Reading the grandparent does nothing to explain why you have the right to leave your crap around VivianC's house. VivianC believes that a public street address does not give you that right. If you are correct in believing that it does because she is allowing you to do so then one might claim I'm allowing people to shoot me in the heart because I don't wear a Kevlar vest. A refusal to wear Kevlar doesn't turn a murderer into a mere jerk.
VivianC has said you don't have a certain right. Your counter argument is, "Yes I do." That's not good enough for me. A glib suggestion to reread what I comprehended in the first place won't make you appear misunderstood by a cretin.
Let us "unanalogize" your unanalogization. Should you protest when I take a shit on your bedroom floor I will say, "I can get to your house and I can defecate."
I think you have confused a possibility with a right. I can get an errection. That doesn't mean I have the right to rape your mother. Frankly, I think you may have a point in there somewhere but you aren't putting it forward with any substantial argument at all.
If your theory is correct it is nothing more than sound business and the best way AOL can help mozilla. Honestly now, if there is something underhanded about AOL's move here then one should suppose there would be something morally benevolent about burning a briefcase full of AOL cash at Netscape headquarters.
Well, the first fun thing I've noticed is simply in the configuration stage of building a kernel. I always stick with the classic ncurses `menuconfig' but noticed `gconfig' in the README. Jeeze, there's a GTK2 interface on the sucker, and it soaked up my/boot/config-2.4.21 (never noticed if 2.4 does that). The menu hierarchy is cleaner too. Filesystems are classified by nature. nForce2 support where it counts. Preempt, etc... looks great.
That's just a package revision number. Debian does much less extensive patching of the kernel.org sources than Redhat, but has still hit 2.4.20-8 and 2.4.21-2 (already!).
I didn't mean to hit a nerve. I only wanted to point out that I thought you were overreacting and couldn't help teasing a bit in the process. (Come on Ned! Lighten up!)
Certainly you have shown me that the word taint can have more malignant implications than I have given it in the past. I visited some quotation search engines to add to your entries above and found that it does in fact show up most often in a context of moral corruption, though in those cases it is often used in concert with a stronger pejorative and it does register in less grave circumstances (like wine spoiled by a bad cork). I stand corrected.
For the record I never claimed that "taint" means "to dye". I only pointed out its etymological undertone. Knowing such things can flesh out the more specific meaning of a word. I find that more usefull than thesaursus.com's suggested alternates such as dingy, slimy, or icky, though of course corrupted and impure come pretty close. "To dye" harmonizes a bit with the "something good gone bad 'cause something else got added to it" aspect of the word. Think "tainted meat". Hey, the meat started out good. It's the E. coli that ruined it for everyone.
I think the authors of the kernel and its support utilities chose taint because it indicates a fatal contamination. A drop of bleach in my Kettle Soda makes it undrinkable even though it's still mostly vodka and bubbly water. Dude, it's been tainted.
If you go here you'll find out why such indications are necessary. To the kernel maintainers, anything less than a fully open source kernel is just as bad as one that is mostly closed because they can't use a tainted kernel to fix bugs. Grep around in the source to modutils and you'll find you can taint your kernel with `insmod -f' too even if the module is GPL. The issue isn't OSS vs. Proprietary. It's "fixable" versus "useless kernel oops".
Even if this weren't the case I would still find "ajar" really awkward. Did you ever see The Simpson's episode where Bart cons his way into genius class? The teacher puts a math problem on the board and expects her students to "be pleasantly surprised". When everyone but Bart chuckles at the result (something like "R D R R") the teacher laughs and says, "Don't you get it Bart? 'R D R R'... Har Dee Har Har?!" Of course, what is funny about that scene is that the characters would find that funny, let alone "get it". I can't help but think ajar would strike people in an analogous way. Imagine it:
"Whoa, your kernel's ajar."
"What do you mean?"
"You know, ajar... half open, half closed?"
"Are you saying my kernel has a door in it... like a backdoor?"
"No. You know, partly open source, partly closed source..."
Navigate to "A/V" -> "B.T.S." and you'll find a simulated rxvt terminal with Sawfish's microGUI window dressing in the middle of a login that seems to accept input at the password prompt. They even put brokensaints.com's ip address in the title bar.
Does anyone know if this thing has a response to a valid password? What does "B.T.S." stand for here?
The post that fanatic was responding to gave the impression that you were burning cds without using the ide-scsi kernel module on an ide drive. Like fanatic, I've always thought this wasn't possible. Cdrecord needs the interface presented by a scsi driver -- whether the drive is actually scsi or not.
I just hooked up a SATA drive last night, booted into a.21 kernel, and found it odd that hdparm is needed to tweak the interface. Any ideas as to why it seems to support nothing better than udma2?
"Ajar" makes no sense here except in your very abstract logic. No one unfamilliar with your Slashdot post will draw conclusions about source code availability when they find that their kernel has been "ajared". I don't understand how you can offer this wierd suggestion and call "tainted" "clumsy at best" at the same time.
"Taint" seems quite apt to me. Sure, it isn't positive, but you associate "taint" with "very negative images". Are you really Ned Flanders? This isn't the F-word. It stems from a word meaning "to dye". It evokes corruption only in the sense of adding something foreign to something pure -- like a stain, or pee in a pool. That's hardly "dramatic" or "apocalyptic". I doubt anyone will "panic" over this.
Does anyone doubt Linus and company could rewrite any offending code out of the kernel? One might suppose that by the time a decision is reached in court the code in question (if it exists) will have morphed beyond (infringable) recognition.
Side note: Suppose that dark day comes and certain kernel versions are deemed illegal to use. imagine the bandwidth spectacle that would follow as Linux users worldwide upgrade to "vmlinuz-2.6.x-clean".
How does the official GNOME stance on drop shadows square with the use of a toolkit that provides anti-aliased text? I thought GTK2 taps XRENDER and assume drop shadows would too.
If he is wrong (and I'm not convinced he's right because I don't see why Carnot has anything to do with this) I think you've hit the nail on the head and should be modded up.
...runs OS X side-by-side with Linux. That's something no PC can do at any price.
You can't run OS X and Linux at the same time on an Apple though you can dual boot. Of course, you can also dual boot a PC, but why bother with that when VMWare will let you run any x86 operating system under Linux?
TruePower 550 Watt power supply (nice and quiet!) = $110
Add more cash if you want to skip stock cooling to lower noise or overclock by buying a pair of Zalmans or Swiftechs = $100.
Oh yeah, throw more cash at a modem, keyboard, and mouse = $100.
Now that totals $2,270 right now for the x86 equivalent of a $3,300 PowerMac available in September. One could stick with the stock 64MB Radeon 9600 that will come in the top PowerMac and drop the extra $300 off it's price. That would allow you to drop $160 off the PC and it would still leave you with a 128MB card, a fast, quiet drive (8MB cache which does add a boost -- see storagereview.com), CAS 2 ECC memory, HyperThreading for that 4-way feel, an optical drive compatible with all formats, and a cool grand to spend as you please. If you don't care about PCI-X or integrated Firewire you could get the Tiger i7505 instead and save another $150 to boot. If you want this PC to be even cheaper you can wait until the G5 PowerMacs are actually available before buying this dual Xeon box.
I'd say the G4 was faster than the P4 by a factor of infinity since they didn't benchmark the P4 at all in the vector tests. I'd bet the G4 really "smokes" a Pentium at running OS X too.
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because it's nearly free for the sender. Anyway, exactly who am I supposed to tell to stop buying "penis enhancement" products?
VivianC has said you don't have a certain right. Your counter argument is, "Yes I do." That's not good enough for me. A glib suggestion to reread what I comprehended in the first place won't make you appear misunderstood by a cretin.
Let us "unanalogize" your unanalogization. Should you protest when I take a shit on your bedroom floor I will say, "I can get to your house and I can defecate."
I think you have confused a possibility with a right. I can get an errection. That doesn't mean I have the right to rape your mother. Frankly, I think you may have a point in there somewhere but you aren't putting it forward with any substantial argument at all.
In what way is that true?
If your theory is correct it is nothing more than sound business and the best way AOL can help mozilla. Honestly now, if there is something underhanded about AOL's move here then one should suppose there would be something morally benevolent about burning a briefcase full of AOL cash at Netscape headquarters.
Well, the first fun thing I've noticed is simply in the configuration stage of building a kernel. I always stick with the classic ncurses `menuconfig' but noticed `gconfig' in the README. Jeeze, there's a GTK2 interface on the sucker, and it soaked up my /boot/config-2.4.21 (never noticed if 2.4 does that). The menu hierarchy is cleaner too. Filesystems are classified by nature. nForce2 support where it counts. Preempt, etc... looks great.
That's just a package revision number. Debian does much less extensive patching of the kernel.org sources than Redhat, but has still hit 2.4.20-8 and 2.4.21-2 (already!).
Certainly you have shown me that the word taint can have more malignant implications than I have given it in the past. I visited some quotation search engines to add to your entries above and found that it does in fact show up most often in a context of moral corruption, though in those cases it is often used in concert with a stronger pejorative and it does register in less grave circumstances (like wine spoiled by a bad cork). I stand corrected.
For the record I never claimed that "taint" means "to dye". I only pointed out its etymological undertone. Knowing such things can flesh out the more specific meaning of a word. I find that more usefull than thesaursus.com's suggested alternates such as dingy, slimy, or icky, though of course corrupted and impure come pretty close. "To dye" harmonizes a bit with the "something good gone bad 'cause something else got added to it" aspect of the word. Think "tainted meat". Hey, the meat started out good. It's the E. coli that ruined it for everyone.
I think the authors of the kernel and its support utilities chose taint because it indicates a fatal contamination. A drop of bleach in my Kettle Soda makes it undrinkable even though it's still mostly vodka and bubbly water. Dude, it's been tainted.
If you go here you'll find out why such indications are necessary. To the kernel maintainers, anything less than a fully open source kernel is just as bad as one that is mostly closed because they can't use a tainted kernel to fix bugs. Grep around in the source to modutils and you'll find you can taint your kernel with `insmod -f' too even if the module is GPL. The issue isn't OSS vs. Proprietary. It's "fixable" versus "useless kernel oops".
Even if this weren't the case I would still find "ajar" really awkward. Did you ever see The Simpson's episode where Bart cons his way into genius class? The teacher puts a math problem on the board and expects her students to "be pleasantly surprised". When everyone but Bart chuckles at the result (something like "R D R R") the teacher laughs and says, "Don't you get it Bart? 'R D R R'... Har Dee Har Har?!" Of course, what is funny about that scene is that the characters would find that funny, let alone "get it". I can't help but think ajar would strike people in an analogous way. Imagine it:
"Whoa, your kernel's ajar."
"What do you mean?"
"You know, ajar... half open, half closed?"
"Are you saying my kernel has a door in it... like a backdoor?"
"No. You know, partly open source, partly closed source..."
Does anyone know if this thing has a response to a valid password? What does "B.T.S." stand for here?
The difference here is that no one wants to disbelieve faster than light travel.
Don't forget to write your own assembler first using "echo 'crazy_acsii_codes' > hand_made_binary".
brain stem electrodes that control an employees muscles directly?
The post that fanatic was responding to gave the impression that you were burning cds without using the ide-scsi kernel module on an ide drive. Like fanatic, I've always thought this wasn't possible. Cdrecord needs the interface presented by a scsi driver -- whether the drive is actually scsi or not.
I just hooked up a SATA drive last night, booted into a .21 kernel, and found it odd that hdparm is needed to tweak the interface. Any ideas as to why it seems to support nothing better than udma2?
"Taint" seems quite apt to me. Sure, it isn't positive, but you associate "taint" with "very negative images". Are you really Ned Flanders? This isn't the F-word. It stems from a word meaning "to dye". It evokes corruption only in the sense of adding something foreign to something pure -- like a stain, or pee in a pool. That's hardly "dramatic" or "apocalyptic". I doubt anyone will "panic" over this.
Yer right.
Side note: Suppose that dark day comes and certain kernel versions are deemed illegal to use. imagine the bandwidth spectacle that would follow as Linux users worldwide upgrade to "vmlinuz-2.6.x-clean".
So your friend is gay. It's no big deal.
How does the official GNOME stance on drop shadows square with the use of a toolkit that provides anti-aliased text? I thought GTK2 taps XRENDER and assume drop shadows would too.
If he is wrong (and I'm not convinced he's right because I don't see why Carnot has anything to do with this) I think you've hit the nail on the head and should be modded up.
Solar Wind is actual stuff blowing out of the Sun. Cosmic Radiation is light.
You can't run OS X and Linux at the same time on an Apple though you can dual boot. Of course, you can also dual boot a PC, but why bother with that when VMWare will let you run any x86 operating system under Linux?
Tyan Thunder i7505 motherboard with PCI-X, 8X AGP, Gigabit Ether, Firewire, USB 2.0, and 6-channel Dolby audio (including SPDIF out) = $415.
Dual Xeon 2.66 GHz @ $315 X 2 = $630.
512MB Kingston CL2 ECC DDR = $80.
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro with 128MB = $305
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus - 160GB/8MB Cache = $165
Pioneer DVR-A06 DVD burner (Supports DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW) = $250
Lian-Li Aluminum Case = $115
TruePower 550 Watt power supply (nice and quiet!) = $110
Add more cash if you want to skip stock cooling to lower noise or overclock by buying a pair of Zalmans or Swiftechs = $100.
Oh yeah, throw more cash at a modem, keyboard, and mouse = $100.
Now that totals $2,270 right now for the x86 equivalent of a $3,300 PowerMac available in September. One could stick with the stock 64MB Radeon 9600 that will come in the top PowerMac and drop the extra $300 off it's price. That would allow you to drop $160 off the PC and it would still leave you with a 128MB card, a fast, quiet drive (8MB cache which does add a boost -- see storagereview.com), CAS 2 ECC memory, HyperThreading for that 4-way feel, an optical drive compatible with all formats, and a cool grand to spend as you please. If you don't care about PCI-X or integrated Firewire you could get the Tiger i7505 instead and save another $150 to boot. If you want this PC to be even cheaper you can wait until the G5 PowerMacs are actually available before buying this dual Xeon box.
I'd say the G4 was faster than the P4 by a factor of infinity since they didn't benchmark the P4 at all in the vector tests. I'd bet the G4 really "smokes" a Pentium at running OS X too.
chip except a larger memory address space.
Uhh... read the article please. The 970 didn't "trounce" the P4 at all. They performed equivalently.