on the other hand, they are spending (probably) a lot of developer time that could be spent enhancing kde 4 faster and more efficiently
Exactly. That was my first reaction to hearing this. This is the kind of crap that happens all the time in corporate America, right before the project goes to shit. I'd prefer they not overreach. I don't really care about introducing windows users to KDE.
While in beta, it worked. The release candidates worked. The final versions worked.
Unfortunately, I don't find that the case anymore. I still use Firefox, but it seems to get buggier and buggier as time goes on. I now routinely "reboot" Firefox like I remember having to do with Windows 95. Granted, it could be due to a number of factors, but I still consider it the most unstable app I use by far.
...they just need to stick with it for a while. All I've ever wanted were reasonably high quality MP3s at a decent rate and no stupid subscription. Amazon has done that and now they get my money again. That wasn't that hard, now was it. There's simply no reason to download illegally (non-participating labels aside), given most peoples level of music consumption. I don't see how this spells trouble at all. It only spells profit. Something, I've come to believe, corporate America is no longer interested in.
And then there are the racist wackos who are coalescing around his movement.
I don't come across these types of people in the meetup group I've been attending. But whenever I engage a Giuliani supporter, their points quickly degrade into Muslim bashing and how we need to bomb them all back to the stone age. From my perspective, the racist / genocidal types seem to be drawn to the "mainstream" candidates. I've encountered nothing but hope, optimism and peace on the Ron Paul side.
So... if you were a big media company what would you do?
I'd sell people the rights to download the movie at any time (for a nominal ~$1 bandwidth fee per download) in the latest format. I'm sure I'm not the only one who got tired of buying the same media multiple times only to have a new tech supplant it two years later. I think piracy is a practical matter for many. It's not worth spending much money on something that you'll only get to watch a couple of times before it becomes obsolete.
In the UK folks are talking about dropping the urban speed limit from 30mph to 20mph because of the numbers of lives it will save.
I assume you mean kilometers per hour. Or are you still on mph like the US? My car hits 20 mph in neutral, just from the engine vibrations, and that's just a civic. Most cars can't even accurately report speeds this low, so it's almost impossible to comply with such a law.
As for lives saved, I'm sure the stress that this will cause will lead to far more stokes and heart attacks in the long run than it will save pedestrians. As Homer Simpson would (correctly) say, "but millions will be late!" Seriously though, why stress out millions to save the lives of a few idiots? I thought us Americans were the only ones who didn't believe in Darwinism.
Yep, with story after story like this, the UK are the only countries in worse shape than the US. And that's saying a lot.
Every time a new tax is proposes, all the supporters come out and say it's no big deal if it's only a buck or two. But it never, ever stays at those levels. Income tax was suppose to only be a 1% tax for the richest and look how out of control that's gotten. The George Washington bride in NY started off with a 25 cent toll that was suppose to go away once it was payed off. Well it's been paid off and now it's a $6 toll. Do much traveling? 25% to 50% of those tickets just go to taxes. You add up all the taxes, deductions and regulatory fees and over half of what you make is going to the government. This puts us on par with Roman slaves yet people still call themselves free. And what have we gotten for all these extorted funds? A world that hates us, a collapsing economy and a complete evisceration of the constitution. But hey, it's only a couple of bucks!
The joke is that the French generally don't mind if you don't speak French, but they really appreciate it if you just try a few words.
Can someone settle, once and for all, if this is true or not? I know a lot more French than I let on when I'm in France, because I've often heard it said that the French hate it when people butcher their language. So I don't try anymore. Would they rather hear a butchered French or simple English, coming from a native English speaker?
The same goes for knowing a few basic words in any other language. I'll often learn enough to place basic orders, but then they say something back to me that forces me to say, "sorry I don't know how to speak X." Did I waste their time misleading them in the first place? I love to travel, I wish I had a better sense of this.
The truth is though, pointing is the most important language there is. You can usually get by almost anywhere with hand-gestures.
I know you got modded funny, but it's absolutely true. Most Americans I know would love to learn other languages but, without the need, it's hard to keep 'em fresh. Before I travel anywhere, I always try to pick up at least a little of the native language, but more often than not, people seem almost offended if you assume they can't speak English. It varies somewhat from country to country, but it does seem to often be the case. Also, I couldn't help notice that Asian tourists (both Asias), in non-English speaking countries, use English to communicate as well. So I stopped feeling guilty about it.
Now if only we can get the British to speak English, we'd be set.;)
If we really cared about pacifying Iran, encouraging that groundswell would have been the way to go. I'm not sure what the demographics are today, but a few years back, I had heard it reported that the percentage of youngings to older folk had once again matched where it had been during the '79 revolution (like 50% 18 y/o). And like all children, they're more into fun than supporting a bunch of crusty old mullahs. Whenever you have such a disparity, revolution is easy. Children rebel against the most oppressive authority. In '79, that was our boy, the Shah. This time around, we could have easily worked it to our favor. That's if de-radicalizing the region was our goal. But there's less money to be made in the absence of conflict.
So we'll likely bomb the shit out of them, once again making us the authority to rebel against. Then we can point to the "terrorists" who'll spawn from this next campaign as our reason for never leaving the region. And since we can never leave, democrats and republicans will continue to fund our corporate welfare defense contractors, lest they be accused of "not supporting the troops." And once we proclaim further regional instability, we'll never be able to abandon our "ally", Israel, lest they nuke the shit out of the world's main oil supply, given their paranoia. And having constant doubt surround the world oil supply let's us all graciously accept whatever price the oil companies want to charge us, since we all know how much worse it can be. Regional instability is in the American government's interest, it's not a fuck up.
Dying in a cafe makes it easier to identify a connection. I imagine this does happen over here though. However it likely gets recorded as something else.
I'm a binge gamer. I can go months without playing and then go off the deep end in a single weekend. Those binge weekends involve me getting up at 7 in the morning and playing some RTS until 11 at night. Let me tell you, that come 11pm, I am not healthy. I don't think it has as much to do with the game as much as it has to do with forgetting to eat and drink all day. I can quite literally get the shakes after a day like that. I have always assumed that was due to dehydration, but who knows.
I've since learned to watch myself more closely. Or at least, I'll try to stop before 9pm so that I can get some dinner in me and wind down some. And I only do that a few times a year, otherwise I'd be in real bad shape. Anything taken to excess is bad, but it's so easy to forget to take a break when all you have to do is sit in a chair and point and click all day. It's easy for me to believe these stories.
Well, I just read the specifics. The onus for inspections was on the UN. And according to resolution 687, section C, subsection 8, Iraq need only accept the destruction of said weapons under international supervision. In other words, it wasn't Iraq's responsibility to provide proof, it was the UNs. The question is, whether or not he was cooperating with the inspectors. And until the end he was (as evidenced by the fact that we couldn't find anything and through the inspectors' own words). But that end came well after the timelines established by the resolution for the UN to finish their job and it was quite clear that we were never going to lift the sanctions, so no person in their right mind would continue cooperating forever.
Aside from the fact that the British signed the title of a country they didn't want to govern composed of people UNABLE to govern themselves
Umm, the British signed it over because they were fed up with Zionist terrorism. Not that the British should have been there in the first place, but your statement could have been written by Goebbels himself. This is a perfect example of how racism is still considered perfectly acceptable in modern society as long as it's directed against the approved groups. I hear this kind of crap all the time and it typically comes from people who should know better. I'm sure their inability to govern themselves must reflect their weak genetic stock, right?
Wow, you're a real family-is-half-dead kind of guy.
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I can't believe that anyone who lived through this would possible be confused as to who won. The answer is, "we don't know." Every time they counted the votes, they got a different result. And that was only in one state. Imagine if they recounted every state several times over. This is yet another issue of faith. Now the 2004 election is a different story. When you start receiving more votes than registered voters (in certain districts) and the exit polls are off by over 10 points (as bad as the Ukraine election that we dismissed), then you don't need faith to understand that something fishy is going on.
Please don't bother telling me that inspections would have provided this proof. He toyed with the inspectors like a schoolboy playing keep away.
The inspections already did provide the proof that he didn't have anything left. We said fuck the proof and went to war anyway. And if anyone was toying with the inspections it was us by planting CIA operatives among them. This lead to complaints by the real inspectors that their jobs were being jeopardized as a result. Once inspectors like Scott Ritter came forward and confirmed this, Sadaam stopped cooperating, but by that point, Madeline Albright already made the statement that we would not lift sanctions under any circumstances as long as he was in power. What d'ya want him to do at that point? Bend over and lube up his own ass for us? We didn't give him a way out.
This really ticks me off though. I've always wanted to visit all the major cities in the world. I've been to most but I keep skipping London because it's just one story after another like this. And I know America isn't much better, but I wouldn't visit it either if I didn't live there. I guess I'll just have to accept that all I'll ever know of London is from Benny Hill and 1984. Oh yeah, what ever happened to that V for Vendetta guy. Seemed like a swell chap.
No, it's you who really doesn't understand. Java is used on the back-ends to create the dynamic HTML you're looking at (Java, PHP or MS alternative). No Java runs on your box, so it doesn't matter what your browser is. Really, you shouldn't be posting on slashdot if you don't understand that most HTML is dynamically generated by some other language. Ever see a webpage that ends in.jsp, cause that's guaranteed to be Java, but so are many other pages that wouldn't offer you any indication. This just proves my belief that people only ever slam Java in total ignorance of what it's really used for.
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on the other hand, they are spending (probably) a lot of developer time that could be spent enhancing kde 4 faster and more efficiently
Exactly. That was my first reaction to hearing this. This is the kind of crap that happens all the time in corporate America, right before the project goes to shit. I'd prefer they not overreach. I don't really care about introducing windows users to KDE.
While in beta, it worked. The release candidates worked. The final versions worked.
Unfortunately, I don't find that the case anymore. I still use Firefox, but it seems to get buggier and buggier as time goes on. I now routinely "reboot" Firefox like I remember having to do with Windows 95. Granted, it could be due to a number of factors, but I still consider it the most unstable app I use by far.
...they just need to stick with it for a while. All I've ever wanted were reasonably high quality MP3s at a decent rate and no stupid subscription. Amazon has done that and now they get my money again. That wasn't that hard, now was it. There's simply no reason to download illegally (non-participating labels aside), given most peoples level of music consumption. I don't see how this spells trouble at all. It only spells profit. Something, I've come to believe, corporate America is no longer interested in.
No, terrorists could use rocks as weapons.
Not to mention that WMD they used to take out the dinosaurs.
And then there are the racist wackos who are coalescing around his movement.
I don't come across these types of people in the meetup group I've been attending. But whenever I engage a Giuliani supporter, their points quickly degrade into Muslim bashing and how we need to bomb them all back to the stone age. From my perspective, the racist / genocidal types seem to be drawn to the "mainstream" candidates. I've encountered nothing but hope, optimism and peace on the Ron Paul side.
For all we know, that's where John from Cincinnati was going.
...until it can print another 3D printer.
So ... if you were a big media company what would you do?
I'd sell people the rights to download the movie at any time (for a nominal ~$1 bandwidth fee per download) in the latest format. I'm sure I'm not the only one who got tired of buying the same media multiple times only to have a new tech supplant it two years later. I think piracy is a practical matter for many. It's not worth spending much money on something that you'll only get to watch a couple of times before it becomes obsolete.
In the UK folks are talking about dropping the urban speed limit from 30mph to 20mph because of the numbers of lives it will save.
I assume you mean kilometers per hour. Or are you still on mph like the US? My car hits 20 mph in neutral, just from the engine vibrations, and that's just a civic. Most cars can't even accurately report speeds this low, so it's almost impossible to comply with such a law.
As for lives saved, I'm sure the stress that this will cause will lead to far more stokes and heart attacks in the long run than it will save pedestrians. As Homer Simpson would (correctly) say, "but millions will be late!" Seriously though, why stress out millions to save the lives of a few idiots? I thought us Americans were the only ones who didn't believe in Darwinism.
Yep, with story after story like this, the UK are the only countries in worse shape than the US. And that's saying a lot.
Every time a new tax is proposes, all the supporters come out and say it's no big deal if it's only a buck or two. But it never, ever stays at those levels. Income tax was suppose to only be a 1% tax for the richest and look how out of control that's gotten. The George Washington bride in NY started off with a 25 cent toll that was suppose to go away once it was payed off. Well it's been paid off and now it's a $6 toll. Do much traveling? 25% to 50% of those tickets just go to taxes. You add up all the taxes, deductions and regulatory fees and over half of what you make is going to the government. This puts us on par with Roman slaves yet people still call themselves free. And what have we gotten for all these extorted funds? A world that hates us, a collapsing economy and a complete evisceration of the constitution. But hey, it's only a couple of bucks!
nor do we sell our daughters into slavery
Speak for yourself. I expect to retire young.
The joke is that the French generally don't mind if you don't speak French, but they really appreciate it if you just try a few words.
Can someone settle, once and for all, if this is true or not? I know a lot more French than I let on when I'm in France, because I've often heard it said that the French hate it when people butcher their language. So I don't try anymore. Would they rather hear a butchered French or simple English, coming from a native English speaker?
The same goes for knowing a few basic words in any other language. I'll often learn enough to place basic orders, but then they say something back to me that forces me to say, "sorry I don't know how to speak X." Did I waste their time misleading them in the first place? I love to travel, I wish I had a better sense of this.
The truth is though, pointing is the most important language there is. You can usually get by almost anywhere with hand-gestures.
Yeah, it worked so well the last time we did that.
I know you got modded funny, but it's absolutely true. Most Americans I know would love to learn other languages but, without the need, it's hard to keep 'em fresh. Before I travel anywhere, I always try to pick up at least a little of the native language, but more often than not, people seem almost offended if you assume they can't speak English. It varies somewhat from country to country, but it does seem to often be the case. Also, I couldn't help notice that Asian tourists (both Asias), in non-English speaking countries, use English to communicate as well. So I stopped feeling guilty about it.
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Now if only we can get the British to speak English, we'd be set.
What do you call a person who knows 1 language? 'American'.
Um, excuse me blood, I speak jive. As do many of us.
If we really cared about pacifying Iran, encouraging that groundswell would have been the way to go. I'm not sure what the demographics are today, but a few years back, I had heard it reported that the percentage of youngings to older folk had once again matched where it had been during the '79 revolution (like 50% 18 y/o). And like all children, they're more into fun than supporting a bunch of crusty old mullahs. Whenever you have such a disparity, revolution is easy. Children rebel against the most oppressive authority. In '79, that was our boy, the Shah. This time around, we could have easily worked it to our favor. That's if de-radicalizing the region was our goal. But there's less money to be made in the absence of conflict.
So we'll likely bomb the shit out of them, once again making us the authority to rebel against. Then we can point to the "terrorists" who'll spawn from this next campaign as our reason for never leaving the region. And since we can never leave, democrats and republicans will continue to fund our corporate welfare defense contractors, lest they be accused of "not supporting the troops." And once we proclaim further regional instability, we'll never be able to abandon our "ally", Israel, lest they nuke the shit out of the world's main oil supply, given their paranoia. And having constant doubt surround the world oil supply let's us all graciously accept whatever price the oil companies want to charge us, since we all know how much worse it can be. Regional instability is in the American government's interest, it's not a fuck up.
Dying in a cafe makes it easier to identify a connection. I imagine this does happen over here though. However it likely gets recorded as something else.
I'm a binge gamer. I can go months without playing and then go off the deep end in a single weekend. Those binge weekends involve me getting up at 7 in the morning and playing some RTS until 11 at night. Let me tell you, that come 11pm, I am not healthy. I don't think it has as much to do with the game as much as it has to do with forgetting to eat and drink all day. I can quite literally get the shakes after a day like that. I have always assumed that was due to dehydration, but who knows.
I've since learned to watch myself more closely. Or at least, I'll try to stop before 9pm so that I can get some dinner in me and wind down some. And I only do that a few times a year, otherwise I'd be in real bad shape. Anything taken to excess is bad, but it's so easy to forget to take a break when all you have to do is sit in a chair and point and click all day. It's easy for me to believe these stories.
Well, I just read the specifics. The onus for inspections was on the UN. And according to resolution 687, section C, subsection 8, Iraq need only accept the destruction of said weapons under international supervision. In other words, it wasn't Iraq's responsibility to provide proof, it was the UNs. The question is, whether or not he was cooperating with the inspectors. And until the end he was (as evidenced by the fact that we couldn't find anything and through the inspectors' own words). But that end came well after the timelines established by the resolution for the UN to finish their job and it was quite clear that we were never going to lift the sanctions, so no person in their right mind would continue cooperating forever.
Aside from the fact that the British signed the title of a country they didn't want to govern composed of people UNABLE to govern themselves
Umm, the British signed it over because they were fed up with Zionist terrorism. Not that the British should have been there in the first place, but your statement could have been written by Goebbels himself. This is a perfect example of how racism is still considered perfectly acceptable in modern society as long as it's directed against the approved groups. I hear this kind of crap all the time and it typically comes from people who should know better. I'm sure their inability to govern themselves must reflect their weak genetic stock, right?
Wow, you're a real family-is-half-dead kind of guy.
I can't believe that anyone who lived through this would possible be confused as to who won. The answer is, "we don't know." Every time they counted the votes, they got a different result. And that was only in one state. Imagine if they recounted every state several times over. This is yet another issue of faith. Now the 2004 election is a different story. When you start receiving more votes than registered voters (in certain districts) and the exit polls are off by over 10 points (as bad as the Ukraine election that we dismissed), then you don't need faith to understand that something fishy is going on.
Please don't bother telling me that inspections would have provided this proof. He toyed with the inspectors like a schoolboy playing keep away.
The inspections already did provide the proof that he didn't have anything left. We said fuck the proof and went to war anyway. And if anyone was toying with the inspections it was us by planting CIA operatives among them. This lead to complaints by the real inspectors that their jobs were being jeopardized as a result. Once inspectors like Scott Ritter came forward and confirmed this, Sadaam stopped cooperating, but by that point, Madeline Albright already made the statement that we would not lift sanctions under any circumstances as long as he was in power. What d'ya want him to do at that point? Bend over and lube up his own ass for us? We didn't give him a way out.
Nor can we disprove the existence of the ... Great Pumpkin
Well of course not, I have evidence of His existence on video.
This really ticks me off though. I've always wanted to visit all the major cities in the world. I've been to most but I keep skipping London because it's just one story after another like this. And I know America isn't much better, but I wouldn't visit it either if I didn't live there. I guess I'll just have to accept that all I'll ever know of London is from Benny Hill and 1984. Oh yeah, what ever happened to that V for Vendetta guy. Seemed like a swell chap.
No, it's you who really doesn't understand. Java is used on the back-ends to create the dynamic HTML you're looking at (Java, PHP or MS alternative). No Java runs on your box, so it doesn't matter what your browser is. Really, you shouldn't be posting on slashdot if you don't understand that most HTML is dynamically generated by some other language. Ever see a webpage that ends in .jsp, cause that's guaranteed to be Java, but so are many other pages that wouldn't offer you any indication. This just proves my belief that people only ever slam Java in total ignorance of what it's really used for.