>Then Flash is a must-have and any (i)phone that doesn't have it is a completely useless piece of garbage.
What a wonderful statement for you to say that MILLIONS of people prefer useless garbage phones.
To affect your credibility EVEN MORE, you could have followed that up with "Apple is dying anyways".
When the HTML5 video kinks are all worked out, NOBODY will be using Flash except Farmville losers and some sad brochure websites from 1997 that haven't been updated.
Honestly, I don't know anyone who uses Flash for things other than video... and Flash isn't particularly good at video so what's the point in fighting improvements?
>Being able to update people's proxy settings via active directory groups makes it a seemless experience so no one has to run around to 200 computers and change them all.
Are you saying that Active Directory profile updates can not support profile or setting changes to non-Microsoft applications?? I thought the whole POINT of the Registry was that all applications save their settings in this database, which Chrome does... so what is the problem?
Sadly, it's cheaper for industrial corporations to not clean up the mess, and then if there's a major accident just file for bankruptcy or arrange to be taken over. The normal cost of doing business is to abandon a polluted site when it's no longer useful... and let the Superfund deal with it.
It is *exceedingly* rare to hold individuals responsible for corporate pollution... incorporation itself actually means that the "corporation did it" not the people who made poor judgment.
You're looking to find a profit motive in ending pollution's effects, but there isn't any.
>There is no way the pilots could have known the intentions of the people in the van.
100% correct. But can you take a guess at what the rules of engagement might be in this situation? Come on, take a guess.. then look it up.
>They did seem to be in a big hurry
What the hell is that supposed to mean? It's a fucking BIG CITY that's a war zone. You hear gunfire everywhere. If shooting takes place nearby, as a civilian or journalist wouldn't you haul ass for cover? Hell, even if it was quiet for 5 minutes I'd sure as hell run with my head down.
I won't dispute that, but how does that change the incident on film? Whittle everything away and look at the LAST set of killings... the journalists or bystanders who attempted to pull bodies away from the gunfire.
The incident you are highlighting does not DISPROVE the events that took place later. It only disproves your facetious argument of "`baby-rapists` not checking IDs" during battle.
You can debate this however you choose, but if you use tactics like fake strawmen, then your arguments are dishonest and ill-spirited, and will only be preaching to the converted..
What you are highlighting is one case of proper behavior and training, and that is exactly what was expected. What happened later is the gunner's adrenaline kicked in and he lost control. This is pretty inexcusable.. their targets were not taking ANY hostile action and this SHOULD have been a clue that maybe they're not insurgents. There are rules of engagement for this scenario and they were not followed.
The sad part is that when people like yourself defend this action using misdirection and strawmen, you become unwitting TOOLS of the enemy. Nothing fuels an insurgency like arrogance and abuse. You are naively hurting American soldiers.
This illustrates WHY occupations and interventions into civil wars typically fail: you are required to absorb greater risk of threat as the occupier, in order to not suffer any of your own mistakes or out of control soldiers being portrayed as propaganda by the insurgents. You need the genuine support of part of the population, and can not leave until that power base is secure.
The insurgent is indiscriminate and need not hesitate in their destruction... but you as the occupying authority MUST... or you whittle away all progress.
Back in the day... we used to ridicule people who actually read the STORY but didn't also cross reference it from another media source!
Give the guy a break -- look at his USER ID. You can't possibly expect a Generation Z'er to read the SUMMARY, can you? Trust me, it's a lost cause. Just accept it will only get worse.. I expect the next generation only posts words without capitalizing the first word of each sentence, all words without vowels and zero punctuation.
You seem to forget that all TV shows have to be financially sponsored by corporations. Let us not forget the example they made out of Rage Against the Machine on most US radio.
You are wrong. It would be more accurate to say that kids today are more exposed to MEDIA - mostly of the fast-cut, shallow type. The fact that the media is sometimes text is irrelevant.. it's all text at a music-video pace and about the same level of continuity.
As a result, most kids have *incredibly* short attention spans. You can barely get them to read a book, and usually it's one that they've seen a movie of (or a movie is in the pipeline).
Kids know that teachers are powerless in the face of PARENTAL apathy (or the busy working single parent). Parents don't think they should be involved in their kid's education, don't appreciate honest or unconvential teachers, and yet parents expect "results". Most kids know they're not supposed to use IM-speak in school reports, but they do because they know half the class is doing it and they can't ALL be given bad grades, especially if the paper is not for an English class. Parents can and DO sue teachers for failing their students.
Try dropping anything from Hemingway in front of today's 14 year old, and offer them $100 to write a proper 20 page hand-written report on it.
This article is a bit flawed in attributing success of the kids to "race", when really it's a much wider issue of parenting,
>There's also the fact that 1/3 of this country is obese to argue in favor of expanded sports/PE instruction.....
But it's not making any difference, and never has. If you are worried about obesity, replacing PE with a science-based class on nutrition would be FAR more helpful.
Most kids learn nutrition at home, which pretty much means that only kids from intact and non-dysfunctional families will learn anything about it.
Too many kids do not know how to think about hunger, and the different types, and to listen to your body's request for certain types of food (protein, carbs, and yes even some fat). Instead most kids skip meals and eat junk, and when they "crash" they drink an energy drink or carbonated sugar syrup.... this type of metabolism ensures the kid will have zero energy for any sustained PE, and besides that NO amount of exercise will undo a diet of nutrition-less snacks.
I am not kidding, but compared to most diets, kids would be better off if they replaced that garbage with ANYTHING which had some basic level of nutrition in it, so they're not accustomed to being hungry for soda all day. Compared to soda, unfiltered beer (or even Malta) would be a hell of a lot better...
I should also add - I'm not biased or a Python fanboy (every language has it's overdriven advocates).
I learned Python a few years ago - for a graphics processing and prototyping job. These days my work revolves around Drupal and PHP, so Python will not work for me there. If I had time to write code "for myself" unpaid, to scratch an itch, it'd certainly be in Python.
Also - As other posters have pointed out, you can't "get" someone to dive into programming. You can advise him if he is interested, but most teenagers are wasted potential.. what was that about youth wasted on the young?
I'd buy something like the PyGame book, and write something in it that might get the kid curious enough to borrow the book.
The other things kids are motivated by is money. If the parent wants the kid to code, he should hire him to learn and do assignments. I'm not kidding. If the kid gets enough accomplished by reading a book that he can start thinking creatively, he'll be able to work on his own motivation from that point onwards.
1) Python itself was developed as a teaching/learning language. I grew up bruised and battered by Atari BASIC on the 8-bit computers... I would have LOVED something like pygame back then.
2) Pygame is portable.. you're not tied to one particular platform... works on Windows, Mac and Linux. I think PyGame even ran on the PS3 versions of Linux... before Sony decided to retract that feature.
4) You DON'T have to write just games with Python or PyGame. You could make any kind of reasonable desktop application with it, although for non-game use I'd move on to some other binding like PyGTK, PyQt, or wxpython.
Don't listen to people who put down Python... if it's good enough for Google and Yahoo, it's good.
(NOTE:By the above, I'm not advocating any programmer stick to just one language.. I'm just answering the original question)
Another way to look at your USDA dietary guidelines example is a case of putting non-science before science. How? We've long known what a balanced diet is, and it involves much lower quantities of meat and dairy than we have been indoctrinated to believe.
I love a burger as much as anyone, but that doesn't make me choose to disbelieve the massive subsidies the US government gives to beef farmers which in turn leads to obesity among the poor. I know that meat consumption pulls grains off the market and drives up prices, leads to massive water waste, and the runoff kills fish.
I suppose most people aren't comfortable admitting they are part of what's killing the planet, and so they need to insulate themselves with bullshit lies. Commercial lobbying and propaganda networks (Fox and Fox news come to mind) just build upon that foundation.
The problem is lobbyists always interfere with science. This will ALWAYS be the case so long as science is developed by government or corporate masters. The alternative is nigh impossible idealism, but it would be developing science for *science* sake. That is, pushing the boundaries of what we know and shining a bright light on what we know we don't know.
Our inability to push science forward for it's own pure motive is exactly the reason we will someday hit our technological peak as a species, but we will already have consumed all our resources and so we will not be able to explore the universe. Or another outcome is we can travel to the stars, but the fact that the Earth is by then an uninhabitable garbage heap means we'll have adapted to a scorched-world migration pattern, like locusts.
Thanks for one of the funniest and best written posts (I don't think the moderators caught your use of double-negatives in the first paragraph).
My take is a little shorter than yours:religion is a corruption of philosophy and culturally warped legends. Philosophers are interesting in that they maintain perspective and offer carrots without the stick.
Whenever someone claims "without religion we would ALL be raping and killing each other", take note - they're speaking about themselves and it sounds a lot like great potential loss of control.
>I'm somewhat against people writing open source software and then charging for the documentation.
I could agree with your statement IF the following condition were TRUE:... that third parties were prohibited from creating or sharing documentation.
This isn't true, so I strongly feel your point of view is misplaced and not correct.
It IS fair to say that Views is difficult for users who are not well familiar with databases. Views is a simple concept - get access to the raw data fields that make up content types - but in doing so you completely bypass all Drupal features put into place for usability reasons. For example, you can use Views to directly access User fields and Taxonomy, and build a list of all users and the Taxonomy tags they applied to content, and maybe which articles were the most frequently tagged. That's powerful. You could build a custom module to do this for you and you could make it with tons of user friendly and error checking features... but your application would be locked to "rails" or a fixed path.
Views is a possibility engine.
If I were you, I might moderate my opinion a little. If you are having trouble with Views, you CAN learn from Drupal camps or IRC or the Views forums. In doing so, try to be more PRECISE about your complaint -- remember, this is mostly a community of dedicated volunteers. When you praise something, you encourage more development. If you criticize something (AND you can't be bothered to get the complaint correct) then you will offend people and you will be ignored.
It is very true that all the "smart people" working on Views are all done with Views 2, and hard at work on Views 3. A good number of them are working on Panels and Chaos Tools. Much of the Drupal Community is hard at work on Drupal 7. SO you have this situation here where there is plenty of accurate reference documentation by the projects - but not a lot in the way of deep tutorials. It's true that there isn't a lot of that kind of documentation, and if you are spoiled by Google (as I am) you can get frustrated that you can not simply Google for answers on some advanced topics.
Put yourself in the place of the people you just criticized:
What if you spent months volunteering for Habitat For Humanity or some other home-building group, and the first thing you hear from the beneficiary is them complaining: "I'm somewhat against people building housing for the poor, and then not providing handyman maintenance for free.". That person wouldn't DESERVE the house, and if this is how you would react then you deserve to stick with proprietary CMSs.
(Never mind the much shorter counterpoint: Have you ever READ documentation for a proprietary CMS lately?It has been a long long time since documentation was bound and printed. It's all in a Help file now, which some users proudly state they will not read).
>>And the GPLv3 already fixes it, and anything else that gives out source while not giving you everything you need to build it. >Which may explain the almost complete absence of GPLv3 code in the software world.
Interesting assumption, but you are wrong.
Large successful free software projects contain the work of HUNDREDS of developers. Relicensing requires consent of everyone in the project. This means there is a real-world dollar cost to to track down developers who have quit the project, moved on, or simply _died_ (in which case the copyright belongs to their estate, which may be a murky issue).
Developers who do not consent or whose copyright wishes can not be resolved would then need to be written out of the code somehow.
So your position would suggest: a) you underestimate the logistics b) you have already arrived at a strong anti-GPL opinion... and you are warping facts to support it.
Before you could even try this expensive non-trivial operation on any project, you would need a plan to pay for the organizational costs of this diruptive opnm, requiring majority consent to even make invesigation of this feasable, and even organizing the attempt alone requiring corporate sponsorship or
Everyone knows that Microsoft outsources their security testing to beta testers and software pirates... you know, the Microsoft Community.
I blame the wicked smart geniuses like Paul Thurrot... he's totally the kind of wise guy who evaluates early MS products, someone who appreciates the finer parts of Microsoft security.
I'm sure he has a prepared excuse for this Microsoft fail, just like he has one for every other MS gaffe.
The DESKTOP PC is in rapid decline... laptops and Internet-enabled devices are killing it.
Gamers are one of the things keeping desktop PCs going.
If your next question is "But you can play games on laptops", then sure, fine.. you really do not get it. Most laptops are crap for 3D games, or even Flash games (Bejeweled on Facebook will melt most laptop CPUs... even if the game is PAUSED it uses 100% CPU).
It was American settlers that were doing the original settling and subsequent rebelling.
If you're arguing against the facts, then the spin is yours. There was a Republic of Texas before there was a State of Texas.
Factually speaking, you are BOTH correct... although I'm not sure all the arguments see it.
The government of Mexico gave farmland to settlers from the US. Those settlers rebelled, and were executed for it same as they would be in any other country. After they were executed, there was "moral outrage" in the US, and American volunteers went to war against Mexico.
The fact that Texas claims they were sovereign is a fine claim, but it was just a claim. Texas would NEVER have been allowed to leave the orbit of the United States... no more than the Mormons of Utah would have been allowed to start their own nation.
That's because the "Ubuntu" netbook Dell sold was bastardized, and the OS couldn't be upgraded to regular Ubuntu packages (not unless you knew what you were doing).
Linux done RIGHT is no more difficult to use than Windows. Period.
I'm impressed with Android, and a few years back I used to love my Nokia N800 Internet tablet (great system, but Nokia obsoleted the OS far too quickly), Ubuntu Netbook and MeeGo distributions look promising and Android just kicks ass. These are all "Linux". I haven't tried or read much on GoogleOS so no comment there.
I don't think his use of capitalization is incorrect. This is common accepted use, as in "Big Pharma", "Big Oil", "War on Drugs". Frankly I've never seen it used as "Alternative Oil" (I would have expected "Alternative Energy" to be used here) but it's not out of step.
Second, you are correct to say he doesn't "know" what the Coast Guard is spending... and that's true in the same sense as if you said we can't "know" what a terrorist would do with a nuke. But you are stretching the language here... it's a *pretty safe assumption* what we know, based on previous history by these actors.
BP made their "eco green pretty" logo YEARS ago... if they were ever going to turn over a new leaf and NOT try to socialize the costs of their negligence, I'd expect the opportunity has passed. It was just a few years ago that BP exploded an Alaska pipeline because they CHOSE to not maintain the pipes... choosing to go YEARS without running maintenance that should be run every few months. They also made a mess in Texas... again, they increased already wild profits by overruling engineer recommendations and slashing maintenance.
If you really think this disaster was an "accident", you're not paying attention or you are willfully denying the facts.
This is pure negligence on BPs part, and they're only going to pay what they have to... which means tar that washes up on US beaches. As far as the pollutants under the surface, forget it.
I'll believe your take on things if BP covers the taxpayer cost of all those unemployment checks for fishermen, laid off hotel workers and any other trickle-down losses due to plummeting tourism. Somehow I don't think we'll know for sure until this is well off the front page... which of course you know is how it works, even if you try to not paint BP as a serial polluter.
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>Then Flash is a must-have and any (i)phone that doesn't have it is a completely useless piece of garbage.
What a wonderful statement for you to say that MILLIONS of people prefer useless garbage phones.
To affect your credibility EVEN MORE, you could have followed that up with "Apple is dying anyways".
When the HTML5 video kinks are all worked out, NOBODY will be using Flash except Farmville losers and some sad brochure websites from 1997 that haven't been updated.
Honestly, I don't know anyone who uses Flash for things other than video... and Flash isn't particularly good at video so what's the point in fighting improvements?
Wait...
>Being able to update people's proxy settings via active directory groups makes it a seemless experience so no one has to run around to 200 computers and change them all.
Are you saying that Active Directory profile updates can not support profile or setting changes to non-Microsoft applications?? I thought the whole POINT of the Registry was that all applications save their settings in this database, which Chrome does... so what is the problem?
Sadly, it's cheaper for industrial corporations to not clean up the mess, and then if there's a major accident just file for bankruptcy or arrange to be taken over. The normal cost of doing business is to abandon a polluted site when it's no longer useful... and let the Superfund deal with it.
It is *exceedingly* rare to hold individuals responsible for corporate pollution... incorporation itself actually means that the "corporation did it" not the people who made poor judgment.
You're looking to find a profit motive in ending pollution's effects, but there isn't any.
How about he stabs you on Thursday because you made this argument? He could call it a pre-emptive strike.
Sadly, I don't think you'll win this one. Your counter argument has MORE WORDS than his, so you lost... :-/
>There is no way the pilots could have known the intentions of the people in the van.
100% correct. But can you take a guess at what the rules of engagement might be in this situation? Come on, take a guess.. then look it up.
>They did seem to be in a big hurry
What the hell is that supposed to mean? It's a fucking BIG CITY that's a war zone. You hear gunfire everywhere. If shooting takes place nearby, as a civilian or journalist wouldn't you haul ass for cover? Hell, even if it was quiet for 5 minutes I'd sure as hell run with my head down.
I won't dispute that, but how does that change the incident on film? Whittle everything away and look at the LAST set of killings... the journalists or bystanders who attempted to pull bodies away from the gunfire.
The incident you are highlighting does not DISPROVE the events that took place later. It only disproves your facetious argument of "`baby-rapists` not checking IDs" during battle.
You can debate this however you choose, but if you use tactics like fake strawmen, then your arguments are dishonest and ill-spirited, and will only be preaching to the converted..
What you are highlighting is one case of proper behavior and training, and that is exactly what was expected. What happened later is the gunner's adrenaline kicked in and he lost control. This is pretty inexcusable.. their targets were not taking ANY hostile action and this SHOULD have been a clue that maybe they're not insurgents. There are rules of engagement for this scenario and they were not followed.
The sad part is that when people like yourself defend this action using misdirection and strawmen, you become unwitting TOOLS of the enemy. Nothing fuels an insurgency like arrogance and abuse. You are naively hurting American soldiers.
This illustrates WHY occupations and interventions into civil wars typically fail: you are required to absorb greater risk of threat as the occupier, in order to not suffer any of your own mistakes or out of control soldiers being portrayed as propaganda by the insurgents. You need the genuine support of part of the population, and can not leave until that power base is secure.
The insurgent is indiscriminate and need not hesitate in their destruction... but you as the occupying authority MUST... or you whittle away all progress.
The SUMMARY? LOL
Back in the day... we used to ridicule people who actually read the STORY but didn't also cross reference it from another media source!
Give the guy a break -- look at his USER ID. You can't possibly expect a Generation Z'er to read the SUMMARY, can you? Trust me, it's a lost cause.
Just accept it will only get worse.. I expect the next generation only posts words without capitalizing the first word of each sentence, all words without vowels and zero punctuation.
Now get off my lawn!
You seem to forget that all TV shows have to be financially sponsored by corporations. Let us not forget the example they made out of Rage Against the Machine on most US radio.
You are wrong. It would be more accurate to say that kids today are more exposed to MEDIA - mostly of the fast-cut, shallow type. The fact that the media is sometimes text is irrelevant.. it's all text at a music-video pace and about the same level of continuity.
As a result, most kids have *incredibly* short attention spans. You can barely get them to read a book, and usually it's one that they've seen a movie of (or a movie is in the pipeline).
Kids know that teachers are powerless in the face of PARENTAL apathy (or the busy working single parent). Parents don't think they should be involved in their kid's education, don't appreciate honest or unconvential teachers, and yet parents expect "results". Most kids know they're not supposed to use IM-speak in school reports, but they do because they know half the class is doing it and they can't ALL be given bad grades, especially if the paper is not for an English class. Parents can and DO sue teachers for failing their students.
Try dropping anything from Hemingway in front of today's 14 year old, and offer them $100 to write a proper 20 page hand-written report on it.
This article is a bit flawed in attributing success of the kids to "race", when really it's a much wider issue of parenting,
>There's also the fact that 1/3 of this country is obese to argue in favor of expanded sports/PE instruction.....
But it's not making any difference, and never has. If you are worried about obesity, replacing PE with a science-based class on nutrition would be FAR more helpful.
Most kids learn nutrition at home, which pretty much means that only kids from intact and non-dysfunctional families will learn anything about it.
Too many kids do not know how to think about hunger, and the different types, and to listen to your body's request for certain types of food (protein, carbs, and yes even some fat). Instead most kids skip meals and eat junk, and when they "crash" they drink an energy drink or carbonated sugar syrup.... this type of metabolism ensures the kid will have zero energy for any sustained PE, and besides that NO amount of exercise will undo a diet of nutrition-less snacks.
I am not kidding, but compared to most diets, kids would be better off if they replaced that garbage with ANYTHING which had some basic level of nutrition in it, so they're not accustomed to being hungry for soda all day. Compared to soda, unfiltered beer (or even Malta) would be a hell of a lot better...
I should also add - I'm not biased or a Python fanboy (every language has it's overdriven advocates).
I learned Python a few years ago - for a graphics processing and prototyping job. These days my work revolves around Drupal and PHP, so Python will not work for me there. If I had time to write code "for myself" unpaid, to scratch an itch, it'd certainly be in Python.
Also - As other posters have pointed out, you can't "get" someone to dive into programming. You can advise him if he is interested, but most teenagers are wasted potential.. what was that about youth wasted on the young?
I'd buy something like the PyGame book, and write something in it that might get the kid curious enough to borrow the book.
The other things kids are motivated by is money. If the parent wants the kid to code, he should hire him to learn and do assignments. I'm not kidding.
If the kid gets enough accomplished by reading a book that he can start thinking creatively, he'll be able to work on his own motivation from that point onwards.
Seriously - Pygame is MADE for your question:
1) Python itself was developed as a teaching/learning language.
I grew up bruised and battered by Atari BASIC on the 8-bit computers... I would have LOVED something like pygame back then.
2) Pygame is portable.. you're not tied to one particular platform... works on Windows, Mac and Linux.
I think PyGame even ran on the PS3 versions of Linux... before Sony decided to retract that feature.
3) Python's well documented:
http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Game-Development-Python-Pygame/dp/1590598725
4) You DON'T have to write just games with Python or PyGame. You could make any kind of reasonable desktop application with it, although for non-game use I'd move on to some other binding like PyGTK, PyQt, or wxpython.
Don't listen to people who put down Python... if it's good enough for Google and Yahoo, it's good.
(NOTE:By the above, I'm not advocating any programmer stick to just one language.. I'm just answering the original question)
That's one way to look at it.
Another way to look at your USDA dietary guidelines example is a case of putting non-science before science. How?
We've long known what a balanced diet is, and it involves much lower quantities of meat and dairy than we have been indoctrinated to believe.
I love a burger as much as anyone, but that doesn't make me choose to disbelieve the massive subsidies the US government gives to beef farmers which in turn leads to obesity among the poor. I know that meat consumption pulls grains off the market and drives up prices, leads to massive water waste, and the runoff kills fish.
I suppose most people aren't comfortable admitting they are part of what's killing the planet, and so they need to insulate themselves with bullshit lies. Commercial lobbying and propaganda networks (Fox and Fox news come to mind) just build upon that foundation.
The problem is lobbyists always interfere with science. This will ALWAYS be the case so long as science is developed by government or corporate masters.
The alternative is nigh impossible idealism, but it would be developing science for *science* sake. That is, pushing the boundaries of what we know and shining a bright light on what we know we don't know.
Our inability to push science forward for it's own pure motive is exactly the reason we will someday hit our technological peak as a species, but we will already have consumed all our resources and so we will not be able to explore the universe. Or another outcome is we can travel to the stars, but the fact that the Earth is by then an uninhabitable garbage heap means we'll have adapted to a scorched-world migration pattern, like locusts.
Thanks for one of the funniest and best written posts (I don't think the moderators caught your use of double-negatives in the first paragraph).
My take is a little shorter than yours:religion is a corruption of philosophy and culturally warped legends. Philosophers are interesting in that they maintain perspective and offer carrots without the stick.
Whenever someone claims "without religion we would ALL be raping and killing each other", take note - they're speaking about themselves and it sounds a lot like great potential loss of control.
>it would have been more clear had he used a tube of Pringles instead.
Tubes ARE teh Internet!
>I'm somewhat against people writing open source software and then charging for the documentation.
I could agree with your statement IF the following condition were TRUE: ... that third parties were prohibited from creating or sharing documentation.
This isn't true, so I strongly feel your point of view is misplaced and not correct.
It IS fair to say that Views is difficult for users who are not well familiar with databases. Views is a simple concept - get access to the raw data fields that make up content types - but in doing so you completely bypass all Drupal features put into place for usability reasons. For example, you can use Views to directly access User fields and Taxonomy, and build a list of all users and the Taxonomy tags they applied to content, and maybe which articles were the most frequently tagged. That's powerful. You could build a custom module to do this for you and you could make it with tons of user friendly and error checking features... but your application would be locked to "rails" or a fixed path.
Views is a possibility engine.
If I were you, I might moderate my opinion a little. If you are having trouble with Views, you CAN learn from Drupal camps or IRC or the Views forums. In doing so, try to be more PRECISE about your complaint -- remember, this is mostly a community of dedicated volunteers. When you praise something, you encourage more development. If you criticize something (AND you can't be bothered to get the complaint correct) then you will offend people and you will be ignored.
It is very true that all the "smart people" working on Views are all done with Views 2, and hard at work on Views 3. A good number of them are working on Panels and Chaos Tools. Much of the Drupal Community is hard at work on Drupal 7. SO you have this situation here where there is plenty of accurate reference documentation by the projects - but not a lot in the way of deep tutorials. It's true that there isn't a lot of that kind of documentation, and if you are spoiled by Google (as I am) you can get frustrated that you can not simply Google for answers on some advanced topics.
Put yourself in the place of the people you just criticized:
What if you spent months volunteering for Habitat For Humanity or some other home-building group, and the first thing you hear from the beneficiary is them complaining: "I'm somewhat against people building housing for the poor, and then not providing handyman maintenance for free.". That person wouldn't DESERVE the house, and if this is how you would react then you deserve to stick with proprietary CMSs.
(Never mind the much shorter counterpoint: Have you ever READ documentation for a proprietary CMS lately?It has been a long long time since documentation was bound and printed. It's all in a Help file now, which some users proudly state they will not read).
>>And the GPLv3 already fixes it, and anything else that gives out source while not giving you everything you need to build it.
>Which may explain the almost complete absence of GPLv3 code in the software world.
Interesting assumption, but you are wrong.
Large successful free software projects contain the work of HUNDREDS of developers.
Relicensing requires consent of everyone in the project.
This means there is a real-world dollar cost to to track down developers who have quit the project, moved on, or simply _died_ (in which case the copyright belongs to their estate, which may be a murky issue).
Developers who do not consent or whose copyright wishes can not be resolved would then need to be written out of the code somehow.
So your position would suggest:
a) you underestimate the logistics
b) you have already arrived at a strong anti-GPL opinion... and you are warping facts to support it.
Before you could even try this expensive non-trivial operation on any project, you would need a plan to pay for the organizational costs of this diruptive opnm, requiring majority consent to even make invesigation of this feasable, and even organizing the attempt alone requiring corporate sponsorship or
You really should not spread misinformation about software licenses you do not understand. All of your "facts" are wrong.
Everyone knows that Microsoft outsources their security testing to beta testers and software pirates... you know, the Microsoft Community.
I blame the wicked smart geniuses like Paul Thurrot... he's totally the kind of wise guy who evaluates early MS products, someone who appreciates the finer parts of Microsoft security.
I'm sure he has a prepared excuse for this Microsoft fail, just like he has one for every other MS gaffe.
You misunderstand.
The DESKTOP PC is in rapid decline... laptops and Internet-enabled devices are killing it.
Gamers are one of the things keeping desktop PCs going.
If your next question is "But you can play games on laptops", then sure, fine.. you really do not get it. Most laptops are crap for 3D games, or even Flash games (Bejeweled on Facebook will melt most laptop CPUs... even if the game is PAUSED it uses 100% CPU).
It's not just Apple. Take a look at the entire cellphone market and the gaming consoles before arriving at that conclusion.
It was American settlers that were doing the original settling and subsequent rebelling.
If you're arguing against the facts, then the spin is yours. There was a Republic of Texas before there was a State of Texas.
Factually speaking, you are BOTH correct... although I'm not sure all the arguments see it.
The government of Mexico gave farmland to settlers from the US. Those settlers rebelled, and were executed for it same as they would be in any other country.
After they were executed, there was "moral outrage" in the US, and American volunteers went to war against Mexico.
The fact that Texas claims they were sovereign is a fine claim, but it was just a claim. Texas would NEVER have been allowed to leave the orbit of the United States... no more than the Mormons of Utah would have been allowed to start their own nation.
That's because the "Ubuntu" netbook Dell sold was bastardized, and the OS couldn't be upgraded to regular Ubuntu packages (not unless you knew what you were doing).
Linux done RIGHT is no more difficult to use than Windows. Period.
I'm impressed with Android, and a few years back I used to love my Nokia N800 Internet tablet (great system, but Nokia obsoleted the OS far too quickly), Ubuntu Netbook and MeeGo distributions look promising and Android just kicks ass. These are all "Linux". I haven't tried or read much on GoogleOS so no comment there.
I don't think his use of capitalization is incorrect. This is common accepted use, as in "Big Pharma", "Big Oil", "War on Drugs". Frankly I've never seen it used as "Alternative Oil" (I would have expected "Alternative Energy" to be used here) but it's not out of step.
Second, you are correct to say he doesn't "know" what the Coast Guard is spending... and that's true in the same sense as if you said we can't "know" what a terrorist would do with a nuke. But you are stretching the language here... it's a *pretty safe assumption* what we know, based on previous history by these actors.
BP made their "eco green pretty" logo YEARS ago... if they were ever going to turn over a new leaf and NOT try to socialize the costs of their negligence, I'd expect the opportunity has passed. It was just a few years ago that BP exploded an Alaska pipeline because they CHOSE to not maintain the pipes... choosing to go YEARS without running maintenance that should be run every few months. They also made a mess in Texas... again, they increased already wild profits by overruling engineer recommendations and slashing maintenance.
If you really think this disaster was an "accident", you're not paying attention or you are willfully denying the facts.
This is pure negligence on BPs part, and they're only going to pay what they have to... which means tar that washes up on US beaches. As far as the pollutants under the surface, forget it.
I'll believe your take on things if BP covers the taxpayer cost of all those unemployment checks for fishermen, laid off hotel workers and any other trickle-down losses due to plummeting tourism. Somehow I don't think we'll know for sure until this is well off the front page... which of course you know is how it works, even if you try to not paint BP as a serial polluter.
Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever been with a woman that hasn't been completely shaved.
Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather my women didn't remind me of prepubescent girls......
Yes... your Slashdot username is based on a FIGURE SKATER... females are out of the picture entirely.