of curiosity: are there, or can we expect, drivers for the nVidias in 12" PowerBooks?
By this argument, Ford ought to get sued if you remove the catalytic converter on your car. Is this remotely true?
This is not offtopic. The Internet.com article is indeed time-wasting rubbish, and should never have been linked in the story.
Just use checkinstall, it will make you a deb.
(Here)
No, no, it was another program about six years ago and he wasn't even there as a speaker, except (IIRC!) for a report on the ArXiv thing. And at the time, I wouldn't have even known he might be autograph-worthy to anyone :-)
That goes to show that pretty bright minds are working on Free Software, doesn't it? And suggests what could be a very interesting (though probably quite busy) Slashdot interviewee... I will admit I'm curious to know what drew him to that level of participation in Free Software.
Having participated as a "pure mathematician", I guess he might be well-placed to explain that one can do science without a need for immediate applications or even ties to "experiment".(I saw the man once in Park City, Utah -- no, he wouldn't remember me -- busy with a PowerBook, and at the time helping launch another noteworthy open project, the UC Davis Math Archive.)
Slashdot editors?
Not really. It quotes someone from MIT saying, "The computer science community has pretty much rallied against electronic voting. A disproportionate number of computer scientists who have weighed in on this issue are opposed to it."
Could anyone clarify how this Anaconda installer port relates to debian-installer? In particular, is it also intended to work on PowerPC?