IMHO this is exactly why Linux will never be able to really replace either Windows or Mac OS X for desktop usage.
Ok Windows I can understand.
OSX? No, I can't understand. An OS in which you have to hack the FUCKING KERNEL (or something almost equally low level) to change the color of the gumdrop buttons on the windows? And when you do this and you install a system upgrade your Mac can end up unbootable?
Apple are downright *hostile* to end-user customisation.
I wouldn't call what EvE gives you an *avatar* like WoW has an avatar or CoH has an avatar.
If anything, in Eve, the *ship* is the 'avatar' and the little picture of a person that people see in chat windows is just a representation of the ship.
isn't there some line of reasoning here going from use of gin as a way to make water potable (ie not going to make you sick) to the tea-drinking culture where people boiled water and, incidentally, made water potable and having the side effect that most of the population isn't slightly tipsy all the time to society kind of improving due to most people not being, in effect, constantly on the piss?
This did occur before the industrial revolution... perhaps theres a connection here?
History is full of examples of small, vastly out gunned forces defeating a large conventional army using asymmetric warfare. Look what happened to the US in Vietnam,
Afghanistan and Iraq aside, in Vietnam the US was not significantly screwed until the NVA regulars got involved in a big way. And they had tanks.
unknown intruders penetrated xxx, because of security failure yyy you have always complained about, and the only reason you just happened to catch it is because you implented zzz as an afterthought
Of course, if that was an xxx double-penetration everyone would take notice immediately...
So there's no room in your philosophy for being able to love more than one thing.
The Mullah Nasrudin was walking to the mosque for friday prayers one time, carrying his little daughter in his arms.
His daughter asked him "Father, do you love me?" The Mullah replied "Of course I love you my dear, with all my heart, for you are my daughter and only child."
For a little while his daughter was silent, appearing to consider something carefuly.
Then she asked "Father, do you love God?" The Mullah replied "Of course I love God, with all my heart, for he is the creator of all and there is no God but Him."
His daughter appeared confused then and asked "Father, how is it that as a man with but one heart you can love two different things with all of it?"
Look, if a # is a comment sign which is supposed to indicate that the text following it is to be disregarded by the interpreter/compiler and you wish to use a # in your code somewhere, what is wrong with *escaping* the # sign so that the interpreter/compiler 'knows' what you intend?
Because it starts to look as if tcl breaks commenting in order to get away with not escaping things like # sign comments.
If it is read and interpreted by the compiler, and not as a compiler directive eg #include (which is read and acted on by the pre-processor), its not a fucking comment.
Comments are things you can insert into the code and the compiler/interpreter FUCKING WELL IGNORES THEM!
If you run the preprocessor over the code, what comes out HAS NO COMMENTS! No different for interpreted languages.
The reason is that the parsing of comments happens at the block level, but the parsing of blocks happens at the list level. So {# this list happens to start with "pound sign"} is a list. The fact that that list might happen to be code as well doesn't make a difference when it's parsing lists.
Of course with the attribution clause in Zimbra, Microsoft could just forbid any further use of the logo effectively killing the product.
The attribution clause would mean no forks should MS decide to stop development.
After all, the license terms say that if you want to do work on the Zimbra code you cannot modify the code so as to not display the logo. If MS say you are not allowed to display the logo any more and you can't stop the code from displaying the logo, what happens to the product?
Zimbra is nice. I sure hope that their business analysts (assuming they have some) have pondered the hypothetical question and might consider ditching the attribution license.
You don't need a ruler. Theres a place where states change. That location should be determinable. If it can be determined then it can be measured.
Ie you are driving along and you hit a patch of black ice. State changes and the car skids. You are flying along in your space ship and you approach the event horizon of a black hole, state begins to change.
You can measure the point at which the state began to change. Maybe the state changes gradually but theres a measurable location at which the state change becomes detectable.
Or are we talking about something non-deterministic here?
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IMHO this is exactly why Linux will never be able to really replace either Windows or Mac OS X for desktop usage.
Ok Windows I can understand.
OSX? No, I can't understand. An OS in which you have to hack the FUCKING KERNEL (or something almost equally low level) to change the color of the gumdrop buttons on the windows? And when you do this and you install a system upgrade your Mac can end up unbootable?
Apple are downright *hostile* to end-user customisation.
Good usability is often about removing options and make things behave the right way at default.
You must work at Apple.
The phrase "Both inspired and retarded at the same time" comes to mind.
I'm a lumberjack, and I'm OK.
Oh, see? Hes a lumberjack and hes ok.
He sleeps all night and he works all day!
Well it IS!!!!
I wouldn't call what EvE gives you an *avatar* like WoW has an avatar or CoH has an avatar.
If anything, in Eve, the *ship* is the 'avatar' and the little picture of a person that people see in chat windows is just a representation of the ship.
isn't there some line of reasoning here going from use of gin as a way to make water potable (ie not going to make you sick) to the tea-drinking culture where people boiled water and, incidentally, made water potable and having the side effect that most of the population isn't slightly tipsy all the time to society kind of improving due to most people not being, in effect, constantly on the piss?
This did occur before the industrial revolution... perhaps theres a connection here?
I've known vegetarians who were vegetarians for health reasons, but never vegans who were vegan for health reasons
My experience with vegans, working and living with them, is that it is not so much a dietary discipline as it is a political movement.
Veganism is politics.
erm, web-2.0 had nothing to do with Flash.
erm, web-2.0 had nothing to do with *anything*
History is full of examples of small, vastly out gunned forces defeating a large conventional army using asymmetric warfare. Look what happened to the US in Vietnam,
Afghanistan and Iraq aside, in Vietnam the US was not significantly screwed until the NVA regulars got involved in a big way. And they had tanks.
Granted X11 has improved in the areas of 3d acceleration and such. But compared to OS X it is lacking
If Apple cared about 3d acceleration in OS X, they'd put decent graphics cards into their computers.
They don't.
In fact they sell you graphics cards which are crap for 3d applications, compared to what is available.
Sorry, I'm an atheist, I don't believe in magic
I fail to see the connection between being an atheist and not believing in magic.
Belief in magic does not and never has required a belief in a god or gods.
I'm an atheist and I believe in magic.
unknown intruders penetrated xxx, because of security failure yyy you have always complained about, and the only reason you just happened to catch it is because you implented zzz as an afterthought
Of course, if that was an xxx double-penetration everyone would take notice immediately...
Nasrudin was a Sufi. This is a Sufi teaching story. The intended implication is that the daughter and God are not distinct entities.
Islam isn't all Shi'ite/Sunni madness, you know.
So there's no room in your philosophy for being able to love more than one thing.
The Mullah Nasrudin was walking to the mosque for friday prayers one time, carrying his little daughter in his arms.
His daughter asked him "Father, do you love me?" The Mullah replied "Of course I love you my dear, with all my heart, for you are my daughter and only child."
For a little while his daughter was silent, appearing to consider something carefuly.
Then she asked "Father, do you love God?" The Mullah replied "Of course I love God, with all my heart, for he is the creator of all and there is no God but Him."
His daughter appeared confused then and asked "Father, how is it that as a man with but one heart you can love two different things with all of it?"
If Microsoft is trying to convince anyone that its hostile takeover of Yahoo isn't evil, it's going in exactly the wrong direction.
Why would they want to convince anyone that its not evil? What, and lose any support they might have in corporate America? I don't think so!
Look, if a # is a comment sign which is supposed to indicate that the text following it is to be disregarded by the interpreter/compiler and you wish to use a # in your code somewhere, what is wrong with *escaping* the # sign so that the interpreter/compiler 'knows' what you intend?
Because it starts to look as if tcl breaks commenting in order to get away with not escaping things like # sign comments.
Either its a comment or it is not.
If it is read and interpreted by the compiler, and not as a compiler directive eg #include (which is read and acted on by the pre-processor), its not a fucking comment.
Comments are things you can insert into the code and the compiler/interpreter FUCKING WELL IGNORES THEM!
If you run the preprocessor over the code, what comes out HAS NO COMMENTS! No different for interpreted languages.
SHEESH
The reason is that the parsing of comments happens at the block level, but the parsing of blocks happens at the list level. So {# this list happens to start with "pound sign"} is a list. The fact that that list might happen to be code as well doesn't make a difference when it's parsing lists.
I'm sorry to be so blunt and rude but...
IT'S A FUCKING *COMMENT*
I sure hope they can help people to program cross-site scripting vulnerabilities...
No book on php could miss examples of how to do this, surely? Its the number one thing that php programmers need to be able to do! Apparently...
Hopefully they will change the terms of the license *before* Microsoft takes over. If that'll do any good...
Of course with the attribution clause in Zimbra, Microsoft could just forbid any further use of the logo effectively killing the product.
The attribution clause would mean no forks should MS decide to stop development.
After all, the license terms say that if you want to do work on the Zimbra code you cannot modify the code so as to not display the logo. If MS say you are not allowed to display the logo any more and you can't stop the code from displaying the logo, what happens to the product?
Zimbra is nice. I sure hope that their business analysts (assuming they have some) have pondered the hypothetical question and might consider ditching the attribution license.
Oh well, I guess we really are going to need Guild Navigators hyped up on spice...
and you can't measure it with a ruler.
You don't need a ruler. Theres a place where states change. That location should be determinable. If it can be determined then it can be measured.
Ie you are driving along and you hit a patch of black ice. State changes and the car skids. You are flying along in your space ship and you approach the event horizon of a black hole, state begins to change.
You can measure the point at which the state began to change. Maybe the state changes gradually but theres a measurable location at which the state change becomes detectable.
Or are we talking about something non-deterministic here?
The only 'good' terrorist is a dead terrorist.
Since engineers make good terrorists they must be dead.
Therefore all engineers must be pre-emptively killed in order to satisfy the logical requirement.
QED.
From an observer's point of view, the objects never reach the event horizon. They just appear to move slower and slower.
That just means that it has a diffuse border not that its dimensions can't be measured.