Only the most hardcore used "Windows NT", President Bush's popularity sank to new lows, Afghanistan's ongoing collapse continued to somehow worsen, A series of bomb blasts killed scores of people in India, RMS insisted that Linux be called GNU/Linux and nobody cared, MTV sucked ass, The number of Americans incarcerated increased by between 300,000 and 700,000 a year...
Isn't there anything like the automated snap to grid UI layout tools like Interface Builder
KDE makes heavy use of QT which does have an interface builder. It's quite advanced compared to VC2005's MFC dialog editor, supporting niceties such as defining dynamic resizing behavior.
Why do the UI elements and widgets look like they are straight out of the damn stone age
QT renders controls itself. On windows and on OS X, QT apps blend in seamlessly unless you manually change QT's current theme. This is means that QT and KDE are capable of mimicking these standard widgets exactly. So, I have to wonder whether you have any idea what you're talking about. It sounds like you're just saying shit, kid.
For all your insistence that Obama's slogan is vapid, you seem to derive a lot of information from it. If you are actually interested in his positions, take a look at the issues section of Obama's site.
Change We Can Believe In It's the slogan of the mainstream candidate that voted against the war. You know - the one where invaded another country for no good reason, the one where the only thing worse than staying is leaving.
is to vandalize the property of someone you hate, I'm more inclined to either roll my eyes You know what? I'm very much feeling like rolling my eyes right now.
rights are for American citizens and don't apply to the rest of the world We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Given your assertion that treating terrorists nicely causes them to like us, explain why the 9:11 highjackers [sic] still insisted on murdering thousands of innocent civilians despite having lived in this country, with all the benefits of a free resident, for a long period of time (years in most cases). Just as some German POWs remained hopelessly attached to Nazi dogma in spite of relatively fair treatment, some Afghanis are going to remain loyal to their Taliban teachings. By abusing POWs, we ensure that more POWs and their countrymen will hate us.
Thanks! Suck a cock, you neocon dipshit.
What, you're saying that we need to stay in Iraq so we can do the Marshall Plan thing there? We've been doing it since the beginning of the occupation Wait wait, the administration expected us to be greeted as liberators and put no serious effort into planning for the post-invasion phase. The US administration allowed Iraq's infrastructure to be gutted by looters, disbanded the armed forces, treated the UN presence with contempt and allowed its headquarters to be truck bombed...
I think the US could have done a much better job in the crucial months after the invasion, and that the forethought given to reconstructing Iraq compares very poorly to the Marshall Plan.
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Call me nutty, but I don't exactly like the involvement of government in my software. P:
sort of irrelevant, its open source The opportunity to review patches written by Chinese intelligence agencies would be no more reassuring.
Widely reviewed random number generators and encryption algorithms are one thing. That some of these are regarded as dubious while others are seen as strong is encouraging. Kilobytes of patches touching every part of the kernel are rightly regarded with caution...
Everyone knows that locking-down content is utterly futile, in comparison to the provisions of a well-implemented digital rights management system Your post is at 1, so I suspect I'm not the only one who wonders what you meant.
How does one "lock-down" content without some sort of DRM?
If one can't, did you really mean to point out that poorly implemented DRM fails faster than tough DRM? Sorry for the repetition, but that would be pretty bleeding obvious.
Windows XP's major achievement was to unify those branches into a single NT-based OS that was both shiny enough and compatible enough to serve as a 98/ME replacement for average consumers. Did XP improve 95 compatibility? WoW16 continued to blow chunks, of course. "Application compatibility mode" came to Windows 2000 in SP2, and 2000 received DirectX updates all the way up to 9.0c.
I think that developers believed Microsoft's announcement that the 95 line was over. If your software didn't run on XP, your sales were over.
So, developers forgot about 95 and made their shit run on XP.
I suppose if you were to be moving on a train near the speed of light then things could appear to be normal to you, but in reality everything would be moving very slowly as the light would take a long time to travel in the direction that you are moving in, and the electrons orbiting all your atoms and such would be moving slower in one direction? A key point relativity makes is one that Dirac and a generation of physicists found very difficult to accept: there is no absolute reality. There is only relativity.
There is absolutely no difference whatsoever between (a) you moving very fast relative to the universe (b) the universe moving very fast relative to you ^^
Additionally, if you are moving at %99.99999998 the speed of light relative to the universe and you shine a light, the emitted photons travel ahead at 299,792,458m/s. You might wonder how you could emit light at the speed of light when you are moving so fast.
An observer in the "still" universe frame would see different things depending on whether he is in front of you or behind you. If he's tangential to your path, you will appear to be squished very thin and shining a red-shifted light... Your wristwatch would appear to be moving very slowly. What looks like a great distance forward to you might appear to be barely an inch to the "still" observer...
Can't imagine it's very live what with the lightspeed delay.. *grin* Special relativity breaks absolute simultaneity. To say that you could account for the speed of light to calculate the precise absolute instant that the lander touched down is not even correct. An observer moving very fast towards Mars and away from Earth could make the same calculation and come to a different conclusion.
it should be taken into consideration that stimulates do not affect everyone the same way I wonder about this perception of methylphenidate (ritalin). Being a dopamanergic reuptake inhibitor, methylphenidate increases the amount of dopamine in the synapse.
If you are sensitive to dopamine, which you most certainly are, then you should be sensitive to methylphenidate. Perception is complex; perhaps you fail to notice ritalin's effects or feel motivated to deny them.
How can pointing to a picture which claims to observe the unobservable not be funny? Dark matter is postulated to be observable solely by its gravitational interaction with directly observable matter and energy. In this case, the Bullet cluster image represents empirical data: matter not visible in the image but within the frame of the image and in front of other visible objects is deflecting electromagnetic radiation emitted from those background objects.
Similarly, you can't see electrons, but if you collect a large amount of them, you can observe the force caused by the static charge upon observable objects. If you move them, you can detect the generated magnetic field.
And here's your CMB [dfi.uem.br], predicted long before Big Bang cosmology, and more accurately, too. That's a non sequitur. The +5 rated post to which you originally replied pointed out that CMB anisotropy indicates the presence of cold dark matter; the link you supply deals with average CMB black body spectra and does not mention dark matter even once.
the onus is on you to prove that portion of it correct by finding some of this imaginary non-baryonic mass...Your circular logic fails to prove that dark matter exists. I assume you're going for +5 funny, but here is your dark matter. From wikipedia: Composite image of the Bullet cluster shows distribution of ordinary matter, inferred from X-ray emissions, in red and total mass, inferred from gravitational lensing, in blue.
The various discrepancies referred to by the GP are interesting because they represent quantifiable gaps in cosmological theory. The discrepancy between observation and Newtonian prediction of the period of Mercury's orbit could be explained by unsatisfactory inventions such as the interstellar ether; similarly, dark matter began as a stopgap invention.
However, as the GP mentioned, surprising evidence is cropping up that the universe contains vast quantities of weakly-interacting matter. That doesn't mean we should throw our hands up as you do and claim it's the flying spaghetti monster. We ought to continue observing, theorizing, predicting, checking and refining our understanding of the universe. Perhaps non-intuitive sorts of matter do exist! Or, the investigation of it might lead to theories superseding the current ones as relativity replaced Newtonian physics.
they accepted 2 million dollars [wikipedia.org] from the Rockefeller foundation...they should remember where they came from and why they have the buildings they do. Have some respect. The Rockefeller Foundation isn't some arm of big oil intent on encouraging petroleum use. They tend to support the social and medical sciences in addition to crop development for expanding agricultural production worldwide.
Instead of spouting nonsense that will make less people want to visit, they should actually work on something that matters. From the summary: 'Promotion of a normal distribution of BMI would reduce the global demand for, and thus the price of, food.'
Sorry, the high price of food matters. Please turn in your Slashdot license and clean out your account. You fail.
Fundamental kernel structures such as this... should have been... locked down a long time ago Yeah, well that's the whole problem, isn't it? A long time ago, we had the Big Kernel Lock.
It was ALL LOCKED.
Now, we're trying to UNLOCK it. See? Locking semantics are tricky.
How does this work, redistributing "wealth" from those that don't have it Corrupt right wingers give no bid contracts to their friends, tax cuts to the rich, allow monopolies to flourish, encourage Enron-style deregulation, etc.
Right-winger incursions were minor and asymmetric compared to the left, but then again, the left was responsible for over 100 million deaths during WW-II and immediately following. Right, I think that was Nazism, fascism and Stalinism that kind of took the blame for most of those deaths. Just a little different from what Obama and Hillary stand for. Keep listening to Rush though...
Well, that's what Left-wingers like to do -- impose their own views in totality, under the guise of freedom. eg. "Democratic People's Republic" of North Korea Similarly, one could say that Right-wingers like to initiate wars and redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich under the guise of the supporting free market and upholding traditional values.
Both propositions serve to offend more they than inform. Do labor unions, a traditional facet of left wing politics, have particularly much to do with hate speech tribunals?
Likewise, how are ill-conceived wars related to policies of minimal government intervention?
The world is more complex than red-vs-blue, and in this case, the Canadian Government seems to be persecuting free speech. Liberals and libertarians everywhere probably agree that guilty-until-proven-innocent and prosecution for publication are abhorrent.
On both sides of the isle, however, you'll find people who disagree. These I think we can agree are fascists or just plain fuckwads. North Korean true believers included.
Because hypocrisy is ugly. I'm sorry that hypocrisy offends your aesthetics more than violation of freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech is important, and I think we should fight for it everywhere. You can try to tell me that I should shut up, but brother, this is still America.
So, fuck you. Yeah, it's ugly sometimes. FUCK. YOU.
People might resent paying so much for drivers and perhaps even pirate them. Additionally, a pro card can't come in a shiny box adorned with flaming skulls and naked ladies.
No. It's far, far better to sell them "different" hardware for much more. That way you can put it in the white box that adolescents would shun and charge more to recoup the many millions of dollars required to set bAllowWireframeAA = true.
You had me right up until "Vote for anyone but Republicans..." Sheep think in those terms. And you had me right up until "sheep think in those terms."
Republicans are well known for holding the line and sticking to their talking points. They've worked hard to earn this reputation, and there's no reason to forget that they've repeatedly unified behind awful ideas.
Obama voted against the AUMF and filibustered the permanent reauthorization of the PATRIOT act. Additionally, he wont be tempted to hold the Republican line, seeing as how he is a Democrat.
The same logic applies to other good Democrats. It works against the Republicans - we need look no farther than Ron Paul to see what happens to Republicans who respect the constitution and the rule of law.
Company forced to give up revenue stream due to open-source fanatics Right; just as the openness of the Linux kernel denies Redhat revenue?
Despite the outcome, this is not a victory for the open-source movement. The MySQL eco-system remains that much more open. I'm sorry this bothers you, but it's hardly a defeat for OS.
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Only the most hardcore used "Windows NT",
President Bush's popularity sank to new lows,
Afghanistan's ongoing collapse continued to somehow worsen,
A series of bomb blasts killed scores of people in India,
RMS insisted that Linux be called GNU/Linux and nobody cared,
MTV sucked ass,
The number of Americans incarcerated increased by between 300,000 and 700,000 a year...
Isn't there anything like the automated snap to grid UI layout tools like Interface Builder
KDE makes heavy use of QT which does have an interface builder. It's quite advanced compared to VC2005's MFC dialog editor, supporting niceties such as defining dynamic resizing behavior.
Why do the UI elements and widgets look like they are straight out of the damn stone age
QT renders controls itself. On windows and on OS X, QT apps blend in seamlessly unless you manually change QT's current theme. This is means that QT and KDE are capable of mimicking these standard widgets exactly. So, I have to wonder whether you have any idea what you're talking about. It sounds like you're just saying shit, kid.
HOW ABOUT CAIRO? I want my Cairo!
For all your insistence that Obama's slogan is vapid, you seem to derive a lot of information from it. If you are actually interested in his positions, take a look at the issues section of Obama's site.
I think the US could have done a much better job in the crucial months after the invasion, and that the forethought given to reconstructing Iraq compares very poorly to the Marshall Plan.
Microsoft is saying that Windows is a very different sort of environment. You can't allow convenience on Windows - it's just not secure enough.
Widely reviewed random number generators and encryption algorithms are one thing. That some of these are regarded as dubious while others are seen as strong is encouraging. Kilobytes of patches touching every part of the kernel are rightly regarded with caution...
How does one "lock-down" content without some sort of DRM?
If one can't, did you really mean to point out that poorly implemented DRM fails faster than tough DRM? Sorry for the repetition, but that would be pretty bleeding obvious.
I think that developers believed Microsoft's announcement that the 95 line was over. If your software didn't run on XP, your sales were over.
So, developers forgot about 95 and made their shit run on XP.
There is absolutely no difference whatsoever between (a) you moving very fast relative to the universe (b) the universe moving very fast relative to you ^^
Additionally, if you are moving at %99.99999998 the speed of light relative to the universe and you shine a light, the emitted photons travel ahead at 299,792,458m/s. You might wonder how you could emit light at the speed of light when you are moving so fast.
An observer in the "still" universe frame would see different things depending on whether he is in front of you or behind you. If he's tangential to your path, you will appear to be squished very thin and shining a red-shifted light... Your wristwatch would appear to be moving very slowly. What looks like a great distance forward to you might appear to be barely an inch to the "still" observer...
The concept of "simultaneous" events exists only within individual frames of reference.
If you are sensitive to dopamine, which you most certainly are, then you should be sensitive to methylphenidate. Perception is complex; perhaps you fail to notice ritalin's effects or feel motivated to deny them.
Similarly, you can't see electrons, but if you collect a large amount of them, you can observe the force caused by the static charge upon observable objects. If you move them, you can detect the generated magnetic field. And here's your CMB [dfi.uem.br], predicted long before Big Bang cosmology, and more accurately, too. That's a non sequitur. The +5 rated post to which you originally replied pointed out that CMB anisotropy indicates the presence of cold dark matter; the link you supply deals with average CMB black body spectra and does not mention dark matter even once.
The various discrepancies referred to by the GP are interesting because they represent quantifiable gaps in cosmological theory. The discrepancy between observation and Newtonian prediction of the period of Mercury's orbit could be explained by unsatisfactory inventions such as the interstellar ether; similarly, dark matter began as a stopgap invention.
However, as the GP mentioned, surprising evidence is cropping up that the universe contains vast quantities of weakly-interacting matter. That doesn't mean we should throw our hands up as you do and claim it's the flying spaghetti monster. We ought to continue observing, theorizing, predicting, checking and refining our understanding of the universe. Perhaps non-intuitive sorts of matter do exist! Or, the investigation of it might lead to theories superseding the current ones as relativity replaced Newtonian physics.
Sorry, the high price of food matters. Please turn in your Slashdot license and clean out your account. You fail.
It was ALL LOCKED.
Now, we're trying to UNLOCK it. See? Locking semantics are tricky.
Both propositions serve to offend more they than inform. Do labor unions, a traditional facet of left wing politics, have particularly much to do with hate speech tribunals?
Likewise, how are ill-conceived wars related to policies of minimal government intervention?
The world is more complex than red-vs-blue, and in this case, the Canadian Government seems to be persecuting free speech. Liberals and libertarians everywhere probably agree that guilty-until-proven-innocent and prosecution for publication are abhorrent.
On both sides of the isle, however, you'll find people who disagree. These I think we can agree are fascists or just plain fuckwads. North Korean true believers included.
Freedom of speech is important, and I think we should fight for it everywhere. You can try to tell me that I should shut up, but brother, this is still America.
So, fuck you. Yeah, it's ugly sometimes. FUCK. YOU.
People might resent paying so much for drivers and perhaps even pirate them. Additionally, a pro card can't come in a shiny box adorned with flaming skulls and naked ladies.
No. It's far, far better to sell them "different" hardware for much more. That way you can put it in the white box that adolescents would shun and charge more to recoup the many millions of dollars required to set bAllowWireframeAA = true.
Republicans are well known for holding the line and sticking to their talking points. They've worked hard to earn this reputation, and there's no reason to forget that they've repeatedly unified behind awful ideas.
Obama voted against the AUMF and filibustered the permanent reauthorization of the PATRIOT act. Additionally, he wont be tempted to hold the Republican line, seeing as how he is a Democrat.
The same logic applies to other good Democrats. It works against the Republicans - we need look no farther than Ron Paul to see what happens to Republicans who respect the constitution and the rule of law.