Me, I install MSVC8, and the MozillaBuild environment. Then it's a case of a CVS checkout, setting up some.mozconfig settings, make -f client.mk checkout, and make -f client.mk build.
Browser: "Feed that dog." OS: *gets out gun and shoots dog dead* Browser: "WTF? What did you do that for?" OS: "You told me to." Browser: "I told you to feed it!" OS: "Yeah, I changed the definition of that yesterday to 'shoot dead'."
Agree with you with 1 exception: serial port. I like to have 1 serial port on there. I have an old US Robotics dialup modem which is extremely useful on the occasions when either ADSL is b0rked, or I've just moved house and don't have broadband setup yet.
I know you can get USB modems, but they're invariably crap.
Oh, who am I kidding? It's all my fault! [the bird nods]
I've got to call the plant and warn them!
[grabs phone, but his fingers are too fat to dial one key at
a time] Operator: The fingers you have used to dial are too fat. To obtain a
special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your palm
now.
Homer: [screams] Aah!
Wow. After reading that, I want a Nokia E70! I thought this 6131 was good, but that look awesome. Only niggle is that it's a briek rather than a flip phone. Accidental keypresses tend to happen with the bricks (and I know you can lock em, but sometimes even the lock accidentally undoes, the OK-* combination can accidentally happen).
How about, just don't? David Cameron has proven himself to be pretty much Blair 2, turning the Conservatives into New Labour 2 and raping many of their best policies. He has an antiquated view on many things, including the electoral system, drugs, prisons (let's build more and throw more in!), and many other things.
Vote Lib Dem... hell, I never thought I'd say this, but I think I'd rather see New Labour in under Brown than Cameron in. Blair, OK, I would've preferred Cameron, but Brown is actually better. Not much, but Cameron sucks balls. Don't vote for him.
30 years as a political junkie, and the only thing I've learned is that no party speaks for me, or likely ever will.
That's because they're not worried about really losing power. Maybe being out of office for a few years, but they'll always be major forces. You need to reform your electoral system; there's no other way. Start from scratch, and admit that the founding fathers got this particular design wrong. I know that's not a popular argument, but it's the unfortunate truth.
I'd base the new system on Finland's. Then you could vote for the Pirate Party, Cannabis Party, Libertarian Party, etc. and actually have a chance at getting some representation. Parties would have to debate, to agree on stuff for law to be passed, and (if they sucked) to suffer the voters' wrath, at the hands of other parties that actually stood up for popular opinion, at the next election.
So I presume that, in this new spirit of protecting personal privacy, governments will stop requiring ISPs to retain user data, reduce the number of unnecessary CCTV cameras, stop flaunting US wiretap laws, as well as passing some legislation that gives companies something more than a slap on the wrist for leaking millions of customer credit card records?
And, may I draw your attention to the fact that Finland has (IMHO) the best form of government in the world - open list proportional representation. It has a unicameral parliament, meaning they don't need a second 'checking' chamber because the people are able to hold the first one to account properly.
Reform your electoral systems, people! PR is the way!!!
Yeah, you say that, but there have been some depressing editorial decisions that have confined certain useful pieces of content such as you referenced to the scrapheap. There used to be 100% accurate records of all past UK Deal Or No Deal episodes, for example. They were removed because 'Wikipedia is not a data aggregation site'. Well, frankly, that strikes me as exactly what it is. Useful info does get removed from Wikipedia, and it's annoying. I agree with you that an internet encyclopaedia should have as much correct info as possible, there isn't a physical size limit!
make it sound very much like "You are free to use this however you want. Except for things we disagree with.".
The GPLv2 already does this! It says, "you can use this how you want, except several things, one of which is modifying -> compiling -> distributing it without the modified source."
Which is really a very hollow sort of "freedom", regardless of how bad the "things we disagree with" are.
If you say so. I think it's a prefectly reasonable level of freedom. If you want 100% freedom, go BSD-licence, but don't expect not to have corporate freeloaders.
As a SA citizen, could you tell me why it is that your president continues to support Robert Mugabe's evil regime? Are you people of SA in the know about it, and if so, why do they not get rid of him?
The EU shouldn't be seeding promising startups, but rather loosing the labor markets so venture capital is promising to both investors and entrepreneurs.
It's LOSING damnit, LOSING. Repeat after me, so you'll rem... oh.
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But the pictures in the article? Just sad, he reminds me so much of myself ;-)
Erm, what, an average looking white male? So sad.
Me, I install MSVC8, and the MozillaBuild environment. Then it's a case of a CVS checkout, setting up some .mozconfig settings, make -f client.mk checkout, and make -f client.mk build.
How many people were hospitalized for eye problems over the course of using DOS and pre-X *nix?
I dunno, but a hell of a lot of those people wear glasses.
Browser: "Feed that dog."
OS: *gets out gun and shoots dog dead*
Browser: "WTF? What did you do that for?"
OS: "You told me to."
Browser: "I told you to feed it!"
OS: "Yeah, I changed the definition of that yesterday to 'shoot dead'."
they may play violent videogames that you don't approve of -- but never even come close to hurting someone in reality. I call that a win.
And if they view violent child porn, but never even come close to hurting someone in reality?
PS. Open question, I actually believe that should be legal, but I'm a die-hard ultra-liberal.
ONLY on Slashdot does a comment about how to more effectively harness energy from someone spinning in their grave get modded up as Informative.
But to bleep out the formal reference to a body part, just because it happens to be a reproductive organ, makes me sick.
There is an upside to this. You won't ever have to hear someone talking about Bush & Dick again.
At least it's consistent. Copulating is copulating. Either censor all, or none. Put like that, how does sex censorship sound?
Agree with you with 1 exception: serial port. I like to have 1 serial port on there. I have an old US Robotics dialup modem which is extremely useful on the occasions when either ADSL is b0rked, or I've just moved house and don't have broadband setup yet.
I know you can get USB modems, but they're invariably crap.
By not letting yourself be perpetually terrified.
... I'd better not go to Malaysia. Ever. But I believe in free speech, damnit.
Wow. After reading that, I want a Nokia E70! I thought this 6131 was good, but that look awesome. Only niggle is that it's a briek rather than a flip phone. Accidental keypresses tend to happen with the bricks (and I know you can lock em, but sometimes even the lock accidentally undoes, the OK-* combination can accidentally happen).
How about, just don't? David Cameron has proven himself to be pretty much Blair 2, turning the Conservatives into New Labour 2 and raping many of their best policies. He has an antiquated view on many things, including the electoral system, drugs, prisons (let's build more and throw more in!), and many other things.
Vote Lib Dem... hell, I never thought I'd say this, but I think I'd rather see New Labour in under Brown than Cameron in. Blair, OK, I would've preferred Cameron, but Brown is actually better. Not much, but Cameron sucks balls. Don't vote for him.
30 years as a political junkie, and the only thing I've learned is that no party speaks for me, or likely ever will.
That's because they're not worried about really losing power. Maybe being out of office for a few years, but they'll always be major forces. You need to reform your electoral system; there's no other way. Start from scratch, and admit that the founding fathers got this particular design wrong. I know that's not a popular argument, but it's the unfortunate truth.
I'd base the new system on Finland's. Then you could vote for the Pirate Party, Cannabis Party, Libertarian Party, etc. and actually have a chance at getting some representation. Parties would have to debate, to agree on stuff for law to be passed, and (if they sucked) to suffer the voters' wrath, at the hands of other parties that actually stood up for popular opinion, at the next election.
So I presume that, in this new spirit of protecting personal privacy, governments will stop requiring ISPs to retain user data, reduce the number of unnecessary CCTV cameras, stop flaunting US wiretap laws, as well as passing some legislation that gives companies something more than a slap on the wrist for leaking millions of customer credit card records?
And, may I draw your attention to the fact that Finland has (IMHO) the best form of government in the world - open list proportional representation. It has a unicameral parliament, meaning they don't need a second 'checking' chamber because the people are able to hold the first one to account properly.
Reform your electoral systems, people! PR is the way!!!
Yeah, you say that, but there have been some depressing editorial decisions that have confined certain useful pieces of content such as you referenced to the scrapheap. There used to be 100% accurate records of all past UK Deal Or No Deal episodes, for example. They were removed because 'Wikipedia is not a data aggregation site'. Well, frankly, that strikes me as exactly what it is. Useful info does get removed from Wikipedia, and it's annoying. I agree with you that an internet encyclopaedia should have as much correct info as possible, there isn't a physical size limit!
make it sound very much like "You are free to use this however you want. Except for things we disagree with.".
The GPLv2 already does this! It says, "you can use this how you want, except several things, one of which is modifying -> compiling -> distributing it without the modified source."
Which is really a very hollow sort of "freedom", regardless of how bad the "things we disagree with" are.
If you say so. I think it's a prefectly reasonable level of freedom. If you want 100% freedom, go BSD-licence, but don't expect not to have corporate freeloaders.
But you won't do it, because downloading music, as opposed to stealing, doesn't harm them.
Minitel.
Then you've got a few weeks until you die from an opportunistic infection, at best.
As a SA citizen, could you tell me why it is that your president continues to support Robert Mugabe's evil regime? Are you people of SA in the know about it, and if so, why do they not get rid of him?
The treatment Hamas has recieved from the EU & US clearly demonstrates what western leaders think about the spread of democracy.
Yeah, because Hamas has been behaving in a really calm, rational, and democratic way recently.
The EU shouldn't be seeding promising startups, but rather loosing the labor markets so venture capital is promising to both investors and entrepreneurs.
It's LOSING damnit, LOSING. Repeat after me, so you'll rem... oh.