Perl5 and Perl6 are different languages. The equivalent to the python2 to python3 migration in Perl is in the point versions in Perl, and these do occasionally break compatability; yet thanks to the extended testing framework, most major libraries are patched within months, thanks to the magic of CPAN's testing framework.
I have a lab full of PC's that I just reinstalled this week that disagrees with you about having to do nothing on a fresh install.
It was the good old Windows-not-recognising-anything, find-and-download-drivers dance. Windows has gotten better, but it still is a piece of crap.
Never mind the complete absurdity when I first mistakenly downloaded the Win7Pro ISO instead of the SP1 ISO. That one didn't even recognise a SATA CDROM at boot. How old was SATA when Win7 was released?
(And before someone whines about the download, that was a download from the official Microsoft Licensing site. We have a volume license).
I'm surprised at the vitriol launched at the Gnome team for their release policy. It is especially ironic considering that most of the critics want to keep Gnome2, which followed the exact same policy: release a working base system first, then start working on configuration options and extensions/applets.
Have you ever even read a single shred of Nazi ideology? Not a call for immediate violence my arse.
You really are making my point that those who whine the hardest against 'oppression' of Nazi ideology only are looking for an excuse to stop hiding their own sympathies.
If you were a smart guy living in the United States, wouldn't you use your Second Amendment rights and take a gun to your own head?
Between the Creationists, the Climate Change deniers and the constant cutting of basic science funding, I'm surprised there is not yet a mass suicide of despairing intellectuals in the USA.
Meh, Warsteiner is not half bad; at least it has a bit of a bite in the taste. Since I know that the general German taste tends to the really strong Bohemian hops, I realise that to a German 'a bit of a bite' equals 'love in a canoe', but my material for comparison in mass market beers is Heineken or Amstel, which tend to use the blandest hops they can get while still getting away with calling their beer Pilsener.
Either you're an idiot, or you should read other sources than the Right-Wing Echo Chamber.
Nazi apologism is a direct call for persecution and extermination of undesirables, and a call for physicial violence against political opponents. That is the very core of the Nazi ideology, so apology for that can very well be construed as an incitement to violence. One may disagree as to what degree apologism for certain Nazi policies may be seen as an endorsement for the full platform, but quibbling about the princple is mostly a sign that you actually agree with these despicable policies.
As for saying bad things about Muslims, when they start taking the form of saying you want to deport people for even thinking about their faith, then yes, that is hate speech. No-one is complaining about rational criticism, but against the racism that tries to disguise itself as 'religious criticism.
As a native of the Netherlands, let me correct you on one thing: Geert Wilders campaigns against state subsidy for goals he disagrees with. He has absolutely no problem with his causes getting state funding, seeing as that he spent his entire working life working for government-funded institutions.
Actually, this has been a problem ever since news of the labour practices in Nike's subcontractors' factories broke (if not longer).
It is only when it was pointed out that Apple also profited from these slave labour practices that the fanbois suddenly starting making noises of 'you're only hating on Apple'.
I hate to spoil your privileged life, but that you have ignored this problem until your iDol got attention is not the rest of the world's problem.
Gnome 3 does not have a hard dependency on PulseAudio, in the sense that it needs to have the server running.
It has a dependency on the PulseAudio libraries, true, but if you do not install the sound server, or deactivate it, Gnome 3 runs perfectly fine on bare ALSA; I am posting this from a Debian Unstable laptop running Gnome 3, and no PulseAudio.
And the only reason I do not run the PA sound server is because I use Skype occasionally, and that does not play nice with anything but ALSA. Otherwise PulseAudio is, just like Gnome 3, perfectly serviceable, and the whining on the Internet is mostly people who last tried it 2 years ago.
Ah cool, thanks. I've just added a few Hero System games to my collection, and I didn't particularly relish the thought of another system dying off due to publisher issues.
Can I ask one thing? I understand Paragon owns the rights to the Hero System Role-playing Game. What is the upshot of the NCSoft decision for the pen-and-paper RPG?
[White Wolf] sourcebooks are full of nothing but story details,
More detail does not always make for a better story.
characters,
Most of them blatant Mary Sues inserted by the WW staff.
atmosphere tips,
All of them coming down to 'make it dark and dreary, that's, like, deep, you know'. One book specifically mentioned this as a trap to avoid, and that advice was gone in the next edition (Mage 2nd vs. Revised edition).
style tips,
Any style you like, as long as it conforms to our vision of Gothic Punk.
motivations,
For the villains: rule the world. For the Storyteller: force the players into your vision of the Story. For the players: drown yourself in Angst.
alternate storylines,
As long as they have no hope of the players actually making things better. We want nothing heroic, mind you, it must be angsty.
And I strongly suspect the WW poseurs rail against rules because the Storyteller rules are broken.
And it's funny you bring up D&D; I mentioned nothing of what I play or have played, so let me tell you right now: I have played Storyteller, and even run a Mage Chronicle. I quit because White Wolf screwed me over on the Revised edition by going back to being relentlessly dark and dreary.
It didn't help that the Mage and Vampire players I met were without exception dreary poseurs who thought that endless min-maxing of Merits and Flaws and sessions run by Storyteller fiat were the height of the Fine Art of Storytelling.
When I want to run something supernatural in the modern world, I'll stick to the Unisystem, which is about as rules-heavy as Storyteller, without the statistical flaws, and without the pretentious atmosphere surrounding it.
When I want to do an old-fashioned dungeon crawl, because hack and slash is just fun to do occasionally, I'll return to D&D, and no amount of snobbery on your end will convince me to do anything else. And as it turns out, with our group being mature, creative adults, our 'simple' D&D sessions contain more actual story and character interaction than the average Storyteller session.
And for the rest (looks at bookcase): I have about 5 other different systems right here tailored to run whatever fits best; from rules-light to rules-heavy, from free-form narrative to simulationist. And none of them pretending to be the be-all and end-all to role-playing. So take your WW snobbery, and shove it.
Right. NASA makes sure that the final contingency is to be flexible by using an expert at the point of crisis to think up a response on the spot, and you maintain that it used a fragile process.
I even specifically mentioned they did plan for incidents. Nowhere does it say in my post that a robust plan means only relying on flexible response by local experts.
Do you just disagree for the sake of disagreeing? Because this post made you look exceedingly dumb.
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No, it should be modded down, because it adds nothing to the conversation.
And you're an idiot.
Perl5 and Perl6 are different languages. The equivalent to the python2 to python3 migration in Perl is in the point versions in Perl, and these do occasionally break compatability; yet thanks to the extended testing framework, most major libraries are patched within months, thanks to the magic of CPAN's testing framework.
I have a lab full of PC's that I just reinstalled this week that disagrees with you about having to do nothing on a fresh install.
It was the good old Windows-not-recognising-anything, find-and-download-drivers dance. Windows has gotten better, but it still is a piece of crap.
Never mind the complete absurdity when I first mistakenly downloaded the Win7Pro ISO instead of the SP1 ISO. That one didn't even recognise a SATA CDROM at boot. How old was SATA when Win7 was released?
(And before someone whines about the download, that was a download from the official Microsoft Licensing site. We have a volume license).
That sense of iHumour of yours? You're holding it wrong.
I'm surprised at the vitriol launched at the Gnome team for their release policy. It is especially ironic considering that most of the critics want to keep Gnome2, which followed the exact same policy: release a working base system first, then start working on configuration options and extensions/applets.
What shows you hate veterans more? Using a wrong ship as a backdrop at a PR event, or torpedoing a bill that would give them jobs?
Have you ever even read a single shred of Nazi ideology? Not a call for immediate violence my arse.
You really are making my point that those who whine the hardest against 'oppression' of Nazi ideology only are looking for an excuse to stop hiding their own sympathies.
If you were a smart guy living in the United States, wouldn't you use your Second Amendment rights and take a gun to your own head?
Between the Creationists, the Climate Change deniers and the constant cutting of basic science funding, I'm surprised there is not yet a mass suicide of despairing intellectuals in the USA.
Mart
Meh, Warsteiner is not half bad; at least it has a bit of a bite in the taste. Since I know that the general German taste tends to the really strong Bohemian hops, I realise that to a German 'a bit of a bite' equals 'love in a canoe', but my material for comparison in mass market beers is Heineken or Amstel, which tend to use the blandest hops they can get while still getting away with calling their beer Pilsener.
Either you're an idiot, or you should read other sources than the Right-Wing Echo Chamber.
Nazi apologism is a direct call for persecution and extermination of undesirables, and a call for physicial violence against political opponents. That is the very core of the Nazi ideology, so apology for that can very well be construed as an incitement to violence. One may disagree as to what degree apologism for certain Nazi policies may be seen as an endorsement for the full platform, but quibbling about the princple is mostly a sign that you actually agree with these despicable policies.
As for saying bad things about Muslims, when they start taking the form of saying you want to deport people for even thinking about their faith, then yes, that is hate speech. No-one is complaining about rational criticism, but against the racism that tries to disguise itself as 'religious criticism.
Mart
As a native of the Netherlands, let me correct you on one thing: Geert Wilders campaigns against state subsidy for goals he disagrees with. He has absolutely no problem with his causes getting state funding, seeing as that he spent his entire working life working for government-funded institutions.
Mart
Fuck off. You do nothing but defend Apple, just as you do now; in this case by trying to deflect attention away from your iDol.
Mart
Here's a hint, fanboy: if you become popular, people tend to pay attention to you. Why is that so hard to understand for you iZombies?
Actually, this has been a problem ever since news of the labour practices in Nike's subcontractors' factories broke (if not longer).
It is only when it was pointed out that Apple also profited from these slave labour practices that the fanbois suddenly starting making noises of 'you're only hating on Apple'.
I hate to spoil your privileged life, but that you have ignored this problem until your iDol got attention is not the rest of the world's problem.
Behold the sense of iHumor.
nVidia does not have to care about anyone's philosophy.
On the other hand, they do want to sell something, so what's wrong with pointing what some of their potential customers want?
You forget to mention that starting a random business is so much easier if you're the scion of a wealthy family.
Gnome 3 does not have a hard dependency on PulseAudio, in the sense that it needs to have the server running.
It has a dependency on the PulseAudio libraries, true, but if you do not install the sound server, or deactivate it, Gnome 3 runs perfectly fine on bare ALSA; I am posting this from a Debian Unstable laptop running Gnome 3, and no PulseAudio.
And the only reason I do not run the PA sound server is because I use Skype occasionally, and that does not play nice with anything but ALSA. Otherwise PulseAudio is, just like Gnome 3, perfectly serviceable, and the whining on the Internet is mostly people who last tried it 2 years ago.
Ah cool, thanks. I've just added a few Hero System games to my collection, and I didn't particularly relish the thought of another system dying off due to publisher issues.
Mart
Ubuntu is not well-supported. They patch the hell out of their packages, breaking standardised builds.
Ubuntu only really works with packages and tools specifically supplied for Ubuntu.
Mart
Hi Tony,
Can I ask one thing? I understand Paragon owns the rights to the Hero System Role-playing Game. What is the upshot of the NCSoft decision for the pen-and-paper RPG?
Mart
The problem is that every cowboy coder insists that he is the rockstar, it's the others that are the cowboys.
Mart
More detail does not always make for a better story.
Most of them blatant Mary Sues inserted by the WW staff.
All of them coming down to 'make it dark and dreary, that's, like, deep, you know'. One book specifically mentioned this as a trap to avoid, and that advice was gone in the next edition (Mage 2nd vs. Revised edition).
Any style you like, as long as it conforms to our vision of Gothic Punk.
For the villains: rule the world. For the Storyteller: force the players into your vision of the Story. For the players: drown yourself in Angst.
As long as they have no hope of the players actually making things better. We want nothing heroic, mind you, it must be angsty.
And I strongly suspect the WW poseurs rail against rules because the Storyteller rules are broken.
And it's funny you bring up D&D; I mentioned nothing of what I play or have played, so let me tell you right now: I have played Storyteller, and even run a Mage Chronicle. I quit because White Wolf screwed me over on the Revised edition by going back to being relentlessly dark and dreary.
It didn't help that the Mage and Vampire players I met were without exception dreary poseurs who thought that endless min-maxing of Merits and Flaws and sessions run by Storyteller fiat were the height of the Fine Art of Storytelling.
When I want to run something supernatural in the modern world, I'll stick to the Unisystem, which is about as rules-heavy as Storyteller, without the statistical flaws, and without the pretentious atmosphere surrounding it.
When I want to do an old-fashioned dungeon crawl, because hack and slash is just fun to do occasionally, I'll return to D&D, and no amount of snobbery on your end will convince me to do anything else. And as it turns out, with our group being mature, creative adults, our 'simple' D&D sessions contain more actual story and character interaction than the average Storyteller session.
And for the rest (looks at bookcase): I have about 5 other different systems right here tailored to run whatever fits best; from rules-light to rules-heavy, from free-form narrative to simulationist. And none of them pretending to be the be-all and end-all to role-playing. So take your WW snobbery, and shove it.
Yeah, like it's really so hard to just click the middle mouse button on the Wikipedia link that's right in the bloody summary
Slashdot really needs a '-1, Whiny little twerp' moderation.
Right. NASA makes sure that the final contingency is to be flexible by using an expert at the point of crisis to think up a response on the spot, and you maintain that it used a fragile process.
I even specifically mentioned they did plan for incidents. Nowhere does it say in my post that a robust plan means only relying on flexible response by local experts.
Do you just disagree for the sake of disagreeing? Because this post made you look exceedingly dumb.