whether just or not, the fact his privileges were removed in the first place wasn't exactly a surprise.
I was a Gentoo dev at the time ciaranm was first suspended, and I read the private gentoo-core list. I read many of the bugs with complaints about him. And you know, the only time I saw him get nasty (in chatlogs) was when there was mutual sparring involved. No, it wasn't a surprise that he was suspended, because certain people in devrel and infra obviously didn't like him. But he was anything but a negative influence on the project. It's probably not a coincidence that Gentoo QA is now worse than ever.
You are talking, perhaps, about ciaranm and Paludis. But given the size of the Paludis team and the rapid progress they're making, I wouldn't say he's hard to work with. If you can't deal with being told bluntly that you're wrong, I guess you won't like Ciaran. But if you don't mind the occasional amusing insult, you'll learn a lot from him.
They're not mutually exclusive, as you imply. In short: make the "grind" fun. Look at Ultima Online circa 1997-2000 for an example of how to do things differently. Yeah, the WoW system is so simple that the grind is all they have, but it doesn't have to be that way.
The King of Thailand is the only exception, and I think you'll find that in any country who has a King or Queen. Do not insult the King of Jordan and expect the Jordanians to grant you any sympathy, despite being unusually friendly people otherwise.
Are you seriously suggesting that people in say, the UK or Belgium, would try to kill you for insulting their monarchs? There is no excuse for violent fanaticism.
Ironically, with its numerous pirated downloads available, the whole album has not leaked yet.
Ironically? So the band deliberately released a few songs (albeit in an unconventional way), but the album hasn't yet been illegally leaked. How are these two facts remotely related?
Seriously? Slow it down a bit and it's trivial. Once you've got the accuracy, it's easy to build up speed. OK, I'm hardly a shredder so I cheat with hammer-ons/pull-offs, but still.
Yeah, really. So the game and the controller cost $140. $120 will buy you a surprisingly decent Takamine acoustic. Add a cheap tuner, another set of strings, a strap, and picks (if you're into that), and you're maybe at $150.
All operating systems crash with poorly written drivers.
Not really. Linux is admittedly broken in this regard (try using the latest sky2 NIC driver on an ASUS P5W DH Deluxe), but any properly designed microkernel OS should be able to handle a driver crash without much trouble. It's to Microsoft's credit that they're encouraging the development of user-mode drivers. I love the software that has been developed on top of Linux: GNU tools, KDE, etc. But the kernel itself is hardly cutting-edge.
Absolutely. I use Vista in a VM for testing, and I can't stand the *giant* window that comes up when you try to copy one file over another. They apparently decided to cram every single detail you could possibly want to know in a single prompt, by default. It looks even worse with the Windows Classic theme. Is there any way to change this and get back to sane prompts?
Okay, that's pretty cool. I still won't buy anything from iTunes I can get on CD (locally or via GEMM/Amazon, I pay $1-12). There's an iTunes-only David Poe live EP I'll buy just as soon as the iTMS is no longer Slashdotted.
Okay, no more patent system. I certainly hope you're willing to spend billions of dollars on public funding of medical research, since the average new drug takes about $1 billion to develop, and it's trivial for other companies to "reverse-engineer" once it's on the market. Yes, some drug companies are probably guilty of abusing their patents, but without a temporary monopoly, they would never be able to recoup their research costs.
jet engine
any of a class of internal-combustion engines that propel aircraft by means of the rearward discharge of a jet of fluid, usually hot exhaust gases generated by burning fuel with air drawn in from the atmosphere.
Unfortunately, Brian Reynolds (primary designer of Civ 2, Colonization, and Alpha Centauri) is no longer working with Firaxis. I suspect that an Alpha Centauri 2 made by others would be too much "Civ in Space".
Most reporters dont, and that makes most news look like press releases of a company.
Congratulations, you've just discovered why most corporations and politicians love the current system. Of course they don't want people who can ask insightful, probing questions.
Given the sheer quantity of idiot bloggers to drag the average down, I'm not sure I'd go that far. But it's certainly true that people like Glenn Greenwald have been doing vastly better journalism and analysis than 99% of the "professionals". As he says about the recent idiocy of Chris Matthews and friends:
These are not journalists who want to uncover government corruption or act in an adversarial capacity to check government power. Rather, these are members of the royal court who are grateful to the King and his minions for granting them their status. What they want more than anything is to protect and preserve the system that has so rewarded them -- with status and money and fame and access and comfort. They're the ludicrous clowns who entertain the public by belittling any facts which demonstrate pervasive corruption and deceit at the highest levels of our government, and who completely degrade the public discourse with their petty, pompous, shallow, vapid chatter that transforms every important political matter into a stupid gossipy joke.
Having one catchy song is fairly easy - hell, during jamming sessions I'm sure a lot of us have come up with music that sounded cool. But making a habit of that is hard.
Exactly. It doesn't have to be a concept album to be consistently good. And there are plenty of albums out there that don't fit into the bizarre Slashdot stereotype of 90% filler. I'll refrain from pimping my particular tastes; it's not terribly difficult to find talented artists, even today.
However, when you look at most one-hit wonders, you will notice that the amount of skill needed to come up with a single song is a lot lesser than the skill needed to come up with a whole album.
And the funny thing is that the one song was often written by someone else. The "performer" in the world of pop today is just a marketing package.
Switzerland has a democracy, it suits better to their needs. America has a republic
1) Please look up "democracy" and "republic" in a dictionary. Realize that "democracy" includes indirect democracy, which is effectively the same thing as a democratic republic. If you mean direct democracy, say direct democracy.
2) States, for the most part, govern themselves. They can set up their local governments however they like. Some states and localities do allow direct democracy through ballot initiatives. That this one was able to be overturned is a quirk of local laws, not a necessity of "republic".
Why is it news? It's not like an x86 emulator is anything new. While this is hardly the worst article ever posted to Slashdot, this emulator will be a pointless toy if it's closed-source.
I recently installed Eclipse, and it's a world apart from the slowness of the bank webapp and Azureus.
Starts up immediately, ready to rock. I may start using it once I figure out how:P
Really? Last time I used Eclipse (3.0M6, I think?), it was just as sluggish as Azureus. A shame, since it's an incredibly powerful Java IDE, and not half bad at C++ and Python. I just wish it used shareable project files, not the.workspace mess.
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You are talking, perhaps, about ciaranm and Paludis. But given the size of the Paludis team and the rapid progress they're making, I wouldn't say he's hard to work with. If you can't deal with being told bluntly that you're wrong, I guess you won't like Ciaran. But if you don't mind the occasional amusing insult, you'll learn a lot from him.
They're not mutually exclusive, as you imply. In short: make the "grind" fun. Look at Ultima Online circa 1997-2000 for an example of how to do things differently. Yeah, the WoW system is so simple that the grind is all they have, but it doesn't have to be that way.
Yeah, really. So the game and the controller cost $140. $120 will buy you a surprisingly decent Takamine acoustic. Add a cheap tuner, another set of strings, a strap, and picks (if you're into that), and you're maybe at $150.
Please try running Vista on a computer with 512MB of RAM. I have. Have you?
Absolutely. I use Vista in a VM for testing, and I can't stand the *giant* window that comes up when you try to copy one file over another. They apparently decided to cram every single detail you could possibly want to know in a single prompt, by default. It looks even worse with the Windows Classic theme. Is there any way to change this and get back to sane prompts?
If I buy a bootleg copy from the local street vendor, am I also "making a copy"? Don't confuse computer terminology with legal terminology.
Okay, that's pretty cool. I still won't buy anything from iTunes I can get on CD (locally or via GEMM/Amazon, I pay $1-12). There's an iTunes-only David Poe live EP I'll buy just as soon as the iTMS is no longer Slashdotted.
Okay, no more patent system. I certainly hope you're willing to spend billions of dollars on public funding of medical research, since the average new drug takes about $1 billion to develop, and it's trivial for other companies to "reverse-engineer" once it's on the market. Yes, some drug companies are probably guilty of abusing their patents, but without a temporary monopoly, they would never be able to recoup their research costs.
You fail it.
Unfortunately, Brian Reynolds (primary designer of Civ 2, Colonization, and Alpha Centauri) is no longer working with Firaxis. I suspect that an Alpha Centauri 2 made by others would be too much "Civ in Space".
Well, the real Eliot Spitzer is busy governing. Andrew Cuomo might do something if we're lucky.
So file it if it's not there already. That's what the alpha is for.
2) States, for the most part, govern themselves. They can set up their local governments however they like. Some states and localities do allow direct democracy through ballot initiatives. That this one was able to be overturned is a quirk of local laws, not a necessity of "republic".
I got the same problem with Konqueror and Java 1.6. No keyboard focus. *shrug*
Why is it news? It's not like an x86 emulator is anything new. While this is hardly the worst article ever posted to Slashdot, this emulator will be a pointless toy if it's closed-source.