EMACS is unusual among screen editors because it is powerful and extensible. EMACS contains its own programming facility which I used to provide commands that other editors don't have, and which users use to provide any commands they want which I didn't give them. Users can make libraries of commands and share them, and when they do a good job, the libraries become part of the standard EMACS system just by being included in the manual.
Did I just read you implying that there are people here who actually think microsoft makes robust web servers?
It's funny though that they have these particular servers going down at an actual microsoft-hosted site - you'd think they'd have a backup or something.
Someone go force those MS programmers to grow some beards!
No birthday yet. Story is not what it appears.
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If the first message were sent out on April 25, 1978, then it would be the birthday now. This story is posted a week early. In this form, the story I'm responding to is just advertising the upcoming birthday of spam - thus it is meta-spam.
Most of Yahoo's value spawns from how *completely* different their company attitude comes across from stuck-up, self-important, dying companies such as microsoft.
This is backwards. Give it five or ten years, and Yahoo could be buying microsoft (and not just because Yahoo's value is going up.)
But Yahoo's value would plummet by at least 75%, according to my completly random guess, if it were a division of MS. Imagine if your yahoo mail account was suddenly an MSN account. Your Yahoo IM suddenly merges with MSN. They both become worse than trash - I cannot imagine an organization (aside from the current executive branch of the us government) that I trust less than microsoft - all incompetence aside.
If they were people, I would invite Yahoo over to a backdoor bbq. MS, on the other hand, I'd invite to.. nowhere.
The reason it has to be "I don't want to pay for that" has nothing to do with greed and everything to do with social responsibility. You are responsible for anything you help pay for. If you don't already know this, think about it.
I'd rather throw the same amount of money I am taxed for the Iraq war into a bonfire than to have it go to pay for something I am strongly against, that's the motivation behind the wording. If it weren't for the jail threat, we would have had a citizen-based funding cut for the war by now.
> What does libertarianism say about what to do when people are systematically making poor decisions?
It says those people will not do as well as other people who are making better decisions. In my view, as a self-identified libertarian, the policy is pretty much to accept natural selection / evolution and let it do it's thing. This is not genetic natural selection, that takes much longer. I'm talking about social selection and idea competition through proponents and how they do in the world.
> Or when the really powerful abuse the weak? The main idea behind the libertarianism I believe in is to minimize the chance of this happening by not giving special privileges. Political philosophies that supposedly prevent the powerful from abusing the weak actually just change who is powerful - typically the people who support the philosophy or who have gained power through it.
The rest of your post is beneath comment.
But I should mention that I am not a fan of Ron Paul, I believe his anti-abortion stance is incompatible with the individual freedom mandate at the core of libertarianism.
No, what Iraq shows is that you can't outsource political revolution and expect it to work.
A true libertarian would NEVER attack / mess with another country that had not attacked / messed with us first. The basic libertarian policy of live and let live is fractal at least up to the country level.
It just isn't worth risking this sort of thing for 200 lines of code. For that matter, it's not even worth paying your lawyers to track down what agreements apply to such a short snippet. Just get your own developer(s) to write the equivalent in-house instead. Do you work for Microsoft?
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Really.
Ruby in IE (by itself) as an alternative to javascript would have been a decent idea, something worth copying into Firefox etc..
But instead they built it into Silverlight. Oh well.
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Interesting.. which one did you get - the normal one, 2nd edition, or Book edition? Also, what are 'download tokens from Safari'?
Did you mean O'Reilly's Safari? If yes, any issues with getting them both on computer and iLiad?
Did I just read you implying that there are people here who actually think microsoft makes robust web servers?
It's funny though that they have these particular servers going down at an actual microsoft-hosted site - you'd think they'd have a backup or something.
Someone go force those MS programmers to grow some beards!
Any discussion of facial hair and geekery is empty without mention of RMS.
Ok. What's your IP address?
If the first message were sent out on April 25, 1978, then it would be the birthday now. This story is posted a week early.
In this form, the story I'm responding to is just advertising the upcoming birthday of spam - thus it is meta-spam.
i don't know about you, original poster, but i have my eyes arranged horizontally, so a wider screen makes sense for me.
for those with their eyes closer together or overlapping, a more squarish aspect ratio makes sense.
and of course for the vertically-eyed, you have portrait monitors.
Ok, well, if somebody can't slap some sense into him, could someone at least please slap him?
you write a program to go find you a job.
no, really.
For a split second, this was funny. At least, the title.
But I'd read it incorrectly. I thought it said Frothy as the first word. Somehow that seems like ten times funnier.
This post isn't a troll, IE is.
Most of Yahoo's value spawns from how *completely* different their company attitude comes across from stuck-up, self-important, dying companies such as microsoft.
This is backwards. Give it five or ten years, and Yahoo could be buying microsoft (and not just because Yahoo's value is going up.)
But Yahoo's value would plummet by at least 75%, according to my completly random guess, if it were a division of MS. Imagine if your yahoo mail account was suddenly an MSN account. Your Yahoo IM suddenly merges with MSN. They both become worse than trash - I cannot imagine an organization (aside from the current executive branch of the us government) that I trust less than microsoft - all incompetence aside.
If they were people, I would invite Yahoo over to a backdoor bbq. MS, on the other hand, I'd invite to.. nowhere.
- d
The reason it has to be "I don't want to pay for that" has nothing to do with greed and everything to do with social responsibility. You are responsible for anything you help pay for. If you don't already know this, think about it.
I'd rather throw the same amount of money I am taxed for the Iraq war into a bonfire than to have it go to pay for something I am strongly against, that's the motivation behind the wording. If it weren't for the jail threat, we would have had a citizen-based funding cut for the war by now.
> What does libertarianism say about what to do when people are systematically making poor decisions?
It says those people will not do as well as other people who are making better decisions. In my view, as a self-identified libertarian, the policy is pretty much to accept natural selection / evolution and let it do it's thing. This is not genetic natural selection, that takes much longer. I'm talking about social selection and idea competition through proponents and how they do in the world.
> Or when the really powerful abuse the weak?
The main idea behind the libertarianism I believe in is to minimize the chance of this happening by not giving special privileges. Political philosophies that supposedly prevent the powerful from abusing the weak actually just change who is powerful - typically the people who support the philosophy or who have gained power through it.
The rest of your post is beneath comment.
But I should mention that I am not a fan of Ron Paul, I believe his anti-abortion stance is incompatible with the individual freedom mandate at the core of libertarianism.
No, what Iraq shows is that you can't outsource political revolution and expect it to work.
A true libertarian would NEVER attack / mess with another country that had not attacked / messed with us first. The basic libertarian policy of live and let live is fractal at least up to the country level.
if you need to add a meta tag, it is NOT standards compliant.
It has a microphone jack.
No, they're not people, and I wasn't implying otherwise. Nice leap there.
Actually I don't have a dog and don't like them a whole lot..
But there are different races of them (or sub-species if you prefer).
That's all.
It's still a much closer analogy than censorship.
Um, this is not censorship, this is much more like racism.
There are living beings that are being excluded, not words.
you're welcome,
- D
I just have to know -- Will It Blend?
Um, I think we still have ethernet cables these days.
Actually, they are way more than sufficiently stupid.