I wanted to add that I read both and I absolutely hate 1632. You can't get more 1-dimensional than the characters in 1632. The dark hopeless world of 17th century Germany is saved by the salvific light of Gustav Adolphus and the steel workers union. Utter rubbish.
But *if* you survive 1632, 1633 is actually a decent book the heros of book 1 actually get some flaws and the minions of darkness acquire something resembling a character or at least their deeds make some sense.
If in doubt I'd recommend you wait for the next books in the series (afaik they aren't that far off) so you get a better ratio than 1 shit / 1 good =)
"this books are very similar to Weber's Honor Harrington series (which I hate ferociously btw. if you like them take everything I say about this book with a grain of salt)"
and
Needless to say, I do not like David Weber, nor do I like the Honor Harrington books. I am deeply distrustful of anyone who does.
The first is polite, short and concise. The second would be short and concise if it wasn't just the last sentence of a long Weber bashing without a point.
That said, yes, I like the Honor Harrington books but the reviewer is correct about various problems of the books even though he exaggerates of course. I didn't like his tone that's all. You can write something like that in a comment -in every M$-Apple flamewar there are vast numbers of comments that are worse- but is it really necessary to write it in a review?
My TV? Hardly. But I can justify protecting my wife from being violated my some crackfiend loser who feels he must sample her, just because he can, and he has the only gun.
It's about 100 times more likely that that loser just wants your TV-Set and that's only if *every* rape happened during a burglary
Listen to yourself. Better to be raped, than to have a shot at fighting back
Why are you so obsessed with someone raping your wife? Isn't your marriage what it used to be?
And that's with an example of a shotgun versus a handgun.
I never specified the type of guns used but apparantly in the US there's a law outlawing shotguns for everyone but law-abiding citizens. Very clever.
You are either a retard, a frenchie (same thing?), or a troll so clever...
Yay, ad hominem attacks. You just gotta love them.
Oh big strong Mister please keep shoving your mighty shotgun up your wife's ass and don't come over and shoot me! I'm so afraid I shit my pants now I must go and clean them so it seems like you have to keep on trolling without me. cu
Aren't that bad? Lots of factors there. Would need statistics, but there is no way it's 50/50, let alone worse
I don't have any statistics either but I can't imagine that they're much beyond 50/50. Why should you have a big advantage?
The burglar who kills the homeowner is just fucked
Yeah but he's more likely to think about his future career when he expects to survive this burglary. If he doesn't believe you have a weapon he'll worry about the 40 years in prison and that Bubba-guy who seems to like his ass but if he's worried about surviving the next 10 minutes he'll take his chances
I'm sorry, but only a european could justify strategic victimality.
I'm sorry but only an American could justify dying for his TV-set. Where are you from again?;)
As for letting serial killers out of jail after fourteen years, I guess you're lucky that Norway doesn't have many serial killers. That's an insane policy that utterly degrades the value of the life of a murder victim.
As for not putting serial killers in jail because some redneck jury decided that it's a good thing he rid the world of some damn niggers, I guess you're lucky that you don't have many serial...no wait.
I'd prefer the European system any day; we're not executing minors and mentally ill and if some big-ass corp sues you you're not going bankrupt to pay a decent lawyer because the looser pays. The next time before you're posting your oh so patriotic bs try to actually understand that there are different ways to do something and one's not necessarily worse than the other. There are many checks in effect to prevent simple government harrassment but that apparently doesn't interest you because you're not interested in some detail of the legal system but getting back the moral high ground the US threw away when Bush and his loonies came into power and you started behaving like a spoiled schoolyard bully. You should talk to Ashcroft about a nice "you have our legal system or you're with the terrorists" statement or something like that.
Now, I for my part will lean back and watch the troll moddings come in. HAND =)
There is one less violent criminal. Other criminals may see that crime might not be so safe or fun.
That's awfully confident. I'd say the chances of having one shotgun owner having his head blown off before he could shoot aren't that bad. Others will see that all those wanna-be Rambos are dangerous and will be armed and ready to shoot when they do their next break-in
On the other hand, you can play it safe, hoping to earn the mercy of the felon, as he rapes your wife at gunpoint, making you watch... because, hell, if you *had* a gun, he might have had to kill you first!
That's got nothing to do with mercy. Burglary/armed robbery is much preferable to rape/murder whether you look at the likely sentences or the probability of getting caught (Solving rates in Germany for murder are around 95%, rape around 80% iirc and burglary 15% - the number of burglaries per 100000 inhabitants is higher in Europe but both rape and murder are three times higher in the US)
IMHO guns don't cause crime but they make it more violent.
Imagine you're a burglar and just broke into a house you got a gun with you (criminals will always have guns) and suddenly you hear the sound of someone coming down the stairs what do you do?
I think it's more likely that you'd shoot the guy if you're somewhere where everone has a shotgun under his/her bed than if it's in Europe and you can safely assume that whoever it is is unarmed.
I don't know if there's actual evidence for this (or against it) but just my 2 cents
Competing with other OSes is nice but not as efficient because it's too easy to see a new feature and say "it's not possible on Linux the kernel (X/libxyz.so) has to be changed first" and therefore shift the responsibility onto someone else. That's not possible if there's a competing DE which implements that feature now.
This information markets are the most stupid thing I've ever heard. To get rich on the stock market you don't try to predict what the future is going to look like, you predict what others think that the future is going to look like.
I don't think anyone here doubts that SCO's going to be in the gutter in a year or two the latest but to get rich we should have bought their stock nevertheless.
If information markets will be as reliable at foretelling the future as the stock market is today why don't we simply roll a die instead?
They explicitly stated that the iPod was the best overall, but they offered alternatives which are better in a certain area.
Perhaps I'm doing long distance flights twice every week, perhaps I want a player primarily for jogging, perhaps I'm a student and just don't have the money
In all that cases I'd want a big comparison which states more than that iPod kicks a$$ but also tells me which other player would better suit me needs. The thing, the CNET article could have made clearer, is which trade-offs I have to accept when going for one of the alternatives
The problem isn't that we have different toolkits, the problem is that we aren't able to simply set our preferences in the KDE/GNOME control center and they're then applied to all apps
"scroll" when on plaintext, and "open in new tab" when on a link.
Actually that would be bad - with Konqueror I can select a url which isn't a link and simply middle-click with the rest of the bunch I have to use the context menu
You're calling a screw up of one of the most basic interface paradigms (toolbars at the top) "one of the nice interface perks about iTunes", interesting
The usability points still stand.
Your only real point was "iTunes has less buttons" actually it has almost as many as juk and they're not even placed at the top, so what remains? Cut and paste *are* useful, you can use them instead of drag and drop to get new songs from the collection list to a playlist and *many* (typically middle-aged semi-computer-literate) people feel more comfortable with c&p than with dnd
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I don't call XP Luna either =
But *if* you survive 1632, 1633 is actually a decent book the heros of book 1 actually get some flaws and the minions of darkness acquire something resembling a character or at least their deeds make some sense.
If in doubt I'd recommend you wait for the next books in the series (afaik they aren't that far off) so you get a better ratio than 1 shit / 1 good =)
jm2c
"this books are very similar to Weber's Honor Harrington series (which I hate ferociously btw. if you like them take everything I say about this book with a grain of salt)"
and
Needless to say, I do not like David Weber, nor do I like the Honor Harrington books. I am deeply distrustful of anyone who does.
The first is polite, short and concise. The second would be short and concise if it wasn't just the last sentence of a long Weber bashing without a point.
That said, yes, I like the Honor Harrington books but the reviewer is correct about various problems of the books even though he exaggerates of course. I didn't like his tone that's all. You can write something like that in a comment -in every M$-Apple flamewar there are vast numbers of comments that are worse- but is it really necessary to write it in a review?
It's about 100 times more likely that that loser just wants your TV-Set and that's only if *every* rape happened during a burglary
Listen to yourself. Better to be raped, than to have a shot at fighting back
Why are you so obsessed with someone raping your wife? Isn't your marriage what it used to be?
And that's with an example of a shotgun versus a handgun.
I never specified the type of guns used but apparantly in the US there's a law outlawing shotguns for everyone but law-abiding citizens. Very clever.
You are either a retard, a frenchie (same thing?), or a troll so clever...
Yay, ad hominem attacks. You just gotta love them. Oh big strong Mister please keep shoving your mighty shotgun up your wife's ass and don't come over and shoot me! I'm so afraid I shit my pants now I must go and clean them so it seems like you have to keep on trolling without me. cu
I don't have any statistics either but I can't imagine that they're much beyond 50/50. Why should you have a big advantage?
The burglar who kills the homeowner is just fucked
Yeah but he's more likely to think about his future career when he expects to survive this burglary. If he doesn't believe you have a weapon he'll worry about the 40 years in prison and that Bubba-guy who seems to like his ass but if he's worried about surviving the next 10 minutes he'll take his chances
I'm sorry, but only a european could justify strategic victimality.
I'm sorry but only an American could justify dying for his TV-set. Where are you from again? ;)
As for not putting serial killers in jail because some redneck jury decided that it's a good thing he rid the world of some damn niggers, I guess you're lucky that you don't have many serial...no wait.
I'd prefer the European system any day; we're not executing minors and mentally ill and if some big-ass corp sues you you're not going bankrupt to pay a decent lawyer because the looser pays.
The next time before you're posting your oh so patriotic bs try to actually understand that there are different ways to do something and one's not necessarily worse than the other. There are many checks in effect to prevent simple government harrassment but that apparently doesn't interest you because you're not interested in some detail of the legal system but getting back the moral high ground the US threw away when Bush and his loonies came into power and you started behaving like a spoiled schoolyard bully. You should talk to Ashcroft about a nice "you have our legal system or you're with the terrorists" statement or something like that.
Now, I for my part will lean back and watch the troll moddings come in. HAND =)
That's awfully confident. I'd say the chances of having one shotgun owner having his head blown off before he could shoot aren't that bad. Others will see that all those wanna-be Rambos are dangerous and will be armed and ready to shoot when they do their next break-in
On the other hand, you can play it safe, hoping to earn the mercy of the felon, as he rapes your wife at gunpoint, making you watch... because, hell, if you *had* a gun, he might have had to kill you first!
That's got nothing to do with mercy. Burglary/armed robbery is much preferable to rape/murder whether you look at the likely sentences or the probability of getting caught (Solving rates in Germany for murder are around 95%, rape around 80% iirc and burglary 15% - the number of burglaries per 100000 inhabitants is higher in Europe but both rape and murder are three times higher in the US)
Well it's only logical that they'd have a vested interest in it
They officially removed the verdict of heresy against Galilei at the end of 1992.
I don't think any church offical disputed that Galilei was right for a century or two so you're both right =)
argh - GUI of course. I will j00z the preview button, I will juice the preview button... =P
But then all the mac zealots suddenly are up in arms when Microsoft redefines the guy? Geez, talking about hypocrisy =)
Imagine you're a burglar and just broke into a house you got a gun with you (criminals will always have guns) and suddenly you hear the sound of someone coming down the stairs what do you do?
I think it's more likely that you'd shoot the guy if you're somewhere where everone has a shotgun under his/her bed than if it's in Europe and you can safely assume that whoever it is is unarmed.
I don't know if there's actual evidence for this (or against it) but just my 2 cents
look here
It *is* run by a totalitarian regime, don't you listen to the Brits at /.? SCNR =)
So Osama's not only against the American Way of Life, democracy, human rights and bikinis but also hates the Clintons? WOOT, Hillary for President! =)
Competing with other OSes is nice but not as efficient because it's too easy to see a new feature and say "it's not possible on Linux the kernel (X/libxyz.so) has to be changed first" and therefore shift the responsibility onto someone else. That's not possible if there's a competing DE which implements that feature now.
I'd love interoperability but it has to happen on an equal footing; everything else would be a travesty
I don't think anyone here doubts that SCO's going to be in the gutter in a year or two the latest but to get rich we should have bought their stock nevertheless.
If information markets will be as reliable at foretelling the future as the stock market is today why don't we simply roll a die instead?
Don't forget, two out of that three times the French declared war on us =P
Watch Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - that's more or less exactly what happens in that show =)
Perhaps I'm doing long distance flights twice every week, perhaps I want a player primarily for jogging, perhaps I'm a student and just don't have the money
In all that cases I'd want a big comparison which states more than that iPod kicks a$$ but also tells me which other player would better suit me needs. The thing, the CNET article could have made clearer, is which trade-offs I have to accept when going for one of the alternatives
jm2
The problem isn't that we have different toolkits, the problem is that we aren't able to simply set our preferences in the KDE/GNOME control center and they're then applied to all apps
Actually that would be bad - with Konqueror I can select a url which isn't a link and simply middle-click with the rest of the bunch I have to use the context menu
Built-in mouse gesture would be sweet =)
The usability points still stand.
Your only real point was "iTunes has less buttons" actually it has almost as many as juk and they're not even placed at the top, so what remains? Cut and paste *are* useful, you can use them instead of drag and drop to get new songs from the collection list to a playlist and *many* (typically middle-aged semi-computer-literate) people feel more comfortable with c&p than with dnd
Well, you know hosting is expensive; I assume the author wants users to minimize the number of times they check the website for updates =P