And I thought we were doing Britney Spears related analogies now... for example: Saying Security is a process, not a product, is like saying Britney Spears is a person, not a product...
Yeah, I had the same experience...... on Windows alone, AutoIt, AutoHotKey, Firefox, Zotereo, Freemind, VUE, OpenOffice, Python, restructured text, rst2pdf, Unison, Eclipse (UML2, XML, mainly) have made my work 1000% more effective and generated more cash for me than any prop. software (I mean, MS Word is the devil...)... Ubuntu, now that's where it gets really interdsting...
You sir, are a moron, who has clearly never used Windows and Microsoft Office in any serious way. If you had you would too would be pig sick of an OS that essentially begs to be infected with viruses and malware (as happened to my Uncle very recently), insists on replacing every hand typed punctuation character with a 'smart' equivalent (ruining the 'release notes' provided to me by a third party software implementor), helpfully allows anti virus software to delete my logfile analysis toolkits, etc. Linux does none of this. The Story was an attempt at humour because for an OS that we have to PAY FOR this sort of crap shouldn't happen. Debian SSL keys? That was detected and fixed in short order - Windows remote BSOD, when will that be fixed? If you want to join the community, do not post as Anon - and appreciate that properly developed software does not have stupid bugs like this. Unless you write it I guess..
Bah! We need to do both! Global warming isn't a punishment from God or Greenpeace to make us change our ways; it's a problem that needs to be solved in lots of different, imaginative ways. Semi-poisonous low energy light bulbs, noisy bird-killing wind farms, never-ever fusion, evil-genius carbon capture, and maybe some geo-engineering. Upside, we'll learn some new things; downside, we don't feel like we've been punished. But then that's what Confession is for...
Before, he needed the address to deliver the paper to the consumer; and then he abused that info for marketing purposes. Yeah, like they all did. Now he doesn't need the address to deliver the paper, but he still wants something to sell to marketeers. Murdoch should FO.
I totally agree (not). We should allow blind drivers too, and the RIAA should be allowed to bankrupt file sharers out of house and home to they die on the streets. Too many people is the problem and the way to solve it is to kill them.
Here you are with a problem (lack of resources) to which the natural solution is to let people die... were it only so. Ignoring the facts of the situation (Africa's "problems" derive from war and conflict as much as too many people; malaria is a disease that even nature cannot resolve - the only resistance being sickle cell anemia; we are happy enough to eradicate polio through mass vaccination; rejection of MMR vaccination programmes by people who want to make their own mind up has led to increases in illness in developed countries) the basic fact remains that people's lives, all lives, are too valuable to be dismissed for ANY reason; contraception is fine; death to conserve resources is not. It's complicated, not mathematical, but basic human empathy requires it; basic ethics requires it. Tough eh?
Worse still, in a few years global warming will see mosquitoes across the EU and US... what then? If we don't eradicate malaria before that happens we are all done for. Or maybe we should let the poor die and then resolve the situation when it reaches the richer nations?
Cool how you don't answer anything... but pretty obvious.
I ain't saying east or west is better - I am saying that individuals are better and no system or ethos should be in place to suppress that. Uptight neighbours, moralistic societies, cops, religion - it's all control bollocks - all good in very small amounts, but not really a way to run the world.
You're still obsessed with history and religion; I've been there too, then I travelled, got to know real people all over the world (yes, in Islamic countries too!) and grew up. I've SEEN people behave differently when the cops or political guard are watching than they do in their own homes, women not allowed out without male company, women afraid to go out because they get hassled by gangs, people killed in the street, riots, peace parades, all night parties, demos against teaching evolution, racists and Jihadists at Speaker's Corner...
With freedom comes the risk of physical and property harm - but it's worth it for the freedom - that's what the Confucius quote was all about.
You can't control everyone for your own perfect society - it's not perfect, people aren't perfect - when you realise that you'll feel frightened and unsure but also fully aware as a human being.
Utopia is hell and you're a dick for thinking it is - worse still, all the worst things that people do to others are down to them wanting their own utopia.
Your response on the wife bit is true - your business, my business, not the law's or the state's.
Violent police states? Iran beats UK and US combined don't ya think or you missed the latest protests?
Hijab is recommended? By who? Who gets the right to tell people how to dress? No one.
Nukes to nutjobs, arms to both sides? Same thing you idiot.
Swearing not a crime? Go to Saudi and swear in public - see what happens!
>> Oh I'm for personal freedoms - just not your (idea of) personal freedoms;)
And thus you define your repressive position entirely. You don't get to tell people how they live their lives unless it hurts you physically or your property.
Religious states are all about crossing that boundary.
Obviously I'm aware that you're thinking you're superior to me as you're taking excessive patience with my replies; condescension is the mark of a true dolt...
Diamonds are priced high by a cartel on supply aren't they? So as long as the cartel gets higher volume sales they should reduce prices. Or we could invade them...
Who the fuck cares if you fuck someone else's wife? none of the govt's business if you do is it? Or the law's? It's human nature, let Maury sort it out. Stoning is not proportionate. And you still avoid dealing with the violent police state statement that I made. Don't get distracted.
As for IP - well as much as i hate it I don't think i'd choose for all women to go around with burkha's just so i can implement FAT32 - not proportionate.
Too much disproportion in Shariah.
Again, who supplies arms to anyone? Would that be Pak sending nuclear secrets to unstable nations (Iran isn't unstable I hear you cry? then you're an idiot who never watches the news).
And you're a chap who uses words like poon and bitch are you? I think in Shariah you'd get well stoned for that my man.
face it, all nations, all religions, all governments, all police forces, are bastards. We need a lot of personal freedom to keep them at bay.
for f's sake - can't you actually link to the anti-capitalist post you're criticising? Then I can really slag you off. Also, try to not post with AC if you're posting obvious flamebait - it makes it a lot harder for us sane people to hunt you down and overload you with derision each time you post ever again. So, 'free market' is a pretty basic description of the s**t hole we are living in - you make it sound like cartels and "big government" don't exist --- but they do. Where's the supply and demand in Bollockboard's case either? They held the license and refused to supply the IP to anyone at a reasonable price and indeed their patent was bollocks too. Sounds like a bunch of c**p; and this is the system you hold so dear. basically it is NOT ok to make money off of IDEAS - it's only ok to make money off good implementations of ideas... otherwise my idea for a web based message board full of porn would be earning me millions... here on/., and I know I speak for no one here, we believe not in anti-capitalism, but in *social democracy* - in other words, "please f**k off and stop bullying me you bastards" - and if you are going to do it, don't do it anonymously... unless you're from/b/
Please don't spend your valuable time replying to me - I'm not interested in getting into a discussion about this because I'm sure you've got history on your side and I like to f**k history so it would be a pointless match.
Ha ha - so you're saying that Muslim countries are safe for being Muslim-run eh? You're a dolt! All you get is a violent police state, and women trapped in bad marriages, and fixed elections, and academics stoned for theories. Sharia is spreading because otherwise the Al-Q guys will kill everyone anyway and like i said, most people just want a quiet life, but maybe I should have also mentioned that most people also want to be free and this is in fact concordant with Islam - but Al-Q are nothing to do with Islam - they're just thugs. "We the people" just want to be left the f**k alone to practice our religion and download free music and have affairs and behave immorally in private and morally in public. Don't need Sharia or Al-Q or The Jebus Channel to tell us what to do.
"One day, his students and he passed a grave where they saw a women weeping at a gravestone. She told Confucius that her husband, her husband's father, and her son were killed by a tiger. When Confucius asked her why she didn't leave such a fated spot, she answered that in this place there was no oppressive government. "
>> As opposed to carpet bombing civilians and mining somebody elses country?
Really? Who's carpet bombing these days? Who's seeding mines these days? Both are banned by international treaty.
Then again, I come from a country that the US f**ked all over because it wanted it's side to win (ha, but didn't), so I kind of get your point; but history is, well, history. Revenge for historical actions is for d**kheads and women on Maury's show. Most normal people just suck it up and do their best. Poles work for Germans, Indians work for the US, Muslims work for Infidels.
Peace is not always better than war... freedom is the thing - and being left the f**k alone to be free. I want to be free from the spectre of terrorism and if the way to do that is to bomb the f**k out of somewhere then so f**king be it. I also want women to be unsuppressed in all countries, so if bit of violence gets that done then so be it - suffragettes did it didn't they?
You're probably well meaning, but the history you miss is the constant fight for individual freedom.
You make it sound like they were all reasonable before and now the US stuck its nose in the whole thing's gone tits up. What they say they want - the end of foreign influence in Muslim countries and an Islamic caliphate - might have been achievable, eventually, through the political / religious process - tough going, but like for all us suckers eventually doable if enough people liked the idea; but they don't - maybe because their requirement would lead to total isolation of Islamic countries and effectively would require all non Islamic countries to either kick out all Muslims or let them establish the caliphate there too. Bum steer for all the normal people who just want to live their life in safety and happiness. Guess no one would really support them, so they chose to kill innocent civilians and young men and women instead because that makes them look like soldiers and heroes instead of the cowardly morons they actually are. So if you define SPECTRE as a bunch of miserable low lifes who like to kill - then that's what they are. Did the West throw the first stone at the wasp's nest? Yeah, probably; The Great game, oil pipelines to Turkey, mass killings in far away places, etc.; but now it's a new age and no one really wants to go on fighting. Your handle is SoVeryTired, Al-Q probably realise by now that we are all so very tired of them too... and whilst their roadside bombings will probably go on for a good while yet, that one fact has lost them the game for quite a while.
I thought they had to release the code because there was some GPL code in their code base - or something like that - it was reported here on/. a short while ago. So really it's all thanks to RMS. RMS is the visionary, Linus is the functionary (no, don;t know what that means either, but I just had too many beers...)
... were my group's main games - so we learnt all about being an expendable clone (gives you the right attitude when working in an consultancy firm), living (and dying) at the inexplicable whim of the Computer (got me used to designing and developing big-iron ERP software) or power crazed Ultra Violets (helped me understand the motives of consultancy managers - i.e. they don't have motives, they are actually mad with power and fresh coffee). We also learnt a lot about unspeakable horror (which has helped me cope with the inevitable fallout when what a customer originally told you they want turns out to be something so wildly different and pointless that it makes grown men cry), inevitable loss of sanity (which usually happens when I find out what BAs and developers are actually doing), strange incantations that will raise you-know-who from his icy palace in the North Pole (I use a similar technique to get senior management to tell BAs and developers off for whatever they were doing) and all manner of spells and chants to excise minor minions of you-know-who in return for a minor loss of sanity (which I use to rid clients of big-5 leeches in return for never getting work from them again). So yeah, I learnt a lot. Also, I have nightmares (huge insect-like creatures with flashing beacons for heads, floating drums with tentacles, Thor, people dressed up in coloured overalls waving guns in my direction, a big eye in my PC monitor, and of course, a really weird dream where I take over a library by producing a small card voucher).
... smiling is known to improve one's mood and so even though it sounds really weird to the average morose loner on Slashdot (me included) I think it might actually help. Hell, I'd prefer an employer that encourages me to smile over the usual UK 'fuck-off-and-die minions' attitude. In India (and spreading across yoga classes in the West) there are laughing clubs (improves mood and health).
Sorry but you're so wrong. 1) Hawking is very very smart and it is likely that he has very good ideas about many branches of science beyond his own. It's not beyond possibility that he has more knowledge than most about more than one field is it? 2) There is a clear connection between what Hawking has to say about some part of human evolution occurring externally to the human form (in information stored externally) and the idea that information crossing the event horizon of black hole is preserved and emitted back out (IANAP so forgive any error I may have made here).
Documents are written in human-readable text format - good for storing in version control and using for diffs Python Docutils is used to convert to HTML and/or LaTeX and a few other formats rst2pdf is a tool that converts to beautiful PDF (easier than using Docutils + LaTeX)
... just spent a few days there and it is literally another world - reminds you what the UK could have been like if Churchill had become a follower of Ghandi...... also, I'm still hungover.
I've been a very happy Unison for many many years. But after recently switching to Ubuntu for my laptop and desktop I finally discovered the joy of Unison over SSH and also discovered the auto=true and terse=true command switches which makes the whole thing automatic, just like Dropbox (I think there's one more switch and I won't even have to press 'g' to run the sync).
I've tried other solutions - DropBox is too much in the 'cloud' for me; rsync is only one way (what's with that?), Robocopy is Windows only, svn/hg/bzr/git store versions and all I want is two way sync.
Unison is the peak of perfection in two way sync; there is nothing else...
... can't we have something new instead? Endless goofy humour is cool for a while but isnt Groening over that now? We need and should expect more from him.
We recently had mention of Stanislaw Lem here on/. so how about Groening does some animation based on his stories instead. A proper animated remake of Solaris maybe... Or hell, a p***-take of Solaris.
Maybe I don't understand why the short-lived humour of Robot Chicken and Futurama are still dominating cartoons and then the wonderful and surreal days of Kricfalusi are long past us...
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I wish you could be modded even higher! Funniest thing I've read since my colleague's test tool design report (which was, well, this morning...)
And I thought we were doing Britney Spears related analogies now ... for example:
Saying Security is a process, not a product, is like saying Britney Spears is a person, not a product...
Yeah, I had the same experience... ... on Windows alone, AutoIt, AutoHotKey, Firefox, Zotereo, Freemind, VUE, OpenOffice, Python, restructured text, rst2pdf, Unison, Eclipse (UML2, XML, mainly) have made my work 1000% more effective and generated more cash for me than any prop. software (I mean, MS Word is the devil...) ... Ubuntu, now that's where it gets really interdsting...
You sir, are a moron, who has clearly never used Windows and Microsoft Office in any serious way. If you had you would too would be pig sick of an OS that essentially begs to be infected with viruses and malware (as happened to my Uncle very recently), insists on replacing every hand typed punctuation character with a 'smart' equivalent (ruining the 'release notes' provided to me by a third party software implementor), helpfully allows anti virus software to delete my logfile analysis toolkits, etc.
Linux does none of this.
The Story was an attempt at humour because for an OS that we have to PAY FOR this sort of crap shouldn't happen.
Debian SSL keys? That was detected and fixed in short order - Windows remote BSOD, when will that be fixed?
If you want to join the community, do not post as Anon - and appreciate that properly developed software does not have stupid bugs like this. Unless you write it I guess..
Bah! We need to do both!
Global warming isn't a punishment from God or Greenpeace to make us change our ways; it's a problem that needs to be solved in lots of different, imaginative ways.
Semi-poisonous low energy light bulbs, noisy bird-killing wind farms, never-ever fusion, evil-genius carbon capture, and maybe some geo-engineering.
Upside, we'll learn some new things; downside, we don't feel like we've been punished. But then that's what Confession is for...
Before, he needed the address to deliver the paper to the consumer; and then he abused that info for marketing purposes. Yeah, like they all did.
Now he doesn't need the address to deliver the paper, but he still wants something to sell to marketeers.
Murdoch should FO.
Quite right
I totally agree (not). We should allow blind drivers too, and the RIAA should be allowed to bankrupt file sharers out of house and home to they die on the streets. Too many people is the problem and the way to solve it is to kill them.
Here you are with a problem (lack of resources) to which the natural solution is to let people die... were it only so. Ignoring the facts of the situation (Africa's "problems" derive from war and conflict as much as too many people; malaria is a disease that even nature cannot resolve - the only resistance being sickle cell anemia; we are happy enough to eradicate polio through mass vaccination; rejection of MMR vaccination programmes by people who want to make their own mind up has led to increases in illness in developed countries) the basic fact remains that people's lives, all lives, are too valuable to be dismissed for ANY reason; contraception is fine; death to conserve resources is not. It's complicated, not mathematical, but basic human empathy requires it; basic ethics requires it. Tough eh?
Worse still, in a few years global warming will see mosquitoes across the EU and US... what then? If we don't eradicate malaria before that happens we are all done for. Or maybe we should let the poor die and then resolve the situation when it reaches the richer nations?
Cool how you don't answer anything ... but pretty obvious.
I ain't saying east or west is better - I am saying that individuals are better and no system or ethos should be in place to suppress that.
Uptight neighbours, moralistic societies, cops, religion - it's all control bollocks - all good in very small amounts, but not really a way to run the world.
You're still obsessed with history and religion; I've been there too, then I travelled, got to know real people all over the world (yes, in Islamic countries too!) and grew up. I've SEEN people behave differently when the cops or political guard are watching than they do in their own homes, women not allowed out without male company, women afraid to go out because they get hassled by gangs, people killed in the street, riots, peace parades, all night parties, demos against teaching evolution, racists and Jihadists at Speaker's Corner ...
With freedom comes the risk of physical and property harm - but it's worth it for the freedom - that's what the Confucius quote was all about.
You can't control everyone for your own perfect society - it's not perfect, people aren't perfect - when you realise that you'll feel frightened and unsure but also fully aware as a human being.
Utopia is hell and you're a dick for thinking it is - worse still, all the worst things that people do to others are down to them wanting their own utopia.
Your response on the wife bit is true - your business, my business, not the law's or the state's.
Violent police states? Iran beats UK and US combined don't ya think or you missed the latest protests?
Hijab is recommended? By who? Who gets the right to tell people how to dress? No one.
Nukes to nutjobs, arms to both sides? Same thing you idiot.
Swearing not a crime? Go to Saudi and swear in public - see what happens!
>> Oh I'm for personal freedoms - just not your (idea of) personal freedoms ;)
And thus you define your repressive position entirely. You don't get to tell people how they live their lives unless it hurts you physically or your property.
Religious states are all about crossing that boundary.
Obviously I'm aware that you're thinking you're superior to me as you're taking excessive patience with my replies; condescension is the mark of a true dolt...
Diamonds are priced high by a cartel on supply aren't they? So as long as the cartel gets higher volume sales they should reduce prices. Or we could invade them...
Who the fuck cares if you fuck someone else's wife? none of the govt's business if you do is it? Or the law's? It's human nature, let Maury sort it out. Stoning is not proportionate. And you still avoid dealing with the violent police state statement that I made. Don't get distracted.
As for IP - well as much as i hate it I don't think i'd choose for all women to go around with burkha's just so i can implement FAT32 - not proportionate.
Too much disproportion in Shariah.
Again, who supplies arms to anyone? Would that be Pak sending nuclear secrets to unstable nations (Iran isn't unstable I hear you cry? then you're an idiot who never watches the news).
And you're a chap who uses words like poon and bitch are you? I think in Shariah you'd get well stoned for that my man.
face it, all nations, all religions, all governments, all police forces, are bastards. We need a lot of personal freedom to keep them at bay.
for f's sake - can't you actually link to the anti-capitalist post you're criticising? Then I can really slag you off. /., and I know I speak for no one here, we believe not in anti-capitalism, but in *social democracy* - in other words, "please f**k off and stop bullying me you bastards" - and if you are going to do it, don't do it anonymously ... unless you're from /b/
Also, try to not post with AC if you're posting obvious flamebait - it makes it a lot harder for us sane people to hunt you down and overload you with derision each time you post ever again.
So, 'free market' is a pretty basic description of the s**t hole we are living in - you make it sound like cartels and "big government" don't exist --- but they do.
Where's the supply and demand in Bollockboard's case either? They held the license and refused to supply the IP to anyone at a reasonable price and indeed their patent was bollocks too. Sounds like a bunch of c**p; and this is the system you hold so dear.
basically it is NOT ok to make money off of IDEAS - it's only ok to make money off good implementations of ideas... otherwise my idea for a web based message board full of porn would be earning me millions...
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OK, so sorry to call you a dolt... my bad.
Please don't spend your valuable time replying to me - I'm not interested in getting into a discussion about this because I'm sure you've got history on your side and I like to f**k history so it would be a pointless match.
Ha ha - so you're saying that Muslim countries are safe for being Muslim-run eh? You're a dolt! All you get is a violent police state, and women trapped in bad marriages, and fixed elections, and academics stoned for theories. Sharia is spreading because otherwise the Al-Q guys will kill everyone anyway and like i said, most people just want a quiet life, but maybe I should have also mentioned that most people also want to be free and this is in fact concordant with Islam - but Al-Q are nothing to do with Islam - they're just thugs. "We the people" just want to be left the f**k alone to practice our religion and download free music and have affairs and behave immorally in private and morally in public. Don't need Sharia or Al-Q or The Jebus Channel to tell us what to do.
"One day, his students and he passed a grave where they saw a women weeping at a gravestone. She told Confucius that her husband, her husband's father, and her son were killed by a tiger. When Confucius asked her why she didn't leave such a fated spot, she answered that in this place there was no oppressive government. "
>> As opposed to carpet bombing civilians and mining somebody elses country?
Really? Who's carpet bombing these days? Who's seeding mines these days? Both are banned by international treaty.
Then again, I come from a country that the US f**ked all over because it wanted it's side to win (ha, but didn't), so I kind of get your point; but history is, well, history. Revenge for historical actions is for d**kheads and women on Maury's show. Most normal people just suck it up and do their best. Poles work for Germans, Indians work for the US, Muslims work for Infidels.
Peace is not always better than war ... freedom is the thing - and being left the f**k alone to be free. I want to be free from the spectre of terrorism and if the way to do that is to bomb the f**k out of somewhere then so f**king be it. I also want women to be unsuppressed in all countries, so if bit of violence gets that done then so be it - suffragettes did it didn't they?
You're probably well meaning, but the history you miss is the constant fight for individual freedom.
Yeah, I get you. But you know there's Politics and there's Us and blowing up Us is a shitty thing to do whoever you are.
You make it sound like they were all reasonable before and now the US stuck its nose in the whole thing's gone tits up. ... and whilst their roadside bombings will probably go on for a good while yet, that one fact has lost them the game for quite a while.
What they say they want - the end of foreign influence in Muslim countries and an Islamic caliphate - might have been achievable, eventually, through the political / religious process - tough going, but like for all us suckers eventually doable if enough people liked the idea; but they don't - maybe because their requirement would lead to total isolation of Islamic countries and effectively would require all non Islamic countries to either kick out all Muslims or let them establish the caliphate there too. Bum steer for all the normal people who just want to live their life in safety and happiness. Guess no one would really support them, so they chose to kill innocent civilians and young men and women instead because that makes them look like soldiers and heroes instead of the cowardly morons they actually are.
So if you define SPECTRE as a bunch of miserable low lifes who like to kill - then that's what they are.
Did the West throw the first stone at the wasp's nest? Yeah, probably; The Great game, oil pipelines to Turkey, mass killings in far away places, etc.; but now it's a new age and no one really wants to go on fighting. Your handle is SoVeryTired, Al-Q probably realise by now that we are all so very tired of them too
I thought they had to release the code because there was some GPL code in their code base - or something like that - it was reported here on /. a short while ago. So really it's all thanks to RMS.
RMS is the visionary, Linus is the functionary (no, don;t know what that means either, but I just had too many beers...)
... were my group's main games - so we learnt all about being an expendable clone (gives you the right attitude when working in an consultancy firm), living (and dying) at the inexplicable whim of the Computer (got me used to designing and developing big-iron ERP software) or power crazed Ultra Violets (helped me understand the motives of consultancy managers - i.e. they don't have motives, they are actually mad with power and fresh coffee).
We also learnt a lot about unspeakable horror (which has helped me cope with the inevitable fallout when what a customer originally told you they want turns out to be something so wildly different and pointless that it makes grown men cry), inevitable loss of sanity (which usually happens when I find out what BAs and developers are actually doing), strange incantations that will raise you-know-who from his icy palace in the North Pole (I use a similar technique to get senior management to tell BAs and developers off for whatever they were doing) and all manner of spells and chants to excise minor minions of you-know-who in return for a minor loss of sanity (which I use to rid clients of big-5 leeches in return for never getting work from them again).
So yeah, I learnt a lot.
Also, I have nightmares (huge insect-like creatures with flashing beacons for heads, floating drums with tentacles, Thor, people dressed up in coloured overalls waving guns in my direction, a big eye in my PC monitor, and of course, a really weird dream where I take over a library by producing a small card voucher).
... smiling is known to improve one's mood and so even though it sounds really weird to the average morose loner on Slashdot (me included) I think it might actually help. Hell, I'd prefer an employer that encourages me to smile over the usual UK 'fuck-off-and-die minions' attitude.
In India (and spreading across yoga classes in the West) there are laughing clubs (improves mood and health).
Sorry but you're so wrong.
1) Hawking is very very smart and it is likely that he has very good ideas about many branches of science beyond his own. It's not beyond possibility that he has more knowledge than most about more than one field is it?
2) There is a clear connection between what Hawking has to say about some part of human evolution occurring externally to the human form (in information stored externally) and the idea that information crossing the event horizon of black hole is preserved and emitted back out (IANAP so forgive any error I may have made here).
is made for what you're talking about
Documents are written in human-readable text format - good for storing in version control and using for diffs
Python Docutils is used to convert to HTML and/or LaTeX and a few other formats
rst2pdf is a tool that converts to beautiful PDF (easier than using Docutils + LaTeX)
... just spent a few days there and it is literally another world - reminds you what the UK could have been like if Churchill had become a follower of Ghandi... ... also, I'm still hungover.
I've been a very happy Unison for many many years. But after recently switching to Ubuntu for my laptop and desktop I finally discovered the joy of Unison over SSH and also discovered the auto=true and terse=true command switches which makes the whole thing automatic, just like Dropbox (I think there's one more switch and I won't even have to press 'g' to run the sync).
I've tried other solutions - DropBox is too much in the 'cloud' for me; rsync is only one way (what's with that?), Robocopy is Windows only, svn/hg/bzr/git store versions and all I want is two way sync.
Unison is the peak of perfection in two way sync; there is nothing else...
... can't we have something new instead? Endless goofy humour is cool for a while but isnt Groening over that now? We need and should expect more from him.
We recently had mention of Stanislaw Lem here on /. so how about Groening does some animation based on his stories instead. A proper animated remake of Solaris maybe ... Or hell, a p***-take of Solaris.
Maybe I don't understand why the short-lived humour of Robot Chicken and Futurama are still dominating cartoons and then the wonderful and surreal days of Kricfalusi are long past us...