That's been projected to happen once the day and month both equal about 47 (current) days, billions of years in the future. If the Earth and Moon still exist, [...].... from link [physlink.com]. [...]
It's a crucial problem that requires lots of foresight.
Well, while I can see that that might be an important problem to address, I think that we should be less worried about ``If the Earth and Moon still exist'' and more worried about if we will still exist. If there are no humans, I can't get overly excited about anything that will happen to Earth, because it will then be nothing more than a small, rocky planet orbiting a none-too-interesting main sequence star.
Of all the problems of international significance, this doesn't really rate as one of the most pressing...
To be truly useful, fonts meant for general use need a demi-bold. Sometimes you want a full bold, and sometimes a full bold is too heavy.
To be truly useful, fonts meant for general use need italics! WTF are they thinking? I have absolutely no use for a general-purpose font with no italics...
Remember the make-up of the current supreme court.
Don't be such a downer! In what, thirty years or so?, they'll all have died or retired, and we'll have our rights back. God, I'm sick of this `I want my constitutional rights now, not after the whole Supreme Court has died of old age' attitude...
Cut and paste does not work consistently across applications on any Linux desktop.
I can only speak from my own experience, but I have used (at least) KDE, Gnome/Sawfish, XFCE, WindowMaker, Enlightenment, and IceWM recently, with KDE, GTK+, Mozilla, E, and Athena apps -- and a lot of good ol' fashioned xterms -- and I haven't had problems with X cut and paste on any of them. Highlight to select text and middle-click to paste it seems to work on damn near everything. I fairly regularly cut and paste UTF-8 text among xterms, Gvim, Galeon, and other apps -- mixing local and remote apps, often running on different commercial Unix flavours -- with no trouble at all, except for the occasional app lagging in its Unicode support.
I honestly don't know what people are doing that causes so much trouble. I really don't.
Plus, if you are on the net searching for something, at least you're reading (assuming search/= looking from pr0n/music).
First, that may be too big of an assumption. Second, not all reading is equal; calling typical click-and-yawn browsing `reading' is sort of like calling IMing `writing' -- it's technically correct, but somehow not quite right.
Even at 1985 I still don't believe it's an original quote. My guess is that Irving wrote it down because he'd heard somebody use it and thought it was a good quote.
I couldn't say... I was quite sure I'd heard the expression pre-1996, but I can't be sure about pre-1985. That's not the kind expression we were encouraged to use in elementary school;)
The author states "Only in Mr Mundie's nightmare scenario would Linux and other open-source software wipe Microsoft from the face of the earth. Mr Ellison's prediction might then come true, but with a drawback: his own firm, Oracle, would be wiped out too." I'm not quite sure how this could be true, since Oracle still sells database software that runs on Linux. It was a really good article right there until the end...
It actually does make sense, even if it's not laid out as clearly as it might be. Mundie says Linux will kill all ``commercial'' software. Ellison says Linux will kill MS. Economist says the only way Linux will kill MS is if, as Mundie argued, it kills all ``commercial'' software. In that case, Oracle is dead, too. Therefore, according to Economist, Ellison will be right only if Oracle dies too.
Okay, I'll certainly grant integration and easier to use for unskilled staff, but where does the Economist get more "bells and whistles" from? When I think "bells and whistles", I generally don't think of Windows...
That's interesting. I think you may understand the term ``bells and whistles'' differently than I, and apparently the author, do. Would it make more sense if he had written, in lieu of ``bells and whistles,'' ``cute and briefly entertaining but eventually tedious and ultimately useless misfeatures''?
Sorry, there's no way that "Either shit or get off the pot" can be attributed to John Irving. I'd heard it colloquialy many times long before the book was published (1996).
This program seems to cover every positive aspect attributed to open source. i.e. you have the source, you can contribute changes back to insure they are in the next release, so on and so forth.
Not in the slightest. You can't do squat with the code, except tweak it and give the changes back to MS. It's unfree -- and it's not very open either. You can't take the code and use it in your own project, you can't fork, you can't even distribute your work without giving MS royalties.
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scripsit pVoid:
Well, while I can see that that might be an important problem to address, I think that we should be less worried about ``If the Earth and Moon still exist'' and more worried about if we will still exist. If there are no humans, I can't get overly excited about anything that will happen to Earth, because it will then be nothing more than a small, rocky planet orbiting a none-too-interesting main sequence star.
Of all the problems of international significance, this doesn't really rate as one of the most pressing...
scripsit st0rmshad0w:
Me too. I prefer to call it siesta, however. Going back to work immediately after lunch is just uncivilized.
scripsit MntlChaos:
I blame the lameness filter.
scripsit Futurepower(R):
To be truly useful, fonts meant for general use need italics! WTF are they thinking? I have absolutely no use for a general-purpose font with no italics...
scripsit st0rmshad0w:
And which U.S. party do you think will support your candidacy if you want to campaign on the basis of opposing the whole way they do business?
scripsit jefu:
Don't be such a downer! In what, thirty years or so?, they'll all have died or retired, and we'll have our rights back. God, I'm sick of this `I want my constitutional rights now, not after the whole Supreme Court has died of old age' attitude...
scripsit Raffaello:
I can only speak from my own experience, but I have used (at least) KDE, Gnome/Sawfish, XFCE, WindowMaker, Enlightenment, and IceWM recently, with KDE, GTK+, Mozilla, E, and Athena apps -- and a lot of good ol' fashioned xterms -- and I haven't had problems with X cut and paste on any of them. Highlight to select text and middle-click to paste it seems to work on damn near everything. I fairly regularly cut and paste UTF-8 text among xterms, Gvim, Galeon, and other apps -- mixing local and remote apps, often running on different commercial Unix flavours -- with no trouble at all, except for the occasional app lagging in its Unicode support. I honestly don't know what people are doing that causes so much trouble. I really don't.
scripsit Alan:
Pity about Bush sinking the International Criminal Court... That might have been useful.
scripist Valiss:
First, that may be too big of an assumption. Second, not all reading is equal; calling typical click-and-yawn browsing `reading' is sort of like calling IMing `writing' -- it's technically correct, but somehow not quite right.
scripsit jawtheshark:
You know, if 15 of 20 undergraduate papers I had to grade contained no orthographic, grammatic, or stylistic errors, I would be a very happy man...
scripsit EnglishTim:
Yes, in fact it does.
Y'know, maybe I'm the only one, but I got some amusement from `George Walker Bush' posting under the subject `Lack of authentication'...
scripsit an AC:
Right. Otherwise it would work. Really.
scripsit Corporate Troll:
Um, so a nerd without karma is like a pretty guy? Well, that's about half right ;)
scripsit Jimithing DMB:
I couldn't say... I was quite sure I'd heard the expression pre-1996, but I can't be sure about pre-1985. That's not the kind expression we were encouraged to use in elementary school ;)
scripsit bc90021:
It actually does make sense, even if it's not laid out as clearly as it might be. Mundie says Linux will kill all ``commercial'' software. Ellison says Linux will kill MS. Economist says the only way Linux will kill MS is if, as Mundie argued, it kills all ``commercial'' software. In that case, Oracle is dead, too. Therefore, according to Economist, Ellison will be right only if Oracle dies too.
Clear? Like mud?
scripsit 0x0d0a:
That's interesting. I think you may understand the term ``bells and whistles'' differently than I, and apparently the author, do. Would it make more sense if he had written, in lieu of ``bells and whistles,'' ``cute and briefly entertaining but eventually tedious and ultimately useless misfeatures''?
Clippy is ``bells and whistles.''
scripsit Jimithing DMB:
According to the Library of Congress, Cider House Rules: A Novel was published no later than 1985. According to IMDB, Clerks was 1994.
scripsit a troll:
Got better things to do than feed trolls. Good day.
scripsit sheldon:
*plonk*
scripsit Iguanaphobic:
And that one greengrocer in the U.K. who would rather do jail time than sell a kilo of veggies...
scripsit waldoj:
Based on my survey of my work environment, about 50% of Americans hold Ph.D. degrees, the remainder being graduate students.
scripsit 324089:
I've been assuming this was parody... it is parody, right? Please?
sheldon 2322:
Not in the slightest. You can't do squat with the code, except tweak it and give the changes back to MS. It's unfree -- and it's not very open either. You can't take the code and use it in your own project, you can't fork, you can't even distribute your work without giving MS royalties.
scripsit rlthomps-1:
640k?! Why, when I was a kid, ... oh, never mind.