>Socialists and capitalists are not opposites. Stop it, stop being stupid.
Maybe you buy that a state sector combined with a welfare state constitutes some kind of "socialism". Fine, the word has meant many things in its long history. But it's always been defined by its opposition to capitalism. Socialism is nothing if not the opposite of capitalism.
A few people are trying to exploit it without really believing in it (the government of Mexico
I don't see any evidence of that. They're merely trying to capitalize on a big (meaningless) event in the calender of their pre-Columbian ancestors. Slashdot and its linked article seem to be just assuming that Mexico's ad campaign is trying to attract doomsday nuts -- but if doomsday nuts are attracted by it, so what?
The *only* bit of evidence the article has is this:
The tourism board acknowledges its promotional doomsday motives and says “Whatever your beliefs may be, come and be part off a very historic experience.”
It's an open standard and will be needed by a lot of developers who want or must write standard compliant code. This is EXACTLY the thing RMS means when he is shouting his song.
Yeah, speaking of that... what criteria is it meeting to be called an "open standard"?
What would it mean for people to "sensor bad taste and content, jokes or editorial by themselves" in this context? Not watch those episodes when they come on because it's "too soon"? Yeah, that could work. Or TV stations could just, you know, play other episodes for a while.
They didn't discover that time is circular, they discovered that every big band is identical. That's why they can kill "themselves" after a future big bang without creating a paradox.
Well, anarcho-primtivism is a fringe environmentalist movement that calls for an end to civilization and returning humanity to a primitive state. Doing so would entail drastically reducing the number of humans on Earth.
I still can't believe they made that movie. When I saw previews for it, I was 100% positive it was a joke, one of those "generic dramatic trailer" parodies about a mundane and unexciting subject. When I saw comments along the lines of "I can't wait to see this movie!", I laughed at them for not getting the joke.
But it still shows the URL of links you mouse over in the location bar. Every time it does that and I see the location bar change, I think a new page is loading or some other sort of activity is happening. It's driving me nuts.
Browsers are going the way of minimizing the amount of space taken up by the user interface and maximizing what's available to the actual content.
When web browsers were new and screen real estate was limited, that might have been a good idea. What the hell is the point of removing functionality to save a dozen or two vertical pixels today?
It should have been Assange, yes. But even assuming it's *not* going to be Assange, why the hell should it be Mark Zuckerberg? What makes him the person of this particular year? Did Facebook do anything new in 2010 while I was avoiding it like the plague?
If you want to equate wanting to know what government officials do while on the job with wanting to know about the personal lives of celebrities, you've already lost the argument.
Not only are they "not rivals", but anybody who supports what Wikileaks does should be relieved that a new group is springing up. Assange can be locked up, Wikileaks can be taken down; we need two, three, many Wikileaks's.
Why in the world is he not leaking any real secrets of how governments are run, their atrocities and human rights violations in China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela or the operational details along with hideout locations of drug lords of Mexico, Columbia, and alike ?
You're right! Because right now, everybody loves those guys.
The media characterization of those countries may be one-sided, but not in a positive way.
This seriously deserves some modpoints. While I'd prefer truly native GNU/Linux ports, I'd be a happy ducky if we could see "Made for Windows XP/Vista/7/Wine" on game boxes in the future.
They already release OpenGL versions for the Mac so technologically, they are a short hop from a linux client rather than a giant leap.
That brings up an interesting point. If a developer knows they're going to make a Mac port, why in the world do they still write their game in Direct3D first?
Slashdot Mirror
I feel like everybody gets that quote wrong. It's the animals who are *less* equal that are the elites. The *more* equal animals are the lowly rabble.
>Socialists and capitalists are not opposites. Stop it, stop being stupid.
Maybe you buy that a state sector combined with a welfare state constitutes some kind of "socialism". Fine, the word has meant many things in its long history. But it's always been defined by its opposition to capitalism. Socialism is nothing if not the opposite of capitalism.
A few people are trying to exploit it without really believing in it (the government of Mexico
I don't see any evidence of that. They're merely trying to capitalize on a big (meaningless) event in the calender of their pre-Columbian ancestors. Slashdot and its linked article seem to be just assuming that Mexico's ad campaign is trying to attract doomsday nuts -- but if doomsday nuts are attracted by it, so what?
The *only* bit of evidence the article has is this:
The tourism board acknowledges its promotional doomsday motives and says “Whatever your beliefs may be, come and be part off a very historic experience.”
which is, at most, open to interpretation.
It's an open standard and will be needed by a lot of developers who want or must write standard compliant code. This is EXACTLY the thing RMS means when he is shouting his song.
Yeah, speaking of that... what criteria is it meeting to be called an "open standard"?
>Now try to find high quality propriety products that are not backed by huge organizations.
So you're saying being backed by the Free Software Foundation makes something a bad example of open source software? (Terminology politics aside)
The Japanese supercomputer ranked #1 on the Top 500 fastest supercomputers
Rumor has it that it's also #1 in the top 2,342 fastest supercomputers.
Me either. But it doesn't seem to hide it if it's anything other than HTTP, so it's still unambiguous. I decided to leave the feature on.
This is horrible! It's not like there are many other Simpsons reruns they could show instead.
What would it mean for people to "sensor bad taste and content, jokes or editorial by themselves" in this context? Not watch those episodes when they come on because it's "too soon"? Yeah, that could work. Or TV stations could just, you know, play other episodes for a while.
they discovered that every big band is identical
*Ahem* Freudian slip...
They didn't discover that time is circular, they discovered that every big band is identical. That's why they can kill "themselves" after a future big bang without creating a paradox.
What problem am I supposed to be seeing?
Why in the world did that become a meme?
That's the problem, we don't have to anymore.
Well, anarcho-primtivism is a fringe environmentalist movement that calls for an end to civilization and returning humanity to a primitive state. Doing so would entail drastically reducing the number of humans on Earth.
I still can't believe they made that movie. When I saw previews for it, I was 100% positive it was a joke, one of those "generic dramatic trailer" parodies about a mundane and unexciting subject. When I saw comments along the lines of "I can't wait to see this movie!", I laughed at them for not getting the joke.
But it still shows the URL of links you mouse over in the location bar. Every time it does that and I see the location bar change, I think a new page is loading or some other sort of activity is happening. It's driving me nuts.
Browsers are going the way of minimizing the amount of space taken up by the user interface and maximizing what's available to the actual content.
When web browsers were new and screen real estate was limited, that might have been a good idea. What the hell is the point of removing functionality to save a dozen or two vertical pixels today?
It should have been Assange, yes. But even assuming it's *not* going to be Assange, why the hell should it be Mark Zuckerberg? What makes him the person of this particular year? Did Facebook do anything new in 2010 while I was avoiding it like the plague?
If you want to equate wanting to know what government officials do while on the job with wanting to know about the personal lives of celebrities, you've already lost the argument.
Not only are they "not rivals", but anybody who supports what Wikileaks does should be relieved that a new group is springing up. Assange can be locked up, Wikileaks can be taken down; we need two, three, many Wikileaks's.
Why in the world is he not leaking any real secrets of how governments are run, their atrocities and human rights violations in China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela or the operational details along with hideout locations of drug lords of Mexico, Columbia, and alike ?
You're right! Because right now, everybody loves those guys.
The media characterization of those countries may be one-sided, but not in a positive way.
My thoughts exactly.
This seriously deserves some modpoints. While I'd prefer truly native GNU/Linux ports, I'd be a happy ducky if we could see "Made for Windows XP/Vista/7/Wine" on game boxes in the future.
They already release OpenGL versions for the Mac so technologically, they are a short hop from a linux client rather than a giant leap.
That brings up an interesting point. If a developer knows they're going to make a Mac port, why in the world do they still write their game in Direct3D first?