> He was SUCKED out and exposed to the cold and lack of > oxygen for a long time AND survived.
um, no. they held on to his legs for the rest of the flight, but it turned out he died a horrible death long before they landed. -40 degree wind blasting at 500 knots for most of an hour will do that to you. wee bit of a wind chill factor on that ride, never mind the fluid dynamics of trying to breath in those conditions.
Skype doesn't work with my webcam, even though the OS supports it with other programs. My family (don't know about yours) won't mind installing Jitsi,... win!
slander stated as fact with unfounded assertions for a rather uncreative run of the mill troll. shame on the fools who modded you up -- please mod up new and interesting trolls for us to enjoy, not the old tired ones; nostalgia not withstanding.
and just in case you were actually serious, we also had less countries with the bomb in '79. (hey, at least my metric is verifiable) That must be the DoEd's fault too according to your logic? A rather lot has changed since then, and you can really ignore all the other changes in society and tie the causation to the management of this afterthought of a gov't dept? really?
It makes the lag to shipping new web-facing features and performance improvements too long.
If it means the resulting product is bug-free (read: well tested) and of higher quality--- so be it. That is what I want, not the latest white wall tires.
As a result you end up with situations like the current one, where Firefox 3.6 is significantly worse than the already-shipping competition (except IE8)
I DON'T CARE if FF beats IE[0-9] or Chrome by 3.2ms on some arbitrary and isolated metric or has some new gee whiz but unused feature. Don't be suckered into a rat race by obsessive blogger types. As long as the experience is good and snappy, and the performance (dis)advantage isn't too lopsided I'll go with the well tested version every time. Screw the competition. Quality sells itself. In a similar way, I don't care if KDE/Gnome# tracks the latest Windows7 ideas. In a way I wish they wouldn't if it's just for the sake of it. Do your own thing, make it better, learn from others when you can, and they will come.
I don't want bleeding edge. I want something I can trust my https connection to my bank, gets out of my way and is reasonably snappy, and does not leak memory or privacy left and right due to a quickly grafted new feature. That's it.
there is a very good book called "economics in one lesson" by Henry Hazlitt, written about 50 years ago but still easy to find in libraries and as pdf ebooks. you'd do well to read it, it's quite a good read. while I wouldn't agree with all his points it is pretty much the classic debunking of the broken window fallacy and is just as relevant now as it was then. the boloney politicians' & pundit arguments given as examples are right off today's news programs.
Sahana is more for coordinating disaster relief, Ushahidi more for quickly getting the message out and visualizing where the hot spots are in a chaotic situation, be it unrest or disease breakout. They compliment each other.
Just like big pharm ignoring tropical diseases, there's no money in it so big software has ignored this domain, the UN is too big and bureaucratized to move quickly, and so frankly it's up to us. PHP, Python, RDBMSs or crowd-sourcing expert? They can use your help, and it's a bit more productive use of your time than playing video games.
> Can't read TFA as a NYTimes account is required to access
no, it just limits you to reading one article a day. try flushing your nytimes.com cookies and trying again or booting from a live ubuntu disc or something. it is a well written and very interesting read, and well worth a moment or two spent figuring out how to bypass the paper-thin paywall. bugmenot or a google news search for it may help as well, as may enabling "private browsing".
usually on slashdot the forum posts are much more interesting than TFA (usually because TFA is some thin blog press release). but not in this case, this is no less than the executive editor of one of the most powerful newspapers in the world describing candidly what it was like to be the guy sitting uncomfortably between the US Govt and Assange on the bus, and where as a company and as citizens they had to compromise on both sides.
just because someone claims credit for something has no relevance to whether they are actually involved or not. even when it's something that makes them look really bad. lots of folks free admit to murders they didn't commit, under no pressure from the cops. humans are weird, go figure.
and no one will until those rich people subsidize production for long enough for the makers to figure out how to get the mass production costs down and the endurance up. think strategic. think long term. go rich people go!
The point is that *you* put these restrictions on yourself when *you* decide to use the license. Do not blame it on the license. The GPL is not an EULA.
you don't want to be bound by the terms of the gpl? fine, then don't use my copyrighted code in your product -- write your own. you want to use my copyrighted code in your project? fine, but here are my terms, in plain english.
if you were dumb enough to distribute my code without reading the short and in plain english license document which came with it, well that's really your own fault. don't get mad at me or my license, it is not like it is subtly designed to trick you into turning over your code, it's out there in plain sight.
you have the freedom to make your own choices; I have mine. Your version of 100% freedom is total anarchy, read some Rousseau (avail now from the Gutenberg project for a low low price of nothing!).
Why do we continue to give religion special status that they earned when belief was compulsory and religion controlled politics?
please read up on the reasons for and intentions of the first amendment + the religious beliefs of the founding fathers, and get back to us when your argument is not 100% historically inaccurate.
hint 1: they didn't like any power base not derived from, and held by, The People.
hint 2: ask yourself why the Texas School Board textbook review committee have acted to remove all mention of Thomas Jefferson from history classes.
... because all natural systems respond in a strictly linear fashion?
umm, no.
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If great truths have been 'lost', as they no doubt have been, we'll discover and derive them again when we're ready for them.
If you are interested in such things, I'd highly recommend reading "The hero with a thousand faces" by Joseph Campbell. Also he did an excellent series of six hour-long PBS interviews with Bill Moyers called "The Power of Myth" which are well worth your time. Maybe they are on YouTube or floating around the internet somewhere.
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If you go back to the actual quote,
"In fall 1984, at the first Hackers' Conference, I said in one discussion session: "On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other." That was printed in a report/transcript from the conference in the May 1985 *Whole Earth Review*, p. 49.
cue twenty-five years later, the first part of the quote being widely forgotten, and an army of too-smart-for-you opionators attacking their own mis-quote using the original quote's argument as their justification for why it is wrong.
It really makes you wonder what the non-populistized seventeen people later word of mouth versions of the original western religious texts were actually trying to say..
two hydrogen pals are sitting on the curb, sipping from their 40s. One says to the other "I think I've lost an electron". The other says "Are you sure"? To which the first replies, "Yeah, I'm positive".
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I think you're forgetting how very little logic has to do with this "debate", and how very well armed Texans are.
hint: follow the money.
> He was SUCKED out and exposed to the cold and lack of
> oxygen for a long time AND survived.
um, no. they held on to his legs for the rest of the flight, but it turned out he died a horrible death long before they landed. -40 degree wind blasting at 500 knots for most of an hour will do that to you. wee bit of a wind chill factor on that ride, never mind the fluid dynamics of trying to breath in those conditions.
I think it's called something like "integrity".
> No one has ever heard of Jitsi or similar.
Now they, have, thanks!
http://jitsi.org/
Skype doesn't work with my webcam, even though the OS supports it with other programs. My family (don't know about yours) won't mind installing Jitsi, ... win!
GNOME's empathy is another: http://packages.debian.org/sid/empathy
Pidgin too.
slander stated as fact with unfounded assertions for a rather uncreative run of the mill troll. shame on the fools who modded you up -- please mod up new and interesting trolls for us to enjoy, not the old tired ones; nostalgia not withstanding.
and just in case you were actually serious, we also had less countries with the bomb in '79. (hey, at least my metric is verifiable) That must be the DoEd's fault too according to your logic? A rather lot has changed since then, and you can really ignore all the other changes in society and tie the causation to the management of this afterthought of a gov't dept? really?
Sagan is dead. Long live Sagan.
http://www.xenu.net/archive/baloney_detection.html
mod anon parent, tx
If it means the resulting product is bug-free (read: well tested) and of higher quality--- so be it. That is what I want, not the latest white wall tires.
I DON'T CARE if FF beats IE[0-9] or Chrome by 3.2ms on some arbitrary and isolated metric or has some new gee whiz but unused feature. Don't be suckered into a rat race by obsessive blogger types. As long as the experience is good and snappy, and the performance (dis)advantage isn't too lopsided I'll go with the well tested version every time. Screw the competition. Quality sells itself. In a similar way, I don't care if KDE/Gnome# tracks the latest Windows7 ideas. In a way I wish they wouldn't if it's just for the sake of it. Do your own thing, make it better, learn from others when you can, and they will come.
I don't want bleeding edge. I want something I can trust my https connection to my bank, gets out of my way and is reasonably snappy, and does not leak memory or privacy left and right due to a quickly grafted new feature. That's it.
thanks for reading,
a humble user.
there is a very good book called "economics in one lesson" by Henry Hazlitt, written about 50 years ago but still easy to find in libraries and as pdf ebooks. you'd do well to read it, it's quite a good read. while I wouldn't agree with all his points it is pretty much the classic debunking of the broken window fallacy and is just as relevant now as it was then. the boloney politicians' & pundit arguments given as examples are right off today's news programs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_in_One_Lesson
The question you should ask yourself is "What would Jesus do for a Klondike bar?"
It may be that your role in the carrier's trial was to find out the price that the market would bear for this service.
Free & Open Source projects mentioned in the article:
Sahana: http://sahanafoundation.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahana_FOSS_Disaster_Management_System
Ushahidi: http://www.ushahidi.com/products/ushahidi-platform
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushahidi
Sahana is more for coordinating disaster relief, Ushahidi more for quickly getting the message out and visualizing where the hot spots are in a chaotic situation, be it unrest or disease breakout.
They compliment each other.
Just like big pharm ignoring tropical diseases, there's no money in it so big software has ignored this domain, the UN is too big and bureaucratized to move quickly, and so frankly it's up to us. PHP, Python, RDBMSs or crowd-sourcing expert? They can use your help, and it's a bit more productive use of your time than playing video games.
> Can't read TFA as a NYTimes account is required to access
no, it just limits you to reading one article a day. try flushing your nytimes.com cookies and trying again or booting from a live ubuntu disc or something. it is a well written and very interesting read, and well worth a moment or two spent figuring out how to bypass the paper-thin paywall. bugmenot or a google news search for it may help as well, as may enabling "private browsing".
usually on slashdot the forum posts are much more interesting than TFA (usually because TFA is some thin blog press release). but not in this case, this is no less than the executive editor of one of the most powerful newspapers in the world describing candidly what it was like to be the guy sitting uncomfortably between the US Govt and Assange on the bus, and where as a company and as citizens they had to compromise on both sides.
just because someone claims credit for something has no relevance to whether they are actually involved or not. even when it's something that makes them look really bad. lots of folks free admit to murders they didn't commit, under no pressure from the cops. humans are weird, go figure.
and no one will until those rich people subsidize production for long enough for the makers to figure out how to get the mass production costs down and the endurance up. think strategic. think long term. go rich people go!
aw shucks, Natty Narwhal? Named after a mythical cetacean?
(ok, it's not mythical just yet, but considering where it lives and what it looks like, give that a few years)
Mark, if you are reading, please let 11.04 be called narcoleptic newt, ...
The point is that *you* put these restrictions on yourself when *you* decide to use the license.
Do not blame it on the license. The GPL is not an EULA.
you don't want to be bound by the terms of the gpl? fine, then don't use my copyrighted code in your product -- write your own. you want to use my copyrighted code in your project? fine, but here are my terms, in plain english.
if you were dumb enough to distribute my code without reading the short and in plain english license document which came with it, well that's really your own fault. don't get mad at me or my license, it is not like it is subtly designed to trick you into turning over your code, it's out there in plain sight.
you have the freedom to make your own choices; I have mine. Your version of 100% freedom is total anarchy, read some Rousseau (avail now from the Gutenberg project for a low low price of nothing!).
depends; do you use a mac?
please read up on the reasons for and intentions of the first amendment + the religious beliefs of the founding fathers, and get back to us when your argument is not 100% historically inaccurate.
hint 1: they didn't like any power base not derived from, and held by, The People.
hint 2: ask yourself why the Texas School Board textbook review committee have acted to remove all mention of Thomas Jefferson from history classes.
... because all natural systems respond in a strictly linear fashion?
umm, no.
If you are interested in such things, I'd highly recommend reading "The hero with a thousand faces" by Joseph Campbell. Also he did an excellent series of six hour-long PBS interviews with Bill Moyers called "The Power of Myth" which are well worth your time. Maybe they are on YouTube or floating around the internet somewhere.
If you go back to the actual quote,
http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/IWtbF.html
cue twenty-five years later, the first part of the quote being widely forgotten, and an army of too-smart-for-you opionators attacking their own mis-quote using the original quote's argument as their justification for why it is wrong.
It really makes you wonder what the non-populistized seventeen people later word of mouth versions of the original western religious texts were actually trying to say..
two hydrogen pals are sitting on the curb, sipping from their 40s. One says to the other "I think I've lost an electron". The other says "Are you sure"? To which the first replies, "Yeah, I'm positive".