You'll never have to worry about finding help with new software, either. By time Debian releases the distro, all the questions you'll come up with have already been answered. You'll have to check last years archives, but all the questions and answers are there.
Dont blame Mandrake (or any linux distro) for not being able to open MS Office docs, blame Microsoft for refusing to port it. Which, its seems, they can't. Probably because it has been coded specifically to Windows. So, I guess Windows sucks as an OS, because it cant run my bash shell scripts.
What you are describing is basic xenophobia. People dont like it because they perceive that they have less functionality. When in reality, they dont like it because they dont understand it because it is different. The average consumer displays a disgusting amount of fear of having a computer that is different. I feel no need to encourage this.
And to the die hard MS Supporters(tm), no, the Gov't shouldn't force MS to port Office, the consumer should. The Gov't should just punish MS for obviously abusing a monopoly.
I sure hope the farmers in the Midwest can still get to sleep at night.
I mean, just think, some of the food they grew was used to nourish terrorists. Probably a good portion of it. Plus some help from other farmers across the US. Hell, some of it probably made it to Afghanistan where it is nourishing our "enemies" (Insert your definition of who is our enemy).
Just think. If they wouldn't have grown that food, all those terrorists would have starved to death. It could have been so simple to stop them. If we just wouldn't have given them food, they wouldn't have lived much more that... what a month? Or they would be too weakened to fight even a single "infidel American".
Bah. Farmers. Terrorist sympathizers all of them.
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While that was satire, people like tmark should think a bit more before blaming anything other than the terrorists and the organizations that support them directly. Its as if they are saying:
In a world without encryption
Terrorist #1: Hey. We should take down those tall-ass towers they always brag about in New York.
Terrorist #2: That sounds groovy.
Terrorist #1: Lets start planning.
Terrorist #2: How will we communicate? If we use the phone system, the corrupt FBI (or ATF, CIA, NSA: pick your favorite scapegoat) will just tap the lines!
Terrorist #1: Oh. Dammit. You are right.
Terrorist #2: We are doomed to failure!
Terrorist #1: How about we just scowl at some tourists instead?
Terrorist #2: Ha! That will teach these Americans!
No. They will just find another way. Terrorists aren't stupid or insane. There are many ways to communicate securely over an normal medium. Encryption just lets you communicate normally over a secure medium.
And I bet the terrorists used English to order the crew around. Lets ban the teaching of English to non-Americans. (This would probably mean that we should exterminate everyone in UK, and all Enligsh teachers/professors).
If the engineers wouldn't have built buildings so tall, the terrorists would have had more trouble crashing into them.
Plus, there would have been a significantly lower loss of life, if someone would have decided, instead of using the towers for office space, to use it for something involving less people, say, cinder-block storage.
The same for planes? Who decided to use them to transport people? Again, if we only used planes to ship block ice, we wouldn't have this problem. Who wouldn't notice those ice blocks in the shape of terrorists.
And airline engineers: Who decided that pilots should be humans. We should have used Llamas, since llamas dont speak English (which is the most common language of terrorists in the US), they couldn't be ordered around, plus they can get very aggressive, and spitting is bad for avionics. We could just launch the planes with catapults (or, perhaps, the worlds largest trebuchet?). I mean, who cares? Its only carrying block ice and llamas. Whats it going to hit? The World Cinder-Block Center?
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And I'm sure that the terrorists kept secrets. Lets prohibit secrets. Starting with you. What's your real name?
I dont mean to insult you, but just look at what you are saying...
Its like buying a heatsink fan, but opening the box and finding out:
It is prohibited to use SuperDuper Heatsink Fan in any device running Microsoft Software.
Or should SuperDuper, Corp be allowed to specify your behavior?
By purchasing this car, you void all rights to complain about it
By eating McDonalds(tm) food, you must, when asked, enthusiastically say you enjoyed it.
By opening this can of Pepsi, you are affirming your agreement to never agree to or advocate the sale of any Coke product.
Ownership of this Dell(tm) Computer requires that you never attempt to point out flaws with the US Government
Please note that your Adobe e-Book(tm) license may be revoked if you are ever found to have thought about decrypting said e-Book. Furthermore, any attempts to complain to Adobe will result in not only the revocation of all e-Book licenses, but a prohibition against obtaining new e-Book licenses for a period not less than 2 (solar) years.
Hiroshima: This was a terrible tragedy. However, it was also a decisive momenent in a war. Lets not ever forget that it was a war started by Japan. It was avoidable. Japan did not plan to surrender. It was fighting for honor. I have no doubt that if the US would have invaded Japan, every last person killed in that bombing would have become a Japanese soldier. If you truly believe that a land invasion of Japan would have resulted in less deaths, then perhaps your opinion is valid. However, Japan never seemed to care about enemy casualties.
Nagasaki: See above. They knew it was coming. But they refused to surrender. At least one documentary I've seen said there was one last bomb left (unassembled).
Vietnam: Many innocent people were killed on both sides. But who is to say who is an innocent in such wars. If you are protecting a soldier, but not actually fighting, does that make you innocent? If so, we should just walk into wars behind our women and children. Then we can complain about all the innocents our enemies kill. Its was not the nation's best moment in history. But I dont see you condemning anyone else.
Kosovo: Similar to Vietnam. I suppose you think we should have just stayed out of it, and watched people die. Thats much more humane. Then we would be the rich Americans who never help.
Basra: This was killing innocent people? I'm sorry, but in my opinion, if you invade a neighboring country, and then someone finally gets pissed and starts taking it back, if you grab all the loot you can and run away, you have lost the right to call yourself a civilian, much less innocent.
Indonesia: Yeah. Indonesia said: "Hey. Can we have guns so we can commit an atrocity?" and the US said: "Sure. Here ya go". Rather simplistic, dont you think? And I'm sure if they would have had no support from the US it wouldn't have happened. They would have just sat there: "D'oh. No guns. Hey wanna be friends instead?"
People want to think that war should be so simple. War sucks. Notice, that none of these incidents were started by the US. Vietnam was certainly escalated by the US, but there were Vietnamese people who actually wanted help. Also, in none of these actions did the US specifically target civilian populations. Check your facts: Hiroshima and Nagasaki were making war munitions. Stuff that was being used to kill people.
I've seen many discussions about how the US could have been nicer in the past. It seems to me that we could have avoided all of this with an isolationist policy. That seemed to work nicely.
So what do you think we should do. Sure. Lets stop supporting Israel. And lets ignore it when their neighbors invade them. I'm sure all the islamic countries in the area will completely avoid killing Israeli civilians. And we'll let Iraq invade Kuwait again. And Saudi Arabia, eventually. It would be cool to have a huge portion of the worlds oil reserves controlled by a ruthless dictator. But at least he never attacks civilians!
However, I digress. Still, give me an example of one instance of the US attacking a non-military target. You can claim that Vietnam was one large non-military target, but that is just avoiding the question. Nagasaki and Hiroshima dont really count, and it would be smart of you to remember that Kobe was the obvious first choice for a bombing, but it was deemed "too civilian in nature" being a local center of culture.
Find one. A deliberate attack on civilians. Something similar to say... using biological weapons on citizens who disagree with you? And dont forget to ask why the US did any of this. Why hasn't Denmark done such things? Or Sweden? Because the US does it for them. They never asked, but they benefit nonetheless. I am happy to know that hobbits in Denmark dont have to think of such things. I would happily fight wars to make sure that they can live without having to remember terrible things like Hiroshima and Vietnam.
I live in DC. Yes, cell phones switches were flooded. Yes, Dept. of Energy was evacuated relatively soon. However, "next to the Capitol" must mean "a few blocks from the Capitol". If he took a train out of town, then walked to Georgetown, he would actually be going back into town. Georgetown is in Washington. He would have been walking back toward the threat. Plus, Georgetown is closer to the Pentagon then he started.
And in my experiences (not news or second hand accounts) everyone remained rather orderly (except those immediately involved with the attack). And while I have heard the F-16s, but only saw them once. I can guarantee they certainly arent "looming".
It was odd here. Eeerie. But not nearly so melodramatic as this post suggests. Everyone was shocked but generally calm. There was a greater sense of purpose. Everyone just wanted to go home, go someplace safe, and get out of the way.
Means: I am ignoring your point. To me, only my view is valid.
Life must just be full of disappointments for you.
Means: Since the only way I could acknowledge your comment would involve me admitting that it was me that had trouble reading it, I have instead chosen to insult you in the hopes that you will feel bad. The thought that I have hurt you helps to cover the inadequacies I feel as a reader.
No it isn't - metaphor is a comparison between unlike objects. When you read you look at a work so looking at a work through a prism isn't metaphorical, merely confused. A metaphor would have been something like "Offers a worthy new dish at the feast." assuming that it is a good book, of course.
Means: I have been caught in a gray area of the english language. Since it is apparent to me that my original comment was stupid, I have instead switched my argument to something that makes it sound like I know what I am talking about.
Not that it particularly matters, but the standard of JKs writing is poor for a professional, particularly considering the weighty topics he chooses, and this broken metaphor was one of the better bad examples he has produced; a 50cc engine in a 10 tonne truck indeed.
Means: I attempted to make myself popular by bashing Jon Katz and it has seemed to backfire. I shall attack him personally now, hoping to reclaim some of my self respect.
I was pretty sure, but I believe that Christopher Tolkien actually said that the language of the Rohirrim is actually untranslated Anglo-Saxon (or OE? dunno the difference) in the same or similar style as Beowulf.
But, in reality, you are the Linguistics expert, I'm just the novice.
Also, the writing was done by someone who was obviously a linguist. In other words, he used fancy language because they knew how, not because it made sense that the characters spoke that way.
Then you didn't understand what was going on. Tolkien used language to help convey information about relationships between characters. If you didn't catch the differences in speech between the elves and Aragorn, then I think you wanted the characters to be flat. I caught that when I was in 6th grad.
He could have been blunt and used dialogue to do this same thing, and then everyone who never wanted to actually think would have no problem seeing what everyone else does
Aragorn: I am called Aragorn. Frodo: Should I trust you? I'm normally very trusting and friendly, as a rule. But I'm mostly scared now. I feel that I should act conservatively until I know who you are. Aragorn: If you will notice, I do look and act rather like someone you should not trust. However, I am not like most people you have met. I have a secret, but I dont wish to tell you yet. Frodo: I feel cautious. But I'll trust you because I am normally very trusting and friendly. Aragorn: Very good. I'm actually all noble and stuff. A right honorable chap.
Now, some people want shallow dialogue like that. Personally, I prefer the more subtle approach. I caught the difference in Aragorn's speech and everyone elses. I knew he was important.
Language was one of the main tools that Tolkien used to provide information about characters, and you completely missed it. Read it again, pay attention to the language, and your "flat" characters will turn out to be a bit more interesting.
They never put me under an NDA, so I assume this is public:
They are actually doing quite a bit of work porting linux to the iSeries (AS/400) and pSeries (RS/3000 et al). They are writing libraries that allow Linux applications to run on AIX.
One of their biggest projects is helping to fix/improve SMP support in Linux, and hopefully make it reach the point where it can handle the 24 processor systems they want to put it on. This includes improving I/O, and memory management, and handling large numbers of simultaneous processes.
These are things that Linux does okay on, but the power, resources and money that IBM is willing to put into it will help poor Open Source developers quite a bit.
The best part: They are releasing the code they write back to the community. They are actually helping. I think this is what you wanted to here. IBM is on our side. (in this case)
Source: I interviewed for one of the positions which would be porting Linux to the AS/400, now sadly named the iSeries. I didn't take it though. Don't be mad at me.
widely recognized as one of the finest public education institutions in the United States
Huh?
You got a bachelors degree from a community college, and now you pass yourself off as a scientist? I figured it was standard to at least finish a masters before declaring that.
Quoting some Minnesotan friends of mine:
Morris? It's not a
bad school.
Now I would have ignored you if you said you were from Fergus Falls, and chuckled at a poor decision if you were from Moorhead. If you were from the Twin Cities campus I would have actually respected you, but you are from Morris.
Note to others: UM Morris is a small, small school. Its not recognized for a great Chemistry program. Most serious chemistry students head to UM Twin Cities, UIowa, or possibly NDSU. In fact, I don't know anything that is widely recognized about UM Morris.
Star Wars: A New Hope is Episode 4 (IV for educated people)
It's spelled Alderaan
Alderaan is not a major center of the Empire
The princess is not the princess of the Empire, as you imply. She is the "daughter" of the "King" (actually a Senator)
Alderaan is a "key planet" of the rebellion.
There is no Empirial homeworld. There is Coruscant, but that is just a governmental planet, not a "homeworld"
Coruscant is quoted as being made of one continuous city. That sounds to me (maybe not to you) that the population density would be higher than Earth.
In elementary school, I learned that the population of the Earth is 5 billion. Its now closer to 6 billion. That is much more than the 3 billion from On the Beach even if your (silly) guess that Alderaan is a more populous planet than your average planet.
Unless you are not from the US, you should remember your US Gov't from High School:
Congress passed that law. The President just signed it. And if he hadn't have signed it, all of the puritanical hypocrite-Republicans would have been crying that the President was immoral anyways.
This law was created by Rebuplicans, not Democrats. Just look at it. Do you know what conservative means?
My question to all of my radical Republican friends (I am moderate-Democrat, partly as a reactionary response to them) was:
Who are you going to complain to now? It's Bush and a split Congress? I suppose you can say its all Bill Clinton's fault...for the next 20 years. Do you really think that Bush has that much more integrity? Oh. That's right, he has heart. And he's willing to sell it to the highest bidder.
I believe the solution is best stated by George W. Bush himself (supposedly):
What our children need are education
Final Note: Who said Bill Clinton was anyone's leader? Everyone knows the leader of the US is Alan Greenspan.
And I know that all of the hard-core anti-porn crusaders would agree with me on this, too -- I look forward to the day when viewing evil, bad, rotten sites is difficult, in exactly the same way listening to evil, bad, rotten songs, or watching evil, bad, rotten movies is getting difficult up here in Fargo, ND.
You just have to go up to Hollywood Videos just north of Northport Hornbacher's. Or hell, go to ABCX. Or even take a good look at some of the anime flicks from Blockbuster.
For all of the people in the world who dont live in Fargo (Ha. Doesn't everyone live in Fargo?), even Democrats in North Dakota are Republicans. Here, being a liberal means that you don't desecrate the graves of the people who have abortions. If the "internet" made some way of keeping children from viewing any independant thoughts or any ideas that might be construed as "forward" or "modern", then I know for sure that 80% of all North Dakotans would whole-heartedly support it.
Hopefully everyone caught the sarcasm. But the reality is so much more funny.
The good news: I only have 5 more months of this.
Oh. And here is your proof. There are actually computers in North Dakota.
Because so many of them think they will be discriminated against. And once the brain starts down that path, anything that could be viewed as discrimination or sexism is.
Net result: Enough guys in "geek" jobs who have been mistreated (and yes, falsely accusing people of stereotyping is just as bad as the stereotyping itself) by over-sensitive women that they are treated differently.
Congratulations on helping to perpetuate this trend.
First, do you even know what a freudian slip is? Do you really understand much of what you said? It seems like standard intellectual masturbation, because I cannot find a message in your posts.
Star Wars is a geek flick. It is a science fiction soap opera for god's sake. Yes, there is universal appeal. That means that they did a good job. Normally, it would be fare for Saturday mornings on the Sci-Fi channel.
I am unclear about exactly what you mean by this (and i'm guessing) your previous post. Most of it is just drivel to make you look like you are intelligent. I am considered by some to be of above average intelligence, yet your post is written so unclearly that I and others cannot figure out what you are talking about. You may actually have a point besides trying to be important, but we cant tell.
How about you repost and show us your intelligence by actually posting clear, concise text that people can understand.
Oh. And maybe you should try to actually understand someone before you decide to show how much of a jerk you are by replying in such a manner again.
Most of your complaints come from a lack of understanding any other distro. I have tried RedHat, Mandrake, and Debian, and I work on Slack boxen rather often.
I prefer RedHat. Contrary to other people's comments, RedHat doesn't care if you install from tar.gz's. Almost all of my apps are compiled and installed from source.
I let RPM manage glib, gtk, gnome, kde, X, and other such things with heavy dependencies. This is the main reason why I have a working installation of enlightenment 0.16.2 with eSound and Gnome and support for all my KDE apps.
As for init scripts, that is a matter of opinion and circumstance. Sure, BSD-style uses less files and no symlinks. But how many times have you tried to shut down just one service? How easy is it to turn a single service on and off? You might not think that that is a common task. I haven't had much use for it, but I have had some. I have fetchmail running as a daemon, and at times (for procmail testing) I don't want it to botch my testing. So I turn it off. Maybe you would prefer dealing directly with fetchmail, I kinda like being able to say "stop" and "start".
I have installed RedHat on a 80MB hard drive also. On a 486. Oh wait. Thats what you just said too. Were you implying that only Slack could do that?
I've never had any dependency problems, besides silly things like me forgetting to update gtk before gnomeicu. Oh. Wait. That was from source. That's what dependencies are. Its better than just having it install and segfault.
I find the custom installs rather easy. I tell it what I want. It says "You forgot that PackageA requires PackageB", so I either add PackageB or remove PackageA. I haven't had any problems with them at all. I don't really have any problems with any of the install programs for any of the distros. They get the job done.
As for someones silly comment: Yes. RedHat lets me modify.conf files too. To say "Slack lets me modify.conf files easily" is a joke. Of course it does. Just take your favorite editor as root after the files in/etc. What makes you think anything is different for RedHat?
In the end, the distro is just where you got it. My system is far from being a RedHat 6.1 installation. I now run a SSL enabled version of Apache, ssh, ProFTPd, no inetd server, a newer XFree86, a new version of gnome, KDE, and elightenment, and netatalk.
In the meantime, all my Slack using friends can't get any sound to come from their speakers and are using enlightenment 0.15 because they cant get the update to gtk and enlightenment to work.
I also work at NDSU (see Paradox's post above), and the scheme they have implemented here works surprisingly well. All they do is remove the data portion of all incoming and outgoing packets to napster.com. It creates a basically working version of napster. It thinks that it is connected but you cant do anything. No packets are blocked, ICMP is still in place. It's pretty. It's effective.
And I find it troubling. I can understand why it was done, but I hope that it was an exception to the rule, and not the start of a new policy.
(NOTE: I wonder if the FBI/NSA is gonna pick that up and come investigate me for that. I think it would be cool.)
She gets upset if I say that she is turning 5, but I think its kinda cool. She just thinks its pretty cool that she actually gets a birthday.
I wonder what the Olive Garden and Paradiso and Chili's do with these unfortunate people. No free desserts just because the day they were born on does not exist this year? Or could you get free stuff on the 28th and the 1st?
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You'll never have to worry about finding help with new software, either. By time Debian releases the distro, all the questions you'll come up with have already been answered. You'll have to check last years archives, but all the questions and answers are there.
Has debian moved to the 2.x kernel yet?
...until it can open my KWord files.
Dont blame Mandrake (or any linux distro) for not being able to open MS Office docs, blame Microsoft for refusing to port it. Which, its seems, they can't. Probably because it has been coded specifically to Windows. So, I guess Windows sucks as an OS, because it cant run my bash shell scripts.
What you are describing is basic xenophobia. People dont like it because they perceive that they have less functionality. When in reality, they dont like it because they dont understand it because it is different. The average consumer displays a disgusting amount of fear of having a computer that is different. I feel no need to encourage this.
And to the die hard MS Supporters(tm), no, the Gov't shouldn't force MS to port Office, the consumer should. The Gov't should just punish MS for obviously abusing a monopoly.
I sure hope the farmers in the Midwest can still get to sleep at night.
I mean, just think, some of the food they grew was used to nourish terrorists. Probably a good portion of it. Plus some help from other farmers across the US. Hell, some of it probably made it to Afghanistan where it is nourishing our "enemies" (Insert your definition of who is our enemy).
Just think. If they wouldn't have grown that food, all those terrorists would have starved to death. It could have been so simple to stop them. If we just wouldn't have given them food, they wouldn't have lived much more that... what a month? Or they would be too weakened to fight even a single "infidel American".
Bah. Farmers. Terrorist sympathizers all of them.
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While that was satire, people like tmark should think a bit more before blaming anything other than the terrorists and the organizations that support them directly. Its as if they are saying:
No. They will just find another way. Terrorists aren't stupid or insane. There are many ways to communicate securely over an normal medium. Encryption just lets you communicate normally over a secure medium.
And I bet the terrorists used English to order the crew around. Lets ban the teaching of English to non-Americans. (This would probably mean that we should exterminate everyone in UK, and all Enligsh teachers/professors).
If the engineers wouldn't have built buildings so tall, the terrorists would have had more trouble crashing into them.
Plus, there would have been a significantly lower loss of life, if someone would have decided, instead of using the towers for office space, to use it for something involving less people, say, cinder-block storage.
The same for planes? Who decided to use them to transport people? Again, if we only used planes to ship block ice, we wouldn't have this problem. Who wouldn't notice those ice blocks in the shape of terrorists.
And airline engineers: Who decided that pilots should be humans. We should have used Llamas, since llamas dont speak English (which is the most common language of terrorists in the US), they couldn't be ordered around, plus they can get very aggressive, and spitting is bad for avionics. We could just launch the planes with catapults (or, perhaps, the worlds largest trebuchet?). I mean, who cares? Its only carrying block ice and llamas. Whats it going to hit? The World Cinder-Block Center?
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And I'm sure that the terrorists kept secrets. Lets prohibit secrets. Starting with you. What's your real name?
I dont mean to insult you, but just look at what you are saying...
Its like buying a heatsink fan, but opening the box and finding out:
Or should SuperDuper, Corp be allowed to specify your behavior?
... by filling in the gaps of missing code with code from Frogger.
Hiroshima: This was a terrible tragedy. However, it was also a decisive momenent in a war. Lets not ever forget that it was a war started by Japan. It was avoidable. Japan did not plan to surrender. It was fighting for honor. I have no doubt that if the US would have invaded Japan, every last person killed in that bombing would have become a Japanese soldier. If you truly believe that a land invasion of Japan would have resulted in less deaths, then perhaps your opinion is valid. However, Japan never seemed to care about enemy casualties.
Nagasaki: See above. They knew it was coming. But they refused to surrender. At least one documentary I've seen said there was one last bomb left (unassembled).
Vietnam: Many innocent people were killed on both sides. But who is to say who is an innocent in such wars. If you are protecting a soldier, but not actually fighting, does that make you innocent? If so, we should just walk into wars behind our women and children. Then we can complain about all the innocents our enemies kill. Its was not the nation's best moment in history. But I dont see you condemning anyone else.
Kosovo: Similar to Vietnam. I suppose you think we should have just stayed out of it, and watched people die. Thats much more humane. Then we would be the rich Americans who never help.
Basra: This was killing innocent people? I'm sorry, but in my opinion, if you invade a neighboring country, and then someone finally gets pissed and starts taking it back, if you grab all the loot you can and run away, you have lost the right to call yourself a civilian, much less innocent.
Indonesia: Yeah. Indonesia said: "Hey. Can we have guns so we can commit an atrocity?" and the US said: "Sure. Here ya go". Rather simplistic, dont you think? And I'm sure if they would have had no support from the US it wouldn't have happened. They would have just sat there: "D'oh. No guns. Hey wanna be friends instead?"
People want to think that war should be so simple. War sucks. Notice, that none of these incidents were started by the US. Vietnam was certainly escalated by the US, but there were Vietnamese people who actually wanted help. Also, in none of these actions did the US specifically target civilian populations. Check your facts: Hiroshima and Nagasaki were making war munitions. Stuff that was being used to kill people.
I've seen many discussions about how the US could have been nicer in the past. It seems to me that we could have avoided all of this with an isolationist policy. That seemed to work nicely.
So what do you think we should do. Sure. Lets stop supporting Israel. And lets ignore it when their neighbors invade them. I'm sure all the islamic countries in the area will completely avoid killing Israeli civilians. And we'll let Iraq invade Kuwait again. And Saudi Arabia, eventually. It would be cool to have a huge portion of the worlds oil reserves controlled by a ruthless dictator. But at least he never attacks civilians!
However, I digress. Still, give me an example of one instance of the US attacking a non-military target. You can claim that Vietnam was one large non-military target, but that is just avoiding the question. Nagasaki and Hiroshima dont really count, and it would be smart of you to remember that Kobe was the obvious first choice for a bombing, but it was deemed "too civilian in nature" being a local center of culture.
Find one. A deliberate attack on civilians. Something similar to say... using biological weapons on citizens who disagree with you? And dont forget to ask why the US did any of this. Why hasn't Denmark done such things? Or Sweden? Because the US does it for them. They never asked, but they benefit nonetheless. I am happy to know that hobbits in Denmark dont have to think of such things. I would happily fight wars to make sure that they can live without having to remember terrible things like Hiroshima and Vietnam.
Not to nitpick, but I'm a bit confused.
I live in DC. Yes, cell phones switches were flooded. Yes, Dept. of Energy was evacuated relatively soon. However, "next to the Capitol" must mean "a few blocks from the Capitol". If he took a train out of town, then walked to Georgetown, he would actually be going back into town. Georgetown is in Washington. He would have been walking back toward the threat. Plus, Georgetown is closer to the Pentagon then he started.
And in my experiences (not news or second hand accounts) everyone remained rather orderly (except those immediately involved with the attack). And while I have heard the F-16s, but only saw them once. I can guarantee they certainly arent "looming".
It was odd here. Eeerie. But not nearly so melodramatic as this post suggests. Everyone was shocked but generally calm. There was a greater sense of purpose. Everyone just wanted to go home, go someplace safe, and get out of the way.
Read the notes Tolkien wrote about the book.
He basically states that you are completely mistaken. Just because you see similarities doesn't mean that he intended them. As is said many places:
Tolkien hated allegory.
No - that's why it's at the end.
Means: I am ignoring your point. To me, only my view is valid.
Life must just be full of disappointments for you.
Means: Since the only way I could acknowledge your comment would involve me admitting that it was me that had trouble reading it, I have instead chosen to insult you in the hopes that you will feel bad. The thought that I have hurt you helps to cover the inadequacies I feel as a reader.
No it isn't - metaphor is a comparison between unlike objects. When you read you look at a work so looking at a work through a prism isn't metaphorical, merely confused. A metaphor would have been something like "Offers a worthy new dish at the feast." assuming that it is a good book, of course.
Means: I have been caught in a gray area of the english language. Since it is apparent to me that my original comment was stupid, I have instead switched my argument to something that makes it sound like I know what I am talking about.
Not that it particularly matters, but the standard of JKs writing is poor for a professional, particularly considering the weighty topics he chooses, and this broken metaphor was one of the better bad examples he has produced; a 50cc engine in a 10 tonne truck indeed.
Means: I attempted to make myself popular by bashing Jon Katz and it has seemed to backfire. I shall attack him personally now, hoping to reclaim some of my self respect.
I was pretty sure, but I believe that Christopher Tolkien actually said that the language of the Rohirrim is actually untranslated Anglo-Saxon (or OE? dunno the difference) in the same or similar style as Beowulf.
But, in reality, you are the Linguistics expert, I'm just the novice.
Also, the writing was done by someone who was obviously a linguist. In other words, he used fancy language because they knew how, not because it made sense that the characters spoke that way.
Then you didn't understand what was going on. Tolkien used language to help convey information about relationships between characters. If you didn't catch the differences in speech between the elves and Aragorn, then I think you wanted the characters to be flat. I caught that when I was in 6th grad.
He could have been blunt and used dialogue to do this same thing, and then everyone who never wanted to actually think would have no problem seeing what everyone else does
Now, some people want shallow dialogue like that. Personally, I prefer the more subtle approach. I caught the difference in Aragorn's speech and everyone elses. I knew he was important.
Language was one of the main tools that Tolkien used to provide information about characters, and you completely missed it. Read it again, pay attention to the language, and your "flat" characters will turn out to be a bit more interesting.
They never put me under an NDA, so I assume this is public:
They are actually doing quite a bit of work porting linux to the iSeries (AS/400) and pSeries (RS/3000 et al). They are writing libraries that allow Linux applications to run on AIX.
One of their biggest projects is helping to fix/improve SMP support in Linux, and hopefully make it reach the point where it can handle the 24 processor systems they want to put it on. This includes improving I/O, and memory management, and handling large numbers of simultaneous processes.
These are things that Linux does okay on, but the power, resources and money that IBM is willing to put into it will help poor Open Source developers quite a bit.
The best part: They are releasing the code they write back to the community. They are actually helping. I think this is what you wanted to here. IBM is on our side. (in this case)
Source: I interviewed for one of the positions which would be porting Linux to the AS/400, now sadly named the iSeries. I didn't take it though. Don't be mad at me.
What?
It seems to me that most of the traffic on the internet is people "studying anatomy"
widely recognized as one of the finest public education institutions in the United States
Huh?
You got a bachelors degree from a community college, and now you pass yourself off as a scientist? I figured it was standard to at least finish a masters before declaring that.
Quoting some Minnesotan friends of mine:
Now I would have ignored you if you said you were from Fergus Falls, and chuckled at a poor decision if you were from Moorhead. If you were from the Twin Cities campus I would have actually respected you, but you are from Morris.
Note to others: UM Morris is a small, small school. Its not recognized for a great Chemistry program. Most serious chemistry students head to UM Twin Cities, UIowa, or possibly NDSU. In fact, I don't know anything that is widely recognized about UM Morris.
Maybe its not as fake as you think. Swapster Development
A count of your wrongosity:
Wow. And that was only a hundred words or so.
Nice research. No cookie for you.
Unless you are not from the US, you should remember your US Gov't from High School:
Congress passed that law. The President just signed it. And if he hadn't have signed it, all of the puritanical hypocrite-Republicans would have been crying that the President was immoral anyways.
This law was created by Rebuplicans, not Democrats. Just look at it. Do you know what conservative means?
My question to all of my radical Republican friends (I am moderate-Democrat, partly as a reactionary response to them) was:
I believe the solution is best stated by George W. Bush himself (supposedly):
Final Note: Who said Bill Clinton was anyone's leader? Everyone knows the leader of the US is Alan Greenspan.
And I know that all of the hard-core anti-porn crusaders would agree with me on this, too -- I look forward to the day when viewing evil, bad, rotten sites is difficult, in exactly the same way listening to evil, bad, rotten songs, or watching evil, bad, rotten movies is getting difficult up here in Fargo, ND.
You just have to go up to Hollywood Videos just north of Northport Hornbacher's. Or hell, go to ABCX. Or even take a good look at some of the anime flicks from Blockbuster.
For all of the people in the world who dont live in Fargo (Ha. Doesn't everyone live in Fargo?), even Democrats in North Dakota are Republicans. Here, being a liberal means that you don't desecrate the graves of the people who have abortions. If the "internet" made some way of keeping children from viewing any independant thoughts or any ideas that might be construed as "forward" or "modern", then I know for sure that 80% of all North Dakotans would whole-heartedly support it.
Hopefully everyone caught the sarcasm. But the reality is so much more funny.
The good news: I only have 5 more months of this.
Oh. And here is your proof. There are actually computers in North Dakota.
Offtopic:
Why aren't there more women in "geek" jobs?
Because so many of them think they will be discriminated against. And once the brain starts down that path, anything that could be viewed as discrimination or sexism is.
Net result: Enough guys in "geek" jobs who have been mistreated (and yes, falsely accusing people of stereotyping is just as bad as the stereotyping itself) by over-sensitive women that they are treated differently.
Congratulations on helping to perpetuate this trend.
I have a problem with people who are idiots.
Like you.
First, do you even know what a freudian slip is? Do you really understand much of what you said? It seems like standard intellectual masturbation, because I cannot find a message in your posts.
Star Wars is a geek flick. It is a science fiction soap opera for god's sake. Yes, there is universal appeal. That means that they did a good job. Normally, it would be fare for Saturday mornings on the Sci-Fi channel.
I am unclear about exactly what you mean by this (and i'm guessing) your previous post. Most of it is just drivel to make you look like you are intelligent. I am considered by some to be of above average intelligence, yet your post is written so unclearly that I and others cannot figure out what you are talking about. You may actually have a point besides trying to be important, but we cant tell.
How about you repost and show us your intelligence by actually posting clear, concise text that people can understand.
Oh. And maybe you should try to actually understand someone before you decide to show how much of a jerk you are by replying in such a manner again.
For all of you who think that the internet is just a "group of interconnected computers and switching hardware":
The internet is alive, and it is sentient.
Read this article posted on gogeek.org.
Its humorous. Feel free to laugh.
Most of your complaints come from a lack of understanding any other distro. I have tried RedHat, Mandrake, and Debian, and I work on Slack boxen rather often.
I prefer RedHat. Contrary to other people's comments, RedHat doesn't care if you install from tar.gz's. Almost all of my apps are compiled and installed from source.
I let RPM manage glib, gtk, gnome, kde, X, and other such things with heavy dependencies. This is the main reason why I have a working installation of enlightenment 0.16.2 with eSound and Gnome and support for all my KDE apps.
As for init scripts, that is a matter of opinion and circumstance. Sure, BSD-style uses less files and no symlinks. But how many times have you tried to shut down just one service? How easy is it to turn a single service on and off? You might not think that that is a common task. I haven't had much use for it, but I have had some. I have fetchmail running as a daemon, and at times (for procmail testing) I don't want it to botch my testing. So I turn it off. Maybe you would prefer dealing directly with fetchmail, I kinda like being able to say "stop" and "start".
I have installed RedHat on a 80MB hard drive also. On a 486. Oh wait. Thats what you just said too. Were you implying that only Slack could do that?
I've never had any dependency problems, besides silly things like me forgetting to update gtk before gnomeicu. Oh. Wait. That was from source. That's what dependencies are. Its better than just having it install and segfault.
I find the custom installs rather easy. I tell it what I want. It says "You forgot that PackageA requires PackageB", so I either add PackageB or remove PackageA. I haven't had any problems with them at all. I don't really have any problems with any of the install programs for any of the distros. They get the job done.
As for someones silly comment: Yes. RedHat lets me modify .conf files too. To say "Slack lets me modify .conf files easily" is a joke. Of course it does. Just take your favorite editor as root after the files in /etc. What makes you think anything is different for RedHat?
In the end, the distro is just where you got it. My system is far from being a RedHat 6.1 installation. I now run a SSL enabled version of Apache, ssh, ProFTPd, no inetd server, a newer XFree86, a new version of gnome, KDE, and elightenment, and netatalk.
In the meantime, all my Slack using friends can't get any sound to come from their speakers and are using enlightenment 0.15 because they cant get the update to gtk and enlightenment to work.
That, in the end, is the difference.
Its rather simple really.
I also work at NDSU (see Paradox's post above), and the scheme they have implemented here works surprisingly well. All they do is remove the data portion of all incoming and outgoing packets to napster.com. It creates a basically working version of napster. It thinks that it is connected but you cant do anything. No packets are blocked, ICMP is still in place. It's pretty. It's effective.
And I find it troubling. I can understand why it was done, but I hope that it was an exception to the rule, and not the start of a new policy.
Its my girlfriend's fifth birthday today!
Yay! I'm a pedofile!!
(NOTE: I wonder if the FBI/NSA is gonna pick that up and come investigate me for that. I think it would be cool.)
She gets upset if I say that she is turning 5, but I think its kinda cool. She just thinks its pretty cool that she actually gets a birthday.
I wonder what the Olive Garden and Paradiso and Chili's do with these unfortunate people. No free desserts just because the day they were born on does not exist this year? Or could you get free stuff on the 28th and the 1st?
Hmm....