>use sense, people. the knee-jerk reaction to 'OMG!! telnet!!' is just absurd. if you use it in a private network, its fine.
This is slashdot. Unless you follow the group-think concensus you'll never get any respect. You must remember that group-thinkers "know" that you must ALWAYS use encryption, even on a physically seperate LAN used only by you and your dog. They can't give you a reason why , they just "know" it must be that way. Then once they've given you their reply and the usual standard issue sarcastic vitriol they'll wander off back to the field to graze.
I keep hearing this argument about someone being a coder , but not a designer/architect/whatever. As if being a coder is the easy bit but the real hard stuff is coming up with a flowchart, a few verbose word documents and spending half of every working day in meetings talking to similar talent vacuums. Because that my friend is all your lauded "architects" ever seem to do in my experience. Coding is hard but any moron can come up with a high level design , usually one which is impractical and doesn;t work and the coders have to quietly rewrite as they go along.
"Or maybe it had something to do with the fact that OpenOffice was based on StarOffice? You know, the Office Suite that was developed back in 1986?"
C++ was still in nappies in 1986 so its VERY unlikely staroffice was written in it. More than likely it had a C framework with a large proportion of assembler so its almost certain that theres very little of the original code in Open Office so they could probably have rewritten in Java instead of C++ if they wanted but they didn't. And speed was probably top of the list as to why.
I know you're being sarcastic , but as well can all guess there will be a huge need for them. Just not for running web browsers or MS Word on or playing Quake XXII.
Quantum computers even if they can be made practical , will only solve a small subset of problems in computer science that involve highly parallel number calculations or searches. They'll be little or no better than a standard turing machine for sequential (ie most) computing problems where the steps in the program can't be reduced to a simple mathematical formula or sequence or where branching levels are high.
So while various talking heads may waffle on about a new era in computing what they really mean is a new era in certain areas such as factorisation , whereas most of the computing world will carry on as before. Where not going to see quantum powered AI or whatever else we read about in the more on the fringe science mags anytime soon.
Don't they run off a low voltage DC supply? What bit of the hardware inside would be upping the voltage to that sort of level? I can't think of anything offhand. Anyone know?
Just because you lose a commanding officer doesn't mean your escape route is suddenly cut off. Unless there was no second (or third or fourth) in command and the footsoldiers were little more than knuckle dragging morons who could barely tie their own shoelaces then they could have got out the same way they would if they had a commanding officer. And if they really were so inept they couldn't manage it what are the odds on them being successfull mercenaries that manage to walk 2000 miles to central china??
Thats a LOT of new low level stuff to go into a supposed patch release version. It will be interesting to see how many 2.6.20.x versions there are before it all settles down. Personally I think they've put too much in but time will tell. I just hope 2.6.20 doesn't turn out to be another turkey of a version because Linux's reputation for stability and reliability has already suffered with the 2.6 series as it is.
A car engine doesn't install its own oil or download new oil via service patches. You have no choice but to do it yourself. MS meanwhile keep banging their drump about A) how good the OS is to start with and B) how amazing their auto update system is.
God so you're clueless you're almost funny. Go read up on the abolitionist movements , a lot of which were populated by ordinary people. Feel free to have the last word and make and even bigger fool of yourself.
YOu disagree with what I said so you insult me. SHould have expected it really given the arrogant streak you seemed to have demonstrated.
A "guiding hand". What a lovely euphamism that is, used my many dictators down the ages.
As for re-imprisoning the negros , yes bring race into the equation if it'll make you feel better but funnily enough I don't remember a referendum on slavery being taken on the whole population either in the UK or the US. I'm sure ending slavery pissed off the land owners but then they weren't the majority , though they were the "guiding hand" of governmental decisions up until the last century.
Congratulations in disproving your own point , now fuck off you moron.
I don't care what Mr Mills thought, democracy is the will of the majority. End of story. That might make it fallible but thats what it is, and I get tired of people who bang on about how wonderful democracy is until the majority come up with a decision they don't like. Make your mind up , you're either in favour of democracy and free speech or you're not.
"Now, according to your logic, it'd be perfectly fine for this 75% to use democracy in order to vote in Sharia law, dissolve parliament, and institute a theocracy. After all, that's democracy, right?"
You might not like it , but yes , thats exactly the case. Of course if the UK were ever stupid enough to allow that many fundamentalist muslims into the country in the first place then it deserves all it gets frankly.
Democracy is based on a majority vote , NOT a majority vote as long as self appointed "guardians" agree with it.
"You as an individual expressing your views is one thing, but an organization with hundreds of thousands of members expressing the same views becomes a much bigger problem."
Isn't that called democracy? Or is a large group of people expressing a view you or other people don't agree with somehow wrong?
Ah yes , that old chestnut. Yes water vapour is a greenhouse gas but it needs to be "bootstrapped" by CO2 concentrations. If there was no CO2 in the air the atmosphere would gradually cool and the water vapour would freeze out. Ergo zero greenhouse. SImilarly if CO2 (or other greenhouse gas) concentrations increase then the air heats up , more water vapour evaporates off the sea into the air and its much greater greenhouse effect starts to take place, eventually becoming a self propagating cycle.
If you want an analogy then CO2 is the throttle pedal and water vapour is the fuel.
"They held the chancellorship (under Figl) and majority in Parliament until the "Socialist revolution" under Kreisky in 1970."
And the socialists didn't repeal it? So much for free speech.
"We have a lot of problems right now, especially in Vienna, because so many Turkish people are coming and certain far-right parties are using it as the new scapegoat to gain support. The last thing Austria needs is some douche like David Irving fanning the flames. "
Perhaps the proper solution might be to restrict the amount of turks entering the country. Only an idiot would see jailing people for expressing a point of view as the solution. Anyway , what the f*ck have turks got to do with Jews? Please tell us.... Or is it that ANY right wing view should be suppressed?
David Irwine (hope I spelt his name right) the author recently served a spell in jail fin Austria for denying the holocaust. Now while not many people would support his views and frankly I think the guy is a few sandwiches short of a picnic , WTF is a supposedly democratic country doing JAILING someone simply because he holds a daft view?? Don't those idiot liberals who came up with the law that allowed it realise they're behaving in EXACTLY the same way as the nazis they supposedly so detest!
As I've noticed , theres no one with a more fascist approach to debate than liberals who have someone disagree with them.
Sorry , but it could have made a big difference to his image. He might possibly have been seen as more of "one of the boys" and in corporate circles thats a Big Deal.
"English is easier to learn because well...it is beautiful mix of Germanic & Latin words."
Thats because english isn't a pure language (ok , none are but english even less so). Its actually a hybrid language made up of anglo-saxon , norman french and a bit of old norse. Thats why so many words in english are either identical or very similar to french. Most native english speakers find old english spoken before 1066 almost unintelligable whereas 11th century norman french is still fairly comprehensible to most modern french speakers (I've been told).
I tried to install FreeBSD 6.0 on my HP Pavilion but it didn't recognise the network card (I forget what its called , driver is forcedeth under linux). Has laptop support been improved ? Does the team have laptops in mind for freebsd or is it more a desktop/server system still?
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>use sense, people. the knee-jerk reaction to 'OMG!! telnet!!' is just absurd. if you use it in a private network, its fine.
This is slashdot. Unless you follow the group-think concensus you'll never get any respect. You must remember that group-thinkers "know" that you must ALWAYS use encryption, even on a physically seperate LAN used only by you and your dog. They can't give you a reason why , they just "know" it must be that way. Then once they've given you their reply and the usual standard issue sarcastic vitriol they'll wander off back to the field to graze.
I keep hearing this argument about someone being a coder , but not a designer/architect/whatever. As if being a coder is the easy bit but the real hard stuff is coming up with a flowchart, a few verbose word documents and spending half of every working day in meetings talking to similar talent vacuums. Because that my friend is all your lauded "architects" ever seem to do in my experience. Coding is hard but any moron can come up with a high level design , usually one which is impractical and doesn;t work and the coders have to quietly rewrite as they go along.
"Or maybe it had something to do with the fact that OpenOffice was based on StarOffice? You know, the Office Suite that was developed back in 1986?"
C++ was still in nappies in 1986 so its VERY unlikely staroffice was written in it. More than likely it had a C framework with a large proportion of assembler so its almost certain that theres very little of the original code in Open Office so they could probably have rewritten in Java instead of C++ if they wanted but they didn't. And speed was probably top of the list as to why.
I know you're being sarcastic , but as well can all guess there will be a huge need for them. Just not for running web browsers or MS Word on or playing Quake XXII.
Quantum computers even if they can be made practical , will only solve a small subset of problems in computer science that involve highly parallel number calculations or searches. They'll be little or no better than a standard turing machine for sequential (ie most) computing problems where the steps in the program can't be reduced to a simple mathematical formula or sequence or where branching levels are high.
So while various talking heads may waffle on about a new era in computing what they really mean is a new era in certain areas such as factorisation , whereas most of the computing world will carry on as before. Where not going to see quantum powered AI or whatever else we read about in the more on the fringe science mags anytime soon.
Don't they run off a low voltage DC supply? What bit of the hardware inside would be upping the voltage to that sort of level? I can't think of anything offhand. Anyone know?
One battle doesn't get an army lost for the rest of their lives. Get a clue Mr A.C Moron.
Just because you lose a commanding officer doesn't mean your escape route is suddenly cut off. Unless there was no second (or third or fourth) in command and the footsoldiers were little more than knuckle dragging morons who could barely tie their own shoelaces then they could have got out the same way they would if they had a commanding officer. And if they really were so inept they couldn't manage it what are the odds on them being successfull mercenaries that manage to walk 2000 miles to central china??
Thats a LOT of new low level stuff to go into a supposed patch release version. It will be interesting to see how many 2.6.20.x versions there are before it all settles down. Personally I think they've put too much in but time will tell. I just hope 2.6.20 doesn't turn out to be another turkey of a version because Linux's reputation for stability and reliability has already suffered with the 2.6 series as it is.
A car engine doesn't install its own oil or download new oil via service patches. You have no choice but to do it yourself. MS meanwhile keep banging their drump about A) how good the OS is to start with and B) how amazing their auto update system is.
God so you're clueless you're almost funny. Go read up on the abolitionist movements , a lot of which were populated by ordinary people. Feel free to have the last word and make and even bigger fool of yourself.
YOu disagree with what I said so you insult me. SHould have expected it really given the arrogant streak you seemed to have demonstrated.
A "guiding hand". What a lovely euphamism that is, used my many dictators down the ages.
As for re-imprisoning the negros , yes bring race into the equation if it'll make you feel better but funnily enough I don't remember a referendum on slavery being taken on the whole population either in the UK or the US. I'm sure ending slavery pissed off the land owners but then they weren't the majority , though they were the "guiding hand" of governmental decisions up until the last century.
Congratulations in disproving your own point , now fuck off you moron.
I don't care what Mr Mills thought, democracy is the will of the majority. End of story. That might make it fallible but thats what it is, and I get tired of people who bang on about how wonderful democracy is until the majority come up with a decision they don't like. Make your mind up , you're either in favour of democracy and free speech or you're not.
"Now, according to your logic, it'd be perfectly fine for this 75% to use democracy in order to vote in Sharia law, dissolve parliament, and institute a theocracy. After all, that's democracy, right?"
You might not like it , but yes , thats exactly the case. Of course if the UK were ever stupid enough to allow that many fundamentalist muslims into the country in the first place then it deserves all it gets frankly.
Democracy is based on a majority vote , NOT a majority vote as long as self appointed "guardians" agree with it.
"You as an individual expressing your views is one thing, but an organization with hundreds of thousands of members expressing the same views becomes a much bigger problem."
Isn't that called democracy? Or is a large group of people expressing a view you or other people don't agree with somehow wrong?
>That's exactly the solution the neo-Nazis--the people who are saying Irving should come here--support
And whats wrong with immigration limits? Most countries in the world have it FYI.
>But I think the main reason it hasn't been repealed is simply because of the symbolic effect i
You either believe in free speech or you don't. If you pick and choose what you'll allow its called censorship.
Ah yes , that old chestnut. Yes water vapour is a greenhouse gas but it needs to be "bootstrapped" by CO2 concentrations. If there was no CO2 in the air the atmosphere would gradually cool and the water vapour would freeze out. Ergo zero greenhouse. SImilarly if CO2 (or other greenhouse gas) concentrations increase then the air heats up , more water vapour evaporates off the sea into the air and its much greater greenhouse effect starts to take place, eventually becoming a self propagating cycle.
If you want an analogy then CO2 is the throttle pedal and water vapour is the fuel.
"They held the chancellorship (under Figl) and majority in Parliament until the "Socialist revolution" under Kreisky in 1970."
And the socialists didn't repeal it? So much for free speech.
"We have a lot of problems right now, especially in Vienna, because so many Turkish people are coming and certain far-right parties are using it as the new scapegoat to gain support. The last thing Austria needs is some douche like David Irving fanning the flames. "
Perhaps the proper solution might be to restrict the amount of turks entering the country. Only an idiot would see jailing people for expressing a point of view as the solution. Anyway , what the f*ck have turks got to do with Jews? Please tell us.... Or is it that ANY right wing view should be suppressed?
Idiot.
>It's easy to suspect that fertiliser and pesticide run offs are altering which microbes prosper and thus affect climate.
Easy to suspect , somewhat harder to provide sources for your argument I suspect.
>Again a focus on CO2 may be doing more harm than good.
What should we focus on then given CO2 levels effect the heat trapping abilities of the atmosphere? Pixies?
David Irwine (hope I spelt his name right) the author recently served a spell in jail fin Austria for denying the holocaust. Now while not many people would support his views and frankly I think the guy is a few sandwiches short of a picnic , WTF is a supposedly democratic country doing JAILING someone simply because he holds a daft view?? Don't those idiot liberals who came up with the law that allowed it realise they're behaving in EXACTLY the same way as the nazis they supposedly so detest!
As I've noticed , theres no one with a more fascist approach to debate than liberals who have someone disagree with them.
Sorry , but it could have made a big difference to his image. He might possibly have been seen as more of "one of the boys" and in corporate circles thats a Big Deal.
Well if he's gay and people knew it that probably wouldn't have helped him in the 1970s corporate world much either I imagine.
"English is easier to learn because well...it is beautiful mix of Germanic & Latin words."
Thats because english isn't a pure language (ok , none are but english even less so). Its actually a hybrid language made up of anglo-saxon , norman french and a bit of old norse. Thats why so many words in english are either identical or very similar to french. Most native english speakers find old english spoken before 1066 almost unintelligable whereas 11th century norman french is still fairly comprehensible to most modern french speakers (I've been told).
I tried to install FreeBSD 6.0 on my HP Pavilion but it didn't recognise the network card (I forget what its called , driver is forcedeth under linux). Has laptop support been improved ? Does the team have laptops in mind for freebsd or is it more a desktop/server system still?
Just out of interest , where do FreeBSD and Linux differ from the Single unix spec?