Advocating on behalf of a group that has lower than average educational achievement, lifetime salaries, and for that matter life expectancy, is not racism.
If that group is defined by its race, then yes, it is. You've set up a double standard here.
Heralding the achievements of a symbolic leader of that group, and hoping that it has a motivational impact on the rest of the group, is also not racist.
There are a lot of people, even among those who subscribe to the idea that hating a powerful group is somehow different and more acceptable than hating a less powerful one, who would disagree. Your very quote states that, to paraphrase, "those people need motivation." Is that not a racist statement?
If people are to be treated equally -as they should- then they must be treated equally. Stopping racial bias will not happen just by switching the scapegoat around; it is the scapegoating itself which must end.
Most of what SNL did was just quote her straight-up, which is the truly scary part: SNL didn't even need to write most of its own jokes. Palin is just that much of a twit, and the worst part is that she knew just enough to twist this to her advantage in the debates. Someone capable of this is not someone who belongs within 5000 miles of the most powerful office in the US (and, arguably, the world).
Palin is not the first person whose greatest attack ads were simply her own words played back at her. Sadly, she will probably not be the last either. But when they do spring up, there is good reason to fear them.
It's a shame about McCain. It really is. He's a strong statesman, a good politician, and he probably would have been at least as good for the country (if in different ways) than Obama. But Palin had to be stopped, and fortunately, she was. You might even say that she won the election; she just won it for the opposing side.
All the election really decided is in which direction the downward spiral will continue to spin for the next four years. It seems that it will spin left instead of right. Neither candidate gave me high hopes for it turning upward; not when the right has forgotten mercy, the left has forgotten justice, and the middle has forgotten willpower.
Still, congratulations on a campaign well-fought and well-won.
If it is that much better, why arent they just replacing Firefox with it??
They will, though it will be called Firefox when that happens. "Minefield" is just the code name for Firefox 3 nightlies, and it's called that for a reason: as a developer-intended build, it's prone to blowing up.
It will be released when it is ready. That time isn't yet.
The minimal UI would be perfect not just for mobile phones, but for other small-screen devices (I'd use it on my eee, for instance). This is obviously not the core market for Fennec, but I'd love to see an extension which added back just a few "desktop/laptop" conveniences:
Keyboard shortcuts, at least for Back, Forward, Reload, Open Location, Find (and Find Again), Print, Cut, Copy, and Paste.
Scrolling around in pages, not just vertically but also horizontally.
Some means to highlight, cut/copy, and paste.
Again, I'm not necessarily saying these should be folded into the core Fennec distro; "full" computers aren't its main market. But an extension would be nice.
Face it- the US president manufactured a complete financial meltdown and two wars which will most likely last over ten years. There's also another presidential election, which may be the first federal election in over ten years which hasn't been rigged.
You forgot to mention the part where Bush is a servant of the Anunnaki sent to keep the populace in control. How can you have a good conspiracy theory without EVIL ALIEN SERPENT PEOPLE?
Probably not, actually. DS units are still selling out, and Nintendo cannot sell a DS that it has not yet built.
What if Nintendo has the expertise to add the new functions without ruining the existing game-play features?
If it were entirely in Nintendo's hands that would be one thing, but it's not. Give third parties even the slightest chance to take the easy way out over putting in the effort to make quality games, and they'll take that way out every time.
And there is also a chance it won't be called a "DS" and will be a new product line that won't affect the game-players.
I seem to remember Nintendo saying that about a certain other new system back in 2004.
Nintendo has generally been about not bloating its systems in the past. Why would they release a new DS with all this crap while it's still going strong?
The market has spoken, and HD just isn't worth the price. Is there a difference? Sure, but it's not big enough for most people to care about.
Blu-Ray is more a casualty of this problem than the cause. The real problem is that HD sets in a size big enough for the resolution to matter much still aren't affordable. Of course, they can't get affordable unless more people buy them, but more people won't buy them until the price comes down, and so the cycle continues.
Ok, I know you want to think that this can be done... but how exactly do you air gap a system that produces 15 Petabytes of data annually and share that data with 100's of labs around the world?
By accepting that while sharing the data is important, doing it in realtime is not. Run the experiments with an air gap, and once the data collection is finished, then connect the systems for analysis and sharing.
You mean to tell me that the builders of the LHC didn't even have the foresight to air-gap the control system? Christ; you'd think they wanted people to shut it down.
Think about it, people. This will probably be the most-attacked computer system in the world for the next month or two, most of it coming from crazed doomsayers with delusions of Saving The World (tm). An air gap is the pretty much the least you can do against something like that.
What do you mean, 'black magic'? A tube can be filled and if it is filled, when you fly your plane in, it gets in line and it's going to be destroyed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of fuel, enormous amounts of fuel.
Gecko is bloated. No one disputes this anymore, even within Mozilla. That is being worked on.
But outdated? I don't think so, or at least, it doesn't need to be. Fixing that is a matter of getting priorities back on track: standards support must be Job 1 again, and that means not just the specs but the testsuites basedon them.
The future of standards support is not in what specs you implement: it's in what tests you pass. Once the Gecko team wakes up and sees this, as its competitors have, then I believe we'll see it become competitive again.
Oh, come on, people. Seven of the ten are graphical fluff, and the rest are gimmicks that make no meaningful difference to the gameplay experience. Why couldn't they have listed things that actually, you know, matter?
Oh, wait; I know why. This is a review outlet; they like Shinies (tm) because it's easier to throw up a couple of screenshots and say "this game is pretty" than actually write a meaningful description and say "this game is entertaining." A cancer on gaming, the whole lot of them.
The thing about unions is that they require basically 100% participation in order to function. The monopoly on labor is where a union's power comes from; without it, companies can simply look elsewhere for employees.
In the past, this has not been so much of a problem, because most jobs have required the worker to be physically present at the work site. This makes the process of maintaining a monopoly much easier, because you only have to focus on one region. The employer can't feasibly move elsewhere, and so if you have a lock on the region then you have a lock on the employer.
The problem with unionizing IT is that you can't do this. IT jobs, by their nature, no longer require the worker to be present at the work site, and in fact much IT effort has gone into making this a reality. This effectively expands "the region" out to the whole world, and so you would need a worldwide union that all IT workers are required to join. This is not going to happen; not now, not in the near-term future, and likely not ever.
None of this is to say that IT workers don't need better working conditions. We clearly do. But the nature of our field makes the union approach impractical: those who fear outsourcing are correct in that. What we need to do is find another way.
What's the answer? I don't know. But we need something that works for us, and something that requires a monopoly we can't obtain is not it.
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Sure, they can do that, but it would likely amount to forking the tree, since there is simply no way Google will accept such an extension back into its own codebase. Forks like that don't tend to do all that well.
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Advocating on behalf of a group that has lower than average educational achievement, lifetime salaries, and for that matter life expectancy, is not racism.
If that group is defined by its race, then yes, it is. You've set up a double standard here.
Heralding the achievements of a symbolic leader of that group, and hoping that it has a motivational impact on the rest of the group, is also not racist.
There are a lot of people, even among those who subscribe to the idea that hating a powerful group is somehow different and more acceptable than hating a less powerful one, who would disagree. Your very quote states that, to paraphrase, "those people need motivation." Is that not a racist statement?
If people are to be treated equally -as they should- then they must be treated equally. Stopping racial bias will not happen just by switching the scapegoat around; it is the scapegoating itself which must end.
Most of what SNL did was just quote her straight-up, which is the truly scary part: SNL didn't even need to write most of its own jokes. Palin is just that much of a twit, and the worst part is that she knew just enough to twist this to her advantage in the debates. Someone capable of this is not someone who belongs within 5000 miles of the most powerful office in the US (and, arguably, the world).
Palin is not the first person whose greatest attack ads were simply her own words played back at her. Sadly, she will probably not be the last either. But when they do spring up, there is good reason to fear them.
It's a shame about McCain. It really is. He's a strong statesman, a good politician, and he probably would have been at least as good for the country (if in different ways) than Obama. But Palin had to be stopped, and fortunately, she was. You might even say that she won the election; she just won it for the opposing side.
What's moronic about refusing to judge someone by such meaningless things as the color of their skin?
All the election really decided is in which direction the downward spiral will continue to spin for the next four years. It seems that it will spin left instead of right. Neither candidate gave me high hopes for it turning upward; not when the right has forgotten mercy, the left has forgotten justice, and the middle has forgotten willpower.
Still, congratulations on a campaign well-fought and well-won.
If it is that much better, why arent they just replacing Firefox with it??
They will, though it will be called Firefox when that happens. "Minefield" is just the code name for Firefox 3 nightlies, and it's called that for a reason: as a developer-intended build, it's prone to blowing up.
It will be released when it is ready. That time isn't yet.
The minimal UI would be perfect not just for mobile phones, but for other small-screen devices (I'd use it on my eee, for instance). This is obviously not the core market for Fennec, but I'd love to see an extension which added back just a few "desktop/laptop" conveniences:
Again, I'm not necessarily saying these should be folded into the core Fennec distro; "full" computers aren't its main market. But an extension would be nice.
It's a sad day, dood. Think he'll join up soon?
Working to earn money is eeeeeevil, didn't you know? Get with the times.
And how many should it be generating?
Face it- the US president manufactured a complete financial meltdown and two wars which will most likely last over ten years. There's also another presidential election, which may be the first federal election in over ten years which hasn't been rigged.
You forgot to mention the part where Bush is a servant of the Anunnaki sent to keep the populace in control. How can you have a good conspiracy theory without EVIL ALIEN SERPENT PEOPLE ?
So they managed to bloat it (camera, music) AND cripple it (GBA, battery) at the same time? No thanks, Nintendo; swing and miss.
When the servers crash, nothing gets through at all. Is this not perhaps a lesser evil?
Because it will make them trillions of more yen?
Probably not, actually. DS units are still selling out, and Nintendo cannot sell a DS that it has not yet built.
What if Nintendo has the expertise to add the new functions without ruining the existing game-play features?
If it were entirely in Nintendo's hands that would be one thing, but it's not. Give third parties even the slightest chance to take the easy way out over putting in the effort to make quality games, and they'll take that way out every time.
And there is also a chance it won't be called a "DS" and will be a new product line that won't affect the game-players.
I seem to remember Nintendo saying that about a certain other new system back in 2004.
Nintendo has generally been about not bloating its systems in the past. Why would they release a new DS with all this crap while it's still going strong?
The market has spoken, and HD just isn't worth the price. Is there a difference? Sure, but it's not big enough for most people to care about.
Blu-Ray is more a casualty of this problem than the cause. The real problem is that HD sets in a size big enough for the resolution to matter much still aren't affordable. Of course, they can't get affordable unless more people buy them, but more people won't buy them until the price comes down, and so the cycle continues.
Come on; if Google were going to get into the business of absorbing things, surely we'd be seeing Google Shamwow! or something along those lines.
1) Does it come in black?
2) Is it suitable for use on doors?
3) Does the answer to 2) change if the door was originally red, and if so, how?
Ok, I know you want to think that this can be done... but how exactly do you air gap a system that produces 15 Petabytes of data annually and share that data with 100's of labs around the world?
By accepting that while sharing the data is important, doing it in realtime is not. Run the experiments with an air gap, and once the data collection is finished, then connect the systems for analysis and sharing.
You mean to tell me that the builders of the LHC didn't even have the foresight to air-gap the control system? Christ; you'd think they wanted people to shut it down.
Think about it, people. This will probably be the most-attacked computer system in the world for the next month or two, most of it coming from crazed doomsayers with delusions of Saving The World (tm). An air gap is the pretty much the least you can do against something like that.
The court is right about one thing: the law is too vague. Fix the law, and then there will be no problem with the courts.
It sounds to me like what you want is K-Meleon. But why not accept that the Web is not a native app, and neither needs nor should have native widgets?
What do you mean, 'black magic'? A tube can be filled and if it is filled, when you fly your plane in, it gets in line and it's going to be destroyed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of fuel, enormous amounts of fuel.
Gecko is bloated. No one disputes this anymore, even within Mozilla. That is being worked on.
But outdated? I don't think so, or at least, it doesn't need to be. Fixing that is a matter of getting priorities back on track: standards support must be Job 1 again, and that means not just the specs but the test suites based on them.
The future of standards support is not in what specs you implement: it's in what tests you pass. Once the Gecko team wakes up and sees this, as its competitors have, then I believe we'll see it become competitive again.
Oh, come on, people. Seven of the ten are graphical fluff, and the rest are gimmicks that make no meaningful difference to the gameplay experience. Why couldn't they have listed things that actually, you know, matter?
Oh, wait; I know why. This is a review outlet; they like Shinies (tm) because it's easier to throw up a couple of screenshots and say "this game is pretty" than actually write a meaningful description and say "this game is entertaining." A cancer on gaming, the whole lot of them.
The thing about unions is that they require basically 100% participation in order to function. The monopoly on labor is where a union's power comes from; without it, companies can simply look elsewhere for employees.
In the past, this has not been so much of a problem, because most jobs have required the worker to be physically present at the work site. This makes the process of maintaining a monopoly much easier, because you only have to focus on one region. The employer can't feasibly move elsewhere, and so if you have a lock on the region then you have a lock on the employer.
The problem with unionizing IT is that you can't do this. IT jobs, by their nature, no longer require the worker to be present at the work site, and in fact much IT effort has gone into making this a reality. This effectively expands "the region" out to the whole world, and so you would need a worldwide union that all IT workers are required to join. This is not going to happen; not now, not in the near-term future, and likely not ever.
None of this is to say that IT workers don't need better working conditions. We clearly do. But the nature of our field makes the union approach impractical: those who fear outsourcing are correct in that. What we need to do is find another way.
What's the answer? I don't know. But we need something that works for us, and something that requires a monopoly we can't obtain is not it.
Sure, they can do that, but it would likely amount to forking the tree, since there is simply no way Google will accept such an extension back into its own codebase. Forks like that don't tend to do all that well.