All that matters is that you do the correct action for the situation.
Wow....
Wow.
I wish I could mod you +10 Insightful.
Too many people in this world are making decisions based on their "ideology" and not on merits. That means, one would look at a proposed solution and think "that's what a Socialist would do.... I'm not a Socialist!" and ban the proposal.
If only people would start using their brains to figure out what the correct thing to do is. Admittedly it's actually somewhat hard, and to most people it's easier to make convenient labels like 'liberal', 'socialist', 'communist', 'capitalist' etc. and simply pick the one which adheres to the ideology that you've decided to follow. If only there existed an ideology based on doing the "right thing".
Reading from Wikipedia and a quick Google search seems to indicate that there was no such "Chinese saying". It could have been some gross translation error, a phrase made up by some foreigner, or perhaps some really really obscure saying.
Linguistically the original Chinese phrase (if one existed!) is rather unlikely to be "you3 yi4 si". It sounds too "modern" to be ancient Chinese. And for "you3 yi4 si", a direct translation of "interesting" is quite accurate on most levels, given that "interesting" in English can mean a number of things.
Of course I could be wrong (I'm no expert on the subject), so I'm interested in where you got your sources.
The world is excited that the Americans have got to their senses and not to elect a president who, through sheer incompetence or otherwise, trashes his own country and pulls everyone else together into the hole.
Look, I really have no interest in whether your country is prosperous or not, it might well turn into a living hell and I wouldn't care, as long as the problems don't get carried over the border. Yet in reality, as many others have mentioned, America has tremendous influence on the world, and "domestic" problems in America will inevitably spread to all parts of the world.
For the past eight years the rest of the world had been watching with incredulity as your country elected a totally incompetent guy who wages war basically because "God told me to get the bad guys" -- twice. It really was a relief that you didn't do that again.
but sadly in 2004 W. still had enough people fooled to squeak by
That's what the GP was saying.
Seriously, Americans are not a monolithic group think over here. We have different opinions on all kind of issues.
Sure. There are nutjobs everywhere, but what's so troubling is the number of people who actually agrees with the nutjob views. I don't care whether it's 49% or even 20%. Having 20% of the people in a country who thinks the Earth is 6000 years old is pretty scary.
If we insist that the US is somehow 'special' (and I indeed do) then we can't simply do what other countries might do. We're better than that, and I think we need to remember it.
As an outsider I find this troubling. It's that mentality that got you into this mess, and you still think America is "special", "better" than all other countries?
There's nothing wrong with patriotism IMHO, but when it changes from "my country is great", to "my country is better than yours", it's just a recipe for disaster.
In fact I doubt such things would ever be. The demand for such applications are so low that the overhead cost of development cannot be offset by millions of users through support, donations etc. like Firefox, GNOME, etc. Somebody has to pay.
First it was the basics. The OS, the system tools etc. Then came the easy bits like apache, sendmail, and other various servers. Then the "standard" GUI stuff came, first the window managers, which with xterm was merely a glorified shell. Then the "desktops" came, the file management tools, the browser, standard stuff you can get with your mouse.
That's around 2003. Before that, I had a problem finding a usable BROWSER in Linux (that's when netscape dropped the ball, IE almost at 100% market share and Mozilla (not Firefox) was at version 0.6 or so). At that time Windows already had a huge and established ecosystem for 3rd party software, and back then nobody uses linux anyways, and given the relatively well execution of Win2k and XP compared with vista, nobody except hobbyists and zealots are considering to switch. Given that, 3rd party software vendors may have looked at the possibility of supporting Linux, but most would have deemed the opportunity unripe.
These days software companies really can't ignore Linux, and I'm guessing 3rd party vendors will finally be seriously looking to getting their software running on Linux. This requires development time, and more importantly a paradigm shift. I'm guessing a few years onward you'll finally be seeing professional software that works well on Linux instead of the half-@$$ed solutions now.
At least, that's the theory. In practice, if you need to deal with any kind of hardware support on Linux, you better hire a good developer who knows the Linux kernel and doesn't piss off Linus and his friends. Whereas on Windows you just needed hire a guy who manages to somehow tweak the thing to work on the couple versions of Windows.
Anyway, things will get better. I repeat myself... 6 years ago I was struggling to find a usable BROWSER on Linux. Compare that and professional music software (which maybe 1% of the general public will use?)...
More likely is the case where an occasional contributor wants his name on the "other contributors" list, and opts for the quick route by coping code instead of writing it himself. The maintainers of the project probably isn't going to google for every line of code before accepting, so proprietary code could get included in this manner.
In my jurisdiction there is a limit to how much responsibility you can disclaim. Generally, if you are selling your products for money, they have to be of a certain standard, regardless of what you wrote in your disclaimer.
I think this is the case for many other places.
Of course, a "good" EULA would still reduce the company's responsibility to a bare minimum permitted by law but they still can be sued if they fsck up badly.
Debian does have bugs when released. As another poster have mentioned, you missed the "important" qualifier word. Many software are released with bugs that practically make it unusable for its stated purpose, but this is rather rare* in Debian.
* Note: "rare" does not mean "non-existent". I have encountered non-trivial showstoppers but with much less frequency than other distributions.
Ubuntu is not "like" Debian with respect to its bug tolerance. It has a fixed release schedule of twice a year, and while generally stable, is not as anal as Debian on its insistence of squashing out every "important" bug before release. The technology is more or less the same, the philosophy is rather different.
The odds of losing your job is much higher than your laptop being searched and confiscated... The consequences of losing your job are probably more severe than having your laptop's content exposed.
It is part of the job of people who have been given power over others to do as much as they can to eliminate bias in their decisions. They are human, but they are still expected to behave to a much higher standard than an everyday joe schmoe.
Agreed.
Not thought through the consequences of rolling over and just accepting bad governing lately?
It's basically an uphill battle. People *are* biased, despite efforts in attempting (to pretend) not to be. That doesn't mean I'm going to stay silent when things to really out of hand, but in reality and in practice it's always a good idea never to piss off a person in authority without good reason.
Yet the post aggravates the problems you mentioned with the system.
Most people don't know how the legal system works, yet pounds on it by being unfair etc. Well, the details _are_ complex, but getting a general understanding is not really that hard. What makes it harder for normal people to understand the system is these induhviduals pretending to know about law yet knowing shitte, and spreading misleading information make the general populace more misinformed.
What you're saying is that "I like this rant!". Mob mentality at its finest.
If you want to criticize the legal system, at least get a basic understanding of it before attempting to rip it apart. As I've said, it's not really that hard.
If they can't track down who is actually sending it, then start punishing the companies who are benefiting from it and make them responsible for how their "affiliates" are marketing their products
Won't work. Otherwise I could send spam pretending to be an "affiliate" of a company I don't like (MS?) and if they can't trace the spam back to me, then that company gets penalized for nothing.
Unfortunately, I don't have any idea of how we're ever going to reduce the amount of spam -- but, by its very nature, spam is almost always dishonest, and often outright fraudulent.
If people won't buy the crap advertised in spam, a lot of the spam would disappear.
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we still have the only country in the world that can transition peaceably from power to power every 4 years if need be.
To press the point, you think this is a fact?
I'll excuse you if you think USA = "the world", but even so it's not a very meaningful statement given that there's only one country in "the world"...
All that matters is that you do the correct action for the situation.
Wow. ...
Wow.
I wish I could mod you +10 Insightful.
Too many people in this world are making decisions based on their "ideology" and not on merits. That means, one would look at a proposed solution and think "that's what a Socialist would do.... I'm not a Socialist!" and ban the proposal.
If only people would start using their brains to figure out what the correct thing to do is. Admittedly it's actually somewhat hard, and to most people it's easier to make convenient labels like 'liberal', 'socialist', 'communist', 'capitalist' etc. and simply pick the one which adheres to the ideology that you've decided to follow. If only there existed an ideology based on doing the "right thing".
I'm Chinese (and I'm a user of the language).
Reading from Wikipedia and a quick Google search seems to indicate that there was no such "Chinese saying". It could have been some gross translation error, a phrase made up by some foreigner, or perhaps some really really obscure saying.
Linguistically the original Chinese phrase (if one existed!) is rather unlikely to be "you3 yi4 si". It sounds too "modern" to be ancient Chinese. And for "you3 yi4 si", a direct translation of "interesting" is quite accurate on most levels, given that "interesting" in English can mean a number of things.
Of course I could be wrong (I'm no expert on the subject), so I'm interested in where you got your sources.
The world is excited that the Americans have got to their senses and not to elect a president who, through sheer incompetence or otherwise, trashes his own country and pulls everyone else together into the hole.
Look, I really have no interest in whether your country is prosperous or not, it might well turn into a living hell and I wouldn't care, as long as the problems don't get carried over the border. Yet in reality, as many others have mentioned, America has tremendous influence on the world, and "domestic" problems in America will inevitably spread to all parts of the world.
For the past eight years the rest of the world had been watching with incredulity as your country elected a totally incompetent guy who wages war basically because "God told me to get the bad guys" -- twice. It really was a relief that you didn't do that again.
but sadly in 2004 W. still had enough people fooled to squeak by
That's what the GP was saying.
Seriously, Americans are not a monolithic group think over here. We have different opinions on all kind of issues.
Sure. There are nutjobs everywhere, but what's so troubling is the number of people who actually agrees with the nutjob views. I don't care whether it's 49% or even 20%. Having 20% of the people in a country who thinks the Earth is 6000 years old is pretty scary.
If we insist that the US is somehow 'special' (and I indeed do) then we can't simply do what other countries might do. We're better than that, and I think we need to remember it.
As an outsider I find this troubling. It's that mentality that got you into this mess, and you still think America is "special", "better" than all other countries?
There's nothing wrong with patriotism IMHO, but when it changes from "my country is great", to "my country is better than yours", it's just a recipe for disaster.
Diplomacy does not preclude use of force.
The receipt I get from the cashier has almost zero value today. In 1000 years it becomes highly valuable due to its archeological value.
Lots of things are of no value today, yet of tremendous value when it provides information of some forgotten history.
Congratulations, you just described Unix.
And if you truly want to maintain those rights, you have to assert them.
I never said it would be free.
In fact I doubt such things would ever be. The demand for such applications are so low that the overhead cost of development cannot be offset by millions of users through support, donations etc. like Firefox, GNOME, etc. Somebody has to pay.
Give it a bit more time.
First it was the basics. The OS, the system tools etc. Then came the easy bits like apache, sendmail, and other various servers. Then the "standard" GUI stuff came, first the window managers, which with xterm was merely a glorified shell. Then the "desktops" came, the file management tools, the browser, standard stuff you can get with your mouse.
That's around 2003. Before that, I had a problem finding a usable BROWSER in Linux (that's when netscape dropped the ball, IE almost at 100% market share and Mozilla (not Firefox) was at version 0.6 or so). At that time Windows already had a huge and established ecosystem for 3rd party software, and back then nobody uses linux anyways, and given the relatively well execution of Win2k and XP compared with vista, nobody except hobbyists and zealots are considering to switch. Given that, 3rd party software vendors may have looked at the possibility of supporting Linux, but most would have deemed the opportunity unripe.
These days software companies really can't ignore Linux, and I'm guessing 3rd party vendors will finally be seriously looking to getting their software running on Linux. This requires development time, and more importantly a paradigm shift. I'm guessing a few years onward you'll finally be seeing professional software that works well on Linux instead of the half-@$$ed solutions now.
At least, that's the theory. In practice, if you need to deal with any kind of hardware support on Linux, you better hire a good developer who knows the Linux kernel and doesn't piss off Linus and his friends. Whereas on Windows you just needed hire a guy who manages to somehow tweak the thing to work on the couple versions of Windows.
Anyway, things will get better. I repeat myself... 6 years ago I was struggling to find a usable BROWSER on Linux. Compare that and professional music software (which maybe 1% of the general public will use?)...
Merging sucks when all you have is CVS or SVN
More likely is the case where an occasional contributor wants his name on the "other contributors" list, and opts for the quick route by coping code instead of writing it himself. The maintainers of the project probably isn't going to google for every line of code before accepting, so proprietary code could get included in this manner.
In my jurisdiction there is a limit to how much responsibility you can disclaim. Generally, if you are selling your products for money, they have to be of a certain standard, regardless of what you wrote in your disclaimer.
I think this is the case for many other places.
Of course, a "good" EULA would still reduce the company's responsibility to a bare minimum permitted by law but they still can be sued if they fsck up badly.
could have added the word "tolerance" somewhere...
Depending on the member size of the investigators, prosecutors and judges.
Obviously you don't know Debian.
Debian does have bugs when released. As another poster have mentioned, you missed the "important" qualifier word. Many software are released with bugs that practically make it unusable for its stated purpose, but this is rather rare* in Debian.
* Note: "rare" does not mean "non-existent". I have encountered non-trivial showstoppers but with much less frequency than other distributions.
Ubuntu is not "like" Debian with respect to its bug tolerance. It has a fixed release schedule of twice a year, and while generally stable, is not as anal as Debian on its insistence of squashing out every "important" bug before release. The technology is more or less the same, the philosophy is rather different.
They are a moral majority *here*...
You really need to ask slashdot to implement the solution of just uploading the stuff encrypted and downloading it back when you get home... yeah.
I never thought of that!!
The odds of losing your job is much higher than your laptop being searched and confiscated...
The consequences of losing your job are probably more severe than having your laptop's content exposed.
Still worrying about the laptop thing?
It is part of the job of people who have been given power over others to do as much as they can to eliminate bias in their decisions.
They are human, but they are still expected to behave to a much higher standard than an everyday joe schmoe.
Agreed.
Not thought through the consequences of rolling over and just accepting bad governing lately?
It's basically an uphill battle. People *are* biased, despite efforts in attempting (to pretend) not to be. That doesn't mean I'm going to stay silent when things to really out of hand, but in reality and in practice it's always a good idea never to piss off a person in authority without good reason.
Yet the post aggravates the problems you mentioned with the system.
Most people don't know how the legal system works, yet pounds on it by being unfair etc. Well, the details _are_ complex, but getting a general understanding is not really that hard. What makes it harder for normal people to understand the system is these induhviduals pretending to know about law yet knowing shitte, and spreading misleading information make the general populace more misinformed.
What you're saying is that "I like this rant!". Mob mentality at its finest.
If you want to criticize the legal system, at least get a basic understanding of it before attempting to rip it apart. As I've said, it's not really that hard.
Well, number one rule in life: don't piss off other people (that you can't afford to).
Shameful? That's life dude...
Dealt too much with emotionless machines lately?
If they can't track down who is actually sending it, then start punishing the companies who are benefiting from it and make them responsible for how their "affiliates" are marketing their products
Won't work. Otherwise I could send spam pretending to be an "affiliate" of a company I don't like (MS?) and if they can't trace the spam back to me, then that company gets penalized for nothing.
Unfortunately, I don't have any idea of how we're ever going to reduce the amount of spam -- but, by its very nature, spam is almost always dishonest, and often outright fraudulent.
If people won't buy the crap advertised in spam, a lot of the spam would disappear.