The majority of American's want abortion to be made illegal? Offhand, do you have any links to polls by pollitically independant groups (Someone without ties to either democrats or republicans) showing this?
I was more upset with the sudden revelation that I couldn't, before remembering that I also couldn't find my local post office on a map a couple days back. Man, I can't even find my 'own' government on a map, let alone someone elses!
No excuse exists for willful ignorance. If a term confuses me, I look it up.
I strongly agree with everything you've said here. I switched from pharmacology to computer science, and in both professions, again and again I came accross this idea that we had to dumb things down to a level many ten year olds would have been insulted by. And the sad thing is that people depend on this so much. I was working in a pharmacy for a while, and quite often I'd see people refer to their drugs by color. "Yes Sir, what exactly are you using to keep yourself from dying? GREEN PILLS!!!". When many people refuse to go so far as to even learn the name of the thing that's keeping them alive, I have little hope for most people learning anything they're not forced to.
The whole thing with Windows.Forms killed any interest I might have had. If wine's needed it isn't crossplatform enough for me. And if the GTK interface is used, windows users are still going to be forced to download additional libraries. Java or Python bindings around WxWindows seems like a better solution for crossplatform gui programs.
Linux needs to offer something that looks really nifty to the average user, not just replicate Windows functionality.
I both agree, and have doubts if something like that is even possible. One of the best things about Linux is it's open nature, but that also limits it sometimes. Any great program or functionality is almost inevitably ported to windows because coders on that platform have access to the code of anything we do, while the reverse does not happen.
Someone else mentioned the fact that he's got a reader with him all the time anyway, which makes it pretty conveinent to have a book or three in there. I'm not going to bring a book around with me everywhere I go just on the offchance that I might get stuck in a long line, or waiting for someone. But when such an event happens, having good reading material right at hand is very nice. Also nice is being able to have a selection of books in there at any one time, just in case I finish one book while waiting somwhere.
Battery life isn't much of an issue for me. I've got an older ipaq, and even with that I can usually squeeze about ten hours out of it with the addition of an extra battery pack that's small enough to tote around with the pda. Hooking it up isn't much of an issue. Take out of pocket, plug into pda. And if at home, the power situation wouldn't be an issue.
"So that's what all those ordinary suburban families do nowadays. That's why I never see them about anymore"
They've evolved out of existance. After generations, the white male father became so clumsy and stupid that he couldn't procreate, and the mothers so super-intelligent and powerful that she evolved into a bodyless alien overlord.
Compile it yourself with xft support. It's a pain getting used to the process, but in my opinion the end results more than justify the time I put into it.
I had the same experience, but with a move to phoenix/firebird. Out of curiosity I downloaded and compiled one of the nightlies, and have not touched firebird since. With the same skin, I don't think I'd be able to tell the difference betwean them in terms of speed. With spellchecking broken in the kde cvs currently, mozilla mail is going to make a fine substituion for kmail.
If you actually take advantage of the NWScripting abilities to build your world you can basically create a campaign as detailed as one you can build on paper as well.
If one is using Windows. Yes, I'm still bitter about the toolset not being available in Linux.
Just keep in mind that there will be problems. I've been using that build for a month or two now, and there's two big issues I've had. The first is that the kde spellcheck component has been in various stages of brokeness for all that time. Which is ironic, because the single thing I'd most looked foreward to was spellchecking of text boxes in konqueror. The second big problem for me is that with the last update, I'm unable to delete files using konqueror as the file manager. Sure, I can just move over to the command line and rm, but it's still a bit of a hastle.
Things might have progressed since last I took a look into this, but isn't it impossible for any Linux distro to make use of 3D acceleration on the XBox? I love 2D games, but I can't imagine a game combining that and slow load times as linux boots up, being much of a danger to microsoft.
I'm in the same boat. I have a couple of desktop, swing based java applications that I find useful. But unfourtunatly what I don't have is a lot of memory, and using too many at the same time bogs down my system.
I remember hearing talk quite a long time ago about plans to allow spellchecking of textboxes, such as on slashdot, from a menu in mozilla. Anyone know if this feature is still planned once the dictionary is offcially added in? I'm using Mozilla for the moment, as the spellcheck feature is broken in the cvs build of kde right now. And for the most part I actually prefer it to konqueror, but that spellcheck is to me the killer feature which dictates which I use.
I switched over to Debian Unstable a couple months back, and have been thrilled with it so far. One thing that's baffeled me though, is being unable to find a repository with recent versions of mozilla on it. Without fail, whenever I think I've found one it turns out to be an apt repository for redhat. Are there any repositories out there for debian unstable that offer up the latest versions of mozilla?
Can you really be sure though? I know they've replaced some dlls with dummies, but the thing is closed source. How can you be sure that there's nothing compiled into the main program? Were I in their position, I would have just written my own little data gathering routines in addition to the standard methods the second kazaa lite showed up, to nab people who thought they could run one over on me.
I've never understood why people use this either. Even assuming that kazzaa lite has all the spyware removed, and that's a big assumption, why would anyone want to use software created to screw you over when other alternitives exist.
That's along the lines of what I was thinking as well. Virus, spyware, annoying d00d users, and windows as the only platform. Seems like the perfect canidate to associate with the mainstream.
I want to feel sorry for them, until I realize that they put "Windows use" on their resume, which was a fucking lie. Now I can hate them with a clear conscience.
Depending on their generation, that really might not be so bad. I think we lose sight of just how scared the majority of people are of computers. I was listening to a radio show the other day, and on it a teacher was in the middle of a distance learning class about teaching technology to younger kids. The teacher was actually a little confused by the idea of hitting links to get to the next lesson, and I think that's really the norm rather than the exception for some generations right now. For them, having learned what button to press in order to get out of a window does in fact mean they know how to use windows.
Now, if someone got a job instead of me by saying they had ten years of experience with C#, then I'd be rather annoyed at resume shanagins.
They aren't that dumb, and everyone knows that kind of basic science principle.
In a perfect world perhaps, but I've seen a depressing number of studies that started from what in retrospect was an obviously flawed assumption. Researchers are just as human as anyone else, and can just as easily make a tragic oversight when carried away with an interesting study.
No worries there. The same people terrified of being attacked by crazed gang members under the effects of "REFFER MADDNESS" are often fairly technophobic as well. Given a few light reports on the tv news, I'm sure folks will start trying to get continuing research into this banned as well.
and to lump ephedra in a sentence with ecstasy? seriouslly. do you know anything about drugs?
You made a good point with the statistical flaw, but lost me when you got to the above. I advise you to stop calling the kettle black, and go do some research yourself.
Slashdot Mirror
(then abortion)
The majority of American's want abortion to be made illegal? Offhand, do you have any links to polls by pollitically independant groups (Someone without ties to either democrats or republicans) showing this?
I was more upset with the sudden revelation that I couldn't, before remembering that I also couldn't find my local post office on a map a couple days back. Man, I can't even find my 'own' government on a map, let alone someone elses!
No excuse exists for willful ignorance. If a term confuses me, I look it up.
I strongly agree with everything you've said here. I switched from pharmacology to computer science, and in both professions, again and again I came accross this idea that we had to dumb things down to a level many ten year olds would have been insulted by. And the sad thing is that people depend on this so much. I was working in a pharmacy for a while, and quite often I'd see people refer to their drugs by color. "Yes Sir, what exactly are you using to keep yourself from dying? GREEN PILLS!!!". When many people refuse to go so far as to even learn the name of the thing that's keeping them alive, I have little hope for most people learning anything they're not forced to.
The whole thing with Windows.Forms killed any interest I might have had. If wine's needed it isn't crossplatform enough for me. And if the GTK interface is used, windows users are still going to be forced to download additional libraries. Java or Python bindings around WxWindows seems like a better solution for crossplatform gui programs.
Linux needs to offer something that looks really nifty to the average user, not just replicate Windows functionality.
I both agree, and have doubts if something like that is even possible. One of the best things about Linux is it's open nature, but that also limits it sometimes. Any great program or functionality is almost inevitably ported to windows because coders on that platform have access to the code of anything we do, while the reverse does not happen.
Someone else mentioned the fact that he's got a reader with him all the time anyway, which makes it pretty conveinent to have a book or three in there. I'm not going to bring a book around with me everywhere I go just on the offchance that I might get stuck in a long line, or waiting for someone. But when such an event happens, having good reading material right at hand is very nice. Also nice is being able to have a selection of books in there at any one time, just in case I finish one book while waiting somwhere.
Battery life isn't much of an issue for me. I've got an older ipaq, and even with that I can usually squeeze about ten hours out of it with the addition of an extra battery pack that's small enough to tote around with the pda. Hooking it up isn't much of an issue. Take out of pocket, plug into pda. And if at home, the power situation wouldn't be an issue.
"So that's what all those ordinary suburban families do nowadays. That's why I never see them about anymore"
They've evolved out of existance. After generations, the white male father became so clumsy and stupid that he couldn't procreate, and the mothers so super-intelligent and powerful that she evolved into a bodyless alien overlord.
Why would those be wasted on a linux kernel running on a video game console?
No 3D accelerated drivers for NVIDIA's hardware in the xbox.
The reason to put linux on an xbox, is to play games on your xbox.
I agree, which is why I personally don't care about Linux on the xbox, beyond the 'Huh, that's neat' appeal.
Compile it yourself with xft support. It's a pain getting used to the process, but in my opinion the end results more than justify the time I put into it.
I had the same experience, but with a move to phoenix/firebird. Out of curiosity I downloaded and compiled one of the nightlies, and have not touched firebird since. With the same skin, I don't think I'd be able to tell the difference betwean them in terms of speed. With spellchecking broken in the kde cvs currently, mozilla mail is going to make a fine substituion for kmail.
If you actually take advantage of the NWScripting abilities to build your world you can basically create a campaign as detailed as one you can build on paper as well.
If one is using Windows. Yes, I'm still bitter about the toolset not being available in Linux.
Just keep in mind that there will be problems. I've been using that build for a month or two now, and there's two big issues I've had. The first is that the kde spellcheck component has been in various stages of brokeness for all that time. Which is ironic, because the single thing I'd most looked foreward to was spellchecking of text boxes in konqueror. The second big problem for me is that with the last update, I'm unable to delete files using konqueror as the file manager. Sure, I can just move over to the command line and rm, but it's still a bit of a hastle.
Things might have progressed since last I took a look into this, but isn't it impossible for any Linux distro to make use of 3D acceleration on the XBox? I love 2D games, but I can't imagine a game combining that and slow load times as linux boots up, being much of a danger to microsoft.
Can anyone suggest other great games for Linux ?
:)
Mame
I'm in the same boat. I have a couple of desktop, swing based java applications that I find useful. But unfourtunatly what I don't have is a lot of memory, and using too many at the same time bogs down my system.
I remember hearing talk quite a long time ago about plans to allow spellchecking of textboxes, such as on slashdot, from a menu in mozilla. Anyone know if this feature is still planned once the dictionary is offcially added in? I'm using Mozilla for the moment, as the spellcheck feature is broken in the cvs build of kde right now. And for the most part I actually prefer it to konqueror, but that spellcheck is to me the killer feature which dictates which I use.
I switched over to Debian Unstable a couple months back, and have been thrilled with it so far. One thing that's baffeled me though, is being unable to find a repository with recent versions of mozilla on it. Without fail, whenever I think I've found one it turns out to be an apt repository for redhat. Are there any repositories out there for debian unstable that offer up the latest versions of mozilla?
Sans spywayre and ads.
Can you really be sure though? I know they've replaced some dlls with dummies, but the thing is closed source. How can you be sure that there's nothing compiled into the main program? Were I in their position, I would have just written my own little data gathering routines in addition to the standard methods the second kazaa lite showed up, to nab people who thought they could run one over on me.
I've never understood why people use this either. Even assuming that kazzaa lite has all the spyware removed, and that's a big assumption, why would anyone want to use software created to screw you over when other alternitives exist.
That's along the lines of what I was thinking as well. Virus, spyware, annoying d00d users, and windows as the only platform. Seems like the perfect canidate to associate with the mainstream.
I want to feel sorry for them, until I realize that they put "Windows use" on their resume, which was a fucking lie. Now I can hate them with a clear conscience.
Depending on their generation, that really might not be so bad. I think we lose sight of just how scared the majority of people are of computers. I was listening to a radio show the other day, and on it a teacher was in the middle of a distance learning class about teaching technology to younger kids. The teacher was actually a little confused by the idea of hitting links to get to the next lesson, and I think that's really the norm rather than the exception for some generations right now. For them, having learned what button to press in order to get out of a window does in fact mean they know how to use windows.
Now, if someone got a job instead of me by saying they had ten years of experience with C#, then I'd be rather annoyed at resume shanagins.
Were I in their shoes, I'd take the site down and move it over to freenet.
They aren't that dumb, and everyone knows that kind of basic science principle.
In a perfect world perhaps, but I've seen a depressing number of studies that started from what in retrospect was an obviously flawed assumption. Researchers are just as human as anyone else, and can just as easily make a tragic oversight when carried away with an interesting study.
No worries there. The same people terrified of being attacked by crazed gang members under the effects of "REFFER MADDNESS" are often fairly technophobic as well. Given a few light reports on the tv news, I'm sure folks will start trying to get continuing research into this banned as well.
and to lump ephedra in a sentence with ecstasy? seriouslly. do you know anything about drugs?
You made a good point with the statistical flaw, but lost me when you got to the above. I advise you to stop calling the kettle black, and go do some research yourself.