Agreed, I'm on dual 19" and it's the best thing in the world. I'm even considering getting a 3rd screen, size doesn't matter, just for meebo to live on.
From the article: An examination of the trial transcript, witness statements, police reports and appellate briefs reveals something even more shocking.
Except for an alleged motive, there was no evidence against Karage.
"I couldn't believe it," says Lawrence Mitchell, one of the top criminal appellate attorneys in Dallas, who represented Karage on appeal. "There's not a shred of evidence he committed the crime. I don't know how Karen Greene came to the conclusion he was guilty. It's bad judging all the way through. I think a first-year law student would have seen he wasn't guilty. I have never seen a case this egregious."
The project is GPL right, so it will go on anyways, perhaps a new name, but, that wouldn't be right either.
Firefox is becoming more of a software dev platform. Recently, in an app I did, we had a prob with Firefox's GC for xml objects causing it to crash. An upgrade fixed it(at first a beta ver of FF/XulRunner) and now it's in the stable branches.
Now, pretend for a minute Debian had Firefox with that name and the regular icons. But they decided, for whatever reason, to roll back or use their own GC patch for the problem we had.
So, my app wouldn't work on Firefox, but would work on Firefox? Specifically, not on Debian FF but in the rest of the world? Any idea how inane this is? Firefox is trying to protect a brand of quality, if debian introduces a new bug into their browser, should Moz provide support? Should other people provide support in IRC, newsgroups, etc.. ?
What if I modified python to not use if anymore but use wellmaybeiwillonlyif instead, but released it, called it Python, same version, etc... should I be allowed to do so? Could I then say that python from python.org is not compatible with Python from python.org, which I should then call the unofficial branch?
Yeah, it's silly, but if I'm an OS, that's a lot of implementations of it that no longer support "if".
But the question begs itself again, what are these patches that should only be found in a certain distro. Security patches that only apply to debian? Sounds like a problem in debian somewhere else up the tree, not in FF itself. If it's in FF itself, it should be submitted to the tree.
Now, because of the name change, Debian's project, which is a not-complete fork of Firefox, but, as it differs from the official Firefox, is under the control of the Debian Project, and they are free to name it as they wish. This alleviates trouble with people who help support firefox to regular users. "Firefox is crashing." Even though what is crashing is a new Debian patch. Makes it very difficult to diagnose.
As Firefox is moving towards a software development platform as well, many things are very important that they remain the same. A recent project of mine requires extensive use of the garbage collector, and was causing crashes in earlier versions. If Debian decides to implement their own, or revert the change, but still call it Firefox, I now have a project that doesn't work on Firefox, unless it's Firefox from Moz directly. It's a different project, it should be a different name, or, as Moz suggests, Firefox Community Edition or whatever.
What if I decided to release a free version of Debian, and I called it Sarge? Now, since it's free it has no GPL software in it, only public domain, but it was still called Debian Sarge, and people went over to debian.org to ask why there is no X support, or why the kernel can't boot a filesystem, etc... would that be cool under debian's policy?
No kid wants to hear about sex from their parents, and no parents want to tell their kids about sex. You know what? At 12, you need to start, at 15 or 16, you need to be done. Just do it, and it'll be over with!
"I know you're coming onto that age where you're interested in girls, maybe guys. Now, you aren't allowed to have sex with them, but because it happens, I want you to know I won't punish you, I want you to tell me. And I want to tell you about safety. Condoms blah blah blah. Men over 17(or 18, depending on your state) blah blah blah. Men over 50, blah blah blah. Sexual predators online, blah blah blah.." and then go buy the kid some pr0n, whichever kind he likes, gay or straight, and don't talk about it for another week or two, don't mention it unless the kid does, and go from there. That way it's over with, it's out in the open, and you just did OMFG bought the kid pr0n, so nothing really seems that much further out.
Yes, you're kid will have sex around 15 or 16. No, you can't stop it, not without making the kid's life miserable. You can help it.
As far as IM'ing, if you are going to monitor, tell them, but realize it's stupid.
Oh, meebo blocked? Anonymous proxy, with ssl, and there ya go. No, an informed kid is way better than a frightened kid or a kid living under constant surveillance.
Woo hoo, neat, more fodder. But, um, this is Slashdot? Not some overzealous political blog. Maybe if it was a computer-based coverup or something, then that would be cool. Or if we found out Condolezza was actually a Russian Android, originally programmed for "freaky tribal sex" that Bush acquired long ago, that would be interesting too, IF the specs were there. But none of these is the case, so this isn't Slashdot news. Of course, more recently, nothing is.
I know with the Debian/Firefox thing from yesterday there's a lot of pointless political blah-blah-blah's going on but seriously, let's get over it. Most people have made up their mind on the issue one way or another, and this is slashdot.
Ajax and Java are two completely different ideas/concepts. Second, if AJAX is hard and you do Java, you need to have your head examined. It's probably dyslexia, and you've been writing perl, not Java this whole time. Not to say if you know Java you know Ajax, completely untrue, but if you think it's hard that's a different story.
Ha, most people care, but most people care about are rights as well. Why defend something that doesn't exist anymore?
Hey, thanks for fighting the way! We've made some minor organizational changes. Instead of "America" we're going to be called "Funland" as the whole system fell under. Instead of seeing your families again you'll have to "apply" for a license to "travel" to their "reassignment region" which we can't tell you for matters of "security."
As my friend says, 9/11 became a joke shortly after it happened. Bush ignored it, then made fun of it. The republicans who still say 9/11 everywhere are making fun of it. It's a joke to them, why not you?
And a lot of people also realize that this "war" on terror isn't doing anything for our security, even the recently release report shows that, the war is increasing terrorism(as if that weren't obvious from before).
Ha! I went to a small anti-war rally(5 of us) and we were followed, I circled a block 6 times and the same guy followed me. So I started walking home(avoiding my car) and he quit following when we got to a more scary part of the neighborhood.
Yeah, except california is a big state. They wouldn't stop selling gas there if it meant the gas was being used to burn babies alive, they'd still sell because it's such a big market.
You have no concept of the significance of the 100 years war, Jeanne D'Arc, the wheel. You probably don't remember a time before fire, electricity, telephone, spoken word.
It goes on and on. We have it as good as you did, just with faster pr0n.
Ugh, "Stop Global Warming" doesn't mean change the damn climate, it means that the person thinks what we are doing is accelerating climate change and to stop that. You're redefining it based off of the words it says not off of the meaning of those words when combined.
Kinda like saying, "The sky is blue": fiction, the sky is more of a turqoise. Far too literal and skipping over the meaning.
Aye, but the question is, are we speeding up the process? Are we ready for the changes it may force us to make?
You see the question, not the problem, redefine it, and then attempt to answer it.
No, the world isn't going to end. I already like Soy. I hope you will too when the cattle is gone(or too expensive, which may happen just for biodiesel, heh).
The thing I try to point out to people who always try to point this stuff out is, if an ice age occured today, like it did before, would we be just fine and dandy or would it radically change our way of life? That normally kicks some circuits around to get them thinking of what people are worried about.
Although there are plenty of nuts out there, and on both sides of the equation.
That's just not how slashdot works. How can you form your own opinion when we're trying to form it thru a means of mass collective that always leads to something stupider. Didn't you read the summary, it had a jab at sony? That translates into we all hate sony.
It will be debated, argued, and "discussed" by means of flame wars in the comments, the loudest people will be summed up, and it will be repeated in either a dupe, with possibly another jab at sony, or, if the comment tide turns (and by that I mean the loudest people on top) then it will praise sony and laugh at the foolhardy 360 and Wii.
But seriously, I agree with you. So far, the 360 just isn't worth it. Sorry, let's talk price vs. quality. There's no games I want to play on it. So, that's 0 games for $300/$400 bucks? Are you kidding me? The wii? Let's just say my last nintendo was a SNES, and I think that console had some of the best games ever to be released, but Nintendo hasn't done it for me afterwards.
At least the PS2 has a few games I enjoy, but that doesn't mean the PS3 will, and that doesn't mean games I like won't get to the Xbox, or the Wii, but this isn't over, and everyone will choose. Right now, I'm happy just having a PC.
"Should kids be getting even more exposure to media when they workout?"
Umm, the problem isn't too much media exposure, the problem is kids aren't working out. This is using a potential problem(media exposure) to solve an existing problem(not enough to nil exercise).
Now trackback the cheating of those in Enron and MCI/Worldcom back to their cheating days at Harvard and other business schools. I bet the relation will be pretty high up there.
I just decided to go the MythTV Route, and, taking an old PC running XP(barely) I installed Freespire. Yeah, yeah, why not Gentoo/Ubuntu/whatever.. Well, I'm a FreeBSD person myself, and yes, I know MythTV runs on it. But I didn't want to worry about the OS, I really don't have that kind of time. I was able to get Freespire up in about 10 mins from CD to boot into the Desktop. No hardware problems at all. Then, using CNR I clicked not once, but twice, on each of the dependencies for MythTV that weren't installed, and compiled from source(hey, I'm not an idiot, I want 0.20 not.18, I just don't wanna worry about kernel compiling/etc..)
So, not being a MythTV person at all, nor a linux person, I had a FW connection to my cable box in less than 30 mins. Sa-weet. If I have time, it'll be a FBSD box, as well as the backends. I'm short on time these days though, but I still wanna do projects like MythTV etc..
And as far as KnoppMyth, well, I tried, and I'm just not too familiar with lilo to go in and fix it, and ditto about the time constraints. Freespire just worked, and sweet. I wish KnoppMyth did too, would save me even more time.
No one starves because of lack of food, because we make enough food to feed the world a few times over each year, we just feed it to cattle, who are higher on the food chain than some "lesser" humans.
=)
Not quite that bad, since we wouldn't just GIVE away the food anyways, but it is capitalism, sell it to the poor countries or feed it to cattle to make even more expensive meat?
I haven't decided on whether I like this product or it's just too expensive to be worth it, BUT. The other thing is has is the ability to run secondary applications on the onboard linux SOC, potentially even a voip-type thing(for voice chat in the game) although I don't know if this is true or not. And you can access the linux terminal via console in XP. Basically it wants to offload more than just the game, but other things which help enhance the game or otherwise.
Read the article ? it talks a little about it, and if you click slashdot's "related story" and read that one(if still avail) it'll have even more info I believe.
Agreed, I do freelancing contracting, back when I was looking for more contract jobs, I went to a guy at a company after sending him my portfolio and website and everything, he asked for a resume, I simply told him he didn't know what's he looking for and walked out. Really freaked him out, turns out it would be a job job not a freelance job, definately not what I was looking for.
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Wait, I thought Thunderbirds was a cartoon about inboxes fighting off spam? Crap, now I'm lost.
Agreed, I'm on dual 19" and it's the best thing in the world. I'm even considering getting a 3rd screen, size doesn't matter, just for meebo to live on.
Because down here we ain't got no good judges.
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http://www.dallasobserver.com/Issues/2006-10-05/n
From the article:
An examination of the trial transcript, witness statements, police reports and appellate briefs reveals something even more shocking.
Except for an alleged motive, there was no evidence against Karage.
"I couldn't believe it," says Lawrence Mitchell, one of the top criminal appellate attorneys in Dallas, who represented Karage on appeal. "There's not a shred of evidence he committed the crime. I don't know how Karen Greene came to the conclusion he was guilty. It's bad judging all the way through. I think a first-year law student would have seen he wasn't guilty. I have never seen a case this egregious."
The project is GPL right, so it will go on anyways, perhaps a new name, but, that wouldn't be right either.
Firefox is becoming more of a software dev platform. Recently, in an app I did, we had a prob with Firefox's GC for xml objects causing it to crash. An upgrade fixed it(at first a beta ver of FF/XulRunner) and now it's in the stable branches.
Now, pretend for a minute Debian had Firefox with that name and the regular icons. But they decided, for whatever reason, to roll back or use their own GC patch for the problem we had.
So, my app wouldn't work on Firefox, but would work on Firefox? Specifically, not on Debian FF but in the rest of the world? Any idea how inane this is? Firefox is trying to protect a brand of quality, if debian introduces a new bug into their browser, should Moz provide support? Should other people provide support in IRC, newsgroups, etc.. ?
What if I modified python to not use if anymore but use wellmaybeiwillonlyif instead, but released it, called it Python, same version, etc... should I be allowed to do so? Could I then say that python from python.org is not compatible with Python from python.org, which I should then call the unofficial branch?
Yeah, it's silly, but if I'm an OS, that's a lot of implementations of it that no longer support "if".
But the question begs itself again, what are these patches that should only be found in a certain distro. Security patches that only apply to debian? Sounds like a problem in debian somewhere else up the tree, not in FF itself. If it's in FF itself, it should be submitted to the tree.
Now, because of the name change, Debian's project, which is a not-complete fork of Firefox, but, as it differs from the official Firefox, is under the control of the Debian Project, and they are free to name it as they wish. This alleviates trouble with people who help support firefox to regular users. "Firefox is crashing." Even though what is crashing is a new Debian patch. Makes it very difficult to diagnose.
As Firefox is moving towards a software development platform as well, many things are very important that they remain the same. A recent project of mine requires extensive use of the garbage collector, and was causing crashes in earlier versions. If Debian decides to implement their own, or revert the change, but still call it Firefox, I now have a project that doesn't work on Firefox, unless it's Firefox from Moz directly. It's a different project, it should be a different name, or, as Moz suggests, Firefox Community Edition or whatever.
What if I decided to release a free version of Debian, and I called it Sarge? Now, since it's free it has no GPL software in it, only public domain, but it was still called Debian Sarge, and people went over to debian.org to ask why there is no X support, or why the kernel can't boot a filesystem, etc... would that be cool under debian's policy?
Target. Wait. Shit. Nevermind, I'm old now. :(
To get rid of? My friend's comp just gave him a brand new shiny(used) computer, with... 98!
No XP till '08 for him. Yeah, they have XP comps around, and 95, but they don't upgrade much, hell, the app their using is DOS based anyways.
No kid wants to hear about sex from their parents, and no parents want to tell their kids about sex. You know what? At 12, you need to start, at 15 or 16, you need to be done. Just do it, and it'll be over with!
"I know you're coming onto that age where you're interested in girls, maybe guys. Now, you aren't allowed to have sex with them, but because it happens, I want you to know I won't punish you, I want you to tell me. And I want to tell you about safety. Condoms blah blah blah. Men over 17(or 18, depending on your state) blah blah blah. Men over 50, blah blah blah. Sexual predators online, blah blah blah.." and then go buy the kid some pr0n, whichever kind he likes, gay or straight, and don't talk about it for another week or two, don't mention it unless the kid does, and go from there. That way it's over with, it's out in the open, and you just did OMFG bought the kid pr0n, so nothing really seems that much further out.
Yes, you're kid will have sex around 15 or 16. No, you can't stop it, not without making the kid's life miserable. You can help it.
As far as IM'ing, if you are going to monitor, tell them, but realize it's stupid.
https://www.meebo.com/
Oh, meebo blocked? Anonymous proxy, with ssl, and there ya go. No, an informed kid is way better than a frightened kid or a kid living under constant surveillance.
Woo hoo, neat, more fodder. But, um, this is Slashdot? Not some overzealous political blog. Maybe if it was a computer-based coverup or something, then that would be cool. Or if we found out Condolezza was actually a Russian Android, originally programmed for "freaky tribal sex" that Bush acquired long ago, that would be interesting too, IF the specs were there. But none of these is the case, so this isn't Slashdot news. Of course, more recently, nothing is.
I know with the Debian/Firefox thing from yesterday there's a lot of pointless political blah-blah-blah's going on but seriously, let's get over it. Most people have made up their mind on the issue one way or another, and this is slashdot.
Javascript is not like Java.
Ajax and Java are two completely different ideas/concepts. Second, if AJAX is hard and you do Java, you need to have your head examined. It's probably dyslexia, and you've been writing perl, not Java this whole time. Not to say if you know Java you know Ajax, completely untrue, but if you think it's hard that's a different story.
No, the government isn't really spying on all your phone calls...
just flew out the door, eh?
Ha, most people care, but most people care about are rights as well. Why defend something that doesn't exist anymore?
Hey, thanks for fighting the way! We've made some minor organizational changes. Instead of "America" we're going to be called "Funland" as the whole system fell under. Instead of seeing your families again you'll have to "apply" for a license to "travel" to their "reassignment region" which we can't tell you for matters of "security."
As my friend says, 9/11 became a joke shortly after it happened. Bush ignored it, then made fun of it. The republicans who still say 9/11 everywhere are making fun of it. It's a joke to them, why not you?
And a lot of people also realize that this "war" on terror isn't doing anything for our security, even the recently release report shows that, the war is increasing terrorism(as if that weren't obvious from before).
Ha! I went to a small anti-war rally(5 of us) and we were followed, I circled a block 6 times and the same guy followed me. So I started walking home(avoiding my car) and he quit following when we got to a more scary part of the neighborhood.
These guys are asses, but no balls.
Yeah, except california is a big state. They wouldn't stop selling gas there if it meant the gas was being used to burn babies alive, they'd still sell because it's such a big market.
Forget the privacy filter, Goatse on the left, Goatse on the right, and that commercial would be far more interesting!
Yeah, but that's how it always is.
You have no concept of the significance of the 100 years war, Jeanne D'Arc, the wheel.
You probably don't remember a time before fire, electricity, telephone, spoken word.
It goes on and on. We have it as good as you did, just with faster pr0n.
Ugh, "Stop Global Warming" doesn't mean change the damn climate, it means that the person thinks what we are doing is accelerating climate change and to stop that. You're redefining it based off of the words it says not off of the meaning of those words when combined.
Kinda like saying, "The sky is blue": fiction, the sky is more of a turqoise. Far too literal and skipping over the meaning.
Aye, but the question is, are we speeding up the process? Are we ready for the changes it may force us to make?
You see the question, not the problem, redefine it, and then attempt to answer it.
No, the world isn't going to end. I already like Soy. I hope you will too when the cattle is gone(or too expensive, which may happen just for biodiesel, heh).
The thing I try to point out to people who always try to point this stuff out is, if an ice age occured today, like it did before, would we be just fine and dandy or would it radically change our way of life? That normally kicks some circuits around to get them thinking of what people are worried about.
Although there are plenty of nuts out there, and on both sides of the equation.
That's just not how slashdot works. How can you form your own opinion when we're trying to form it thru a means of mass collective that always leads to something stupider. Didn't you read the summary, it had a jab at sony? That translates into we all hate sony.
It will be debated, argued, and "discussed" by means of flame wars in the comments, the loudest people will be summed up, and it will be repeated in either a dupe, with possibly another jab at sony, or, if the comment tide turns (and by that I mean the loudest people on top) then it will praise sony and laugh at the foolhardy 360 and Wii.
But seriously, I agree with you. So far, the 360 just isn't worth it. Sorry, let's talk price vs. quality. There's no games I want to play on it. So, that's 0 games for $300/$400 bucks? Are you kidding me? The wii? Let's just say my last nintendo was a SNES, and I think that console had some of the best games ever to be released, but Nintendo hasn't done it for me afterwards.
At least the PS2 has a few games I enjoy, but that doesn't mean the PS3 will, and that doesn't mean games I like won't get to the Xbox, or the Wii, but this isn't over, and everyone will choose. Right now, I'm happy just having a PC.
"Should kids be getting even more exposure to media when they workout?"
Umm, the problem isn't too much media exposure, the problem is kids aren't working out. This is using a potential problem(media exposure) to solve an existing problem(not enough to nil exercise).
Now trackback the cheating of those in Enron and MCI/Worldcom back to their cheating days at Harvard and other business schools. I bet the relation will be pretty high up there.
I just decided to go the MythTV Route, and, taking an old PC running XP(barely) I installed Freespire. Yeah, yeah, why not Gentoo/Ubuntu/whatever.. Well, I'm a FreeBSD person myself, and yes, I know MythTV runs on it. But I didn't want to worry about the OS, I really don't have that kind of time. I was able to get Freespire up in about 10 mins from CD to boot into the Desktop. No hardware problems at all. Then, using CNR I clicked not once, but twice, on each of the dependencies for MythTV that weren't installed, and compiled from source(hey, I'm not an idiot, I want 0.20 not .18, I just don't wanna worry about kernel compiling/etc..)
So, not being a MythTV person at all, nor a linux person, I had a FW connection to my cable box in less than 30 mins. Sa-weet. If I have time, it'll be a FBSD box, as well as the backends. I'm short on time these days though, but I still wanna do projects like MythTV etc..
And as far as KnoppMyth, well, I tried, and I'm just not too familiar with lilo to go in and fix it, and ditto about the time constraints. Freespire just worked, and sweet. I wish KnoppMyth did too, would save me even more time.
No one starves because of lack of food, because we make enough food to feed the world a few times over each year, we just feed it to cattle, who are higher on the food chain than some "lesser" humans.
=)
Not quite that bad, since we wouldn't just GIVE away the food anyways, but it is capitalism, sell it to the poor countries or feed it to cattle to make even more expensive meat?
I haven't decided on whether I like this product or it's just too expensive to be worth it, BUT. The other thing is has is the ability to run secondary applications on the onboard linux SOC, potentially even a voip-type thing(for voice chat in the game) although I don't know if this is true or not. And you can access the linux terminal via console in XP. Basically it wants to offload more than just the game, but other things which help enhance the game or otherwise.
Read the article ? it talks a little about it, and if you click slashdot's "related story" and read that one(if still avail) it'll have even more info I believe.
Agreed, I do freelancing contracting, back when I was looking for more contract jobs, I went to a guy at a company after sending him my portfolio and website and everything, he asked for a resume, I simply told him he didn't know what's he looking for and walked out. Really freaked him out, turns out it would be a job job not a freelance job, definately not what I was looking for.