Yeah, but you sound like one of those people on here who'd rather has sex with an IRC bot than the girl/guy on MySpace. I've been to enough open source conferences to know that geeks are no fun when it comes to having a social life. Seriously, making out with a sixteen year old hottie on a Saturday night is a lot more fun than talking about multi-processing aardvark simulations.
(No offense. *Both* are possibly pathetic. Just don't think you're better than everyone else because you've owned more computers than you had slampieces.
It's not just lazyness. For a part it might be, but it's also:
- the desire for fast communication of people who cannot type at the great speeds we computer professionals can and find abbreviations or easier to type letter combinations, - the 160-character limitation for SMS text messages, - the desire to have slang and abbreviations not immediately or easily understood by parents, teachers and/or undesired peers
and probably many more small factors I can't immediately think of. I believe that this use of language is fine as long as the abbreviations and slang can be reasonably understood. The ability to fill in some blanks from a context is a language skill as well, don't forget that.
Or editors who realise it's a market, not a war. And as long as Windows users ask me to get something done more often than I have to ask them for a favour, I personally don't care much about the market either. Linux as a niche provides me with jobs and productivity.. going mainstream is just not relevant.
What I don't understand about the global warming skeptics is this unwillingness to say hey, we can generate energy in a better way. It's weird, really.
And what I don't understand is why many of the supporters seem equally unwilling.
Investing in cleaner CO2-industries is not going to change a single thing. It might in fact make it harder to switch to alternatives because industries will want a proper ROI on their cleaner plants.
A bigger problem than global warming - regardless of cause. That they are not very related is exactly the important point: we'd get more done if we wouldn't throw global warming into the mix in every single environmental discussion.
Biomass? It will definitely add to deforestation - the stuff needs to be grown somewhere and it's not going to be farmland but former/present rainforest. Therefore I'd rather see fission and later fusion, for energy needs.
I also realise that the third world or booming industries down there are using the crap we used decades ago. That cycle however will continue to happen anyway. We continue to dump our vehicles, tools and current tech for the newer models, they get the dumps on the market. Once our 2000+ models hit their roads, smog and acid rain will be gone there as well. Sure, they'll worry about diesel's microdust for a bit, like we do now. On the long run though, we seem to be capable of solving our problems when we're focused and those solutions will trickle down. And when that's not the case, a thorough examination of where we can improve what seems more prudent than to focus solely on global warming and blindly accepting any solution to that particular issue (man-caused or not) without thinking through the big picture that includes other environmental issues.
Now, making more fuel efficient cars and reducing pollution is fine either way, but many of the evironmentalist strategies would weaken us economically and technologically, and that will be a problem when the rising oceans start to flood our coastal cities. We need to have the resources, energy, and technology that will be needed to protect our cities or move them if/when the time comes.
Amen. I live below sea levels (and on the eight day, the Dutch created Holland) and I definitely have more faith in improved dikes and water management systems. They will protect us regardless of the cause of global temperature changes.
Likewise, I'm skeptical of stop biomass fuel. Deforestation is a far bigger problem and bio diversity isn't going to improve one bit with biomass fuels. Fission will do fine for now and hopefully fusion in the future (ITER).
Furthermore, anyone remember acid rain and smog? Sure, it still happens, but it's nowhere as huge as it was in the eighties, not in the uber-capitalistic modern world (YMMV). On the whole, we seem to be able to take care. Just because we hear about every single problem in the world in the Internet age doesn't mean there are actually more problems.
OK, I'll pretend. My first question is when we ask users this question... if it's in 1995, then Opera isn't on the list (Wikipedia just told me that its first public release was in 1996) and neither is Firefox.
I'm no fan of socialism/communism/stalinism, not at all. But the lack of resources is quite relevant to North Korea considering the Juche ideology of self-reliance. There are plenty of nation states with a collective economy that - while crappy - perform better than North Korea. I don't think resources are the reason why North Korea can't compete with the prosperous world but I do think it is why it can't even compete with Cuba, Middle Eastern theocracies, and so on.
The internet hasn't been that long with us so how can you even think that it could be available in a such poor and controlled country.
I agree with the controlled bit, but poverty is not a very strong argument. Internet is easily available in most of Africa. DSL isn't widespread nor is PC ownership, but GPRS connections are quite common and the pre-paid cell phone market is booming with subscriber numbers doubling every year.
And keep in mind that investments in technology need not necessarily compete with investments in farming or healthcare.
My guess is the lack of electricity in the country is some sort of ploy to confuse all of our advanced weapons and smart bomb technology.
My guess it's the lack of natural resources in North Korea, forcing them to have a predominantly pre-industrial society. Especially when all resources that are available go to the ruling party and military.
Sure, but somehow, I have managed not to. Are you saying that if you, a straight man, found yourself in a group of 16 year-old girls, you'd be unable to keep your hands off them?
I can't speak for GP, but if there was clear consent and I'd like the girl..
Note: I am one of those people here from a place where the age of consent is indeed 16. I've also seen too much abuse and rape amongst adults and too many adolescents in a dedicated relationship to have any reason to believe adolescents are inherently less capable of making judgment calls. It would be nice if more people would focus on actual sex offenders and not jump into taboo-mode whenever there's a possibility of intimacy involving age differences or a certain orientation.
As long as it sells, it's irrelevant whether people care or not. I bet only few people truly cared about the iPod prior to launch. If no one but fanboys will care, that's going to be due to an inferior product. If it's any good, people will start to care automatically.
Same goes for any product from any vendor at any time. Most people don't care - especially not when we're talking mass market consumer electronics.
There was no dotcom bubble and there won't be a new one. We had a good economy with over-the-top entrepreneurs. It topped, scaled down and weeding selected the sensible business. It happens all the time, in all industries and sectors. New shops open town in good times and silly ideas go bankrupt in bad times. It may look overwhelming because we're so close to the source, but I'm sure the average resident in my neighbourhood isn't even aware of the dotcom tale. It was that insignificant in the grand scheme of economical cycles.
We find dinosaur bones after a hundred of millions of years. But there wouldn't be a single trace of the gigantic structures we've built? Sounds unlikely. I'm surely one of those concrete buildings will accidently not get meddled with too much (and in turn shield its contents a little better). If in just a few million years our presence would go unnoticed by an intelligence similar to our own, then wouldn't that imply that for all we know this hypothesis actually did happen to the dinosaurs and possibly species before (or even since) them?
Last time I installed Oracle on Windows it installed Perl, Apache, Java.. I forgot whether I just joked about it, but in my mindset it even required Cygwin somewhere in all those gigabytes. Shipping a customised kernel and filesystem to run seem like a step consistent with that.
Although "we" never noticed it, the Reiser news has been around for much longer, check Google News sorted by date. I read some older articles (prior to the arrest, prior to Nina going missing). Although the decision is defendable on its own, don't ignore the fact that reiserfs has been under control of a workaholic mathematician in a tough divorce while $170K in debt for a quite a while. This must have affected development and as such had an indirect influence. In the end it's all related.
What good is a UPS going to do in the case the machine powers off because of a problem with the power unit, a motherboard short circuit, and so on? Any filesystem with serious data loss on a power failure is not acceptable, period.
I'm not convinced there's a big difference between IT divorces and other divorces caused by people who are often away on business or have on-duty responsibilities, or true workaholics. Depending on the situation this might be a factor in custody decisions. If you're doing well and have a nanny and are every bit the nice guy as some fathers in the open source world are, then don't worry. On the other hand, if you're up to $200K in debt, have had a restraining order and know your company is in financial trouble.. then you might consider other priorities than custody because you should darn well know you're in no position to take care of children at the moment. Just to mention something recent.
Point being, be honest with yourself and judge whether you are capable of taking care of children in combination with your job. Don't make a principle point out of it based on your best intentions but admit you can't bear unlimited responsibility and might have to set priorities sometimes. I bet it also really depends on your current relationship with your children. If you're just the guy who cuts the meat Sundays, you'd be stupid to think you will all of a sudden be. Visitation rights would be more than enough and could always be extended if indeed you would start to find it easy to shift the balance between from home to work step by step.
The same applies for YouTube and Google. It has nothing to do with censorship.
Not a single person in the world is obligated to distribute your opinion. Restriction of freedom of speech would mean you yourself would no longer be able to.
The US government of today dwarfs the US government of 100 years ago, both in revenue and power over the people, but only a fraction of that growth was achieved pre-Bush or post-9/11.
So the ballpart was achieved in few months during Bush that were prior to 9/11? I take it you meant post-Bush (in which case I agree) or pre-9/11 (in which case I don't).. which is it?
Ironically, KDE's Control Centre is not in your GNOME menus only because of Freedesktop.org's effort to hide desktop-specific applications (such as the control centre) from menus using the Don't/Only-Show-In (IIRC).desktop properties.
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Pedantic remark: ditch the * and recreate the directory or at least include dir/.* if you want user configurations to be cleaned up as well.
I'd like to know. :)
(Haven't used my 3-digit one for ages though.)
Yeah, but you sound like one of those people on here who'd rather has sex with an IRC bot than the girl/guy on MySpace. I've been to enough open source conferences to know that geeks are no fun when it comes to having a social life. Seriously, making out with a sixteen year old hottie on a Saturday night is a lot more fun than talking about multi-processing aardvark simulations.
(No offense. *Both* are possibly pathetic. Just don't think you're better than everyone else because you've owned more computers than you had slampieces.
It's not just lazyness. For a part it might be, but it's also:
- the desire for fast communication of people who cannot type at the great speeds we computer professionals can and find abbreviations or easier to type letter combinations,
- the 160-character limitation for SMS text messages,
- the desire to have slang and abbreviations not immediately or easily understood by parents, teachers and/or undesired peers
and probably many more small factors I can't immediately think of. I believe that this use of language is fine as long as the abbreviations and slang can be reasonably understood. The ability to fill in some blanks from a context is a language skill as well, don't forget that.
Or editors who realise it's a market, not a war. And as long as Windows users ask me to get something done more often than I have to ask them for a favour, I personally don't care much about the market either. Linux as a niche provides me with jobs and productivity.. going mainstream is just not relevant.
And what I don't understand is why many of the supporters seem equally unwilling.
Investing in cleaner CO2-industries is not going to change a single thing. It might in fact make it harder to switch to alternatives because industries will want a proper ROI on their cleaner plants.
A bigger problem than global warming - regardless of cause. That they are not very related is exactly the important point: we'd get more done if we wouldn't throw global warming into the mix in every single environmental discussion.
Biomass? It will definitely add to deforestation - the stuff needs to be grown somewhere and it's not going to be farmland but former/present rainforest. Therefore I'd rather see fission and later fusion, for energy needs.
I also realise that the third world or booming industries down there are using the crap we used decades ago. That cycle however will continue to happen anyway. We continue to dump our vehicles, tools and current tech for the newer models, they get the dumps on the market. Once our 2000+ models hit their roads, smog and acid rain will be gone there as well. Sure, they'll worry about diesel's microdust for a bit, like we do now. On the long run though, we seem to be capable of solving our problems when we're focused and those solutions will trickle down. And when that's not the case, a thorough examination of where we can improve what seems more prudent than to focus solely on global warming and blindly accepting any solution to that particular issue (man-caused or not) without thinking through the big picture that includes other environmental issues.
Amen. I live below sea levels (and on the eight day, the Dutch created Holland) and I definitely have more faith in improved dikes and water management systems. They will protect us regardless of the cause of global temperature changes.
Likewise, I'm skeptical of stop biomass fuel. Deforestation is a far bigger problem and bio diversity isn't going to improve one bit with biomass fuels. Fission will do fine for now and hopefully fusion in the future (ITER).
Furthermore, anyone remember acid rain and smog? Sure, it still happens, but it's nowhere as huge as it was in the eighties, not in the uber-capitalistic modern world (YMMV). On the whole, we seem to be able to take care. Just because we hear about every single problem in the world in the Internet age doesn't mean there are actually more problems.
And what about Netscape?
I'm no fan of socialism/communism/stalinism, not at all. But the lack of resources is quite relevant to North Korea considering the Juche ideology of self-reliance. There are plenty of nation states with a collective economy that - while crappy - perform better than North Korea. I don't think resources are the reason why North Korea can't compete with the prosperous world but I do think it is why it can't even compete with Cuba, Middle Eastern theocracies, and so on.
The internet hasn't been that long with us so how can you even think that it could be available in a such poor and controlled country.
I agree with the controlled bit, but poverty is not a very strong argument. Internet is easily available in most of Africa. DSL isn't widespread nor is PC ownership, but GPRS connections are quite common and the pre-paid cell phone market is booming with subscriber numbers doubling every year.
And keep in mind that investments in technology need not necessarily compete with investments in farming or healthcare.
My guess is the lack of electricity in the country is some sort of ploy to confuse all of our advanced weapons and smart bomb technology.
My guess it's the lack of natural resources in North Korea, forcing them to have a predominantly pre-industrial society. Especially when all resources that are available go to the ruling party and military.
I think congratulations are in place, that's quite an achievement. Guinness' Book will now be such a bore though.
Keep thinking, you're very close. An invention that will collect and automatically do laundry.. you could ask that girlfriend (or wife or mom)
to stop nagging so you can think more closely.
Sure, but somehow, I have managed not to. Are you saying that if you, a straight man, found yourself in a group of 16 year-old girls, you'd be unable to keep your hands off them?
I can't speak for GP, but if there was clear consent and I'd like the girl..
Note: I am one of those people here from a place where the age of consent is indeed 16. I've also seen too much abuse and rape amongst adults and too many adolescents in a dedicated relationship to have any reason to believe adolescents are inherently less capable of making judgment calls. It would be nice if more people would focus on actual sex offenders and not jump into taboo-mode whenever there's a possibility of intimacy involving age differences or a certain orientation.
As long as it sells, it's irrelevant whether people care or not. I bet only few people truly cared about the iPod prior to launch. If no one but fanboys will care, that's going to be due to an inferior product. If it's any good, people will start to care automatically.
Same goes for any product from any vendor at any time. Most people don't care - especially not when we're talking mass market consumer electronics.
There was no dotcom bubble and there won't be a new one. We had a good economy with over-the-top entrepreneurs. It topped, scaled down and weeding selected the sensible business. It happens all the time, in all industries and sectors. New shops open town in good times and silly ideas go bankrupt in bad times. It may look overwhelming because we're so close to the source, but I'm sure the average resident in my neighbourhood isn't even aware of the dotcom tale. It was that insignificant in the grand scheme of economical cycles.
We find dinosaur bones after a hundred of millions of years. But there wouldn't be a single trace of the gigantic structures we've built? Sounds unlikely. I'm surely one of those concrete buildings will accidently not get meddled with too much (and in turn shield its contents a little better). If in just a few million years our presence would go unnoticed by an intelligence similar to our own, then wouldn't that imply that for all we know this hypothesis actually did happen to the dinosaurs and possibly species before (or even since) them?
Last time I installed Oracle on Windows it installed Perl, Apache, Java.. I forgot whether I just joked about it, but in my mindset it even required Cygwin somewhere in all those gigabytes. Shipping a customised kernel and filesystem to run seem like a step consistent with that.
Although "we" never noticed it, the Reiser news has been around for much longer, check Google News sorted by date. I read some older articles (prior to the arrest, prior to Nina going missing). Although the decision is defendable on its own, don't ignore the fact that reiserfs has been under control of a workaholic mathematician in a tough divorce while $170K in debt for a quite a while. This must have affected development and as such had an indirect influence. In the end it's all related.
What good is a UPS going to do in the case the machine powers off because of a problem with the power unit, a motherboard short circuit, and so on? Any filesystem with serious data loss on a power failure is not acceptable, period.
I'm not convinced there's a big difference between IT divorces and other divorces caused by people who are often away on business or have on-duty responsibilities, or true workaholics. Depending on the situation this might be a factor in custody decisions. If you're doing well and have a nanny and are every bit the nice guy as some fathers in the open source world are, then don't worry. On the other hand, if you're up to $200K in debt, have had a restraining order and know your company is in financial trouble.. then you might consider other priorities than custody because you should darn well know you're in no position to take care of children at the moment. Just to mention something recent.
Point being, be honest with yourself and judge whether you are capable of taking care of children in combination with your job. Don't make a principle point out of it based on your best intentions but admit you can't bear unlimited responsibility and might have to set priorities sometimes. I bet it also really depends on your current relationship with your children. If you're just the guy who cuts the meat Sundays, you'd be stupid to think you will all of a sudden be. Visitation rights would be more than enough and could always be extended if indeed you would start to find it easy to shift the balance between from home to work step by step.
The same applies for YouTube and Google. It has nothing to do with censorship.
Not a single person in the world is obligated to distribute your opinion. Restriction of freedom of speech would mean you yourself would no longer be able to.
The US government of today dwarfs the US government of 100 years ago, both in revenue and power over the people, but only a fraction of that growth was achieved pre-Bush or post-9/11.
So the ballpart was achieved in few months during Bush that were prior to 9/11? I take it you meant post-Bush (in which case I agree) or pre-9/11 (in which case I don't).. which is it?
Point taken.
.desktop properties.
Ironically, KDE's Control Centre is not in your GNOME menus only because of Freedesktop.org's effort to hide desktop-specific applications (such as the control centre) from menus using the Don't/Only-Show-In (IIRC)