Hrm... Having read the majority of the newsgroup postings on the topic I think I can say with some certainty that the Debianites really need to work on their own social standards.
They are astonishingly rude and confrontational in an entirely unproductive way. Sure it's probably unfair to point the finger at Debian alone (especially on/. - oh the irony) but I can say with some certainty that nothing positive will come from that thread. Conflict resolution amongst egotistical (come on , we can admit it) geeks is damn difficult - especially when programmer opinions take on the form of religious zealotry (free vs. libre).
These are big changes, and many people are expressing that they felt misled with the "editorial changes" description of the vote in question. I am not going to get involved in an internal dispute, except to say that it is in the best interests of the project for the majority not to feel manipulated and/or deceived. Again, I'm not saying they have been, I am saying that is what some are expressing.
Ok, against my best wishes not to get involved in the theological flame wars, I can't let that one go by.
Disclaimer: Staunch athei-ostic (I don't believe in religion).
"If one believes in God, Christ, and The Holy Spirit then one has to believe that The Bible is the Word of God."
Now this is an obvious logical fallacy. Even working from an assumption that God, Christ, et al are true deities there is no assertion that they have ensured the validity of the bible.
I think the standard response by believers is "do you know the mind of God?". Implying that God could have written a pile of crap as a test or some-such...
I got trolled for saying something similar to this: "...the difficulty of working with PlayStation 2 and we assume that PlayStation 3 will be even more difficult."
I have OSX up and running on a box and I really try and like it... I try and figure out ways to effiently do anything... I try to understand it's astoundingly atypical and anti-intuitive graphics, layout, and organisation but I just can't...
I guess it's just me - lots of other people seem happy with it (and some aspects like it's packages are refreshingly good) but try as I might, I just can't wait to escape to Slackware or XP. *Ducks*
Deep breathe - lets let it go. Neither will convince the other and the flame war is pointless. Thank you for including references to help others make up their own minds.
Surely this could be rapidly resolved in another suit. Working from the existing settlement (although not a legal precedent) they should be easily able to get an extra injunction for not only employees, but also any contracted individuals or companies.
Airplanes do not fly randomly - in fact we go to a lot of effort to limit and control them, just like what we should be doing with orbital detritus. That's alright, happy to disprove your point (and I thought it was a nice analogy too, misinterpretations aside).
Getting to the allegations of "ad hominens" - I assume you are referring to the vernacular usage rather than the literal translation? I have not used personal attacks to invalidate your argument, I have used logic. Sure I think you are a prat, but that is incidental.
"... if you get my drift." - Nope, can't say I do. I'm a reformed smoker? Misunderstanding the homo- prefix? Impugning my good(sic) character? Don't like naughty words?
I only bothered to respond as I had just posted a link and hence couldn't just mod you down - I perceived you as spreading baseless speculation as fact and you had been modded "+1 Insightful". A few minutes on the various space agency sites will show the fallacy of your statement - as long as I motivated people to critically evaluate your claim I am happy.
Your point was that is that there are other micrometeors anyway, so more wont matter.
I repeat: that is bullshit - plain and simple.
There are birds that get sucked into aircraft engines, therefore we should make extra birds out of metal and randomly fly them around airports... 'cause hey, they should have been prepared anyway...
Sorry for giving you the benefit of the doubt - next time I'll just assume you are an addict and bypass the assumption of education, amateur or not, wouldn't want to offend...
What a load of complete crap. Chemists should leave the physics to the physicsts Mr Isonicotine.
Kinetic Energy = 1/2 * Mass * Velocity ^ 2
Double the velocity, and you get four times the impact energy.
From here - "In June, 1983, the windscreen of US shuttle Challenger had to be replaced after it was chipped by a fleck of paint, measuring 0.3mm, that impacted at 4 km per second." Note that this is considered a lower bound - up to 14 km/s is considered a "typical" impact speed.
The mass of the fleck has been estimated as 0.001 grams. So after conversion to SI units we have:
This about equivalent, in terms of impact energy, to a 1Kg object hitting the windscreen at 4m/sec (only with the impact focused into an area 0.09cm^of 2).
It is hardly surprising that it caused considerable damage. Perhaps the surprise should be that it did not penetrate the shuttle.
I think the crux of the matter here is that what ever action we may take, if it is out of step with the political climate, we will end up with siezed assetts and a roommate called "Bubba" (Your MY little puppy now, boy!).
I can't help but feel civil disobedience is the only way that the masses will be heard. The problem is that they know this and hence target the "easy game" of medium to small businesses - too much invested to take a stand, not enough to fight to the death...
To any/. reader, and most in the industry, it is obvious that patent reform is required. The problem is that the only groups powerful enough to bribe (sorry I mean lobby) politicians are those exact same groups interested in keeping the status quo. Isn't that right Disney, PanIP, SCOX??
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A bit. More like The Diamond Age really (remember the atmospheric haze of nanobots and the lung damage...)
The US Congress will in fact have input in this exact issue if we sign the US free trade agreement in it's current form...
An "advisory comittee" would get to "advise" us on our copyright issues... and pharmaceutical benefits... and how much further we should bend over to please the monopolistic bastards dangling the $$$'s...
There is nothing I love more than a physicist trying to be pedantic. Especially when the next sentence starts: "A body..."
After all to pedantically model fluid flow on a rotating plane we should start by reducing it to a one body equation...
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Refresh rate, pixel decay rates, attainable colour space, non-native resolution pixel interpolation, RGB vs BGR for sub-pixel antialiasing, mean time to failure and fade, (semi) standard interfaces, etc...
As far as I am concerned, with no ego/space/power consumption restrictions, a CRT is far and away superior for most applications.
Re: the text performance on LCD, I assume you are using subpixel interpolation to get a usable display? Or are you just referring to DOS style low res character screens?
If subpixel, shame it is a work around to try and achieve much of the same readability of a CRT. It's even more of a shame that the technique will not work on portrait orientation LCD screens (think PDA) unless they have been manufactured specifically for this purpose (I expect they will soon). Then there is the RGB/BGR problem requiring user intervention and/or confusion.
You should NEVER have visible flicker on a decent CRT (unless you are comparing your new 2003 LCD to your old 14" running @60Hz). As for "sharper pixels" you are technically correct - unfortunately sharper rectangular pixels does not a smooth diagonal line make...
I use LCD's and CRT's extensively at work and always prefer the CRT.
Well music has managed to have socal commentaries for a LONG time without being declared no longer music. I think the same is true for games (others have had specific examples).
I do think this is an amazingly pointless article - some people like political music, some do not. It is the same with all forms of art and entertainment.
"Can" games address these issues? - Yes.
"Should" games address these issues? - If they want.
My grandfather worked in one of the old generator plants that supplied Sydney with power. These are dozens of generators, the size of large houses.
He needed a spanner or somesuch and cruised down to the other end of the plant to get one. At that exact point the generator they had been looking at "vaporised" (his word). The two other workers where never found.
Kinda offtopic, but it spun me out when he told me about it... that's a lot of energy...
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They are astonishingly rude and confrontational in an entirely unproductive way. Sure it's probably unfair to point the finger at Debian alone (especially on /. - oh the irony) but I can say with some certainty that nothing positive will come from that thread. Conflict resolution amongst egotistical (come on , we can admit it) geeks is damn difficult - especially when programmer opinions take on the form of religious zealotry (free vs. libre).
These are big changes, and many people are expressing that they felt misled with the "editorial changes" description of the vote in question. I am not going to get involved in an internal dispute, except to say that it is in the best interests of the project for the majority not to feel manipulated and/or deceived. Again, I'm not saying they have been, I am saying that is what some are expressing.
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Disclaimer: Staunch athei-ostic (I don't believe in religion).
"If one believes in God, Christ, and The Holy Spirit then one has to believe that The Bible is the Word of God."
Now this is an obvious logical fallacy. Even working from an assumption that God, Christ, et al are true deities there is no assertion that they have ensured the validity of the bible.
I think the standard response by believers is "do you know the mind of God?". Implying that God could have written a pile of crap as a test or some-such...
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That should make the net more secure...
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It was an attempt to correctly credit the source, not karma whore - strang concept on /. I know.
Personally that New Scientist liftout was far more amusing than this entire thread. :)
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Given a lack of experience, ppl tend to choose the devil they know.
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PS2 difficult??!!?? Ugh?!? Unbeliever must DIE!!!
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I have OSX up and running on a box and I really try and like it... I try and figure out ways to effiently do anything... I try to understand it's astoundingly atypical and anti-intuitive graphics, layout, and organisation but I just can't...
I guess it's just me - lots of other people seem happy with it (and some aspects like it's packages are refreshingly good) but try as I might, I just can't wait to escape to Slackware or XP. *Ducks*
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Getting to the allegations of "ad hominens" - I assume you are referring to the vernacular usage rather than the literal translation? I have not used personal attacks to invalidate your argument, I have used logic. Sure I think you are a prat, but that is incidental.
"... if you get my drift." - Nope, can't say I do. I'm a reformed smoker? Misunderstanding the homo- prefix? Impugning my good(sic) character? Don't like naughty words?
I only bothered to respond as I had just posted a link and hence couldn't just mod you down - I perceived you as spreading baseless speculation as fact and you had been modded "+1 Insightful". A few minutes on the various space agency sites will show the fallacy of your statement - as long as I motivated people to critically evaluate your claim I am happy.
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I repeat: that is bullshit - plain and simple. There are birds that get sucked into aircraft engines, therefore we should make extra birds out of metal and randomly fly them around airports... 'cause hey, they should have been prepared anyway...
Sorry for giving you the benefit of the doubt - next time I'll just assume you are an addict and bypass the assumption of education, amateur or not, wouldn't want to offend...
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Kinetic Energy = 1/2 * Mass * Velocity ^ 2
Double the velocity, and you get four times the impact energy.
From here - "In June, 1983, the windscreen of US shuttle Challenger had to be replaced after it was chipped by a fleck of paint, measuring 0.3mm, that impacted at 4 km per second." Note that this is considered a lower bound - up to 14 km/s is considered a "typical" impact speed.
The mass of the fleck has been estimated as 0.001 grams. So after conversion to SI units we have:
Kinetic Energy = 1/2 * 0.000001 * 4000 ^ 2 = 8 Joules
This about equivalent, in terms of impact energy, to a 1Kg object hitting the windscreen at 4m/sec (only with the impact focused into an area 0.09cm^of 2).
It is hardly surprising that it caused considerable damage. Perhaps the surprise should be that it did not penetrate the shuttle.
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I can't help but feel civil disobedience is the only way that the masses will be heard. The problem is that they know this and hence target the "easy game" of medium to small businesses - too much invested to take a stand, not enough to fight to the death...
To any /. reader, and most in the industry, it is obvious that patent reform is required. The problem is that the only groups powerful enough to bribe (sorry I mean lobby) politicians are those exact same groups interested in keeping the status quo. Isn't that right Disney, PanIP, SCOX??
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An "advisory comittee" would get to "advise" us on our copyright issues... and pharmaceutical benefits... and how much further we should bend over to please the monopolistic bastards dangling the $$$'s...
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There is nothing I love more than a physicist trying to be pedantic. Especially when the next sentence starts: "A body..."
After all to pedantically model fluid flow on a rotating plane we should start by reducing it to a one body equation...
Q. (Yes ok you are technically correct, but technically the catholic church was correct in saying the universe revolves around the earth. They just used a different frame of reference. :)
Refresh rate, pixel decay rates, attainable colour space, non-native resolution pixel interpolation, RGB vs BGR for sub-pixel antialiasing, mean time to failure and fade, (semi) standard interfaces, etc...
As far as I am concerned, with no ego/space/power consumption restrictions, a CRT is far and away superior for most applications.
Re: the text performance on LCD, I assume you are using subpixel interpolation to get a usable display? Or are you just referring to DOS style low res character screens?
If subpixel, shame it is a work around to try and achieve much of the same readability of a CRT. It's even more of a shame that the technique will not work on portrait orientation LCD screens (think PDA) unless they have been manufactured specifically for this purpose (I expect they will soon). Then there is the RGB/BGR problem requiring user intervention and/or confusion.
You should NEVER have visible flicker on a decent CRT (unless you are comparing your new 2003 LCD to your old 14" running @60Hz). As for "sharper pixels" you are technically correct - unfortunately sharper rectangular pixels does not a smooth diagonal line make...
I use LCD's and CRT's extensively at work and always prefer the CRT.
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I do think this is an amazingly pointless article - some people like political music, some do not. It is the same with all forms of art and entertainment.
"Can" games address these issues? - Yes.
"Should" games address these issues? - If they want.
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He needed a spanner or somesuch and cruised down to the other end of the plant to get one. At that exact point the generator they had been looking at "vaporised" (his word). The two other workers where never found.
Kinda offtopic, but it spun me out when he told me about it... that's a lot of energy...
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VENEREAL.
"Find something you enjoy doing, and get someone to pay you to do it."
Easier said than done, but a worthwhile goal.
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