Yeah, I know all that. People will still save it and still run it. It's a well known fact that lasciviousness drastically lowers IQ. A medium-large software company at which I once worked had a problem with this. People in development actually ran stuff marked with some odd pr0n label. I could see the sales staff doing it, but the developers absolutely surprised me. Of course, not everybody did it, but you don't need everybody to really screw things up.
Yeah, but when the file is labeled "Britney Spears, J-Lo, Laetitia Casta--steamy lesbian sex orgy.exe" people will save it to disk and then...run it. It doesn't matter what happens after that point.
I consider that the height of arrogance. You're telling me that instead of reading internal intelligence reports, the President should read what a bunch of ignorant jerk-offs at the New York Times think? Get real.
Yeah, or maybe we just need to face reality: every culture and society has their own needs and should be left to make their own decisions. I don't want a bunch of Abduls telling me how to live, and I'm sure they don't want my opinion either.
I'm out on good behavior. But one false move and *snap*, back I go. I figure I can't get into too much trouble just posting on Slashdot but only time will tell...
Yeah, it's actually a good idea. Oftentimes, you're not sure what you prefer but deep down inside, you know what you're looking for. This could help you make better decisions.
Nah, they just have a PC back there and they're surfing for porn.
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Isn't it about time we got rid of all this racial baggage? We can't go on having a society that treats people differently just because they look different. It's silly to cut people down just because they're different.
Yeah, they write those things to be remembered. They always make sure to keep repeating the name of the product over and over. I listen to the local news/talk station too, so I know all about "vinyl siding from Sears Home Central," "triple action Gold Bond medicated powder," and how you can get an "all steel building, engineered and constructed for your area, at about half the cost.":-)
This is not completely correct. It's actually a straightjacket on the national government. State and local governments were fully intended to retain their sovereignty. Additionally, the first amendment is specifically directed to the national legislature, rather than the judicial or executive branches.
No, the Southern Baptists hate Calvinism. They're always talking about how horrible it is. You should listen to some of those Baptist radio preachers scream and yell about it.:-)
Besides all that, Calvinists are on the fringe of Christianity, though they're probably the closest to adhering to the actual words of the Bible of any theological group. The mainstream Christians in America (and throughout much of the world) are mostly a bunch of nuts. They say all sorts of things that don't agree with the Bible at all.
They didn't press the "Vote" button. It does NOT take a lot of intelligence to figure that out. If someone can't, they're incompetent. And that these same people couldn't correctly punch a paper ballot only strengthens the case.
Actually, most of us Americans are laughing too. Quite frankly, I have to agree with most of the others here. Clearly, the voters of Florida are too stupid to vote. They can't handle electronic systems, they can't handle manual punch systems, and I don't want people like that making important decisions about our government.
Well now there's the problem -- next time we should just go to a forgiving planet instead. What were we thinking?
Well, since "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus," they probably thought Mars would tend to be more forgiving. They still might have made the best choice possible: if Mars is this unforgiving, you can only imagine how pissed off Venus is.
I wonder what is happening that Martian probes have such plain bad luck. The soviets had several failures, NASA had several, Japan's probe is DOA and it looks like Europe's latest example landed in the crater that it made.
I thought about this the other day. Seems to me that Mars is the "Bermuda Triangle" of space exploration.
A couple times per year I check in on the GNUstep stuff. I'm always suprised to see there are still people working on it... doing stuff... but I can never figure out what the purpose of it all is.
Well, there are several purposes it seems (everybody has different goals and desires). Many are old NeXT programmers who didn't want to lose the beauty of the Objective-C language and API. Others are OS X programmers who also like Linux or other UNIX systems and like to have the same tools, API, and language to work with. Still others are completely new to the paradigm and just think it's nice technology. There are also quite a few people who are professional software developers and want to release their software or libraries on more than just OS X. (One guy ported his special software to OS X and is also going to release it on Linux and Windows XP).
I mean, you never hear anything about GNUstep. There are no distros that I know of that use it on the desktop.
Yes, there are several reasons for that. One of them is that distro integrators have never heard of it or don't think it's really being maintained. The other is that the number of end-user applications has only recently started to grow. But there are some Gentoo ebuilds, I understand. Might be some packages for other distros as well. I don't really know much about that since I always build from CVS, since there are so many changes and commits.:-)
Hell, to this day I'm not 100% sure what exactly GNUstep is or what it does. I mean, is it a X11 replacement? Something like KDE/GNOME? Some widgets? Just some API's?
The GNUstep core is just a set of object oriented APIs. It's an implementation of Cocoa. But there are also other packages, like dev-apps, that includes clones of the Apple/NeXT development tools, as well as some other frameworks for development. There are lots of 3rd party frameworks and applications too, like the MusicKit.
I mean, what the hell is it for? Are there any applications that let me "do stuff" which make me more productive?
There are some. At this point, it's mostly just your typical desktop stuff (a media player, a mail client, dev tools, a GPS app, a few games, some other stuff). Somebody is doing a port of Apple's WebKit and working on an HTML view class that will make it pretty easy to write a web browser.
They really need to do some marketing legwork here because right now the whole project is off in some dark corner (as it has been for many years). Maybe collaborate with some other well-known projects or something.
Yeah, that's a problem. I'm trying to do some of that myself by posting here. The GNOME and KDE projects have such prominence that it's difficult to get the general population interested. Personally, I think the attempts to create an integrated desktop system could be superior to what GNOME and KDE are doing. Both of those projects tend to be over complicated. It seems like they just want to throw in everything including the kitchen sink. It ends up just being a big mess.
No, it's source code compatible. Cocoa is kind of like the standard C library, except it's for Objective-C and it's object oriented. GNUstep is an LGPL'd implementation of that API. It was originally created because people didn't want to lose the excellent Objective-C language and API that NeXT created. Once Apple bought NeXT, the maintainers started tracking the changes that Apple made. Cross platform development (including, hopefully, the ability to deploy on Windows) is a goal.
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Yeah, I know all that. People will still save it and still run it. It's a well known fact that lasciviousness drastically lowers IQ. A medium-large software company at which I once worked had a problem with this. People in development actually ran stuff marked with some odd pr0n label. I could see the sales staff doing it, but the developers absolutely surprised me. Of course, not everybody did it, but you don't need everybody to really screw things up.
Yeah, but when the file is labeled "Britney Spears, J-Lo, Laetitia Casta--steamy lesbian sex orgy.exe" people will save it to disk and then...run it. It doesn't matter what happens after that point.
I consider that the height of arrogance. You're telling me that instead of reading internal intelligence reports, the President should read what a bunch of ignorant jerk-offs at the New York Times think? Get real.
Yeah, or maybe we just need to face reality: every culture and society has their own needs and should be left to make their own decisions. I don't want a bunch of Abduls telling me how to live, and I'm sure they don't want my opinion either.
I'm out on good behavior. But one false move and *snap*, back I go. I figure I can't get into too much trouble just posting on Slashdot but only time will tell...
Did you ever have them look for the token under their desks? More fun than telling them where the "any" key is. :-)
Depends on how far away you live. I'm in upstate South Carolina.
A likely story. But at least you've gained some sensitivity: now you know how Conservatives feel.
Yeah, it's actually a good idea. Oftentimes, you're not sure what you prefer but deep down inside, you know what you're looking for. This could help you make better decisions.
Nah, they just have a PC back there and they're surfing for porn.
Isn't it about time we got rid of all this racial baggage? We can't go on having a society that treats people differently just because they look different. It's silly to cut people down just because they're different.
Excellent! That means there's at least two of us on Slashdot. This place is so far to the left, I think it's about to fall over.
Yeah, they write those things to be remembered. They always make sure to keep repeating the name of the product over and over. I listen to the local news/talk station too, so I know all about "vinyl siding from Sears Home Central," "triple action Gold Bond medicated powder," and how you can get an "all steel building, engineered and constructed for your area, at about half the cost." :-)
Yep, I think we're in agreement. I just wanted to make sure I made a plug for states' rights. :-)
This is correct.
It is a straightjacket placed upon the governmentThis is not completely correct. It's actually a straightjacket on the national government. State and local governments were fully intended to retain their sovereignty. Additionally, the first amendment is specifically directed to the national legislature, rather than the judicial or executive branches.
Yes but you *remembered* Preparation H and Gold Bond, didn't you? I'd say it worked. :-)
Besides all that, Calvinists are on the fringe of Christianity, though they're probably the closest to adhering to the actual words of the Bible of any theological group. The mainstream Christians in America (and throughout much of the world) are mostly a bunch of nuts. They say all sorts of things that don't agree with the Bible at all.
I believe part of the reason they started suggesting this was that alcoholism was becoming an epidemic in England and America.
Maybe those are the bathrooms with the webcams in them. :-)
They didn't press the "Vote" button. It does NOT take a lot of intelligence to figure that out. If someone can't, they're incompetent. And that these same people couldn't correctly punch a paper ballot only strengthens the case.
Actually, most of us Americans are laughing too. Quite frankly, I have to agree with most of the others here. Clearly, the voters of Florida are too stupid to vote. They can't handle electronic systems, they can't handle manual punch systems, and I don't want people like that making important decisions about our government.
Well, since "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus," they probably thought Mars would tend to be more forgiving. They still might have made the best choice possible: if Mars is this unforgiving, you can only imagine how pissed off Venus is.
I thought about this the other day. Seems to me that Mars is the "Bermuda Triangle" of space exploration.
Well, there are several purposes it seems (everybody has different goals and desires). Many are old NeXT programmers who didn't want to lose the beauty of the Objective-C language and API. Others are OS X programmers who also like Linux or other UNIX systems and like to have the same tools, API, and language to work with. Still others are completely new to the paradigm and just think it's nice technology. There are also quite a few people who are professional software developers and want to release their software or libraries on more than just OS X. (One guy ported his special software to OS X and is also going to release it on Linux and Windows XP).
I mean, you never hear anything about GNUstep. There are no distros that I know of that use it on the desktop.
Yes, there are several reasons for that. One of them is that distro integrators have never heard of it or don't think it's really being maintained. The other is that the number of end-user applications has only recently started to grow. But there are some Gentoo ebuilds, I understand. Might be some packages for other distros as well. I don't really know much about that since I always build from CVS, since there are so many changes and commits. :-)
Hell, to this day I'm not 100% sure what exactly GNUstep is or what it does. I mean, is it a X11 replacement? Something like KDE/GNOME? Some widgets? Just some API's?
The GNUstep core is just a set of object oriented APIs. It's an implementation of Cocoa. But there are also other packages, like dev-apps, that includes clones of the Apple/NeXT development tools, as well as some other frameworks for development. There are lots of 3rd party frameworks and applications too, like the MusicKit.
I mean, what the hell is it for? Are there any applications that let me "do stuff" which make me more productive?
There are some. At this point, it's mostly just your typical desktop stuff (a media player, a mail client, dev tools, a GPS app, a few games, some other stuff). Somebody is doing a port of Apple's WebKit and working on an HTML view class that will make it pretty easy to write a web browser.
They really need to do some marketing legwork here because right now the whole project is off in some dark corner (as it has been for many years). Maybe collaborate with some other well-known projects or something.
Yeah, that's a problem. I'm trying to do some of that myself by posting here. The GNOME and KDE projects have such prominence that it's difficult to get the general population interested. Personally, I think the attempts to create an integrated desktop system could be superior to what GNOME and KDE are doing. Both of those projects tend to be over complicated. It seems like they just want to throw in everything including the kitchen sink. It ends up just being a big mess.
No, it's source code compatible. Cocoa is kind of like the standard C library, except it's for Objective-C and it's object oriented. GNUstep is an LGPL'd implementation of that API. It was originally created because people didn't want to lose the excellent Objective-C language and API that NeXT created. Once Apple bought NeXT, the maintainers started tracking the changes that Apple made. Cross platform development (including, hopefully, the ability to deploy on Windows) is a goal.