Because my wife's genealogy software won't run on something more reasonable. I'm locked in. I need a reliable safe migration to get her off of Family Tree Maker on to something open.
I could move her data to Gramps, but I currently cannot be sure that no data was lost or corrupted in the transfer. At least now Gramps can handle the amount of data she has. Give me time.
For what it's worth, we will not be installing Vista on any of our systems and things aren't looking so good for the follow on either.
Wait. This is the FSFE. They have something to do with the FSF, right?
We should realize that what divides us pales in comparison to what we have in common and that division and exclusion are harmful to us all. So we should reign in the name-callers on either side, and empower those people who know how to build cooperation, corporations, and positive feedback loops.
Ok. You first. Muzzle Richard and get back to us on how well that goes.
My problem is not with the feature in firefox. My problem is not that that MS used. My problem is that Microsoft used it without asking. My problem is that Microsoft used it, without asking, to add something to my machine that made my 'secure' browser significantly less secure. My problem is that I did not know it happened and because of how they slipped it in, it was very difficult to fix.
To be clear, if they had asked up front "Can we install this for all users on the system?" and if they would have honored my inevitable response (NO!) then we would be ok. They damaged my web browser without asking. I would open a problem to Mozilla about it being possible, but this was the operating system subverting the security of an application. An App can't really defend itself against a malicious OS.
Do schools commonly mix up bus numbers and drivers so that students have different buses/drivers every day?
From the summary:
By the school district's own admission it has a recurring problem of placing children on the wrong buses.
So yes. It happen at my kid's school too. We live a block from the school and my kids walk so it hasn't been an issue for us.
When a parent isn't vigilant and something happens to the kids we blame the parent. Here, the school is not vigilant and the parent is trying to make up for it and some many are blaming the parent for being too vigilant. The kids has to go to school. The parent probably doesn't have much choice where to send the child. Hearing how rare the problem if lost kids is in the world doesn't help him if he's in a district where it happens repeatedly.
Perhaps all of the people would have been told that the world economies must all fall on their own swords because we have reliable models that tell us the world it going to become unlivably hot.
We hear all about Global Warming and when one asks about Global Warming in the face of the recent cooling trend and your informed that "it's been called `Global Climate Change' for some time now, Neanderthal!" We've been promised all sorts of catastrophes based on these models. Are they reliable or not?
Given the well understood negative impact of the proposed fixes to the world, do we really understand the problem we want to fix and the effect the proposed fix will have? That's not an unreasonable thing to ask considering how unquestionable this evidence has been up until now.
When I had a car broken into, the police would not even show up. What benefits to the rich receive?
Are you saying the rich are rich because the government made them rich, so they owe the government? That sounds like corruption. I want the government to make me rich.
Are you say the rich have more to lose if the government didn't enforce the laws or defend the boarders so they should pay more? That seems to justify the rich getting more of a say if how the government is run since they have more at stake and are footing more of the bill. If they pay more then they should get more of something.
What is the basis for assuming the government or society is entitled to receive more from a person just because that person has more? What greater benefit does the rich receive in exchange for the greater tax burden?
[I'm fairly convinced that all religious people know, in their deepest, darkest, secret place that most will never admit, they know that the God and the bible is a bunch of nonsense. But the idea frightens them to their core.]
Oddly enough, I think you will find many religious folks who believe that most people who are not members of their religion actually know their deity is real and that they are afraid to admit it. I think you'll find plenty o' preacher man who'll tell you people believe in the hearts and just lying to themselves.
I also know a few gay men who will tell you most people are gay and won't admit it to themselves. Especially people who are vocal anti-gay and homophobic. The more they drink, the more of the world becomes gay. They'll tell you to your face your gay and won't admit. It's kind of funny at first, but gets annoying over time.
It might be interesting to study how people cast their beliefs on the people who vocally disagree with them.
When I went to college, I paid fees for the use of university resources. (computer, physics, chem labs) In fact, I was forced to pay for resources I never used like the buses, gym, pools and a mess of other things that were over booked and run down.
Wow! With standards like that, can I assume that the AP never prints a graduation picture? How about shots for movies? I hear they use green screens, but you don't see then in the images.
I can't say I think every ballot got counted in this election cycle. I'd feel better if I knew for sure, but I'm fairly certain that most of my ballots were counted. That's better than previous years...
That's why I liked how Heston handled the Cop Killer thing. He didn't like the lyrics, so he went into an stockholders meeting for the label and just read them to the audience. It made them squirm. Complain about censorship all you want, but making them heard what they were selling was more than they could handle. And they hated him for making them have to recognize that.
That was just for harsh lyrics. Things in the world might change a bit if companies had to publish the despicable things they participate in just to pad the bottom line. Perhaps requiring companies to publish things they do in other counties that they can't do at home would be worth something.
Hi. I make processors. I know a lot about processors. I think a big change is coming to processors. I think you should learn to use a lot of processors. A whole lot of processors. You need more processors. Oh, and did I tell you I make processors?
I'm not sure I follow, but I'll try. If you want to add a "Free Tibet!" splash screen, please do. If you want to create a patch that others can use, by all means do. If you want to submit the patch, feel free. Just don't expect the patch to be accepted by anyone. If it gets accepted, don't be surprised if someone else submits a patch to remove it or forks a version lacking the patch or makes the splash screen optional. They'd be free to do so as well.
I'm not sure were suppression comes into it unless you mean that rejecting your patch would be suppression. You can publish you patch or a forked version of the package all you want. You've no right to expect other to publish your work though. I'm free to not repeat what you say.
Unless you expect someone to hunt you down and destroy all copies of such a patch. If thats the case, I'm not qualified to help you. Maybe you need to move?
He's still in denial about C++ being the cause of most of the buffer overflows, system crashes, and security holes in the world.
The fundamental problem with C was the "array=pointer" concept. If array sizes were carried along with arrays, we'd have far less trouble. Even FORTRAN has conformant
array parameters. That should have been fixed in C++, but it wasn't, and as a result, we had
two more decades of buffer overflow problems.
OK, let me get this straight. C++, which is supposed to be as compatible with C as reasonable, remained compatible with a fundamental aspect of C that you obviously don't like and now all the problems that come from that C behavior is C++'s fault? You sounds like a manager talking to an engineer. Use a vector or blame C and it's APIs.
Is the company really going to spend the time any money to patch and retest all of their games as they go bankrupt? Will the court really let them? 2-0. How many games computers do you have on you desk at home? I only play on one. 1-0. I like having physical install media and I have several games that don't require the CD at play time. 0-0. Can I play the game when I'm traveling or in a hotel? Not without network. 0-1. I'm going to need a password for every game? I have too many password already. 0-2. I'll need to register with LGP make sure my email is current at LGP in case I forget a password? Thanks Big Brother! 0-3 How's that for ya, Pollyanna?
If they go belly up, they are really going to want to spend the time and money unlocking the games? Will an fresh install be allowed or just running already installed version? Who will trouble shoot screw ups in the unlocking process? They are asking you trust them as they implement something that says they don't trust you.
Which to SOME people is the 18th of June, yes there is a world out side of the US shock/horror. If you'll allow me to be insensitive for a moment, what areas had the larges number of pledges to download? When I looked I think the largest were the US, Brazil and Poland. (I can't check now. Network problems.) The US was as large as the other put together. By targeting when they did, they gave two of the largest pledge areas an easier time. They could have been trying to increase the odds of breaking the record they're after. Just sayin'
(Of course it also could have been that someone in Cali didn't want to wake up before 9am.)
Just got in again. The number are different, but the US still dwarfs the others. Germany, Spain, France & UK are all over 100,000 now, but the US is over 700,000. Germany is the only one of the runners up that's even close to 200,000.
Well, think about that. The first time we simulate the human brain, do you think it's going to be an Einstein? Or will it be surfing the net to see what's going on with Brittany Spears and halting all of it batch jobs to catch Survivor?
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Because my wife's genealogy software won't run on something more reasonable. I'm locked in. I need a reliable safe migration to get her off of Family Tree Maker on to something open.
I could move her data to Gramps, but I currently cannot be sure that no data was lost or corrupted in the transfer. At least now Gramps can handle the amount of data she has. Give me time.
For what it's worth, we will not be installing Vista on any of our systems and things aren't looking so good for the follow on either.
We should realize that what divides us pales in comparison to what we have in common and that division and exclusion are harmful to us all. So we should reign in the name-callers on either side, and empower those people who know how to build cooperation, corporations, and positive feedback loops.
Ok. You first. Muzzle Richard and get back to us on how well that goes.
Thanks
To be clear, if they had asked up front "Can we install this for all users on the system?" and if they would have honored my inevitable response (NO!) then we would be ok. They damaged my web browser without asking. I would open a problem to Mozilla about it being possible, but this was the operating system subverting the security of an application. An App can't really defend itself against a malicious OS.
Do schools commonly mix up bus numbers and drivers so that students have different buses/drivers every day?
From the summary:
By the school district's own admission it has a recurring problem of placing children on the wrong buses.
So yes. It happen at my kid's school too. We live a block from the school and my kids walk so it hasn't been an issue for us.
When a parent isn't vigilant and something happens to the kids we blame the parent. Here, the school is not vigilant and the parent is trying to make up for it and some many are blaming the parent for being too vigilant. The kids has to go to school. The parent probably doesn't have much choice where to send the child. Hearing how rare the problem if lost kids is in the world doesn't help him if he's in a district where it happens repeatedly.
We hear all about Global Warming and when one asks about Global Warming in the face of the recent cooling trend and your informed that "it's been called `Global Climate Change' for some time now, Neanderthal!" We've been promised all sorts of catastrophes based on these models. Are they reliable or not?
Given the well understood negative impact of the proposed fixes to the world, do we really understand the problem we want to fix and the effect the proposed fix will have? That's not an unreasonable thing to ask considering how unquestionable this evidence has been up until now.
Are you saying the rich are rich because the government made them rich, so they owe the government? That sounds like corruption. I want the government to make me rich.
Are you say the rich have more to lose if the government didn't enforce the laws or defend the boarders so they should pay more? That seems to justify the rich getting more of a say if how the government is run since they have more at stake and are footing more of the bill. If they pay more then they should get more of something.
What is the basis for assuming the government or society is entitled to receive more from a person just because that person has more? What greater benefit does the rich receive in exchange for the greater tax burden?
I don't buy this argument. I know of people pulling down a 6 digit income being paid not to farm their land. Nice "work" if you can get it.
[I'm fairly convinced that all religious people know, in their deepest, darkest, secret place that most will never admit, they know that the God and the bible is a bunch of nonsense. But the idea frightens them to their core.]
Oddly enough, I think you will find many religious folks who believe that most people who are not members of their religion actually know their deity is real and that they are afraid to admit it. I think you'll find plenty o' preacher man who'll tell you people believe in the hearts and just lying to themselves.
I also know a few gay men who will tell you most people are gay and won't admit it to themselves. Especially people who are vocal anti-gay and homophobic. The more they drink, the more of the world becomes gay. They'll tell you to your face your gay and won't admit. It's kind of funny at first, but gets annoying over time.
It might be interesting to study how people cast their beliefs on the people who vocally disagree with them.
When I went to college, I paid fees for the use of university resources. (computer, physics, chem labs) In fact, I was forced to pay for resources I never used like the buses, gym, pools and a mess of other things that were over booked and run down.
So more carbon, yet lower temps. Hmm.
Well I guess you can't argue with the data. Stop Global Warming! Light a fire!
Wow! With standards like that, can I assume that the AP never prints a graduation picture? How about shots for movies? I hear they use green screens, but you don't see then in the images.
I can't say I think every ballot got counted in this election cycle. I'd feel better if I knew for sure, but I'm fairly certain that most of my ballots were counted. That's better than previous years...
That was just for harsh lyrics. Things in the world might change a bit if companies had to publish the despicable things they participate in just to pad the bottom line. Perhaps requiring companies to publish things they do in other counties that they can't do at home would be worth something.
The language you refer to is whitespace, as described and linked in a comment below as well.
I would post "Hello World" written in it here, but the comment thingy refused to accept it: "Filter error: Please use less whitespace."
So those Perl bigots at Slashdot are finally actively excluding other programming languages by name.
Big deal. Microsoft gets more downloads every Tuesday.
That sounds like a great plan. Insert errors into our genetic code until the virus leaves us alone. That's got to work.
Hi. I make processors. I know a lot about processors. I think a big change is coming to processors. I think you should learn to use a lot of processors. A whole lot of processors. You need more processors. Oh, and did I tell you I make processors?
I'm not sure I follow, but I'll try. If you want to add a "Free Tibet!" splash screen, please do. If you want to create a patch that others can use, by all means do. If you want to submit the patch, feel free. Just don't expect the patch to be accepted by anyone. If it gets accepted, don't be surprised if someone else submits a patch to remove it or forks a version lacking the patch or makes the splash screen optional. They'd be free to do so as well.
I'm not sure were suppression comes into it unless you mean that rejecting your patch would be suppression. You can publish you patch or a forked version of the package all you want. You've no right to expect other to publish your work though. I'm free to not repeat what you say.
Unless you expect someone to hunt you down and destroy all copies of such a patch. If thats the case, I'm not qualified to help you. Maybe you need to move?
He's still in denial about C++ being the cause of most of the buffer overflows, system crashes, and security holes in the world.
The fundamental problem with C was the "array=pointer" concept. If array sizes were carried along with arrays, we'd have far less trouble. Even FORTRAN has conformant array parameters. That should have been fixed in C++, but it wasn't, and as a result, we had two more decades of buffer overflow problems.
OK, let me get this straight. C++, which is supposed to be as compatible with C as reasonable, remained compatible with a fundamental aspect of C that you obviously don't like and now all the problems that come from that C behavior is C++'s fault? You sounds like a manager talking to an engineer. Use a vector or blame C and it's APIs.Is the company really going to spend the time any money to patch and retest all of their games as they go bankrupt? Will the court really let them? 2-0. How many games computers do you have on you desk at home? I only play on one. 1-0. I like having physical install media and I have several games that don't require the CD at play time. 0-0. Can I play the game when I'm traveling or in a hotel? Not without network. 0-1. I'm going to need a password for every game? I have too many password already. 0-2. I'll need to register with LGP make sure my email is current at LGP in case I forget a password? Thanks Big Brother! 0-3 How's that for ya, Pollyanna?
If they go belly up, they are really going to want to spend the time and money unlocking the games? Will an fresh install be allowed or just running already installed version? Who will trouble shoot screw ups in the unlocking process? They are asking you trust them as they implement something that says they don't trust you.
Um, it's a remote exploit. My first request
(Of course it also could have been that someone in Cali didn't want to wake up before 9am.)
Just got in again. The number are different, but the US still dwarfs the others. Germany, Spain, France & UK are all over 100,000 now, but the US is over 700,000. Germany is the only one of the runners up that's even close to 200,000.