I'm not an expert, but I did major in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and I have many Chinese friends. What many here in the US don't understand is that the Chinese Communist Party has legitimized itself by becoming the bastion of nationalism, and in general Chinese are highly nationalistic. They see the current China (with its flaws) as a step toward a future China that will have overcome the past few centuries of foreign humiliation. Many of them see Western concern about human rights to be a mask for a policy that attempts to divide and conquer China again. I'm not talking about hardcore extremists here: this is a moderate belief in China. I guess what I'm trying to say is that you should learn something about the people and the history before you apply your principles blindly. It's not so simple.
Also, the county is no longer communist by any reasonable definition of the term. They have a one-party authoritarian government that is primarily interested in military strength and economic growth.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:44:18AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
There changes are not even close to making it free. If anything, in my opinion, they add constraints.
We can't export it to North Korea?
If we sell this on our CD, we are responsible?
Give me a break. This is not free. This is a TRAP.
I'm tired of dealing with those people, after many many emails. They don't believe or understand freedom, it appears. Freedom means you give it away. It means you GIVE IT AWAY. It does not mean you write a 180 line or more CONTRACT specifying what we give up in return for getting it. What you have there is not freedom -- it is BARTER, and we do not BARTER; we have nothing to barter with, since everything we give away is
FREE.
Apple has (supposedly) done a significant amount of empirical testing of user interaction. I think the idea is that it is faster to "throw" the mouse to the top of the screen and expect the menu to be there, rather than the MS way of locating it at the top of the window, which is not always at a standard place, and, even when maximized, leaves space at the top of the screen making it hard to home in on the menu. This is sort of like how, in Windows before Win2k, the corner of the screen wouldn't popup the start menu. I hadn't thought about multiple monitor setups though...
That Nat Friedman guy is cute. Who says all hackers are ugly? Too bad he probably doesn't like guys.
XD2 looks cool but I wish window managers would stop trying to round the corners of windows when they can't antialias them. It just looks unprofessional. I haven't used a Ximian desktop before, but it also looks like they might be misusing the top menu bar. Do application menus appear there as on the Macintosh? Doing it that way boosts efficiency quite a bit.
Good luck though, and I hope Ximian contributes a lot back to the community.
Nice to see some good old fashioned cultural elitism. If you check box office results for Japan, you'll find out that "Spirited Away" was the highest grossing domestic film in Japan ever. And it was the third highest grossing film in Japan after "Titanic" and "Harry Potter." This was before the Oscars.
Use --prefix. It has been a standard configure option for a *long* time. Smart people already do this. Wake up, RedHat et. al.... The/opt structure even shows up in the FHS.
Not exactly true. You are thinking of the Sacred Band of Thebes, which was 150 pairs of homosexual lovers, and the most elite soldiers Thebes had. Homosexuality was common in the Spartan army as well, but the Spartan army certainly was not made up of a majority of gay men. The Sacred Band was defeated to the last man by Alexander of Macedon in the battle of Chaeronea. Incidently, Alexander also slept with guys. Read Plutarch's life of Pelopidas for more info.
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I'm not an expert, but I did major in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and I have many Chinese friends. What many here in the US don't understand is that the Chinese Communist Party has legitimized itself by becoming the bastion of nationalism, and in general Chinese are highly nationalistic. They see the current China (with its flaws) as a step toward a future China that will have overcome the past few centuries of foreign humiliation. Many of them see Western concern about human rights to be a mask for a policy that attempts to divide and conquer China again. I'm not talking about hardcore extremists here: this is a moderate belief in China. I guess what I'm trying to say is that you should learn something about the people and the history before you apply your principles blindly. It's not so simple. Also, the county is no longer communist by any reasonable definition of the term. They have a one-party authoritarian government that is primarily interested in military strength and economic growth.
From Google define:dapper :
marked by smartness in dress and manners;
"a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
I have met plenty of badly dressed gay guys.
So, for the vocabulary-challenged, "metrosexual duck" might be a better translation.
Chapter 2: Bootsrapping BSD
It's not true that OpenBSD does not support network installation of packages with automatic dependency handling.
Try this (assuming a Bourne-style shell):
All dependencies are discovered, downloaded, and installed as necessary. The only real downside is that you need to know the version of the package.
Check pkg_add(1) for the details.
From the misc@openbsd.org list:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:44:18AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
There changes are not even close to making it free. If anything, in my opinion, they add constraints.
We can't export it to North Korea?
If we sell this on our CD, we are responsible?
Give me a break. This is not free. This is a TRAP.
I'm tired of dealing with those people, after many many emails. They don't believe or understand freedom, it appears. Freedom means you give it away. It means you GIVE IT AWAY. It does not mean you write a 180 line or more CONTRACT specifying what we give up in return for getting it. What you have there is not freedom -- it is BARTER, and we do not BARTER; we have nothing to barter with, since everything we give away is FREE.
Apple has (supposedly) done a significant amount of empirical testing of user interaction. I think the idea is that it is faster to "throw" the mouse to the top of the screen and expect the menu to be there, rather than the MS way of locating it at the top of the window, which is not always at a standard place, and, even when maximized, leaves space at the top of the screen making it hard to home in on the menu. This is sort of like how, in Windows before Win2k, the corner of the screen wouldn't popup the start menu. I hadn't thought about multiple monitor setups though...
That Nat Friedman guy is cute. Who says all hackers are ugly? Too bad he probably doesn't like guys.
XD2 looks cool but I wish window managers would stop trying to round the corners of windows when they can't antialias them. It just looks unprofessional. I haven't used a Ximian desktop before, but it also looks like they might be misusing the top menu bar. Do application menus appear there as on the Macintosh? Doing it that way boosts efficiency quite a bit.
Good luck though, and I hope Ximian contributes a lot back to the community.
Nice to see some good old fashioned cultural elitism. If you check box office results for Japan, you'll find out that "Spirited Away" was the highest grossing domestic film in Japan ever. And it was the third highest grossing film in Japan after "Titanic" and "Harry Potter." This was before the Oscars.
That would be Nebuchadnezzar, legendary king of Babylon.
http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/nebuc hadnezzar.html
And, to a lesser degree, Final Fantasy VII.
Those games kicked ass. FF X didn't come close, even though Tidus was *hot*.
Use --prefix. It has been a standard configure option for a *long* time. Smart people already do this. Wake up, RedHat et. al. ... The /opt structure even shows up in the FHS.
Not exactly true. You are thinking of the Sacred Band of Thebes, which was 150 pairs of homosexual lovers, and the most elite soldiers Thebes had. Homosexuality was common in the Spartan army as well, but the Spartan army certainly was not made up of a majority of gay men. The Sacred Band was defeated to the last man by Alexander of Macedon in the battle of Chaeronea. Incidently, Alexander also slept with guys. Read Plutarch's life of Pelopidas for more info.