But you know most of you don't know jack-shit about chemical, or even conventional weapons for that matter, otherwise you would know that you could hide enough chemical agent to kill millions under the uninhabited areas of Iraq's deserts in a space smaller than a football field.
Let me start off by saying I'm really not a liberal.
However, according to your comment which I will assume is true, shouldn't we be doing a lot more to find bio/chem WMD's in other parts of the world like North Korea, Sudan, Iran, Palestine, etc.?
If finding WMD's is like finding a needle in a haystack, then I don't think we should have played up how certain we were of finding them. In which case, Bush would have had to make his case for war on other grounds, which may have been sufficient by themselves.
As it stands, the choice to target Iraq specifically looks really irrational.
Going from the Windows world to doing things like setting up mail servers in Linux is a really big step.
Firewalling is probably harder than a web server (especially if you use thttpd).
I disagree with the other comments about Gentoo--I'd say Slackware or Crux is a better compromise between getting you to actually start using your system quickly and forcing you to learn how to use it.
Linux from Scratch is probably the best, closest equivalent to an online 'course.' It's much more engaging than a Gentoo install, and hand-holds you through all of the steps without doing them for you like Gentoo does.
1. The use of deceit. 2. The fact or state of being deceived. 3. A ruse; a trick.
I suppose you could argue that simply claiming that Michael Moore was not engaging in deception doesn't imply that you think that Michael Moore is now a credible source of information, but if you are, I suggest you hold Moore to the same level of scrutiny as you would the media, since his movie has the same power to shape your political views.
In this day and age, I would expect games to be multi-threaded so that things like sound, background effects and game logic can run concurrently with the engine.
You've got two highways. One has two lanes in it, with the speed limit at 90 mph. The second has eight lanest in it, with the speed limit at 60 mph.
The one that is 'faster' isn't the one that can handle the most traffic effectively. Modern multitasking operating environments are a lot closer to downtown LA than they are to a NASCAR race-track.
You don't seem to understand what x.org actually does. It's an X system.
You're looking at Gnome, a desktop environment that runs on top of an X server.
This news just means that x.org now has more capabilities that desktops can take advantage of.
As far as your comment about Linux being behind the times, I'd agree that Linux is playing 'catch up,' but I don't think that's a bad thing, just a necessary step.
By default, fonts in Linux tend to get anti-aliased no matter what the font size is.
This is a mere configuration setting that most of the distributions choose to set. Fontconfig is perfectly capable of turning off AA for a given range of sizes.
Modern American culture has a skewed view of it IMO--it is merely the rejection of the Vetas and of the traditional caste system in India. Reincarnation and karma are very much part of at least Theravata Buddhism (far mory widely practiced in the world), and from what I understand Mahayana Buddhism as well.
I think any criteria that does not classify Buddhism as a traditional religion--meaning that there are beliefs that are expected to be taken without question--would yield similar results for any other religion.
Calvinism makes more sense when you put it in it's historical perspective. The reigning variant of Christianity in Europe was Catholicism. The Counter-Reformation had just spread through Europe, and the whole movement to return Christianity to it's scriptural origins had largely backlashed.
In Calvinism, being born filthy rich means you're going to heaven pretty much no matter what. That's a major difference.
I'm not sure I think anyone believes that. Could you provide a source? What was all that about a camel passing through a needle? I was under the impression that early Calvinists tended to read the Bible much more than the Catholics of the day.
Bible-thumpers are basically the rebirth of Calvinism within the US. (specifically the belief that good fortune is the sign of divine favor, and that ill fortune is the sign of damnation...
That part actually sonds more like Buddhism or Hinduism.
With faster than light transfer speeds, assuming that you could keep data safe, copying itself would become obselete.
When would the data ever need be more than an instant away?
Let's say I fork a big open source project. That's an instance where there would be many times more similarities than there would be differences. Data in the fork could simply reference the similarities in the original tree.
The end result would be massive clusters of obscene amounts of data, most of which would merely be pointers to other data (or other pointers).
Why does everyone assume that the vanilla kernel hosted at kernel.org is the end all, be all of linuxes?
It's open source...to me that means that all of the code in question can still be maintained as a patchset against Linus' latest kernel.
Most distributions use heavily patched kernels anyways.
This is why I consider this guy to be unfair--he's whining that the 'fundamentalists' who develop the main kernel want to keep their distribution of Linux* free from binary code.
Distributions that aim to make the average Joe's Linux experience better could include this patchset by default. Everyone wins.
* By this I mean the kernel, not the OS; on a side not, this is a great example of why GNU/Linux could make practical sense.
Or, if your system uses tcp wrappers, you could set your sshd line in your hosts.allow file and allow only hostnames that you use to ssh in. If you needed to ssh from somewhere remotely, you could ssh in to one of your 'trusted' machines and then ssh into your box that way.
The proposed solution is DBUS and HAL. HAL is just an abstraction layer--it is a common library API that allows software to deal with hardware installation in a platform-independent manner. DBUS is a bit more sophisticated--from what I hear it's going to be an entire interprocess messaging system that will allow software to communicate with hardware via the HAL.
Essentially what this means is that pretty soon, you can plug in a USB camera and have your shiny Gnome desktop popup a window telling you that you have just installed a camera, and providing you with some basic configuration options.
The problem with a unified control panel is the various differences between distributions would make it impossible to maintain.
What I would like to see is more standards defining how files in the/etc directory should be placed and formatted. This would allow a control panel that doesn't know everything about each configuration file, but rather serves as a more advanced text editor with a tree view to browse through configuration files. It would of course provide documentation for each file (like what each option does).
Then we'd have a tool that both intermediates and advanced users would appreciate. It would also be simple enough to teach novices how to use (providing the documentation is good enough).
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Let me start off by saying I'm really not a liberal.
However, according to your comment which I will assume is true, shouldn't we be doing a lot more to find bio/chem WMD's in other parts of the world like North Korea, Sudan, Iran, Palestine, etc.?
If finding WMD's is like finding a needle in a haystack, then I don't think we should have played up how certain we were of finding them. In which case, Bush would have had to make his case for war on other grounds, which may have been sufficient by themselves.
As it stands, the choice to target Iraq specifically looks really irrational.
Firewalling is probably harder than a web server (especially if you use thttpd).
I disagree with the other comments about Gentoo--I'd say Slackware or Crux is a better compromise between getting you to actually start using your system quickly and forcing you to learn how to use it.
Linux from Scratch is probably the best, closest equivalent to an online 'course.' It's much more engaging than a Gentoo install, and hand-holds you through all of the steps without doing them for you like Gentoo does.
There's a slim chance I might be biased, though :)
When running locally, X11 uses UNIX sockets which are not a bottleneck.
1. The use of deceit.
2. The fact or state of being deceived.
3. A ruse; a trick.
I suppose you could argue that simply claiming that Michael Moore was not engaging in deception doesn't imply that you think that Michael Moore is now a credible source of information, but if you are, I suggest you hold Moore to the same level of scrutiny as you would the media, since his movie has the same power to shape your political views.
In this day and age, I would expect games to be multi-threaded so that things like sound, background effects and game logic can run concurrently with the engine.
The one that is 'faster' isn't the one that can handle the most traffic effectively. Modern multitasking operating environments are a lot closer to downtown LA than they are to a NASCAR race-track.
Actually, Cid appeared in Japan's FF2.
I think when people start thinking of X11 as a cross-platform, networked protocol, people will see how superior it really is.
It will all need to be coded in (most of it GTK and QT).
Oh, and the 5% speed boost compiler optimisations give you.
You're looking at Gnome, a desktop environment that runs on top of an X server.
This news just means that x.org now has more capabilities that desktops can take advantage of.
As far as your comment about Linux being behind the times, I'd agree that Linux is playing 'catch up,' but I don't think that's a bad thing, just a necessary step.
This is a mere configuration setting that most of the distributions choose to set. Fontconfig is perfectly capable of turning off AA for a given range of sizes.
I don't think lacking one feature makes one piece of software 'behind' another.
...because there wouldn't be much point in posting if the GP didn't have anything *different* to say.
Modern American culture has a skewed view of it IMO--it is merely the rejection of the Vetas and of the traditional caste system in India. Reincarnation and karma are very much part of at least Theravata Buddhism (far mory widely practiced in the world), and from what I understand Mahayana Buddhism as well.
I think any criteria that does not classify Buddhism as a traditional religion--meaning that there are beliefs that are expected to be taken without question--would yield similar results for any other religion.
Calvinism makes more sense when you put it in it's historical perspective. The reigning variant of Christianity in Europe was Catholicism. The Counter-Reformation had just spread through Europe, and the whole movement to return Christianity to it's scriptural origins had largely backlashed.
In Calvinism, being born filthy rich means you're going to heaven pretty much no matter what. That's a major difference.
I'm not sure I think anyone believes that. Could you provide a source? What was all that about a camel passing through a needle? I was under the impression that early Calvinists tended to read the Bible much more than the Catholics of the day.
That part actually sonds more like Buddhism or Hinduism.
I personally think bickering over memory footprints between programs that have vastly different featuresets is as futile as comparing Notepad to Word.
I think the big advantage AbiWord has is simplicity for folks that just want to type out a letter or a school paper.
Plus with Linux you don't pay for the OS that gets installed on each dumb terminal, so it actually does end up being cheaper.
When would the data ever need be more than an instant away?
Let's say I fork a big open source project. That's an instance where there would be many times more similarities than there would be differences. Data in the fork could simply reference the similarities in the original tree.
The end result would be massive clusters of obscene amounts of data, most of which would merely be pointers to other data (or other pointers).
I would imagine our own DNA would look similar.
It's open source...to me that means that all of the code in question can still be maintained as a patchset against Linus' latest kernel.
Most distributions use heavily patched kernels anyways.
This is why I consider this guy to be unfair--he's whining that the 'fundamentalists' who develop the main kernel want to keep their distribution of Linux* free from binary code.
Distributions that aim to make the average Joe's Linux experience better could include this patchset by default. Everyone wins.
* By this I mean the kernel, not the OS; on a side not, this is a great example of why GNU/Linux could make practical sense.
Or, if your system uses tcp wrappers, you could set your sshd line in your hosts.allow file and allow only hostnames that you use to ssh in. If you needed to ssh from somewhere remotely, you could ssh in to one of your 'trusted' machines and then ssh into your box that way.
Essentially what this means is that pretty soon, you can plug in a USB camera and have your shiny Gnome desktop popup a window telling you that you have just installed a camera, and providing you with some basic configuration options.
The problem with a unified control panel is the various differences between distributions would make it impossible to maintain.
What I would like to see is more standards defining how files in the /etc directory should be placed and formatted. This would allow a control panel that doesn't know everything about each configuration file, but rather serves as a more advanced text editor with a tree view to browse through configuration files. It would of course provide documentation for each file (like what each option does).
Then we'd have a tool that both intermediates and advanced users would appreciate. It would also be simple enough to teach novices how to use (providing the documentation is good enough).
Interestingly enough, the pizza company in the first movie was Domino's.
I don't know how it's funny. It just is.
At that point, why not just use Gigabit ethernet?