See the second link in the summary. Linus and others decided that getting new features integrated was more important than having a perfectly stable kernel. Andrew Morton's patchset (-mm) can be considered the development kernel.
That's just terrible, and I can't help but think that it has to be on purpose.
Devil's advocate: maybe they just didn't want to break existing sites that rely on IE's rendering quirks. Still, it's a crappy excuse when Acid2 provides a nice test suite for proper CSS behavior. It's never been easier to code for the standard.
Masterpieces of any art form, be it painting, music, sculpture, or theater, all were inherently commercial ventures.
Absolutely. Shakespeare wrote for the commoners, crude jokes and all. But great art, whether it's literary, visual, musical, etc. has depth. Let me know when video games merit the equivalent of literary criticism.
You are confused. I described this reaction as socially conservative. Social liberalism is epitomized by the hippies of the 1960s, not modern Democrats. Both major parties are, for the most part, socially conservative.
I'm using simple political science terms, not pundit-spin.
Ha. They're both very authoritarian, just in different ways. For example, Bush is the one who supports putting a ban on gay marriage in the freaking Constitution.
If Hillary is a candidate in 2008, the Democrats are truly dead. And stupid, but we already knew that.
I see it as more "think of the children!" hysteria. Politicians pander to the socially conservative, pretend to have "family values". What else is new?
People who say that Gnome or KDE are bloated need to be slapped, because they invariably have no idea what "bloat" means.
Oh, thank you. I hate all the whining about "bloat". If you want to use a minimalist WM and everything, you have dozens of options. Use them and stop whining. I'll keep using KDE with Amarok, KDevelop, etc. It's fast, and it has a hojillion useful features and a great UI. That's not bloat.
It's nothing specific, I suppose. It just seems a little disorganized and annoying (like the multi-download prompts).
Maybe it's just the bad aftertaste left by that unbelievably ugly Qt theme they use instead of the default. The first time I used Valknut (back when it was dcgui-qt or whatever), I abandoned it in disgust because it was so ugly. It looks worse than the default GTK1 theme. It took me a while to figure out that you could change the theme and font sizes. Is it so strange that I might want my Qt apps to use the FREAKING KDE DEFAULTS? Argh.
That's surprising. I'll have to give it a try. However, fairly simple apps like DC++ (because Valknut still kinda sucks) are sluggish and buggy if you can get them to run at all.
Ah, thank you. MC Hawking is the only rap I have ever enjoyed. Definitely geeky. Fuck the creationists!
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I know. Starcraft 2 would be a sure win. Instead they make some FPS. *shrug* Personally, I don't see why StarCraft is still so popular. It's a fun game, but it's not nearly complex enough to encourage deep strategy.
She is, however, a liberal in the sense that other liberals will vote for her.
No, Democrats will vote for her. Real liberals will laugh at her and vote Green, knowing that she'll win anyway.
Hillary, Joe Lieberman, Tipper Gore, etc. are some of the most socially conservative politicians in the United States. Just because Rush calls them "libs" doesn't make it so.
You, sir, are retarded. XEON processors have no special 64-bit extensions beyond what the regular 64-bit Pentium 4 has.
Oh my, this must be embarassing for you:
Intel's first processor to actively implement the EM64T technology is the processor codenamed Nocona, and is being sold as Intel's latest multiprocessor Xeon.
I don't doubt that you have some good ideas. I have two or three fleshed-out designs myself, which would be projects on SourceForge if I had any hope of finding someone to do even rudimentary 2D graphics for them.
Everyone has fun ideas. The trouble is first, will anything come of the idea? The market for games is interesting, because there's always room for a great game to be successful. Second, will the implementation be any fun? Good luck to you. God knows we need more games that don't suck.
(French and Americans, especially, are totally obnoxious when it comes to languages: many of them refuse to speak any other language unless they REALLY have to).
You have it slightly wrong. Most French people at least know a couple other languages. The vast, vast majority of Americans simply do not have any ability in any language other than English. Blame the crappy setup of the school system.
Parents have sued to have anyhting containing peanuts removed from school menus because their children are allergic, even wanting to ban children from bringing in anything with peanuts in it in their lunches. Succeeded too, in some cases.
I have to say, I sympathize. I have been to schools and other places where there's no indication that something contains peanuts. Almost died a couple of times because of it. There's usually no reason for a school to stop serving peanuts entirely (though a strong wiff of peanut oil can cause a reaction, mind you), but not even bothering to indicate what things contain peanuts is just fucking irresponsible. I've written some nasty letters.
there is going to be an social revolution just opposite of the sixties in about 15 years. wait for it.
I think you have it backwards. The porn fetish is because of the taboo. Compare with western Europe. Most of the countries are much more sexually liberal, with sex education starting at an early age. The result? Fewer teenage pregnancies, no association of simple nudity with sex, and fewer problems with sex in general.
In short, it would be difficult for America to go even further backwards unless they want to reenter the Dark Ages.
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See the second link in the summary. Linus and others decided that getting new features integrated was more important than having a perfectly stable kernel. Andrew Morton's patchset (-mm) can be considered the development kernel.
Devil's advocate: maybe they just didn't want to break existing sites that rely on IE's rendering quirks. Still, it's a crappy excuse when Acid2 provides a nice test suite for proper CSS behavior. It's never been easier to code for the standard.
Absolutely. Shakespeare wrote for the commoners, crude jokes and all. But great art, whether it's literary, visual, musical, etc. has depth. Let me know when video games merit the equivalent of literary criticism.
I'm using simple political science terms, not pundit-spin.
Ha. They're both very authoritarian, just in different ways. For example, Bush is the one who supports putting a ban on gay marriage in the freaking Constitution.
If Hillary is a candidate in 2008, the Democrats are truly dead. And stupid, but we already knew that.
I see it as more "think of the children!" hysteria. Politicians pander to the socially conservative, pretend to have "family values". What else is new?
Oh, thank you. I hate all the whining about "bloat". If you want to use a minimalist WM and everything, you have dozens of options. Use them and stop whining. I'll keep using KDE with Amarok, KDevelop, etc. It's fast, and it has a hojillion useful features and a great UI. That's not bloat.
Maybe it's just the bad aftertaste left by that unbelievably ugly Qt theme they use instead of the default. The first time I used Valknut (back when it was dcgui-qt or whatever), I abandoned it in disgust because it was so ugly. It looks worse than the default GTK1 theme. It took me a while to figure out that you could change the theme and font sizes. Is it so strange that I might want my Qt apps to use the FREAKING KDE DEFAULTS? Argh.
That's surprising. I'll have to give it a try. However, fairly simple apps like DC++ (because Valknut still kinda sucks) are sluggish and buggy if you can get them to run at all.
You can already run any Unix shell you want thanks to the magic of Cygwin.
You, sir, are a genius. Intentional or not, that was a brilliant pun.
Ha, you assume these people can sing. Not a chance. William Shatner is a better singer.
Ah, thank you. MC Hawking is the only rap I have ever enjoyed. Definitely geeky. Fuck the creationists!
I know. Starcraft 2 would be a sure win. Instead they make some FPS. *shrug* Personally, I don't see why StarCraft is still so popular. It's a fun game, but it's not nearly complex enough to encourage deep strategy.
No, Democrats will vote for her. Real liberals will laugh at her and vote Green, knowing that she'll win anyway.
Hillary, Joe Lieberman, Tipper Gore, etc. are some of the most socially conservative politicians in the United States. Just because Rush calls them "libs" doesn't make it so.
Oh my, this must be embarassing for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EM64TAnd how could you bring up LucasArts without mentioning Monkey Island?! Those games were brilliant.
Everyone has fun ideas. The trouble is first, will anything come of the idea? The market for games is interesting, because there's always room for a great game to be successful. Second, will the implementation be any fun? Good luck to you. God knows we need more games that don't suck.
You have it slightly wrong. Most French people at least know a couple other languages. The vast, vast majority of Americans simply do not have any ability in any language other than English. Blame the crappy setup of the school system.
Speak for yourself ;-)
I have to say, I sympathize. I have been to schools and other places where there's no indication that something contains peanuts. Almost died a couple of times because of it. There's usually no reason for a school to stop serving peanuts entirely (though a strong wiff of peanut oil can cause a reaction, mind you), but not even bothering to indicate what things contain peanuts is just fucking irresponsible. I've written some nasty letters.
I think you have it backwards. The porn fetish is because of the taboo. Compare with western Europe. Most of the countries are much more sexually liberal, with sex education starting at an early age. The result? Fewer teenage pregnancies, no association of simple nudity with sex, and fewer problems with sex in general.
In short, it would be difficult for America to go even further backwards unless they want to reenter the Dark Ages.
A touch of realism would be nice. I'm getting tired of the enormous adolescent-fantasy boobs everywhere.
I'd say they happen especially in police states. Look at the French Resistance in WWII, for example.
Oh no, you can't hold Nazi rallies in Germany! What a stupid, ignorant comparison.