Often we hear people talk about how "linux isn't ready for desktop". Bah. Nonsense.
I got sick of my friends' and relatives' asking me to help them configure their home computers. I installed SuSE for them and they've found it much easier and more intuitive than Windows XP (I'm not a SuSE fan, but it seems to work for them).
Just goes to show that Linux is ready for the desktop, and Windows XP still has some catching up to do before people like my grandmother can use it as easily as they can use the desktop Linux distros.
The US has tons of problems and our government is neither perfectly transparent nor corruption free. However, to have the gall to compare the government of the US (or Australia, or Belgium, or what have you) to the murderous, thoroughly corrupt regimes that make so much of the 3rd world a living hell is moral blindness of the worst kind.
And you don't have to remind me that the US founded or propped up many of those murderous, thoroughly corrupt regimes. That is true, and we have a grave responsibility to the citizens of those countries. But that still doesn't make it OK to pretend that all nations are equally good. Some are better than others.
I'll put my cards on the table and say I believe that humans have (by nature, God, whatever you choose), fundamental and inalienable rights; these rights are facts regardless of the system of government they live under. All humans have always had those rights. Some political systems recognize those rights better than others. For example, the United States recognizes those rights better than the Syria does. I think it is morally wrong to give Syria the same (or greater) voice on questions of human rights than the US.
Oh please please PLEEEEAAASE let something kill Flash. I would be ecstatic if all these idiotic corporate splash pages were done in a format that MS will never ever port to Linux.
Saying it's the end of Macromedia is pretty dumb, though; Dreamweaver has withstood the suckitude of all its sibling products (think Fireworks), I'm sure it can live through Flash's death also.
Secondly, it's Revelation or if you prefer Apocalypse (which is just Greek for "Revelation"). Books back then didn't have titles, and this one simply comes from the first word of the book.
Thirdly, it's a very thinly-disguised mid-2nd-century political invective about the fall of Rome and Judaism and the establishment of a Christian hegemony in eastern Europe and western Asia, not the end of the world.
Fourthly, in most modern Christian's minds it has been hopelessly confused with Daniel and John's letters (for example, most people you ask will tell you that Revelation mentions the Anti-Christ; it does not. The only biblical references to "antichrist" are in John's letters, and it's "antichrists" not "The Antichrist").
Fifthly, the reference to the sun in Revelation is:
"I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth" (Rev. 6:12)
which is the exact opposite of what the sun is doing right now.
Sixthly and lastly, memorizing books about imaginary tribal deities strikes me as an immense waste of time, but if it works for you, more power to you.
Haiti. Bosnia. Just two that come to mind (I wasn't on either op but detachments from my unit were and, in fact, they brought back the actual flowers the people gave them.
Because in English abstract nouns usually do not receive the definite article [see Mosse -- accent aigu on the "e" but I'm too lazy to look up the escape code -- for a good history of that]. Hence "Man" referring to humanity in general (compare "l'homme" or "ho anthropos"), or in this case "World Peace" referring to the idea of peace in the world.
So now music, movies, and television are blaming file-trading, text-messaging, and gaming, respectively, for their drop in ratings.
Funny how none of the industry wonks are suggesting the obvious answer, that all three industries' ratings are going down because they are dishing out awful, unmitigated shit season after season.
Now, the screwed point comes in that I now can't release this code. If I release it, I have to GPL my modules and my proprietary extensions(which I can't do), or I lose the right to use the underlying code at all due to breech of the GPL.
What are you talking about? Assuming you own the copyright to all the code in question, you can GPL any part of it you wish (distributing your modules with the GPL'd version of the open part might be tricky, but A: there's ways around that and B: you could just as easily only distribute the binary parts with a non-GPL license covering the rest).
Assuming you own all the code in question, you can license any part of it any way you please. The GPL would only start to "infect" your modules if you use someone else's GPL'd contributions and don't seek an alternative license arrangement with that author. Since you are presumably the author of the entire program now, GPL'ing any part of the program doesn't affect the rest of it.
I want to give people the choice to let us use their contributions in proprietary applications.
I'm confused. That's exactly what the GPL gives you. Anyone who contributes to your hypothetical GPL'd version section has the choice of additionally licensing you their contributions for use in your proprietary version.
I doubt many people would unless you paid them, though. But, if all you want is to give people the choice to license their improvements for your proprietary stuff, then use the GPL. What am I missing here?
tobbacco, alchohol, coffee, and chocolate are not addictive to the point that you can't quit it yourself
Riiiiight.... caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol aren't addictive... riiiiight....
Nicotine is probably the most addictive recreational drug out there (most of pot's addictiveness comes from its nicotine content). And if you honestly think alcohol is "not addictive to the point that you can't quit it yourself", you have never met an alcoholic. Alocohol is unbelievably addictive to some people.
The only thing that worries me about drug legalization is the nightmare of RJR and their ilk doing to pot what they did to cigarettes: adding God-knows-what chemicals to make it more addictive. Hopefully there would be organic pot you could by somewhere...
Really? Explain, then, how dll's and console app's can take down the operating system so easily.
I'm not being an ass, I'm actually curious: how can an application or library cause the entire operating system to fail? The only Windows development I've done is a few DLL's for IIS, and they've never caused problems, but I've seen applications BSOD Win95, Win98, Win2k, and WinXP (in fact, AOL BSOD's my friend's W2k computer every single time he signs off). What is going on there? The only time I've ever seen Linux itself crash (as opposed to the app or the X server) was when I did something really, really stupid with a kernel module I was tinkering with.
What are those applications doing to kill the OS, and how is the OS letting them do it? Is Longhorn going to fix whatever this glaring problem is?
Sadly, we run Windows NT. We'd also never get expensive crap like a warrior suit... hell, my deuce-gear was first issued in 1964 according to the supply ticket.
Sure, we got the cool new camouflague that makes us look like the Waffen SS, but as far as cool crap like this, we have to wait 5 years for the Army to get tired of playing with it.
No, but there are legitimage iraq dirs somewhere. Can't find them? Oh, right, they've pasted "Iraq" all over robots.txt so you don't even know what the actual directories they're excluding are.
10 to 1 this is incompetence: if it was intentional, the only explanation is very, very disturbing. Let's hope for incompetence.
Who else is black? I've seen Cassio and Iago played by black actors in different productions, but Othello is the only one specifically referred to as Moorish AFAIK.
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I got sick of my friends' and relatives' asking me to help them configure their home computers. I installed SuSE for them and they've found it much easier and more intuitive than Windows XP (I'm not a SuSE fan, but it seems to work for them).
Just goes to show that Linux is ready for the desktop, and Windows XP still has some catching up to do before people like my grandmother can use it as easily as they can use the desktop Linux distros.
DDOS attacks are usually launched through Windows boxes that have been exploited, for example by worms such as SOBIG.
Eh... I've got to go with Hegel and say there are two instincts that drive humans: survival and self-destruction.
Oh for God's sake...
The US has tons of problems and our government is neither perfectly transparent nor corruption free. However, to have the gall to compare the government of the US (or Australia, or Belgium, or what have you) to the murderous, thoroughly corrupt regimes that make so much of the 3rd world a living hell is moral blindness of the worst kind.
And you don't have to remind me that the US founded or propped up many of those murderous, thoroughly corrupt regimes. That is true, and we have a grave responsibility to the citizens of those countries. But that still doesn't make it OK to pretend that all nations are equally good. Some are better than others.
I'll put my cards on the table and say I believe that humans have (by nature, God, whatever you choose), fundamental and inalienable rights; these rights are facts regardless of the system of government they live under. All humans have always had those rights. Some political systems recognize those rights better than others. For example, the United States recognizes those rights better than the Syria does. I think it is morally wrong to give Syria the same (or greater) voice on questions of human rights than the US.
Oh please please PLEEEEAAASE let something kill Flash. I would be ecstatic if all these idiotic corporate splash pages were done in a format that MS will never ever port to Linux.
Saying it's the end of Macromedia is pretty dumb, though; Dreamweaver has withstood the suckitude of all its sibling products (think Fireworks), I'm sure it can live through Flash's death also.
Ah, but what's the power set of the null set?
Seriously. I can't remember. My last set theory class was years ago...
Wasn't Aberystwyth the castle that Macaulay did his book on?
It's also the name of one of the better hymn tunes out there.
Props to you. I even had a Strong's concordance nearby I could have checked. My bad.
First off: why?
Secondly, it's Revelation or if you prefer Apocalypse (which is just Greek for "Revelation"). Books back then didn't have titles, and this one simply comes from the first word of the book.
Thirdly, it's a very thinly-disguised mid-2nd-century political invective about the fall of Rome and Judaism and the establishment of a Christian hegemony in eastern Europe and western Asia, not the end of the world.
Fourthly, in most modern Christian's minds it has been hopelessly confused with Daniel and John's letters (for example, most people you ask will tell you that Revelation mentions the Anti-Christ; it does not. The only biblical references to "antichrist" are in John's letters, and it's "antichrists" not "The Antichrist").
Fifthly, the reference to the sun in Revelation is:
which is the exact opposite of what the sun is doing right now.Sixthly and lastly, memorizing books about imaginary tribal deities strikes me as an immense waste of time, but if it works for you, more power to you.
Haiti. Bosnia. Just two that come to mind (I wasn't on either op but detachments from my unit were and, in fact, they brought back the actual flowers the people gave them.
Because in English abstract nouns usually do not receive the definite article [see Mosse -- accent aigu on the "e" but I'm too lazy to look up the escape code -- for a good history of that]. Hence "Man" referring to humanity in general (compare "l'homme" or "ho anthropos"), or in this case "World Peace" referring to the idea of peace in the world.
So now music, movies, and television are blaming file-trading, text-messaging, and gaming, respectively, for their drop in ratings.
Funny how none of the industry wonks are suggesting the obvious answer, that all three industries' ratings are going down because they are dishing out awful, unmitigated shit season after season.
"dynamic" DLL's? Is that like the "mips per second" earlier?
What are you talking about? Assuming you own the copyright to all the code in question, you can GPL any part of it you wish (distributing your modules with the GPL'd version of the open part might be tricky, but A: there's ways around that and B: you could just as easily only distribute the binary parts with a non-GPL license covering the rest).
Assuming you own all the code in question, you can license any part of it any way you please. The GPL would only start to "infect" your modules if you use someone else's GPL'd contributions and don't seek an alternative license arrangement with that author. Since you are presumably the author of the entire program now, GPL'ing any part of the program doesn't affect the rest of it.
I'm confused. That's exactly what the GPL gives you. Anyone who contributes to your hypothetical GPL'd version section has the choice of additionally licensing you their contributions for use in your proprietary version.
I doubt many people would unless you paid them, though. But, if all you want is to give people the choice to license their improvements for your proprietary stuff, then use the GPL. What am I missing here?
Dude? Somebody ate a double helping of bile-o's this morning. Relax. Breathe.
I stand by my post: the archiving of publications and management of special collections are done for two main reasons:
As a matter of fact, he is a he.
The LOC pretty much exists for two reasons:
- Writing reports for Congress
- Letting PhD candidates research
His job is to set library policies that further those two goals.Somebody mod that up more
Riiiiight.... caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol aren't addictive... riiiiight....
Nicotine is probably the most addictive recreational drug out there (most of pot's addictiveness comes from its nicotine content). And if you honestly think alcohol is "not addictive to the point that you can't quit it yourself", you have never met an alcoholic. Alocohol is unbelievably addictive to some people.
The only thing that worries me about drug legalization is the nightmare of RJR and their ilk doing to pot what they did to cigarettes: adding God-knows-what chemicals to make it more addictive. Hopefully there would be organic pot you could by somewhere...
Really? Explain, then, how dll's and console app's can take down the operating system so easily.
I'm not being an ass, I'm actually curious: how can an application or library cause the entire operating system to fail? The only Windows development I've done is a few DLL's for IIS, and they've never caused problems, but I've seen applications BSOD Win95, Win98, Win2k, and WinXP (in fact, AOL BSOD's my friend's W2k computer every single time he signs off). What is going on there? The only time I've ever seen Linux itself crash (as opposed to the app or the X server) was when I did something really, really stupid with a kernel module I was tinkering with.
What are those applications doing to kill the OS, and how is the OS letting them do it? Is Longhorn going to fix whatever this glaring problem is?
Dude, that's a 4-digiter you're talking about. Show some respect.
Sadly, we run Windows NT. We'd also never get expensive crap like a warrior suit... hell, my deuce-gear was first issued in 1964 according to the supply ticket.
Sure, we got the cool new camouflague that makes us look like the Waffen SS, but as far as cool crap like this, we have to wait 5 years for the Army to get tired of playing with it.
No, but there are legitimage iraq dirs somewhere. Can't find them? Oh, right, they've pasted "Iraq" all over robots.txt so you don't even know what the actual directories they're excluding are.
10 to 1 this is incompetence: if it was intentional, the only explanation is very, very disturbing. Let's hope for incompetence.
You know, I was thinking there was probably some innocent technical explanation for this. But RTFR.TXT.
I can't think of any honest reason to do that.
Who else is black? I've seen Cassio and Iago played by black actors in different productions, but Othello is the only one specifically referred to as Moorish AFAIK.