Sure the Pledge is about freedom, liberty, justice, et cetera; it's the part about "under God" that galls. It isn't about any of those things. It was just put in back when McCarthy was stirring up trouble and lots of people wanted government recognition that we weren't atheist commies. As an atheist (but not a communist), that annoys the hell out of me. Why does the government have to get involved with it?
As for the pledge being voluntary, have you ever been in a crowd of people who were all doing something like saying the Pledge? The group compulsion is overpowering to at least put your hand on your heart. Sure, it's voluntary. So is not picking your nose in public.
A rather tenuous chain of logic, I'd say. While many of the founders of the U.S. were certainly Christians, it was not universal (there were also some deists). The founders had experience with people not getting along together because of religious differences, and they acted to smooth things out. By keeping the government strictly neutral with respect to religion, a pleuralistic society can survive in peace.
If you look at the purpose and design of the US government, you will see that it is quite pragmatic, and can stand on its own virtues without needing Christian principles. A lot of countries around the world use similar forms of government complete with rights and all, and they're definitely not all Christian. Their arguments were aimed toward helping people live together in peace and prosperity without oppressing anybody. Sure, you can find arguments in the Bible that support America's principles, but you can also find a great many against, and the same holds true for other major religions. Could it be that America was founded on practicality?
I looked at the level of technology; the picture of the rocket hover chair was taken a long time ago, and now they've got some much more impressive stuff, like a rocket that they've safely dropped from a helicopter. They've been meaning to do hover tests of their rockets for some time now, but they've had trouble getting propellant. Apparently certain suppliers don't trust them.
Hydrochloric acid is dandy, but Ad-aware is safer and easier to download. The only "problem" is that it causes Kazaa to stop working, forcing users to move on to Kazaa Lite or some different program.
I can't blame anyone for wincing during the love scenes (I sure did---the weakest part of the movie), but the action parts were great, and I'm the sort of person who will like a movie with a mediocre plot as long as it has great special effects. Attack of the Clones fit the bill.
What an amusing post! I imagine you fancy yourself quite witty, don't you? Still, I'm bored, so I'll refute what you say.
Yeah, I agree. Gentoo definately has something to do with 2.7. *cough* *rolls eyes*
I was using Gentoo as an example of something that handles some aspects of kernel setup. Sure, it doesn't do very much, since the kernel is a complex system and Gentoo wants to give the user lots of configurability there, but it does something.
That's a terrible idea. Modules already provide away for the distributions to cater to virtually any hardware setup without losing performance for being the "jack of all trades." At any given time, no driver is loaded that doesn't need to be. A desktop kernel might need to support ten different sound cards. If it had any sense, it would build them as modules...but wait! Distros already build all the drivers as modules.
I'm not talking about drivers. I'm talking about such things as the linux kernel preemtion patch. It can reduce latency, but some people have throughput concerns. There are surely other patches that might be better examples.
Every single selection in the "make menuconfig" system is invoked with a keypress...and almost every single help section includes a blurb about modules and where to go for information.
I know that, having used the program myself. It's just that sometimes a small but crucial detail will trip me up.
I've read your other posts. You don't care about Bayesian filters. You don't speak Python or Ruby. You're a fraud.
I do care about Bayesian filters, I do speak Python, I never said that I speak Ruby, I'm not a fraud, and you're the creepy stalker type. Goodbye.
Gentoo makes you compile your own kernel (or at least it is highly encouraged) and they've made it about as easy as it gets, which is still pretty darn hard, but not unmanageable (they have a GUI). There's only so much simplification you can do before the whole thing become useless---this is the kernel we're talking about. The most useful layer of user-friendliness I can envision is presenting the user with some simple choices of CPU and what role they want the kernel to play, like desktop, server, media appliance, and whatever else your twisted mind can dream up.
I think that the "make menuconfig" system should better explain about kernel modules. I had a deuce of a time figuring out what key to press to get the LNE100TX ethernet card enabled, but once I found out, it was just one key.
How about just integrating a web server with KDE? (I don't know much about GNOME, so I can't speak for it.) Konqueror does that, and thanks to the kparts stuff it can embed a lot of viewers for stuff.
As for preventing people from creating new dialects of Lisp, as far as I know I've done nothing to slow down the guys working on Perl, Python, and Ruby;-)
I can uderstand Python (I once tried writing a program to interpret Python with lisp syntax, but the parser didn't work very well), and probably Ruby, but Perl? I thought that Perl was a combination of C, Awk, sed, and line noise.;-)
Downloading these images is part of the DoS. If you put a spam image on a server, you're not very likely to be innocent, and presumably if you're going with Pauk Graham you'll be well-protected by a Bayesian spam filter so you won't feel the pain of more spam.
Wi-Fi doesn't spam children with hardcore porn. Perhaps you're getting it confused with unfiltered email or certain instant messaging services which are banned from just about every elementary school I know of. Could it be that your real concern is baseless?
It's possible to include, say, the Mozilla javascript engine in one of these spam filters, which would let it deal with funky javascript. BFilter, for one, uses this approach to deal with ad banners that are inserted in the page by javascript. The redirects can be dealt with; I'm sure there's some standard code for dealing with them that would be easy to use.
Really, you cn take quite a bit of browser code out of the browser and use it in a filter.
Now, some will say "But that doesn't solve the bandwidth problem." In the short-term, no, it doesn't. But in the short-term it doesn't waste my time which is my single largest expense when it comes to spam. And, in the long-term, if more people started using Bayesian the response rate on spam would continue to plummet making it less and less useful to spam in the first place.
I agree with you; Bayesian filtering is a solution whose time came long ago. It works outstandingly for me, and I've heard similar success stories from others---you, for example. However, the people most likely to let Bayes guard their inbox are the least likely to respond to spam. In other words, if more people start using Bayesian filtering, fewer people will be annoyed but you won't have much spam reduction, since you'll still have large numbers of stupid, clueless, or stupid and clueless people (and I refer to clueless people knowing that I'm clueless in many things) going unprotected.
However, that's why email programs and ISPs should have Bayesian spam filtering. In email programs, it should be enabled by default, preferably with some decnt default training and prominant buttons for training the filter. The ISPs should use something like TarProxy to slow any spammers who try to spam them. The clueless and/or stupid people get protected because they don't do anything about the protection, and everybody is happy who deserves to be.
Yeah, the quality of support at ISPs varies widely. I used to use an ISP which just read you some standard instructions for setting up dialup and then paid no attention when your ethernet card suddenly stopped working. I later switched to one which actually came and installed a switch for two computers to share a connection and a box for converting from ethernet to whatever type of cable my broadband connection used, and didn't charge for it. Needless to say, I'm staying with them.
If you have the equipment (a special room, several projectors, an SGI Onyx with three Reality Engine 2s, and some other junk), you can find yourself in the middle of a CAVE, and that is cool.
Well, imagine that you made a smaller and faster chip that dissipated 40 watts, but over less area than the current processors. This would have lower power requirements, but it would need better cooling (or my brain's screwed up, take your pick).
But this all seems so trivial! Just send, say, a UDP packet (or something) when someone has some text written in that they're planning to send. It's trivial! It's trivial!
They both need to switch, as do all of us. The powers-of-two prefixes are practical for computers, and they are what OSes use (although yes, they should use the proper prefixes). If the hard drives use decimal prefixes, that's misleading and not optimal: there are the people used to the nonstandard prefixes who will think that the HD has more space than it really does, and there are the people who want the HD space specified in the units they're used to using with the OS. What I'm trying to say is, even if the HD manufacturers are in the right with their prefixes (and I know they are), they should still switch to the standard binary prefixes.
How about we cry "confusion" and get them to provide labels in GiB? I think that's the correct way of writing it. That would eliminate the confusion and make everybody happy, and the people who wouldn't understand it (or can't read the footnote) are the sort who would probably have trouble with the metric system anyway.
Soldier of Fortune, and I believe SOFII, although I'm not sure, were "supervised" by John Mullins, an actual soldier-of-fortune who helped with design decisions, weapon implementation, etc.
That would explain why a single shot can sometimes kill someone in that game, and running around spewing rockets everywhere isn't a valid strategy. Chucking grenades at people, though... that's fun. It's also fun to inconspicuously drop a grenade right when you're about to be killed close range, just in case your killer stays around for a few seconds.
Help, my brain is exploding! Anyway, that's cool but I'd still like to have a native windows build, rather than install xfree86 and use it. I'll check it out, though. Thanks.
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As for the pledge being voluntary, have you ever been in a crowd of people who were all doing something like saying the Pledge? The group compulsion is overpowering to at least put your hand on your heart. Sure, it's voluntary. So is not picking your nose in public.
If you look at the purpose and design of the US government, you will see that it is quite pragmatic, and can stand on its own virtues without needing Christian principles. A lot of countries around the world use similar forms of government complete with rights and all, and they're definitely not all Christian. Their arguments were aimed toward helping people live together in peace and prosperity without oppressing anybody. Sure, you can find arguments in the Bible that support America's principles, but you can also find a great many against, and the same holds true for other major religions. Could it be that America was founded on practicality?
I looked at the level of technology; the picture of the rocket hover chair was taken a long time ago, and now they've got some much more impressive stuff, like a rocket that they've safely dropped from a helicopter. They've been meaning to do hover tests of their rockets for some time now, but they've had trouble getting propellant. Apparently certain suppliers don't trust them.
Hydrochloric acid is dandy, but Ad-aware is safer and easier to download. The only "problem" is that it causes Kazaa to stop working, forcing users to move on to Kazaa Lite or some different program.
I can't blame anyone for wincing during the love scenes (I sure did---the weakest part of the movie), but the action parts were great, and I'm the sort of person who will like a movie with a mediocre plot as long as it has great special effects. Attack of the Clones fit the bill.
Yeah, I agree. Gentoo definately has something to do with 2.7. *cough* *rolls eyes*
I was using Gentoo as an example of something that handles some aspects of kernel setup. Sure, it doesn't do very much, since the kernel is a complex system and Gentoo wants to give the user lots of configurability there, but it does something.
That's a terrible idea. Modules already provide away for the distributions to cater to virtually any hardware setup without losing performance for being the "jack of all trades." At any given time, no driver is loaded that doesn't need to be. A desktop kernel might need to support ten different sound cards. If it had any sense, it would build them as modules...but wait! Distros already build all the drivers as modules.
I'm not talking about drivers. I'm talking about such things as the linux kernel preemtion patch. It can reduce latency, but some people have throughput concerns. There are surely other patches that might be better examples.
Every single selection in the "make menuconfig" system is invoked with a keypress...and almost every single help section includes a blurb about modules and where to go for information.
I know that, having used the program myself. It's just that sometimes a small but crucial detail will trip me up.
I've read your other posts. You don't care about Bayesian filters. You don't speak Python or Ruby. You're a fraud.
I do care about Bayesian filters, I do speak Python, I never said that I speak Ruby, I'm not a fraud, and you're the creepy stalker type. Goodbye.
I think that the "make menuconfig" system should better explain about kernel modules. I had a deuce of a time figuring out what key to press to get the LNE100TX ethernet card enabled, but once I found out, it was just one key.
How about just integrating a web server with KDE? (I don't know much about GNOME, so I can't speak for it.) Konqueror does that, and thanks to the kparts stuff it can embed a lot of viewers for stuff.
I can uderstand Python (I once tried writing a program to interpret Python with lisp syntax, but the parser didn't work very well), and probably Ruby, but Perl? I thought that Perl was a combination of C, Awk, sed, and line noise. ;-)
But our transportation systems are already overloaded!
Downloading these images is part of the DoS. If you put a spam image on a server, you're not very likely to be innocent, and presumably if you're going with Pauk Graham you'll be well-protected by a Bayesian spam filter so you won't feel the pain of more spam.
Wi-Fi doesn't spam children with hardcore porn. Perhaps you're getting it confused with unfiltered email or certain instant messaging services which are banned from just about every elementary school I know of. Could it be that your real concern is baseless?
Mozilla has extensive options that configure image retrieval. These settings are accessible via "Edit | Preferences... | Advanced | Images".
I hope it helps.
Really, you cn take quite a bit of browser code out of the browser and use it in a filter.
I agree with you; Bayesian filtering is a solution whose time came long ago. It works outstandingly for me, and I've heard similar success stories from others---you, for example. However, the people most likely to let Bayes guard their inbox are the least likely to respond to spam. In other words, if more people start using Bayesian filtering, fewer people will be annoyed but you won't have much spam reduction, since you'll still have large numbers of stupid, clueless, or stupid and clueless people (and I refer to clueless people knowing that I'm clueless in many things) going unprotected.
However, that's why email programs and ISPs should have Bayesian spam filtering. In email programs, it should be enabled by default, preferably with some decnt default training and prominant buttons for training the filter. The ISPs should use something like TarProxy to slow any spammers who try to spam them. The clueless and/or stupid people get protected because they don't do anything about the protection, and everybody is happy who deserves to be.
Yeah, the quality of support at ISPs varies widely. I used to use an ISP which just read you some standard instructions for setting up dialup and then paid no attention when your ethernet card suddenly stopped working. I later switched to one which actually came and installed a switch for two computers to share a connection and a box for converting from ethernet to whatever type of cable my broadband connection used, and didn't charge for it. Needless to say, I'm staying with them.
If you have the equipment (a special room, several projectors, an SGI Onyx with three Reality Engine 2s, and some other junk), you can find yourself in the middle of a CAVE, and that is cool.
Well, imagine that you made a smaller and faster chip that dissipated 40 watts, but over less area than the current processors. This would have lower power requirements, but it would need better cooling (or my brain's screwed up, take your pick).
Please turn off microsoft smart quotes. They don't mix well with slashdot, or anything else for that matter.
But this all seems so trivial! Just send, say, a UDP packet (or something) when someone has some text written in that they're planning to send. It's trivial! It's trivial!
Mmmm, standards compliance....
How about we cry "confusion" and get them to provide labels in GiB? I think that's the correct way of writing it. That would eliminate the confusion and make everybody happy, and the people who wouldn't understand it (or can't read the footnote) are the sort who would probably have trouble with the metric system anyway.
That would explain why a single shot can sometimes kill someone in that game, and running around spewing rockets everywhere isn't a valid strategy. Chucking grenades at people, though... that's fun. It's also fun to inconspicuously drop a grenade right when you're about to be killed close range, just in case your killer stays around for a few seconds.
Help, my brain is exploding! Anyway, that's cool but I'd still like to have a native windows build, rather than install xfree86 and use it. I'll check it out, though. Thanks.
Worse, he said that if they don't do things like this, it will hurt the long-term stability of the internet. What's he smoking?