I have got bad handwriting. According to specialists it's caused by abnormally low muscle tone in my fingers coupled with fine motor control problems in my cerebellum. It's actually severe enough to be classed as a physical disability. Since the age of four when it was first diagnosed, I have had many sessions with doctors and occupational therapists and have spent countless hours with hand exercises, handwriting practice, calligraphy practice and coordination exercises. My writing is still illegible, even to me despite this. So basically, what I do is avoid handwriting at all costs, it works out better than you'd think. My typing skills suffer from the same problems of cause, but through a lot of practice I've learned to do about 60wpm on a good day.
I'm nowhere near the only person with major physical problems with handwriting, there would be many other people on Slashdot with the same problem at varying levels of severity. Sometimes this is caused by hand problems, coordination problems, injury, learning difficulties, genetic defects and many other things. Everybody has a few things they are not good at, I think labeling those who are not good at handwriting as lazy is kind of dumb.
The reason Ms is being teased is not because WINE is allowed to download a file. It is because, by accident, a non-authorised method of downloading managed to circumvent a mechanism to stopping un-authorised downloads. In WINE's case this is not a bad thing and it isn't really a loss for Microsoft since Wine clearly is not a pirate version of Windows. What's wrong is that a program that wasn't approved by Microsoft was able to download a file it wasn't theoretically supposed to. Thus it is a proof that many other programs can circumvent this same mechanism.
I never said anything about Microsoft being a big evil entity (although I do believe that personally). I simply said that it is Microsoft's policy that Windows is the only viable desktop operating system for x86 platforms and that you work for them so thus are connected to this policy in some way.
I personally agree with this statement. I think overpricing windows does great for the Open Source cause and if I had my way it would cost somewhere about the GDP of Italy. However, looking back at the parent poster's previous posts I wish to point out that he works or has worked for MS, the company that claims that selling a PC without Microsoft Windows is tantamount to Windows piracy since it is considered the only OS that people would install. This seems to me to be hypocracy through association. Microsoft seems to like to claim that they are the only option when it works for them and that they are not a monopoly when that helps their cause.
Another example is Mozilla/FireFox. Without IE sucking as much as it does (side note: interesting how IE went from the best of breed browser to the suckiest browser without actually changing), would Mozilla/FireFox be as far along as it is today? Would it have 10-20% and increasing share of users?
Without Microsoft's monopoly abusing practices, FireFox's grandparent Netscape would have 90% of browser market share, which wouldn't be that good, but it would have been a hell of a lot better than IE's position now. And even if IE was a great browser, there would still need to be a good browser for Linux and people would work on whatever that was.
I believe that the arseload is one of the few metric measurements to be fully adopted in England. However, I'd say a metric arseload is around 1.312 imperial buttocksloads. Which is of cause 14 moutheloads, 84 earholeloads and 112 nostrilloads. Back when I was a boy you could get a 3 earholeloads of candy for one pound two shillings and eightpence. Life was simpler back then.
Do you mean Toohey's Extra Dry? That stuff has to be the best Australian made lager and comes close to being the best lager in the world (I still do like some central european pilsners slightly better, but it's very close). I'm supprised that it isn't exported in greater quantity, since, unlike Fosters, VB and all the other shit that is exported because of the "Australian icon" status, Extra Dry actually tastes good. That, and it has a ripping good alcohol content compared to the other two mentioned.
If you are interested in good Australian beer and like ales as well, you should look for some Coopers. That stuff usually has the full-flavoured, round body like a european ale, but with the clean, dry finish one would expect from a quality aussie beer. Needless to say I like it.
So, pray tell us, why do you want to deny the Jewish people sovereignty, when your main complaint with Israel is that they are denying the palestinian people theirs?
For the same reason that you might endevour to deny someone of their life when your main complaint with them is that they are trying to deny another person of theirs. Sometimes you've just got to tell whoever is trampling on peoples rights that if they keep doing that, they probably don't deserve the right to keep it up.
Hell, it could be argued that the US has one of the MOST stable political systems in the world.
Considering it's been 360 years since the last English Civil war and 140 years since the last American Civil war, I'd be inclined to say that the American system is fairly stable, but doesn't look set to be breaking any records quite yet. I come from Australia where the last thing that looked like it could have become a civil war (but didn't) happend in Ballarat 160 years ago and so even that beats America's current record.
Semite is a fairly broad term. It refers to anyone descended from Shem, one of the sons of Noah. That refers to quite a few people, most notably the Jews (sons of Jacob) and the Arabs (sons of Jacob's uncle Ishmael) but also to a wide number of other races in the middle east, including the Palestinians.
Thus, since Zionism is a belief that advocates the oppression of other semitic people in "Israel" based on racial and religious grounds it would be a difficult task to be both Zionist and not anti-semitic in some shape or form. Zionism is what is racist, it is the belief that Jews, based on their race and religious beliefs have a divine right to Israel whereas the other residents have less of a right to it because the Jewish holy text says so. Palestinians have darker skin, their lifestyle is slightly less clean and Western and chances are, you probably didn't go to school with a few Palestinians. Most non-jewish Zionists like Jews because they look and act far more white and they understand a lot of Jewish culture from the western media. The other problem is a gross misinterpretation of the bible, thinking that somewhere, in-between all of that salvation by grace, love and compassion there is a bit where God still wants us to kick some arse and support carving out an Israeli state right in the middle of the middle east and getting ourself rightly hated (and wrongly attacked) because of it.
I think a good model for this for non-Jews is set by Darius who gave Ezra permission to repopulate Jerusalem and Artaxerxes who gave Nehemiah permission to rebuild it while never getting involved themselves or renouncing sovereignty over the land (and thus causing trouble with bordering countries, many being anti-jewish for real). Both of these kings avoided the politic quagmire that exists today because they both knew that returning a nation to their homeland is a very nice thing to do, giving control of your territory and giving full support to ultra-nationalists is just downright bad for business. Persia never had to worry about the Suez Crisis or the Six day war, Persia never had to worry about diplomatic relationships with Arab countries being difficult or terrorist bombings because they helped out Nehemiah because they knew what to help them with and what not to. Back then the people got their temple, they got their own law enforced and they got their freedom and Persia got peace of mind knowing that it wouldn't have caused any problems (Persia owning Egypt and Syria at the stage didn't hurt either to be honest).
Anyway, I find if offensive to hear someone say that if one is sick of the trouble Israel is causing with its racial and religious discrimination, its multi-decade annexation of Palestine without giving the population of this territory rights and its hypocrisy in claiming the right to return after 1900 years in exile while forbidding Palestinians to return after 30 is a racist. I don't hate Jews, I don't even hate Israelis but I am getting mighty pissed off at the ones who want to sweep away the last two millennia worth of residents of Israel for the sake of religious and racial purity. Unfortunately, those types of Israelis make up a regrettably large segment of Israel's Jewish population. Thus, I see no reason why I should approve of someone building a plant in Israel any more than I would have approved of someone building a plant in South Africa twenty years ago.
No, now your just sounding silly, trying to justify what you just said with some incoherent handwaving. What you did is simply just describe W3c a second time while denying that it is actually like that. W3c has coders from all major browsers in the HTML comittee. What they do is sit around and make compromises and agreements for future versions of Html, that is the only way w3c makes standards, that is what they are: an industry and academic consortium where the interested parties can decide what should happen next. It's the developers working out what they can and should support and trying to get it all as similar as possible.
The problem is that Microsoft just dosen't seem to give a damn what the W3c has to say about anything. Microsoft is a huge part of the standard making process but is not willing to abide by the rules it helped create. Any more discussion outside of w3c would be pointless because Microsoft would ignore that too.
The reason POP, telnet and FTP are standardised is that they were fully locked in concrete, with nobody willing to debate them further by the time Microsoft got onto the scene, thus they had no chance to embrace and extend them. The very fact that no more debate was allowed (unlike with w3c and HTML) is what saved them from a similar fate.
Next time you have a great idea that seems so obvious that it is brilliant, maybe you should simply look into what the w3c actually is when it is mentioned before you start prattling on about its shortcomings as a standard setting body.
I think you're probably both right. Doing something multiple times means that doing similar things requires less thinking. Military training using human modeled targets makes the soldiers more comfortable about firing against a human target, computer games which involve shooting at human or humanoid targets would do exactly the same thing for exactly the same reason. Even if there is no evidence of computer games making people into better killers, there would certainly be enough correlation with the military experience to make it something worth looking into.
The important thing is, though I personally believe that computer games do make people less likely to hesitate while looking down the sights of a gun at a human, it really doesn't make them more likely to be in the situation of looking down the sights of a gun at a human. The things that do that are anger, greed, fear and necessity and it is quite likely that computer games would reduce all of those things. It reduces anger by giving players an outlet (and maybe making relationships less deep), greed by separating the player from the real world, fear for the same reason it makes people more deadly and necessity by keeping kids off the street and unfit enough to be kept out of the army.
Computer games make shooting at soft targets easier, but it doesn't turn people into criminals, its the same as the reason that we don't hear of many ex-commandos killing people on the street even though they have been taught to fire without hesitation.
How was it ever insightful. From the start it was exaggerated baloney designed to get angry responses. It was obviously a troll to begin with since it mentions apt-get and emerge, proving the author knows of their existence, yet the installation guide for Linux conveniently ignores them. The proper installation guide would be as follows:
Yes, Australian radio is absolutely brilliant. We have the always balanced and insightful John Laws and Alan Jones to bring enlightenment to us, we have the infinitely tallented Kyle and Jackie-O bringing us culture over the Austereo network who's stations in every capital city always play an ecclectic and always fresh selection of artistic music written by Australia and the World's most tallented musicians.
Granted, I've never been to North America but I find it a little tricky to swallow that anyone could have music that makes our crappy radio sound "vibrant and brilliant". Sure, JJJ has integrity (as do all the ABC stations) but that's because it's federally funded explicitly to stop kids from becoming as much of idiots as they would have been if they turned on Nova instead. Australian radio sucks, and sucks hard.
What more could a business ask for than a model that works. Google's model may not be perfect, but currently they are more successful than any other business in its industry. You said it before: "Google will not be in real trouble for the foreseeable future". This is the case because google has not trodden the road of heavy structuring that you have suggested. Be careful what you wish for. Many have trodden that road, such as Apple and HP. Some were able to turn back but some were not. That mannic way google approaches its problem is a dangerous path as well, its snares are harder to see since it is running ahead faster than it can look forwards but we don't know about anything that will trip it. We know what is down the other path, they will become so entrenched in a single market that they do not see it collapsing around their ears, or they will get so overcome with marketing so the brand will be more important than the product, or they will become so top heavy with management that their production will not be able to support the resources required to maintain their upper strata. We have all seen each of these things happening many times before and they will continue to happen.
Corperations look around at each other for inspiration of where to go, we all remember that in the '80s western businesses looked at Japan as the holy grail. After the Asian crisis Japaneese Corperations even started hiring western executives to learn from them their inovative ways. All this teaches us is there is no wisdom in business nomatter how hard we search, on a long enough timeline all is folly. Google should do whatever it can do to simply keep making money in clever ways. The world will always need cleverness and google has prooven that it can supply a formidible chunk of the worlds needs in that field.
I like google, and I'd hate to see them ruined by ceasing to be themselves.
Open up synaptic package manager, it's in your desktop->preferences menu. Run a search for the program you want to install click the little white box next to it. Hit ok in the popup. Hit update in the toolbar on the top of the screen. Voila, it downloads and installs all dependencies, hooray!
I'm getting a little sick of people compiling programs and its dependencies on linux from source manually (essentially porting it to their platform) or hunting for packages by hand (when they usually have a package manager) and complaining that it isn't as easy to do as simply dragging and dropping a statically linked binary under windows. That could by why all modern distros ship with tools to prevent the user ever having to do this miserable task. With a distro like Ubuntu (with a universe repository of cause), complaining about packages being too hard to update manually is like throwing out a new Macintosh because "PPC chips don't support some of my favorite instructions so I'll have to call more, plus big endian just weirds me out".
Linux has its advantages too, under windows one can't simply type "apt-get install winzip" and get an archive management tool that is always up-to-date. In windows one can't type in "emerge -u world" and have one's copy of ut2004 updated at the same time as the operating system and office tools. In windows one can't look through a list in something like synaptic and see thousands of programs, all categorized with a search function and reviewed so that none of them contain malicious code. But do people get modded up for mentioning them? Of cause not, because it is seen that Linux needs all of this constructive criticism.
In both Linux and Windows all one requires is someone to spend a little time to package software nicely. Under Windows there are many options including but not limited to a winzip self extracting archive, an installshield installer or just a plain zip file. In Linux there are also many easy to install and run options such as autopackage, loki installer or just a statically linked binary in a tarball. Of cause the easiest and best way for an author to package software exists only on linux: simply emailing some distro maintainers to let them know it exists. For example, a crappy game I wrote over the course of three days is now in Debian, Gentoo and Ubuntu (that I know of, probably many more) ready to be downloaded and installed by any user anywhere in the world with a single command without me ever packaging a single one myself.
I know you might be new to the whole Linux thing so I don't want to insult you too much, but if you are, then possibly you should lay off the judgments until you understand the different way that package management is now done under most Linux distros. I don't think I've had to manually resolve dependencies for non-beta software for three years now and find it very hard to believe that someone needs to do it in a nice distribution like Ubuntu in this day and age.
I never thought I would ever see a single comment that both mentions a Texan's two Chevy trucks and contains useful technical information about refrigirative gasses.
It seems to me that those with the health and strength to be dangerous insurgents (healthy, fit males aged 15 to 40) also happen to be the demographic least likely to be killed or injured by this marvelous invention.
This gadget will probably push Iraqis off the street to give them more time at home to plan more ambushes and bombings i.e. the things that actually cost US lives in Iraq.
In sims 1 your characters could have sex with the livin' large pack in the love bed or the love tub. With hot date, it allows them to have sex in a store changing room.
In sims 2, every double bed becomes a venue for sex, of cause the love tub remains a sex venue but requires are cirtain amount of aspiration points to purchace making the beds more friendly in that regard.
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If it wasn't for this stupid mentality, the great Socrates would be still alive today!
I have got bad handwriting. According to specialists it's caused by abnormally low muscle tone in my fingers coupled with fine motor control problems in my cerebellum. It's actually severe enough to be classed as a physical disability. Since the age of four when it was first diagnosed, I have had many sessions with doctors and occupational therapists and have spent countless hours with hand exercises, handwriting practice, calligraphy practice and coordination exercises. My writing is still illegible, even to me despite this. So basically, what I do is avoid handwriting at all costs, it works out better than you'd think. My typing skills suffer from the same problems of cause, but through a lot of practice I've learned to do about 60wpm on a good day.
I'm nowhere near the only person with major physical problems with handwriting, there would be many other people on Slashdot with the same problem at varying levels of severity. Sometimes this is caused by hand problems, coordination problems, injury, learning difficulties, genetic defects and many other things. Everybody has a few things they are not good at, I think labeling those who are not good at handwriting as lazy is kind of dumb.
The reason Ms is being teased is not because WINE is allowed to download a file. It is because, by accident, a non-authorised method of downloading managed to circumvent a mechanism to stopping un-authorised downloads. In WINE's case this is not a bad thing and it isn't really a loss for Microsoft since Wine clearly is not a pirate version of Windows. What's wrong is that a program that wasn't approved by Microsoft was able to download a file it wasn't theoretically supposed to. Thus it is a proof that many other programs can circumvent this same mechanism.
I never said anything about Microsoft being a big evil entity (although I do believe that personally). I simply said that it is Microsoft's policy that Windows is the only viable desktop operating system for x86 platforms and that you work for them so thus are connected to this policy in some way.
What? Like this?
I personally agree with this statement. I think overpricing windows does great for the Open Source cause and if I had my way it would cost somewhere about the GDP of Italy. However, looking back at the parent poster's previous posts I wish to point out that he works or has worked for MS, the company that claims that selling a PC without Microsoft Windows is tantamount to Windows piracy since it is considered the only OS that people would install. This seems to me to be hypocracy through association. Microsoft seems to like to claim that they are the only option when it works for them and that they are not a monopoly when that helps their cause.
Without Microsoft's monopoly abusing practices, FireFox's grandparent Netscape would have 90% of browser market share, which wouldn't be that good, but it would have been a hell of a lot better than IE's position now. And even if IE was a great browser, there would still need to be a good browser for Linux and people would work on whatever that was.
When you have a starting score of -1, you don't need to be modded down for nobody to read your post.
I believe that the arseload is one of the few metric measurements to be fully adopted in England. However, I'd say a metric arseload is around 1.312 imperial buttocksloads. Which is of cause 14 moutheloads, 84 earholeloads and 112 nostrilloads. Back when I was a boy you could get a 3 earholeloads of candy for one pound two shillings and eightpence. Life was simpler back then.
If you are interested in good Australian beer and like ales as well, you should look for some Coopers. That stuff usually has the full-flavoured, round body like a european ale, but with the clean, dry finish one would expect from a quality aussie beer. Needless to say I like it.
Considering it's been 360 years since the last English Civil war and 140 years since the last American Civil war, I'd be inclined to say that the American system is fairly stable, but doesn't look set to be breaking any records quite yet. I come from Australia where the last thing that looked like it could have become a civil war (but didn't) happend in Ballarat 160 years ago and so even that beats America's current record.
Thus, since Zionism is a belief that advocates the oppression of other semitic people in "Israel" based on racial and religious grounds it would be a difficult task to be both Zionist and not anti-semitic in some shape or form. Zionism is what is racist, it is the belief that Jews, based on their race and religious beliefs have a divine right to Israel whereas the other residents have less of a right to it because the Jewish holy text says so. Palestinians have darker skin, their lifestyle is slightly less clean and Western and chances are, you probably didn't go to school with a few Palestinians. Most non-jewish Zionists like Jews because they look and act far more white and they understand a lot of Jewish culture from the western media. The other problem is a gross misinterpretation of the bible, thinking that somewhere, in-between all of that salvation by grace, love and compassion there is a bit where God still wants us to kick some arse and support carving out an Israeli state right in the middle of the middle east and getting ourself rightly hated (and wrongly attacked) because of it.
I think a good model for this for non-Jews is set by Darius who gave Ezra permission to repopulate Jerusalem and Artaxerxes who gave Nehemiah permission to rebuild it while never getting involved themselves or renouncing sovereignty over the land (and thus causing trouble with bordering countries, many being anti-jewish for real). Both of these kings avoided the politic quagmire that exists today because they both knew that returning a nation to their homeland is a very nice thing to do, giving control of your territory and giving full support to ultra-nationalists is just downright bad for business. Persia never had to worry about the Suez Crisis or the Six day war, Persia never had to worry about diplomatic relationships with Arab countries being difficult or terrorist bombings because they helped out Nehemiah because they knew what to help them with and what not to. Back then the people got their temple, they got their own law enforced and they got their freedom and Persia got peace of mind knowing that it wouldn't have caused any problems (Persia owning Egypt and Syria at the stage didn't hurt either to be honest).
Anyway, I find if offensive to hear someone say that if one is sick of the trouble Israel is causing with its racial and religious discrimination, its multi-decade annexation of Palestine without giving the population of this territory rights and its hypocrisy in claiming the right to return after 1900 years in exile while forbidding Palestinians to return after 30 is a racist. I don't hate Jews, I don't even hate Israelis but I am getting mighty pissed off at the ones who want to sweep away the last two millennia worth of residents of Israel for the sake of religious and racial purity. Unfortunately, those types of Israelis make up a regrettably large segment of Israel's Jewish population. Thus, I see no reason why I should approve of someone building a plant in Israel any more than I would have approved of someone building a plant in South Africa twenty years ago.
The problem is that Microsoft just dosen't seem to give a damn what the W3c has to say about anything. Microsoft is a huge part of the standard making process but is not willing to abide by the rules it helped create. Any more discussion outside of w3c would be pointless because Microsoft would ignore that too.
The reason POP, telnet and FTP are standardised is that they were fully locked in concrete, with nobody willing to debate them further by the time Microsoft got onto the scene, thus they had no chance to embrace and extend them. The very fact that no more debate was allowed (unlike with w3c and HTML) is what saved them from a similar fate.
Next time you have a great idea that seems so obvious that it is brilliant, maybe you should simply look into what the w3c actually is when it is mentioned before you start prattling on about its shortcomings as a standard setting body.
The important thing is, though I personally believe that computer games do make people less likely to hesitate while looking down the sights of a gun at a human, it really doesn't make them more likely to be in the situation of looking down the sights of a gun at a human. The things that do that are anger, greed, fear and necessity and it is quite likely that computer games would reduce all of those things. It reduces anger by giving players an outlet (and maybe making relationships less deep), greed by separating the player from the real world, fear for the same reason it makes people more deadly and necessity by keeping kids off the street and unfit enough to be kept out of the army.
Computer games make shooting at soft targets easier, but it doesn't turn people into criminals, its the same as the reason that we don't hear of many ex-commandos killing people on the street even though they have been taught to fire without hesitation.
Put Quake3 CD into your CD drive.
Type "apt-get install quake3" or "emerge quake3"
Follow the instructions on the screen.
Start playing.
Granted, I've never been to North America but I find it a little tricky to swallow that anyone could have music that makes our crappy radio sound "vibrant and brilliant". Sure, JJJ has integrity (as do all the ABC stations) but that's because it's federally funded explicitly to stop kids from becoming as much of idiots as they would have been if they turned on Nova instead. Australian radio sucks, and sucks hard.
Can you name any genuine bands that arn't 100% commercial focused that had any success in any country during this decade or the last?
Corperations look around at each other for inspiration of where to go, we all remember that in the '80s western businesses looked at Japan as the holy grail. After the Asian crisis Japaneese Corperations even started hiring western executives to learn from them their inovative ways. All this teaches us is there is no wisdom in business nomatter how hard we search, on a long enough timeline all is folly. Google should do whatever it can do to simply keep making money in clever ways. The world will always need cleverness and google has prooven that it can supply a formidible chunk of the worlds needs in that field.
I like google, and I'd hate to see them ruined by ceasing to be themselves.
High detail attractions include: The Sydney Olympic Park, Coogee Beach (sorry, Bondi was too blurry) and Kingsford-Smith International Airport
I'm getting a little sick of people compiling programs and its dependencies on linux from source manually (essentially porting it to their platform) or hunting for packages by hand (when they usually have a package manager) and complaining that it isn't as easy to do as simply dragging and dropping a statically linked binary under windows. That could by why all modern distros ship with tools to prevent the user ever having to do this miserable task. With a distro like Ubuntu (with a universe repository of cause), complaining about packages being too hard to update manually is like throwing out a new Macintosh because "PPC chips don't support some of my favorite instructions so I'll have to call more, plus big endian just weirds me out".
Linux has its advantages too, under windows one can't simply type "apt-get install winzip" and get an archive management tool that is always up-to-date. In windows one can't type in "emerge -u world" and have one's copy of ut2004 updated at the same time as the operating system and office tools. In windows one can't look through a list in something like synaptic and see thousands of programs, all categorized with a search function and reviewed so that none of them contain malicious code. But do people get modded up for mentioning them? Of cause not, because it is seen that Linux needs all of this constructive criticism.
In both Linux and Windows all one requires is someone to spend a little time to package software nicely. Under Windows there are many options including but not limited to a winzip self extracting archive, an installshield installer or just a plain zip file. In Linux there are also many easy to install and run options such as autopackage, loki installer or just a statically linked binary in a tarball. Of cause the easiest and best way for an author to package software exists only on linux: simply emailing some distro maintainers to let them know it exists. For example, a crappy game I wrote over the course of three days is now in Debian, Gentoo and Ubuntu (that I know of, probably many more) ready to be downloaded and installed by any user anywhere in the world with a single command without me ever packaging a single one myself.
I know you might be new to the whole Linux thing so I don't want to insult you too much, but if you are, then possibly you should lay off the judgments until you understand the different way that package management is now done under most Linux distros. I don't think I've had to manually resolve dependencies for non-beta software for three years now and find it very hard to believe that someone needs to do it in a nice distribution like Ubuntu in this day and age.
I have been proven wrong by slashdot once again.
This gadget will probably push Iraqis off the street to give them more time at home to plan more ambushes and bombings i.e. the things that actually cost US lives in Iraq.
In sims 2, every double bed becomes a venue for sex, of cause the love tub remains a sex venue but requires are cirtain amount of aspiration points to purchace making the beds more friendly in that regard.