You'll also notice that the database includes everybody, including soldiers on both sides -- even the enemy, suicide bombers, and casualties from their attacks
Yes, and the U.S. government is responsible for all of them. They have no business being there whatsoever.
And besides, a sex scandal is a lot more fun than the vote rigging scandals, and hundreds of thousands of dead people that we get from the Republicans.
It's too bad we let Fort Churchill rust away. A few years ago it was claimed to be one of the best sites for launching missions to ISS, and there's very few people around if things go wrong.
alcohol, which in some can be addictive..is legal. But, not everyone drinks, and certainly, not everyone is irresponsible with alcohol consumption. Why should it be any different with something say, pot, which hasn't ever been shown to be physically addictive?
Not only that, but nobody has ever died from smoking too much pot. Ever. 20,000 deaths per year or so are blamed on alcohol in the U.S..
"Although I don't think the E.U. has the cojones to actually do it, it wouldn't be totally outside their power (well, it might be -- I don't know whether the E.U. handles copyrights --"
I think these guys would have something to say on the matter.
"I use Sun's GNOME on Solaris Express (aka fetal Solaris 11) fairly frequently"
I've been playing with Nexenta a bit. It's basically Ubuntu but with the OpenSolaris kernel. Or at least it's trying to be. On the whole it looks and feels like a Linux distro. Too bad zones don't work yet though.
"Why is software running on your cellphone somehow different than, say, the design schematics of the processor and board inside it, or the design of the spark plugs in your car, or for that matter, the particular water and fertilizer rations that a farmer uses to get those extra sweet oranges that you bought at the supermarket last week?"
The biggest difference is, all those things except software have mass. They are real objects. They require raw materials to produce them, that cost money. Software can be replicated and produced with no cost, no non renewable resources are required, and copying does not degrade the copy or the original.
"My guess is that a lot of the people who talk about making money off of F/OSS don't really believe it in their gut. They really believe that F/OSS is always going to be a volunteer activity, not a business model."
For some it is a volunteer activity, for some it's a means to be noticed by people in the corporate world, for others its just an efficient way to develop software and they don't care about its politics. You're likely to hear from someone in the community who is upset whenever they are upset. It doesn't mean the community is up-in-arms. Within the open source community there are many mindsets. That indicates a healthy community, not the apocalypse or a lack of focus. These groups coexist, and they always have.
"Why the $EXPLETIVE can std::strings covert themselves to const char* but not char* when most functions dealing with strings expect a char* as a parameter?"
Why the $EXPLETIVE wouldn't you use strndup() to do that? You want somestring.c_str() to return a freshly malloc'd string every time, or just a pointer to some internal/opaque memory store so you can copy it if you want? They're const char*'s because you can't/shouldn't change the strings they point to. If a char* is what you want, copy it somewhere first, or just cast the thing if you are really sure it is safe to do so.
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"I use fish:// pretty heavily."
Really.. I use ssh://. What the hell does yours do?
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"The real problem is it's slow"
No, I think the real problem, is all those stupid sound effects. Enough with that already. They suck.
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Who said anything about dead people voting? They're dead, and they aren't U.S. citizens anyway.
And besides, a sex scandal is a lot more fun than the vote rigging scandals, and hundreds of thousands of dead people that we get from the Republicans.
It's too bad we let Fort Churchill rust away. A few years ago it was claimed to be one of the best sites for launching missions to ISS, and there's very few people around if things go wrong.
That's okay, you're both wrong. nano is the one true editor. 122K of pure sweetness.
Not only that, but nobody has ever died from smoking too much pot. Ever. 20,000 deaths per year or so are blamed on alcohol in the U.S..
Originally Firefox didn't work, but then it did.
No third button? No scroll wheel? Why not get a real mouse?
I use ctrl-shift and the mouse wheel myself. Whatever floats your boat.
SIOX is pretty cool. Watch the video. It's not in the stable version of GIMP yet though.
Yeah it's called "Vista".
I think these guys would have something to say on the matter.
"I use Sun's GNOME on Solaris Express (aka fetal Solaris 11) fairly frequently"
I've been playing with Nexenta a bit. It's basically Ubuntu but with the OpenSolaris kernel. Or at least it's trying to be. On the whole it looks and feels like a Linux distro. Too bad zones don't work yet though.
Very cool stuff.
"If you go to Google' all of their defaults are Google services. You don't even get the option to change those links to say Yahoo or the like.
Yes you can.
"Why is software running on your cellphone somehow different than, say, the design schematics of the processor and board inside it, or the design of the spark plugs in your car, or for that matter, the particular water and fertilizer rations that a farmer uses to get those extra sweet oranges that you bought at the supermarket last week?"
The biggest difference is, all those things except software have mass. They are real objects. They require raw materials to produce them, that cost money. Software can be replicated and produced with no cost, no non renewable resources are required, and copying does not degrade the copy or the original.
"Should they decide to do something the general public does not approve of, they can be replaced."
Most people in the U.S. believe that George Bush was elected unfairly the first time around. Then re-elected him the second time.
The U.S. government doesn't quite work that way either...
You forgot:
Floppy discs are not an acceptable storage medium.
"My guess is that a lot of the people who talk about making money off of F/OSS don't really believe it in their gut. They really believe that F/OSS is always going to be a volunteer activity, not a business model."
For some it is a volunteer activity, for some it's a means to be noticed by people in the corporate world, for others its just an efficient way to develop software and they don't care about its politics. You're likely to hear from someone in the community who is upset whenever they are upset. It doesn't mean the community is up-in-arms. Within the open source community there are many mindsets. That indicates a healthy community, not the apocalypse or a lack of focus. These groups coexist, and they always have.
"Why didn't the STL developers simply add a function that returns a copy (like string.str() as opposed to the static std.c_str())?"
They did. It's called 'copy' surprisingly enough.
"Why the $EXPLETIVE can std::strings covert themselves to const char* but not char* when most functions dealing with strings expect a char* as a parameter?"
Why the $EXPLETIVE wouldn't you use strndup() to do that? You want somestring.c_str() to return a freshly malloc'd string every time, or just a pointer to some internal/opaque memory store so you can copy it if you want? They're const char*'s because you can't/shouldn't change the strings they point to. If a char* is what you want, copy it somewhere first, or just cast the thing if you are really sure it is safe to do so.
"I use fish:// pretty heavily."
Really.. I use ssh://. What the hell does yours do?
"The real problem is it's slow"
No, I think the real problem, is all those stupid sound effects. Enough with that already. They suck.
Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of silly persons!
"I predict version 5 by that time, and Xgl will still be in an unstable apt repo.
And packages.debian.org will still be broken, as will search.debian.org. Seriously, they can't have been working very hard on it. It'll be two years in May.
Lazy asses.
"The FOSS community have been working on features like this since at least early 2004."
3Dwm is much older than that. From the PDF available on their web page:
"Initiated in 1999 by Niklas Elmqvist and Robert Karlsson at Chalmers Medialab"