I prefer to discard this safety rhetoric and submit the idea that I have the right to self-determination. This is the same right that allows a person to do lots of other "dumb" things, like smoke, drink or eat too much, etc.
That would be a fine argument... except that, you might not have noticed, but there are other people on the streets, too... And they might not appreciate you to have the freedom to run over them at 100 MPH.
He's actually a former -- lame! -- magician. Since he was'nt skilled enough to do it the honest way, he pretended to do it by supranatural power. This way, he got fame, money, girls... And HE'S A FRAUD. The magic community is laughing at him. The bent spoon is an ultra easy trick. You can do that really simply with shape-memory (don't know the english term for it) material.
A group of french skeptics are offering $20000 to anybody who will be able to bent THEIR spoon, which is placed inside a sealed glass tube, without opening / breaking the tube. Oddly, Uri Fraud Geller never tried to do it!!!!
Indeed. This is called "reactance" in soc psy parlance. I wonder if this is related with the moderator having a sense of authority when they get those magic points. I wonder.
Indeed, it's a poor choice. A much better one would have been the musical condom (US patent #... I'm too lazy to find it back), soon to be superseded by the TALKING condom (patent pending).
There are telephone systems out in France and Italy,
In case you did'nt read the news properly, those were caused by a major storm that killed about 100 people, destroyed 4000 trees in Versailles, damaged Notre Dame and many buildings in Paris. I can provide pictures as proof if you're into conspiracy theories.
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Does any programming language have an UNLESS clause?
Why focus on Linux over all free Unix (aka freenix) in general? Because millions of people have heard of the word "Linux" as opposed to mere thousand who have heard of BSD.
Why just `free' Unix instead of all Unix? Because non-free Unix is mostly used on corporate systems that have absolutely no use in playing DVD movies. I'm sure you can find a couple exceptions, but they will be just that: exceptions.
Why just Unix instead of all systems? What's wrong with (Open)VMS, for example, on an Alpha Workstation? I'm sure you can count the people who actually need that on one amputated hand.
Now I have one question for you:
Why do you keep splitting hair over an important issue just to push your own off topic agenda?
We know you don't like the GPL. Now give us a break.
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I read the article, ready to jump and write to CNN, only to find that it was'nt that lame -- I've read much lamer actually. They mention the fact that the purpose of DeCSS is to view DVDs on Linux.
For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration!
FYI, there are other countries than the USA, which consider themselves civilized, and more so than the US of A, and which mostly prohibit firearm. All of Europe, for instance.
My point is, until it was proven by (among others) the project I mentioned, the idea of open development (bazaar style) was contrary to most of development methodology credos. And I mentioned my own reason why it was problem. Also, having the code is interesting and educational, and so is seeing the development process. For example, I don't contribute to the linux kernel, nor do I have the skills and resources to do so, but I read the linux-kernel mailing list several times a week and learn a lot from it. When you get the resulting code, you've got what eventually works, not what was abandoned for some reason, for instance.
XFree is being developped under the BSD development model -- cathedral style -- and released under a BSD (X) license. The two are not necessarily bound.
Apparently, the XFree developer fear that people start looking at their development sources. I remember, a few years ago, they only made time-bombed binaries available for their beta-version! Given the success that projects like Linux, KDE and Gnome have shown using a completely opposite strategy, we have every reason to believe that such a model would work better.
And no, before someone mentions it, I'm not karma-whoring: I actually considered working on XFree, I was interested in working on TrueType support, which has been since then released. But I could'nt even find a mailing list archive from their site! So I had no way to find out what was being worked on, which issues there was, or who to contact.
My girlfriend's american. My cousin's girlfriend's american. My uncle lives in California. Some of my best friends are american. So yeah, I think I have some clues. Are americans christians? Well much more than the french. French politicians don't bother showing at Church to get good press. When French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin says he's an atheist, nobody thrashes him, unlike Jesse Ventura. BTW my girlfriend believed the american motto was 'in god we trust' (which was just added on the bills in the 30s I believe), whereas it's 'e pluribus unum' if I'm not mistaken. So...
I know one french guy who was fucking freaking out. He 's in an apocalyptic cult, so... But I know of many more merkins who are freaking out. Oh yeah they'r christians, that's why. When the god you believe in is depicted as such a rude and demanding one ("don't do this! don't do that! do this or you will burn in hell! do NOT look at naked women EVEN if I made you fancy it!"), you can understand it.
Now, Monday, I will give them a ring, "Hey, whassup dude? How's your apocalypse going?"
The roman had no year zero... but on top of that, ask people in 10AD, they did'nt even know they were in 10AD!!! Therefore, the actual 'zero' is much later... the new millennium probably start in something like 3210.
Am I the only one to find the smart asses who keep educating you about the fact that 'the new millennium starts in 2001' utterly annoying?
More annoying than Open Source Nathalie Portman and the grits troll... and even worse: They exist IRL (In Real Life) insted of being limited to slashdot!
There used to be a counter counting down hours / minutes towards year 2000... it stopped working at about 18:00 CET... displaying weird shit. Wonder if it's some hacker... Imagine that, the panel starts displaying "I'm 3r77t I 0wn y0u!" Whoups, quickly pull out the plug!
If you have a processor that needs to have bytes aligned on a 4 bytes boundary, then you probably have lots of memory to spare. Hint: the C library dates back from a few years ago. At that time, there was no such need for alignment... and much less memory available.
The only thing that could damage your site as badly as you fear it would be a major nuclear catastrophe. And in that case, I believe that you and your PHBs will have other worries than your fuckin' website.
Because back in year 0, people did'nt even know 0 existed! That's right! They had no idea! It's a bit like, until someone discovered oxygen, people could'nt breath! All hail Lavoisier! Now, you may ask, did people in year 10 knew they were in year 10? No, they did'nt! So the/millenn?ium/ must start in 2010! But wait, did people in 863 knew they were in 863? Damn it, probably not, either! Fuck, that's really much more complicated than I thought!
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I prefer to discard this safety rhetoric and submit the idea that I have the right to self-determination. This is the same right that allows a person to do lots of other "dumb" things, like smoke, drink or eat too much, etc.
That would be a fine argument ... except that, you might not have noticed, but there are other people on the streets, too ... And they might not appreciate you to have the freedom to run over them at 100 MPH.
He's actually a former -- lame! -- magician. Since he was'nt skilled enough to do it the honest way, he pretended to do it by supranatural power. This way, he got fame, money, girls ... And HE'S A FRAUD. The magic community is laughing at him. The bent spoon is an ultra easy trick. You can do that really simply with shape-memory (don't know the english term for it) material.
A group of french skeptics are offering $20000 to anybody who will be able to bent THEIR spoon, which is placed inside a sealed glass tube, without opening / breaking the tube. Oddly, Uri Fraud Geller never tried to do it!!!!
Indeed. This is called "reactance" in soc psy parlance. I wonder if this is related with the moderator having a sense of authority when they get those magic points. I wonder.
Indeed, it's a poor choice. A much better one would have been the musical condom (US patent # ... I'm too lazy to find it back), soon to be superseded by the TALKING condom (patent pending).
I did'nt call you an idiot. And on top of that, my tone was'nt condescending. So admit your error, and move on. Don't shoot the messenger.
There are telephone systems out in France and Italy,
In case you did'nt read the news properly, those were caused by a major storm that killed about 100 people, destroyed 4000 trees in Versailles, damaged Notre Dame and many buildings in Paris. I can provide pictures as proof if you're into conspiracy theories.
Does any programming language have an UNLESS clause?
Perl does.
"being ridiculous doesn't kill" -- too bad it's true for ACs.
NEdit is the only editor on Unix which combines all the following characteristics:
Too bad it uses Motif ...
You're 100% WRONG - check your facts first. In many parts of Europe you now have greater gun ownership rights than in the USA. Get a CLUE.
Name one.
Okay, here's one: Switzerland. It's due to the military system (where every citiwen is a soldier).
What else? I'm waiting. I'm waiting ... What else?
Here are a few related answers:
Because millions of people have heard of the word "Linux" as opposed to mere thousand who have heard of BSD.
Because non-free Unix is mostly used on corporate systems that have absolutely no use in playing DVD movies. I'm sure you can find a couple exceptions, but they will be just that: exceptions.
I'm sure you can count the people who actually need that on one amputated hand.
Now I have one question for you:
We know you don't like the GPL. Now give us a break.
Note to potential moderators: I choose to speak under my real name; please respect this as my opinion. Thank you.
that contains the DeCSS code. Do I win?
I read the article, ready to jump and write to CNN, only to find that it was'nt that lame -- I've read much lamer actually. They mention the fact that the purpose of DeCSS is to view DVDs on Linux.
For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration!
FYI, there are other countries than the USA, which consider themselves civilized, and more so than the US of A, and which mostly prohibit firearm. All of Europe, for instance.
Besides Americans being more Christian is better than the French being more adulterers.
Well, it's just a blowjob, so it's not adultere, right?
My point is, until it was proven by (among others) the project I mentioned, the idea of open development (bazaar style) was contrary to most of development methodology credos. And I mentioned my own reason why it was problem. Also, having the code is interesting and educational, and so is seeing the development process. For example, I don't contribute to the linux kernel, nor do I have the skills and resources to do so, but I read the linux-kernel mailing list several times a week and learn a lot from it. When you get the resulting code, you've got what eventually works, not what was abandoned for some reason, for instance.
XFree is being developped under the BSD development model -- cathedral style -- and released under a BSD (X) license. The two are not necessarily bound.
Apparently, the XFree developer fear that people start looking at their development sources. I remember, a few years ago, they only made time-bombed binaries available for their beta-version! Given the success that projects like Linux, KDE and Gnome have shown using a completely opposite strategy, we have every reason to believe that such a model would work better.
And no, before someone mentions it, I'm not karma-whoring: I actually considered working on XFree, I was interested in working on TrueType support, which has been since then released. But I could'nt even find a mailing list archive from their site! So I had no way to find out what was being worked on, which issues there was, or who to contact.
My girlfriend's american. My cousin's girlfriend's american. My uncle lives in California. Some of my best friends are american. So yeah, I think I have some clues. ...
Are americans christians? Well much more than the french. French politicians don't bother showing at Church to get good press. When French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin says he's an atheist, nobody thrashes him, unlike Jesse Ventura.
BTW my girlfriend believed the american motto was 'in god we trust' (which was just added on the bills in the 30s I believe), whereas it's 'e pluribus unum' if I'm not mistaken. So
I know one french guy who was fucking freaking out. He 's in an apocalyptic cult, so ... But I know of many more merkins who are freaking out. Oh yeah they'r christians, that's why. When the god you believe in is depicted as such a rude and demanding one ("don't do this! don't do that! do this or you will burn in hell! do NOT look at naked women EVEN if I made you fancy it!"), you can understand it.
Now, Monday, I will give them a ring, "Hey, whassup dude? How's your apocalypse going?"
The roman had no year zero ... but on top of that, ask people in 10AD, they did'nt even know they were in 10AD!!! Therefore, the actual 'zero' is much later ... the new millennium probably start in something like 3210.
Am I the only one to find the smart asses who keep educating you about the fact that 'the new millennium starts in 2001' utterly annoying?
More annoying than Open Source Nathalie Portman and the grits troll ... and even worse: They exist IRL (In Real Life) insted of being limited to slashdot!
There used to be a counter counting down hours / minutes towards year 2000 ... it stopped working at about 18:00 CET ... displaying weird shit. Wonder if it's some hacker ... Imagine that, the panel starts displaying "I'm 3r77t I 0wn y0u!" Whoups, quickly pull out the plug!
If you have a processor that needs to have bytes aligned on a 4 bytes boundary, then you probably have lots of memory to spare. Hint: the C library dates back from a few years ago. At that time, there was no such need for alignment ... and much less memory available.
The only thing that could damage your site as badly as you fear it would be a major nuclear catastrophe. And in that case, I believe that you and your PHBs will have other worries than your fuckin' website.
Because back in year 0, people did'nt even know 0 existed! That's right! They had no idea! It's a bit like, until someone discovered oxygen, people could'nt breath! All hail Lavoisier! /millenn?ium/ must start in 2010!
Now, you may ask, did people in year 10 knew they were in year 10? No, they did'nt! So the
But wait, did people in 863 knew they were in 863? Damn it, probably not, either!
Fuck, that's really much more complicated than I thought!