so they actually pay some people to introduce fake personalities into the data and then try to pick them out. great! they assume they know exactly what the terrorist's data patterns are going to be
Yes, it's the Biomorph fallacy. Assume your conclusion, spend a great deal of effort winnowing down your data until it fits your scientific conclusion - and then proclaim great scientific success!
Now while the U.S. is falling way behind in engineering and sciences
Funny, I had you down as a laissez-faire right-winger. Congratulations for taking an interest in facts. Was it the threat to your career path that did it for you?
What's more: Am I going to be the only person in this entire fucking slashdot discussion to explicitly bring up the torture at Guatamano Bay and the relative lack of outrage over that? What's with that? Why is it OK to torture one person and not another? Torture is never OK.
It was shut down because it published articles telling its readers to kill Coalition authorities and Iraqi police officers.
Um, no it didn't. I will be charitable (unlike the post I am replying to) and assume you misremembered Bremer's innuendo as if it were factual.
What he actually said:
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...Elsadr gave newspaper officials a letter from the American civilian administrator, L. Paul Bremer, that said the paper published misinformation, including articles blaming terrorist attacks on coalition forces.
"These false articles not only mislead readers but constitute a real threat of violence against coalition forces and Iraqi citizens who cooperate with the coalition in the reconstruction of Iraq," the letter said.
Sheik Mahmood al-Sawdani, a Sadr spokesman, denied that the newspaper had incited violence, and said it was shut down because it "rejects the occupation."
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Emphasis added. Note the weasel words: constituted a threat of violence, not made a [i]literal[/i] threat of violence. By Bremer's twisted logic, the US news media who have published the torture photos "constitute" a threat of violence against US troops. Which of course is nonsense.
Stop trying to apologise for appalling missing features. Gentoo is clearly written by amateurs, for amateurs. If they really want to be taken seriously they will have to put more attention into:
1) Uninstallation, and documenting that
2) Prebuilt binary packages, and documenting that
It depends on how much RAM you have. If you have around 128Mb, it's much slower than if you have around 512Mb.
I'll soon be coding up a more efficient replacement soon, called zuum. It will be at http://www.greenrd.org/sw/zuum/ when it's released. Watch that space...
I happen to think that our stack should use the
best technology available today,
The ECMA CLI may have a few minor improvements over Java 1.5. I don't think any of these are significant. But in any case, that's totally dwarfed by the fact that the Sun JVM is 100% feature-complete, whereas Mono is:
(a) incomplete
(b) destined to be even further behind when Longhorn comes out
and (c) reliant upon Wine, which is also incomplete and buggy.
Well if it is then someone has obviously designed a fully functional compiled language that operates EXACTLY the same way on ALL
architectures even though it goes down to bit level operations. Wow , I'm impressed given that no one else has managed to do that yet.
The clipboard in Linux is really broken due to X limitations
That's a real embarrassment to X.
Now that X.org is becoming a more democratic organisation - and it now controls both the standard and what will probably be the most popular Linux implementation - I hope they will make blowing away these X limitations a top priority.
Even things like home office software have little glory - hence the most viable and *useful* packages like staroffice are sponsored by corporations actually paying people to work on them.
That's a good thing, surely? Corporations get their money-saving MS Office alternative that they want... some open source developers get paid to develop it! Everyone wins!
Hmm... maybe we free software developers should be more lazy - so that corporations are forced to pay us if they want anything significant developed...;o)
They have their priorities right. Without good competitive code, Linux would be nowhere - and Red Hat wouldn't be getting contracts worth thousands to millions of dollars from fortune 500 companies.
Debian, true to the free software philosophy is the dark horse, and I'm not entirely convinced that it is due to UI ease of use issues.
Common misconception. Debian hosts lots more non-free and dependending-on-non-free (aka "contrib") software than Fedora (the free redhat distro) ever will.
I'm not entirely convinced that it is due to UI ease of use issues.
You can do both purely functional and imperative programming with Haskell.
Yes, you can. Which is why, surely, it is incorrect to describe Haskell as a language which doesn't have x=x+1. Surely, the truth is, it forces you to do x=x+1 in a different way, and dissuades you from doing it at all. But you can still use imperative style if you really need to.
The people who say that Haskell does not permit imperativeness are really lying.
The licensing fiasco was an illegal license change (Who ever asked Alan Cox whether his XFree86 patches could be relicensed? No-one.) and could happen with any free software with arrogant maintainers. It has nothing specifically to do with X11 which is a protocol as you'd find out if you actually bothered to read this fucking thread.
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Yes, it's the Biomorph fallacy. Assume your conclusion, spend a great deal of effort winnowing down your data until it fits your scientific conclusion - and then proclaim great scientific success!
Funny, I had you down as a laissez-faire right-winger. Congratulations for taking an interest in facts. Was it the threat to your career path that did it for you?
What's more: Am I going to be the only person in this entire fucking slashdot discussion to explicitly bring up the torture at Guatamano Bay and the relative lack of outrage over that? What's with that? Why is it OK to torture one person and not another? Torture is never OK.
Um, no it didn't. I will be charitable (unlike the post I am replying to) and assume you misremembered Bremer's innuendo as if it were factual. What he actually said:
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"These false articles not only mislead readers but constitute a real threat of violence against coalition forces and Iraqi citizens who cooperate with the coalition in the reconstruction of Iraq," the letter said.
Sheik Mahmood al-Sawdani, a Sadr spokesman, denied that the newspaper had incited violence, and said it was shut down because it "rejects the occupation."
---
Emphasis added. Note the weasel words: constituted a threat of violence, not made a [i]literal[/i] threat of violence. By Bremer's twisted logic, the US news media who have published the torture photos "constitute" a threat of violence against US troops. Which of course is nonsense.
Hey, printer issues have some serious pedigree, man. Richard Stallman was moved to start the Free Software Movement over a printer issue!
Oh, only that little thing. Who uses X these days? That won't harm adoption at all!
1) Uninstallation, and documenting that
2) Prebuilt binary packages, and documenting that
Until then, I'm not interested.
Anyone can write their own classloader. If you wanted a different one so badly, why didn't you write it?
The main purpose of it was to enforce region-encoding. Which is monopolistic.
I'll soon be coding up a more efficient replacement soon, called zuum. It will be at http://www.greenrd.org/sw/zuum/ when it's released. Watch that space...
The ECMA CLI may have a few minor improvements over Java 1.5. I don't think any of these are significant. But in any case, that's totally dwarfed by the fact that the Sun JVM is 100% feature-complete, whereas Mono is:
(a) incomplete
(b) destined to be even further behind when Longhorn comes out
and (c) reliant upon Wine, which is also incomplete and buggy.
Java does that, ignorant fool.
What's that? Java's not compiled, you say?
What do you call Hotspot then?
That's a real embarrassment to X.
Now that X.org is becoming a more democratic organisation - and it now controls both the standard and what will probably be the most popular Linux implementation - I hope they will make blowing away these X limitations a top priority.
That's a good thing, surely? Corporations get their money-saving MS Office alternative that they want ... some open source developers get paid to develop it! Everyone wins!
Hmm... maybe we free software developers should be more lazy - so that corporations are forced to pay us if they want anything significant developed... ;o)
Common misconception. Debian hosts lots more non-free and dependending-on-non-free (aka "contrib") software than Fedora (the free redhat distro) ever will.
I'm not entirely convinced that it is due to UI ease of use issues.
I am.
Kudos! I don't see that very often from libertarians.
Yes, you can. Which is why, surely, it is incorrect to describe Haskell as a language which doesn't have x=x+1. Surely, the truth is, it forces you to do x=x+1 in a different way, and dissuades you from doing it at all. But you can still use imperative style if you really need to.
The people who say that Haskell does not permit imperativeness are really lying.
It's not terribly hard to understand, really. Do I have to talk as if to a baby to explain it?
And by the way, Europe happens to have a larger economy than the US, anyway.
What idiotic advice. Yeah, let's reinvent the wheel 10,000 times to avoid support costs.
How about let's write a dependency manager program that works and use that.