Could you please learn basic economic terminology before posting? The national debt is the money owed by the US treasury to holders of US bonds, some of whom are foreign and many of whom are not.
Now, please to close mouth and open books. Thank you:)
I know 3 people who have immigrated into Japan, taken up residence there permanently, and started or taken over businesses -- and I don't know all that many people.
I think you're just repeating a stereotype (not that that's a _bad_ thing, I just felt like nitpicking is all).
I was a real believer in Shirow during, about, the early days of Appleseed, but he never really delivered... just degenerated into pin-ups and obsessing over types of weapon...
I guess there's always a new generation ready to look at cyborg lesbians, though:)
When was that? I must have missed it. Certainly not the era before Microsoft, when small software companies were rare and the 'standards' produced by the likes of IBM and Honeywell cost an arm and a leg. So when?
Here's a little experiment anyone can try: make a new male character and log onto GunBound. It's a fun, easy, free-to-get started game found here:
http://gunbound.net/
Play a few games as a male and see what happens if you ask questions and generally make like a noob. Look, many semi-literate teens are swearing at you and saying your weapon is cheap and going 'lol noob' and so on. Now make a female character and play the same way. Now, people even tell you the rules when you ask!
It just plain makes more sense to play as a girl. Boys are pathetically helpful, girls stick together with you.
Even the more grown-up players (not many on GunBound, really) seem to just look on you with that much more favor. I think it's partly because girls (and boys playing as girls) are less likely to spout abuse / gloat about leet skilz / generally care too much. As a result, people are friendlier to girls and it's slightly nicer to play with them.
I think that in a game with older, more mature players, and in games like Day of Defeat where people tend to play quite seriously, the effect is somewhat weaker -- but it's still there.
I'd also say this effect extends into many, many areas of IT and professional life -- given a male and a female applicant of equal skill, everyone I know in my position would hire the female because it's just better for business.
In the 90's there were many, many people (indeed entire regions) whose software choices were severely limited by the fact that a) only Windows supported their language and b) Windows had the best support for mixing languages, not common in the US but very important elsewhere. Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, and to a large extent Arabic and Urdu speakers all had the option of either learning English or learning Windows. As a result, pirated Windows, not free software, became a de-facto standard.
I'm not sure if windows still has such clear pre-eminence (Macs have come a long way) -- but judging by the pain I just had getting Japanese input working on a vanilla Knoppix installation it's got to still be a factor for a lot of people.
Re:completely underwhelmed by Subversion...
on
Subversion 1.0 Released
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
What you say about subversion may be true (it works okay for me but it could certainly do with a bit more power in places).
However, to say that arch is _better_ because it relies on Unix to the extent of being uncompilable on Windows (probably works in cygwin, but...) is bizarre. Arch suffers from the common GNU problem of assuming that a Unix system with a Unixy filesystem is the only environment worth paying attention to, and despite what Richard Stallman might think, that _is_ a problem.
Subversion: a cross-platform library for which many tools can be (and have been) made for many environments.
Arch: a Monolithic Unix program. Attempts to port and to add tools are still ongoing.
Arch seems not only less useful but also depressingly backward-looking in philosophy.
Dealing heroin, they take in more money than they lose. Does that mean we sigh and say 'Ah, such are the wonders of market forces'?
People who beat up little old ladies and take their purses also take in more money than they lose. Do we blame it all on market forces or do we send them to jail? We send them to jail.(*)
Just because something makes a profit doesn't mean it's not bad. The fact that this needs pointing out to anyone is pretty fucking sad.
I'm just being a grouchy old man here, but sometimes you gotta be a grouchy old man...
Who is this 'us' that I sometimes hear referred to here? I mean, I use linux (when I have to) and read slashdot (when I can) and contribute to open source projects (as often as possible) but I'm not part of any damn community, much less some Great Struggle Against Internet Explorer, I'm just some guy.
The trouble is that a certain demographic has kind of hijacked the public image of computing in general and open source / linux in particular; these are people who have a strong internal need to see good guys and bad guys, evil Microsoft versus heroic whoever, a strong need to belong and to see themselves as part of a big struggle and so on...
It's not about whether 'we' will win the browser wars. There are various browsers with various features and problems and users pick one based on various, rather random factors. Sometimes they pick one, sometimes another. There is no war, there is no 'we', there is no Open Source crusade. If you want that feeling, I think it would be more sensible to support a football team or something.
...wouldn't the effort be better spent in actually bringing mySQL up to the point where it *can* replace SQL Server?
MySQL seems to occupy a rather subtle and narrow niche, perhaps the 'single smallish website' niche. I can't really imagine wanting to use it when most applications are liable to grow beyond that niche.
PostgresSQL looks a lot more encouraging, feature-wise, although it doesn't seem to offer many concrete benefits over SQL Server. Still, to me, a book on migrating to PostgresSQL or another full-featured RDB would be more useful.
Among all the posts from java users containing disinformation, paranoia, and FUD about C#, I finally found an _even more_ biased one going the other way!
In C#, any code you write MUST run on a Windows-supported platform under Windows,
It's just amazing that people can post statements like this as fact without, apparently, having read a single doc or asked someone who knows what they're doing.
>Very few scams are clever enough to hook the American public.
How do you explain the current government, then?
Sorry.
Re:Does it also need to have a seasonal reference?
on
Perl Haiku Poetry Contest
·
· Score: 2, Informative
Yes, it should contain a kigo, a season-related word with specific connotations (the seasonal connection is often pretty obscure). This is the biggest problem with haiku in English -- there are no kigo. Some people have suggested that a strong word should be picked to fill the role of the kigo in an English haiku.
Actually, the kigo and the kiri -- a pause that comes usually but not always after the 5th or 13th beat -- are perhaps more characteristic of haiku than the 5-7-5, which is broken quite often even in the classics. Bashou-style haiku (the most classical) are also characterized by a rigid focus on direct experience -- NO metaphors, NO emotions. Other haiku poets (haijin) took haiku in other directions -- notably Issa, who wrote one of my favorites:
Useless clouds... Piling up into a useless mountain And then doing it _again_.
It seems to lose a bit in my (sucky) translation. There should be a contest.
Hm, why would I take literary advice from someone who can't spell 'write'?
Also:
>Small miscalculations in syllable counts
You don't count 'onsetsu' or syllables, you count 'haku' or beats... not that the average Japanese man in the street seems to grasp the distinction these days.
...starting with 'win' in the Windows-specific part of Emacs because the connotations of the word 'win' are too positive to be associated with the Big Scary OS.
No point, it happened in the UK. Even if the attacker had been a man, the victim would have had a 50/50 chance of being found guilty -- and since the attacker was a _woman_ I think he got off pretty lightly.
Slashdot Mirror
Could you please learn basic economic terminology before posting? The national debt is the money owed by the US treasury to holders of US bonds, some of whom are foreign and many of whom are not.
Now, please to close mouth and open books. Thank you
I know 3 people who have immigrated into Japan, taken up residence there permanently, and started or taken over businesses -- and I don't know all that many people.
I think you're just repeating a stereotype (not that that's a _bad_ thing, I just felt like nitpicking is all).
I agree that there's some painfully shallow pop-philosophy -- but for that we have the Matrix.
Mod me all you like, those who have seen it know that it really was _that_ bad
Rather than make a new Appleseed movie, let's focus on destroying the first one!
I was a real believer in Shirow during, about, the early days of Appleseed, but he never really delivered... just degenerated into pin-ups and obsessing over types of weapon...
I guess there's always a new generation ready to look at cyborg lesbians, though
even when the entire software industry was open.
When was that? I must have missed it. Certainly not the era before Microsoft, when small software companies were rare and the 'standards' produced by the likes of IBM and Honeywell cost an arm and a leg. So when?
What about the stryker? I hear a bunch of bad things about that -- is it all true?
Just curious.
Here's a little experiment anyone can try: make a new male character and log onto GunBound. It's a fun, easy, free-to-get started game found here:
http://gunbound.net/
Play a few games as a male and see what happens if you ask questions and generally make like a noob. Look, many semi-literate teens are swearing at you and saying your weapon is cheap and going 'lol noob' and so on. Now make a female character and play the same way. Now, people even tell you the rules when you ask!
It just plain makes more sense to play as a girl. Boys are pathetically helpful, girls stick together with you.
Even the more grown-up players (not many on GunBound, really) seem to just look on you with that much more favor. I think it's partly because girls (and boys playing as girls) are less likely to spout abuse / gloat about leet skilz / generally care too much. As a result, people are friendlier to girls and it's slightly nicer to play with them.
I think that in a game with older, more mature players, and in games like Day of Defeat where people tend to play quite seriously, the effect is somewhat weaker -- but it's still there.
I'd also say this effect extends into many, many areas of IT and professional life -- given a male and a female applicant of equal skill, everyone I know in my position would hire the female because it's just better for business.
Such is life.
Which do you think will win the War on Terror--guns or minds?
Why do you assume you'll win?
In the 90's there were many, many people (indeed entire regions) whose software choices were severely limited by the fact that a) only Windows supported their language and b) Windows had the best support for mixing languages, not common in the US but very important elsewhere. Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, and to a large extent Arabic and Urdu speakers all had the option of either learning English or learning Windows. As a result, pirated Windows, not free software, became a de-facto standard.
I'm not sure if windows still has such clear pre-eminence (Macs have come a long way) -- but judging by the pain I just had getting Japanese input working on a vanilla Knoppix installation it's got to still be a factor for a lot of people.
What you say about subversion may be true (it works okay for me but it could certainly do with a bit more power in places).
However, to say that arch is _better_ because it relies on Unix to the extent of being uncompilable on Windows (probably works in cygwin, but...) is bizarre. Arch suffers from the common GNU problem of assuming that a Unix system with a Unixy filesystem is the only environment worth paying attention to, and despite what Richard Stallman might think, that _is_ a problem.
Subversion: a cross-platform library for which many tools can be (and have been) made for many environments.
Arch: a Monolithic Unix program. Attempts to port and to add tools are still ongoing.
Arch seems not only less useful but also depressingly backward-looking in philosophy.
Dealing heroin, they take in more money than they lose. Does that mean we sigh and say 'Ah, such are the wonders of market forces'?
People who beat up little old ladies and take their purses also take in more money than they lose. Do we blame it all on market forces or do we send them to jail? We send them to jail.(*)
Just because something makes a profit doesn't mean it's not bad. The fact that this needs pointing out to anyone is pretty fucking sad.
(*) Except in the UK, but that's an anomaly.
All the links on
http://www.tancredo.org/issues/issues.htm
se
I am currently unimpressed with Mr. Tancredo's bid for power
Well, they might have put a lot of effort into it for all I know, but it wasn't very _good_ -- the characters seemed to lose a lot of individuality.
I'm just being a grouchy old man here, but sometimes you gotta be a grouchy old man...
Who is this 'us' that I sometimes hear referred to here? I mean, I use linux (when I have to) and read slashdot (when I can) and contribute to open source projects (as often as possible) but I'm not part of any damn community, much less some Great Struggle Against Internet Explorer, I'm just some guy.
The trouble is that a certain demographic has kind of hijacked the public image of computing in general and open source / linux in particular; these are people who have a strong internal need to see good guys and bad guys, evil Microsoft versus heroic whoever, a strong need to belong and to see themselves as part of a big struggle and so on...
It's not about whether 'we' will win the browser wars. There are various browsers with various features and problems and users pick one based on various, rather random factors. Sometimes they pick one, sometimes another. There is no war, there is no 'we', there is no Open Source crusade. If you want that feeling, I think it would be more sensible to support a football team or something.
...wouldn't the effort be better spent in actually bringing mySQL up to the point where it *can* replace SQL Server?
MySQL seems to occupy a rather subtle and narrow niche, perhaps the 'single smallish website' niche. I can't really imagine wanting to use it when most applications are liable to grow beyond that niche.
PostgresSQL looks a lot more encouraging, feature-wise, although it doesn't seem to offer many concrete benefits over SQL Server. Still, to me, a book on migrating to PostgresSQL or another full-featured RDB would be more useful.
Among all the posts from java users containing disinformation, paranoia, and FUD about C#, I finally found an _even more_ biased one going the other way!
I shall call this new sport 'ignorance surfing'.
In C#, any code you write MUST run on a Windows-supported platform under Windows,
It's just amazing that people can post statements like this as fact without, apparently, having read a single doc or asked someone who knows what they're doing.
Sigh.
>Very few scams are clever enough to hook the American public.
How do you explain the current government, then?
Sorry.
Yes, it should contain a kigo, a season-related word with specific connotations (the seasonal connection is often pretty obscure). This is the biggest problem with haiku in English -- there are no kigo. Some people have suggested that a strong word should be picked to fill the role of the kigo in an English haiku.
Actually, the kigo and the kiri -- a pause that comes usually but not always after the 5th or 13th beat -- are perhaps more characteristic of haiku than the 5-7-5, which is broken quite often even in the classics. Bashou-style haiku (the most classical) are also characterized by a rigid focus on direct experience -- NO metaphors, NO emotions. Other haiku poets (haijin) took haiku in other directions -- notably Issa, who wrote one of my favorites:
Useless clouds...
Piling up into a useless mountain
And then doing it _again_.
It seems to lose a bit in my (sucky) translation. There should be a contest.
Hm, why would I take literary advice from someone who can't spell 'write'?
Also:
>Small miscalculations in syllable counts
You don't count 'onsetsu' or syllables, you count 'haku' or beats... not that the average Japanese man in the street seems to grasp the distinction these days.
Hark, for I bring tidings of the Kinesis Contour keyboard and its wondrous configurability!
1. You can move the capslock elsewhere. I moved it to where Insert is (on the contour) since i never use it.
2. I use the footswitch to invoke a 'punctuation layer' -- thus pedal+d is (, pedal+f is ), and so on.
3. Thumb keys!
4. Actually, the Contour could do with a raft of general purpose keys stuck on somewhere... I use a seperate programmable keypad
5. Control works well on the thumbs -- and that enables me to move the shift keys up onto the home row for much more natural use.
Don't try suggesting it to Logitech, they just make shiny things with an 'email' button nowadays. Get down to www.kinesis-ergo.com right away!
...starting with 'win' in the Windows-specific part of Emacs because the connotations of the word 'win' are too positive to be associated with the Big Scary OS.
:)
I'm glad I don't have to work with him
No point, it happened in the UK. Even if the attacker had been a man, the victim would have had a 50/50 chance of being found guilty -- and since the attacker was a _woman_ I think he got off pretty lightly.
It's the way they do things here, I dunno why.