Which is unfortunate for Australia, since it means Australia did not have as noble a reason for setting up its own government as America did. Our constitution isn't based around Liberty.
After European settlement, Australia was primarily inhabited by honest, law abiding colonists who were not sent there by force and did not flee seeking to practice any sort of new religion or ideology, but simply to make a good life for themselves on the land. Australia did not become independent in a violent ideological war over taxes but was given independence because all involved thought it could be governed better from Melbourne than London. We invented the secret ballot, we were the first country to give women the vote in the state level and second in the federal level. Australia's all about freedom, not as an ideal but as a lifestyle, to be able to make a good, fair life without harassment.
The Australian constitution only defines the relationship between the states and the running of federal democracy. It has done this quite well but what it does not do is impose the will of those who have died a century ago on Australia today. Look at the US which you mentioned before (and which I'm sorry to bash), The US has the bill of rights but the thirteenth and fourteenth amendment is nowhere to be found. You can have free speech, firearms, freedom from billeting soldiers, protection from unreasonable searches etc. but until 3 amendments after it ends, you can own other people and until the next; black people aren't citizens. And bare in mind here, the nasty, oppressive British empire banned slavery ten years after American succession, the ideological US took four score and seven years to do the same. The original American view of citizenship was very close to the old "Civis Romanis Sum" school of thought: freedom should be absolute for the free, but those not entitled should be subject to the liberties of those who have them.
In Australia, you are granted generally the same rights as in the US but by common law and acts of parliament, not by constitutional amendments. Sure, it gives the government latitude to do stupid things like this Internet filter. But the government in this country has ALWAYS censored pornography, we just got a lucky break for twenty years with the Internet but it's the same laws creeping onto another medium, not really a new development. Nude pictures aren't considered part of free speech in this country, it pretty much has to be related to politics or religion to be protected. But within this definition, we do have free speech in this country. With or without this Internet filter, I can still say on the Internet or out on the street "Fuck Australia, fuck Keven Rudd and fuck our troops serving in Afghanistan" and nobody will block me, nobody will arrest me and nobody will show up in a truck and kick my arse for being un-patriotic.
I don't want this filter, I am embarrassed by this filter, I am writing to my local member about this filter and I will never vote for anyone who supports this filter. However, I still think there is a lot of silly hyperbole going around here about it.
Yeah, Ubuntu only has graphical configuration tools for things like Network, Printers, Users etc. If you want to set up something like BIND to serve up DNS for your domain, or Apache to host a little bit of PHP you need to edit configuration files by hand. What's more, other common day-to-day tasks have no graphical interface such as compiling and linking c source code and forwarding ports over an SSH session. The Graphical User Interface to nmap is very rudimentary, without even providing a port scanning wizard; finger and traceroute are almost as bad. If I asked my mother to reverse engineer some open source drivers for my nVidia 9800 she wouldn't even know how to disassemble the binary driver without using the command line. It's clearly not ready for the common user.
The world is in a global economic depression and they are rigging up their beach with AC. Give me a break.
The world is in a global economic depression because everyone's too worried about the global economic depression to spend enough money to pick the economy back up. If you've got the money to spend on something that takes an enormous amount of labour it will be a great thing for the economy as the extra cash circulating will boost everyone's confidence to spend their own. Plus, if you ever wanted to have something like this built, now is the time.
The election isn't for another two years. We'd overthrow them by force, but overthrowing a democratically elected government does not have a good track record in making a good successor.
I think this is all a good experience for Australian democracy, we had a Liberal government for close to twelve years. We had forgotten how much of irresponsible populists the Labor party are. The Labor opposition had drawn us to things like mandatory detention of asylum seekers and had the Australian people convinced that they were somehow a "freedom party" of sorts. So as their first memorable act they go out to censor the Internet.
Now we have that idiot Rudd spending education dollars on free laptops, telecommunications infrastructure dollars on censorship and tax dollars on allowances to buy Christmas presents. I can't believe that I voted for these arsehats.
The way the summary puts it, survival horror is defined by bad controls and camera angles, which means Dead Space qualifies as the best example of the last half decade. The ridiculous over-the-shoulder camera angle which doesn't give you any more spacial context than first person but blocks up half the screen with your back is something that annoys me, as is that moving the mouse in aim mode moves the gun before the head making aiming awkward. Dead Space wasn't a terrible game, but the whole third person thing just seemed like a contrived way to show off those holograms while making the game more frustrating and less immersive.
A 10x multiplier means that a really good programmer can solve a problem in an amount of time that a team of 10 average programmers could solve it. This is not unlikely at all in my reckoning because the thing that you are forgetting is that programming skill doesn't scale linearly. A team must discuss, debate, divide and delegate the problem so that the individuals in it can each cover a part, often with either overlaps or gaps, because it evolves the solution becomes far more complex and it causes even more problems for the group to understand. If a single individual can understand an entire problem this means that they can create a solution that covers the entire breadth of it in a single directed effort, the solution will be simpler (if they are truly good) and can be completed faster.
The problem may only be a tiny bit too big for an average developer but that can be the difference between understanding and misunderstanding. Humans may be all quite close to each other in intelligence, but a tiny difference in brains can make a huge difference in the final applications. Good developers aren't ten times as smart as an average developer, but they can still outdo ten regular ones in productivity.
I have my PS3 hooked up to a cheap-arse Samsung LCD monitor. Previously I had it hooked up to a shitty PAL CRT TV. Either way it is playable and looks a whole lot better than the last generation ever did. I have no idea what person started the whole "you need an HDTV" thing, I mean, if you can see PC games on a monitor, you can certainly play console games with their simpler GUI and more streamlined graphics.
Gotta love the disconnected logic that allows a person to pick and choose what parts of their "sacred text" they actually believe is true.
Genesis 1 says God created animals first and then humans (male and female, presumably in large numbers), Genesis 2 says God created animals afterwards to keep the first human company. I think it is fairly safe to assume that it was never meant to be taken literally. People add up the years and call them fact, but they totally neglect that two accounts are given, clearly two metaphors discussing God's creation of the world and God's purpose for humans, without getting deep into the whens and hows. People do the same in revelation, looking for the signs, adding up the years, debating when the rapture, tribulations, second coming, millennium will all come in relation to each other. Really they are just getting deep into stupid arguments about things that are not at the core of the faith.
And secondly, regarding creationism, who really cares anyway? Kids these days grow up surrounded by positive portrayal of many things that go against Christianity, most of all materialism (if you may permit me to go out on a tangent here), something that is condemned in the new testament more than sex before marriage, divorce and homosexuality put together, something practiced not just in pop culture (hip-hop, Paris Hilton, Capitalism, etc.) but even by evangelists and Christian churches worldwide. Yet, somehow some nutjobs are still concerned with kids being exposed by evolution, which even if it wasn't true, would still be a terrifically useful model for understanding biology.
No, it's only known for its gameplay by people who have played it.
Most people would say it's just a pretty face, because it is more fun to call it "a cookie cutter FPS" or "a mere tech demo" than "oodles of fun" which would have been more accurate.
I'd mention what makes it fun in detail (huge rich world, endless tactical choice, clever AI, superpowers etc.) but luckily the review has done it for me. Suffice it to say, it would be worth playing even if it had completely mediocre graphics (which is good, because it does have mediocre graphics if you turn them down enough to run on anything less than an nVidia 8800).
A "modern Christian" walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and even floats, so what colour the feathers are is rather irrelevant. He's still a monotheist with a Judeo-Christian belief system that he claims also applies to those not sharing the faith. Show me one Christian that's open to believe that I won't be judged because I don't believe, and I'll be open to change my classification.
Sure, most Christians think you're going to hell, but this is really irrelevant since you're either going to hell or not, nomatter what they think, they can think whatever they want because they are no less entitled to their beliefs as you. They may not accept your belief system if you are not Christian of some sort, but since you don't seem to accept their beliefs as valid either, we've proven nothing but "religion is a sticky subject". It seems petty and prejudicial that you care about their beliefs rather than their actions.
And that is the key distinction; American "fundamentalists" seem to be more prone to inflammatory rhetoric and right wing political activism than simply sharing their beliefs and that makes them very different. I think most of them aren't really fundamentalists since they have more interest in nationalism than the teachings of Christ who willingly let himself be killed by pagans. Fundamentalists are meant to live wholly by the letter of the bible which says "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you" Matthew 5:43-44. I contend that someone who really lives by the gospel and the New Testament like a fundamentalist should would be as different to most who speak in God's name as a duck is to a polar bear.
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It always was optional, just open up gdmsetup and turn it off.
unlike China and Russia which have their own languages, so we transliterate from their words.
A plumber who works in China or Russia is called a plumber.
A Russian bureaucrat is called an "aparatnik" which is transliterated from Russian. A Chinese bureaucrat is called a "mandarin" which is imported from Portuguese and has the same Latin roots as Mandatory and Mandate.
"Astronauts" and "Cosmonaut"s are distinguished because comparisons were so common during the space race. As for Chinese spacefarers they can be called whatever you want, because comparisons are unlikely to be as common unless China and the US want to race to Mars. They can be called Astronaut or Cosmonaut, or even Taikonaut from Tai4kong1ren2 which literally means too much nothing person.
This. I'm doing a Computer Science degree in Australia and we're learning how to check user input... via JavaScript. No mention of validation on the server-side. No SQL injection prevention. It's a joke.
If you attend the University of New South Wales, enroll in "Cryptography and Security" with Richard Buckland, if you do not attend the University of New South Wales, enroll there and see point one. This class teaches you systematic thinking about security vulnerabilities, going beyond secure software. It teaches you how to protect your code against many exploit techniques by practical experience exploiting sample code. It teaches encryption algorithms, designing secure protocols etc.
It also it taught by one of the most charismatic pedagogues ever born who pushes those with a desire to understand computing to levels beyond what fear of failing a course could ever do. Look up Richard Buckland on youtube if you don't believe me.
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A 'car guy' is not necessarily good at running a business.
I think people from a engineering background like this guy are the very best at running any business, especially high-tech businesses like Automobiles. Just for some reason, people from a sales/finance background are the best at getting on top of an established organization. This is because the sales guys learn politics from an early age and the finance guys hold the purse strings.
Um, if you set up a network with this fiber, it would no longer be dark. I'm not sure what you think dark fiber is, fiber optics that are cool, edgy and a little bit menacing I suppose.
India, Pakistan and Bangladesh weren't all the one country when the British conquered it. Even Asoka never ruled the whole of the Indian subcontinent.
The British were the only empire to span the entirety and the Mugals were the only other to come close, both of them foreign occupiers. The Indian subcontinent has never been united as an independent soverign entity. But why should that be any more surprising than the fact that Europe has never had a unified government? Europe is no more divided by language, culture, religion and history than India is. While it would be nice if the populations of these countries would some day unite and coexist in harmony, but the fact that they split in '47 and the British helped them does not condemn either of these sides, the violence of the separation is the only really regrettable part.
It takes less time to report a bug to Mozilla than to bitch about it on slashdot then defend your own moaning. If you want bugs fixed then report them, if you don't want them gone, don't complain about them. If you think that Mozilla has enough "internal reviews and release management processes" to find all their bugs before it goes out to users then you are an idiot. Most bugs aren't discovered until the users use it in their own different ways and no amount of testing or anal retentive release management is going to fix that. Mozilla does thousands of things right and you're complaining some trivial dialog box; if they had waited until all the bugs were found before releasing, you would still need to use another browser such as Internet Explorer, Opera, Crome, Safari which are all even buggier.
You're right about Mozilla, they do release free software and you don't have to do anything in return. It also means that they're just writing it because they want to make the best software possible and unless you help them by reporting the bugs, they don't care about you or whether you like their product or not.
ReiserFS works. It is merged with the mainline kernel trunk so it will be able to secure enough man power to at least avoid bit-rot and incompatibility to future kernel versions. You don't have to worry about suddenly losing your files now Hans isn't involved in the project, some kernel modules have gone for years without an update and still work. I doubt that this will even become one of them since so many people are using this file system and lets face it, it is a good file system nomatter who wrote it (lets not forget he was a known arsehole before he killed his wife and it didn't matter then).
The worst thing that could happen is ReiserFS slowly falling into disuse and becoming deprecated in three or four years, you will have plenty of time to worry about this later, just take a deep breath and put down your file system tools, this will all be OK.
You're presuming something that simply isn't true. Go ahead, quote me the McDonald's coffee case. Do it after reading the facts and final outcome, though.
I'm quite familiar with the McDonald's coffee case, including all the various rebuttals about why it's not frivolous. It also happens that I disagree with them, and still think it is. Regardless, I definitely know enough about the case to know that it makes a horrible example because a lot of people disagree with me on it.
To paraphrase: [yourpusher] People who are wrong like you always cite a particular wrong example. [Free the Cowards] People who are wrong always say that example is wrong so I didn't bother to mention it even though it's right.
This has got to be the best debate I've seen on slashdot ever!
One cannot "do the math" on what is the safest beef unless you actually compare it against something. Australia for example has a combined beef herd of 25 million and has had 0 cases of BSE in its history. The US may produce far safer beef than Europe and Japan but it does not produce the safest beef nomatter how much maths you do.
What does it matter if anything has changed? You cited post was completely wrong to begin with.
T3 mass fabricators output 12x as much as T2, while only taking 7x as long to make.
T3 assault bots have build times of 2400 to 4800 which is comparable to that of a T3 mass fabricator (3750), they do use less resources.
The reason they walk through tier 1 units is that they cost 10x as much (480/5400 vs 52/273 in the case of Cybran) and that teching up is actually considered an advantage.
It sounds like you're just citing the balance issues of Total Annihilation (overpowered low level units, resource generation too cheap) and reversing them to bitch about Supreme Commander not being exactly the same. Or possibly constructed your mass fabricator under nanostall (short on resources) and wondered why everything you built after too so much less time to construct.
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After European settlement, Australia was primarily inhabited by honest, law abiding colonists who were not sent there by force and did not flee seeking to practice any sort of new religion or ideology, but simply to make a good life for themselves on the land. Australia did not become independent in a violent ideological war over taxes but was given independence because all involved thought it could be governed better from Melbourne than London. We invented the secret ballot, we were the first country to give women the vote in the state level and second in the federal level. Australia's all about freedom, not as an ideal but as a lifestyle, to be able to make a good, fair life without harassment.
The Australian constitution only defines the relationship between the states and the running of federal democracy. It has done this quite well but what it does not do is impose the will of those who have died a century ago on Australia today. Look at the US which you mentioned before (and which I'm sorry to bash), The US has the bill of rights but the thirteenth and fourteenth amendment is nowhere to be found. You can have free speech, firearms, freedom from billeting soldiers, protection from unreasonable searches etc. but until 3 amendments after it ends, you can own other people and until the next; black people aren't citizens. And bare in mind here, the nasty, oppressive British empire banned slavery ten years after American succession, the ideological US took four score and seven years to do the same. The original American view of citizenship was very close to the old "Civis Romanis Sum" school of thought: freedom should be absolute for the free, but those not entitled should be subject to the liberties of those who have them.
In Australia, you are granted generally the same rights as in the US but by common law and acts of parliament, not by constitutional amendments. Sure, it gives the government latitude to do stupid things like this Internet filter. But the government in this country has ALWAYS censored pornography, we just got a lucky break for twenty years with the Internet but it's the same laws creeping onto another medium, not really a new development. Nude pictures aren't considered part of free speech in this country, it pretty much has to be related to politics or religion to be protected. But within this definition, we do have free speech in this country. With or without this Internet filter, I can still say on the Internet or out on the street "Fuck Australia, fuck Keven Rudd and fuck our troops serving in Afghanistan" and nobody will block me, nobody will arrest me and nobody will show up in a truck and kick my arse for being un-patriotic.
I don't want this filter, I am embarrassed by this filter, I am writing to my local member about this filter and I will never vote for anyone who supports this filter. However, I still think there is a lot of silly hyperbole going around here about it.
Yeah, Ubuntu only has graphical configuration tools for things like Network, Printers, Users etc. If you want to set up something like BIND to serve up DNS for your domain, or Apache to host a little bit of PHP you need to edit configuration files by hand. What's more, other common day-to-day tasks have no graphical interface such as compiling and linking c source code and forwarding ports over an SSH session. The Graphical User Interface to nmap is very rudimentary, without even providing a port scanning wizard; finger and traceroute are almost as bad. If I asked my mother to reverse engineer some open source drivers for my nVidia 9800 she wouldn't even know how to disassemble the binary driver without using the command line. It's clearly not ready for the common user.
The world is in a global economic depression because everyone's too worried about the global economic depression to spend enough money to pick the economy back up. If you've got the money to spend on something that takes an enormous amount of labour it will be a great thing for the economy as the extra cash circulating will boost everyone's confidence to spend their own. Plus, if you ever wanted to have something like this built, now is the time.
The election isn't for another two years. We'd overthrow them by force, but overthrowing a democratically elected government does not have a good track record in making a good successor.
I think this is all a good experience for Australian democracy, we had a Liberal government for close to twelve years. We had forgotten how much of irresponsible populists the Labor party are. The Labor opposition had drawn us to things like mandatory detention of asylum seekers and had the Australian people convinced that they were somehow a "freedom party" of sorts. So as their first memorable act they go out to censor the Internet.
Now we have that idiot Rudd spending education dollars on free laptops, telecommunications infrastructure dollars on censorship and tax dollars on allowances to buy Christmas presents. I can't believe that I voted for these arsehats.
The way the summary puts it, survival horror is defined by bad controls and camera angles, which means Dead Space qualifies as the best example of the last half decade. The ridiculous over-the-shoulder camera angle which doesn't give you any more spacial context than first person but blocks up half the screen with your back is something that annoys me, as is that moving the mouse in aim mode moves the gun before the head making aiming awkward. Dead Space wasn't a terrible game, but the whole third person thing just seemed like a contrived way to show off those holograms while making the game more frustrating and less immersive.
A 10x multiplier means that a really good programmer can solve a problem in an amount of time that a team of 10 average programmers could solve it. This is not unlikely at all in my reckoning because the thing that you are forgetting is that programming skill doesn't scale linearly. A team must discuss, debate, divide and delegate the problem so that the individuals in it can each cover a part, often with either overlaps or gaps, because it evolves the solution becomes far more complex and it causes even more problems for the group to understand. If a single individual can understand an entire problem this means that they can create a solution that covers the entire breadth of it in a single directed effort, the solution will be simpler (if they are truly good) and can be completed faster.
The problem may only be a tiny bit too big for an average developer but that can be the difference between understanding and misunderstanding. Humans may be all quite close to each other in intelligence, but a tiny difference in brains can make a huge difference in the final applications. Good developers aren't ten times as smart as an average developer, but they can still outdo ten regular ones in productivity.
I have my PS3 hooked up to a cheap-arse Samsung LCD monitor. Previously I had it hooked up to a shitty PAL CRT TV. Either way it is playable and looks a whole lot better than the last generation ever did. I have no idea what person started the whole "you need an HDTV" thing, I mean, if you can see PC games on a monitor, you can certainly play console games with their simpler GUI and more streamlined graphics.
Genesis 1 says God created animals first and then humans (male and female, presumably in large numbers), Genesis 2 says God created animals afterwards to keep the first human company. I think it is fairly safe to assume that it was never meant to be taken literally. People add up the years and call them fact, but they totally neglect that two accounts are given, clearly two metaphors discussing God's creation of the world and God's purpose for humans, without getting deep into the whens and hows. People do the same in revelation, looking for the signs, adding up the years, debating when the rapture, tribulations, second coming, millennium will all come in relation to each other. Really they are just getting deep into stupid arguments about things that are not at the core of the faith.
And secondly, regarding creationism, who really cares anyway? Kids these days grow up surrounded by positive portrayal of many things that go against Christianity, most of all materialism (if you may permit me to go out on a tangent here), something that is condemned in the new testament more than sex before marriage, divorce and homosexuality put together, something practiced not just in pop culture (hip-hop, Paris Hilton, Capitalism, etc.) but even by evangelists and Christian churches worldwide. Yet, somehow some nutjobs are still concerned with kids being exposed by evolution, which even if it wasn't true, would still be a terrifically useful model for understanding biology.
No, it's only known for its gameplay by people who have played it.
Most people would say it's just a pretty face, because it is more fun to call it "a cookie cutter FPS" or "a mere tech demo" than "oodles of fun" which would have been more accurate.
I'd mention what makes it fun in detail (huge rich world, endless tactical choice, clever AI, superpowers etc.) but luckily the review has done it for me. Suffice it to say, it would be worth playing even if it had completely mediocre graphics (which is good, because it does have mediocre graphics if you turn them down enough to run on anything less than an nVidia 8800).
Sure, most Christians think you're going to hell, but this is really irrelevant since you're either going to hell or not, nomatter what they think, they can think whatever they want because they are no less entitled to their beliefs as you. They may not accept your belief system if you are not Christian of some sort, but since you don't seem to accept their beliefs as valid either, we've proven nothing but "religion is a sticky subject". It seems petty and prejudicial that you care about their beliefs rather than their actions.
And that is the key distinction; American "fundamentalists" seem to be more prone to inflammatory rhetoric and right wing political activism than simply sharing their beliefs and that makes them very different. I think most of them aren't really fundamentalists since they have more interest in nationalism than the teachings of Christ who willingly let himself be killed by pagans. Fundamentalists are meant to live wholly by the letter of the bible which says "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you" Matthew 5:43-44. I contend that someone who really lives by the gospel and the New Testament like a fundamentalist should would be as different to most who speak in God's name as a duck is to a polar bear.
It always was optional, just open up gdmsetup and turn it off.
The movie from NIST was linked to uses "microrobotics" i.e. on a micrometer scale.
The yokels at "DeviceGuru" just stuffed it up.
A plumber who works in China or Russia is called a plumber.
A Russian bureaucrat is called an "aparatnik" which is transliterated from Russian. A Chinese bureaucrat is called a "mandarin" which is imported from Portuguese and has the same Latin roots as Mandatory and Mandate.
"Astronauts" and "Cosmonaut"s are distinguished because comparisons were so common during the space race. As for Chinese spacefarers they can be called whatever you want, because comparisons are unlikely to be as common unless China and the US want to race to Mars. They can be called Astronaut or Cosmonaut, or even Taikonaut from Tai4kong1ren2 which literally means too much nothing person.
If you attend the University of New South Wales, enroll in "Cryptography and Security" with Richard Buckland, if you do not attend the University of New South Wales, enroll there and see point one. This class teaches you systematic thinking about security vulnerabilities, going beyond secure software. It teaches you how to protect your code against many exploit techniques by practical experience exploiting sample code. It teaches encryption algorithms, designing secure protocols etc.
It also it taught by one of the most charismatic pedagogues ever born who pushes those with a desire to understand computing to levels beyond what fear of failing a course could ever do. Look up Richard Buckland on youtube if you don't believe me.
I think people from a engineering background like this guy are the very best at running any business, especially high-tech businesses like Automobiles. Just for some reason, people from a sales/finance background are the best at getting on top of an established organization. This is because the sales guys learn politics from an early age and the finance guys hold the purse strings.
Don't you mean the Hon. James "Jim" Hacker MP?
Educational my arse.
Um, if you set up a network with this fiber, it would no longer be dark. I'm not sure what you think dark fiber is, fiber optics that are cool, edgy and a little bit menacing I suppose.
India, Pakistan and Bangladesh weren't all the one country when the British conquered it. Even Asoka never ruled the whole of the Indian subcontinent. The British were the only empire to span the entirety and the Mugals were the only other to come close, both of them foreign occupiers. The Indian subcontinent has never been united as an independent soverign entity. But why should that be any more surprising than the fact that Europe has never had a unified government? Europe is no more divided by language, culture, religion and history than India is. While it would be nice if the populations of these countries would some day unite and coexist in harmony, but the fact that they split in '47 and the British helped them does not condemn either of these sides, the violence of the separation is the only really regrettable part.
FWIW, Fallout Tactics was created in Australia.
It takes less time to report a bug to Mozilla than to bitch about it on slashdot then defend your own moaning. If you want bugs fixed then report them, if you don't want them gone, don't complain about them. If you think that Mozilla has enough "internal reviews and release management processes" to find all their bugs before it goes out to users then you are an idiot. Most bugs aren't discovered until the users use it in their own different ways and no amount of testing or anal retentive release management is going to fix that. Mozilla does thousands of things right and you're complaining some trivial dialog box; if they had waited until all the bugs were found before releasing, you would still need to use another browser such as Internet Explorer, Opera, Crome, Safari which are all even buggier.
You're right about Mozilla, they do release free software and you don't have to do anything in return. It also means that they're just writing it because they want to make the best software possible and unless you help them by reporting the bugs, they don't care about you or whether you like their product or not.
ReiserFS works. It is merged with the mainline kernel trunk so it will be able to secure enough man power to at least avoid bit-rot and incompatibility to future kernel versions. You don't have to worry about suddenly losing your files now Hans isn't involved in the project, some kernel modules have gone for years without an update and still work. I doubt that this will even become one of them since so many people are using this file system and lets face it, it is a good file system nomatter who wrote it (lets not forget he was a known arsehole before he killed his wife and it didn't matter then).
The worst thing that could happen is ReiserFS slowly falling into disuse and becoming deprecated in three or four years, you will have plenty of time to worry about this later, just take a deep breath and put down your file system tools, this will all be OK.
Discussion about women isn't rocket science. (yes, I know, wrong William Congreve)
To paraphrase:
[yourpusher] People who are wrong like you always cite a particular wrong example.
[Free the Cowards] People who are wrong always say that example is wrong so I didn't bother to mention it even though it's right.
This has got to be the best debate I've seen on slashdot ever!
One cannot "do the math" on what is the safest beef unless you actually compare it against something. Australia for example has a combined beef herd of 25 million and has had 0 cases of BSE in its history. The US may produce far safer beef than Europe and Japan but it does not produce the safest beef nomatter how much maths you do.
What does it matter if anything has changed? You cited post was completely wrong to begin with.
It sounds like you're just citing the balance issues of Total Annihilation (overpowered low level units, resource generation too cheap) and reversing them to bitch about Supreme Commander not being exactly the same. Or possibly constructed your mass fabricator under nanostall (short on resources) and wondered why everything you built after too so much less time to construct.
All figures cited from: http://supcomdb.com/db/