On the other hand, the list of societies that have been irreparably damaged by westerners who thought they knew better trying to 'civilise the barbarians' is long.
Yeah. Thank god Westerners didn't go into South Africa, Rhodesia, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, India, North America, Mexico, or Honk Kong. Those places are much better off right now, not having had our terrible influence.
Yeah, but you can't pick it up and maintain it, thereby improving CPAN. You have to rename it and upload it as something else, leaving an orphaned, old, unmaintained module lying around for people to find.
And every Perl module I've pulled from CPAN has been well documented.
What packages have you pulled in from CPAN? As much as I like Perl and as painful as this is to say, CPAN is a fucking abomination. There is basically zero quality control, anyone can put any module up they want and use any namespace. They don't have to offer ANY documentation and if they go AWOL and stop maintaining the module, it just stays there, festering.
Second major weight loss is from 108kg to 94kg. It's still ongoing, with the final goal being 80kg again. This time I didn't want to loose muscle, so joined the local gym and took professional advise.
You know what I do? Play squash once or twice a week.
Seriously, I don't get all these people paying a fucking fortune to join a gym and get 'professional advice' when there's a sport out there that effectively exercises just about every muscle in your body, intensely, for an hour, as well as giving your heart a good workout. And, it's fun to play. And, it's a damn sight cheaper than a gym.
The European Council is indeed a democratic institution: it's comprised of the heads of state or government of the member states, all of whom are elected (in the case of monarchies, the Prime Minister sits on the Council).
That's not good enough. You know as well as I do that heads of state tend to be pretty disconnected from the people - in countries like the UK, with our electoral system, they're in no real danger of even losing their seat, as they're likely to be in a very safe seat. They can get away with kowtowing to rich business interests and bullshitting the people about it (they're usually very experienced with that). Nobody's even been able to explain to me why the Council needs to exist. I say scrap it and just have the Parliament, an institution which is elected by a much better PR system and where members face the real risk of losing their seats if they piss people off.
Huh? If you're cruising at some useful speed (possibly on the leftmost lane), hit the clutch and you'll still have a few hundred yards to get over onto the emergency lane. Add hazard lights and most other drivers will even free the room you require.
Going at 70 (the speed limit over here) in the right lane (the left lane over here;-) and taking my foot off the throttle would result in my slowing down pretty quickly... I know if someone did that in front of me at that speed I don't think I'd crash into them, but would be rather taken aback and have to have quick reflexes to slow down, assuming they couldn't pull out of that land because of heavy traffic. I can imagine a worse driver hitting the back of them.
Also, in both cases: Turning your motor off and on again should not take more than a few seconds.
That's one of the things I've always been taught explicitly NOT to do whilst driving.:-) You lose power steering, the brakes will quickly become less effective, and expecting people to turn their car off and on again with very little notice in the middle of driving (a sudden loss of throttle because of this problem they've probably never even heard of) seems like a bizarre suggestion to me.
the Terminator in it wasn't really likable (T1's was an unstoppable killing machine; T2's was an unstoppable killing machine with a heart of gold; T3's was just a dick)
Actually, the one thing T3's didn't have was a dick.
Absolutely. This is exactly what I was going to respond to the GP with. Diversity is generally only a good thing if those diverse parts can interract with each other well; that goes for human diversity, by the way, as well as application platform diversity. If you want to get your app working with the iPhone and other devices, you'll need to write it AT LEAST twice, because the iPhone's ObjC and unique APIs are utterly nonstandard, and this should be condemned, not praised.
I have direct experience with this. My company has written a Flash app (please, don't lynch me too much) that allows live streaming video to mobile devices via Flash Lite 3 or later, and it works with nearly all modern advanced mobile devices... except the iPhone. If we were to try and create a similar app for the iPhone, we'd have to pour massive resources into learning how to do it (we don't have any in-house knowledge of how to do iPhone apps) and so we're probably not going to do it. iPhone users miss out on something, because of Apple's stubbornness.
Please, have diversity, but do not forget to emphasize the importance of interoperability. When it comes to that, the iPhone sucks donkey balls.
As has been said by others, you'll almost certainly get the good old form letter and the MP being written to won't even see your words. Want to really hit them where it hurts? Vote for someone else. And join a party that isn't one of the big three... we need to make sure their time is passed.
I'd suggest the Pirate Party UK. All new members welcome.:-)
Microsoft is unlikely to ever regain the position of dominance they had on 2000-01, so it's only a matter of time.
Painful as it is for me to say, this is nonsense. With even techies saying Windows 7 is good, Microsoft will make 10s of billions of profit from it. They will have 95%+ of the PC market for the forseeable future.
Frankly, Linux companies dropped the ball. I have Ubuntu installed on my 2nd machine. It is a piece of shit (GUI-wise, I'm not interested in fucking around on the commandline thanks) compared to even XP.
Now, you can't even buy a CRT computer monitor because LCD quality caught up and surpassed CRTs for most purposes while price plummeted.
Although I do now have a couple of LCDs sitting here on my desk, I still take issue with the idea that they have surpassed CRTs, qualitywise... I doubt that will ever happen. I'm not sure what the phenomenon is called (it's not the same as ghosting, I think), but fast-moving objects don't work well on LCDs. They darken. Try playing emulated Sonic The Hedgehog on a CRT (if you can find one) vs on an LCD and you'll see what I mean. It's virtually unplayable on the latter.
The thing is, that's just basically subscription. That's the abandonment of the licence, because when everyone starts using the net to watch video instead of TV, the licence becomes a subscription you pay to get access to the online content.
I'm fine with this system, I just wish governments would realize it's by far the fairest way and scrap the TV licence laws too.
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On the other hand, the list of societies that have been irreparably damaged by westerners who thought they knew better trying to 'civilise the barbarians' is long.
Yeah. Thank god Westerners didn't go into South Africa, Rhodesia, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, India, North America, Mexico, or Honk Kong. Those places are much better off right now, not having had our terrible influence.
I condemn all software patents.
Are you seriously saying that the identity of anyone who calls someone names on the internet should be revealed by force of law?
Yeah, but you can't pick it up and maintain it, thereby improving CPAN. You have to rename it and upload it as something else, leaving an orphaned, old, unmaintained module lying around for people to find.
And every Perl module I've pulled from CPAN has been well documented.
What packages have you pulled in from CPAN? As much as I like Perl and as painful as this is to say, CPAN is a fucking abomination. There is basically zero quality control, anyone can put any module up they want and use any namespace. They don't have to offer ANY documentation and if they go AWOL and stop maintaining the module, it just stays there, festering.
Agrd.2 much txt is bd,we nd 2 mk stf + concise,btr 4 usng storage.
I always mentally read the show's title as 'Paranoia' whenever I see it.
Socialized news!!!
*shiver*
even internally if a reporter wants something old he usually has to go to the archive (read basement) and digg for hours.
Someone's been spending too much time online.
Second major weight loss is from 108kg to 94kg. It's still ongoing, with the final goal being 80kg again. This time I didn't want to loose muscle, so joined the local gym and took professional advise.
You know what I do? Play squash once or twice a week.
Seriously, I don't get all these people paying a fucking fortune to join a gym and get 'professional advice' when there's a sport out there that effectively exercises just about every muscle in your body, intensely, for an hour, as well as giving your heart a good workout. And, it's fun to play. And, it's a damn sight cheaper than a gym.
Go play squash, people. You'll enjoy it!
I changed the amount of food I ate from large dishes to normal dishes
How do you do that with US restaurant portions?
"I'd like a small meal, please."
"OK, one supersized-mega kids' meal coming right up!"
The only effective glasses for viewing "Chuck" are ones that make you blind.
My mom used to say 'Want in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up faster.'
Ah, so now we know the identity of Tubgirl.
The European Council is indeed a democratic institution: it's comprised of the heads of state or government of the member states, all of whom are elected (in the case of monarchies, the Prime Minister sits on the Council).
That's not good enough. You know as well as I do that heads of state tend to be pretty disconnected from the people - in countries like the UK, with our electoral system, they're in no real danger of even losing their seat, as they're likely to be in a very safe seat. They can get away with kowtowing to rich business interests and bullshitting the people about it (they're usually very experienced with that). Nobody's even been able to explain to me why the Council needs to exist. I say scrap it and just have the Parliament, an institution which is elected by a much better PR system and where members face the real risk of losing their seats if they piss people off.
No, YOU edit it. I'm intelligent enough to but can't be bothered.
Huh? If you're cruising at some useful speed (possibly on the leftmost lane), hit the clutch and you'll still have a few hundred yards to get over onto the emergency lane. Add hazard lights and most other drivers will even free the room you require.
Going at 70 (the speed limit over here) in the right lane (the left lane over here ;-) and taking my foot off the throttle would result in my slowing down pretty quickly... I know if someone did that in front of me at that speed I don't think I'd crash into them, but would be rather taken aback and have to have quick reflexes to slow down, assuming they couldn't pull out of that land because of heavy traffic. I can imagine a worse driver hitting the back of them.
Also, in both cases: Turning your motor off and on again should not take more than a few seconds.
That's one of the things I've always been taught explicitly NOT to do whilst driving. :-) You lose power steering, the brakes will quickly become less effective, and expecting people to turn their car off and on again with very little notice in the middle of driving (a sudden loss of throttle because of this problem they've probably never even heard of) seems like a bizarre suggestion to me.
If a fault is detected the throttle goes completely off and the car has to be turned off and turned back on to recover.
That sounds pretty dangerous if you're on a motorway (highway).
the Terminator in it wasn't really likable (T1's was an unstoppable killing machine; T2's was an unstoppable killing machine with a heart of gold; T3's was just a dick)
Actually, the one thing T3's didn't have was a dick.
Absolutely. This is exactly what I was going to respond to the GP with. Diversity is generally only a good thing if those diverse parts can interract with each other well; that goes for human diversity, by the way, as well as application platform diversity. If you want to get your app working with the iPhone and other devices, you'll need to write it AT LEAST twice, because the iPhone's ObjC and unique APIs are utterly nonstandard, and this should be condemned, not praised.
I have direct experience with this. My company has written a Flash app (please, don't lynch me too much) that allows live streaming video to mobile devices via Flash Lite 3 or later, and it works with nearly all modern advanced mobile devices... except the iPhone. If we were to try and create a similar app for the iPhone, we'd have to pour massive resources into learning how to do it (we don't have any in-house knowledge of how to do iPhone apps) and so we're probably not going to do it. iPhone users miss out on something, because of Apple's stubbornness.
Please, have diversity, but do not forget to emphasize the importance of interoperability. When it comes to that, the iPhone sucks donkey balls.
As has been said by others, you'll almost certainly get the good old form letter and the MP being written to won't even see your words. Want to really hit them where it hurts? Vote for someone else. And join a party that isn't one of the big three... we need to make sure their time is passed.
I'd suggest the Pirate Party UK. All new members welcome. :-)
Microsoft is unlikely to ever regain the position of dominance they had on 2000-01, so it's only a matter of time.
Painful as it is for me to say, this is nonsense. With even techies saying Windows 7 is good, Microsoft will make 10s of billions of profit from it. They will have 95%+ of the PC market for the forseeable future.
Frankly, Linux companies dropped the ball. I have Ubuntu installed on my 2nd machine. It is a piece of shit (GUI-wise, I'm not interested in fucking around on the commandline thanks) compared to even XP.
Now, you can't even buy a CRT computer monitor because LCD quality caught up and surpassed CRTs for most purposes while price plummeted.
Although I do now have a couple of LCDs sitting here on my desk, I still take issue with the idea that they have surpassed CRTs, qualitywise... I doubt that will ever happen. I'm not sure what the phenomenon is called (it's not the same as ghosting, I think), but fast-moving objects don't work well on LCDs. They darken. Try playing emulated Sonic The Hedgehog on a CRT (if you can find one) vs on an LCD and you'll see what I mean. It's virtually unplayable on the latter.
*sheds a tear for the fall of CRTs*
We've already passed the visual resolution where porn becomes gynaecology. Even lust has resolution limits.
Maybe so, but we haven't reached them yet. I wanna know what bacteria and fungi she's carrying.
The thing is, that's just basically subscription. That's the abandonment of the licence, because when everyone starts using the net to watch video instead of TV, the licence becomes a subscription you pay to get access to the online content.
I'm fine with this system, I just wish governments would realize it's by far the fairest way and scrap the TV licence laws too.
That should've said 'subsidization' via income tax.