Yoda says, "Luminous beings are we... not this crude matter." The flaw in the midichlorian explanation, in my thinking, is that it binds the Force to a thing, making it physical. Furthermore, this thing is bound to the body, the crude matter of which Yoda speaks. If that's the case, then the Force would only seem to be relevant while an individual is alive. Or for that matter, what would prevent someone from distilling midichlorians and making some uber-Jedi injection? Or heck, why not a pill or a snack food. "Feeling a little run down? Try Jedi Pops (TM), and you'll be levitating that cargo pod in no time!"
I see your comment about "the energy they generate" giving way to the "luminous being", but nailing the Force down like this seems overly limiting as a plot device. This arises as one of the more troublesome (for me) inconsistencies that have cropped up with the prequels. (Another, for instance, is Obi-Wan's description of Anakin in A New Hope as "already a great star pilot" when the two first met, versus the pipsqueak 6-year-old we meet in Phantom Menace. And boy, did he sure grow up quick by the time we see him again in Attack of the Clones...) It's as if Lucas had forgotten some story elements he'd already established in the earlier films. Or perhaps he just met this great cute kid and had to work him in somehow. Or maybe he'd spent too many years apart from his old philosophically-inclined roommate (forgive me I forget his name). It feels a bit like Lucas is getting funny in the head, or as if he doesn't respect his audience. Either way, sad and unfortunate.
Okay, one thing that really bothered me about the midichlorian explanation (aside from how damn pat and tidy it is) is that it seems to conflict with Yoda's description of the Force in Empire -- how can biological entities similar to mitochondria live in rocks? If they are integral to life, and are things as opposed to some energy field, it follows that you wouldn't be able to use the Force to do jack to anything inanimate. Am I missing something?
Or was that twanging sound just my suspension of disbelief snapping back?;)
I've gotten used to using ALT-TAB to switch between apps, as in browser to word processor, so for me, tabs are great. Sure, I can bundle like app windows under Windows or Linux, but that just doesn't fit my personal style. Go figure.
On the other hand, by using tabbed browsing, you lose about 50% of your screen to tabs for all the windows you have open, right? I value my real estate more than most people then.
I hear you about screen real estate. But then you have me confused; what browser do you use that takes up half the screen just for the tabs? Does Opera do that? I haven't messed with it in a while, as Opera had problems rendering Japanese. Firefox uses barely a pinky's-width, about as much as the URL bar. Maybe as much as 1/8 of the screen for the app bar, menu bar, URL bar, tab bar, and status bar together.
If you rely on your web browser for window management then your operating system is lacking or you are not using it correctly. Which is why tabbed browsing is abhorrent.
I smell a stylistic issue here. Your response nicely showed that my points were partly based on my ignorance of your experience. Forgive me for that. However, "you are not using (your OS) correctly" seems to carry things a bit too far -- part of any good system is the flexibility to use it in many different ways, no? If I choose to group my browser windows in the browser, I fail to see what sin lies in that.
Ahh and the inevitable personal attack,
Actually, a fine point, but I think I was attacking your comments to the effect that *nix systems don't manage windows well. Nothing ad hominem in that.
I use Redhat 9.0 when I'm not using Windows, but I've used several different distros and window managers in the past. The high level of fragmentation in Linux makes window management even more difficult, as one method for management will work fine on one desktop, but it won't on another without configuring it the same way first.
By "desktop" I assume you mean either "windows manager" or "linux distro", rather than the various virtual desktops provided in a single X session. If this is correct, your statement is quite similar to "window management doesn't work the same on several different OSes.
Um, yes. Windows and the Windows window manager are inseparable; the OS and the desktop are one and the same. Swapping desktop managers under linux is effectively similar to changing the complete userland OS under the Windows monolithic paradigm. To exaggerate a little, your comment is a little like "it doesn't work the same on Mac as it does on Windows". Or for the linux savvy, "Gnome and KDE are different." No surprises there.
I'll grant you that a greater level of standardization would be lovely, not just for the end user but for developers as well. I think that's what the Freedesktop.org project is all about, so this is in the works.
Windows tends to act very predictably no matter where you find it, however.
You bring up a good point here -- Windows, through its hegemony, offers a common user experience. There is something of value in this, and the OSS community would be unwise to sneer. Thankfully, many seem wise enough to save the baby from the bathwater, and are putting in the effort to find what works in Windows.
To hearken back to your earlier posting:
Everything in MS applications looks and feels the same, this is what has enabled MS to keep the desktop, and it's a key point of failure for linux on the desktop.
A good point -- the Principle of Least Surprise plays in here. Users expect a particular look and feel, in terms of where menu items are if not necessarily the specific widget set. Straying from this de facto standard of expectations will almost inevitably make a program less popular. Ask anyone who's used Adobe graphics products versus, say,
Try using tabbed browsing in Firefox or Mozilla before you start claiming it's useless. I use tabbed browsers exclusively on Windows.
This choice has nothing to do with window management by any particular OS, and everything to do with my browsing habits. I presently have 16 tabs open in my browser. I'm a translator, I need to have lots of things open at once -- online references like Wikipedia, corporate IR pages, and dictionaries; Google; my webmail; and other fun things like Slashdot:).
Any windowing system becomes unacceptably cluttered if I use untabbed browsing and try to accomplish the same effect. ALT-TAB becomes a mess.
And for that matter, try using a mature *nix distro before you make unfounded (or perhaps just misinformed) accusations.
But consider! MS is going for complete computing noobs here. Looking at the mailing lists, Linux can be befuddling for power users. It took me my own good time to figure some things out, no thanks to spotty documentation.
And therein lies the rub -- MS may suck donkey balls in a lot of ways, but they do a good job of holding noob hands with decent documentation. Unless and until some Linux distro can do the same, and still for that same magic price (and in Thai, Laotian, Swahili, what have you), I think this move by MS presents a genuine threat of incursion into undeveloped mental real estate.
The project you had in mind might very well have been iRate Radio, available for free over on Sourceforge.
The system includes exactly the kind of collaborative rating you mention, designed to figure out what sort of music you like. You train it kinda like you train a spam filter, 'this one's good, that one's bad', such that over time it gets better at predicting what you might like, based also on the ratings of people with similar rating patterns as your own.
HTH
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It may be worth noting here that the underlying cause of the US Civil War was a disagreement about federalism. Since the federalists won, it should come as no surprise that the US federal system has gotten stronger.
There is no guarantee that the EU will follow the same path; this will likely depend upon the powers and sovereignty kept by each member state.
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Um, I think the issue is that the four who spoke out against SERVE were the only ones to speak. It's not like the other six came out in favor of the project -- they simply refused to comment. Not exactly what I'd call a ringing endorsement.
From
TFA: The four security experts are among 10 the Pentagon asked to study the SERVE system and look for vulnerabilities. The other six experts decided not to issue a report, Flood said.
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One day we will all be living under the iron fist of Emmental Evil
-- a.k.a. the gawd-damnedest smelliest cheese you've ever smelled?
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Yep, my mum-in-law is O, though I forget if it's + or -.
My pop read a book that had a lot to say about this, I can't remember for sure, but I think it was "Eat Right 4 Your Type". I seem to recall my dad saying O's tend to be active and A's more sedentary; YMMV, perhaps. A quick Google search on '"blood type" metabolism' shows up a lot of relevant stuff to this sub-thread, and might be worth a quick look-through for you. My wife's hypoglycemic too (also an A-), and the both of us have oddball food reactions, so I understand the PITA navigating the supermarket can be.:P
HTH!
Cheers
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you that idea? Or even if you just come up with it on your own? Heck, who needs contracts
written in blood...
A bit of what I've read about blood types and how they affect metabolism suggests that O-type folks need more protein and less carbs, the evolutionary assumption being that O-type evolved during the hunter-gatherer phase. A-type folks need more carbs and less protein, so the theory goes, and the assumption here is that A-type blood evolved to adapt to agricultural lifestyles.
So I may be running off on a tangent here, but I'm honestly curious -- what's your blood type, Temkin? For example, my mother-in-law is an O, and she eats waaay to much sweet stuff as evidenced by her hypoglycemia and vicious mood swings. I'm a bit worried about her long-term health.
Just a thought. But seriously, I'd appreciate a reply.
Cheers
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you that idea? Or even if you just come up with it on your own? Heck, who needs contracts
written in blood...
Lao-tzu is often mentioned as a philosopher of ancient China. However, after actually reading the work attributed to him, the Tao Te Ching, it becomes clear that his audience was never the common public on the street, but rather the emperor and anyone else in power. The pith of the text, loosely paraphrased, works out to
Keep the people well-fed and ignorant, and they will be easy to rule.
From that perspective, I think it fair to say that the US government is increasingly Taoist. In all the worst ways.
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Hmm, maybe the new joke should go, "In Soviet Microsoft..." I mean really, things are sounding oddly like the old Soviet Union in some ways.
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idea? Or even if you just come up with it on your own? Heck, who needs contracts written in blood...
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So based on this article you've linked and the scientists' presumption that the more toxic the substance, the worse the web, I conclude that mescaline/peyote is the least toxic of the chemicals they exposed spiders to, followed by either LSD or marijuana, depeding on your judgment criteria. Chloral hydrat (sleeping pill ingredient) seems to be the absolute worst, followed closesly by caffeine.
So either the scientists are way off, or the DEA is full of shit. So which am I supposed to believe? Oh, the dilemma.
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idea? Or even if you just come up with it on your own? Heck, who needs contracts written in blood...
Rockets move exactly in the same way an Ion propulsion engine would move. By forcing mass out the rear.
Man, if that was such a simple matter I'd be to Alpha Centauri after all the bean burritos I've had in my time...
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idea? Or even if you just come up with it on your own? Heck, who needs contracts written in blood...
Cool and valid points made, by both the parent and the grandparent here. I happen to agree with both of you. Sure, Overly Critical Guy comes off very negative, but then his sentiments as a frustrated linux user fit the context of the original post about switching from linux to win32. A couple other posters ask, why are some people switching (perhaps back) to win 32? Overly Critical Guy might be one answer.
(Meanwhile, linux performance and flexibility are truly commendable, and are a large part of why I still use it, despite my own individual issues with various aspects.)
Just my 2 yen.
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I'm not the expert here by any means, but there are a number of areas where RH doesn't measure up. (Other flavors of *nix might do fine, I just know RH.)
My biggest beef is with input methods and language handling. I'm a Japanese translator, so the ability to use Japanese seamlessly is very important to me. So far, RH hasn't been very useable. Not only does it not support sjis encoding for filenames (most of my clients are using win32), the input method is directly tied to the locale. Fine, I'm fluent in Japanese, but I'm working hard enough as it is without having to go through all the system messages in Japanese as well. And I know there are command-line workarounds too, but I'm a translator -- I don't have time to go mucking about first online to find out how and then go mucking about writing the scripts. Let alone the usability issues I run into with the input method itself (impossible to change without logging out entirely) and language handling (ever seen Japanese rendered in a non-Japanese font?).
Admittedly, my needs are not the most common, but there are a few of us out here dealing with CJK languages (Chinese Japanese Korean) who need the input method support to work considerably better than it does if we are to be able to buck win32 altogether (my longtime dream). I suspect there are others with different non-Latin language combinations who may have similar issues.
Just my 2 yen.
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You're right in that what they're doing sounds kinda crufty and dodgy (crodgy and dufty?), but I've had very similar keyboard issues with shockwave itself, for completely different applications. Anytime I run a shockwave instance, my CPU usage hits the ceiling, and I suspect the keyboard events get sidetracked somewhere in all that wonderful Exploder noise. Kaboom.
What I want to know is, who the hell are the dumbshits buying SCO stock?
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Can I beg off that I was stuck using the New Math? Sheesh. Just call me Chuckles the Clown.:P
One thing I may just be confused about though, but how is his access to Yahoo's info directly related to the NYTimes' claims of damages?
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600 searches @ 10 seconds each (to give some time to look at the results) = 100 hours
Possible, I suppose, as we don't know how long he had access before alerting the NYTimes. But 100 hours is a long time.
And for that matter, you'd have to be one hell of a fruitcake to run 600 searches on your own name. Which makes me think the $300,000 figure itself is crap, as the rest of the account suggests Lamo isn't entirely out of his gourd, just misguided or naive depending on your point of view.
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The problem with this kind of blase argument is that it does not take into account the fact that the latest generation of weaponry has the capacity to kill / maim / sicken for generations after it is used, inflicting its awful energies on people who may not have been even remotely party to the original dispute.
My using an atlatl today is not going to kill your unborn grandchildren.
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Yeah, I went through a dick phase myself a while back. I think it's called puberty. Still pops up from time to time, though...
Doh!:P
All due apologies are offered to the humor impaired.
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I wanna swing sideways! How many weeks of allowance is it gonna take?:P
Now my other question is what other inane ideas I can <DrEvil> "patent" </DrEvil> and make billions.. erm, millions.. erm, billions from!
Likely already done, but obligatory nonetheless:
Patent everything imaginable.
(Optional) Laugh insanely.
License your "intellectual property".
???
Profit!
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Yoda says, "Luminous beings are we... not this crude matter." The flaw in the midichlorian explanation, in my thinking, is that it binds the Force to a thing, making it physical. Furthermore, this thing is bound to the body, the crude matter of which Yoda speaks. If that's the case, then the Force would only seem to be relevant while an individual is alive. Or for that matter, what would prevent someone from distilling midichlorians and making some uber-Jedi injection? Or heck, why not a pill or a snack food. "Feeling a little run down? Try Jedi Pops (TM), and you'll be levitating that cargo pod in no time!"
I see your comment about "the energy they generate" giving way to the "luminous being", but nailing the Force down like this seems overly limiting as a plot device. This arises as one of the more troublesome (for me) inconsistencies that have cropped up with the prequels. (Another, for instance, is Obi-Wan's description of Anakin in A New Hope as "already a great star pilot" when the two first met, versus the pipsqueak 6-year-old we meet in Phantom Menace. And boy, did he sure grow up quick by the time we see him again in Attack of the Clones...) It's as if Lucas had forgotten some story elements he'd already established in the earlier films. Or perhaps he just met this great cute kid and had to work him in somehow. Or maybe he'd spent too many years apart from his old philosophically-inclined roommate (forgive me I forget his name). It feels a bit like Lucas is getting funny in the head, or as if he doesn't respect his audience. Either way, sad and unfortunate.
Just my 2 yen. Any further thoughts appreciated.
Okay, one thing that really bothered me about the midichlorian explanation (aside from how damn pat and tidy it is) is that it seems to conflict with Yoda's description of the Force in Empire -- how can biological entities similar to mitochondria live in rocks? If they are integral to life, and are things as opposed to some energy field, it follows that you wouldn't be able to use the Force to do jack to anything inanimate. Am I missing something?
Or was that twanging sound just my suspension of disbelief snapping back? ;)
A couple thoughts --
I've gotten used to using ALT-TAB to switch between apps, as in browser to word processor, so for me, tabs are great. Sure, I can bundle like app windows under Windows or Linux, but that just doesn't fit my personal style. Go figure.
On the other hand, by using tabbed browsing, you lose about 50% of your screen to tabs for all the windows you have open, right? I value my real estate more than most people then.
I hear you about screen real estate. But then you have me confused; what browser do you use that takes up half the screen just for the tabs? Does Opera do that? I haven't messed with it in a while, as Opera had problems rendering Japanese. Firefox uses barely a pinky's-width, about as much as the URL bar. Maybe as much as 1/8 of the screen for the app bar, menu bar, URL bar, tab bar, and status bar together.
If you rely on your web browser for window management then your operating system is lacking or you are not using it correctly. Which is why tabbed browsing is abhorrent.
I smell a stylistic issue here. Your response nicely showed that my points were partly based on my ignorance of your experience. Forgive me for that. However, "you are not using (your OS) correctly" seems to carry things a bit too far -- part of any good system is the flexibility to use it in many different ways, no? If I choose to group my browser windows in the browser, I fail to see what sin lies in that.
Ahh and the inevitable personal attack,
Actually, a fine point, but I think I was attacking your comments to the effect that *nix systems don't manage windows well. Nothing ad hominem in that.
I use Redhat 9.0 when I'm not using Windows, but I've used several different distros and window managers in the past. The high level of fragmentation in Linux makes window management even more difficult, as one method for management will work fine on one desktop, but it won't on another without configuring it the same way first.
By "desktop" I assume you mean either "windows manager" or "linux distro", rather than the various virtual desktops provided in a single X session. If this is correct, your statement is quite similar to "window management doesn't work the same on several different OSes.
Um, yes. Windows and the Windows window manager are inseparable; the OS and the desktop are one and the same. Swapping desktop managers under linux is effectively similar to changing the complete userland OS under the Windows monolithic paradigm. To exaggerate a little, your comment is a little like "it doesn't work the same on Mac as it does on Windows". Or for the linux savvy, "Gnome and KDE are different." No surprises there.
I'll grant you that a greater level of standardization would be lovely, not just for the end user but for developers as well. I think that's what the Freedesktop.org project is all about, so this is in the works.
Windows tends to act very predictably no matter where you find it, however.
You bring up a good point here -- Windows, through its hegemony, offers a common user experience. There is something of value in this, and the OSS community would be unwise to sneer. Thankfully, many seem wise enough to save the baby from the bathwater, and are putting in the effort to find what works in Windows.
To hearken back to your earlier posting:
Everything in MS applications looks and feels the same, this is what has enabled MS to keep the desktop, and it's a key point of failure for linux on the desktop.
A good point -- the Principle of Least Surprise plays in here. Users expect a particular look and feel, in terms of where menu items are if not necessarily the specific widget set. Straying from this de facto standard of expectations will almost inevitably make a program less popular. Ask anyone who's used Adobe graphics products versus, say,
Try using tabbed browsing in Firefox or Mozilla before you start claiming it's useless. I use tabbed browsers exclusively on Windows.
This choice has nothing to do with window management by any particular OS, and everything to do with my browsing habits. I presently have 16 tabs open in my browser. I'm a translator, I need to have lots of things open at once -- online references like Wikipedia, corporate IR pages, and dictionaries; Google; my webmail; and other fun things like Slashdot :).
Any windowing system becomes unacceptably cluttered if I use untabbed browsing and try to accomplish the same effect. ALT-TAB becomes a mess.
And for that matter, try using a mature *nix distro before you make unfounded (or perhaps just misinformed) accusations.
True --
But consider! MS is going for complete computing noobs here. Looking at the mailing lists, Linux can be befuddling for power users. It took me my own good time to figure some things out, no thanks to spotty documentation.
And therein lies the rub -- MS may suck donkey balls in a lot of ways, but they do a good job of holding noob hands with decent documentation. Unless and until some Linux distro can do the same, and still for that same magic price (and in Thai, Laotian, Swahili, what have you), I think this move by MS presents a genuine threat of incursion into undeveloped mental real estate.
The project you had in mind might very well have been iRate Radio, available for free over on Sourceforge.
The system includes exactly the kind of collaborative rating you mention, designed to figure out what sort of music you like. You train it kinda like you train a spam filter, 'this one's good, that one's bad', such that over time it gets better at predicting what you might like, based also on the ratings of people with similar rating patterns as your own.
HTH
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It may be worth noting here that the underlying cause of the US Civil War was a disagreement about federalism. Since the federalists won, it should come as no surprise that the US federal system has gotten stronger.
There is no guarantee that the EU will follow the same path; this will likely depend upon the powers and sovereignty kept by each member state.
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Um, I think the issue is that the four who spoke out against SERVE were the only ones to speak. It's not like the other six came out in favor of the project -- they simply refused to comment. Not exactly what I'd call a ringing endorsement.
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-- a.k.a. the gawd-damnedest smelliest cheese you've ever smelled?
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Yep, my mum-in-law is O, though I forget if it's + or -.
My pop read a book that had a lot to say about this, I can't remember for sure, but I think it was "Eat Right 4 Your Type". I seem to recall my dad saying O's tend to be active and A's more sedentary; YMMV, perhaps. A quick Google search on '"blood type" metabolism' shows up a lot of relevant stuff to this sub-thread, and might be worth a quick look-through for you. My wife's hypoglycemic too (also an A-), and the both of us have oddball food reactions, so I understand the PITA navigating the supermarket can be. :P
HTH!
Cheers
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I'm curious --
A bit of what I've read about blood types and how they affect metabolism suggests that O-type folks need more protein and less carbs, the evolutionary assumption being that O-type evolved during the hunter-gatherer phase. A-type folks need more carbs and less protein, so the theory goes, and the assumption here is that A-type blood evolved to adapt to agricultural lifestyles.
So I may be running off on a tangent here, but I'm honestly curious -- what's your blood type, Temkin? For example, my mother-in-law is an O, and she eats waaay to much sweet stuff as evidenced by her hypoglycemia and vicious mood swings. I'm a bit worried about her long-term health.
Just a thought. But seriously, I'd appreciate a reply.
Cheers
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Lao-tzu is often mentioned as a philosopher of ancient China. However, after actually reading the work attributed to him, the Tao Te Ching, it becomes clear that his audience was never the common public on the street, but rather the emperor and anyone else in power. The pith of the text, loosely paraphrased, works out to
From that perspective, I think it fair to say that the US government is increasingly Taoist. In all the worst ways.
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Hmm, maybe the new joke should go, "In Soviet Microsoft..." I mean really, things are sounding oddly like the old Soviet Union in some ways.
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The only response I have to this is my sig...
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So based on this article you've linked and the scientists' presumption that the more toxic the substance, the worse the web, I conclude that mescaline/peyote is the least toxic of the chemicals they exposed spiders to, followed by either LSD or marijuana, depeding on your judgment criteria. Chloral hydrat (sleeping pill ingredient) seems to be the absolute worst, followed closesly by caffeine.
So either the scientists are way off, or the DEA is full of shit. So which am I supposed to believe? Oh, the dilemma.
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Man, if that was such a simple matter I'd be to Alpha Centauri after all the bean burritos I've had in my time...
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Cool and valid points made, by both the parent and the grandparent here. I happen to agree with both of you. Sure, Overly Critical Guy comes off very negative, but then his sentiments as a frustrated linux user fit the context of the original post about switching from linux to win32. A couple other posters ask, why are some people switching (perhaps back) to win 32? Overly Critical Guy might be one answer.
(Meanwhile, linux performance and flexibility are truly commendable, and are a large part of why I still use it, despite my own individual issues with various aspects.)
Just my 2 yen.
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If I can own an idea, does that mean I can legally claim some portion of your soul once I tell you that idea? Or even if you just come up with it on your own? Heck, who needs contracts written in blood...
I'm not the expert here by any means, but there are a number of areas where RH doesn't measure up. (Other flavors of *nix might do fine, I just know RH.)
My biggest beef is with input methods and language handling. I'm a Japanese translator, so the ability to use Japanese seamlessly is very important to me. So far, RH hasn't been very useable. Not only does it not support sjis encoding for filenames (most of my clients are using win32), the input method is directly tied to the locale. Fine, I'm fluent in Japanese, but I'm working hard enough as it is without having to go through all the system messages in Japanese as well. And I know there are command-line workarounds too, but I'm a translator -- I don't have time to go mucking about first online to find out how and then go mucking about writing the scripts. Let alone the usability issues I run into with the input method itself (impossible to change without logging out entirely) and language handling (ever seen Japanese rendered in a non-Japanese font?).
Admittedly, my needs are not the most common, but there are a few of us out here dealing with CJK languages (Chinese Japanese Korean) who need the input method support to work considerably better than it does if we are to be able to buck win32 altogether (my longtime dream). I suspect there are others with different non-Latin language combinations who may have similar issues.
Just my 2 yen.
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If I can own an idea, does that mean I can legally claim some portion of your soul once I tell you that idea? Or even if you just come up with it on your own? Heck, who needs contracts written in blood...
You're right in that what they're doing sounds kinda crufty and dodgy (crodgy and dufty?), but I've had very similar keyboard issues with shockwave itself, for completely different applications. Anytime I run a shockwave instance, my CPU usage hits the ceiling, and I suspect the keyboard events get sidetracked somewhere in all that wonderful Exploder noise. Kaboom.
What I want to know is, who the hell are the dumbshits buying SCO stock?
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If I can own an idea, does that mean I can legally claim some portion of your soul once I tell you that idea? Or even if you just come up with it on your own? Heck, who needs contracts written in blood...
<loudforeheadslap/> Doh!
Can I beg off that I was stuck using the New Math? Sheesh. Just call me Chuckles the Clown. :P
One thing I may just be confused about though, but how is his access to Yahoo's info directly related to the NYTimes' claims of damages?
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If I can own an idea, does that mean I can legally claim some portion of your soul once I tell you that idea? Or even if you just come up with it on your own? Heck, who needs contracts written in blood...
Nice idea, but let's Do the Math(TM) --
Possible, I suppose, as we don't know how long he had access before alerting the NYTimes. But 100 hours is a long time.
And for that matter, you'd have to be one hell of a fruitcake to run 600 searches on your own name. Which makes me think the $300,000 figure itself is crap, as the rest of the account suggests Lamo isn't entirely out of his gourd, just misguided or naive depending on your point of view.
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If I can own an idea, does that mean I can legally claim some portion of your soul once I tell you that idea? Or even if you just come up with it on your own? Heck, who needs contracts written in blood...
The problem with this kind of blase argument is that it does not take into account the fact that the latest generation of weaponry has the capacity to kill / maim / sicken for generations after it is used, inflicting its awful energies on people who may not have been even remotely party to the original dispute.
My using an atlatl today is not going to kill your unborn grandchildren.
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If I can own an idea, does that mean I can legally claim some portion of your soul once I tell you that idea? Or even if you just come up with it on your own? Heck, who needs contracts written in blood...
Yeah, I went through a dick phase myself a while back. I think it's called puberty. Still pops up from time to time, though...
Doh! :P
All due apologies are offered to the humor impaired.
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If I can own an idea, does that mean I can legally claim some portion of your soul once I tell you that idea? Or even if you just come up with it on your own? Heck, who needs contracts written in blood...
I wanna swing sideways! How many weeks of allowance is it gonna take? :P
Now my other question is what other inane ideas I can <DrEvil> "patent" </DrEvil> and make billions .. erm, millions .. erm, billions from!
Likely already done, but obligatory nonetheless:
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If I can own an idea, does that mean I can legally claim some portion of your soul once I tell you that idea? Or even if you just come up with it on your own? Heck, who needs contracts written in blood...