The problem is not with RedHat. It's with you. Millions of people use 8.0 without any of the problems you're complaining about. It's smart to upgrade to the latest version after it's been out for a month or two just in case.
I think it's interesting to note a couple of parallels between the recent policies of the EU vs. the US, and vice versa. I see the EU's insistance on rejecting unilaterally all forms of GM (genetically modified) foods as stemming from the same sort of fears that caused the US administration to insist unilaterally on the disarmament of Iraq. Here's how it looks to me (just a bit of wild speculation):
The EU has had big problems with mad cow disease and various agricultural health scares recently. The people, understandably, are looking to their government to protect them from this sort of thing. Thus, the EU rejects GM foods on the basis of rumors and speculation because the damage caused by yet another agricultural disaster would be politically unacceptable. They will not be permitted to fail again as they did with mad cow, so they are quite skittish about it. They want to ban all such foods outright from being sold in the EU, and even further they want to ban all non-GM food imports from third world countries which are unable to guarantee that their foods are uncontaminated with GM species. The contamination normally comes from poor farmers using the GM grains provided by aid services for seed rather than to fill their starving bellies. This forces poorer countries to choose sides: grow GM food and feed their starving populations (as the GM species are specially designed to survive and be more productive in various places where it is difficult to grow enough food for proper nutrition), or reject all GM foods and be allowed to sell their produce in the EU. A truly satanic bargain they are forced to make. I believe that this causes many hundreds or thousands of deaths every year. Note the 'unilateral' nature of their action, which is now in the WTO courts.
Similarly, after 9/11 the US is in a position similar to that of the EU, but with respect to terrorism. We have nothing to fear from GM foods but terrorism cannot be tolerated. The politicians know that their future depends on taking the specualtion and rumors of terrorism quite seriously, even in the absence of hard facts. And, yes, just as in the case with GM foods, this posture will cause hundreds or thousands of deaths each year, but as in the case with GM foods the risk of inaction is politically unacceptable. Thus the 'unilateral' action in Iraq.
My point is that both sides have their own neuroses, and both sides act unilaterally when they get scared of something, and both sides end up killing innocent bystanders (usually poor people in poor countries who we will never hear about).
Exactly. And the cynical, petty machinations of the French government is completely lost on those knee-jerk Euro America-haters. I guess that automatically considering Americans to be stupid and oafish is deeply ingrained in their culture. But not to worry, the smart ones can see the growing rivalry between the new power of the EU and the traditional power of the US as the root cause of most of this rhetoric between our nations. I mean, the French are no more righteous than the Americans, although they act like they are. They are simply frustrated that they not in a position to challenge the US in any other way than by passing resolutions and writing their complaints on papers which are passed back and forth frantically between themselves. The embarassment of the United States was the purpose of their diplomacy in the UN and elsewhere. Oh, yeah. They feel the Iraqi's pain. Poor, poor people who have lost their beloved ruler!
that post was absolutely correct. how can the denominator be at inf? like he said: in a ring which includes infinity as a member. you define 0/infinity to be something, which is okay then.
No one is claiming that 0/infinity = 0. The claim was that the limit of the sequence was equal to zero. The limit of a sequence of real numbers is, by definition, a real number. If the case is that there is no real number which can be shown to be the limit of the sequence, then it is said that the limit does not exist, or the sequence does not converge. In this case it converges just fine.
Oh god, you fucking prick. You should run it in your ass and you'll be fine. I bet you correct all of your pals when they say 'who' in place of 'whom', and feel nice and smart for yourself. Well I, for one, am not impressed with your genius. If you pulled that shit anywhere near me I'd punch you right in the face. Petty little retard that you are.
Sure. I remember when i got my yahoo mailbox they used authentication exactly like that. I requested the mailbox, they sent over a form with a confusing GIF that only a human could look at and make sense of, i answered some question about the GIF, and they knew it was a human requesting the mailbox and not a machine.
I know a few people who have used this sort of anti-spam for years. Look in the NYLUG mailing list archives, i think they're all in there.
That's not true. The whole point behind something like public key encryption is that even if you were told what the plain-text message was, it would still take more than polynomial time for and algorithm to verify that. Obviously, if you don't have the plain text you must concentrate on optimizing some guesses, all of which will take more than polynomial time to check. Besides, pgp for example is no weaker if you only use upper case or lower case ar anything like that. I mean, how useful would it be if you had to type every message in wierd ways?
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They claim to have a "perpetual" license which is "irrevocable". That's absurd.
The problem is not with RedHat. It's with you. Millions of people use 8.0 without any of the problems you're complaining about. It's smart to upgrade to the latest version after it's been out for a month or two just in case.
I think it's interesting to note a couple of parallels between the recent policies of the EU vs. the US, and vice versa. I see the EU's insistance on rejecting unilaterally all forms of GM (genetically modified) foods as stemming from the same sort of fears that caused the US administration to insist unilaterally on the disarmament of Iraq. Here's how it looks to me (just a bit of wild speculation):
The EU has had big problems with mad cow disease and various agricultural health scares recently. The people, understandably, are looking to their government to protect them from this sort of thing. Thus, the EU rejects GM foods on the basis of rumors and speculation because the damage caused by yet another agricultural disaster would be politically unacceptable. They will not be permitted to fail again as they did with mad cow, so they are quite skittish about it. They want to ban all such foods outright from being sold in the EU, and even further they want to ban all non-GM food imports from third world countries which are unable to guarantee that their foods are uncontaminated with GM species. The contamination normally comes from poor farmers using the GM grains provided by aid services for seed rather than to fill their starving bellies. This forces poorer countries to choose sides: grow GM food and feed their starving populations (as the GM species are specially designed to survive and be more productive in various places where it is difficult to grow enough food for proper nutrition), or reject all GM foods and be allowed to sell their produce in the EU. A truly satanic bargain they are forced to make. I believe that this causes many hundreds or thousands of deaths every year. Note the 'unilateral' nature of their action, which is now in the WTO courts.
Similarly, after 9/11 the US is in a position similar to that of the EU, but with respect to terrorism. We have nothing to fear from GM foods but terrorism cannot be tolerated. The politicians know that their future depends on taking the specualtion and rumors of terrorism quite seriously, even in the absence of hard facts. And, yes, just as in the case with GM foods, this posture will cause hundreds or thousands of deaths each year, but as in the case with GM foods the risk of inaction is politically unacceptable. Thus the 'unilateral' action in Iraq.
My point is that both sides have their own neuroses, and both sides act unilaterally when they get scared of something, and both sides end up killing innocent bystanders (usually poor people in poor countries who we will never hear about).
Exactly. And the cynical, petty machinations of the French government is completely lost on those knee-jerk Euro America-haters. I guess that automatically considering Americans to be stupid and oafish is deeply ingrained in their culture. But not to worry, the smart ones can see the growing rivalry between the new power of the EU and the traditional power of the US as the root cause of most of this rhetoric between our nations. I mean, the French are no more righteous than the Americans, although they act like they are. They are simply frustrated that they not in a position to challenge the US in any other way than by passing resolutions and writing their complaints on papers which are passed back and forth frantically between themselves. The embarassment of the United States was the purpose of their diplomacy in the UN and elsewhere. Oh, yeah. They feel the Iraqi's pain. Poor, poor people who have lost their beloved ruler!
that post was absolutely correct. how can the denominator be at inf? like he said: in a ring which includes infinity as a member. you define 0/infinity to be something, which is okay then.
No one is claiming that 0/infinity = 0. The claim was that the limit of the sequence was equal to zero. The limit of a sequence of real numbers is, by definition, a real number. If the case is that there is no real number which can be shown to be the limit of the sequence, then it is said that the limit does not exist, or the sequence does not converge. In this case it converges just fine.
yeah, i map away my caps lock cause i never use it, ever
Is there a ~ on it? Cause I don't see one...
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Thank God I'm leaving this summer.
Excellent. I'll take your office. I have 6 cats though. Hope that's not a problem.
Oh god, you fucking prick. You should run it in your ass and you'll be fine. I bet you correct all of your pals when they say 'who' in place of 'whom', and feel nice and smart for yourself. Well I, for one, am not impressed with your genius. If you pulled that shit anywhere near me I'd punch you right in the face. Petty little retard that you are.
Sure. I remember when i got my yahoo mailbox they used authentication exactly like that. I requested the mailbox, they sent over a form with a confusing GIF that only a human could look at and make sense of, i answered some question about the GIF, and they knew it was a human requesting the mailbox and not a machine.
I know a few people who have used this sort of anti-spam for years. Look in the NYLUG mailing list archives, i think they're all in there.
Yeah, I kinda dig the eye-candy. I figure that looking at my desktop all day entitles me to that little indulgence :).
Haha. That's classic! Gotta love those soooo superior French. As usual...
That is just a direct substitution cipher - cracking it is not a NP problem. It is a little harder, but not anything noticable to a big cluster.
That's not true. The whole point behind something like public key encryption is that even if you were told what the plain-text message was, it would still take more than polynomial time for and algorithm to verify that. Obviously, if you don't have the plain text you must concentrate on optimizing some guesses, all of which will take more than polynomial time to check. Besides, pgp for example is no weaker if you only use upper case or lower case ar anything like that. I mean, how useful would it be if you had to type every message in wierd ways?
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