I don't understand why this is modded flamebait. It sounds like a very rational theory. The 2nd amandment gives you a toy to feel powerful and to frighten you because of the shootings.
Having a real and absolute freedom of information act, now that would be a weapon.
> so at least we still have armed revolt as an option.
To me it seems as if the "at least we still have armed revolt as an option" is the most effective means of keeping people in the US quiet until they find themselves in a facist policestate and it's too late. Of course, they could then have their armed revolution against a government equipped with all the best technology of oppression but it would be pointless. You will have no means of communication left, the enemy will know all your whereabouts, your thoughts and will be able to proactively put you in jail, torture you, kill you. Maybe it would make more sense to avoid the fascist policestate in advance.
Firearms are giving you a sense of false security.
The right to own firearms comes from a time when firearms was to most effective means of oppression a government could have. So to have an equilibrium of power this amandmend exists. However, today you would need the right to have spy satellites, secret surveillance, secret rendition etc. pp.
> start an app, but then *switch away*, > there should be NO way that app should be able to steal its focus back.
I agree that an application should not be allowed to steal back focus when you switched to another screen while it starts. However, I can imagine that a lot of not so computer-savy people would have a problem with starting an application hey have/locked/ to a specific screen and seeing no window of it because they happen to have switched to another. Most people (felt statistics:-) would startup eg. mail.app when they want to use it, so switching to the screen it's on makes some sense to me.
> you launch an application that you've set up to always launch in workspace #2.
You launch an application and it gets focus and opens a window. This is expected behaviour. Since this window is on a different screen, OSX switches to this screen and does not leave the user wondering where the applications window hides. Feels right to me...
I felt I should have looked into a real sudo and not look up the text on the nets. But I chose the easy and embarassing way, because OSX-Leopard has a boooring message now that does not educate you about ethics:-)
" WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information. To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort. "
We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these two things:
#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.
--- That's about the ethics my teachers had when I started to learning system administration 15 years ago and this is what I'm still educating people new to this about. I never met a good admin who wouldn't passionately subscribe to this.
It depends on your culture. We have shared bikes in Munich/Germany for years and they work. The company already expanded to other cities and is now owned by German Rail.
I'm quite sure that the CSI and other agencys are already testing transcranial magnetic stimulation as an advanced interrogation technique. Religion and torture go together well, especially if there's no effective separation of church and state.
> that died proved that this system, or at least the development of > it here in Germany, is by far not ready for the heavy use they want to do with it in Bayern.
Yes, it was indeed a test track. Since the system has been deployed in Shanghai and is used heavily it has been proven to be ready for heavy use. I'm quite confident that both installations, the one in Bavaria as the one in Shanghai, (will) have safety features which have not been present in the testing track unfortunaely.
Otherwise the TÜV (Technical Monitoring Association) will not allow any production use of the device.
Unfortunately the testing track was not considered a publicly accessible, production system, so AFAIK it didn't have to comply to the same set of standards as the one in Bavaria will have to.
> Are you saying that Apple is not making X11 more Mac-like because that is too hard?
Exactly. It's like trying to make an apple-pie from minced meat. Both are food. X11+WM+GTK is so very different from OSX/Cocoa that it just does not make sense.
> I don't think you understood what I wrote. So I read it again:-)
> Apple wants to discourage Mac developers from using Java to create cross-platform apps. They would rather keep apps Mac only.
I don't think that you understand the technical implications of making an ObjC-Java-Bridge-Cocoa application behave the same as a ObjC-Cocoa application. A product nobody used (name one big project, and don't say OOo, because they don't).
Even more unlikely is making a X11-Whatever-Windowmanager-WidgetFramework-Whateve r behave the same.
Essentially Apple would have to port half of their OS to a different platform. (And yes, I did use OSX-Server while yellow box was still alive)
> X11 [...] apps don't behave like Mac apps. Why? Because if they did, it would be trivial to write Mac apps using X11 > Do you now understand the reasoning
Your reasoning is flawed.
Could you please elaborate a way to make generic X11-Apps work like Cocoa-Apps?
This would be like making apple-pie from minced meat.
X11 happens on an absolutely different layer than Cocoa does and the part of Cocoa you are thinking of right now is just a tiny bit of a huge, elaborate framework.
Please understand what the GnuStep-Project is about and then come back
> we are independed countries and taking Our decisions Ourselves.
Could you please fix your government, then? You're alpha-twins are just embarassing and do not represent any values that a nation proficient in so many ways like yours seemed to have.
http://www.lemkesoft.com/
I use it since 10 Years or so. It opens an image-browser if you drop a folder on it and can do about any image conversion in the known universe.
>> Problem is that the US isn't the 'most free' nation on Earth - not by a long shot. > Name one, Germany.
> and explain how it's more free (not "a better place to live" or "more friendly to the environment").
If I'm a 17yo guy I can make pictures of my 15yo girlfriend and send them to my email-account without both of us getting sued for posession and production of child pornography and being trialed as adults and jailed for my own good.
Of course, I can't yell "Heil Hitler" on the street in Germany without getting into legal trouble but frankly, I prefer to live in a country with people taking dirty pictures of themselves than in a country where people feel the urge to yell "Heil Hitler" on the street.
Or being 17yo and getting a blowjob by a 15yo and 10years in jail? (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page =wilson) Or being 15yo and being charged with sexually abusing YOURSELF? (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlif e/2004-03-29-child-self-porn_x.htm) Or just google about your sodomy-laws?
You are only free if it comes to destroying and consuming.
(and yes, there are a lot of things wrong in Germany, too.)
Most Germans are happy to try to communicate with you in some-kind-of-language-similar-to-English.
Since English is the first foreign language for most pupils of the age of 10 most people from 16 to 40 yo do understand and speak your language at least a little. This is different for the eastern part of Germany. They started with Russian for obvious reasons until some decades ago.
(I started with Latin, don't know what that means...)
From the tone of your writing I tend to conclude that the problem was more with your personality than with any spoken language.
I'ts not this one dimensional and the way down is non linear. You can fsck up many times and still have a excellent name before people will remember ALL YOUR FAULTS AT ONCE. It's like the greenhouse effect.
> Then our brain calculates how far away objects are from us by noticing how much > inward each eye has to rotate to hold the object in focus
Well, no. Or you would look quite funny for any non-chamaeleon-being and would be busy constantly rotating your eye to measure distances.
Your brain compares the different pictures both eyes record and finds the transformation it has to do to merge (points on) one picture into (points on) the other. This transformation matrix gives good hints about the distance for a few meters, especially for slowly moving or immobile objects.
For all the rest you use size-differences, lighting differences, size-changes of moving objects and a lot of other guesswork.
Many of people (me included:) don't have the first capability because they have (had) strabism (as a child). They still might be able to ride a motorcycle and avoid colliding with other objects (mostly capability 2) while they are fun to watch while parking a car in a small space (method 1 required, or a car of very familiar dimensions)
> If I'm wrong then feel free to tell me how a 120lb policewoman is going to stop a 250lb male mental patient from bashing her senseless simply because she looks like his mother.
"Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! "
If you'd live near my area I'd just take the challenge. I'm absolutely confident that basic cooking is a skill everybody can and should develop. And I have had some friends on university who couldn't cook spaghetti without burning the water...
I had them start with a very simple version spaghetti Bolognese (without instant stuff). I'm absolutely confident that even you can learn basic cooking. Start with a simple recipe and a friend who's good at cooking. If you can do it, throw away the recipe and start experimenting, failing and succeeding. I believe in you:-) I have been broke many times while attending university and It's a good feeling if you know that you can still cook something tasty and nutritious with almost nothing in your kitchen...
> I for one completely rule at Mario Kart, and yet can have a difficult time > preparing a meal that tastes in any way different than a pile of > fetid oozing horse shit.
That's just because playing Mario Kart is more important to you than preparing your food. Eyerybody with an average sense of taste can learn to prepare average tasting but at least nutritious food. You just have to spend serious time on training - as much time as you spend on Mario Cart.
We had this "I was always bad at math"-attitude before, now we have "I was always bad at preparing my food". Both attitudes are stupid.
> Some consider it impolite to talk about certain emotional political > situations in company that may have different views.
I don't know which cultural background you are from but where I live people you can discuss stuff with are considered especially close friends. Eg. I disagree strongly with my best friend on abortion but we talked about if for about days within the last decade and so we can mutually accept the other ones opinion.
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I don't understand why this is modded flamebait.
It sounds like a very rational theory.
The 2nd amandment gives you a toy to feel powerful and to frighten you because of the shootings.
Having a real and absolute freedom of information act, now that would be a weapon.
> so at least we still have armed revolt as an option.
To me it seems as if the "at least we still have armed revolt as an option" is the most effective means of keeping people in the US quiet until they find themselves in a facist policestate and it's too late.
Of course, they could then have their armed revolution against a government equipped with all the best technology of oppression but it would be pointless. You will have no means of communication left, the enemy will know all your whereabouts, your thoughts and will be able to proactively put you in jail, torture you, kill you.
Maybe it would make more sense to avoid the fascist policestate in advance.
Firearms are giving you a sense of false security.
The right to own firearms comes from a time when firearms was to most effective means of oppression a government could have. So to have an equilibrium of power this amandmend exists.
However, today you would need the right to have spy satellites, secret surveillance, secret rendition etc. pp.
So your guns give you no safety at all.
> start an app, but then *switch away*,
/locked/ to a specific screen and seeing no window of it because they happen to have switched to another. Most people (felt statistics :-) would startup eg. mail.app when they want to use it, so switching to the screen it's on makes some sense to me.
> there should be NO way that app should be able to steal its focus back.
I agree that an application should not be allowed to steal back focus when you switched to another screen while it starts.
However, I can imagine that a lot of not so computer-savy people would have a problem with starting an application hey have
> you launch an application that you've set up to always launch in workspace #2.
You launch an application and it gets focus and opens a window. This is expected behaviour.
Since this window is on a different screen, OSX switches to this screen and does not leave the user wondering where the applications window hides. Feels right to me...
k2r
I felt I should have looked into a real sudo and not look up the text on the nets. :-)
But I chose the easy and embarassing way, because OSX-Leopard has a boooring message now that does not educate you about ethics
"
WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.
To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.
"
We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these two things:
#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.
---
That's about the ethics my teachers had when I started to learning system administration 15 years ago and this is what I'm still educating people new to this about. I never met a good admin who wouldn't passionately subscribe to this.
k2r
It depends on your culture.
We have shared bikes in Munich/Germany for years and they work. The company already expanded to other cities and is now owned by German Rail.
See http://www.call-a-bike.de/
k2r.
I hate my own nerdyness and go to sleep now.
I'm quite sure that the CSI and other agencys are already testing transcranial magnetic stimulation as an advanced interrogation technique. Religion and torture go together well, especially if there's no effective separation of church and state.
> that died proved that this system, or at least the development of
> it here in Germany, is by far not ready for the heavy use they want to do with it in Bayern.
Yes, it was indeed a test track. Since the system has been deployed in Shanghai and is used heavily it has been proven to be ready for heavy use. I'm quite confident that both installations, the one in Bavaria as the one in Shanghai, (will) have safety features which have not been present in the testing track unfortunaely.
Otherwise the TÜV (Technical Monitoring Association) will not allow any production use of the device.
Unfortunately the testing track was not considered a publicly accessible, production system, so AFAIK it didn't have to comply to the same set of standards as the one in Bavaria will have to.
k2r
> Are you saying that Apple is not making X11 more Mac-like because that is too hard?
Exactly. It's like trying to make an apple-pie from minced meat. Both are food.
X11+WM+GTK is so very different from OSX/Cocoa that it just does not make sense.
> I don't think you understood what I wrote.
e r behave the same.
So I read it again:-)
> Apple wants to discourage Mac developers from using Java to create cross-platform apps. They would rather keep apps Mac only.
I don't think that you understand the technical implications of making an ObjC-Java-Bridge-Cocoa application behave the same as a ObjC-Cocoa application.
A product nobody used (name one big project, and don't say OOo, because they don't).
Even more unlikely is making a X11-Whatever-Windowmanager-WidgetFramework-Whatev
Essentially Apple would have to port half of their OS to a different platform.
(And yes, I did use OSX-Server while yellow box was still alive)
> X11 [...] apps don't behave like Mac apps. Why? Because if they did, it would be trivial to write Mac apps using X11
> Do you now understand the reasoning
Your reasoning is flawed.
Could you please elaborate a way to make generic X11-Apps work like Cocoa-Apps?
This would be like making apple-pie from minced meat.
X11 happens on an absolutely different layer than Cocoa does and the part of Cocoa you are thinking of right now is just a tiny bit of a huge, elaborate framework.
Please understand what the GnuStep-Project is about and then come back
> we are independed countries and taking Our decisions Ourselves.
Could you please fix your government, then?
You're alpha-twins are just embarassing and do not represent any values that a nation proficient in so many ways like yours seemed to have.
> Diesels like the VW TDIs get 45-50MPG on the highway,[...] because diesels are more efficient.
What many people forget is that Diesel has a higher energy density, so a Diesel per se engine should have a better mileage.
k2r
http://www.lemkesoft.com/ I use it since 10 Years or so. It opens an image-browser if you drop a folder on it and can do about any image conversion in the known universe.
>> Problem is that the US isn't the 'most free' nation on Earth - not by a long shot.
e =wilson)f e/2004-03-29-child-self-porn_x.htm)
> Name one,
Germany.
> and explain how it's more free (not "a better place to live" or "more friendly to the environment").
If I'm a 17yo guy I can make pictures of my 15yo girlfriend and send them to my email-account
without both of us getting sued for posession and production of child pornography and being
trialed as adults and jailed for my own good.
Of course, I can't yell "Heil Hitler" on the street in Germany without getting into legal trouble but frankly,
I prefer to live in a country with people taking dirty pictures of themselves than in a country where
people feel the urge to yell "Heil Hitler" on the street.
Or being 17yo and getting a blowjob by a 15yo and 10years in jail?
(http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?pag
Or being 15yo and being charged with sexually abusing YOURSELF?
(http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetli
Or just google about your sodomy-laws?
You are only free if it comes to destroying and consuming.
(and yes, there are a lot of things wrong in Germany, too.)
Most Germans are happy to try to communicate with you in some-kind-of-language-similar-to-English.
Since English is the first foreign language for most pupils of the age of 10 most people from 16 to 40 yo do understand and speak your language at least a little.
This is different for the eastern part of Germany. They started with Russian for obvious reasons until some decades ago.
(I started with Latin, don't know what that means...)
From the tone of your writing I tend to conclude that the problem was more with your personality than with any spoken language.
I'ts not this one dimensional and the way down is non linear.
You can fsck up many times and still have a excellent name before people will remember ALL YOUR FAULTS AT ONCE.
It's like the greenhouse effect.
> Then our brain calculates how far away objects are from us by noticing how much
> inward each eye has to rotate to hold the object in focus
Well, no. Or you would look quite funny for any non-chamaeleon-being and would be busy constantly rotating your eye to measure distances.
Your brain compares the different pictures both eyes record and finds the transformation it has to do to merge (points on) one picture into (points on) the other. This transformation matrix gives good hints about the distance for a few meters, especially for slowly moving or immobile objects.
For all the rest you use size-differences, lighting differences, size-changes of moving objects and a lot of other guesswork.
Many of people (me included:) don't have the first capability because they have (had) strabism (as a child). They still might be able to ride a motorcycle and avoid colliding with other objects (mostly capability 2) while they are fun to watch while parking a car in a small space (method 1 required, or a car of very familiar dimensions)
> If I'm wrong then feel free to tell me how a 120lb policewoman is going to stop a 250lb male mental patient from bashing her senseless simply because she looks like his mother.
"Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! "
If you'd live near my area I'd just take the challenge.
:-)
I'm absolutely confident that basic cooking is a skill everybody can and should develop.
And I have had some friends on university who couldn't cook spaghetti without burning the water...
I had them start with a very simple version spaghetti Bolognese (without instant stuff). I'm absolutely confident that even you can learn basic cooking. Start with a simple recipe and a friend who's good at cooking.
If you can do it, throw away the recipe and start experimenting, failing and succeeding.
I believe in you
I have been broke many times while attending university and It's a good feeling if you know that you can still cook something tasty and nutritious with almost nothing in your kitchen...
k2r
> I for one completely rule at Mario Kart, and yet can have a difficult time
> preparing a meal that tastes in any way different than a pile of
> fetid oozing horse shit.
That's just because playing Mario Kart is more important to you than preparing your food.
Eyerybody with an average sense of taste can learn to prepare average tasting but at least nutritious food.
You just have to spend serious time on training - as much time as you spend on Mario Cart.
We had this "I was always bad at math"-attitude before, now we have "I was always bad at preparing my food".
Both attitudes are stupid.
k2r
> Some consider it impolite to talk about certain emotional political
> situations in company that may have different views.
I don't know which cultural background you are from but where I live people you can discuss stuff with are considered especially close friends.
Eg. I disagree strongly with my best friend on abortion but we talked about if for about days within the last decade and so we can mutually accept the other ones opinion.
> In an airport, you do not under any circumstances mess around with security.
:-)
Yes, because in Soviet America security messes around with you