Are you seriously claiming that there's no way to show your interest in somebody without your approach qualifying as harassment?
Of course there is. Come on. Showing your interest starts with things such as eye contact, smiling at somebody, stuff like that. And if there's no response, move on. If there is, talk to her. It's not easy for us geeks, I know, but that doesn't mean it's impossible.:)
I got modded as a Troll a couple of days ago because I called the pro-gun crowd here "testosterone-driven" (sorry guys, sorry. you're right of course, high-powered firearms for everybody makes for a great society).
So what makes somebody a troll most of all, I guess, is disagreeing with a local majority that's really convinced of its own righteousness.:)
It's quite obvious that guns should not be freely available to just anybody. Distrust of the government is fine but the view that having everyone have guns as a defence against the government is just an absurd rationalisation of testosterone-driven desire to own firepower.
Yes! I was rejected for a job at Google once. Now I will be able to tell everyone it was only because I'm white.;-)
Seriously though, while I agree that hiring should be based on qualifications and not race/gender (or being a USian for that matter you bunch of nationalists), if an industry has so few non-white guys we need to take a long hard look at ourselves to check that there's no unfairness going on.
Oh, OK, after replying to your post I saw the AC troll with Score:0 that was in between our messages. I thought you were calling/me/ an MS astroturfer...:-))
What's this about "various types of licenses" under which Linux is supposed to be available? Linux is GPL, so forking is possible, but there is no risk of UNIX-style fragmentation because the source is open and copyleft. For somebody to create a "closed Linux" they would have to start from scratch. You can't add closed bits to GPL software and keep them hidden, so any incompatible Linuxes ("fragments") could always be re-connected by users irritated about the differences.
The nonsense about UNIX displaced by NT and NT in turn displaced by Linux already set off my alarm, but the above really is FUD designed to further somebody's personal agenda.
It is not possible for UNIX-style fragmentation to happen to Linux, because of the GPL.
Columbus had been to "the Gold Coast" of Africa (aka The Slave Coast aka The Ivory Coast) and had met the representatives of the king of Mauritania, if not the king himself, at the time probably the wealthiest man in the world. They had had a few colonies "a few days to the west" in a new land, but they had abandoned them year before, because the locals kept attacking them.
Interesting. But if America was only "a few days to the west" from West Africa, these Mauritanians must have had some really speedy boats.;-)
My wild guess would be that they were talking about the Cape Verdian Islands. That's a place that could realistically be reached from Africa's West Coast in a couple of days. Brazil would take weeks.
As a side note, by the 2004 numbers the US is the 2nd largest exporter of goods at $795 billion. Germany is the only single country who exports more. The EU exports $1,109 billion, but they are not a single country, but if you did count them that makes the US 3rd.
That doesn't seem right. Germany is the EU's biggest member country, so if you'd count the EU you wouldn't count Germany as a single entity in that table. The US would still be second in that case.
Impressive. I don't think I've ever seen such a one-sided view put so eloquently.
Do Europeans think it is a good idea to fork the root servers?
Do Americans think it is a good idea that their government can exercise control over the DNS (even if they haven't done so so far)?
Do Europeans think it was a good idea for Chirac to encourage Arafat to walk away from the Paris accords in 2000?
Do Americans think it is a good idea for their government to fund an army that keeps a system of apartheid alive using unlawful violence in illegally occupied territories?
Seriously, I call bullshit on this one the most. It's American money more than anything that's preventing peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Do Europeans think that Iraq deserves Saddam Hussein?
Do Americans think that Iraq deserves al-Zarqawi? No? Then why did they allow him in, by removing Saddam in such a braindead way?
Do Europeans think that a strong PRC without human rights reforms is a good thing?
Do Americans think the same? Wherever did you get the idea that the US does more about human rights in China than the EU?
For a great many Europeans the answer to all of these questions is a firm NON.
Erm, for your information, a great many Europeans don't speak French.
Really, you write pretty well, your thinking is a lot less up to scratch though. Learn to look beyond your local propaganda.
Tough call - DRM is coming (Or is already here), one way or another, and is better to work on creating something done right, or to object to it on moral grounds?
I hate the whole idea behind DRM, to me as a Free Software guy the whole idea seems just wrong.
But... Open Standard DRM feels a lot better than Apple-only DRM or Windows-only DRM...
You're right. It is a tough call.
But one thing's for sure: if DRM is coming, and we want to continue moving the "ordinary user" over to open source systems, we have to make sure those systems support DRM. They won't switch to Linux if that means they can't play their music & movie files (that they paid for) any more.
I think the most important thing is to make sure DRM isn't used to lock people even further into Windoze. To do that, we'll have to support some kind of "Open DRM".
Look at HTML - all ASCII. ASN.1 was invented so that you didn't have to use all ASCII for this kind of data (look at the SNMP spec if you want more details). But does anyone use it for the on-the-wire format? No.
Actually, I think HTML and HTTP are a good example of how it should work. First, you make an easily understood, easily implemented and easily debugged format and protocol. Then, you can use something like gzip as a transfer encoding, and you've optimized for bandwidth in the correct place.
So ASN.1 should be replaced by XML-type things ASAP as far as I'm concerned. Unfortunately you're wrong where you say that nobody uses ASN.1 -- think LDAP, SSL, SNMP,... ASN.1 encoding is used all around you.
special purpose ARM style chips with a focus on low power
The ARM was designed in the late 80s as a general-purpose CPU for the British Acorn computer (originally ARM stood for Acorn RISC Machine).
Because of its very efficiently coded instruction set, it turned out to use very little power. This is why, in subsequent years, it started to find its way into embedded applications.
After Acorn went bust, ARM remained as the only profitable part of the company, focusing mainly on embedded applications of its design. But it was not designed with this in mind, and in fact some small companies still make ARM-based workstations. Even Corel used to make one (remember the Netwinder?).
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Moderators don't get subtle Monty Python references, but here's a +1 from me. :)
Oh yes. A friend was told, a couple of years ago, that he was allocated to customer XYZ, 2 hours away, and to be there each morning at 8.30 sharp.
Slashdot summing up American politics pretty nicely in articles like this. :)
Are you seriously claiming that there's no way to show your interest in somebody without your approach qualifying as harassment?
Of course there is. Come on. Showing your interest starts with things such as eye contact, smiling at somebody, stuff like that. And if there's no response, move on. If there is, talk to her. It's not easy for us geeks, I know, but that doesn't mean it's impossible. :)
Good luck. :)
I got modded as a Troll a couple of days ago because I called the pro-gun crowd here "testosterone-driven" (sorry guys, sorry. you're right of course, high-powered firearms for everybody makes for a great society). So what makes somebody a troll most of all, I guess, is disagreeing with a local majority that's really convinced of its own righteousness. :)
It's quite obvious that guns should not be freely available to just anybody. Distrust of the government is fine but the view that having everyone have guns as a defence against the government is just an absurd rationalisation of testosterone-driven desire to own firepower.
Yes! I was rejected for a job at Google once. Now I will be able to tell everyone it was only because I'm white. ;-)
Seriously though, while I agree that hiring should be based on qualifications and not race/gender (or being a USian for that matter you bunch of nationalists), if an industry has so few non-white guys we need to take a long hard look at ourselves to check that there's no unfairness going on.
apologies to those too young to know Monty Python sketches :)
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Oh, OK, after replying to your post I saw the AC troll with Score:0 that was in between our messages. I thought you were calling /me/ an MS astroturfer... :-))
Umm... what you're saying is almost identical to what I was saying. So I was kinda surprised by your last remark. :-)
Apart from that: you're absolutely correct.
What's this about "various types of licenses" under which Linux is supposed to be available? Linux is GPL, so forking is possible, but there is no risk of UNIX-style fragmentation because the source is open and copyleft. For somebody to create a "closed Linux" they would have to start from scratch. You can't add closed bits to GPL software and keep them hidden, so any incompatible Linuxes ("fragments") could always be re-connected by users irritated about the differences.
The nonsense about UNIX displaced by NT and NT in turn displaced by Linux already set off my alarm, but the above really is FUD designed to further somebody's personal agenda.
It is not possible for UNIX-style fragmentation to happen to Linux, because of the GPL.
Interesting. But if America was only "a few days to the west" from West Africa, these Mauritanians must have had some really speedy boats. ;-)
My wild guess would be that they were talking about the Cape Verdian Islands. That's a place that could realistically be reached from Africa's West Coast in a couple of days. Brazil would take weeks.
Interesting. Could that mean that the same vuln exists in Safari?
That doesn't seem right. Germany is the EU's biggest member country, so if you'd count the EU you wouldn't count Germany as a single entity in that table. The US would still be second in that case.
You claim that Free Software is a subset of Open Source, a more narrow definition.
If that is so, can you give me an example of a piece of software that is Open Source, but not Free Software?
No? That's right. There is no real difference. Free Software and Open Source software are the same subject, explained differently.
Impressive. I don't think I've ever seen such a one-sided view put so eloquently.
Do Americans think it is a good idea that their government can exercise control over the DNS (even if they haven't done so so far)?
Do Americans think it is a good idea for their government to fund an army that keeps a system of apartheid alive using unlawful violence in illegally occupied territories?
Seriously, I call bullshit on this one the most. It's American money more than anything that's preventing peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Do Americans think that Iraq deserves al-Zarqawi? No? Then why did they allow him in, by removing Saddam in such a braindead way?
Do Americans think the same? Wherever did you get the idea that the US does more about human rights in China than the EU?
Erm, for your information, a great many Europeans don't speak French.
Really, you write pretty well, your thinking is a lot less up to scratch though. Learn to look beyond your local propaganda.
Yeah then you get the changes from the Alpha version.
What I'm looking for is a list of features in 1.5 but not in 1.0.
Forgive my ignorance. I have not yet looked into what Firefox 1.5 is all about.
Why no 1.1 - 1.4 ? What's the major-but-not-major-enough-for-a-2.0 newness in this?
The changelog only lists the changes from Beta 1 to Beta 2 which is not very informative.
Bashing:
...all in one totally irrational article!
Wow. I stand in awe of the article's author, story submitter and the editor that was so quick to accept it. Amazing work, guys!
I hate the whole idea behind DRM, to me as a Free Software guy the whole idea seems just wrong.
But... Open Standard DRM feels a lot better than Apple-only DRM or Windows-only DRM...
You're right. It is a tough call.
But one thing's for sure: if DRM is coming, and we want to continue moving the "ordinary user" over to open source systems, we have to make sure those systems support DRM. They won't switch to Linux if that means they can't play their music & movie files (that they paid for) any more.
I think the most important thing is to make sure DRM isn't used to lock people even further into Windoze. To do that, we'll have to support some kind of "Open DRM".
Actually, I think HTML and HTTP are a good example of how it should work. First, you make an easily understood, easily implemented and easily debugged format and protocol. Then, you can use something like gzip as a transfer encoding, and you've optimized for bandwidth in the correct place.
So ASN.1 should be replaced by XML-type things ASAP as far as I'm concerned. Unfortunately you're wrong where you say that nobody uses ASN.1 -- think LDAP, SSL, SNMP, ... ASN.1 encoding is used all around you.
Probably one of those left-wing guys who thought Open Source is this great new community thing against those nasty American corporations.
Now he finds that many American corporations support Open Source in some way or other. And, due to the nature of Open Source, vice versa.
Damn! There goes his theory.
Open Source isn't the revival of communism after all.
Interesting. What do you base that on?
The rest of your post makes a lot of sense, so I'm taking the chance that I'm being trolled here...
The ARM was designed in the late 80s as a general-purpose CPU for the British Acorn computer (originally ARM stood for Acorn RISC Machine).
Because of its very efficiently coded instruction set, it turned out to use very little power. This is why, in subsequent years, it started to find its way into embedded applications.
After Acorn went bust, ARM remained as the only profitable part of the company, focusing mainly on embedded applications of its design. But it was not designed with this in mind, and in fact some small companies still make ARM-based workstations. Even Corel used to make one (remember the Netwinder?).