Are Captain's Quarters, Pajama's Media and Little Green Footballs "across the political spectrum?" All three are so far to the right they make most American Republicans look like Trotskyites.
Abramoff's clients did indeed donate to Democrats. But they donated to Democrats before they hired Abramoff. What's interesting is that after they hired Abramoff their donations to Republicans went way, way up and their donations to Democrats went down.
I've never downloaded it and yet it's installed on every computer I own. I know several other people this is true of as well. Essentially everyone who uses a modern linux distro uses firefox and I bet a vast majority never download it.
The OpenCD and similar projects probably do the same for many windows users.
And lastly corporate users usually have a central location for getting software. I highly doubt a company that requires firefox would have all their users download it.
no, but it's not all that hard if you have half a clue.
there was a bug in the lp driver a while back. it's polling loop had a backoff algorithm that doubled the time it waited between polls, but it never lowered that time.
it emitted a log message that i could see in the syslog. a simple find + xargs + grep + syslog message got me within a few dozen lines of the bug. i wrote a patch and the problem was fixed - my printer went from 1 page a day to a few pages a minute.
sadly it would have been simpler to do google + syslog message: the bug had been found several months before.
in general though kernel programming isn't magical. it's just plain c at the end of the day. at least the vast majority of it is.
These damn announcemnts have been popping up for nearly a decade now! Put them in a fecking laptop already and we can finally have a laptop with decent battery life.
Who is this Linus guy anyway? I bet he's never managed a software project of any complexity.
Personally I've found specs to be incredibly useful. I'm currently developing a middleware project that takes a complex search pattern and applies it to a streams of delimited character objects and while our team of 40 software software engineers has yet to actually start developing we've produced a fantastic spec that will greatly simplify coding it.
I suspect we'll have this general regular expression parser up in running in less than 80 man years of effort thanks to our full and detailed specs.
now there are less biased documentaries, but anything of substance is going to be biased. regardless of what you whether you agree with him (and really, who thinks that's a good measure of quality?), michael moore makes documentaries that get people thinking and talking.
sadly too many people don't think very deeply so a lot of the talking is about stupid things - ie gossipy chatter about michael moore, insipid drivel about "objective" documentaries and calling it an "anti-gun" documentary.
happily some folks discuss the role of journalism and the media in society and what effects it has on society. and that in my mind is one of the great things to come from both bfc and f911.
sadly a majority of americans disagree with you. and even though she's doing this i'm sure right wing radio is saying the "sex thing" in "that video game" is all the work of liberals.
republican pennsylvania senator rick santorum blamed all the liberals in boston for the ***worldwide*** church abuse scandals. blaming liberals for something dumb in a video game is downright sane compared to that one.
there are morals. there is the law. they are different things.
companies follow the law not morality. one part of corporate law is that they are answerable to their shareholders. ignoring a market with 1 billion people in it will not go down well with those shareholders.
if you don't like this then either change the law or don't encourage transferring power from government to corporations.
and of course since iraq has cost over $200 billion and baghdad isn't close to being rebuilt, even the quote on face value is incorrect.
heck, even before the war when conservatives were saying the war in iraq would only cost a few billion, that was several multiples more than jackson has been paid.
ok, so do you participate in republican primaries? do you work with your local republican party? there are non-scary republicans out there and they could use more liberal and moderate republican support.
or are you going to sit back and hope for some magical third-party that you also aren't going to do any work for?
the democratic party isn't a thing. it's a group made up of the people who actually care enough to do anything. have you attended a state or county democratic meeting? have you done more then sit and bitch and take the time to vote once every two to four years? do you vote in democratic primary elections?
if you don't like complacent out-of-touch dems then would you mind getting off your hump and giving us a hand? i've traveled from ireland to amsterdam and toronto to participate in dems abroad meetings as well as across the country to dublin to participate in our local dems abroad ireland group. i suspect your local democratic party meets a fair bit closer than mine does.
so please do complain about the problems in the democratic party. but would you mind actually doing something as well?
dems stood up against power hunger redistricting in texas. for that they lost five seats.
currently in polls dems are seen as weak on national security. when election time comes, any of them who voted against the spending bill for iraq would be hung with it. and then a republican would come in and then the gop could pass even more noxious legislation.
numerous democratic senators spoke out against this bill. did you see them speak out against it? it was on cspan-2.
i suspect you didn't - like 99% of america.
what are their other options to speak out against the bill? cable news was too busy covering the runaway bride. right-wing talk radio wouldn't let a liberal get more than two sentences in a row out without screaming them down. sure, they could get into newspapers but then you're back to the cspan2 audience.
"I see him as what is wrong the with the Democratic party. Full of venom, hate, and far to the left. I think he'll move the party even more to the left than they already are (which, in my opinion, is why they lost the elections recently, they are too far from center). I know other Republicans who share this view."
governor dean governed the state of vermont for a number of years. feel free to look over his record during that time and explain what part of it is "far to the left."
while you're at it, please let us know what his position on gun control is, his rating from the nra is and what his position on the death penalty is.
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"I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you."
Just thought I'd point out that Kos is a lawyer...
Are Captain's Quarters, Pajama's Media and Little Green Footballs "across the political spectrum?" All three are so far to the right they make most American Republicans look like Trotskyites.
Russ Feingold didn't. And many Democrats who passed the PATRIOT Act are facing challengers in part due to that vote.
You could even help them win.
Unless you'd rather just grouse.
Abramoff's clients did indeed donate to Democrats. But they donated to Democrats before they hired Abramoff. What's interesting is that after they hired Abramoff their donations to Republicans went way, way up and their donations to Democrats went down.
I've never downloaded it and yet it's installed on every computer I own. I know several other people this is true of as well. Essentially everyone who uses a modern linux distro uses firefox and I bet a vast majority never download it.
The OpenCD and similar projects probably do the same for many windows users.
And lastly corporate users usually have a central location for getting software. I highly doubt a company that requires firefox would have all their users download it.
"Maintenance coding is NOT simple."
no, but it's not all that hard if you have half a clue.
there was a bug in the lp driver a while back. it's polling loop had a backoff algorithm that doubled the time it waited between polls, but it never lowered that time.
it emitted a log message that i could see in the syslog. a simple find + xargs + grep + syslog message got me within a few dozen lines of the bug. i wrote a patch and the problem was fixed - my printer went from 1 page a day to a few pages a minute.
sadly it would have been simpler to do google + syslog message: the bug had been found several months before.
in general though kernel programming isn't magical. it's just plain c at the end of the day. at least the vast majority of it is.
These damn announcemnts have been popping up for nearly a decade now! Put them in a fecking laptop already and we can finally have a laptop with decent battery life.
"Do you think Apple should start following Microsoft's model by rating vulnerabilities and patches?"
Yes, because when I think "secure software," I immediately think of Microsoft.
Who is this Linus guy anyway? I bet he's never managed a software project of any complexity.
Personally I've found specs to be incredibly useful. I'm currently developing a middleware project that takes a complex search pattern and applies it to a streams of delimited character objects and while our team of 40 software software engineers has yet to actually start developing we've produced a fantastic spec that will greatly simplify coding it.
I suspect we'll have this general regular expression parser up in running in less than 80 man years of effort thanks to our full and detailed specs.
very few. and those who have tend to spend that money on the care they get.
but please don't let such pesky facts interfere with your mindless beliefs in right-wing talking points.
...the court systems are there to beat people up with.
thank you.
there are objective documentaries?
now there are less biased documentaries, but anything of substance is going to be biased. regardless of what you whether you agree with him (and really, who thinks that's a good measure of quality?), michael moore makes documentaries that get people thinking and talking.
sadly too many people don't think very deeply so a lot of the talking is about stupid things - ie gossipy chatter about michael moore, insipid drivel about "objective" documentaries and calling it an "anti-gun" documentary.
happily some folks discuss the role of journalism and the media in society and what effects it has on society. and that in my mind is one of the great things to come from both bfc and f911.
extreme homosexuality? is that like being gay while skateboarding off cliffs?
sadly a majority of americans disagree with you. and even though she's doing this i'm sure right wing radio is saying the "sex thing" in "that video game" is all the work of liberals.
republican pennsylvania senator rick santorum blamed all the liberals in boston for the ***worldwide*** church abuse scandals. blaming liberals for something dumb in a video game is downright sane compared to that one.
there are morals. there is the law. they are different things.
companies follow the law not morality. one part of corporate law is that they are answerable to their shareholders. ignoring a market with 1 billion people in it will not go down well with those shareholders.
if you don't like this then either change the law or don't encourage transferring power from government to corporations.
and of course since iraq has cost over $200 billion and baghdad isn't close to being rebuilt, even the quote on face value is incorrect.
heck, even before the war when conservatives were saying the war in iraq would only cost a few billion, that was several multiples more than jackson has been paid.
ok, so do you participate in republican primaries? do you work with your local republican party? there are non-scary republicans out there and they could use more liberal and moderate republican support.
or are you going to sit back and hope for some magical third-party that you also aren't going to do any work for?
have you done anything about it?
the democratic party isn't a thing. it's a group made up of the people who actually care enough to do anything. have you attended a state or county democratic meeting? have you done more then sit and bitch and take the time to vote once every two to four years? do you vote in democratic primary elections?
if you don't like complacent out-of-touch dems then would you mind getting off your hump and giving us a hand? i've traveled from ireland to amsterdam and toronto to participate in dems abroad meetings as well as across the country to dublin to participate in our local dems abroad ireland group. i suspect your local democratic party meets a fair bit closer than mine does.
so please do complain about the problems in the democratic party. but would you mind actually doing something as well?
they tried that. and they lost the election.
dems stood up against power hunger redistricting in texas. for that they lost five seats.
currently in polls dems are seen as weak on national security. when election time comes, any of them who voted against the spending bill for iraq would be hung with it. and then a republican would come in and then the gop could pass even more noxious legislation.
numerous democratic senators spoke out against this bill. did you see them speak out against it? it was on cspan-2.
i suspect you didn't - like 99% of america.
what are their other options to speak out against the bill? cable news was too busy covering the runaway bride. right-wing talk radio wouldn't let a liberal get more than two sentences in a row out without screaming them down. sure, they could get into newspapers but then you're back to the cspan2 audience.
"I see him as what is wrong the with the Democratic party. Full of venom, hate, and far to the left. I think he'll move the party even more to the left than they already are (which, in my opinion, is why they lost the elections recently, they are too far from center). I know other Republicans who share this view."
governor dean governed the state of vermont for a number of years. feel free to look over his record during that time and explain what part of it is "far to the left."
while you're at it, please let us know what his position on gun control is, his rating from the nra is and what his position on the death penalty is.
thanks.
now to reform the democratic party!
i'm just curious, when you suck down that much right-wing spin (regardless of your own political views), do you get dizzy?
yes, yes, but not by the standards of a vast amount of your fellow americans. i know, it's scary as hell, but there you go.
"What does Oracle's stubbornness imply for the industry as a whole, with multicore chips coming to the fore so strongly?"
more marketshare.