Yeah sure, I could say that the fonts make Linux look Mickey Mouse to anyone who uses graphics on, let's say, a Mac. However, what I think Linux desperately needs less of are self-appointed sages of Linux.
Linux needs neither sycophants nor panegyrists. Hell, even people spoon-fed on Win95 and saavy after years of Microsoft exposure get upset about weaknesses in the OS. Why should we suddenly get upset if everyone isn't an apologist?
Quote: "A similar thing that introverts due (and geeks are notorious for) is replacing true conversation with being a walking encyclopia.[...] It's not a conversation, it's a plea for attention. "Aren't I clever that I understand clouds".
Wrong. It's not an attempt to be clever. Everybody, introvert or extrovert, is different of course, but generally the reason why introverts default to rational/logical conversation tangents (which often seems - in the words of the review, which you probably didn't understand - aloof) is that, in lieu of an easy ability to adapt to conversations in a way parallel to the main thread, they tend to use what they are more comfortable with: facts.
Introverts generally default to fact-based types of conversations (as opposed to feeling-based) because there is less controversy and less personal exposure if they are simply regurgitating facts, versus saying something that opens one up to personal criticism.
In Toronto, there's been quite a lot of political pressure placed by animal science professionals/animal activists to cut down on the amount of skyscraper lights that go on at night.
God if only I had the energy to find a suitable link to make this a two paragraph reply...oh wait.
Quote: "However, given that hundreds of thousands of works are produced each year, one must assume that the sheer numbers involved evens out the effects of differing quality"
Though I must applaud the author's statistical work, sentences like this (though admittedly not the thrust of the publication) seem a little too coldly rational to be of comfort.
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You just know that the whole tone of this thread would be dramatically different if SARS had hit even the smallest populated area in the U.S. (aside from Alaska or Puerto Rico, I fear).
Hell, to many readers, we might as well be talking about an obscure strain of malaria on a small South Pacific island six years ago.
SARS is reality, and reality does not discriminate on the basis of national borders.
I live in Toronto, and yes the media made an absolute feast out of this f*cker. However, while the impact of SARS itself may not be evident, the public clearly understands what it is like to effectively be quarantined from the rest of the world, simply because they live in a particular city (of 3 million others).
I guess what I'm saying is this: when you see news reports about disease/violence that takes place Far Away On the Other Side of The World, take the hype with a grain of salt, but never forget that it's only a matter of time before you will be in that very same scenario. Don't treat it as something you are immune to, and don't ignore the psychological/sociological horrors that those people are experiencing.
Because of developments in plastic moulding/construction, it's now easier for schools and community centres to offer outdoor/indoor soccer (or football, depending upon where you're reading this from) programs seeing as how the availability of comparatively lightweight portable nets has improved. Compare this to those iron tombstones stuck in the highschool athletic field, their white painted frames seemingly always in the midst of disintegration.
There was some hesitancy, upon the official release of kernel 2.4, based upon some bugs etc...
I'm wondering, does the kernel - generally speaking - get more and more stable. For example, will the first release of 2.6 be more stable than the first release of 2.4. I realise that there are new additions to the kernel, and with that new problems will probably emerge. However, comparatively speaking, does it make sense that the kernel's evolution will lean towards stability with each release in the cycle, or will it generally be unnoticable?
You're diverting attention from a Mandrake story with openmosix-plugs, and then you get indignant that the person who brings up a reasonable response "missed the whole point of using the [openmosix] CD".
Neither you nor openmosix is the subject here - the subject is Mandrake. The responder was on-topic.
Quote: "I was told by a film-student friend of mine that those blips occur during the editing phase, due to some physical process. I think it may have been because the editors needed to physically splice the film or something, but I'm not absolutely sure (I dont know very much about the process). But now, if all of the movie is done purely digitally, then all editing can be cone via computer, thereby eliminating all color noise.
Those blips are also called "cigarette burns" - a little circle at the top right of the frame at the end of each film reel. Yes, (film) movies are completed on reels, usually about 20 minutes or less in length. One of the reasons for this is sheer portability - try hauling a 35mm film can around, and you'll see...you'll be thankful there's only 20 min. worth. The blip tells the projectionist to line-up the next reel momentarily. There are usually two blips at the end of each reel.
The article from The [Toronto] Star points out that it's as shitty up here as it is in the U.S..
We used to have a good alt-rock station, called CFNY (102.1 FM). Then, slowly, they started to change. They started to cash-in on their image, calling themselves "The Edge" (tm) and playing more Lenny Kravitz.
Then they were acquired by CHUM-City, which owns Q-107 - the Toronto classic-rock outfit. They actually pretend to compete with each other, which is the most sickening display of market monopoly you can watch. CFNY went as far as to secure the web-domain www.no-stones.com to show their true colours (which in retrospect will only serve to alienate anyone with a wide latitude of musical taste).
Alt-rock radio is dead in Toronto. No more Buzzcocks, no more The Fall, no more pre-"Let's Dance" Bowie. It's as if punk never happened, and post-punk was just a passing 80's novelty.
*sigh*
I guess if the Leafs were in the Cup right now, I wouldn't feel so bad. Unfortunately, 2003 will not be remembered as The Year of Toronto (hello SARS)...at least not for the right reasons.
Quote: "Will Canada be accused of training the world's next generation of cyber-terrorists... or peacekeepers?"
We've always been seen (in US eyes) as a haven. A haven for terrorists, a haven for criminals, a haven for whatever it is that you want to leverage against Canada.
Humourously, if you watch Close Encounters of the Third Kind, you'll see on Richard Dreyfus' wall a newspaper clipping with the headline: "Is Canada a Haven for UFO's?".
Is anyone else sick of the word "terrorist attack" being tagged onto any tragedy that, pre-2001, would've been called a "politically-motivated attack"? To describe every act of destruction (against "us", as it seems) as "terrorism" is negating any inspection of why the act took place, politically or otherwise. It's an instant demonification without need for inquiry...and thus, no lessons are learned.
YES! System Shock and it's sequel will always be the summit of single-player gaming for me. I pray the same creators join up again and create something in the same vein (Thief's aside).
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Fortunately, being only an embryo it can't go very far.
If you tell anyone your name, kill them. However, if you slip up, that's where the cyanide pill comes in.
Remember the pill.
Quote: "Footnotes is running an update article on gDesklets, Gnome's answer to KDE's Karamba."
What's the point of summarizing a story, if - by the end of the summary - the reader still has no clue as to what it's even about.
What the hell is Karamba, and why should people care enough to click-through?
It infuriates me to read such good articles in a paper that I hate so dearly.
Yeah sure, I could say that the fonts make Linux look Mickey Mouse to anyone who uses graphics on, let's say, a Mac. However, what I think Linux desperately needs less of are self-appointed sages of Linux.
Linux needs neither sycophants nor panegyrists. Hell, even people spoon-fed on Win95 and saavy after years of Microsoft exposure get upset about weaknesses in the OS. Why should we suddenly get upset if everyone isn't an apologist?
Flame, ho!
Quote: "A similar thing that introverts due (and geeks are notorious for) is replacing true conversation with being a walking encyclopia.[...] It's not a conversation, it's a plea for attention. "Aren't I clever that I understand clouds".
Wrong. It's not an attempt to be clever. Everybody, introvert or extrovert, is different of course, but generally the reason why introverts default to rational/logical conversation tangents (which often seems - in the words of the review, which you probably didn't understand - aloof) is that, in lieu of an easy ability to adapt to conversations in a way parallel to the main thread, they tend to use what they are more comfortable with: facts.
Introverts generally default to fact-based types of conversations (as opposed to feeling-based) because there is less controversy and less personal exposure if they are simply regurgitating facts, versus saying something that opens one up to personal criticism.
In Toronto, there's been quite a lot of political pressure placed by animal science professionals/animal activists to cut down on the amount of skyscraper lights that go on at night.
God if only I had the energy to find a suitable link to make this a two paragraph reply...oh wait.
Quote: "However, given that hundreds of thousands of works are produced each year, one must assume that the sheer numbers involved evens out the effects of differing quality"
Though I must applaud the author's statistical work, sentences like this (though admittedly not the thrust of the publication) seem a little too coldly rational to be of comfort.
News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. Buy war bonds.
You just know that the whole tone of this thread would be dramatically different if SARS had hit even the smallest populated area in the U.S. (aside from Alaska or Puerto Rico, I fear).
Hell, to many readers, we might as well be talking about an obscure strain of malaria on a small South Pacific island six years ago.
SARS is reality, and reality does not discriminate on the basis of national borders.
I live in Toronto, and yes the media made an absolute feast out of this f*cker. However, while the impact of SARS itself may not be evident, the public clearly understands what it is like to effectively be quarantined from the rest of the world, simply because they live in a particular city (of 3 million others).
I guess what I'm saying is this: when you see news reports about disease/violence that takes place Far Away On the Other Side of The World, take the hype with a grain of salt, but never forget that it's only a matter of time before you will be in that very same scenario. Don't treat it as something you are immune to, and don't ignore the psychological/sociological horrors that those people are experiencing.
Because of developments in plastic moulding/construction, it's now easier for schools and community centres to offer outdoor/indoor soccer (or football, depending upon where you're reading this from) programs seeing as how the availability of comparatively lightweight portable nets has improved. Compare this to those iron tombstones stuck in the highschool athletic field, their white painted frames seemingly always in the midst of disintegration.
My question is this:
There was some hesitancy, upon the official release of kernel 2.4, based upon some bugs etc...
I'm wondering, does the kernel - generally speaking - get more and more stable. For example, will the first release of 2.6 be more stable than the first release of 2.4. I realise that there are new additions to the kernel, and with that new problems will probably emerge. However, comparatively speaking, does it make sense that the kernel's evolution will lean towards stability with each release in the cycle, or will it generally be unnoticable?
Just curious.
Isn't this something that warrants posting in the main guidelines, and not the morray-effect-inducing legal wording?
What they're doing is akin to standing in the middle of a swamp-land, thinking you can swat every mosquito one-by-one until they're all gone.
One word: impossible.
What they're attempting to do is simply medeival. They will clog the courtrooms, treating people who shared files like Al Capone.
Good-bye, America. Sorry to hear about the brain.
You sound like a religious nut.
You're diverting attention from a Mandrake story with openmosix-plugs, and then you get indignant that the person who brings up a reasonable response "missed the whole point of using the [openmosix] CD".
Neither you nor openmosix is the subject here - the subject is Mandrake. The responder was on-topic.
Quote: "I was told by a film-student friend of mine that
those blips occur during the editing phase, due
to some physical process. I think it may have
been because the editors needed to physically
splice the film or something, but I'm not
absolutely sure (I dont know very much about the
process). But now, if all of the movie is
done purely digitally, then all editing can be
cone via computer, thereby eliminating all color
noise.
Those blips are also called "cigarette burns" - a little circle at the top right of the frame at the end of each film reel. Yes, (film) movies are completed on reels, usually about 20 minutes or less in length. One of the reasons for this is sheer portability - try hauling a 35mm film can around, and you'll see...you'll be thankful there's only 20 min. worth. The blip tells the projectionist to line-up the next reel momentarily. There are usually two blips at the end of each reel.
hth
The article from The [Toronto] Star points out that it's as shitty up here as it is in the U.S..
We used to have a good alt-rock station, called CFNY (102.1 FM). Then, slowly, they started to change. They started to cash-in on their image, calling themselves "The Edge" (tm) and playing more Lenny Kravitz.
Then they were acquired by CHUM-City, which owns Q-107 - the Toronto classic-rock outfit. They actually pretend to compete with each other, which is the most sickening display of market monopoly you can watch. CFNY went as far as to secure the web-domain www.no-stones.com to show their true colours (which in retrospect will only serve to alienate anyone with a wide latitude of musical taste).
Alt-rock radio is dead in Toronto. No more Buzzcocks, no more The Fall, no more pre-"Let's Dance" Bowie. It's as if punk never happened, and post-punk was just a passing 80's novelty.
*sigh*
I guess if the Leafs were in the Cup right now, I wouldn't feel so bad. Unfortunately, 2003 will not be remembered as The Year of Toronto (hello SARS)...at least not for the right reasons.
Yes, it's almost been a year since this "multi-port" was released...and there isn't a non-beta Linux client yet.
lmao
In light of this news, I wonder if the "SC" in "SCO" will stand for "Shit's Creek".
Meanwhile, in hockey news, the Ananheim Mighty Ducks face the Newn Jersney Devils.
(I see the upcoming pot de-regulation is having it's effect)
Quote: "Will Canada be accused of training the world's next generation of cyber-terrorists... or peacekeepers?"
We've always been seen (in US eyes) as a haven. A haven for terrorists, a haven for criminals, a haven for whatever it is that you want to leverage against Canada.
Humourously, if you watch Close Encounters of the Third Kind, you'll see on Richard Dreyfus' wall a newspaper clipping with the headline: "Is Canada a Haven for UFO's?".
If he/she had taken the keys, are you suggesting they could've speeded off with it?
(picture of police shooting the tires out as the thief tears down the avenue on a Segway)
Is anyone else sick of the word "terrorist attack" being tagged onto any tragedy that, pre-2001, would've been called a "politically-motivated attack"?
To describe every act of destruction (against "us", as it seems) as "terrorism" is negating any inspection of why the act took place, politically or otherwise. It's an instant demonification without need for inquiry...and thus, no lessons are learned.
YES! System Shock and it's sequel will always be the summit of single-player gaming for me. I pray the same creators join up again and create something in the same vein (Thief's aside).