That boring video of your birthday 10 years ago may contain the only known picture of somebody else that later on becomes notorious for whatever reason.
I don't understand why IT types, specially programmers, long for a more artsy, bohemian stereotype of themselves.
There can be beauty in almost any trade or activity if you have a positive attitude to life and to what you do, That does not make you an artist.
Your trade may require a lot of skill, but that deos not make your produced output art, specially if your production has only meaning if it compiles and solves a given problem.
Creativity can be found in any profession, programmers (and for that instance painters) nned it more than others, but they should come down of their high horse, anjoy what they are and branch to other stuff without implying that they are what they are clearly not.
If I want to be an artist I play an instrument, paint, write, film, photograph. But would never code. Code is not an artistic means of expression, no matter how you spin it.
Mozilla takes 2-3 times longer *to launch*. That is one or two *full seconds* more! Outrage!
And it takes *exactly about* 50% longer to load *each page* (half a second per page!). Maddnesss!
It is comforting to know there are people out there checking the more substantial probelms of Mozilla (that looks fscking ugly, from my personal objective point of view of course) are highlighted while minor achievements like extensibility, usuability, innovation and widening of choice can be left fro picky people with too much time on their hands.
a)Believe the propaganda, I mean, advertisment. b)Believe critics (If you read 5 critics and all say a movie is crap, what gives?). c)Believe your friends (but they believed a or b above).
So a is self interestedand as such completely untrustable, c is a or b on disguise.
You are left with the critics only. If you read only one, shame on you, if you read several different opinions then you may be closer to the truth.
And it has been documented widely enough the nightmare that it can become to install some MS patches (hint, SAs have work to do besides pacthing buugy products).
How many times do you need to hear that later patches reopened the vulnerability and that MS patching system is too onerous on System Administrators (their work is not to keep track of the bizarre patterns of MS patch releases).
Any group of people terrorized by their goverment or branches of it will defend themselves. Once this dynamic is in place you will get demented people that will find anything justifiable to avert the original repression.
Lets put it this way: the UK would have not done what they did with the partition of Ireland if the emerald Island had been 2000 km away.
... without the backup of proper policies, procedures and a database of people allowed in the facilities are as effective as an open door or a brick wall, pick one randomly.
Sometime you are in a hurry, you need access desperately and if the proper procedures are not in place you just sit there waiting that the guard somehow miraculosly find out who you are.
The immense majority of Linuz and OSS advocates know what is ethical, moral and legal, so unless you know something we don't, we should assume you are talking out of hate against a succesful, although vociferous, group of people.
Guys: do you have an interest in Sun been bought or do you keep pushing these unsubstantiated rumours out of the goodness of your hearts?
I mean, honestly, you have been pushing this crap about Sun for several months now, every single snippet found by somebody about Sun's demise is dutifully put in the frontpage of this well loved, but some times ailing, site.
You get a crappy admin (or two if we include you), Sun reccomends a cautious approach (because your configuration is selfinflicted crap) and Sun is suppossed to make it painles for you?
I am sorry but bullshit. The Sun chaps are far to nice to you, any admin worht his title knows that judicious patching is required to avoid this mess.
The only thing more mindshocking is that people in this forum are modding you as interesting or insightful.
This cavalier attitude in which game lovers want to have absolute freedom without any of the responsibilities will doom games as a creative activity.
I don't want minors to receive the message that violence is trivial and even fun.
I don't want minors to get the message that sex is explotiation and gratification without knowing about the responsibilities it entails.
Sadly game developpers and game companies have not taken the lead to facilitate that minors have a healthy approach to gamming that includes violence and depravity (no, not sex, but sex as mechanism of alienation).
This applies to several industries that spread ideas and attitudes, some other industries have shown far more restrain and compromise.
The gamming insdurty is the black sheep, if they don't make something different to blabber about freedom they will go the way of the dodo as a viable creative endeavour.
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.... that does not understand exponential growgth.
Depressing.
Terrorism is whatever the far right in power in the US says it is.
And since you have raised objections you look actually quite suspect.
Welcome to the magical world of the PATRIOT act!
Growth appears as exponential because real costs like damage to the environment are not factored in into the calculations of growth.
If this was factored in most probably the growth of any economy long term wold be a resounding 0.
All is in the context.
That boring video of your birthday 10 years ago may contain the only known picture of somebody else that later on becomes notorious for whatever reason.
.... then you just configure a 10 way, geographically spread, mirror.
Wait a minute. I have got a bussiness plan here.....
... about Karlheinz Stockhausen, Steve Reich and many other composers.
In the moment you re-arrange something, from a musical point of view, you are creating something new.
Of course the lawyers aided by clueless politicians and idiotic citizens have to spoil the fun.
The right comparison would be to compare the humble builders (thos that know how to build a brickwall, install a toilete,etc) with the programmers.
I don't understand why IT types, specially programmers, long for a more artsy, bohemian stereotype of themselves.
There can be beauty in almost any trade or activity if you have a positive attitude to life and to what you do, That does not make you an artist.
Your trade may require a lot of skill, but that deos not make your produced output art, specially if your production has only meaning if it compiles and solves a given problem.
Creativity can be found in any profession, programmers (and for that instance painters) nned it more than others, but they should come down of their high horse, anjoy what they are and branch to other stuff without implying that they are what they are clearly not.
If I want to be an artist I play an instrument, paint, write, film, photograph. But would never code. Code is not an artistic means of expression, no matter how you spin it.
Mozilla takes 2-3 times longer *to launch*. That is one or two *full seconds* more! Outrage!
And it takes *exactly about* 50% longer to load *each page* (half a second per page!). Maddnesss!
It is comforting to know there are people out there checking the more substantial probelms of Mozilla (that looks fscking ugly, from my personal objective point of view of course) are highlighted while minor achievements like extensibility, usuability, innovation and widening of choice can be left fro picky people with too much time on their hands.
... it would not be out of print.
... how do you choose which movies to watch?
There are few possibilites:
a)Believe the propaganda, I mean, advertisment.
b)Believe critics (If you read 5 critics and all say a movie is crap, what gives?).
c)Believe your friends (but they believed a or b above).
So a is self interestedand as such completely untrustable, c is a or b on disguise.
You are left with the critics only. If you read only one, shame on you, if you read several different opinions then you may be closer to the truth.
... later patches reopened the vulnerability.
And it has been documented widely enough the nightmare that it can become to install some MS patches (hint, SAs have work to do besides pacthing buugy products).
How many times do you need to hear that later patches reopened the vulnerability and that MS patching system is too onerous on System Administrators (their work is not to keep track of the bizarre patterns of MS patch releases).
... you did not become a doctor, a pilot, or a civil engineer.
Software companies (and programmers) want to provide software as a realiable tool without the responsibility that comes with assuming so.
Democracies don't "cap" anybody's head.
Democracies apply the rule of law.
Any group of people terrorized by their goverment or branches of it will defend themselves. Once this dynamic is in place you will get demented people that will find anything justifiable to avert the original repression.
Lets put it this way: the UK would have not done what they did with the partition of Ireland if the emerald Island had been 2000 km away.
... without the backup of proper policies, procedures and a database of people allowed in the facilities are as effective as an open door or a brick wall, pick one randomly.
Sometime you are in a hurry, you need access desperately and if the proper procedures are not in place you just sit there waiting that the guard somehow miraculosly find out who you are.
If one of you is sleeping, the other reads elsewhere.
At first signs of sleep depravation go to bed.
If you know that people linked to Linux are doing this then give names.
Otherwise stop assuming so much.
What about it was someboy unrelated with Linux. (insert conspiracy theory here).
Or do you know something we don;t?
.... or apologize for your defamatory comments.
The immense majority of Linuz and OSS advocates know what is ethical, moral and legal, so unless you know something we don't, we should assume you are talking out of hate against a succesful, although vociferous, group of people.
Guys: do you have an interest in Sun been bought or do you keep pushing these unsubstantiated rumours out of the goodness of your hearts?
I mean, honestly, you have been pushing this crap about Sun for several months now, every single snippet found by somebody about Sun's demise is dutifully put in the frontpage of this well loved, but some times ailing, site.
What is it with Sun that opens a wound with you?
Inquiring minds would like to know.
You get a crappy admin (or two if we include you), Sun reccomends a cautious approach (because your configuration is selfinflicted crap) and Sun is suppossed to make it painles for you?
I am sorry but bullshit. The Sun chaps are far to nice to you, any admin worht his title knows that judicious patching is required to avoid this mess.
The only thing more mindshocking is that people in this forum are modding you as interesting or insightful.
For me a game is a geme is a game.
No, I am lying. Chess. Meatspace of course (Go zealots can b1t3 their a@@).
This cavalier attitude in which game lovers want to have absolute freedom without any of the responsibilities will doom games as a creative activity.
I don't want minors to receive the message that violence is trivial and even fun.
I don't want minors to get the message that sex is explotiation and gratification without knowing about the responsibilities it entails.
Sadly game developpers and game companies have not taken the lead to facilitate that minors have a healthy approach to gamming that includes violence and depravity (no, not sex, but sex as mechanism of alienation).
This applies to several industries that spread ideas and attitudes, some other industries have shown far more restrain and compromise.
The gamming insdurty is the black sheep, if they don't make something different to blabber about freedom they will go the way of the dodo as a viable creative endeavour.
They think that because you dislike something that means you break the law.
Talk about lack of imagination.
In the meantime other people keep the fight for their freedom.