they allmost all nowdays seem to be either yes men for Howard, Idiots or Cranks ... and then you get some, like Wilson 'Ironbar' Tuckey, who are all three!
At least Region Free DVD players are legal here:)
Watch for that to change if the Libs get their man as head of the ACCC when Fels steps down.
So, my vote helps determine whether John gets to even be in parliament next election, much less PM.
Isn't he likely to retire anyway?
If he does stand again, I'd say that the chance of him losing Bennelong is probably smaller than the chance that the ALP will finish third on the primary vote... something that's looking more and more likely the longer they run without leadership, policies or indeed any effect on public debate whatsoever.
Parties tend to give their leaders extremely safe seats, although Beazley had a scare a while back.
Re:Why PHP rather than Perl? (Score:2) by eddy the lip (20794) Neutral on 09:34 AM January 28th, 2003 (#5170158) Blaming a language for the shortcomings of it's programmers isn't a valid criticism, but pointing out that a language encourages certain kinds of bad behaviour is entirely relevant.
I guess it comes down to whether you consider that Perl encourages bad behaviour or not. I don't think it does -- in the same way that the fact that there's a full bottle of vodka in front of me doesn't mean I'm going to try to drink it all in two hours. Credit me with some self-restraint here.:)
With Perl, it's quite easy to write programs with constructs that will completely confuse a non-expert.
I realise that this is one of those religious issues... but isn't that a problem with the Perl programmer writing the confusing code, and not with the language itself? I'd rather use a language where I set the constraints myself than one with "training wheels that you can't take off". (Not that I'm saying PHP is like that, but BASIC definitely is, for example;)
Re:Not to be a troll here but...
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"Best" is an odd word to use, even if the original poster was trolling. It speaks of extreme emotional disconnection from the events. (Given that most of Stanley's films seemed to address dehumanisation, it seemed peculiarly appropriate.)
Baudrillard's "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place" is an interesting comment on the mediated nature of war these days, BTW.
Re:Not to be a troll here but...
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Do you know how many people died to bring you your entertainment?
Personally I use Windows 2000 and I've experienced just one or two irrecoverable crashes, mainly due to a) buggy Creative drivers, and; b) crappy Creative drivers.
Maybe you can answer a question for me then.:) I've just installed Win2K Pro (booting alongside Debian and Win98, which had been there for the games). I've updated all of the drivers for the rest of my hardware, but my experience with Creative's Win98 drivers was extremely poor, and Win2K already includes basic drivers for the SBLive. Should I bother with newer drivers, or just leave well enough alone? Any particular driver versions to look for?
[Hey... instead of 'Ask Slashdot', now it's just 'Ask a Slashdot user':)]
Remember that there was a *lot* of crappy music around in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s... and probably earlier, but I can't speak from experience for that.
But you're right. The popular music of today is shit.
Xenix was Microsoft's version of Unix released in 1980 for microprocessors. It was originally based on code licensed from AT&T. It was targeted at users outgrowing MS-DOS. Microsoft later sold it to the Santa Cruz Operation
Is that last name familiar? BTW, if the code was originally licensed, they don't need to worry about possible patent or copyright infringement.
Running up the pirate flag... sort of like Dubya's attitude to the UN. I'm sure pirates would have been advocates of the whole "pre-emptive strike" theory.:/
The bring down the darn beanpole! Have a revolution! Twice! A character dies while wearing a glide suit trying to save someone else! A scientist is captured, tortured, and saved with a daring rescue involving explosives. And the same scientist immolates the torture facility in a particularly clever and nasty way, years later. One of the moons of Mars gets shot off into space. Lots of sabotage. People suffocating as domed cities collapse. Heck, the whole thing kicks off with a murder!
And none of these events are invested with any dramatic depth at all, because the cardboard characters simply go through the motions of action and reaction.
The books failed to make me care that any of the above was going on -- none of the characters seemed real enough to bother. It was a hard slog to make it through all three. At least in, say, Arthur C. Clarke's stuff the rest of the work is interesting enough to distract you from the poor characterisation...
Five years ago, would anyone have thought that Apple would use someone else's OS to run their UI? Heresy!
It would hardly have been heresy, especially as Apple's offer to buy Be (and Apple's eventual acquisition by NeXT) were big news in 1996... seven years ago.
Which brings us to something that must be a bug: the point cap on comments is still 5, though the bonus can go to 6. Thus, I can set the karma bonus to +6, but comments never have values above 5. I don't see how this would ever be the desired behavior.
Comments can be moderated down to have a score of -1.
Global -1 + your bonus to the comment of +6 = 5
Is that clear? I feel I didn't explain it very well...:)
Apparently some Aussie companies, while unable to work out international messaging contracts with overseas telcos, weren't actually telling their customers this, and were accepting and dropping (and, of course, charging for) international SMs for quite some time. IIRC, most of this was Oz->UK and vice versa.
If you want business models, check out Open Source.
I get the feeling that when he wrote the GPL, RMS didn't really care whether or not people would make money by releasing Free Software. He wanted to encourage people to share software freely (as in freedom), which is why the license is agnostic as to the the question of charging money.
I've loved Blockout since I played the arcade version soon after it came out here... the Lynx port is my favourite game for that platform, and I also have the Amiga version (somewhere:).
The whole point about democratic freedoms and human rights is that they should apply to scum like Mitnick as well as to you and I. Compelling someone to give up those rights doesn't give me a lot of confidence that they are being respected in the more general case.
Besides, all that time spent before his plea counted toward his sentence. He just got it over with early.
Shouldn't a suspect be considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law?
Anyone griping about how heavy their PC is needs to spend an afternoon putting 22" CRT's on CAD users desks. Do twenty or so of those babys and then bitch.
I carried my late-1980s-vintage 21" greyscale monitor up and down two flights of stairs the last time I moved, nearly two years ago now, and pulled a muscle in my back that still twinges occasionally. Damn, that thing is heavy. I really should get rid of it...
Reading Shakespere in the original is also a waste of time, at least if entertainment is what you are looking for.
Speak for yourself. I find Shakespeare's stuff quite entertaining... a group of friends and I do play readings occasionally (usually Shakespeare, but we've also read Jonson and Wilde, for example), and it's always great fun.
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they allmost all nowdays seem to be either yes men for Howard, Idiots or Cranks
... and then you get some, like Wilson 'Ironbar' Tuckey, who are all three!
:)
At least Region Free DVD players are legal here
Watch for that to change if the Libs get their man as head of the ACCC when Fels steps down.
So, my vote helps determine whether John gets to even be in parliament next election, much less PM.
Isn't he likely to retire anyway?
If he does stand again, I'd say that the chance of him losing Bennelong is probably smaller than the chance that the ALP will finish third on the primary vote... something that's looking more and more likely the longer they run without leadership, policies or indeed any effect on public debate whatsoever.
Parties tend to give their leaders extremely safe seats, although Beazley had a scare a while back.
Apparently Windows NT also owed a lot to Mica, Dave Cutler's next-generation VMS, which got canned by Digital.
Actually, just saw this later on in the thread:
:)
Re:Why PHP rather than Perl? (Score:2)
by eddy the lip (20794) Neutral on 09:34 AM January 28th, 2003 (#5170158)
Blaming a language for the shortcomings of it's programmers isn't a valid criticism, but pointing out that a language encourages certain kinds of bad behaviour is entirely relevant.
I guess it comes down to whether you consider that Perl encourages bad behaviour or not. I don't think it does -- in the same way that the fact that there's a full bottle of vodka in front of me doesn't mean I'm going to try to drink it all in two hours. Credit me with some self-restraint here.
With Perl, it's quite easy to write programs with constructs that will completely confuse a non-expert.
;)
I realise that this is one of those religious issues... but isn't that a problem with the Perl programmer writing the confusing code, and not with the language itself? I'd rather use a language where I set the constraints myself than one with "training wheels that you can't take off". (Not that I'm saying PHP is like that, but BASIC definitely is, for example
"Best" is an odd word to use, even if the original poster was trolling. It speaks of extreme emotional disconnection from the events. (Given that most of Stanley's films seemed to address dehumanisation, it seemed peculiarly appropriate.)
Baudrillard's "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place" is an interesting comment on the mediated nature of war these days, BTW.
Do you know how many people died to bring you your entertainment?
It was 41 degrees Celsius here yesterday, and will be again today. But that's OK... it's a dry heat. :/
Personally I use Windows 2000 and I've experienced just one or two irrecoverable crashes, mainly due to a) buggy Creative drivers, and; b) crappy Creative drivers.
:) I've just installed Win2K Pro (booting alongside Debian and Win98, which had been there for the games). I've updated all of the drivers for the rest of my hardware, but my experience with Creative's Win98 drivers was extremely poor, and Win2K already includes basic drivers for the SBLive. Should I bother with newer drivers, or just leave well enough alone? Any particular driver versions to look for?
:)]
Maybe you can answer a question for me then.
[Hey... instead of 'Ask Slashdot', now it's just 'Ask a Slashdot user'
Ummm... surely if any story should be duped in the near future, it's this one. Please submit story suggestions accordingly.
Remember that there was a *lot* of crappy music around in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s... and probably earlier, but I can't speak from experience for that.
But you're right. The popular music of today is shit.
from Wikipedia...
Xenix was Microsoft's version of Unix released in 1980 for microprocessors. It was originally based on code licensed from AT&T. It was targeted at users outgrowing MS-DOS. Microsoft later sold it to the Santa Cruz Operation
Is that last name familiar? BTW, if the code was originally licensed, they don't need to worry about possible patent or copyright infringement.
Running up the pirate flag... sort of like Dubya's attitude to the UN. I'm sure pirates would have been advocates of the whole "pre-emptive strike" theory. :/
The bring down the darn beanpole! Have a revolution! Twice! A character dies while wearing a glide suit trying to save someone else! A scientist is captured, tortured, and saved with a daring rescue involving explosives. And the same scientist immolates the torture facility in a particularly clever and nasty way, years later. One of the moons of Mars gets shot off into space. Lots of sabotage. People suffocating as domed cities collapse. Heck, the whole thing kicks off with a murder!
And none of these events are invested with any dramatic depth at all, because the cardboard characters simply go through the motions of action and reaction.
The books failed to make me care that any of the above was going on -- none of the characters seemed real enough to bother. It was a hard slog to make it through all three. At least in, say, Arthur C. Clarke's stuff the rest of the work is interesting enough to distract you from the poor characterisation...
Optimist.
Surely it'll be more like 12?
And anyone who has no credit cards should consider themselves uncivilized.
Fuck, that's a scary attitude. They must not be human either, hey?
Five years ago, would anyone have thought that Apple would use someone else's OS to run their UI? Heresy!
It would hardly have been heresy, especially as Apple's offer to buy Be (and Apple's eventual acquisition by NeXT) were big news in 1996... seven years ago.
Which brings us to something that must be a bug: the point cap on comments is still 5, though the bonus can go to 6. Thus, I can set the karma bonus to +6, but comments never have values above 5. I don't see how this would ever be the desired behavior.
:)
Comments can be moderated down to have a score of -1.
Global -1 + your bonus to the comment of +6 = 5
Is that clear? I feel I didn't explain it very well...
Apparently some Aussie companies, while unable to work out international messaging contracts with overseas telcos, weren't actually telling their customers this, and were accepting and dropping (and, of course, charging for) international SMs for quite some time. IIRC, most of this was Oz->UK and vice versa.
If you want business models, check out Open Source.
I get the feeling that when he wrote the GPL, RMS didn't really care whether or not people would make money by releasing Free Software. He wanted to encourage people to share software freely (as in freedom), which is why the license is agnostic as to the the question of charging money.
There's a GNOME 1.x version of Blockout as well. Hasn't been updated for a while, though.
:).
I've loved Blockout since I played the arcade version soon after it came out here... the Lynx port is my favourite game for that platform, and I also have the Amiga version (somewhere
The whole point about democratic freedoms and human rights is that they should apply to scum like Mitnick as well as to you and I. Compelling someone to give up those rights doesn't give me a lot of confidence that they are being respected in the more general case.
Besides, all that time spent before his plea counted toward his sentence. He just got it over with early.
Shouldn't a suspect be considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law?
What about x?
(Maybe I'm not understanding what you're talking about, of course...)
Anyone griping about how heavy their PC is needs to spend an afternoon putting 22" CRT's on CAD users desks. Do twenty or so of those babys and then bitch.
I carried my late-1980s-vintage 21" greyscale monitor up and down two flights of stairs the last time I moved, nearly two years ago now, and pulled a muscle in my back that still twinges occasionally. Damn, that thing is heavy. I really should get rid of it...
Reading Shakespere in the original is also a waste of time, at least if entertainment is what you are looking for.
Speak for yourself. I find Shakespeare's stuff quite entertaining... a group of friends and I do play readings occasionally (usually Shakespeare, but we've also read Jonson and Wilde, for example), and it's always great fun.