If you wish to spend your nights reading information from 2+ years ago, that is your problem. The rest of us want today's information, and now. Good luck with the personal library.
It's getting to the point that you need a 2+ year filter just to dampen the noise in the signal.
And let's give a shout out to all of the library homiez. While I'm affluent enough to afford the occasional impulse book at the store with the built-in coffee shop, I do recall many an hour of random wandering in the public library in my youth.
Portage is also not the only game in.ebuild-ville: http://paludis.pioto.org/
merits attention: I've used it since about version 0.14 with good justice.
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>I found it really nice, and absolutely LOVED the bash-script based package management.
Hey, that sounds kinda cool. Maybe Gentoo should consider this idea instead of.ebuild files.
A casual glance at Freshmeat and SourceForge will indicate that for a given software category, say package management, even the duplication of effort is duplicated, which would seem the antithesis of 'central planning'.
In contrast, the 800 lb. gorilla approach of MS has, in some ways, been the enema of the process.
Thus, a dispassionate, common-sense approach to using open source when appropriate (a great deal of the time) and proprietary when it makes sense (reasonable cases exist) seems a preferable trade-off.
When you're trying to get something done with a product, and software is merely a means of getting something done, treating the means like the end seems questionable.
I am quick to chide Hollywood for being too obvious, and not employing enough subtlety.
Your theory would be an example of too much subtlety. Trying to bash Microsoft into a sympathetic pose on/. would be like hacking slashdot.org itself and trying to build sympathy for CdrTaco through systematic article duplication.
Simply self-defeating.
The first IronINTERCAL project announced will be a MMOG version of a 43-Man Squeamish league.
A crucial feature of this mock-sports extravaganza will be on-the-fly and occasionally randomized rules generation.
Lead developer Q. Wolfgang Imboodaga denied vehemently the accusation that this is really a DARPA project to write a US Congress simulator.
It's also at the heart of around a bazillion lines of VB applications and stuff.
While it would in theory be totally smarter to upgrade everything to.Net and use VSTO and the like, the installed base becomes the chief competition for MS.
Even if MS gave away all of the tools and converters to migrate away from all the VB, there would still be a crushing battle with bureaucratic inertia.
...the need for leaders to offer leadership, and set the direction of the people, vs. the possibly self-destructive will of the people?
An unfiltered lumpen proletariat, in the US case, could choose to drive SUVs until the economy completely dies.
That's why, irrespective of whether you agree with Al Gore's central point, there is value in having prominent people assume a leadership role and try to steer the ship of state in more useful directions.
While style is not unimportant, I'm quite a bit more interested in reasonable features, stability, and keyboard navigation.
Here's a shout out to all ma homiez that really don't require a skinnable, theme-able printing dialog!
The smashing success of ethanol certainly argues in favor of expanding government control of everything.
Ol' Ross even lays out the good news with charts: http://www.perotcharts.com/
DownThemAll 1.0.3
mediaplayerconnectivity 0.9.1
NoScript 1.7.4
Theme: NASA Night Launch 0.6.20080624
disable all of these, still crash-crash
disabled all 9(!) media plug-ins, still crash-crash.
The fact that switching to basic HTML saves the browser would seem to take one in the direction of the javascript interpreter, at least for starters.
Well, if it fixes that tendency to crash the browser if I close a Gmail tab, I'm all for it.
Switching Gmail to BasicHTML and then closing the tab preserves the session. And this ugly baby is easily repeated. Saw bug reports on both Ubuntu and Gentoo about this.
I dunno if it's FF3.0 proper, or the half-dozen extensions (which performed flawlessly under 2.0.14), but it sure is annoying.
I wrote my post thinking of the Byrds and Warners and Kennedys and Helms and Thurmonds (just naming some Senators off the top of my head) who, one could argue, underscored the distorting effect of the seniority system on US politics.
If states were not incentivized to send the same creatures back to DC election after election, I'm betting that there would be more attention paid to the age, health, and overall fitness for service of these people.
The stuffed suits are frequently interchangeable. The real deal is the unelected civil service types on the committee staffs and such.
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It's getting to the point that you need a 2+ year filter just to dampen the noise in the signal.
And let's give a shout out to all of the library homiez. While I'm affluent enough to afford the occasional impulse book at the store with the built-in coffee shop, I do recall many an hour of random wandering in the public library in my youth.
Or wisdom, for that matter.
Portage is also not the only game in .ebuild-ville:
http://paludis.pioto.org/
merits attention: I've used it since about version 0.14 with good justice.
>I found it really nice, and absolutely LOVED the bash-script based package management.
.ebuild files.
Hey, that sounds kinda cool. Maybe Gentoo should consider this idea instead of
A casual glance at Freshmeat and SourceForge will indicate that for a given software category, say package management, even the duplication of effort is duplicated, which would seem the antithesis of 'central planning'.
In contrast, the 800 lb. gorilla approach of MS has, in some ways, been the enema of the process.
Thus, a dispassionate, common-sense approach to using open source when appropriate (a great deal of the time) and proprietary when it makes sense (reasonable cases exist) seems a preferable trade-off.
When you're trying to get something done with a product, and software is merely a means of getting something done, treating the means like the end seems questionable.
I just MetaModerated, and happened across a post saying that DirtyHerring is actually William Shatner, completely refuting your theory.
Big fail, indeed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43-Man_Squamish
Does this mean I don't get my pony?
You, sir, are daft.
I am quick to chide Hollywood for being too obvious, and not employing enough subtlety. Your theory would be an example of too much subtlety. /. would be like hacking slashdot.org itself and trying to build sympathy for CdrTaco through systematic article duplication.
Trying to bash Microsoft into a sympathetic pose on
Simply self-defeating.
This post was right sporting of you, old boy.
The first IronINTERCAL project announced will be a MMOG version of a 43-Man Squeamish league.
A crucial feature of this mock-sports extravaganza will be on-the-fly and occasionally randomized rules generation.
Lead developer Q. Wolfgang Imboodaga denied vehemently the accusation that this is really a DARPA project to write a US Congress simulator.
It's also at the heart of around a bazillion lines of VB applications and stuff. .Net and use VSTO and the like, the installed base becomes the chief competition for MS.
While it would in theory be totally smarter to upgrade everything to
Even if MS gave away all of the tools and converters to migrate away from all the VB, there would still be a crushing battle with bureaucratic inertia.
But steer clear of The Saragossa Manuscript
If Quentin Tarantino ever gets the idea of doing a recursive-descent plot, I predict an immanentization of the eschaton.
Who is pleased easily is pleased often.
I have tons of respect for KDE: those hackers could code me into the dirt.
All of the tweakability is kinda lost on me, though.
...the need for leaders to offer leadership, and set the direction of the people, vs. the possibly self-destructive will of the people?
An unfiltered lumpen proletariat, in the US case, could choose to drive SUVs until the economy completely dies.
That's why, irrespective of whether you agree with Al Gore's central point, there is value in having prominent people assume a leadership role and try to steer the ship of state in more useful directions.
doesn't look like Windows 3.11 anymore,
While style is not unimportant, I'm quite a bit more interested in reasonable features, stability, and keyboard navigation.
Here's a shout out to all ma homiez that really don't require a skinnable, theme-able printing dialog!
That smacks of bumper-sticker material.
...is the value of good old-fashioned study.
The smashing success of ethanol certainly argues in favor of expanding government control of everything.
Ol' Ross even lays out the good news with charts:
http://www.perotcharts.com/
Good excuse to compile with debug flags and see what gdb has to say.
turns up a ton of hits
Or compile a VCS checkout.
DownThemAll 1.0.3
mediaplayerconnectivity 0.9.1
NoScript 1.7.4
Theme: NASA Night Launch 0.6.20080624
disable all of these, still crash-crash
disabled all 9(!) media plug-ins, still crash-crash.
The fact that switching to basic HTML saves the browser would seem to take one in the direction of the javascript interpreter, at least for starters.
Your balls may always rotate
Deiseil or widdershins
What matters is their smoothness
Reflects what's on your chins.
Burma Shave
Well, if it fixes that tendency to crash the browser if I close a Gmail tab, I'm all for it.
Switching Gmail to BasicHTML and then closing the tab preserves the session. And this ugly baby is easily repeated. Saw bug reports on both Ubuntu and Gentoo about this.
I dunno if it's FF3.0 proper, or the half-dozen extensions (which performed flawlessly under 2.0.14), but it sure is annoying.
I wrote my post thinking of the Byrds and Warners and Kennedys and Helms and Thurmonds (just naming some Senators off the top of my head) who, one could argue, underscored the distorting effect of the seniority system on US politics.
If states were not incentivized to send the same creatures back to DC election after election, I'm betting that there would be more attention paid to the age, health, and overall fitness for service of these people.
The stuffed suits are frequently interchangeable. The real deal is the unelected civil service types on the committee staffs and such.