False...rural citizens (i.e. the red-colored zones) get MORE money, per capita, than people in the cities/urban areas. This is because the rural citizens have their electricity subsidized and their phone connections subsidized
It is not false.
I don't know or care what colour crayon you use to colour in your maps, but my property in Northern Tasmania, although not a vast distance (as the crow flies about 40 km) from a regional centre, is not serviced in ANY way by a government-supplied service. Rubbish gets collected once a fortnight by the municipal council (funded independently by council rates, not by the public purse), and that is it. My water comes from mountain streams (though I'm not about to complain about that), but I have to deal with my own sewerage and supply my own power.
It would cost me thousands of dollars to connect up even a basic phone-line for a dial-up connection, and I don't see that changing.
So I am not being inaccurate in claiming the government does nothing but take my money. There is barely anything even in the way of a health service here, and what there is is having funding cut back.
You could probably call him a thief if you're really up in arms about copyright. He's not going out and finding the news himself, he's taking it from actual newspapers, infringing on their copyrights. Bit of a dick move, but you could.
It isn't an infringement of copyright (and certainly not theft) to write a precis of published content. Otherwise every literature reviewer on the planet could be pinged for the same offence.
The only people that don't are in places where it is very expensive to provide. So.. you want the 90% who have decent broadband to pay even more so that the 10% in places where it is expensive don't have to pay so much...
Yes. The government has a free ride in the cities, where there is lots of competition among the corporations to fill in the gaps, but those of us in more remote areas pay just as much (or more) in taxes, which the government takes from us while providing almost NOTHING in the way of services to justify what they take. This is one thing the government CAN do to justify its existence, and it's about time it did.
Sometimes, something can be so ridiculous, that just pointing and laughing is sufficient.
Nail, meet hammer. To elaborate, there is still NO indication that Australia's fabled broadband network is ever going to eventuate. There's been a couple of years of blow-hard yapping about it, but the government has yet to come up with a single concrete proposition as to how it is going to go about it.
Don't get me wrong, I was one of those who helped this government get elected (and I'm all for the roll-out of a decent network), but while its members are nowhere near as openly malevolent as their predecessors, much of their policy to date has been the application of "spin" to somehow justify their lack of action.
Google is already using their own map data (at least for US).
I don't know where Google Maps gets its data for Australia, but when I recently tried a GPS device "powered" by Whereis, I found the latter sadly inferior. All it was able to accomplish was a latitude/longitude reference in many locations where Google Maps offers a reasonably complete map. Fortunately the device was on loan, so it wasn't the result of an expensive mistake.
Well, given that he is talking about Abiword, who knows what he's talking about? I could be out of date, but I used to check up from time to time on Abi's development, and I'm sorry to say that last time I looked it was (still) a godawful piece of shit. Certainly nowhere near what I would call a "real" word processor, whatever that might mean.
It's "jury-rig", not "jerry-rig" you dumb piece of shit.
If you insist on being pedantic (not to mention gratuitously obnoxious), you should be aware that both are now regarded as correct, although the latter has different etymology. The language evolves whether you like it or not, and attempts to cast it in bronze are doomed to failure.
So in other words, the statement that they had sex is just his personal opinion?
If something exists, or existed at the same time and in the same place as people, we've had sex with it.
Well, if he's got no evidence to back up his statement, then yes it is his personal opinion. Which might not be worth very much when you bear in mind that the Neanderthals are believed to have been quite powerfully built. A male human might be at risk of having the crap beaten out of him if his advances were unwelcome.
Also bear in mind that they didn't have the internet then, so it probably took a bit more time to come up with new perversions.;-)
I'm sure manufacturers also count on people like myself who might not find it worth the trouble of tracking down a receipt in order to claim under warranty. And, of course, it is perfectly possible for them to exaggerate claims for reliability, given that the maximum payout figure for which they are liable is for no more than the cost of the media.
This reminds me of the old advice we used to get, to the effect of that solid-state drives have a more or less finite number of read/write operations possible on them. This used to be given as a reason not to use journalling file systems.
I've never explored this idea, so I have no idea whether this is bullshit or not. However, I have had enough flash drives fail to leave me regarding them as unreliable media for any kind of long-term or critical storage. On the other hand, I still have a few of the aforementioned "spinning rust" drives that are now almost 20 years old but which still work. (Though, in the interests of saving physical space in my safe, I have now transferred their contents to more modern media.)
I'll tell you what "ease of use" means for the end user on linux...
As far as I'm concerned, one thing that might represent "ease of use" on Linux might be the release of source code that actually passes through gcc without falling in a heap. I've lost count of the number of times I've gone through the usual./configure --prefix=/usr/local && mke && make install only to find stupid syntax errors have made it into the release, causing the build to fail.
also help binaries to link against multiple versions of standard libraries
I suppose it should be possible to to this by using something like locate or ldconfig -v | grep foo.so to track down the appropriate libraries and create a mess of symlinks to make it work, but I wouldn't want anyone doing that on my systems, thank you very much.
Ryan Gordon appears to present a workable demonstration of how these fat binaries might be implemented without providing much in the way of insight into why they might be useful. After all, the idea is hardly original; there are countless examples of pieces of old Windows software that link their own copies of libraries rather than bothering to play nice with the rest of the system.
If you have data that's so important that you don't want the Chinese or NSA looking at it, send it by snail mail on a disk!
Too easily intercepted. The only way to keep it secure is to whisper it in someone's ear on a lonely beach. Time was when crowded streets and shopping malls might have been good, but there seem to be cameras everywhere these days...
When I was a kid, Mr Blair's "1984" seemed a little improbable. Now it's just old hat.
TL;DR : only use Tor if you know what the hell you are doing.
I don't have a problem with multi-sentence posts. But Tor, while a laudable and useful idea, has its limitations with mobile devices...
...the main one being that someone can whack you over the head in the street, taking your phone, and your security is gone with last year's business management theories.
The beauty of wine, is that you can configure multiple wine instances which are segregated from each other
At the risk of sounding a bit flamebaity, it could be argued that the beauty of Wine is that it is vulnerable enough to attacks to wipe out your Wine profiles. Nothing of value will be lost, and it will free up a bit of space to put to more worthwhile use.
I've tinkered with Wine since about 1997, and the frustration involved in getting anything to actually work properly has never been justified by results. Linux, although far from perfect, has been mature enough for the desktop for years, while every time I use Windows I find myself grinding my teeth.
I once thought to consolidate my charging solutions by using my iPod charger plug (which has a standard USB socket in the back) with a mini-USB cable connected via Motorola's mini-to-micro USB adaptor to my phone.
The cable arrangement (IMO) should have worked, given that it does when connected to a computer, but it didn't with the standalone charger. I have had similarly inconsistent results when attempting to use powered USB hubs to do the job.
Manufacturers don't actually need to use a wall-wart as such. They could easily use a length of cable terminated by a normal plug, with the "wart" part of it at some point on the cable away from the socket.
That way, we wouldn't have that continual problem with running out of usable power outlets because of some fucking wall-wart taking up more than its fair share of space.
Yup, using speech as a social status marker is what aristocrats use to make sure that everyone around knows what they are.
If you choose to express the paltry contents of your small mind in monosyllabic grunts, that is entirely up to you. Just don't expect it to be worth our while listening. There is nothing pretentious about making use of a rich language in evocative expression, whether that be in speech or written prose.
Some colleges advocate the dumbing-down of written prose into contemptible, footling little single-clause sentences such as "This is Spot. See Spot run....", and I have had enough of it.
It really is not that hard to plumb the depths of a multi-clause English sentence, any more than it is difficult to parse nested expressions in a well-written piece of program code. Furthermore, there is no reason why we have to limit ourselves to 200 words (reserved or otherwise) to reflect all the multifarious aspects of our existence.
for example, he didn't write most of Pericles and Henry VIII...
As to the latter, he might not have wanted to claim too much ownership to that play, given its first performance only 10 years after the death of Elizabeth, Henry's daughter. Dangerous ground indeed, given the treatment meted out by the Queen's secret police to other playwrights of the time.
In fact, the first performance of that play happened to be the same night the Globe Theatre burnt down. Good fodder for conspiracy theories there...
isn't it more likely that someone back then was plagarizing from Shakespear and Kyd? As opposed to them collaborating?
I don't see why. The two were contemporaneous (Kyd was 6 years older), and it has long been surmised that Kyd wrote a precursor to Shakespeare's Hamlet. They would certainly have known each other, and 16th-century London was not such a big place that either could afford to ignore each other, and it's hardly beyond the bounds of possibility that they might have worked together. The life of an impoverished playwright was pretty much a hand-to-mouth existence, which I guess might be partly why Kyd at one time shared rooms with Kit Marlowe.
This latter circumstance did neither of them any good when Kyd was later arrested and tortured in the Tower and forced to implicate Marlowe in authorship of "lewd and mutinous libels". It's all a rich and colourful story which has been taken up by various authors.
If anybody's interested, I can recommend "Christoferus or Tom Kyd's Revenge" by Robin Chapman as a brilliant fictionalised account.
But I digress. Shakespeare's life seems to have been mostly untouched by these shenanigans (I guess he was more affluent), which might account for the higher survival rate of his works.
...for any given release date, Britain (and any other countries situated on zero degrees longitude) would always be the first locus of infection^W^W^W err, place to see the product hit the shelves in shops.
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False...rural citizens (i.e. the red-colored zones) get MORE money, per capita, than people in the cities/urban areas. This is because the rural citizens have their electricity subsidized and their phone connections subsidized
It is not false.
I don't know or care what colour crayon you use to colour in your maps, but my property in Northern Tasmania, although not a vast distance (as the crow flies about 40 km) from a regional centre, is not serviced in ANY way by a government-supplied service. Rubbish gets collected once a fortnight by the municipal council (funded independently by council rates, not by the public purse), and that is it. My water comes from mountain streams (though I'm not about to complain about that), but I have to deal with my own sewerage and supply my own power.
It would cost me thousands of dollars to connect up even a basic phone-line for a dial-up connection, and I don't see that changing.
So I am not being inaccurate in claiming the government does nothing but take my money. There is barely anything even in the way of a health service here, and what there is is having funding cut back.
You could probably call him a thief if you're really up in arms about copyright. He's not going out and finding the news himself, he's taking it from actual newspapers, infringing on their copyrights. Bit of a dick move, but you could.
It isn't an infringement of copyright (and certainly not theft) to write a precis of published content. Otherwise every literature reviewer on the planet could be pinged for the same offence.
if I knew whether women who have had a baby got "freeplay"...
:-D
That, sir, is truly funny. A perfectly good mechanical engineering term applied in a gynaecological context.
J.D. Hogg
I'm not fond of the term "analogue blog"
Indeed. Since the guy uses his fingers to write it, the blog is truly "digital".
The only people that don't are in places where it is very expensive to provide. So .. you want the 90% who have decent broadband to pay even more so that the 10% in places where it is expensive don't have to pay so much...
Yes. The government has a free ride in the cities, where there is lots of competition among the corporations to fill in the gaps, but those of us in more remote areas pay just as much (or more) in taxes, which the government takes from us while providing almost NOTHING in the way of services to justify what they take. This is one thing the government CAN do to justify its existence, and it's about time it did.
Sometimes, something can be so ridiculous, that just pointing and laughing is sufficient.
Nail, meet hammer. To elaborate, there is still NO indication that Australia's fabled broadband network is ever going to eventuate. There's been a couple of years of blow-hard yapping about it, but the government has yet to come up with a single concrete proposition as to how it is going to go about it.
Don't get me wrong, I was one of those who helped this government get elected (and I'm all for the roll-out of a decent network), but while its members are nowhere near as openly malevolent as their predecessors, much of their policy to date has been the application of "spin" to somehow justify their lack of action.
Google is already using their own map data (at least for US).
I don't know where Google Maps gets its data for Australia, but when I recently tried a GPS device "powered" by Whereis, I found the latter sadly inferior. All it was able to accomplish was a latitude/longitude reference in many locations where Google Maps offers a reasonably complete map. Fortunately the device was on loan, so it wasn't the result of an expensive mistake.
Well, given that he is talking about Abiword, who knows what he's talking about? I could be out of date, but I used to check up from time to time on Abi's development, and I'm sorry to say that last time I looked it was (still) a godawful piece of shit. Certainly nowhere near what I would call a "real" word processor, whatever that might mean.
It's "jury-rig", not "jerry-rig" you dumb piece of shit.
If you insist on being pedantic (not to mention gratuitously obnoxious), you should be aware that both are now regarded as correct, although the latter has different etymology. The language evolves whether you like it or not, and attempts to cast it in bronze are doomed to failure.
So in other words, the statement that they had sex is just his personal opinion?
;-)
If something exists, or existed at the same time and in the same place as people, we've had sex with it.
Well, if he's got no evidence to back up his statement, then yes it is his personal opinion. Which might not be worth very much when you bear in mind that the Neanderthals are believed to have been quite powerfully built. A male human might be at risk of having the crap beaten out of him if his advances were unwelcome.
Also bear in mind that they didn't have the internet then, so it probably took a bit more time to come up with new perversions.
I'm sure manufacturers also count on people like myself who might not find it worth the trouble of tracking down a receipt in order to claim under warranty. And, of course, it is perfectly possible for them to exaggerate claims for reliability, given that the maximum payout figure for which they are liable is for no more than the cost of the media.
This reminds me of the old advice we used to get, to the effect of that solid-state drives have a more or less finite number of read/write operations possible on them. This used to be given as a reason not to use journalling file systems.
I've never explored this idea, so I have no idea whether this is bullshit or not. However, I have had enough flash drives fail to leave me regarding them as unreliable media for any kind of long-term or critical storage. On the other hand, I still have a few of the aforementioned "spinning rust" drives that are now almost 20 years old but which still work. (Though, in the interests of saving physical space in my safe, I have now transferred their contents to more modern media.)
I'll tell you what "ease of use" means for the end user on linux...
./configure --prefix=/usr/local && mke && make install only to find stupid syntax errors have made it into the release, causing the build to fail.
As far as I'm concerned, one thing that might represent "ease of use" on Linux might be the release of source code that actually passes through gcc without falling in a heap. I've lost count of the number of times I've gone through the usual
also help binaries to link against multiple versions of standard libraries
I suppose it should be possible to to this by using something like locate or ldconfig -v | grep foo.so to track down the appropriate libraries and create a mess of symlinks to make it work, but I wouldn't want anyone doing that on my systems, thank you very much.
Ryan Gordon appears to present a workable demonstration of how these fat binaries might be implemented without providing much in the way of insight into why they might be useful. After all, the idea is hardly original; there are countless examples of pieces of old Windows software that link their own copies of libraries rather than bothering to play nice with the rest of the system.
If you have data that's so important that you don't want the Chinese or NSA looking at it, send it by snail mail on a disk!
Too easily intercepted. The only way to keep it secure is to whisper it in someone's ear on a lonely beach. Time was when crowded streets and shopping malls might have been good, but there seem to be cameras everywhere these days...
When I was a kid, Mr Blair's "1984" seemed a little improbable. Now it's just old hat.
TL;DR : only use Tor if you know what the hell you are doing.
I don't have a problem with multi-sentence posts. But Tor, while a laudable and useful idea, has its limitations with mobile devices...
...the main one being that someone can whack you over the head in the street, taking your phone, and your security is gone with last year's business management theories.
No. There is English. Then there is American.
The beauty of wine, is that you can configure multiple wine instances which are segregated from each other
At the risk of sounding a bit flamebaity, it could be argued that the beauty of Wine is that it is vulnerable enough to attacks to wipe out your Wine profiles. Nothing of value will be lost, and it will free up a bit of space to put to more worthwhile use.
I've tinkered with Wine since about 1997, and the frustration involved in getting anything to actually work properly has never been justified by results. Linux, although far from perfect, has been mature enough for the desktop for years, while every time I use Windows I find myself grinding my teeth.
I once thought to consolidate my charging solutions by using my iPod charger plug (which has a standard USB socket in the back) with a mini-USB cable connected via Motorola's mini-to-micro USB adaptor to my phone.
The cable arrangement (IMO) should have worked, given that it does when connected to a computer, but it didn't with the standalone charger. I have had similarly inconsistent results when attempting to use powered USB hubs to do the job.
Manufacturers don't actually need to use a wall-wart as such. They could easily use a length of cable terminated by a normal plug, with the "wart" part of it at some point on the cable away from the socket.
That way, we wouldn't have that continual problem with running out of usable power outlets because of some fucking wall-wart taking up more than its fair share of space.
Maemo is much more of an adventure because it's new.
:-|
I guess it's only an adventure if you happen to have a Nokia device...
Yup, using speech as a social status marker is what aristocrats use to make sure that everyone around knows what they are.
If you choose to express the paltry contents of your small mind in monosyllabic grunts, that is entirely up to you. Just don't expect it to be worth our while listening. There is nothing pretentious about making use of a rich language in evocative expression, whether that be in speech or written prose.
Some colleges advocate the dumbing-down of written prose into contemptible, footling little single-clause sentences such as "This is Spot. See Spot run....", and I have had enough of it.
It really is not that hard to plumb the depths of a multi-clause English sentence, any more than it is difficult to parse nested expressions in a well-written piece of program code. Furthermore, there is no reason why we have to limit ourselves to 200 words (reserved or otherwise) to reflect all the multifarious aspects of our existence.
for example, he didn't write most of Pericles and Henry VIII...
As to the latter, he might not have wanted to claim too much ownership to that play, given its first performance only 10 years after the death of Elizabeth, Henry's daughter. Dangerous ground indeed, given the treatment meted out by the Queen's secret police to other playwrights of the time.
In fact, the first performance of that play happened to be the same night the Globe Theatre burnt down. Good fodder for conspiracy theories there...
isn't it more likely that someone back then was plagarizing from Shakespear and Kyd? As opposed to them collaborating?
I don't see why. The two were contemporaneous (Kyd was 6 years older), and it has long been surmised that Kyd wrote a precursor to Shakespeare's Hamlet. They would certainly have known each other, and 16th-century London was not such a big place that either could afford to ignore each other, and it's hardly beyond the bounds of possibility that they might have worked together. The life of an impoverished playwright was pretty much a hand-to-mouth existence, which I guess might be partly why Kyd at one time shared rooms with Kit Marlowe.
This latter circumstance did neither of them any good when Kyd was later arrested and tortured in the Tower and forced to implicate Marlowe in authorship of "lewd and mutinous libels". It's all a rich and colourful story which has been taken up by various authors.
If anybody's interested, I can recommend "Christoferus or Tom Kyd's Revenge" by Robin Chapman as a brilliant fictionalised account.
But I digress. Shakespeare's life seems to have been mostly untouched by these shenanigans (I guess he was more affluent), which might account for the higher survival rate of his works.
...for any given release date, Britain (and any other countries situated on zero degrees longitude) would always be the first locus of infection^W^W^W err, place to see the product hit the shelves in shops.