Huckabee is the only "change" candidate on the right.
Huckabee is a batshit crazy theocon nutjob who wants to amend the Constitution to match the Christian Bible... the only "change" he represents is a step back into the dark-ages and a move towards theocracy. The world has been *advancing* since the Enlightenment and personally I'm not interested in going back to the pre-Enlightenment thinking.
Fuck that, Ron Paul is still a candidate in this race, and deserves to be discussed right along with the other candidates. If Slashdot is going to start with the kind of bias and selectivity we get from Faux News, then fuck Slashdot.
As a serious question, other than the hassle of a switch, are there good reasons for sticking with CVS or SVN or is GIT now The One True Way?
I'm assuming you mean in the general case and not just linux kernel development? If I misunderstood what you were asking, ignore the rest of this reply.:-)
I don't use git, so this is pure hearsay and might be inaccurate, but the one semi-compelling argument I've heard against git is this:
IF your project is multi-platform (or, god forbid, windows only) and some subset of developers work on windows; supposedly hit was pretty weak client support on win32. Linus obviously (and for good reason) doesn't give a rat-fuck about making git work on win32, so there is just (last I heard) an unofficial win32 client for git.
...please change the QT license to LGPL!! Yeah, it'll piss RMS off, but it will benefit QT/KDE in the long run. Heck, maybe if you do this, we can finally get the long rumored version of SWT for QT - that IBM is supposedly sitting on internally - released to the world.
HTML can be made into a general application delivery format without disrupting its original role as a document format.'"
Trying to turn HTML into an application delivery format is a brain-dead idea from the get go. Here's a thought: let's use HTML as a document and hypermedia format, and turn to application specific protocols for delivering applications?
_GIGABYTES_ of memory? I find that a little hard to believe.
Believe it or not, it's true. I've seen it well over 1GB numerous times. Strangely enough however, FF2 on Linux doesn't seem to be as bad as FF2 on Windows, and now that I've switched to a Linux desktop full-time, I don't see the problem as much. But there is still no question in my mind that FF has serious memory management issues, whether they're technically "leaks" or not.
From what I've seen, the biggest issue is that closing tabs and windows (other than the last one) doesn't seem to return memory to the OS, at least not consistently. I've had 3-4 FF windows with 20+ tabs in each open before, then noticed memory usage being an issue and my system starting to use swap excessively... but closing all but one FF window with only one tab open, didn't result in the FF process's footprint shrinking at all.
I don't understand the appeal of sites like "Facebook" or "Myspace". What they look like to me is web-based personal-website-creation tools. What is so interesting about a site that lets people make web sites about themselves? What am I missing? I already have a web site hosted on my own domain. Why would I want a Facebook or Myspace web site?
Speaking only for myself, it's the "social" aspect that I find value in. I like meeting new people and find social-networks like facebook pretty good for that. Being able to, for example, search for females who identify themselves as libertarians who live in my local community, is kinda cool. But really it could be anything... it's just handy to have another avenue to meet other people who have similar interests, whether it's politics, hobbies, reading, religion, whatever. The event posting thing is pretty cool too.
Don't get me wrong, social networks aren't perfect, and they aren't a replacement for meatspace interaction with real humans... but they're a nice complement to the other ways of socializing that we have.
There are probably other FOSS projects to create a truly decentralized, federated social-networking and collaboration package, but the one I'm intimately familiar with is OpenQabal. OQ is all about developing social-networking and collaboration software that puts users in control of their own information (including the much mentioned "social graph"), supports identity federation, and facilitates distributed conversations. Development is just getting started, but we're working off of a couple of existing code-bases to get a headstart.
Disclaimer: I'm the originator, chief architect and, so far, sole developer on the project, so everything I say may be considered biased, slanted, unreliable, or whatever else your skeptical little heart pleases.
Imagine you could simply query things like: Find me an appointement with a dentist that takes my insurance, has good ratings and lives near where I live. From your personal information (your calendar, where you live), public information (consummer ratings on the dentists, maps, information from de dentist office, from your insurance etc) a semantic web search engine could provide you with an answer.
Glad to see somebody here "get it" when it comes to the Semantic Web.
Java is a disaster and hardly used on the Linux desktop.
Speak for yourself... Java, by way of Eclipse, RSSOwl, JBlogEditor and Azureus; runs all the time on my Linux desktop, and works just fine. I'm sure there are other examples, those just happen to be the ones I find useful.
I more or less quit playing AD&D around 1997 or so, and didn't play any sort of D&D until about 2 years ago. By then AD&D was gone and v3.5 was out. So in the past 2 years I've spent around $600 or $700 on v3.5 (and a little bit of v3.0) books and stuff. So my question is: Is v4.0 so different that it totally obsoletes v3.5 materials? If so, I damn sure won't be "upgrading" anytime soon. If this is the case, they've actually cost themselves business from me, as I would happily keep buying new v3.5 supplements, but no way am I replacing several hundred dollars worth of existing materials...
Jury nullification is best known for preventing justice in cases where the jury was prejudiced against the victim. Common examples include refusing to convict white men murdering black people, white men murdering Jewish people, white men murdering homosexual people, etc.
That isn't really Jury Nullification... eg, the Jury isn't saying that the law against murder is invalid. That's just inability to select a fair jury in an environment where overt racism is systemic in a given population. But if the racism is that systemic, the issue of Jury Nullification is moot, since the sheriff, DA, judge, etc. are probably just as racist, and chances are the case would never go to trial in the first place.
Sounds like the UK needs a modern day Guy Fawkes. Only the modern one needs to succeed in blowing up Parliament.
Speaking of that, if anybody in the RTP (NC) area is interested in having some sort of Guy Fawkes Night event this year, gimme a shout. I'm thinking we should co-opt the British holiday and celebrate the Guy Fawkes of the world, maybe burn an effigy of a cop or George Bush, instead of an effigy of Fawkes. Make it a celebration of the spirit of those who would oppose The State. After all, historically us lot here in the U.S. have taken ideas like Freedom and Liberty a little more seriously than our British kin.
I'm reasonably sure. It's fairly well known that Slash has a feature for blacklisting people from moderating, and it's an amazing coincidence that I was regularly getting mod points up until that one day. And now, 6 years or so later, I haven't had a single mod point since then. I'm pretty sure it was out and out blacklisting.
That's OK though, it's their site and they can make whatever rules they want. It's fucking stupid, IMHO, but it is what it is...
They get blacklisted and don't ever get mod points again. Trust me, I know. I committed the "sin" of upmodding something that was critical of Slashdot once, about 6 years ago, and haven't had a modpoint since.
doing some advertising? I never even heard of this outfit before today. And I probably would have bought some stuff from them, depending on the price. Heck, while I'm at it, I'm taking advantage of the "closeout sale" to pick up some stuff I didn't have (a couple of Kix and Skid Row CDs) for cheap.
Loosely translated it means "vacuous buzzword that vendors slap on products, along with a fresh coat of paint, so they can sell the same old same old for more money; except in the case of vendors with new products, who slap 'web 2.0' on their products in an effort to be 'buzzword compliant;' or in the case of book, article and blog writers, it's a term they use to make themselves sound more sophisticated and 'in the know' than they really are."
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Huckabee is the only "change" candidate on the right.
Huckabee is a batshit crazy theocon nutjob who wants to amend the Constitution to match the Christian Bible... the only "change"
he represents is a step back into the dark-ages and a move towards theocracy. The world has been *advancing* since the Enlightenment
and personally I'm not interested in going back to the pre-Enlightenment thinking.
Which candidate will never, ever be elected? Ron Paul. Discussion of this lost candidate is pointless.
Hey, while you're at it, can I get the winning lotto numbers for tomorrow, and maybe some good picks for the horse races?
Fuck that, Ron Paul is still a candidate in this race, and deserves to be discussed right along with the other candidates. If Slashdot is going to start with the kind of bias and selectivity we get from Faux News, then fuck Slashdot.
As a serious question, other than the hassle of a switch, are there good reasons for sticking with CVS or SVN or is GIT now The One True Way?
:-)
I'm assuming you mean in the general case and not just linux kernel development? If I misunderstood what you were asking, ignore the
rest of this reply.
I don't use git, so this is pure hearsay and might be inaccurate, but the one semi-compelling argument I've heard against git is this:
IF your project is multi-platform (or, god forbid, windows only) and some subset of developers work on windows; supposedly hit was pretty
weak client support on win32. Linus obviously (and for good reason) doesn't give a rat-fuck about making git work on win32, so there is
just (last I heard) an unofficial win32 client for git.
Take that for what it's worth...
...please change the QT license to LGPL!! Yeah, it'll piss RMS off, but it will benefit QT/KDE in the long run. Heck, maybe if you do this, we can
finally get the long rumored version of SWT for QT - that IBM is supposedly sitting on internally - released to the world.
Parent is dead-on; a good symbolic debugger is great for figuring out how a body of code works. That's probably my favorite approach.
HTML can be made into a general application delivery format without disrupting its original role as a document format.'"
Trying to turn HTML into an application delivery format is a brain-dead idea from the get go. Here's a thought: let's use HTML as a document and hypermedia format, and turn to application specific protocols for delivering applications?
How about Meldware from Bunisoft? They have
a calendaring module. I haven't used it, but it might be worth a look.
You've played this game before...
Or he reads Dilbert regularly.
_GIGABYTES_ of memory? I find that a little hard to believe.
Believe it or not, it's true. I've seen it well over 1GB numerous times. Strangely enough however, FF2 on Linux doesn't seem to
be as bad as FF2 on Windows, and now that I've switched to a Linux desktop full-time, I don't see the problem as much. But there is still
no question in my mind that FF has serious memory management issues, whether they're technically "leaks" or not.
From what I've seen, the biggest issue is that closing tabs and windows (other than the last one) doesn't seem to return memory to the OS, at least not consistently. I've had 3-4 FF windows with 20+ tabs in each open before, then noticed memory usage being an issue and my system starting to use swap excessively... but closing all but one FF window with only one tab open, didn't result in the FF process's footprint shrinking at all.
Grr... I don't know why java.net doesn't setup a redirect to handle that, if they want everything to go through SSL, but that
URL should actually be:
https://openqabal.dev.java.net
I don't understand the appeal of sites like "Facebook" or "Myspace". What they look like to me is web-based personal-website-creation tools. What is so interesting about a site that lets people make web sites about themselves? What am I missing? I already have a web site hosted on my own domain. Why would I want a Facebook or Myspace web site?
Speaking only for myself, it's the "social" aspect that I find value in. I like meeting new people and find social-networks like facebook pretty good for that. Being able to, for example, search for females who identify themselves as libertarians who live in my local community, is kinda cool. But really it could be anything... it's just handy to have another avenue to meet other people who have similar interests, whether it's politics, hobbies, reading, religion, whatever. The event posting thing is pretty cool too.
Don't get me wrong, social networks aren't perfect, and they aren't a replacement for meatspace interaction with real humans... but they're a nice complement to the other ways of socializing that we have.
There are probably other FOSS projects to create a truly decentralized, federated social-networking and collaboration package, but the one I'm intimately familiar with is
OpenQabal. OQ is all about developing social-networking and collaboration software that puts users in control of their own information (including the much mentioned "social graph"), supports identity federation, and facilitates distributed conversations. Development is just getting started, but we're working off of a couple of existing code-bases to get a headstart.
Disclaimer: I'm the originator, chief architect and, so far, sole developer on the project, so everything I say may be considered biased, slanted, unreliable, or whatever else your skeptical little heart pleases.
Imagine you could simply query things like: Find me an appointement with a dentist that takes my insurance, has good ratings and lives near where I live. From your personal information (your calendar, where you live), public information (consummer ratings on the dentists, maps, information from de dentist office, from your insurance etc) a semantic web search engine could provide you with an answer.
Glad to see somebody here "get it" when it comes to the Semantic Web.
Java is a disaster and hardly used on the Linux desktop.
Speak for yourself... Java, by way of Eclipse, RSSOwl, JBlogEditor and Azureus; runs all the time on my Linux desktop, and works just fine. I'm sure there are other examples, those just happen to be the ones I find useful.
I more or less quit playing AD&D around 1997 or so, and didn't play any sort of D&D until about 2 years ago. By then AD&D was gone and v3.5 was out. So in the past 2 years I've spent around $600 or $700 on v3.5 (and a little bit of v3.0) books and stuff. So my question is: Is v4.0 so different that it totally obsoletes v3.5 materials? If so, I damn sure won't be "upgrading" anytime soon. If this is the case, they've actually cost themselves business from me, as I would happily keep buying new v3.5 supplements, but no way am I replacing several hundred dollars worth of existing materials...
Jury nullification is best known for preventing justice in cases where the jury was prejudiced against the victim. Common examples include refusing to convict white men murdering black people, white men murdering Jewish people, white men murdering homosexual people, etc.
That isn't really Jury Nullification... eg, the Jury isn't saying that the law against murder is invalid. That's just inability to select a fair jury in an environment where overt racism is systemic in a given population. But if the racism is that systemic, the issue of Jury Nullification is moot, since the sheriff, DA, judge, etc. are probably just as racist, and chances are the case would never go to trial in the first place.
Sounds like the UK needs a modern day Guy Fawkes. Only the modern one needs to succeed in blowing up Parliament.
Speaking of that, if anybody in the RTP (NC) area is interested in having some sort of Guy Fawkes Night event this year, gimme a shout. I'm thinking we should co-opt the British holiday and celebrate the Guy Fawkes of the world, maybe burn an effigy of a cop or George Bush, instead of an effigy of Fawkes. Make it a celebration of the spirit of those who would oppose The State. After all, historically us lot here in the U.S. have taken ideas like Freedom and Liberty a little more seriously than our British kin.
I'm reasonably sure. It's fairly well known that Slash has a feature for blacklisting people from moderating, and it's an amazing coincidence that I was regularly getting mod points up until that one day. And now, 6 years or so later, I haven't had a single mod point since then. I'm pretty sure it was out and out blacklisting.
That's OK though, it's their site and they can make whatever rules they want. It's fucking stupid, IMHO, but it is what it is...
They get blacklisted and don't ever get mod points again. Trust me, I know. I committed the "sin" of upmodding something that
was critical of Slashdot once, about 6 years ago, and haven't had a modpoint since.
What about OS/2?
Or it could have something to do with this: http://anywherecd.wordpress.com/
doing some advertising? I never even heard of this outfit before today. And I probably would have bought
some stuff from them, depending on the price. Heck, while I'm at it, I'm taking advantage of the "closeout sale"
to pick up some stuff I didn't have (a couple of Kix and Skid Row CDs) for cheap.
Anyone even know what Web 2.0 means?
Loosely translated it means "vacuous buzzword that vendors slap on products, along with a fresh coat of paint, so they can sell the same old same old for more money; except in the case of vendors with new products, who slap 'web 2.0' on their products in an effort to be 'buzzword compliant;' or in the case of book, article and blog writers, it's a term they use to make themselves sound more sophisticated and 'in the know' than they really are."
Which will be inferior to Web/2 3.0. But what I'm really amped about is Web/2 4.0 Warp.