If "hollywood" can say anything they want, then maybe, oh I dunno, parents will have to take some responsibility over what they allow their children to watch?
As an emacs user, I frankly couldn't care how long there is between releases of "stable" versions.
Emacs is 31 years old, guys. Looking at its history,
version 18 went from 1986 to 1993; version 19 was from 1993 to 1997; version 20 was 1997 to 2001.
Six years is not that big of a deal, particularly since minor releases have been coming out since then.
The problem as pointed out in the article is that the release version was frozen for three years,
during which time no new code could go in but the code was also not released, which was frustrating
for some developers. (Again, as an emacs user, I'm playing a tiny violin.)
This kind of argument "but hey, it just the end of the world we're talking about" is called FUD. It's used to get people to buy MS products, drum up wars against terrorists, and so on. The last time the earth got hit hard, apparently, was millions of years ago. As of a few hundred years ago nobody even realized that, and if an asteroid was going to randomly hit us, it just as well could've done so already. So let's not overreact now. I personally don't want to live my life constantly freaking out about everything the universe throws at us. These loud extremist types get control over everything we do, and make everyone's lives worse than before.
The analogy with America's war of independence is pretty weak. Yes, there were other nations fighting with us against the British,
but they didn't invade the country, take out the government, then try to hand the government over to the "patriots", did they?
I think that is the entire explanation. They have smart people, and they put
an effort into producing something of quality. The normal news channels, on the other
hand, are interested in presenting news in a way that appeals to as many people
as possible, by putting the least amount of effort into it as possible. Just like
websites or anything else, content is what matters.
There's a billboard here
that says "Elegance is in the details". That's exactly right; anything of quality,
you have to work on it, like a work of art.
I'm like this to a certain extent. My INBOX (in Pine) currently has 35 messages.
Sometimes it has up to 50 or 60, sometimes 20. I clean it out occasionally.
I keep new messages that I haven't replied to yet, the latest useful messages
from "active" threads, and some messages kind of as reminders to do something.
Like one message I have is from June 2005; that's to remind me to do that task
some day (move a database over to a new server:) ).
My INBOX is mostly for work, with some personal emails, a few spams.
I have a 'personal' folder for emails from people I regularly get emails from;
those are automatically put in that folder by procmail. I have a 'backup' folder
that all messages are automatically saved to; I manually archive that folder
every few weeks. Pine also has a 'sent-mail' folder that messages I send are
automatically saved to; pine also automatically archives that. All the archived
folders are saved into an archive folder. The remaining folders are those specific
to mailing lists, which again procmail handles forwarding to.
Recently I'm becoming concerned about the volume of information that I'm trying
to deal with, as some people said my replies are sometimes terse and rude.
Or maybe I'm just terse and rude. But anyway I've unsubscribed from some lists,
and I don't worry about immediately replying to emails. I also skim headlines
in news more rather than actually READING EVERYTHING.
It's really insulting that they use being "at war" to justify things like the Patriot Act,
while at the same time they use Congress time on something as trivial as video games ratings.
I did this exact same thing with an application with 132 database tables,
connecting them by foreign_key and so on. It didn't really give me a much
better grasp on it than I already had, though. It's just a lot of information
to digest (mine was only 20 pages - maybe I needed to make it bigger).
It seems that, if the thousands of techies have a problem with training their replacements,
that they should consider organizing to stop working. Maybe this company is saving $100 million
as they claim they are. How much would they lose if a thousand techies immediately quit?
How much severance are we talking, anyway?
I'd be surprised if many of the people here claiming to know what's in the Chinese peoples' best interest
have a better than foggy idea of what real, actual Chinese people think about it. I think there's no more
important perspective than that of the Chinese people, and I get kind of annoyed seeing people saying
"the Chinese people don't want that" or "what the Chinese people really need is this", when I feel that
they don't actually know, or probably really even care, what real Chinese people think.
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I'm sure that there have been plenty of others during the decades after WWII who had similar ideas, too...
If "hollywood" can say anything they want, then maybe, oh I dunno, parents will have to take some responsibility over what they allow their children to watch?
As an emacs user, I frankly couldn't care how long there is between releases of "stable" versions. Emacs is 31 years old, guys. Looking at its history, version 18 went from 1986 to 1993; version 19 was from 1993 to 1997; version 20 was 1997 to 2001. Six years is not that big of a deal, particularly since minor releases have been coming out since then.
The problem as pointed out in the article is that the release version was frozen for three years, during which time no new code could go in but the code was also not released, which was frustrating for some developers. (Again, as an emacs user, I'm playing a tiny violin.)
I guess you mean, don't end up a project that has been existence for several decades longer than most others?
Maybe why companies aren't interested in doing that, is because so many people like you don't "step through" to Linux.
LOL, you sound like an idiot.
What are you basing that non sequitur on?
And why can pro-lifers picket people going into an abortion clinic?
This kind of argument "but hey, it just the end of the world we're talking about" is called FUD. It's used to get people to buy MS products, drum up wars against terrorists, and so on. The last time the earth got hit hard, apparently, was millions of years ago. As of a few hundred years ago nobody even realized that, and if an asteroid was going to randomly hit us, it just as well could've done so already. So let's not overreact now. I personally don't want to live my life constantly freaking out about everything the universe throws at us. These loud extremist types get control over everything we do, and make everyone's lives worse than before.
In other news, the largest ever seal was clubbed.... I mean, really, why do I want to hear this?
The analogy with America's war of independence is pretty weak. Yes, there were other nations fighting with us against the British, but they didn't invade the country, take out the government, then try to hand the government over to the "patriots", did they?
When will we get lasers writing directly on our retinas so we can look at whatever screen size we want?
I think that is the entire explanation. They have smart people, and they put an effort into producing something of quality. The normal news channels, on the other hand, are interested in presenting news in a way that appeals to as many people as possible, by putting the least amount of effort into it as possible. Just like websites or anything else, content is what matters.
There's a billboard here that says "Elegance is in the details". That's exactly right; anything of quality, you have to work on it, like a work of art.
The reason Bush and friends are sending our economy to the middle ages is so the jobs will come back.
I'm like this to a certain extent. My INBOX (in Pine) currently has 35 messages. Sometimes it has up to 50 or 60, sometimes 20. I clean it out occasionally. I keep new messages that I haven't replied to yet, the latest useful messages from "active" threads, and some messages kind of as reminders to do something. Like one message I have is from June 2005; that's to remind me to do that task some day (move a database over to a new server :) ).
My INBOX is mostly for work, with some personal emails, a few spams. I have a 'personal' folder for emails from people I regularly get emails from; those are automatically put in that folder by procmail. I have a 'backup' folder that all messages are automatically saved to; I manually archive that folder every few weeks. Pine also has a 'sent-mail' folder that messages I send are automatically saved to; pine also automatically archives that. All the archived folders are saved into an archive folder. The remaining folders are those specific to mailing lists, which again procmail handles forwarding to.
Recently I'm becoming concerned about the volume of information that I'm trying to deal with, as some people said my replies are sometimes terse and rude. Or maybe I'm just terse and rude. But anyway I've unsubscribed from some lists, and I don't worry about immediately replying to emails. I also skim headlines in news more rather than actually READING EVERYTHING.
It's really insulting that they use being "at war" to justify things like the Patriot Act, while at the same time they use Congress time on something as trivial as video games ratings.
I did this exact same thing with an application with 132 database tables, connecting them by foreign_key and so on. It didn't really give me a much better grasp on it than I already had, though. It's just a lot of information to digest (mine was only 20 pages - maybe I needed to make it bigger).
Seriously. After about 5 seconds of skimming I concluded that it wasn't in fact an "extremely funny" article at all.
Were all the typos and misspellings in your post to avoid getting detected... by them?
Sue a company called "Firestarter" into Oblivion ?
Is this on slashdot because digg is down ?
Or more precisely, "stop changing APIs without notice".
And then you wonder why politicians are phony assholes.
It seems that, if the thousands of techies have a problem with training their replacements, that they should consider organizing to stop working. Maybe this company is saving $100 million as they claim they are. How much would they lose if a thousand techies immediately quit? How much severance are we talking, anyway?
I'd be surprised if many of the people here claiming to know what's in the Chinese peoples' best interest have a better than foggy idea of what real, actual Chinese people think about it. I think there's no more important perspective than that of the Chinese people, and I get kind of annoyed seeing people saying "the Chinese people don't want that" or "what the Chinese people really need is this", when I feel that they don't actually know, or probably really even care, what real Chinese people think.
I'm tired of movies.